Toyota starts testing high-efficiency solar cells for electric cars, says could add 35 miles of range…
July 6, 2019
Now Toyota has partnered with NEDO and Sharp to start public road trials that will aim to “assess the effectiveness of improvements in cruising range and fuel efficiency of electrified vehicles equipped with high-efficiency solar batteries.”...
MAGANew Koch-Soros foreign policy think tank headed by Iran deal advocates…
July 6, 2019
D.C.’s newest foreign policy think tank, funded by libertarian Charles Koch and left-wing George Soros, was co-founded by a nonprofit leader who was integral to the passage of the controversial Iran nuclear deal.
Trita Parsi and the group's other four co-founders, Andrew Bacevich, Stephen Wertheim, Eli Clifton, and Suzanne DiMaggio, are all pro-Iran deal advocates, as well as harsh critics of U.S. foreign policy and of Israel...
The new think tank was announced earlier this week in an op-ed which said the new group “is one of the most remarkable partnerships in modern American political history”...
Big News: Trump says ‘favored-nations clause’ on drug prices is on its way…
July 6, 2019
President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration intends to announce a plan to decrease prescription drug costs based on the lowest price other countries pay.
He called it a “favored-nations clause.”
“As you know, for years and years, other nations paid less for drugs than we do,” he told reporters gathered on the South Lawn of the White House. “We’re working on it right now, we’re working on a favored nations clause, where we pay whatever the lowest nation’s price is.”
Trump said he will sign an executive order to implement the plan...
Good. We're all tired of subsidizing the rest of the world's healthcare with drug companies only making their money on Americans.
Payback time: US seeking billions of dollars from ‘El Chapo’…
July 6, 2019
Prosecutors want Guzman to pay back all the money he made from trafficking cocaine, heroin and marijuana to the US... It is not clear what assets, if any, the US could seize from Guzman, that would satisfy the judgement... The profits were said to have covered pay roll, as well as the purchase of planes, submarines and other vehicles...
Top official says Iran ready for higher uranium enrichment…
The US banned the export of Iran’s heavy water...
July 6, 2019
Ali Akbar Velayati says in a video posted on a website for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that "Americans directly and Europeans indirectly violated the deal."
Velayati adds that increasing uranium enrichment beyond 3.67% as allowed by the deal is "unanimously agreed upon by every component of the establishment."
Iran appears poised on Sunday to increase its uranium enrichment closer to weapons-grade levels as a deadline set by its president for Europe to offer new terms to the deal expires...
“Our officials have repeatedly stated that Iran would reconsider its (JCPOA) decisions when the US returns to the nuclear deal and the Europeans live up to their commitments. JCPOA is not supposed to be a one-sided agreement; rather, all parties have to comply with their commitments,” he stressed.
Utah teachers attend firearms drills to prepare for active shooters…
July 6, 2019
At least 30 Utah teachers banded together for a series of training sessions in which police instructed them on using guns in response to an active-shooter situation. The training, held in a warehouse that looks like a school but also functions as a shooting range, showed teachers how to disarm a gunman, where to shoot on the body and how to properly aim and unload a firearm. Officers leading the training also went over de-escalation techniques, self-defense and medical responses such as how to pack a wound and tie a tourniquet on a child.
State Of Emergency Declared After 7.1 Quake Rocks Southern California…
strongest in two decades...
Naval weapons base near quakes' epicenter closed for safety inspections...
7.1 Quake Rocks SoCal, Searles Valley Hit Hard For Second Time In 24 Hours...
July 6, 2019
The quake struck at 8:21 p.m. and was centered in the same location as Thursday’s. 6.4... The LADWP reported a power outage in the Encino/Valley Glen area affecting about 1,000 customers.
Tucker & Trump Talk UFO’s, China, Iran, Drones, & More…
July 6, 2019
A Massive Seaweed Bloom Is Smothering Life from the Caribbean to West Africa…
July 6, 2019
These phenomena are symptoms of a massive seaweed bloom scientists are calling the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. Researchers describe the belt and explore its causes in a study published July 4 in the journal Science... They identified a tipping point around 2009 when discharge from the Amazon River brought unusually high levels of nutrients into the Atlantic Ocean. Upwelling of nutrient-rich water off the west coast of Africa in the winter of 2010 further enriched surface waters with deep-sea nutrients; that upwelling also lowered temperatures of that surface water, allowing sargassum to thrive in the summer of 2011.
IG Report Delayed Again. Reluctant witnesses in FISA abuse probe agree to talk…
July 6, 2019
Amazon’s Bezos finalizes divorce with $38 bn settlement…
July 6, 2019
Under the agreement, MacKenzie Bezos, 49, will receive approximately 19.7 million Amazon.com shares, giving her a four percent stake in the company valued at $38.3 billion, and landing her at 22nd on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the news service said.
MacKenzie Bezos, a novelist, has said she would give all of her stake in The Washington Post and the space exploration firm Blue Origin to her husband as well as voting control of her remaining Amazon stock.
She has also promised to donate half her fortune to charity, joining the ranks of the world's ultra-wealthy philanthropists as a signatory of the Giving Pledge...
Melania Trump statue is unveiled close to her hometown in Slovenia…
July 6, 2019
A life-size wooden statue of US first lady Melania Trump has been unveiled in her birth country of Slovenia, but not everyone is pleased with it. The sculpture was erected next to the Sava River in the village of Rozno, around 8km from Mrs Trump's hometown of Sevnica. It was commissioned by Brad Downey, a Berlin-based American artist, and sculpted with a chainsaw by local folk artist Ales Zupevc.
Cradle of civilisation: Ancient Babylon becomes World Heritage Site at last…
July 6, 2019
The ancient city of Babylon, first referenced in a clay tablet from the 23rd century BC, has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, following decades of lobbying by Iraq.
The decision came at a vote at a UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Azerbaijan's capital Baku on Friday. It makes the ancient Mesopotamiam city on the Euphrates River the sixth world heritage site within the borders of a country known as a cradle of civilisation...