The NFL was able to take a stand when it comes to the Cowboys attempt to honoring slain police officers in their hometown, but when an NFL player posts an ISIS type execution of a police officer on social media, they can t seem to find their voice to express their disapproval The NFL has denied the Dallas Cowboys request to wear the Arm-in-Arm decal on their helmets for Saturday s preseason opener against the Los Angeles Rams.The Cowboys had unveiled the decal at an emotional start to their first padded practice of training camp, when they walked arm-in-arm on the field with Dallas police officials, including police chief David Brown, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and the families of the police officers slain in the line of duty last month.The Cowboys, who wear the decal on their helmets during training camp, knew they would not be able to wear the decal for the regular season but had hoped to wear it in the preseason. We certainly understand the position the league takes on this, but it won t diminish our support for that concept of unity and supporting our police force and what they do to make our lives better on a daily basis, coach Jason Garrett said. That arm-in-arm image is something that we really believe in. You heard me talk about it a couple weeks back. What we re trying to do as a football team is build a team that s close. We talk a lot about unity and having each other s backs, and certainly they embody that. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has this to say about the decal controversy:Tight end Jason Witten spearheaded the idea of the players honoring the police and the families. While a little disappointed, Witten believes the gesture at the start of camp can have a long-lasting impact. What s really important is what we tried to do, and that s to unite that community, our community, and show that support for those families and really honor the leadership of our city, Witten said. I think that decal not being on the helmet is not going to stop that. It s going to continue to do that not only now but in the future as we move forward. As players and an organization that is something we re going to continue to support. ESPNWe reported about Cleveland Brown s player, Isaiah Crowell s Instagram post on July 11, 2016. While Cleveland Brown s acknowledged his post, the NFL has yet to make a public admonishment or levy a fine against him for making what was akin to a terrorist threat on social media against law enforcement.Here is a screen shot of the Instagram post that Crowell posted and then removed:Under the vile picture he posted in ebonics: They give polices all types of weapons and they continuously choose to kill us. 100percentfedup.comCleveland Police force was not taking this lightly. Here s how they replied to Crowell s vile post:Crowell got blasted for posting an illustration last week of a cop getting his throat slashed by a masked person. He posted it on Wednesday after Alton Sterling and Philando Castile s deaths, but the day before 5 Dallas officers were shot and killed. The running back deleted the post and the Browns demanded he publicly apologize, which he did.But Stephen Loomis, President of Cleveland Police Patrolmen s Association, thinks the store-bought apology isn t enough. He needs to go to Dallas, help the families who lost their loved ones last week, write them a check, look them in the eyes and give a heartfelt apology. Loomis says Crowell s post was as offensive as putting a picture of historical African-American men being hung from a tree in the 60s. He adds that if Crowell doesn t go to Dallas and make a donation, I will pull Cleveland officers, sheriffs, state troopers out of First Energy Stadium this season if he doesn t make it right. As for Crowell admitting he was wrong and acted out of rage Loomis says, You re a grown ass man, and you claim you were too emotional to know it was wrong? Think we ll accept your apology? Kiss my ass. TMZ


A group campaigning for the secession of a part of southeastern Nigeria, formerly known as Biafra, on Tuesday accused the army of laying siege to their leader s home, a charge the armed forces denied. Rising tensions prompted the governor of Abia state, where the leader s residence is located, to impose a curfew. Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group said soldiers had surrounded the home of leader Nnamdi Kanu. Groups have stepped up calls for secession since Kanu was released on bail in April after being detained for nearly two years on charges of criminal conspiracy and belonging to an illegal society. There was no surrounding of Nnamdi Kanu s residence. It is not true, said army spokesman Sani Usman. Secessionist sentiment has simmered in the region since the Biafra separatist rebellion tipped Africa s most populous country into a civil war in 1967-70 that killed an estimated one million people. The military presence in southeastern Nigeria has increased in the last few weeks to crack down on crime. The IPOB also said that soldiers stormed Kanu s family compound on Sunday, which the army also denied. Politicians waded into the dispute on Tuesday. Abia state governor Okezie Ikpeazu said in a statement that people were advised to observe a curfew from 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) to 6 a.m. (0500 GMT) from Sept. 12 to Sept. 14. A caucus of southeastern lawmakers in the Senate, the upper chamber of parliament, said in a statement through its chairman Enyinnaya Abaribe that the military had sent a strong signal that the region is under siege, which should not be so in a democracy . Renewed calls for Biafran secession prompted President Muhammadu Buhari to use his first speech after returning from three months of medical leave in Britain, in August, to say Nigeria s unity was not negotiable . Amnesty International in 2016 accused Nigeria s security forces of killing at least 150 Biafra separatists at peaceful rallies. The military and police denied the allegations.


Have Americans already forgotten about the real reason Kaepernick was kneeling during the national anthem? He was kneeling in support of Black Lives Matter and their war against law enforcement. NFL players who kneel or stand in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick are protesting against our law enforcement. Should anyone be surprised by the backlash these players are receiving from their fans, as they disrespect our flag to show their support for Black Lives Matter s war on cops?Breitbart Sports teams ask a lot of their fans, especially in places like Green Bay. Where, depending on the time of year, a fan could get hypothermia while just sitting in his seat. However, one recent request the team has made of the Pack faithful has left fans feeling a little hot.The Packers players, led by their quarterback Aaron Rodgers, issued a call to their fans to join them in interlocking arms during the national anthem. However, some fans have not taken kindly to the request. According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Packers Director of Public Affairs, Aaron Popkey, says fan reaction has been intense. We ve had a steady stream of feedback beginning Monday morning and it continued into Wednesday. We ve heard on both sides of the matter. We take note of their concerns. The fact that Popkey alludes to the concerns of the fans, would certainly lead one to believe that the steady stream of fan feedback has definitely tacked more negative, than positive.The issue of anthem protests, already a hot-button issue, became an even bigger story after President Trump s comments in Alabama last Friday night. Where, he referred to players who protested the anthem as SOB s, and said he wished their team owners would fire them.Those comments, led to a backlash from the league last weekend. All told, more than 200 players from all 32 teams protested the president s comments in some form or fashion. The Packers stood with interlocking arms, in their game against the Bengals. With the exception of three players who remained on the bench.However, those demonstrations did not meet with universal fan approval. Steven Tiefenthaler, a Wisconsin native, Packers shareholder and 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran, told the Green Bay Press-Gazette exactly how the protests made him feel: I am so ashamed of and appalled by the ignorance of any NFL player who would dare disgrace our Stars and Stripes or the memory of hundreds of thousands of fallen U.S. heroes who paid with their lives so that we may live free. Laura Hapke, another Wisconsin native whose mother is a shareholder of the team, was shocked that the Packers would participate in the protests. Hapke herself is on the waiting list to become a shareholder, though, the team s protests have given her some pause. Hapke said, If they come out and say they are more into politics than patriotism, I ll have to rethink it. It will break my heart, but I ll have to rethink it. Hapke also had some really good advice for more constructive ways in which the players could protest, while letting the fans just enjoy the game. Hapke said, If the players association would act outside of the game, I think it would be great. From the Green Bay Press Gazette: I am so ashamed of and appalled by the ignorance of any NFL player who would dare disgrace our Stars and Stripes or the memory of hundreds of thousands of fallen U.S. heroes who paid with their lives so that we may live free, said Steven Tiefenthaler, a native of Brookfield who now lives in San Antonio. Tiefenthaler is a Packers shareholder and 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran.Shawano native Lloyd Hohn, who now lives in Bismark, N.D., said he is more disappointed than angry. It was and is a heartbreaker to see my beloved Packers involved in this protest. I doubt injustice is going to be affected by this action. It is style over substance, he said. The players during their off time need to be physically and vocally involved to bring change. From Mark Panteo:The arrogant Leftists of the Green Bay Packers want fans to join them in protesting the National Anthem in a supposed show of unity. Apparently, the only way to show unity in the NFL is to protest the National Anthem.Disgusting. This detestable league deserves to go the way of the Hillary campaign.


Observers on Twitter noted Friday afternoon that the White House's page on climate change, a creation of the Obama administration, appears to have been taken down shortly after Donald Trump assumed the nation's presidency. [In its stead, the new White House published an explanation of what the Trump team is calling the "America First Energy Plan. " At press time, the link to the White House page publicizing a plan to combat climate change leads to a blank page. RIP @WhiteHouse climate webpage. pic. twitter. — Amy Harder (@AmyAHarder) January 20, 2017, A cached version of the page shows that President Obama's administration had used it to advertise a plan to reduce America's carbon footprint and have America participate in "global effort to combat climate change. " "For the sake of our children and future generations, we must act now," the page read, "And we are. " The Trump administration has instead published a page that lays out its energy plan. "The Trump Administration is committed to energy policies that lower costs for hardworking Americans and maximize the use of American resources, freeing us from dependence on foreign oil," the page reads. The page addresses finding economically viable energy solutions that are mindful of the environment: [O]ur need for energy must go with responsible stewardship of the environment. Protecting clean air and clean water, conserving our natural habitats, and preserving our natural reserves and resources will remain a high priority. President Trump will refocus the EPA on its essential mission of protecting our air and water.


A decorated, active Navy SEAL is under investigation for moonlighting as a porn actor with his wife, the government reports. [The U. S. Navy is investigating Navy Chief Special Warfare Officer Joseph John Schmidt III after he appeared in 30 explicit porn movies, the San Diego reported last week. Schmidt, 42, has served in the Navy for 23 years, was a recruiter for the Naval Special Warfare teams, and was even featured on the SEAL website. But he is also a porn actor under the name "Jay Vroom," appearing in such films as Apple Smashing Lap Dance and Strippers Come Home Horny from the Club. Most of the films he starred in were filmed with his wife, Jewels Jade, as his onscreen partner. But he also appeared in films with several other porn actresses. The Navy is now investigating to see if his side job violates Navy rules for conduct and propriety. "We have initiated a formal investigation into these allegations. There are very clear regulations which govern outside employment by (Naval Special Warfare) personnel as well as prohibitions on behavior that is discrediting to the service," Capt. Jason Salata, a spokesman for the SEALs, told the paper. But Jewels Jade insists that his Naval bosses knew what he was doing as a side job. "They knew about it at work. He got called in and they said, 'Look, keep it on the low, don't mention the SEAL name and blah, blah, blah," the porn actress said. "He was always pretty open about it with the command. I mean, honestly, all of his buddies knew about it. Everybody knew about it," she said. But the SEAL's wife claimed that they only began making the porn films to pay their bills. "It's helped our family. It got us out of a lot of financial issues we were going through," Jade added. "I could take care of the child. I could try to get us out of financial debt. " The actress also noted that neither she nor her husband ever used his job as a Navy SEAL to sell their porn videos. In fact, the could not find any instances where either of them mentioned his service directly while selling or advertising their porn films. Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston or email the author at igcolonel@hotmail. com.


Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who has spent more than $140 million on fighting climate change, said on Tuesday he will spend whatever it takes to fight President-elect Donald Trump's pro-drilling and anti-regulation agenda. The former hedge fund manager from California is putting together a strategy that will "engage voters and citizens to fight back" once Trump takes the White House in January, he told Reuters in an interview. However, he stressed he was not planning to fight Trump through the courts. Instead, he would focus on "trying to present an opposite point of view and trying to get that point of view expressed, and communicated to citizens." Steyer's pledge to fight Trump suggests an intensifying battle for U.S. public opinion on global climate change, an issue that has already divided many Americans, lawmakers, and companies between those who consider it a major global threat and those who doubt its existence. Other U.S. environmental groups are also preparing to resist Trump's agenda, with some vowing street protests and more established organizations that helped draft some of President Barack Obama's environmental regulations preparing to defend them in court. "We have always been willing to do whatever is necessary," Steyer said, when asked how much money he was willing to spend to oppose Trump's agenda. Trump campaigned on a promise to drastically reduce environmental regulation and ease permitting for infrastructure, moves he said would breathe life into an oil and gas industry ailing from low prices, without harming U.S. air and water quality. He has also called climate change a hoax and has promised to "cancel" the Paris Climate Accord between nearly 200 nations to slow global warming, a deal he said would cost the U.S. economy trillions of dollars and put it at a disadvantage. While the approach has cheered the industry, it has sent shockwaves through the environmental movement, which is confronting the prospect of losing all progress it made during the Obama administration. Steyer, who had endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, called Trump's policies dangerous. "Every single one of these things, whether it was getting rid of Paris or cutting back the EPA, we think are extremely dangerous to the security of every American," Steyer said. "We think it is based on willful ignorance of the facts and flies in the face of the realities facing the world." Steyer's main political vehicle, NextGen Climate, on Tuesday called on the Obama administration to defy Trump's pro-drilling agenda by issuing an order permanently blocking all new drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump has also promised to ask Canadian oil pipeline company, TransCanada Corp, to resubmit its application to build a pipeline into the United States that would link Alberta's vast oil sands to American refineries and ports on the Gulf Coast. The project, Keystone XL, had been rejected by the Obama administration after years of mass protests and lobbying by environmental organizations. Steyer said the project may no longer make sense since a slump in oil prices has reduced the profitability of oil sands production. Steyer, who four years ago left the hedge fund firm he co-founded to devote himself full-time to environmental activism, said young voter turnout in areas where NextGen focused its mobilization efforts during the 2016 campaign was up more than 20 percent from the last presidential election in 2012. "Did we get the president we want, absolutely not. Did we get a majority of clean energy supporters in the senate, no," Steyer said. "But in terms of what we did, and the strategy we took, we wouldn't do anything differently." NextGen poured nearly $69 million into its elections related programs during the presidential campaign, according to federal records compiled by OpenSecrets.org, slightly lower than the $74 million it spent during the mid-term congressional elections in 2014, when only two of the six candidates it supported won.


President Donald Trump plans to nominate Richard Spencer, who has worked as a financial industry executive, to be Secretary of the Navy, the White House said on Friday. Spencer also served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and spent five years on the Defense Business Board, most recently as Vice Chairman, the White House said in a statement.


Greg Gutfeld scored a priceless TV moment during The Five . He mocked the CNN box-wearing trend that started with the WWE mocked-up wrestling video where President Trump was wrestling with the CNN logo (see below).@greggutfeld IS THE BEST EVER. OPENS @TheFive WITH A @CNN BOX ON HIS HEAD!!! HE S A SAVAGE!!! BLESS YOU GREGG. pic.twitter.com/1wSN917FCh REV. JAMES LAKE (@jamesplake721) July 15, 2017He posted a picture on twitter of his daring new look:Check out my new outfit. #CNNMemeWar #cnn pic.twitter.com/IEEos4EOeN GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) July 14, 2017 The tweet from President Trump that started it all:#FraudNewsCNN #FNN pic.twitter.com/WYUnHjjUjg Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017 The tweet from Trump started a mock-fest of tweets that were even funnier. The Gutfeld move is the pinnacle of the mocking of CNN So funny!


Obama administration officials told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday they would oppose new sanctions on Iran if they interfere with last year's international nuclear agreement, laying the groundwork for a potential fight over any legislation. "If legislation were to undermine the deal, by taking off the table commitments that we had put on the table, that would be a problem," Adam Szubin, the acting Treasury Department undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, told a House of Representatives hearing. "Certainly our allies around the world would see us taking back major chunks of the sanctions relief as bad faith," Szubin told a Senate Banking Committee hearing later on Wednesday. House and Senate members are drafting new sanctions measures, accusing Iran of supporting terrorism, human rights abuses and violating its international commitments by testing ballistic missiles. They want to renew the Iran Sanctions Act, a broad U.S. law imposing sanctions over Iran's nuclear and missile programs that expires at the end of 2016. Administration officials have urged Congress not to rush to renew the ISA. Lawmakers argue that new sanctions will help send a message that Washington will take a hard line, despite the nuclear pact. Every Republican in Congress and several of President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats opposed the agreement. "I feel it's not so terrible to have Congress come up with new sanctions if we feel Iran is violating its agreements," said Representative Eliot Engel, top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who opposed the nuclear pact. Szubin and Stephen Mull, the State Department's lead coordinator for implementing the nuclear deal, told lawmakers that, so far, the deal announced in July 2015 was being fully implemented. They said the administration was tightly tracking Iran's compliance. "We believe that we and our allies in the region are considerably safer," Mull said. Members of Congress recently accused the administration of allowing sanctions workarounds that might provide Iran direct or indirect access to the U.S. financial system. Szubin reiterated the administration's assurances that it had no such plans. Despite the easing of nuclear sanctions under the international agreement, Tehran's hopes of rapidly ending its economic isolation have been complicated by companies' concerns that doing business with Iran might violate non-nuclear sanctions that remain in place.


If Donald Trump secures the Republican presidential nomination, he would start the general election campaign as the least-popular candidate to represent either party in modern times. Three-quarters of women view him unfavorably. So do nearly two-thirds of independents, 80 percent of young adults, 85 percent of Hispanics and nearly half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Those findings, tallied from Washington Post-ABC News polling, fuel Trump's overall 67 percent unfavorable rating — making Trump more disliked than any major-party nominee in the 32 years the survey has been tracking candidates. Head-to-head matchups show Hillary Clinton, as well as her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, leading Trump, often by double digits. Even his two remaining fellow GOP contenders this week backed away from earlier promises to support the eventual nominee. And with each passing day, Trump makes moves that add further uncertainty to his ability to pivot to the general election. His defiant defense this week of his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who was charged with battery for yanking the arm of a female reporter, as well as Trump's remarks Wednesday that women who get illegal abortions should be punished, might play well with his followers, but could further alienate the broader electorate. "Normally, when you're in a hole, the best advice is to stop digging. That doesn't appear to be his inclination," GOP strategist David Carney said. "It's like taking a wagon full of nitroglycerine across the prairie. It's great if you get to the mountains and blow them up for gold. But it's pretty unpredictable." Peter Hart, a veteran Democratic pollster who has studied public impressions of Trump, said voters' views of him are "exceptionally rancid." "In terms of any domestic personality that we have measured, we've never seen an individual with a higher negative," Hart said. Trump has drawn huge crowds and built a passionate base of supporters who have helped him amass a big delegate lead in the battle for the nomination. But his success among a segment of the Republican electorate stands in contrast to his weaknesses in a general election decided by all voters. In that broader context, his dismal standing by all traditional measures points to a big question underlying his nontraditional candidacy: whether Trump, as the GOP nominee, could leverage his celebrity persona and unusual appeal among disaffected voters in both parties to overcome his glaring disadvantages. Trump's unpopularity in the Post-ABC poll was driven in part by sharply negative ratings from Democrats and lukewarm Republicans. The greatest risk for his general election viability stems from the unusually poor ratings he gets from swing-voting independents and white college graduates. A silver lining for Trump is that voters overall also feel antipathy for Clinton, the Democratic front-runner. The distaste for Clinton is not as strong as it is for Trump — 52 percent of voters see her unfavorably — but Clinton's vulnerabilities, combined with Trump's unpredictability, haunt many Democrats. Guy Cecil, chief strategist for the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, urged Democrats to "postpone the ticker-tape parade," warning that Trump is not as weak a general election candidate as the current atmosphere would suggest. "I am skeptical of the polls showing such large leads, and it's incumbent upon us to view this as a close race," Cecil said. "He's going to attempt to throw everything, including the kitchen sink and maybe the refrigerator and stove, at Hillary. And I would not be surprised if he changes his views on policy issues." Overcoming his hurdles likely would require either a massive influx of working-class white male voters — Trump's base — or dramatic changes in his policies and presentation that might reverse the strongly negative views of him held by women and minorities. Trump and his advisers say they have plans to accomplish both objectives. They say he can reverse his favorability ratings over time by framing the fall contest around issues on which they think Trump's positions resonate powerfully across traditional demographics: the economy, trade and national security. Since Trump is not tethered to any particular ideology, his test may be convincing voters that he is not a hostile force and is fit to be president, rather than persuading them to buy into a sweeping conservative ideological project. The Trump team insists that the power of his personality and the potency of his planned attacks on Clinton would win him converts. And it is wagering that millions of working-class voters who for a generation have been politically dormant will rush to the polls and offset Trump's sizable deficit with the ascendant electorate of women, minority and young voters. "What you'll find is across the board, in states like Pennsylvania or New York or New Jersey or Michigan, you're going to have a bunch of blue-collar workers who have supported Trump in the past and will continue to do so," Lewandowski said. "That broad appeal allows him to expand the electoral map." Concerned about his standing in the polls, Trump's allies are offering advice about how to make up ground with important demographic groups. Newt Gingrich, a former Republican House speaker who is unaffiliated but has informally counseled Trump on several occasions, suggested he campaign in black neighborhoods, send targeted messages on social media and embrace his outsider approach to government. "Imagine Trump on the South Side of Chicago saying, 'People shouldn't be killed, schools ought to actually work, you ought to have jobs in your neighborhood and you know that Hillary can't deliver any of those because she is the system,' " Gingrich said. The shift from a primary fight to the general campaign would be Trump's crucible, requiring him to communicate persuasively with an entirely different electorate than the primary voters he has courted for the past year. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who endorsed Trump after dropping out of the Republican presidential race, said he has advised Trump to turn his attention to education reform and charter schools as a means of supplementing his core pitch on trade and immigration to grow his support with young and minority voters. "Creating ladders of opportunity, such as school choice, is one way to do that," Carson said. "He's been very enthusiastic about that suggestion. He'll have to follow through and get through to those kids and families who don't feel like they're getting the best possible education." There are stylistic changes Trump can make, as well, Carson said. "A little humility would go a tremendous distance, no question about it," he said. "Hopefully, he will find that on his own." Frank Luntz, an unaligned GOP pollster, said Trump could erase at least some his deficit if he capitalizes on the fall debates and other events, noting that history is littered with examples of candidates doing just that. "The big moments cause people to change," Luntz said. "And let's face it, we may have a moment outside of conventions and debates that's even bigger. If you have a Paris or a Brussels on American soil, that can completely change the dynamic." It is a tall order, however, for Trump to undo the damage his rhetoric has already done to his image with the rising national electorate that includes Latinos, single mothers and millennials. "Donald Trump's whole message is somewhat backward looking," said Kristen Soltis Anderson, a Republican pollster who wrote a book, "The Selfie Vote," about these voters. Referring to Trump's slogan, she added: " 'Make America Great Again' sounds like an attempt to turn back the clock to a time most young voters don't remember." Pennsylvania, a Democrat-leaning battleground that Trump hopes to target, is a case study of Trump's upside and downside. While he has picked up endorsements and blue-collar support in the state's industrial regions, centrist Republicans from Philadelphia and its vote-rich suburbs have kept their distance. Trump needs to make inroads to win a state Republicans last carried in 1988. "Ticket-splitting Republicans in the Philadelphia suburbs went for [President] Obama — and if they don't feel comfortable with Trump, they could go for Clinton," said G. Terry Madonna, a professor at Franklin & Marshall College, which conducts polling in Pennsylvania. Madonna said that more than 120,000 voters statewide, mostly Democrats and independents, have switched their registration to Republican since January. But he cautioned against interpreting the moves as a Rust Belt tilt toward Trump. "Even if these children of Reagan Democrats love his talk about manufacturing and American pride, he's going to have to make sure he's not losing the Republicans who are the heart of the party," said John Brabender, a GOP strategist who has guided the political career of former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). "That will require a campaign of surgical precision."


Turkey s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that the United States could no longer be a mediator in efforts to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict after its decision to recognize Israel as the capital of Israel. From now on, it is out of the question for a biased United States to be a mediator between Israel and Palestine, that period is over, Erdogan told a news conference after a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul. We need to discuss who will be a mediator from now on. This needs to be tackled in the UN too, Erdogan said.


Trump s wild lies continue unabated as he continues to say that he s met with people that have never once spoken to him. This time, he s claiming he talked to the Chicago Police Department about the city s violence, and a top officer told him that he could solve the problem in just a week. The problem, according to Trump, is that they don t have the authority to do so.Trump appeared on Bill O Reilly s show, where he was asked about how to solve Chicago s violent crime problem. Trump spun a whopper of a lie answering that: How? By being very much tougher than they are right now. They re right now not tough. I could tell you this very long and quite boring story. But when I was in Chicago, I got to meet a couple of very top police. I said, How do you stop this? How do you stop this? If you were put in charge to a specific person do you think you could stop it? He said, Mr. Trump, I d be able to stop it in one week. And I believed him 100 percent. Har de har har Trump will say anything to convince people that he knows what he s talking about. There is no way to solve any city s violence problems in a single week. Of course, to avoid looking like the fool he is, he said that he didn t ask for this mysterious officer s strategy when O Reilly asked for it.That vagueness is one of the ways that Trump maintains credibility despite all his lies.CPD refuted his claim that he s spoken to them, and one of their spokespeople said: We ve discredited this claim months ago. No one in the senior command at CPD has ever met with Donald Trump or a member of his campaign Beyond that, the best way to address crime is through a commitment to community policing and a commitment to stronger laws to keep illegal guns and repeat violent offenders off the street. Once all of this became common knowledge, Trump s campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, tried to turn it around on the media by saying that Trump had never said he met with top brass. She claims that s what the media said, which is in keeping with the campaign s assertions that the media intentionally twists his words.CPD has disputed claims from Trump before. Back in March, when he canceled a rally due to violence and said that CPD told him to do so, they said that nobody had ever met with him, let alone told him to cancel his rally for safety reasons.Trump doesn t even know when he s lying because he does it so much. This is another example of that.Featured image by Spencer Platt/Getty Images


Elly Warren, from Melbourne, was travelling Africa before she tragically died on Wednesday. A 20-year-old woman who was travelling in Africa was last seen dropping off her bag at a beachside hostel before being found dead in a toilet cubicle. Elly Warren, from Melbourne, was expected to return to Australia on Monday before heading to New Zealand with her boyfriend for a holiday. Days before she set off for Africa, the 20-year-old told her father: 'It's dangerous Dad, I don't know if I should be going over there.' And things took a turn for the worst after she was raped and attacked when she reportedly walked home alone from a party in Mozambique on Wednesday. The young traveller had booked two nights at the beachfront Wuyani Pariango backpackers in the picturesque Tofo Bay but she failed to return to her room. Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, the hostel manager, who wished to remain anonymous, said staff members had seen the woman before she went missing. 'She came in alone to drop off her bag and then left to meet a friend,' the hostel manager revealed. 'She had pre-booked her accommodation but never stayed here.' The 20-year-old had been holidaying and doing a volunteer stint in Mozambique. The young woman had booked two nights at the Wuyani Pariango backpackers in Tofo Bay. Daily Mail Australia understands Ms Warren's body is currently being transported from Tofo Beach to the country's capital Maputo, some 500 kilometres away where a post-mortem will be performed. Paul Warren, the distraught father of the avid traveller, is currently travelling to Mozambique in an effort to bring his daughter's body home. On Thursday he revealed his heartbreak over his daughter's terrible death. A tearful Mr Warren told 7News: 'She even told me, "It's dangerous dad, I don't know if I should be going over there". 'And I said to her: "Yes it is, very dangerous".' On Thursday evening, hours after paying a moving Facebook tribute to his daughter, Mr Warren also revealed on social media an autopsy would be conducted to determine her cause of death. 'I would just like everyone to pray for our Elly right now,' he wrote on Facebook. 'She is at peace with Sam, our dog, who she grew up with and loved dearly. Thank you all for your thoughts and well wishes Elly touched us all in some special way. 'The funeral is going to take some time as Elly was in a remote fishing village called Pemba. 'There is going to be an investigation and autopsy, which I have been informed can take up to two weeks. 'I will be going over there in a few day to bring my baby back home. God bless you Elly Rose Warren.' The hostel manager said staff saw Ms Warren drop her bag off before heading out to see a friend but she failed to return to her room (pictured is one of the rooms at the hostel) The young traveller had booked two nights at the Wuyani Pariango backpackers in Tofo Bay. Staff members at the hostel claimed they saw Ms Warren drop her bag off before heading back out to meet a friend. Her family, who found out about the young traveller's death in a heartbreaking late-night phone call from another backpacker, believe she became separated from her group before her body was later found in a toilet cubicle, The Age reported. The revelation comes after her sister Kristy Warren took to Facebook to warn backpackers to be 'careful who they go [travelling] with'. 'My sister was in Africa whilst my mum got a phone call from one of the backpackers saying to her that her daughter has been murdered,' Ms Warren posted to Facebook. 'As I heard that my heart dropped. It is a parent's nightmare to get a phone call like this.' Describing her sister as 'maybe too ambitious', she urged travellers to be vigilant when overseas. 'I want to say if you are thinking of going travelling or going overseas please be careful who you go with,' she wrote. Ms Warren had been in the country since late September as part of Underwater Africa, a conservation program that 'helps protect the oceans'. The volunteer tour's booking manager Graeme Warrack told Daily Mail Australia the young traveller had left their group the day before she was killed. A room at the backpackers Ms Warren was last seen before her death. Ms Warren (pictured) has been killed while on a volunteer holiday to Mozambique, Africa. The 20-year-old from Mordialloc, in Melbourne's south-east suburbs, was also reportedly sexually assaulted before her death. 'Elly arrived with us on the 27th of September and left our program on the November 8,' he said. 'We dropped her at her new accommodation at 5pm, to hear the news the next day has left us as broken as anyone can be, she was our friend and colleague. 'We're trying to find out where exactly she went once she left us, that's something we can't answer.' Mr Warrack described Ms Warren as 'the life of the party' and said her death had taken a large toll on her fellow volunteers and scientists. 'Elly was an incredible volunteer who was doubtlessly the life and soul of any activity,' he said. Ms Warren's mother, Nicole Cafarella told The Age her daughter was 'just one of those girls that wanted to travel the world and see everything she could before she was 30'. Just days earlier Ms Warren had posted a video to Facebook of herself swimming with whale sharks off the Mozambique coast. Her father Paul also shared a tribute on social media and even passed on his condolences to her boyfriend (right) in the midst of his own grief. Tributes flowed online from Ms Warren's friends and family following news of her death. Ms Warren's sister Kristy took to Facebook to share a tribute to her sister and to tell how her mother had received a call from a fellow backpacker telling her of the terrible news. Dozens of online tributes flowed from Ms Warren's friends from Wednesday evening when news broke of her death. 'Taken way too soon, a gorgeous girl who had an amazing life ahead,' one girl wrote on Facebook. 'I feel like this is all just a f***ed up dream… It can't be true. Rip Elly Warren I'll never forget your huge infectious smile and crazy stories. I love you,' another posted. In a statement to Daily Mail Australia, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said they were 'providing consular assistance to the family of a woman who died in Mozambique.' Source


"I was in Kentucky when Sen. Rand Paul announced his candidacy and I worked on his campaign." So you're still warming up the idea of Donald? "I'm here for a totally different reason . . .the issue I'm passionate about is medical cannabis oil to treat my autistic son. . . I was up here last week trying to get it in the platform."


Who's laughing now? ( Watch at Youtube ) And for some good comedy from Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle On Saturday Night Live's Election Nigh wrap-up:


The many, many murders and rapes of American citizens at the hands of people who re here illegally is sickening. Illegal alien criminals are released or deported just to come back and commit another crime. Our elected leaders have done a poor job of protecting the legal citizens of this country BUT they re welcoming in and expecting us to pay for illegals with our tax dollars. We have a perfect example of that in Gov. John Kasich who s stated that he would give amnesty to the millions of illegals within 100 days of the beginning of his presidency. Unreal! A mother of a son who was killed by an illegal gives her take on this proposal by Kasich: It s all so senseless, Maureen Maloney said of the death of countless Americans at the hands of illegal aliens.Maloney s 23 year-old son Matthew was hit by a repeat-offending illegal alien drunk driver. Although Matthew survived the initial crash, he died as he was subsequently dragged a quarter of a mile caught in the wheel well of the illegal alien s pick up truck as the alien sought to flee the crime scene. Witnesses who saw [Matthew] pinned screaming under the truck ran out and pounded on the vehicle, crying out to the driver who kept going '[Matthew] was alive for a good portion of it, wrote one report from the time. NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR STOLEN LIVES He wanted to be a police officer, Maloney said of her young son, who was voted most dependable by his high school senior class. He had taken the civil service exam He liked to help people and do good. He was just a law-abiding person, she said quietly. The person who killed him should not have been in this country, Maloney explained, noting that Matthew s killer had assaulted police officers, he had assaulted paramedics, multiple drunk drivings, domestic violence and each time he had a run in with the police, he d go to court, pay his fine and be let go, Maloney said. Somebody needs to start putting American lives first. Somebody has to take care of the people that are in this country legally, Maloney declared.


The first case of sexual transmission of the Zika virus has been documented in New York City, raising the prospect that the disease could spread more widely beyond the countries where it is already endemic and largely transmitted by mosquitoes. For months, there has been growing concern about the dangers of sexual transmission, but until now the virus has been thought to pass only from men to women or between two men. "This represents the first reported occurrence of sexual transmission of Zika virus," said a report issued on Friday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The evidence of a previously undocumented transmission means is the latest twist in a viral outbreak that continues to baffle and surprise leading experts. It is prompting officials to rethink, once again, the guidance for health care providers and the general public on how to limit the danger of infection, as the pool of those who could be at risk widens. Much about how the virus works is a mystery, and it remains challenging to detect 80 percent of those infected show no symptoms. For those who do get sick, the illness is often mild, and there is no treatment. But Zika can pose a dire risk to pregnant women. It targets developing nerve cells in fetuses and can lead to a birth defect called microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small heads and brain damage. It may also cause developmental problems after birth. Zika is primarily transmitted by the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, which thrives in warm, tropical climates. But 11 countries have documented cases of sexual transmission from a man to a woman. Among the 1, 130 people who have received a Zika diagnosis in the continental United States, including 320 pregnant women, the C. D. C. has reported 15 cases of sexual transmission. In a reflection of the urgency of the situation, White House officials joined with congressional leaders and public health officials this month to denounce the failure of lawmakers to provide funding to combat the virus. The legislative session in Congress ended on Thursday with lawmakers failing to provide money to fight it. "The more we learn about Zika, the more concerned we are," Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the director of the C. D. C. said during a recent conference call with reporters. At least seven children have been born with birth defects and five pregnancy losses related to Zika in the United States. The lifetime cost of care is estimated to be $10 million for each sick child. "Each case is a tragedy," Dr. Frieden said. "A child that may never walk or live independently. " The New York case is the first in which a man was infected by a woman, and it raises the prospect that other men — with no travel history to areas and no reason to suspect that they might have the virus — could become infected and pass the virus on, creating a new chain of transmission. In the report, researchers found that a man, who was in his 20s and did not travel outside the United States during the year before his illness, contracted the virus after one instance of vaginal intercourse, without a condom, with a woman who had recently returned from a country where the virus is endemic. Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the city's health commissioner, said there were several factors in this case that might have raised the risk of infection: The man was uncircumcised, the woman was in the early stages of her illness when her viral load was high, and she was also at the beginning of her menstrual cycle. The woman, described as being in her 20s and not pregnant, had sex with her partner the day she returned to the city. The report does not name the country she visited, but the virus is now widespread in nearly 50 countries throughout South America and the Caribbean. "She reported having headache and abdominal cramping while in the airport before returning to N. Y. C. ," the report said. The next day she developed a number of symptoms associated with Zika, including fever, fatigue, a rash, back pain, swelling of the extremities, and numbness and tingling in her hands and feet. She reported that her period, which began that day, was also heavier than usual. Her primary care physician sent blood and urine samples to the city and state health department laboratories for testing. The tests detected the virus but not antibodies to it, which suggested she was newly infected it takes four or five days for the body to begin producing antibodies. Seven days after intercourse, the woman's partner developed a fever, followed by a rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis. The report said the man had not had any other recent sexual partners or been bitten by a mosquito within a week before his illness. Three days later, the man went to the same primary care physician who had diagnosed Zika in his partner. The physician sent samples of his urine to the same laboratories, and the virus was detected. According to the report, the man "did not report noticing any blood on his uncircumcised penis that could have been associated with vaginal bleeding or any open lesions on his genitals immediately following intercourse. " It is unclear if the virus was transmitted to the man by the woman's menstrual blood or by vaginal fluids. If the virus was passed along through vaginal fluid, there is very little information on how long it might persist there or how great the risk of transmission during intercourse is. The report cites a recent study of nonhuman primates where three nonpregnant females were found to have the virus present in vaginal fluid up to seven days after exposure. "Further studies are needed to determine if the virus is also found in the vaginal fluid of humans and, if so, for how long," the report said. Zika has previously been known to be transmissible via semen, where it can persist for months. The current guidance from health officials is that men who may have been exposed either abstain from sex or use a condom for six months. Women who are pregnant or trying to conceive are warned not to have unprotected sex with men who have been in areas where the virus is spreading during that time. Even though it is just one case, the fact that the disease can be transmitted from women to men — widening the pool of those at risk — will have to be factored into the response from public health officials. The Aedes aegypti mosquito remains the major means of infection. In the United States, that species is found mostly in the South and the Southwest, though its range can spread in the summer. That mosquito is not present in New York, but a similar species, the Asian tiger mosquito, could theoretically pose a threat of transmission, health officials have said. In response, the city has stepped up its mosquito control and surveillance, and it will soon be starting a new public education campaign that will continue to highlight the risks posed by mosquitoes but with added emphasis on the risks of sexual transmission.


IPet Goat And The Solar Flare In the video IPet Goat II, you see many symbols, some appear to represent celestial movements. In Egyptian mythology the planets and stars are shown in hieroglyphs as moving about on boats. In the film IPet Goat II, there is a figure riding on a boat which has been called Messianic by some viewers. However, I think this figure is a representation of the sun, he is very yellow, like the Simp(suns), he appears to be covered in flames and his hair looks distinctly like flames. He also seems to have sunspots on his face. Sunspots are quite distinct from ordinary spots.The reason I mention the Simp(suns) is that their eyes are designed to look like the circumpunct, a circle with a dot in the centre which represents the sun. [ link to en.wikipedia.org (secure) ] Also in the simpsons, Homer is obsessed with doughnuts and the torus is a doughnut shape that is seen throughout nature and space and has been the subject of much theorising by physicists such as Nassim Harramein.Sorry, back to IPet Goat II. The II in the title suggests it could be the symbol of Gemini. In the celestial realm the sun is currently moving through the sign of Gemini and will be moving to Wasat, a fixed star in the constellation and which appears to be where you might locate the phallus part of the constellation.You can see the phallus around the 4 min mark [ link to en.wikipedia.org (secure) ] This area is where the water signs are located in the sky. The sun moved through this area over the past few months.A little further in the video, just after the phallus scene, you see the sun produce either a massive solar flare or possibly an EMP which knocks out the grey men in the suits.Now I know there is much speculation about a possible celestial event and/or a financial collapse happening soon, perhaps these events have been foreshadowed by this video.The sun reaches the phallus around 11th July and if the video is prophetic, then we can expect some solar related event to happen very soon after that.This is the sun's position on 11th July Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare "The more you know, the crazier you look" Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Maybe the Christ figure is a representation of you and your journey through this reality. Why would the "son" gaze at the sun? Anonymous Coward ( OP ) Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Maybe the Christ figure is a representation of you and your journey through this reality. Why would the "son" gaze at the sun? Quoting: f800 That's a good question, but I dont think it's the "son", I think the figure is the sun and he appears to be moving through the mazzaroth, or what we know as the Zodiac which is how the sun travels along the ecliptic in the sky.I know that some people identified the area where he gazes at the end of the video as possibly Scorpio. The sun will be nearer Scorpio around the winter time, around November. If he is indeed gazing at Scorpio ahead of him,that would indicate that the events are over before winter ends and before the sun moves into Scorpio. Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Maybe the Christ figure is a representation of you and your journey through this reality. Why would the "son" gaze at the sun? Quoting: f800 That's a good question, but I dont think it's the "son", I think the figure is the sun and he appears to be moving through the mazzaroth, or what we know as the Zodiac which is how the sun travels along the ecliptic in the sky.I know that some people identified the area where he gazes at the end of the video as possibly Scorpio. The sun will be nearer Scorpio around the winter time, around November. If he is indeed gazing at Scorpio ahead of him,that would indicate that the events are over before winter ends and before the sun moves into Scorpio. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Right but as he emerges he's gazing at the sun. Does the sun gaze at the sun? Anonymous Coward ( OP ) Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Maybe the Christ figure is a representation of you and your journey through this reality. Why would the "son" gaze at the sun? Quoting: f800 That's a good question, but I dont think it's the "son", I think the figure is the sun and he appears to be moving through the mazzaroth, or what we know as the Zodiac which is how the sun travels along the ecliptic in the sky.I know that some people identified the area where he gazes at the end of the video as possibly Scorpio. The sun will be nearer Scorpio around the winter time, around November. If he is indeed gazing at Scorpio ahead of him,that would indicate that the events are over before winter ends and before the sun moves into Scorpio. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Right but as he emerges he's gazing at the sun. Does the sun gaze at the sun? Quoting: f800 I see what you mean, at the end he is gazing at some object which appears to have rings coming off it. Saturn is actually in Libra, where it ends and Scorpio begins. Saturn's been there for a while, it moves very slowly and will continue to remain there for at a while longer. The sun could be gazing at Saturn perhaps. Saturn is golden coloured. Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Maybe the Christ figure is a representation of you and your journey through this reality. Why would the "son" gaze at the sun? Quoting: f800 That's a good question, but I dont think it's the "son", I think the figure is the sun and he appears to be moving through the mazzaroth, or what we know as the Zodiac which is how the sun travels along the ecliptic in the sky.I know that some people identified the area where he gazes at the end of the video as possibly Scorpio. The sun will be nearer Scorpio around the winter time, around November. If he is indeed gazing at Scorpio ahead of him,that would indicate that the events are over before winter ends and before the sun moves into Scorpio. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Right but as he emerges he's gazing at the sun. Does the sun gaze at the sun? Quoting: f800 I see what you mean, at the end he is gazing at some object which appears to have rings coming off it. Saturn is actually in Libra, where it ends and Scorpio begins. Saturn's been there for a while, it moves very slowly and will continue to remain there for at a while longer. The sun could be gazing at Saturn perhaps. Saturn is golden coloured. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 I still think that represents you gazing at the sun. I think there is an important message there for you. Just mho. Anonymous Coward Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare I, Pet Goat is too important. I believe it must be decoded to understand future events and their timeline. Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare I, Pet Goat is too important. I believe it must be decoded to understand future events and their timeline. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29592187 I think you might be right. Maybe some of it is already happening. ISON Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare In the video IPet Goat II, you see many symbols, some appear to represent celestial movements. In Egyptian mythology the planets and stars are shown in hieroglyphs as moving about on boats. In the film IPet Goat II, there is a figure riding on a boat which has been called Messianic by some viewers. However, I think this figure is a representation of the sun, he is very yellow, like the Simp(suns), he appears to be covered in flames and his hair looks distinctly like flames. He also seems to have sunspots on his face. Sunspots are quite distinct from ordinary spots. The reason I mention the Simp(suns) is that their eyes are designed to look like the circumpunct, a circle with a dot in the centre which represents the sun. [ link to en.wikipedia.org (secure) ] Also in the simpsons, Homer is obsessed with doughnuts and the torus is a doughnut shape that is seen throughout nature and space and has been the subject of much theorising by physicists such as Nassim Harramein.Sorry, back to IPet Goat II. The II in the title suggests it could be the symbol of Gemini. In the celestial realm the sun is currently moving through the sign of Gemini and will be moving to Wasat, a fixed star in the constellation and which appears to be where you might locate the phallus part of the constellation.You can see the phallus around the 4 min mark [ link to en.wikipedia.org (secure) ] This area is where the water signs are located in the sky. The sun moved through this area over the past few months.A little further in the video, just after the phallus scene, you see the sun produce either a massive solar flare or possibly an EMP which knocks out the grey men in the suits.Now I know there is much speculation about a possible celestial event and/or a financial collapse happening soon, perhaps these events have been foreshadowed by this video.The sun reaches the phallus around 11th July and if the video is prophetic, then we can expect some solar related event to happen very soon after that.This is the sun's position on 11th JulyI realise the video is around 3 years old but these events look like they are on the verge of happening this year, so I thought I would mention this. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Sun Halo - circumpunct - circled dot Anonymous Coward Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Maybe the Christ figure is a representation of you and your journey through this reality. Why would the "son" gaze at the sun? Quoting: f800 That's a good question, but I dont think it's the "son", I think the figure is the sun and he appears to be moving through the mazzaroth, or what we know as the Zodiac which is how the sun travels along the ecliptic in the sky.I know that some people identified the area where he gazes at the end of the video as possibly Scorpio. The sun will be nearer Scorpio around the winter time, around November. If he is indeed gazing at Scorpio ahead of him,that would indicate that the events are over before winter ends and before the sun moves into Scorpio . Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Report Copyright Violation Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Sorry, back to IPet Goat II. The II in the title suggests it could be the symbol of Gemini. In the celestial realm the sun is currently moving through the sign of Gemini and will be moving to Wasat, a fixed star in the constellation and which appears to be where you might locate the phallus part of the constellation.You can see the phallus around the 4 min mark [ link to en.wikipedia.org (secure) ] This area is where the water signs are located in the sky. The sun moved through this area over the past few months.A little further in the video, just after the phallus scene, you see the sun produce either a massive solar flare or possibly an EMP which knocks out the grey men in the suits.Now I know there is much speculation about a possible celestial event and/or a financial collapse happening soon, perhaps these events have been foreshadowed by this video.The sun reaches the phallus around 11th July and if the video is prophetic, then we can expect some solar related event to happen very soon after that.This is the sun's position on 11th July Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Genesis 32:30-3130 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel:[a] "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." 31 Just as he crossed over Penuel the sun rose on him, and he limped on his hip. Anonymous Coward Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare "The light halts upon his thigh " Anonymous Coward Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare "The light halts upon his thigh " Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69699674 The light halts upon his thigh " Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69699674 "phallus". See my link above. Anonymous Coward ( OP )User ID: 69290995 Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Maybe the Christ figure is a representation of you and your journey through this reality. Why would the "son" gaze at the sun? Quoting: f800 's a good question, but I dont think it's the "son", I think the figure is the sun and he appears to be moving through the mazzaroth, or what we know as the Zodiac which is how the sun travels along the ecliptic in the sky.I know that some people identified the area where he gazes at the end of the video as possibly Scorpio. The sun will be nearer Scorpio around the winter time, around November. If he is indeed gazing at Scorpio ahead of him,that would indicate that the events are over before winter ends and before the sun moves into Scorpio . Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69699674 'halo' and it could symbolise rings of Saturn rather than a sun halo. In a still it looks like a halo but in the video there is a lot of movement and a lot of rings/halos.I'm glad you mentioned clouds because I was going to question whether there would be clouds as far up as the sun. They do seem to have the appearance of clouds. f800 The light halts upon his thigh " Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69699674 "phallus". See my link above. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69699674 Re: IPet Goat And The Solar Flare Maybe the Christ figure is a representation of you and your journey through this reality. Why would the "son" gaze at the sun? Quoting: f800 's a good question, but I dont think it's the "son", I think the figure is the sun and he appears to be moving through the mazzaroth, or what we know as the Zodiac which is how the sun travels along the ecliptic in the sky.I know that some people identified the area where he gazes at the end of the video as possibly Scorpio. The sun will be nearer Scorpio around the winter time, around November. If he is indeed gazing at Scorpio ahead of him,that would indicate that the events are over before winter ends and before the sun moves into Scorpio . Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69699674 'halo' and it could symbolise rings of Saturn rather than a sun halo. In a still it looks like a halo but in the video there is a lot of movement and a lot of rings/halos.I'm glad you mentioned clouds because I was going to question whether there would be clouds as far up as the sun. They do seem to have the appearance of clouds. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Saw a lovely rainbow halo around the sun July 4th This video links I Pet Goat to today based on Scorpius [ ( OP )User ID: 69290995 Saw a lovely rainbow halo around the sun July 4th This video links I Pet Goat to today based on Scorpius [ Quoting: rachel3108 'll find out very shortly if 7th July is the date for the asteroid strike. There are 2 asteroids passing close today I beleive. Personally I'll also be watching out to see if anything interesting happens on 16th August, the date from the Deep Impact film. Anonymous CowardUser ID: 3234272 Watch this full 10 min original version.What does anyone make of this? Please post your thoughts, if that short film is telling, you should see this for more insight. [ ... That's a good question, but I dont think it's the "son", I think the figure is the sun and he appears to be moving through the mazzaroth, or what we know as the Zodiac which is how the sun travels along the ecliptic in the sky.I know that some people identified the area where he gazes at the end of the video as possibly Scorpio. The sun will be nearer Scorpio around the winter time, around November. If he is indeed gazing at Scorpio ahead of him,that would indicate that the events are over before winter ends and before the sun moves into Scorpio . Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69699674 'halo' and it could symbolise rings of Saturn rather than a sun halo. In a still it looks like a halo but in the video there is a lot of movement and a lot of rings/halos.I'm glad you mentioned clouds because I was going to question whether there would be clouds as far up as the sun. They do seem to have the appearance of clouds. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69290995 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69699674 's so complex. Is there any chance you could summarise what it is about so I and anyone else who might be interested can understand the gist of what is being said and might be able to follow it with some insight.Many thanks. Anonymous Coward


Hillary Dressed In The Most Perfect 'Costume' Today Without Realizing It Posted on October 31, 2016 by Amanda Shea in Politics Share This Hillary Clinton in "costume"  For the first time in her campaigning, Hillary Clinton is working overtime, now that we're in the final hours of this election and she has a major FBI scandal to try to cover up. She's not letting a holiday like Halloween hold her back from her scheduled speaking engagements, scaring everyone she meets with what she inadvertently decided to dress up as.  The troubled Democratic candidate showed up at Kent State University to greet another anemic crowd that she's become accustomed to seeing. While she thought she was treating them with her presence, the "trick" was actually on her when everyone took a closer look at what she was wearing and saw the irony in it based on everything Americans have seen over recent weeks.  While she didn't depart from her typical androgynous pantsuit garb, there was something else about her outfit hidden in plain sight. As the American Mirror point out, every inch of the draping fabric she had on was crimson red, making her appear like she dressed as a walking blood clot for Halloween.  Since clots have been suspected as contributing to her health issues, which she's had a hard time hiding, the irony of the outfit wasn't lost on those looking for deeper meaning in what she picked to wear on this particular holiday. Hillary Clinton in all crimson red at Kent State today on Halloween  According to The Sun , Hillary has been known to have clotting issues in the past when they reported on this condition in September. "Clinton had a long history of ill health starting with a blood clot in 1998 while her husband Bill was commander-in-chief," the source explained. "The 'Venous thromboembolism', which was located behind her right knee, resulted in her foot ballooning in size."  The article added that Hillary is on a daily regimen of blood-thinning medications to treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT) "after suffering two other clots in 2009 and 2012," one of which was discovered in her brain.  The symbolism potentially runs deep in this color choice as it's one of her few appearances she's made since Friday when the FBI announced that they were looking back into her e-mails, which possibly mean the end of the road for her. Red represents anger, which she surely feels inside, or perhaps it's a hidden message that the election will end with a win for Republicans whose party is represented by this bold color.


Headlined to H3 10/28/16 - Advertisement -  GOP presidential contender Donald Trump giddily and predictably wasted no time when FBI Director James Comey announced that the agency was looking at more Clinton emails. For the umpteenth time, Trump branded her a criminal and demanded that Americans not let her "criminal enterprise" into the Oval Office. No matter that Comey made it clear that there is no evidence at the moment that there was anything improper, let alone illegal, in the emails. But the revelation that the Feds were looking at them coming in the stretch run to the White House was more than enough to set off talk of the perennially mentioned October surprise that could derail a presidential candidate's presidential bid; in this case the candidate being Clinton.  Even if there is something amiss in the emails, it won't change the race's outcome. Trump's path to an electoral vote win was always dicey at best, but more likely, impossible. The big electoral states such as California, New York, Illinois, Maryland, Washington, and a handful of other less electoral rich states are solid lock down Democratic states. The six or seven key swing states that are crucial, either trend Democratic. In nearly all cases, they voted for President Obama in his election and re-election bids, and are almost certain to stay that way through Election Day.  Having said that, the email flap just won't go away. This does pose something else that could be problematic for Clinton in the White House. That's turning the GOP into an even more ferocious, obstructionist, take-no-prisoners party that will wage open war against her administration. Trump and the GOP have hammered home the line that Clinton is shady, untrustworthy and, less charitably, a serial liar. It's had an effect. Her approval and popularity ratings have hovered just slightly above those of Trump. In some pithy polls, voters vote "neither" for and not for either her or Trump. The race to the bottom in the presidential campaign has been fed by the near fetish focus by much of the mainstream media and far too many pundits on the sex and corruption allegations against respectively Trump and Clinton.  The FBI's announcement of more email probes means that Clinton will have to take precious time out from her campaign focus on the issues that should and do really matter to again answer questions about what she did and why she did it with her emails. Reporters will shout this at her no matter what point she's trying to make about jobs, health care, or a foreign policy matter.  Once in the Oval office, this fetish isn't likely to end, Trump and the GOP will see to that. The opening salvo came from Arizona Senator John McCain when he saber rattled Clinton by calling for the rejection of any Clinton SCOTUS pick. Even if the Democrats take back the Senate, that threat is still not just hot air. The GOP will still have enough Senate votes to delay, foot drag, obstruct, harass, pick and probe endlessly at, and ultimately filibuster a Clinton pick. The hope being that this will force Clinton to withdraw the pick, and send the message that the choice for the High Court must pass the hard-nosed conservative ideological litmus test that's the GOP set piece for a SCOTUS judge.  The warfare will be even worse in the House which the GOP almost certainly will control. House Speaker Paul Ryan gave a huge signal just how fierce that warfare against her will be. He was barely a step behind Trump in climbing all over the Comey announcement about the emails to lambaste Clinton. - Advertisement -  If Clinton moves quickly as she's promised with her plan to ramp up spending on jobs and economic reconstruction to the tune of $300 billion, this will send the GOP scurrying even faster to the barricades. It will try and toss every barrier it can in her way, making all kinds of wild charges that the spending is nothing more than a pork barrel, gravy leaden, pay out to the urban poor, and disadvantaged, at the expense of the long suffering, high tax paying white middle-class.  Clinton takes office with the GOP manufactured and Trump fed cloud of suspicion hanging heavily over her. The great danger is that this will plant the seed even deeper in the public that the Clintons are the personification of sleaze. This in turn would blur, ignore and flat out dodge any real talk about tax reform job growth and the economy, health care, wealth and income inequality, civil rights, environmental concerns and criminal justice reforms.  Clinton's continuing email problems can't make Trump into what he isn't and never was. And that's a credible, qualified choice to occupy the Oval Office. It just makes it that much easier for the GOP to do even more to make it harder for Clinton who is that choice to do the job that she will be elected to do.  Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His latest book is "What We Can Expect from President Clinton" (Amazon Kindle) He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on Radio One. He is the host of the weekly Hutchinson Report on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles and the Pacifica Network. - Advertisement -


Political parties choose their presidential nominees. But with more Americans opting out of parties, is the process representative of what America wants? The New York primary – and others ahead – offer insights. How SNL's 'the bubble' sketch about polarization is all too true Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to supporter Michael Cantalupo while taking a walk in New York's Times Square Tuesday. Mr. Cantalupo said he is unable to vote in the New York primaries Denise Guardascione, a waitress for nearly three decades at the Shalimar Diner in Queens, thinks the New York primary process was rigged. She's a vocal supporter of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, but as a registered Democrat, Ms. Guardascione missed the deadline to switch her registration to become a Republican – which, shocking to her, was more than six months ago. And now, the independent-minded waitress has become bewildered by what seems to be the complicated, back-room system of electing party delegates both in her own state and across the country. "It's antiquated, it belongs in the Smithsonian, next to Archie Bunker's chair!" says Ms. Guardascione, a Queens native who works six days a week slinging eggs and coffee for this well-known political haunt. "It's just for the [expletive] bigwigs and muckety mucks, not us, not the people who just want to vote." In truth, presidential primaries have never been more open. Since 1972, primaries have gone from being the province of party bosses to vibrant voter-driven contests. But in this year of populist revolt in both parties, "more open" looks to many voters like "still pretty antiquated." That is by design. Parties, after all, are not democratic. They can choose their nominees in whichever way they think is best. But at a time when Democrats and Republicans are a shrinking share of the population, closed primaries are shutting more and more of America out. The irony is that America is no less partisan. Research suggests the growing ranks of independents are just as partisan as the parties. These voters have just abandoned parties because they are ashamed by how the parties act. The anger over closed primaries, superdelegates, and convention arcana isn't likely to help. (Nor are allegations of irregularities in the New York primary. On Thursday, the state's Elections Board suspended the top official in charge of Brooklyn after numerous allegations, the most serious of which is that 125,000 Democratic voters were incorrectly purged from the rolls before polls opened.) The question is, whether the spotlight of this election could force further change ahead, both in states and in the nation. "New York and other states have long given power to the parties and to the establishment," says Jeanne Zaino, a political scientist at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. "But who has higher voting turnout? States that have early voting, states that have mail in ballots and same day registration. We in New York allow none of that. This was not just a closed primary, this was an ultra-closed primary. Whether you're running for office or voting, you had to be on top of your game to be a part of it." The knock against closed primaries in this election season has been that they hurt insurgent candidates like Trump and Bernie Sanders. But the picture isn't so simple. Yes, Senator Sanders of Vermont has done much better among independents. But his biggest wins – in Hawaii, Alaska, and Washington state – all came in closed primaries or caucuses. Trump, meanwhile, has in many cases actually done better among Republicans than independents. What is clear is that the primary rules disenfranchise those who most dislike the parties. "So why is Sanders doing so well among independents?" asks Dan Hopkins of the FiveThirtyEight data journalism website. "It appears to be driven not by their ideology so much as their dislike of partisan politics." In one respect, that makes sense. Why would parties give vote to someone who doesn't like them? Yet those people are a growing share of the American electorate. Some 39 percent Americans now identify as independents; 32 percent say they're Democrats, and 23 percent say they're Republicans, according to a Pew Research Center survey last year. In 2000, 29 percent were independents, 33 percent were Democrats, and 28 percent were Republicans, Pew found In Tuesday's closed primary, "three million people in the state of New York who are independents have lost their right to vote in the Democratic or Republican primary," Sanders said. "That's wrong." It almost certainly hurt Sanders. In Michigan, for example, Hillary Clinton won the Democratic vote by 58 to 40 percent – similar to the 58 to 42 percent margin in New York. But since Michigan was an open primary where independents could vote, Sanders won the state by taking 71 percent of independent voters. Eight of the 16 remaining primary contests – including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland – are closed contests. Sanders and his supporters have also complained about the fact that 15 percent of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention – 712 out of 4,763 – are party leaders known as "superdelegates," who overwhelmingly support Mrs. Clinton. In short, the deck is stacked against Sanders. And intentionally so. Sanders isn't a Democrat; he's an independent who describes himself as a democratic socialist. It is not illogical that Democratic primaries should favor an actual Democrat. The same is true, in different ways, for Trump. The GOP front-runner won a solid victory in New York. But he's getting little help from the establishment in navigating the complex delegate rules – rules that he says are rigged. Meanwhile, the well-organized campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz outmaneuvered him in Louisiana and swept Colorado's state convention contest. Presidents have always gone through a complex, multilayered processes in which voters, local officials, and party leaders each have their role, scholars say. Party leaders should have no small say in choosing their party's presidential nominee, the thinking goes. But even within the parties, there is some restlessness for change. "Closed primaries poison the health of that system and warp its natural balance," said Charles Schumer (D) of New York, now the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, to The New York Times in 2014. As America's political balance increasingly settles outside either of the two parties, 2016 is showing how even a more open system can be warped. "And if part of that story is about disenfranchisement, it is about these younger voters, people who are new to the process, or who disengaged from it and didn't register, or registered as independent and couldn't vote," says Professor Zaino. "You're talking about Sanders supporters who are going to be on the losing end of that."


U.S. President Donald Trump does not plan to invoke executive privilege as a way to block former FBI Director James Comey from testifying to Congress next week, the New York Times said on Friday citing two unnamed senior administration officials. On Saturday, a White House spokesperson referred a question about the Times' story to outside council. Outside council did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Comey was leading a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into alleged Russian meddling in last year's U.S. presidential election and possible collusion by Trump's campaign when the president fired him last month. On Friday, White House officials said that they did not know yet whether President Donald Trump would seek to block Comey's testimony, a move that could spark a political backlash. "I have not spoken to counsel yet. I don't know how they're going to respond," White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters on Friday. The former FBI chief is due to testify on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its own Russia-related investigation, and his remarks could cause problems for the Republican president. Presidents can assert executive privilege to prevent government employees from sharing information. However, legal experts say it is not clear whether certain conversations between Trump and Comey that the president has talked about publicly would be covered, and any effort to block Comey, who is now a private citizen, from testifying could be challenged in court.


German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister spoke by telephone on Tuesday and agreed that sanctions against Pyongyang should be stepped up in response to North Korea s nuclear test, a spokesman for the German government said. She agreed with Prime Minister Abe that North Korea s latest nuclear test threatened the security of the entire world and that this massive violation of the U.N. Security Council s resolution must result in a resolute reaction from the international community as well as tougher sanctions, spokesman Steffen Seibert said. Merkel and Abe agreed that increased pressure on North Korea should make Pyongyang more willing to agree to a peaceful solution and that China and Russia had a key role to play in that, Seibert added.


Democratic presidential Martin O Malley just got real about the response to the right-wing domestic terrorists who are occupying federal land in Oregon.Speaking to an Iowa radio station, O Malley, the former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore, was blunt about the ongoing situation. This is not the way we act as Americans and I dare say that the federal government s exercising a lot of restraint here, said O Malley. It s hard to fathom or it s hard to imagine if the people taking over buildings by armed force were Muslim or black, as some commentators have said, it would be the same reaction. So hopefully this will get resolved peacefully. They are not militia, they re acting in criminal ways, this is criminal behavior. Since the militia members led by the son of rogue rancher Cliven Bundy illegally took over the federal facility, the mainstream media has fumbled over what precisely to call the men. First they were called peaceful protesters, and then they were called armed protesters in dispatches from ABC News and the Associated Press.Even after one of the men, who are white, made a public statement that he would be willing to die while occupying the government land, the bulk of the mainstream media has been unwilling to apply the label of terrorism to their activities.The kid gloves treatment being afforded to the gang recently federal law enforcement said they could come and go as they please has led people to compare the treatment to situations like 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Rice, who was black, had the police called on him while he played with a toy gun. Instead of being talked down and negotiated with, he was shot and killed in the street and led by the prosecutor a grand jury declined to indict the police officer who did the deed.In addition to the disparity in treatment, Republican presidential candidates have condemned the specific gun-wielding tactics of the occupiers while also heaping praise on the principles behind their gripes, which are complaints about the federal government collecting money for the use of land owned by the government.These men and other militia affiliated groups have tried to argue that the government cannot own the land in question, and that they should be allowed to raise profit-making livestock on it without paying anyone.


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There was a telltale line in the statement Huw Jenkins, the chairman of Swansea City, released Tuesday to confirm that Bob Bradley's career as a Premier League manager was over after 85 days. Amid the heartfelt expressions of regret that are all but programmed into these things, the eulogies for the condemned man's character and the best wishes for his future, Jenkins explained the logic that had forced his — and Swansea's American owners' — hand. "We felt we had to make the change with half of the Premier League season remaining," Jenkins said. "With the club going through such a tough time, we have to try and find the answers to get ourselves out of trouble. " Jenkins did not mean that Swansea is about to indulge in a period of intense . There will be no at the executive level about the drift that has been allowed to set in at the club over the last three years or about why Swansea's meteoric rise has been allowed to stall so quickly. Jenkins and his colleagues will not be asking themselves why the club has sold a host of important players, the core of the team that took Swansea into the Premier League and then established the club there, nor why they tried to replace them with a collection of waifs and strays. There will be no deep dive into performance data to try to work out where, what and who the weak links are. No, what Jenkins means is quite different. Swansea is not going to start asking any questions. It is going to skip that part and go out and find an answer. Or rather, it is going to go out and find a man — almost certainly a white man, and most likely one who in most other walks of life would be about ready for his pension — who it believes already has the answers. In Italy, there is a word for the manager who is called in when the warning lights are flashing and the fans are in revolt: traghettatore — the ferryman, the person who guides you through choppy waters to the safety of the bank. England — where referring to a penalty kick as a "P. K.," as Bradley did, is considered dangerously gauche — does not have the word, but it most certainly understands the concept. A couple of days before Christmas, Sam Allardyce was confirmed as Crystal Palace's new manager. Alan Pardew, the man he replaced, was a former player at the club, beloved by its fans, and had even taken Palace to last year's F. A. Cup final. His arrival just less than two years ago had been treated as a considerable coup Palace had paid Newcastle £3. 5 million ($4. 2 million) to release him from his contract, and it had been only a couple of months since Pardew himself had explained, at length, why he would not want to leave the club even if he was offered the chance to manage England's national team. But Palace was enduring a worse 2016 than any other Premier League team. The most lavish spending in the club's history — bringing in the likes of Christian Benteke and Andros Townsend — had not arrested the slide, and now the heat of the battle to avoid relegation was on Pardew's neck. Despite his close bond with Steve Parish, Palace's chairman, Pardew could not survive it. On Dec. 22, the day he was relieved of his duties — with a payout to cushion the blow — Allardyce was summoned for talks with Parish. Those went so well that Allardyce, 62, took charge of training on Christmas Eve. It did not matter that Allardyce had been fired, just a few months earlier, from his dream job as England's manager for a series of damaging comments made to undercover newspaper journalists. It did not matter that the Football Association, English soccer's governing body, had deemed his behavior beyond the pale, and that it had been forced to part with him "to protect the wider interests of the game. " It did not matter, either, that at two of Allardyce's four previous clubs — Newcastle United and West Ham United — his departure was hardly mourned, or that his preferred style of play was polarizing at best, or that he only won nine of 31 games in charge of Sunderland, his last club post. It did not matter because Allardyce is a traghettatore, and ultimately money trumps what ghosts of morality survive in elite soccer. He is the man who has the answers. He will always find work whenever he is without it, work tends to find him. "We were fortunate that someone of Allardyce's caliber and experience was available," Parish said in bringing him on. That word, experience, is crucial. It is the same one Allardyce chose to emphasize when he was presented as Palace's new manager: He would "get out of trouble, with my experience. " The Premier League, more than most other leagues, cherishes experience. Swansea's experiment with Bradley, of course, seems to illustrate perfectly why that is. Bradley was, by Premier League standards, an appointment out of deep left field. He had never before worked in a top European league. He had neither coached nor played in England. His résumé was eclectic, and his body of work, weighted with its context, was impressive: spells with the United States and Egypt national teams, fine campaigns with Stabaek in Norway and Le Havre in France's second division. He was convincing in interviews: Jenkins, like Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien, Swansea's American owners, believed he was a leader. He was popular within the club, with employees and players. Jenkins meant it when he described him, in his statement Tuesday, as a "good man. " And yet the results do not lie. Swansea has only 12 points from 18 games this season Bradley leaves the club in 19th place in the standings, his team having scored 15 goals and conceded 29 during his tenure. It was the latter that did it for him: not the fact of defeats to West Ham, Middlesbrough and West Bromwich Albion, but the nature of them — the visible collapses, the wilting spirit. Bradley had many admirable traits and a respected work ethic, but in hindsight that all seems irrelevant because he does not have experience, and only experience brings answers. Now Swansea, too, will turn to its own traghettatore. It is possible to, simultaneously, feel that Swansea has made an understandable decision and worry that English soccer is damaged by this tyranny of experience. Not just because the same old jobs going to the same old faces is one of the reasons that England's native managerial stock remains so steadfastly white: Even a properly enforced Rooney Rule — the N. F. L. 's requirement that teams interview a minority candidate for head coaching vacancies — would stand no chance of working when the only openings that come up would be inevitably awarded to the same candidates. Not just because it places an insurmountable roadblock on any young coaches — either or those working their way through the lower leagues — hoping for a chance to cut their teeth in the Premier League, starving a new generation of oxygen. But because, in encouraging that homogeneity, it locks English soccer — as opposed to the multinational Premier League — in stasis. Few clubs risk new ideas, new approaches, new voices those that do seem to lose their nerve with alarming speed. Maybe Bradley was the wrong appointment at Swansea, but that should not mean the league should write off all American coaches, or all coaches in France's second division, or all coaches who have not previously managed in England. To believe that would be to condemn English soccer to the tried and tested, instead of the bold and the brave. It would mean a culture that is forever crossing from one bank to another, never actually getting anywhere.


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