• RT stars in ODNI report on 'Russian activities and intentions' in US presidential election

    RT stars in ODNI report on 'Russian activities and intentions' in US presidential election
    The US intelligence community has released the unclassified findings of its investigation into what it says was Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, hours after President-elect Donald Trump received a briefing on the probe.Comment: Meeting with intel officials 'constructive,' according to Trump - hacking had 'absolutely no effect' on electionThe ODNI devoted seven pages to RT and its influence on the election "by serving as a platform for Kremlin messaging to Russian and internati
  • CIA, NSA, FBI, AND OBAMA ARE TRYING TO OVERTURN THE 2016 ELECTIONS TO KEEP OBAMA IN OFFICE

    CIA, NSA, FBI, AND OBAMA ARE TRYING TO OVERTURN THE 2016 ELECTIONS TO KEEP OBAMA IN OFFICE
    Thank you for watching our latest youtube video, we directly import all of our youtube videos to our website, and if you are looking for the reported source, please see the link below. Source
  • The Expulsion of the Germans: The Largest Forced Migration in History

    The Expulsion of the Germans: The Largest Forced Migration in History
    In December 1944 Winston Churchill announced to a startled House of Commons that the Allies had decided to carry out the largest forced population transfer — or what is nowadays referred to as "ethnic cleansing" — in human history.Millions of civilians living in the eastern German provinces that were to be turned over to Poland after the war were to be driven out and deposited among the ruins of the former Reich, to fend for themselves as best they could. The Prime Minister did not m
  • Priceless treasures discovered at Minoan capital Knossos

    Priceless treasures discovered at Minoan capital Knossos
    The latest discoveries on Crete at the site of the ancient city of Knossos suggest that the capital of Minoan Civilization was far larger and more impacting than experts believed.Scientists already knew that Knossos was Europe's oldest city and ruled over the massive trade empire during the Bronze age, nevertheless, new evidence suggests that the Minoans may have actually survived into the Iron Age.Europe's oldest city, the majestic site of the Greek Bronze Age, was the seat of power of the myth
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  • SITUATION AT FT LAUDERDALE AIRPORT

    SITUATION AT FT LAUDERDALE AIRPORT
    Thank you for watching our latest youtube video, we directly import all of our youtube videos to our website, and if you are looking for the reported source, please see the link below. Source
  • Andrew Korybko's 2017 Forecast: ASEAN & East Asia

    Andrew Korybko's 2017 Forecast: ASEAN & East Asia
    SummaryThe US' original plans for the Pivot to Asia have largely been reversed in favor of China, though Washington still has a few tricks up its sleeve through Hybrid War and the "Lead From Behind" stratagem in making up for its recent setbacks.The Pivot To Asia ReversalLost amidst the headline-grabbing news of the year over Syria, Brexit, and Trump, most international observers have failed to notice how the US' Pivot to Asia has experienced a series of staggering reversals which play to the ul
  • Iran capitalizes on OPEC oil cut to sell millions of stored floating barrels - sources

    Iran capitalizes on OPEC oil cut to sell millions of stored floating barrels - sources
    Iran has sold more than 13 million barrels of oil that it had long held on tankers at sea, capitalizing on an OPEC output cut deal from which it is exempted to regain market share and court new buyers, according to industry sources and data.In the past three months, Tehran has sold almost half the oil it had held in floating storage, which had tied up many of its tankers as it struggled to offload stocks in an oversupplied global market.The amount of Iranian oil held at sea has dropped to 16.4 m
  • 6 Titanic Conspiracy Theories That Are Still Fascinating Today - Bustle

    6 Titanic Conspiracy Theories That Are Still Fascinating Today - Bustle
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    6 Titanic Conspiracy Theories That Are Still Fascinating Today
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    More than a century after it sank, the story of the RMS Titanic still fascinates people around the world, and as with any large-scale tragedy, not everyone believes mainstream explanations for the incident. There may not be many Titanic conspiracy ...
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  • Real Zombie Apocalypse Would Wipe Out Humans in Less than 100 Days

    Real Zombie Apocalypse Would Wipe Out Humans in Less than 100 Days
    A zombie apocalypse would doom humanity.A new scientific study has found that in the event of a zombie apocalypse the world’s population would be reduced to a few hundred people within the space of only one hundred days ...
  • Snowden: The Truth Is Coming And It Will Not Be Stopped!

    Snowden: The Truth Is Coming And It Will Not Be Stopped!
    Snowden: US Government is not going to be able to cover this up“All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped ...
  • Meeting with intel officials 'constructive,' according to Trump - hacking had 'absolutely no effect' on election

    Meeting with intel officials 'constructive,' according to Trump - hacking had 'absolutely no effect' on election
    Hacking "had absolutely no effect" on the outcome of the 2016 US presidential elections, President-elect Donald Trump has announced following a meeting with intelligence officials.Having described his meeting with top representatives of the US intelligence community as "constructive," Trump said on Friday that no cyber hacking from Russia, China or any other country had affected the vote."While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the
  • Priceless! US Military gave Obama embarrassing send off

    Priceless! US Military gave Obama embarrassing send off
    Barack Obama despite the mainstream media and liberals' claims that he was a great Commander-in-Chief, the very people that served under him for eight years just proved that their claims were wrong.Who better to give a rating of how poor Obama has been as Commander-in-Chief than the very men and women that have had to put their lives on the line for our country under the control of Obama?Well during a ceremony earlier today at Joint Base Myer in Arlington, Virginia Barack Obama was given the Dep
  • Austria: Defense minister considers 'protective zones' to eliminate illegal migrants in EU

    Austria: Defense minister considers 'protective zones' to eliminate illegal migrants in EU
    Austria has proposed tough new anti-migrant measures, with its Defense Minister calling for a pan-European cap on migration, external application centers for refugees and "protective zones" to hold and deport illegals from the EU.The first step of Hans Peter Doskozil's plan to fix migration problems in the EU involves establishing limiting migration numbers and "effective protection of the EU's external borders," Germany's Bild newspaper reported on Thursday. "It's about ending the failed Europe
  • Jordanian warning: Trump's US Embassy move to Jerusalem, a 'gift to extremists'

    Jordanian warning: Trump's US Embassy move to Jerusalem, a 'gift to extremists'
    Moving the US Embassy in Israel to contested Jerusalem will inflame "the Islamic and Arab streets," and will serve as a gift to extremists, warned a top official from Jordan, one of Washington's closest allies in the volatile region. The unambiguous warning was voiced by Mohammed Momani, the Jordanian information minister, in response to US President-elect Donald Trump's statements on the issue, AP reported on Thursday.The US Embassy move would be a "red line" for Jordan, and would "inflame the
  • Name one vastly more reliable source than the elite US media...Assange

    Name one vastly more reliable source than the elite US media...Assange
    In January 2011, the people of Tunisia effectuated an uprising which led to the ouster of Ben Ali, who had ruled the country for 23 years. Many Tunisians were well aware that the regime was autocratic and corrupt, but they were provided additional gory details about its decadent opulence by none other than WikiLeaks, the organization whose founder and editor is currently being slimed by self-important U.S. liberals. In the aftermath of the revolution, WikiLeaks was widely hailed for its role in
  • U of Connecticut professor predicts societal collapse in 2020s

    U of Connecticut professor predicts societal collapse in 2020s
    We are living in society's twilight years - if a professor of ecology and mathematics from the University of Connecticut is correct. Studying history as a science with variables and trends, he predicts the 2020s will see massive instability. For some, our political future is frightening. Others find it exciting. But Professor Peter Turchin from the University of Connecticut claims that it is time to prepare for political turmoil that could rock society to its core.Turchin is known for developing
  • EU dished out £4.2B to most corrupt regimes over a fortnight

    EU dished out £4.2B to most corrupt regimes over a fortnight
    Eurocrats splashed out the jaw-dropping sum of money on programmes including combatting racism against migrants, bankrolling Government reforms and, perhaps most incredibly of all, directly financing national budgets. They authorised 15 bank-busting payments to 29 countries in the space of just 15 days in December, embarking on a staggering splurge at a time when voters in Europe are suffering under crushing austerity regimes. Astonishingly just five of those countries are ranked in the top half
  • A high speed chase, a stolen police vehicle, a naked woman...

    A high speed chase, a stolen police vehicle, a naked woman...
    A Maricopa County sheriff's deputy responding to a disturbance at a gas station was in for a wild ride. A naked woman greeted him, claiming she had been sexually assaulted, but then things took a bizarre turn. What followed was a high-speed pursuit along Interstate-8 that reached over 100 miles (161 kilometers) per hour. Not even spike strips could stop her until she crashed while trying to merge onto I-10 after driving 75 miles (120 km).The unidentified woman got into the deputy's car at a gas
  • Zinc repairs DNA and reduces oxidative stress

    Zinc repairs DNA and reduces oxidative stress
    One of the biggest mineral deficiencies in the world is Zinc, with as many as two billion people around the world being in a daily deficit. A modest 4 milligrams of zinc extra every day in the diet may reduce DNA strand breaks and improve levels of proteins involved in DNA repair, oxidative stress, and inflammation. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is said to be the first to show that a modest increase in dietary zinc reduces damage to DNA which extends life.Dieta
  • The serious health problems association with acid reflux drugs

    The serious health problems association with acid reflux drugs
    Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are a group of medications whose primary action is a to reduce gastric acid production. Prilosec, prevacid, and nexium are popular PPIs which help constitute a large percentage of the most prescribed medications in the world. In a population-based study from Scotland, PPIs were linked with an increased risk of intestinal infections with C. difficile and Campylobacter bacteria, which can cause considerable illness. The study adds to a growing body of evidence that th
  • CNBC journalist John Harwood asked 'who Americans believe', Wikileaks or US intel - gets lambasted on Twitter

    CNBC journalist John Harwood asked 'who Americans believe', Wikileaks or US intel - gets lambasted on Twitter
    CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood, whose cosy relationship with the Clinton campaign was exposed in the Podesta Leaks, asked which source Americans believe regarding the hacking of the Democratic National Committee-WikiLeaks or US Intelligence.The Twitter poll comes as President-elect Donald Trump's refusal to accept US Intelligence reports that claim Russia is behind the DNC hacking escalated tensions between the incoming and outgoing White House administrations.
    Harwood, who is
  • Morocco shuts down schools allegedly linked to Turkish cleric Gulen

    Morocco shuts down schools allegedly linked to Turkish cleric Gulen
    According to investigators, the schools are engaged in spreading FETO's ideology."Investigations on the establishments of the Mohamed Al-Fatih group, linked to Turkish national Fethullah Gülen, showed that they use education to spread the group's ideology and ideas contrary to the principles of the Moroccan educational and religious system," the Thursday statement says, as quoted by the Daily Sabah newspaper.The ministry did not specify the exact number of schools to be shut down, but said
  • Paul Craig Roberts: Suppression of truth is the last defense of a corrupt ruling establishment

    Paul Craig Roberts: Suppression of truth is the last defense of a corrupt ruling establishment
    Jon Rappoport's mocking of the US presstitutes is superb:"Vladimir Putin is the secret president of the United States."Yep. That's it. The US is now the USSR. It's all over. Trump is a Communist who took orders from Putin. Trump is a Red. That was his game all along. He's a billionaire Commie."Ridicule is effective, and nothing deserves ridicule more than the Washington Post, New York, Times, CNN, and the rest of the presstitutes who pretend to be real journalists. But as I have emphasized, and
  • P-REACT: New technology can detect suspicious behavior and catch criminals in the act

    P-REACT: New technology can detect suspicious behavior and catch criminals in the act
    Petty criminals had better watch out. A computer vision system has been developed that detects suspicious behaviour in CCTV footage as it happens. The system can then alert CCTV operators to intervene, and save the footage in case it is needed for evidence.Researchers involved in the P-REACT project, which is the work of a consortium of European companies and organisations and is partly funded by a grant from the European Commission, say the surveillance technology could help catch criminals in
  • According to science there are four kinds of drunks

    According to science there are four kinds of drunks
    Are you a Mary Poppins or a Hemingway?You know when you're out with your friends at a bar, and you've all had the same amount to drink, yet one friend is giggling uncontrollably, another is telling a hilarious story to a group of strangers, a third is picking a fight with the bouncer, and the last is talking to the bartender as if those four Jägerbombs never happened? You might have wondered, well, what's up with that?Science to the rescue. Psychology researchers from the University of Miss
  • Trump appoints ex-senator Dan Coats director of Office of National Intelligence

    Trump appoints ex-senator Dan Coats director of Office of National Intelligence
    Senator Dan Coats has been named director to lead the Trump administration's Office of National Intelligence. Coats previously served on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees.Coats' job would be to oversee the FBI and 16 other intelligence agencies, including the CIA, NSA (National Security Agency) and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced he was resigning from the position at the end of the Obama administration.Clapp
  • Wikileaks trolls Democrats by highlighting failed Clinton strategy to bolster Trump as 'pied piper' opposition

    Wikileaks trolls Democrats by highlighting failed Clinton strategy to bolster Trump as 'pied piper' opposition
    Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has been trolling Democrats on Twitter by highlighting one of the leaked Podesta emails, revealing a Clinton campaign strategy to bolster "Pied Piper" candidates such as Donald Trump.The strategy was apparently designed to force more moderate Republican candidates into more conservative positions making them unpalatable to the majority of the electorate.The email was sent back in April 2015, before Trump had cemented his position as a viable contender, as the the
  • Is Conspiracy Theorist Donald Trump Dangerous for America?

    Is Conspiracy Theorist Donald Trump Dangerous for America?
    Is Donald Trump dangerous for America? Not because of his controversial policies, but because he is (1) cited as being a conspiracy theory in chief? Being a ‘king’ of conspiracy
  • The dark side of beauty products: Too much makeup can harm skin, brain & kidneys

    The dark side of beauty products: Too much makeup can harm skin, brain & kidneys
    The popularity of makeup products today seems to be greater than ever before in human history. Business Wire states that the global cosmetics market reached a staggering $ 460 billion in 2014 alone. Experts anticipate that the global market for beauty products will continue to rise at an annual rate of 3.8% in the next five years.We're all witnesses to just how big the beauty industry is. Just thinking about the huge number of beauty products we see today can be overwhelming. Beauty is taking ov
  • UK doubles sentence for stalkers after crime rate shoots up since 2012

    UK doubles sentence for stalkers after crime rate shoots up since 2012
    Stalkers are to face a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail after the government bowed to pressure from a cross-party campaign to better protect victims.The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says the maximum custodial sentence available to courts in England and Wales will double from five years when the tough new measures in the Policing and Crime Bill are adopted next week.If the crime is racially or religiously aggravated, jail terms will also rise from seven to 14 years.The Tory government had previo
  • Venezuelan right wing puts Chavez coup backer at head of Parliament, vows to rid Maduro from power

    Venezuelan right wing puts Chavez coup backer at head of Parliament, vows to rid Maduro from power
    Venezuelan legislators appointed Thursday controversial right wing figure Julio Borges to head the National Assembly.Borges has been a divisive figure in Venezuelan politics since supporting a failed 2002 coup against former socialist President Hugo Chavez, and for his ties with the US government.Since being sworn in, Borges has stated he will seek new elections, while calling for the military to support opposition efforts to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power."Let's have elections ... t
  • Mission accomplished: Russia announces further troop pullouts in wake of successful ceasefire

    Mission accomplished: Russia announces further troop pullouts in wake of successful ceasefire
    Russia is starting to further reduce its military presence in Syria after completing a range of objectives and in the wake of the renewed ceasefire in the war-torn country, the Russian Armed Forces General Staff said Friday.Russia started its anti-terrorist campaign in Syria in September, 2015, following a request by the Syrian government. A number of ceasefire attempts and peace talks have taken place between Syria's warring factions since then. A US-Russian-brokered partial ceasefire was first
  • One more time: The DNC emails were leaked, NOT hacked

    One more time: The DNC emails were leaked, NOT hacked
    DNC and Podesta emails were leaked, not hacked, op-ed writers say.It has been several weeks since the New York Times reported that "overwhelming circumstantial evidence" led the CIA to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin "deployed computer hackers" to help Donald Trump win the election. But the evidence released so far has been far from overwhelming.The long anticipated Joint Analysis Report issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on Dec. 29 met widespread criticism i
  • French people paying more attention about situation in Aleppo - Lawmaker

    French people paying more attention about situation in Aleppo - Lawmaker
    French people are now more interested in the reports of the people familiar with the situation in Aleppo from personal experience and are questioning the version of events that has been given to them for years, Nicolas Dhuicq, a lawmaker with The Republicans (LR) party, told Sputnik on Friday.Three French lawmakers are currently on a visit to Syria and planning to spend the Orthodox Christmas weekend with Syrian Christians in Aleppo."The French understand that the version [of events in Aleppo]]
  • Grasping for straw men? US knows which Russians provided hacked e-mails to WikiLeaks

    Grasping for straw men? US knows which Russians provided hacked e-mails to WikiLeaks
    U.S. media are reporting that U.S. intelligence agencies have identified the Russians they say provided hacked e-mails to WikiLeaks in an effort to influence the November presidential election.The Washington Post and Reuters reported on January 5 that the CIA has identified Russian officials who fed material hacked from the Democratic National Committee and party leaders to WikiLeaks at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin via third parties.Reuters said the findings are contained in
  • U.S. deploys hundreds of tanks to Germany to station on Russia's doorstep

    U.S. deploys hundreds of tanks to Germany to station on Russia's doorstep
    Hundreds of U.S. tanks and other weaponry arrived by ship in Germany on January 6, the first wave of equipment to be deployed to Eastern Europe as part of NATO's push to beef up its presence in the region.The equipment is set to be transported by rail and convoy to staging sites in Poland ahead of the arrival of U.S. military units to Eastern Europe.Beginning next month, the American units and equipment will fan out across NATO members Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Baltic states for trainin
  • 33 killed in gruesome massacre in the second Brazilian prison riot this week

    33 killed in gruesome massacre in the second Brazilian prison riot this week
    At last 33 people have been massacred in a new prison riot in Brazil's northern region of Roraima, according to the country's justice secretary. The incident came less than a week after the country was shaken by the brutal killing of 56 inmates in Manaus.Comment: More on the prison riot in Manaus: 60 dead, hundreds escape in Brazil prison riotThe riot started at around 2:30 AM on Friday at the overcrowded Monte Cristo Agricultural Penitentiary in Boa Vista. Roraima's largest prison holds between
  • Trump calls for investigation into top secret intel leaked to NBC

    Trump calls for investigation into top secret intel leaked to NBC
    President-elect Donald Trump has called for a congressional investigation into an NBC News report featuring details from a classified intelligence report about alleged Russian computer hacking targeting U.S. elections.Trump made the extraordinary call on January 6 shortly before his own scheduled briefing with top U.S. intelligence officials about the report."I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it," T
  • Russian senator: Trump's toughest battle may be with US media waging info-war against him

    Russian senator: Trump's toughest battle may be with US media waging info-war against him
    The toughest battle Donald Trump may face is the one with US media "waging the info war against him", a Russian lawmaker wrote.US future President Donald Trump may have to face the toughest battle of his presidency not fighting Daesh and negotiating with China, but handling the media at home, member of the Russian parliament's upper house Alexei Pushkov said Friday."Perhaps, Trump's main challenge will be not China, not North Korea, not even Daesh, but US media, which are still waging the info w
  • Stuxnet, Fukushima and the Inevitable Cyber Apocalypse

    Stuxnet, Fukushima and the Inevitable Cyber Apocalypse
    Dylan Charles, Editor
    Waking Times
    In the classic apocalyptic film Terminator, future planet earth is under siege by sentient man-made robots of war seeking to terminate the human race. Autonomous machines created by human beings to destroy human beings. Maximum dystopian, and scary enough as fiction, however, the military industrial complex and the deep state are bringing us ever closer each year to this dark future.
    Case in point, the Stuxnet computer worm, developed as a joint
  • No good deed goes unpunished: Man fined for shoveling the street to help his elderly neighbors

    No good deed goes unpunished: Man fined for shoveling the street to help his elderly neighbors
    There is a saying among law enforcement when they are questioned for writing asinine tickets for non-crimes and arresting well-meaning people who may be in possession of a plant to treat their child — 'Just doing my job.' This phrase is uttered countless times a day as police officers write tickets for everything from window tint to license plate lights — as they somehow think it justifies this level of extortion.The most recent case of extortion for non-crimes is getting a lot of at
  • Ukrainian MoD: CrowdStrike is wrong, Russians did not hack Kiev's artillery

    Ukrainian MoD: CrowdStrike is wrong, Russians did not hack Kiev's artillery
    Kiev seems to be breaking the mould. Claims that Russian hackers allegedly disabled most of the Ukrainian army's D-30 howitzers are false, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said Friday.In late December, the US-based cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike claimed that Russian intelligence infected an application used by Ukrainian forces to speed up howitzer fire with trojan malware between 2014 and 2016, covering the span of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The firm, which has a history of acc
  • Anxiety of notoriety: Some artists no longer want to be famous

    Anxiety of notoriety: Some artists no longer want to be famous
    "I love being famous," the black US comedian Chris Rock once quipped. "It's almost like being white."But a growing number of artists would rather have success without the encumbrance of fame.From the street artist Banksy to the Italian literary phenomenon Elena Ferrante, a new brand of creator is actively rejecting the limelight and doing everything they can to avoid it.Even first-time novelists, whose publishers are often desperate for them to go out and promote their work, are thumbing their n
  • SOTT FOCUS: The Health & Wellness Show: The Devil's in the Details: Diet Dogma and Fine-Tuning Your Own

    SOTT FOCUS: The Health & Wellness Show: The Devil's in the Details: Diet Dogma and Fine-Tuning Your Own
    High carb, low fat, ketogenic, Whole 30 and paleo diets... research exists supporting (and refuting) them all. Some people thrive on a high amount of carbs, some decline. Some people soar on a ketogenic diet while others crash and burn. As much as researchers would like to find the perfect human diet it is becoming increasingly clear that one dietary template is not suitable for everyone everywhere and at all times. Age, genetics, activity level, location and more can all play a role in what one
  • Virtual reality helps researchers recreate the lost sounds of Stonehenge

    Virtual reality helps researchers recreate the lost sounds of Stonehenge
    There are many questions surrounding the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge but might sound help in the search for answers?Thomas Hardy said it had a strange "musical hum". Tess of the d'Urvbervilles ends at Stonehenge and features the "sound". Modern-day druids also say they experience something special when they gather at Stonehenge and play instruments within the stone circle.However, Stonehenge is a ruin. Whatever sound it originally had 3,000 years ago has been lost but now, using technolog
  • BEST OF THE WEB: New "Russian hacking" intel report: Still no evidence

    BEST OF THE WEB: New "Russian hacking" intel report: Still no evidence
    After Hillary Clinton was defeated in the U.S. presidential election the relevant powers launched a campaign to delegitimize the President elect Donald Trump.The ultimate aim of the cabal is to kick him out of office and have a reliable replacement, like the Vice-President elect Pence, take over. Should that not be possible it is hoped that the delegitimization will make it impossible for Trump to change major policy trajectories especially in foreign policy. A main issue here is the reorientati
  • Las Vegas: Elderly couple commits suicide by jumping off of casino parking garage

    Las Vegas: Elderly couple commits suicide by jumping off of casino parking garage
    UPDATE: The couple has been identified as 63-year-old Emi Yamasaki and 63-year-old Glen Yamasaki from Henderson.Those who knew the Yamasakis were horrified to hear of their final moments."I can't believe they would do such a thing," said Jo Lepore.The Lepores live just a few feet away from the couple."I'm just so upset really that they passed," said Dick Lepore. "If you would've met them, you would've like them."Many other neighbors shared fond memories of Emi and Glen. We're told they would alw
  • Clearing the decks: Trump orders Obama-appointed ambassadors to quit by Inauguration Day

    Clearing the decks: Trump orders Obama-appointed ambassadors to quit by Inauguration Day
    U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has issued a blanket mandate requiring politically appointed ambassadors installed by President Barack Obama to leave their posts by Inauguration Day, the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand said on Friday."I will be departing on January 20th," Ambassador Mark Gilbert said in a Twitter message to Reuters.The mandate was issued "without exceptions" through an order sent in a State Department cable on Dec. 23, Gilbert said.He was confirming a report i
  • Anti-smoking fascism: Virginia proposes bill to allow smoking ban in parks

    Anti-smoking fascism: Virginia proposes bill to allow smoking ban in parks
    A Virginia lawmaker has proposed a bill that would allow counties, cities and towns to decide whether to ban smoking at outdoor public spaces such as parks.The legislation was introduced by State Sen. John Edwards (D-Roanoke) and would impose a $25 fine for those in violation of the ban.Arlington County is likely to be a local jurisdiction that would be in favor of this proposed bill. While smoking is not currently banned, signs have been seen posted at public parks in the county asking people t

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