🔴 Notre Dame Fire: Al Jazeera Followers are Laughing…
April 16, 2019
Microplastics are raining down from the sky…
April 16, 2019
Scientists recorded a daily rate of 365 microplastic particles per square meter falling from the sky in the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France.
“It was incredible how much microplastic was being deposited,” said Deonie Allen, a researcher at EcoLab in the School of Agricultural and Life Sciences in Toulouse, France. There were no obvious sources for the microplastics within 60 miles (100 kilometers), said Allen, the lead author of the study published Monday in Nature Geoscience.
FBI bars China scholars from visiting US…
April 16, 2019
The FBI has mounted a counterintelligence operation that aims to bar Chinese academics from the US if they are suspected of having links to Chinese intelligence agencies. As many as 30 Chinese professors in the social sciences, heads of academic institutes, and experts who help explain government policies have had their visas to the United States canceled in the past year, or put on administrative review, according to Chinese academics and their US counterparts...
TRIGGERED: Canada joins new German-France ‘alliance’ that doesn’t include U.S…
April 16, 2019
Canada has formally joined a German-French coalition aimed at saving the international world order from destruction by various world dictators and autocrats — and U.S. President Donald Trump.
The initiative is part of ongoing government efforts to shore up international co-operation at a time of waning American leadership and Trump’s outspoken disdain of institutions created after the Second World War, including the G7, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations...
US approves F-16 support for Taiwan in face of pressure from Beijing…
April 16, 2019
- Pilot training, maintenance and logistics package approved for Taiwan’s fighter jet force
- Sale of advanced warplanes still under consideration
Japan’s Abe eyes diplomatic win with Xi Jinping visit but faces balancing act between China and U.S…
April 16, 2019
US navy boosting presence in Greek waters…
April 16, 2019
“Our presence in the Mediterranean and out cooperation with the Greeks is vital to security in this extremely important region,” Scaliatine was quoted as saying in translated comments on Monday.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer arrived in Piraeus on April 13 for a scheduled port visit that is aimed at enhancing US-Greek relations, with the ship’s presence in the Mediterranean Sea “seen as a demonstration of Washington's continued commitment to collective security in the region,”
YouTube Links Notre Dame Fire To 9/11…
April 16, 2019
"YouTube said this was an accident caused by an algorithm designed to stop the spread of misinformation by providing relevant context. The feature was designed in 2018 as a fact-checking mechanism, according to CNN."
New York Mayor De Bozo takes on Straws…
April 16, 2019
Executive order directs city agencies to end purchasing single-use plastic foodware and replace it with compostable or recyclable alternatives; also directs them to keep a small supply of plastic items available upon request for people who need them.
Study the enemy: Town Hall with Bernie Sanders…
April 16, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show…
April 16, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be protecting that data, according to about 4,000 pages of leaked company documents largely spanning 2011 to 2015 and obtained by NBC News.
The documents, which include emails, webchats, presentations, spreadsheets and meeting summaries, show how Zuckerberg, along with his board and management team, found ways to tap Facebook’s trove of user data — including information about friends, relationships and photos — as leverage over companies it partnered with.
‘Pompeo lost his mind’: Chinese diplomat hits back at US attacks on Beijing’s investments in Chile…
April 16, 2019
The Chinese ambassador to Santiago called US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “a hypocrite” after he tried to dissuade the South American nation from dealing with Beijing, as the US and China remain locked in a trade war.
“Pompeo has lost his mind and gone too far,” Beijing’s envoy to Chile, Xu Bu, said, slamming the attacks against Chinese economic activities in the region as “malicious” and “absurd.”Documents from multiple Georgia counties on the 2018 midterm elections reveal unpreparedness and voter frustration at the polls…
April 16, 2019
Georgia’s midterm elections, which are now under Congressional scrutiny, had voters balking at long lines, supply shortages, and malfunctioning voting machines...
The Race Is On: Assessing the US-China Artificial Intelligence Competition…
April 16, 2019
Discussions of artificial intelligence are everywhere. Understandably so: AI has a seemingly limitless range applications, from schools to the battlefield. McKinsey & Company estimated that AI is likely to result in $13 trillion of additional global economic activity by 2030. AI also allows the development of autonomous weapons and novel platforms, such as advanced drone swarms. A revanchist Russia might be the scourge of the Western defense community, but Vladimir Putin has arguably issued the clearest articulation of AI’s massive potential: “Whoever becomes the leader in [AI] will become the ruler of the world.” But how do we assess who is leading?...
Trump on Trade War With China: US Is ‘Going to Win Either Way’…
April 16, 2019
President Donald Trump said on Monday he believed the United States would emerge from its trade dispute with China as a winner, no matter what happens as a result of the continued negotiations over a trade deal.
“We’re going to win either way. We either win by getting a deal or we win by not getting a deal,” Trump said during a visit to a business roundtable in Burnsville, Minnesota.
Pledges pour in to help rebuild Notre-Dame after fire…
April 16, 2019
"The work will surely take years, decades even, but it will require thousands of cubic metres of wood. We'll have to find the best specimens, with large diameters," Sylvain Charlois of the Charlois group in Murlin, central France, told the radio.
EXCLUSIVE: Former NXIVM Sex Cult Employees Say Kirsten Gillibrand’s Father And Stepmother, Who Are Second Cousins, Were Very Active In Sex Cult…
April 16, 2019
This part is funny:
"Ex-cult employee Frank Parlato — who exposed the fact that Raniere was branding women — is working with Big League Politics to uncover the deep longstanding links between Gillibrand, the Clintons, and NXIVM."
Not really sure how this article claims this is "EXCLUSIVE" as we already knew this information just by browsing the whistleblower's site. Anyway, here's a little blurb for those that need a little catching up:
“Her father Doug Rutnik came to work as a consultant for NXIVM…he was fired, they sued him, and he had to pay them $100,000,” Parlato said, referring Gillibrand’s father. Parlato is the NXIVM whistleblower who blew the lid off the case, including the revelation that NXIVM leader Keith Raniere’s cult was branding women with his initials. “Her father’s wife, her stepmother, was also a member of NXIVM…Doug got her into the cult, Gillibrand’s father got Gillibrand’s future stepmother into the cult. Doug left the cult because he was sued. Clare Bronfman after her father was sued donated money to Gillibrand. Gillibrand accepted it.”
Border Patrol apprehends 35 illegal aliens near Presidio, Texas…
April 16, 2019
On Sunday at approximately 6 p.m. the group was apprehended by Presidio Border Patrol agents. The agents encountered the large group of subjects near the bank of the Rio Grande after they illegally made entry without inspection. The group was made up of mostly family units (children and parents) and were all citizens of Honduras.
President Donald J. Trump’s Historic Tax Cuts Are Delivering Real Savings And Creating More Opportunity For All Americans…
April 16, 2019
The TCJA included $5.5 trillion in gross tax cuts, nearly 60 percent of which goes to families... At least 100 utility companies across the country announced plans to cut rates in response to the tax cuts... More than 4 million workers received direct bonuses. Nearly 200 companies announced wage increases due to the TCJA, including Walmart, the largest private employer in the Nation... Businesses poured investment back into the United States following the tax cuts, repatriating more than half a trillion dollars held overseas in 2018 alone... More than 8,700 communities across the country have been designated as opportunity zones and will see new investment and growth as a result.
Watch Sean Hannity
April 16, 2019
"There will be indictments, it will be criminal referrals and they're likely people to go to jail that abused power, that were corrupt. Now whether the media mob likes it or not, we are, I hope you're ready for an avalanche cascade truth and justice will now fall on their heads"