Curated Daily News
- Trump calls European carmakers to set up US plants to avoid tariffs…
March 23, 2019
“They have BMW, they have Mercedes, they have a lot of very good cars that come in,” he said in an interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo airing Friday. His “end game” on the issue is that European carmakers will “build their plants in the United States and they have no tariffs.”
Trump said that he would agree to zero-tariff levels on some trade with Europe but wouldn’t on autos without this concession.
Trump answered “well, no” after he was asked whether foreign cars represent a national security threat to the US -- the subject of a Commerce Department study Trump ordered last year. The findings haven’t yet been publicly released.
But he added: “What poses a national security risk is our balance sheet,” apparently referring to the US trade deficit. “We have to have -- we need a strong balance sheet. Otherwise, you don’t have national security.”
- Ocasio-Cortez, other Democrats squeeze big banks on guns, immigration, climate: “Not everything has to be done through legislation explicitly,” Ocasio-Cortez told POLITICO…
March 23, 2019
This is more than just a public relations nightmare for the banks. At stake is their standing with investors and customers, who have been willing to withdraw business from lenders over their positions on hot-button issues. The banks also face a potential backlash from politicians at all levels of government — including conservatives — who have taken punitive action when the companies take a stand they don’t like. In Louisiana, for example, officials banned Citigroup and Bank of America from a bond sale in response to restrictive gun policies.
- US media suffers panic attack after Mueller fails to deliver on much-anticipated Trump indictment…
March 23, 2019
Important pundits and news networks have served up an impressive display of denials, evasions and on-air strokes after learning that Robert Mueller has ended his probe without issuing a single collusion-related indictment.
"My only conclusion is that the President transmitted to Mueller that he would take the 5th. He would never talk to him and therefore, Mueller decided it wasn't worth the subpoena fight." @KenDilanianNBC on Mueller concluding his report. #Hardball pic.twitter.com/MjQYCj13AD
— Hardball (@hardball) March 22, 2019
It’s certainly possible that Trump may emerge from this better than many anticipated. However! Consensus has been that Mueller would follow DOJ rules and not indict a sitting president. I.e. it’s also possible his report could be very bad for Trump, despite “no more indictments”
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) March 23, 2019
What is collusion and why is Robert Mueller unlikely to mention it in his report on Trump and Russia? https://t.co/DPwbGLJhP2 pic.twitter.com/Ukeer48R8r
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) March 23, 2019
For the last two years your network has engaged in a ceaseless, error-ridden, and unhinged effort to tie Trump to a conspiracy w/ Russia. It hasn’t panned out. If you’re not going to own up to that, why say anything?
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) March 22, 2019
You can't blame MSNBC viewers for being confused. They largely kept dissenters from their Trump/Russia spy tale off the air for 2 years. As recently as 2 weeks ago, they had @JohnBrennan strongly suggesting Mueller would indict Trump family members on collusion as his last act: pic.twitter.com/nPlaq5YVxf
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 23, 2019
Mueller - The name that ended all mainstream media credibility.
No matter what you think of Donald Trump. His unexpected rise to power has educated the entire world about what’s wrong with US politics, the fake news media and the deep state.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) March 23, 2019
- Google Influenced Midterm Elections, May Have Cost Republicans Seats: Study…
March 23, 2019
Epstein and AIBRT analyzed Google searches linked to three highly competitive southern California congressional races in which Democrats won, and found that Google's "clear democrat bias" may have flipped the seats away from Republican candidates. According to the study, at least 35,455 undecided voters within the three California districts may have been persuaded to vote Democrat due to the biased Google search results.
- Trump Blocks Large-Scale Sanctions Planned Against North Korea immediately after Treasury imposes them …
March 23, 2019
It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea. I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2019
This was an apparent reference to sanctions the Treasury Department had announced Thursday on Chinese shipping companies doing business with North Korea. Those sanctions prompted swift pushback from the Chinese and North Korean governments.
When asked about the president’s tweet, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said: “President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary.”
- FEMA mistakes put 2.3 million victims of hurricanes, wildfires at risk of ID theft…
March 23, 2019
The agency's misstep has put the survivors of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the California wildfires "at increased risk of identity theft and fraud," according to the report from John V. Kelly, acting Inspector General for the Homeland Security Department.
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The 13 types of information compromised included full names, birth dates, partial social security numbers, addresses and financial information, including applicants' bank transfer details. The data was provided to a private contractor managing the transitional shelter program. - The Wait Is Over: Mueller Report Delivered To AG Barr; No Further Indictments Planned…House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Schumer say Barr must not give the White House a sneak preview of the Mueller report and that it must not interfere in what parts of it are made public...
March 22, 2019
Barr has told congressional leaders he is "reviewing the report and anticipate that [he] may be in a position to advise [them] of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend." Meanwhile, Mueller has indicated that there are no further indictments expected.
- Watch As Canadian Lawmaker Accuses Trudeau Of Being A “Fake Feminist”…
March 22, 2019
- Judge throws out Deerfield’s assault weapons ban…
March 22, 2019
A Lake County Circuit Court judge ruled Friday that the village of Deerfield overstepped its authority last year when it enacted a ban on assault weapons five years after the Illinois legislature declared such regulations the exclusive power of the state.
Judge Luis Berrones issued a permanent injunction blocking the village from enforcing its ordinance. In the ruling, Berrones wrote that the plaintiff gun owners have “a clearly ascertainable right to not be subjected to a preempted and unenforceable ordinance” that prohibits possession of assault weapons, imposes financial penalties for keeping them and allows their property to be confiscated.
- Microsoft has helped build the first device that automatically encodes digital information into DNA and back to bits again…
March 22, 2019
Microsoft has been working toward a photocopier-size device that would replace data centers by storing files, movies, and documents in DNA strands, which can pack in information at mind-boggling density.
According to Microsoft, all the information stored in a warehouse-size data center would fit into a set of Yahztee dice, were it written in DNA.
- Multi-Agency Seaport Operation Nets more than Half-Ton of Cocaine…
March 22, 2019
Inside one of the containers offloaded from the MSC Desiree, authorities discovered 13 large black duffel bags containing a combined 450 bricks of a white powdery substance. A sampling of that substance tested positive for cocaine.
The cocaine weighed 537.6 kilograms, or 1,185 pounds, three ounces, and has a street value approximately $38 million.
- FDA Says Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Found in Some Medtronic Devices…
March 22, 2019
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday said cybersecurity vulnerabilities were identified in Medtronic Plc's implantable cardiac devices, clinic programmers, and home monitors.
But, the FDA recommended the usage of the devices and said the medical device maker was developing updates to further mitigate those vulnerabilities. The health regulator added it was not aware of any reports of patients being harmed.
- UPS eyes in-home health services with U.S. vaccine project…
March 22, 2019
The world’s largest package delivery firm is preparing to test a U.S. service that dispatches nurses to vaccinate adults in their homes, Reuters has learned, as the company and its healthcare clients work to fend off cost pressures and competitive threats from Amazon.com.
UPS did not disclose which vaccines it would be using in the project, but drug and vaccine maker Merck & Co told Reuters it is looking at partnering with the company for the initiative.
- A solar storm hits Earth this week, pushing northern lights south…
March 22, 2019
Smacking us right in the magnetosphere, it could make the aurora visible to millions more people than normal.
After a prolonged quiet period, the sun let off an explosion Wednesday when a new sunspot fired a small solar flare lasting over an hour.
The high-energy blast caused disruptions for some radio operators in Europe and Africa, but it was accompanied by a slower-moving, massive cloud of charged particles known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) that will deliver Earth a glancing blow this weekend.
- 25 States Are at Risk of Serious Flooding This Spring…
March 22, 2019
Nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states will have an elevated risk of some flooding from now until May, and 25 states could experience “major or moderate flooding,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“The flooding this year could be worse than anything we’ve seen in recent years, even worse than the historic floods of 1993 and 2011,” said Mary C. Erickson, deputy director of the National Weather Service, in a conference call with reporters. The major flooding this month in Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa and elsewhere is “a preview of what we expect throughout the rest of the spring,” she said.
- A Cyclone Hits Africa and Their Leaders Say: ‘Whites created Cyclone Idai and must therefore pay reparations’…
March 23, 2019
BLF president Andile Mngxitama charged in a statement that the cyclone, which hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, was “not a natural disaster but a direct consequence of the white, Western system of ecological assault for profits”.
- Parkland shooting survivor Sydney Aiello takes her own life…
March 22, 2019
Sydney's mother, Cara Aiello, told CBS Miami her daughter struggled with survivor's guilt and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in the year following the tragedy. And while she reportedly never asked for help, she struggled to attend college classes because she was scared of being in a classroom
- China has cloned its best police dog. Now it wants to mass-produce more…
March 22, 2019
Beijing-based Sinogene Biotechnology Company and the Yunnan Agricultural University this week announced the successful cloning of the police sniffer dog in question. The clone, named Kunxun, is already three months old. It is the first step in a plan aimed at “volume production” of similarly cloned police dogs that would presumably lead to reduced training times. The work is supported by the Ministry of Public Security.
Kunxun will now go through the necessary drug detection, crowd control, and evidence searching training. At around 10 months old, the dog will then graduate to the level of official police dog. Training of a police dog usually takes around five years to complete, a report claims. Police dogs are always a risky investment, since there is no guarantee that a dog will take to the work as hoped for. By cloning a successful police dog the idea is that some of this risk may be mitigated.
- Defense Health Agency joins a growing list of defense agencies moving their data to the cloud…
March 22, 2019
Amazon Web Services will now host DHA’s Armed Forces Billing and Collection Utilization Solution in GovCloud U.S. West region, a cluster of data centers built specifically to host some of the government’s most sensitive data.
DHA joins the Army, U.S. Transportation Command and other defense agencies moving increasingly large—and sometimes highly sensitive—data sets to commercial clouds.
- UK denies asylum to Iranian convert to Christianity, saying the religion is not ‘peaceful’…
March 22, 2019
The Iranian national, who claimed asylum in 2016, was told passages in the Bible were “inconsistent” with his claim to have converted to Christianity after discovering it was a “peaceful” faith.
The refusal letter from the department states the book of Revelations – the final book of the Bible – is “filled with imagery of revenge, destruction, death and violence”, and cites six excerpts from it. It then states: “These examples are inconsistent with your claim that you converted to Christianity after discovering it is a ‘peaceful’ religion, as opposed to Islam which contains violence, rage and revenge.”
- Sam Adams dedicating new beer to Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
March 22, 2019
"When There Are Nine," a Belgian Bruit IPA, will be unveiled March 29 at the Samuel Adams Tap Room in Boston. The name of the beer is in reference to Ginsburg's famous response to the question "When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?" the company said in an online invitation to the unveiling.
"We wanted to name it Brut Bader Ginsburg, but our legal team, uh, dissented," the company wrote.
- High-fructose corn syrup enhances intestinal tumor growth in mice…
March 22, 2019
- Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016…
March 22, 2019
The company is blaming a faulty server migration for the mass deletion, which appears to have happened more than a year ago, when the first reports appeared of users unable to access older content. The company has confirmed to online archivists that music has been lost permanently, dashing hopes that a backup could be used to permanently protect the collection for future generations.
- A 30-million page library is heading to the moon to help preserve human civilization…
March 22, 2019
The Lunar Library, as the archive is known, constitutes a “civilization backup” to help ensure that our distant descendants never lose humanity's collective wisdom, according to Nova Spivack, co-founder of Arch Mission Foundation, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit behind the project. The foundation is building a space-based archive designed to survive for 6 billion years or more — a million times longer than the oldest written records in existence today.
A library on the moon! Just imagine how useful that will be to future generations.
- The Newest Opioid Lawsuit Is Going Right After the Sackler Family…
March 22, 2019
An enormous federal lawsuit out of New York is the latest and most brazen attempt to explicitly tie the billionaire Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, to the opioid crisis. It accuses them of knowingly misleading the public about the addictiveness of their drugs, as well as turning a blind eye to doctors who were accused of prescribing dangerously high doses or diverting their supply to the black market.
This week, a coalition of over 500 cities, counties, and Native American tribes sued eight members of the Sackler family in the southern district of New York, the Guardian reported.
- Trump administration expands penalty relief for Americans who underpaid taxes…
March 22, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is waiving the underpayment penalty for more Americans who may have unintentionally underpaid their 2018 tax liabilities.
The Department of Treasury announced on Friday that it was lowering the withholding underpayment threshold to 80 percent – meaning people whose total withholding and estimated tax payments for 2018 are equal to or greater than 80 percent of their taxes owed will not be penalized.
- Boeing Faces First Order Cancellation for 737 MAX Since Crash…
March 22, 2019
Indonesia’s flag airline is cancelling its orders for the Boeing Max 737 jet, the first carrier to publicly do so after the aircraft was involved in two crashes in less than five months.
Garuda Indonesia informed Boeing on March 14 that it wished to cancel its remaining order for 49 Max jets. The two sides plan to meet on March 28 for “further discussion,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
- Research: Google Search Bias Flipped Seats for Democrats in Midterms…
March 22, 2019
New research from psychologist and search engine expert Dr. Robert Epstein shows that biased Google searches had a measurable impact on the 2018 midterm elections, pushing tens of thousands of votes towards the Democrat candidates in three key congressional races, and potentially millions more in races across the country.
The study, from Epstein and a team at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT), analyzed Google searches related to three highly competitive congressional races in Southern California. In all three races, the Democrat won — and Epstein’s research suggests that Google search bias may have tipped them over the edge. - 4chan 17-Year-Old Has Been Arrested After Online Threat Shut Down All Charlottesville Schools For Two Days In A Row…
March 22, 2019
The unidentified teen has been charged with threats to commit serious bodily harm and harassment by computer.
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All city schools were closed for two days as a precautionary measure, keeping more than 4,300 students out of classrooms.
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The threat was reportedly posted by a 4chan user claiming to be a Charlottesville High School student. The user threatened to carry out an "ethnic cleansing" at the school on Thursday and urged all the white students at the school to stay home. - Michael Jackson’s fixer returns: why Anthony Pellicano has Hollywood running scared…Alternate link without paywall...His Silence Is Being Richly Rewarded By Hollywood Elite ...
March 22, 2019
It was he who handled Jackson’s negotiations with Evan Chandler, who accused the King of Pop of sexually abusing his 13-year-old son Jordan “Jordy” Chandler in 1993 – accusations Pellicano later labelled “an extortion attempt”. Indeed, Pellicano knows everything about everyone... When he was arrested in 2002, FBI agents found more than 150,000 pages of transcriptions taken from covert recordings. Many powerful men have reason to be afraid of what they contain.
“For 30 years, I’ve been a sin eater for the rich and famous,” Pellicano said in 2003 on being jailed for crimes ranging from possession of plastic explosives and hand grenades, to wiretapping, racketeering, protection, intimidation, witness tampering and evidence destruction. “I just ate one sin too many.”
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