WSJ Exclusive (IC Leak): Whistleblower’s ‘Urgent Concern’ Was Trump asking Ukraine’s president at least eight times in a phone call to work with Rudy Giuliani, who was advocating for a probe of Joe Biden’s son. U.S. Aid for Ukraine was not discussed in the phone call…
September 20, 2019
No surprise that deep state officials would leak this late on Friday to control the weekend news cycle. The problem is that there is no quid pro quo or extortion involved because President Trump did not 'promise' aid in return for Ukraine's investigation of Biden's son. All this does is shine a light on Biden.
The leaker did not leak the president’s conversation because of anything illegal. He leaked it because he objected to the president politically. Shouldn't this leaker be prosecuted by the DOJ?
Also, how can Trump force the media to cover shady Joe’s applying political pressure on Ukraine on behalf of his son? This is how right here. No man falls down purposely and get's back up without a scratch as much as Trump. At some point you have to admit he’s directing this show.
Jim Watkins talks about QAnon…
September 20, 2019
Candace Owens tells Congress that ‘White nationalism is not a problem’ for Black America…
September 20, 2019
Home Depot And Lowe’s Accused Of Scanning Millions Of Customers Faces…
September 20, 2019
According to the Cook County Record, two recent class action lawsuits accuse Home Depot and Lowe's of secretly using facial recognition to identify customers as soon as they enter their stores... According to the Lowe's lawsuit, home improvement stores are secretly using facial recognition to identify everyone.
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The Home Depot and the Lowe's cases claim that they have failed to inform customers that their biometric data is being collected, and did not obtain written consent for doing so. Home Depot and Lowe's have also neglected to post a publicly available retention schedule detailing when the data will be destroyed.
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Have private corporations secretly turned America into China? Since when did it become OK for private corporations to secretly surveil the public?...Mysterious magnetic pulses discovered on Mars…
September 20, 2019
At midnight on Mars, the red planet’s magnetic field sometimes starts to pulsate in ways that have never before been observed. The cause is currently unknown. That’s just one of the stunning preliminary findings from NASA’s very first robotic geophysicist there, the InSight lander... As revealed during a handful of presentations this week at a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society... In addition to the odd magnetic pulsations, the lander’s data show that the Martian crust is far more powerfully magnetic than scientists expected. What’s more, the lander has picked up on a very peculiar electrically conductive layer, about 2.5 miles thick, deep beneath the planet’s surface.
China agriculture delegation scraps U.S. farm visit to Montana…
September 20, 2019
Chinese agriculture officials who were due to visit U.S. farm states next week have canceled their trip to Montana as the officials will return to China sooner than originally scheduled, the Montana Farm Bureau told Reuters on Friday.
The cancellation came as U.S.-Chinese trade talks were held in Washington and U.S. President Donald Trump said he wanted a complete trade deal with the Asian nation, not just an agreement for China to buy more U.S. agricultural goods.
100,000 free AI-generated headshots put stock photo companies on notice…
September 20, 2019
It’s getting easier and easier to use AI to generate convincing-looking, yet entirely fake, pictures of people... Many of the images look fake but others are difficult to distinguish from images licensed by stock photo companies... Over the course of the year, we’ve seen a number of AI projects generate fake AI faces, most notably ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com, a website capable of producing an infinite series of mostly-believable headshots. The faces found on generated.photos cover a variety of ages, shapes, and ethnicities, and they’re all consistently lit and consistently sized to make them useful for designers.
The Trump administration is calling on the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Duke University to revise their joint Middle Eastern studies program or lose taxpayer funding…
September 20, 2019
According to the Department of Education, the program offers very few, “if any,” programs focused on the historic discrimination against religious minorities in the Middle East, and lacks balance, focusing on the “positive aspects of Islam” while having an “absolute absence” of a similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity and Judaism.
Autoworkers strike forces GM vendors to start layoffs…
September 20, 2019
The disruption on assembly lines has created a supply-chain backlog, forcing vendors to lay off their own laborers as work dries up, according to The Detroit Free Press. Local GM plants are not accepting deliveries due to the strike, a spokesperson told The Detroit Free Press. While General Motors told Fox Business that "negotiations have resumed, and there has been progress," the industry surrounding the automaker is still feeling the effects.
Trump slaps sanctions on Iran’s national bank after Saudi attack, says Tehran is ‘broke’…
September 20, 2019
"These are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country. We've never done it to this level," he told reporters in the Oval Office. Trump on Wednesday had tweeted that he ordered Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to "substantially increase sanctions" on Iran. On Friday, Mnuchin stood by the president and said that the sanctions mean that the U.S. has now cut off all sources of funding to Iran. "This will mean no more funds going to the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] or to fund terror, and this is on top of our oil sanctions and our financial institution sanctions," he said, calling the move "very big."
U.S., El Salvador Reach Deal on Asylum Seekers
September 20, 2019
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan and Salvadoran Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill signed the agreement on Friday, after days of negotiations between the two governments this week... Mr. McAleenan said that the pact will help build El Salvador’s asylum capacity—which is known to be almost nonexistent—and that the U.S. may seek to return migrants from third countries there in the future, though he didn’t elaborate on how such a system might work.
El Salvador, under pressure from the Trump administration, has already deployed 1,100 troops and immigration officers to its border with Guatemala.
driver in custody after car drives through Woodfield Mall…
September 20, 2019
Police were on the scene Friday afternoon at Woodfield Mall after reports of a car driving through Sears. Witnesses told WGN they saw a black SUV driving through the Schaumburg mall around around 2:30 p.m., striking kiosks. The incident took place on the lower level of the mall... There are reports of two people injured. Witnesses said the driver was taken into custody. Police have yet to confirm that information.
Ohio child sex trafficking sting nabs more than 100, including church leader, ER doctor…
September 20, 2019
Those arrested included 24 men caught when they showed up at an undisclosed location with the intention of meeting a child for sex, Maj. Steven Tucker of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said. "They show up with sex toys, they show up with lubrication," Tucker said. "They show up with things that clearly somebody isn't going to show up to a house with, unless they intended to engage in sexual activity."
Facebook has suspended ‘tens of thousands’ of apps suspected of hoarding data…
September 20, 2019
Many of the apps had been banned for a number of reasons, like siphoning off Facebook user profile data or making data public without protecting their identities, or other violations of the company’s policies. Despite the bans, the social media giant said it has “not confirmed” other instances of misusing user data beyond those it has already notified the public about. Among those previously disclose include South Korean analytics firm Rankwave, accused of abusing the developer platform and refusing an audit; and myPersonality, a personality quiz that collected data on more than four million users.
Trump Derides MSM Over Biden-Ukraine Whistleblower Story: ‘You’re Gonna Look Really Bad When It Falls’…
Update 1: Did Trump-Biden-Ukraine Drama Just Implode? WaPo Reports No "Quid Pro Quo" Offered During Phone Call...
September 20, 2019
Trump said that it "doesn't matter what I discussed," adding "but I'll tell you this, somebody ought to look into Joe Biden's statement where He talked about billions of dollars that he's not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. So, somebody ought to look into that and you wouldn't because he's a Democrat. And the fake news doesn't look into things like that, it's a disgrace."
"You know the press has had a very bad week with Justice Kavanaugh and all those ridiculous charges, and all of the mistakes made at the New York Times and other places," said Trump, adding: "You've had a very bad week, and this will be better than all of 'em, this is another one. So keep playing it out because you're gonna look really bad when it falls, and I guess I'm about 22 and 0 and I'll keep it that way.
"...keep asking questions and building it up as big as possible so you can have a bigger downfall."
Researchers find way to kill pathogen resistant to antibiotics…
September 20, 2019
Researchers have demonstrated a new strategy in fighting antibiotics resistance: the use of artificial haem proteins as a Trojan horse to selectively deliver antimicrobials to target bacteria, enabling their specific and effective sterilization. The technique killed 99.9% of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a potentially deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterium present in hospitals. The strategy should also work for other dangerous bacteria.
Source says US, El Salvador to sign asylum deal…
September 20, 2019
The official said acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan would sign a “cooperative asylum agreement.” The agreement could lead to migrants from third countries obtaining refuge in El Salvador even though many Salvadorans are fleeing their nation and seeking asylum in the United States. A Salvadoran delegation has been in the U.S. this week discussing the matter.
Submerged for Decades, Spanish ‘Stonehenge’ Reemerges After Drought…
September 20, 2019
Receding water levels in Spain’s Valdecañas Reservoir has exposed a stone monument dating back to between 4,000 to 5,000 years ago... For nearly 60 years, the site has largely remained underwater, though the tips of the rocks have poked up through the surface when water levels are low... So rare is the sight that locals are flocking to the Dolmen of Guadalperal to see it for themselves, reports The Local.
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The site dates to around 2,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE, and it presently consists of 144 stones, some reaching as high as 2 meters (6 feet). Some stones are etched with engravings of serpents. Like England’s Stonehenge, this megalithic monument is arranged in a circle-like pattern. Its purpose isn’t entirely clear...California sues Trump over revoking state’s car emissions authority…
September 20, 2019
The lawsuit seeks to defend California and the 13 other states that follow its car pollution rules from the administration’s latest effort to loosen environmental regulations. By revoking a special waiver the state has relied on for years to set its own standards, the administration has launched an assault on California’s role as an environmental leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality... The lawsuit was filed against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has been working with the Environmental Protection Agency on a proposal to weaken fuel efficiency standards set during the Obama administration.
‘They’re forming like roaches.’ The 6 tropical storms whirling at once this week in the Atlantic and Pacific hit a record first set in 1992…
September 20, 2019
"While Humberto and Kiko were spinning in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, four new tropical cyclones formed Tuesday: Imelda and Jerry in the Atlantic Basin, and Mario and Lorena in the Eastern Pacific Basin," the Weather Channel reported... According to the National Hurricane Center, there have been as many as five active Atlantic tropical cyclones at once, which occurred Sept. 10-12, 1971. In the eastern Pacific, on Aug. 26, 1974, there were five simultaneous named storms of at least tropical storm strength, Phil Klotzbach, a tropical scientist at Colorado State University, told weather.com.