Schiff Says He Could Subpoena Giuliani for Documents This Week…
September 30, 2019
“We’re going to need evidence from Rudy Giuliani,” Schiff told CBS correspondent Scott Pelley. “And it’s our intention as soon as first thing next week to subpoena him for documents. And there may very well come a time where we want to hear from him directly.”...
Schiff is Kompromat…
Guess who is on an advisory board for the Atlantic Council. None other than Mr. James Clapper...
September 30, 2019
UPDATE: Schiff planned a trip to Ukraine, sponsored by *Atlantic Council* Aug 24-31 — reports now indicating he sent a staffer; Ukraine sources say Schiff canceled the trip for fear his Ukrainian arms dealer connections might be scrutinized...
— Chanel Rion OAN (@ChanelRion) September 29, 2019
The Atlantic Council is also funded by a Ukrainian, Victor Pinchuk who donated $25M to the Clinton Foundation.
Peter Navarro Updates us on US-China trade…
September 30, 2019
New blood test could detect more than 20 types of cancer…
September 30, 2019
Crucially, 99.4 per cent cases identified as cancer were correctly spotted - meaning just 0.6 per cent of cases were misdiagnoses of healthy patients...
California Chaos: 91-year-old widower attacked, robbed while visiting wife’s grave in California…
September 30, 2019
Life on Mars could be found within two years but world is ‘not prepared’, Nasa’s chief scientist says – Leading astronomer says discovery will open up ‘whole new line of thinking’…
September 30, 2019
Dr Jim Green has warned that two rovers from Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) could find evidence of life within months of arriving on Mars in March 2021.
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“It will start a whole new line of thinking. I don’t think we’re prepared for the results,” he told The Sunday Telegraph. “I’ve been worried about that because I think we’re close to finding it and making some announcements.”...We’ve been hearing life on Mars teasers for nearly 40 years. We’re ready. What is this guy smoking?
Amazon may soon be able to track your phone’s location even if you don’t use any of its products or services…
September 30, 2019
Amazon's new mesh network could enable the company to track your phone's location, even if you don't use its WiFi or products. Privacy watchdogs are sounding alarm bells about what that means for the company's ability to surveil individuals. Amazon regularly partners with law enforcement, turning over insights from its network of Ring cameras to police. The company has not clarified many details surrounding how the mesh network will be used...
NASA wants to send nuclear rockets to the Moon and Mars – Nuclear propulsion, first floated in the ’60s, is hot again…
September 30, 2019
NASA engineers want to create something deceptively simple: a rocket engine powered by nuclear fission.
A nuclear rocket engine would be twice as efficient as the chemical engines powering rockets today. But despite their conceptual simplicity, small-scale fission reactors are challenging to build and risky to operate because they produce toxic waste. Space travel is dangerous enough without having to worry about a nuclear meltdown. But for future human missions to the moon and Mars, NASA believes such risks may be necessary...
A 17-year-old hunter in Georgia was shot and killed after being mistaken for a deer…
September 30, 2019
Bobby Lane, 17, was in an area of heavy foliage on Saturday when he was thought to be an animal by another hunter... "Apparently he shot through the bush, thinking it was a deer and it happened to be my cousin," Lane's cousin Michael Rawling told CNN affiliates WFOX/ WJAX...
CVS pulls Zantac and similar heartburn drugs because of cancer worries…
September 30, 2019
CVS Pharmacy has suspended the sale of all Zantac brand and CVS Health brand ranitidine products until further notice. This action is being taken out of an abundance of caution due to a recent Product Alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that ranitidine products may contain a low level of nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), which is a probable human carcinogen.
Trump Tweet Warns of Civil War if democrats are successful in impeachment…
September 30, 2019
....rid of Donald J. Trump - And the Democrats don’t care if they burn down and destroy this nation in the process. I have never seen the Evangelical Christians more angry over any issue than this attempt to illegitimately remove this President from office, overturn the 2016....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019
....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019
Shock and outrage as masked Antifa crowd blocks and shouts at elderly couple in Canada…
September 30, 2019
Antifa protesters scream at & block elderly couple outside an event featuring conservative politician @MaximeBernier & @RubinReport. Further violence broke out, leading to two arrests. Mohawk College had faced massive campaign to cancel the event. pic.twitter.com/D49dTcMi4X
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 30, 2019
“Ultraprocessed” foods seem to trigger neural signals that make us want more and more calories, unlike other foods in the Western diet…
September 30, 2019
Among those views is the idea that particular nutrients such as fats, carbs or sugars are to blame for our alarming obesity pandemic... But Hall, who works at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, where he runs the Integrative Physiology section, has run experiments that point fingers at a different culprit. His studies suggest that a dramatic shift in how we make the food we eat—pulling ingredients apart and then reconstituting them into things like frosted snack cakes and ready-to-eat meals from the supermarket freezer—bears the brunt of the blame. This “ultraprocessed” food, he and a growing number of other scientists think, disrupts gut-brain signals that normally tell us that we have had enough, and this failed signaling leads to overeating.
Startup uses VR to help older people re-engage with the world & follows on from MIT study that shows VR reduces depression & social isolation for older people with dementia…
September 30, 2019
“He just came alive,” Hayes remembers. “He started moving around, tapping his feet, laughing. He was all of a sudden much more engaged in the world, and this from someone who was slouched over, to now kind of bouncing around. [My classmate] Dennis and I looked at each other like, ‘Holy cow, we might be onto something.’ It was remarkable.”
It would not be the last time Hayes and Dennis Lally MBA ’17 saw the transformative impact of virtual reality (VR). Their startup, Rendever, which they founded with Kyle Rand and Thomas Neumann, has since brought its VR experiences to more than 100 senior living communities, and has launched in hospitals to extend the enthralling world of VR to patients of all ages...
Elon Musk calls on the public to “preserve human consciousness” with Starship: “I think we should become a multi-planet civilization while that window is open.”…
September 30, 2019
While we have “several hundred millions of years left” before the sun expands and overheats the Earth, Musk attempted to put that into perspective, noting the Earth has been around for about 4.5 billion years, but humanity has been on Earth for a fraction of that.
“From an evolutionary standpoint, if it took and extra ten percent longer for conscious life to evolve on Earth, it wouldn’t evolve at all because it would’ve been incinerated by the sun,” the SpaceX CEO said... “It appears that consciousness is a very rare and precious thing and we should take whatever steps we can to preserve the light of consciousness..."
Jeff Flake goes full TDS In a Washington Post op-ed…
September 30, 2019
Two years ago I stood in the Senate chamber and said: “There are times when we must risk our careers in favor of our principles.” In my case, I had not supported the president’s election. One year into his presidency, I knew that I could not support his reelection. While I had hoped that I could still run for reelection to the Senate in 2018 as someone who would help to provide a check on the president’s worst impulses, it soon became apparent that this was not what Republican primary voters in my state were looking for. Whatever reservations they might have had when they voted for Donald Trump, one year into his presidency they wanted a senator who was all in.
Nearly 30,000 US kids under age 10 have been arrested from 2013 to 2017 according to a report by the FBI…
September 30, 2019
In the US, 34 states have no minimum age for delinquency, while most of the rest have set the age at 10, according to government data cited by ABC News. The federal system prefers to defer to state delinquency authorities for minors, according to the Congressional Research Service, although under the federal guidelines, the minimum age is reported to be 7. And 24 states have no minimum age to transfer juvenile cases to adult courts, according to the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Thousands of ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pollution into sea…
September 30, 2019
More than $12bn (£9.7bn) has been spent on the devices, known as open-loop scrubbers, which extract sulphur from the exhaust fumes of ships that run on heavy fuel oil. This means the vessels meet standards demanded by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) that kick in on 1 January.
However, the sulphur emitted by the ships is simply re-routed from the exhaust and expelled into the water around the ships, which not only greatly increases the volume of pollutants being pumped into the sea, but also increases carbon dioxide emissions.
The change could have a devastating effect on wildlife in British waters and around the world, experts have warned...
3756 ships out of roughly 53000 ships that exist worldwide. Ships-wise alone that's a pretty significant percentage (7.09%).
The findings of an independent investigation into the sex abuse crisis within the Catholic Church was released…
September 30, 2019
A retired judge was asked to lead the investigation. The report detailing how the archdiocese of New York has handled claims of child sexual abuse by their own priests is being released at the Catholic Center on the East Side of Manhattan. She was promised complete access to records, personnel and to Cardinal Dolan himself...
Another Woman Accuses Al Franken of Sexual Misconduct…
September 30, 2019
...anonymous woman has accused former U.S. senator Al Franken of groping her at an event in 2006, becoming the ninth woman to accuse Franken of sexual misconduct... The woman has claimed Franken groped her while posing for photographs. “He puts his hand on my ass,” the woman said. “And I’m just frozen. It’s so violating. And then he gives me a little squeeze on my buttock, and I am bright red. I don’t say anything at the time, but I felt deeply, deeply uncomfortable.”
The ninth woman to accuse Franken of sexual misconduct, the woman is also the fourth to accuse the former senator of groping her backside...