‘Angry’ Rex Tillerson Says Jared Kushner Hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy…
June 28, 2019
The former secretary of state accused the president’s son-in-law of setting up his own private State Department, according to a congressional transcript seen by The Daily Beast...
“One of the challenges I think that everyone had… to learn to deal with was the role, the unique situation with the president’s son-in-law [Kushner] and daughter [Ivanka] being part of the White House advisory team,” Tillerson said, according to the transcript The Daily Beast obtained. “There was not a real clear understanding of the role, responsibilities, authorities… which made it challenging for everyone, I think, in terms of how to deal with activities that might be undertaken by others that were not defined within the national-security process itself.”
When asked for comment on this story, a senior State Department official told The Daily Beast: “Secretary Pompeo and Mr. Kushner have a strong working relationship and coordinate quite closely.”...
Major Biden Donor Pulls Support Over Segregationist Comments; Slams Debate Performance…
June 28, 2019
"I don’t think he did well last night."
Barr announces over $10 million to fund law enforcement crisis in rural Alaska…
June 28, 2019
... just under a month after Attorney General William Barr visited Alaska in his first major trip as the nation's top law enforcement official... Now, the attorney general has declared a law enforcement emergency for the nation's 49th state, making $6 million in emergency funding immediately available under the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program to support law enforcement efforts in Native Alaskan villages. That money will help hire, equip, and train local law enforcement organizations, including Village Public Safety Officers, Village Police Officers and Tribal Police Officers.
Poll: 59% of Everyday Americans vs 100% of Experts Rate the Economy as Excellent or Good…
June 28, 2019
Inflation and unemployment are historically low, and the labor market overall remains strong. But Bankrate’s latest survey finds that opinions on how well the economy is doing -- and how close we are to the next recession -- vary depending on your household income and the political party you’re affiliated with. And financial experts’ opinions on the economy are at odds with what you’re hearing from everyday citizens, like your friends and next-door neighbors.
The survey was based on a sample of 1,011 U.S. Respondents, and 9 Financial Experts
Google is building a new private subsea cable between Portugal and South Africa…
June 28, 2019
Google also stresses that this new cable is able to carry about 20 times the capacity of the last cable that was built to serve this region. The cable will feature numerous branching units that it can then use to connect lines to other countries along the way. The first branch will connect the cable to Lagos, Nigeria. Other branches will follow in the future.
Unlike some of its competitors, Google does not currently operate any data centers on the African continent and has yet to share any plans to do so. This makes fast connections to Europe even more of a necessity, though it’s also possible that Google is putting this new cable in place to prepare for a data center launch in South Africa, for example...
Theresa May exchanges cold handshake with Vladimir Putin…
June 28, 2019
Fake Meat investors seek big opportunities in pork-hungry China…
June 28, 2019
Among those investors is Nick Cooney. When Beyond Meat surged over 160% in the strongest U.S. IPO this year, he was elated... Cooney is taking that idea to China through Lever VC, a new venture fund with offices in New York and Hong Kong. He is one of a growing number of investors on the look out for homegrown startups ready to disrupt the country's carnivorous diet...
Asian investors "have been investing in alternative protein companies in the West because that's where most of these companies are," Cooney said. "But as there are more and more good startups here in China and Asia generally, there is now all this local capital flowing from investors who strongly feel this is a winning space."
China was one of the main actors behind this 'movement' in the US? Starting to make sense. The New World Order Vegan Agenda is beggining to take hold around the world...
4,000-Year-Old Burial Revealed on Britain’s ‘Island of Druids’…
June 28, 2019
And although the burial mound is much older than the Druids... the excavations have cast new light on the ancient inhabitants of the island of Anglesey. Overlooking the Irish Sea from the northwest corner of Wales, Anglesey is dotted with numerous Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monuments. The most famous is the 5,000-year-old passage tomb of Bryn Celli Ddu (Welsh for "the mound in the dark grove"), which has an entrance passage that aligns with the rising midsummer sun. It was archaeologically excavated in 1928 and 1929, and later reconstructed... Modern archaeologists have turned their attention to a burial mound about 150 feet (50 meters) from the famous passage tomb, in the expectation that today's scientific techniques will reveal new details about the people who built it.
Cattle Antibodies Lead To Breakthroughs In HIV Research…
June 28, 2019
Using “special antibodies” that cows naturally produce, Criscitiello and a team of researchers (including at Scripps Research Institute) have made significant headway in HIV research by eliciting broadly neutralizing antibodies to the virus that biomedical engineers in California and New York believe may hold a key for HIV vaccines, therapeutics, or other prevention tools.
While that project has advanced into the human medicine realm, Criscitiello and another team, including master’s student Kelly Head, are now turning their attention to using these same antibodies in a way they hope might one day be used to create an immunological treatment for breast cancer.
Rep. Matt Gaetz will press charges in ‘milkshaking’ incident…
June 28, 2019
“I am going to press charges ... I think it’s really important to send a message that we as conservatives have a right to our views, just like anybody else has a right to their views,” Gaetz said Thursday on the network.
“If there are no consequences, maybe it’s me getting hit with a drink one time, but what if it's a member of my staff? And what if instead of a drink it’s acid, or urine?”...
Climate Alarmists Caught Manipulating Temperature Data Yet Again…
June 28, 2019
Geologist Tony Heller, however, isn’t one to rely on what the mainstream media and climate scientists tell us is happening. Being a scientist, Heller is keen on reporting facts instead of hysteria. And Heller is telling us that global temperature data is being manipulated before our very eyes.
According to Heller, NASA has manipulated historical temperature data to show a dramatic increase in temperature, especially since the year 2000.
Comparing NASA charts from the years 2000, 2017, and 2019, Heller shows data has been manipulated multiple times since the year 2000. Heller shows, with NASA’s own data, that the space agency has been adjusting temperatures from the past — temperatures from as long ago as the mid-1800s — downward, while adjusting current-day temperatures upward, and those changes are responsible for most of the claimed global warming during that time. In the year 2000, historical data showed a .5 degree Celsius increase from the mid-1800s to the year 2000. In 2017, the same agency’s historical temperature data showed a 1.5C increase and just two years later a 2.0 C increase. In each of those time frames, older temperatures are pushed slightly downward.
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“They’ve quadrupled warming mainly by cooling past temperatures and warming present temperatures,” Heller said in a video released on Monday...Trump To Unleash Hell On Europe After EU Announces Channel To Circumvent SWIFT And Iran Sanctions Is Now Operational…
It's not the end of the dollar hegemony yet...
June 28, 2019
"After Friday’s talks, Araqchi said he had been informed that INSTEX, a new barter mechanism set up by the Europeans to facilitate some trade with Iran, was now operational.
A European diplomat said it was now working on the European side and transactions had been identified, but work on the Iranian end had yet to be completed.
Araqchi said the new mechanism would help only if it enables Iran to sell its oil. The Europeans say it is likely to be able to handle only small transactions for items such as medicine, already permitted under sanctions."
Additionally they report that "Iran says progress at last-ditch nuclear deal talks 'not enough'".
James Alex Fields, driver in deadly car attack at Charlottesville rally, sentenced to life in prison…
June 28, 2019
The driver who plowed his car into a group of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, killing one and injuring dozens, was sentenced Friday to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.
James Alex Fields Jr. pleaded guilty to 29 of 30 hate crime charges in March in a plea deal to avoid the death penalty for murdering civil rights activist Heather Heyer and injuring more than 30 others when he intentionally mowed them down on a side street with his car on Aug. 12, 2017. The 30th charge, which included a possible death sentence, was dropped.
Trump ‘Humiliates’ Socialist Spanish Prime Minister During G20. U.S. President appears to tell Pedro Sanchez to sit down…
June 28, 2019
According to Sputnik, Trump’s “gesture was interpreted as offensive by some observers in Spain”. El Pais described the exchange as “mocking,” while El Periodico called it “ugly”. Online media outlet Diario Patriota said Trump had “humiliated” Sanchez in a repeat of similar behavior during a NATO summit last July.
As Prime Minister, Sanchez has rolled out the red carpet for migrants arriving in Spain via boats from Libya, a policy which is at odds with Matteo Salvini in Italy, who has done the exact opposite...EU ‘ready to work’ with US on peace plan, as long as it aims at two states…
June 28, 2019
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy czar, during a meeting in Washington Tuesday with Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, “underlined the fundamental interest of the European Union for lasting and sustainable peace and stability in the region,” according to a readout of the meeting provided by Brussels... The EU’s position calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with Jerusalem a capital of both Israel and Palestine...
Trump promised to pay an official visit to Brazil after meeting Latin American country’s President Jair Bolsonaro on the sidelines of G20 summit in Osaka, Japan…
June 28, 2019
In a joint press conference, Trump did not say when he would visit but did not hesitate to generously praise the country's assets and leadership. Bolsonaro said he supports the re-election campaign of Trump, another sign of increasingly warming relations between the two administrations. He also emphasized that a free trade agreement is needed between the two countries.
Trump and Bolsonaro also discussed China’s growing influence in Latin America...
Mysterious Fast Radio Burst Traced to Galaxy 3.6 Billion Light-Years Away…
Read the observations published in the journal Science...
June 28, 2019
A radio telescope in Western Australia discovered this particular single radio burst and three of the largest telescopes in the world were able to image it... "We identified the burst's home galaxy and even its exact starting point, 13,000 light-years out from the galaxy's center in the galactic suburbs," said Adam Deller, an author of the study and an associate professor at the Swinburne University of Technology's Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing.
How Saudi Arabia Could Make a Bold Strategic Move on Iran as it has far more to lose than Washington from current escalations…
June 28, 2019
If the status quo continues, then more Saudi ships may be sunk, and more Saudi civilians and soldiers may be killed.
The crown prince said recently, “The Kingdom doesn’t want a war in the region.” But to stop one, the Saudi and Iranian governments must talk to each other. This might be the first step in a longer incremental process that would address the threats Iran poses to Saudi Arabia one at a time... The Iranian minister of foreign affairs, Javad Zarif, has already suggested a non-aggression pact with the Gulf states that Saudi Arabia’s new friends in Moscow are ready to facilitate.
Direct talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran to find a safe exit ramp from the current crisis could patch the credibility of Riyadh’s claims not to want war with Tehran...
The U.S.’s New Missile Will Counter Chinese Fighters. The AIM-260 will “out stick” enemy fighters, shooting them down before they can shoot back…
June 28, 2019
Air Force Weapons Program Executive Officer Brig. Gen. Anthony Genatempo revealed the existence of the Joint Advanced Tactical Missile to reporters, stating that it had been under development since 2017. Flight tests will begin in 2021 and the missile is expected to reach initial operational capability—a point at which the missile will start reaching fighter units—in 2022.
Genatempo, as reported by Air Force Magazine, described JATM as a “next air-to-air air dominance weapon for our air-to-air fighters.” The missile will initially arm the F-22 Raptor, equipping the main weapons bay, and the Navy’s F/A-18E/F fighter jets. Deployment on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will follow, but the missile will skip older generation jets such as the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon, both of which will still be around in the 2020s.
The Pentagon’s new laser system can reportedly identify enemies by their heartbeat from 650 feet away…
June 28, 2019
Jetson, as the U.S. military's new device is called, uses laser vibrometry (non-contact vibration measurements) to detect surface movement caused by a person's heartbeat. The device is an extension of existing technology, such as already available equipment for measuring vibrations in distant structures like wind turbines.
The laser is reportedly able to penetrate clothing and achieve a positive identification roughly 95 percent of the time from up to 200 meters away, or about 650 feet, and there is the real possibility that the range could be extended.