Dem Rep Slotkin CONFRONTED on peach mint!…
December 16, 2019
The Ground Zero Mosque Project Is Back…
December 16, 2019
The news was buried under two dense paragraphs and five large photos in an article in New York YIMBY about a different project: "Construction has also yet to begin on 51 Park Place, which is slated to become a 71-foot-tall, 16,000-square-foot Islamic cultural center." The infamous Ground Zero Mosque project, a long buried effort to build a triumphal mosque at the site of the worst jihad terror attack in American history, is back.
Construction has yet to begin, but it will...
30 House Democrats are pushing for Rep. Justin Amash to be an impeachment manager in Trump’s Senate trial…
December 16, 2019
- Thirty House Democrats are pushing party leaders to appoint Rep. Justin Amash, who recently defected from the Republican Party, as one of the impeachment managers in a Senate trial for President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
- These lawmakers reportedly believe Amash could be an effective voice to make the case to conservative voters in a way Democratic lawmakers may not be able to.
- Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who is leading the movement to appoint Amash, praised the Michigan congressman's qualifications and added he was "the first and only member of the Republican conference, when he was a Republican, to show courage."
- Amash is a longtime critic of the president and has called for his impeachment several times.
Amazon Ring hacker caught taunting Florida man, police officer…
How Hackers Are Breaking Into Ring Cameras...
December 16, 2019
A Florida man's Ring security system was hacked by someone who taunted him and a police officer who arrived at the home, going as far as to say he had witnessed homeowners performing sexual acts... "You're getting hacked by a five-year-old, dude," the person can be heard at one point telling the homeowner...
All the Species Declared Extinct This Decade…
December 16, 2019
....a list of the species that the IUCN declared extinct in the past decade (it does not include species still around but declared extinct in the wild). The list is contains only 160 species, many of which were last seen many years ago or only discovered recently. Generally, it takes decades without a sighting of a species plus dedicated searches before researchers can fully establish that no individuals are left.
Intel’s latest acquisition is a $2 billion push into AI
December 16, 2019
Habana Labs makes programmable deep learning accelerators. Its Gaudi AI Training Processor, for instance, is expected to deliver up to four-times the throughput of systems built with the equivalent number of GPUs. For mobile and web-based apps that use Intel's AI data center offerings, the acquisition will, ideally, lead to faster and more accurate AI for features like photo and speech recognition.
Breast Implant Recall Creates Difficult Decision For Women…
December 16, 2019
The devices have been discontinued, but the Food and Drug Administration recommended that women who already have them keep them in unless symptoms emerge. The increased cancer risk is small, and surgery to remove the implants carries its own risks. But for some women, especially those who received the implants after undergoing breast cancer treatment, it is a more complicated calculus.
Supreme Court lets stand ruling that protects homeless who sleep on sidewalk…
December 16, 2019
The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a major case on homelessness, letting stand a ruling that protects homeless people’s right to sleep on the sidewalk or in public parks if no other shelter is available. The justices without comment or a dissent said that they would not hear the case from Boise, Idaho, which challenged a ruling by a federal appeals court.
New research finds killer electron hot spots in Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts…
December 16, 2019
A collaboration between researchers in Japan, the USA, and Russia has found a hot spot in Earth's radiation belt where killer electrons, which can cause serious anomalies in satellites, form. The finding, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, could help scientists more accurately forecast when these killer (relativistic) electrons will form...
Palantir Wins New Pentagon Deal With $111 Million From the Army…
December 16, 2019
Company beats Microsoft, Ernst & Young, Accenture, Deloitte... Peter Thiel-backed company is also working on Project Maven...
Black voter support for Trump at ‘highest levels,’ could seal 2020 win…
December 16, 2019
A growing number of polls show that President Trump is gaining the support of black voters above what any Republican president has ever received. Both Emerson Polling and Rasmussen Reports have it at about 34%, a stunning number.
Fashion Nova’s Los Angeles Workers Paid as Little as $2.77 an Hour…
December 16, 2019
The federal Labor Department has found that many Fashion Nova garments are stitched together by a work force in the United States that is paid illegally low wages... In investigations conducted from 2016 through this year, the department discovered Fashion Nova clothing being made in dozens of factories that owed $3.8 million in back wages to hundreds of workers...
Man stole $88K from bank vault, posted pictures on social media…
December 16, 2019
The release said a criminal indictment was unsealed this week in federal court following the arrest of Arlando Henderson, 29, by the FBI in San Diego. The unsealed indictment alleges Henderson stole cash out of the vault in separate allotments on at least 18 different occasions this year.
Central Europe Mayors Against Populism Sign ‘Free Cities’ Pact…
December 16, 2019
Four central European capitals, all at odds with their countries' populist governments, signed a deal Monday in Budapest to seek more EU funding together to bypass their nations' rulers. The pro-European centrist mayors of Budapest, Bratislava, Prague and Warsaw -- the capitals of the Visegrad countries Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland -- signed what they called the "Pact of Free Cities". In their joint declaration, they committed to "protecting and promoting our common values of freedom, human dignity, democracy, equality, rule of law, social justice, tolerance and cultural diversity".
Turkey says White Helmets co-founder died from fall…
December 16, 2019
A post-mortem examination found the cause of death was "general body trauma linked to a fall from height", state broadcaster TRT said on Monday. No DNA belonging to another person was found, it added.
Congress poised to ban tobacco sales to anyone under 21…
December 16, 2019
The provision, which is supported by many major public health groups, was included as part of a bipartisan and bicameral legislative package to fix surprise medical bills. But turf wars and partisanship have derailed that legislation and lawmakers wanted to ensure the tobacco provision survived intact.
Trump threatens to bypass Commission on Presidential Debates
December 16, 2019
....The problem is that the so-called Commission on Presidential Debates is stacked with Trump Haters & Never Trumpers. 3 years ago they were forced to publicly apologize for modulating my microphone in the first debate against Crooked Hillary. As President, the debates are up...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 16, 2019
....to me, and there are many options, including doing them directly & avoiding the nasty politics of this very biased Commission. I will make a decision at an appropriate time but in the meantime, the Commission on Presidential Debates is NOT authorized to speak for me (or R’s)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 16, 2019
Judiciary Committee impeachment report alleges Trump committed ‘multiple federal crimes’…
Read the report...
December 16, 2019
The staff report, which was filed to the House Rules Committee just after midnight Monday, argues that Trump directed a months-long scheme to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election, the allegation that forms the core of the two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — approved by the Judiciary Committee last week. Democrats emphasized that proving a criminal violation is not required to justify impeachment.
Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World…
December 16, 2019
Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations...
SpaceX to Make Starlink Satellites Dimmer to Lessen Impact on Astronomy – Future batches of the satellite will have a special coating to reduce their reflectivity…
December 16, 2019