GOLD: Read The Whole Twitter Takedown of Rachel Maddow’s Tin-Foil Hysteria by Aaron Maté…
April 28, 2019
Click the link above to read the whole thread. Highly recommended.
1/ If YouTube were to recommend your show, it'd be recommending the leading purveyor of now debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theories, falsehoods & innuendo of the last 2+ years. Here's a sample:
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
Yellow Vests Take To The Streets on Week 25 in Paris France…
April 28, 2019
CNN’s Tapper Admits On TV: Trump Didn’t Say ‘White Supremacists Are Very Fine People’…
April 28, 2019
Donald Trump Renegotiates: $40 Billion Japanese Car Plants Coming to U.S…
April 28, 2019
“By the way, he started by saying he’s putting $40 billion into the United States for new car factories,” President Trump said, summarizing Abe’s commitment. “Toyota is coming in with $14 billion dollars. Many, many companies are coming in. And they’re coming in, frankly, to Michigan. They’re coming back, they want to be back, to Ohio, to Pennsylvania, to North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and what’s the name of this special place – it’s called Wisconsin.” “So they’ll be investing shortly and it’s started already, $40 billion with a b, $40 billion dollars, and it’ll be a lot more than that,” Trump said
Beto Likens Immigration Laws To Slavery, Says Illegal Immigrants Live In “Modern Day Bondage” In US…
April 28, 2019
Trudeau gets told off for holding up flood mitigation with a photo op…
April 28, 2019
China’s Belt Road Initiative is putting high pressure on U.S. to React…
Pakistan and other countries see China the one to help them 'to leapfrog into the 21st century'...
Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman: 'China is not as soft as you think'...
It also seems like China's Latin American and Caribbean strategies will be successful (Or will it?)...
April 28, 2019
- Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ambition by now is clear: to reclaim his country’s global greatness and establish itself over time as the preeminent economic and political power, not only in Asia but across the world stage, writes Atlantic Council CEO Fred Kempe.
- In apparent response to both international and domestic criticism, Xi on Friday converted his previous hubris into a greater humility, speaking before 37 global leaders and more than 5,000 delegates at the second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing.
- Don’t mistake Xi’s recalibration for retreat. Instead, China’s friends see in Xi’s Friday speech an ability to alter tactics in the face of new obstacles.
Over 1000 Quarantined As Measles Spreads Across LA Universities…
April 28, 2019
The number of measles cases registered four months into 2019 has surpassed the count of cases from last decade, according to new numbers from the CDC. Already 2019 is the highest year for measles since 2000 when the disease was eradicated domestically. All new cases since the eradication declaration have come from foreign travelers. The number of measles cases in the U.S. has climbed to nearly 700 this year, including five in Los Angeles County and 38 altogether in California.
Self-Proclaimed Nationalists Interrupt Author, Chant ‘This Land Is Our Land’ at Politics and Prose…
April 28, 2019
The group of 10 men walked in and chanted "This land is our land" as Jonathan Metzl, the director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University, was speaking about his new book, "Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland."
FYI: Politics and Prose's co-owner Lissa Muscatine was the former aide to Hillary Clinton. Lissa has a hundred emails in the Wikileaks Hillary Clinton Email Archive. It is also the place where Hillary addressed the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, and is a couple doors down from Comet Ping Pong.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defies GOP orthodoxy with drug importation plan
April 28, 2019
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is challenging traditional Republican doctrine with a plan to import prescription drugs from Canada to lower costs for seniors, the first major legislative initiative of his young tenure.
DeSantis, appealing to the gray vote, announced the plan in February at the retirement community The Villages, receiving an outpouring of support and cheers. Now, a state Senate version of the bill is moving quickly, with the appropriations committee voting overwhelming in favor of the bill.
Populist Vox Party in Spain expected to take 11% of the vote. It’s the first time a party this conservative has been represented in Spanish parliament since the 1980’s…
April 28, 2019
U.S. officials: China’s espionage is country’s “single most significant long-term strategic threat”..
April 28, 2019
Chinese espionage has increased efforts to recruit U.S. intelligence officers — especially CIA officers — in a new trend that some believe could be linked to the theft of 5.6 million fingerprint records stolen in 2015 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the Wall Street Journal reports...
Centipedes reading this already knew. We follow China super closely.
President Trump on Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo Talking about the Southern Border…
April 28, 2019
Her interview with President Trump starts at 12:58
In Case You Missed It: Adam Schiff on Bill Maher…
April 28, 2019
The DEMs have two losing avenues. They either:
A) Attempt impeachment and lose the independent vote for the next generation.
or they
B) Don’t attempt to impeach and lose Hollywood and New York money.
A Chinese Cheating Ring at UCLA Reveals an Industry Devoted to Helping International Students Scam Grades…
April 28, 2019
Any other day the UCLA bust might have made national headlines, but the news got swamped by a bigger, sexier college cheating scandal: Operation Varsity Blues... While the UCLA case is less shocking—bribes in thousands of dollars instead of millions; Chinese high schoolers instead of Full House cast members — it represents an equally notable underbelly of American college admissions. If Varsity Blues is about the American ruling class perpetuating its privilege, the UCLA scandal reveals the extreme pressures and perverse incentives facing international students, many of them far less privileged and desperate to not screw up their shot...
BIG IF TRUE: Senior Iranian military officer fled Iran with a cache of secret documents said to contain information on Tehran’s military plans, seeks asylum at a U.S. embassy…
April 28, 2019
"Reports indicate Nasiri had in possession a large volume of documents recording the travels of senior IRGC commanders, intelligence personnel and operational units to foreign countries, all under the cover of diplomatic missions."
While the Washington Free Beacon could not independently verify the report, it could represent a coup for the U.S. intelligence community, which has long sought information on Iran's military apparatus and plans.
China reportedly tests a new hypersonic missile capable to ‘destroy US warships’…
April 28, 2019
Sources have claimed the new hypersonic missile, known as YJ-XX, will to capable of destroying US warships missile defenses. The YJ-XX is an ultra-high-speed missile, with the range of 1000 km, allegedly capable of penetrating US air defense systems based on Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block IIA and SM-6 Block IA hit-to-kill interceptor missiles.
LA Homeless Deaths Jump 76%…
April 28, 2019
As of 2018, the city's total homeless population was about 53,000, an increase of 39% since 2014. The study said a majority of the people weren't living in government shelters but rather on city streets. Government officials and so-called experts have limited understanding of what the primary cause for the rise in deaths, but they said the opioid crisis could be a significant reason.
Simulating sounds of stars to reveal their secrets…
April 28, 2019
In her work, Goldstein studies the connection between stellar structure and vibrations by developing software that simulates diverse stars and their frequencies. As she compares her simulations to real stars, Goldstein can refine her model and improve how astrophysicists like her peer under the surface of stars by surveying their subtle sounds. With frequencies repeating on the order of minutes to days, you’d have to speed up stellar vibrations by a thousand or a million times to bring them within the range of human hearing...
Libya Seizes US Blacklisted Iranian Ship…
April 28, 2019
The Tripoli-based government said that the ship was investigated by Misrata port authorities, which identified it as Shahr E. Kord. The cargo ship, which was carrying 144 containers, was anchored off the port and was found to be under US and European sanctions.
The general prosecutor has been informed of the development, said the Ministry. The vessel was blacklisted back in November 2018, according to the US Treasury.