{"content":"I am a boxing fan and one of the best traditions of the sport is the referees admonition given to both pugilists, just before the bout commences to protect yourself at all times. This advice makes sense not just for prizefighting, but also for life in general. We live in a rough world, and even if wed rather live in blissful ignorance, evil stalks the earth.\n\nOur Founding Fathers understood this condition full well, and guaranteed, via the Second Amendment, an inalienable right of self-protection  against tyrants, against invaders, against criminals  against anyone who would seek to steal Americans hard-won liberty.\n\nThe 2016 electoral shockwave, which culminated in our countrys first ever citizen-president with no prior government experience, was in some ways a reaction by  tens of millions of citizens who felt defenseless in the face of another kind of threat. For decades, they came to believe, the reigning establishment in both major political parties encouraged globalist economic policies that they see as punishing working-class Americans while enriching well-connected elites.\n\nImbalanced trade deals with many countries, especially with China, massively outsourced American jobs, without trade fairness or reciprocity. Porous borders flooded the workforce with plentiful cheap labor, a disaster for working-class strivers. Donald Trump was widely mocked for describing, both on the campaign trail and in his inaugural address, the American carnage that unfolded across the land. But his honesty struck a deep chord among tens of millions of voters struggling with stagnant wages, government dependency, a loss of confidence, and epidemic levels of substance abuse among too many hopeless citizens.\n\nThe same dynamic is present in the debate over guns that is roiling our nation in the wake of the killing of 14 students and three educators at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Fla. To liberal champions of further gun control, the lesson seems obvious: ban the sale of the weapon used in the Valentines Day rampage, close the gun show loophole, and tighten up controls on other firearms as well.\n\nBut this approach is predicated on the same logic that informed trade policy and failed immigration laws and any number of social engineering schemes that dominated U.S. politics until Donald Trump came along. What these Big Government advocates are saying is, essentially, the same thing they said in the NAFTA debate and at so many other times: Let the trained experts -- the government professionals -- protect you.  Except, as we saw with dreadful clarity in Parkland, government failed at every single level, from the FBI to local law enforcement to the public school system itself. These abdications of competence and accountability provide the latest evidence that Americans, as heirs to the patriots of 1776, cannot outsource our self-defense solely to government. We will not, thanks to our Bill of Rights, ever surrender to a government monopoly over weapons.\n\nIn contrast to the abject failures of state actors in Parkland stands the incredible bravery of former NRA instructor Stephen Willeford in Sutherland Springs, Texas, who used his AR-15  yes, that gun  to twice shoot and nearly incapacitate the gunman who had killed 26 people and wounded 20 more when he opened fire in a church. The barefoot Willeford (pictured) also enlisted another heroic nearby civilian in a pickup truck, Johnnie Langendorff, to follow and neutralize the fleeing murderer. This unlikely pair of citizen patriots gave chase at speeds up to 95 miles per hour before the assassin crashed and died.\n\nThe point of this contrast  government failure in Parkland vs. private citizen heroics in Sutherland Springs -- demonstrates anew that our protection is too important to be relegated to government alone. In the case of schools, the protection of our precious children must rise to at least the level of seriousness with which we already guard our money, jewelry, sports arenas, and offices.\n\nDiffusion of power was a central theme of the election of 2016. Weve had enough of Washington, D.C., siphoning the rights and prosperity of the rest of the country for the benefit of the Beltway-based power structure. Among those sacred rights is the right to bear arms and protect ourselves -- at all times.","title":"Protect Yourself at All Times a Second Amendment Mantra","date":"2018-03-05","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The man who gunned down John Lennon in New York said he feels \"more and more\nshame\" every year for the murder.\n\nMark David Chapman, now 63, told a parole board in August about his remorse\nduring **[his 10th failed attempt](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/john-lennons-\nkiller-mark-chapman-has-parole-rejected-for-tenth-time-11480850)** to secure\nrelease.\n\nNew York prison officials released a transcript of the hearing on Thursday.\n\nChapman is serving a prison term of 20 years to life at the Wende correctional\nfacility in the state.\n\nImage: Lennon was shot dead in front of his wife Yoko Ono\n\nHe shot dead the Beatles icon outside his Manhattan apartment on 8 December\n1980.\n\nChapman told parole board members he thinks every day about how Lennon was\n\"incredible\" to him when the singer autographed an album on the day of the\nshooting.\n\nThe Board of Parole denied Chapman's release stating it \"would be incompatible\nwith the welfare and safety of society and would so deprecate the serious\nnature of the crime as to undermine respect for the law\".\n\nTheir decision statement said: \"Your criminal history report reflects that\nthis is your only crime of record.\n\n\"However, that does not mitigate your actions.\"\n\nLennon's widow Yoko Ono, 85, has said she fears for the safety of herself and\nthe singer's two sons, Julian and Sean, if Chapman was freed.","title":"John Lennons killer feels more and more shame each year","date":"2018-11-15","source":"skynewsus","label":1}
{"content":"The Italian clear brandy, made from the grape skins, seeds and pulp left over from winemaking, has an unfortunate habit of being rough as hell, acetone-smelling and forced upon you at the end of a spag bol n Chianti trat meal if you decline the limoncello. Even Italians are snooty about it.\n\nBut apparently weve just not tried the right stuff. As summer limps wanly into autumn, a shot of Italian firewater brings Mediterranean spirit to darkening evenings, and it also happens to be the perfect spirit for those trendy types with no-waste ethics.\n\nSay hello, then, to Morso, a new dedicated grappa bar in St Johns Wood (the new Dalston, sort of) where directors Barak Peled and Barry McCaughley are trying to get Londoners to give the underdog spirit a chance.\n\nGiven grappas rep, Peled and McCaughley knew they were fighting an uphill battle. But we reached out to producers, purchased and tasted dozens of different grappas and discovered that this is easily the most versatile but underappreciated beverage out there. As such they have more than 20 different grappa labels on the menu, from the berryish Fragolino Cru to the intensely smoky, mezcal-like cask-aged Capovilla, infused with tobacco and a range of monovarietals  single-origin grappas made from specific grapes such as Chardonnay and Moscato. Such is their commitment, all spirits bar grappa are barred from their bar: no vodka, gin, rum or whisky  but we have a grappa to emulate each of these, very often much better.\n\nThus, when it comes to cocktails, expect some grape twists on the classics.\n\nA Morso negroni replaces gin with juniper-infused grappa; a grapparita mixes grappa with limoncello, triple sec and lime; while the espresso martini is a combination of coffee and limoncello. Just kidding. Its coffee and grappa.\n\nIf nightmares of nail varnish remover spirit on holiday still haunt you, you might prefer to ease yourself into grappa. Pastaio in Soho has a gentle introduction in the form of its Prosecco slushies, spiked with lemon and Barbara grappa, where the grape spirit  reminiscent of holidays along the Italian coastline, enthuses owner Stevie Parle  lends perfumed plummy richness to the silly-fun frozen cocktail. Its delicious, floral and a bit boozy too, he adds. And if you want to experiment from the safety of your own home, buy a bottle of the gloriously named Dappa grappa, a mellow Devon-distilled English grappa made from the stems and skins from surrounding vineyards.\n\nUltimately, grappas just a bit cooler than pretentious artisan gin. Go on, have a skinful.","title":"The re-invention of Grappa","date":"2018-08-30","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"A mural of Beto ORourke in Austin, Texas was recently vandalized with anti-Beto writing.","title":"Watch Beto ORourke Mural In Austin Gets Vandalized With Anti-Beto Messages","date":"2018-10-29","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Chef Heston Blumenthal has revealed a handy trick he uses to improve the taste of any glass of wine.\n\nThe Michelin-starred chef discussed his recent epiphany during an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald - and it will change the way you experience wine.\n\nThe trick, as explained during an experiment by the British chef, is to take a sip of wine while picturing someone I love dearly.\n\nThen, a second sip should be taken while imagining someone you really dislike.\n\nThe difference is marked according to the chefs dining partner, who found in the second theres a bitter taste not apparent in the first.\n\nAccording to Blumenthal, the explanation for the taste variations is the connection between a persons stomach and memory - which he discovered in his exploration of the significance of the relationship between the brain and the gut alongside the University of Marseilles.\n\nIt might be the single greatest discovery that Ive ever made, the imaginative chef said.\n\nThe study of neurogastronomy - how the brain perceives flavour - is relatively new, according to Harvard University, however, scientists and chefs are working together to learn more about the link.\n\nNew research from scientists at Columbia University has found the tongue may not be necessary for our internal perception of taste - and it is possible to manipulate flavour by activating certain regions of the brain.\n\nAt Blumenthals restaurant The Fat Duck, he has already implemented some of the findings.\n\nFor example, when one orders the Sounds of the Sea, they are served a seafood meal alongside a pair of headphones playing beach sounds - which apparently makes the fish taste fresher.\n\nWhile the research has the potential to change the way people eat, Chef Blumenthals initial finding means youll never have to splurge on an expensive bottle of wine again - as you can just think positive thoughts while you drink it.","title":"Chef Heston Blumenthal explains how to make any glass of wine taste better","date":"2018-11-09","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2018 \/PRNewswire\/ -- SIMCom wireless, a wholly owned\nsubsidiary of SUNSEA AIOT (002313.SZ), a world-leading Internet of Things\n(IoT) module supplier, announces today they are to showcase their latest\nsolutions at Mobile World Congress Americas 2018, this September 12-14 at the\nLos Angeles Convention Center, CA.\n\nSIMCom Wireless will demonstrate the company's ability to help corporate\nclients create seamless global enterprises via the migration of services to\nIoT-based platforms across various verticals.\n\nCapstone: SIMCom and Capstone recently cooperated to create a unique portfolio\nof water meters and SW applications for municipalities and water suppliers to\nintelligently transform their software applications. Utilizing an Open Sense\nDMA (Device Management Application) as a robust cloud-based management\nsolution and full integration with a suite of devices, SIMCom and Capstone\nwere able to provide features such as OTA, command and control system for\ncustomers across the globe. Most carriers have agreed to fast-track\ncertification of Capstone's products which contain SIMCom's SIM7000A modules,\nsupporting NB-IoT\/eMTC\/GSM this year.\n\nDataRemote: A specialist in IoT wireless communications solutions tailored for\nevery enterprise level, for the first time, chose SIMCom's SIM7100A as its 4G\nLTE Cat. 3 Modules to provide its LTE network. In the future, the company\nplans to adopt the Cat. 4 module embedded with the SIM7600X-H designed for the\nNorth American market.\n\nCoffee Leo: SIMCom and Coffee Leo will showcase a connected coffee vending\nmachine designed for a range of self-service scenarios. Using a touchscreen,\nusers can order coffee, pay, and monitor the machine's status. The Coffee Leo\nIoT solution allows operators to remotely control the devices and send data\nthrough an embedded cloud-based module (SIM7600A-H for business in the US or\nSIM7600CE for China). All software applications of the coffee machine are the\nsame and can be switched seamlessly.\n\nConnected Massage Master: SIMCom and Momoda will showcase the mini-spa zone\nservice for massage chairs. Visitors will be able to see how to work through\nSIMCom 4G modules(SIM7500A) to make payment and how the smart massage chair\nconnects to Momoda's revenue and data management platform which collects and\ntransmits machine data. Momoda and their partners, can use the app to monitor\nand manage their entire network of machines and can be alerted to potential\nissues, reducing downtime and costs.\n\nMs. Wendy Wang, CEO of SIMCom said: \"Over the past 16 years, SIMCom has become\nthe leader in module hardware manufacturing. With the aim of building the\nworld's number one IoT enterprise, we continue to strengthen our collaboration\nwith local companies in the US and globally. To this end, we plan to invest\nmore in the high-end market and will actively seek strong partners to grow\ntogether.\"\n\n## **About SUNSEA IoT**\n\nSUNSEA IoT is a pioneer in the Internet of Things industry in China. We offer\na comprehensive portfolio of SIMCom and LongSung IoT modules and best-in-class\ncloud services with Ayla technology. We also provide Artificial Intelligence\nof Things solutions and services to telcos and customers in major IoT\nindustries. For more information, visit www.sunseagroup.com.\n\n## **About SIMCom**\n\nSIMCom Wireless Solutions, since its founding in 2002, has been an innovator\nand pioneer in the cellular module industry with over 1,500 patents awarded.\nSIMCom has certified 2G, 3G and LTE modules for all your IoT deployments,\nincluding NB-IoT, Cat-M1, Cat-1 and Cat-4 certified for carriers in North\nAmerica and globally for more than 10,000 enterprise class-users. For more\ninformation, visit www.simcomm2m.com.","title":"SIMCom at MWCA2018 Forging Global Partnerships to Drive Seamless IoT Globalization","date":"2018-09-13","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) When it comes to decor, go-to choices often include tasteful art pieces or some lovely houseplants that can add life to any room in your house. However, aside from beautifying your home, studies have shown that certain houseplants can help clear toxins in the air.\n\nPolluted air can be found both indoors and outdoors, but theres no reason why we cant take measures to reduce the toxins in our own homes. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air can contain more pollutants than outdoor air.\n\nPolluted indoor air can cause the symptoms of a condition called sick building syndrome, and these include fogginess, a lack of concentration, and tiredness. The longer youre indoors in an area with poor air quality, the higher your chances are of experiencing these symptoms.\n\nIf you have allergies or respiratory conditions like asthma, breathing in the polluted indoor air can also cause, coughing, dizziness, headaches, or wheezing. The ironic thing is, even the cleaning products we use also contribute to indoor air pollution due to the many harmful chemicals that they contain. (Related: Another way to clean your air: Salt lamps purify the air and charge it with healthy negative ions.)\n\nPlants help reduce carbon dioxide levels in the air, and they release oxygen. Through this breathing process, plants also help filter various gases and compounds such as potentially harmful volatile organic compounds (VOC).\n\nGet CLEAN FOOD and help support our mission to keep you informed: The Health Ranger Store lab verifies everything we sell with accredited testing for heavy metals, microbiology and food safety. Certified organic facility, ISO-accredited on-site laboratory, no GMOs or synthetic ingredients. The world's #1 source of lab-verified clean foods and superfoods for nutritional healing. 600+ products available. Explore now.\n\nBased on research from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), having at least one medium-sized houseplant per 100 square feet in your home can help eliminate VOCs. If you keep at least two to four houseplants for every 100 square feet, you can remove a whopping 87 percent of air toxins in about 24 hours.\n\nBy taking good care of these houseplants, you can also boost their toxin-clearing properties.\n\nBelow are five indoor plants that can help you clear toxins from your home:\n\nYou can read more articles about plants that can keep the air in your home clean at GreenLivingNews.com.","title":"5 toxin-clearing plants you should have in your home","date":"2018-05-09","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Huaweis new P20 flagship has a notch. Thats okay  loads of phones have launched with notches this year. What Huawei has done different is introduce a feature that lets you turn the notch off. Very simply, this setting changes the status bar to black, which effectively camouflages the cut-out containing the phones front-facing camera and speaker.\n\nIts not completely seamless, but as the pictures below show (tweeted by Stefan Constantine) its pretty damn good. At a glance, it just looks like the phone has a thicker top bezel, although if you squint you can see where the notch ends and the screen begins.\n\nHuawei has done well here, as handling notches has become a bit of a burden for Android OEMs and developers. The Essential Phone was the first handset with a notch, but most phonemakers have since copied Apples take, which goes for a slightly broader cutout.\n\nGoogle is also having to deal with this sudden change to so many phones user interfaces, and in the latest version of Android it included display cutout support. However, this feature is mainly for developers, who can use it to test how their apps will interact with notches, making sure crucial bits of information dont get hidden by accident.\n\nBut perhaps introducing a feature like Huaweis will be next for Android. I certainly know a few Apple users who would like to turn off the notch in their iPhone X.","title":"You can turn off the notch on the Huawei P20","date":"2018-03-27","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"On Friday, The New York Times reported that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had secretly recorded the man who is now president discussing potential payments covering the story of former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claims to have had an affair with Trump.\n\nThat report touches on an issue at the center of an ongoing legal battle involving the Trump team and adult film star Stormy Daniels, who also says she had an affair with Trump  in short, what did the president know, and when did he know it?\n\nDaniels attorney Michael Avenatti wants whatever answer can be provided via any audio recordings that Cohen made of the president. He responded to the news of a tape of Trump discussing hush money by re-upping a past call he made for the Trump tapes to be released.\n\nCaptioning a retweet of a video of remarks of his from May, Avenatti wrote:\n\nIn the original video, he called on all of those audio recordings to be released for both public consumption and Congressional scrutiny. He pushed the idea for some time that was eventually confirmed by Rudy Giuliani that Trump knew more about hush money given his client than he let on.\n\nThe tape that came to light Friday includes Trump discussing buying the rights to McDougals story from AMI, a Trump-aligned media company that had previously purchased the rights to the story from McDougal herself. Among the specifics is that Trump wanted Cohen to use a check for the payment  which was never made  for effective documentation.\n\nMcDougals lawyer Carol Heller indicated Friday that she had no prior knowledge of Trump and Cohen seeking to take on the rights to her clients story themselves.\n\nMcDougal was formally freed from her agreement with AMI earlier this year after the story of Stormy Daniels and the $130,000 in hush money Cohen sent her emerged.\n\nDaniels pursued her own case with her lawyer Michael Avenatti against Cohen and Trump for some time earlier this year before the criminal investigation into Cohen emerged. That investigation encompasses issues including both McDougals and Daniels stories.\n\nCohen has been backed into a corner, thanks to that investigation, and left without the backing of the president, who has chosen to distance himself. That could cost him if Cohen flips and cooperates with either the prosecutors behind the criminal investigation into his activities or Special Counsel for the Russia investigation Robert Muellers team.\n\nIts not clear, though, that Cohen himself and any new animosity he has for the president could weigh on whether the Trump Tapes become publicly available. At least the one newly reported on Friday is in the governments possession, and any others no doubt are as well thanks to the government seizure of massive troves of files from Cohen earlier this year.\n\nAvenatti has, actually, gotten information that may have come from the government out to the public before. He got information about Cohens financial activities from internal government reports; that information revealed the partnerships Cohen made with large corporations like Novartis and AT&T.\n\nWhat consequences either Cohen or Trump may face as this scandal continues remain to be seen.","title":"Michael Avenatti Responds To News Of Cohens Secret TrumpPlaymate Payoff Recording","date":"2018-07-20","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Bette Midler is the latest example of liberal Democrat insanity:\n\nHamas terrorists stormed the Israeli border on Monday in an attack that was planned for several days.\n\n 52 people were killed.\n\nThe liberal Western media blamed President Trump for the dead Hamas supporters.","title":"Liberal Logic Bette Midler Blames Ahole Trump for Deaths of 52 Hamas Supporters Storming Israeli","date":"2018-05-15","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Ted Cruz is not everyones favorite politician. In fact, he is one of the most despised Republicans in power right now, and is currently being challenged by one of the most progressive liberals the nation has ever seen, Beto ORourke. Cruz has been under a lot of pressure according to new reports that claim financial hardship for he and his wife, who recently whined about not being able to afford a second house any time soon.\n\nNow, Ted has become yet another Republican victim of the airport swoop-in, as he was confronted Wednesday during his travels. Check out the awkward encounter below:\n\nPeople responding to this tweet were in agreement with the protesters. We saved the best responses for you below:","title":"Ted Cruz Humiliated By Angry Kavanaugh Protesters In Airport VIDEO","date":"2018-10-18","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Hear internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel make his long-awaited return to the Royal Festival Hall on Friday 5 October.\n\nAccompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, he will perform a selection of his favourite operatic arias and popular songs.\n\nTo celebrate, we are offering readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to the performance at the Royal Festival Hall and an overnight stay for two with complimentary breakfast at the Park Plaza County Hall, London.\n\nLocated on the South Bank, the award-winning hotel is close to popular attractions such as Westminster Abbey, the Coca-Cola London Eye and the London Dungeon, and is home to the LItaliano Restaurant and Spectrum Bar.\n\nTo enter, sign in or register below and fill out the form with your details. If youre having trouble viewing the sign in and register links or the competition entry form, please try opening this page with an alternative browser.\n\nTerms and Conditions: 18+. Promotion closes at 23:59 on Wednesday 26 September 2018. There is one prize of a pair of tickets to the 7.30pm Bryn Terfel performance on Friday 5 October at Royal Festival Hall, one nights accommodation for two adults in a Superior Double room at Park Plaza County Hall, London, on Friday 5 October and complimentary breakfast the following morning. Prize is valid for Friday 5 October 2018 only. Travel to and from the venues and any other expense incurred is the responsibility of the winner. The winner will be the first entry selected at random after the closing date and will be contacted by Friday 28 September 2018. The prize is non-transferable and there is no cash alternative. One online entry per person. Usual promotion rules apply, see www.standard.co.uk\/rules. For further information, please write to Customer Care, Evening Standard Limited, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT. Promoter: Raymond Gubbay.","title":"Win a pair of tickets to see Bryn Terfel at the Royal Festival Hall","date":"2018-09-05","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Georgia lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday effectively punishing Delta Air Lines for its decision to cut ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of last months school shooting in Parkland, Florida.\n\nThe states House and Senate passed a major a tax bill, which Republican lawmakers had amended to remove a sales tax exemption on jet fuel, The Associated Press reported. Delta, which is based in Atlanta, would have been the primary airline to benefit from the exemption.\n\nGeorgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle (R) was one of the main lawmakers pushing for the amendment after Delta announced it would no longer offer NRA members discounted fares following the Feb. 14 shooting in Florida. A gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and injured over a dozen others, reigniting a fierce debate on gun control around the country.\n\nA number of companies, ranging from banks to insurance providers to rental car brands, announced decisions to end formal and informal deals with the NRA in response to the companys staunch anti-gun control stance.\n\nCagle, however, saw Deltas decision as a direct attack on conservatives and vowed to undermine any legislation that might benefit the airlines.\n\nCorporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back, Cagle wrote on Twitter on Monday.\n\nI will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with @NRA. Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back.  Casey Cagle (@CaseyCagle) February 26, 2018\n\nGeorgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R), who is serving his last year in office, criticized lawmakers attack on Delta as an unbecoming squabble.\n\nOurs is a welcoming state, the epitome of Southern hospitality, Deal said on Wednesday. We were not elected to give the late-night talk show hosts further fodder for their monologues, or to act with the type of immaturity that has caused so many in our society to be skeptical about politics.\n\nBut the governor said he would sign the tax bill into law in whatever form the state House and Senate pass it.","title":"Georgia Lawmakers Pass Bill Punishing Delta For Cutting Ties With NRA","date":"2018-03-01","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"On Wednesday the man Donald Trump labeled a brutal killer, the top dog in the European Union, Jean Claude Juncker, took his stuff to the White House.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesperson Margaritis Schinas said Wednesdays talks between Juncker and Trump, would seek to de-dramatize any potential tensions around trade.\n\nFor background on this important economic meeting read Ted Mallochs post from yesterday.\n\nPresident Trump discussed the new developments at a presser in the Rose Garden at the White House:","title":"HUGE NEWS TRUMP Secures Concessions From EU to Avoid Trade War VIDEO","date":"2018-07-25","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Is the FBI trying to goad President Trump into firing the man in charge of supervising the Mueller probe? Thats what Sean Hannity and a handful of  Trumps Congressional allies think.\n\nAccording to a report in Politico, Republicans in Congress are approaching a story about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein attempting to organize a palace coup with extreme caution, despite having twice nearly gathered the votes to remove him in the recent past.\n\nOn Friday, the NYT reported a bombshell story alleging that Rosenstein had tried to recruit administration officials to secretly tape conversations with the president in order to help justify removing Trump under the 25th amendment. Rosenstein vehemently denied the story, which was largely based on confidential memos written by former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. And others who were reportedly in attendance at meeting between McCabe and Rosenstein said the Deputy AG was being sarcastic when he suggested that the president be taped.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump allies including Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz are saying that the story should be treated with suspicion. Jordan and Freedom Caucus leader Mark Meadows once filed articles of impeachment against Rosenstein. But now, both Meadows and Jordan intend to proceed with caution, telling Politico that he would like to see the memos that the story was based on.\n\nHouse Freedom Caucus leaders Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, who led a charge to impeach Rosenstein this summer, have said they want to hear from Rosenstein and see documents allegedly describing the comments before they decide what to do. Thats awarded Rosenstein a courtesy theyve never given him in the past. I think Rod needs to come before Congress this week and explain under oath what exactly he said and didnt say, Meadows said at the Values Voters Summit Saturday. The newfound hesitation to oust Rosenstein highlights a cautious approach Trump allies have adopted as the Republican party barrels toward a potential bloodbath in the midterms. Some Republicans fear Trump firing Rosenstein now would only further energize Democrats making the case to voters that the president is corrupt and needs to be reined in by a Democratic House. In a Friday interview, Jordan, one of Rosensteins fiercest critics in Congress, sidestepped questions about whether the House should revisit Rosensteins impeachment or try to hold him in contempt of Congress. Rather, he said, a more focused push to obtain sensitive documents from the Justice Department  which Trumps allies say would expose anti-Trump bias and corruption the FBI  is the most urgent priority. I want to see those memos and evaluate them, said Jordan, who has clashed publicly with Rosenstein over access to documents and accused him of threatening House Intelligence Committee staffers, an allegation Rosenstein denied.\n\nPolitico cites two possible explanations for lawmakers hesitation: Republicans are running out of time before members devote themselves full-time to their reelection campaigns. Republicans are worried that the story could have been intentionally planted to provoke Rosensteins firing in order to improve Democrats chances of retaking the Senate AND the House (Trump actively moving to crush the Mueller probe would be quite the propaganda win for the Dems).\n\nSean Hannity took this latter theory a step further during his show on Friday evening, where he urged Trump not to fire Rosie and instead insisted that the story could have been a trap. He added that he had been told by multiple sources that the story was planted by unspecified enemies of Trump.\n\nStill, a handful of conservative commentators, including Laura Ingraham, urged Trump to fire Rosenstein immediately. And for Trumps part, he hinted at a rally Friday night in Missouri that he planned to get rid of the lingering stench at the DOJ, which many interpreted as a hint that his firing is imminent.","title":"Was NYT Story About Rosenstein Coup Attempt A Setup","date":"2018-09-23","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Obama waltzed into the Greater Chicago Food Depository wearing a White Sox hat with his Obama Foundation camera crew in tow.\n\nLeave it to Obama to make feeding the homeless and poor about himself.\n\nObama then tweeted about it, thanking the food bank for letting him crash.\n\nOBAMA: Thanks to the Chicago @FoodDepository team for all you do and to the volunteers who are doing great work and let me crash today. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!\n\nThe Obamas are set to become a billion-dollar brand soon off of book deals, speeches and Netflix videos.\n\nDidnt Barack Obama once say At certain point youve made enough money?\n\nAt least he put some potatoes in a netted baggie for the poor while his crew captured it on camera.","title":"Obama Makes Surprise Visit to Chicago Food Bank WITH HIS OWN CAMERA CREW VIDEO","date":"2018-11-21","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) TV personality Megyn Kelly rose up the ranks at Fox News over the course of several years, finally earning a coveted spot on prime-time with her own news magazine program that was highly successful.\n\nBut like all rising stars, eventually they fall, and Kellys fell dramatically after she asked then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump about his mistreatment of women as the first question in a Fox-hosted presidential debate.\n\nSoon after, Kelly inked a deal with NBC and after her first attempt at revitalizing her news chops at the peacock network with a prime-time Sunday night show tanked, she joined the networks Today morning show, where she swore off politics and tried to become an accepted member of the liberal Left-wing media. (Related: Megyn Kelly joins fake news giant NBC News, where news liar Brian Williams used to work.)\n\nFor a while, it worked  sort of. Kelly never did generate the kind of ratings NBC bosses had hoped for. But this week her experiment in establishment journalism came to a screeching halt because she broke a cardinal rule of the Democrat Plantation: Appearing to insult black people as a rich lily-white chick.\n\nKelly made the unforgivable mistake of defending the use of blackface as part of a Halloween costume that accurately depicted the ethnicity of the person or character being played.\n\nBut what is racist? she asked a panel of guests earlier this week after the perpetually outraged Leftists at her network and beyond began kicking up a fuss about it. You truly do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on a white face.\n\nThat was okay when I was a kid, as long as you were dressing like a character, she said, as the Leftist The Daily Beast reported. I dont see how that is racist on Halloween.\n\nWell, its not  unless of course you personally want it to be. Then it is. But thats a choice, right?\n\nRight. And NBC has made one too. The network fired her Thursday over the comments, the U.K.s Daily Mail reported.\n\nMegyn Kelly is done. She is not ever coming back, one NBC executive told the British paper, despite Kellys tearful on-air apology Wednesday.\n\nWe are just working out the time of the announcement but mark my word  she is gone and will never be seen on NBC live again, the source said.\n\nThen again, it could be worse (for her, that is). Heres the worst part, the executive added, her deal is a non-break deal, so she walks away with all that money. Thatd be $69 million, which is what remains on her contract.\n\nIts disgusting, and heads should roll here because of it, said the executive.\n\nActually, whats disgusting is the lib medias hypocrisy when it comes to who gets the ax when certain things are said about certain people on-air and who doesnt. If youre a libtard you can pretty much say anything you want about white people, conservatives, and POTUS Donald Trump and the Leftist establishment media will let you get away with it.\n\nIn Kellys case, her former network made sure to give plenty of air time to fellow journalists Al Roker and Craig Melvin, both of whom are black of course, so they could denounce what she said (which was so obviously not racist it hardly bears mentioning to reasonable people).\n\nAs for Kelly, like her or despise her shes got nothing to apologize for. In fact, the vast majority of Americans  on the Left and on the Right  are sick and tired of speech Nazis (on the Left) who insist we all act a certain way and say (or not say) certain things, as a recent study about political correctness shows.\n\nThe only people who dont hate PC? Rich white liberals like those running NBC. Go figure.\n\nRead more about the nonsensical behavior of politically correct Left at PoliticalCorrectness.news.","title":"Megan Kelly fired from NBC over blackface Halloween costume suggestion proves there is no placatin","date":"2018-11-01","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The U.S. government is, as a matter of policy, literally ripping children from the arms of their parents and putting them in fenced enclosures (which officials insist arent cages, oh no).","title":"Fall of the American Empire","date":"2018-06-19","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The college opened an investigation on Sociology professor Howard Finkelstein after video was posted online of him slamming his hand on a desk and screaming profanity at a conservative student.\n\nBrookdale Community College is investigating a sociology professor after one of his students said the teacher was targeting him for being conservative.\n\nThe situation came to a head last week during a discussion about sexual harassment, Brookdale student Christopher Lyle said.\n\nDuring the exchange, professor Howard Finkelstein slammed his hand on a desk and told Lyle, f your life, which was caught on video by another student.\n\nBrookdale spokeswoman Avis McMillon said she could not comment because of the ongoing investigation. Finkelstein was not immediately available for comment.\n\nBut Lyle said the harassment has been happening all semester in Sociology 105, Intercultural Communication: The Person and the Process.\n\nHe said he believes hes being targeted because hes a conservative who supports President Donald Trump. He said he also believes that the negative attention has impacted his grade in the class.","title":"Brookdale Professor Under Investigation after Cursing Conservative Student in Class VIDEO","date":"2018-04-17","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski called Ivanka Trump sick for thanking President Donald Trump for reuniting immigrant children and parents who were separated as a result of his own administrations policies.\n\nBrzezinski attacked the first daughter and other members of the Trump administration Friday after airing heart-wrenching footage of a Guatemalan mother seeing her 8-year-old daughter for the first time since they were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border 55 days earlier.\n\nThe footage was particularly difficult to watch when you realize this happened because of policies in the United States of America, Brzezinski said.\n\nFor some reason, some people who work for President Trump, including his daughter, are twisting this and actually thanking President Trump for moments like this, moments he created, she later noted.\n\nBrzezinski continued: How sick, how sick for someone in the White House to tweet thank you to Donald Trump for these reunions. Because these reunions, they should have never happened. These children should never have been taken away from their parents. These children should have never been traumatized.\n\nAfter the president countermanded his administrations family separation policy last month, Ivanka Trump tweeted a thank you to her dad for taking critical action ending family separation at our border.\n\nThank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border. Congress must now act + find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values;the same values that so many come here seeking as they endeavor to create a better life for their families  Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) June 20, 2018\n\nSome 3,000 children are still separated from their parents because of the Trump administrations zero tolerance immigration policy, and 100 are under the age of 5, said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.\n\nLast week, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reunite children separated from parents within 30 days, or within 14 days for those under age 5. HHS went back to court on Thursday to ask for an extension of the deadline.\n\nSome of the children and their parents records have vanished or even been destroyed, according to sources in the Department of Homeland Security cited in a New York Times article Thursday. This raises the possibility that some children may never be reunited with their parents.\n\nHear what else Brzezinski had to say and watch the mother and child reunite in the video above.","title":"Mika Brzezinski Rips Ivanka Trump For Hailing Dad On Migrant Kids","date":"2018-07-06","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Microsoft first unveiled its Fluent Design changes for Windows 10 at Build last year, adding subtle animations to many apps and core parts of Windows. Weve seen a number of changes to the design of apps in the Fall Creators Update and the recent April 2018 Update, and now Microsoft is unveiling some future Fluent Design plans today at Build 2018.\n\nDuring a session on Fluent Design at Build today, Microsoft unveiled a number of new subtle changes that will appear in Windows 10 apps this year. Microsoft is using shadow effects across Fluent Design, alongside modernizing context menus and implementing consistent back button controls in apps.\n\nThe changes make for a more refined version of Fluent Design, and should hopefully avoid the somewhat inconsistent implementation of Fluent across Microsofts own first-party Windows 10 apps. Third-party app developers will need to adopt the Fluent controls to get access to these newly designed elements in their apps, and even Microsoft will need to bring these to its Windows applications.\n\nThe shadow effects for Windows 10 apps provide more depth in apps, and Microsoft is also emphasizing the use of color. All of these subtle additions should add up to prettier apps, but Microsoft is also acting on feedback over the touch-focused UI elements of Fluent Design.\n\nA number of the controls you find in Universal Windows Apps that use Fluent Design are rather large, and optimized for tablets and touchscreen devices. Microsoft admits that its heard from developers that the UI is too big, especially for mouse and keyboard users. Its balancing that out with smaller controls, and even a compact mode thats designed for more dense and complex applications.\n\nMicrosoft is even tweaking the back button placement in Windows 10 apps to make it more consistent. At the moment app developers can place a back button within the app, or at the very top, but its not always clear for Windows 10 users. The navigation changes for Fluent Design apps also include support for keyboard shortcuts and even the Xbox One controller to navigate around apps.\n\nAll of these Fluent Design changes are being introduced this year, allowing developers to take advantage of them in Windows 10 apps. Microsoft is slowly changing the design direction of Windows 10 and modernizing apps in the process, and these subtle changes help freshen up the overall look and feel of Windows.","title":"Microsoft reveals the future of its Fluent Design for Windows 10","date":"2018-05-09","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) A shocking new report has revealed that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, personally made the decision to ban Alex Jones. While its true that when the average user gets banned, there may not be any humans involved at all, it turns out the attack on InfoWars started at the top of the social media network.\n\nAs The New York Times reported,  Zuckerberg got personally involved in the case of Alex Jones because of how volatile the situation had become.\n\nHis evaluation of Infowars took the form of a series of technical policy questions. They included whether the mass-reporting of Infowars posts constituted coordinated brigading, a tactic common in online harassment campaigns. Executives also debated whether Mr. Jones should receive a strike for each post containing hate speech (which would lead to removing his pages as well as the individual posts) or a single, collective strike (which would remove the posts, but leave his pages up).\n\nAccording to the Times, an insider at Facebook revealed further that Zuckerberg was the first person to think about banning Jones  and that he discussed his next steps with Apple CEO Tim Cook before taking further action.\n\nApple ultimately beat Facebook to the censorship punch, prompting the Zuck to decide that Jones posts and pages would all be removed from the network. Not to be outdone, it seems the censorship zealots are already trying to up the ante. Liberal politicians are already demanding that more conservatives be censored  and not just on Facebook, but across the entire internet.\n\nSenator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, recently called on Big Tech to do more than just take down InfoWars.\n\nInfowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it, Murphy declared over Twitter.\n\nMost liberty-loving Americans would say that preserving our First Amendment right is whats integral to the survival of democracy in the United States  not blatant censorship of conservative viewpoints. Coloring censorship as a means to preserve freedom is about as Orwellian as you can get. The Ministry of Truth was the ministry of propaganda, after all.\n\nMark Zuckerberg and other Big Tech leaders may have crowned themselves as arbiters of truth, but their purpose is no different: They are eliminating divergent thought, one step at a time.\n\nFirst it was the war on fake news, now the tech industry is banning conservatives under the guise of protecting the masses from alleged hate speech. Under the hate speech paradigm, virtually any opinions or thoughts that go against the left-wing grain can be targeted. Ultimately, Silicon Valley giants have given themselves the power to silence anyone, for any reason, at any time.\n\nMike Adams, founder of Natural News and REAL.video, recently called out Big Tech. Its clear that this censorship effort was a coordinated, criminal racketeering effort. Number one is that the Department of Justice should now arrest the CEOs of all of these companies: Google, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, all those who censored InfoWars. They should be arrested right now and charged with RICO Act violations. They are running a criminal racket, an online racket with the purpose of silencing all voices with which they disagree, Adams declared.\n\nSee the rest of Adams statement below, and check out more banned content at REAL.video  a video-sharing network where freedom of speech still exists.","title":"Why does Mark Zuckerberg have the power to decide which Americans can speak Its time to break up B","date":"2018-08-15","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) For health-minded consumers, knowing that the organic label is something they can trust is of utmost importance. But now, it seems lawmakers are seeking to make changes to the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). And as you might suspect, these are the kinds of changes that could spell disaster for organic food as we know it.\n\nThe NOSB was created back in 1990 as a supervising body for the National Organic Program. The organization is made up of 15 volunteer members. Current members include organic producers, environmentalists and conservationists, consumer and public interest advocates, and a scientist, among others. The board member requirements were designed to ensure representation is balanced, and to inspire trust in the NOSB overall. The panel must be comprised of a certain number of individuals from each area, and by design, this is supposed to help protect organics against special interest groups like the agriculture industry.\n\nBut all that could change, under a new scheme designed to give politicians (and perhaps indirectly, Big Ag) more power than the board.\n\nCongress, in their infinite wisdom, has proposed two major changes to the NOSB  changes that would ultimately weaken the power of the NOSB, if not render the board obsolete entirely. What are these harebrained ideas from our elected officials?\n\nAs Civil Eats reports, Congress would, for one, like the NOSB to allow employees of organic farmers or producers to be permitted to have board positions. And secondly, Congress has proposed that they begin allowing politicians to sidestep the NOSBs authority to approve substances such as the fertilizers and pesticides used in organic production.\n\nSupport our mission to keep you informed: Discover the extraordinary benefits of turmeric gummy bears and organic \"turmeric gold\" liquid extract, both laboratory tested for heavy metals, microbiology and safety. Naturally high in potent curcuminoids. Delicious formulations. All purchases support this website (as well as your good health). See availability here.\n\nOrganicConsumers.org reports that the 2018 Farm Bill would also require the NOSB to consult with the EPA and FDA when considering whether to allow a pesticide or any other non-organic substance approved by those agencies in organic. Further, the bill would give the Secretary of Agriculture the power to put pressure on the NOSB to expedite their review of industry petitions to allow the use of a non-organic post-harvest handling substance in organic foods, provided the product is related to food safety.\n\nSo, how long do you think it will take some bought-off politician to quietly approve a toxic product from Bayer-Monsanto for use in organic food?\n\nFor consumers and members of the organic industry alike, this latest move by Congress is seriously disturbing. Not only are they trying to take power away from the NOSB, but they are trying to corrupt the organization and are literally paving the way for special interests groups to have their way with organic food.\n\nThe 2018 Farm Bill, titled Agriculture and Nutrition Act (HR2) has already been given an F from the National Organic Coalition. The coalition declared that the new measures proposed by Congress are unnecessary and weaken the authority of the NOSB  a sentiment many people share, no doubt.\n\nProponents of the Farm Bill claim that the NOSB is a dinosaur, holding organic farmers back from the latest innovations. Others have been critical of the fact that the NOSB primarily consists of small farmers and business owners, claiming that this leaves larger operations (like Del Monte or Driscolls) unrepresented. But whether or not these concerns are fair is debatable; large-scale farms that are new to the organic industry may be less concerned with upholding the integrity of organic food.\n\nJay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides, commented, There are so many large companies getting involved with organic that do not have the history with organic, and that makes them less than optimal members of the NOSB.\n\nThey dont have the insight into organic practices, he contended.\n\nIf a Del Monte employee replaces a small-scale family farmer, for example, youre undercutting the integrity of the organic seal, Feldman added. Feldman was an NOSB member from 2010 to 2015. He added that many people who are critical of organics are really steeped in the pesticide industry.\n\nUltimately, the 2018 Farm Bill seems dead-set on undermining the integrity of organic food, and the government is once again attacking food freedom. Learn more about what youre eating at Food.news.","title":"Congress is proposing big changes to the National Organic Standards Board and farmers are raising","date":"2018-06-09","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"MSNBC Deadline: White House host Nicole Wallace admitted on Thursday that she once encouraged Jeb Bush to physically attack then-candidate Donald Trump after a heated debate during the 2016 Republican primary race.\n\nI told Jeb Bush after that debate that I thought he should have punched [Trump] in the face, Wallace said during her show. He insulted your wife, he came down the escalator and called Mexicans rapists and murderers.\n\nWallace  who worked for Jeb Bush when he was the Florida governor  said Bush asked her what he could have done following Trumps personal attacks, that included using the derogatory nickname low energy Jeb.\n\nWatch: Democrats Attempt To Blame Their Violence On Republicans","title":"MSNBCs Nicole Wallace Admits She Told Jeb Bush to Sucker Punch Trump During GOP Primary","date":"2018-10-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A University of Colorado professor has been placed on leave, and reportedly banned from campus, as CU officials investigate misconduct allegations against her.\n\nAmy Wilkins, an associate professor of sociology, is accused of a pattern of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct that spans more than a decade, according to reporting by the Chronicle of Higher Eduation. The Chronicle also reported that Wilkins has been banned from campus and ordered not to contact seven people as university officials investigate.\n\nCU spokesman Ryan Huff confirmed that Wilkins has been on paid administrative leave since Oct. 1. He declined to comment further, citing personnel privacy laws and policies. Excluding someone from campus is a decision made on a case-by-case basis, he said.\n\nWilkins did not respond to an email request for comment, and calls to a landline listed under her name showed the number has been disconnected. It appears that her nameplate has been removed from outside an office, listed as hers on her CU employee page, in the Ketchum Arts and Sciences building. In addition to her duties as a professor, she has been overseeing the departments undergraduate honors program. Between 2014 and 2016, according to her online CV, she was also the departments graduate program director.\n\nHerbert Covert, the chair of the sociology department, confirmed that other faculty members were covering her courses and her oversight of the honors program in her absence, but he declined to comment further and said he was instructed to direct inquiries to Huff, the CU spokesman.","title":"CU Boulder professor accused of sexual harassment placed on leave amid investigation according to r","date":"2018-11-15","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Burnley have appointed former Manchester City and Football Association executive Mike Rigg as the clubs new technical director.\n\nRigg, who has been involved in football for 30 years and previously worked as head of player acquisition at City and head of talent identification at the FA, has been chosen from a number of candidates interviewed by Burnley chairman Mike Garlick and manager Sean Dyche.\n\nBurnley say the 49-year-old will oversee a new, large investment programme in growing the talent identification and analysis teams at the club.\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Mike on board, Garlick said in an article announcing Riggs appointment on Burnleys official website. All of the candidates which Sean and myself interviewed were of a very high calibre.\n\nHowever, Mike stood out as someone who we feel can help move the club forward in terms of identifying and hiring the best possible footballing talent, both on a national and international basis.\n\nIts an area of the club that we need to invest in and improve further, and we feel sure that Mikes wealth of experience will be a valuable asset to us.\n\nDyche added: I have mentioned over the past couple of years how important it is to grow all areas of the club, and recruitment structuring and how we want to go forward, is an important part of that.\n\nI think at the end of a good process for the club, involving myself and the chairman, amongst others, we have found someone who can help the club to grow. By bringing in Mike, I think its a great opportunity for him to stamp his side on the way that we work.\n\nWithin the role its not just recruitment, but thats a big part of it, and with Mikes background, both here and abroad, in searching for the right players for Burnley Football Club, I think that experience will be needed and used wisely, and thats what well look to Mike to add to what we already do.\n\nBurnley have stabilised in the Premier League under Dyches guidance since earning promotion in 2016 and remarkably finished seventh last season, though the new campaign has been considerably less smooth and so far yielded just two wins from 12 league games.\n\nDyches success has been achieved with a squad of predominantly British and Irish players, and part of Riggs job will be to broaden the scope of the clubs recruitment.\n\nI am delighted and absolutely honoured to be asked to come and join the club, Rigg said. I have worked for over 30 years in football, starting out as a community officer, which was a terrific grounding, and have been lucky to work with national associations and club sides.\n\nI feel I have an excellent understanding of all areas and how things have to fit together to be successful. What Burnley has achieved over the past few years is absolutely phenomenal and I hope I can do everything possible to support Sean and try and strengthen the clubs position moving forwards.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"Burnley appoint former Manchester City and Football Association executive Mike Rigg as technical dir","date":"2018-11-22","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Christina Hoff Sommers is an American author and philosopher and leading critic of contemporary radical feminism.\n\nSommers was asked to speak today at Lewis and Clark Law College Portland, Oregon.\n\nThe radical feminists did not want her to speak on campus.\n\n Todays college campuses are cesspools of radical Marxism.\n\nProtesters stormed the room today during Christinas speech and tried to drown her out.\n\n\n\n\n\n The far left mob brought their own speaker to try to drown her out.\n\nThe far left mob started singing about fascism during her speech to drown her out.\n\nThe liberal mainstream media will NEVER report on this radical demonstration.\n\n The media lies and hides these truths from the American public.\n\nIt is unsafe for conservatives, Republicans and Trump supporters to speak at most college campuses in the US today.\n\n The liberals are too unhinged to allow open dialogue.","title":"Violent Leftists Storm Christina Hoff Sommers Campus Lecture Try to Shut Down Speech VIDEO","date":"2018-03-05","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) A new Dutch startup called Crowded Cities is training crows to recognize and pick up cigarette butts in exchange for treats, effectively cleaning up the city streets and parks.\n\nThe crows would drop the cigarette butts into a Crowbar device, which then scans the piece of litter to confirm that it is a cigarette butt. Once confirmed, the device gives the crow a food reward, reinforcing the behavior.\n\nThe inception of the bizarre project was inspired by a fateful meeting of project foundersinteraction designer Ruben van der Vleuten, and experiment designer Bob Spikman  with a man named Joshua Klein, who was teaching crows to collect coins.\n\nThe Crowbar is the device developed by Crowded Cities designed to train crows to pick up and deposit cigarette butts. A crow drops a cigarette filter onto the devices funnel, where a camera scans it. After the camera recognizes the item as a filter, it releases a piece of food for the crow to pick up as a reward. The crow then flies off to find more cigarette butts and recruit more crows to participate.\n\nAbout 4.5 trillion cigarettes are littered each year around the globe. Discarded cigarette butts are a form of non-biodegradable litter, according to a study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. During rainfall, these litter are carried off from the streets to the drains, rivers, and the oceans. Aquatic life then come across these trash and mistake the highly toxic matter for food. There have also been instances of children swallowing them.\n\nGet more news like this without being censored: Get the Natural News app for your mobile devices. Enjoy uncensored news, lab test results, videos, podcasts and more. Bypass all the unfair censorship by Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Get your daily news and videos directly from the source! Download here.\n\nIn a recent study, New Caledonian crows and kea parrots in captivity were observed as they manipulated and explored different objects that would help them get a desired reward.\n\nIn the experiment, the birds were tasked to unlock feeding devices by using different tools and actions. Seven birds were divided into a component group (three crows) and an innovation group (four crows). The component group was given 10 trials, broken down into six tasks, to familiarize them with the controlled environment of the experiment before the actual testing. The innovation group was also given 10 trials, but with only four tasksthe last two were omitted to observe how the birds would figure them out. All three crows from the component group solved the problem without error on their first recorded trial, while two crows from the innovation group did the same.\n\nThrough repeated interaction and exploration, the subjects were able to recognize steps and patterns and selected the correct tools, demonstrating complex cognition and innovative behavior.\n\nThe research reveals that certain bird species are capable of learning how to navigate through controlled surroundings through interaction with objects, and later use the new understanding to their benefit. (Related: If someone calls you bird brain it may be a compliment: Researchers found that pigeons are better at multitasking than humans.)\n\nIn another study, the researchers have found that corvids (crows, ravens, magpies) and parrots reach the same level of mental complexity and diversity as in apes. This might explain the basis of the birds cognitive skills, as they show similar brain organizations as in mammals.\n\nVisit Research.news for more on bizarre and interesting studies about animals.","title":"Clever solution Crows are cleaning city streets a Dutch startup is training them to pick up cigar","date":"2018-06-13","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"As the midterm elections this November get closer and closer, some familiar issues remain  like actual efforts from those in power or seeking power to suppress the vote. (President Donald Trumps rampant grassroots level voter fraud is a fantasy.) This week, in that ongoing saga, a Virginia judge struck a Congressional candidates name from the ballot because some of the signatures theyd presented to get on the ballot in thn Scott Taylors campaign had helped Brown collect signatures in support of her candidacy. In the face of the scandal, Democrats sued to get her off the ballot  and Wednesday, they proved successful.\n\nAmong the ironic aspects is the fact that Taylor had previously run against Brown, beating her in the 2016 election by a massive margin of some 22 percent  but now, he wanted her on the ballot, which would split the Democratic vote and help him stay in office. His district is among those that Democrats are targeting in their efforts to pick up the some two dozen U.S. House seats needed to become the bodys majority party. The Cook Political Report has his seat among 27 total that lean Republican.\n\nHed previously been subpoenaed to appear in court Wednesday, but a judge ruled he didnt have to, although he is certainly personally intertwined with the alleged activity.\n\nHe personally called local Lindsey Terry after she posted suspicions that her former neighbors signature on signature collection documents had been forged, admonishing her to take the material down. He also seems to have been in the area when the signature collection took place based on social media posts and not in D.C. as hes claimed.\n\nTheres an ongoing special prosecutor probe into his campaign staff in addition to the Democratic lawsuit. At least half a dozen people associated with the Taylor campaign have asserted they would plead the Fifth Amendment  meant to protect against self-incrimination  if asked whether or not the Congressman had personally directed them to fake signatures. The Taylor campaign jumped into help Brown get the 1,000 signatures she needed late in the game, but they ended up turning in some 600.\n\nBrown had previously been in the running to be the Democratic nominee for the general election, but in the face of an ongoing fraud investigation, she dropped out and ran as an independent, letting Elaine Luria take the metaphorical stage as the party nominee.\n\nLuria has since appeared at event with high profile figures like Senator Tim Kaine  whos facing a curious electoral battle of his own against alleged white nationalist Corey Stewart  and U.S. Representative Bobby Scott.\n\nTaylor is not the only incumbent Republican to face legal trouble ahead of November.\n\nU.S. Reps. Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter have both been indicted, Collins for insider trading and Hunter for a systematic pattern of using campaign funds for personal purposes.\n\nIt all adds up to the around 7 in 9 chance FiveThirtyEight estimates Democrats have of taking control of the U.S. House this fall.","title":"Candidate For Congress Caught In Scandal Booted From Ballot GOP Panics","date":"2018-09-06","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"According to the Chicago Sun Times, federal agents removed everyone from the office of Chicago Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke and put brown paper on the doors.\n\nEd Burke previously helped Donald Trump with his property taxes, reducing Trumps tax burden on his Chicago skyscraper by $14 million.\n\nTrump and Burke decided to go their separate ways earlier this year citing irreconcilable differences.\n\nSource says feds showed up this am, asked everyone to leave and put brown paper on the doors, tweeted Chicago Sun Times reporter, Fran Spielman.\n\nEight more federal agents just arrived at Burkes ward office.\n\nFederal agents showed up unannounced at the City Hall office of Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke, kicked everyone out and papered over the windows Thursday morning. The nature of their visit was not known, but Ald. Burke (14th) has dodged dozens of federal investigations over five decades in Chicago politics. Federal agents also showed up to Burkes ward office and papered over the windows there. A spokesman for the U.S. attorneys office declined to comment. Calls to the FBI office in Chicago and the IRS criminal investigations division were not immediately returned. Burkes brother, state Rep. Dan Burke, reached in Springfield, was stunned by the news. Its shocking. I dont know what to think, Burke said from his state capitol office. I dont have a clue. Any time there is this type of thing, where they come in and paper your windows, certainly thats a concern. But I know my brother. For his entire life and career hes been abiding by the law. Burke is leaving the legislature, having been defeated by a little-known candidate backed by Jesus Chuy Garcia after a campaign dominated by Ed Burkes property-tax reduction work for the tower along the Chicago River bearing the name of Donald Trump.\n\nPresident Trump is being harassed by the Deep State and Robert Mueller once again as he leaves the country and heads to Argentina for this weekends G-20 Summit.\n\nAlso happening Thursday morning: Trumps former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress after Mueller interrogated him for 70 hours.","title":"BREAKING Feds Raid Office of Chicago Lawyer Who Previously Did Tax Work For Trump","date":"2018-11-29","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The poster has a picture of an ISIS fighter firing on CNN and others with the words Allahu Akbar written over the Islamic state fighter.\n\nThe poster also features the goat-headed Satan statue.\n\nIndonesian ISIS supporters circulated posters online warning that Satan is behind the American financial system as well as media and entertainment, threatening to attack a handful of entities. The first poster, telling adherents to think smart, shows a devilish figure looming over several icons in flames: the United Nations, the Federal Reserve, Universal Studios Hollywood, CNN, NATO Allied Command Transformation and NASA, along with the reverse of the Great Seal on the U.S. dollar bill. An ISIS jihadist fires a gun up at the seals, with the words Allahu Akbar! above his head. Those who believe fight in the way of Allah and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Taghut [un-Islamic rulers], says the poster.","title":"ISIS Threatens Satanic CNN and American Media in New Poster Campaign","date":"2018-04-21","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"On Sunday, as world leaders gathered in France to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I, Emmanual Macron gave the speech the world needed to hear while U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin looked on.\n\nMacron decried the scourge of nationalism that is gripping the world with Trump, Putin, and other world leaders in power who embrace the philosophies that allied countries have fought so hard to quell.\n\nAccording to The Washington Post:\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I by delivering a forceful rebuke against rising nationalism, calling it a betrayal of patriotism and warning against old demons coming back to wreak chaos and death. Macrons speech in French to more than 60 global leaders, including President Trump, aimed to draw a clear line between his belief that a global order based on liberal values is worth defending and those who have sought to disrupt that system.\n\nJust a little more than two weeks before, Trump controversially stood in front of his rally fans and claimed the word for his own amidst cheers from the crowd and horror from those who understood how dangerous that sentiment has been throughout history.\n\nYou know, they have a word  its sort of became old-fashioned  its called a nationalist. And I say, really, were not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? Im a nationalist, okay? Im a nationalist. Nationalist. Nothing wrong. Use that word. Use that word.\n\nThere was no love displayed between the two despite their warm photos during Macrons visit to Washington, D.C. over the summer. Trump mostly sat stone-faced looking on and began his visit with a rebuke of Macron that was filled with misinformation about statements the French president made prior to Trumps arrival.\n\nAfter Macrons moving and heartfelt speech, that tension is only likely to increase.","title":"Emmanuel Macron Gives Scathing Rebuke Of Trump Rhetoric Like A Boss","date":"2018-11-12","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"This was after he initially denied the Intelligence Community was spying on Donald Trump.\n\nClapper told CNN it was a good thing if the FBI had someone observing the Trumps campaigns interaction with the Russians because the Russians posed a threat to the very basis of our political system.\n\nNow the liberal media is working OT to persuade Americans Clapper did not say this two days ago.\n\nJames Clapper also told Joy Behar on The View that the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign.\n\nNPR has a piece up titled: FACT CHECK: No, Clapper Has Not Admitted That There Was Spying On Trump Campaign\n\n\n\nOf course this is a complete lie  as the above video clearly shows.\n\nIntel expert Tony Shaffer took Maggie to the woodshed.\n\nThe liberal mainstream media is so far gone that they are now trying to refute a mans own words on video!\n\n They are worse than Pravda.","title":"Clapper Said Spying on Trump a Good Thing Now FakeNews Media Says Clapper Has Not Admitted FBI","date":"2018-05-25","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"On Wednesday Trump attorney Jay Sekulow announced the American Center for Law and Justice uncovered thousands of documents showing Clinton Foundation pay-to-play with Hillarys State Department through a FOIA lawsuit.\n\nAlso on Wednesday Hillary Clinton told New York Democrats if you want to stand for the rule of law you must vote Democrat.\n\nThe irony was lost on the far left crowd.","title":"This is Rich Crooked Hillary Clinton Says if You Want to Stand for Rule of Law You Have to Vote D","date":"2018-05-23","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"While the stock market has fallen recently, it is still up since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017. But despite Trumps best efforts, most Americans dont even know that.\n\nJust 40 percent of the public knows  or acknowledges  that the market is up from a year ago, with 18 percent saying that its currently about the same, and 23 percent that its lower, according to a HuffPost\/YouGov survey taken earlier this month. The rest arent sure.\n\nAmericans who view the stock market as relevant to their own finances are likelier to have the correct answer, as are wealthier Americans and those with college degrees.\n\nThose results tie into a larger pattern in which views of the economy are filtered through a distinctly partisan lens. Trump voters dont realize that 2017 didnt outpace 2016 for job creation. And polling during Barack Obamas presidency found that, when Obamas name was mentioned, Republicans grew more likely to say the economy, and their own finances, had declined, while Democrats shied away from noting a rise in income inequality.\n\nIts possible that like Obama before him, Trump generates sufficiently polarized feelings that rather than views of the economy shaping Americans views of Trumps presidency, their views of his presidency are instead shaping their perspective on objective facts about the economy  or at least the way they describe it to pollsters.  Thats especially true in cases involving specific statistics, like the performance of the stock market or the unemployment rate, which many people may not have a personal sense for or any reason to commit to memory. But its also true of the way people perceive broader trends. Merely days after Trump was elected, Gallup found, Republicans ratings of the current state of the economy soared, while Democrats plummeted  despite the fact that Trump was still months from taking office, let alone crafting policies that would shape the nations economy.\n\nAnd the latest HuffPost\/YouGov survey finds those divides persisting. Eighty-four percent of Trump voters, but just 37 percent of Clinton voters and a third of everyone else, pronounce themselves satisfied with the current state of the economy, a wider gap than between the richest and poorest Americans, or between those working full-time jobs and those currently unemployed. Nearly half of Trump voters, but just 5 percent of Clinton voters and 15 percent of non-voters and third party voters, think the stock market will continue to climb during the next year.\n\nAlthough the tendency to view economics through a partisan lens didnt start under Trump, it perhaps ties into the unusual difficulty he saw throughout most of his first year in converting the strength of the economy into support for his work as president. Traditionally, strong economic numbers are a pretty good gauge of presidential approval, but Trump has consistently underperformed his economic indicators, failing to win much support beyond his own party.\n\nOne reason may have simply been that, in his first months in office, most people didnt think Trump bore responsibility for the state of the economy. But at least when it comes to the stock market, Americans give Trump more credit than Obama for the performance of the stock market. Thirty-seven percent of Americans hand Trump responsibility for the stock markets performance, while 12 percent say its mostly due to Obama. Another third say its just the regular ups and downs of the market, with the remainder unsure.\n\nNearly 70 percent of Trumps supporters name the current president as responsible for the markets performance. In contrast, just 16 percent of Clinton voters  largely, those who believed the stock market was doing poorly  think that Trump is responsible.\n\nThe public is divided over how much the performance of the markets actually matter to the nation. About a third said the stock market is a good indicator of the economy, about a third that it isnt and the remaining third that they dont know. Americans are also divided over how much the stock market matters to them personally, with 42 percent saying it matters somewhat or a lot to their personal finances, and 45 percent that it matters not much or not at all.\n\nThe splits are both financial and political. Two-thirds of Americans in households making $100,000 or more annually say that the stock market affects their finances at least somewhat, while half of those making $50,000 to $100,000, and a third of those making less than $50,000, say the same. A 52 percent majority of those in the highest-earning group, but just 28 percent of the lowest earners, think the stock market reflects the overall economy.\n\nTrump voters are only slightly likelier than Clinton voters, 53 percent to 46 percent, to say the markets have some bearing on their own finances. But theyre about twice as likely as Clinton voters, 51 percent to 25 percent, to consider the stock market a good economic indicator.\n\nUse the widget below to further explore the results of the HuffPost\/YouGov survey, using the menu at the top to select survey questions and the buttons at the bottom to filter the data by subgroups:","title":"The Stock Market Is Up Under Trump Clinton Voters Dont Believe It","date":"2018-02-23","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"A proposal that clinicians and hospitals be required to inform safety and oversight agencies of incidents involving patients has been welcomed by the Ombudsman.\n\nPublishing a progress report on the complaints system in the States hospitals, Peter Tyndall expressed concern, however, that there had been no specific evaluation of the open disclosure programme in acute hospitals, despite a statutory framework put in place last year.\n\nMr Tyndall said despite the fact that the open disclosure process was placed on a statutory footing at the end of 2017, the system remained entirely voluntary.\n\nThe Civil Liability Act gives legal protection in respect of information provided or any apology given during an open disclosure meeting with a patient or their family  in other words they cannot be used in any later legal proceedings as an admission of fault or liability.\n\nMr Tyndall noted that in the wake of serious incidents such as the CervicalCheck audit, there were proposals in the Patient Safety Bill to make open disclosure of serious incidents mandatory.\n\nIt was also proposed that clinicians and hospitals will be required to inform the relevant safety and oversight agencies, such as the Health Information and Quality Authority, of incidents.\n\nThis is a welcome development. According to the Final Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme (otherwise known as the Scally report), the evidence suggests that currently a relatively small number of medical staff are taking part in open disclosure training. It also appears that no specific evaluation of the open disclosure programme and training in acute hospitals has yet been carried out, said Mr Tyndall.\n\nThe Learning to Get Better: Progress Report examines measures taken to improve the complaints system in hospitals following the Ombudsmans original examination in 2015.\n\nThe Ombudsmans office conducted a review of complaints received since that year.\n\nMr Tyndall said this showed that many of the responses to complaints were well-drafted, empathetic and, in some cases . . . clearly outlined the steps taken as part of the examination of the complaint.\n\nHowever, unfortunately the review also showed that there is still a tendency on the part of the health services to adopt a defensive attitude and shy away from providing a proper explanation for what went wrong  in one case more details were provided to the complainants private insurer provider as to what happened than to the complainant.\n\nOf 36 recommendations made by the Ombudsman in the 2015 report, 10 have been implemented by the Health Service Executive and Department of Health, 17 have been partially implemented, seven have not been implemented and two are under consideration.\n\nThe report focuses on some areas that still need attention. But Mr Tyndall commended the HSE and the hospital groups for the many improvements and initiatives that have taken place since 2015.\n\nAmong the recommendations that have been implemented, the Ombudsman noted there was now a more obvious presence of complaints officers in the public areas of hospitals and there were also private rooms to facilitate meetings with service users.\n\nMr Tyndall said there was also a much stronger focus on front-line resolution in all areas of the HSE. An e-learning module had also been developed to assist all staff in resolving complaints.","title":"Plan for reporting hospital incidents welcomed","date":"2018-11-14","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"Yesterday, a guest on Fox News claimed that migrants traveling toward the US will infect our people with smallpox, leprosy, and tuberculosis. He did not cite evidence to support this claim, because there is none  and available evidence suggests that when it comes to public health, we have more to worry about from anti-vaxxers than from immigration.\n\nThis isnt to say that there is never any risk of infectious disease from migration. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges the possibility of diseases such as measles, rabies, hepatitis A, flu, and tuberculosis spreading across the US-Mexico border. But though migrants often have health problems like the common cold and diarrhea, there has never been evidence of mass outbreaks at the border. Plus, the CDC, its Mexican counterpart, and border officials all know to be vigilant for signs of diseases. (A representative for the CDC was not available for comment as of press time.)\n\nMore to the point, the US already has tuberculosis, measles, and the flu  as well as tropical diseases like Chagas disease, dengue, and West Nile  so theres little evidence for common right-wing talking points, most recently claimed by Laura Ingraham, that migrants will bring diseases we havent had in decades. We live in a very interconnected world, with people and goods constantly on the move. As a result, there are very few diseases found globally that are not also found in the United States, according to Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Theres the misconception that somehow the United States is protected from those diseases and thats simply not true, he says. The major factors promoting these diseases are poverty and urbanization and climate change. The idea that a few thousand immigrants are going to create a bump in that just defies the numbers.\n\nMore specific parts of the Fox News infection claim are wrong, too. The last victim of smallpox was a cook named Ali Maow Maalin, and that was in Somalia in 1977. Three years later, the World Health Organization officially declared the disease eradicated. Smallpox, at least, is a frightening disease with no cure. In contrast, leprosy (or Hansens disease) is a bacterial condition that is easily treated with antibiotics and which has been almost entirely eliminated in Latin America. And when it comes to viral diseases, many areas of Latin America have higher vaccination rates than parts of the US, Hotez says.\n\nThe people doing greatest harm to public health arent refugees or asylum speakers, theyre anti-vaxxers right here in the US\n\nThat infectious disease is a small and well-addressed risk hasnt kept it from being touted again and again by xenophobic politicians. The Fox News hosts later clarified that they couldnt independently confirm the leprosy-and-smallpox claim, but this was hardly a one-off mistake considering that the same day, a Fox and Friends host mused about migrant disease. Dave Levitan, author of Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science points out how the Immigration Act of 1917  a sweeping piece of legislation that marked a turn toward nationalism  associated foreigners with loathsome or dangerous contagious disease. Similarly, in their academic article on the persistent association of immigrants with germs, scholars Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern argue that metaphors of germs and contagion are usually motivated by ideologies of racialism, nativism, and national security rather than substantiated epidemiological or medical observations.\n\nRecent history provides plenty of examples. In 1987, Republican Senator Jesse Helms authored legislation banning anyone who was HIV-positive from entering the country, despite the fact that there were almost no HIV-positive people trying to enter and even though it was well-known by then that HIV isnt spread through casual contact. There was a lot of fear-mongering that these people are going to come to our borders and infect us, which doesnt make a lot of sense in terms of the transmission mechanism for HIV, Levitan says, but it was very effective as a political tactic. This same association of foreignness with disease popped up during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and again a year later when both a Republican House representative and then-candidate Ben Carson falsely suggested immigration was responsible for a measles outbreak.\n\nThe irony is that, at this point in time, the bigger health risk is Americans who resist vaccinating their kids. The outbreak Ben Carson worried about? That wasnt caused by immigrants, that was because of distrust of vaccines. We were able to eradicate smallpox because of a worldwide vaccination campaign. And yet the anti-vaxxer movement has been growing.\n\nThough most parents in the United States do vaccinate their children, there are pockets where it has become increasingly common to refuse. For example, between 2003 and 2016, there was a 19-fold increase in vaccine refusal in Texas and a political action committee in the state is raising money to help parents apply for exemption. Vaccine skeptics have hosted an anti-vaccine march on Washington and Trump himself has falsely suggested that vaccines cause autism.\n\nWhen enough people arent vaccinated, we lose herd immunity and the entire community is at risk. Using the examples of measles again, a single infected person can infect more than a dozen people who havent been vaccinated  many of whom are children or who have compromised immune systems. Last year, a JAMA Pediatrics study suggested that a 5 percent reduction in vaccination coverage is enough to risk a big outbreak. This is a terrible self-inflicted wound and a lot of that is coming from the activities of political action committees using Tea Party language like medical freedom and vaccine choice, says Hotez. And so its incredibly disingenuous of those same individuals to worry about diseases that immigrants are bringing in. Ultimately, the greater harm doesnt come from refugees or asylum-seekers outside our borders, but from the anti-vaxxers, already right here in the US, who could make us all vulnerable.","title":"Migrant caravans wont bring disease anti-vaxxers will","date":"2018-10-30","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Liberals will be shocked to hear this. Yes, I finally agree. Youve won over Wayne Root with evidence and common sense. Its time to impeach the president.\n\nHowever, its not President Trump Im talking about. Its time to impeach former President Barack Obama. And of course, prosecute him too.\n\nMany are starting to come to this conclusion. Tom Fitton, the legal genius behind Judicial Watch (the number one government watchdog in America), has come to the same conclusion. Fitton said this week that amidst a climate of impeachment fervor, the actual evidence points to Obamas actions warranting impeachment far more than Trump. Fitton reports that ordering surveillance and sending spies into the Trump presidential campaign are all grounds for post-Presidency impeachment and more importantly, prosecution.\n\nNone other than greatly respected former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said this week, I guarantee the answer is yes as to whether Obama knew the FBI had planted spies into the Trump campaign. He says no FBI Director would dare infiltrate a presidential campaign without the direct approval and authorization of the sitting president.\n\nWelcome to my world. Ive screamed about Obamas illegal actions for years. Starting of course with his attempt to use the IRS to destroy my life. But Im just one of thousands of victims. I have always understood the lengths Obama would go to, to destroy his political opposition.\n\nObama didnt just authorize illegal spying, surveillance and FISA warrants based on fraud, paid for by Hillary and the DNC. He ordered it all.\n\nSomehow this must all be getting through. Despite 93% negative news coverage from the mainstream media, President Trump is sitting pretty at 50% approval at Rasmussen (the most accurate pollster of the 2016 election). More shockingly, Reuters generic Congressional poll has shifted from Democrats winning by 16 points back in February, to Republicans up by 6 points this week. YES, I said Republicans are now leading by 6 points.\n\nThats a 22-point swing in a matter of months. And a 9-point swing in a week. The supposed blue wave is finished.\n\nWhy do you think this is? Because the average American now understands what happened. It isnt Trump who did anything wrong. He was clearly framed by Obama, Hillary and their minions in the DC Swamp (FBI, DOJ, CIA and NSA).\n\nBut far worse is the reason for the framing. First, Obama had a personal hatred and obsession with Trump- for daring to ask questions about Obamas birth certificate, place of birth and college records. Second, Obama was on the hook for his own crimes: spying, surveillance, criminal weaponization of government agencies like the IRS. And he was also on the hook for allowing Hillarys crimes, including the Uranium One deal, where the Clinton Foundation received $140 million in donations from Russia.\n\nBut that was only one of many corrupt deals while Hillary served as Obamas Secretary of State. Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice reported days ago his organization has uncovered THOUSANDS of docs showing Pay-to-Play between Hillarys State Dept and the Clinton Foundation. He called Hillarys State Dept a favor factory.\n\nSekulow found 30,000 emails between Hillary, her top staff and the Clinton Foundation. This is crime on a massive unprecedented scale. The State Dept became a division of a private company (a charity scam), using taxpayer money to dole out government contracts to Hillarys donors.\n\nHow much money changed hands? Billions? How many crooked deals? Hundreds? How many other members of Obamas administration got cut in on the bribes? Could President Obama have had a piece of the action? Obama desperately needed Hillary to win, or hed face criminal prosecution. Remember what Truman said, The buck stops here.\n\nAnd then there was this news: WikiLeaks reports Obama was a veteran of illegal spying. They claim to have proof Obama ordered the CIA to spy on all of Frances presidential candidates.\n\nWho else did Obama spy on? What other world leaders did he try to frame just like Trump? How about American politicians, like his 2012 opponent Mitt Romney? Obama and Hillary tried to fix the 2016 election. Is it possible Obama fixed the 2012 election with spying and surveillance vs. Romney?\n\nYes, the media is right. Its time to start talking about impeachment and prosecution of a president...\n\nWayne Allyn Root is the host of WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show on Newsmax TV, nightly at 8 PM ET, found on DirecTV channel 349, Dish TV channel 216, or at http:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/Shows\/The-Wayne-Allyn-Root-Show He is also a nationally syndicated radio host of WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show found at http:\/\/usaradio.com\/wayne-allyn-root\/","title":"WAYNE ALLYN ROOT Its Time to Impeach the President Obama","date":"2018-05-25","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"# Get alerted on heavy metals and pesticide test results for foods and\nsupplements\n\n![](Images\/Health-Ranger-Suit-75x75.jpg)Natural News is about to begin\nreleasing lab test results for off-the-shelf food, supplement and pet food\nproducts, covering heavy metals, nutritive minerals, pesticides and\nherbicides. These details will be released exclusively to Natural News email\nnewsletter subscribers (FREE) and will NOT be publicly posted on the website.\nTo be alerted, join our free email newsletter now, and watch for lab test\nresults in the weeks ahead.\n\nEnter your email address below to subscribe to our email announcement list\n(but don't use gmail). Your privacy is protected and you can unsubscribe at\nany time. If you don't join our email list, you may never see our valuable\ncontent again via Facebook, Google or YouTube. CENSORSHIP has now reached\nEXTREME levels across the 'net. The truth is being suffocated. Subscribe now\nif you want to escape the delusional bubble of false reality being pushed by\nGoogle and Facebook.","title":"New study shows the powerful anticancer effects of Korean angelica","date":"2018-10-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"WASHINGTON -- The deliberately outrageous idea of arming classroom teachers is nothing more than a distraction, a ploy by the gun lobby to buy time for passions to cool. Don't get sidetracked. Keep the focus where it belongs -- on keeping military-style assault rifles out of civilian hands.\n\nThe National Rifle Association and its vassals in the Republican Party would like you to exhaust your outrage on a possibility that is, from the start, impossible. Picture one of your grade-school or high-school classrooms. Imagine a loaded gun in there somewhere. Even on an average day, without an active shooter stalking the halls, the question isn't what could go wrong. It's how many dead or wounded.\n\nPresident Trump has touted the idea, but he tipped the NRA-GOP hand Saturday with a tweet: \"Armed Educators (and trusted people who work within a school) love our students and will protect them. Very smart people. Must be firearms adept & have annual training. Should get yearly bonus. Shootings will not happen again -- a big & very inexpensive deterrent. Up to States.\"\n\n\"Up to States\" means abdicating the federal government's responsibility and urging state legislatures to waste time and effort debating whether to mandate that instruments of death be introduced to classrooms. Are parents going to be confident that the gun is securely locked away and no student will ever get his hands on it? That in an emergency the teacher would know how to use it? That an assailant wouldn't simply shoot the teacher first?\n\nAccording to The New York Times, police officers in the nation's largest city -- men and women who are highly trained and periodically tested for firearms proficiency -- hit their targets only one-third of the time. During actual gunfights, the paper reported, officers' accuracy drops as low as 13 percent. The idea that teachers would somehow do any better is ludicrous, as is the idea that most teachers and their powerful unions would agree to such a horribly bad idea.\n\nThe fact that the GOP and the gun lobby are pushing this nonstarter is proof of how worried they are that the Parkland massacre has the potential to provoke real change. It's not so much that Republicans would enact sensible gun control, but that voters might replace them with Democrats who will.\n\nThat is why NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre spent much of a foaming-at-the-mouth speech Thursday making the insane claim that Democrats, if elected, will impose some kind of socialist tyranny. \"You should be anxious and you should be frightened,\" he warned at the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference. Please, oh please, he wants you to be frightened.\n\n\"If they seize power, if these so-called European socialists take over the House and the Senate and, God forbid, they get the White House again, our American freedoms could be lost and our country will be changed forever,\" LaPierre implored. \"The first to go will be the Second Amendment.\" LaPierre charged that Democrats \"want more restrictions on the law-abiding,\" which is an odd way to describe school shooters.\n\nThe unhinged LaPierre wildly lobbed every cultural and racial grenade he could get his hands on. He railed against Black Lives Matter, the FBI, George Soros, college professors -- and the media. Because, I guess, when a young man with an AR-15 walks into a high school and kills 17 students and faculty members, we write about it.\n\nNRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, in her CPAC speech, was equally shrill and desperate. \"Many in legacy media love mass shootings,\" she said, despicably. \"Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you.\"\n\nAll this squealing can only mean that the NRA and Republicans think they're in trouble. The usual playbook for dodging an actual debate about gun control isn't working.\n\nFlorida Gov. Rick Scott, who has an A-plus rating from the NRA, has come out in favor of raising the minimum age for gun purchases from 18 to 21. Some other Republicans agree. That would be one tiny step in a long journey toward sanity, but the NRA's strategy is never to give an inch. It would be a disaster for the gun lobby if Republicans began heeding public opinion on guns -- which, according to a new USA Today poll, favors an assault weapons ban by 2-to-1.\n\nWith the Parkland students continuing to speak and inspire, could common-sense gun control be the issue that turns expected Democratic gains this November into a historic wave? That's up to you. Ignore all distractions, and keep your eyes on the prize.","title":"Absurd Ploy to Arm Teachers Is a Distraction","date":"2018-02-27","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"It is a great mystery of the universe how some people rise to the top of the entertainment field. Some of those people are, to put it mildly, not nice. Put current pop star Chris Brown in that category. This week he was arrested in Tampa following a concert on an outstanding warrant.\n\nA sheriffs spokeswoman said the entertainer was released after posting $2,000 bond on the battery charge issued by the Tampa Police Department. No details about the allegations in the arrest warrant were immediately available. Brown was performing at the Coral Sky Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach when he was put into handcuffs by officers who were waiting for him, TMZ reported. Brown is currently in the middle of his Heartbreak On A Full Moon Tour.\n\nIt seems that Brown has a history of violent behavior.\n\nThe 29-year-old entertainers record of violence includes a guilty plea to felony assault for beating up his then-girlfriend pop superstar Rihanna in 2009 and a 2016 arrest on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. A judge ordered Brown in February of 2017 to stay away from his ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran after she accused him of physically abusing and threatening her. The Grammy winner was ordered to stay 100 yards away from Tran and not attempt to contact her after she wrote in court filings that Brown had repeatedly threatened her. Tran also accused the singer of punching her in the stomach and pushing her down a flight of stairs. Her filing does not offer any additional specifics or note if she reported the events to police.\n\nOh, dear. This sort of behavior goes well beyond just being troubled. This guy is a thug who obviously was never taught how to treat women. (Or took the rap culture lyrics that abuse women to heart.)\n\nAnd then, when President Donald Trump was cheerleading the border patrol and other law enforcement when it came to arresting MS-13 gang members, Brown had this to say on Instagram:\n\nThis is what entertainment companies are offering as the talent du jour.","title":"Foul Mouthed Pop Star Chris Brown Gets Arrested For Outstanding Warrant","date":"2018-07-07","source":"dcgazette","label":0}
{"content":"Former FBI Director James Comey told internal investigators at the Justice Department that he could not recall McCabe telling him about having authorized FBI officials to talk to a reporter about an ongoing investigation, the sources said. Comeys comments to the Justice Departments inspector generals office, which were later included as part of the FBIs Office of Professional Responsibility report on McCabe that prompted his firing earlier this month, put him at odds with the statements McCabe has made about authorizing FBI officials to provide information to the Wall Street Journal in an October 2016 story about FBI and Justice Department tensions over an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. McCabe has publicly maintained that he was in a position to authorize the other FBI officials speaking with the reporter and that Comey was aware McCabe had done it.\n\nThe night McCabe was fired he said in a statement, It was not a secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the Director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter.\n\nAnother internal source told CNN there isnt a discrepancy between the two FBI officials statements, rather they just recall the interaction differently.\n\nThe source said both Comey and McCabe were acting in good faith.\n\nAccording to CNN, Comey held a briefing on October 31st, 2016 and stressed to the bureau how damaging the leaks are to an ongoing investigation. According to the report, Comey recalls McCabe denied authorizing any FBI officials to speak to the Wall Street Journal.\n\nOne thing is clear: Mr. McCabe never misled Director Comey, Bromwich said. Director Comeys memory of these interactions was equivocal and speculative, while Mr. McCabes recollection is clear, unequivocal and supported by documentary evidence. Director Comey has no specific recollection of what Mr. McCabe told him, while Mr. McCabe remembers the two discussed the article before and after its publication.\n\nAs previously reported, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) revealed to Fox News host Laura Ingraham Thursday evening that disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lied repeatedly to the Justice Department.  JORDAN: McCabe didnt lie just once, he lied four times. He lied to James Comey. He lied to the Office of Professional Responsibility and he lied twice under oath to the Inspector General. Remember, this is Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director of the FBI. This is Andrew McCabe, the text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page talking about Andys office, the meeting where they talk about the insurance policy in case Donald Trump is actually President of the United States... Four times he lied about leaking information to the Wall Street Journal. It appears either McCabe or Comey are lying and given their track record of being dirty cops, its difficult to determine who isnt being truthful in this recent report. James Comey is an admitted leaker. In a June Senate testimony, former FBI Director James Comey said he gave contents of memos he penned, stemming from nine conversation with President Trump to a trusted friend to pass on to the New York Times. Four out of seven of the Trump memos contain classified information. Comey admitted he leaked the memos to prompt a special counsel. Inspector General Michael Horowitz is set to release his much-anticipated report on the FBIs mishandling of Hillary Clintons email investigation soon.","title":"Internal FBI Report Shows Discrepancy Between McCabe and Comey Statements Over Improper Media Leaks","date":"2018-03-31","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez channeled her inner Fidel Castro on Twitter Tuesday with a statement announcing a New Rule that bars supporters of the Trump tax cuts from speaking out about Americas healthcare system.\n\nDemocratic Socialist Ocasio-Cortez became a media darling last month after her surprise primary victory over Rep. Joe Crowley, the fourth most powerful Democrat in the House, in New Yorks Democrat-controlled 14th Congressional District, virtually guaranteeing her a seat in Congress next year.\n\nNew Rule: anyone that was cool with the GOP inventing $2 trillion out of thin air for freebies for people with yachts that have tiny yachts inside doesnt get to demand how we pay for people who need chemotherapy treatments.\n\nOcasio-Cortezs tweet went viral, with approximately 150,000 likes, 36,000 retweets and 2000 comments in just over 24 hours.\n\nCuriously, the media has not reported on Ocasio-Cortezs latest pronouncement despite it having gone viral. The only report was an article at the leftist site Common Dreams headlined, Months After GOP Approved $1.5T Giveaway to Rich, Ocasio-Cortez Shreds Those Questioning How to Pay for Bold Proposals Like Medicare for All.\n\nOcasio-Cortez showed a studied ignorance of the Constitution, economics and taxation, however her mention of yachts with space for a smaller boat is true. But in true communist fashion, she believes that the owners of yachts dont deserve to pay businesses and employees with their money and instead should have their wealth confiscated by the State to fund tried-and-failed socialism.\n\nCommon Dreams found a tweet from a so-called journalist about the yacht with a boat garage.\n\nThat appears to be about the extent of the coverage of the medias It Girl giving the world a peek at her inner communist dictator.","title":"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Goes Full Commie Dictator Announces New Rule Barring Trump Tax Cut Suppo","date":"2018-07-11","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Equal Pay Day: Why Women Are 'Working For Free'\n\nThis year, 10 November marks the day when women are essentially 'working for free' thanks to the gender pay gap in the UK. On average, women earn 13.7 percent less than men. Activists are calling for people to speak more openly about their pay checks so that disparities can be raised with their employers.","title":"Equal Pay Day Why Women Are Working For Free","date":"2018-11-10","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Its been six weeks since Dr Christine Blasey Ford told the United States Congress that she was sexually assaulted by then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.\n\nDespite the fact that many commentators observed that Kavanaugh was uncooperative and aggressive in his testimony about the alleged assault, he won nomination to the Supreme Court almost immediately after the hearings. He has already begun hearing cases before the court in the current sitting term.\n\nBut for Dr Ford, the ordeal is far from over. Her lawyers told NPR yesterday that she is still receiving constant death threats as a result of her decision to speak up. Weeks on from the hearings, from Kavanaughs seamless ascent to the bench, his accuser is still under daily threat from people who have access to her contact details and personal information.\n\nShe has had to move house four times. She has had to hire a private security detail at great expense as the threats were frequent and credible. She has not been able to return to her job as a professor at the Palo Alto University.\n\nDuring the hearings, Ford testified to the threats and abuse she was receiving at the time. She said her and her family had to move between various secure locales to avoid danger. What is more shocking still is that this imminent threat of danger to Ford has not subsided, even though the issue itself has been resolved  in favour of Brett Kavanaugh.\n\nThis script plays out again and again. In 2017, Andrea Constand reported facing large amounts of threats, abuse and bullying regarding her accusation of sexual assault against Bill Cosby. Cosby was found guilty of the assault, but this did not stop the threats and harassment.\n\nTwenty-seven years ago, when Anita Hill accused now-Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual assault, she also faced death threats and feared for her safety.\n\nIt is damaging enough to survivors that Fords allegations were dealt with and dismissed so swiftly by the US Senate and that Kavanaugh was hoisted to one of the most powerful positions in the world without much trouble. It is offensive to survivors to know that we will never bother to find out exactly what happened on that night in the 1980s. It is offensive to survivors that if this assault did happen, Kavanaugh will never be held accountable for it. Instead, he will spend the rest of his years on the other side of the bench, dispensing justice as he sees fit.\n\nBut the consequences Ford has suffered since testifying show us is that the tragedy goes far further than this: not only did Ford have to watch her attacker go free, she was consistently  and still is  being treated as the perpetrator of a heinous crime instead of the victim of one. For all our discussion about the men being felled by #MeToo, it is worth noting that by and large these men have been able to carry on with their lives, free to leave behind the allegations and move on. This is certainly true of Kavanaugh. But for those who speak out  for Ford, for Constand, for Hill  the ordeal is unrelenting.\n\nNever has it been more clear how much we need to protect survivors from those who wish to punish them for speaking up, because while the cultural zeitgeist may have shifted, the consequences for survivors have not. At the end of the day, no amount of positive public support or dialogue can protect a woman receiving death threats on her front door.\n\nTo add insult to injury, Republicans in the Senate spent much of the hearing asking Ford why it had taken her so long to come forward. Why hadnt she said anything right away, they wanted to know. Why say something now?\n\nThis insinuation that women make up false rape accusations against powerful men as part of some sort of game bears no relation to the reality of survivors experience. As we have seen, again and again, those who choose to speak up are severely punished. The idea that anyone would willingly bring this danger upon themselves is as bizarre as it is damaging.\n\nThe truth is the Republicans have answered their own question: the reason Ford did not come forward earlier is because to raise your head above the proverbial parapet as a woman is very dangerous indeed. The reason she did not come forward is that she knew that powerful men like them would ensure Kavanaugh was protected. The reason she did not come forward is because she knew how high a price she would pay.\n\nBut when faced with his ascent to the Supreme Court, Ford decided to put her own safety aside and speak up. But it all came to nothing: Kavanaugh is a Justice of the Supreme Court and Ford is unemployed, homeless and unsafe. Why would anyone put themselves in her position?\n\nThe fact that Ford is still unsafe weeks after Kavanaugh has taken his seat on the bench tells us all we need to know about why women dont speak up about assault. It sends a strong message to other survivors that they will be punished if they come forward. It shows us just how far we have to go before #MeToo becomes more than just a conversation.","title":"Christine Blasey Fords Ordeal Shows How Sexual Assault Survivors Are Punished For Speaking Up","date":"2018-11-09","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini has sensationally threatened to resign over the latest migrant crisis engulfing bloc as the European Commission called an emergency meeting on the issue.\n\nThe leader of the right-wing Lega party is at loggerheads with Italian President Sergio Mattarella over whether 177 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean should be able to disembark from the Diciotti ship, which has been left in limbo since docking in Sicilly since Monday.\n\nOnly 29 unaccompanied minors have been allowed to leave the boat so far.","title":"Italian Leader Threatens to Resign Amid Migrant Feud With EU","date":"2018-08-24","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"As many as 3,000 migrant children remain in government custody after being separated from their parents at the border, more than a week after a court ordered the Trump administration to reunite families, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday.\n\nThe Trump administration is currently in the process of reuniting families, in part by using DNA tests to confirm whether they are related. But the government has yet to return children to their parents in immigration custody, Azar said. He said the administration will meet the extreme and arbitrary deadline imposed by the court to reunite families.\n\nThat means the families split up under President Donald Trump are only being reunited if the parent agrees to deportation or if the child was released to another relative in the U.S.\n\nThe Trump administration began a zero tolerance policy earlier this year to prosecute as many illegal border crossings as possible. That has included detaining parents separately from their children while they undergo brief criminal proceedings.\n\nBut the administration apparently did not keep clear records of which children it separated from their parents. Azar said officials are currently working through some 11,800 kids in government custody to determine which came with family and which were unaccompanied. Up to 3,000 children may have been separated from their parents, about 100 of whom are under the age of 5, he said.\n\nThat number is higher than the one the government previously cited for how many kids have been split from their families.\n\nSome of those children were separated before Trumps zero tolerance policy began, or may have been split up from their parents when they were apprehended, Aza said. Government officials know where every child is and that they are being taken care of, Azar said.\n\nAzar said the administration will use every minute of every day to confirm the parentage of children and to make sure they have a suitable caretaker. He said the court order limits the governments ability to do its typical screening process. He implied that quickly reuniting children with their parents could put them in danger, mentioning two instances of parents who were found to have criminal records including child cruelty, rape and kidnapping.\n\nAzar blamed parents for the separations in the first place, repeatedly saying they should have gone to ports of entry or stayed home.\n\nTrump and members of his administration have balked at the possibility of reuniting families in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Under a separate court order, children cannot be detained for more than about 20 days. The administration is now fighting in court for the ability to indefinitely detain kids with their parents.\n\nBut it doesnt require family separation. Thats the case only if the government refuses to release parents with their children, as it has in the past. Its unclear if the Trump administration plans to split up families once again if it does not receive authority in court or through congressional action to indefinitely detain children with their parents.","title":"As Many As 3000 Migrant Families Separated At The Border Havent Been Reunited","date":"2018-07-05","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"GOP Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was prepared with a quick-witted response when an anti-Kavanaugh protester confronted him on Tuesday.\n\nThe protester, Alethea Torrellas Shapiro, brought her children to the Senate hallways to birddog politicians over Kavanaughs confirmation.\n\nSenator Cassidy, can you please apologize to my children for ruining their futures? Shapiro asked as Cassidy walked toward her.\n\nQuickly taking out his earbuds, Cassidy looked directly toward the children and said, Hey, guess what? I know your parents are using you as tools, but if in the future if somebody makes an allegation against you & theres no proof for it, youll be OK.\n\nHe then put his earbuds back in and calmly walked away.\n\nEarlier this month, Cassidy debated with another anti-Kavanaugh protester and asked the woman, are you OK as a person to go ahead and to accept a non-corroborated charge to destroy someones life?","title":"GOP Senator Slams Protester Who Used Her Kids to Confront Him","date":"2018-10-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A jackknifed semi-tractor trailer is blocking all lanes of traffic on southbound U.S. 285 in Conifer, state transportation officials say.\n\nThe crash was reported by the Colorado Department of Transportation at 4:03 a.m. in a tweet. It happened at Kennedy Gulch Road, the tweet says.\n\nAlternative routes are advised. There was no indication when the road will be reopened.\n\nCheck back on this breaking news story for updates.","title":"Jackknifed semi-tractor trailer blocks all lanes of US 285 in Conifer","date":"2018-10-08","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Nine huge wizard wands have brought some magic to the capital to celebrate the release of new movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald.\n\nThe Band of the Grenadier Guards performed music from Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter at the launch of the attraction today. From 6.45pm every day until November 13 they will illuminate the walkway between Millennium Bridge and St Pauls Cathedral.\n\nThe 15ft high wands are from the Harry Potter films and the Beasts spin-off  starring Eddie Redmayne  including the ones wielded by Newt Scamander, Albus Dumbledore and Harry himself.\n\nThe installation aims to raise awareness for  J K Rowlings charity Lumos, which aims to end the institutionalisation of children around the world. It was created with the City of London Arts Initiative and Warner Bros Entertainment UK, whose\n\npresident Josh Berger said: We are thrilled to partner with Lumos on this installation, which is sure to delight fans and commuters passing through Peters Hill.\n\nThe wands were based on the original designs by a team led by prop-maker Pierre Bohanna.\n\nThe Crimes Of Grindelwald is in cinemas on November 16. Watch the trailer below","title":"Giant Harry Potter aposwand walkapos arrives in London ahead of Fantastic Beasts","date":"2018-10-18","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Now, this is what unity looks like.  South Africas Zulu nation has joined forces with white farmers being subjected to racial land seizures in order to prevent the atrocity.\n\nThe largest ethnic group in South Africa, Zulu, has spoken out against the racial expropriation of land without compensation in the country. Zulu is ready to cooperate with the countrys white farmers, known as Afrikaners or Boers to prevent the seizure of their land, reported RT.  Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has said the group will cooperate with South African minority rights group AfriForum because they desire to eat in the future.\n\nThe Zulu nation Im talking about will not exist if we dont have food. Thats why I say farmers must come closer so that we discuss what we can do when we talk about agriculture and the availability of enough food in the land. Thats why Im asking AfriForum of the Boers to come and help us, Zwelithini said, as quoted by eNews Channel Africa. Because when government started talking about the appropriation of land, expropriation without compensation, Boers downed tools. There is no food in South Africa, he added.\n\nZulu people are the largest ethnic group in South Africa, with an estimated 10-12 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The group accounts for more than a fifth of the countrys population and its opinion is important in the context of the general elections next year. RT\n\nAnyone who wants to be voted for and elected by us, Im going to talk now, anyone who wants to be elected by us must come and kneel here and commit that I will never touch your land, the Zulu King said firmly placing private property rights above political or racial affiliation.  While the Zulu King officially has no political power, he does have the loyalty of millions of people who may not be affiliated with politics.\n\nThe land expropriation program run by President Cyril Ramaphosa is designed to redistribute land to poor black people to tackle severe inequality 24 years after the end of apartheid. It mostly involves lands owned by Boers, whites primarily of Dutch descent. However, the program has aroused discontent among the Zulus, too, sparking fears that they could be the next to lose land.","title":"South Africas Zulu Nation Joins White Farmers To Protest Government Land Seizures","date":"2018-10-11","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  Ahead of a tight primary on May 8, Dennis Kucinichs bid to win the Democratic nomination for the critical gubernatorial race in Ohio landed in trouble this week because of the revelation that he was paid $20,000 last year by a group sympathetic to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Now, largely overlooked election filings show that the former congressmans political apparatus received thousands of more dollars from two brothers involved in multiple efforts to bring Kucinich and Assad together since 2007.\n\nKucinich has depicted his visits with Assad  all but one of which took place after the Syrian ruler began turning his guns on his own people in 2011 as important diplomatic outreach to avoid American foreign policy mistakes and militarism. But he has also repeatedly downplayed credible reports of war crimes by the Assad regime, including at an April 2017 British conference the pro-Assad group paid for him to attend, three months after his trip to Damascus. Kucinich opponents are now making the issue central to the question of whether hes fit to be governor.\n\nWhile Bassam Khawam had helped bring Kucinich to Syria before, the trip in January 2017 drew particular attention because it included Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a favorite among some grassroots Democrats, and came just as President Donald Trump was entering office after suggesting he would soften U.S. opposition to Assad. Khawam told The Atlantic that his role does not mean he supports the Syrian regime. But in the days after the trip became public knowledge, sources told The Washington Post that Bassam had frequently visited Assads former ambassador to the U.S., and Bassams brother Elie told the Daily Beast that he is a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, a group fighting alongside Assads forces in Syria.\n\nGabbard last year said she repaid the costs of the trip after an uproar in Congress. Kucinich has rebuffed commentators calls to refund the Khawams; his lawyer told international relations analyst Idrees Ahmad the visit was paid for by the Arab American Community Center for Economic and Social Services (AACCESS-Ohio), a group Bassam Khawam once headed, and with Kucinichs private funds.\n\nAfter returning, the former congressman said he saw it as a fact-finding mission and also met with members of the opposition to Assad, and Khawam said his goal was to stop the carnage.\n\nHes always been on the side of peace, and when hes gone to Syria, when hes gone to Lebanon, when hes gone to Israel, its been in the interest of peace, Juniewicz said on Friday. His view is that there are many interests, many forces involved in all of the conflicts in the Middle East. Its impossible to point the finger at one thing, one person, one factor as being the underlying cause.\n\nKucinichs campaign responded to the furor over the $20,000 from the pro-Assad group by releasing the transcript of the speech he was paid to give at the April 2017 conference in the U.K., which touted speakers such as two Assad ministers and a British baroness who has adopted talking points friendly to the Syrian regime.\n\nWhile Kucinich did call Assads government an authoritarian regime, he echoed its depiction of the conflict as a result of meddling by the U.S. and partner nations including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar  deflecting responsibility from the Assad familys decades-long repression. The war in Syria is not a civil war and never was, he said.\n\nHe also repeated the claim that Assad provided free education and health care to his population  an exaggeration especially bizarre in the context of the regime now systematically bombing hospitals  and gave protection to citizens of various faiths, neglecting to note suppressive measures pre-dating the conflict or Assads incitement of religious divisions to rally supporters.\n\nOn the hotly debated issue of chemical weapon use, the former congressman did press Assad on claims he deployed internationally banned weapons against civilians during an interview with him in 2013 as part of Kucinichs years of work for Fox News. But he has also cast doubt on the idea that Assad was to blame for gas attacks in 2017, criticizing the U.S. for strikes intended to punish the regimes move.\n\nThe Joint Investigative Mechanism of the United Nations has since blamed Assad for the 2017 incident. Kucinichs spokesman did not respond to a question about whether he believes that assessment but said the candidate is clear that something must be done about reports of deadly chemical weapon use weeks ago that prompted a joint U.S.-British-French attack last weekend on sites in Syria.\n\nCertainly, the culprits responsible for the gas attack on Douma need to be identified and brought to justice. But last nights missile strike occurs as a violation of international law at precisely the time when international law must be enforced on behalf of the victims of Douma, Kucinich said on April 14. It is noteworthy that those responsible for the gas attack have yet to be identified.","title":"Brothers Linked To Assad Gave Thousands To Dennis Kucinichs Ohio Political Machine","date":"2018-04-21","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Federal authorities have allegedly arrested a man in Florida in connection with the recent explosive devices sent to prominent Democrats.","title":"BREAKING Man Arrested For Bomb Package Campaign Watch Live","date":"2018-10-26","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Eleven months ago, generous Denver voters passed a $937 million bond package for civic improvements, including parks. Now were asked to increase taxes by $116 million for improvements to, among other things, parks. You could build another Disneyland for $116 million.\n\nI realize that the concert promoters and other private interests who like to use our parks may be disappointed that the parks arent ideal for their purposes, but maybe we should see what we can do with that first $937 million before spending more.\n\nThis November, I encourage City of Denver residents to vote yes on Ordinance 302 to help feed and educate kids.\n\nHealthy Food for Denver Kids is a citizen-initiated ballot measure geared towards feeding Denvers low-income kids and making healthy options more accessible.\n\nThis measure would increase sales taxes by .08 percent (less than a penny on a $10 purchase) to provide millions in funding for healthy food and food education programs in Denver over a ten-year period.\n\nIn the last 30 days, one in seven Denver kids missed a meal because they could not afford to eat. Research shows that children and teens with uncertain or limited access to nutritional foods are more likely to have high blood pressure than those who dont. Hunger indeed has lifelong impacts on the health of our kids.\n\nTo learn more, visit healthyfoodfordenver.com. Vote YES for Ordinance 302 and invest in our kids.\n\nIn 2017 alone, Colorado lost the equivalent of seven classrooms full of students (ages 10 to 24) to suicide. Colorado is unfortunately among the 10 states with the highest suicide rates in America.\n\n As pediatricians, we support increasing access to mental health and substance use services for both children and adults that care for them.\n\nChildren with mental health issues have an increased risk for suicide. Kids with caregivers that struggle with mental health conditions and substance use disorders have an increased risk of developing heart disease and cancer, in addition to depression.\n\nIn November, Denver County has the opportunity to take a positive step in the fight for mental health with Ordinance 301 (Caring 4 Denver). For the price of 14 of a penny on a dollar purchase, Denver will be able to fund services that improve the quality of life of its residents and prevent children from dying by suicide.\n\nColumnist Jon Caldaras ill-considered commentary on young adults voting in municipal elections got only one thing right: the good people of Golden will soon decide whether to allow ... teenagers to vote in municipal elections, by lowering the voting age to 16.\n\nIn casting their ballots on the issue, Goldenites will reflect on their own civic interests at 16 and their experiences with Goldens engaged high school students (not one intentional Tide Pod eater in the bunch).\n\n Particularly, they may rely on neuroscience indicating that, in situations like voting which call for unhurried decision-making and consultation with others, adolescents judgment is as mature as that of adults.\n\n And, unlike columnist Caldara, the good people of Golden know that our shared democracy rejected any requirement that voters own property long before the founding of our historic town.\n\nFinally, Caldara is oblivious to the many advantages that come with lowering the voting age. Among these are: developing a lifelong voting habit by encouraging the exercise of civic rights and responsibilities on hometown issues and candidates, with guidance from parents, teachers, and other trusted adults; establishing a voting pattern before the transitional and unsettled circumstances of the 18-25 year-old age group, which has an extremely low voting rate; and renewing interest in municipal elections across the age spectrum.\n\nJon Caldara mentions the founding fathers setting the age at 25 for a U.S. representative when the average life span was only 38 years.\n\nSomehow, according to Caldara, two-thirds of ones life was needed for enough wisdom. For one thing I doubt they had any idea what the average life span was then. For another the increase in life expectancy from then until now is mostly from far fewer people dying as children.\n\nPlenty of people lived quite long then. Our first four presidents lived an average of 82 years. These days, 21-year-old representatives are not unheard of. About two-thirds of other countries with similar positions allow 18 to 21-year-olds to hold office.\n\nJon Caldara is certainly serving up his elder wisdom with a heaping of arrogance and disrespect.\n\nIn Golden, we nurture, value and support our young people. While certainly there are always a few reckless teenagers, that is not the norm in our tight knit community.\n\nThis 60-year-old personally doesnt see a downside. Im just hoping my brain doesnt calcify like Caldaras so I can remain young at heart, open to new possibilities, and able to trust, encourage and respect younger generations.\n\nRe: We must reward Coffmans morality in this age of Trump, Oct. 14 editorial\n\nI was disappointed with your endorsement of Mike Coffman for re-election. Your logic was clear, however you missed a very important point.\n\nDespite Coffmans sometimes independent path from the White House, Congress is not addressing a critical need for our country: controlling the worst and basest instincts of the White House. The swamp is now filled with alligators in the image of Trump and they are predictably acting to help themselves.\n\nExamples abound: denigrating climate change facts, loosening pollution controls for the worst polluting industry, awarding tax breaks to the 1 percent while meting out pennies to the rest, snarling at allies while cozying up to enemies, refusing to solve our immigration issues, continuous pimping of Trump properties. The list is seemingly endless. It is clear a Republican controlled House will not even attempt to rein any of this in; only a Democratic controlled House will slow the president.\n\nI am disturbed by The Posts endorsement of Mike Coffman in CD6.\n\nAs a rule, combat veterans do not discuss the bona fides of our fellow vets, but the stakes in the CD6 race are too great for me to remain mute.\n\nHaving served in Vietnam as a Marine rifle platoon leader, having been wounded in action, and decorated for valor  much like Jason Crow  I have always rankled at Coffmans incessant insistence that he is a combat Marine, which in his case, is saying that he served behind the front lines at a base during the time of the Iraqi war. He was not engaged in up-close and personal combat as Jason and I were, leaders of Marines\/soldiers under fire. I am sure he did good and valuable work in his assigned billet but he was not a hardened-by-combat infantryman. He exaggerates.\n\nFurther, I have observed closely Jasons career since he was in law school. I can testify that the ads documenting his leadership and abilities, are if anything, understated. I knew him when he was young and married, simultaneously working, attending law school and serving our community and particularly veterans and veteran families.\n\nJasons kind of smarts and honest understated courage is not only lacking in his opponent, but in the editorial board of The Post, who historically, trade off the better candidate for their own goal of evening-up their endorsements in fair ways. In the age of Trump, there exists no fairness. The clear choice is Jason Crow for Congress.\n\nYour endorsement downplays Jason Crow as a worthy representative for District 6, by stating he should be running anywhere else. It also ignores the fact that Coffman snuck out of a town hall meeting, voted for Trumps tax give away to corporations and wealthier individuals, and his partisan efforts to stymy President Barack Obama at every opportunity. You also forget his outrageous call for Obama to prove his citizenship.\n\nI was disappointed to have The Denver Post endorse Coffman. It appears that this man will not support a ban on assault rifles or a ban on bump stocks. With so many mass shootings in which an assault rifle was used and the horrible Las Vegas shooting in which a bump stock was used to kill 58 and injure hundreds, it is simply wrong to endorse a man who does not support a ban on these weapons.\n\nI was so disappointed to see that The Denver Post endorsed Mike Coffman for District 6. It reminds me of the expression I often heard in Texas.\n\nIf you always do what youve always done, youll always get what you always got. Mike Coffman did not stand up to Trump, he voted with him almost 100 percent of the time, to the detriment of Colorado and the United States. If you are too afraid to let go of your carousel pony to reach for the golden ring, you just keep going around in circles. Lets reach for what is best in America, our innovation, inclusiveness and integrity. Lets do it differently. Lets elect Jason Crow.\n\nTo send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail.","title":"Sunday Oct 21 2018 letters Election endorsements teen voting","date":"2018-10-21","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) ADHD is a very controversial diagnosis, with many people suspecting its a way to drum up some business for doctors and pharmaceutical companies. After all, there is no type of scientific test to diagnose it. However, it is true that some children really do have trouble concentrating that extends beyond the typical levels seen in kids their age. The good news for parents who want to avoid the many dangers of ADHD drugs is that essential oils can be surprisingly effective in helping these children.\n\nEssential oils are made using extracts from the flowers, roots, bark or seeds of various plants. When inhaled, the chemical compounds in the oils can bring about well-being at the emotional, physical, and mental levels. Thats because the micro droplets are carried upon inhalation into the brains limbic system, which processes emotion, reason, and smell, as well as the hormone-controlling hypothalamus.\n\nAmerican Board of Hospital Medicine Physician Dr. Terry S. Friedmann studied the way various essential oils could help children between the ages of 6 and 14 who had been diagnosed with ADHD but were not taking medication for it.\n\nAfter assessing the childrens degrees of impulsivity using a standardized TOVA test, Dr. Friedmann divided them into groups that received cedarwood oil, lavender oil, vetiver oil, or no oil as controls. He kept track of his results with real-time EEG testing and gave the participants TOVA tests after the study to assess its effects.\n\nHe found a significant improvement  32 percent  in those who took the vetiver essential oil, while the cedarwood group showed a similar effect. The vetiver groups improvement, when compared to the control group, was statistically significant. Lavender did not lead to any improvement.\n\nFriedmann also said that some of the parents noted their childrens behavior at home had improved. Some also reported that their teachers said the childrens performance in the classroom improved, and this was reflected in their grades.\n\nIts not the first time scientists have illustrated how essential oils can improve attention. Japanese researchers have shown that vetiver essential oil can improve alertness, while another study found a link between a component of rosemary essential oil and cognitive performance.\n\nIf your child is diagnosed with ADHD, your first question shouldnt be whether or not to medicate or try essential oils; what you should be asking is if there is legitimately a problem or not.\n\nExperts have been very vocal about the fact that some students have been diagnosed with ADHD out of convenience, with teachers singling out hyperactive students for assessments and parents being pushed into putting their children on medication after short observations. Because these drugs make children complacent, it can be tempting for teachers and parents to use them to rein in spirited kids.\n\nMany times, parents arent informed of the common side effects of ADHD medications, which include a loss of appetite, trouble sleeping, and depression, in addition to serious behavioral effects like mania, psychosis, drug abuse and addiction. These drugs can make compulsive thoughts and obsessive behavior worse and even cause them in those who dont have them previously. Moreover, they are largely ineffective over the long term, with kids being put on higher and higher doses in an attempt to get results.\n\nWith 11 percent of American children between the ages of 4 and 17, or 6.4 million, being diagnosed with ADHD and 80 percent of those taking central nervous system stimulants, any news about safer alternatives is good news. However, its also important to keep in mind that lots of children who have been slapped with the ADHD label have noted dramatic improvements simply by getting more movement in their day in the form of recess and gym and eating a clean diet free of processed foods.","title":"Essential oils prove to be an effective treatment for ADHD","date":"2018-03-27","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Rail commuters are being warned to expect a 3.5 per cent fare increase in 2019, which could see passengers on some longer distance routes paying up to 150 more each year for their travel.\n\nExact fare rises will not be confirmed until the July Retail Prices Index consumer inflation measure is released by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday.\n\nHowever, economists at both Investec and EY Item Club both forecast that the figure, which the Department for Transport (DfT) uses to calculate fare rises, will be announced as 3.5 per cent.\n\nAll regulated train fares  including season tickets on most commuter routes, some off-peak return tickets on long distance journeys, and anytime tickets around major cities  would be subject to the price hike in January.\n\nFares were increased by 3.5 per cent this year.\n\nThe Campaign for Better Transport said the government must provide better rail services to justify year-on-year fare rises.\n\nThe introduction of new timetables in May caused chaos on routes in northern England and on various London commuter lines, leading to hundreds of cancelled or delays trains over several weeks.\n\nGiven the mess surrounding the new timetable, the lack of improvements and the failure to deliver compensation, the government cannot go on telling passengers that fare increases are justified, a spokesman for the campaign group said.\n\nManuel Cortes, general secretary of the union Transport Salaried Staffs Association, said rail services were in free fall.\n\nJustice for passengers means dropping the annual rip-off rise and also simplifying the Byzantine fare structure which privatisation has imposed, he added.\n\nBetter still, end this costly farce. Put passengers before profits by bringing our railways back into public ownership.\n\nLabours shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, described Chris Graylings handling of the railways as beyond a joke.\n\nHe called for a freeze to fares on Govia Thameslink, Arriva Rail North and First Transpennine Express services, the three operators worst affected by timetable changes.\n\nThe governments failure means passengers have faced truly staggering fare rises, with fares having increased three times as much as wages, Mr McDonald said.\n\nA DfT spokesman said: Any fare increase is unwelcome, but it is not fair to ask people who do not use trains to pay more for those who do.\n\nTaxpayers already subsidise the network by more than 4bn a year  meaning that 38 per cent of our transport budget is spent on the 2 per cent of journeys that the railway accounts for.\n\nThe spokesman added that fare increases are helping to pay for extra carriages and services, as well as upgrades on the Great Western Main Line and the Transpennine route.","title":"Rail passengers warned to expect 35 per cent fare rise in 2019","date":"2018-08-12","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The scandal of the Trump teams massive payout of hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels is continuing to rage.\n\nOne of the recent developments in that scandal was the recent round of government raids of Trump personal attorney Michael Cohens home, office, and hotel room. Authorities were looking for items that included documents relating to the payment to Daniels.\n\nThere was a court hearing the Friday after the raids covering the case that turned out to be inconclusive  Cohen didnt even show up. Someone who was there, however, is Michael Avenatti, who is working as an attorney for Daniels. He has gained some notoriety at this point for his ardent defense of his client against the lies and belligerence of the Trump team.\n\nAvenatti appeared on CNN the following day to discuss the ordeal, and he had some new details to go over with host Anderson Cooper.\n\nFor one, he confirmed that its a possibility that Daniels herself would show up to the court hearing that the judge in the case ordered for the following Monday. (Cohen had been ordered to be in attendance at that time.)\n\nIts really ultimately going to be up to [Daniels] as to whether she wants to attend. She feels very passionately about this case and wants to ensure these documents are handled appropriately and also wants to ensure that the American people understand that her goal is to make this process as public as possible as it relates to the disclosure of facts and information  so its a pretty important issue for her.\n\nCheck out the video below.\n\nAvenatti also addressed reports that the federal government had seized recordings from Cohen of conversations between himself and at least Keith Davidson, who formerly worked as Daniels attorney. He insisted that if reports are accurate and such tapes do exist, he is keen on the idea of bringing another claim against the presidents lawyer for wiretapping.\n\nAvenatti also shared that Judge Kimba Wood, who is presiding over the case, confronted Cohens legal team during the Friday hearing with questions that they were not able to provide the most simple answers in response to. Against that backdrop, as mentioned, the parties involved in this issue were set to reconvene in court the following Monday.\n\nCohens issues are broad at this point; he has been reported to be under investigation for crimes ranging from campaign finance law violations to bank fraud. He is also facing a new report suggesting that he did, in fact, go to Prague in late 2016, where he is alleged to have met with Russian officials to coordinate their alleged cooperation with the Trump campaign.\n\nAvenatti told Anderson Cooper that during the recent hearing, he learned that the government had seized some thirty years worth of records from Cohen as a part of their investigation of him.\n\nThe president, who is no doubt Cohens most prominent client, bemoaned the fact on Twitter recently that attorney-client privilege is supposedly dead considering the governments raid of his attorney.\n\nThat privilege, however, ends if crimes were committed.\n\nFeatured Image via Screenshot from the Video","title":"Trump GoonWiretapping Bombshell Hits WH Lawyer Just Ruined GOP Lives DETAILS","date":"2018-04-30","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Childish Gambino & the Grim Surrealism of Being Black","title":"Childish Gambino the Grim Surrealism of Being Black","date":"2018-05-15","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"President Donald Trump may have had a grand old time at CPAC; however, we can only imagine how hes feeling after a newly unsealed indictment revealed explosive charges made regarding his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.\n\nAdditionally, Manaforts business associate and former aide to the Trump campaign Rick Gates pleaded guilty Friday, prompting many to believe he is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller for leniency.\n\nIn the new indictments, charges were made that Manafort paid off a group of European politicians. Those European politicians acted as if they were independent analysts. CNBC reported:\n\nManafort is accused of paying them over 2 million euros.\n\nSpecifically, those lobbyists were lobbying for the interests of the pro-Russia government of Ukraine, according to Reuters.\n\nShortly before the indictment was unsealed, prosecutors were at Gates hearing and told the judge more about the charges made against Manafort and Gates.\n\nWeissmann offered some new details about the lobbying Manafort and Gates allegedly did for Ukraine. The prosecutor said that in 2012 and 2013 the men secretly retained a group of former European officials to make statements favorable to Ukraines Party of Regents. Weissmann said the ex-officials lobbied U.S. members of Congress, executive branch officials and their staffs-activities that should have been reported at the time under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.\n\nMANAFORT explained in an EYES ONLY memorandum created in or about June 2012 that hte purpose of the SUPER VIP effort would be to assemble a small group of high-level European highly influencial [sic] champions and politically credible friends who can act informally and without any visible relationship with the Government of Ukraine. The group was managed by a former European hancellor, Foreign Politician A, in cooridination with MANAFORT. As explained by MANAFORT, a nongonvermental agency would be created to retain this group but it would act at our quiet direction. In or about 2013, Foreign Politician A and other former politicians from the group lobbied United States Members of Congress, officials in the Executive Branch, and their staffs in coordination with MANAFORT, Gates, Company A, and Company B.\n\nThe indictment also revealed Manafort is being accused of being an unregistered agent of a foreign government between the years of 2006 and 2015. It also indicated Manafort avoided paying taxes on the money he made through his work with Ukraine.\n\nIn furtherance of the scheme, MANAFORT used his hidden overseas wealth to enjoy a lavish lifestyle in the United States, without paying taxes on that income ... In total, more than $75,000,000 flowed through these offshore accounts. MANAFORT, with the assistance of Gates, laundered more than $30,000,000, income that he concealed from the United States Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Department of Justice, and others.\n\nIt also went into great detail about the scheme that involved the European politicians.\n\nHow Trump didnt know what Manafort was up to is beyond anyone. How could he not know he had a foreign agent operating as his campaign chairman? Of course, the White House is trying to avoid acknowledging Manaforts utter existence at this point. White House spokesperson Mercedes Schlapp commented:\n\nThe indictment may not reveal any evidence of collusion at this point; however, Trump had this guy working on his campaign as the chairman. Its a big deal.","title":"JUST IN New Paul Manafort Indictment Bombshell Turns WH Upside Down DETAILS","date":"2018-02-24","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Liverpool are riding high as they seek to keep their perfect 2018-19 record going on Saturday as Southampton head to Merseyside.\n\nJurgen Klopp's Reds won their opening five games of the Premier League season before beating PSG in a Champions League thriller at Anfield in midweek to keep their winning streak going.\n\nAnd next up for Liverpool are Mark Hughes' Southampton, who sit 13th in the table and have to pull themselves together after letting a two-goal lead slip into a 2-2 home draw against Brighton.\n\nThe match will not be televised live in the UK.\n\nStandard Sport will have LIVE coverage from Anfield, with Liverpool correspondent David Lynch in attendance.\n\nClick here for Liverpool's official ticket website.\n\nClick here to find the latest match odds and place a bet\n\nThe sides have met 38 times in the Premier League, with Liverpool winning 18 of those games, Southampton 10, and the teams sharing 10 draws.\n\nLiverpool got the better of the Saints last season, winning 3-0 at Anfield at 2-0 at St Mary's.\n\nRoberto Firmino could return to the line-up after coming off the bench to score the winner against PSG, although Daniel Sturridge is in with a chance after starting and scoring against the French champions.\n\nAlex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Dejan Lovren and Adam Lallana remain out for the hosts, but Divock Origi and Dominic Solanke could be in contention for squad roles.\n\nAs for Southampton, Danny Ings is unavailable to face his parent club as a loanee, while Manolo Gabbiadini is pushing for a return from a hamstring injury.","title":"Liverpool vs Southampton Predictions betting tips live stream TV channel Premier League 2018-1","date":"2018-09-20","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters on Tuesday the Department of Justice will open an investigation into FISA abuses after Obamas FBI, DOJ used Hillarys phony dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trumps camp during the 2016 election.\n\nSessions said Inspector General Michael Horowitz will be taking on the investigation.\n\nOn February 2nd, the House Intel Committee led by Chairman Nunes released their classified FISA memo.\n\nThe 4-page FISA memo revealed the phony dossier formed an essential part to obtaining the original FISA warrant and the three subsequent renewals.\n\nWe also found out the political origins of the dossier were known to the FBI and DOJ yet kept from the FISA court.\n\nFormer Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe also testified that if not for the dossier, the FBI would never have sought the FISA warrant on former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.\n\nRanking member of the House Intel Committee Adam Schiff has been in panic mode since Chairman Nunes discovered the FISA abuses and unmasking scandal.\n\nOn Saturday, Schiff released his Dem spin memo only to have Chairman Nunes crush him with a point by point refutation.\n\nThe investigation into the FISA abuses better not be a sham like the FBIs pathetic investigation into Hillary Clintons use of a private server.","title":"AG SESSIONS DOJ Will Open Official Investigation Into Obamas FISA Abuse","date":"2018-02-27","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Leftists LOVE diversity. \n\nThey preach it ALL the time at their rallies and on Facebook.\n\n Just as long as you keep it out of their neighborhood.\n\nThe administrator lectured the parents and told them how offended he was by their comments.\n\nThe Upper West Side went to Hillary Clinton by 89% in 2016.\n\n\n\nWatch liberals lose their sh*t over more minority kids coming to their local schools.","title":"WATCH Upper West Side Liberals Lose Their Sht When School Announces Plans to Bring in More Black","date":"2018-04-27","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"President Donald Trump finally admitted Tuesday that he had no proof to support his blatant lies and conspiracy theories about the migrants and asylum-seekers traveling toward the U.S.-Mexico border.\n\nThe President also tried  and failed  to get Vice President Mike Pence to accuse Democrats of funding the caravan, and to say there were Islamic State members in the caravan.\n\nPence did say that, during a phone call earlier Tuesday, the vice president of Honduras had told him that the group was organized by leftist organizations and financed by Venezuela.\n\n\n\nWhat else did they say, Mike, about ISIS? Trump attempted. Did they say something?\n\nThey hadnt. Pence returned to talking about leftist groups.\n\nPressed earlier for proof for Democrats non-existent involvement with the caravan, Trump was similarly evasive.\n\nYoure going to find out. And were going to see. Maybe they made a bad mistake, too, he said.","title":"No Proof Of Anything Trump Unravels When Pressed On Migrant Conspiracies","date":"2018-10-23","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Copyright 2016 | DC Gazette","title":"Anyone But Nancy Pelosi for Speaker","date":"2018-11-17","source":"dcgazette","label":0}
{"content":"It will be a week shy of six years since Englands last victory in Dublin when Eddie Jones leads his side into the Aviva Stadium in February, but he will do so with the painful memory of watching Ireland celebrate a Six Nations Grand Slam at Twickenham fuelling the desire to beat what is arguably the best team in the world.\n\nEngland are no doubt rejuvenated from an autumn series that has seen them win three from four tests and lose to New Zealand by the matter of just one point, but Ireland remain the team to beat after an unblemished campaign that included their second win over the All Blacks in two years.\n\nIt is set-up to be a mouth-watering clash that, unusually, comes on the opening weekend of the championship as opposed to its usual billing late in the tournament. But that will not reduce what is at stake, with Jones turning his attentions towards Joe Schmidt and Ireland in what is very much a revenge mission.\n\nWe owe them one, Jones said after the 37-18 victory over Australia wrapped up Englands hit-and-miss 2018 with six wins and six losses.\n\nIm not worried about winning the Six Nations, Im worried about Ireland. We just need to keep getting better. We play them first up so its the most important game weve got coming forward.\n\nTheyre the top team in Europe now. We want to be the top team in Europe. Its pretty simple.\n\nIt will be a belting start to the championship given that Wales travel to Paris and Scotland and Italy meet in Edinburgh, and with the World Cup to follow just six months after its conclusion, the importance of winning it cannot be over-exaggerated if any of the northern hemisphere heavyweights are to see their lofty expectations materialise in Japan.\n\nThe clash in Dublin also carries that little bit more weight given Ireland are very quickly becoming Englands bogey team. Sure, Scotland and France also beat them earlier this year, but it was Ireland who halted their winning run under Eddie Jones in March 2017 with a dominant display in Dublin, and it was Ireland who never really looked like losing when the two met on the final weekend of this years edition.\n\nSince that encounter, Ireland have gone on to claim a first series victory in Australia and record impressive victories over New Zealand, Argentina, Italy and the United States  the latter two with a heavily rotated side  and the England squad are under know illusions of how tough their next match will be.\n\nIts difficult, said Jamie George after putting in arguably his best performance in an England shirt against Australia. A huge amount of respect to them, in my eyes theyre the best team in the world at the moment so theyve got a great playing group thats well coached. We know thats going to be a serious test in Dublin so were looking forward to it.\n\nI think weve got to emphasise that you cant dip your toe into test matches, we saw that against Japan. Thats the thing weve learned some good lessons over the last four weeks and playing Ireland first up is just so exciting and something to really look forward to and something to build towards over the next couple of months.\n\nWhat could end up falling in Englands favour is that they will be a different side defensively on 2 February than they were on 17 March this year. Taking the autumn into account, Englands defence looks to be getting back to where it was in the first year under Jones and his original defence coach, Paul Gustard. But this year brought the surprise news that Gustard was leaving the international set-up in the summer to forge his own career as head of rugby at Harlequins, leaving the door open for Jones to bring in former New Zealand boss John Mitchell.\n\nIt appears to have paid off, with England conceding just one try apiece to the Springboks and All Blacks and two in the games with Japan and Australia, and with another training camp in Portugal planned at the end of January for Jones et al to tailor how they want England to defend, they may be able to find the solution to keeping Ireland at bay in a way that they were unable to do eight months ago.\n\nWhen you consider weve put in a new defence in the autumn  we had three training sessions to put it in and weve conceded six tries in four games, Jones added. Thats 1.5 (tries conceded) per game which is less than the Tier One Test average, so Ive been very impressed with our defence and theres more to come there. That will create more attacking opportunities for us.\n\nThe reality is that Guzzy (Gustard) went to Harlequins and he maybe wishes he hadnt gone now. I saw their win and loss record ... Im sure hell bounce back!\n\nWe had to bring in a new defence coach and a new system. We had to change and changing, when you dont get preparation time, is difficult. Weve done that and its credit to Mitch (Mitchell) and the players  particularly Owen (Farrell) in that regard. Owen and Brad Shields are the leading players in defence and theyve worked really hard to get that system right.\n\nBut in leading that charge, Farrell has courted plenty of controversy. Just as the dust settled on his last-ditch shoulder charge on South Africas Andre Esterhuizen  a tackle that Australia coach Michael Cheika claimed was reviewed at a recent World Rugby referees meeting to demonstrate an unacceptable tackle  he landed himself in a fresh storm with a similar challenge on Izack Rodda when the Wallabies lock was on the verge of scoring a try\n\nThe incident, which was not referred to the television match official by Jaco Peyper much to Cheikas fury, has once again cast doubt on whether Farrell crosses the line with his tackling technique too often, but Jones stood by his captain and he is now about to tell him to change his ways.\n\nThe referee said it was good. When he says its not good, well have a chat about it, Jones said. When you hit people hard, you place yourself at risk. And he hits people hard. I like people being hit hard.\n\nTheres a judgement area all the time in that. Obviously we want to be within the laws. Owen doesnt try to tackle outside of the laws so hell keep on working on that.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"Eddie Jones turns his attention to Ireland after Englandaposs autumn revival aposWe owe them on","date":"2018-11-25","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Eat more blueberries not only because they are delicious, but also because they can protect you from bacterial infections. A study published in the journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine found that highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) can potentially be used as natural therapeutic agents for treating infections.\n\nResearchers at Universite Laval in Canada looked at the antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties that are in highbush blueberries. They then looked at the effects of the proanthocyanidins in the blueberries on the gram-negative bacteria Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, as well as in biofilm formations that have been stained with crystal violet. A. actinomycetemcomitans, in particular, is the essential factor in the etiology of localized aggressive periodontitis, the inflammation of the gums and supporting structures of the teeth.\n\nThe researchers also analyzed the effects of blueberry proanthocyanidins on the integrity of the oral keratinocyte barrier, leukotoxin activity, and the lipopolysaccharide-mediated inflammatory response of monocytes\/macrophages.\n\nBased on the results, the proanthocyanidins in highbush blueberry attenuated the growth of A. actinomycetemcomitans and inhibited biofilm formation. They also exhibited antibacterial activities by damaging the bacterial cell membrane. Moreover, they protected macrophages from leukotoxins negative effects and hampered the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Furthermore, the proanthocyanidins prevented the activation of the NF-?B signaling pathway.\n\nMother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary \"sulforaphane\" and \"glucosinolate\" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here.\n\nThe findings of the study suggested that the proanthocyanidins in highbush blueberry possess antibacterial and anti-inflammatory activities, making blueberries as potential natural therapeutic agents for treating infections.\n\nBlueberries may be small in size, but they are packed with many nutrients. In fact, they are even labeled as a superfood. Most of the benefits that blueberries offer can be attributed to its anthocyanin content, a type of flavonoid that also gives blueberry its blue color. Flavonoids are plant compounds that often have potent antioxidant properties. The following are some of the health benefits that blueberries offer:\n\nRead more news stories and studies on the many health benefits of blueberries by going to Blueberries.news.","title":"Eat more blueberries to protect yourself from bacterial infections","date":"2018-08-23","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"SINGAPORE, November 15. \/TASS\/. Politically motivated economic restrictions\nare harmful, particularly to those who impose them, but they will not hamper\nMoscows partnership with other countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin\nsaid at a press conference following the East Asia Summit.\n\n\"Any politically motivated restrictions, which affect the field of economy,\nhinder economic development. They hamper our activities and the activities of\nour partners, including even those who introduce these sanctions,\" Putin said.\n\"However, it cannot hinder development, it is out of the question, it is\nimpossible,\" the Russian president added.\n\nPutin stressed that sanctions pressure could prevent neither technological nor\neconomic development. \"This is the reason why cooperation will go on,\" he\nnoted. \"I have already said today that Asian countries account for about 25%\nof our trade,\" Putin added. According to him, in 2017, trade grew by 27%, or\naround $200 bln.\n\nThe Russian head of state also said that positive trends remained in place in\nevery field, including high technology. \"For instance, you see Singapore\npromoting the idea of smart cities. And where do smart cities come from?\nThey are based on high technologies, including digital ones,\" Putin said.\n\nHe pointed out that the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) had already signed free\ntrade agreements with Vietnam and China, while talks on free trade agreements\nwere underway with India and Singapore.\n\nIn other media","title":"Sanctions will not hamper Russias partnership with other countries vows Putin","date":"2018-11-15","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Hammond has launched an sustained personal attack on the former foreign secretary as he prepared to deliver a speech at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.\n\n \n\n In a series of interviews and TV appearances, the Remain-supporting cabinet minister defended Theresa Mays so-called Chequers plan to deliver Brexit against criticism by Johnson, who has described it as deranged.\n\n \n\n Johnson last week urged the PM to chuck Chequers and instead pursue a Canada-style free trade deal with the EU in an essay outlining his vision for Brexit in the Telegraph.\n\n \n\n But Hammond said Super Canada proposal suggested by Johnson is not on offer from the EU because it would create a hard border in Northern Ireland.\n\n \n\n In a searing assessment of Johnson, Hammond ridiculed him for having no grasp of detail on complex matters and accused him of living in a fantasy world in terms of Brexit.\n\nOn Johnsons prospects of becoming PM, Hammond mockingly said he doesnt expect it to happen because he cannot do grown-up politics.\n\n \n\n Questioning his fitness for Downing Street, Hammond suggested introducing Boris Bikes during his tenure as London mayor was his greatest accomplishment to date.\n\n \n\n Hammond, who voted to Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum, is the latest pro-EU cabinet member to defend Mrs May against a barrage of attacks by Eurosceptic MPs.\n\n \n\n His comments come after the PM told the BBCs Andrew Marr Show that she would make a success of Brexit regardless of the outcome while repeatedly failing to rule out a no-deal.\n\nI don't believe that will happen Responding to Johnsons claims she doesn't believe in Brexit, Mrs May suggested her Chequers plan is the only option that will get a really good deal with the EU.\n\n \n\n Johnson is not speaking from the stage at this year's conference, after walking out of cabinet in July in protest at the plan agreed at Chequers for the UK's future relationship with the EU.\n\n \n\n His repeated attacks on Mrs May and her Brexit plan have stoked rumours he is about to mount a leadership challenge. \n\n \n\n But today, when Hammond was repeatedly asked whether Johnson could ever become prime minister, he stated several times: \"I don't believe that will happen.\"\n\nHe told Sky News: \"Of course, Boris is a big personality, nobody is denying that.\n\n \n\n What I'm saying is that the business of government is a process of attention to detail, follow-through, lots of hard work.\n\n \n\n \"It isn't just about making flamboyant statements and big announcements, it's about getting things done.\"\n\n \n\n He dismissed the former foreign secretary's call for the UK to negotiate a \"Super Canada\" free trade agreement with the EU.\n\n \n\n \"It isn't about taking back control, it's about fantasy world,\" Mr Hammond told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nHe suggested Johnson does not understand to intricacies of negotiating with the EU, adding: \"It's no good just ignoring it and banging your head against a brick wall.\n\n \n\n \"You have got to understand what their red lines are as well so you can try and find a landing ground you can both accept, which means a deal gets done.\"\n\n \n\n Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt used a Telegraph interview to warn Brussels it would stir up a \"Dunkirk Spirit\" if it forced Mrs May into a bad deal.\n\n \n\n He told the paper: \"If President Macron thinks... we will come crawling back desperate to rejoin the club in a few years' time... it is a profound misreading of our character.\"","title":"He will NEVER be PM Hammond savages Boris Johnson and his fantasy world Brexit plan","date":"2018-10-01","source":"thedailystar","label":0}
{"content":"# Get alerted on heavy metals and pesticide test results for foods and\nsupplements\n\n![](Images\/Health-Ranger-Suit-75x75.jpg)Natural News is about to begin\nreleasing lab test results for off-the-shelf food, supplement and pet food\nproducts, covering heavy metals, nutritive minerals, pesticides and\nherbicides. These details will be released exclusively to Natural News email\nnewsletter subscribers (FREE) and will NOT be publicly posted on the website.\nTo be alerted, join our free email newsletter now, and watch for lab test\nresults in the weeks ahead.\n\nEnter your email address below to subscribe to our email announcement list\n(but don't use gmail). Your privacy is protected and you can unsubscribe at\nany time. If you don't join our email list, you may never see our valuable\ncontent again via Facebook, Google or YouTube. CENSORSHIP has now reached\nEXTREME levels across the 'net. The truth is being suffocated. Subscribe now\nif you want to escape the delusional bubble of false reality being pushed by\nGoogle and Facebook.","title":"Date palm pollen and seeds found to effectively stop antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria Study","date":"2018-10-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Despite her vote against Brett Kavanaughs confirmation to the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he was proud to have Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in the Republican conference and nobodys going to beat her in a future election.\n\nShes certainly going to recover, McConnell said during an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday. This is a woman who got in with a write-in vote in 2010. Shes about as strong as you can possibly be in Alaska. Nobodys going to beat her, Im proud shes in the Republican conference.\n\nThat comes in contrast with what McConnells party has indicated about Murkowskis future. During a recent rally, Trump told supporters that Murkowski would never recover politically from voting against Kavanaughs confirmation. The Republican Party in her home state is reportedly mulling whether it should punish her for her Kavanaugh vote.","title":"McConnell Says Nobodys Going To Beat Murkowski Proud To Have Her","date":"2018-10-10","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"MOSCOW, September 27. \/TASS\/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks\nwith Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in October, the Izvestia daily said on\nThursday citing Russian presidents aide Yuri Ushakov.\n\nAccording to Ushakov, the meeting will be held in St. Petersburg.\n\nPutin and Kurz met in late August when the Russian leader attended the wedding\nceremony of Austrias Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl. The Russian president\nand the Austrian chancellor has a brief meeting at the Graz Airport before\nPutins takeoff for Germany for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nIn other media","title":"Putins talks with Austrian chancellor to take place in St Petersburg in October - daily","date":"2018-09-27","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"The East Coast is preparing for what experts say will be a disastrous hurricane.\n\nThe Puerto Rican Government Blames Trump For Their Own Ineptitude","title":"Watch Live As Millions Brace For Hurricane Florence Leftist Media Is Blaming Trump","date":"2018-09-13","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A Lion Air flight is believed to have crashed into the sea off Jakarta, Indonesia, with 189 people reported to be on board. Search and rescue operations have begun, while some personal belongings and debris has been found in the water around the suspected crash site.","title":"Lion Air Plane Crashes With 189 On Board","date":"2018-10-29","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, residents of Florida are recovering from a massive hurricane that left 18 people dead and thousands homeless and financially devastated. An American resident who worked as a journalist for The Washington Post has disappeared and is suspected to have been murdered by a foreign government. Scientists released dire warnings and a limited timeline regarding what will be the deadly effects of climate change.\n\nThe president of the United States, however, has concerned himself on Twitter with Sen. Elizabeth Warrens ancestry, his former mistresss horseface, and details of a dossier that has never been debunked about his 2016 presidential campaigns alleged collusion with a hostile foreign government that he desperately wants to convince his rabid fanbase is fake news.\n\nPieces of the dossier have turned out to be disturbingly true and other pieces are as yet unconfirmed, but none of it has proven fake. No amount of Glen Simpson talking to a reporter about the dossier changes the veracity of it, but muddling the story is Trumps best hope at this point.\n\nImagine for a moment that Republicans had gotten hold of potential evidence that President Barack Obama had illegally stolen an election after their candidate won the popular vote. After all, Trump tried to challenge the legitimacy of Obamas presidency with his fake birther claims no matter how many times it was debunked. The GOP conducted endless investigations into Hillary Clintons use of a private email server as secretary of state and an attack in Benghazi that turned up no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nYet, with real evidence to back up suspicions of wrongdoing, Trump complains about how unfairly hes being treated. At this point, its tiresome and most Americans are waiting for Trump to decide to focus on whats important while Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation plays out.\n\nTwitter wasnt impressed by Trumps rant, either. See some of their comments below:\n\nFeatured image via Flickr by Gage Skidmore under a Creative Commons license","title":"Trump Tweets About The Fake Dossier Like A Crooked Used Car Salesman","date":"2018-10-16","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) In an age where state and federal governments increasingly feel the need to curb health freedoms, a Texas-based advocacy group is asking residents of the Lone Star State to help push back.\n\nThe organization Texas Right To Know is urging citizens to sign a petition demanding more transparency from the Texas Medical Board as a way to better protect both patients and their doctors.\n\nWe ask for Texas Sunset Commission members to approve the New Issues Previously Adopted by Sunset Commission and the Proposed New Recommendations from the Decision Meeting Material for the May 24th Sunset Commission Hearing. Our hope is that these recommendations will result in much needed law changes in 2019, says the organizations website.\n\nThe petition (which you can access here) supports several changes that will:\n\n Improve access to new and revolutionary treatment options that could save lives and that patients want to try;\n\n Protect the constitutional rights of doctors and their patients;\n\n Provide more accountability of and oversight of the Texas Medical Board.\n\nWe support and stand with Senators Dawn Buckingham, Bob Hall and Kirk Watson and Representatives Dan Flynn and Poncho Nevarez and their bipartisan support of the recommendations submitted to the Sunset Commission, the petitions states, directing people to pages 10-13 of the Decision Material.\n\nThe petition notes that the health freedom initiatives supported by Texas Right To Know arent simply for state residents but for anyone who seeks medical care in the state. Lets make Texas a true health freedom state to provide innovative treatments to heal diseases with education therapies to prevent illnesses, the petition says. (Related: Texas: Is medical freedom in jeopardy?)\n\nSponsored solution from CWC Labs: This heavy metals test kit allows you to test almost anything for 20+ heavy metals and nutritive minerals, including lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum and more. You can test your own hair, vitamins, well water, garden soil, superfoods, pet hair, beverages and other samples (no blood or urine). ISO accredited laboratory using ICP-MS (mass spec) analysis with parts per billion sensitivity. Learn more here.\n\nWe have been working with and interviewing numerous physicians, attorneys and members of the public who have reported egregious actions of the Texas Medical Board (TMB).  Reports include but are not limited to withholding or prohibiting evidence supporting the physicians innocence, failing to comply and violating their own board rules, utilizing biased experts, and violating constitutional rights of physicians and their patients.\n\nBased upon interviews and research of court cases, it may be surmised that some of the problems also lie in how some of the laws are written.  From 2007 to 2016, only 9 of the 843 cases  a calculated 1% of the cases against physicians  taken to an administrative hearing sided in favor of the physician. In fact, the Texas Medical Board recently caused one administrative law judge to resign (in lieu of termination) after he made an extremely rare ruling against the TMB and in favor of the physician.\n\nEvery SOAH ALJ knows what happened. Every SOAH (State Office of Administration Hearings) ALJ (Administrative Law Judge) knows that from now on, when they rule against an agency, they will be provided no protection from the Chief Judge and most likely will be fired, says Ron Beal, a law professor specializing in administrative law at Baylor University in Waco.\n\nHow does that sit well for Texas citizens fighting for their job that is being threatened by a regulatory agency? The entire SOAH agency has been polluted, and it will take a miracle for the ALJs to continue deciding cases on the merits, he added.\n\nThus far, TRTK notes, four cases have been brought before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the past year along regarding what the organization described as egregious TMV violations of patients and doctors constitutional rights.\n\nOne case involves the raid of a doctors office by TMB officials without a warrant on behalf of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which was conducting an investigation.\n\nIn another case, the Fifth Circuit found that the TMB acted in bad faith in another warrantless search of a doctor.\n\nRead more about health freedom at HealthFreedom.news.\n\nJ.D. Heyes is a senior writer for NaturalNews.com and NewsTarget.com, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.","title":"Advocacy group urges Texas residents to sign health freedom petition to protect rights of patients","date":"2018-05-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"On Thursday, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the entire nation to tell her story. In the emotional testimony, she gave a detailed account of the night Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh allegedly sexually assaulted her.\n\nIn response to that, Americans across America voiced their opinion, and some of them were absolutely disgusting. Fox News contributor Kevin Jackson was one of those who voiced a vulgar and reprehensible opinion calling Ford and other accusers lying skanks.\n\nFox News actually did the right thing and fired Jackson, however.\n\nJackson provided ongoing commentary on Twitter throughout the day on Twitter as the hearing rocked on. In one of his tweets, he called Kavanaughs accusers skanks.\n\nI disagree. Feminists are their own worst enemies, and enemy of women. Also, they want men to NEVER be believed. Im not succumbing. TO HELL with the notion that women must be believed no matter what. Lying skanks is what these 3 women are, and we ALL know more.\n\nAlong with that, he commented on Fords appearance describing her as rode hard and put up wet.\n\nIn a statement put out by Fox News, they stated his comments do not reflect the networks values.\n\nMaybe Breitbart will have a position for Jackson?","title":"Fox News Contributor Fired After Tweeting That Kavanaugh Accusers Are Lying Skanks","date":"2018-09-28","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) New Yorks attorney general, Eric Schneiderman  a champion of the Alt-Left who has made a name for himself in his state and around the country for opposing President Donald J. Trumps agenda  has resigned amid a number of allegations from four women that he beat and abused them.\n\nThe women, two of whom have gone public and two of whom have chosen to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution, have all alleged that Schneiderman physically and mentally abused them, including slapping them across the face and injuring them to the point they had to seek medical attention.\n\nAs reported by The New Yorker, the women made a number of disturbing claims again a man who claimed to be a champion of the #MeToo movement:\n\nThey accuse Schneiderman of having subjected them to nonconsensual physical violence. All have been reluctant to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, have talked to The New Yorker on the record, because they feel that doing so could protect other women. They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent.\n\nThe magazine noted further that Manning Barish and Selvaratnam characterized the abuse as an assault. Though they never reported Schneidermans actions to police, they both said they sought medical attention for their injuries after they were slapped hard across the ear and face as well as choked.\n\nA third woman who was also romantically involved with the former AG told Manning Barish and Selvaratnam that he regularly subjected her to nonconsensual physical abuse, but shes too scared to come forward publicly. The New Yorker reported that it has independently fact-checked those accounts.\n\nA fourth woman who is an attorney and who has held several prominent posts within the New York legal community said that the AG made a sexual advance towards her but when she rebuffed those advances, he slapped her across the face so hard it left a mark that hung around until the next day.\n\nShe recalls screaming in surprise and pain, and beginning to cry, and says that she felt frightened, the magazine reported. She has asked to remain unidentified, but shared a photograph of the injury with The New Yorker.\n\nAs further noted by Mediaite:\n\nIn response to the report, Schneiderman denied he engaged in any non-consensual behavior and said he had been role-playing. Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand had called on him to resign earlier tonight.\n\nSchneiderman, who has fought the Trump administration over everything from immigration enforcement to climate policy, issued a statement as he stepped down.\n\nIts been my great honor and privilege to serve as attorney general for the people of the State of New York, he said. In the last several hours, serious allegations, which I strongly contest, have been made against me.\n\nWhile these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the offices work at this critical time. I, therefore, resign my office, effective at the close of business on May 8, 2018.\n\nIt should be noted that Schneiderman joins a long and growing list of Left-wing Democrats and Democrat-leaning men who have either admitted to physically abusing women or who have been accused of doing the same.\n\nThat includes Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein (whom Schneiderman hypocritically sued); former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner; and former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned after it was revealed he sought the company of prostitutes. (Related: NYT buried story on Harvey Weinsteins sexual predator behavior in 2004 to protect a top Democrat donor.)\n\nIt also should be noted that Schneidermans behavior  like that of Weinsteins  was long known. Even President Trump tweeted his suspicions in 2013:\n\nSpeaking of Trump, the new revelations about Schneiderman really make those involving Stormy Daniels  who has alternately claimed their tryst did and did not happen  pale in comparison.\n\nRead more about Left-wing corruption at LiberalMob.com.\n\nJ.D. Heyes is a senior writer for NaturalNews.com and NewsTarget.com, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.","title":"Anti-Trump AG in New York resigns amid reports he beat abused women Another white male Leftist fa","date":"2018-05-08","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Big tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube have performed perhaps the greatest bait-and-switch in American history as they now have committed to an about-face to the American value of free speech.\n\nThat is the assessment of Breitbart News Allum Bokhari who exclusively presented a leaked Google internal briefing titled The Good Censor to the public on October 9th, exposing the world once again to major tech companies attitude towards the bedrock of traditional American attitude.\n\nThe Good Censor is an 85-page briefing that openly admits that Google and other tech platforms are undertaking a shift towards censorship in response to unwelcome political events around the world. Unsurprisingly  especially after leaked video showed Google employees in an emotional meltdown after the election victory of Donald J. Trump  The Good Censor cites the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the rise of the populist Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in Germany as unwelcomed events.\n\nWhile admitting the shift away from free speech it is also simultaneously admitted that those select few giants control the majority of online conversations.\n\nThe briefing goes into how Google, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are stuck in a position of going along with the unmediated marketplace of ideas (free speech and free markets) vs. well-ordered spaces for safety and civility (censorship). These two directions are also described as the American tradition which prioritizes free speech for democracy, not civility and the European tradition, which favors dignity over liberty and civility over freedom. The internal pages claim that all tech platforms are now moving toward the European tradition.\n\nPerhaps the most significant part of the brief, as Breitbarts Bokhari reports, is when it associates Googles new role as the guarantor of civility with the categories of editor and publisher.\n\nThis is significant, given that Google, YouTube, and other tech giants publicly claim they are not publishers but rather neutral platforms  a categorization that grants them special legal immunities under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Elsewhere in the document, Google admits that Section 230 was designed to ensure they can remain neutral platforms for free expression.\n\nWhat ordinary Americans long suspected, The Good Censor has proven beyond doubt. According to Googles own analysis, tech companies have performed perhaps the greatest bait-and-switch in American history, promising their users free speech while they were taking over the market, only to go back on their word once they came to control the majority of online conversations.\n\nWhat better example to prove this bait-and-switch than the statement given by Sinead McSweeney, Twitters vice president for public policy and communications in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa who told British politicians at the end of last year that its no longer possible to stand up for all speech.\n\nJust 5 years prior, Twitters first executive in the UK, Tony Wang, described the company as the free-speech wing of the free-speech party.\n\nThe once acceptance and defense of free speech by these big tech players is discussed in The Good Censor, as the document reads: This free speech ideal was instilled in the DNA of the Silicon Valley startups that now control the majority of our online conversations.\n\nAnd while Google hubrisly boasts that its free speech bait-and-switch has placed them and a few other giants as controllers of the majority of online conversations (aka the majority of all conversation happening on earth) the company has come out and finally admitted directly that it has a censored Chinese search engine project in the works. What better guarantor of civility, publisher, editor could the masses of internet users wish to oversee the majority of online conversation?","title":"Big Tech Performed Greatest Bait-and-Switch in American History","date":"2018-10-17","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Although Democrats are set to pick up likely dozens of seats in the U.S. House come the conclusion of the midterms next week, the outcomes in U.S. Senate races are less certain. One particularly tight contest has been unfolding in Arizona, where Democrat Kyrsten Sinema is challenging Republican Martha McSally to replace the retiring Jeff Flake. In the aftermath of a recent poll putting McSally ahead, Green Party candidate Angela Green has dropped out and thrown her support behind Sinema.\n\nI want them to vote for a better Arizona  and that would be for Kyrsten Sinema and the Democratic Party. There are a lot of reasons I cant support the other candidate, but the main reason is that [Sinema is] more in line with what my political agenda is, what Im looking to do to help Arizona become more green again honestly, and after watching the debate, Ive seen that Sinemas stances on a lot of things are very similar to mine.\n\nAlthough she was running as part of a minor party, Green wasnt just a nobody in the race, registering some three to six percent support in some polls. FiveThirtyEight estimated her late Thursday to be on track to receive two percent of the vote once votes are tallied next week, while their model has Sinema finishing just barely ahead of McSally with a 3 in 5 chance of winning. Still, a recent poll has McSally ahead of Sinema by seven percent, so one can never be too careful, and Greens endorsement could prove a helpful boost for the Democratic contender.\n\nGreens party and others like it have been lambasted in the past for supposedly taking votes away from progressive candidates in the much higher profile Democratic Party. For instance, in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Florida, Donald Trump finished with some 113,000 more votes than Hillary Clinton  and while the Green Partys presidential candidate, Jill Stein, didnt personally procure enough votes to fill that gap, Libertarian Gary Johnson did. In Michigan in that same election, Stein definitely got enough votes to surpass the margin Trump led Clinton with  and both Florida and Michigan were crucial to the eventual presidents electoral college victory.\n\nStein, on a personal level, has distinguished herself through other means, spearheading incessant activism along with her party that has earned them supporters and detractors. Green, though, down in Arizona, seems concerned with leveraging that activism to craft a path forward for the people of her state and the country at large.\n\nSinemas race is a somewhat rare, somewhat bright spot for Democrats running for the U.S. Senate this year. While in Florida, Democrat Bill Nelson also maintains an edge  in Missouri, Tennessee, and Nevada, Democratic candidates futures are in doubt.\n\nIn the U.S. House, the situation remains a lot brighter, with FiveThirtyEight estimating dozens of Democratic pickups incoming. That will wrest control of the entirety of Congress away from President Donald Trumps party and help put up a roadblock ahead of his continuously repugnant agenda.","title":"BREAKING Arizona Senate Candidate Drops Out Endorses Democrat -GOP Panics","date":"2018-11-02","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sharply criticized the conduct of his predecessor, John Kerry, telling Fox Newss Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that he cant seem to get off the stage.\n\nIts one thing to meet with your counterpart. Its another thing to do what Secretary Kerry, Wendy Sherman, Ernest Moniz, frankly the whole gang has done, which is to actively seek to undermine what President Trump is trying to achieve, Pompeo said during an interview on The Ingraham Angle.\n\nIts okay to talk with them, but you have to be working for America, working for American foreign policy, and theyre not. Theyre working for the foreign policy that is theirs, not the one that belongs to the United States, the secretary of state continued.","title":"Pompeo Blasts Kerry Over Meetings With Iranian Officials","date":"2018-09-20","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"At this point, it has long been established that, despite President Donald Trump repeatedly insisting that neither he nor his team have ties to Russia, they do. If they were forthcoming about those ties, then perhaps they could be easily understood, but instead, they remain hellbent on keeping the truth hidden, a practice that begs the question of what theyre guilty of.\n\nAs the evidence against the president and his team members continues to pile up, BuzzFeed now has yet another revelation about a previously concealed tie of the presidents team to Russia. The story ties into the newly scrutinized role of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in the presidents world, something thats been put under the microscope thanks to the hush money he gave adult film star Stormy Daniels for his boss.\n\nThe new report from BuzzFeed focuses on an entirely different side to Cohens work. As has already been understood in the past, Cohens role as Trumps fixer drew him into harried, at times chaotic negotiations with prominent Russians for a potential Trump Tower Moscow. Some of the Russian interests involved in those negotiations had a part in Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections.\n\nThe never realized tower wasnt going to be built by the Trump Organization, but the presidents name would have been licensed for usage on what was set to be the tallest building in Europe. Negotiations surrounding that potential development fell through, but the circumstances of that collapse have been at least somewhat concealed by Michael Cohen. Again, then, the question presents itself of why the president and his associates seem so compelled to hide certain pieces of information.\n\nCohen released a statement ahead of testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee late last year in which he claimed the pursuit of Trump Tower Moscow to have been terminated in January of 2016, but thats a lie. In fact, discussions involving Cohen about the potential project stretched to all the way after Trump won the Indiana GOP presidential primary and was understood to have essentially clenched the partys presidential nomination.\n\nOn May 4, 2016, Cohen wrote in a text message to longtime Trump business associate Felix Sater that Trump would be set to himself travel to Moscow to negotiate the terms of the development once he becomes the nominee after the convention.\n\nCohen had at the same time expressed an intention to himself travel to Russia ahead of Trump before the convention as a part of the process of negotiating the terms of the development.\n\nNeither Cohen nor Trump are understood to have ever actually traveled to Russia as a part of the plans for the non-existent Trump Tower Moscow.\n\nCohen pushed off talk with Sater about traveling to Russia for the deal to after the GOPs national convention, and he never, according to BuzzFeed, picked it up again.\n\nSater, speaking to BuzzFeed, cited a specific denial from the president of connections to Russia as what he felt was the death knell of the project.\n\nThe president has indeed carried on with a so far endless campaign of denial when its come to his connections to Russia. Meanwhile, Special Counsel for the Russia investigation Robert Mueller continues to investigate the whole ordeal and sift through his denials.","title":"Buzzfeed Releases Evidence Of TrumpRussia Connection That Has Mueller Drooling","date":"2018-05-17","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Suicide is not a selfish act. Its an act of desperation, pain and often compulsion. The majority of those who have family or friends who have lost someone to suicide would agree. Having been friends with Kirsty since the age of 16, we had become closest in the last few years of her life. She had suffered with mental health illnesses such as depression and anxiety for many years. She took her own life in September 2016.\n\nI believe strongly that mental health illness is a serious as any other long-term and or terminal illness, yet however much its discussed in the press, there are not the same resources of support. When you have a physical injury, you attend A&E and a process follows. If you have a terminal illness, of which I have lost my mum and father-in-law to cancer, a timely treatment plan is put into place with a range of treatments and regular check-ups, in most cases with cancer, forever. For mental health I can only speak of my own experience, but 25 years of being in the system, three suicide attempts and a million medications, I am still on a waiting list for another 18 months for therapy, having never been offered any in the quarter of a century I have struggled. I was finally diagnosed at the beginning of this year, which allowed me to be added to the waiting list. Most of the time I fight, but other days, I simply think I cant carry on like this for another day, let alone another year or more.\n\nThe system lets us down. If were going to start accepting mental health in-line with physical health, then we need find the same pathways. There needs to be more centres such as A&E that we can attend when we are mentally unwell, rather than being pushed into a room, looked down on and made to feel like we would have been better not telling anyone about the overdose. And next time we reach crisis, our brain is unwell, thats the first thing that pops into our head when our inner voice tells us weve tried for the last time, just give up.\n\nAnd so many people say - do. Not through selfishness, but through pain, desperation and a lack of support for something they have been encouraged to speak out about. We speak out, finally admitting to ourselves and others, but there are not the resources or treatments available in this country to help.\n\nIts not selfish. The definition of selfish is a person, action, or motive, lacking consideration for other people; concerned chiefly with ones own personal profit or pleasure. My friend Kirsty wasnt trying to gain profit or pleasure, but respite for herself and others. I genuinely felt like I was saving other people, that my family would have a better life without me and I believe Kirsty will have felt the same. As much as she wanted the suffering to stop, she would never have thought solely of herself. Shed have thought her friends and family needed saving. Mental illness can twist and distort your thoughts so much so that youre lying to yourself and you have no idea.\n\nSome refer to the devastation left behind, and it does, which I have first hand experience of. But I still never saw Kirstys decision as selfish. To me it was the same as someone who had had enough of suffering with a terminal illness and could no longer bear the pain, or the pain she thought she was inflicting on others.\n\nOf course I wish she was still here, I still wish we were having girly nights in, laughing and crying together. Id do anything to bring her back. But she never acted selfishly, she was the most selfless person I ever met. She is now an angel, I am sure of that, watching over me during my recovery and being my inner cheerleader drowning out the annoying inner critic when he rears his head.","title":"My Friend Died By Suicide In No Way Do I Think It Was A Selfish Act","date":"2018-08-01","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had difficult decisions to make during his senior-civil-servant shuffle. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chad Hipolito\n\nWith the return of Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a major shakeup of the leadership in the public service, moving seven senior bureaucrats to new jobs.\n\nThe public service has been braced for Fridays shakeup since last month, when the government appointed Louise Levonian, the deputy minister at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), to the International Monetary Fund, without replacing her.\n\nGraham Flack, the deputy minister at Canadian Heritage, takes over Levonians job, while Helene Laurendeau, deputy minister of Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, moves into Flacks position at Heritage.\n\nMeanwhile, Laurendeau is being replaced at Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs by Daniel Watson, who is currently the executive director of Parks Canada.\n\nLevonians departure left a big hole at the department, which is typically headed by a seasoned deputy minister. forcing the government to rejig its senior ranks to find an experienced deputy for the job. Prior to Levonians departure, Lori Sterling, the deputy minister of labour, also at ESDC, retired, leaving both top jobs vacant.\n\nSterling is being replaced by Chantal Maheu, the deputy secretary of cabinet of plans and consultations at the Privy Council Office (PCO).\n\nPhilip Jennings, currently associate deputy minister of Natural Resources, moves to PCO to become deputy secretary to the cabinet for plans and consultations, effective Oct. 15.\n\nIsabelle Mondou, PCOs assistant secretary to cabinet for priorities and planning, moves up to become the associate deputy minister at Heritage.\n\nDavid Morrison, the associate deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, becomes associate deputy minister of Foreign Affairs and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the G7 Summit. He is replacing Peter Boehm, deputy minister and Canadas G7 sherpa, who announced his retirement earlier this month.","title":"Trudeau shuffles the senior-bureaucratic deck","date":"2018-09-21","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Clyde Lewis joins Alex Jones to share his thoughts on this anniversary of 9\/11.\n\nBefore he was President, Donald Trump made statements that he believed there may have been bombs in the Twin Towers since he had experience with building materials and how much damage they can withstand.","title":"Trump Says Bombs Exploded Inside Buildings During 911 Inside Job Evidence With Clyde Lewis","date":"2018-09-11","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Donald Trump hit back at Michelle Obama's claims that he put her \"family's safety at risk\" by promoting a conspiracy theory that her husband was not born in the US.\n\nThe former first lady said she would never forgive Mr Trump for pushing for the birther conspiracy about Barack Obama.\n\nMr Trump actively promoted the idea that his predecessor was a secret Muslim born in Kenya, where his father is from, and not really an American citizen, for several years. Mr Obama eventually released his birth certificate which proved he was born in the US state of Hawaii.\n\nIn her forthcoming memoir, Becoming, Ms Obama writes: The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks.\"\n\nWhat if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my familys safety at risk. And for this Id never forgive him.\"\n\nMr Trump responded by accusing her of intentionally trying to be controversial in her memoirs.\n\nI guess she wrote a book,\" he told reporters in Paris, where he was meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron.\n\n\"She got paid a lot of money to write a book. And they always insist that you come up with (something) controversial. Well Ill give you a little controversy back. Ill never forgive him (Barack Obama) for what he did to our United States military by not funding it properly, he added. It was depleted. Everything was old and tired and I came in and I had to fix it and Im in the process of spending tremendous amounts of money.\"\n\nHe said that he would \"never forgive\" Mr Obama \"for what he did to our military.\"\n\nHe added: Ill never forgive him for what he did in many other ways, which Ill talk to you about in the future.\"","title":"Trump attacks Michelle Obama and accuses her of apostrying to be controversialapos in her memoir","date":"2018-11-10","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"With hyperinflation gripping Iran and sanctions strangling the economy, Iranians are beginning to turn to gold to make everyday transactions, most notably to pay their rent.\n\nThe Iranian rial has depreciated rapidly since the US announced its withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the reimposition of economic sanctions. After the US formally announced it was pulling out of the deal in May, the exchange rate peaked at around 45,000 rials to the dollar. But that official rate was only available to well-connected bankers, importers and businesses. Average Iranians were paying twice that.  By July 29, money-exchangers in Tehran were charging around 100,000 rials for one dollar. Within 24 hours, it increased to 110,000 rials to the dollar.\n\nWith inflation rapidly spiraling out of control, Iranians have turned to gold. According to Bloomberg, bar and coin sales tripled to 15.2 tons in the second quarter of this year. Thats the highest demand for the yellow metal in four years. Novin Investment Bank analyst Massoud Gholampour said Iranians are preparing for an economic crisis.\n\nDemand for physical gold is very high and has been as the currencys been weakening. People want to invest in something thats safe if they think that a crisis may be on the way.\n\nAccording to a report by the Middle East Eye, Iranians have traditionally saved gold coins for major purchases such as weddings, but they are increasingly turning to gold for more mundane transactions. Some landlords have started collecting rent in gold instead of rials. Rents have gone up as purchasing power has failed. As the Middle East Eye put it, The downward spiral of the rial has led some landlords to try to safeguard their income by turning to gold.\n\nEsamil Jalali owns rental property in an affluent northern Tehran neighborhood. He now charges his tenants two gold coins per month for a 95-square meter apartment. With the rial depreciating so rapidly, hes turned to gold to protect the value of his rental income.\n\nI know that many may not be able to afford it, but when I see that the currency I may get from my tenants would have less value compared to the previous month, then that leaves me with no choice. If I continue to rent out my apartment in return for rials, then I would face financial loss.\n\nAs the economic situation continues to deteriorate in Iran, the use of precious metals for barter will likely increase. Those who have invested in gold and silver will fare much better as the crisis deepens.\n\nPeople often turn to barter, gold and silver in the midst of an economic crisis.\n\nAs the inflation rate approached 1 million percent, Venezuelans were forced to turn to barter just to survive. As a Reuters report put it, The rise of barter exchange, amid hyperinflation and a dearth of cash, is a reflection of how the once-prosperous country is reverting to the most rudimentary of mechanisms of commercial exchange.\n\nBarter also spread through several European countries after irresponsible government spending led to a debt crisis and bailouts a few years ago. In 2012, Spain saw a noticeable increase in barter exchanges, as Spaniards sought alternative ways to do business with each other in an economy on the verge of a major debt crisis. Greeks also became fluent in barter and alternative means of trade when their financial system effectively collapsed in 2010. Greeks had their access to cash severely restricted during their countrys recent economic turmoil. It got so bad, a robust barter economy developed out of sheer necessity, as everyday Greeks had to find ways to cope with cash withdrawal limits and currency shortages.\n\nMore recently, Indians faced a major shortage of cash, with as many as 90% of ATMs in some regions of the country running completely out of currency. The cash crisis stemmed from a policy of demonetization the Indian government launched.\n\nThe key to weathering a currency crisis, hyperinflation and economic chaos is to be prepared. Once the meltdown happens, it will become much more difficult to buy precious metals. For more information on barter metals and preparing for an economic crisis, visit the SchiffGold barter metals page.","title":"Iran Turns to Gold Amid Currency Crisis","date":"2018-09-05","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Apple has acquired a company that specializes in building lenses for smart glasses that can display augmented reality images overtop the real world. Reuters said that Apple likely purchased the company, Akonia Holographics, sometime earlier this year.\n\nAkonia describes its augmented reality lenses as thin, transparent, and capable of displaying vibrant, full-color, wide field-of-view images. As of two years ago, the company told VentureBeat that it was targeting a 60-degree field of view  which is small and less than most virtual reality headsets. But the company also described its lens in a way that suggested it offered higher-resolution images than its competitors without putting as many visual obstacles between an eye and the real world.\n\nApples said to be working on an AR product for 2020\n\nApple confirmed the acquisition to Reuters in its usual manner of not detailing why it bought the company. But the reason is hardly a secret: Apple has been moving quickly on developing augmented reality tech  you can already see it at work inside the iPhone  and the company is said to be working on an augmented reality headset, which Bloomberg reported could come out in 2020. Akonias lens tech (or its patent portfolio) will likely be a part of whatever Apple ends up making.\n\nAkonia has been around since 2012, but it didnt start working on augmented reality lenses until about two years ago. According to VentureBeat, Akonia was first set on creating a holographic storage medium  as best as I can tell, it was some kind of futuristic take on CDs  but eventually, it realized that wasnt working. Around the same time, it also realized that augmented reality had a good chance of taking off, so the company changed gears and began working on lenses.\n\nA lot of that is because of Apple. Tim Cook has publicly been very bullish on AR, calling it a big idea, like the smartphone, meaning its something that everyone will one day end up using. I think AR is that big, its huge, he said.\n\nApples AR tech has been developing surprisingly fast for whats currently just one of many features on the iPhone and iPad. Its capable of locking virtual objects in place, scaling them as you move around the room, and even letting users interact with them and play games. Few people are actually using this tech on a regular basis, but it seems clear that Apple is putting the tech in place for some much bigger purpose down the road.","title":"Apple bought a company that makes lenses for AR smart glasses","date":"2018-08-30","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Leftists spewed hate toward Kanye West Thursday night after the hip hop star appeared at the White House with the President and expressed his love for Trump, describing how haters had tried to scare him out of showing support.\n\nThe prime hater was CNNs Don Lemon, who called Wests appearance a minstrel show, and disgustingly suggested that Kanyes dead mother would be rolling in her grave if she knew he was hugging Trump.\n\nHim sitting there, being used by the President of the United States. The President of the United States exploiting him, and I dont mean this in a disparaging way  exploiting someone who needs help, who needs to back away from the cameras, who needs to get off stage, who needs to deal with his issues, Lemon stated, adding This has nothing to do with being liberal or a conservative. This has to do with honesty.\n\nThis was an embarrassment. Kanyes mother is rolling over in her grave. Lemon spewed.\n\nI spoke to one of her friends today or texted with one of her friends today from Chicago, Dondas friend. I used to live there. I know him. She said, Donda would be embarrassed by this. She would be terribly disturbed by this. And Kanye has not been the same since his mother died, Lemon declared.\n\nCNN has been running programming all week suggesting that Kanye is mentally disturbed, with one panelist on Lemons show even declaring that West is a token Negro:\n\nLemons comments prompted football legend-turned-activist Herschel Walker, among others, to call for the CNN hosts firing.\n\nThe only pro-Trump voice allowed onto Lemons broadcast was Steve Cortes, who slammed the host for airing such vitriol:\n\nYou know, Don, you said this meeting was embarrassing. I think quite frankly whats embarrassing is the condescension youve shown to Kanye West, someone who I think is a brave, independent thinker, a creative genius, Cortes told Lemon.\n\nDoes he speak in a different vernacular? Of course he does like a lot of artists. Its one I dont always understand but I do understand hes a great thinker. And for you and a lot of guests to dismiss him as a token Negro and question his mental stability when youre not doctors, you havent examined him, I think is really unfortunate. Cortes continued.\n\nAnd its an example unfortunately that is all too common on the left which is liberal- when a minority doesnt tow the party line, they are vilified and dismissed. Cortes further urged.\n\nYou said earlier today this was a minstrel show, Cortes said, adding I mean, could you be any more condescending to this man?\n\nLemon attempted to defend himself, exclaiming Im just telling the truth. Im not being condescending to him, Im telling the truth.\n\nAnd Im saying this... not out of animus for Kanye West but because I feel sorry for him. And I think he needs to take care of himself. Lemon suggested.\n\nIn a further CNN broadcast Thursday, elderly white men Bill Kristol Jeremy Diamond, Jake Tapper, and white news hacks Julie Kucinich and Nayyera Haq all agreed that Kanye has betrayed the hip hop community.\n\nAs renowned leaders within the hip hop community, theyd know best, right.\n\nMeanwhile, over at MSNBC, Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi were disgusted with the meeting, labeling it an assault on OUR White House.\n\nThe pair suggested West is mentally ill and needs help.\n\nIn a later MSNBC broadcast, Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson described Kanyes appearance as a blitzkrieg of blathering ignorance, and White Supremacy by Ventriloquism:\n\nA black mouth is moving, but white racist ideals are flowing from Kanye Wests mouth. Dyson spewed, adding Kanye West is engaging in one of the most nefarious practices yet. A black body and brain are the warehouse for the articulation and expression of anti-black sentiment.\n\nDyson also cited Wests dead mother, claiming the star has PTDS of his mothers passing and that we must intervene on his behalf.\n\nThis is time for us to say, Kanye, we as African American people cannot stand idly by while you give cover to a man who has proved to be a white supremacist, who has no interest in African American people, Dyson continued.\n\nAnd I say this as a man who loves Kanye West, who admires his genius, and who considers him a friend. Dyson further remarked.\n\nWith friends like that, who needs enemies?","title":"LOW CNNs Lemon Calls Kanye West A Minstrel Show And Brings Up His Dead Mother","date":"2018-10-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Facebook has rolled out its on-demand video service worldwide following a\ntrial run in the US.\n\nFacebook Watch is set to challenge YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Prime by\noffering a range of shows that viewers can choose from.\n\nFacebook has said it expects to spend up to $2bn (1.55bn) to produce content\nfor Facebook Watch.\n\nIn comparison, Netflix expects to spend $8bn (6.21bn) on producing original\ncontent in 2018, while Amazon Prime spent $4.5bn (3.49bn) in 2017.\n\nThe roll-out of Watch comes as Facebook is developing **[a talent show feature\nfor its app](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/facebook-could-host-talent-shows-in-\nfuture-app-release-11454583)** , which would allow users to pick a pop song\nand submit a recording for review.\n\nAlthough the company has not commented on whether the services will be\nintegrated, a music competition based on Facebook could be among the ways in\nwhich the company could attempt to make the most of its 2.2 billion users to\ncontribute to its offerings on Watch.\n\nFacebook will also allow content creators to upload original videos as well as\ncreate room for existing hits, with advertisement breaks available for\nuploaders in particular circumstances.\n\nImage: Facebook's TalentShow feature could contribute to Watch. Pic: Jane\nManchun Wong\n\nEnglish-speaking audiences in the US and UK will join those from the Republic\nof Ireland, Australia and New Zealand to monetise their video content.\n\nThe would-be broadcasters need to meet Facebook's standards before they can\ninclude advertising breaks, however.\n\nTo sign up for the \"Ad Breaks\" service, content creators will need 10,000\nfollowers or to generate more than 30,000 one-minute views per month - and\nFacebook will collect 45% of all of the revenues generated by these\nadvertisements.\n\nMarket analysts have suggested that the revenues from video advertisements\ncould contribute substantially to Facebook's income.\n\nAlthough Google-owned YouTube is a subsidiary of Google and does not report\nseparate revenues, analysts have estimated it brings in several billion a\nyear.","title":"Facebook takes on YouTube and Netflix with launch of Watch","date":"2018-08-29","source":"skynewsus","label":1}
{"content":"Globalists forces have infiltrated Fox News and the next targets in the purge of patriots appear to be Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham.","title":"Globalists Now Control Fox News Plan To Take Carlson Hannity Ingraham Off Air","date":"2018-08-14","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Paul Manafort has been running his mouth as of late, about the amazing life he has been given while incarcerated on charges on money laundering and bank fraud. Manafort was on house arrest until recently when Robert Mueller asked the judge on the case to revoke his bail based on evidence of witness tampering.\n\nNow, Mueller has responded to Manaforts gloating about the alleged VIP treatment hes receiving in jail. According to Talking Points Memo:\n\nManafort was apparently caught on a recorded line bragging about getting around the prison system to use his private email, have access to a cell phone, and private living and lavatory areas. This is much more than any other prisoner is getting, and is in fact against the law.\n\nManafort also made a request to move his trial. An attempt that Mueller apparently saw right through. The report continues:\n\nManafort had argued in filings last week that the move by the judge in the D.C. case to put in him jail while he awaits trial  after allegations he engaged in witness tampering  had severely impeded his preparation for the trial in Virginia, which is slated to begin later this month. His filings included the claim that he was being held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day  prompting his supporters and conservative journalists to suggest he was being treated unfairly. Mueller, on Tuesday, alleged that last weeks delay request was the first time Manafort raised any concerns but how his detention was affecting his ongoing trial prep. The special counsel pointed to a number of details about his current detention  many of those details mentioned by Manafort himself on monitored phone calls  that suggested that the jail was going out of its away to facilitate his trial prep.\n\nNow, Manaforts new mugshot has been released, and the image of him in a green jumpsuit is one that will go down in political history. Check it out below via TPM:\n\nThats just unsettling. Check out the court document here.\n\nAccording to TPM, this mugshot was taken July 12th:\n\nOn Thursday, July 12, Paul Manafort was booked into the Alexandria Detention Center, formally known as the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center. According to Sheriff Dana Lawhorne, Mr. Manaforts arrival and booking process were routine. Sheriff Lawhorne added, Because he is a high-profile inmate, Mr. Manafort will be placed in protective custody which limits his interactions with other inmates. Specific details about Mr. Manaforts confinement will not be made public due to security and privacy concerns. We will work closely with the U.S. Marshals to ensure his proper care while he remains in our custody. The Alexandria Detention Center is operated by the Alexandria Sheriffs Office and houses approximately 400 inmates, including federal inmates under an agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service. In the past, the Alexandria Detention Center has housed several high-profile inmates including Robert Hanssen and Zacarias Moussaoui.","title":"New Mugshot Of Paul Manafort Wearing Green Prison Jumpsuit Surfaces Its Pathetic","date":"2018-07-12","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Trump and the Enemies of the People\n\nThe refusal to bend to President Trumps assault on the press is essential to the future of American democracy.","title":"Trump and the Enemies of the People","date":"2018-08-16","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The Country Music Awards are the biggest night in country music, and on the red carpet front it's all about big hair, sequins and high glamour.\n\nAt the 52nd Annual CMA Awards, the looks worn by the women behind the biggest country songs ranged from off-the-shoulder ruffles to more seasonally appropriate crushed velvet.\n\nOne style standout was Thomas Rhetts wife Lauren Akins, a breakout star in her own right with more than two million Instagram followers. The couple are fond of sharing their life and photos of their two sweet daughters on social media. My wife is very attractive and I feel very grateful to be nominated and to be here\", her husband posted at the ceremony.\n\nCarrie Underwood, currently pregnant with her second child, also made a memorable appearance on the red carpet in a heavily-embroidered gown by Italian label Uel Camilo. Underwood has had a rough year after undergoing plastic surgery for a fall that resulted in multiple stitches on her face. She laughed off the drama on stage later by coming out in a bubble wrap dress alongside her co-host Brad Paisley. Underwood also took her moment on stage to reveal the sex of her baby - she's having a boy.\n\nJason Aldeans wife Brittany Aldean, another Instagram favorite, walked the carpet in lemon yellow. Aldean is also currently pregnant with the couples second child. Meanwhile, Florida Georgia Line singer Tyler Hubbard brought his baby onto the red carpet, offering everyone a glimpse of what's to come next year for Underwood and Alden.\n\nBut the overall winner of the night was Kacey Musgraves, who wasn't just impeccably dressed but also won album of the year too. In a male-dominated country music field, it was a major win, especially since Musgrave's lyrics push the boundaries of country music, with songs that don't shy away from subjects like marriage equality. In a sea of glittery gowns, her Versace suit spoke volumes.","title":"All the best red carpet looks from the Country Music Awards","date":"2018-11-15","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"A Florida parent sent this email to TGP this week.\n\n The Ruth K Broad  Bay Harbor K-8 administration sent a letter home with students saying kids who stand against the Second Amendment will be rewarded.\n\nThe attached is an email I received today from my daughters school located in Miami-Dade County regarding participation in a video and sale of never again t-shirts. This is a public school. In my opinion, while the proposed sculpture is a nice gesture, it is not appropriate for the school to be apparently soliciting participation in a video and sales of t-shirts that seemingly have political undertones. I have not decided whether to address my disappointment with the principal. It is obviously a sensitive issue in my community.\n\nThis is the type of garbage that is being promoted to American kids today.","title":"FL Grade School Rewards Kids with T-Shirts and Spot in Video If They Stand Up Against the Second Ame","date":"2018-04-13","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"MOSCOW, August 27. \/TASS\/. Satellite footage provided by the Russian Space\nSystems company (part of Roscosmos) helped volunteers from the Liza Alert\nsearch and rescue team to pinpoint and save a senior citizen lost in the taiga\nwoods in the Irkutsk Region, the companys website informs.\n\nOn August 5, an elderly gentleman left his house and then vanished. For the\nnext 12 days, volunteers put great effort into searching for the missing\npensioner using general maps, but to no avail. The rescue team then made a\nrequest to the Terra Tech company (part of Roscosmos), asking them to provide\nup-to-date footage in order to study all existing roads in the area. \"The\nsatellite footage significantly sped up the work of rescue teams and helped\npinpoint the missing person in a timely manner,\" the Russian Space Systems\nrepresentatives stated.\n\n\"We saw many new roads and paths not indicated on regular maps. The satellite\nimages made our whereabouts in the forest much easier, and boosted the\nefficiency of the search and rescue operation. We managed to get much farther\nthan expected. As a result, the old-timer was saved,\" said Oleg Leonov, the\nLiza Alert team coordinator.\n\nThe remote-sensing satellites Electro-L, Meteor-M, Resurs-P, and Kanopus-V\nform part of the Russian Space Systems orbital network.\n\nIn other media","title":"Eye in the sky Russian senior lost in woods rescued with help of satellite footage","date":"2018-08-27","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Forty-four percent of Americans believe either that President Donald Trump has brought manufacturing jobs back to the country or that hes likely to do so, according to a new HuffPost\/YouGov poll taken after a spate of General Motors layoffs. Thats roughly similar to the 49 percent who said this last April and nearly identical to the 45 percent who said the same in November of last year.\n\nThe optimistic group is divided roughly in half on what the president has accomplished so far: about 22 percent of Americans say that Trump has already succeeded in bringing manufacturing jobs back and about 23 percent say that hes likely to do so in the future. Some 36 percent of Americans think the president is unlikely to fulfill that promise.\n\nThose people who believe Trump has already kept his promise to bring back blue-collar jobs are among his staunchest backers: 71 percent strongly approve of his job performance. The ones still waiting for Trump to revitalize the manufacturing industry are also supporters, but less enthusiastic ones: About 80 percent approve of his job performance, but just 39 percent say they approve strongly. The people who think its unlikely the jobs will return under Trumps watch are, overwhelmingly, critics of his presidency as a whole.\n\nLet me tell you folks in Ohio and in this area, dont sell your house, the president told supporters in Youngstown in July 2017. Were going to get those jobs coming back, and were going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build brand-new ones. Its going to happen. This week, GM announced that its plant in Lordstown, Ohio, was among the locations the company plans to shutter as it cuts up to 14,000 jobs in North America.\n\nSeventy-two percent of Americans consider those GM job cuts to be at least a somewhat serious problem for the U.S., although only 31 percent call it very serious. Americans say by an 11-point margin that the cuts werent inevitable  39 percent say the job losses could have been prevented by better government policies and 28 percent say they couldnt, with the rest unsure. But theyre split on how much responsibility, if any, Trump bears for the layoffs. While 38 percent say he shares at least some responsibility, 40 percent believe he deserves little or none of the blame.\n\nTrump has long earned his best ratings for his handling of the economy, the strength of which has quite possibly kept his overall job rating from sinking lower than it stands.\n\nHe is not, however, broadly seen as a champion of the average American. Half the public says that Trumps economic policies favor the rich, compared to just 9 percent who believe he favors the middle class or the poor, and a quarter who think he treats all the groups equally. And while 36 percent believe the president is working for the interests of people like them when he makes decisions, half say hes either working against them or not considering them at all.\n\nBut so far at least, the presidents ratings on those metrics have remained remarkably stable. In six HuffPost\/YouGov polls taken starting in April 2017, the percentage of Americans who think Trump has their interests in mind has stayed between 31 and 38 percent. And after a pre-inauguration poll in which 44 percent thought Trump would favor the wealthy, five subsequent surveys dating back to August 2017 have all found that number hovering around or just over the 50 percent mark.\n\nHuffPost has teamed up with YouGov to conduct daily opinion polls. You can learn more about this project and take part in YouGovs nationally representative opinion polling. More details on the polls methodology are available here.\n\nMost surveys report a margin of error that represents some, but not all, potential survey errors. YouGovs reports include a model-based margin of error, which rests on a specific set of statistical assumptions about the selected sample rather than the standard methodology for random probability sampling. If these assumptions are wrong, the model-based margin of error may also be inaccurate. Click here for a more detailed explanation of the model-based margin of error.","title":"Many Americans Are Giving Trump The Benefit Of The Doubt On Manufacturing Jobs","date":"2018-11-29","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Stephan Lichtsteiner has claimed he has the physicality of a player six years younger than him.\n\nThe Arsenal right-back, 34, has played nearly 600 games at club level as well as winning 103 caps for the Swiss national side.\n\nUnai Emery opted to make Lichtsteiner the first signing of his Arsenal tenure because of the veteran experience he could bring to the squad but the defender believes he can be a far more youthful presence on the pitch.\n\nAsked whether he would consider retiring from international football by Swiss media Lichtsteiner insisted: If I have to admit that I cannot keep the level of the last few years, then it is time.\n\nBut then I will not only retire from the Swiss national team, but finish my career. Based purely on performance data I have the physicality of a 28-year-old.\n\nLichtsteiner has been unable to show his exuberance to any great extent on the pitch so far this season, where his only appearance came as a replacement for the injured Ainsley Maitland-Niles in the 2-0 defeat to Manchester City on the opening weekend.\n\nThe limited role he has been afforded did not come as a surprise to Lichtsteiner, who was signed on a free transfer from Juventus to provide Hector Bellerin with mentorship and competition.\n\nI could have changed to five other clubs in the summer, knowing that I would certainly play 47 out of 50 serious matches, he said.\n\nIt doesnt irritate me, as in 2011, when I moved to Juventus, I wanted to join a big club. I was looking for a demanding challenge in a new league.\n\nThats why I knew from the very beginning at Arsenal that I had to fight for the regular spot against Hector Bellerin.","title":"Arsenal defender Stephan Lichtsteiner claims he has the physicality of a 28-year-old","date":"2018-09-11","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The Washington DC City Council voted 11-2 last week to decriminalize fare evasion on the DC Metro after councilmembers said 90 percent of the 20,000 riders cited for fair evasion were African-American.\n\nA bill that would decriminalize fare evasion on the DC Metro system passed on Tuesday, with 11 councilmembers voting yes.\n\nThe bill prevents those who evade fares from getting jail time and lowers the maximum $300 fine associated with it. Now, a fine may be no more than $50. It is no longer a criminal offense, but a civil offense.\n\nThe bill, which was originally introduced by eight councilmembers, was vigorously debated on Tuesday afternoon, with Councilmember Allen and White recalling instances of offenders being arrested.\n\nAllen said on Tuesday that something that these people who described have in common is that, theyre all residents of color.\n\nBoth White and Allen brought up a report released in September, that more 20,000 citations were issued for fare evasion in a two-year period and more than 90 percent of those riders were black.","title":"DC City Council Passes Bill to Decriminalize Fare Evasion Cites Racism","date":"2018-11-19","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"In a shocking letter intended to undermine President Trump, and his authority over the Executive Branch, multiple high ranking Democrats sent a letter ordering intelligence agencies to ignore Trumps order to declassify numerous documents involving the Russia investigation until consulting with Congress.\n\nThe intelligence agencies serve at the pleasure of the president  and this clearly crosses the line separating the branches of government.\n\nThe letter was signed by Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Senator Mark Warner, and Senator Charles Schumer and sent to Director Coats, Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and Director Wray.\n\nHere is a copy of the letter to Intelligence leaders.\n\nHere are the paragraphs in question, via Conservative Treehouse:\n\n\n\nIt will be interesting to see how Dirty Cop Rosenstein, Wray and Coats respond to this allegation.","title":"STUNNING ADMISSION Democrat Leaders Reveal Top Trump Intel Officials Agreed to Keep Information fro","date":"2018-09-19","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy. Subscribe to the newsletter here .\n\nWho deserves a verified badge? On Twitter, the issue has been surprisingly contentious. Last November, the company briefly verified the account of Jason Kessler, a white supremacist who organized the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA. Reaction to Kessler getting his badge was swift and negative, and Twitter used the occasion to say  as it now likes to do, all the time  that it would use the occasion to rethink everything. In the case of verification, the company would simply stop verifying anyone until it could say for certain what it meant to be verified.\n\nAs Ive written before, Twitters verification process was a mess from the start. It began as a panicked reaction to former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa suing the company for allowing someone to impersonate him. (LaRussa eventually dropped the suit.) But verification evolved into something both more important and more nebulous, as I wrote last year:\n\nOver time, though, Twitter began granting special privileges to verified users. They got analytics, which were otherwise available only to advertisers, showing them how their tweets performed. They got a tab showing only their interactions with other verified users  a ham-fisted way of dealing with the abuse that celebrities received from regular accounts. When Twitter introduced new keyword filters designed to combat abuse, verified users got them first. Along the way, Twitter said very little about the criteria for verification. For years, there was no obvious way to apply. Either Twitter reached out to you, or you got to know someone at the company. And so the verification badge came to carry a sheen of authority: this person, the badge suggested, is a known quantity. This is an account that Twitter trusts.\n\nThe real trouble began in January 2016, when Twitter removed the badge from the profile of noxious right-wing personality Milo Yiannopoulos. No one disputed that the account belonged to Yiannopoulos. By removing his badge for bad behavior, the company suggested that the blue checkmark was also a mark of approval.\n\nThe next year, after the Kessler debacle, Twitter said it would begin taking users offline behavior into account in determining who should be verified. This March, CEO Jack Dorsey said Twitter could eventually let everyone verify their accounts. And then last month, in a comical final note to the entire affair, Twitter announced that it was abandoning the verification project indefinitely because it was busy working on other things.\n\nI apologize for the lengthy preamble here. But in a world where trust in social feeds is collapsing, a workable verification system could serve as a powerful ally. And so I was heartened to see today that Instagram had quietly tackled the verification process on its own  and come up with something workable and useful.\n\nThe short version is that anyone can now apply to be verified on Instagram, though the company will continue to verify only those who meet a high set of standards, including notability. (Sorry, normals.) Cofounder Mike Krieger laid out the particulars in a blog post:\n\nHere Krieger has laid out, in plain language, what it means to be verified on Instagram. The company has verified that you are who you say you are; that you only have one account; and that the account is notable in some way. What does that mean? The Help Center lays it out: Currently, only Instagram accounts that have a high likelihood of being impersonated have verified badges.\n\nThe policy isnt democratic in the sense of Dorseys spring proclamation that someday everyone could have a badge on Twitter. But it does open the door to more people getting badges on Instagram, and doing its part to improve trust on the service.\n\nNotably, the announcement came with two other trust-improving measures. One, Instagram will now allow users to improve the security of their accounts by using third-party authenticator apps, an improvement over the more easily hacked SMS codes. And two, a new About this account feature attached to profiles will show you information that is helpful in identifying fake accounts:\n\nThese are smart measures that help Instagram build trust in its user base, while making it harder for bad actors to exploit its platform. By approaching the question of verification as narrowly as possible  focused only on eliminating the confusion that comes from impersonation and parody  Instagram arrived at a reasonable way to invite its entire user base to apply.\n\nOf course, Instagrams historical status as a way to share cheerful brunch photos with friends means it hasnt been stress-tested in quite the same way Twitter has. Yiannopoulos has an Instagram account that would seem to meet all of Kriegers stated requirements for verification; will Instagram grant him a badge? If yes, than well see a reprise of the attacks Twitter faced when it verified Kessler. If not, then expect to see a bunch of conservatives who arent granted badges taking center stage in an eventual Congressional hearing about Instagram shadow banning Republicans.\n\nBut until then, Im struck by how a question that reduced Twitter to paralysis got such a straightforward answer from its rival. Journalists often wag their fingers when tech companies copy one another  but if Twitter wants to lift this idea wholesale, I promise to limit myself to a respectful nod.\n\nTrump claims Google is suppressing positive news about him and will be addressed\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweeted this morning that Google search results for Trump News have been rigged to show critical coverage of him, and said the situation will be addressed. Google explained that search results are not rigged in the political sense of the word. The Times Maggie Haberman pointed out that Trump doesnt actually use a computer. Matthew Gertz pointed out that the entire tweetstorm seemed to be predicated on a segment on Fox News Lou Dobbs Tonight, which itself was based on a nonsensical chart promoted by the hyperpartisan right-wing news outlet PJ Media. Trumps economic adviser said were taking a look at it. An exasperated Fox News Shepard Smith stared into the camera and shouted, what is he talking about?! Trump then sent out a fundraising pitch based on his comments.\n\nWorlds Leading Human Rights Groups Tell Google to Cancel Its China Censorship Plan\n\nA coalition of 14 organizations  including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology  wrote an open letter to Google on Tuesday calling for the company to abandon plans to launch a censored version of its search engine in China. Ryan Gallagher reports:\n\nClashes Over Ethics At Major Tech Companies Are Causing Problems For Recruiters\n\nTech companies government work is also causing problems for recruiters, Caroline ODonovan reports:\n\nDozens at Facebook Unite to Challenge Its Intolerant Liberal Culture\n\nMore than Facebook 100 employees have formed a group to promote conservative views and political debate, Kate Conger and Sheera Frenkel report:\n\nU.S. tech companies would like you to know that there is only so much they can do with respect to fighting foreign influence campaigns, Ali Breland reports. But I liked this note of optimism from researcher Renee DiResta, with respect to the rising cost of influence campaigns:\n\nTwitter suspends more accounts for engaging in coordinated manipulation\n\nTwitter suspended more accounts for coordinated manipulation, and for the most part they were tweeting leftist anti-Trump stuff, Catherine Hsu reports:\n\nMicrosofts president explains how Gabs shutdown notice went from customer support to his desk\n\nMicrosoft nearly shut down hate-oriented Twitter alternative Gabthis month when it found genocidal anti-Semitic posts on the network. On The Vergecast this week, Microsofts president, Brad Smith, revealed that the posts were found by Microsoft customer support agents, and that top executives learned about the takedown notice they sent Gab after reading about it on The Verge and other tech sites.\n\nIf you work at Facebook, and are constantly explaining to your exasperated friends and family members that you are not selling their data, heres a story to make you pound your desk. It turns out Yahoo  now a division of Oath!  has been scanning Yahoo Mail inboxes for years and then selling that data to advertisers. Doug MacMillan, Sarah Krouse, and Keach Hagey have the scoop:\n\nThe Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong\n\nThe Verge republished Sarah Jeongs book The Internet of Garbage. First published in 2015, the book examines how online harassment works, and why the structure of the internet has enabled it to flourish.\n\nYouTubers punching one another in the face is catnip to the large swath of YouTubers who make videos about YouTube drama. After this weekends Logan Paul-KSI face-punching contest, creators raced to upload their reaction videos, complete with footage of the event. Others streamed the fight in its entirety on Twitch, in blatant circumvention of the rules of the site. KSIs team sicced a bunch of copyright goons on them all, and now everyone is mad, Julia Alexander reports:\n\nFacebook vows to run on 100 percent renewable energy by 2020\n\nRemove climate change from the list of things that you blame Facebook for. Shannon Liao reports:\n\nTired of Swiping Right, Some Singles Try Slow Dating\n\nOpenAIs Dota 2 defeat is still a win for artificial intelligence\n\nThis story by my colleague James Vincent has only the faintest connection to social media, but its still my favorite piece of the day. It chronicles how a cutting-edge team of bots lost to a team of professional humans at a tournament of Dota 2, an insanely complicated video game known as a MOBA. If, like me, youre subjected to daily messages from the social platforms about how AI will fix everything, this piece expertly illuminates the benefits and limits of state-of-the-art AI techniques such as reinforcement learning. And its also a very breezy read about humans eking out a victory over machines.\n\nFacebook expands its Express Wi-Fi program for developing markets via hardware partnerships\n\nExpress Wi-Fi is a Facebook connectivity initiative that encourages local businesses to offer both free and paid high-speed internet access portals provided by Facebooks partner carriers and ISPs. Today it announced a set of partnerships that will enable manufacturers to make hardware that is certified as compatible with Express Wi-Fi, Sarah Perez reports. The long-term game appears to be to put Facebook on the free tier of services offered by these businesses.\n\nOculus offers another classroom VR option with new pilot program\n\nOculus is giving launching educational pilot programs in Taiwan, Japan and Seattle, Mariella Moon reports, seeding Rift and Go headsets to libraries, museums, and schools.\n\nGoogle Gboard can use selfies to create a Mini version of you\n\nGoogle rolls out the Mini its answer to Bitmoji, and they are ... horrible! Ugly, washed-out, South Park-style avatars that if nothing else suggest the technology behind Snaps Bitmoji product is more sophisticated than it appears.\n\nGoogle is on the verge of making a huge mistake with China\n\nChen Guangcheng, an activist who has been blind since childhood, was detained in 2005 for exposing forced sterilization of women to meet Chinas one-child policy, says the Post. In 2012, he escaped from house arrest and was subsequently granted asylum in the United States. Chen says Google should back off of its plans for China:\n\nFormer Reddit CEO Ellen Pao says de-platforming makes social networks better:\n\nFacebook and Googles plan for a new federal privacy law is really about protecting themselves\n\nWill Oremus casts a skeptical eye on tech giants plans to write a federal data privacy law to supersede Californias:\n\nMahmoud Ahmadinejad is many things: corrupt former president of Iran, conspiracy theorist, and nuclear weapons enthusiast. But its not just nukes he loves  he also loves Twitter, and he released the following tweet today to the global town square:\n\nAutocrats: theyre just like us!\n\nSend me tips, questions, comments, and requests for verification: casey@theverge.com.","title":"Instagrams verification system is useful fair and Twitter should copy it","date":"2018-08-29","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"MURFREESBORO, Ark.  Thinking it was just a piece of glass, an Aurora woman gave a 2.63-carat diamond she found at Arkansass Crater of Diamonds State Park this month to her son to put in his pocket. It wasnt about an hour later the 71-year-old retiree realized that she made the find of a lifetime.\n\nThe Colorado woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, discovered the ice white diamond weighing nearly three carats about halfway between the East Drain and North Wash Pavilion in the parks 37.5-acre diamond search area.\n\nAccording to a press release from the Arkansas park, About one out of every five diamonds registered by park visitors is found right on top of the ground, including many of the largest ever found at the Crater of Diamonds.\n\nThe park said the gem is the largest diamond found at the park so far this year. According to a press release, 256 diamonds have been registered at Crater of Diamonds State Park so far in 2018. The largest diamond unearthed in the United States, named the Uncle Sam, was found at the park in 1924. The diamond weighed 40.23 carats.","title":"Aurora woman finds largest diamond so far this year at Arkansas park","date":"2018-09-28","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"A Western Pennsylvania town is the subject of a federal lawsuit over their contentious interaction with an area gun range.\n\nRobinson Township, located in a rural area just west of Pittsburgh, was named as a defendant along with the towns zoning officer, Mark Dorsey, in a complaint filed by range owner William Drummond last week.\n\nDrummond, a USPSA\/IPSC champion shooter, heads the Greater Pittsburgh Gun Club on land that has been run by his family off and on since 1967 as a shooting range. However, he argues that township officials have wanted to close down the operation for decades and took advantage of a change in management to do just that.","title":"Gun range 2A group sue town in bid to stay in business after secret rezoning","date":"2018-08-30","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Four people, including a one-year-old, have died after a vehicle being chased by police crashed into their car.\n\nThe deceased were travelling in a Volkswagen people carrier when it was hit by a VW Golf in the Darnall area of Sheffield just before 9pm last night.\n\nTwo men aged 35 and 50 and a woman aged 41 died at the scene, but the baby boy passed away later in hospital.\n\nA further two women are in hospital - one aged 22 is in critical condition and the other is serious but stable. A three-year-old girl is also fighting for her life.\n\nThree young men aged 23, 18 and 17 have been arrested. They were travelling in the Golf and sustained minor injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has launched an investigation.\n\nIOPC regional director Miranda Biddle said: As soon as we were informed, we sent investigators to the scene and we will be carrying out an independent investigation to establish what actions South Yorkshire Police took prior to the crash.\n\nThis is standard procedure when lives are lost following an incident involving the police.\n\nBy attending the scene we have been able to view dash cam footage which confirms that although a pursuit did take place prior to the crash, there is no indication that the police vehicle collided with either of the vehicles involved.\n\nWe have also obtained initial statements from the officers involved and will gather further evidence during the course of our investigation.\n\nDetective chief inspector Jude Ashmore, of South Yorkshire Police, said he was thinking of the victims families following the incredibly tragic accident.\n\nHe said: A high number of resources were deployed to the scene last night, with officers from all of the emergency services working through the night and into this morning to assist.\n\nOur priority now is to support the victims families and those affected, and work hard to determine the exact circumstances around what happened.\n\nMain Road is expected to remain closed for most of the day as we continue to gather evidence and recover items from the scene.\n\nAnyone who has information or dash cam footage should contact the force via 101.","title":"Four Dead Including One-Year-Old After Car Being Chased By Police Crashes Into Them","date":"2018-11-10","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trump may have been trying to persuade his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, that he has his longtime confidant and self-described fixers back. Trumps decision to pardon a Nixon Watergate criminal, Scooter Libby, was oddly timed, so that could have been a hint of future pardons. Yet, 45s recent action probably stepped over the line into illegal.\n\nCohen wanted to go with the commander-in-chief to Washington, D.C., and even told the president how much he missed him. That sounded more like an abusive relationship: an endless cycle of kindness followed by cruelty.\n\nNow, it seems that the Trump campaign dished out almost $228,000 to handle a portion of Cohens rising legal fees, a source close to ABC News said. It is illegal to violate campaign finance laws, and this might fall right into that category.\n\nFederal Election Commission (FEC) records indicated that Trumps campaign paid three payments to Cohens attorneys law firm. In the months between October 2017 and January 2018, the campaign made three payments for legal consulting. Coincidence? Maybe not.\n\nCohen has long held that he was not formally a member of the campaign. Yet, Trump and Cohen may have stepped into the trap that led to the ruin of former presidential candidate, John Edwards  using campaign funds for personal use.\n\nThe FEC holds that spending campaign funds on personal use is illegal:\n\nChief of strategy for the nonprofit watchdog organization Common Cause, Stephen Spaulding, said they were pushing the envelope:\n\nThe campaign may have paid for legal fees strictly related to Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into Russias attack on the 2016 presidential election and any Trump campaign involvement. If so, there would be no problem.\n\nHowever, if those legal fees were paid for services related to the adult film actress and producer, Stormy Daniels, case against Trump and\/or Cohen, that could spell trouble. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and her attorney are suing to release her from a nondisclosure agreement with the president and defamation of character.\n\nTrump did not disagree with the contention that the two had sex. However, Cohen paid her $130,000 in hush money. She was later threatened to keep quiet by a strange man as she lifted her daughter from an infant car seat.\n\nABC sources said that the legal work was not for the Daniels issue.\n\nDonors set up the Patriot Legal Defense fund to help with former campaign staff members and those in his administration pay for legal bills surrounding the Russia investigation. The fund will not disclose who benefitted from these funds.\n\nThe president and his close family members cannot benefit from the fund. either. Former national security adviser, Michael Flynn refused to accept money from that source. He did flip and provide states evidence.","title":"Trump Illegally Stole Campaign Finances What He Used It On Will Enrage You","date":"2018-05-04","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"No matter how he ends up ever turning it into actual policy moves, the president has long made his anger with the nations justice system clear. He put that anger on full display yet again recently after, thanks in part to a reported referral from the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the FBI raided the home, office, and hotel room of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen.\n\nThe Department of Justice has since confirmed that Cohen is the subject of a criminal investigation that has been proceeding for months.\n\nIn response to the presidents continued threatening belligerence offered in response to these allegations, a huge group of former employees of the Justice Department have banded together to sign a letter asserting their support for not just Robert Mueller but Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as well.\n\nRosenstein, who appointed Mueller to oversee the Russia investigation last year, has faced his own rounds of criticism from the president. Besides his role in appointing Mueller, he also had a hand in the raids on Cohen, and he was also involved in the surveillance on former Trump associate Carter Page that has so attracted the ire of the president and his allies.\n\nThe former Justice Department officials defending Mueller and Rosenstein note in their letter that they have immense personal experience with the integrity of the agency that the president has spent so much time going after.\n\nThe presidents attacks on the Justice Department have taken a variety of forms in recent months. The most prominent among these is no doubt his tweets, which include a statement he put up just recently reading:\n\nHe is speaking there of former FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who is accused by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department of having misled them about his supposedly improper role in leaking information from inside to the press. (We all know how they feel about the press.)\n\nHe jumped from those already contentious allegations to seeming to refer to the entire Justice Department as a den of thieves and lowlifes. That already low blow is made ironic by the fact that the president has lied thousands upon thousands of times since taking office. In other words, if there is a den of thieves and lowlifes in Washington, D.C., his White House is certainly included.\n\nBesides his incessant angry tweeting, the president has also been reported to be interested in firing both Mueller and Rosenstein. When pressed about the possibility of firing the special counsel by reporters recently, he gave a conspicuously noncommittal answer.\n\nIn that light, the Justice Department veterans defending Mueller and Rosenstein call on Congress to act should the president actually fire any of the key players in the Russia investigation.\n\nSome members of Congress have introduced measures protecting Mueller from the president, but none of those have passed yet.\n\nRead the Justice Department alumnis full letter at this link.","title":"Hundreds Of Justice Dept Members Team Up To Protect America From Trump Like Heroes","date":"2018-04-28","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) You dont have to be insane or dumb to drink Starbucks coffee, but you might want to stop thinking for a few minutes if youre trying to make sense of their environmentally-conscious (or unconscious in this case) efforts to reduce single-use plastic situations. Before you cast judgment though, this is not a one-time mistake or misrepresentation of a mission for conservation, because Starbucks isnt just replacing plastic straws with extra heavy plastic lids, but theyre replacing plastic single straws with paper straws sold in plastic wrappers that use MORE plastic than the single plastic straw did. If your brain is aching right now, thats because Starbucks isnt catering to you, but to their usual Leftists who like vying for causes that make no sense at all.\n\nWhile certain businesses (and even U.S. cities) move to ban plastic straws and plastic utensils (and also make them illegal), nobodys considering the billions of plastic water bottles sold by those same polluting propagandists. You see, the War on Straws is not based on facts or even sensibility; its based on emotion and petty thinking. This supports the irrational idealism of the far Left, a cabal of hypocritical intolerant Millennials who only support causes that fit their immediate gratification lifestyles, but pay no mind to common sense, safety, important laws, and the big picture in general.\n\nQuick, run to Starbucks and buy a sugar-laden customized frappuccino and celebrate conserving plastic while using a plastic lid that wastes even more plastic. Then, buy your kids a couple fancy flavored paper straws to save even more plastic  yes, the ones wrapped in enough plastic to make 10 plastic straws. Then, on your way out of the store, be sure not to trip on the homeless guy sleeping by the door, who wont be kicked out because its Starbucks policy.\n\nSupport our mission and protect your health: Organic Seeds of Life combines Red Raspberry Seed Power, Black Cumin Seed Power and Red Grape Seed Powder into the most potent nutrient-rich supplemental superfood powder you've ever experienced. Loaded with flavonoids, antioxidants, anthocyanins, OPCs, ALA and a vast array of vital nutrients. Learn more here.\n\nBelieve it or not, the city of Seattle just imposed our countrys first ban on plastic straws. Starbucks is leading the charge, so expect more hypocritical corporate robber-barons to follow suit.\n\nThe best part of the new sippy-cup style lid at Starbucks is that it contains 4.11 grams of plastic, where the old lid and straw combo only contained 3.55 grams of plastic. Way to conserve! Thats like running over a family of ducks in the road in your rush to get your sugar fix at Starbucks while driving your car that brandishes a save the dolphins bumper sticker.\n\nIf you fall for one hoax this decade, you might as well fall for all of them. To be anti-Trump is hip for the brainwashed, spoiled, fake hippies (with Mommy and Daddys credit cards in their wallets and purses) who drink over-priced, luxury cafe mochas, lattes, and the Americano. To support liberalism while being completely intolerant of differing opinions and throwing temper tantrums if someone walks into Starbucks wearing a MAGA hat or t-shirt is quite typical of this recent generation of activists who are complete hypocrites.\n\nConsumers falling for the Starbucks Ponzi scheme of investing in conservation efforts that literally pollute the Earth even more are the same consumers of fake news CNN and the socialism movement (thats really a communist front).\n\nRegulars at Starbucks are giving their money to a corporation with 28,000 stores worldwide that sell Ethos brand bottled water by the thousands daily. Do you really think if you support the plastic straw ban that youre helping anybody with anything anywhere?\n\nReady to join the Straw-less in Seattle campaign? While Starbucks claims theyre saving our oceans from the pollution caused by single-use plastic straws, have you ever wondered where all the garbage from Starbucks plastic juice bottles and plastic water bottles ends up?\n\nIf youre really concerned about the environment, tune into GMO.news for updates on how pesticides and GMOs are polluting our world. Meanwhile, the whole War on Straws (and plastic utensils) is really just a litmus test to see how many morons are completely brain-washable, so Starbucks, Facebook and Twitter can track your smart phone locations and posts and advertise some socialist political propaganda this fall, in order to support another New World Order led by the crooked Clintons, George Soros, and Obumma. Beware.","title":"Starbucks new plastic straw-less lids use MORE plastic than the old lid and straw combo the virtu","date":"2018-08-01","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Several parents are outraged after a drag queen spoke to their children during Rocky Top Middle Schools career day. Now the principal is apologizing for not notifying parents ahead of time.\n\nA police officer, an architect and a drag queen  a broad range of jobs on career day, but parents say one of them has no business inside a school.\n\nI was pretty appalled. I was pretty surprised. It was a shock because no one was notified, parent Jen Payer said.","title":"Parents outraged after drag queen speaks to students during career day","date":"2018-10-23","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Say what you will about 2018, but it hasnt exactly brought a surfeit of slow news days. January alone felt like it delivered a years worth of big stories, from a spate of congressional retirements to the debate over shithole countries to the brief government shutdown.\n\nNearly half of the people who try to stay informed about politics find it stressful to stay on top of whats happening, a new HuffPost\/YouGov poll finds, but far fewer say they have difficulty keeping up.\n\nAmong Americans who try follow political events  a group that makes up slightly less than two-thirds of the population, according to the survey  49 percent say its at least somewhat stressful to keep tabs on whats going on. An equal share say that its not very or not at all stressful.\n\nJust 27 percent, however, say they feel like the political news is changing so quickly that they cant keep up, while 64 percent say they dont have any problem staying on top of things. The vast majority, 83 percent, say that its at least somewhat easy for them to follow whats happening in politics.\n\nThese results come with a few caveats: For one, the results dont include those Americans who have opted out of following politics altogether. For another, respondents may think its socially desirable to claim that theyre effortlessly well-informed.\n\nBut the results also show little consensus that the current news environment poses any sort of unique challenge. Fewer than a quarter say its been harder to keep up with the news so far this year than it had been in past years. An additional 28 percent say its easier, while the remaining 49 percent say that they havent noticed much difference or that they arent sure.\n\nThere are some divides along political lines, especially on the stressfulness of current events. Most voters who try to keep up with politics say they dont have any problem doing so, regardless of whether they backed President Donald Trump or Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in 2016s election. But 72 percent of those Clinton voters say they find following politics to be stressful, while just 3 in 10 Trump voters feel the same.\n\nThe overall results of the poll are similar to those of a HuffPost\/YouGov survey taken last March, which also found that just 30 percent of respondents who say they generally try to stay informed have difficulty doing so.\n\nThe constant flow of news may actually make current events feel more accessible than ever, Ann Crigler, a political science professor at the University of South California, told HuffPost last year.\n\nUse the widget below to further explore the results of the HuffPost\/YouGov survey, using the menu at the top to select survey questions and the buttons at the bottom to filter the data by subgroups:","title":"Feeling Overwhelmed By All The News This Year Youre In The Minority","date":"2018-02-06","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"West Ham United have reinstated academy coach Mark Phillips after investigating his involvement in a march organised by the Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA).\n\nThe Hammers suspended Phillips in October after he attended a DFLA march through central London and later defended the group, which has been accused of Islamophobia and racism, in a series of posts on Twitter.\n\n\"West Ham United can confirm that following suspension and subsequent investigation, academy coach Mark Phillips has been reinstated to his role in accordance with employment law, and has been reminded of his responsibilities,\" a club statement said.\n\nWest Ham launched an investigation due to concerns Phillips' social media posts may have broken club regulations and he was subsequently suspended.\n\nIt's understood the club's inquiry found there were not sufficient grounds for dismissing Phillips for breaching the Hammers' social media policy and bringing the club into disrepute.\n\nBut Phillips, who coaches West Ham's under-18s, has been given a final warning over his conduct.\n\nHe will resume his coaching duties at the club after attending courses on discriminatory issues and bias, compulsory for all West Ham employees.\n\nPhillips said he had attended the DFLA march and later defended the group on Twitter against claims it was \"far right\" and to blame for violence with the police and anti-fascism protesters.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"West Ham reinstate academy coach suspended for attending DFLA march","date":"2018-11-12","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Its not about right-wing Americans. Its about China.","title":"The Real Google Censorship Scandal","date":"2018-09-14","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trump arrived at the NATO summit throwing around his boorish, uncouth attitude. Ever aimed at creating discord, he claimed that Russia was holding Germany captive. In return, the countrys Chancellor Angela Merkel hit him back  10 times harder.\n\nOur commander-in-chief said the U.S. was guarding (Germany) against Russia. Reuters reported:\n\nWere supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia. We are protecting Germany, we are protecting France, we are protecting all of these countries and then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they are paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. I think that is very inappropriate.\n\nClearly, the president of these United States does not like strong women. He regressed to that 11-year-old bully when he interacted with Merkel.\n\nMerkel powered back, saying her country supplied the most troops for NATO missions. Then, Merkel noted that Germany extracted itself from Russian control with the fall of the Berlin Wall, which used to divide the country.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Merkel grew up on the east side of the Berlin wall. At that time, the Soviet Union controlled East Germany. Needless to say, she knows something about Russian power and domination:\n\nI have experienced myself how a part of Germany was controlled by the Soviet Union. I am very happy that today we are united in freedom, the Federal Republic of Germany. Because of that we can say that we can make our independent policies and make independent decisions. That is very good, especially for people in eastern Germany.\n\nThe chancellor went on to explain to Trump that Germany has consistently been the second largest provider of troops to NATO. Merkel also said her country has had a strong engagement in the Afghanistan conflict:\n\nThere are disagreements on trade. This is serious. My task is to try to minimize the negative impact on NATO. So far is hasnt impacted on NATO that much, I cannot guarantee that that will not be the case in the future. The transatlantic bond is not one, there are many ties, some of them have been weakened.\n\nTrump was still stuck in his muddy track of contrariness. According to the Guardian, he said:\n\nIt should never have been allowed to happen. Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they will be getting 60-70% of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline. You tell me if thats appropriate because I think its not. On top of that Germany is just paying just a little bit over 1% (of GDP on Nato defense contributions) whereas the United States is paying 4.2% of a much larger GDP. So I think thats inappropriate also.","title":"Angela Merkel Opens Up Can Of Whoop Ass On Trump In Front Of The Entire World","date":"2018-07-11","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Matchday three of the 2018-19 Champions League season is upon us, with some huge games as the double-headers begin.\n\nJuventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo enjoyed an emotional return to his former club Manchester United on Tuesday as Juventus ran out comfortable 1-0 winners at Old Trafford.\n\nJulen Lopetegui looks set to lose his job as Real Madrid coach regardless of a 2-1 win over Viktoria Plzen, while Manchester City earned an easy 3-0 win at Shakhtar Donetsk.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Liverpool and Barcelona earned comfortable wins while Tottenham's hopes hang by a thread after they drew 2-2 with PSV Eindhoven.\n\nRead on for all the groups, fixtures and results...","title":"Club Brugge vs Monaco Predictions live stream betting tips TV channel Champions League 2018-19","date":"2018-10-24","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Todays Morning Brief is brought to you by the Mining Association of Canada. Global leaders in the advancement of Indigenous relations and participation in mining, as the largest private sector employer of Indigenous peoples in Canada. To learn more, visit: http:\/\/mining.ca\/resources\/canadian-mining-stories\n\nA good Wednesday morning to you. Its caucus day in Ottawa and United Nations Day around the world. United Nations Day marks the organizations birthday, when the UN Charter was officially signed in 1947.\n\nThe most expensive word in the English language  principle  could cost Canadian taxpayers upwards of $1 billion if Canada were to scupper the sale of weapons and military vehicles to Saudi Arabia. In stark contrast to his tough talk in the Commons on Monday, PM Justin Trudeau told reporters that the governments options may be limited, adding he finds it incredibly frustrating.\n\nWhile Trudeau has done his level best to pin responsibility for signing the 14-year deal with the Saudis in 2014 on former prime minister Stephen Harper, theres enough blood on hands to go around. The Prime Ministers offloading of responsibility for this deal squarely on the previous government is misleading at best, given that the relevant export permits were authorized under the current Liberal government, said Cesar Jaramillo, executive director of Project Ploughshares. If Western arms exporters to Saudi Arabia do not back their expressions of concern with concrete action, including the suspension or cancellation of export contacts to the known culprit, their human-rights credibility will have died with Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany announced it will block any new sales to the Saudis and urged its European Union partners to do the same. (O)nly if all European countries agree will this make an impression on the government in Riyadh, said Germanys Economy Minister, Peter Altmaier.\n\nWhen in doubt, blame the DComms. Communications teams often take the blame for the misdeeds of their bosses, but in the Khashoggi case, this DComms might have created his own PR nightmare. Saud al-Qahtani, the Kingdoms chief propaganda officer, was fired on Saturday amid recordings made by Turkish (or other) intelligence agencies quoting him as telling the team of assassins over Skype to bring me the head of the dog. Given that Khashoggis head (and body) has yet to be recovered, theres a good chance someone actually did just that. Qahtani, who is not known to freelance and in fact said he would never act without the approval of the ruling family, should know the golden rule: assume every mic is a hot mic.\n\nWhile the Saudi affair grabs the international spotlight, a full on political brawl is unfolding in the shadows of Parliament Hill between the Trudeau government and the provinces over taxing carbon emissions. In a bid to rescue his plans for a carbon tax, Trudeau unveiled a rebate scheme earlier this week aimed at softening the blow of a carbon tax to lower-income Canadians. We recognize that there is an imperative to put a price on pollution and an imperative to help Canadian families adjust to the new reality of a society  of a country  in which pollution is no longer free, Trudeau said. But opponents to the tax say Trudeau is just buying votes at the same time as hurting Canadian businesses. Its just another Trudeau Liberal tax grab. Its a job-killing, family-hurting tax, said Ontario Premier Doug Ford.\n\nYesterday, Ford also announced that he plans to cancel funding to three projects to create satellite university campuses in Markham, Milton and Brampton that would have accommodated about 8,000 students per year. Not surprisingly, Fords minister of higher education said blame the Liberals for the empty coffers. Our government committed to restore accountability and trust in Ontarios finances. This includes making difficult decisions about projects across the province, said Merrilee Fullerton.\n\nWhat do you do when a combination of disruption and paralysis has begun to erode respect for rules-based trade?  You hold a conference.  Canadas other trade minister Jim Carr will host a meeting of a dozen likeminded countries hoping to breathe new life into the World Trade Organization. With U.S. President Donald Trump musing aloud that he might pull out of the international body, its up to smaller countries that want to do business with one another to keep the rules in place. The United States has been stressing the rule of power while undermining the rule of law in international trade. This is inexcusable, said James Bacchus, a former congressman from Florida who twice served as the chief judge of the WTOs appellate body. The meeting opens tonight with a dinner, which will be followed with an all-day conference tomorrow.\n\nBank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz is expected to raise interest rates today when he issues his updated monetary policy report.\n\nHERE AND THERE\n\nBack to the Khashoggi affair, which President Trump has come around to calling the worst cover-up ever after previously taking a neutral stance. The United States vowed to revoke the visas of some of those believed to be responsible and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that he is working with the Treasury Department to consider slapping Magnitsky sanctions on those involved in the journalists killing.\n\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made an unannounced appearance at an investment conference in Riyadh yesterday and received a standing ovation from the investors in attendance, many of whom kept their name tags obscured by their ties in a bid to maintain a low profile. The Crown Prince also shook hands with Khashoggis son, Salah, in front of video cameras at a palace in Riyadh  an image that was broadcast on state media. Salah Khashoggi has has been barred from leaving the kingdom.\n\nPakistan scored big in Riyadh yesterday, walking away with a pledge of at least $6 billion in financial support from the Kingdom.\n\nIn a first for the European Union, a member states proposed budget has been rejected by the bloc because it violates its fiscal laws and poses unacceptable risks. The EU returned the budget to Italy, but that countrys populist government refused to budge on Tuesday. The European Commission had repeatedly warned Italy to reduce the deficits in its 2019 draft budget to avoid heavy fines early next year. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte doesnt seem fazed by it.\n\nSomebody in South Carolina is having a better hump day than most. A single ticket won the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot. What would you do with $1.6 billion in the bank?\n\nA ticket aboard the Titanic 2.0  the pet project of another billionaire  wouldnt even make a dent in that nest egg.","title":"Morning Brief How much does a little principle cost","date":"2018-10-24","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The BLS announced Julys job numbers on Friday and the results were impressive \n\nSince Donald J. Trump became President more people are working in the US than at any time in history.  But the shocking news in Fridays jobs release was related to the increase in jobs since the President was elected in late 2016.\n\nThe BLS data shows the following number of jobs added since 1939.  But the number of new jobs is startling when compared to the GW Bush and Obama years \n\nSince 2000 the US has added a net increase of 16.4 million new jobs.  Since 2007 the US has added a net increase of 10.7 million new jobs.  But in 2017 and 2018 the US has added a net of 3.7 million new jobs.\n\nThis means that more than one third of the increase in jobs over the past 12 years have occurred under President Trump.  Also, since the year 2000, nearly a quarter of the increase in jobs have been added during President Trumps economy.\n\nBy comparison, both Presidents GW Bush and Obama incurred net decreases in jobs in there first 19 months on the job.  GW Bush incurred a net decrease in jobs of (2.1) million while Obama lost a net (4.4) million jobs in his first 19 months on the job.","title":"NEARLY ONE QUARTER of All Jobs Added in the US this Century Have Now Occurred Under President Trump","date":"2018-08-05","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"National Security Advisor to Donald Trump, John Bolton, has said the International Criminal Court (ICC) is dead to us in his latest speech.\n\nHe labelled the court as illegitimate and for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us.\n\nMr Bolton, who has long held an unfavourable view of the court, who was speaking at a meeting of the Federalist Society, a conservative group based in Washington DC, said the ICC was ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed outright dangerous.\n\nThe court, established in 2002 in The Hague in the Netherlands, has the power to prosecute individuals for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The US never ratified the Rome Statute that established the court and George W Bush, in the early days of the still-ongoing war in Afghanistan, never ratified it.\n\nThe court is getting ready to investigate detainee abuse in Afghanistan, an investigation Mr Bolton called utterly unfounded, adding: We will provide no cooperation to the ICC.\n\nThe former US Ambassador to the United Nations under Mr Bush, went on to say the central aim of [the ICCs] most vigorous supporters was to constrain the US.\n\nMr Bolton said the courts statute had glaring, significant flaws and constituted an assault on the constitutional rights of the American people and the sovereignty of the US.\n\nHe also acknowledged his hecklers as Code Pink, an international charity which works to end US-funded wars, his friends who follow me everywhere.\n\nMr Bolton, following a trend in the Trump administration of criticising multilateralism, branded the ICC as a freewheeling global organisation governing over individuals without their consent.\n\nHe claimed American soldiers, politicians, and private citizens are at risk because the court assumes the automatic right to prosecute over everyone, even in countries which did not ratify the Rome Statute establishing the court.\n\nIsrael, Sudan, Russia, and the US under Mr Bush, are four signatories of the statute who renounced their signatures and informed the UN they would no longer be subject to the legal obligations under the statute.\n\nMr Bolton said the US unsigning of the Rome Statute was meant to protect Americans from the unacceptable overreach of the court.\n\nHe cited the 2002 American Service-members Protection Act, which some have dubbed the Hague invasion act Mr Bolton said and also prosecution within South Africa following the abolishment of apartheid as examples of why the court was superfluous.\n\nThe act authorised the US president to use all means, including force, to shield US military members from prosecution by the ICC, he noted.\n\nThe Trump aide said US courts and the military justice system already hold all Americans to the highest legal and ethical standards.\n\nMr Bolton repeatedly hit out at the global body of which 123 countries are part, asking: Would you consign the fate of American citizens to a committee of other nations [and] entities that arent even states like the Palestinian authority?\n\nThe US state department had earlier announced the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) office in Washington, partly out of a concern over the offices attempts to have the ICC investigate US ally Israel.\n\nHe supported the aggressive US stance against the ICC by citing internal management issues, like divulging confidential information to human rights ambassadors like actress Angelina Jolie.\n\nMr Bolton went as far as threatening ICC officials and prosecutors with sanctions and legal action to the extent permissible under US law and said those individuals could be barred from entering the country.\n\nThe overarching message of the National Security Advisor was that any perceived atrocity against humanity is to be deemed so by the people within those states, not by the international body.\n\nWe dont recognise any authority higher than the US Constitution, Mr Bolton said.","title":"Trump official John Bolton declares International Criminal Court aposdangerousapos and aposdea","date":"2018-09-10","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) When you think of disease-fighting foods, celery might not be the first one that comes to mind. Sure, its a green vegetable, but its one that most of us take for granted. We might use it when making broth, soup or a sauce, but its rarely the star of a dish. However, studies show that we may be ignoring this vegetable to our detriment as celery is surprisingly powerful when it comes to destroying cancer cells.\n\nThe main compound responsible for celerys impressive benefits is apigenin. Studies in cells and animals alike have found that apigenin can stop tumors from forming, growing and metastasizing. Another quality that makes it particularly effective against cancer is the fact that it has several mechanisms of action, potentially helping more people as some patients cant benefit from a single chemopreventive compound on its own.\n\nA recent review published in the Journal of Cancer Protection showed that the flavonoid in celery has vast and potent chemoprotective effects. For example, it can stop prostate cancer from progressing by slowing the proliferation of cancer cells, promoting apoptosis, lowering the levels of pro-inflammatory molecules that cause cancer, and reducing carcinomas. The reviewers concluded that apigenin can help to prevent and treat many different types of cancer.\n\nApigenin also stops the growth of the new blood vessels that tumors depend on for nourishment. Known as angiogenesis, its an essential process for cancer to proliferate. Apigenin stops this from occurring, depriving tumors of the nutrients, oxygen and blood needed to thrive.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nAccording to a study that was published in the journal Carcinogenesis, apigenin has the power to stop the expression of a protein that helps cancer break down healthy tissue and invade it. It has also been shown to promote the death of cancer cells.\n\nApigenin rightfully gets a lot of the attention, but it is not the only compound in celery that fights cancer. The vegetable contains polyacetylenes like those found in fennel, parsley and carrots, which can help prevent cancers of the breast, intestines, colon, lungs, and pancreas. It also contains luteolin, which was found in one study to reduce the oxidative stress in colon cancer genesis, which means it could one day serve in some form as a potential drug for treating colorectal cancer.\n\nCelery also boasts several other benefits. For example, it can help to treat high blood pressure thanks to the 3-n-butylphthalide found in celery oil. Its high soluble fiber content, meanwhile, can help keep blood sugar levels in balance and lower cholesterol.\n\nIt also contains a high amount of vitamin K, which helps blood clot properly. Those who are deficient in this vitamin are at risk of bruising easily and bleeding profusely. It also plays a role in bone building, and those who are deficient could see their bones weaken. Just one cup of chopped celery contains 37 percent of the daily recommended value of this vitamin.\n\nNow that you know how surprisingly beneficial celery can be, you may be looking for ways to incorporate more of it into your diet. Consume organic celery raw to get the most health benefits. Chop some up to dip in hummus or Greek yogurt mixed with herbs; add it to a green salad, egg salad, or tuna salad; or spread some homemade peanut butter inside of it for a quick and healthy snack.\n\nCelery might not be as rich in vitamins as other vegetables, but its phytonutrients are more than enough to earn it a place on any list of foods that can benefit your health and prevent disease.","title":"Celery is an underappreciated vegetable This nutritional superhero targets cancer cells at a molecu","date":"2018-10-23","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The Nov. 6 elections are first and foremost about Donald Trump. The president is a dangerous authoritarian whose political party not only refuses to restrain him, but seems to take pleasure in emulating his most nihilistic impulses. The meaning of the midterms depends on whether the Democratic Party can win control of at least one chamber of Congress, allowing it to conduct official investigations and perform meaningful oversight.\n\nBut the midterms are also a critical test for the health of American democracy. And while we wont know the full story until Wednesday morning, there are some reasons for cautious optimism. Fear may be the most explosive force in our politics, but the most corrosive is apathy. So far, Americans appear to be responding to the Trump era with renewed political vigor.\n\nIn states that allow early voting, over 30 million ballots have already been cast, far surpassing the 20.5 million cast in 2014, with a few days left to go. New voter registration is smashing records in swing states including Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, all of which feature important congressional races. Surveys of interest and enthusiasm in the 2018 election indicate an electorate far more energized than it was four years ago. Fundraising from small donors is off the charts.\n\nThis is the sort of activity you would hope to see if you cared about the state of the worlds most powerful democracy. Its also the sort of activity youd want to see if you are emotionally attached to the beleaguered Democratic Party.\n\nNationwide, 31 states and the District of Columbia register voters according to party. Among these, Democrats enjoy an advantage of nearly 12 million, according to the University of Virginias Center for Politics. Democrats outnumber Republicans in 19 states, including West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Louisiana and Florida. The 12 million figure almost certainly understates the scale of the Democratic advantage, since of the 19 states that do not register by party, many are solidly Democratic  Hawaii, Washington, Minnesota and Illinois  while still others  New Hampshire, Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, North Dakota, Missouri, Montana and, yes, Alabama  are currently represented by at least one Democratic official elected statewide. Of the 19 states that dont track party registration, only five  Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee  dont currently feature a Democratic senator or governor.\n\nAnd yet. Twenty-six states exhibit unified Republican rule, while six more have a Republican governor and another six have a Republican-controlled state legislature. The Senate is split 51 to 49 and Republicans hold a 47-seat advantage in the House. When election day comes around, Democrats often have the voters, but not the votes.\n\nProfessional Democrats typically explain the gap between their registration advantage and their election-day results by emphasizing gerrymandering and voter suppression. Its a comforting narrative  Republicans win, but only because they cheat. And there is no doubt that gerrymandering and voter suppression are both very real, very destructive and very racist. Nationwide, Democratic candidates won 1,592,083 more votes than their Republican counterparts in 2012, yet Republicans secured 234 seats to Democrats 201. The tactics Republicans deploy to suppress the black vote seem endless.\n\nRepublicans resort to voter suppression and gerrymandering because it works. But Democrats have always had the ability to take the sting out of each by generating more enthusiasm and greater turnout. And they rarely deliver the goods. In 2014, only 36.7 percent of eligible voters bothered to show up, according to the United States Election Project at the University of Florida. In 2010, a wave year for Republicans, the figure was just 41 percent. Voter turnout hasnt eclipsed 50 percent in a midterm since 1914, but it took an 8.2 percentage point dive in 1974  proportionally almost one-fifth  and never really recovered. Bumping turnout by just a few percentage points in prior elections could have been the difference between a Republican triumph and a Democratic wave, dirty tricks notwithstanding.\n\nPart of the problem is that Democrats just dont run. You cant win seats you dont compete for. In 2018, with the party in its weakest electoral position since the Civil War, a host of candidates decided to roll the dice on what seemed like long-shot bids in deep-red territory. In Californias super-rich (median income: $93,995) 45th District, Katie Porter, an acolyte of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is running neck and neck with cut-my-property-taxes Republican Mimi Walters. In Virginias 5th District  overwhelmingly rural territory gerrymandered to neutralize liberal votes in Charlottesville, lefty Leslie Cockburn is in a dead heat with her Bigfoot-friendly opponent Denver Riggleman.\n\nPorter and Cockburn arent alone. A record number of women are running for office in 2018  good news for the representational part of representational democracy. There are 256 women on the ballot in House and Senate races this year, 197 of them Democrats. The 183 Democratic women running for the House is more than 50 percent higher than the partys prior record of 120.\n\nWe dont know if Rep. Beto ORourke will beat Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas or if Stacey Abrams will defeat Brian Kemp in Georgia. We dont know if Democratic challenger J.D. Scholten can dethrone white nationalist Republican Steve King in rural Iowa. But all of these races are solidly competitive heading into the final stretch, and Democratic Party leaders who scoffed at the idea of spending time and money in deep-red territory now look foolish. Democrats are running well in Kansas, and even the Oklahoma governors race isnt a lock for Republicans.\n\nMuch of this new competitiveness has been enabled by a new fundraising model. After years of emulating Republican campaign finance strategies  targeting big donors and catering to their interests  Democrats seem to have at last figured out how to raise money from people who are not millionaires or billionaires. This cycle, theyre out-raising Republicans more than 3-to-1 on donations of $200 or less. ORourke alone has raised $31 million from small donors, a staggering sum for a Senate race. Thats the money it takes to get the message out.\n\nSo what message will work? The midterms are about to test a bunch of different strategies. In the Senate, Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) are doing their best to survive in red states by yoking themselves to Trump  touting their support for his banking agenda and his anti-immigrant message. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) are pursuing the opposite approach, presenting themselves as unapologetic populist progressives in Trump territory. In Arizona, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema  one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress  is essentially running as Mitt Romney, while ORourke is running as a progressive  some of his voting record to the contrary.\n\nWill all of this be enough to give Democrats a congressional majority? Most polling suggests that a House takeover is likely and a Senate switch is a long shot. But it all depends on who shows up to vote on Tuesday. Polling models slightly misgauged turnout demographics in the Upper Midwest in 2016, making what had appeared to be a sure thing for Hillary Clinton into a narrow upset for Trump.","title":"In The 2018 Midterms Democrats Have A Historic Opportunity Do They Have The Votes","date":"2018-11-03","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"We came across Turley recently and find him interesting because his basic argument is that there is a worldwide turn to conservative values, traditionalism, and nationalism, in the US, Eastern Europe, the EU, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, in fact, all continents, and that this change is being driven by the loosening of the liberal, globalist grip on information flow due to technology. You can see all his articles on RI here.\n\nTurley is a theology, Greek, and rhetoric teacher in the booming classical education movement, which is predominantly conservative. He is a former Protestant from Connecticut who converted to Orthodoxy. He speaks about the Russian Orthodox Christian revival in this video.","title":"Europe Is Undergoing a Conservative Christian Revival","date":"2018-08-17","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Pep Guardiola is surprised Southampton have struggled to find a spark this season.\n\nGuardiola's Manchester City, the champions, face Saints in the Premier League at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.\n\nMark Hughes' side have collected just seven points from their opening 10 games - 19 fewer than City - but Guardiola does not think that tally does them justice.\n\nGuardiola said: \"Always when I see Southampton, with the players they have, it's a surprise they are in the position they are in.\n\n\"It's the quality of the players they have. I'm impressed with the quality they have in front, it's strong, and especially in the middle, with (Oriol) Romeu, (Pierre-Emile) Hojbjerg. They have hugely talented players.\"\n\nSaints proved one of City's most stubborn opponents last season. When they met at Eastlands in November it took a spectacular, injury-time Raheem Sterling goal for City to prevail.\n\nThe sides met again on the final day of the season. City had already been crowned champions by then but they were determined to win to become the first side to reach 100 points in the Premier League. Again, they were made to wait until the last minute to claim their winner.\n\n\"Last season we suffered a lot, both with (Mauricio) Pellegrino and Mark Hughes,\" said Guardiola.\n\n\"They played five at the back, four in the middle, so deep, so physical. It was so complicated to beat them.\n\n\"In this kind of game we have to be sharp, move well in the small spaces, be clever and concede few set-pieces because they are strong there too.\"\n\nSouthampton have won just once in the league this season but have drawn their last two games 0-0. City have played twice since Southampton's last game, beating Tottenham at Wembley on Monday and then seeing off Fulham in the Carabao Cup on Thursday.\n\nGuardiola said: \"We've had just three days for regeneration and they've had one week to prepare, so it will be a tough, tough game.\n\n\"In the Premier League now the big contenders miss few points, so that is why you have to be ready to get those points.\"\n\nCity suffered a blow on Thursday as Kevin De Bruyne sustained knee ligament damage that could keep him out for up to six weeks. Ilkay Gundogan could return after a hamstring injury but Nicolas Otamendi is out with a tendon problem.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"Manchester City vs Southampton Pep Guardiola surprised by Saintsapos struggles this season","date":"2018-11-03","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Home favourite Cameron Smith rolled in a birdie putt on the last hole to give Australia a share of the lead with England and South Korea after the first round of the $7m World Cup of Golf in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nOn a blustery day at Metropolitan Golf Club, the baby-faced 25-year-old combined with Marc Leishman for a 10-under-par 62 in the opening round of four-balls, boosting the home nations hopes of a sixth title in the 28-nation team event.\n\nPlaying in the last group with the United States, the local duo reeled in Englands Tyrrell Hatton and Ian Poulter, and Koreans Kim Si-woo and An Byeong-hun, while thrilling a large gallery.\n\nThere was quite a few people out here for a Thursday.\n\nHopefully we can keep them coming out over the weekend and give them something to cheer about.\n\nThe trio of leaders held a one stroke-lead over Danish defending champions Thorbjorn Olesen and Soren Kjeldsen, Belgium and surprise package Malaysia.\n\nThe United States Matt Kuchar and Kyle Stanley started brightly on their nations Thanksgiving holiday with four consecutive birdies from the fourth to the seventh holes and an eagle on the par-five ninth.\n\nBut their celebrations were tempered by an underwhelming back nine featuring one birdie and a bogey, and they ended the day four strokes adrift.\n\nSandbelt veteran Poulter and Hatton, reunited after playing for the victorious Europe team in the Ryder Cup, grabbed six birdies on the back nine in a bogey-free day.\n\nEngland are bidding for their third title and first since Paul Casey and Luke Donald won the 2004 event in Spain.\n\nYou cant make bogeys in this format and be happy, said Poulter.\n\nTodays about attacking the golf course and making as many birdies as you can.\n\nThe first group out, Malaysias Gavin Green and Ben Leong grabbed the clubhouse lead, storming ahead with eagles at the seventh and ninth before being pulled in late.\n\nWe got along well and I think it was good, said 24-year-old Green, who became the first Malaysian to top the Asian Tours order of merit last year.\n\nHes (Leong) a little shorter than me and Im a little longer, so its always nice to have that little combination on some holes... Were looking forward to the next few days.\n\nThe two-man teams compete in foursomes in the second round on Friday.\n\nAustralia will be paired with England in a crowd-pleasing move to pit the traditional sporting rivals against each other on the eve of the meeting of the two nations in a rugby test in London.\n\nYouve got the Ashes (cricket) and the rugby and all that, said Smith. So yeah, there is a rivalry ... Were looking forward to that.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"World Cup of Golf Tyrrell Hatton and Ian Poulter give England a share of the lead after opening rou","date":"2018-11-22","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Youve managed to ruin the greatest country in world history.\n\nPaul Manafort was Donald Trumps campaign manager for two months. Now he must be punished.\n\nThe US government is holding Paul Manafort in a tiny prison cell during his trial with no reading material and no television.\n\nPaul Manafort faces 305 years in prison for tax evasion charges  a crime that typically has an average sentence of 1.5 years.\n\nIf he was an illegal alien Democrats would be outraged.\n\nVia After the Bell:","title":"BANANA REPUBLIC Paul Manafort Is Being Held in Tiny Prison Cell with No Reading Material or TV Duri","date":"2018-08-17","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"When Donald Trump was running for office, he all but said outright that he wanted to make sure the United States would no longer be the leader of the free world. Since he became president, his insane rhetoric and the policies hes put in place have insured that wed lose our standing in the world...and hes succeeded. We are no longer the shining city on the hill. That moniker now belongs to Canada. Yesterday their Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, showed that he deserves to be called the leader of the free world, after his response to Trumps tweet attack.\n\nTrudeau said that Canada would be implementing tariffs to offset the unjust ones Trump used against his country. He said on CNN\n\nIt would be with regret, but it would be with absolute certainty and firmness that we move forward with retaliatory measures on July first, applying equivalent tariffs to the ones that the Americans have unjustly applied to us. I have made it very clear to the president that it is not something we relish doing, but it is something that we absolutely will do, because Canadians, were polite, were reasonable, but we also will not be pushed around.\n\nNow that sounds like something a true leader would say. He didnt threaten to bomb our country, or isolate his from the rest of the world the way Trump would. No, he responded with a calm, cool demeanor that said he was going to stand up to the bully sitting in the White House.\n\nOnce Trumps ridiculous trade war starts hurting the pocketbooks of those who voted for him, it will be with absolute certainty that hell lose the support of his followers. And make no bones about it...Trumps trade war will hurt his followers most.\n\nIts too bad we dont have a leader like Trudeau to lead this country. Canada is quite lucky to have someone like him. Were stuck with an ignorant, belligerent, petulant, man-child thats going to destroy this country, while their country is going to prosper. Justin Trudeau is the real leader of the free world.","title":"Justin Trudeau Drops The Hammer On Trump With Badass Weekend Response To G-7","date":"2018-06-10","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"President Donald Trump swiftly defended Tomi Lahren as an outstanding and respected young woman after the Fox News contributor said fellow diners at a restaurant pelted her with water and obscenities.\n\nEverybody is with Tomi Lahren, a truly outstanding and respected young woman! Trump tweeted Wednesday morning, shortly after Lahren talked about her weekend experience at a Minneapolis restaurant on Fox and Friends.\n\nVideo posted on social media shows Lahren getting heckled by diners at the restaurant, with some calling her a racist and yelling. As Lahren walks away, a woman appears to sling water at her back from a glass of water.\n\nLahren said the restaurant patrons behavior was not something that Im not used to, and admitted it was embarrassing, especially with her mother there.\n\nYou dont have to like me, you dont have to agree with my political opinions, but you dont have the right to throw things at me, she said. But again, Im tough, I can handle it.\n\nComedian Kathy Griffin also stuck up for Lahren against those at the restaurant. She tweeted on Tuesday night that she couldnt disagree more with Lahren, but she has a right to her views. The first amendment is a beautiful thing, Griffin added.\n\nI couldnt disagree more with @TomiLahren, but I dont think its cool to resort to physical actions to make your point. \n\n\n\nThe first amendment is a beautiful thing - use it. https:\/\/t.co\/Yx8obh0aH0  Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) May 23, 2018\n\nLahren, who joined Fox News as a contributor last summer, has gained a reputation as a polarizing figure, with her controversial political views on subjects including immigration, gun control, and abortion igniting fierce debate and opposition.","title":"Trump Praises Tomi Lahren After Restaurant Crowd Tosses Water Insults","date":"2018-05-23","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Republicans are in the middle of a white hot meltdown after the very credible testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Thursday morning, including President Trump. Ford gave a very convincing account of what she says Brett Kavanaugh did to her that night in 1982, and even Republicans are having a hard time denying the natural demeanor of the alleged victim.\n\nSupreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaughs testimony was quite different, however, as he came across as extremely questionable, often times weeping, and seemingly very thirsty.\n\nRepublicans, obviously not very happy with the outcome of the hearing began speaking out in foolish fashion, including Lindsey Graham, who lashed out to reporters, saying:\n\nShe took a polygraph and they didnt tell us until Sept. 26. All I can deal with is whats in front of me. Ive got a guy who adamantly denies this. Anyone who knows him in a real way say this is not the guy I know. Ive got Dr. Ford, who cant tell me the time and the place, and well see what happens.\n\nLet me put it this way to my Republican colleagues. If this becomes the new standard, where you have an accusation for weeks, you drop it right before the hearing, you withhold from the committee a chance to do this in a professional, timely fashion. When they publicly say that their goal is to delay the vote, get the Senate back in 2018, to make sure he cant fill the seat, theyre publicly saying that, I dont want to reward that kind of behavior. I think weve been very fair. To my Republican colleagues, if you can ignore everything in this record, looking at allegation thats 35 years old, thats uncertain for time, place, date and no corroboration, if thats enough for you, god help us as Republicans. Because this happens to us, it never happens to them. Let me tell you, my Democratic friends. If this is the new norm, you better watch out for your nominees.","title":"Lindsey Graham Freaks Out On Reporters After Convincing Blasey Ford Testimony VIDEO","date":"2018-09-27","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"So now talking to Alex Jones is considered illegal activity according to the Google-YouTube tech overlords.\n\nGab tweeted: Youtube just removed our interview with @RealAlexJones (notice the title predicting that this would happen lol)\n\nHow on earth was that interview encouraging illegal activity?\n\nConservative commentator and YouTube megastar, Mark Dice tweeted, Looks like if you include Alex Jones in the title of your YouTube livestream, it will automatically be shut down and your channel issued a community guideline strike. #Orwellian.\n\nAnother live podcast on YouTube was shut down and the channel was given a strike for talking about Alex Jones.\n\nYouTube is censoring interviews with Alex Jones and anyone uploading an interview with him will be punished by YouTube.\n\nThe H3 podcast had to be filmed offline and uploaded later since YouTube revoked their ability to livestream.\n\nThe tech tyrants are going into overdrive as the 2018 midterms approach.\n\nOn Friday, conservative commentator Gavin McInnes and the Official Proud Boys Twitter accounts were permanently banned from the platform.","title":"TECH TYRANNY YouTube Now Censoring and Punishing Anyone Who Uploads Video of Alex Jones","date":"2018-08-11","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Brexit, Brexit, Brexit... its been inescapable today as Cabinet ministers finally got a look a Theresa Mays proposed divorce deal with the EU.  But what has else has been going on while politicos obsessed over the Prime Ministers day of judgement?   Trumps Dressing Down Of May\n\nWith her much-anticipated deal up for scrutiny by ministers today, May probably expected some strongly-worded criticism from MPs (and Tory Brexiteer Peter Bone certainly delivered during PMQs this afternoon.) But what the PM was unlikely to be prepared for was the dressing down she received from Donald Trump when she called to congratulate him on the Republican Partys successes in last weeks midterm elections. Speaking from on-board Air Force One, the President reportedly used the call as an opportunity to give May a tongue-lashing over Iran, accusing Britain of not doing enough to contain the country. According to the Washington Post, Trump also quizzed her over Brexit, complaining about unfair trade deals with European countries. Anyone else think May might be tempted to send her congratulations via email next time?...\n\nIt was revealed today that a blunder by the NHS meant more than 40,000 women in England did not receive letters about vital cervical cancer screening between January and June this year.  The BBC reported that while the majority of the letters were inviting women to book a screening, around 4,000 were test results. As many as 200 of these were abnormal results.  Around 4.5 million women aged 25-64 receive invitations for cervical cancer screening each year.  The news comes just months after it was revealed tens of thousands of women had not been invited for breast cancer screening.  HuffPost UK has contacted NHS England and Capita  which run cervical cancer screening services  for comment.\n\nIt was seriously big news in Westminster today, but you may have missed a major U-turn by the government among all the Brexit drama.  When Philip Hammond announced a delay to a planned crackdown on highly addictive betting machines in the Autumn Budget, he not only sparked the resignation of highly-respected sports minister Tracey Crouch, but created the threat of a major Commons rebellion.  With 25 Tory MPs having joined more than 60 opposition politicians to call for the maximum stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals to be cut from 100 to 2 in April  rather than the proposed October 2019 date  it looked as if the government could lose the first vote on the budget in 40 years.  But in a bid to cool the situation down, culture secretary Jeremy Wright announced a serious step down by the government, revealing that the change would be brought forward by six months.  Common sense has prevailed, tweeted Crouch in response to the news.  The government had argued that the extra time was needed to give the gambling industry time to adjust, amid fears that the move would lead to job losses in betting shops.  No-one promised this round-up would be Brexit-free. In what could prove to be a push for on-the-fence MPs over Mays proposed Brexit deal, the International Monetary Fund warned today that crashing out of the EU could cost the UK the equivalent of almost 6,000 per household. The countrys GDP would fall by 7.8% if the UK was forced to accept World Trade Organisation rules, the Washington-based organisation said in its annual economic forecast. However, it predicted that a smooth transition to a free trade agreement with the EU would see the UKs economy grow by around 1.5%.","title":"Five Things You Missed While Everyone Was Obsessing Over Theresa Mays Brexit Plan","date":"2018-11-14","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Sean(n) Walshs ex-girlfriend Rebecca Humphries has responded to his interview on Strictly Come Dancing spin-off show It Takes Two. On Wednesday night, the comedian and his dance partner Katya Jones made a subdued appearance on It Takes Two, in which they discussed the media furore that has surrounded them since they were caught on camera kissing last week.\n\nWhile Rebecca responded to his initial public apology with a statement saying Seann had branded her a psycho after she questioned whether anything was going on between him and Katya, shes now let her feelings be known about their joint It Takes Two interview. Although she hasnt addressed the interview head-on, she has liked a number of tweets, many of which pointed out that Rebecca is yet to receive a personal apology from Seann:\n\nhe could have at least mentioned @beckshumps name instead of skirting around the fact he hasnt apologised to her, just for the hurt he has caused.\n\n\n\nalso the way he says the people who know me most.. and love me..?? um are you suggesting she never loved you @seannwalsh?? ugh https:\/\/t.co\/9tDYWVWcaI  sara  (@cariadluna) October 10, 2018\n\nAnother post in Rebeccas likes questions Seanns motive for wanting to discuss the matter on It Takes Two at all, suggesting he hadnt owned up to his behaviour:\n\n@seannwalsh@Mrs_katjones why did you appear on TV to make people feel sorry for you? You havent owned your sh*t at all - you should stop @bbcstrictly out of respect - and apologise to @Beckshumps neither of you apologised to her   JACOB THE CAT (@zipper73) October 10, 2018\n\nDuring the interview, Seann said: I would rather not be having to address this publicly, but I feel like I have to. I made a mistake, which Im very sorry for  sorry for the hurt that Ive caused. He added: I feel its also important for me to say that the people that know me the most, that love me, they know that I am not the person Im being portrayed as. Im still sorry for what I did, but its very important for me to get that out there.\n\nKatya, meanwhile, was quick to insist that her relationship with fellow Strictly pro Neil Jones was fine, and the two were not planning to split. After Rebeccas initial statement, Seann and Katya faced repeated calls to bow out of the competition, though they will be going ahead with their appearance on Saturday night, where theyll be performing a Charleston.","title":"Seann Walshs Ex-Girlfriend Rebecca Humphries Reacts To Strictly It Takes Two Interview","date":"2018-10-11","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"The Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa is shown on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Justin Tang\n\nAs previewed in iPolitics AM, the House is set to break, at least briefly, from the cross-aisle bickering that typically dominates the Chamber to reflect on Canadas 1939 rejection of the MS St. Louis, which was carrying nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees fleeing Europe, many of whom would go on to die in the Holocaust.\n\n[READ MORE: iPolitics AM: PM set to apologize for 1939 rejection of ship carrying Jewish refugees]\n\nShortly after question period wraps up, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will deliver a formal apology for the decision by-then Prime Minister Mackenzie Kings government to refuse to allow the ship to dock in Halifax  and, most likely, also draw attention to more recent examples of anti-Semitism, including last months deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue.\n\nAlso on the House agenda today: The Canada-Israel free trade deal, currently mired at second reading, which now seems set for a preliminary vote as early as later this afternoon after the government served notice of its intention to force an end to the debate.\n\nMPs are also set to cast their collective verdict on four backbench initiatives: Liberal MP Majid Jowharis proposal to require pre-sentencing reports to disclose any mental condition suffered by the accused,  as well as his BC caucus colleague Sukh Dhaliwals bid to designate April as Sikh Heritage Month, both of which are currently poised for third reading approval, and two bills awaiting second-reading approval: Conservative MP Len Webbers campaign to allow the Canada Revenue Agency to cooperate with provinces and territories attempting to set up an organ donor registry and Bloc Quebecois MP Luc Theriaults plan to exempt Quebec from Canadas multiculturalism laws.\n\nON & AROUND THE HILL\n\nTo mark National Childs Day, the Independent Senate Group teams up with the Senate Liberals and the office of the governments official Upper House representative, to host an Open Caucus to examine child poverty in Canada  and specifically, the wide and worrying gap between the economic wellbeing of the nation and the wellbeing of children.\n\nThe morning session is open to all parliamentarians, staff, media and the public, and will include presentations by First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada executive director Cindy Blackstock, University of Calgary assistant professor and researcher Amy Metcalfe, Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children chair Kathy Vandergrift and Wisdom2Action project manager Pamela Lovelace.\n\nAlso this morning: Green Party Leader Elizabeth May will give a keynote opening address at the Scaling Up Conference, which, as per the advisory, will explore Canadas opportunity to be the leading edge of a low carbon, bio-based economy.\n\nAs part of a week-long campaign to highlight what they see as a drive to expand Canadas network of nuclear reactors, environmental activists, citizens advocates and other public interest groups hit Sparks Street to share their concerns over a new roadmap for the industry, which is expected to be unveiled at an international summit on small modular reactors later today.\n\nFinally, veteran Washington, D.C. political reporter Bob Woodward will doubtless be invited to air his thoughts on the US midterms, which saw the Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives, but fall short of doing the same in the Senate, when he takes the stage at a Canada 2020 lunch event in Toronto to promote his latest book, Fear: Trump in the White House.","title":"Liberals to end Canada-Israel free-trade debate as senators survey child-poverty experts","date":"2018-11-07","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Through a lack of education many continue to be deceived into believing the corporate\/banker sponsored fake science. The spin is made by paid off crooked scientific establishments, phony front men and tightly controlled mainstream media outlets for the ulterior motives, control and profit.\n\nThose people not understanding this may consequentially suffer. A lack of education or understanding the fake science could lead to much harm through making a number of bad choices. Further, it will take double the efforts to re-educate: Deconstruct the misinformation, lies and propaganda related to the fake science in order to benefit from learning the real scientific knowledge.\n\nTo protect your physical, mental, health and well-being, here are 5 fake science sources and how they could lead to your harm if not carefully discerned:\n\nTo understand how crooked scientific establishments work you have to realize that they are uncompromisingly tied into not just corporate moneyed interests, but also scientific and political agendas. Thus, essentially, through filtering, the science follows a narrow academic approach. -To get some idea of the background behind this narrow approach consider, for example, how Big Pharma stops its competitors and monopolizes the health industry.\n\nIn order to get results for its sponsors research establishments may prevaricate, mislead, misrepresent, exaggerate, cherry-pick data, falsify, suppress or ignore contradictory information...\n\n-These are just some of the tricks used in their crooked bad science.\n\nIn retrospect, the key to realize is that this allows a number of products to go onto the markets that have not had proper scientific evaluation (helped along by crooked approval bodies such as the FDA).\n\nIf you come into contact with these products they could lead to your harm. Research the researchers and the products. Learn to discern the bad science and how the resulting products could harm you.\n\nBiotech companies and their GMOs (genetically modified organisms) is a classic example of how twisted research has gone on to give rise to harmful products.\n\nFor years, many researchers have been working on GMOs with the erroneously oversimplified understanding that the modification of one gene would in effect produce one protein. As time has gone by, it has come to light that instead of just producing one beneficial protein, other unwanted or potentially harmful proteins have also been unexpectedly produced. Such is what happens when tinkering with life:\n\nNot really knowing whats going on those in biotech labs have managed to fool the public through fake science into believing that GMOs are healthy food sources, environmentally friendly and can feed the world with efficient production...\n\nGMOs with their toxic genes and the nasty chemicals used such as the known carcinogen glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weed killer Monsantos Roundup, have contributed to numerous allergies and illnesses.\n\nStop believing the GMO charlatans, tricksters, disinformation merchants and propagandists... Say NO to GMO. Eat organic food. Grow your own food...\n\nDont fall for the scientific journals scripted by corporate paid off fake scientists and huckster shill journalists.  Its startling to know that many peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) revered by many doctors are filled with fake science. So beware of those doctors acting on false health information when treating you. Many of these journals are losing their credibility, as significant amounts of their research information have been exposed as fake.\n\nDont fall for the mainstream media fear mongering trying to manipulate your thought infrastructure.  For instance, dont fall for the recurring movie script making up the anatomy of a false flag disease, covertly manufactured for the usual ulterior motives of power, profit and political gains...\n\nEducate yourself. Make educated choices over the related health matters.\n\nWhat could be more effective in deceiving the masses than to have a number of pseudo-scientists, propagandist front men to keep the fake science effrontery going? These well-presented eloquent mainstream media front men masquerade as caring individuals. But underneath their glib effrontery, in their scientific illiteracy, they represent a number of hidden, destructive, harmful political agendas.\n\nBesides, for examples, promoting the lies that GMOs and vaccines as safe and effective, or falsely demonizing cholesterol allowing Big Pharma to push their unnecessary and potentially harmful money-spinning statins.., they also support the man-made CO2 climate change myth.\n\nThey claim that theyre saving the world by having a hand in reducing environmental CO2. This is a dangerous life-threatening practice.  If allowed to go on unheeded, it could devastate plant life which requires adequate CO2 supplies in the atmosphere for photosynthesis and in turn could seriously affect our food chains threatening species extinction in a scarcity of this vital gas.\n\nCurrently there is, in fact, a CO2 shortage. Data has shown that CO2 levels have been some 15 times higher in previous years...\n\nDont fall for deceptive misleading marketing, making claims based on fake science with its empty rhetoric. Learn to safeguard yourself from buying slickly advertised products that have hidden potentially harmful effects. Dont fall, for examples, for unlabelled GMOs, in-your-face advertising of junk foods, the fat-free slogans (didnt it tell us in our school biology texts books that fat is an essentially dietary requirement?)... Then there are the pill pushers, advertising pharmaceuticals that not only have ill side-effects but also canvas the fact that they can cause the very illness theyre supposed to treat... One of the biggest nightmares for an R & D scientist is the discovery that a product released into the market has unforeseen harmful long-term effects on its consumers. Instead of being pulled off the market, many corporations use their sales, advertising and marketing to cover up the harm. Wireless and smart meters couldnt be a better examlple of this. Take a look at the trailer of a recent documentary Generation Zapped warning the public:\n\nIt may come as a shock to some that a number of potentially harmful technology products have been allowed be produced for the ulterior motive of causing harm. For more on this go,HERE. That concludes just 5 fake science sources to beware of. Much of our science and the scientific approach is grossly rigged, involving a number of individuals lacking in integrity, as they collude with each other for control. The solution is to be your own decider: For your own physical, mental, health and well-being stop making decisions based solely on the opinions of expert authority figures, deceptive marketers and the general consensus of the masses that unquestioningly follow on. Make decisions based on your own diligent research. This article (5 Fake Science Sources and How They Could Lead to Your Harm) was originally created and published by NewParadigm.ws and is re-posted here with permission.\n\n5 Fake Science Sources and How They Could Lead to Your Harm was last modified: by","title":"5 Fake Science Sources and How They Could Lead to Your Harm","date":"2018-06-08","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"Fallout Shelter is coming to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, joining the existing iOS, Android, PC, and Xbox versions of the game.\n\nThe Switch and PlayStation 4 ports are largely the same as the existing versions  you create your own Fallout vault, manage your base layout and inhabitants (all rendered in the charming, Vault Boy-style animation from the main Fallout games), while doing your best to make sure every stays happy and alive in the radiation-filled wastelands of the Fallout games. Given that the original iOS and Android versions of Fallout Shelter were well received, it makes sense that Bethesda would want to continue to expand it to new players. The Switch port is playable both with the touchsc\n\nAlso on the mobile porting front, Bethesda announced that The Elder Scrolls: Legends would also be making the jump from mobile to console this year, with Xbox One, PS4, and Switch versions. Alongside the console versions of the card game is a new gameplay client that updates the interface and design. Players will also be able to bring over their mobile progress to the console versions with their Bethesda accounts.\n\nBoth the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch versions will be available tonight.","title":"Fallout Shelter is coming to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 tonight","date":"2018-06-11","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"A fire officer begged his superiors to abandon stay put advice being given to Grenfell Tower residents, the official inquiry into the tragedy has heard.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade was first alerted to the blaze in west London at 12.54am  on 14 June last year  and, in line with the fire policy for high-rise buildings, told residents to remain in their flats.\n\nBut the speed and ferocity of the fire meant many occupants became trapped on upper floors. The stay-put policy was finally ditched at 2.47am  a heavily criticised delay.\n\nOn Wednesday it emerged watch manager Norman Harrison had tried to get senior colleagues to abandon the policy much earlier.\n\nMr Harrison  who said the intensity of the fire reminded him of the surface of the sun  realised the stay-put strategy was wrong by 1.50am.\n\nI was truly shocked at such a severe fire over so many floors, said Mr Harrison.\n\nImmediately I knew that stay-put policy should no longer apply in this building... I could see that just didnt apply here any more.\n\nMr Harrison said he knew from previous experience each flat would be designed to withstand flames for 60 minutes  but he estimated it would take six hours to reach the top floor.\n\nHe said he knew telephone operators would be telling residents to stay put in their flats until the fire brigade could rescue them.\n\nIn reality I didnt think that there would be an opportunity to rescue people on the upper floors and I strongly felt that the advice needed to be changed from the stay-put policy to almost a simultaneous decision to evacuate.\n\nThe watch manager then rushed over to the incident command vehicle, where he encountered a group of senior managers. He made his views known to them in a very direct and unequivocal manner.\n\nI announced to all of them that I believed the advice our operators were giving out to the people trapped in the building needed to be changed, he said.\n\nI suggested that someone tell our control operators to change that advice as soon as possible. I recall that some discussion took place.\n\nIt was mentioned that there was only one escape route  there would have been lots of firefighting hose within the very narrow stairwell. I then asked if it was possible to use our emergency air supply equipment... I never got answered.\n\nMr Harrison acknowledged the evacuation of Grenfell Tower would have been extremely difficult task with only a single staircase available as an escape route.\n\nAsked by counsel to the inquiry Andrew Kinnier QC why this was, he replied: Because the staircase is full of smoke.\n\nThe residents, as they try to evacuate from their flats, would be exposed to an irrespirable atmosphere as they tried to come down the stairs.\n\nMr Harrison was sent back to his command-unit vehicle, where he spent the night passing information from 999 calls with trapped residents to rescue teams in the tower.\n\nHe told the inquiry there was only a brief timeframe when an evacuation was safe, when the fire remained only on the external cladding.\n\nI think we had a small window of opportunity to bring people down to safety, or basically as safe as it was going to be for the duration of the incident, he said.\n\nHis statement concluded: It was an impossible task from the off. I think it was a lose-lose situation no matter what decisions were made. People were going to die that morning. It was just a matter of how many.\n\nMr Harrison choked back tears on Wednesday when he offered his condolences to families bereaved by the fire. I hope you get the justice you deserve, he said.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday the inquiry heard how a firefighter carried a woman halfway down the tower after she collapsed in the smoke-clogged stairwell.\n\nAdam Johnson, a firefighter based in Soho, had been sent to carry out a rescue on the 19th floor of the burning block when he encountered two residents and their dog.\n\nThey were Nicholas Burton and his wife Maria del Pilar Burton. She became the disasters 72nd victim when she died in January.","title":"Grenfell Tower firefighter begged fire chiefs to abandon aposstay putapos advice at burning buil","date":"2018-09-19","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) One of the leading voices in independent media  Breitbart.com  is a great resource when it comes to exposing the fake Russia collusion hoax being imagined by the fake news legacy media. But Breitbart isnt infallible, and the publisher seems to have taken a turn towards the dark side when it comes to the influenza vaccine. One of its staff writers, Penny Starr, recently penned an article about this years circulating flu that cites government propaganda talking points about how most of the people whove died so far this year from the virus became victims because they werent vaccinated. Thats fake news, as weve exhaustively documented on this website over the last several months.\n\nTo make the fake news claim, Starr cites statistics from the corrupt U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which says that the official death count among children has officially reached 84. This data was presented as part of the CDCs most recently issued weekly report, entitled, Interim Estimates of 201718 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness  United States, February 2018. (For the record, the CDC routinely lies in order to push flu vaccine propaganda. The CDC director recently resigned after being exposed for purchasing stock shares in vaccine companies, but the Breitbart story completely failed to mention that outrageous conflict of interest. See CDC.news for more detailed coverage.)\n\nStarr then goes on to cite data from the Big Pharma-funded fake news website WebMD.com, pointing to alleged data showing that, of the 54 kids (this being the official death toll number at the time that WebMD published this particular dataset) who were old enough to get the flu vaccine, only 14 of them, or 26 percent, had gotten at least one dose. WebMD, of course, was itself citing data from the CDC, as relayed in the journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.\n\nAbout half of the children who died had underlying medical conditions that made them more vulnerable to severe complications from the flu, and 60% had been admitted to the hospital before they died, WebMD admits, adding the caveat that, In previous flu seasons, as many as 85% of children who died after getting the flu had not been vaccinated.\n\nThis last point is clearly pointing to last years flu season, and really doesnt have anything to do with this years flu season. But Starr somehow extrapolated this in the title of her article for Breitbart.com to suggest that 84 children have died this year from the flu, and most who died werent vaccinated.\n\nThe good news is that because it is only half way through the flu season it is not too late to vaccinate children who are six months old or older, according to the CDC, writes Starr, apparently oblivious to the truth that the CDCs vaccine propaganda is just another form of the same media lies that have been pushed to destroy President Trump.\n\nOddly enough, Starr admits just three paragraphs prior that a recently-released CDC study admits that the flu vaccine isnt even all that effective, helping, at most, 36 percent of adults who receive it. That number is slightly higher for kids, she says, which is apparently more than enough evidence to show that getting it is a good idea.\n\nBut as weve also pointed out here at Natural News on many occasions, even these numbers are inflated. The CDC itself admitted back in 2011 that flu shots are medically useless. Not only do they not provoke the type of immunity that keeps the flu at bay, but in many cases they can actually trigger the flu, or at least flu-like symptoms.\n\nWeve also exposed WebMD as being on the dole when it comes to taking special interest money to promote an agenda. In 2013, we exposed the corrupt medical information page for accepting millions of dollars in cash payments to promote the corrupt and failed Obamacare scheme.\n\nFor the record, Breitbart.com has been a very important, effective and courageous independent news organization over the last several years, and weve cited and linked to thousands of their articles. AWR Hawkins articles defending the Second Amendment, in particular, are a true breath of fresh air. So lets hope Breitbart isnt become part of the medical establishment that pushes toxic cancer treatments, statin drugs, antidepressants and flu shots. If thats where Breitbart is headed, it will soon become just another toxic source of medical disinformation that harms America.","title":"Say what Breitbart news publishes WebMD flu vaccine propaganda shaped by pharmaceutical giants","date":"2018-02-26","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Cacey Wells, a teaching professor at the University of Oklahoma, wants to get rid of all advanced math classes designed for gifted students because he believes theyre inherently racist and promote academic apartheid.\n\nAccording to Wells, placing more adept students into higher-level math classes based on their abilities is a form of capitalist exploitation and settler colonialism, a designation thats supposed to sound really smart, but thats nothing more than a rhetorical hodgepodge of anti-white, left-wing gobbledygook.\n\nIn a recent study he wrote, entitled, Understand Issues Associated With Tracking Students in Mathematics Education and published in the Columbia University journal Mathematics Education, Wells openly condemns even the mere tracking of individual students and their academic performance as a way to assess which math classes they belong in, claiming that doing so promotes white supremacy.\n\nThe fact that different math classes exist for students at different levels of math ability represents the outgrowth of racial hierarchies that have developed over the nations history and that have privileged whiteness, Wells, a white-looking man himself, contends.\n\nThis is particularly true in schools, he adds. Many times students are pigeonholed into particular academic tracks based purely on socially constructed potentialities.\n\nThese are curious claims to make when considering that Asians students, with skin thats typically more brown than the white skin of Europeans, outperform whites academically, which means theyre the most likely racial group to be placed at the head of the class when it comes to learning math.\n\nSponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: Lab-verified Nascent Iodine solution is a dietary supplement that provides your body with supplemental iodine to help protect your thyroid during radiation exposure. Nuclear accidents such as Fukushima (or nuclear war) can expose your body to radioactive iodine-131, a dangerous radioisotope. Pre-loading your system with stable iodine occupies the iodine receptor sites on your organs, causing your body to naturally expel radioactive iodine you may have been exposed to through air, food, water or milk products. This defensive strategy is recommended by nearly all health authorities, worldwide, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Discover more at this link.\n\nBut Wells pays no mind to these facts, and instead takes pot shot after pot shot against whitey in his paper. Somehow it was white people who settled and colonized the world that created the racial hierarchy in mathematics that Wells believes exists and is holding students of other racial backgrounds down in the world.\n\nSettler colonial ideas routinely become evident through colonization of intellect, he adds. When there is no longer territory to conquer or people to physically oppress, there exists opportunities to colonize knowledge.\n\nIn other words, white students who are smarter at math than their black or brown counterparts arent actually smarter. Theyve simply colonized education and put themselves at the top of the ladder by awarding themselves early entry into pre-calculus rather than remedial algebra.\n\nThis isnt how it works, of course, as gifted math classes are open to anyone whos mathematically gifted  simple as that. But in the world of Cacey Wells, its all one big conspiracy theory to grant special privileges to white students who he presumably believes will grow up to become plantation owners filled with slave workers who were put into the lower math classes back in high school.\n\nAgain, if this tin foil hat narrative were even true, it would actually be Asian students at the top of the math pyramid. But acknowledging reality doesnt seem to be a strong point with leftist academics like Wells, who are so convinced that white supremacy is hiding under every rock that they quite literally inject their nonsensical paranoia into everything they can get their hands on.\n\nTo fix the problem, Wells suggests de-tracking all students and putting them all into the same math class. Hes also pushing for teachers to implement his ideas of mathematics for social justice, which he says requires all math teachers to be up-to-date on current issues facing their students communities.\n\nFor instance, mathematics courses in schools can be aligned to issues of gentrification, immigration, race, and other topics pertinent to local communities, he contends.\n\nFor more crazy leftist news, check out Libtards.news.","title":"Leftists now claim gifted math classes are racist and must be halted nationwide","date":"2018-09-14","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"This means President Trump is aware of what Facebook, Twitter and Google are doing to silence his supporters and conservative speech.\n\nBrad Parscale was Trumps digital media director during the 2016 presidential election.\n\nHe knows Facebook inside and out which is why Trump outperformed Hillary Clinton on Facebook by a long shot.\n\nEver since Hillary got shellacked in the 2016 election, Deep State operatives and butt hurt Dems have shrieked about Russians using Facebook and Twitter to sow discord. Whatever that means.\n\nIts not a crime for Russians to use Facebook or Twitter. Isnt that what social media is about? Bringing people from all over the world together so they can express their views?\n\nThe Fascists are now in overdrive as they use algorithms to silence Trump supporters.\n\nBrad Parscale asked why no uproar over the decades of selling data for junk mail? Maybe because the US is funding the USPS?\n\nDoes AT&T have the responsibility to stop foreign actors from calling me? Parscale asked.\n\nParscale praised Senator Cruz for asking why Facebook is censoring Diamond and Silk.\n\nParscale ended his tweetstorm with, If Facebook really cares about not looking like a censor. They should post all blocked and banned posts\/users in a special area that is viewable by a select group of diverse Americans. Right, left and all types of social groups. Transparency!\n\nAfter two hours of testimony FINALLY one Republican asked Zuckerberg about their crackdown on conservative content.\n\nTech Giants Google and Facebook are currently purging conservative content from Facebook and YouTube  They are hiding conservative stories on Google  They are shadow-banning conservative news on all social media.\n\nDiamond and Silk say their reach on Facebook has dramatically reduced prompting them to seek answers from Facebook.\n\nAfter giving them the runaround for months, Facebook responded with, The Policy team has came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community.\n\nEven worse, Facebook said their decision is final and it is not appeal-able in any way.\n\nIts time Facebook, Twitter and other tech giants be treated as public utilities so they cant discriminate against people for their political views.","title":"Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale Unloads on Facebook Censorship of Conservatives in Epic Tweetst","date":"2018-04-11","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"First daughter Ivanka Trump completely embarrassed herself during a Fox News interview when she told the hosts of Fox & Friends she found the viciousness in politics to be surprising, namely that directed toward her father.\n\nThe first daughter, who doesnt have an official role in the White House and isnt an official government employee, said:\n\nIt is hard. And theres a level of viciousness that I was not expecting. I was not expecting the intensity of this experience. Some of the distractions and some of the ferocity, I was a little blindsided by on a personal level. For me, Im trying to keep my head down and not listen to the noise and just work really hard to make a positive impact.\n\nRight, because the so-called viciousness Trump supposedly faces is worse than what former President Barack Obama faced for the eight years he occupied the Oval Office? For gosh sakes, Trump tried to convince millions of Americans that Obama was born in Kenya and was a Muslim, prompting the whole birther movement to take off.\n\nNot only did Trump attack Obama, though, he also viciously attacked his opponents throughout the 2016 presidential campaigns, from Ted Cruz to Ben Carson. The hypocrisy is exactly what prompted New York Post columnist John Podhoretz to take to Twitter to slam the first daughter, calling her a filthy liar. He wrote:\n\nTwitter seemed to agree with him, too. Some of the best replies to Podhoretzs tweet can be viewed below.\n\nSome Twitter users pointed out what many of us are thinking:","title":"NY Post Taunts Ivanka For Crybaby Whine About How Her Daddy Is Treated Its Perfect","date":"2018-04-24","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) People who are overweight should lose some weight even if they do not have high blood pressure or any other heart disease risk, according to scientists. This is because a study has found that people who are 30 pounds or more overweight are more likely to develop metabolic syndrome within 10 years. This also increases their risk of getting cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.\n\nIn the study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the research team aimed to identify if metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) at baseline remained stable or resulted in metabolic syndrome and raised the risk of cardiovascular disease. The team, led by researchers from the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, included 6,809 participants from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis who were recruited from six sites in the U.S. They followed the participants for 12 years with a clinical evaluation done every two years.\n\nResults showed that baseline MHO was not significantly associated with cardiovascular disease compared with normal weight. Nevertheless, almost 50 percent of the participants had metabolic syndrome during follow-up and had greater risks of cardiovascular disease than those with stable MHO or normal weight. The progression was linked to a higher risk for heart disease.\n\nMetabolically healthy obesity is not a stable or reliable indicator of future risk for cardiovascular disease. Right now, there isnt any way to know which 50 percent will progress and which wont, explained Dr. Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin, assistant professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist and lead author of the study.\n\nGet CLEAN FOOD and help support our mission to keep you informed: The Health Ranger Store lab verifies everything we sell with accredited testing for heavy metals, microbiology and food safety. Certified organic facility, ISO-accredited on-site laboratory, no GMOs or synthetic ingredients. The world's #1 source of lab-verified clean foods and superfoods for nutritional healing. 600+ products available. Explore now.\n\nTherefore, the researchers suggest that anyone with MHO or having a body mass index (BMI) of more than 30 to lose some weight, become more physically active, and make other healthy lifestyle changes to prevent developing metabolic syndrome.\n\nAnother study proved that there is no such thing as healthy obesity. A study published in the journal The Lancet found that obese women are still at a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, even if they have sustained good metabolic health for decades, compared to metabolically healthy women of normal weight. (Related: The success rate for returning to healthy weight after living a life of obesity is very low among people who follow the status quo.)\n\nIn conducting the study, researchers looked at the link between obesity and cardiovascular disease incidence in 90,257 women from the Nurses Health Study. They grouped the participants according to their BMI, metabolic health, and change in metabolic health status. They also followed them for 30 years between 1980 and 2010. Every two years, participants answered questionnaires to update their BMI and metabolic health status and to evaluate their lifestyle, health behavior, and medical history.\n\nResults showed that 6,306 new cases of cardiovascular diseases were recorded during an average follow-up of 24 years. These included 3,304 heart attacks, and 3,080 strokes were recorded. Women of normal weight but who were metabolically unhealthy were about two-and-a-half times more at risk of developing cardiovascular disease than those women of the same weight who were metabolically healthy. That risk was even higher in women who were overweight and obese. In addition, those with MHO were at a 39 percent greater risk of cardiovascular disease.\n\nThe researchers also discovered that most metabolically healthy obese women became metabolically unhealthy and had a 57 percent greater cardiovascular disease risk over 20 years, even if they were normal weight.\n\nThe findings of the study indicated that obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, even if women develop any of the common metabolic diseases, such as high blood pressure or Type 2 diabetes.\n\nOur large cohort study confirms that metabolically healthy obesity is not a harmless condition, and even women who remain free of metabolic diseases for decades face an increased risk of cardiovascular events, explained Matthias Schulze, a professor at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke and leader of the study.\n\nRead more news stories and studies on heart health by going to HeartDisease.news.","title":"Theres no such thing as healthy obesity scientists say that people who are 30 pounds or more ov","date":"2018-06-06","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"President Trump slammed the Federal Reserves rising interest rates after stocks plunged Wednesday, saying, the Fed has gone crazy.","title":"Watch Live Crazy Fed Looking To Burst Bubble And Crash American Economy","date":"2018-10-11","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"The US Constitution has a built-in mechanism that allows the presidents powers to be transferred to their vice president if they become incapable of discharging them.\n\nBoth Ronald Reagan and George W Bush used the 25th Amendment to do so temporarily before they were put under medical anaesthesia.\n\nBut could it be used to oust Donald Trump if he is deemed unfit to serve? The amendment has been floated as a potential means of installing Mike Pence in the Oval Office, as the commander-in-chief continues to lurch from one scandal to the next.\n\nMr Pences public style contrasts with that of Mr Trump, whose all-caps TREASON? Twitter outburst on 6 September over a New York Times op-ed from a White House insider made headlines around the world.\n\nAt around the same time, the vice president was tweeting far more moderately: Joined @POTUS in welcoming sheriffs from around the country to the @WhiteHouse today. Our administration stands with our law enforcement officers. THANK YOU for everything you do!.\n\nThe New York Times has now reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment back in 2017 in the wake of Mr Trump firing James Comey as FBI director. Mr Rosenstein has not yet responded to the story.\n\nA deployment of the 25th Amendment to oust Mr Trump would require a number of variables to fall into place: Mr Pence and eight of the 15 members of the cabinet would have to decide to go ahead with it and be prepared to prove their case before securing a two-thirds majority vote in Congress if Mr Trump were to challenge them.\n\nBut Dr Jacob Parakilas, assistant head of the US and Americas Programme at Chatham House, said he believed such a measure was extremely unlikely.\n\nThe idea of it being used to forcibly depose a president is, I think, incredibly far-fetched. It would instantly create a political crisis that would very quickly become a constitutional crisis, he said.\n\nYou would see the emergence of factionalism within the government. Its an incredibly powerful tool but it has the potential for spectacular levels of blowback.\n\nThe operative part of the 25th Amendment is Section 4:\n\nWhenever the vice president and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the president pro tempore of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the vice president shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting president.\n\nExperts have already said impeachment is unlikely to be a threat for Mr Trump, because of the strong position in which he has put the Republican Party.\n\nAssistant professor Rebecca Thorpe, a political scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, previously told The Independent: Given Trumps numerous financial conflicts of interests, the potential for corruption and the likely violations of the Emoluments Clause, the legal possibility for impeachment is rife.\n\nHowever, with a GOP-controlled House and Senate, the possibility of impeachment is not a question of law but of political will.\n\nTrump is an unconventional Republican in many ways, but he has appointed a cabinet full [of] far-right conservatives with a conventional conservative agenda of tax cuts, reduced spending on health care and social services, and extensive deregulation.\n\nThus far, he has also received support from congressional Republicans who have blocked legislation to investigate or curb Trumps massive financial conflicts of interests.\n\nBut Professor Angelia Wilson, from the University of Manchester, has said she believed the trail of scandals in his wake had become an embarrassment to the Republican Party, leaving him vulnerable to impeachment by members of the party seeking re-election to the House.\n\nWhether it will be about the Russia dossier or other scandals that are undoubtedly there, he has become a liability for the Republican Party. At some point they will need to distance themselves from him in order to solidify re-election for the House.","title":"25th Amendment What is it and could it be used to impeach Donald Trump as president","date":"2018-09-21","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"AT&T said it would roll out a real 5G network in a dozen cities in 2018, and now we know the next three cities on the carriers list: Charlotte, Raleigh, and Oklahoma City will get the 5G treatment.\n\nThe three cities join the previously announced rollout in Dallas, Atlanta, and Waco that AT&T began in February, and the new additions should help AT&T stay on track for its 12-city goal. AT&T explained that its rolling out in smaller cities because it feels that all Americans should have access to next-gen connectivity to avoid a new digital divide. Its also a clear shot back at T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray who thumbed his nose at AT&Ts choice of smaller cities a few months ago when announcing T-Mobiles plans for 5G, saying, Why are we in New York and not Waco? Because New York matters.\n\nNot to be confused with AT&Ts not-actually-5G 5G Evolution network\n\nIts also important to note that these six cities are the ones with AT&Ts actual, 3GPP-standards based 5G NR (New Radio) network. While AT&T may boast that it offers its 5G Evolution network in 140 markets, its really just rebranded and remarketed LTE technologies, not true 5G.\n\nOf course, none of this actually matters yet: as of now, there are no 5G phones or devices that users can actually buy. But given the glacial pace that networking rollouts arrive, its good that AT&T is starting to get the ball rolling now.","title":"Charlotte Raleigh Oklahoma City are ATTs next 5G cities in 2018","date":"2018-07-20","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Menstruation is a basic part of life. Many go through it without incident, but for some women, the experience can be agonizing. The pain brought by dysmenorrhea or menstrual cramps can be so severe that it prevents sufferers from functioning as they would on a normal day.\n\nOver-the-counter pain relievers are easy to obtain, but their potential side effects make them a risky gamble. Long-term supplementation of vitamin E, says a study, makes for a natural and more wholesome alternative.\n\nThe review used PubMed and Cochrane library to find studies related to the search terms vitamin E, dysmenorrhea, and dysmenorrhoea. As part of the selection process, the reviewers employed a set of criteria:\n\nThe reviewers found three studies matching the terms and standards they used.\n\nThe first study, published in 1955, recruited 100 female university students who had a history of painful menstrual cramps. They were randomly divided into two groups  one group received 50 mg vitamin E (-tocopherol) while the other group received a placebo. Neither the researchers nor the students knew who received the placebo and who had the supplement.\n\nThe participants were told to take the medicine three times a day 10 days before the day they expected to get their period. After about three months (three menstruations), the women were asked about the severity of the pain they experienced. It was found that more women reported having a tolerable experience among those who took the supplements compared to those who had the placebo.\n\nSupport our mission and enhance your own self-reliance: The laboratory-verified Organic Emergency Survival Bucket provides certified organic, high-nutrition storable food for emergency preparedness. Completely free of corn syrup, MSG, GMOs and other food toxins. Ultra-clean solution for years of food security. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store.\n\nThe second study, published in 2001, followed 100 young women from 16 to 18 years old who suffered from primary dysmenorrhea. The girls were divided into two equal groups  50 of them received five tablets of vitamin E (500 units) while 50 were given placebo tablets. The participants have to take the supplements every day starting from two days before their period began. Treatment ended three days after the bleeding started. (Related: Vitamin E, critical for brain health, is lacking in 90% of adults  find out how to add more to your diet!)\n\nParticipants from both placebo and vitamin E groups reported improvements after the study. However, it was the latter group that reported more pronounced improvements.\n\nThe third study was published in 2005 and involved 278 girls aged 15 to 17 years old who suffered from primary dysmenorrhea. One group of participants were given 200 units of vitamin E while another received placebos. As in the second study, the girls had to take the medicine two days before their period began up to three days after the start of bleeding. The treatment continued for four consecutive menstrual periods.\n\nWhen the study concluded, the researchers found that not only did vitamin E supplementation reduce the severity of discomfort, it also shortened the duration of the pain and lowered the amount of blood lost during menstruation.\n\nAside from taking supplements, an effective way to supply the body with the vitamin E it needs is to eat food items that are rich in the nutrient. This approach is also the safest as it means absorbing nutrition directly from natural sources.\n\nVitamin E is relatively easy to obtain as it is available in many types of food. Here are some great items that women can eat to reduce the discomfort caused by dysmenorrhea:\n\nFind more natural remedies for dysmenorrhea at Remedies.news.","title":"Vitamin E may be a natural remedy for dysmenorrhea","date":"2018-06-19","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) The word preservative sounds like a really good concept. Its nice to be able to make food last longer so it doesnt spoil so soon, right? It might save you some money and save you some gas too, because you dont have to drive to the grocery store so often. Thats just a win, win situation, huh? Think again.\n\nIts actually a win, lose situation. The corporations win because their products can sit on the shelves in boxes, cans, jars, plastic wrap, and plastic containers for much, much longer than ever before, thanks to chemicals that stave off mold, fungus, bacteria, yeast, microorganisms, and even viruses. The consumers lose because eating chemicals fuels diseases and disorders, including allergies, skin problems, irritable bowel syndrome, dementia, and of course cancer.\n\nIn America, corporate business is all about the money. There is rarely any concern for human health or well-being, and as long as consumers cant prove some harmful preservative caused health detriment in the short run, theyll never win in court. Plus, its more about the cumulative effect of consuming multiple toxins many times a day for years on end, so theres never really any one culprit to pin the blame on. Thats why its super important to recognize the top 6 food preservative criminals that are waltzing right into your holy home (your body is the temple of your soul) and decimating your one and only body and mind. Lets take a look at the repeat offenders and the chronic damage they do to you, all while preserving your food.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nEven if canola oil is USDA certified organic and expeller-pressed, it doesnt matter, because over time canola oil coagulates and clogs your veins and arteries, restricting blood flow, nutrient flow, and oxygen flow. Food manufacturers are mixing canola into processed foods and salad dressings like theres no tomorrow, and for some folks who eat way too much of it, there just might not be a tomorrow. Canola never spoils. Bugs wont touch it. Leave it outside in an open container for about 6 weeks and it stretches out like gooey glue. As for Mother Nature, there is no such thing as a canola plant. All canola comes from rapeseed, which is highly toxic to humans and has been used as an insecticide for hundreds of years. Go figure. Check out the TruthWiki entry for the good, the bad, and the ugly truth about canola.\n\nSodium benzoate is one of the cruelest food criminals alive today. Why? It suffocates your mitochondria by dissolving the protective protein layer and then depriving those cells of oxygen. It also damages human DNA. Commonly found preserving soft drinks and jarred pickles and peppers, sodium benzoate breaks down the human immune system and can cause blood cancer (leukemia). When sodium benzoate is combined with vitamins C and E, benzene is formed, causing programmed cell death. Thats when your body fails to fight off disease and infection. So while that soda can sit on that shelf for years, waiting for the next ignorant consumer, the ones who have been drinking it regularly are suffering from health problems no medical doctor can seem to figure out.\n\nCheck your potato chips, frozen sausages, enriched rice, gelatin, vegetable oils, cereals and chewing gum for these food preserving, health destroying nightmares. Is your food mutilated or just butylated? BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) keep foods from becoming rancid, hold the flavor and maintain the color, but they also affect the brains neurological system, altering behavior and helping cancer cells develop.\n\nCommonly found in spicy foods, dry soup mixes, ranch dressings, Chinese food, chips, frozen dinners, deli meats, barbecue sauces, buffalo sauces, and believe it or not, many vaccines, MSG is a dangerous concentrated salt that causes such severe migraine headaches that it can kill an infant. MSG is known as an excitotoxin because it over-stimulates human cells to the point that they are permanently damaged or just die off. Some consumers are so allergic to MSG they suffer depression, disorientation, and eye damage. You know those headaches where you have to sit in a dark, quiet room or else lose your mind? Thats MSG at work.\n\nCheck your lunch meats, bacon, ham, and smoked fish for these chemical compounds that are used to kill wild hogs. Sodium nitrate is used to accelerate the burning of combustible materials, and in large quantities becomes explosive. Sodium nitrate and nitrite are highly carcinogenic inside the human digestive tract, forming nitrosamine compounds in the bloodstream, causing major stress for cleansing organs, including the pancreas and liver. The USDA moved to ban these carcinogens in the 1970s, but was run roughshod over by Big Food, because this color fixer tricks consumers by making decaying meats appear fresh with that bright-red, vibrant look. Oh, and by the way, sodium nitrates are also present in cigarettes.\n\nThousands of people are allergic to sulfites but may not even know it. This popular preservative of the wine-making industry can cause rashes, headaches, and severe asthma attacks. Cases involving death from sulfites have been reported where the preservative literally closed down the persons breathing airway completely, leading to a heart attack. Also check for sulfites in your dried fruits, bottled lemon and lime juice, molasses, and sometimes even sauerkraut.","title":"Top 6 preservatives that extend shelf life but SHORTEN human life","date":"2018-10-16","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"On Saturday night, Vick found herself at the bottom of the leaderboard when her Cha Cha Cha routine failed to impress the judging panel, scoring just 20 points of a possible 40.\n\nVick Hope has become the fourth celebrity to be sent home from Strictly Come Dancing , after landing in the dance-off for the first time.\n\nFollowing this, she and partner Graziano Di Prima wound up in the bottom two, competing against comedian Seann Walsh and Katya Jones.\n\nAfter both couples performed again, it was decided that Seann and Katya would be staying put for at least another week, with Vicks Strictly journey coming to an end.\n\nShe said: Ive had the time of my life so I want to thank everyone for being the best possible people I could spend all this time with. What in incredible team; the hair, the make-up, the clothes.\n\nThank you for all of your guidance and the judging I appreciate it and of course, thank you Graz, youve been so patient with me and helped me so much, Ive loved every last second of it so thank you.\n\nMeanwhile Graziano, who is one of three new professional dancers on this years Strictly, and the only one to compete, added: First of all I want to say thank you Vick because I know its been really tough and people know how hard you work all day plus eight hours with me and then sleep for three hours and then again every day. You did brilliantly and you are brilliant, thank you. You really make me proud day by day.\n\nSeann and Katya being saved is sure to raise eyebrows among some Strictly fans, given the pair have rarely been out of the headlines ever since they were caught on camera kissing earlier this month.","title":"Strictly Come Dancing Seann Walsh Is Saved As Vick Hope Is Sent Home By Judges","date":"2018-10-21","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"A cache of internal Facebook documents has been dramatically seized by MPs investigating the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.\n\nThe documents are said to shed light on the social media giant's data and privacy controls before the massive breach was made public.\n\nThey were intercepted when the boss of a US software company in possession of the cache visited the UK on business, The Observer reported.\n\nDamian Collins, chairman of the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, compelled the founder of the firm to hand over the documents using a rare parliamentary mechanism.\n\nIn a highly unusual move a serjeant at arms was sent to the businessman's hotel and he was given a final warning and a two-hour deadline to comply with the order.\n\nWhen the founder failed to do so he was escorted to parliament and warned he risked fines and imprisonment if the documents were not surrendered, the paper said.\n\nThe firm is involved in court action against Facebook in the US, where the documents were obtained through legal mechanisms.\n\nMr Collins told the paper: \"We are in uncharted territory. This is an unprecedented move but it's an unprecedented situation. We've failed to get answers from Facebook and we believe the documents contain information of very high public interest.\"\n\nHe said Facebook had some \"very serious questions\" to answer and accused it of misleading the committee over Russian involvement on the platform.\n\n\"It has not answered our questions about who knew what, when with regards to the Cambridge Analytica scandal,\" Mr Collins said.\n\n\"We have followed this court case in America and we believed these documents contained answers to some of the questions we have been seeking about the use of data, especially by external developers.\"\n\nFacebook told the paper: \"The materials obtained by the DCMS committee are subject to a protective order of the San Mateo Superior Court restricting their disclosure.\n\n\"We have asked the DCMS committee to refrain from reviewing them and to return them to counsel or to Facebook.\n\n\"We have no further comment.\"","title":"Facebook documents seized in aposunprecedented moveapos by MPs investigating Cambridge Analytica","date":"2018-11-25","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  President Donald Trump is revoking the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, who served in the Obama administration.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the decision at a White House briefing Wednesday, following through on the presidents recent threat.\n\nSanders is citing Brennans erratic conduct and behavior and accusing him of lying and wild outbursts.\n\nShe also claims hes leveraged his status to make unfounded allegations.\n\nBrennan has been deeply critical of Trumps conduct, calling his performance at a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland nothing short of treasonous.\n\nSanders says other former intelligence officials security clearances are also currently under review.\n\n Trump considering revoking ex-Obama officials clearance\n\n  Paul Ryan says Trump trolling people about security clearances\n\n  Pentagon to take over security clearance checks","title":"Trump makes good on threat to revoke Brennans clearance","date":"2018-08-15","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Dont be fooled by the seemingly clear air before your eyes. Every breath you take fills your lungs with uncountable amounts of aerosols, many of which are harmful to human health.\n\nThese ubiquitous bits of matter come in two forms: Solid particulate and drops of liquids, both of which are small and light enough to remain airborne for near-indefinite periods of time.\n\nFurthermore, aerosols are not just limited to human cities. There are many aerosols that originate in natural sources, such as the column of smoke rising from a fire, the ash that belches from the maw of an active volcano, or the dust in the wind.\n\nAs a result, aerosols are present everywhere in the entire planet. Deserts, forests, frozen tundras, mountains, and oceans are just some of the natural ecosystems whose skies are filled with them.\n\nThe airborne molecules are invisible to the human eye. But many hundreds of kilometers above our heads, the electronic eyes of satellites are able to pick up large concentrations of aerosols. (Related: AEROSOLS: Tiny particles found to have a big impact on weather.)\n\nNASA recently released imagery made by the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing (GEOS FP) computer modeling system, which depicted the distribution and concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere on August 23, 2018.\n\nThat day was particularly significant in the grand scheme of things. The North American and African continents were shrouded in dense smoke, the Pacific region hosted a terrifying trio of tropical cyclones, and dust storms swept through deserts in Africa and Asia.\n\nSupport our mission and protect your health: Organic Seeds of Life combines Red Raspberry Seed Power, Black Cumin Seed Power and Red Grape Seed Powder into the most potent nutrient-rich supplemental superfood powder you've ever experienced. Loaded with flavonoids, antioxidants, anthocyanins, OPCs, ALA and a vast array of vital nutrients. Learn more here.\n\nThe powerful winds of the tropical cyclones haul sea spray high into the air, filling the Pacific skies with so much sea salt aerosol that you can almost taste it. The black carbon particles over North America and Africa are much less pleasant for humans; they are toxic products of fires, factory emissions, and vehicle exhaust.\n\nFor the sake of convenience, the aerosol concentrations were color-coded. The sea salt is colored blue, the black carbon is red, and dust is denoted by purple.\n\nClimate and weather computer models calculate the events that took place in the skies during days like August 23. They use mathematical equations to simulate fires, storms, and other physical processes that take place in real life.\n\nTo increase its accuracy, a computer model is fed data taken from the appropriate events. The data consists of physical measurements of aerosols, moisture, temperature, winds, and other related properties.\n\nThe measurements are collected by satellites in orbit and ground-based sensors. The two sources complement each other.\n\nTake the GEOS FP imagery, for example. It can predict the behavior of the plumes of black carbon by looking at the location and intensity of the fires producing the smoke.\n\nTo do this, it used satellite data on the radiative power of the fire. The data was collected by the Aqua and Terra satellites as they passed over North America and Africa during August 23.\n\nOn that day, massive wildfires were raging throughout parts of Canada and the U.S. Meanwhile, in Central Africa, local farmers were setting many small fires around their agricultural lands and pastures to protect them from the encroaching wilderness.\n\nComputer models like GEOS FP give researchers a better means of keeping track of aerosol levels, allowing them to come up with better approaches to reduce the amount of those substances in the air.\n\nFind out more about the various natural and man-made aerosols filling the skies at Ecology.news.","title":"A new map of Earth Heres what our planet looks like with the aerosols from wildfires and dust circ","date":"2018-11-28","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Over the past eight years, the Duchess of Sussex and Serena Williams friendship has gone from strength to strength.\n\nHaving first met in 2010, the pair have since formed a very close connection, supporting each other through thick and thin and bonding over life spent in the limelight.\n\nWilliams recently revealed that she and the duchess have been relying on each other a great deal in recent times, texting each other regularly for support and advice about coping with intense media scrutiny.\n\nFrom a Super Bowl party in Florida to a royal wedding in Windsor, heres a timeline of their sweet and enduring friendship:\n\nThe duchess and Williams first met in 2010 during a party celebrating the Super Bowl, one of the most highly anticipated annual American sporting events.\n\nWhile the New Orleans Saints may have won the championship game that year, for Meghan and Williams, the event symbolised something that was arguably far more significant: the beginning of their friendship.\n\nThe pair immediately hit it off, keeping in touch after their first meeting.\n\nThey crossed paths again at the Super Bowl in 2014, when they both took part in a flag football match at DirectTVs Celebrity Beach Bowl, playing on the same team alongside Hannah Jeter, Nina Agdal and Shay Mitchell.\n\nWhen the news broke that Meghan, formerly an actor on US drama Suits, had begun dating Prince Harry, the media went into a frenzy.\n\nMeghan sought Williams advice at the time, asking her what she should do to deal with the unrelenting paparazzi.\n\nI told her, Youve got to be who you are, Meghan. You cant hide,, Williams said in a profile of the duchess that was published in Vanity Fair in 2017.\n\nThis year, both Meghan and Williams were thrust into the spotlight to an even greater degree than usual, what with the duchess becoming a member of the royal family and Williams becoming embroiled in a widely discussed row with US Open umpire Carlos Ramos.\n\nWilliams spoke to Lisa Wilkinson of The Sunday Project about her friendship with Meghan, and the way in which its evolved as of late.\n\nWe were actually just texting each other this morning, she said when Wilkinson asked how often they correspond.\n\nWe have known each other for a long time, but we really are relying on each other a lot recently.\n\nThe royal family often visits Wimbledon during the annual tennis championships.\n\nHowever, this year when Meghan took her seat in the royal box alongside her sister-in-law the Duchess of Cambridge, she did so both as a tennis fan and as a supporter of her close friend, 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams.\n\nMeghan watched as her friend lost the Womens Singles Final to Angelique Kerber, who won the match in straight sets.\n\nA couple of months later, it was revealed that Meghan had been involved in the creation of the Together: Our Community Cookbook, a recipe book produced with the aim of supporting families affected by the tragic Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nWilliams tweeted her support of Meghans first solo project as a member of the royal family, writing: I used to call you Meghan (and I still do) but dear Duchess of Sussex your first project Together a cookbook bringing women of all cultures together.\n\nI could not be more excited about it and proud of you, she continued. Its beautiful - diversity, inclusivity, coming together in grief and joy.\n\nWhile Williams may be regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time, she also has another pastime that shes very passionate about: fashion.\n\nEarlier this year, she revealed the launch of her very own eponymous fashion line, which features a variety of casual, smart and sportswear.\n\nWhile in Australia with Prince Harry as part of a 16-day tour, Meghan wore a piece from Williams clothing collection: the Serena Boss Blazer.\n\nThe face you make when you and the Duchess of Sussex Meghan have matching @serena blazers, Williams wrote on Instagram.\n\nOn May 19 when Meghan and Prince Harry married at St Georges Chapel in Windsor, many people were enthralled by the sheer volume of A-list celebrities who attended the ceremony, including the likes of Amal and George Clooney, Victoria and David Beckham and Oprah Winfrey.\n\nWilliams attended the nuptials with her husband Alexis Ohanian, wearing a blush pink Versace wrap dress and Bulgari jewellery.\n\nFor the evening reception, William changed into a Pierpaolo Piccioli black and floral gown, which she paired with a pair of comfortable, Valentino trainers.\n\nLittle known fact: I often wear sneakers under my evening gown, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nThese @maisonvalentino @pppiccioli gave to me last min. I told him be careful I tend to be comfy for long nights.\"","title":"Meghan Markle and Serena Williams A timeline of the duchessapos friendship with the tennis supers","date":"2018-10-18","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Sponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: Lab-verified Nascent Iodine solution is a dietary supplement that provides your body with supplemental iodine to help protect your thyroid during radiation exposure. Nuclear accidents such as Fukushima (or nuclear war) can expose your body to radioactive iodine-131, a dangerous radioisotope. Pre-loading your system with stable iodine occupies the iodine receptor sites on your organs, causing your body to naturally expel radioactive iodine you may have been exposed to through air, food, water or milk products. This defensive strategy is recommended by nearly all health authorities, worldwide, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Discover more at this link.\n\nDont forget to make a list of where each item is stored. Sometimes it can get really confusing, and you can lose track of all of the things that youve hidden! A good idea is to allocate a specific area for a type of item. So, for example, that space under your sink could be for your personal hygiene emergency supplies while the suitcases can be filled with medical items.\n\nRemember though that this rule of thumb does not apply to emergency food. Stored food should always be replaced and rotated, even if the storage conditions are not ideal. Warm, humid conditions can make food spoil faster. Rotating supplies can prevent this from happening.\n\nUltimately, the idea here is to take a stroll around your house but see it through different eyes. Look out for areas where junk has accumulated. It will take some DIY innovation but done correctly and over time, you will find yourself able to store your emergency supplies easily.\n\nThe truth? There are literally hundreds of survival items out there. Some of them youll want and some of them youll need. Dont go crazy and splurge on everything on a panic shopping run.\n\nTake note that prepping is about building your supply of goods over time. We dont recommend doing it all at once. Prepping is not a one-shot strategy, its a lifestyle that you live through each day.\n\nHaving written this, there are a few non-negotiable items that every prepper should stock up on.\n\nLastly, the most important thing every prepper should have is knowledge. All of these supplies will be useless if you dont know how to use them.\n\nRead more helpful guides like this at Preparedness.news.","title":"The 6 best ways to store emergency supplies in a small space","date":"2018-09-03","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Dehydrate your garlic next time. This little-known trick still gives you the same health benefits as fresh garlic with the added convenience of a longer shelf life. This article will walk you through making your own garlic powder.\n\nBefore that though, lets talk about why garlic is so crazy-healthy good for you. Garlic is rich in a compound called allicin, which is a powerful alternative medicine. Integrative treatments use garlic to treat various illnesses and infections. Allicin is also responsible for garlics pungent odor. The antibacterial function of allicin stimulates white blood cell production, improving immune system function, and reducing free radical damage. Allicin has been suggested to prevent the abnormal growth of cancer cells, making it a delicious anticarcinogenic.\n\nThese properties of allicin are seen when the compound is physically disturbed, such as through chewing, slicing, or crushing. This explains the slightly yellowish oils you find coating your fingers after you chop a clove or two. While this makes allicin easy to get, it also makes the compound extremely volatile. To receive its full healing potential, it is necessary that you use only the freshest garlic. Barring that, making your own garlic powder is the next best solution. By dehydrating the garlic, you still maintain beneficial levels of allicin while reducing the compounds volatility.\n\nThe dehydration process also makes several minerals found in fresh garlic more potent. Manganese, in particular, improves in its antioxidant properties. This mineral is necessary for good bone health, increased collagen production, and improved metabolism. Every two tablespoons of dried garlic contains 0.2 mg of manganese, which is nine percent of the daily recommended manganese intake for men and 11 percent for women. Other minerals that are found in dried garlic include iron, copper, and phosphorous  all of which promote good health.\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nTo make your own garlic powder, follow these simple steps:\n\nClassifying superfoods is a little tricky. Naturally, the term super implies that these foods perform a plethora of healing activities. It is difficult, then, to label one food as the absolute go-to for a specific benefit. That being said, wellness experts and nutritionists laud garlic as one of the better superfoods (as redundant as that sounds) for detox.\n\nGarlic stimulates the liver into producing detoxification enzymes that flush out toxic residues in the digestive system. One study found that garlic is extremely effective in removing toxic lead from the system  being just as effective as a common chelation drug, d-penicillamine. This study, published in Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, saw that patients who consumed large amounts of fresh garlic showed significantly reduced lead concentration in their blood and tissue, without the side effects found by taking d-penicillamine.\n\nGarlic also helps detox the body by flooding it with 39 different antifungal, anti-parasitic, antibacterial, and antiviral agents. These agents prevent the inflammation of cells caused by infection while promoting the production of detoxifying enzymes.","title":"This little-known trick allows you to unlock the healing properties of garlic","date":"2018-08-08","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Shelf Help is a book club and community dedicated to self-help and self-development, and each month founder Toni Jones highlights a book that has changed her life for the better.\n\nAugusts Book of the Month is The Kindness Method by Shahroo Izadi.\n\nThe Kindness Method is a game-changing book about habits and beliefs that focuses on boosting our self-esteem and resilience, rather than demonising ourselves or our behaviours. And we can use it to change any unwanted behaviour, from struggling with prescription drugs to procrastinating to drinking too much Prosecco.\n\nAuthor, addiction worker and Behavioural Change Specialist, Shahroo Izadi, has combined professional addiction training with personal experience to create The Kindness Method (she has lost - and kept off - eight stone), and whether your unwanted habit is food, booze, drugs, sex, shopping, gambling, gaming or work - or all of the above - this book can help you.\n\nHere are three pieces of easy-to-implement advice from the book...\n\nTo really change our unwanted behaviours, we need to zoom out and focus on the entire life we want to live, saya Shahroo.\n\nLooking at what were good at, reminding ourselves of the things we have achieved, deciding who we want to be, examining our thoughts and behaviours, and  of course  being kind to ourselves will always work better and (quicker!) than trying to change an unwanted behaviour through willpower or criticism.\n\n2.) The difference between a lapse and a relapse is the conversation we have with ourselves\n\nShahroo defines a lapse as a speedbump that we quickly back on track from, and a relapse as when weve either returned to how we were behaving before or things have got worse than they were when we started.\n\nIf we lapse we can totally get back on track, so long as we have prepared for it, and can meet it with awareness, renewed motivation and, you guessed it, kindness.\n\nFor instance, saying to ourselves: Its not really a surprise that you got smashed last night after three months sober. You saw the love of your life with another woman. Heartbreak is tough. But hitting the bottle hasnt changed the situation, and the way you feel today is not how you want to be feeling. Youve done SO well to make it this far, dont let one night on the wine turn into two.\n\nPlan something nice with someone fun tonight, cook some good food, get some proper sleep and youll feel like a new woman tomorrow, is much better than saying: You total idiot! I knew you wouldnt be able to stay sober forever. Couldnt even get past this hurdle. Whats the point in trying? Who are you trying to kid thinking you were better than every other heartbroken loser? Lets just go to the pub and try and forget it all.\n\nThis is a brilliantly simple way to start changing the conversations we have with ourselves.\n\nShahroo explains: Start each day with thirty or so paperclips in your pockets, then each time you catch yourself saying something cruel to yourself transfer a paperclip from one pocket to the other.\n\nAt the end of the day empty your pockets and youll be shocked when you realise how frequently it has been happening.\n\nVisual tricks like this are very effective at highlighting how ingrained our habit of negative self-talk is. And once we start catching these conversations we have with ourselves, we can start changing them.\n\nShelf Help is a book club and community dedicated to self-help and self-development. Visit www.shelfhelp.club for more information on the Book of the Month as well as author events and meet-ups, including this months Shelf Help East meetup on The Kindness Method in Hackney on Wednesday 29th August.","title":"Shelf Help Book Club How to change any habit with The Kindness Method","date":"2018-08-28","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Another day, another conservative is kicked out of a liberal establishment by intolerant leftists.\n\nJoey Cortese is the Communications Director for Students for Trump.\n\nOn Tuesday night Joey Cortese was kicked out of the liberal Don Tito restaurant in Arlington, Virginia.\n\nJoey tweeted on this last night.\n\n\n\nThe Gateway Pundit contacted the Don Tito and is waiting for a reply.","title":"Another Liberal DC Restaurant Kicks Out Trump Youth Official Jim Crow Is Back","date":"2018-07-25","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Although Democrats are set to pick up likely dozens of seats in the U.S. House come the conclusion of the midterms next week, the outcomes in U.S. Senate races are less certain. One particularly tight contest has been unfolding in Arizona, where Democrat Kyrsten Sinema is challenging Republican Martha McSally to replace the retiring Jeff Flake. In the aftermath of a recent poll putting McSally ahead, Green Party candidate Angela Green has dropped out and thrown her support behind Sinema.\n\nI want them to vote for a better Arizona  and that would be for Kyrsten Sinema and the Democratic Party. There are a lot of reasons I cant support the other candidate, but the main reason is that [Sinema is] more in line with what my political agenda is, what Im looking to do to help Arizona become more green again honestly, and after watching the debate, Ive seen that Sinemas stances on a lot of things are very similar to mine.\n\nAlthough she was running as part of a minor party, Green wasnt just a nobody in the race, registering some three to six percent support in some polls. FiveThirtyEight estimated her late Thursday to be on track to receive two percent of the vote once votes are tallied next week, while their model has Sinema finishing just barely ahead of McSally with a 3 in 5 chance of winning. Still, a recent poll has McSally ahead of Sinema by seven percent, so one can never be too careful, and Greens endorsement could prove a helpful boost for the Democratic contender.\n\nGreens party and others like it have been lambasted in the past for supposedly taking votes away from progressive candidates in the much higher profile Democratic Party. For instance, in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Florida, Donald Trump finished with some 113,000 more votes than Hillary Clinton  and while the Green Partys presidential candidate, Jill Stein, didnt personally procure enough votes to fill that gap, Libertarian Gary Johnson did. In Michigan in that same election, Stein definitely got enough votes to surpass the margin Trump led Clinton with  and both Florida and Michigan were crucial to the eventual presidents electoral college victory.\n\nStein, on a personal level, has distinguished herself through other means, spearheading incessant activism along with her party that has earned them supporters and detractors. Green, though, down in Arizona, seems concerned with leveraging that activism to craft a path forward for the people of her state and the country at large.\n\nSinemas race is a somewhat rare, somewhat bright spot for Democrats running for the U.S. Senate this year. While in Florida, Democrat Bill Nelson also maintains an edge  in Missouri, Tennessee, and Nevada, Democratic candidates futures are in doubt.\n\nIn the U.S. House, the situation remains a lot brighter, with FiveThirtyEight estimating dozens of Democratic pickups incoming. That will wrest control of the entirety of Congress away from President Donald Trumps party and help put up a roadblock ahead of his continuously repugnant agenda.","title":"GOP Devastated After Senate Candidate Drops Out Endorses Democrat","date":"2018-11-03","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The Big Mango's sweet mix of temples and tuk-tuks, long-tails and night markets, skyscrapers and rooftop bars make it one of the most exciting cities in the world. Like the splendid Chao Phraya River, creativity flows through this town and you'll find a huge range of fantastic  and excellent value  boutique, design and luxury hotels.\n\nThe choice can be overwhelming, but having lived in Thailand and stayed in dozens of hotels across the capital, I give you my pick of the best places to base yourself for a memorable stay.\n\nPolished white-gloved service, elegant interiors, a riverside location plus 140-years of history combine to make this one of the classiest hotels in Asia. The original Author's Wing hosted the likes of Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward and Graham Greene and retains many of its authentic 19th century features, such as intricately patterned arch windows and the romantic imperial staircase. Elsewhere, there's the wonderful Oriental Spa, two-Michelin-starred restaurant La Normandie and the jazz and animal print-festooned Bamboo Bar. Formal and fabulous, without ever feeling fusty.\n\nThe first hotel in Bangkok to declare itself free of single-use plastic, the Akyra Thonglor is ahead of the game in more ways than one. Located in hip and happening Thonglor, surrounded by some of the city's coolest bars and restaurants, it offers smart accommodation and plenty of local vibes. Rooms are large and fuse dark wood floors with Persian-green walls, plush purple headboards and oversized black and white prints of the city. Most also come with fridges and larders, while suites have full kitchens, washing machines and large balconies  ideal for a longer stay.\n\nOne of Bangkok's most fashionable new hotels, housed in a soaring free-form building overlooking the leafy Embassy district, but still within easy walking distance of shopping-centric Siam Square. The calming contemporary zen interiors are equally striking; fluid lines, serpentine staircases and plenty of cream stone, contrasted with sharp black accents and modern Southeast Asian art. The 40-metre city view infinity pool is the perfect spot to cool down after a hard day's sightseeing; the organic Panpuri Spa is super; and the rooftop bar wows with its shimmering city backdrop.\n\nHotels don't come much more kitsch than the fabulous Shanghai Mansion, housed in a 70-year old wing-tipped building in Bangkok's gastronomically endowed Chinatown district. The look is akin to a camp 1930s opium den, all goldfish ponds, jewel-coloured lanterns and atrium balconies to drape over. The homage continues in the rooms, which come with carved wood kang-style beds, lacquer furnishings, bird cages, faux antiques and ruby red curtains. And, while all this might sound a bit tacky, it's not. It's executed beautifully and extremely fun.\n\nFresh coconuts, piles of tropical fruit and freshly baked pastries on The Peninsula's frangipani-framed terrace with the Chao Phraya River splashing alongside must be one of the world's most delightful hotel breakfasts. Rooms are charming, too; classic gold and ivory with an oriental twist and spectacular river views. And, then there's the palm-lined pool, cascading over three levels. But the jewel in the hotel's crown has got to be the spa. Spread over a separate three-storey mansion, decked out in dark teak, sand-coloured marble, carved stone and golden lanterns, with rituals that go on for hours and some of the best therapists in the game.\n\nAttached via an air-conditioned walkway to the swanky Siam Paragon Mall which, in turn, is attached to CentralWorld and a dozen other gigantic retail centres, the Siam Kempinski could not be a better place for busting your baggage allowance. It has more than just an amazing location going for it, though: the rooms are spacious, sunny affairs, decorated in calming green and bamboo tones, the best of which open onto the resort's four large saltwater swimming pools set in a garden courtyard. There's also a tip-top spa, free yoga and Muay Thai boxing lessons, and Thai fine-dining restaurant Sra Bua, which was recently given the one-star nod from Michelin.\n\nThis crowd-pleasing hotels works on all levels  business, pleasure, spa break  but is especially good for families. Newly updated rooms  white, navy and silver, with batik cushions and pretty Thai murals above the beds  come with all the mod-cons and more than enough space for a roll-out bed. There's a cracking kids' club and playground and little ones are given all kinds of lovely personalised amenities, from mini-bathrobes to colouring books and bedtime milk and cookies. Lumpini Park's pedalo swans are just a short stroll away.\n\nMaybe its the modish mid-century design, the sensational Shambhala Spa, the multi-award-winning restaurant Nahm or the shadowy Met Bar, but the COMO Metropolitan has been the darling of Thailand's stylish LBTQ set for the last decade. The spacious pared-back rooms feel slightly masculine but very chic, with black wooden floors offset with white walls and mustard-coloured rugs. The bathrooms are decadently large and you're sure to leave with all the lush toiletries in your bag. Pack your best swimwear for peacocking by the pool.\n\nThis neat boutique hotel rests in a former shophouse on the banks of the Chao Phraya River staring squarely at the ceramic-clad stupas of Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn. The vibe is laid-back, with 15 rooms decorated in monochromatic black and white, complete with exposed concrete pillars and angular iron lampshades. If you can, book one of the suites with temple-facing balconies  there's no more enchanting a view to awake to. There's also a gorgeous rooftop bar and excellent Thai restaurant and sun deck.\n\nIf you like your hotels party-ready and conceptualised within an inch of their life, the W Bangkok is the one for you. The W brand's signature sparkle  black marble, sugar pink lighting, disco balls  are combined with eccentric local twists, such as crystal wall murals, a wall of flashing tuk-tuk lights and colour-changing massage beds. Rooms are slightly calmer: silver-hued with shards of coloured glass, big bathrooms and sequinned boxing gloves on the enormous beds. Non-guests flock here to eat and drink at The House on Sathorn, a glorious old colonial-era mansion set in the hotel grounds.","title":"10 of the best hotels in Bangkok","date":"2018-09-25","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"However sceptical you might be about the UK governments case against Russia over the Skripals poisoning, the diplomatic damage is clear for all to see. Following the prime ministers statement in the House of Commons this week and the naming of two Russian suspects, relations between our two countries are now even worse than when Theresa May gave her initial statement pinning the blame on Russia. Short of severing diplomatic ties altogether, it is hard to imagine how much worse relations could be.\n\nTwo points stood out from Mays latest statement that illustrate how bad things are. The first was the utter certainty with which she insisted on Russias guilt. The other was the prominent part played by intelligence information  undisclosed, of course  in linking the two suspects to the Russian military intelligence service (the GRU) and from there to the Kremlin.\n\nThere was a brief nod to the idea that the UK has no quarrel with the Russian people, but otherwise, the burden of her statement was that relations would get even worse, as she rehearsed the usual string of complaints against Russia for its behaviour and set out the further action that the UK would take.\n\nIt would not try to extradite the two suspects  there, at least, something has been learned from the Litvinenko case, when the Russian authorities ran rings around the British, whose vain pursuit of the two chief suspects elevated them to stardom in their home country.\n\nBut it would make the two suspects liable to arrest in Europe and in countries signed up to Interpol. And it had called a session of the UN Security Council, and would seek additional measures through other international organisations  most of these measures, it has to be said, related to Russian badness generally, rather than to the Salisbury case in particular.\n\nIt is understandable that the UK would try to work through international organisations, rather than bilaterally, given the lamentable failure of this approach in the Litvinenko case. There might also be the hope of reproducing what was seen as something of a diplomatic coup for the Foreign Office in persuading 28 countries to agree to joint action, including the expulsion of Russian diplomats, very soon after the attack on the Skripals. But it is not at all evident that the necessary support will be forthcoming this time around.\n\nIt has been apparent for a while that some EU countries have become unhappy about the lack of additional evidence, including intelligence information, supplied by the British to support their accusations. What is more, the particular claim that only Russia had the access to the novichok nerve agent has been discredited, with both Germany and the Czech Republic confirmed to have had the capability, and even scientists at the UKs defence laboratory, Porton Down, saying that they could not establish the poisons provenance.\n\nIt is possible that this weeks release by the police of CCTV footage and the naming of suspects  or at least the release of their presumed aliases  will quieten some international misgivings. But it is hard to see what more action can be taken. Further diplomatic expulsions look doubtful; some countries were reluctant to join in last time around, expelling only a token one or two, while others  it is thought  may have seized the opportunity to boot out suspected spies using the Skripal affair as a convenient pretext.\n\nAnd while Theresa May said in her statement that the UK would argue for imposing further sanctions  as the US is in the process of doing  this may be difficult. For a start, sanctions are something the EU has to agree as a bloc, so the UK cannot act unilaterally. But a consensus may also be more difficult to achieve than it was. European solidarity on isolating Russia is not what it was, with some arguing that even existing sanctions, imposed over Moscows annexation of Crimea, are doing more harm to other EU countries than to Russia.\n\nThus we have the strange situation where the US is actually imposing more sanctions against Russia because of the Skripal case than either the UK or the EU. Nor are the US sanctions connected to any new evidence about Salisbury; while it has suited Washington to present them as the US getting tough on Russia, they are actually triggered automatically by the chemical weapons aspect of the attack. These sanctions are less new than a result of procedural wheels turning.\n\nIn the absence of new sanctions or diplomatic expulsions, the UK might hope for a general cold-shouldering of Russia internationally. But this is not happening either. US policy towards Russia remains hard to fathom, with the president and the Washington establishment seemingly on opposite sides. On the one hand, the US says (not without reason) that the Trump administration has been tougher on Russia than its predecessors. A lot seems to be happening bilaterally behind the scenes  on Syria, arms control and cyber issues.\n\nMeanwhile  with the US deemed a less reliable ally in Europe  Germany, France and Austria have all started to mend fences with Russia. Putin has been in Austria twice in recent months; he held talks with Angela Merkel outside Berlin last month, and Macron met Putin when he was in Moscow for the final of the World Cup final.\n\nWith EU-UK relations now approaching the countdown to Brexit, the UK risks being left stranded between the sides of the Atlantic, doggedly pursuing an ultra-hardline policy towards Russia all by itself. Nor, despite some initial success for the UK in strengthening the regime at the chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, do broader international organisations necessarily offer any better prospect of support, given that Russia has a veto in the UN Security Council.\n\nThere may also be another weak link for the UK government in its hope of escalating action against Russia  and this is domestic opinion. While the atmosphere in parliament for the prime ministers two statements on the Salisbury attack has been fervently united against Russia, and much of the mainstream media has backed this, the official version of what happened is not universally accepted.\n\nComments on phone-ins and social media, and the positive experience of football fans at the World Cup, may all have contributed to the slightly defensive tone of Mays latest Commons statement, where she accused Russia of trying to sow doubt and uncertainty about the evidence we presented to this house  and some were minded to believe them. Todays announcement shows we were right.\n\nIt is not at all clear that the CCTV and the intelligence conclusion of GRU guilt has done much to change sceptics minds. And this may also be one reason why Russia has not felt it necessary to do more than reiterate its original protestation of innocence. It also has at least some judicial rights on its side when it demands to know where Yulia Skripal  a Russian citizen  is, and for a sample of the nerve agent to be provided to the OPCW.\n\nIn sum, the latest chapter of the Skripal case leaves UK-Russia relations as frigid as they have been since collapse of communism. Yet, strangely, it also looks like a rather one-sided cold war, which  rather like the sanctions imposed by the west  may be harming the UK rather more than it harms Russia.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"Escalating action against Russia over the Skripalsapos poisoning will hurt the UK in the end","date":"2018-09-06","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The federal Tories are warning that a bill banning unhealthy food ads aimed at children could create unintended consequences for sports team sponsorships and events if it isnt amended.\n\nBut the Liberals insist the way the bill is worded is fine as it is and only affects marketing targeting kids under the age of 13, despite testimony warning it could make it harder for teams to get sponsorships.\n\nConservative health critic Marilyn Gladu said shes very concerned about unintended consequences after hearing how the bill could affect hundreds of thousand of kids involved with amateur sports teams in Canada.\n\nShe said it needs to be clarified that whats been proposed wouldnt apply to food companies sponsoring teams and events, and not leave it up to the whim of the regulators.\n\nHowever, Liberal MP Doug Eyolfson insists its not the case the bill would affect sponsorships.\n\nHe said the regulations  which are being developed by Health Canada  will address events and sponsorships, as well as other definitions of key wording in the bill, including the kind of foods that are considered unhealthy.\n\nEyolfson said doing it that way would give the government more flexibility than writing it in the bill itself.\n\nIf you found the regulation was too stringent and caused problems, or found it wasnt stringent enough and there were loopholes, then youd have to go through the legislative process, which we all know takes lots of time, he said.\n\nEarlier this week, Lindsay Hugenholtz Sherk from the Sports Matters Group warned the House of Commons health committee that some national sports organizations are already feeling the effects of the bill and could stand to lose millions of dollars of investments in programming.\n\nWe have heard from more than a few national sport organizations which have already been informed by existing sponsors that they do not intend to renew their investments as a result of Bill S-228, she said.\n\nEyolfson said those concerns seem to have come out of nowhere and again insisted the bill wont affect sports sponsorships.\n\nI dont know what the issue is  the whole purpose of this law is [to deal with] advertising to children.\n\nBill S-228, which started in the Senate, would ban advertising unhealthy food directed primarily at children under the age of 13.\n\nThe Commons health committee is nearly done amending the proposed legislation after a short two weeks of study, and should quickly finish with it on Monday next week before sending it back to the Commons.\n\nThe health committee lowered the age in the bill on Wednesday to marketing targeting Canadians under the age of 13, down from under the age of 17. The NDP opposed that move, saying a higher age threshold would be more effective and reduce loopholes.\n\nEyolfson said that change was made to avoid a challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms after the governments legal counsel advised them it could be a problem. He pointed to Quebecs law banning marketing aimed at kids under 13, which withstood a challenge that made it to the Supreme Court in 1989. In the case of Irwin Toy Ltd. v. Quebec, Canadas highest court upheld the Quebec law in the face of a challenge it was an unreasonable limit on freedom of expression under s.2(b) of the Charter.\n\nEarlier this week, representatives from Canadas advertising industry warned theyre considering taking legal action if the bill has the unintended effect of also preventing food marketing aimed at adults.\n\nRonald Lund, president and CEO of the Association of Canadian Advertisers, told MPs that if our businesses are significantly harmed in an unreasonable way, such as banning food [marketing] directed at adults, then thats a route that we would take.\n\nThe Senate public bill, originally sponsored by Conservative Sen. Nancy Greene Raine, is expected to pass with government support.\n\nIt would fulfil one of the health ministers mandate commitments by introducing new restrictions on the commercial marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children, which falls among a number of measures aimed at tackling obesity rates.\n\nA number of public health groups and officials have applauded the bill.\n\nDr. Tom Warshawski, chair of the Stop Marketing to Kids Coalition, told the committee Monday that according to estimates from the Global Burden of Disease, diet-related diseases now kill more Canadians than smoking tobacco does.\n\nA brief inter-party spat at the end of Wednesdays committee meeting related to a series of votes in the House of Commons delayed the committee from finishing on the bill until Monday.","title":"Liberals insist junk food ad bill wont hurt sports sponsorships","date":"2018-04-26","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"A toxic feud between two rival camps at a troubled heart-surgery unit left staff feeling a high death rate was inevitable, according to a leaked report.\n\nSt Georges Hospital heart unit was consumed by a dark force and patients were put at risk by a dysfunctional team of surgeons, an investigation concluded last month.\n\nThe damning review was written by former NHS England deputy medical director Mike Bewick in response to higher mortality rates at the hospital.\n\nHe found the south London facility had a cardiac surgery death rate of 3.7 per cent - above the national 2 per cent average, reports said.\n\nInternal scrutiny was said to be inadequate and the department was riven between two camps exhibiting tribal-like activity.\n\nProfessor Bewicks review was quoted as saying: Some felt that there was a persistent toxic atmosphere and stated that there was a dark force in the unit.\n\nIt added: In our view the whole team shares responsibility for the failure to significantly improve professional relationships and to a degree surgical mortality.\n\nConversations with 39 staff revealed they were shocked by the death rate, but most felt that poor performance was inevitable due to the pervading atmosphere.\n\nThe independent reviewer examined disturbing and often difficult information, concluding an existential threat was posed to the unit because staff and patients would go elsewhere if problems persisted.\n\nThe surgical team is viewed as dysfunctional both internally and externally, he said.\n\nStronger leadership and new blood were called for, while the defensive approach the unit took to death rate data was criticised, according to reports.\n\nThe review was additionally said to have called for radical solutions to breaking up the current surgical team.\n\nA spokesman for St Georges Hospital said recommendations from Professor Bewick were being implemented at pace, including the immediate relocation of all cardiac surgeons to a single-speciality practice.\n\nThe investigation commissioned in June after the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) issued an alert over the units lower surgery survival rates.\n\nThe hospital spokesman said: We would like to stress that the cardiac surgery service we provide for patients is safe. However, it is very clear that major and urgent improvements are required, which we are already taking action to deliver. \n\nSt Georges, one of the biggest teaching hospitals in the country, has advertised for an additional consultant cardiologist to join the team.\n\nFellow London hospital Guys and St Thomass Foundation Trust will send on the ground leadership support in the form of cardiac surgeons, the spokesman said.\n\nOfficials are additionally addressing concerns about the way surgery data is managed.","title":"Hospital heart unit was consumed by aposdark forceapos as patients were put at risk by a dysfunc","date":"2018-08-03","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"If special counsel Robert Mueller indicts the former Trump adviser, it could mark a turning point in the Russia investigation.","title":"Is Roger Stone Next","date":"2018-08-14","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"#  Concerns Over Radicalization Rise in French Schools\n\n###  Officials describe as war against secularism","title":"Concerns Over Radicalization Rise in French Schools","date":"2018-09-20","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Demand for gold in technology and industrial sectors grew for the eighth consecutive quarter in Q3, according to the World Gold Council Global Demand Trends Q3 report.\n\nOverall, gold used in technological applications grew 1% to 85.3 tons in the third quarter. That marked the eighth consecutive quarter of year-on-year growth. Strong demand in the electronics sector helped drive overall industrial and tech demand for the yellow metal higher.\n\nThe traditional technology hubs of Mainland China and Hong Kong, Japan and the US all registered growth in gold volumes in Q3  1.9%, 1.0% and 3.0% respectively. Taiwan and Singapore registered minor falls in demand, but both they are relatively small players in the sector.\n\nThe amount of gold used in electronics fabrication increased by 2% year-on-year to 68.5 tons. The memory sector continued its recent strong performance. The WGC report estimated growth was in the range of 2-5% overall. Strong demand for servers and smartphones drove the increase. Both require ever growing amounts of memory.\n\nThe demand for printed circuit boards (PCBs) also pushed industrial demand for gold higher.  The strong market for servers supported demand, together with growth in the automotive industry and 5G infrastructure deployment. Gold used in PCBs was estimated to be 5-7% higher year-on-year.\n\nGold remains a key metal in R&D activities. During the recent GOLD2018 conference held in Paris last summer, over 500 attendees from around the world gathered to share their gold-based research. There were many examples of technologies moving towards commercialization.\n\nAs weve reported on extensively, gold is increasingly being used in the healthcare field. For instance, scientists have discovered a process using gold nanoparticles that helps reduce inflammation and speeds healing in damaged muscles. Scientists have also developed a blood test using gold nanoparticles that could help with cancer treatment. In fact, scientists have developed a number of cancer treatments using gold nanoparticles over the last few years. Scientists at UC Berkeley have developed a process using gold to repair the mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy. And earlier this year, a team of Chinese researchers announced they were able to partially restored the sight of blind mice by replacing their deteriorated photoreceptors  sensory structures inside the eye that respond to light  with nano-wires made of gold and titanium.\n\nWe generally think of gold as an investment as well as money, but it is increasingly being used to improve our quality of life and heal the sick. The use of gold in the field of medicine, and more broadly in technology and industry, will likely put upward pressure on demand for the yellow metal in the future.\n\nOver the past decade, the tech sector accounted for more than 380 tons of gold demand annually. Thats 13% ahead of central bank purchases during the same time period.\n\nTech demand for both gold and silver will likely continue to increase over the next several decades. Silver demand has always been heavily influenced by industrial use, but gold is becoming more and more important in industry, especially in high tech applications. Its important to consider these supply and demand fundamentals as you analyze the broader precious metals markets.","title":"Gold Demand Rocks Tech Industry","date":"2018-11-05","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Researchers from West Virginia have come across a connection between the sense of smell and the chances of developing brain disorders. In their recently published study, they found that movement of the wings of moths affected the animals olfactory sense, which in turn affected their brains, an article in News Wise stated.\n\nThis discovery could shed light on the root cause of human neurological disorders like schizophrenia and Parkinsons disease.\n\nThe West Virginia University (WVU) researchers explained that the nervous system dispatches two messages whenever it wants the muscles to do something. The first is the actual command, which it sends to the muscles.\n\nThe other is a corollary discharge, an exact copy of that command that is sent to the part of the brain that interprets the data provided by the senses. The brain uses this corollary discharge to distinguish which sensation is coming from the bodys movement and which one is produced by other sources.\n\nEarlier studies have examined the function of a corollary discharge for the senses of sight and hearing. However, there is a sparseness of scientific literature regarding the olfactory senses. (Related: You could lose your sense of smell: It is just another side effect of eating high-fat foods.)\n\nWVU doctorate candidate Phil Chapman and his fellow researchers studied the role that corollary discharges fulfilled for the sense of smell. They reported how the motor control center uses those discharges to keep the olfactory system appraised about the movement of the moths wings. The movement would be directly affecting or even disrupting the sense of smell by disturbing the air that carries the scent.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nBased on their findings, Chapman explained that many neurological disorders are implied to be linked to the failure of corollary discharges. Furthermore, there are more than one type of corollary discharge connected to the sense of smell. The WVU team is determining the identity and specific function of each type of discharge.\n\nThe WVU researchers reported that failed corollary discharges do not filter out the movements of the insect. Instead, they increase the ability of the olfactory system to encode data.\n\nInterestingly, the olfactory system is organized along similar lines in both vertebrates and invertebrates. This is most evident when comparing the olfactory system of insects to that of humans. The strong analogy makes an insects olfactory system a good substitute for its human equivalent.\n\nChapman related how movement and other physical actions can very well change the perception of ones environment. The nervous system has evolved to ensure the stability of that perception.\n\nStill, he acknowledged that there is a lot to learn about the way humans perceive their surroundings, especially with regards to the movements they are making.\n\nThis study pushes the field of neuroscience forward by understanding that when we ask questions about how sensory systems function, said Chapman. We must also think about how animals move throughout their environment and actually experience it.\n\nChapman is working alongside WVU researchers Kevin Daly and Andrew Dacks, who acted as the co-authors of the research paper. Their study is supported by a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.\n\nThis publication is the culmination of several years of coordinated effort across two labs and several students, explained Daly, who served as an adviser to Chapman for the study. Our research highlights how fundamental insights about how the brain works can be made by the study of animals like insects, which use relatively simplified nervous systems to tackle many of the same real word problems that our own brains must solve.\n\nRead more studies and stories on human neurological disorders at Brain.news.","title":"Our sense of smell may be linked to our risk of neurological disorders","date":"2018-09-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"There are media rumblings that Secretary of Defense General Mattis may leave the administration.\n\nTrump was asked about this in his interview with Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes that will air on Sunday night.\n\n Trump said Mattis is sort of a Democrat.\n\nLeslie Stahl: What about General Mattis, is he going to leave? President Trump: I dont know, he hasnt told me, but I have a very good relationship with him. I had lunch with him two days ago. Leslie Stahl: Do you want him to? President Trump: It could be that he is, I think hes sort of a Democrat if you want to know the truth. But General Mattis is a good guy, we get along very well. He may leave, I mean at some point, everybody leaves.\n\nHere is the preview video:","title":"Trump on Rumors General Mattis May Leave I Think Mattis Is Sort of a Democrat VIDEO","date":"2018-10-14","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"One of the most remarkable features of the 2017 election was that Labour ceased to be the predominantly working class party. Despite being led by its supposedly most left-wing leader ever, one who rejected the allegedly middle-class or even pro-rich politics of Tony Blair, there was hardly any class difference between Labour and Conservative voters.\n\nThat means that many of the old assumptions about how British electoral politics work no longer applied. If class isnt the main predictor of voting behaviour what is? One answer, which has attracted a lot of attention, is age, in that most people under the age of 42 voted Labour and most people above that age voted Conservative. But there is obviously more to the shifting patterns of voting than that.\n\nTodays huge research survey by BMG Research, the polling company, reported exclusively by The Independent, provides the fullest picture yet of the 10 clans of voters held together by shared values. Instead of class identity, BMG says it is identities based on values that are highly predictive of how people vote.\n\nThis kind of analysis shows why some non-traditional political subjects became surprisingly important in the election campaign: the ban on fox hunting, the law on the ivory trade and Tim Farrons views of gay sex. All of these are highly symbolic of the kinds of values that used to be regarded as non-party political, and that would be the subject of free votes in the House of Commons.\n\nThis survey sheds new light on what happened in 2017. Despite much talk at the time about the youthquake  a sharp increase in turnout among young people who nearly delivered victory to Jeremy Corbyn  the new analysis finds no evidence for it. BMG says its research instead points to a liberal tremor, with more liberal-minded voters more likely to turnout in 2017.\n\nThe survey provides several other insights into the 2017 election. It shows how the re-ordering of allegiance on Leave versus Remain lines contributed to a polarising of support among the value clans most identified with either side of the Brexit debate.\n\nThe strongest Leave-voting clan, the Bastions of Tradition and the Individual, the most Thatcherite group, were also the most likely to vote Conservative.\n\nThe most Remain-inclined clan, on the other hand, the Orange Bookers  named after the pro-globalisation tendency of the Liberal Democrats  gave Tim Farrons party its solid core. The problem for the Lib Dems is that this clan is small: accounting for just 8 per cent of the electorate.\n\nLabour gained support from another heavily Remain clan, the Global Green Community, which makes up 10 per cent of voters. But Corbyns ambivalence on Europe allowed Labour to increase its support among clans that were much less enthusiastic about the EU, Common-Sense Solidarity, which was one-third Leave, and Modern Working Life, which was divided down the middle by the Brexit referendum.\n\nAs ever, the names of the various clans are a brave and partially successful attempt to capture the value clusters thrown up by statistical analysis  in this case latent-class analysis, which is a model-based segmentation approach. This means identifying the opinion poll questions that best divide the population into value-based groups. This research, designed with the help of academics from Manchester and Bristol universities, has produced 27 golden questions that allow everyone to be categorised in one of 10 groups.\n\nThis means that the research lends itself to an accessible online questionnaire that allows everyone to find out to which group they belong. I was disappointed to end up in The Measured Middle. The description says my clan members are known for not having very strong political views. But I prefer to imagine that this category is a dumping ground for people whose opinions cannot be easily classified.\n\nHowever, many of the other clans are recognisable groups of voters, which are a useful reminder of how the common assumptions about how political beliefs are organised are mistaken. Several of the groups hold what are conventionally considered to be left-wing views on the economy, yet are sharply divided on the liberal-authoritarian or nationalist-globalist spectrums. This helps to explain both why Corbyns policies are so popular and why Theresa May fitfully advocates policies such as workers on company boards and help for those on low pay.\n\nAnything that provides us with better ways of understanding voter behaviour than the old left-right labels and the old assumptions of class politics is to be welcomed. But you would expect one of the Measured Middle to say that.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"Research shows class doesnapost explain voting any more hereaposs how we should we analyse pol","date":"2018-10-25","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"We refuse to let anything get in the way of a good night's sleep at IndyBest. Our team of reviewers are constantly testing out products   from mattresses to eye masks, pillows to herbal teas  to find the best ones. Here, we've rounded up the best of the best.\n\nThis American-made foam-core mattress, with memory foam layer, has support from designer Steven Alan and actors Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio, and has recently launched in the UK as a bed-in-a-box option.\n\nA particular hit with our testers, its marginally softer than the Simba, one of its closest rivals, and great for all types of sleepers, including people who sleep on their backs  and if you treat it well, it should last you a decade or more. Its stable and breathable, but there aren't any handles on the side, just the bottom, so rotating or turning this mattress (which should be done every three to six months) is no mean feat.\n\nAvailable in sizes single, double, king or super king.\n\nKate Hilpern\n\nBest of the rest\n\nYou wont have to argue over whether to go for a soft or firmer tension mattress anymore as this airbed allows each sleeper to fine tune the firmness on their side.\n\nThe handy side effect of this is greater stability, with less chance of the edges lifting off the floor when two people lie on it  an annoying feature of many double air beds. Made of robust PVC, with a soft velour top  its comfy and quick to inflate, as well as deflate. \n\nKate Hilpern\n\nBest of the rest\n\nThis topper ticked all the boxes. Most importantly, the foam layer combined with the 2cm cooling layer made for a supportive and extremely comfortable nights sleep - you dont sink into it like with some foam products as this one is fairly firm.\n\nWe also found that the cooling layer helped increase breathability, as we didnt experience overheating in the night. It also features an anti-slip bottom layer so we didnt have to remake the bed each morning. It was surprising to see just how much toppers can move in the night while you toss and turn but this product defiantly stayed put.\n\nAdd to this the fact its hypoallergenic and comes with a three-year guarantee, if your budget allows, its worth investing in. \n\nIsobel Bryant\n\nBest of the rest\n\nThis pillows 250 thread-count cotton case is fine enough to block bugs (the higher the thread count, the softer the material and the harder for dust mites to penetrate) and has been treated with Sanitised  an anti-bacterial chemical that protects it from sweat, limiting the damp conditions that dust mites enjoy.\n\nIts filled with springy hollow fibre  a type of polyester that traps air  and bounces back well after use, minimising the need for plumping and the disappointment of a flat pillow a few weeks later.\n\nIts medium-firm feel gives good support to side sleepers without being too rigid if you turn onto your front sometimes too. It fits well into a standard rectangular pillowcase and comes in a storage bag, great for hygiene if you need to keep it in a dank loft for a while. \n\nJess Denham\n\nBest of the rest\n\nThis is the king of winter duvets, offering whipped-cream softness. The down of Hungarian geese has long been known for its warmth and lightness and The White Company has added feather (20 per cent) to give it a dash of weight. We also like the internal box construction that avoids any cold spots.\n\nWe recommend the 13.5 tog for ultimate toastiness  or buy the 4.5 and 10.5 for other seasons, then join them together for frostier nights. \n\nKate Hilpern\n\nBest of the rest\n\nStonewashing takes the stiffness out of linen, so this comfortable set was ready to sleep on straight out of the pack. Each piece is printed with two colours  one each side  which creates that mix-and-match look without you having to buy multiple sets.\n\nYou currently only have a choice of three Scandi-inspired colour combos in shades of grey, white and an Ikea yellow option, but were told the brand is adding six colours to the range shortly. Youll find that each duvet cover is finished with a single yellow button, a nod to the eve branding, but it isnt overbearing. We did find the fitted sheet quite large for our UK double mattress, however, once tucked in properly it didnt budge and it would allow for a generous mattress topper.\n\nYou can buy the components of the set separately, too  ideal if youve spilt a mug of tea on one pillow, for example. \n\nStacey Smith\n\nBest of the rest\n\nThe White Company has an excellent selection of nightwear, ranging from silk PJs to cashmere robes.\n\nOur pick is this classic-looking pair in a grey heart print on soft brushed cotton flannel. The top is long and doesn't ride up your back while sleeping (there really is nothing worse than grappling with a thick wedge of pyjama mid-sleep) and will keep you warm and snuggly under the duvet and the bottoms are more flattering than some.\n\nAvailable in sizes XS-XL, fitting from size 6 up to 18. \n\nLinda Taylor\n\nBest of the rest\n\nA fifth of all proceeds from these chunky, rocking slippers go to the charity Habitat for Humanity. In navy and grey or this teddy-brown, with big Rudolph-red pom-poms, theyre the perfect Christmas gift thatll contribute to the fight to provide safe, warm homes for vulnerable families worldwide. \n\nLesley Jones\n\nBest of the rest\n\nGo full Marilyn Monroe with this vintage-style mask made solely from the finest, allergy-friendly mulberry silk. The decadent, lightweight material feels cool and delicate against your skin, letting the eye area breathe to prevent puffiness the next day. There is a thin flap of fabric that covers the nose to keep all light out.\n\nThe strap is not adjustable, but the mask does fit larger heads. It comes in three other neutral colours, including baby pink. \n\nJess Denham\n\nBest of the rest\n\nIf its real depth of aroma you are after, this gorgeous loose leaf blend from new tea emporium Kanuka will blow you away. The classic citrus flavours of orange and grapefruit are mingled with a mild hint of spearmint for a wonderfully fresh edge, while its base comes from the leaves of the calcium-rich rooibos plant, grown under the South African sun and known for helping to ease hypertension.\n\nHeap two teaspoons into 250ml of nearly boiling water and allow it to infuse for four minutes before straining. Opening the easily resealable pouch is a sensory delight, with the added joy of finding whole chunks of fragrant orange in the mix.\n\nKanuka has a tea house in St Albans, just north of London, as well as an online store, so dig and delve for original gift ideas. \n\nJess Denham\n\nBest of the rest\n\nIndyBest product reviews are unbiased, independent advice you can trust. On some occasions, we earn revenue if you click the links and buy the products, but we never allow this to bias our coverage. The reviews are compiled through a mix of expert opinion and real-world testing.","title":"10 best products for a good nightaposs sleep mattresses to eye masks","date":"2018-09-06","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"NEW YORK (AP)  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to testify before Congress about the companys privacy practices in coming weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter.\n\nThis person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Zuckerberg is aware there is intense pressure on him to testify, this person said.\n\nZuckerberg said last week in a CNN interview that hed be happy to testify, but didnt commit to appear. Facebook is facing unprecedented scrutiny following reports that a data mining firm used ill-gotten data from tens of millions of its users to try to influence elections.\n\nA spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Tuesday that the committee is working with Facebook to determine a day and time for Zuckerberg to testify.\n\nMeanwhile, Zuckerberg snubbed a summons from a British Parliamentary committee investigating the rise of fake news, offering to send senior Facebook executives instead.\n\nThis would be the first time Zuckerberg has ever testified before Congress. Last fall, the company sent its top lawyer to speak before Congress about Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Google and Twitter also sent lower-level executives to the three public hearings on the matter.\n\nSeparately, Facebook announced a privacy settings makeover on Wednesday. While the move is intended to prepare for tighter European privacy regulations going into effect in May, Facebook said that recent events underscore their importance.\n\nThe changes wont affect Facebooks privacy policies or the types of data it gathers on users. But the company hopes its 2.2 billion users will have an easier time navigating its complex and often confusing privacy and security settings. Facebook says it also wants to give users a simpler way to access and download the data it collects on them.\n\nChris Cox, Facebooks chief product officer, called the new settings the first of many steps the company is taking to address privacy concerns.","title":"Facebook CEO Zuckerberg To Testify Before Congress Amid Data Scandal","date":"2018-03-28","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"LONDON, September 14. \/TASS\/. A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Theresa May on\nThursday described an interview by Skripal case suspects to Russias RT\nchannel as an insult to the public's intelligence.\n\n\"The lies and blatant fabrications in this interview given to a Russian state-\nsponsored TV station are an insult to the public's intelligence. More\nimportantly they are deeply offensive to the victims and loved ones of this\nhorrific attack,\" he said.\n\nThe official added that this is what the UK authorities have come to expect.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman also said that police had set out \"very\nclearly\" the evidence against the two Russians.\n\n\"They are wanted men and we have taken all steps to ensure they are\napprehended and brought to justice in the UK if they ever again step foot\noutside Russia,\" he said.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office earlier claimed that the two suspects, Russian nationals\nAlexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, deliberately lied and distorted facts in\nthe interview to RT earlier in the day. A Foreign Office spokesperson told\nTASS that the Russians are still being viewed as main suspects in the case.\n\n## Petrov and Boshirovs interview\n\nIn an interview with Russias RT TV channel released on September 13, Petrov\nand Boshirov said they had visited Great Britain for tourist purposes.\nAccording to them, they are businessmen not linked to the GRU and have nothing\nto do with the Skripal case. The two men stressed they wanted the media and\neveryone else to leave them be.\n\nAccording to London, former Russian military intelligence (GRU) Colonel Sergei\nSkripal, 66, who had been convicted in Russia of spying for Great Britain and\nlater swapped for Russian intelligence officers, and his daughter Yulia, 33,\nsuffered the effects of an alleged nerve agent in the British city of\nSalisbury on March 4. Claiming that the substance used in the attack had been\na Novichok-class nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union, London rushed to\naccuse Russia of being involved in the incident. Moscow rejected all of the\nUnited Kingdoms accusations, saying that neither the Soviet Union nor Russia\never had any program aimed at developing such a substance.\n\nOn September 5, British Prime Minister Theresa May informed the countrys\nparliament about the conclusions that investigators looking into the Salisbury\nincident had come to, saying that two Russians, believed to be GRU agents,\nwere suspected of conspiracy to murder the Skripals. According to May, the\nassassination attempt was approved at \"a senior level of the Russian state.\"\nThe Metropolitan Police published the suspects photos, saying their names\nwere Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.","title":"UK official calls Skripal case suspects interview insult to the publics intelligence","date":"2018-09-14","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"On Friday, the Special Counsel released the names of 35 witnesses in Paul Manaforts trial in Alexandria, Virginia which is set for July 31st.\n\nManaforts trial in Alexandria is based on charges of tax fraud and bank fraud.\n\nNone of the charges against Manafort have anything to do with Russian collusion during the 2016 presidential election.\n\nJudge T.S. Ellis recently granted immunity to five witnesses in the Alexandria case on the condition their names be made public.\n\nOn Monday, the immunized witnesses were revealed to be, James Brennan, Conor OBrien, Donna Duggan, Cindy Laporta, Dennis Raico.\n\nBelow is the list of 35 witnesses who may testify against Paul Manafort, via Axios:\n\nMueller also filed 100 blank subpoenas on Wednesday, according to a new filing.\n\nFox News Tucker Carlson announced last Thursday evening that two separate sources confirmed to him Mueller offered Tony Podesta immunity, however; Podesta was not named in the unsealed documents Monday.\n\nPodesta was reportedly given immunity in the DC case where Manafort is being charged for failing to file a FARA form for his Ukrainian lobbying efforts.","title":"Mueller Releases Names of 35 Witnesses Who May Testify Against Paul Manafort","date":"2018-07-27","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Donald Trump is, hands down, the most hated president in history. Nothing he does is in the citizens, nations, nor planets best interest, and in fact, he has shown that his love of money and power trumps all else. Since becoming president, Trumps Walk of Fame star in Los Angeles has been vandalized a record number of times, leading to a vote for the removal of the star.\n\nNow, its happened again, and this time, its safe to say that the activists take on Trumps star will get under the presidents skin worse than all the others. Check out this piece of work below:\n\nThe artist himself had this to say about the piece:\n\nAlthough it was very quickly damaged by a Trump supporter trying to remove it the bars did appear to be stuck fast and were there several hours later  to the amusement of thousands of passing tourists. I wanted them to stay down but didnt want a bill for thousands of dollars to repair the footpath.\n\nHuffPo reports that, Trumps star, installed in 2007, has been attacked by vandals and street artists repeatedly since he took office. West Hollywood City Council voted unanimously over the summer for its removal, but the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which controls the Walk of Fame, says it has never taken away a star.","title":"Trumps Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star Hit By Another Activist This Time Its Felonious","date":"2018-09-20","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"President Trumps lawyer, Michael Cohen is becoming increasingly stressed out, even expressing his anguish to those in his inner circle. According to NY Times, Cohen has complained about feeling isolated after the recent FBI raid on his office and hotel room in which federal agents took a multitude of evidence that could be used against him in a court of law.\n\nThe mounting pressure is certainly building up on Cohen, who has always been a whipping boy for Trump to take out his anger, and to ridicule to make himself feel bigger. According to The Times:\n\nEven Trumps talking head, Roger Stone has said that Trump treats Cohen like garbage.\n\nNow, it seems that the tides have turned and the power now lies in Michael Cohens hands. The family man with a wife and two children will likely not be going down to save Trumps hide.\n\nEx-Trump aide Sam Nunberg had this to say about the sudden shift in power:\n\nThe pressures on Cohen are pretty evident, and now, reports of an attempted apology to Melanie Trump for paying off a porn star who had slept with her husband. According to Newsweek:\n\nThe report did not say what Melanias response was, if anything, but one can surmise that this is pretty much business as usual for Melania, who married Trump with the sole intention of being a trophy wife.\n\nVP of policy and litigation for watchdog group Common Cause says that this may have all been for Melanias benefit, and nothing else:\n\nFurther investigation may ... undercut any argument by Michael Cohen that this payment wasnt about keeping the information from voters but to keep the information from Melania. I think to the extent that Cohen argues this was about keeping the information from Melania, then what Melania knew and when she knew it will certainly be relevant.\n\nMelania has remained silent on the whole Stormy saga.","title":"NY Times Drops CohenMelania Apology Bombshell Michael Begs Forgiveness For Stormy","date":"2018-04-21","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"With the historic recount happening right now in the state of Florida, Americans are on high alert for any news pertaining to the scandalous incidents of voter suppression, and now apparently, possible recount violations. Even Floridas U.S. Senate candidate Rick Scott is joining in, releasing the following tweet, a ridiculous message to law enforcement, asking that they keep an extra close eye out for any issues with the recount.\n\nFloridas Sheriffs selflessly serve our communities each day and are dedicated to protecting the safety and rights of all Floridians. I am urging every Sheriff in the State of Florida to watch for any violations during the recount process as outlined in Florida law.\n\nThe fact that he thinks he has to remind Florida sheriffs of the state laws regarding recounts and violations is staggering. According to Rick Scott for Florida:\n\nWith a recount beginning in Florida today, Governor Scott is encouraging every Florida Sheriff to watch for any violations and take appropriate action. Under Florida Statue 102.091, Sheriffs shall exercise strict vigilance in the detection of any violations of the election laws.\n\nThe people responding to Scotts tweet have a lot to say. Check out some of those reactions below:","title":"JUST IN Rick Scott Issues Florida Recount Violation Announcement","date":"2018-11-10","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Pod Hunters: all of the cool podcasts that we recommend Find your next auditory obsession\n\nThere are a ton of podcasts out there, but finding the right one can be difficult. In our new bi-weekly column Pod Hunters, we cover what weve been listening to that we cant stop thinking about.","title":"Pod Hunters all of the cool podcasts that we recommend","date":"2018-03-04","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"MOSCOW, November 30. \/TASS\/. Moscow is outraged with the new tightening of\nprison conditions for Russian Maria Butina held in a US prison, Russian\nForeign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.\n\n\"We express our deepest indignation with new tightening of prison conditions\nfor Russian citizen Maria Butina, who was arrested in the US last summer under\nfabricated charges and whom we treat as a political detainee,\" she said.\n\n\"All the introduced restrictions provide for total isolation for 22 hours per\nday,\" Zakharova added. The diplomat explained that the Russian may leave the\ncell, make calls and stay in common premises only for two hours a day solely\nat night.\n\n\"It definitely negatively affects her health, not just in connection with\nindividual peculiarities. That said, she is not receiving quality medical\ntreatment. On November 27, Russian diplomats visited Maria Butina, expressed\nresolute protest to the prison management and demanded that violence against\nButina be stopped,\" Zakharova went on to say, reiterating that on November 27\nthe Russian side sent a strict note to the US Department of State on this\nsituation.\n\nAccording to Zakharova, Moscow regards such actions of US authorities as a\ntool for exerting pressure over the Russian citizen ahead of a court session\nscheduled for December 19.\n\n\"We will definitely continue to demand the release of the Russian citizen who\nis a victim of direct lawlessness. Maria Butina is not just a political\ndetainee. Today we can affirm that she is a hostage of US authorities. She is\na hostage for one purpose - for manipulation in political goals,\" Zakharova\nconcluded.\n\nButina was arrested in Washington on July 15 ahead of the meeting between\nRussian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Helsinki.\nThe Russian is charged with participation in a plot aimed at conducting\nactivities on US territory for the benefit of a foreign state. The US\nintelligence services also state that the Russian carried this activity while\nbeing registered with the US Department of Justice as a foreign state agent.\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov demanded Butinas urgent release and\ncalled charges against her fabricated in a telephone conversation with US\nSecretary of State Michael Pompeo held on July 21.\n\nIn other media","title":"Diplomat outraged by tightening of prison conditions for Maria Butina","date":"2018-11-30","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"The various Digital Wellbeing features that Google revealed last spring  a dashboard to show your smartphone usage habits, app limit timers, and a wind down mode to help you focus on going to sleep  are not included in todays release of Android 9 Pie. But if you have a Pixel device and youve already installed the latest OS update on it, youll be able to try out those software tools ahead of their official launch sometime this fall. The beta starts right now.\n\nGoogle says that trying out these Digital Wellbeing features does not require joining the Android beta program; you can continue running a stable version of Android 9 Pie while testing the Dashboard, app timers, and wind down. So thats pretty great.\n\nTo get started, follow these steps:\n\nNote that Digital Wellbeing is in beta until the fall, so you might run into some bugs and encounter some snags every now and then. According to Google, these software tools were designed with the goal of giving you a complete picture of your digital habits and helping you disconnect when you want to.\n\nApple is also integrating similar features into its upcoming iOS 12 update, and social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram are also working on adding new sections to their apps that transparently show how much time we all spend using them. 2018 is certainly the year of technology self-reflection. But ultimately, these companies are just giving you the data; itll be up to you to make changes and adjust your device usage if youre alarmed by what you see.\n\nDigital Wellbeing will launch first on the Pixel lineup this fall before expanding to Android One and other devices later this year.","title":"How to test out Googles Digital Wellbeing features on Android 9 Pie right now","date":"2018-08-06","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) said its decision not to provide a new round of funding for a high-profile research centre was made following a robust process.\n\nSFI has decided not to provide a new round of funding to the University College Cork-based INFANT centre once its current allocation comes to an end next year, RTE reported on Monday.\n\nDirector general of SFI and Government chief scientific advisor Professor Mark Ferguson told RTEs Morning Ireland it was very transparent in all of its dealings with INFANT.\n\nINFANT is Irelands first perinatal research centre. It states its mission is to make pregnancy safer and to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies.\n\nSometimes that means making kind of tough decisions like this one where you say actually here are some things that need to be done and heres an opportunity to compete again, Prof Ferguson said.\n\nThis is a robust process, but it is a competition and in all competitions some people are at the top of the list and some are at the bottom.\n\nBut I think it is really important to emphasise that INFANT is a really good centre. It just needs to address some things.\n\nHowever founding director of INFANT, Professor Louise Kenny,claimed the centre was not given an adequate explanation of what those things are.\n\nProf Kenny, who is now an adjunct professor at the centre and pro-vice chancellor at the University of Liverpool told RTE that she was very shocked and disappointed at the decision.\n\nIt came as a complete surprise because up until that point we had no real idea that we had been ranked so low.\n\nOver the last five years since INFANT was funded, consistently we have been ranked or rated as one of the best performing SFI research centres and in fact the expert scientific review that we had in December strongly and enthusiastically recommended refunding. So it came as a complete shock.\n\nHowever, we werent given any reasons, really. We did have the independent expert scientific review of the panel that was composed of experts such as obstetricians and neonatologists and researchers in our area.\n\nThat enthusiastically recommended refunding. We scored very highly. We didnt have any insight and I still dont have any insight as to the make-up of the oversight panel that then adjusted those scores and then ranked INFANT as the lowest centre.\n\nFormer minister of state with responsibility for research Sean Sherlock is calling for greater transparency and an explanation for the decision by SFI.\n\nIt is a world class institute, it is a new institute and I am worried about the fact that SFI has, despite the fact that INFANT has subjected itself to international peer-review, has decided through its own oversight review to defund the centre, Mr Sherlock told RTEs Morning Ireland.","title":"SFI decision to pull funding from INFANT centre follows robust process","date":"2018-10-01","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"When the small band of neo-Nazis approached a park in front of the White House, there were several hundred counterprotesters awaiting them. In some ways, the scene was a victory for anti-racist organizers. Unlike last year, when racists overwhelmed the city of Charlottesville, white supremacist organizer Jason Kessler could scarcely pull together enough racists this year to fill a train car.\n\nBut that tiny gathering of white nationalists managed to completely hijack Washington, D.C.s public infrastructure and the attention of the national media. And the districts handling of the event created some discomfiting resonances: American racists getting bundled into the capital on a segregated train car and escorted through a racists-only entrance into a park across from the White House.\n\nMetropolitan Police Department officers said their goal on Sunday was to keep the white supremacists away from the counterprotesters to prevent violence. To that end, hundreds of taxpayer-funded law enforcement officials separated white nationalists from the public on a private train car and provided them with a private entrance into Lafayette Park.\n\nThe Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority briefly floated the idea of dedicating separate train cars for white nationalists, but it retreated from the idea after the transit union said its members would not provide unprecedented special accommodations for a hate group. WMATA told HuffPost that it left all trains open to the public. The decision to separate the white nationalists is a law enforcement matter, the transit authority said.\n\nOne Black Lives Matter protester who identified himself as Black Soul expressed anger that the police were protecting the racists, but that they seemed to do nothing to protect people in the citys predominantly black areas.\n\nIts crazy how the police can come up here and protect these motherfucker racist bastards, but we got little girls and little boys getting killed in Southeast and Northeast in the inner city right there in the fucking hood, everyday snatched up, he said. Theyre here to protect these sheet-wearing racist-ass bastards.\n\nThe dismal turnout of the so-called Unite the Right II rally put on full display the fractured state of the white nationalist movement. Kessler, who organized last years rally in Virginia, moved this years white civil rights rally to D.C. after failing to obtain another permit from the city of Charlottesville. And several of the movements top figures  who are facing crippling legal fees in a lawsuit related to their role in planning last years violent event  chose to sit out this years event.\n\nRichard Spencer, who once celebrated the election of Donald Trump with a Nazi salute, appears to have fled the region. Christopher Cantwell, best known for sobbing on camera when he found out he was wanted for arrest after pepper-spraying protesters in Charlottesville, said this years rally would be too fucking dangerous for him to attend, and blamed Kessler for his lack of management skills.\n\nDays before the rally, Kessler appeared to be losing the support of even the lesser-known Nazis he had said would speak. Patrick Little, the failed neo-Nazi Senate candidate who was slated to speak at Kesslers event, said on Thursday that he would not attend, even though he was in D.C. spreading his message of expel the Jews.\n\nLeaked Facebook Messenger chats obtained by the media collective Unicorn Riot show that Kessler barely managed to pull off this years very small rally. He pleaded for help figuring out transportation to D.C. and said that he had given up finding housing arrangements because its too complicated for me to deal with.\n\nThe chats also show Kesslers efforts to rebrand a movement now best known for murdering a peaceful protester. Kessler and his fellow racists discussed including nonwhite speakers, a move Kessler said would give us political cover to bring on [David] Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. HuffPost could not independently confirm the authenticity of the messages.\n\nAs the fragile alliance between a collection of unstable white supremacists splintered, their presence in D.C. became a rallying point for anti-racism protesters. Members of Black Lives Matter, anarchists, anti-fascists, and union workers spent weeks organizing protests. By Sunday, the anti-racist coalition raised over $20,000 to pay speakers and organizers, the group said on Facebook.","title":"A Couple Dozen Neo-Nazis Got The Red Carpet Treatment From DC Law Enforcement","date":"2018-08-12","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"When your average Hollywood star sits down to their breakfast granola, opens The New York Times, and finds one of their colleagues has been exposed, shamed and duly fired, the response has been one of silence and deference. Calmly finish bowl; contact agent; monitor social media response; consider tweet distancing oneself from the accused.\n\nAll that changed in July with Disneys exile of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, who was abruptly fired after the discovery of dumb, tasteless and provocative jokes tweeted years earlier. Never mind that these were unearthed by an alt-right blogger relying on this very reaction; Disney declared his tweets inconsistent with our studios values and severed [its] business relationship with him.\n\nBut if it expected the franchises cast  who are the gateway to fans on social media and therefore box office sales  to fall in line, Disney was mistaken. In a jointly undersigned open letter, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper et al started by offering their full support for Gunn and expressing a hope that he be reinstated, before going off on a quite stunning tirade against weaponised mob mentality and a lack of due process in the court of public opinion. They drew a line in the sand, but Disney met them at it, doubling down on its policy of zero tolerance towards both potentially offensive jokes and the concept of forgiveness.\n\nThe future of the franchise is now in limbo, and whatever happens next will be written in Hollywood history. The cast, who may or may not have mounted such a staunch and collegiate defence of free speech had Gunn not been quite so vital to the GOTG series, have for the most part gone quiet, after Disneys Old Yeller-evoking courtesy meeting with Gunn to reaffirm his firing. Perhaps they will return with another screen-grabbed missive, but right now it seems as though all are accepting that their brave skirmish has been defeated.\n\nAll that is, except Dave Bautista.\n\nOne of the lesser known Guardians, Bautista potentially has the most to lose by sticking up for Gunn. A fall from favour within Hollywood could quite easily cut his blossoming film career short and send him back to the WWE ring. This would be particularly sad to see, as he is showing signs of adapting to acting better than perhaps any professional wrestler before him.\n\nAnd yet, undeterred and unintimidated, he has continued to be vocal on the matter, describing Disneys actions as pretty nauseating and accusing them of empowering a smear campaign by fascists. Most dramatically  during an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show this week  Bautista suggested he might not return for a potential GOTG 3, saying: [The films] on hold indefinitely. To be honest with you I dont know if I want to work for Disney.\n\nHe may be six foot six, weigh 290 pounds and look as though he could punch Mickey Mouse into the sun, but Bautista is proving an unlikely hero for what seems to be a silent majority in Hollywood: one fearful of the industrys move toward a one-punishment-fits-all stance. Contractual obligations may ultimately compel the actor and his co-stars back to the set, but, if he rallies them to stand firm, Bautista could be the man who derailed a billion-dollar franchise, and put a stop to corporations being the moral arbiters of Hollywood.","title":"Is Dave Bautista the unlikely hero to save Hollywood from itself","date":"2018-09-03","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) It is truly unavoidable to catch a cold or contract a disease, especially with todays lifestyle trends and medical misinformation. A lot of the medicine we use to treat our health conditions may actually cause more harm than good. A St. Josephs Healthcare Hamilton and McMaster University joint study found that low doses of penicillin administered to pregnant mice and their young results in behavioral changes that have long-term effects.\n\nThe study, which was published in Nature Communications, reports that the behavioral changes noted in the mice included elevated levels of aggression, characteristic neurochemical changes in the brain, and imbalance in the gut microbiome of the mice. On the bright side, giving the mice a lactobacillus strain of bacteria managed to prevent the effects of the administered penicillin.\n\nLow-dose penicillin taken in late pregnancy and early life of mice offspring results in behavioral changes and imbalances in the microbes of the gut. While the tests were done on mice, there are increasing concerns about the long-term effects of antiobiotics in humans, according to Dr. John Bienenstock, director of the Brain-Body Institute at St. Josephs Healthcare Hamilton and distinguished professor at McMaster University.\n\nLarge doses of multipurpose antibiotics in adult animals have been shown to affect behavior, but none have been able to test the effects of clinical doses of commonly used antibiotics, such as penicillin, on the bacteria in the gut and in behavior. Almost all babies in North America have received some dose of antibiotics during their first year of life. Researchers are looking into analyzing the effects of the drug on the offspring of the mice if given only to the pregnant mothers (teratogenesis).\n\nMother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary \"sulforaphane\" and \"glucosinolate\" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here.\n\nPenicillin, PCN, or pen, is a group of antibiotics discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Penicillin has many types including: Penicillin G, for intravenous use; penicillin V, for oral ingestion; procaine penicillin; and benzathine penicillin, which is injected into the muscles. It is the first type of medication that is effective against bacterial infections caused by staphylococci and streptococci, but is however, easy to build resistance against. Almost 10 percent of all people around the world are allergic to penicillin.\n\nThe study titled Low-dose penicillin in early life induces long-term changes in murine gut microbiota, brain cytokines and behavior was funded by the United States Office of Naval Research.\n\nWhenever we fall ill, most of us automatically turn to our doctors for prescription medicine. However, many diseases and illnesses can be treated or remedied with natural techniques. In fact, following a healthy daily regimen is known to prevent the onset of diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, and what not. Keeping healthy should be easy as:\n\nRead PrescriptionDrugs.news for more articles on the risks vs. benefits of prescription drugs.","title":"Use of penicillin early in life even in low doses affects the gut microbiome contributing to brai","date":"2018-11-18","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) The U.S. Attorney for North Carolinas Eastern District has launched an investigation into alleged GenX contamination at the Fayetteville Works. The feds have served subpoenas to DuPont and its Chemours spinoff. They are also seeking information from the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).\n\nChemours indicated in its 2017 annual report released in February that it is cooperating with regulators at the federal, state, and local level as well as reponding to subpoenas from three federal grand juries. Several class action lawsuits have also been filed in the situation.\n\nStarNewsOnline explains the background on this controversy.\n\nA sprawling facility about 100 miles up the Cape Fear River from Wilmington, Fayetteville Works was the property of DuPont until 2015, when it created Chemours as a separate company. Since then, Chemours has owned the industrial site and chemical manufacturing lines blamed for contamination by GenX and related substances in the river, downstream drinking water, nearby private wells and the air.\n\nThe Cape Fear River provides much of the drinking water for southeastern North Carolina. According to the News&Observer, North Carolina officials suspect that the facility secretly dumped GenX into the river for many years. In addition to the DEQ, agencies participating in the probe include the EPA,  the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, and North Carolinas Bureau of Investigation.\n\nGenX  (which has nothing whatsoever to do with the Generation X demographic cohort) is a compound used in the manufacture of nonstick cookware such as Teflon. Although intended to replace PFOA or PFOS, the chemical process has reportedly been identified as a carcinogen in several animal studies. Its exact effects on humans have yet to be determined, however as Natural News previously explained.\n\nTests conducted by Chemours itself have reportedly revealed that approximately two-thirds of the wells in the area near the plant tested positive for GenX and one-third of them allegedly contained unsafe levels of the chemical. Last November, the DEQ pulled Chemours permit to discharge wastewater into the Cape Fear River.\n\nLegislation is pending in the state legislature to address the GenX pollution issue, although it is subject to partisan squabbling over its funding mechanism and other concerns.  (Read more about water pollution-related developments at WaterWars.news.)\n\nChemours is complying with an EPA request to test water for GenX in Ohio and West Virginia. The tests are occurring within the same waterways that had been polluted during past decades by a carcinogenic GenX precursor chemical, called PFOA, DelawareOnline explained.\n\nCheck Pollution.news for further news on the GenX pollution controversy.","title":"Feds looking into allegations about GenX chemical contamination have issued subpoenas to DuPont Che","date":"2018-03-14","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"On Wednesday Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch posted an update.\n\nHouse Republican leaders are AFRAID of holding Maxine Waters to account for her threats against conservatives.","title":"Judicial Watch House Republican Leadership Is HORRIFIED of Holding Maxine Waters to Account","date":"2018-07-26","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A former student activist for conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA on Monday called the organization a shithole with increasing levels of drama and some of the most incompetent, lazy, and downright dishonest people I have ever encountered.\n\nThe following is the resignation letter I handed into my bosses earlier this morning, Kaitlin Bennett, formerly the president of Kent State Universitys chapter of Turning Point USA, wrote.\n\nShe addressed her resignation to Frankie OLaughlin and Alana Mastrangelo. A Facebook page under OLaughlins name lists him as a field director at Turning Point USA, and a Twitter page under Mastrangelos name lists her as a regional manager for the organization.\n\nBennett posted her resignation on Liberty Hangout, a website that bills itself as a libertarian media outlet and alternative news source that seeks to promote Austrian economics and property rights. The letter appears to be her only post on the website.\n\nIn her resignation, Bennett said she was highly disappointed in the organizations leadership for taking zero responsibility  in the aftermath of a widely mocked event in October 2017 where members of the universitys Turning Point USA chapter dressed up in diapers to protest safe spaces.\n\nAccording to Bennett, OLaughlin and Mastrangelo approved the event but failed to show any leadership when the chapter faced the consequences of online harassment.\n\nI was embarrassed to have been left alone to deal with the aftermath of the safe space event, Bennett wrote. Although I thought the safe space event was funny and have zero remorse for holding it, I took full responsibility for it when Turning Point failed to show any leadership.\n\nBennett said she was deeply saddened that Turning Point USA did not turn out to be the organization I thought it was.\n\nI have realized how much of a shithole organization Turning Point USA is, and am glad I got out of this bullshit before I invested my whole life into it, let alone just my senior year of college, Bennett wrote. I expect to be paid in full for my hours worked, since the organization is also too incompetent to multiply 10 by 12.50 every week.\n\nShe advised the groups leaders to find real jobs.\n\nMaybe answering to business professionals rather than college dropouts, egotistic enough to put their face on stupid memes, will give you the leadership skills you desperately need for your positions, she wrote. Maybe after this is published on Liberty Hangout and Occupy Democrats Logic, to audiences that reach 17 million people on a bad week, I too can be verified on Twitter like you, Alana.\n\nBennett signed off with good riddance, and added, If you need a safe space after everyone hears about this, I still have the diapers.\n\nThe Twitter account for the universitys chapter of Turning Point USA tweeted at Charlie Kirk, the nonprofits executive director and founder, several hours after Bennett posted her resignation.","title":"Kent State Activist Quits Turning Point USA Calls It A Shthole Organization","date":"2018-02-12","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)  Kansas schools that refuse to allow teachers to carry guns could be held legally responsible in the event of a tragedy under a proposal drafted after last months mass shooting at a Florida high school.\n\nOpponents of the measure, which got its first hearing Tuesday in front of the House Insurance Committee, expressed concern it could effectively mandate arming teachers rather than allowing it, as several states have done.\n\nIt would certainly open the door for that conversation, said Democratic Rep. Brett Parker, an Overland Park school teacher. The further we go down this rabbit hole, the more chance there is for even more obnoxious legislation moving forward.\n\nEven if that provision is stripped, as some advocates suggested during the hearing, the bill would prohibit insurers from denying coverage to a school because it lets its teachers or staff members carry weapons.\n\nAt least nine other states have provisions in place giving teachers the option of carrying guns in schools, but the Kansas plan seems to go further than most other laws in place or under consideration.\n\nThe proposal is separate from one embraced by Republican leaders in the House that focuses on improving school infrastructure instead of arming staff. That measure, which appears to have broader support, won first-round approval on Tuesday.\n\nRep. Blake Carpenter, a conservative Derby Republican who helped write the legislation that holds schools liable, said he is confident armed and trained teachers will save lives. Police could be minutes away, and in smaller districts where modest funding means school-resource officers arent hired, the bill would allow for next best thing, he told the committee.\n\nIt is not, if our kids will be killed. It is, when will they be killed and what are we doing to prevent it? Carpenter said.\n\nKansas legislators started working on school safety legislation a week after a Valentines Day shooting in Parkland, Florida, left 17 students and staff dead.\n\nGun control advocates say the portion that presumes negligence against school districts is highly unusual and seems to match closely with concealed carry laws typically applied to businesses in some states, and not schools.\n\nKansas law has allowed teachers to carry concealed guns since 2013 but school districts across the state have disallowed the practice after EMC Insurance Companies, the states primary school insurer, refused to provide coverage to schools with armed staff.\n\nKansas Association of School Boards lobbyist Mark Tallman opposed the bill. He said insurance providers could still choose to deny coverage, yet schools would have no choice but to allow staff to arm themselves regardless. Even if an insurer is willing to provide under such circumstances, Tallman said, the rates would become very expensive.\n\nCarpenter said for an insurance company to increase rates or to outright refuse to provide coverage to a school, it would have to prove that having an armed staff creates a higher risk environment.\n\nAccording to the State Department of Education, the 286 local school districts expect to spend $23.7 million on insurance in the current school year, not including health insurance. No testimony provided during the hearing predicted what that expense would become if the legislation passes.\n\nParker said he has received 284 pieces of written testimony opposing the bill, much of it from teachers unhappy with the prospect of being armed and working alongside others who may or may not be.\n\nWere inventing new ways, it seems, to drive people out of the teaching profession in Kansas, Parker said.","title":"Kansas Considers Making Schools Liable For Not Arming Staff","date":"2018-03-28","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Theresa May has admitted she was wrong to accuse EU nationals of jumping the queue for jobs and rights in the UK. Following days of criticism, the Prime Minister conceded that she should not have made her remarks to business chiefs last week. May had shocked the CBI conference when she declared that Brexit would mean that EU citizens regardless of the skills or experience they have to offer, can jump the queue ahead of engineers from Sydney or software developers from Delhi. SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said the comment was disgraceful, while campaigners for the three million EU citizens in the UK said it could fuel hate crime against them.\n\nUnder pressure from the SNP in the Commons on Monday, May said: I should not have used that language in that speech. SNP MP Philippa Whitford told the PM that her remarks had insulted people like her husband, a German national and a doctor who had lived in Britain for more than 30 years. May replied that she had been trying to point out that the public want a skills-based immigration system that decides if people should enter the country based on the contribution that they can make. Labour MP Rupa Huq told May that her crass comments about jumping the queue are a tragedy.\n\nThe PM has made clear that curbing EU migration is central to her Brexit deal, claiming it would bring an end to free movement, once and for all. Jeremy Corbyn last week accused her of dog whistle politics by raising the issue, and the 3Million campaign on behalf of EU citizens accused her of trying to scapegoat those who had spent years living and working in the UK. The European Parliaments Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt also criticised May at the time. EU citizens living, working, contributing to UK communities, didnt jump the queue and neither did UK nationals in Europe, he said. They were exercising rights which provided freedom and opportunities. We will fight to ensure these continue in the future, especially after any transition. The Government says it wants the estimated 3.5 million citizens of other EU nations already living in the UK to stay after Brexit but they will have to apply for leave to remain. The Home Office is expected to finally set out its immigration proposals next week, the second strand of its PR strategy to sell the PMs deal. May has previously said that over time EU citizens will be treated the same as those arriving from outside the EU.","title":"Theresa May Admits She Was Wrong To Accuse EU Nationals Of Jumping The Queue","date":"2018-11-26","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"A Facebook ad for the smartphone app Natural Cycles promising a highly accurate birth control method has been banned for making misleading claims by the UKs advertising regulatory body today.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) investigated the claims made in a Facebook ad after it received complaints about the app. The ad said the app was clinically tested and highly accurate, but the ASAs investigation found that the ad exaggerated how effective the app is.\n\nThe words clinically tested and highly accurate together could be falsely interpreted by consumers to mean that Natural Cycles is an effective means of birth control that could replace other established birth control methods, said the ASA.\n\nThe Natural Cycles app, which costs $79.99 a year on Android and iOS, has been promoted as a birth control method that tracks a users cycle to say which days the user is fertile. To use it, you have to take your temperature every morning at the same time to track ovulation and menstrual cycles. (Smoking, drinking, and other activities can disrupt the temperature reading.) The app was approved by the US Federal Drug Administration this month and has been EU certified since February.\n\nIn January, Natural Cycles was reported to Swedish authorities by a womens clinic, after 37 women visited the clinic for abortions after getting unwanted pregnancies using the app.\n\nThe evidence did not demonstrate that in typical-use it was highly accurate.\n\nWhen the app is used correctly, only 10 out of 1,000 women who used the app for one year would become pregnant. This works out to a perfect-use effectiveness of 99 percent, which is the same perfect-use number as birth control pills. Still, perfect use of the Natural Cycles app has been notably uncommon. In evidence submitted to ASA, less than 10 percent of cycles were perfect-use.\n\nThe apps typical-use effectiveness is lower: 68 out of 1,000 women become pregnant after using the app for a year, which works out to an effectiveness rate of 93 percent. That number suggests that the app beats condoms effectiveness rate, which is 82 percent in typical use, and that of hormonal birth control pills, which are 91 percent effective in typical use. The app isnt as good as a patch or an IUD.\n\nThe evidence did not demonstrate that in typical-use it was highly accurate, the ASA wrote in its ruling to ban the Facebook ad. Natural Cycles responded in a statement that it respected the outcome of the investigation and that the ad was removed in mid-2017 as soon as the company was notified of the complaint.","title":"Birth control app Natural Cycles ran a misleading Facebook ad claiming to be highly accurate","date":"2018-08-29","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"The House Civil Justice Subcommittee held a hearing on the State of Intellectual Freedom in America\n\nThe Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft discussed and brought evidence of the widespread censorship and elimination of conservative content on Facebook.\n\nThe witness panel includes:\n\nJim Hoft Founder and Editor The Gateway Pundit\n\nAdriana Cohen Syndicated Columnist Boston Herald Radio Host\n\nJeremy Tedesco Vice President of U.S. Advocacy Alliance Defending Freedom\n\nAri Waldman Professor of Law New York Law School\n\nHarmeet K. Dhillon, Esq. Partner Dhillon Law Group Inc.\n\nThere were two sessions today discussing the targeting of conservative voices online. The Democrats on the panel complained about how much money Congress was wasting by holding the hearing. (I paid my own way there.)\n\nThe first panel included: Dr. mike Adams, Dr. Peter Wood, Mike Simkovic, and Dr. Tim Groseclose.\n\nAfter listening to Democrats today it is clear they are very satisfied with Facebook and the tech giants eliminating conservative voices online.\n\n There is no doubt about this.\n\nAnd here is the complete text of Hofts testimony today.\n\nJim Hoft Statement for the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice\n\nThank you, Chairman King and subcommittee members for organizing this important hearing today.\n\nYour colleagues in Congress have provided a lot of airtime recently to prominent CEOs of tech companies who are trying to put me, and others with my politics, out of business. I thank you for allowing me to speak, instead of the perpetrators.\n\nMy testimony today is how the purification of thought has been accomplished by one company with a monopoly-like hold on the public commons in our internet era.\n\nMy name is Jim Hoft and I am the owner and editor of The Gateway Pundit (TGP) website based in St. Louis, Missouri.\n\nIm somewhat known in my business for my headlines. Here is the headline I bring to you: In the run-up to the 2016 election Americans got to choose what they read on Facebook. Today, Facebook chooses for them.\n\nIt is your constituents, left and right, rich and poor, who are impacted by this thought-filter imposed on what most believe is an unfiltered forum. It is they who are unknowingly cut off\n\nI grew up in Iowa, and I understand the pulse, the struggles, the hopes and dreams of Middle America. I came to find out Facebook doesnt like my type.\n\nI launched Gateway Pundit in 2004 as a way to report on news that I didnt see the\n\nmainstream media covering. At first, I had two or three daily readers, including my friend Chris and my twin brother, Joe. I was humbled and amazed to see our content grow in popularity over the years to nearly one million readers a day thanks to promotions by Michelle Malkin, Glenn Reynolds, The Drudge Report and others.  We provide news coverage and opinion that Americans could not find elsewhere.\n\nThere is no way to account for the demand for our content, on a shoestring budget we\n\noffered something the American people desired: real news. We were ranked by Harvard and Columbia Journalism Review as the 4th most influential conservative publisher in the 2016 election.[1]\n\nOur readers: smart, patriotic, and diverse, have not given up on the promise of America.  This is who I represent in speaking with you today.\n\nThis was the first election where Americans rejected, en masse, their legacy media options and turned to the freedom of choice and lack of filter on social media instead, through which\n\nthey would share, comment on, and connect with content like mine.\n\nWe may not be invited to gala dinners and attend award shows, but our reporting is fulfilling a vital role of providing truthful content that is competition to the sanitized, on-message news of legacy media.\n\nIn fact, it was our readers who, on Election Day, were not surprised by the outcome.\n\nThe Gateway Pundit business cultivated its audience on Facebook, spending roughly $70,000 advertising on Facebook in 2015 resulting in 600,000 Facebook likes and supporters.\n\nOver the past 19 months, Gateway Pundit saw a decline in our Facebook traffic from 24% of total website traffic in January 2017 to 2% of total website traffic in June 2018.\n\nThis is an 88% decrease in traffic from Facebook.\n\nRecently we analyzed traffic numbers for some of the top conservative publishers in the U.S. What we found was simply shocking. Just as Gateway Pundit had been eliminated by Facebook from being seen by its readers, Facebook eliminated 93% [2]of combined referral traffic to these websites from January 2017 to May 2018.\n\nThe site Western Journal and other conservative websites under their umbrella had more than a billion page views in 2016. Since then the organization lost 75% of its Facebook traffic. Likewise, Klicked Media, host of over 60 conservative websites, lost 400 million page views from Facebook in the last six months when compared to the prior year. The total number of pageviews lost[3] by just these two conservative online publishers is more than 1.5 billion pageviews from Facebook in one year.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, Facebook began making algorithm changes to ensure conservative news was no longer an option for their users. Two studies released in March of 2018 confirm this. A study by The Outline Organization[4] found conservative publishers were hit the hardest by recent Facebook algorithm changes  and that The Gateway Pundit was hit the hardest.\n\nA Western Journal study[5] in March revealed the same startling statistics. Further, this study found that liberal publishers actually saw a 2 percent increase in traffic.\n\nIn fact, we found that every prominent conservative website from 2016 has either had their Facebook traffic diminished or entirely eliminated[6].\n\nIf Facebook were seeking to hold a book burning, they wouldnt have been half as successful as they were in eliminating contrary points of view from being accessed by the American people.\n\nIn fact, book burning is benign when compared to what Facebook has silently done to restrict and eliminate diversity of thought; in book burnings, you can see the flames and watch the words disappear. In our case, we were silently and effectively disappeared.  Several top conservative sites have already closed their doors since 2017.\n\nIf our Fourth Estate is to remain an effective check as our Founders intended, we must ensure that the political purification of thoughts by one communication corporation, Facebook, is given ample competition. Today that competition is being eliminated. Tomorrow there will only be one sanctioned form of thought the American people will be allowed to hold.\n\nThis is not America.","title":"Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft Testifies to Congress on Facebook Censorship Full Statement VIDEO","date":"2018-09-28","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini has ruled out a summer move for former Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure, insisting his squad is complete.\n\nWhile the transfer deadline closed ahead of their Premier League opener, Toure remains an option being a free agent after leaving City at the end of last season. Clubs submitted thier squad lists to the Premier League ahead of the new season, which will not be published until next month, and can still be added to if there is the space.\n\nThe midfielder, 35, made 133 appearances under the Chilean during his tenure at Manchester City, scoring 44 goals and winning the Premier League title and League Cup.\n\nThe Hammers have spent over 100million on their squad with nine new senior arrivals following Pellegrinis appointment, and he insists he has the group needed for the season ahead.\n\nYaya Toure is a good player, [but] in this position we have our players, Pellegrini said.\n\nHe will always be a good player but for the moment he is not for West Ham. For the moment, the squad is complete.\n\nSince the close of the window both Edimilson Fernandes and Toni Martinez have left the club on loan and, while Pellegrini knows his squad needed to be trimmed, but he feels there will be no more departures.\n\nWhen we built up a squad we knew that some players had to go out also because of the new nine players, he added.\n\nEspecially young players need to play, they knew from the beginning they would go out on loan. The squad is the squad I want for the season.\n\nI dont think any other players going out at the moment.","title":"Manuel Pellegrini rules out Yaya Toure deal with West Ham squad aposcompleteapos","date":"2018-08-16","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Tomatoes are among the most popular crops in the world, but they are also a magnet for pests and plant diseases. A study published in the journal Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection evaluates the potential uses of pomegranate peel extracts for controlling Meloidogyne javanica, a tomato pest, offering farmers a safe and organic solution to an infestation by this specific pest species.\n\nWhether you call tomatoes fruits or vegetables, there is no denying their importance as a crop. Not only are they a crucial ingredient in many cuisines, but their nutritional benefits are also well recognized. They are so important that they are planted in virtually every country on the planet, with China single-handedly yielding almost a third of the global production. China harvested more than 40 million tons of tomatoes in 2014 alone.\n\nTomatoes attract multiple kinds of pests and diseases, which can vary depending on geography. One of these pests is M. javanica, also known as the sugarcane eelworm. They are one of several root-knot nematode (roundworm) species, so-called because of how they infect the roots of plants and cause the formation of root-knot galls, which drain plants of nutrients.\n\nThe sugarcane eelworm is found in many regions around the world but is considered the dominant representative of their genus in areas with warm and tropical climates, such as Central Africa and West Africa. As a group, root-knot nematodes infect up to 2,000 plant species and cause about five percent of global crop loss.\n\nSugarcane eelworms are controlled using various biocontrol agents, including specific fungal and bacterial species. Juglone, a compound derived from plants like henna and black walnut, is also utilized for this purpose. The authors of the published study examined the possibility of using the extracts from pomegranate peel against sugarcane eelworms.\n\nSponsored solution from CWC Labs: This heavy metals test kit allows you to test almost anything for 20+ heavy metals and nutritive minerals, including lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum and more. You can test your own hair, vitamins, well water, garden soil, superfoods, pet hair, beverages and other samples (no blood or urine). ISO accredited laboratory using ICP-MS (mass spec) analysis with parts per billion sensitivity. Learn more here.\n\nThey treated M. javanica eggs and juveniles with varying concentrations of methanolic, ethanolic, and aqueous extracts from pomegranate peel. While all extracts successfully prevented more than 75 percent of the eggs from hatching, the ethanolic extract failed in inhibiting the viability of second-stage juveniles.\n\nThe researchers also tested aqueous extracts on tomato plants at concentrations of 10, 25, and 50 percent in greenhouse trials. They also used pomegranate peel powder as a soil amendment at concentrations of three, six, and nine grams. Both of these measures resulted in significant reductions in nematode infestation. The aqueous extract was also observed to enhance plant growth, but the pomegranate peel powder was noted to have a phytotoxic effect on the tomato plants.\n\nThe authors concluded that the extracts of pomegranate peels were effective in reducing the number of galls and egg masses, as well as the nematodes rate of reproduction.\n\nThe innate ability of tomatoes to fight off pests is actually admirable, but this doesnt mean you should leave your plants to the mercy of insect parasites. You dont have to use toxic chemical pesticides either. Here are natural ways to prevent insect attacks on your tomato plants:\n\nLearn how to keep pests away from your plants the natural way at HomeGardeningNews.com.","title":"Pomegranate peel extract found to be a safe and natural pesticide","date":"2018-10-20","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Ayn Rands novel Atlas Shrugged depicts a world where freedom and free markets are crushed by not-so-well-meaning politicians and bureaucrats.\n\nThe story is a blueprint for the creation of a command economy where prices, wages, and production are dictated by bureaucratic apparatchiks. Like all regimes seeking autocratic power, the outcome, as she chillingly reveals, is cronyism, corruption, economic depression, and the rise of dictatorship.\n\nThe lesson of the book is that prosperity is driven by entrepreneurs and capital. And, you need freedom and free markets to achieve it. This system is called free market capitalism. Rands plot twist: what would happen if all the entrepreneurs, the drivers of a dynamic economy, went on strike. She takes the ideals of socialism, where business is dictated by government mandate for the benefit of workers and the people, to its logical, destructive end. The strike accelerates the collapse of society and the strikers re-emerge to rebuild society. It was a story that Rand knew well, being a Russian emigre fleeing Bolshevik terror.\n\nUnfortunately, the book has become disturbingly prophetic.\n\nOne of the scenes in Rands book is the story of Twentieth Century Motors, a leading automobile manufacturer until the company was reorganized to be under control of the workers and operated for their benefit. Among other things, worker pay was not based on individual productivity but on fairness to accommodate workers needs. That noble idea drove the company into bankruptcy and failure. While this is fiction, history is awash with real world examples of this.\n\nEnter Senator Elizabeth Warren and her proposed Accountable Capitalism Act . It is straight out of Atlas Shrugged. She proposes to regulate corporations with gross revenues of $1 billion or more, requiring them to obtain a federal corporate charter as a United States corporation. They would be regulated by a bureaucracy under the Office of United States Corporations. These corporations must be operated to create a general public benefit and must consider how its profit making activities affect not only their shareholders, but their employees, suppliers, community and societal factors, and the local and global environment. At least 40% of its board of directors must be elected by its workers. If they wish to support a political candidate, they must have approval of 75% of the board.\n\nThis is a proposed takeover of corporations by the government. Its a power grab. It is the socialist path to hell. I say this based on the tenets, economics, and history of socialism.\n\nYou can imagine what the outcome would be. Vast new regulations would be drafted by the Office of United States Corporations defining in great detail what is the public benefit. The Offices Director would be a czar with immense power over these corporations. Bureaucratic departments would be created to monitor corporate activity; an office of the Assistant Director for Public Benefit would inquire into and prohibit activities it deemed detrimental to society. These corporations would have to file annual compliance reports demonstrating their conformity to the regulations. A quasi-judicial hearing board would hear appeals from rulings by the Office. Lawyers specializing in the minutiae of Office canon would proliferate. Profit, the signal to companies that they are doing something right, would become less and less important as the public benefit would become the overriding concern. Unions, true to their nature, would demand more pay for their workers not based on worker productivity.\n\nSenator Warrens justifications for this law are based on economic fables that only Democratic Socialists and Progressives could naively and uncritically believe. She crafts a rationale that isnt based on the historical record or current empirical data. But it does square with Progressive mythology.\n\nSenator Warren has a fantasy of a corporate Golden Age where businesses were run not just for profit (a word always used in the pejorative by Progressives) but for the benefit of their workers and their communities and where income was distributed more fairly and not to just to line the pockets of their greedy executives and shareholders. That utopia never existed. Companies then and now operate to make a profit. The effect of profit then and now is that workers have good paying jobs and companies successes, payrolls, and taxes benefit their communities. We all benefit, just not in the ways Senator Warren wants.\n\nThere is another arc to the Atlas Shrugged plot that is about the cronyism and corruption surrounding the regime. In order to prop up failed economic policies, more and harsher regulations are imposed on businesses making it almost impossible to operate. The country sinks into economic depression. But, some regime-favored companies thrive because they bribed bureaucrats to get exemptions from regulations. Smoke-filled back-room deals are made to keep the regime and its cronies in power. Its a who-ya-know kind of business. Rand describes the types of people on both sides of these transactions, people who could not normally succeed in life without the corrupt power to give and receive special favors.\n\nThe Trump Administration has imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and also on certain goods imported from China . In both cases, the Administration announced a process whereby importers of these goods can obtain exemptions from these tariffs. And, anyone can file an objection to an application for an exemption.\n\nThe procedures for exemptions basically revolve around the issue of whether or not the same goods can be acquired from U.S. manufacturers, regardless of the cost. So, if your businesss financial structure is based on cheaper imported products, you must buy the more expensive American-made product even if you cant afford it .\n\nWhen the steel and aluminum tariffs were implemented, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative which handles these exemption requests received 20,000 applications. So far they have granted only 42 exemptionsrequested by seven companies. American companies making more expensive products have vigorously opposed exemption requests to keep out cheaper foreign competition. For example, Bekaert, a manufacturer of steel wire, applied for an exemption. According to the New York Times ,\n\nNucor, an American steel company that has supported the tariffs, argued against Bekaerts request for an exclusion for wire rod that it uses to produce cord that goes in tires. Nucor said Bekaert had access to enough of the rod without requiring an exclusion.\n\nThere was no consideration of what the cost to Bekaert would be, but obviously Nucors wire rod will be more expensive. What that means is that American tire manufacturers will have to pay more for wire cord thus increasing the cost of tires which in turn will be passed on to consumers. This will result in consumers having less money to spend on other things. Or, American tire manufacturers might lose business to cheaper imported tires resulting in layoffs. Or, Bekaert eats the tariffs, becoming less profitable resulting in layoffs. We all lose. Except Nucor, of course. There are 320 million of us and 25,000 of them. So much for fairness. It should be noted that John Ferriola, the president of Nucor , was sitting on President Trumps right when the steel tariffs were announced. Perhaps he should have told the president about his plant in Mexico.\n\nIt seems that the Trump Administration has spawned the Wesley Mouches and Orren Boyles of Rands fabled novel. Whether its pull or pleading, the guys with the most clout with the Administration will win favors. And that is wrong.\n\nThe story Rand tells in Atlas Shrugged is not just fiction, it is played out every day in countries flirting withsocialism and it is being played out here. American history has always been a delicate balance between the simplistic appeal of socialist utopia and the individualism of free market capitalism. We came to a tipping point with Franklin Roosevelts New Deal, but pulled back from that brink, thanks mainly to Constitutional protections of private property. We seem to be testing that balance again. One would think we would learn from history and economics, but we dont.","title":"Atlas Mugged Elizabeth Warrens Plan to Nationalize Corporations","date":"2018-08-28","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"While Democrats face an uphill climb defending seats held by a handful of incumbent senators in states Donald Trump won overwhelmingly, they are hoping to flip the script in Tennessee.\n\nFormer Gov. Phil Bredesen appears to be waging a strong campaign against Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Bob Corker. In a sign of how competitive the contest has become, President Trump traveled to Nashville on Tuesday to host a fundraiser for the congresswoman and rally supporters who Republicans hope will turn out down the ballot in November.\n\n\"We need Marsha in the Senate to continue the amazing progress and work we've done in the last year and a half,\" Trump told the crowd. \"Marsha's very liberal Democrat opponent, Phil Bredesen -- who is he? He is an absolute and total tool of Chuck Schumer, and of course, the MS-13 lover Nancy Pelosi.\"\n\nRepublicans are keeping Democrats on their toes in North Dakota, Indiana, West Virginia, Montana and Missouri, all of which the president carried by high double digits in 2016 and where he remains popular. The Senate landscape thus provides ample pickup opportunities for a GOP aiming to expand its slim majority in the upper chamber, in stark contrast to a House map that puts many blue state Republican incumbents in peril. Democrats see opportunities to neutralize any Senate losses by picking off Republican seats in presidential battlegrounds like Arizona and Nevada.\n\nBut flipping Tennessee, a state Trump won by 26 points, could be more consequential to their fortunes. And it presents Democrats with the rare opportunity in a Senate race to run as the Washington outsider.\n\nA few polls so far show a close race, with Bredesen leading Blackburn in the RealClearPolitics average by five percentage points. A Vanderbilt University poll earlier this month found that 67 percent of respondents approved of Bredesen while 49 percent approved of Blackburn. Bredesen leads his opponent in approval among independents, 69 percent to 44 percent. And he demonstrated some crossover appeal, receiving a 52 percent favorability rating among Republicans while Blackburn received just 23 percent favorability from Democrats.\n\nHer challenge is clearly going to be making sure our base sticks together, says Josh Thomas, a Memphis-based Republican strategist. It will be all hands on deck.\n\nStrategists in the state say Trump will be effective in that regard. At the Nashville rally, Blackburn stressed that \"Tennessee needs a senator who is going to support President Donald Trump.\"\n\nTrump is huge asset in Tennessee, says Thomas, noting that the president won all but three of the states 95 counties. Voters there not only like him but they embrace his policies. To the extent that the midterms tend to be reflective of the incumbent president, thats great news for Republicans in Tennessee.\n\nBlackburn has been running as a Trump ally from the start. In launching her campaign last October, the eight-term lawmaker highlighted her tendency to be politically incorrect, said Republicans in the Senate act like Democrats, or worse, and pledged to fight alongside Trump every step of the way to build that wall.\"\n\nBlackburn has carved out an outsized profile on Capitol Hill and beyond as a regular pundit on cable news programs. And she has outraised Bredesen, who loaned his campaign $1 million of his own money.  (Bredesen is a former health care executive.) Blackburn has raised $5 million compared to her opponents $3.7 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.\n\nAnd while Bredesen has a proven ability to win statewide, his re-election as governor in 2006 was the last time a Democrat has done so. Tennessee's conservative shift was crystalized after hometown Democratic Sen. Al Gore lost the presidential contest there in 2000, and it has been trending even redder since Bredesen left office. When Trump won the state in 2016, he outperformed Mitt Romney by six points and John McCain by 11. Of the 11 members of the congressional delegation from Tennessee, only two are Democrats. And while Corker won narrowly in his first election to the Senate in 2006, a banner year for Democrats, he was easily re-elected in 2012.\n\n\"The question is, are there enough Democratic votes left to win a statewide race and is there a political center left in Tennessee?\" says Kent Syler, who managed former Democratic Rep. Bart Gordon's campaigns and served as his chief of staff for over two decades.\n\nBredesen's path to victory entails high Democratic turnout while winning independents and picking off moderate Republican voters, Syler says. \"Hes not attacking Donald Trump, because he understands hes got all the anti-Trump vote, and he is going to have to get some pro-Trump vote while trying to avoid being linked to the [Democratic] national brand.\"\n\nSuch a strategy is on display in his ads. In his first television spot, Bredesen touted his bipartisan approach as governor. \"Right now, we need a dose of that in the Senate  less partisan squabbling, more solutions,\" he says. \"I'm not running against Donald Trump,\" he says in another spot. \"Theres a lot of things I dont personally like about Donald Trump, but hes the president of the United States, and if he has an idea and is pushing some things that I think are good for the people of Tennessee, Im going to be for it.\"\n\nRepublicans are tying Bredesen to the national Democratic Party while undercutting his record as governor. In an opposition research file on him circulated ahead Trump's visit to Nashville, Republicans highlighted an increased state unemployment rate when the Democrat left office, his support for some gun control measures, and for issuing driver licenses to undocumented immigrants.\n\nWhile Republicans in the state have mostly coalesced around Blackburn, Bredesen's credentials have been boosted by an unlikely source: Corker himself. \"He was a very good [Nashville] mayor, a very good governor, a very good business person,\" Corker told reporters last month. \"And look, I'm not going to campaign against someone who I've been a friend with and worked with, so that's the way it's going to be.\" Later, in an interview with CNN, Corker refused to say Blackburn's name: I'm supporting the [GOP] nominee. I have worked with the nominee for some time. And I don't know what else to say.\"\n\nThe remarks irked national and state Republicans, prompting Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to admonish Corker, according to the Washington Post. (At Tuesdays rally, Corker was booed when the president mentioned him.) After the comments, Trump quickly endorsed Blackburn. Corker has said he donated to her campaign and would support her. Still, his comments appeared to fuel Blackburn supporters in the state, and raised questions about Corker's currency among Republican base voters.\n\nCorkers comments represent the kind of sentiment Bredesen will need to garner from moderate Republicans and independents in the state. \"Thats what this race is likely to turn on: whether Tennesseans want a moderate or a partisan,\" says Ken Blake, director of the poll at Middle Tennessee State University. \"The question is, how are the moderate Republicans going to go?\" A MTSU survey in early April found Bredesen leading Blackburn, 45 percent to 35 percent. But 17 percent of respondents said they weren't sure who they would vote for in November.","title":"Trump Visit Spotlights Competitive Tennessee Senate Race","date":"2018-05-30","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"SANTA FE, N.M.  U.S. Senate candidate Gary Johnson of New Mexico has disclosed personal financial interests in the cannabis sector that include stock holdings, a profit sharing agreement and recent capital gains on investment sales, according to filings reviewed by The Associated Press.\n\nJohnson in Senate filings this week said that he owns stock worth more than $250,000 in the Nevada cannabis company Kush and has a profit sharing agreement as the adviser to the cannabis-sector investment fund CB1 Capital.\n\nThe former New Mexico governor and two-time Libertarian candidate for president also reported capital gains of at least $100,000 from stock in the company Cannabis Sativa, where he previously served as CEO.\n\nA longtime advocate for legalizing marijuana, Johnson announced in August his run for Senate on the Libertarian ticket against incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich, who recently embraced the decriminalization of marijuana at the federal level. The Republican contender, construction contractor Mick Rich, opposes legalization.\n\nJohnson said Friday he sees no conflict of interest between his political advocacy for legalizing marijuana and personal investments in the sector because his political message has not changed in nearly two decades.\n\nThis was a career ending move on my part in 1999, said Johnson of his initial support as governor for legalization when the stance was unpopular. The last thing that I ever dreamed of happening is that somehow I would make money off this.\n\nNew Mexico regulates the production and distribution of medical marijuana for a long list of maladies, but has not legalized recreational use. Federal law still considers marijuana an illegal substance.\n\nJohnsons financial ties to the cannabis industry were outlined in a personal financial disclosure statement required of candidates for Senate.\n\nJohnson also received an advance payment last year on a book deal from Florida-based Creative Management Partners. He has investments and some debt obligations tied to hotels in Tempe, Arizona; Napa, California; Albuquerque and Santa Fe.\n\nJohnson served as CEO of Cannabis Sativa  a holding company for marijuana and hemp ventures  in between campaigns for president in 2012 and 2016.\n\nKush, a former subsidiary of Cannabis Sativa, is planning an initial public stock offering sometime this fall, Johnson said.\n\nJohnson said he and his daughter are investors in the cannabis-specific hedge fund CB1 Capital, whose chief investment officer, Todd Harrison, is a frequent guest commentator on television finance shows.\n\nThe cannabis business and politics are colliding as never before as more states move toward legalization.\n\nFormer politicians who have taken on roles in the cannabis business include former Republican U.S. House Speaker John Boehner. He and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld  Johnsons 2016 vice presidential running mate  joined the advisory board of Acreage Holdings, a multistate cannabis company, earlier this year.\n\nThe current CEO of Cannabis Sativa is former Democratic U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska.\n\nHis contacts as a prior U.S. senator is important to the company, Cannabis Sativa said of Gravel in an annual report to investors.\n\nJohnson originally made his fortune with a construction company he founded while still a student at the University of New Mexico.\n\nThe firm grew and became a major contractor for Intels computer-chip factory in Albuquerque.\n\nJohnson, now 65, has begun drawing a state pension. He has advocated for raising the Social Security retirement age to 72 as a matter of fiscal responsibility for the federal government.","title":"Libertarian Senate candidate discloses cannabis investments","date":"2018-09-15","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"After concerns arose surrounding the growing tensions between the United States and Russia regarding the possibility of an American-led military strike in Syria, many expected and feared retaliation from the Kremlin when the attack was carried out Friday night. Fortunately, however, Putins claims that he would shoot down any missiles headed towards Syria were ultimately unfounded, as the Pentagon announced the next morning that the operation to destroy three of Bashar Al-Assads weapons facilities was successful.\n\nIn the aftermath of the joint operation that was carried out by the United States, France, and Great Britain, attention started focusing on the bigger picture at hand, and what the Trump administrations policy toward Syria would become following the strike. Roughly a week before the attack, Trump had stated his intentions to bring home all remaining U.S. troops still stationed in Syria, and cease all military engagement in the country. However, new reports now claim that French President Emmanuel Macron has persuaded Trump to keep troops in Syria for the long-haul, convincing him that the U.S. military presence is necessary to ensure solution to the Syria problem.\n\nPresident Trump has yet to respond directly to the claims made by Macron that U.S. troops would remain in Syria until the end of the conflict, stirring further confusion as to the administrations policy toward Syria moving forward, and whether or not they even have a clear strategy.\n\nThe joint military strike that took place on Friday was an attempt to send a clear message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after reports emerged that he had again conducted a chemical weapons attack against his own people in the town of Douma. This was not the first time Assad had used chemical weapons, as numerous accounts of such heinous attacks have been noted since the start of the Syrian conflict.\n\nAlthough only time will tell whether Assads chemical weapons were fully destroyed, dependent on Syrias capacity to carry out the attacks in the future, it is nevertheless a clear message that the international community will no longer tolerate these apparent crimes against humanity to be carried out without confrontation.","title":"French President Releases TrumpSyria Statement That Has Americans Scratching Their Heads","date":"2018-04-16","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"While millions of Americans were spending their weekends honoring the sacrifices of military veterans, some Hollywood celebrities decided that the most important thing to was attack President Donald Trump.\n\nOn the day we honor our veterans American patriots are sickened by a President who narcissistically turns his back on the fallen and warmly embraces an Autocrat who attacks Democracy. Our long national nightmare continues, director Rob Reiner declared.\n\nBette Midler responded to President Trump saying that he would not forgive former President Obama for not funding the military enough by simply calling Trump a fucking asshole.\n\nSome celebs criticized President Trump for deciding not to visit a military cemetery due to rain.\n\nTrump you fucking pussy. Too entitled to serve our country when called, too afraid of your stupid hair getting wet to honor those braver than you. You FUCK. (Dont @ me w\/ he couldnt fly- it was a 90 minute drive). Sarah Silverman declared.","title":"Hollywood Uses Veterans Day to Attack Trump","date":"2018-11-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Kelsey Grammar has addressed rumours that Frasier will be given the reboot treatment.\n\nThe actor, who spearheaded the Cheers spinoff as Dr Frasier Crane from 1993 to 2004, appeared at the 2018 Television Critics Association (TCA) telling reporters: It's in the early stages.\n\nRumours surrounding a potential reboot of the hit sitcom has circulated for some time now, peaking with last week's Deadline report, however, Grammar has now stated he'd only return should the material warrant it.\n\n[They] just have to make sure it's going to be a great show, he said, adding: If we dont hear a pitch that really hits it out of the park, it probably wont happen.\"\n\nAt its height, the series attracted 25 million viewers in the USA and has grown a huge following across the world thanks to re-runs. Created by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee, the comedy was widely celebrated over its eleven seasons during its run winning 37 Emmys. The sitcom ended with the titular character leaving Seattle for Chicago.\n\nIn an interview with The Guardian, he confirmed he was deliberating \"what relationship could anchor the show following the death of his on-screen father, John Mahoney.\n\nCrane first appeared in beloved Boston-set sitcom Cheers which ran on NBC from 1982 to 1993. Grammar acknowledged that a reboot of that series had also crossed people's minds.\n\nGrammar - who currently stars in TV show Proven Innocent - also shared some words on the lessons he's learned throughout his life, stating: Slow down. Dont worry about it so much. Trust in God. Those are some of the chief ones.\n\nThe actor, whose sister was murdered in 1975 at the age of 18, said: I lost my faith when my sister died, and went through a bit of a difficult time after that. But always in the back of my mind, an old buddy of mine used to say, I fell to my knees, and I cried out to the God of my childhood, and there was answer.\n\nGrammar's big-screen credits include Hollywood sequels such as X-Men: The Last Stand, The Expendables 3 and Transformers: Age of Extinction.","title":"Kelsey Grammar confirms Frasier reboot is in aposearly stagesapos","date":"2018-08-04","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"A key part of Madonnas wide-ranging career has been her eye-catching, conversation-sparking music videos, which have been as impactful and memorable as the hit songs themselves. A master of reinvention, these videos serve as a reminder of her famous array of looks, always referencing the latest trends while staying true to central themes of sex, religion and female empowerment.\n\nThe first example of the kind of strong imagery Madonna could present in her videos came with Like A Virgin. The clip cuts between her dancing on a Venetian gondola in her original punk-style look  already being copied at that point by young girls across America  and a more demure scene where she dons a full wedding dress (albeit a more demure choice than the one she would sport on the album cover). Her ambition is on full display. As the camera cuts between her eyes and those of a lion, its hard to tell who looks hungrier.\n\nBest bit: 2.26  A handful of tourists watching her pass under the bridge unwittingly earn a cameo in one of pops most famous music videos.\n\nMadonna began a recurring theme of Marilyn Monroe tributes with this full-blown homage to her performance of Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. At the dawn of the 1980s, Madonnas career was born alongside the arrival of MTV, and this marked the beginning of a mutually beneficial relationship which set the bar for her contemporaries. She delivered the goods, and MTV broadcast it on heavy rotation around the world. It was on the set of this video that Madonna met Sean Penn, whom she married later that year.\n\nBest bit: 3.55  When she throws herself backwards onto the army of adoring, suited backing dancers.\n\nTackling the subject of an unplanned pregnancy, this video was heavy on storyline, and set Madonna out as an artist who could do serious as well as sexy and fun. It is a testament to her stardom at this point that the video brought much excitement simply because she had dyed her hair blonde. The look she cultivated here paid equal tribute to her Italian roots, and the girl groups of the 1950s. She showed her marketing savvy by threading it through the entire True Blue album campaign.\n\nBest bit: 1.07  When she catches sight of her love interest while wearing the Italians Do It Better t-shirt.\n\nMost people remember this controversial video for Madonnas steamy kiss with a black Jesus  but he was in fact supposed to be Martin de Porres, the patron saint of mixed-race people. This was fitting as race was a major theme explored in the video alongside sex and religion, all climaxing in a blistering scene where she dances in a field of burning crosses. The video angered the Vatican, and more importantly Pepsi, who immediately pulled a major $5 million ad campaign with Madonna which was to feature the song. Her response? I do what I want.\n\nBest Bit: 2.15  Surely the first and last appearance of stigmata in a pop video?\n\nAt the time of release, this was the most expensive music video ever made, with its $5 million budget being spent on an extensive homage to the influential 1927 silent film Metropolis. In another theme she has explored widely through her career, Madonna presents herself simultaneously as feminine and masculine, appearing as a sex symbol to factory workers before donning a mans suit and appearing to exert power over them. Her then-boyfriend Warren Beatty turned down the offer to play her love interest in the video.\n\nBest bit: 1.58  A brilliant solo dance routine with just a hint of Michael Jackson.\n\nArguably her most iconic moment, Madonna took the Vogue dance that emerged in the African-American LGBT community in 1980s New York, packaged it up, and made it a worldwide phenomenon in the summer of 1990. From the famous dance routine to the appearance of that cone bra, it is laden with memorable moments. Shot in black and white by acclaimed Fight Club director David Fincher, it pays homage to the classic era of Hollywood but in turn its own imagery is now firmly embedded in pop culture history.\n\nBest Bit: 0.34  That very first Strike a pose will never get old.\n\nIf Marilyn Monroe had ever starred in some French noir porn, it might have looked something like this. Madonna sparked perhaps her biggest controversy with this steamy video in which she visits a hotel corridor filled with half-naked women, cross-dressers, BDSM participants and a gimp, before quite naturally getting stuck in for a bit of fun herself. Outright banned by her friends at MTV, Madonna responded by releasing it on VHS as the first ever video single, turning it into a major commercial success. Still NSFW to this day.\n\nBest bit: 4.43  She runs off down the hallway, giggling at what shes just been up to  but its almost anticipating the scandal of the video itself too.\n\nOne of her most beautifully shot videos, Madonna appears as the neglected lover of a matador, with traditional themes of religion and female sexuality being explored. Cinematic bullfighting scenes and stunning close-ups complement the orchestrated track by Babyface. At this time, Madonna was lobbying for the title role in Evita and wanted a Spanish themed, period style video that would portray her in the correct fashion. She sent a copy of the video to director Alan Parker as part of her campaign to win the role  and it worked.\n\nBest bit: 1.55  When the door to the arena opens up revealing Madonna on one side and the gathered crowd on the other.\n\nA major comeback moment for Madonna, Ray of Light presented the new mum with a Mother Earth look, as she approached her 40th birthday. The album presented a mature style, with a contemporary 90s sound that reaffirmed her relevance, and the video once again got her on heavy TV rotation. Shot in Los Angeles, New York, London, Las Vegas and Stockholm by Swedish director Jonas Akerlund, it was a major technical feat. The time lapse effect was the result of weeks of meticulous filming, taking half an hour to get just five seconds of footage.\n\nBest bit: 3.16  When the breakdown ends and she throws her head at the camera: And I feel!\n\nArguably the last Madonna video that had everyone talking, this enjoyed its own prime-time premiere slot on Channel 4. Serving up a glorious mixture of Saturday Night Fever imagery with contemporary street dancing and freerunning, the video was as instantly attention-grabbing as the ABBA sample that pulsed through the song. Filmed just two months after she broke three ribs and a collarbone in a horse riding accident, theres no sign of the pain as she demonstrates her famous flexibility. And who could forget that pink leotard?\n\nBest Bit: 1.50  Her entire solo routine in the ballet studio is brilliant but this impressive high kick is a highlight.\n\nTo enjoy more Madonna tracks, listen to our Spotify playlist of her 60 greatest songs.","title":"Madonna at 60 The ten best music videos from the Queen of Pop","date":"2018-08-12","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Here's our ad man Simon English on the story:\n\nDON Draper is not dead  just  limiting himself to one Martini at lunchtime, says M&C Saatchi chief executive David Kershaw, who adds the Mad Men are having to reinvent themselves to stay alive.\n\nKershaws famed ad agency made profits for the year of nearly 17 million, a jump of 26%. Kershaw was keen to contrast that with large groups trying to reconfigure themselves  a clear reference to giant rival WPP, where the changing face of marketing and the fallout with Sir Martin Sorrell are hitting returns.\n\nHe said M&C isnt lost trying to deal with hundreds of firms we have bought. An organic model with very hungry entrepreneurs is better than people who are just waiting for an earn-out, he said. In the UK, profits are up 10%. The dividend is raised 15% to 2.45p.\n\nKershaw says M&C will continue to start new businesses.\n\nHe said the face of advertising has changed radically. Clients want a much more integrated communications programme, he said.\n\nThat pitch you used to do where youd say Here is your 60-second TV commercial, goodnight is over. Digital blurs everything.","title":"Small-cap spotlight Tasty shares tank as it looks to close restaurants","date":"2018-09-21","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"On Monday evening, Project Veritas released an undercover video of endangered Missouri Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill admitting to being deceptive about her stance on firearms and immigration policies.\n\nMcCaskill is a red-state Democrat Senator so she has to appear pro 2nd Amendment to her constituents because Missourians love their guns.\n\nSenator McCaskills staffers admitted she is pro-DACA, pro-DREAMERS and against the border wall even though she runs ads to the contrary claiming she is strong on border security.\n\n The Project Veritas Video has been viewed over 267,000 times so far!\n\n\n\nOn Tuesday morning Claire McCaskill responded to the stunning revelations.\n\nMcCaskill went on Ozarks First to try to dig herself out of this deep hole.\n\nClaire lied some more, blamed Josh Hawley for the undercover video.\n\nSenator McCaskill: Ive been very up front about all my positions. I remember this person was trying to get me to say something different than what my positions are... It is startling that Josh Hawley would be part of fraudulently embedding something in my campaign.","title":"WOW Claire McCaskill Speaks Out After Project Veritas Reveals Shes a Complete Fraud Lies and Bla","date":"2018-10-17","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Eden Hazard says he would be happy to finish his career at Chelsea.\n\nThe 27-year-old Belgium playmaker has spoken of his daily quandary over his future, whether to extend his Chelsea contract which expires in June 2020, or seek a \"dream\" move to Real Madrid.\n\nAnd his sparkling form helping Belgium finish third at the World Cup and in starting the Premier League season with seven goals in eight starts and two substitute appearances has highlighted the issue of his future.\n\n\"I can finish with Chelsea,\" Hazard told Sky Sports ahead of the weekend meeting with Manchester United. \"No problem at all. I am very happy with this club, with the team, my family is happy here.\n\n\"So If I don't go to Spain, it is not a problem. I love the fans - I think the fans love me.\n\n\"What happens in the future, I will be happy, so that's it.\"\n\nHazard joined Chelsea from Lille in June 2012 and signed his current contract in February 2015.\n\nHe has appeared to rule out a January switch to Madrid in one of many public pronouncements on the situation in the October international break, comments which were perhaps designed to gauge whether Real's reported interest is genuine.\n\nIf no contract extension is agreed by the end of this season, Chelsea could risk Hazard leaving on a free transfer the following summer so could look to cash in on him.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"Chelsea transfer news Eden Hazard would be happy to miss out on Real Madrid move","date":"2018-10-19","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The economy is the second most important issue for registered voters as the midterm election nears, a new Gallup Poll says.\n\nAnd there was very good economic news on Friday, as the Labor Departments Bureau of Labor Statistics rolled out the October employment report  the final one before next weeks midterm election.\n\nThe number of employed Americans has never been higher. The 156,562,000 Americans employed in October is the twefth record set under President Donald Trump.\n\nThe unemployment rate held at 3.7 percent, the same as last month and the lowest its been in decades  since the end of 1969. And the Hispanic unemployment rate, 4.4 percent,  has never been lower.\n\nThe unemployment rate for African-Americans, 6.2 percent, remained near the all-time low of 5.9 percent set in May.","title":"156562000 Record Employment for 12th Time Under Trump","date":"2018-11-02","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"KUBINKA \/Moscow Region\/, August 11. \/TASS\/. Renowned Serbian director and\nmusician Emir Kusturica has dedicated a song to Russian Defense Minister\nSergei Shoigu as a person who initiated the International Army Games. He\nperformed it at the closing ceremony of the competitions, a TASS correspondent\nreported.\n\n\"I saw people shooting many times in my life and saw people being killed.\nThanks to my friend Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu, an Olympiad appeared where\npeople shoot and no one is killed. The song called Comandante is dedicated to\nmy friend Sergei Shoigu,\" Kusturica said in Russian. After that, he performed\nthe composition accompanied by his band The No Smoking Orchestra.\n\nThe official closing ceremony of the Games began in Patriot Park outside\nMoscow. The competitions kicked off on July 28. A total of 189 teams from 32\ncountries, including Serbian military servicemen, took part in 28 events.\n\nIn other media","title":"Prominent Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica dedicates song to Sergei Shoigu","date":"2018-08-11","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Feminist protesters have begun vandalising the new open-air street urinals in Paris, labelling them sexist and discriminatory.\n\nSeveral of the eco-friendly urinals have been placed in public spots in recent months as an experiment to counter Pariss problem of urine-soaked pavements.\n\nBut protesters in recent days targeted two on the Ile Saint-Louis and near Gare de Lyon station  plastering them with stained sanitary towels and tampons, then blocking them with concrete.\n\nNotes left behind attacked Pariss authorities for encouraging men to unzip and relieve themselves without cover in open public spaces  even though public breastfeeding still elicits scorn in the city.\n\nPolice are investigating the vandalism. No group has claimed responsibility, but the feminist protest group Femen denied involvement.\n\nEquality campaigners and womens groups, along with local residents and parents, have complained that the open-air urinals are sexist and discriminatory.\n\nWithout stalls or cover, the five experimental sites carry prominent signs showing a man proudly relieving himself in public. But no extra facilities are provided for women.\n\nFeminists warned that authorities were sending the message that men owned the streets and could freely expose themselves in public  something at odds with debate in the wake of the #MeToo anti-harassment movement over how public spaces should allow women the right to feel at ease in the street.\n\nGwendoline Coipeault of the feminist organisation Femmes Solidaires said: It is not just men who occupy the public space, but also women and children, who might not want to see men publicly urinate.\n\nThese urinals are designed to comfort men and reinforce the idea that women arent welcome in the public space. It is discrimination and reinforces the stereotypical, sexist idea that men cant control themselves in any way, including their bladders.\n\nShe added: I dont know a single woman who regularly goes to Paris who hasnt witnessed a man urinating in public  openly on streets, in the metro  which reinforces a feeling of insecurity.\n\nMs Coipeault said there were already hundreds of covered public toilets in Paris and men should instead be encouraged to use them, as women do, rather than being invited to unzip outside.\n\nChris Blache, a feminist and urban anthropologist, wasnt surprised by protests against the urinals. Frankly, these urinals are a provocation to women, she said. Its not about prudishness, its about gender equality in the public space.\n\nMs Blache, who has advised the Paris authorities on gender equality in town planning, said she was not attacking the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, but rather the institutional sexism of technical teams who had not thought through the message they were sending.\n\nIn recent days, some male commentators suggested women should simply use the open-air urinals standing up with the aid of a funnel. Blache dismissed this. If a woman did that, it would be seen as a provocation and certainly not as the simple need to publicly relieve yourself after drinking too much beer, as it is seen for men.\n\nPolice handed out 5,000 fines to people caught urinating against walls or on pavements in Paris in the first half of 2018  almost all of them to men. But with 450 self-cleaning public toilets across the city, many open 24 hours a day, feminists are arguing that the extra public facilities specifically for men are sexist and unnecessary.  Guardian","title":"Cest la pee Protesters sabotage open-air urinals in Paris","date":"2018-08-29","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"A Chicago man has been arrested in Wisconsin for stealing a Crucifix from a church and using it to attack the digital sign outside the local Fox 11 studios.\n\n\n\nBrendan McSweeney, 29, allegedly stole the Crucifix from the Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Wausau, Wisconsin, around 8:45 a.m. on Friday. He had entered the church with his face covered by a scarf before sitting down to play piano.\n\nWhen asked to leave, McSweeney claimed he was Jesus Christ and that he was going to take care of this.\n\nI had this horrible feeling that next he might be pulling a gun or something like that, a Nativity parishioner who did not want to be identified told Fox 11. You see so many things on television and it was pretty terrifying.\n\nUpon leaving the church, the man walked over to the Fox 11 station where he began to attack the sign.\n\nMcSweeney bashed the sign until being chased off by a Fox 11 employee.\n\nHours later, around 6:00 p.m., McSweeney went to a pizza restaurant and began eating another customers food. After getting into a scuffle with employees and being removed from the establishment, the unhinged man began to throw objects at their windows.\n\nWhen police arrived at the scene, the man began aggressively screaming at them demanding to know if they believe in Jesus Christ. Eventually, he was tasered and taken into custody  but it was not until Monday that he was connected to the crimes at the church and the news station.\n\nMcSweeneys uncle told the police that his nephew has a mental illness and has been off his medication.\n\nIn Marathon County where the pizza place is, McSweeney is charged with two counts of disorderly conduct, resisting or obstructing an officer and criminal damage to property.\n\nIn Brown County where the church and Fox 11 studios are, he has been charged with felony counts of theft, criminal damage to personal property and criminal damage to property; and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.","title":"VIDEO Man Steals Crucifix From Church Uses it to Attack Fox News Sign","date":"2018-02-13","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The majority of Canadians want the federal government to do more to protect Canadas dairy industry in the ongoing renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a new poll has found, with many of the respondents warning concessions will likely come with a political price.\n\nPolling firm Iposos said Wednesday 75 per cent of the polls respondents believe the Canadian dairy sector should be defended and that the federal government should make more effort to do so at the NAFTA negotiating table. The poll was conducted at the request of Dairy Farmers of Canada.\n\nFailing to defend the sector, the poll found, could come with a political cost. Six out of ten respondents said that the extent to which the federal government will protect the interests of Canadas dairy industry will have an impact on their vote in the upcoming election.\n\nTwenty-five per cent of respondents stated that it will affect their vote a lot.\n\nThe Liberal Party of Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada and the NDP all support this countrys supply management system  that regulates the production of dairy, eggs, and poultry  in their respective party platforms.\n\nThe polls findings come as Canada, Mexico and the United States continues to renegotiate the decades-old NAFTA trade agreement. The United States has demanded Canada eliminate its entire supply management system within a decade and reform its dairy classification system  how milk and milk products are priced   so that it is more in line with the American system.\n\nU.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized Canada unfair dairy practices despite the fact the United States currently has a large dairy surplus with its northern neighbour.\n\nCanadian officials have rejected that demand out right. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland have said repeatedly Canada will defend its supply management system at the negotiating table.\n\nOn Thursday, Ipsos found nine out of ten Canadians surveyed believed U.S dairy products should be subject to the same standards as Canadian products and that this should be part of the terms of the new NAFTA agreement.\n\nMinisters from all three NAFTA countries are set to meet in Washington, D.C. on Monday for another round of negotiations. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has said he wants the talks to wrap up by the end of the month.\n\nCanadian officials have said they will only sign an agreement that is in the best interest of Canada.\n\nThe online poll of 1,000 adult Canadians was conducted April 26 and 27. It has a margin of error for a comparable sample of 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.","title":"Do more to defend dairy farmers at NAFTA table poll","date":"2018-05-03","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"SINGAPORE, November 15. \/TASS\/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken\nbriefly with US Vice President Mike Pence and White House National Security\nAdviser John Bolton before the beginning of the plenary session of the East\nAsia Summit in Singapore.\n\nBefore taking part in the joint photo op session, Putin talked to Pence, who\nleads the US delegation, for a couple of minutes \"on the go\" in the presence\nof an interpreter. Bolton took part in the conversation as well.\n\nPrior to that, Putin also spoke briefly with Indian Prime Minister Narendra\nModi. The meeting was attended by Russias top diplomat Sergey Lavrov.\n\nThe East Asia Summit is an authoritative platform for cooperation between\ncountries in the Asia Pacific on a wide range of political and economic\nissues. Traditional agenda includes ensuring peace and stability in the Asia-\nPacific region, improving regional security architecture, cooperation in the\nspheres of energy, ecology, healthcare, education, financial issues, food\nsecurity and others.\n\nThis annual international forum has been held since 2005 in connection with\nsummits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The forum\nbrings together 18 countries - ASEAN member countries (Brunei, Vietnam,\nIndonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and the\nPhilippines) and dialogue partners (Russia, US, Japan, South Korea, India,\nChina, Australia, New Zealand).\n\nThis year, Russia is represented at the event at the top level for the first\ntime. In 2005, Putin attended the first East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur,\nMalaysia, as a guest of honor.","title":"Putin talks to Pence Bolton before East Asia Summit","date":"2018-11-15","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Up to 11 per cent of serving gardai may meet the clinical criteria for a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, while one quarter are showing symptoms of trauma at levels that are a cause of concern.\n\nThat is according to a study from Trinity College Dublin psychologists Dr Sean OMeara and Dr Tim Trimble, which will be presented at the Psychological Society of Ireland annual conference in Wexford on Thursday.\n\nThe study, The Impact of Traumatic Experience in Operational Gardai, surveyed 200 active members of An Garda Siochana who identified the top five traumatic stressors in their lives.\n\nThese included being called to the scene of a sudden violent or accidental death, witnessing or being the victim of a serious physical assault and being called out to, or being involved in, a transportation incident.\n\nDr OMeara said the experience of stress caused the release of hormones in the body that contain adrenaline, which have longer-term consequences for biological as well as mental health. Symptoms, which are common to other chronic stress difficulties, include stomach ulcers, heart disease, irritability, lack of sleep and even flashbacks.\n\nDr OMeara said the research under the supervision of junior dean Mr Trimble found 25 per cent of participants had at least clinically significant levels of distress. This was made up of 11 per cent experiencing clinically significant symptoms levels, 5.5 per cent of responses suggesting probable PTSD, and 8.5 per cent showing a reaction to trauma sufficient to impact on immune system functioning. Dr OMeara said the impact on the immune system could lead to greater susceptibility to infections such as stomach ulcers.\n\nThose with PTSD would typically display avoidance, a need to avoid certain situations which in extreme cases could be to the point of being unable to get out of bed. They might also suffer intrusions where memories of the trauma come unbidden to mind. Those affected may also experience hyperarousal in which they are constantly on edge in the expectation of danger. They may also experience an exaggerated startle reflex in situations where there is a similarity to the traumatic event.\n\nThe research also showed officers repeatedly called out to traumatic events do not get more used to it, but in fact a heightened frequency of high-risk callouts doubles the risk of a traumatisation.\n\nA highly significant relationship was found between frequency of exposure and hyperarousal and intrusion symptoms.\n\nAdditional years of service resulted in modest increases in the odds of symptom exacerbation where moderate traumatisation was present, said Dr OMeara. This study demonstrates that levels of traumatisation in An Garda Siochana are comparable to rates found in other jurisdictions and are a cause for concern. At a time of cultural change in this organisation, officer welfare is critical, he said.","title":"Gardai place stress of life-threatening illness below job stress","date":"2018-11-05","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"They are the advance line of the migrant caravan that Donald Trump has said is attempting an invasion of the US.\n\nBut, as a 400-strong group of asylum-seeking Central Americans arrived in the Mexican border town of Tijuana on Saturday, they appeared more concerned with love than war.\n\nThe splinter caravan  which is made up of dozens of LGBTQ+ people  was in celebratory mood as two of its members, 23-year-old Erick Dubon and Pedro Nehemias, 22, got married.\n\nThe couple  originally from Honduras where same-sex unions are banned  tied the knot ahead of applying for asylum in the US.\n\nAnd the moment they said I do  and kissed  went viral after journalist Sarah Kinosian, who has travelled with the caravan, posted it online.\n\n\"They totally look like they're about to invade,\" noted one Twitter wit in response.\n\nThe wedding is the latest news from the 5,000-strong caravan which has made its way north across Central America. The group has already trekked hundreds of miles in a bid to escape poverty, violence and discrimination in their home countries and start new lives in the US.\n\nThe 400-strong advance group  which is said to include seven LGBTQ+ couples  broke off from the main body upon reaching Mexico City to complete the journey by bus.\n\nWe were discriminated against, even in the caravan, Erick told the Washington Post. People wouldnt let us into trucks, they made us get in the back of the line for showers, they would call us ugly names.\n\nBut if the pairs wedding marked a high point, the hardest part of their journey may still be ahead. US border authorities have said they are now hardening the crossing into San Diego.\n\nThe country's Customs and Border Protection said in a statement it will be closing four lanes of the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa border crossings and that US troops have been installing concertina wire, barricades and fencing along the stretch.\n\nIt added that asylum seekers will have to stay in Mexico while their application is processed.","title":"Gay couple from migrant caravan marry as they arrive in Mexico-US border town","date":"2018-11-18","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, began his day not with updates on hurricane coverage or acting as a calm voice of reason for panicked Americans terrified they may face losing their homes, businesses, and even their lives, but by denying that 3,000 American lives were lost in Puerto Rico since those deaths make him look bad.\n\nDemocratic nominee for the House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, took that very personally, and she had a right to do so.\n\nTrumps assertions that only 6-18 people had died when he was there after the storm had already ended, so there were no other deaths afterward, is just more proof that he doesnt comprehend more complex arguments. If a person died during a hurricane but roads to get to them and discover their bodies were impassable a few days after Trumps visits, as the vast majority of roads were for many months in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, that death is the result of a hurricane but has not yet been counted when Trump was there.\n\nIf a person died in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria of a disease for which they were unable to receive medications to treat it, that death may be counted as a result of the hurricane. If a person died of a heart attack because EMTs were unable to reach them in time due to impassable roads or an influx of emergency calls to respond to, that person probably wont be counted as the result of the hurricane, even though it clearly was.\n\nJust a warning to everyone on the East Coast: if you or your family member dies during Hurricane Florence and that death makes the president look bad, hell deny it ever happened.\n\nTwitter responded with outrage and condolences. See some of their comments below:","title":"Ocasio-Cortez Reacts To Trump Puerto Rico Tweet After Grandfather Died In Storms Wake","date":"2018-09-13","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"A father shot and killed a masked gunman who opened fire inside a McDonalds in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday night.\n\nA store employee had opened the door for the father and his two sons to leave when a man wearing a mask walked in and began shooting, according to WBRC-TV. At that point, the father turned around and began firing at the shooter with his pistol.\n\nBoth men were shot, the gunman later dying from his wounds and the father suffering non-life threatening injuries. One of his sons was also hit, but he is also not facing life-threatening injuries.","title":"Armed Father Kills Masked Shooter Who Opened Fire At Alabama McDonalds","date":"2018-10-29","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"MOSCOW, November 30. \/TASS\/. Moscow is concerned that the civil conflict may\nengulf the whole of Ukraine following the declaration of martial law, Russian\nForeign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Friday.\n\n\"The Ukrainian military has been granted exclusive powers, including the\nextrajudicial use of force, which poses a serious danger, as the civil\nconflict may engulf the entire country,\" she said, commenting on the\ndeclaration of martial law in some of Ukraines regions.\n\nAccording to the Russian diplomat, the law, which declared martial law citing\nthe need to deter \"Russias aggression,\" stipulates restrictions on basic\nhuman rights and freedoms, including freedoms of speech, assembly and\nmovement. \"The Kiev authorities can now seize anything they want from the\ncountrys people, from private property to identification documents,\"\nZakharova pointed out.\n\nOn November 26, Ukraines Verkhovna Rada (parliament) approved President Pyotr\nPoroshenkos decree declaring a 30-say martial law in the Vinnitsa, Lugansk,\nNikolayevsk, Odessa, Sumy, Kharkov, Chernigov, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson\nregions, as well as in Ukraines territorial waters in the Sea of Azov,\nstarting from November 28.\n\nA Sunday incident in the Kerch Strait was used as an excuse for the move. On\nNovember 25, three Ukrainian navy ships illegally crossed Russias border and\ntried to carry out some illegal actions in Russian territorial waters on\nSunday night. They ignored legitimate demands to stop issued by vessels\nbelonging to the FSB Border Service and the Black Sea Fleet and continued\nmaneuvering dangerously. In order to stop the Ukrainian ships, weapons had to\nbe used. The three vessels were detained in Russian territorial waters. Three\nUkrainian military servicemen suffered light wounds and were provided with\nmedical assistance.\n\nA criminal investigation has been opened into the border incident. The 24\nUkrainian crew members have been arrested for two months for violating the\nRussian state border. If found guilty, they may face up to six years in\nprison.","title":"Moscow cautions Kievs martial law move may stoke conflict engulfing all of Ukraine","date":"2018-11-30","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"The UK woke to thundery downpours but the rain cleared in London for this years Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph.\n\nThe Queen and other members of the royal family attended the Armistice centenary service in Whitehall but the downpours that battered the capital on Saturday evening and Sunday morning cleared in time.\n\nThe Met Office has said that Sunday should start bright and breezy with some sunny spells later in the afternoon in the capital. Temperatures in the capital should reach around 14C with a slight chance of rain in the evening.\n\nBut in other parts of the UK, Remembrance Sunday could be a washout.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed that there will be area of showers moving northeastwards across much of Wales, England and Scotland with another area of showers affecting Northern Ireland later on in the day.\n\nA yellow weather warning is still in place for parts of Wales with the Met Office warning that flooding is likely with delays to train and bus services likely.\n\nEvents are taking place across the country to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice.\n\nPrince Charles laid a wreath on behalf of his mother the Queen, while she watched the service from the balcony of the nearby Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\n\nBeaches across the UK are taking part in filmmaker Danny Boyles Pages of the Sea in which a portrait of an individual from World War One will emerge from the sand. The tide will then wash away the images over time.\n\nHeading into the week, the weather in London will improve on Monday with temperatures reaching a maximum of 15C.\n\nHowever the south west of England will face heavy showers with a risk of thunder.","title":"UK weather forecast Rain clears for Remembrance Sunday services in London but parts of UK face wash","date":"2018-11-11","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) A Republican running for office in Californias 37th congressional district is sounding the alarm about some shocking information he recently uncovered concerning the gross misuse of taxpayer dollars by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nRon Bassilian, an information technology (IT) guru who specializes in Microsofts Exchange enterprise email solution software, has offered up solid proof that the CDC knowingly diverted at least $3 million in taxpayer funding to leftist groups that have nothing to do with science.\n\nBack in 2014, Representative Karen Bass, a Democratic congresswoman from California, was seen handing over a giant $3 million check to a local group known as the South Los Angeles Healthcare Organizing Project that claims to advocate for improving the health of the poor. And emblazoned on the check as the payer was none other than the CDC.\n\nBut what, exactly, is the South Los Angeles Healthcare Organizing Project, and is it really centered around improving public health? According to Bassilian, its actually a political advocacy group that functions as just another of many thinly-veiled Democratic campaign-pushing liberal causes  almost none of which have to do with public health.\n\nAlso known as the Community Coalition, this recipient of that infamous $3 million check from the CDC is not only not focused on improving the health of poor people as its primary agenda, but is actually pushing completely unrelated causes like gun control and racial divide throughout the United States.\n\nGet more news like this without being censored: Get the Natural News app for your mobile devices. Enjoy uncensored news, lab test results, videos, podcasts and more. Bypass all the unfair censorship by Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Get your daily news and videos directly from the source! Download here.\n\nAs pointed out by Bassilian, the Community Coalition used some of the money it received from the CDC to send children to speak at March For Our Lives events, including the widely publicized rally that took place in Washington, D.C., back in March.\n\nThe Community Coalition also funds all sorts of other Democratic initiatives, including everything from the George Soros-backed Black Lives Matter movement to anti-gentrification initiatives  all of which are are listed on the groups CoCo In the News webpage.\n\nCan someone please explain to me what any of these issues have to do with tackling health? asks Bassilian, noting that it was actually a friend of his who started Community Coalition, much to his surprise.\n\nShouldnt they be dealing with something like the homeless epidemic if public disease control was something they were concerned about? You know, that epidemic thats spreading because of the very hamstrung police this Community Coalition helped create?\n\nIts just more crony politics by the Democratic Party, which for years has been hijacking various government agencies like the CDC  which has an extensive track record of corruption, by the way  and using them to fund its own agenda. This is how the Democrats stay in power in places like California, after all, where fairness and honesty is now a thing of the past.\n\nEven in his own current race for a congressional seat in the Golden States 37th district, Bassilian sees that his Democratic opponent is receiving millions in diverted cash in order to defeat him. Its the continued curse of Obama-era politics, he says, and represents part of the swamp that President Donald Trump campaigned on defeating.\n\nThe Democratic Party isnt winning in California because their ideas are better, or theyre more compassionate than conservatives. Its because they monopolized the racket, says Bassilian.\n\nYour tax money is only being used in a neverending [sic] racket to fund the rent-seeking, ever-growing state which just leeches off us. Until we break the political monopoly in this state, the swamp will snare us all like so many fossils in the La Brea Tarpits.\n\nRead Corruption.news for more coverage of the deep corruption of government agencies.","title":"BOMBSHELL Corrupt CDC diverted 3 million in taxpayer money to radical left-wing causes having NOTH","date":"2018-05-13","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The Democrat media complex today blew a gasket today after President Trump praised Vladimir Putin at their Helsinki press conference.\n\nThe left lost their mind after the press conference.\n\n.@realdonaldtrump lavished Putin with praise, proudly shook his hand, & said how great it is to be with him.\n\nHe blamed America for the poor relations we have with a country that hacked our democracy.\n\nThen he congratulated Putin on the World Cup.","title":"FLASHBACK 2012 Putin Praises Obama Hopes He Beats Romney- Would Be Easier to Work With Obama","date":"2018-07-17","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"American politicians and technocrats are selling the privacy of the people for a pretty penny, while establishing a system of total control.","title":"Watch Live United Surveillance Of America Big Brother Is Watching","date":"2018-10-09","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"As the U.S. Supreme Court still cant figure out what to do about extreme partisan gerrymandering, the justices failure to act has already had a deep impact on laws and policies across America.\n\nOn Monday, the court passed on deciding the merits of a Wisconsin case that could have set limits on gerrymandering for political gain, instead sending the dispute back to a lower court on procedural grounds. The justices decision means that the GOP-friendly map for the Wisconsin state assembly will remain in place for now.\n\nThats frustrating for William Whitford, a Democrat and the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit. The Supreme Court may yet one day strike down the Wisconsin map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, but more delay is essentially a victory for Wisconsin Republicans, helping them maintain their control of the state assembly. GOP lawmakers, who have been elected under the map since 2012, get even more time to pass laws that may not reflect the real wishes of state voters.\n\nThis case was filed in 2015. [At the time, wed] had two elections under what I think is a clearly unconstitutional apportionment already that I think gives the Democrats no chance of getting a majority, Whitford told reporters after the Supreme Courts ruling on Monday. He said the maps had many negative consequences in Wisconsin in terms of policy.\n\nA political party gains considerable advantage when it gerrymanders district boundaries. To make a strong enough case that the gerrymandered map has entrenched one party in power, challengers often wait for the results from a few election cycles. Even when someone sues to overturn the map, lawmakers elected under it keep their seats.\n\nThere is little to no moral hazard when it comes to gerrymandering, McDonald said. A gerrymandering party is likely to run one or more elections under an unconstitutional map, the voters in the state will foot the legal bill, and rarely, if ever, are candidates held accountable at the ballot box.\n\nAt the Supreme Court, the fate of partisan gerrymandering likely depends on Justice Anthony Kennedy. In a 2004 case, the justices split on whether there was a workable standard to determine when partisan gerrymandering becomes unconstitutional. Kennedy wrote that such a judicial standard may exist, but that he hadnt seen it yet. Because of that opinion, he remains the crucial swing vote in any decision on partisan gerrymandering.\n\nBut while Kennedy has been pondering, Republicans in 2010 targeted legislative races in states where they saw an opportunity to manipulate the post-census redistricting process. With control of legislatures in Wisconsin and several other states, they were able to gerrymander new congressional and state district boundaries to their advantage, giving them the power to pass laws and shape policy over the next decade.\n\nIn an email to HuffPost, Whitford pointed to several measures passed since 2012 by Wisconsin lawmakers who were elected under those arguably unconstitutional maps. The measures include a 2015 right-to-work law and cuts to public education. The outcome might have been different, Whitford suggested, if state assembly districts had been drawn more fairly and legislators were under more pressure to compromise across the aisle.\n\nPlaintiffs in North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan and Maryland are also seeking to strike down congressional districts, arguing that theyre the product of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. But even as those cases have moved through the courts, legislators from those states have voted on health care, immigration, taxes and other important issues. Should the Supreme Court eventually restrict partisan gerrymandering, it still cant undo the policies those lawmakers enacted in the meantime.\n\nJustin Levitt, a former top Justice Department official and current professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said Whitfords complaints help show why electoral disputes are different. In most other civil cases, he said, its possible either to block harm before it happens or to make the plaintiffs whole after the fact.\n\nPeople elected under unfair rules and by unfair systems are sitting and making policy in the meantime. Policy doesnt stop, Levitt said. There is no way to make a plaintiff whole after an unconstitutional election happens. And all of the policy that results, sticks.\n\nIf the Supreme Court does someday set limits on partisan gerrymandering, the details of the new standard will affect how quickly challengers can move to strike down a map. Kathay Feng, national redistricting director at Common Cause, said the court could require challengers to wait a few elections to show that one party had obtained a durable advantage. Alternatively, the court could require challengers to show only that the party in power intentionally drew a map to put the other party at a disadvantage. A more aggressive standard like that, Feng said, would allow lawsuits to move forward sooner.\n\nSome groups are already taking action to head off lengthy court battles over the next round of redistricting after the 2020 census. In Ohio, advocates got a measure on this years ballot designed to give both parties a voice in drawing the states congressional map. Citizen-led initiatives to create independent redistricting commissions will be on the ballot in other states this fall.","title":"Lets Call The Supreme Courts Gerrymander Inaction What It Really Is A GOP Win","date":"2018-06-19","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Police have begun digging at the former home of a woman in Australia whose disappearance 36 years ago has become the subject of a highly popular podcast.\n\nLynette Dawson, a mother of two, vanished without trace from her Sydney home in January 1982. Her husband, Christopher Dawson, reported her missing the following month, insisting she had left the family.\n\nTwo coroners inquests found she was killed by a known person, though a body was never recovered. Mr Dawson has denied killing his wife.\n\nDetectives from the unsolved homicide unit launched a reinvestigation into Ms Dawsons disappearance in 2015, but the cold case garnered international attention with the launch of a podcast earlier this year by The Australian newspaper, titled The Teachers Pet.\n\nOn Wednesday, police said they had begun a five-day forensic search of the Dawsons former home in Bayview, a suburb of Sydney.\n\nThis is all about getting justice for Lyn, said Superintendent Scott Cook from New South Wales Police. He added they would pursue charges against Mr Dawson regardless of what was found during the search.\n\nSupt Cook said officers would hand dig at the grounds of the property until we hit rock, according to Australian Associated Press.\n\nPreviously, when we conducted examinations here, there was a number of anomalies in the ground, he said. They were inspected previously. Well revisit them.\n\nFour areas around the home and in the backyard are being examined with technology that was not previously available.\n\nMs Dawson was last heard from on 8 January 1982, when she spoke to her mother by phone while at home with her husband.\n\nThey made plans to have lunch together the following day, but Ms Dawson never showed up. Mr Dawson reported her missing more than a month later on 18 February.\n\nA 2003 inquest found Mr Dawson, a former professional rugby player, had been involved in sexual relationships with teenage students.\n\nOne 16-year-old girl moved in with him days after his wifes disappearance.","title":"Lyn Dawson Police begin digging at former home of mother-of-two after Teacheraposs Pet podcast hi","date":"2018-09-12","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"David Strettle will make his 'second debut' for Saracens in their season-opener against Newcastle on Sunday.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who last played for Sarries in the 2014\/15 Premiership Final win before moving to Clermont in France, is named on the right wing ahead of Alex Lewington.\n\nThe side contains five changes from Mays Premiership Final, with Ben Spencer beating the vastly experienced Richard Wigglesworth to a place at scrum-half.\n\nWill Skelton edges out Nick Isiekwe for a place alongside Maro Itoje in the the second row, where George Kruis was not deemed match ready. The same goes for Billy Vunipola, while Schalk Burger will play in the Premiership Shield on Monday evening.\n\nPaul Gustard has continued calling his replacements game-changers for his first Premiership match in charge of Harlequins.\n\nChris Robshaw captains Quins, while Marcus Smith starts at No10. Kyle Sinckler also sits it out, but there are two eye-catching debutants in the backline: at inside centre Ben Tapuai and on the right wing Nathan Earle.","title":"Saracens vs Harlequins team news David Strettle ready for second Sarries stint","date":"2018-08-31","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"When it comes to the midterms, Florida is a state the Republicans really need to hold. Luckily, Republican incumbent Carlos Cubelo is holding his own against Democrat challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.\n\nAn independent poll shows Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo with a 1 point lead over Democratic challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powelland a contingent of undecided voters large enough to decide the election.\n\nA poll conducted by Mason Dixon Strategies and Telemundo 51 from October 3 to October 9 with 625 registered voters who said they were likely to vote showed a race that is essentially a toss-up for Curbelos Miami to Key West congressional seat that President Donald Trump lost more than 16 percentage points two years ago. Curbelo captures 46 percent support while Mucarsel-Powell takes 45 percent. Nine percent of voters are undecided as both campaigns spend millions on TV advertising.\n\nCurbelo once had a lead in the race but Mucarsel-Powell has closed the gap in recent weeks through increased TV spending.","title":"Midterm 2018 FLORIDA House Carlos Cubelo R Leads Debbie Mucarsel-Powell D","date":"2018-10-29","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"More than 100 female politicians from around the world will gather in the House of Commons chamber on Thursday for a conference to celebrate the centenary of womens suffrage in the UK.\n\nFemale parliamentarians will come together to acknowledge the historical landmark in a bid to address some of the issues facing women around the globe.\n\nThe fundamental aim of the event, according to the minister for women and equalities, Penny Mordaunt, who will make a speech on the day, is to make womens empowerment a global priority.\n\nThe event, named the International Women MPs of the World, will gather prolific politicians from across the globe, including Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the first female speaker of the Bangladeshi parliament and Ya Kumba Jaiteh, who is a leader of the Gambias female lawyers association.\n\nBritish MPs expected to be in attendance include the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, the leader of the Commons, Andrea Leadsom and Dawn Butler, the shadow equalities minister.\n\nIn her opening speech, Mourdant will highlight what needs to be done at a governmental level in order to achieve gender equality.\n\nThe day will then split into morning, mid-morning and afternoon sessions, the first of which will pay tribute to women who have helped shape the political agenda in recent years.\n\nIn the mid-morning session, participants will address different issues facing female politicians, such as bullying and harassment.\n\nThis will be followed by an afternoon policy session which will examine tackling gender inequality through promoting womens economic empowerment, ending violence against women and girls, championing access to voluntary family planning, and breaking the barriers to girls education.\n\nThe event almost wasnt allowed happen, after the Tory MP Christopher Chope shouted object when it was first mentioned in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Mims Davies in July, however, he was overruled after a spokesperson for Theresa May voiced support for the conference.\n\nChopes objection came just a few weeks after he sought to block a bill that would see upskirting - whereby someone takes an unsolicited photograph up a womans skirt - become a criminal offence.\n\nAfter Chope was widely criticised by campaigners, the government announced it would be taking on the bill and its expected to pass through parliament soon.\n\nBut the International Women MPs of the World isn't the only parliamentary event celebrating women's suffrage this month.\n\nOn 21 November, an event named Ask Her To Stand, will see women across the UK flock to Westminster in a bid to inspire others to stand for elected office, marking 100 years since the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 was passed, which allowed women to be elected into the House of Commons.\n\nThe event will be co-hosted by Harriet Harman, MP for Camberwell and Peckham and Labours former deputy leader.\n\nThe trained solicitor has been a prolific campaigner for womens rights throughout her political career and is the longest-serving female MP.\n\nIt has been organised by a number of women's rights groups, including the Jo Cox Foundation, 50:50 Parliament, Fawcett Society and Centenary Action Group.\n\nIt will take the form of a conference with a full programme of events to discuss issues such as bullying, harassment and the need to empower female MPs.\n\nOne panel event, hosted by activist Helen Pankhurst, Conservative MP Vicky Ford and Labour MP Rosie Duffield, will give attendees the opportunity to meet female MPs and discuss how women are making a difference in Westminster.\n\nOther sessions will examine topics such as family planning and ending violence against women.\n\nWomen can apply to attend as delegates by contacting their MP and asking for an invitation.","title":"Parliament to mark womenaposs suffrage centenary with landmark event on Thursday","date":"2018-11-05","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Andrew McCabe, James Comey and Loretta Lynch are all throwing each other under the bus as their corruption begins to bubble up to the surface.\n\nJames Comey threw McCabe under the bus on Thursday in an interview with CNNs Jake Tapper.\n\nComey told Tapper he could be a potential witness against McCabe.\n\nWhen asked if he could be a witness, Comey responded, Sure, given that the IGs report reflects interactions that Andy McCabe had with me and other senior executives, I could well be a witness.\n\nI think it is accountability mechanisms working, Comey added. It is not acceptable in the FBI or the Justice Department for people to lack candor. Its something we take really seriously.\n\nThe Office of Inspector General released a scathing report on McCabe last week claiming he lacked candor, (lied) including under oath several times.\n\nOn Thursday it was revealed Inspector General Michael Horowitz sent a criminal referral for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the US Attorneys office about the FBIs investigation into the Clinton Foundation.\n\nPresident Trump even took a swipe at the dueling dirty cops.\n\nOn Thursday, Trump tweeted: James Comey just threw Andrew McCabe under the bus. Inspector Generals Report on McCabe is a disaster for both of them! Getting a little (lot) of their own medicine?\n\nOn Friday, Fox News producer Jake Gibson reported McCabe was upset and disappointed over comments being made about him by Comey.\n\nJake Gibson: Fired FBI official Andrew McCabe is upset and disappointed over comments being made about him by his former boss James Comey, a lawyer for the former deputy said Friday, a day after it emerged McCabe was the subject of a criminal referral sent to US Atty in Washington.\n\nComey is also now under DOJ investigation over his classified memos.","title":"HAH Andrew McCabe Upset After James Comey Throws Him Under the Bus","date":"2018-04-21","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Democratic leaders like Broward County election supervisor Brenda Snipes and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz are clinging to office to dodge investigations and stay out of jail, warns Tim Canova, a Nova Southeastern University law professor who is challenging the disgraced former DNC chair for her congressional seat in 2018.\n\nCanova won a significant legal victory Friday when a circuit judge determined Snipes broke federal law by improperly discarding thousands of ballots cast in the 2016 Democratic congressional primary, making an inspection of the results impossible.\n\nIn that election, Canova faced off against incumbent Wasserman Schultz, who has been embroiled in controversy after controversy since the 2016 elections.\n\nThe judge ruled that Snipes ignored and illegally obstructed Canovas request to copy and inspect the ballots. In fact, Snipes had signed a Sept. 1, 2017, document to destroy the ballots.\n\nFederal laws stipulate ballots cast in a federal race are not supposed to be destroyed until 22 months after the election.\n\nCorrupt politicians like Snipes and Wasserman Schultz dont care at all about the American taxpayer and only want to stay in office to evade justice, Canova told The Gateway Pundit Wednesday.\n\nWasserman Schultz, Snipes and other agent Democrats, maybe even some Republicans, cling to office because there is so much corruption in their background that theyre afraid that should they leave office it will be uncovered, he said. As long as they remain in office, they might be in a position to control, manipulate or prevent any investigations.\n\nWasserman Schultz resigned as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee following revelations that she and other Democratic party officials conspired to sabotage the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.\n\nThe former DNC chair is also the most forceful advocate and longtime employer of disgraced House information technology aide Imran Awan. She continued to employ and compensate Awan with taxpayer funds for several months after he was barred from the House computer system and under criminal investigation. In fact, Wasserman Schultz only fired Awan after he was arrested on bank fraud charges attempting to flee the country the morning of July 25, 2017.\n\nAwan is currently on trial before a federal jury for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, false statements on a loan or credit application, unlawful monetary transactions,  engaging in unlawful monetary transactions and  allegedly stole data from an untold Democratic House members who hired him.\n\nWasserman Schultz doesnt care at all about the American people, she only wants to stay in office because shes a crook, Canova argued\n\nI have hopes that Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be removed from office this year when we defeat her in November, and that even before that happens, some of the investigations will start catching up with her  this is the reason shes clinging for office so strongly, this is why shes trying to hold on to this office.\n\nThe Justice Department is remarkably apathetic to Democratic corruption, Canova lamented.\n\nI dont know to what degree the FBI or Department of Justice have both been corrupted. Ive called the FBI twice myself personally earlier this year to report this crime  destroying the ballots. I have yet to get any kind of response from them, he said. What the supervisor did wasnt just to break state and federal law by destroying the ballots three months early, but she also destroyed evidence in an ongoing litigation. There are all forms of law that were broken by her.\n\nThe federal statue has criminal sanctions  up to a year in prison. I think the state law punishes this crime with even more than a year in prison. We havent been able to get any kind of investigation from the Department of Justice yet  the FBI  nobody, he continued. We knew that the supervisor of elections destroyed the ballots in violation of federal law all the way back in early November of 2017. We are trying to hold the officials accountable who are responsible for this. Wed like to see an investigation, including criminal investigation. A criminal investigation, perhaps, could uncover others involved.\n\nFloridas Secretary of State plans to send an elections expert to Broward, the states second-largest county, during the upcoming elections to monitor the administration of upcoming elections in the county and ensure that all laws are followed.\n\nCanova is urging Florida governor Rick Scott to move to immediately suspend Snipes and is calling for a federal, criminal investigation.\n\nWe are not easing up on this. We are organizing petitions, a protest and we are not going to let up at all, he said. Im a candidate again, this time as an independent, Ill be on the ballot in November, and the idea, the thought that Brenda Snipes, this supervisor of elections, could still be supervising my upcoming election with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is completely intolerable.\n\nCanova compared Snipes ability to destroy ballots without legal repercussions to the DNC destroying its server, ignoring multiple requests by the FBI to surrender the server for forensic examination.\n\nThe FBI asked for those servers three times, and three times the DNC declined to cooperate. The FBI should have followed up by just seizing the servers  they have that authority in a criminal investigation. The idea that they would just rely upon CrowdStrike, a private internet security firm hired by Wasserman Schultz through the DNC, is ridiculous, he said. There has been absolutely no response from the criminal justice system to this violation of federal law.\n\nThis whole episode with the ballots has shown the kind of corruption that exists in our election system. Its also revealed a certain type of corruption in our criminal justice system. And the supervisors office continued to litigate for eight months, even after destroying the ballots.\n\nCanova announced in April his decision to leave the Democratic Party and hopes to appear on the November ballot as a no party affiliation candidate against Wasserman Schultz.\n\nMost Democrats are also fed up with corruption on the Democratic side, Canvoa argued.\n\nI have a lot of friends who remain loyal Democrats  their loyalty is tested very often. There are an awful lot of people who remain Democrat, who are disgusted by the Democratic establishment. They just dont think that there is any other alternative and they are very frightened by the policy agenda of the Republicans and the Trump administration, he said. The party leadership in Broward county, and really all over the country, is very corrupted. They are corporate-funded and theyve allowed themselves to be corrupted.","title":"EXCLUSIVE Democrat Tim Canova on Wasserman Schultz Corrupt Dems Cling to Office to Avoid Jail","date":"2018-05-17","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Uninvited, more than one million Han Chinese people have reportedly moved into the homes of Uighur Muslim families to report on whether they display Islamic or unpatriotic beliefs.\n\nSent to homes in Xinjiang province by the Chinese government, American anthropologist Darren Byler said they were tasked with watching for signs that their hosts attachment to Islam might be extreme.\n\nThe informants, who describe themselves as relatives of the families they are staying with, are said to have received specific instructions on how to get them to let their guard down.\n\nAs devout Muslims would refuse cigarettes and alcohol. this is seen as one way of finding out whether they were extreme.","title":"One Million Chinese People Move into Muslim Homes to Report on Islamic or Unpatriotic Beliefs","date":"2018-11-25","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci blasted the Democratic Party on Friday for supporting MS-13, Hamas, and Kim Jong Un.\n\nAppearing on Fox & Friends to discuss the canceled summit with Kim Jong Un and the spygate allegations, Scaramucci blasted the Dems for who they are willing to align with in order to bash President Donald Trump.\n\nIts got to be enormously frustrating for the president, because hes a businessperson and a negotiator, and hes playing it very straight, and theyre spinning it that way. And if you look at the politicians that were just interviewed, its all the same sort of nonsense, Scaramucci began. So, at the end of the day, hes got a deal on the table that he will accept for the American people. If that does not work, then therell be no deal, its just really that simple. And that sort of bluntness and that steely backbone is something that these guys dont like, which I find very ironic. Its almost like theyre supporting  like [inaudible] said, they support MS-13, Hamas and now theyre supporting the Chairman Kim.\n\nFox and Friends co-host Steve Doocy responded that those who are against the president did not want him to make the deal.\n\nNo they dont, because they dont want him  Scaramucci began to reply.\n\nTo get a win, Doocy said, finishing the former communication directors thought.","title":"Anthony Scaramucci Blasts Democrats for Supporting MS-13 Hamas and Chairman Kim","date":"2018-05-26","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Guest post by Ted Malloch, author of The Plot to Destroy Trump\n\nMy family roots in Scotland and Holland and my entire education, faith and upbringing, while quintessentially Americanare deeply rooted in the European experience.\n\nMy faith is founded in the Protestant Reformation that shook Europe 500 years ago.\n\nI spent formative summers teaching and touring throughout all of Europe while I was in graduate school and as a young professor. I still recall with wild enthusiasm my first trip to Europe in 1972 at age 19.\n\nI studied and took degrees and have lectured at European universities. I was a Deutches Austauschendienst at Kiel Universitat and was made an honorary member of the Christian Democratic Party of the Netherlands as early as 1979. More recently I was a visiting professor at the ancient Tubingen University in Germany.\n\nI was president of the four ancient Scottish Universities trust in the US. I wrote a doctoral dissertation largely about European ideasin politics, philosophy and economics.\n\nI spent four years in Geneva, Switzerland in an ambassadorial post in the UN in the late eighties until 1992 when European history shifted and the cold war ended. I had a front row seat as a deputy executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe.\n\nI was an executive board member of the World Economic Forum, which started as the European Management Forum for CEOs.\n\nI was actually present at the Berlin Wall just days after it came down.  My friends in Eastern Europe, the radical economists, all became leading figuresministers, central bankers and prime ministers in their respective countries after the fall of the Soviet Union.\n\nI was an advisor to the Polish government during its shock therapy and privatization. I speak several European languages, regularly read European books, magazines and newspapers and have been a firm supporter of the so-called Atlantic alliance my entire life.\n\nMore recently I have lived in the United Kingdom and taught at Oxford University and visited and spoken on the continent regularly.\n\nSo, it is with a deep sense of disappointment and true sadness that I have to say what I am about to say.\n\nEuropes churches are empty. Mass last Sunday, in a gothic cathedral, one of the largest in Europe, was virtually unattended. Not just sparsely filledit was, except for a handful of tourists, vacant. Mass was being conducted in a side chapel fit for the couple dozen worshipers, older women who showed up for it.\n\nEurope is adrift without a soul and evolving rapidly away from its moorings.\n\nI am sorry to report that this glorious, historic cathedral is hardly the exception. Most of Europes churches are unused these days, reduced to monuments for tourists and artists to admire.\n\nAnd there is a reason for this neglect.\n\nIn his brilliant book, The Cube and the Cathedral, George Weigel describes a progressive European culture that has become not only increasingly secular but in many cases downright hostile to Christianity.\n\nThe cathedral in his title is Notre Dame, now overshadowed in cultural importance by the Arc de la Defense, the ultra modernist cube that dominates an office complex outside Paris. European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular, Weigel writes. That conviction and its public consequences are at the root of Europes contemporary crisis of civilizational morale.\n\nIt is true you will remind me that throngs of believers descended on Rome to bid farewell to Pope John Paul II. And yet even as Catholics mourned that popes passing, Socialists and Greens in France decried the French governments decision to fly the flag at half-mast in his honor. Officials were reduced to claiming, in response, that the honor was afforded to John Paul in his capacity as a head of state, not as a religious leader.\n\nThe incident that forms the centerpiece of my critique is the debate over whether Christianity should be explicitly acknowledged in the European Unions constitutional treaty. By the time the constitution was completed a grudging reference to the cultural, religious, and humanist inheritance of Europe had been shoehorned into the preambles first clause. Thats all.\n\nThis was about as much religion as Europe could stomach in a constitution that runs some 70,000 words.\n\nPracticing Christianity in Europe today enjoys a status not dissimilar to smoking marijuana or engaging in unorthodox sexual activitiesfew people mind if you do so in private, but you are expected not to talk about it much or ask others whether they do it too.\n\nChristianity is considered at best retrograde and atavistic in a self described progressive society devoted to obtaining the good material lifelong holidays, short work hours and generous government benefits.\n\nWhat is the deeper source of European antipathy to religion?\n\nFor Weigel, the problem goes all the way back to the 14th century, when scholastics like William of Ockham argued for nominalism. According to their philosophy, universalsconcepts such as justice or freedom and qualities such as gooddo not exist in the abstract but are merely words that denote instances of what they describe. A current of thought was set into motion, Weigel among others believes, that pulled European man away from transcendent truths.\n\nOne casualty was any fixed idea of human nature.\n\nIf there is no such thing as human nature, then there are no universal moral principles that can be read from human nature. If there is no universal moral truth, then religion, positing them, is merely a form of oppression or myth, one from which Europes elites see themselves as now liberated.\n\nAnd they look down on us, their American and third world cousins, who continue to believe in such irrational flights of fancy.\n\nAs Richard Weavers said in Ideas Have Consequences, The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a course of truth higher than, and independent of, man, Weaver explained a half-century ago, and the answer to the question is decisive for ones view of the nature and destiny of humankind.\n\nI think the critics are on firm ground when they analyze Europes present condition, with its low birth rates, heavy government debts, Muslim immigration worries and tendency to carp from the sidelines when the fate of nations is at stake.\n\nThis is European progressivism  and it is coming to America.\n\nIn what is certainly the most attention-grabbing passage in an engagingly written book, Weigel sketches the worst-case scenariothe bitter endfor a Europe that is religiously bereft, demographically moribund and morally without a compass: The muezzin summons the faithful to prayer from the central loggia of St. Peters in Rome, while Notre-Dame has been transformed into Hagia Sophia on the Seinea great Christian church become an Islamic museum.\n\nOne need not find this scenario altogether plausible to feel persuaded by measured arguments about Europes atheistic progressive humanism and European Union generated globalisma cosmopolitanism severed from Europes past.\n\nWithout a religious dimension, a commitment to human freedom is likely to be attenuated, too weak to make sacrifices in its name.\n\nEuropes political elites especially, but its citizens as well, believe in freedom and democracy of course, but they are reluctant to put the good life on hold and put lives on the line when freedom is in need of a champion  in the Balkans, the Sudan, Darfur or, in the Middle East.\n\nThe good of human freedom, by European lights, must be weighed against the risk and cost of actually fighting for it.\n\nIt is no longer transcendent, absolute.\n\nIn such a world, governed by a narrow utilitarian calculus, sacrifice is rare, churches go unattended and over time the spiritual capital that brought forth all that we know as the West is at risk of being lost.\n\nLet me name things that might turn the tables and perhaps, even begin to, if I was so bold to suggest, revive Europe.\n\nFirst, coming to grips with its unique place in world history and renewing the importance and source of those original ideals.\n\nSecond, some comprehension that culture matters and Europes culture has been the most formative for Western-Christian civilization, what used to be termed, Christendom.\n\nThird, accepting the social, political, economic and especially military responsibility of a great continent, now more and more united.\n\nFourth, realizing the too evident demographic realities and Islamization and stepping up to reverse them so as to avoid an eventual Eurabia.\n\nAnd finally, and most critically in my estimation as a Christian, sparking the second great Reformation, spiritually such that there is a wider recognition of transcendence and a moving of the spirit of God across the whole continent from the western most shores of Portugal, Ireland and Britain to the eastern most steppes of Russia.\n\nI pray every day for such transformation and reawakening.\n\nWeigel suggests Europe is a society adrift, untied from the source of its greatness  the very cultural foundation which provided the values making Europe great is disintegrating, leaving Europe (and soon the entire West, including America) on sinking sand.\n\nMore specifically, as the past is erased, re-written, or ignored the rich Judeo-Christian history of Europe is being left behind.\n\nAnd at what cost?\n\n\n\nWhy is European productivity dwindling to an all time low? Why is European politics rife with senselessness? Why does Sweden have a considerably higher level of its population living below the poverty line? Why is Europe undergoing the greatest sustained reduction in European population since the Black Death of the 14th century? Why are open borders changing the very definition of Europe?\n\nCould the recent woes of Europe be tied to the ever-decreasing Christian minority on this now decidedly post-Christian progressive continent?\n\nI am reminded of Orwells quote, We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.\n\nWe should restate the obvious, culture determines civilization.\n\nAnd without its distinctly Christian history, Europe would not be what it is. Or perhaps, Europe would not have been what it was.\n\nHowever, from the perspective of our American pilgrim tradition there is more to lament than the secondary effects of a decline in European productivity, living standards and art.\n\nThat is, merely reviving spirituality as an end in itself is not what Europe needs.\n\nIt demands rather a call back to its first love, to the God who blesses and rewards those who diligently seek and serve Him.","title":"Malloch The New Dark Age of European Progressivism","date":"2018-10-01","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Donald Trump did not seem to have the same reaction to tearing little kids away from their asylum-seeking parents as Republicans, the Catholic Church, and all of the first ladies. Instead, he doubled down and came out swinging. The man in the Oval Office apparently did not have a problem with little ones sobbing and crying for their mothers and fathers, but other Americans were infuriated and hit back.\n\nGovernors across the nation, both Republican and Democratic, have let their voters know that this was not acceptable under Americas set of values. They found Trumps actions morally indefensible and slugged the president right where it hurt the most.\n\nGovernor Ralph Northam (D) just sent out a statement recalling Virginia National Guard soldiers and a state-owned helicopter from the nations southwest border. It also said that he will not let them return until Trump ends his soulless zero-tolerance policy:\n\nVirginia benefits from the important work of securing our border and we have a responsibility to contribute to that mission. However, we also have a responsibility to stand up to policies or actions that run afoul of the values that define us as Americans. Today I spoke with the Adjutant General of the Virginia National Guard and ordered him to withdraw four soldiers and one helicopter from Arizona until the federal government ends its enforcement of a zero-tolerance policy that separates children from their parents.\n\nGovernor Northam continued, saying that Trump misled him:\n\nWhen Virginia deployed these resources to the border, we expected that they would play a role in preventing criminals, drug runners and other threats to our security from crossing into the United Statesnot supporting a policy of arresting families and separating children from their parents.\n\nThen, the governor called the commander-in-chiefs policy inhumane:\n\nLet me be clearwe are ready to return and contribute to the real work of keeping our nation safe. But as long as the Trump administration continues to enforce this inhumane policy, Virginia will not devote any resource to border enforcement actions that could actively or tacitly support it. I urge President Trump and leaders in Washington to turn away from this zero-tolerance policy and come to the table on the real immigration reform this nation needs.","title":"Another Governor Calls Back National Guard Troops At Border After Trump Child Abuse","date":"2018-06-20","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Jack Burkman, the Washington DC lobbyist offering a $130,000 reward for information on the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer, Seth Rich, was shot twice and ran over by an SUV last week.\n\nBurkman was attacked outside of his home by a masked man in January.\n\nAs reported by The Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft, 27 year-old Democratic staffer Seth Conrad Rich was murdered in Washington DC on July 10, 2016, roughly one block from his apartment. The suspects took nothing from Rich, leaving behind his wallet, watch and phone. The murder has gone unsolved to this day.\n\nAccording to PR News  Burkman also created, paid for and erected billboards in the neighborhood where Rich lived and died; built the website WhoKilledSeth.com (www.whokilledseth.com) and canvassed the neighborhood with Seth Richs parents.\n\nBurkman sued the Democratic National Committee for the release of the hacked DNC server he claimed will reveal key information in solving the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.\n\nLobbyist Jack Burkman, who began a private investigation into the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich last year, says he was nearly killed after a man who joined the investigation attempted to murder him last week, according to a report. Kevin Doherty, 46, shot Burkman multiple times and ran him over with an SUV, according to the Post... ...Tension reportedly developed between the two as Doherty began to think the profiling project was his and began speaking to reporters without Burkmans consent, Burkman told the Post. Burkman fired Doherty and sent him a cease-and-desist letter in July, according to the news outlet. I just figured the matter was closed, Burkman told the Post. But what happened is, I guess, he was simmering and simmering and simmering. A source who identified as a senior FBI official contacted Burkman and claimed to have internal documents relative to another case he was working on. The anonymous source planted envelopes of information under a traffic cone in the parking garage at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn, according to Burkman. As the lobbyist arrived to retrieve the documents, with his pet Dachshund in hand, he reached under the cone and was shot in the buttocks and thigh and run over by an SUV. Burkman spent three days in the hospital, and his dog was not harmed. Doherty was charged with use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and two counts of malicious wounding. He is currently jailed in the Arlington County Detention Facility.","title":"Lobbyist Investigating Seth Rich Murder Is Shot Twice and Run Over by Car Suspect in Custody","date":"2018-03-21","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Musician-slash-model Rafferty Law has a little magic about him  and its not just down to his father Jude Law.\n\nHis new band, Outer Stella Overdrive, sound great (Damon Albarns son Rudy is on drums). The singer, 22, has also modelled for labels from Dolce & Gabbana to Timberland. Heres listening to you, kid.\n\nJoe Strummer. He had an organic voice which he didnt push too far.\n\nIn my old band our drummer got on my nerves by drinking too much and being late. Before a show I could see he wasnt concentrating, so I threw my guitar at him. It knocked him out.\n\nThe Box in Soho. Thats the closest to outer space that there is in London.\n\nMy baby kittens, Sid and Nancy. I feel like a worried parent when I go out.\n\nThe Ivy. I could eat a hundred of the truffle arancini balls in the Soho Brasserie every day.\n\nBrad Pitt in Fight Club. I copied his mismatch of colourful shirts and tracksuits for months after I first watched it at 13.\n\nIm at that age when the father-son element has gone with my dad. Hes more like a mate now.\n\nThe house in France we stayed in when I was younger was haunted. Doors would swing open and swing shut again. We never went back.\n\nId apparate to a beach in Mexico and chill out, magicking up cocktails for free.","title":"Raff Law interview Judeaposs son aposonce threw a guitar at his drummerapos","date":"2018-11-16","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trump made the worst mistake of his life Monday morning after he made statements in Helsinki that have cause a whirlwind of media coverage that the president is now fuming over. Trump, for some reason, thought it would go over well if he denounced his own intelligence community in support of Putins promise to him that he had nothing to do with Russia hacking Americas political system.\n\nTrump made the following statement on Monday morning; all hell immediately broke loose:\n\nThey said they think its Russia. I have President Putin; he just said its not Russia. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.\n\nTrump was torn apart in the press and on social media outlets instantly. Everyone from journalists to politicians to every day people had an opinion about what Trump did yesterday, and it was very hard to find anyone who thought it was clever.\n\nNY Daily News responded to the instant backlash by releasing a new cover image so graphically true that it has literally set people off. Check out the image below and judge for yourself:\n\nThe responses to the new cover photo were out of this world, with most people finding it to be a completely accurate portrayal of what Trump is doing to American democracy and moral code. We saved the best reactions for you below:","title":"GRAPHIC NY Daily News Releases New Cover Featuring Trump Blowing Uncle Sams Head Off","date":"2018-07-17","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"North Yorkshire Police has issued an apology and a revised appeal for information, after describing a man who masturbated in front of a woman in the street as having a small penis.\n\nOn Monday, the police force used its Facebook page to post a public appeal to help identify a man who performed a sex act on himself in front of a 20-year-old woman in a York street on Sunday afternoon.\n\nIn their post, police included a description of the man, which read: He has very little chest or pubic hair, no obvious tattoos or scars, and he has what was described as a small penis.\n\nAfter receiving feedback from the public, North Yorkshire Police removed the post, admitting: We accept went into too much detail.\n\nA more appropriately worded version [has been] posted on the force website, they added. We use social media every day to appeal for information, and to warn and inform members of the public.\n\nAs always, we thank all our followers for their support in sharing our appeals, it is very much appreciated.","title":"North Yorkshire Police Apologise After Saying Sexual Harassment Suspect Has A Small Penis","date":"2018-11-21","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"### Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl\n\n EPA-EFE\/GIUSEPPE LAMI\n\nVIENNA, November 9. \/TASS\/. Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl has\ncanceled her visit to Russia and summoned diplomats from the Russian embassy\nto clarify the situation concerning a retired Austrian colonels suspected\ninvolvement in espionage for Russia, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said\nat an emergency press conference in Vienna on Friday.\n\n\"The foreign minister has responded to this, she has summoned Russian\ndiplomats to the Foreign Ministry and also canceled her visit to Russia,\" Kurz\nsaid.\n\nThe Austrian top diplomat planned to make a visit to Russia on December 2-3 in\norder to discuss the implementation of plans to create a Russian-Austrian\npublic platform dubbed the Sochi Dialogue. According to a TASS correspondent,\ninitially Kneissl was expected to visit Russia on November 9 but the visit was\npostponed at Viennas request.\n\nAccording to media reports, Austria has opened an investigation into a 70\n-year-old retired colonel, suspected of working for Russian intelligence\nagencies since the 1990s, providing Moscow with information about Austrias\nair force, artillery and the migration crisis. If found guilty, the colonel\nmay face two years in prison. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Defense\nMinister Mario Kunasek have confirmed the espionage investigation.\n\nThe Russian embassy in Austria has not yet commented on the situation.\n\nIn other media","title":"Austrian top diplomat cancels visit to Russia over espionage incident","date":"2018-11-09","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Uber drivers in London, Nottingham and Birmingham are staging a 24-hour strike, with a digital picket line that came into place at 1pm. However, on Tuesday afternoon it appeared to be having minimal impact on the service, as numerous cars still appeared to be operating in all three cities.  The action has been coordinated by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and comes as the company continues to appeal against a court ruling on employee rights. The striking drivers are calling for an increase in fares to 2 per mile (they are currently paid 1.25 in London), a 10% reduction in commissions paid by drivers, and for the company to implement rules that respect worker rights for drivers, including the payment of at least the minimum wage and paid holidays. By 2pm, crowds of drivers and their supporters had gathered outside the companys London offices:\n\nIts unclear what impact the strike is having on services but at 2PM on Tuesday, users could still book Ubers in London, with multiple cars avaliable around transport hubs including Euston and Liverpool Street stations.  According to the app, there were also numerous cars avaliable near Birmingham New Street station and Nottinghams Motorpoint Arena.  Earlier in the day, a union spokesperson told HuffPost UK that they were expecting hundreds at the demos and thousands observing the strike. In an article for HuffPost UK, one Uber driver   who wishes to remain anonymous  said today marks the first time hes ever gone on strike. Uber says we drivers have amazing freedom and flexibility, but the reality is I am working 70 to 80 hours a week because that is what the economics of the job dictates, he writes, adding that he works on average 30 hours per week just to break even. Were tired of waiting for central government or the Mayor or the courts to come and help us, the driver says. In working with the IWGB union, we drivers are taking matters into our hands to take strike action. I have no illusions about how difficult it will be for us to force Uber to be fair to workers like me. Today is just the beginning.\n\nJames Farrar, Chair of the IWGBs United Private Hire Drivers branch, said: After years of watching take home pay plummet and with management bullying of workers on the rise, workers have been left with no choice but to take strike action. We ask the public to please support drivers by not crossing the digital picket line by not using the app during strike time. In response to the strike plans, an Uber spokesperson claimed the company is always looking to make improvements to ensure drivers have the best possible experience and can make the most of their time driving on the app. Thats why over the last few months weve introduced dozens of new features, including sickness, injury, maternity and paternity protections, they added. We continue to look at ways to help drivers increase their earnings and our door is always open if anyone wants to speak to us about any issues theyre having. At the end of the month, the IWGB will face Uber at the Court of Appeal, in a employment rights case. The company is appealing against a Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) judgement which ruled that drivers had the right be treated as workers - who have entitlements including holiday pay - instead of independent contractors, as they are now.","title":"Uber Strike Drivers Walk Out For 24 Hours In London Birmingham And Nottingham","date":"2018-10-09","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"While taking questions from the media Friday afternoon, President Trump was asked if he should tone down his rhetoric after bombs were sent to top Democrats, but he refused to bow to PC culture.\n\nI think I have been toned down, if you want to know the truth. I could really tone it up, because as you know the medias been extremely unfair to me and the Republicans, he responded.\n\nPiers Morgan criticized Trumps response on Twitter, writing, This is not the time for anyone to be suggesting they tone up inflammatory rhetoric.","title":"President Trump Doubles Down When Press Asks If His Rhetoric Caused Bombs","date":"2018-10-26","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Scientists have found plastic microfibres in the faeces of fur seals living in a colony on a remote island northwest Chile.\n\nThey found tiny plastic fragments  smaller than one millimetre, in the waste of the seals  who live on Guafo Island, which is uninhabited by humans and used as a seal breeding ground.\n\nThe scientists, Diego Joaquin Perez-Venegas and Galban-Malagon from Andres Bello National University, told the website Live Science they scooped up faeces from the seals and investigated the samples in a lab to spot microplastics so tiny they are invisible to the naked eye.\n\nOf the 51 samples they inspected, 67 per cent contained plastics.","title":"Plastic Microfibres Found In Poop of Seals Living On Remote Chilean Island","date":"2018-11-15","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"The Hill, a left of center website in Washington DC, announced today it is dropping out of the White House Correspondents Dinner until changes are made.\n\nThe White House Correspondentss Dinner was held last night in Washington DC.\n\n President Trump skipped the event again this year and held a rally in Washington, Michigan instead.\n\nThe WHCD comedian came with an agenda this year to hurl vile insults at President Trump and his administration.\n\nThe worst part came when this comedian hurled tasteless insults at White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the far left audience squealed in delight.\n\nMichelle Wolf mocked Sarah Sanders as Aunt Lydia in the Handmaidens Tale, a bull-dyke gym teacher and attacked Sanders over her smoky eye look. Wolf concluded with the racist, sexist attack in which she called Sanders a traitor to white women.\n\nHere is the far left entertainer abusing Sarah Huckabee Sanders to the delight of the far left mob.\n\n CBS called this awful abuse of the female official a jab.\n\n\n\nHere is their full statement, via Mediaite:\n\nWe recall fondly how past dinners were tremendous spectacles of dignity that were enjoyed by all. Comedians headlining those dinners were sharp and made fun of both the media and the Commander-in-Chief in a way that could induce laughs while not being so offensive and vulgar that C-SPAN actually cut off its radio broadcast, as was the case this year for the first time ever. The kind of jokes told by this years headliner, Michelle Wolf, were out of line for an event thats supposed to be fun  and fair. Based on what Americans witnessed on national television at Saturday nights dinner, a once-fine evening celebrating the strong, free press the WHCA speaks of has turned into an angry display and ad-hominem attacks. A solid majority of journalists from the left and right have condemned this years comedian and rightly so. The association made apologies, albeit not to the press secretary, only after the pressure compelled it to happen. We hope the dinner can get back to talking about the importance of the Fourth Estate without the kind of ugly sideshow that completely overshadowed the event this year.","title":"Nice Party You Got There Democrats The Hill Drops Out of Abusive Far Left White House Correspon","date":"2018-05-01","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) retorted to President Donald Trumps tweet insulting his stance on the Iran nuclear deal, invoking the first ladys new anti-cyber bullying campaign.\n\nTrump pulled out of the deal on Tuesday. Schumer reportedly said in a statement that while he still believes that the deal is flawed, staying in the pact is preferable to the turmoil that exiting it will likely cause.","title":"Schumer Trolls Trump After Presidents Twitter Taunt BeBest","date":"2018-05-10","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"On Wednesday CNNs Jim Acosta was suspended from covering the White House over his disruptive and abusive conduct during the presidents press conference.\n\nCNN said the video of Jim Acosta was doctored.\n\nOn Thursday morning White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp joined Stuart Varney on Varney and Co. to discuss the incident and more.\n\nMercedes Schlapp: Jim Acosta crossed the line when he physically touched the White House staffer... The video clearly shows did Acosta place his hand on the White House staffer or did he not. And the video clearly shows that he did.\n\nLater in the interview Schlapp said the young woman was shaken up by Acostas behavior.","title":"WH Communications Director Asked if Acosta Video Doctored Video Clearly Shows He Placed His Hand on","date":"2018-11-08","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Scouting Irelands handling of a rape allegation was influenced by the accused male leaders connections to people in positions of power in the organisation, safeguarding expert Ian Elliott recently told Minister for Children Katherine Zappone.\n\nIn a letter in late September, Mr Elliott, who conducted a detailed review into the handling of the rape allegation, told Ms Zappone he suspected information about how the case was dealt with had been withheld from him.\n\nThe allegation was made to Scouting Ireland in 2016, where a female volunteer claimed she was raped by an adult male volunteer during a camping trip in 2009, when she was 18.\n\nEarlier this year The Irish Times revealed Mr Elliotts confidential internal report had found the youth organisations response to the allegation had been deeply flawed.\n\nIn his recent letter to the Minister, Mr Elliott linked failings in how the allegation was dealt with to the accuseds connections to prominent figures in Scouting Ireland.\n\nI believed that the relationships that the subject of the allegation had with other people in positions of power in the organisation, influenced what the response was to the allegation made by the young woman, he told Ms Zappone.\n\nMr Elliotts report highlighted several failings in how the allegation was dealt with, but it did not directly tie these shortcomings to the accuseds influence in the organisation.\n\nThe allegation was of a serious nature, but the way in which it was responded to by the organisation did not communicate to me any appreciation of this fact, he told Ms Zappone. The letter did not identify who Mr Elliott deemed the individuals in positions of power to be.\n\nAt the time of completing his report Mr Elliott said he was unsure how widespread problems identified were throughout the organisation. I have a fuller understanding now and I would hold concerns, he said.\n\nThe correspondence from September 26th was released to The Irish Times following a request under the Freedom of Information Act.\n\nFollowing the review of the case, Mr Elliott advised Scouting Ireland to conduct an audit of past child protection cases. Last week, Scouting Ireland revealed that an ongoing review by Mr Elliott into past abuse had identified 108 alleged victims of child sex abuse, and 71 alleged abusers, who were primarily active between the 1960s and 1980s.\n\nMr Elliott said critical information on how the 2016 rape allegation was dealt with had been withheld from him during his review of the case, including a meeting former chief scout Christy McCann had with the man accused of rape, while the volunteer was under suspension. The meeting had been arranged by chief commissioner for youth programmes David Shalloo.\n\nI could not be certain that all the conversations that had taken place in respect of how this case was responded to, were known to me, Mr Elliott said. I strongly suspected that there were others but that is speculation rather than known fact, he told Ms Zappone.\n\nMr Elliott was writing to Ms Zappone after the former board of Scouting Ireland voted to reinstate Mr McCann to chair an extraordinary general meeting on governance reform in September. Following the boards decision Ms Zappone suspended State funding to the organisation.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Elliott said there were several board members who had consistently sought to obstruct change and undermine efforts to reform the organisation.\n\nLast month the organisations entire board resigned and was replaced, following which State funding was provisionally restored until April, pending continued progress on reforms.","title":"Accused influenced Scouting Ireland response to rape claim","date":"2018-11-27","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Deadly microplastics have been discovered in Alaskan seabirds in the Aleutian Islands, endangering both animals and the regions native American population, reported a News Deeply article.\n\nThe University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) had been examining hundreds of Aleutian seabirds over the better part of a decade. The study found that one out of every five specimens had ingested microplastics and almost all of them tested positive for at least one type of highly toxic phthalate.\n\nPhthalates are added to plastics for increased softness, flexibility, or durability. Theyre used in cosmetics, flooring, and medical devices. If ingested, they can disrupt reproduction functions due to their resemblance to natural hormones.\n\nWhat it does say is these anthropogenic compounds are in the environment and that these birds are exposed to them in some way, which is meaningful when you consider the fact that theyre endocrine-disrupting compounds, said researcher Veronica Padula.\n\nAccording to Dr. Doug Causey, a biology professor and adviser to Padula, the University of Alaska program wasnt looking for microplastics when it started in 2009. It was monitoring the drastic decline of seabird populations.\n\nEverything changed in 2013 when Dr. Causey collected a tufted puffin on the island of Amchitka. The specimen turned out to have a shard of microplastic buried in its badly-scarred gut.\n\nThe UAA study quickly shifted to detecting microplastics and their deleterious effects on seabirds. Birds are good indicators of ecosystem health, so studying them was a good way to investigate microplastics loads in Alaskan waters.\n\nPlastics have been popping up in Alaskan waters since the 1970s. But previous studies focused on larger pieces instead of microplastics, which required specialized detection tools.\n\nThe remoteness of the western and central Aleutians exclude the usual suspect of local human settlements as the cause of contamination, Padula explained. She theorized that the microplastics started out as much larger pieces across the ocean. As they made their uncertain way towards Alaska, the plastics were broken down by various oceanic forces until they became small enough to pass through the bodies of seabirds.\n\nSo for us, the question became, what happens in that time when the plastic is inside the birds stomach, she said. (Related: Plastic pollution is threatening fish populations and the fishing industry in Central America.)\n\nThe University of Alaska study discerned no significant geographic pattern for phthalate contamination among the Aleutian birds. But it did uncover a species-relevant pattern.\n\nThe highest levels of phthalate contamination were detected in crested auks, which ate at the lowest tropic level of a food pyramid.\n\nThese birds, which are plankton eaters, are targeting items that probably are plastic but look a lot like plankton, Padula theorized. So theyre getting confused by those items.\n\nAccording to the researchers, the higher one ate at the tropic level, the lower the risk of contamination. So a bird that ate a fish that fed on contaminated plankton had lower phthlate levels than a bird that directly ate plankton.\n\nThe UAA is now looking for microplastics in other body parts of the seabirds. They confirmed the presence of phthalates in embryonic tissue inside 11 female specimens. They also learned by accident that plasticizers could contaminate eggs.\n\nBack in 2015, Padula visited St. Paul Island and worked alongside the local Aleut community. Members of the tribe gifted her with six eggs from the thick-billed murre.\n\nWhile partaking in the traditional Aleut diet, it occurred to the researcher to set aside some of the eggs for testing. To her dismay, the portions tested positive. I consumed subsistence foods that I later detected phthalates in, she grimaced.\n\nStay informed about microplastics and other forms of pollution by visiting Pollution.news.","title":"Ocean pollution has covered the globe Seabirds as far away as Alaska are being threatened by microp","date":"2018-02-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The important thing to understand about the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history is that the alleged killer did not merely hate us Jews for who we are. He hated us, judging by his social media postings, for what we believe  for the highest ideals of what the Jewish religion embodies.\n\nBegin with the name of the synagogue in Pittsburgh he attacked, Tree of Life. This name is a metaphor for the Torah, Judaisms foundational document. Every Shabbat, as the Torah scroll is returned to the ark, the congregation sings these words, in Hebrew: It is a tree of life to all who hold fast to it . . . Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Help us turn to you, Lord, and we shall return.\n\nHow awful that a synagogue whose name evokes this yearning for Gods protection instead found itself the scene of such carnage and such evil. Among the murdered: A 97-year-old woman. A husband and wife in their 80s. Two brothers, 59 and 54.\n\nAnd why? Because their religion teaches tolerance and, more than tolerance, the obligation to welcome and care for those most in need. At least 36 times, the Torah exhorts us to embrace the outsider, the immigrant. I chanted this passage from Leviticus at my daughters bat mitzvah: The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.\n\nThat tolerance, it appears, incited Robert Bowers, the accused murderer. On Gab, the extremist haven social network, he attacked HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. The group was founded in 1881 to help Jews, like my grandparents and great-grandparents, fleeing the pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe. But its mission has broadened to fulfilling the biblical injunction to care for the stranger. As HIAS president Mark Hetfield likes to say, HIAS was founded . . . to welcome refugees because they were Jewish. Today, HIAS welcomes refugees because we are Jewish.\n\nHence Bowerss rage. HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people, he wrote a few hours before the rampage. I cant sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, Im going in. A few weeks earlier, he posted a link about the groups National Refugee Shabbat, writing, Why hello there hias! You like to bring in hostile invaders to dwell among us? Another post he shared: Open you Eyes! Its the filthy EVIL jews Bringing the Filthy EVIL Muslims into the Country!!\n\nAnti-Semitism is a disease without a cure and, seemingly, without end. It persists from generation to generation and society to society. People like Bowers have always been part of an ugly American fringe. Social media simply provides a powerful new mechanism for transmitting such long-standing venom and amplifying preexisting hatreds in an age of increasing tribalism.\n\nWhich brings us to our president. It looks definitely like its an anti-Semitic crime. That is something you wouldnt believe could still be going on, President Trump said Saturday in Indiana. You wouldnt? Only if you were willfully blind to what has been going on, from Nazi protesters in Charlottesville chanting Jews will not replace us to ugly memes of Jewish reporters with Stars of David being thrust into ovens.\n\nJust the day before Saturdays massacre, Trump, at a White House event, attacked globalists  code-word alert  and chuckled as audience members called out George Soros!code-word alert  and shouted Lock him up about the Hungarian-born Jewish financier. If Trump is not deliberately flirting with anti-Semitism and anti-Semites, he is regrettably oblivious to their presence.\n\nBut his administrations animus toward refugees, exemplified by Trumps own incendiary rhetoric, seems most directly linked to Bowerss alarm about hostile invaders who kill our people. If there is not cause and effect between Trumps language and Bowerss alleged actions, there is moral culpability for creating this overheated climate of fear. From the supposed Mexican rapists of his campaign launch to his unsupported claims that the migrant caravan includes very tough criminal elements and unknown Middle Easterners, Trump has stoked the fears of the Bowerses among us.\n\nTo this, the only response can be to insist that what the Torah teaches about loving the stranger is true and right. And that this is not just Jewish wisdom  it is, Trump notwithstanding, an American value. Eleven Americans died for it Saturday. Do not forget them.","title":"Trump Has Stoked the Fears of Bowerses Among Us","date":"2018-10-29","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Liverpool wrapped up their preparations for the new season with a comfortable 3-1 victory over Torino at Anfield on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe Reds, who kickstart their 2018-19 campaign against West Ham United this weekend, made light work of their Italian opponents as they enjoyed the ideal warm-up for a season that promises so much.\n\nRoberto Firmino opened the scoring in the first half after Fabinho's penalty miss, before Georginio Wijnaldum made it two to cap a 45-minute performance that could book his place in Sunday's starting XI.\n\nAnd, though Andrea Belotti pulled one back for the Reds before the break with a powerful header, the hosts quickly reasserted their control and confirmed their victory through Daniel Sturridge's sixth goal of pre-season late on.\n\nWith the Premier League kick-off so close, Jurgen Klopp named something of a surprisingly strong starting XI upon his side's return home.\n\nMohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Firmino all featured, while big-money summer signings Naby Keita, Fabinho and Alisson Becker were handed their home debuts.\n\nIt took little time for quality of the initial line-up to tell, with Salah going close to turning a Trent Alexander-Arnold cross before Mane's quick feet earned a somewhat soft penalty.\n\nHowever, the referee's generosity mattered little when Fabinho stepped up and arrowed his first spot-kick for the club wide of the post.\n\nThat miss quickly proved to be inconsequential, too, with Firmino smashing home a deflected strike four minutes later as a result of Salah finding space for an assist courtesy of a fine touch and pass from Wijnaldum.\n\nThe Dutchman then turned goalscorer, timing a late run from deep to latch onto Firmino's through-pass and finishing coolly in the box.\n\nTorino reduced the arrears on the half-hour mark, Belotti sending a bullet header beyond Alisson after Lorenzo Di Silvestri had escaped the attentions of Alberto Moreno to cross.\n\nBut the goal proved to be a brief respite from Liverpool pressure, with the impressive Wijnaldum denied by the outstretched foot of Salvatore Sirigu moments later following a speedy exchange with Salah.\n\nAnd even seven changes at half-time did little to break the pattern of the game, with the hosts' new-found depth on show as they pressed for a third goal from the off.\n\nDanny Ings was the recipient of the first two opportunities, but failed to get clean contact on a left-footed shot just inside the box before slipping at the vital moment when trying to give an Alexander-Arnold pick-out the finish it deserved.\n\nSturridge was less forgiving when he got on the end of Shaqiri's inch-perfect dink in behind four minutes from time, placing the deftest of headers into beyond Sirigu's despairing to dive to put the seal on the win.","title":"Liverpool 3 Torino 1 Roberto Firmino strikes as Reds wrap up pre-season with a win on Alissonapos","date":"2018-08-07","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"In January, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke traveled to Las Vegas to mingle at the SHOT Show, an annual gathering of the shooting, hunting and outdoor trade industries. The people there were all great conservationists, really good people, dedicated to the outdoors, he said in an interview with NRA-TV.\n\nAn avid hunter and angler himself, Zinke has often said that the best stewards of wildlife are Americas sportsmen and -women. But after taking over the Department of the Interior in March 2017, he made quick work of angering some of those would-be supporters.\n\nEarlier this month, he hosted a roundtable of more than two dozen outdoor sporting and conservation organizations to get their input on his planned reorganization of the department. He promised them a grand pivot away from energy development and toward species and habitat conservation, according to E&E News.\n\nAt the end of December, Zinke vowed to create a conservation stewardship legacy second only to Teddy Roosevelt. As the chief steward of Americas natural resources, he is responsible for managing some 500 million acres of land, or one-fifth of the United States, as well as protecting endangered species and managing migratory birds.\n\nThe Interior Department made several pro-hunting announcements in the week after the conservation roundtable. It moved to scrap a 2015 rule that bans aggressive hunting tactics in national preserves in Alaska, including shooting bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens and swimming caribou from motorboats. It proposed expanding hunting and fishing opportunities on numerous wildlife refuges. And it named 17 members to a new panel, the Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council, which will advise Zinke on wildlife and habitat conservation.\n\nWhit Fosburgh, president of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, told HuffPost last July that it was troubling to watch Zinke work solely on the development of natural resources without even lip service to conservation. Fosburghs nonprofit advocates for access to public lands for hunting and fishing.\n\nAt the roundtable, he said, the secretary acknowledged that energy was the major push in 2017 and declared that the next few years would be about conservation, departmental reorganization and tackling the maintenance backlog at national parks.\n\nCollin OMara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, also voiced newfound optimism after the meeting, telling E&E that his group is committed to working with Secretary Zinke more closely on priorities like increasing Americas wildlife populations, conserving wildlife corridors and expanding outdoor recreation opportunity. And Steve Moyer, vice president for government affairs at Trout Unlimited, told the publication he was glad to hear of a change of direction from Mr. Zinke.\n\nJamie Rappaport Clark, president and CEO of the nonprofit Defenders of Wildlife, told HuffPost that non-game and endangered species are still missing from the conservation conversation. Zinkes pivot, she added, seems largely geared toward rebuilding crumbling park infrastructure and reorganizing the agency.\n\nIn a statement after the roundtable, David ONeill, chief conservation officer of the National Audubon Society, said that while he appreciated the opportunity to join the discussion, the group continues to fundamentally disagree with the Department of the Interiors interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.","title":"Ryan Zinke Looks To Reel Back Some Critics With Grand Pivot To Conservation","date":"2018-05-26","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Although the main driver behind the high figures is thought to be obesity, other factors which could also play a part include a family history and ethnic background, the charity added.\n\nType 2 diabetes is more aggressive in young people as complications of the disease  which can include blindness, amputations, heart disease and kidney failure  can appear earlier.\n\nDiabetes UK reported that 6,836 children and young adults have type 2 diabetes in England and Wales, according to data from GP surgeries.\n\nRising  obesity has led to almost 7,000 people under the age of 25 having type 2 diabetes   the highest its ever been for this age group, a charity has warned.\n\nDiabetes UK warned that thousands more children and young people could be diagnosed with the condition over the coming years, as the latest figures on childhood obesity show that more than a third of children in England will be overweight or obese by the time they leave primary school.\n\nIt has called for better specialist support for youngsters with the condition to help manage their illness and reduce their risk of serious complications.\n\nMeanwhile, the charity also backed proposals for a ban on junk food TV advertising aimed at children before 9pm, and to restrict supermarket price promotions for unhealthy foods.\n\nTo help shape a future where fewer children develop the condition, we need continued commitment across society to create an environment that reduces obesity, said Bridget Turner, director of policy and campaigns at Diabetes UK.\n\n[Read more: Mcdonalds and Burger King ads banned for inappropriately targeting school bus stops]\n\nTurner said we need to encourage healthy living by providing easy-to-understand nutritional information about products people are buying, and protect children from adverts for foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar. She added that people who already have the condition need better support so they do not develop severe complications.\n\nProfessor Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, added: For many children, the development of type 2 diabetes can be prevented with lifestyle changes, but this isnt easy  they need support.\n\nIn response to the figures, a Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: We are committed to halving child obesity by 2030 and will be launching consultations to restrict promotions in shops for sugary and fatty foods, as well as a 9pm watershed ban on advertising. The upcoming NHS long-term plan will have prevention at its core and build on our existing work to keep people healthy and well.","title":"Almost 7000 Under 25s In England And Wales Have Type 2 Diabetes","date":"2018-11-22","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Former FBI Director James Comey on Sunday derided the Republican House Intelligence Committees report on meddling by Russia in the 2016 election as a wreck, while reaffirming his distrust of President Donald Trump.\n\nThe committee report released on Friday that found no evidence of collusion between Trumps campaign and Moscow was slammed by Comey on NBCs Meet the Press as merely political and self-harming.\n\nIt wrecked the committee, and it damaged relationships with the [U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court], the intelligence communities, he told NBCs Chuck Todd of the assessment. Its just a wreck.\n\nComey, who led the investigation into possible collusion before his abrupt firing by Trump in May, said the report by the House committee, helmed by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), does not match what he knew before his ouster.\n\nThat is not my understanding of what the facts were before I left the FBI, and I think the most important piece of work is the one the special counsels doing now, Comey said.\n\nRep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, later disagreed with the wreck characterization of the panels report. But on CBS Face the Nation he also said that the probe is not as exhaustive as the one being conducted by the special counsel, which operates as part of the Department of Justice.\n\nThe witnesses we talked to  no one said that they had any evidence of collusion, Gowdy said, while acknowledging that executive branch investigations are just better than congressional ones because they get to use a grand jury and have investigative tools that we dont have.\n\nGowdy said he is awaiting the results of Muellers investigation. So we found no evidence of collusion, he said. Whether or not it exists or not, I cant speak to because I havent interviewed the full panoply of witnesses.\n\nHouse Intelligence Committee rules that there was NO COLLUSION between the Trump Campaign and Russia. As I have been saying all along, it is all a big Hoax by the Democrats based on payments and lies. There should never have been a Special Counsel appointed. Witch Hunt!  Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2018\n\nComey in his Sunday comments repeated his distrust for Trump, saying he has serious doubts about the presidents credibility, including if he were to testify under oath as a witness.\n\nI was concerned about the nature of his commitment to truth-telling, based on some of the things Id seen during the campaign, he said of his assessment of Trump before his inauguration.\n\nAfter meeting him, he said he was further disturbed by Trumps expressed lack of concern about protecting the country as his top duty.","title":"Comey Calls GOP-Led Probe On Russia A Wreck Slams Trumps Credibility","date":"2018-04-29","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Emails traded between the legal team of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaughs second accuser, Deborah Ramirez, and a Republican Senate Judiciary Committee staffer reveal that the Republican aide stonewalled first steps to get Ramirezs testimony, according to a Friday New Yorker article.\n\nIn the emails, Ramirezs lawyer John Clune said that his client had evidence and witnesses pertaining to her claim of sexual misconduct, and that she may be willing to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee even without the FBI investigation she preferred. However, he wanted to have a call with the members of the committee to ensure her protection in the process before she released all of her information.\n\nIn response, Republican staffer Mike Davis refused to have a phone call to hammer out the logistics without more evidence than she had already provided in her original account in the New Yorker and an unequivocal agreement to testify to committee investigators no matter the terms.\n\nA Democratic staffer on the email thread jumped in.\n\nAs youre aware, Ms. Ramirezs counsel have repeatedly requested to speak with the Committee, on a bipartisan basis, to determine how to proceed. You refused, staffer Heather Sawyer said, per the New Yorker. Ive never encountered an instance where the Committee has refused even to speak with an individual or counsel. I am perplexed as to why this is happening here, except that it seems designed to ensure that the Majority can falsely claim that Ms. Ramirez and her lawyers refused to cooperate. That simply is not true.\n\nOn Friday, during the Senate Judiciary Committees speeches preceding the vote on Kavanaugh, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) doubled down on his insistence that his staff had done all they could to reach Ramirez and get her testimony, but that they were stymied by her lack of cooperation.","title":"Emails Show That GOP Staff Stonewalled Ramirezs Attempt To Testify","date":"2018-09-28","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"I am not sure it is going to work, but there is something admirable about the prime ministers sheer resilience. When the first part of the Brexit deal was agreed and published last week she took questions from MPs for three hours. Today, she did the same on the second part of the deal.\n\nIn between she has held a news conference, been on a radio phone-in, given interviews, taken questions yesterday, flown to Brussels and will be back there on Saturday. All the while being howled at by members of her own party, who disagree with her, and shouted at by members of the opposition, who broadly agree with her. The voices on her own benches in her support are few and not exactly whole-hearted.\n\nYet I think the general public is impressed by her. There is some hard evidence for this. YouGov for The Times yesterday recorded a 13-point swing from May should go to May should stay in a week. But I also hear people on radio phone-ins saying how much they respect her for working hard and resolutely in difficult circumstances.\n\nThere also seemed to be less hostility towards her plan in the House of Commons today than there was last week, when most Conservative MPs who spoke seemed genuinely shocked that she had gone ahead and secured the deal she said she wanted.\n\nToday, she offered a peace offering to two of her hard-Brexit critics, thanking Iain Duncan Smith and Owen Paterson, former cabinet ministers, for their ideas on how technology could solve the Irish border question in future. She refrained from pointing out that they might as well believe in UFOs.\n\nBut they were resistant to flattery and both asked her to get rid of the backstop  or, as I prefer to call it, the guarantee of an open border in Ireland.\n\nShe got absolutely nothing from the other hard Brexiters behind her either. They queued up to condemn the deal. Dominic Raab, recent Brexit secretary, said it was the regrettable but inescapable reality that this deal gives more control away. Boris Johnson had a pre-cooked soundbite: We should junk forthwith the backstop.. which makes a complete nonsense of Brexit.\n\nThen the pro-EU wing of her party piled in from the other side, with Justine Greening and Dominic Grieve demanding that the decision be sent back to the people in a further referendum. And all the while the back to the people line was echoed from the opposition benches  except from the leader of the opposition himself.\n\nJeremy Corbyn delivered a well crafted speech. He is still getting better at this stuff, even if he did read out his speech with his head down most of the time. He had some good lines, but they were merely knockabout. Commenting on the emptiness of a lot of the non-binding rhetoric in the political declaration, he said: She says nothing is agreed until everything is agreed; indeed, nothing is agreed.\n\nAs the afternoon droned on, more Tory loyalists lined up to praise the prime ministers hard work and determination and to declare the deal the best that could be achieved.\n\nIt was not obvious in the House of Commons today how Theresa May could possibly win the crucial vote on this deal  the withdrawal agreement and political declaration together. The hard Brexiters on her side couldnt muster 48 letters to challenge her leadership, but they have many more votes than that against her Brexit deal.\n\nShe also loses votes from her pro-EU wing. And the opposition parties show no inclination to help her.\n\nIf she can win the vote, she seems to think she can do it through sheer persistence, persuading the public and through them their MPs by her sincere attempt to negotiate a deal that both respects the referendum and keeps us in a close economic relationship with the EU.\n\nIf the capacity to endure political pain could decide the vote, she would win.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"Theresa Mayaposs strategy for getting her Brexit deal through parliament Masochism","date":"2018-11-22","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Researchers have just created yet another terrifying artificial intelligence (AI) tool to cause confusion and spread misinformation throughout mass media. In an article from The Register, experts in machine learning have devised a computer system that can change the movement of a persons face in a video.\n\nIt is far worse than Deepfakes when it comes to the potential for trouble. Deepfakes, of course, is an earlier AI-based image alteration technique that mapped the faces of well-known people onto the bodies of porn stars.\n\nThe new technology takes the face of its target and manipulates the image into following the movements and expressions of a different source. It can be used to make fake footage of people making statements that they never actually said in their entire lives  say, by taking the well-known face of Vladimir Putin and using the equally-distinct facial mannerisms of Barack Obama. The result is a video clip of Putin giving Obamas speech.\n\nThe paper describing the image-synthesizing neural program claimed to have achieved realistic results. This is troubling, to say the least.\n\nWhile disgusting, videos altered by Deepfakes were also easy enough to recognize as fake. The eyebrows did not match the forehead, for one, and the movements were notably clumsy.\n\nA similar image mapping project combined lip-syncing and an audio clip to create fake videos. Again, the movement of the lips did not match 100 percent of the time.\n\nThe new machine learning system is reputedly much more advanced than those two. It is the first such AI that can map the sources head position and rotation, the facial expressions, and the blinking and gaze of the eyes for transfer onto a portrait video of the target. (Related: Use of A.I. has revealed the most predictive factors of corruption.)\n\nGet more news like this without being censored: Get the Natural News app for your mobile devices. Enjoy uncensored news, lab test results, videos, podcasts and more. Bypass all the unfair censorship by Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Get your daily news and videos directly from the source! Download here.\n\nAccording to their paper, the artificial neural network rebuilt a face based on certain striking parts. It could follow the head and facial movements, which allowed it to capture the facial expressions for every frame of the source and target videos.\n\nA facial representation procedure was used to calculate the data of the face on both videos. The data from the source face was altered a little before being mapped onto the target face.\n\nThe artificial neural network  called a generative adversarial network  handled the rendering. It watched the tracked frames of the target video.\n\nThe AI could learn from just a minute of footage of the source. Given just 2,000 frames of reference, it would be able to create fake images based on the source frames that can pass for the real ones.\n\nRight now, the AI is limited to altering the facial expressions of the target. It is unable to replicate the upper body of the target. Furthermore, it is confused by constantly-changing backgrounds.\n\nSaner minds have previously called attention to the dangers of this technology. Fake videos made by the AI can be used to mislead people. It could also call political security into question.\n\nThe researchers glossed over these valid issues. They did mention in their paper that videos needed invisible watermarking and other means of verifying their authenticity.\n\nIm aware of the ethical implications of those reenactment projects, claimed Justus Thies, a Technical University of Munich (TUM) researcher who served as one of the co-authors of the paper. That is also a reason why we published our results. I think it is important that the people get to know the possibilities of manipulation techniques.\n\nThies said facial reenactment has been used for a long time. The best-known examples are the dubbing and post-production processes of movies.","title":"SCARY Machine-learning experts build neural network that manipulates facial movements to create fak","date":"2018-07-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Making a meringue is a bit of cooking magic. You start with nothing more than a few egg whites, add in some sugar and with a bit of elbow grease (or an electric mixer) you get something glossy and fluffy.\n\nSpoon them onto a baking parchment- lined pan as individual meringues or as a giant pavlova and youre sorted.\n\nBest of all, you can make meringues ahead of time. In the summer, all you need to finish them off are some seasonal fruits.\n\nAny of the stone fruits are ideal such as apricots, peaches or nectarines or a combination based on what looks and smells ripest. A strawberry sauce adds some colour and can be whipped up easily the day before.\n\nThe only step youll want to do at the last minute is to slice your stone fruits and toss with sugar.\n\nYou want to give them a quarter of an hour or so to macerate because if left too long they go soft. Any leftover meringues can be stored in an air tight container for a few days.\n\nTo really get ahead of the game, next time you have any leftover egg whites, store them in the freezer so youre ready to make meringues whenever you want.\n\n500g stone fruit, apricots, peaches or nectarines\n\n 1-2 tsp caster sugar\n\n Pinch of salt\n\n Mint leaves to garnish\n\nTo make the meringues, whip the egg whites in a clean mixing bowl until they form soft peaks. Continue whipping the eggs and add the sugar one spoonful at a time. Line a baking tray with a piece of baking parchment. Spoon the mixture into rounds on the tray, making 8 meringues. Take the spoon and gently create a bowl shape in the centre of each one to hold the fruit.\n\nPlace the tray in the preheated oven and bake for around 1 12 hours or until the meringues are crisp on the outside. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a rack.\n\nWhile the meringues are baking, make the strawberry sauce. Hull and slice the strawberries. Place in a small saucepan along with the sugar, pinch of salt and white balsamic vinegar.\n\nHeat over medium heat until the strawberries are softened. Blitz with a stick blender or in a blender until smooth. Place in a clean jar and refrigerate until ready to serve.\n\nRight before serving, slice the stone fruit and add in the sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir and taste. The riper the fruit, the less sugar youll need. Adjust as needed. Let sit for a few minutes for the flavours to marry.\n\nTo serve, spoon a bit of strawberry sauce into each meringue, top with some of the stone fruits and another drizzle of the sauce. Garnish with the mint leaves and serve.","title":"How to make meringues with stone fruits and strawberry sauce","date":"2018-08-01","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The third-highest ranking Justice Department official, Rachel Brand, is leaving her post, reports the New York Times.\n\nRachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the countrys top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision. Ms. Brands profile had risen in part because she is next in the line of succession behind the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who is overseeing the special counsels inquiry into Russian influence in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, who has called the investigation a witch hunt, has considered firing Mr. Rosenstein. Such a move could have put her in charge of the special counsel and, by extension, left her in the cross hairs of the president. Ms. Brand, who became the associate attorney general in May 2017, is leaving for a job as general counsel in the private sector. She has held politically appointed positions at the Justice Department over the past three presidential administrations.\n\nWho will replace Brand? According to an executive order on Justice Department succession, issued on March 31, 2017, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia gets first dibs. Second is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina and third is the Northern District of Texas.\n\nBecause Tracy Doherty-McCormick is only the acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the official most likely to replace Brand is U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Robert Higdon.\n\nRobert J. Higdon, Jr. was nominated to be the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina by President Donald Trump on August 2, 2017.  He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 28, 2017.   As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Higdon is the top-ranking federal law enforcement official in the Eastern District of North Carolina, which includes the 44 eastern most counties of North Carolina. He oversees a staff of 108 employees, including 51 attorneys and 57 non-attorney support personnel.  The office also partners with some 20 Special Assistant United States Attorneys from branches of the United States military, local District Attorneys offices and federal and state regulatory agencies.\n\nIn 2012, Higdon was the lead prosecutor in the campaign finance fraud case involving former North Carolina Senator John Edwards.\n\nStephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas noted the shakeup is a, very big deal.\n\nIts Brand (or her successor) whos first in line to take over supervision of Muellers investigation if Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein is fired.\n\nSo far as I know, there isnt currently a confirmed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, so under the current Executive Order, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina is next in the line of succession, added Vladeck.\n\nVladeck then says in Attorney General Jeff Sessions own succession memo shows Solicitor General Noel Francisco, another Trump appointee, is next in line to replace Brand.\n\nNoel John Francisco was sworn in as the 48th Solicitor General of the United States on September 19, 2017. Prior to joining the Justice Department, he was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Jones Day, where he was the chair of the Firms Government Regulation Practice.  While at Jones Day, he appeared several times before the Supreme Court, including in McDonnell v. United States, which involved the meaning of official act under federal bribery statutes; Zubik v. Burwell, which involved the application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to regulations related to insurance coverage for contraception; and NLRB v. Noel Canning, which involved the Constitutions recess appointment power.  He has also argued numerous cases in the lower federal and state courts on a wide range of constitutional, civil, and criminal matters.\n\nBrand joins a growing list of key officials leaving the FBI\/DOJ cabal amid Inspector General Michael Horowitzs probe into the bureaus Clinton email investigation.\n\nFormer FBI special agent Josh Campbell recently quit the bureau to join CNN, citing increasing levels of criticism directed at the agency.\n\nIn what was a significant shakeup at the FBI, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down January 29th.\n\nMcCabe, who served a brief stint as acting director of the bureau, was already expected to leave. He will stay on terminal leave until he is eligible to retire with benefits in March, reported CNBC.\n\nIn late January, James Rybicki, a top FBI official who was once chief of staff to James Comey and current Bureau Director Christopher Wray, resigned as well.","title":"This is a Very Big Deal Meet the Trump Appointees Who Could Replace Outgoing DOJ Official Rachel","date":"2018-02-09","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"MSM is attacking Jerome Corsi who is being punished for not going along with Muellers false narrative.","title":"The Mainstream Media Seeks To Smear Jerome Corsi","date":"2018-11-27","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Back in 2016 The Gateway Pundit was one of the VERY FEW major media publishers to predict a Donald J. Trump landslide victory.\n\nWe were right.\n\n The liberal and Never-Trump media were wrong.\n\nAs previously reported by The Gateway Pundit...\n\n** FiveThirtyEights Nate Silver polling says Democrats have an 84.8% chance of taking the US House of Representatives.\n\n** FiveThirtyEights Nate Silver also gave Hillary Clinton a 72% chance of winning the 2016 election.\n\nWe predicted in September during the Kavanaugh hearings that there will be a Red Wave in the midterm election.\n\n Today Republican early voting is off the charts. Republicans for THE FIRST TIME EVER are leading with early voting in Florida.\n\nNow it looks like Nate Silver is hedging his bets.","title":"Ruh-Roh FiveThirtyEights Nate Silver Hedges Bets Pulls Back from His Blue Wave Prediction","date":"2018-11-04","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"More school closures are likely on foot of structural assessments due to take place across 40 schools over the coming days, according to the Minister for Education Joe McHugh.\n\nHe said decisions on whether to close further schools will be based on the outcome of these safety checks.\n\nIn one school inspection, he said, officials concluded there was an 80 per cent chance of an external wall falling out and a 20 per cent chance of internal wall falling in during storm force winds.\n\nThe full list of 40 schools was published on Wednesday afternoon and officials now face a race against time to complete assessments before the end of the mid-term break on November 12th.\n\nMr McHugh said his departments priority is to ensure all school buildings are safe and that, in cases where there are concerns, to source alternative accommodation.\n\nNot all cases, he said, will require closure. While some may not have strucrtural defects, others might be in a position to be made safe with interim solutions such as wall braces.\n\nTyrellstown Educate Together national school and St Lukes national school, which share a campus in west Dublin, were ordered to close following assessment inspections.\n\nThe schools, with a combined enrolment of 1,200 students, are among 40 schools built by Western Building Systems since 2008 which face structural checks over the next three weeks.\n\nLast weekend, structural problems were discovered in Ardgillan Community College in Balbriggan, Co Dublin. Nearly 100 transition year students have been told to stay at home this week as a result.\n\nProblems were identified during a fire safety audit when the walls in two classrooms were opened up. A structural engineer found ties fixing the exterior and interior walls were absent or inadequate in places.\n\nMost concern focuses on schools built under a fast-track design and build programme, which ran from late 2007 to 2013. This resulted in some schools being built within just three months.\n\nThe Department of Education is in the process of informing all schools affected of when they will face inspections.\n\nOfficials are in a race against time to try to complete the inspection before the resumption of school following the mid-term break.\n\nIn the Dail on Tuesday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said it was possible that some schools would have to be partially or entirely closed, while in others it might be possible to conclude temporary measures and complete the work over the summer holidays.\n\nHe also warned of potential legal action if it emerged there were further structural issues. It does certainly appear to me that corners were cut back in the Celtic Tiger period when it comes to the building of some of these schools which is truly disgraceful in my view, he said.\n\nHowever a spokesman for Western Building Systems said its integrity has never been questioned until now.\n\nEach of our Department of Education projects, both before and since the amendments to building regulations in 2014, were subjected to inspections during construction. Every time, each was certified as meeting compliance standards, the spokesman said.","title":"More schools likely to close on foot of structural concerns","date":"2018-10-24","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"What led to your research on the link between Craigslist and sex work safety?\n\nI did a survey in 2008 that found online platforms were helping sex workers screen clients through references and email correspondences. That research seemed to be extremely important for thinking about sex workers safety. Prostitutes have the highest homicide rates of any female occupation in the country. They have been targeted by serial killers, violent men, and they are viewed as disposable, as people nobody will miss.\n\nHow did Craigslist ads  specifically those posted in the now-defunct erotic services section  reduce the number of sex workers who are killed by such a drastic amount?","title":"Craigslists Sex Work Ads Saved 2150 Womens Lives A Bill Could Make Such Posts Illegal","date":"2018-03-20","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) An event called We Need to Talk About Diversity was hosted by Portland State University on February 17, 2018. The event, moderated by philosophy professor Peter Boghossian, discussed viewpoint diversity. It included a panel of three professionals, including Evergreen State College biologist Heather E. Heying, writer Helen Pluckrose, and former Google engineer James DaMore who was ousted from Google in 2017 after penning a memo explaining the differences between men and women.\n\nWhen the panel agreed on the simple fact that men and women are physiologically different, a band of liberal lunatics went berserk, throwing a fit in front of the audience and cutting off the sound system as they left. This is not the first time James DaMore had faced this kind of liberal lunacy. In fact, DaMore was fired in 2017 when he wrote a memo explaining the biological differences between men and women. Evergreen State biologist Heather Heying was no stranger to this kind of absurd liberal behavior either. She came under attack during the liberal-led mob attacks at Evergreen State, simply because she taught biological truths.\n\nThis is the kind of routine insanity portrayed by the left. If they cannot impose their ideas on you, they erupt in profanity and violence, marching out of the room, tone deaf to reality. If they dont get their way, they protest for your speech to be restricted. If they dont like to hear the truth, they will find any way to intimidate you into silence.\n\nWho wouldve thought that simple biological truths about men and women would be thrown into question, that students would feel so upset about the physiological differences between male and female? Who wouldve thought that their rejection of reality would embolden their emotional immaturity?\n\nWatch it for yourself:\n\nThe insanity begins around the 18:00 mark, with Pluckrose explaining what social constructivism means. After the explanation, Boghossian gives the floor to Heying, asking, What can we take from what Helen said to help us make sense of James memo (that got him fired from Google)?\n\nHeying responded, James argues, accurately, that there are differences between men and women. This is a strange position to be in, to be arguing for something that is so universally and widely accepted within biology... Continuing on, she says, Lets look at differences between men and women that are explicitly anatomical and physiological; are men taller than women on average? Does anyone take offense at that fact? I would say you could be irritated by it; you could be irritated by the fact that women have to be the ones who gestate and lactate; you could be irritated by a lot of truths...\n\nThats when a green-haired protestor erupted from her seat and led her intolerant, liberal groupies out the door, shutting down sound equipment as they left.\n\nHeying wasnt deterred. She calmly stated, But taking offense is a response that is a reflection of reality. So, men and women are different on height; theyre different on muscle mass; theyre different on where fat is deposited on our bodies. Our brains are also different. So there are some binaries\n\n As security was called in, one of the lunatics screamed Hes a piece of s***. That is not okay. Even the women in there have been brainwashed!\n\nA young male yelled out ... should not listen to fascism. It should not be tolerated in civil society. Nazis are not welcome in civil society.\n\nYet another screamed aloud F*** the police! Power to the people!\n\nThe panel, now without sound, projected their voices  not to be intimidated by the emotionally immature bursts of liberal rage that had just left the building, exposing their own fragility. (For more liberal lunatic rage, visit CampusInsanity.com.)","title":"Liberal lunatics Students go insane when panel agrees that men and women are different","date":"2018-03-04","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Republican Josh Hawley now leads McCaskill by 8 points in the latest Missouri Rising Action poll in a state Donald Trump won by 20 points.\n\nOn Friday morning Josh Hawley joined Americas Newsroom to discuss the Senate cloture vote to advance Judge Kavanaugh to a final confirmation vote.\n\nJosh Hawley blasted Senator McCaskill to voting with Democrats as she ALWAYS does when they need her. There is not one instance when Claire McCaskill did not join Democrats when they needed her vote.\n\nJosh Hawley: Im looking forward to the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh. This is something the people of my state voted for Bill when they entrusted President Trump voting for him by 20 points because they trusted him to put pro-constitution judges on the bench. To see Senator McCaskill vote no this morning to advance the nomination is extremely disappointing but I have to say this is typical because shes been part of this smear campaign from the beginning.","title":"Josh Hawley McCaskills Vote Against Kavanaugh Disappointing But Typical Shes Been Part of Smear","date":"2018-10-05","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"18-year-old Parkland school shooting activist and boycott bully David Hogg is once again targeting Fox News Channel prime time host Laura Ingraham with an advertiser boycott. Back in March, Hogg got his feelings hurt because Ingraham commented on his self-admitted difficulties getting admitted to elite California universities. Hogg led a partially successful boycott campaign which cost Ingraham several advertisers but also increased her audience as Fox and other advertisers stood by Ingraham.\n\nIn the four months since the Parkland school massacre, Hogg has led boycotts with mixed results against Publix grocery stores (pictured) FedEx, Florida tourism, NRA supporting companies and Laura Ingraham.\n\nNow Hogg is going after Ingraham again. This time over her comment that illegal alien children being held for processing by the Trump administration while separated from their families and unaccompanied minors are kept in conditions akin to a summer camp.\n\nHogg became a nationally known gun control activist after a bullied former student attacked students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where Hogg was a senior, killing 17.\n\nHogg has led boycotts related to gun control and the NRA with mixed results. While Ingraham is a Second Amendment supporter, Hoggs boycotts of her have nothing to do with gun control and everything to do with Hoggs apparent impulse to smash a woman he cant control.\n\nHogg tweeted to Ingraham Tuesday morning in bullying comments. The haughty tone used by Hogg sounds like the kind used by psycho-stalkers who taunt women into submission.\n\nSo @IngrahamAngle we meet again. Who are you biggest advertisers now?\n\nIf we get these advertisers pulled maybe @Ingraham will have to become a camp counselor and learn how wrong she is. 1. @BeachesResorts & @SandalsResorts [email protected] 3. @CarfaxReports 4. @AceHardware 5. IAC (Angies List, Home Advisor, Match) 6. @Cabelas 7. @JohnDeere\n\nHogg retweeted a fellow Parkland student gun control activist, Matt Deitsch who posted about Ingraham advertiser Cabellas, Cabelas posted this on Fathers Day but supports @IngrahamAngle who claims that separating families and putting children in cages is just like summer camp. These kids are getting abused. You should be ashamed.\n\n Contact Cabelas here: 1-800-237-4444\n\nHogg also retweeted a liberal Miami activist and radio host, Grant Stern, who wrote, If you thought advertisers should #BoycottIngraham for insulting mass murder survivor @davidhogg111, then theres NO question, its time to bring back the boycott for this. Laura Ingraham should leave TV and send her kids to #TrumpConcentrationCamps if she loves them so much.\n\nFor the record, Ingraham has adopted three children according to Wikipedia, a girl from Guatemala whom she adopted in 2008; a boy she adopted at 13 months in 2009; and another boy she adopted in 2011. Both of the boys are from Russia.\n\nHogg is traveling the country for a voter registration drive to get young people to vote out pro-NRA politicians. He was in St. Louis this past weekend where he championed slain bully Mike Brown of Ferguson, Missouri who was killed in 2014 as he charged a police officer after attacking the officer in his vehicle.\n\nIngraham has not responded on Twitter to Hoggs renewed boycott.\n\nBefore Hogg targeted her again, Ingraham tweeted a San Diego Union Tribune article she referenced on her show that described a facility for migrant children, Many elements of Casa San Diego, an El Cajon facility for unaccompanied children who arrived at the southern border, seem like what one would expect from a boarding school...  and There are classrooms, a play area with soccer goals and a medical clinic with superheroes like Wonder Woman, Superman and the Hulk on the walls.","title":"Teen Tyrant David Hogg Targets Laura Ingraham With New Boycott Over Illegal Alien Children Summer C","date":"2018-06-19","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A hero air traffic controller died during the devastating Indonesia tsunami after staying behind to make sure a plane carrying hundreds of passengers took off.\n\nAnthonius Gunawan Agung, 21, was working at Palu airport on the island of Sulawesi on Friday night, when it was struck by two earthquakes causing huge waves to batter the coastline.\n\nWith his colleagues running for their lives and the tremors growing in strength, he bravely remained in his control tower until the flight was safely in the air.\n\nBut the crumbling tower was collapsing around him, and he was forced to jump from a fourth floor window.\n\nHe was rushed to hospital with internal injuries and a broken leg, and was due to be taken by helicopter to another hospital on Saturday morning.\n\nHowever, he died before the helicopter arrived.\n\nAir Navigation Indonesia spokesman Yohannes Sirait said his decision had cost him his life, but hundreds of others may have been saved.\n\nAt least 384 people have been killed as a result of the second 7.5 magnitude earthquake, which triggered a huge tsunami on Friday afternoon.\n\nSome 540 people have been injured, and 29 have been reported missing.\n\nRescue efforts have been hampered by damaged infrastructure as roads were blocked and bridges left out of action, while communications to some areas have been completely cut off.\n\nPalu was one of the worst affected areas. Images from the city, which has a population of 380,000, show parts of it completely submerged in water with widespread damage to buildings.\n\nHowever Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency BNPB, said casualties and the damage could be even greater in Donggala, located 190 miles north of Palu along the coastline and closer to the epicentre of the quake.\n\nSome 300,000 people live in Donggala however disaster response units were struggling to get to the town and have been unable to make contact.","title":"Indonesia tsunami Hero air traffic controller died in earthquake after staying to ensure plane took","date":"2018-09-29","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"OMSK, August 28. \/TASS\/. The expenses on the upcoming Vostok-2018 large-scale\nmilitary drills are justified to maintain Russias defense capability amid the\ntense international situation, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on\nTuesday.\n\n\"The social security network and the pension system are a constant element of\nstate policy and a very important component. But the countrys defense\ncapability in the current international situation, which is frequently quite\naggressive and unfriendly for our country, is justified, needed and has no\nalternative,\" the Kremlin spokesman told journalists, thus replying to a\nquestion about whether the spending on the Vostok-2018 large-scale strategic\ndrills were appropriate in the current economic conditions.\n\nThe Vostok-2018 drills will be held in August-September with the involvement\nof the military personnel and military hardware of Russias Eastern and\nCentral Military Districts and the Northern Fleet. As Defense Minister Sergey\nShoigu said earlier on Tuesday, the drills will be unprecedented by their\nscope and will involve about 300,000 troops and over 1,000 aircraft.\n\nChinas participation in Vostok-2018 drills suggests broader interaction with\nRussia\n\nChinas participation in Russias Vostok-2018 strategic drills suggests the\ntwo countries broader interaction in all the spheres, Kremlin Spokesman\nPeskov said.\n\n\"This speaks about the expansion of interaction of the two allies in all the\nspheres,\" Peskov said.\n\nIt was reported earlier that Chinese troops would take part in the Vostok-2018\nstrategic drills at the Tsugol training range in the Trans-Baikal Region in\nEast Siberia on September 11-15.\n\nChinas Defense Ministry noted that \"the drills are aimed at strengthening\nRussian-Chinese strategic military cooperation in the field of jointly\nresponding to various security threats and also maintaining peace, stability\nand security in the region.\"\n\nChina will send about 3,200 troops, over 900 pieces of various military\nhardware and also 30 helicopters and aircraft for the joint drills with\nRussia.\n\nIn other media","title":"Kremlin underlines need for military drills amid tense international situation","date":"2018-08-28","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"More than 70 business leaders have backed calls for a final say on the final terms of Britain's exit from the EU, warning that the UK faces either a blindfold or a destructive hard Brexit that would be bad for both firms and jobs.\n\nWaterstones chief executive James Daunt, ex-Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King, Lastminute.com founder Martha Lane-Fox and Innocent Drinks co-founder Richard Reed are among signatories of a letter calling for a People's Vote on leaving the European Union.\n\nThe letter argues that both the Government's current plans for Brexit, and a no-deal Brexit, would leave the country worse off than being in the EU if the country left in March.\n\nOther people who put their name to the letter include Cobra Beer founder Lord Bilimoria, former Marks and Spencer chairman and ex-Labour peer Lord Myners, Alex Chesterman, founder of the Zoopla property website, and Sir Simon Robertson, the ex-chairman of Rolls-Royce.\n\nThe signatories  all acting in personal capacities  come from various different areas of commerce, including finance, retail, and food and drink.\n\nThey are the latest group to call for a second referendum, with a rally demanding a fresh vote a fortnight ago seeing a crowd estimated at almost 700,000 people march through central London.\n\nThe letter states: The business community was promised that, if the country voted to leave, there would continue to be frictionless trade with the EU and the certainty about future relations that we need to invest for the long term.\n\n\"Despite the Prime Minister's best efforts, the proposals being discussed by the Government and the European Commission fall far short of this, and they are not nearly as good as the current deal we have inside the EU.\n\nThe uncertainty over the past two years has already led to a slump in investment, which will make our country poorer.\n\nWe are now facing either a blindfold or a destructive hard Brexit. Both these options will further depress investment. They will be bad for business and bad for working people.\n\nGiven that neither was on the ballot in 2016, we believe the ultimate choice should be handed back to the public with a People's Vote.\n\nLord Myners, who was appointed as city minister by Gordon Brown in 2008 but now sits as a crossbencher, said: Any deal will be made from a position of weakness where we have surrendered our principal negotiating cards.\n\nIt will be half-formed, casting a long shadow over business confidence, damaging investment and hurting both enterprises and their employees for years to come.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Exiting the European Union said: The people of the United Kingdom have already had their say in one of the biggest democratic exercises this country has ever seen and the Prime Minister has made it clear that there is not going to be a second referendum.\n\nWe remain confident we will agree a mutually advantageous deal with the EU, that works for business and the economy.","title":"Brexit More than 70 business leaders back calls for final say referendum","date":"2018-11-03","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) The New York Times is on a mission: Get people to believe that at least 80 percent of them have normal vitamin D levels; that the nutrient is only important in the prevention of rickets in children and osteomalacia (a softening of the bones) in adults; that normal levels of vitamin D are anything above 20 nanograms per milliliter; and that one man  Dr. Michael Holick  has single-handedly convinced everybody that they need more of the hormone than they really do, all so that he can make lots of money.\n\nDr. Holick is a highly respected Boston University endocrinologist whose work has been published in multiple journals, including the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine. He was also responsible for overseeing the publication of a report published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism on behalf of the Endocrine Society, which is the group that produces the guidelines followed nationally by hospitals, doctors and commercial labs. Despite these credentials, The Times paints him as a quack on a mission to make money off scaremongering.\n\nThe Times quotes doctors and researchers who for their own reasons  no doubt linked to Big Pharma  insist that Dr. Holicks enthusiasm for vitamin D is extreme. Yet, The Times fails to note that since vitamin D is a hormone, it is the Endocrine Society, and its leaders like Dr. Holick, who are the experts in the field and should be consulted when determining the necessary levels of this hormone.\n\nWhy does it matter? Well, because only one group can be correct. Either a large proportion of the population is deficient in a hormone and is suffering the health consequences, or the problem has been overstated by people who are simply in it for the money. If Dr. Holick and his colleagues are correct  and the science certainly backs them up  it would go a long way towards explaining why diseases which have all but died out in recent years, including whooping cough, have been making a quiet comeback in recent years.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nWhooping cough  a bacterial infection which can be life-threatening, particularly in young children  virtually disappeared in the 1940s, but outbreaks have sprung up around the country since about 2012. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides more information about this illness:\n\nPertussis (whooping cough) can cause serious illness in babies, children, teens, and adults. Symptoms of pertussis usually develop within 5 to 10 days after you are exposed. Sometimes pertussis symptoms do not develop for as long as 3 weeks. ...\n\nThe disease usually starts with cold-like symptoms and maybe a mild cough or fever. In babies, the cough can be minimal or not even there. Babies may have a symptom known as apnea. Apnea is a pause in the childs breathing pattern. Pertussis is most dangerous for babies. About half of babies younger than 1 year who get the disease need care in the hospital. ...\n\nPertussis can cause violent and rapid coughing, over and over, until the air is gone from your lungs. When there is no more air in the lungs, you are forced to inhale with a loud whooping sound. This extreme coughing can cause you to throw up and be very tired. Although you are often exhausted after a coughing fit, you usually appear fairly well in-between. Coughing fits generally become more common and bad as the illness continues, and can occur more often at night. The coughing fits can go on for up to 10 weeks or more.\n\nThis is where it gets really interesting. Rigorous research has confirmed a link between low vitamin D levels and increased risk of respiratory infections, which are infections of the parts of the body involved in breathing, including the sinuses, throat, airway and lungs. It is important to note that this would include whooping cough.\n\nExperts believe that waning efficacy of the pertussis vaccine lies at the heart of the increase in incidences of the disease, but insist that people should get the vaccine, anyway.\n\nThe Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC), for example, inexplicably advises:\n\n[E]ven though the effectiveness of vaccines may wane over time, experts say people should still make sure to get them.\n\nThe Vitamin D Council, on the other hand, makes the more logical argument that respiratory infections most often strike in winter, and particularly in people with lower levels of the hormone  levels which are at their lowest in winter because of reduced exposure to sunshine. They also note that research has confirmed that people with higher levels of vitamin D tend to get fewer respiratory infections, and even when they do get sick, tend to get less ill and for a shorter period of time than those with lower levels.\n\nThe Council makes the sensible suggestion, therefore, that supplementing with vitamin D could help reduce the risk of contracting respiratory illnesses  including whooping cough  without the serious risks posed by vaccines (which have proven ineffective, anyway). A note of caution is needed, however: It is important not to exceed 10,000 IU of vitamin D per day, and it is always advisable to talk to your naturopathic physician before taking any supplements.","title":"As the New York Times attacks vitamin D whooping cough - easily prevented with the low-cost nutrien","date":"2018-09-04","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Paul Pogba pledged to continue giving his best for fans, team-mates and \"the people that trust me\" in the wake of renewed speculation about his Manchester United future.\n\nTwo years after returning to Old Trafford from Juventus in a world-record deal, the 25-year-old is reported to be so unhappy that he has informed executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward of his desire to leave.\n\nUnited have denied that happened and the same outlet said that Mino Raiola, the player's agent, had even struck a deal with Barcelona - the kind of interest that the club have vowed to reject.\n\nA tense relationship with Jose Mourinho appears to be at the heart of it. Questions about their relationship were raised last term and the midfielder is said to have been annoyed by his manager's comments around the World Cup.\n\nPogba only returned to training at the start of the week after helping France to win the tournament but he was thrust into the starting line-up on Friday and given the captain's armband, when his penalty set United on course for a 2-1 win against Leicester.\n\n\"Of course it makes me proud, it makes me happy to wear this (armband) at a big club like Manchester United,\" he said.\n\n\"Like I always say, I always give my best for the fans, for my team-mates, for the people that trust me.\"\n\nPut to Pogba that it looked like he was fully committed to United after a lot of things had been said about his position at the club over recent days, he added: \"Well, like I said, I always give my best for the fans, for the team-mates and for the people that trust me.\"\n\nPogba's focus on trust seemed pointed, as did his post on Twitter shortly after the match.\n\n\"I'll always give my best to the fans and my teammates no matter what's going on,\" he wrote.\n\nAll does not appear well behind the scenes, despite Mourinho saying on the eve of the Leicester match that when the media \"repeat 1,000 times that my relationship with my players is not good, it's a lie that (is) repeated 1,000 times\".\n\nBut it is not just the manager's relationship with United's players that has come under inspection, considering he was irked by executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward failing to strengthen the squad before the transfer deadline.\n\nMourinho said \"football is changing, and managers should be called head coaches\" after beating Leicester, who he flagged as a side that should not be underestimated as they \"invest more than us\".\n\nThe comments from the Portuguese and Pogba are sure to see contentment behind the scenes come under bigger focus, but Friday's win was a welcome boost at a time of apparent discontent.\n\n\"It's three points, it's what we wanted,\" Pogba said. \"Very happy.\n\n\"Of course the performance wasn't the best, but it's better to start like this and finish well than start very well and finish bad.\n\n\"We know the players, and myself as well, didn't have a lot of training and we played a game.\n\n\"We knew we were not going to be fit, 100 per cent, but the most important (thing) was to start well the Premier League.\"\n\nPogba's early penalty was followed by Luke Shaw - a player who had endured a testy relationship with Mourinho - scoring his first goal for the club, meaning Jamie Vardy's stoppage-time effort was little more than a consolation.\n\nIt was a decent start to the season considering the number of injury and fitness worries that United had to contend with, but Friday's skipper is not getting carried away.\n\n\"So, it's pretty early to speak about this now,\" Pogba said when asked of their chances of success this term.\n\n\"We started with Andreas Pereira and Fred, and they played very well today.\n\n\"With the players that we have...of course we're Manchester United, we have to look at the top of the league. That's obvious. I mean, Manchester United, we have to show on the pitch, we have to play well, we have to be focused and we need people to trust us.\"\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"Paul Pogba pledges future to Manchester United and targets title challenge after opening day victory","date":"2018-08-11","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The Republican National Committee is catching heat on Twitter after it encouraged people to support Team USA at the Winter Olympics by buying this old beanie from President Donald Trumps website:\n\nMany respondents accused the RNC of attempting to cash in on the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. They also asked how purchasing a Thank You Tour 2016 hat would help them gear up for Team USA.\n\nOthers questioned whether any of the money raised would benefit American athletes competing in South Korea. Heres a sampling of the responses:\n\nDear @GOP, \n\n\n\nI think you are confused. @TeamUSA is currently in PyeongChangcompeting in the Olympics 2018. \n\n\n\nSupport #TeamUSA  \n\nGear up for #TeamUSA \n\n https:\/\/t.co\/qtw7AQimbX...  Marcus Philippus (@EPluribusMarcus) February 9, 2018\n\nBut... youre not team USA. Youre like, team 35% of the USA at most. And you dont seem to care about the other 65%...  Dan Andersxon (@dandersxon) February 10, 2018\n\nThis is undoubtedly the most insipid excuse at fund raising I have ever seen. For you to use our Olympic tam to benefit your crooked party is shameful! SHAMEFUL!  patricia ramsey (@ppr2103) February 9, 2018\n\nI can't make a difference. Is this a comedy or a parody now? When you think it can't get more ridiculous they carry the bar down to basement.  Thierry Emanuel (@foodandfriend) February 10, 2018\n\nWhy does it say thank you tour?  Lucy Salva (@Voters4Kasich) February 9, 2018\n\n@BitterMetsFan those hats say 2016.. is that why nothing gets done, you assclowns don't know what year it is? pic.twitter.com\/ZiTUBbZxUy  Christopher Ludwig (@ChrisLudwig73) February 9, 2018\n\n.How is this supporting the Olympic athletes? Do the athletes cut any of this money or does all to to @POTUS ?  DA (@DanAhern68) February 9, 2018\n\nGrifters gotta grift, I suppose. Who signed off on this crap?  (((Susan Campbell))) (@campbellsl) February 9, 2018\n\nEwww. So gauche to hawk crummy merchandise. What a stain on the dignity of our government institutions.  Lori Ginsberg (@ltgins) February 10, 2018\n\nUmmm That would be a NO! Really @GOP pushing Trump crap in the name of our olympians? Bar just keeps getting lower and lower. https:\/\/t.co\/RvI6Yqja6A  David  FunKnGrvn (@d2drummer) February 10, 2018","title":"The RNC Is Hawking Old Donald Trump Merch For The Olympics And Folks Arent Happy","date":"2018-02-10","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"MPs from the Democratic Unionist Party are expected to abstain for a second time on crucial Budget votes in the Commons in protest at Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nIt comes after Eurosceptics in the party faced questions over the apparent collapse of their efforts to trigger a no confidence in the prime minister.\n\nAt a press conference MPs from the European Research Group (ERG) of Brexiteer Conservatives were interrogated over their failure to persuade 48 colleagues to submit letters of no confidence in Ms May to the chair of the 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady\n\nTory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted \"patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace\" when pressed on whether the necessary 48 letters had been sent, as he warned his colleagues that now might be their only chance to remove Ms May ahead of the next general election.\n\nTory rebel organiser Steve Baker said it was \"now or never\" to oust Ms May and characterised the move as an \"insurrection by a group of determined democrats\" against the \"might of the state\".\n\nIt comes after Mr Rees-Mogg issued a rallying call to other Tory MPs to topple the prime minister last week, when he joined around 26 Conservative backbenchers in publicly submitting no-confidence letters to Sir Graham Brady, of the 1922 committee.\n\nAsked why the threshold had not been met, he said: \"Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace. We will see what letters come in due time.\n\n\"Do 47 want to come with me or not? I may find that they don't or they don't do it today but when we get the meaningful vote. That's a decision for them.\"\n\nThis liveblog has now closed, but you can read about the events in Westminster today above\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"DUP expected to abstain for second time on crucial Budget votes","date":"2018-11-20","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Well-off students are better equipped to \"take advantage\" of the university clearing system, a leading university official has warned.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire prgramme, Middlesex University pro-vice chancellor and marketing director Kate Everest said students from wealthier backgrounds are better prepared for the clearing system.\n\nThousands of teenagers today received their grades after sitting reformed exams with no coursework or modules, and the introduction of final exams.\n\nClearing, run by admissions service Ucas, is the process by which universities and colleges fill any places they still have left on their degree courses.\n\nStudents who do not achieve their predicted grades are able to see which courses still have places remaining, and apply.\n\nMs Everest said universities have a \"responsibility\" to work in partnership with schools and colleges to ensure that all students have access to support before their results come out.\n\nDiscussing the clearing system, Victoria Derbyshire asked Ms Everest: \"We hear a lot about more well off students being able to take advantage of the university clearing system because they are better prepared for the system. Is that fair, is that true?\"\n\nMs Everest said: \"I think that is often true. Universities have a responsibility to make sure they are reaching out into schools and colleges earlier than results day, and working in partnership with schools to make sure people are accessing the advice.\"\n\nThe pro-vice chancellor said Middlesex University has been running a call centre over the last six weeks \"taking calls and listening to people\" to offer support in advance of results day.\n\nShe added: \"A lot of universities are geared towards that now because we need to make sure that people make the right choices.\n\n\"It's not just about getting them in the door, it's making sure that they have a degree that can help them get a good job.\"\n\nMs Everest also argued for making conditional offers in some cases, where students are interviewed and submit a portfolio of work.\n\nShe said: \"It's important to emphasise that not all students have three A-levels or three predicted A-levels.\n\n\"Actually what we are seeing is students with work experience - who have come from different pathways.\n\n\"What you are doing is assessing people's potential to succeed, and that's not just about their grades.\"\n\nThe university official appeared on the BBC programme as students across the country received their A-level results on Thursday.\n\nMore than one in four A-levels were awarded an A or A* this year - the highest proportion for six years, national figures show.\n\nBut there has been a fall in the number of students accepted on degree courses at UK universities.\n\nIn total, 411,860 students - from the UK and overseas - have taken up places, down 1 per cent compared with the same point last year, according to initial data published by admissions service Ucas.\n\nMeanwhile some 16.1 per cent of those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds have been accepted - up 0.4 percentage points.","title":"A level results day 2018 Well-off students are better able to apostake advantageapos of the cle","date":"2018-08-16","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) If you had any doubts about the culture of corruption at the CDC, a look at some internal correspondence regarding vaccine studies should clear things up for you. This email correspondence, which is the subject of a recent expose by Vera Sharav for the World Mercury Project, shows just how far officials at the CDC will go to shield vaccines and their recommended childhood vaccination schedule.\n\nAccording to the emails, their deception extends to outsourcing epidemiological studies that are pretty irrelevant to the current vaccine exposure of American children but awfully convenient for furthering their cause.\n\nThe CDC has often used The Danish Studies to support their claim that the mercury-based preservative thimerosal used in vaccines does not have a statistically significant link to autism, although it remains a very controversial study. Their choice of Denmark as a population study comparator to the U.S. for vaccine risks was a very deliberate one.\n\nAccording to an email exchange, several of the doctors involved in the studies acknowledged that the vaccination schedule in the U.S. exposes American babies to far higher thimerosal doses than European babies. In fact, the Danish babies used in the study got 75 percent less thimerosal than American babies.\n\nIn Denmark, the only childhood vaccine given to babies younger than five months was monovalent pertussis, while American children were given multiple doses of pertussis, diphtheria, polio, tetanus, and hepatitis B vaccines by that age. This means the Danish studies simply cannot be compared to American children and have no value in determining how risky thimerosal vaccines are  it is a case of comparing apples to oranges, if you will.\n\nIn one email, the author of a 2001 study whose first phase found a 7.6 increased risk factor of developing autism from thimerosal exposure, Dr. Tom Verstraeten, voices concerns about scientific dishonesty when writing to a heavy metal toxicity expert about his VSD study. He said that he couldnt make the statistical link between autism and thimerosal disappear when he wrote: It just wont go away.\n\nApparently, they did find a way, however. In the study, one of the underhanded tactics used to diminish the risk included changing the cut-off age to eliminate the children who were later diagnosed with autism. Some of the other tactics uncovered by an analysis included inconsistent inclusion criteria, inconsistent diagnostic criteria and the omission or deletion of data. Verstraeten left the CDC to work for vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline shortly after the revised findings were released.\n\nOne pediatrician. Dr. Edward Yazbak, stated: They hope to bury evidence of the dangers of vaccines. At the same time, they have waged a misinformation campaign in making claims that skyrocketing Autism\/ASD rates are due to better diagnostics.\n\nIn a 2014 review, independent scientists who took a closer look at the six studies the CDC often cites as evidence supporting the safety of vaccines was published in the journal Biomed Research International. In the study, researchers listed 165 other studies that refute the notion that thimerosal is safe. Sixteen of the studies looked specifically at the effects thimerosal can have on infants and children, finding deaths, malformations, neurodevelopmental disorders including autism, developmental delays and allergic reactions.\n\nThis type of corruption isnt a one-off incident that happened years ago; in fact, this behavior continues to this day. Just last month, CDC director Brenda Fitzgerald was forced to resign after it was discovered that she owns shares in vaccine manufacturer Merck, erasing any lingering doubts anyone might have had about whether or not the government agency has a vested interest in promoting vaccines.\n\nFollow more news about the corruption of the CDC at CDC.news.","title":"CDC emails reveal culture of deep corruption and scientific dishonesty","date":"2018-02-13","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"As the government continues to cut funding for police, top officer, Sergeant Simon Kempton raises the alarm that police are very close to losing the streets. The operation policing lead for the Police Federation believes the cuts in police numbers is directly responsible for the rise in violent crime.\n\nHe has requested the government focus on protecting its citizens, stating that the future looked bleak if officials continue their gross underfunding of the police service. Sergeant Kempton has urged the government to stop underfunding the police service.\n\nI think the first and the last duty of any government is to protect its citizens, and if the budgets across government have to be constrained difficult decisions need to be made.","title":"UK Very Close to Losing Streets Top Official","date":"2018-09-24","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"On tonights Banned Live Midterm Election coverage, we break down juicy details surrounding the migrant caravan thats growing  and heading north to the US border. We also look into the viral NPC meme spreading over the Internet. Tune in every weeknight until the midterm election on Nov. 6th:\n\nTune in to Infowars.com\/show Monday-Friday from 8-10 PM CDT to get the latest midterm developments and commentary exclusively from Alex Jones and other great Infowars hosts and guests!","title":"Livestream Deprogramming NPCs The Only Way To Save The Country Banned Live Midterm Election Cover","date":"2018-10-19","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Dems are trying to steal elections in Florida and Georgia after successfully pulling off a big steal in Arizona. Tune in to War Room with Owen Shroyer to find out how Republicans are planning to hold election officials accountable.","title":"Watch Live Democrats Caught Red Handed Stealing Multiple House and Senate Seats","date":"2018-11-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Two mayoral candidates  Susana Mendoza and Dorothy Brown  appeared to be in\nthe most vulnerable position as the filing period ended Monday and the\ncampaign entered the petition challenge phase thats expected to winnow the\nfield.\n\nBrown and Mendoza each filed roughly 25,000 signatures. Thats only double the\nlegal requirement of 12,500 and well below the more than 40,000 filed by\nfellow Monday filer state Rep. La Shawn Ford.\n\nCandidates typically shoot for triple the minimum to provide the legal cushion\nthey need to survive a challenge.\n\nYou need 12,500 good ones, right? Thats what matters, and thats the number\nwe were shooting for, Mendoza said.\n\nIts gonna be enough. We worked really hard to get those. And we validated\nour signatures ... before we turned `em in. So, were good. Were gonna be on\nthe ballot ... We were working under a very short time period, but I think we\ndid a pretty awesome job.\n\nMendoza acknowledged that she got a late start because she first needed to get\nre-elected state comptroller.\n\nIf we would have had four or five months like the other candidates, wed have\nmore signatures. But, I think its impressive that we got over 25,000 in about\na three-week span, she said.\n\nWhen the dust clears on a lengthy and costly challenge process that could drag\non through much of December, Brown said she, too, expects to be on the ballot.\n\nWeve already done our verifications and were running 70 [to] 80 percent\naccuracy, Brown said.\n\nWhen the week-long filing period closed Monday, 21 candidates had submitted\npetitions for the mayoral race. Thats one more than eight years ago  the\nlast time the mayors office was up for grabs. In that race, to succeed\nretiring Mayor Richard M. Daley, 20 men and women had filed for mayor at the\nclose of the filing period. But only six wound up on the ballot after\nchallenges and candidate withdrawals.\n\nThis year, Brown and three other mayoral candidates  Bill Daley, Gery Chico\nand Garry McCarthy  lined up early Monday to present nominating petitions on\nthe final day of filing, skipping the lottery for first and last place on the\nballot.\n\nThat lottery for the bottom spot will be held Dec. 5, and will have six\nentrants who filed late Monday: former alderman Bob Fioretti; activist JaMal\nGreen; Ford; John Kozlar; entrepreneur Neal Sales-Griffin; and former Police\nBoard president Lori Lightfoot.\n\nPetition challenges are due by 5 p.m. on Dec. 3.\n\nBill Daley, the son and brother of Chicago mayors, checked in with 45,000\nsignatures, along with a headline-grabbing proposal to lower the bar for\nfuture mayoral campaigns.\n\nThe Legislatures got to look at this whole process and say, `Whats a real\nnumber? Were much higher than any other major city. It ought to be lowered,\nBill Daley said.\n\n![Bill\nDaley](https:\/\/suntimesmedia.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/img_8088.jpg?w=400&h=300)\n\nMayoral candidate Bill Daley (right) files roughly 45,000 signatures Monday on\nthe final day of filing. Daley will join the lottery for last place on the\nballot that includes Gery Chico, Garry McCarthy and Dorothy Brown. | Fran\nSpielman\/Sun-Times\n\nAnd the thought that, [with] people [getting] in at different stages of this\ncampaign, if you sign one petition you cant sign another is a little\ndisingenuous considering we want more ballot access. We want more people\ninvolved in the process.\n\nBill Daley didnt flinch when reminded that the current restrictions were\ntailor-made to benefit his father and brother, who ruled Chicago for 43 years.\n\nThanks for pointing that out, Bill Daley said. Obviously, my proposal is\nvery different than theirs. Its one of many differences between family\nmembers, as [with] every family.\n\nChico begged to differ with Bill Daley after filing a little over 32,000\nsignatures.\n\nHes all for allowing registered voters to sign the nominating petition of\nmore than one mayoral candidate.\n\nThis isnt a vote. So, were not implicating the Constitution [clause], `One\nperson, one vote,  he said.\n\nBut, Chico said he does not support reducing the signature requirement below\n12,500.\n\nThere ought to be some rigor here. This is a very important office. Theres a\nlot of peoples lives that are impacted by who this individual will be, he\nsaid.\n\nMcCarthy, the fired Chicago police superintendent, said he filed around\n55,000 signatures after knocking out roughly 10,000 he deemed invalid.\n\nWe feel very good about it. We had a lot of volunteers ... and we ended up\npaying for a lot of it, too, because volunteers  they kind of trail off, as\nIm learning, he said.\n\nPaid circulators are dangerous. Lured by the bounty, many cut corners.\n\nBut, McCarthy said, Weve had people reviewing over and over again. Were\nvery confident that the number we put in is gonna get us there.\n\nAsked whether he intends to challenge anybody elses petitions, McCarthy said\nonly: Maybe.\n\nEverybody whos in it is game, he said. Some of us draw from the same\nconstituencies.\n\nToni Preckwinkle, Willie Wilson, Paul Vallas and Jeremiah Joyce Jr.  will\nenter a lottery for the top spot on the ballot. All four filed in the first\nhour of the first day last week.\n\nMendoza and Amara Enyia also opted out of both lotteries by filing in mid-\nafternoon of the final day.\n\nBut, the 62,000 signatures Enyia filed mid-afternoon were tailor-made to make\na political statement.\n\nTheyre even more than the roughly 60,000 filed by Preckwinkle, the County\nBoard president who doubles as chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central\nCommittee. Mendoza, who got off to a late start, filed close to 30,000\nsignatures.\n\nWe didnt have the advantage of decades of political experience [or] the\nadvantage of an entire party infrastructure. We simply had a message. We had\nenthusiasm from people who believe in the vision for the city and we worked\nextremely hard and extremely creatively, Enyia said.\n\nThat is a very strong statement  not only about the quality of our campaign,\nbut where the city is and the response that we had from people, many of whom\nsaid: `Ive never gotten involved in the political process until now.'\n\nEnyia acknowledged that the celebrity endorsement she got from Chance the\nRapper has elevated her candidacy and generated excitement, particularly among\nthe 18-to-37 demographic that turned out heavily during the mid-term\nelections.\n\nEndorsements will only take you so far if theres no substance. He definitely\nhelped give it that boost of visibility. But the substance is whats created\nthe groundswell, Enyia said.\n\n[![Garry\nMcCarthy](https:\/\/suntimesmedia.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/img_8087.jpg?w=640&h=480)](https:\/\/suntimesmedia.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/img_8087.jpg)\n\nMayoral candidate Garry McCarthy (right) files roughly 55,000 signatures\nMonday morning. He said his campaign deleted some 10,000 signatures determined\nto be invalid. | Fran Spielman\/Sun-Times\n\nRounding out the field were a handful of low-profile hopefuls: Catherine Brown\nDTycoon, Conrien Hykes Clark, Sandra L. Mallory, Roger L. Washington and\nRichard Mayers. Mayers, a resident of the Southwest Side Clearing\nneighborhood, also filed to run for city clerk, city treasurer and 23rd Ward\nalderman.\n\nAltogether, 211 men and women filed to run for aldermen. Only four of the\ncitys 50 wards did not see contested races, all represented by sitting\naldermen: Brian Hopkins in the 2nd, Scott Waguespack in the 32nd, Gilbert\nVillegas in the 36th and Brendan Reilly in the 42nd.\n\n**RELATED:**\n\n [Chico calls Mendoza unfit for mayors job  she stays focused on ...\nfuture](https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/chico-mendoza-mayor-race-filing-\ndeath-penalty-trust-eddie-johnson\/)  \n [After Thanksgiving weekend blizzard, candidates weigh in on\ndibs](https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/chicago-snowstorm-dibs-parking-spot-\nshovel-snow-snowstorm-streets-plowing-mayor-election-2019\/)  \n [Now the games begin  Five officially enter mayors race  13 more to\ngo?](https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/mayoral-candidates-file-nominating-\npetitions-cook-county-building\/)  \n [Signature accomplishments: A mix of strategy and superstition in petition\nfiling](https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/politics\/signature-petitions-mayoral-\naldermanic-elections-strategy-superstition-filing\/)  \n [Mayoral debate: Preckwinkle and Mendoza tangle over crime, taxes, Joe\nBerrios](https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/mayoral-debate-preckwinkle-mendoza-\ncrime-taxes-berrios-vallas-lightfoot-enyia\/)  \n [Candidates for city offices to start filing\npetitions](https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/election-candidates-mayor-city-\ncouncil-enter-race-to-get-on-the-ballot-vote\/)  \n [Latest list of Chicago mayoral candidates who are in,\nconsidering](https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/rahm-emanuel-election-\ncandidates-chicago-mayor-mccarthy-lightfoot-vallas\/)","title":"A game of 21 Mendoza Brown join crowded mayoral field now who will fold","date":"2018-11-26","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"Coastal towns in South Carolina were bracing themselves for unprecedented flooding on Tuesday as rivers swollen by Hurricane Florence continued to rise above record levels.\n\nAlmost 8,000 people were advised to leave their homes amid fears that access to Georgetown County could be all but cut off.\n\nThere were warnings only one main road out of the area could be usable, with floodwaters expected to top bridges.\n\nIt is a disaster nearly two weeks in the making.\n\nGeorgetown County was on alert for days for days before Hurricane Florence made landfall on September 14, about 110 miles up the coast near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.\n\nAt least 32 people died in the state, which has been left with an estimated bill of $44billion in damage and lost output.\n\nSouth Carolina avoided the worst of the storms winds, but now Georgetown County is set to be hit by vast amounts of rainwater that has slowly made its way downstream.\n\nRivers swollen by Florence in North Carolina are a considerable distance from  shore and the water takes longer to drain as the coastal plain flattens out  hence the near-two-week delay in the arrival of the floods.\n\nTo make things worse, the county sits at the mouth of three rivers: the Waccamaw, the Great Pee Dee and Sampit.\n\nForecasters are saying that the county will see at least 10 feet of flooding lasting throughout the weekend.\n\nThe Polo Farms neighbourhood, off Highway 905, is already underwater.\n\nLee Gantt, who lives further south near the Sampit, has barricaded her home with sandbags. Im nervous, she said. Cant you see me shaking?","title":"Hurricane Florence latest South Carolina braces for unprecented flooding as rivers continue to swel","date":"2018-09-25","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The Trump administration faced yet another judicial check on its attempts to reshape American law this week. Federal District Judge Jon S. Tigar ruled that they could not enact a reshaping of immigration law through executive order.\n\nTo be more specific, the president and his allies had sought to deny the right to asylum to migrants who cross over the U.S. border somewhere other than the designated ports of entry, but Tigar insisted that the proposed system just doesnt match up with the law  and the White House doesnt just get to avoid accountability because theyre the White House.\n\nTigar asserted while handing down a temporary restraining order blocking the move until next month, when further court time is scheduled:\n\nThe originally attempted shift figured into a broader Trump administration aim to paint immigrants to the U.S. as a looming threat.\n\nThat effort began all the way back when Donald Trump insisted Mexican immigrant populations harbor large populations of criminals during his initial rise to prominence in the 2016 presidential race. Its continued ever since to the point of the Trump administration dispatching some 5,900 active duty members of the military to the nations southern border to meet migrants including plenty of women and children who Trump has characterized as invaders.\n\nAt least some of that troop presence has begun to be dialed down  soon after the midterm elections, when the acute political expediency of going all out to stoke fear got used up.","title":"BREAKING Federal Judge Ruins Trumps Evil Plans For Caravan Refugees","date":"2018-11-20","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"In the crazy, topsy-turvy year of 2018, socialism is somehow on the rise in America. To those of us unfortunate enough to have been born in the Soviet Union, this is troubling.","title":"Sorry Socialists Youre Still Pushing Poison","date":"2018-08-06","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Lady Gaga has seemingly confirmed her engagement to her agent, Christian Carino.  The singer casually referred to him as her fiance during a speech at the Elle Women in Hollywood event in LA on Monday.\n\nTheir engagement had long been speculated given Gaga has been wearing a giant sparkler on her ring finger for many months now, but she has never publicly confirmed anything.  However, in her speech, she said: Thank you to all the loved ones in my life. [Manager] Bobby [Campbell], I love you. Everyone at table five. My fiance, Christian. All the loved ones in my life who take care of me every day. And Ryan Murphy, thanks for giving me my first leading role [in American Horror Story: Hotel]. You know that Golden Globe belongs to you.\n\nGaga, 32, and Christian, 49, were first romantically linked in January 2017, later spotted looking close while on the field ahead of her Super Bowl LI halftime show the following month.  The Bad Romance singer was previously engaged to her on-off partner of four years, Taylor Kinney, until they called things off for good in 2016.  In a post on Instagram at the time, she said: Taylor and I have always believed we are soulmates. Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break. We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love we have always shared.\n\nGaga, who is currently receiving huge plaudits for her performance in A Star Is Born, later opened up about her new-found love for Christian in an interview with Page Six last year, saying: The best part about being in love with someone is having them there to catch you if you fall. As well as Gaga, Christian also looks after other big stars including Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Jennifer Lopez.","title":"Lady Gaga Confirms Engagement To Agent Christian Carino","date":"2018-10-17","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"The Trump administration has made its priorities clear, not just with reference to social political rhetoric. When it comes to the nuts-and-bolts of governing, Trumps government is as far-right as it gets. At a time when we already outspend every other nation in the world on the military several times over, and with wealth disparity worse than ever, Republicans want to slash social spending, while giving hundreds of billions more to the military, and trillions to the rich.\n\nFor example, in the budget proposal the White House released for 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services is being cut by a massive 21 percent, more than one-fifth of the operating budget. Nearly every duty that the agency carries out would see its funding slashed. The only exceptions are the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.\n\nIn some areas, the cuts are especially draconian. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will see a billion dollar budget shortfall if the plan sees reality. The Administration for Children and Families, which provides assistance to low income families, would see a 20 percent cut, losing almost four billion dollars.\n\nSenseless military spending in the face of crippling domestic issues is not whats going to make America great again, and we cant do everything at once. You cant slash taxes, increase military spending, and rebuild our bridges, roads, and airports at the same time (Trump expects local governments to pick up the tab for infrastructure, anyway). This isnt fiscally conservative by any reasonable definition.\n\nThe proposal slashes the budget of nearly every federal oversight agency. The Department of Agriculture is cut by 16 percent, the Department of Education by 10.5 percent, the Department of Health and Human Services by 21 percent, the Department of Housing and Urban Development by 18.3 percent, the Department of the Interior by 16 percent, the Department of Labor by 21 percent and the Department of Transportation by 19 percent, in addition to the EPA cut. Such cuts mean less money to guarantee food is uncontaminated, workers are safe and the environments we live in are inhabitable.\n\nCurrently, the Republican goal seems to be to bankrupt the nation with military spending and tax cuts (which primarily and overwhelmingly are designed to help the richest of the rich at cost to everyone else). After that, theyll use the deficit as an excuse to force a Democratic administration into unpopular cuts and austerity policies. Or, worst case, the Republican wet dream comes true, and they are able to leverage the massive debt theyll leave hanging over our nation as an excuse to gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.\n\nIts up to voters to set our nation back on the right path in November. The Republican Party has made it clear that they do not have the best interests of the American public at heart, and likely never will.","title":"JUST IN Trump Cuts Billions From CDC During Deadliest Flu In Recorded History","date":"2018-02-13","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Monitoring eye health is useful as many diseases involve visual conditions as a primary symptom. An article in NaturalBlaze.com walks you through eight warning signs of disorders that can be seen in or around the eyes.\n\nMother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary \"sulforaphane\" and \"glucosinolate\" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here.\n\nThe human body proves to be an efficient symptoms monitoring system as certain diseases manifest themselves over various parts of the body. The eyes in particular, have been long established as good indicators of certain disorders. In fact, a type of alternative medicine called iridology, examines a patients irises to determine the presence of disease, infections, and various other ailments. The practice originated in 1670s, but the advent of modern iridology began in the 1980s when the International Iridology Practitioners Association was founded.","title":"8 Eye issues you cant afford to ignore","date":"2018-08-07","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"California man Farzad Fazeli, 35, was charged on Tuesday after trying to stab Republican House candidate Rudy Peters with a switchblade while screaming, F**k Trump! Fuck Trump!\n\nA Castro Valley man shouting profanities about President Trump attacked a Republican congressional candidate who was working an election booth at a town festival, threatening him and trying to stab him with a switchblade knife, authorities and the candidate said Tuesday. Farzad Vincent Fazeli, 35, was jailed after the alleged Sunday attack on Rudy Peters at the Castro Valley Fall Festival. Alameda County prosecutors charged Fazeli on Tuesday with a felony count of making criminal threats and misdemeanor counts of exhibiting a deadly weapon and possessing a switchblade. No one was seriously injured.\n\nFortunately, Fazeli was too stupid to operate the switchblade.\n\nIn an interview, Peters said he had never been concerned about his safety prior to Sunday, though his wife has often warned him to be careful. Its a shame, he said. People are just polarized right now, and this countrys divided and its just a mess. It shouldnt be that way. County sheriffs deputies responded at about 3:45 p.m. to a report of a possible knife attack at the festival on Castro Valley Boulevard. According to officials, witnesses told deputies that Fazeli approached Peters in an aggressive manner at his booth, and made disparaging remarks about the GOP and elected officials. All of a sudden we hear someone screaming, F Trump, f Trump! Peters recalled. He said the man raised his middle finger and was standing right in front of the booth.\n\nPeters had been sitting with Joseph Grcar, a Republican state Assembly candidate. He said they were both kind of shocked by the outburst, but that the man seemed like he was walking off. The next thing you know, Peters said, he stops and turns around and says, Ill show you, and runs at the booth. The man grabbed a coffee cup from the table and threw it at Peters, the candidate said, prompting Peters to come around the table and grab him. The two wrestled to the ground before the suspect hopped up, reached into his pocket and grabbed the switchblade, Peters said. Hes screaming, Im gonna kill you, motherf! Peters said. He had the knife but the blade wouldnt shoot out. A sheriffs deputy said in a court affidavit that Fazeli threatened to use the pink switchblade on Peters but could not open it.\n\nPeters said he grabbed a sign from a nearby cupcake booth and braced to use it as a shield. Someone stepped in and urged the attacker to calm down, Peters said, before he left the booth. [...]Fazeli has past convictions in Alameda County for burglary and battery, records show. On his Facebook page, he criticized Trump for complacency following this years mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Florida. In another post, he wrote Hurricane Irma ... Payback for voting Donald Trump.\n\nIs the fake news media going to take any responsibility for the climate of hate theyve created?\n\nThis violence comes on the heels of the Congressional baseball mass shooting carried out by a Bernie Sanders supporter pumped full of fake news and the near-murder of Republican congressman Rand Paul.\n\nMaxine Waters is still telling her supporters to threaten Republicans out in public:\n\nFazelis Facebook shows hes a March For Our Lives supporter who wants to disarm the American public, presumably so he and his ilk can have an easier time killing us:","title":"Fk Trump Farzad Fazeli Attempts to Stab GOP House Candidate On 911","date":"2018-09-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Comedy Centrals Trevor Noah loves to talk about just how racist his home country of South Africa is.\n\nAs the host of The Daily Show, Noah has lectured his audience on why it makes sense for South Africa to imprison a woman for racism.\n\nOn Sunday, Noah said on CNN, Ive said from the very beginning that Donald Trump reminds me of an African dictator.\n\nFor all of Noahs apparent concern about racism, while he compares President Trump to an African dictator, Noah seems unconcerned by an issue plaguing his home country  the genocide of white farmers.\n\nOne investigative report found 16 recorded murders in 46 gruesome farm attacks across South Africa in February alone. WNDs Alex Newman has reported that, Since the early 1990s, when white South Africans voted in a referendum to surrender power, the estimates of farm murders range between 2,000 and 4,000.\n\nSouth African Defense Minister Julius Malema has reportedly called for the murder of white people.\n\nWill Trevor Noah call out actual genocide occurring in his home country of South Africa, or continue to preposterously compare President Trump with an African dictator?\n\nPresident Trump just helped end the Korean War, and this is how the leftists still talk about him. If President Trump cured cancer, leftist comedians would demand to see his tax returns.","title":"Trevor Noah Compares Trump To African Dictators While He Ignores South African Genocide","date":"2018-05-14","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Vibrant and ever so different, Hotel Indigo Lower East Side was made for travellers wanting to ditch the Manhattan you see in the movies for a more hyperlocal and genuine New York City experience.\n\nWith its infectious vibe, views for days and laid back attitude, Hotel Indigo is easily IHG's coolest offering yet.\n\nWhere is it?\n\nOn Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Oodles of indie cafes, restaurants, clubs and boutiques reign supreme in this part of town and it's just half a block away from the infamously good Katz's Deli - a bonus if you want to get there early and avoid those massive lines for a pastrami sub. Fancy foodie hangouts Beauty and Essex, Stanton Social and Verlaine are minutes away. Walk 10 minutes east and you'll land in the madness of the East Village. For boho chic vibes head west for the trendy shopping haven that is SoHo.\n\nTransport-wise it's very well connected, too. The F and M, J, Z subways are within five blocks and the B and D trains are a zig zag 15-minute walk down Houston Street. In a nutshell, the hotel is perfectly situated for anyone who wants to explore Downtown by foot and avoid Midtown at all costs.\n\nLook around the neighbourhood, and you'll instantly notice that street art is at the heart and soul of Ludlow's identity - something Hotel Indigo designers Tim Horn and Amanda Sullivan wanted to celebrate in all of its public spaces and guest rooms. Their styling is totally industrial, with bare red brick walls, stained concrete floors, reclaimed wood and diamond pattern metallics strewn about the place. The major design sell, however, is the art dotted around each floor, which include politically motivated pieces and an unbeatable collection of objects from the modern era.\n\nDramatic works from French artist Mr. Brainwash, including the stand-out Life is Beautiful Sculpture on loan from the artist's pop-up gallery, as well as a set of bicycle wheels that suspend near the hotel concierge desk on the ground floor, also infuse the hotel with that extra bit of hipster creative charm.\n\nThe 14th floor sky mural by celebrated New York City street and graffiti artist Lee Quininones, with its detailed snapshots of significant moments in the Lower East Side vernacular, is also worthy of a spot on your Instagram. Make no mistake, this Hotel Indigo was designed for the cool arty kid trapped inside you.\n\nRelaxed, down-to-earth and unpretentious service is king. Staff greet you with beaming smiles and expert knowledge of their city and can't do enough to make you feel welcome as soon as you get through the door. Their ethos is simple: to make you feel calm and comfortable throughout the duration of your stay.\n\nUnlike many other hotels in the city, dining options are far from traditional. Instead, you'll find an all day dining bar\/restaurant\/nightclub hybrid, which offers everything from flatbreads to light salads and bagels. For breakfast, Balthazar mini croissants, egg sarnies, and steel-cut oatmeal are on the menu.\n\nAside from free and very fast complimentary Wi-Fi, on-site valet parking and a fitness centre, the star of the amenity show is ultimately the heated lap pool crowning the outdoor space on the 15th floor. Set parallel to the beautiful bar spot that is Mr Purple, sip Manhattans, dirty martinis and, of course, the Mr. Purple (a tequila, cranberry, apple and lemon punch mash-up) poolside in the inspiring shadow of the Empire State Building.\n\nThe only space that might just rival it is the stylish lobby. If you're in the city on business, it's the perfect spot to meet, greet and work in and is ideal for a quick cup of coffee or light bite (go for the Russ & Daughters bagel with cream cheese, smoked salmon, and a garnish of capers, pickled onions, and sliced tomatoes) before you start exploring the town.\n\nWe stayed in a 14th floor city view king overlooking the grand cityscape of Manhattan. Think unobscured panoramas of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, One World Trade Center and the Empire State Building. If you're lucky, your rain shower will come with a view of the city. For what you pay, all rooms are generously sized and feature a host of amenities including luxe C.O. Bigelow toiletries, Frette linens, the use of a safe, minibar and a Keurig coffeemaker.\n\nOther thoughtful additions include a make your own cocktail graffiti shaker, coffee table books, bluetooth docking stations, scented linens,a sofa conveniently placed by the floor-to-ceiling windows, free copies of local and city magazines and the use of an iron and ironing board.\n\nFor those of you who get your hands on a luxury suite, expect plump terry cloth bathrobes, bouncy slippers and fancy terraces donning private and exclusive city views.\n\nOur only criticism is that some parts of our room were a little tired. There were several scuffs on the couch and furniture, and the walls could do with a fresh lick of paint.\n\nIf you haven't already managed to fill your phone memory with countless snaps of the rooftop pool or the view from your room (pictured above), then we suggest you start simple with a sunrise shot of your bed overlooking the glorious sight of Manhattan. The hotel's beautiful collection of art and dining areas (especially the bar at Mr. Purple) also deserves prime spot on your feed.\n\nArty hipster types, business travellers and those looking to experience a slice of the real New York City.\n\nDouble rooms start from $220 (167) in low season; and from $420 (318) in high. Breakfast comes at an additional cost of around $20 to $30 (15 to 23) per person. Hotel handling fees are also applicable. For a two night stay, expect a $150 refundable hold for incidentals, although this charge depends on the daily rate of your room. For more information, contact the Hotel Indigo reservations department. 171 Ludlow Street, NY, 1002, USA. 0012122371776","title":"Hotel Indigo New York City - hotel review","date":"2018-08-09","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"CNN interviewed a group of Conservative Christian women who are Trump supporters about the Stormy Daniels story. The liberal network was surprised to learn that the women stood by Trump and saw the story as nothing more than another effort to attack Trump, which is exactly what it is.\n\nWatch Women Trump Supporters React to Stormy Daniels Interview: If He Slept With Her, Whatever\n\nAnd after hearing what she had to say, this women stayed supportive of the president.\n\nWhile one woman expressed she felt sorry for her, all of them felt she was sharing her story either for money or for attention. Some dont even believe Stormy Daniels because she lacked hard proof.\n\nShould we believe the president of the United States or a stripper porn star? Gina OBriant elaborated. I go with the president of the United States.\n\nThey admit that they knew Trump wasnt a choir boy when they elected him, but theyre convinced that the recent revelations of Trumps numerous alleged affairs is an effort by the media to define a narrative.\n\nYou are looking for a way to impeach my president that I worked very hard for, Dr. Lynnett Bryant said.","title":"CNN Shocked That Republican Women Dont Believe Stormy Daniels On Trump VIDEO","date":"2018-03-28","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"America is about to protect its borders for the first time in recent history and Matt Bracken breaks down whats likely to happen as the globalists push the Village Without Borders, narrative.","title":"When Push Comes to Shove Migrant Mob vs 6000 Troops","date":"2018-10-30","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"VANCOUVER A delegation of Canadian cabinet ministers are headed to Mexico next week to meet with the countrys incoming government as North American trade talks continue to stall.\n\nForeign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a tweet Thursday afternoon she, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and newly shuffled International Trade Minister Jim Carr will be in Mexico on Wednesday where they will meet with president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.\n\nThe left-leaning Mexican president won the countrys July presidential election in a landslide.\n\nThe United States, Canada and Mexico are in the midst of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, where negotiations have stalled.\n\nOn Wednesday, the U.S. president reportedly mused about engaging in bilateral trade talks with Mexico.\n\nWe have had very good sessions with Mexico and with the new president of Mexico, who won overwhelmingly, and were doing very well on our trade agreement, Trump said to reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting in Washington, according to Reuters.\n\nSo well see what happens. We may do a deal separately with Mexico and well negotiate with Canada at a later time. But were having very good discussions with Mexico.\n\nCanadas chief NAFTA negotiator Steve Verheul called into the Canadian Federation of Agricultures annual summer meeting on Wednesday where he gave an update on the trade talks, which have been in a lull since June.\n\nCanadas agriculture ministers are in Vancouver for their annual gathering where trade is expected to be raised. Ministers are scheduled to receive a trade briefing on Friday morning from Canadas Chief Agriculture Negotiator Frederic Seppey.\n\nCurrent trade tensions are also overshadowing the annual gathering of Canadas premiers, where several provinces  including Manitoba  are pushing for improved interprovincial trade, in part because of concerns about NAFTA.\n\nThe premiers, who are meeting in St. Andrews, N.B., requested a special First Ministers meeting on trade this fall. The provincial leaders met with U.S. Ambassador David MacNaughton on Thursday morning where the premiers explored new ways that Canada could reach out to Americans given the uncertainty over trade issues.\n\nHe noted that the premiers have been helpful in reaching out to U.S. politicians and businesses.\n\nIn a tweet, Dominic LeBlanc, Canadas newly appointed minister of intergovernmental relations, said he was open to hold a meeting on trade with his provincial counterparts.\n\nIn a press release Thursday afternoon, the Prime Ministers Office said Trudeau will lead discussions on how to eliminate barriers to trade between provinces and territories, and work toward a stronger, more interconnected Canadian economy that is free from unnecessary barriers and restrictions imposed by provinces and territories.\n\nThe prime minister and premiers will also discuss ways to build on Canadas economic growth through diversifying international trade and improving trade within our borders.","title":"Freeland Carr headed to Mexico next week","date":"2018-07-19","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Calling all arts and culture lovers - these are the best new openings happening in London this week.\n\nThis years four shortlisted artists present their work at Tate Britain, before the winner is announced in December. tate.org.uk\n\nShocking artworks by baroque painter Jusepe de Ribera go on show for the first time in the UK. dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk\n\nBuy tickets for Pinter at the Pinter with GO London\n\nThe New Zealand artist creates a series of sculptures for the 30th Curve commission. barbican.org.uk","title":"London arts The best art theatre dance and concerts to see in London this week","date":"2018-09-17","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"As Joe Hoft at The Gateway Pundit reported in May \n\nAt Least 6 and Potentially 7 Known and Suspected Intelligence Informants Accused of Spying on Trump Campaign\n\nAnd now there are more.\n\n Trump associates Roger Stone and Michael Caputo were approached by another FBI informant during their campaign in the Deep States quest to tie Donald Trump to Putins Russia.\n\nAnd  once again  neither of them took the bait.\n\nOn Monday Michael Caputo joined Sean Hannity to discuss his run-in with the FBI informant.\n\nMichael Caputo: When I spoke to the Mueller investigation about this I told them that I assumed he was a Russian but I thought he was an American citizen. As it turned out the Mueller investigation already knew that he was a Russian citizen and not an American citizen. That really set off alarm bells for me. Because when I disclosed this to the Mueller investigation unprompted they knew more about it than I did. They knew he was a Russian citizen not an American.","title":"IT WAS A SET-UP Trump Campaign Aide Reveals Mueller Knew More About FBI Informant Than He Did VIDE","date":"2018-06-19","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Broncos rookie linebacker Josey Jewell was an observer the first five days of training camp. He stretched. He ran. And he waited out an injured hamstring, until finally on Friday, Jewell was cleared to return.\n\nThe Broncos 109th overall pick admits being patient during that rehab proved difficult.\n\nYou want to get out there. You want to show them what you got. You dont want to wait for anything, Jewell said. You just want to get out there and play and do your best and give them your best self. Its tough, but I have to try to find something positive.\n\nDenver held Jewell out of team periods Friday, but he did participate in 7-on-7 and individual drills. Each day is another building block toward a roster spot. The Broncos, relatively thin at inside linebacker, would appreciate a big rookie impact from Jewell.\n\nMaybe youre not the fastest guy, but you need to be able to be really technique oriented, really detailed with that kind of stuff, Jewell said. I think I learned that through high school and college, and theyre still coaching me now, so you can never be perfect.","title":"You want to show them what you got Broncos rookie LB Josey Jewell is back","date":"2018-08-04","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Prison officers at a drug-ridden jail initially refused to take up their posts the morning after one of their number was choked unconscious during an attack by an inmate.\n\nStaff at HMP Lindholme, in South Yorkshire, demanded restrictions on prisoners movements until safety measures could be put in place in the wake of the incident on Thursday night.\n\nThe Prison Officers Association (POA) said the jail's governor initially refused their request, demanding they carried on as normal and fully unlock cells.\n\nOfficers arriving at work on Friday morning did not immediately take up their posts as they discussed the next steps, The Independent understands.\n\nFollowing an emergency meeting the governor then agreed to allow a restricted regime for prisoners until substantive talks are held.\n\nMark Fairhurst, national chair of the POA, said staff wanted action taken after two colleagues were attacked on Thursday and one passed out while being strangled.\n\nThe governor wanted to carry on as normal, as if nothing has happened, he told The Independent.\n\nBut staff deserve to be able to work in a safe environment. Levels of violence have spiked at Lindholme.\n\nHe said officers wanted inmates to be allowed out of cells only to be given medication until a management plan was put in place.\n\nThey have staffing problems and shortages but the main problem is its ridden with drugs, Mr Fairhurst added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice said staff were on the wings on Friday morning after a short meeting with management.\n\nThe prison officer who was strangled received medical attention and is due to return to work on his next scheduled shift.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, a relative of one inmate told The Independent prisoners had not been let out of their cells even to shower.\n\n\"Its ridiculous - I know they are in there to be punished but they have human rights,\" she added. \"Food has been taken to cells with no choice of meals, just what they were given.\"\n\nPrison officers walked out across England and Wales in September after the government was given an official warning over deteriorating safety, but the Ministry of Justice sought an injunction against the move after banning industrial action by jail staff last year.\n\nThe latest incident came a day after the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman warned that extreme violence was spreading from high-security prisons to low-security establishments.\n\nHMP Lindholme itself is a category C prison that holds more than 1,000 male prisoners, mostly serving sentences of more than four years.\n\nThe most recent report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons found that the safety of the prison was significantly compromised by the ready availability of drugs and the consequent debt, bullying and violence.\n\nIt identified a key vulnerability as the three mile perimeter of the prison, which occupies a former RAF base and is surrounded by homes, fields, footpaths and other public rights of way.\n\nPackages of drugs, banned mobile phones and other illicit items have been thrown over the perimeter fence, fished into cells by inmates using supplied hooks or even flown in using drones.\n\nMore than two thirds of prisoners told inspectors it was easy or very easy to get hold of drugs, and 27 per cent said they had developed a drug problem only after going inside.\n\nThe problem is exacerbated by the fact a fifth of prisoners have links to organised crime.\n\nHM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) said the perimeter was difficult to defend, adding: When this is combined with the linkages of so many prisoners to organised crime and their obvious resourcefulness in getting large quantities of drugs into the jail, it means that further progress will be difficult to achieve.\n\nThere is a question to be asked as to whether Lindholme is actually a suitable establishment in which to hold its current population.\n\nThe government named it as one of 10 prisons with acute problems with high drug use, violence and building issues after announcing 10m funding to improve security.\n\nSimilar problems are found across the country, including at HMP Chelmsford where contraband worth more than 15,000 was seized in a single month.\n\nThe prison seized 28 drug packages and 44 mobile phones during searches, and 18 parcels that had been thrown over the perimeter wall during the period, HM Inspectorate of Prisons revealed in a report released on Friday.\n\nOther finds of mobile phone-related items, heroin, cocaine and other drugs were also discovered, it added.\n\nThe estimated value of the items seized during that month alone was more than 15,000.\"\n\nThe prison in South Yorkshire also holds a large number of men who were connected to organised crime gangs, and they were responsible for much of the supply of illicit items, according to the report.\n\nHMIP said levels of violence at the jail were far too high, while the response to self-harm and suicide had been \"inadequate\".\n\nMichael Spurr, chief executive of HM Prison and Probation Service, said there was a committed team in place who will robustly tackle the issues.\n\nWe are working closely with the police and healthcare to tackle the supply and use of drugs and to reduce violence at the prison, he added.\n\nProgress is being made and the problems are being actively addressed.","title":"Prison officers refuse to take up posts after colleague strangled by inmate at aposdrug-riddenapo","date":"2018-10-12","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Big-government leftists, many of whom live in large cities, are known to tout their electric and hybrid vehicles, social activism, and other sustainable lifestyle habits as helping to save the planet. But much of what far-left liberals love to brag about concerning their alleged support of clean energy and environmental conservation are empty myths that have no basis in reality.\n\nDuring a recent episode of his Health Ranger Report show, available for viewing at REAL.video, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, punches a few big holes in popular liberal mantras that, upon closer investigation, represent little more than fake news from the usual suspects involved with the liberal mob.\n\nPeople who live in cities think of electric cars as being clean, but really they just export pollution to rural areas outside the cities, Adams points out, reducing the Im better than you because I drive a Prius crowd to logical rubble.\n\nWhat powers an electric car? Well, you might think batteries. Okay. But lets take it one step further here. What powers the batteries? Where does that electricity come from? Predominantly it comes from coal-fired power plants, which are located outside the cities. And those coal plants, of course, emit some amount of mercury and heavy metals, and they emit carbon dioxide, of course, and particulate pollutants, which then settle on farm lands and forests and rural areas.\n\nWatch this full episode of the Health Ranger Report at REAL.video below:\n\nMother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary \"sulforaphane\" and \"glucosinolate\" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here.\n\nAlmost everything about city life in 2018, Adams points out, is far more polluting than activist liberals would have us all believe. Even if every single gas-guzzling automobile was pulled from the road and replaced with a Tesla, theres still pollution being distributed somewhere.\n\nIf you have a city where, lets say, you dont even have combustion engines any longer for regular vehicles, all youre doing is youre taking that pollution that used to exist in the city, coming out of the tailpipes, and now youre pushing that pollution out into the countryside, says Adams.\n\nAnd thats not the first time that cities have done that. They also do the same thing with sewage: its called bio-sludge. So all that sewage that people flush down their toilets in the city, that ends up spread as fertilizer on farms in the countryside.\n\nIts a completely unsustainable and unethical situation that ends up leaving all the pollution at the doorsteps of people who live in the country, even as their city folk counterparts revel in feelings of superiority for supposedly taking the moral high ground by living sustainably.\n\nCities ... they are polluters, they export pollution to surrounding areas, Adams states.\n\nThey steal resources from the countryside as well  many cities have to steal water from rural areas in order to provide enough water for the city. So theyre taking in water and theyre stealing resources from the countryside while exporting their pollution back to the countryside.\n\nIn Adams view, country folk are the truly sustainable ones, at least when theyre not dumping harmful pesticides and herbicides all over their crops. Their septic systems, as opposed to city sewer systems, are better for the environment, and many of them grow their own food, collect their own rainwater, and all-around treat the environment better than the average city person.\n\nPeople who live in cities like to talk about sustainable living and green living and environmental consciousness, but they dont realize that the very fact that theyre living in a city is environmentally disastrous and completely unsustainable because theyre just polluting the world with their feces and with their electrical usage, which is much higher, per capita, in a city than it is in a rural environment, by the way, explains Adams.\n\nRural living is sustainable. In rural environments, you can collect your own rainwater, you can throw some solar panels on the roof ... or maybe you can go off-grid, even. You can grow some of your own food.\n\nBe sure to watch this full episode of the Health Ranger Report at REAL.video.","title":"Electric cars sustainability and other city folk ideologies are a clean energy MYTH watch at R","date":"2018-10-21","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"As Americans were finalizing their holiday plans on July 3, the New York Times quietly announced that Ali Watkins, the reporter caught up in a federal investigation into illegal leaks of classified information, would be","title":"Unaccountable Big Media Personified","date":"2018-07-07","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"China does not intend to build a military base in Afghanistan, a top diplomat maintained in the face of conflicting reports.\n\nWe have checked on this report and it is not true, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said during Wednesdays briefing, according to the official transcript.\n\nHuas denial contradicts an initial report that China would build a base and eventually deploy several hundred troops to the Wakhan Corridor, a spur of territory that abuts against Chinese and Pakistani territory. The confusion follows months of reports of Chinas interest in military expansion in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as Russian and Chinese concerns about terrorism in the region.","title":"China Denies Plan to Deploy Troops to Afghanistan","date":"2018-08-29","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"No, America Is Not Racist: The Starbucks Story Is Trash","title":"No America Is Not Racist The Starbucks Story Is Trash","date":"2018-04-21","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) As the Left-wing social media giants continue to punish Americans who dont conform to their Marxist worldview, there is a free-market solution stepping up to fill the void: REAL.video.\n\nREAL.video is a gun-friendly video community thats about to launch as an alternative to YouTube. Video content creators can use the site for free, and videos can be embedded in web pages on their own sites. As YouTube continues silencing gun channels through censorship, we are creating a firearms friendly alternative video community that isnt afraid to stand up for the First and Second Amendments, said Mike Adams, founder of REAL.video and publisher of SecondAmendment.news.\n\nIn recent days, Google made the decision to further alienate a plurality of Americans  gun owners and the gun industry  by banning words like gun-grips and scopes and sights from its list of acceptable AdWords. The ban will take effect later this month, as Breitbart News AWR Hawkins reports.\n\nIn addition, the search behemoth will be banning all AdWords that are related to 3D printing of guns or gun parts, which will include instructions on 3D printing of any and all parts for firearms.\n\nGoogle made the decision as part of changes to the companys Dangerous Products or Services Policy.\n\nHawkins noted that also on the list of banned AdWords are stocks, conversion kits, and tripods and bipods.\n\nIn groupthink fashion, the change to Googles policy comes just a few months after Google-owned YouTube said it would be banning all gun demonstration videos, which in turn followed Facebooks incremental banning of gun ads and sales (and political content that, oddly, seems to include mostly conservative content).\n\nThe Google war on guns is a direct attack on gun ownership. Maybe it is time to regulate the internet giants like Google, Facebook, and YouTube and not gun ownership, said Second Amendment Foundation Executive Director Alan Gottlieb in a statement to Breitbart News.\n\nThe decision amounts to another step towards backdoor gun control, he added. (Related: Google, Facebook, YouTube censorship of conservative sites, voices just like Communist CHINA.)\n\nOf course, thats true, but the move is also part of a broader effort by the Left to punish Americans who refuse to toe the Marxist-Progressive line.\n\nRegarding the YouTube ban, Hawkins reported in March that the ban on firearms instruction videos also included the intent to prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms.\n\nHe noted further that no guns assembled at private residences were involved in any of the mass shootings around the country which Google, Facebook, and YouTube are all using to justify their bans.\n\nThe National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) noted that the move was worrisome because whats coming next, most likely, is a similar ban even on educational content.\n\nWe suspect it will be interpreted to block much more content than the stated goal of firearms and certain accessory sales. We see the real potential for the blocking of educational content that serves instructional, skill-building and even safety purposes, the organization said, as Hawkins reported.\n\nMuch like Facebook, YouTube now acts as a virtual public square. The exercise of what amounts to censorship, then, can legitimately be viewed as the stifling of commercial free speech.\n\nSo far, federal courts have not agreed with that assessment. A recent challenge to YouTubes censorship by PragerU was dismissed by a federal judge  Lucy Koh  because the company was a private business, not a government entity, so somehow the Constitutions free speech protections dont apply.\n\nRegulating Left-wing social media companies isnt the right approach either, because that means all social media ties would be subject to the same government regulations (which would no doubt wind up being onerous and costly).\n\nNo, a better option is to simply start using a video-and-social-media platform that fully supports the Second Amendment and doesnt censor gun-related materials that pertain to legal actions (like instructions on how to assemble or clean a firearm).\n\nA platform like REAL.video, which is set to launch July 4th.\n\nAlready flooded with content requests, Real.video will be a valuable resource for gun enthusiasts and a great environment for makers of firearms and gun parts (like gun grips, stocks, and all the AdWords banned by Google).\n\nFor advertising information, interested companies should inquire at [email protected].\n\nSearch for more information that the social media giants censor at Censored.news.\n\nJ.D. Heyes is also editor-in-chief of The National Sentinel.","title":"As YouTube and Google continue to punish gun makers and sellers REALvideo offers pro-2A platform f","date":"2018-06-12","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"As TGPs Kristinn Taylor previously reported, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced at a July press briefing that President Donald Trump is reviewing the process to revoke the security clearances of several Deep State critics for abusing their post-government retention of security clearances by lying about Trump and Russia, as well as politicizing and monetizing their security clearances.\n\nHistorically, former heads of intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been allowed to retain access to classified information after their government service so that they can consult with their successors regarding matters about which they may have special insights and as a professional courtesy. Neither of these justifications supports Mr. Brennans continued access to classified information.\n\nWatch Sarah Sanders deliver the breaking news...its music to our ears:\n\nThe issue was brought up in July by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) who said he would be meeting with Trump about revoking the security clearance of John Brennan, reported TGPs Cassandra Fairbanks.\n\nSanders named former Obama CIA Director John Brennan, former G.W. Bush CIA Director Michael Hayden, former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice, fired FBI Director James Comey, fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.\n\nJohn Brennan routinely attacks President Trump from his Twitter account and called Trumps meeting with Putin in Helsinki treasonous.\n\nJohn Brennan was involved in this attempted coup which is why hes lashing out on his Twitter account.\n\nIn fact, Chairman Nunes is currently investigating whether John Brennan perjured himself in a public testimony about the dossier.\n\nBrennans fingerprints are all over Spygate scandal, says Paul Sperry.","title":"BREAKING President Trump Revokes John Brennans Security Clearance VIDEO","date":"2018-08-15","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Sara Cox has thanked fans for their support after landing her dream job presenting BBC Radio 2 Drivetime.\n\nCox will take over the 5-7pm slot from Simon Mayo, who is leaving the station, and Jon Whiley  who will front a new show  from January.\n\nSharing the social media statements on her own page, Cox wrote: *forward roly-poly into double fist-pump*.\n\nCant wait to start my dream job. I solemnly promise to play you brilliant music and make you lol-a-lot.\n\nLordy. So many lovely messages. Thank you! *cartwheels down the stairs to feed the dogs*.\n\nCox, who currently anchors the 10pm-midnight show Monday through Thursday, was announced as the new Drivetime host on Monday.\n\nIn a statement, Cox said: Ive been proud to be part of the Radio 2 family for a few years now and the opportunity to present such a big show as Drivetime - playing fantastic music and hopefully making people smile as they cook tea or head home after a days graft - is the icing on what is already a very brilliant cake.\n\nThe Bolton-born host added that she was beyond chuffed with her new role, which comes just weeks after she missed out on landing the Breakfast presenter role.\n\nCox, 43, had been favourite to take over from Chris Evans after he announced he was leaving Radio 2 to go back to Virgin Radio .\n\nHowever, It Takes Two host Zoe Ball was later unveiled as Evans successor with Cox sending a series of cryptic tweets following the announcement.\n\nThe new Radio 2 schedule including Cox and Ball's new roles will kick in in the New Year.","title":"Sara Cox on Drivetime BBC Radio 2 presenter thanks fans for support after landing aposdream joba","date":"2018-10-29","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The governments bovine tuberculosis (bTB) strategy has allowed the culling of tens of thousands of badgers but neglected basic infection prevention on farms which is severely hampering efforts to control the disease, a major report has found.\n\nCampaigners maintain that culling is ineffective as well as being costly and cruel, however an independent review of the scheme found the badger cull has had a modest but real benefit in reducing the disease.\n\nHowever, the authors said that preventing the disease spreading between cattle on farms and in livestock trading was a more important way to control infection.\n\nIf I had to say more one than the other its definitely more on the cattle to cattle side [than badger to cattle infection], the reviews chair Sir Charles Godfray, professor of zoology at Oxford University, said.\n\nWe realise that wildlife does have a role in this disease, but its wrong to put all the blame on wildlife and to use this as an excuse to not make hard decisions in industry, which is going to cost the industry money.\n\nSir Charles said there was also an urgent need for more evidence on the efficacy of vaccinations to inoculate badgers. This approach is being used in cross-border efforts in Ireland, and the review panel called for government to adopt its own trials to develop the evidence.\n\nWhile recognising the burden that bTB places on farmers and their families, the Bovine TB Strategy Review said there is disappointingly low uptake of basic biosecurity measures to limit its impact.\n\nThe report blames this on the backlash around badger culling which has had the unfortunate consequence of ... deflecting focus from what can be done by the individual farmer and livestock community.\n\nIn particular, the poor take up of on-farm biosecurity measures and the extent of trading in often high-risk cattle is, we believe, severely hampering disease control, it said.\n\nOther measures include keeping neighbouring herds separated to prevent the tuberculosis bacteria passing from nose to nose contact, and preventing badgers from getting on to farms, particularly around feed bins.\n\nRecent evidence also raises the case for using a battery of tests on herds where bTB is suspected after research found a commonly used skin test is ineffective. It also highlights the spreading of manure slurry on fields which can increase the spread of bTB, and can be addressed with different treating methods or with more modern equipment to inject the slurry under the soil.\n\nThese efforts could have a greater impact on the spread of disease than culling, which the Badger Trust charity estimates could have killed as many as 75,000 badgers at a cost of over 50m of public money.\n\nThe review said the best evidence on the effect of culling remains the Randomised Badger Cull Trial (RBCT) that ran between 1998 and 2005 and suggests it can lower bTB incidence by around 15 per cent.\n\nHowever Sir Charles said the group was explicitly told not to consider evidence from current culls that have been underway since 2013, although figures from Gloucestershire and Somerset were consistent with the RBCT.\n\nThe latest culls have incurred significant costs. The review says 32 culls have been authorised since 2013, at an average cost of 600,000 per site over a four year period  more than a third of this cost on policing.\n\nThe reviews publication comes a day after leading vets accused the government of barefaced lies in claiming these cull areas had already reduced bTB in cattle.\n\nA letter published in the Vet Record journal argues data from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is unclear and deliberately opaque and that bTB rates were falling before culling began.\n\nThe letters lead author, veterinary surgeon Dr Iain McGill of the Prion Interest Group, told the BBC there is now evidence bTB was rising in these areas, saying: Badger culling has not worked. They are issuing barefaced lies in this matter.\n\nThese concerns have been echoed by other campaigners.\n\nTo date the government have spent over 50m of public money undertaking the largest destruction of a protected species in living memory, said Dominic Dyer, CEO of the Badger Trust.\n\nDespite this huge slaughter the government have no reliable evidence that badger culling is lowering bovine bTB in cattle.\n\nHe added: Although Sir Charles does not call for an end to the cruel, hugely costly and ineffective badger cull, he does recognise that badger vaccination could be a viable alternative to culling.\n\nChris Sherwood, chief executive of the RSPCA, said: Our concern is that the focus on blaming badgers has stalled vital research and investment to find more effective solutions that would save the lives of cattle and move away from the current futile killing of badgers.\n\nNational Farmers Union vice president Stuart Roberts said: The industry has stepped up to work with government in tackling bovine bTB.\n\nFarmers are already taking a range of steps to protect themselves against this disease. The Godfray review suggests more can be done but the question many cattle keepers have is which measures bring the greatest disease control benefits.\n\nDefra has stood by its use of the figures and said it would respond to the Godfray report after it had reviewed its recommendations.\n\nFarming minister George Eustice said: As a government we are committed to eradicating bTB and have always been clear that there is no single measure for tackling it.\n\nThats why we have pursued a range of interventions, including cattle movement controls, vaccinations and controlled culling in certain areas.","title":"Badger cull Blaming wildlife while neglecting cheap farming improvements aposseverely hamperinga","date":"2018-11-12","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Tickets to big-name Broadway touring shows, such as Hamilton, are hard to come by in Denver. Thats due in part to the fact that the shows are popular and critically acclaimed, but also because the Denver Center for the Performing Arts  which books and hosts these productions at its Buell Theatre  gives its subscribers first access to them over the public.\n\nThat makes sense for the DCPA, given that the tickets double as tools for driving subscriptions. But it also narrows the amount of general-audience tickets available for the rest of us.\n\nNever fear: As with Hamilton, there will be a digital ticket lottery for the upcoming production of Tony-winning sensation Dear Evan Hansen, which kicks off its first-ever national tour at the Buell on Sept. 25 (and runs through Oct. 13).\n\nToday the DCPA announced details of the lottery, which will offer tickets for the relatively low price of $25 (vs. $10 per ticket for the Hamilton lottery). The lottery is in effect for each and every performance, and begins 48 hours prior to each show, according to the DCPA. Entries will be accepted until 9 a.m. the day before the performance.\n\nFeeling lucky? Sign up at luckyseat.com\/dearevanhansen-denver, where you can also opt to get daily notifications via email. Winners can then buy up to two tickets at $25 each.\n\nTickets must be purchased online with a credit card by 4 p.m. the day prior to the performance using the purchase link and code in the customized notification email, the DCPA said. Tickets not claimed by 4 p.m. MT the day prior to the performance will be considered forfeit.\n\nWinners can pick up their lottery tickets at the Buell Theatre box office will-call window (1350 Curtis St.) starting one hour before the show with a valid photo I.D. (as always, tickets are void if they find out you re-sold them).\n\nAnd theres some fine print: Seat locations awarded by the lottery are subject to availability, according to a DCPA press release. Patrons must be 18 years or older and have a valid, non-expired photo I.D. that matches the name used to enter. Tickets are non-transferable. Ticket limits and prices displayed are at the sole discretion of the show and are subject to change without notice.","title":"Dear Evan Hansen Denver tickets 25 seats to be available via digital lottery","date":"2018-09-21","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"ZHUHAI, November 8. \/TASS\/. The three-year portfolio of defense export orders\nof the Russian Helicopters holding affiliated with Rostec Corporation is over\n120 aircraft, Chief Executive Officer of the company Andrei Boginsky told\nreporters on Thursday.\n\n\"The export orders portfolio for 2019 - 2021 is over 120 helicopters of the\ndefense segment,\" the top manager said. \"If we take plans of the next year,\nthey are approximately 90% supported by firm orders,\" the top manager said.\n\nThe company is boosting supplies of civilian helicopters, he said. \"We are\nincreasing deliveries of civilian aircraft within the framework of Rostecs\nstrategy: about 75 civilian helicopters will be handed over to customers this\nyear,\" Boginsky noted.\n\nAccording to preliminary results of this year, the company will supply to all\ncustomers \"approximately the same number of new and upgraded helicopters as in\nthe last year,\" he added.\n\nIn other media","title":"Russian Helicopters plan to export over 120 military aircraft by 2021","date":"2018-11-08","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Barclays chief executive Jes Staley on Thursday admitted that Britains banks are being punished by the vote to leave the EU and warned that a hard Brexit could be a disaster.\n\nThe American banker was talking as Barclays revealed a 20% jump in half-year profits to 3.7 billion, a sign, said Staley, that the bank is clean and ready to keep stealing business from Wall Street giants such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.\n\nBarclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds are all paying a steep price for Brexit said Staley, with share prices failing to reflect the firms value.\n\nBritish banks are on the lowest multiples of any banks, he said. It is very important to get an agreement, to continue in the customs union.\n\nWhile a hard Brexit might have benefits in the long term, the short term impact would be huge, he warned.\n\nBarclays is under fire from activist investor Ed Bramson, who thinks the bank has billions of dollars in capital it could return to investors immediately.\n\nStaley admits Barclays could soon have cash to play with, but ruled out a big merger deal.\n\nThe bank is clean. All the major legacy issues are dealt with. This is a bank that is functioning. We are going to be generating excess capital going forward, but I dont believe we should be going into another restructuring, he said.\n\nAll youve got to do is look at Deutsche Bank. Barclays paid out 1.4 billion to the US Justice Department, knocking results, but the investment banking arm had record returns from advising clients on takeovers. Overall revenue was flat at 10.9 billion.\n\nStaley admitted Barclays has a history of creating self-inflicted wounds and said we want to be boring.\n\nThere was another 400 million pay-out for PPI claims, aside from which the UK arm is doing well.\n\nBarclays shares were flat at 191p, which values the bank at 33 billion.\n\nBramson has built up a 5% stake and has told his own backers he wants Barclays to ditch its trading arm.\n\nStaley said while the bank has had conversations with Bramson, it is far from clear what his intentions are.","title":"Barclays boss says hard Brexit could be disaster for banks","date":"2018-08-02","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The rapid turnover rate among the presidents senior staff members doesnt end at the confines of his presidential administration. His personal legal team also remains in flux at present, with the announcement coming just this Wednesday that  despite the presidents past denials of reporting that such a move was coming  lawyer Ty Cobb had decided to leave his legal team. As Cobb left, the presidents legal team accepted a new member, Emmet Flood, who worked for President Bill Clinton when he was facing impeachment proceedings.\n\nIn the face of this shuffling, the president took to Twitter late Wednesday to attempt to fall back on past comments from someone who is himself a former member of his legal team, John Dowd. Dowd resigned as the lead lawyer for the president in his battle with the Russia probe back in March just a short time after explicitly calling for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Special Counsel for the Russia investigation Robert Mueller.\n\nQuoting Dowd, the president quipped on Twitter late Wednesday as follows:\n\nThis isnt some game. You are screwing with the work of the president of the United States. John Dowd, March 2018. With North Korea, China, the Middle East and so much more, there is not much time to be thinking about this, especially since there was no Russian Collusion.\n\nNo matter how many random sets of quotes the president puts in his tweets, hes not going to be able to make the issue of his teams collusion with Russia go away. Whether or not the Trump team colluded is no longer a question thanks to things like Donald Trump Jr.s eager acceptance of help from the Russian government against Hillary Clinton back in 2016.\n\nTheres an easy way for the scandal to take more of a back seat than it has at present  if the president stopped whining about it at what seems like every opportunity, wed talk about it less, it could run its course, and that would be that.\n\nHowever, the fact that the president is continuing to go on and on indicates that hes not really that committed to letting the investigation conclude as he claims. He enjoys the attention and continues to dig his hole deeper and deeper, having explicitly threatened the Justice Department Wednesday morning, when he wrote on Twitter that he was prepared to use the powers granted to the Presidency to make the justice system fall more in line with his wishes.\n\nHe just goes on and on.\n\nCheck out Twitters response to some of the presidents latest rambling below.","title":"Trump Rage Tweets Wednesday Night Freakout Like A Maniac On Weird Drugs TWEET","date":"2018-05-02","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Chelsea midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko has assured AC Milan they will soon see his best form after a poor start to his loan spell in Italy.\n\nThe 24-year-old joined the Blues in a 40 million deal from AS Monaco last summer but was frozen out of the first team after a disastrous second half to the season.\n\nAs a result, he was farmed out on loan to the Serie A giants after being told he wasn't part of Maurizio Sarri's plans and has struggled to make an impression at San Siro.\n\nCoach Gennaro Gattuso has remarked that Bakayoko is finding it difficult to adapt to the team's shape and has only used the France international sparingly in the league, having coming for just seven minutes in the derby against Inter Milan.\n\nBut Bakayoko believes that in good time, his temporary employers will see his best level.\n\nIve been very well received, he told reporters ahead of AC Milan's Europa League match against Real Betis.\n\nIts a good group and my integration has gone very well, Im trying to adapt the way I play. The best of me has yet to come and itd be better to play a bit more, but Im already seeing improvements.\n\nA lot of things have changed, its a new league and a new style of football but Im trying to give my best.\n\nWith time youll see the Bakayoko you talk about.\n\nReports have suggested the Italian club are ready to cut short Bakayoko's loan if his performances do not improve, with his loan spell due to expire until the end of the season.","title":"Chelsea outcast Tiemoue Bakayoko insists best form is aposyet to comeapos as AC Milan struggles","date":"2018-10-24","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Researchers from the California State University (CSU) found that marine vegetation could play a significant role in minimizing ocean acidification (OA), a phenomenon wherein the ocean waters become too acidic due to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.\n\nOcean acidification is a chemical reaction brought about by a significant reduction of pH levels in ocean waters caused by an excess of CO2 in the atmosphere. In other words, the oceans are absorbing too much CO2 from the atmosphere, making the water more acidic.\n\nThis phenomenon affects marine species, particularly shrimps and oysters, whose exoskeletons and shells dont form as fast in highly acidic waters. Highly acidic oceans may also change the behavior of fish.\n\nHowever, much like their counterparts on land, aquatic plants such as kelp and seagrass take up CO2. The researchers from CSU found that these plants may help mitigate the effects of ocean acidification and help marine species cope with harsh ocean water.\n\nThe Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team (OPC-SAT) Working Group, which is managed by the California Ocean Science Trust, brought together a group that included five CSU faculty to study whether aquatic vegetation could protect vulnerable species on Californias coast.\n\nA lot of people are not aware how strikingly challenging OA could be in our future, says Karina Nielsen, Ph.D., co-chair of the group that authored the report titled, Emerging Understanding of Seagrass and Kelp as an Ocean Acidification Management Tool in California.\n\nSponsored solution from CWC Labs: This heavy metals test kit allows you to test almost anything for 20+ heavy metals and nutritive minerals, including lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum and more. You can test your own hair, vitamins, well water, garden soil, superfoods, pet hair, beverages and other samples (no blood or urine). ISO accredited laboratory using ICP-MS (mass spec) analysis with parts per billion sensitivity. Learn more here.\n\nThe ocean is an iconic part of Californias identity. OA is a big threat to that, she added, noting that the effects are getting more apparent now.\n\nSuch effects could potentially change the entire oceanic food web which would greatly affect human populations that depend on marine species for food and commodities, according to Krista Kamer, Ph.D., director of CSU Council on Ocean Affairs Science and Technology (COAST). She also says ocean acidification could also impact protected species such as whales, turtles and sea birds.\n\nAccording to Nielsen, kelp and seagrass do have the capacity to locally increase the pH of seawater, and that they provide a sort of low-acid refuge for species such as oysters, abalone, crab and fish that stay around these plants.\n\nThe study highlights two species of eelgrass, a type of underwater coastal seagrass, and two species of kelp that are said to have the greatest pH-raising potential for Californias coast.\n\nStudy co-author Kerry Nickols, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology at CSU Northridge, who specializes in kelp research, said kelp and seagrass support marine habitats in different ways. She also added that kelp is a large species and grows at a faster rate than seagrass: It can grow up to a foot a day. According to Nickols, the sheer size and speed of growth of kelp offer tremendous potential for future research.\n\nThe top of the kelp  the canopy  is where all the new growth is, and this is where we are finding the higher pH levels, Nickols says. We still need to determine how far the pH benefits can extend in the water, and how marine life can benefit.\n\nAccording to Nielsen, investing in the conservation and restoration of eelgrass and kelp populations helps not only the plants, but the surrounding ecosystem. Underwater seagrass meadows and kelp forests offer numerous benefits, including reducing coastal erosion and providing shelter for a wide range of marine species.\n\nThe study highlights the potential of eelgrass as it may be able to absorb and trap CO2 long-term, much like how trees can store CO2 from the atmosphere. Scientists call this carbon sequestration.\n\nIf researchers are able to quantify substantial carbon sequestration benefits, Nielsen said, eelgrass restoration and conservation projects could have financial value in carbon markets.\n\nMoreover, ocean acidification indirectly impacts Californias coastal economy, as it may also harm the states fisheries, which may affect tourism and recreation.\n\nIf the things that draw people to California are negatively impacted, the identity and the cultural landscape of the state could potentially be at risk, Nielsen noted.\n\nToday, ocean acidification is recognized as an emerging threat to marine life, and researchers have put their knowledge and effort into finding solutions to lessen its impact. To learn more about these mitigation efforts, visit Ecology.news.","title":"Seaweed could save Californias coastline by reducing ocean acidification","date":"2018-05-18","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Last night was a night that wont soon be forgotten in the UFC.\n\nWinner Nik Lentz gave a shout out to the new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh \n\nAfter his knockout win over Russian Alexander Volkov, Derrick Lewis  the Black Beast  from the USA made some astounding remarks.\n\nLewis first said that he took off his pants because his balls were hot.\n\nHe then stated that the President called him before the fight and told him to knock that Russian Mother F*cker out!\n\nHe ended his interview stating that he would be happy to smoke some weed with Joe Rogan, the UFC commentator interviewing him!","title":"MUST SEE UFC Fighter Wins Gives Shout Out to Kavanaugh Another Says Trump Called Him Before Fig","date":"2018-10-07","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) As the most common cancer among women around the world, breast cancer is one of the biggest health issues of our time. Its also quite controversial, as you might expect, from a problem that has the potential to generate so many profits. In addition to living with a constant worry of developing this potentially deadly disease, women have to deal with overdiagnosis, dishonest surgeons who prey on their fear, and questionable charities that dont put their funds toward finding a cure as claimed. A diagnosis can be extremely traumatic as women face questions about their mortality, and for those who are undergoing treatment, theres a whole slew of side effects that can make their make life pretty miserable.\n\nSome breast cancer patients undergo chemical hormone suppression as part of their treatment. Drugs like Tamoxifen and Arimidex often add to the trauma of breast cancer by causing hair loss, libido crashes, hot flashes, and fatigue, to name just a few side effects. It gets so bad that some women quit their treatment, while others are given psychotropic drugs like Prozac or Lyrica that pile on even more side effects.\n\nIt might seem like its just an endless series of bad news when it comes to breast cancer, but a new study has found that there could be some help in the form of honey and bee pollen. Researchers set out to see if bee pollen could reduce menopause-like symptoms in those taking hormone-suppressive drugs for breast cancer. They got the idea after a trial showed that bee pollen extracts enhanced menopausal womens quality of life and reduced their hot flashes.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nNot only did they find that the bee pollen was indeed effective, but they discovered something else completely unexpected at the same time. In the study, they used honey as the placebo, but to their surprise, they discovered that it was every bit as effective as the bee pollen when it came to reducing symptoms!\n\nIn the randomized crossover trial, the researchers assessed the menopausal complaints of 46 breast cancer patients who were receiving anti-hormonal treatment. An incredible 70.9 percent noted improvements when taking bee pollen, while an equally remarkable 68.3 percent noted improvements in her symptoms when taking honey. In fact, the difference between the two groups was so small that it was not considered significant, making them essentially equally good choices.\n\nThese results were confirmed in a follow-up. The researchers mention that honey actually raises estrogen levels, which goes against the idea behind suppressing hormones in the first place  even if it did lead to improvements in symptoms in the study. Nevertheless, they believe that women who are looking to discontinue treatment because they arent finding symptom relief from alternatives like acupuncture could be offered bee pollen. They also called for future tests to look into the use of honey and bee pollen in relieving menopausal symptoms in healthy women.\n\nOf course, its important to keep in mind that finding relief from the symptoms caused by hormone-suppressive drugs does not actually protect the body from their dangers. Sometimes a bad reaction is your bodys way of telling you that whatever youre taking should be avoided. For example, extended tamoxifen use has been linked to endometrial and liver cancer.\n\nNevertheless, many women feel compelled to continue the treatment their doctors have prescribed, and anything that can make this a more pleasant experience naturally and without side effects is worth consideration.","title":"Irrefutable evidence proves that honey and bee pollen improve menopausal symptoms in breast cancer p","date":"2018-08-02","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The Prime Minister told a crunch European Council summit in Brussels that she was \"ready to consider\" the extension floated by EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier to give time to resolve the ongoing row over the Irish border. If agreed, the change would mean the UK remaining within the single market and customs union and subject to EU rules and regulations for almost three years after the official date of Brexit in March 2019. And it would be more than five years after the historic referendum vote to Leave. Brexiteer-in-chief and former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said that it would delay full withdrawal almost until the general election scheduled for May 2022 and \"may mean we never leave at all\". After her Chequers plan for Brexit was humiliatingly rejected at the last EU summit in Salzburg last month and efforts to seal a last-minute deal foundered last weekend over the EU's demand for a \"backstop\" to avoid a hard border in Ireland. Mrs May has been fighting to keep the door open for an agreement to deliver an orderly withdrawal.\n\nAddressing leaders of the 27 remaining EU member states in Brussels, she stressed that significant progress had been made in many areas of the negotiations and urged them to find a \"creative\" way out of the current dilemma. The PM said: \"We have shown we can do difficult deals together constructively. I remain confident of a good outcome.\" And she told them: \"The last stage will need courage, trust and leadership on both sides.\" Following her 20-minute speech, Mrs May left to eat at the UK ambassador's residence in the Belgian capital, leaving the EU leaders to discuss Brexit in her absence over a dinner of turbot cooked in wheat beer.\n\nMrs May's future as Prime Minister appears to be staked on the success of her Brexit negotiations  with infighting within her own party threatening her position. Brexiteers such as Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg have been critical of the PM's handling of Brexit, and there is cabal of 40 Tory MPs who have pledged to vote down her proposals. Britain continues to be split by Brexit more than two years since the referendum  which was settled in favour of Leave by 52% to 48%. Thousands expected to march on Westminster this weekend calling for a so-called \"People's Vote\" on the final Brexit deal reached by the PM.  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has slammed Mrs May's approach as \"blindfolded\" as the oppositions continues to pressure for a new General Election.\n\nThe president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, who also spoke, said: \"Both sides mentioned the idea of an extension of the transition period as one possibility which is on the table and would have to be looked into.\" A senior EU official later said Mrs May had indicated she was \"ready to consider\" a longer transition period. Mrs May initially suggested an \"implementation period\" of around two years after Brexit, to give the UK's authorities and companies time to prepare for the new arrangements. But she later accepted a 21-month transition offered by the EU, ending on the last day of December 2020.\n\nIt emerged on Wednesday that Mr Barnier was ready to discuss a further year's extension to allow time to find a solution to keep the Irish border open. UK officials stressed that the Prime Minister was not proposing any extension to the period already agreed. Any further extension is likely to be fiercely opposed by Eurosceptics, who warn the UK would become a \"vassal state\" of Brussels, bound by its rules but unable to influence them. And it is certain to involve a demand from Brussels for a further year's contributions towards EU budgets, which could cost the UK as much as 9 billion.","title":"Brexit BETRAYAL Theresa May reveals plan to keep Britain in EU until 2021","date":"2018-10-17","source":"thedailystar","label":0}
{"content":"As Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation broadens, the number of shady characters surrounding the president grows ever-increasingly  That was why it came as no surprise that Donald Trumps former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, may have been committing another crime or crimes. This last reported one had not been reported before, though.\n\nIt appeared that federal prosecutors in the New Yorks Southern District have uncovered yet another problem for the man who used to say that he would take a bullet for the president. This time, these investigators have been investigating whether or not Cohen has been committing tax fraud.\n\nHe and POTUS relationship suffered after the president moved to the White House in D.C. and did not take Cohen with him. Trump wrote, according to The Wall Street Journal:\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal, Cohen has been investigated for whether his multiple taxi-medallions business did not properly report its income on the federal tax return forms. That was not the only crime they were probing, it seemed.\n\nThe prosecutors have also been looking into whether any bank employees were complicit in allowing the presidents former self-described fixer obtain loans illegally. To do that, he would have had to obtain the loans without proper documentation.\n\nProsecutors are also examining if any bank employees improperly allowed Cohen to receive loans without providing sufficient proof of assets.\n\nThe federal investigators zoomed in on the Sterling National Bank. That was where Cohen got his taxi-medallion company financing.\n\nThe former Trump attorney may have inflated how much his assets were worth and then, used those inflated figures as collateral in order to obtain loans from Sterling National Bank. If so, that would be illegal.\n\nFederal prosecutors have been going over Cohens loan applications with a fine-tooth comb, looking for any false statements or even any misrepresentations. At this time, the prosecutors have subpoenaed Jeffrey Getzel. He was an accountant who worked for Cohen, according to the Wall Street Journal.\n\nCohen has already been in substantial trouble. He was under investigation by the feds for alleged campaign finance violations and bank fraud.\n\nTrumps former fixer made payments to adult entertainer and producer, Stormy Daniels, on behalf of the president. The purpose of that $130,000 payment was to prevent Daniels from talking about their one-time sexual interlude prior to the 2016 election. It appears, that the man sitting in the Oval Office also had Cohen pay off more women,\n\nShould the attorney be convicted of federal tax evasion and bank-fraud, he could face years in jail. These possible sentence would be a wedge that could be used by prosecutors to get Cohen to cooperate with them.\n\nAccording to CNN, Cohen said that he would cooperate with Mueller. Apparently, he is willing to reveal all about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with the presidents eldest son, Donald Trump, Sr., son-in-law Jared Kushner, campaign manager Paul Manafort, and a group of Russians.\n\nIn that meeting, a Russian attorney said that she could provide Trumps people with dirt on the Democratic 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton.\n\nLater, Trump claimed that his former attorney was lying to stay out of trouble.","title":"BREAKING New Michael Cohen Investigation Announced As Trumps World Crumbles","date":"2018-08-07","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"People who are geniuses do not normally go around telling people how smart they are. Yet, our braggart president has always been fond of patting himself on the head and saying really smart. Donald Trump has been an embarrassment throughout his campaign, but he managed to humiliate himself even further on the world stage.\n\nDuring his impromptu press conference after the NATO summit, the Donald reminded the world that he was a very stable genius:\n\nA reporter asked him if he planned to tweet once he was in the air on Air Force One. He responded:\n\nThe tweeter-in-chief told the crowd that he had forced the other NATO members to substantially up the amount of money they spent on their defense. Awkward for him, foreign leaders immediately contradicted him.\n\nEarly this year, people were questioning Trumps fitness for office. He responded saying he was like, really smart, according to The Washington Post:\n\nThen, the commander-in-chief could barely contain his excitement about seeing his role model, Russias President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe Twitter world went nuts. Check out some of our favorite tweets below:","title":"Trump Talks About His Mental Stability Einstein-Like Intelligence During Summit VIDEO","date":"2018-07-12","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The US and India signed a military cooperation deal on Thursday that has been more than a decade in the making, an unexpected and substantial development that American officials hailed as a breakthrough but which raised questions about what India was getting in return.\n\nThe deal will see India joint a select group of fewer than 30 countries that have agreed to align their military communications systems with Americas.\n\nNirmala Sitharaman, Indias defence minister, said the deal elevated India-US relations to unprecedented heights. General Mattis said the breakthrough made their alliance one of the most consequential in the region and in the world.\n\nThe US has been pushing for the Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (Comcasa) for many years, saying it will allow American manufacturers to sell high-tech equipment such as armed surveillance drones into the Indian market.\n\nIndia has previously said it wants such drones to monitor Chinese activity in the Indian Ocean - but baulked at the idea of potentially opening up its communications network to the US military.\n\nFor its part, India hailed an agreement from the US to begin negotiations on another deal that would allow Indian defence manufacturers to bid for projects building weapons with sophisticated US technology.\n\nThat would be a big step for Narendra Modis Make in India policy, which seeks international investment to strengthen the countrys manufacturing sector.\n\nIn other developments, the two countries also agreed to open a hotline between their foreign ministries and hold joint exercises - the first involving all three military branches in the air force, navy and the army - off the eastern Indian coast in 2019.\n\nGopalan Balachandran, distinguished fellow at the Delhi-based Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, told The Independent: Comcasa has been on the table for at least the last 10 years, so this is a significant breakthrough - at least as far as the United States is concerned.\n\nHow far it is significant for India remains to be seen. They have secured a memorandum of understanding only. We still dont know what made the Indian government decide this was now a good deal, after holding out for so many years.\n\nOne factor may have been the way Donald Trump has ramped up diplomatic pressure on India's main regional rivals, Pakistan and China - earning him plenty of goodwill in Delhi in the process.\n\nMr Pompeo held a meeting in Islamabad on Wednesday with Pakistan's new prime minister, Imran Khan, hours after it was revealed that the US had cut $300m in aid payments to Pakistan over its alleged failure to combat militant groups.\n\nIndia supports President Trumps South Asia policy, said Indias foreign minister, Sushma Swaraj. In her opening remarks on Thursday. [Trumps] call for Pakistan to stop its policy of supporting cross-border terrorism finds resonance with us.\n\nAt the same time, the Comcasa deal will also give the US a good excuse to look the other way over Indias efforts to buy an S-400 air defence system from Russia, which would violate US sanctions against Moscow.\n\nAsked about that deal, which had been framed as a major sticking point ahead of the 2+2 summit, Mr Mattis told reporters on his way to India: Freedom means that at times nations don't agree with each other. That doesn't mean we can't be partners. That doesn't mean we don't respect the sovereignty of those nations.\n\nIndia is also seeking some flexibility from the US on its Iran sanctions. Delhi has been holding productive trade talks with Tehran in recent months, particularly on oil purchases, even as President Trump has insisted that any country working with Iran will have no business from the US.\n\nAhead of the Delhi talks, a senior US State Department official told the Reuters news agency the US was engaged in \"very detailed conversations\" with India over the Iran issue.\n\n\"We're asking all of our partners, not just India, to reduce to zero oil imports from Iran, and so I'm confident that will be part of our conversation with India,\" the official said.","title":"US and India sign aposbreakthroughapos military agreement despite differences over Iran and Russ","date":"2018-09-06","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn is running against former Democrat Governor Phil Bredensen for the US Senate.\n\nBlackburn is 100% conservative and a favorite of President Donald J. Trump.\n\nBredensen is a worn out old timer Governor with backing from Hollywood and big money from out of state. Taylor Swift did endorse him.\n\nMarsha Blackburn would be the first woman ever to represent the State of Tennessee in the US Senate.\n\nThe Democrats have not won since Al Gore in 1980.\n\nPhilip Bredensen would be the next Al Gore.\n\nThe State is solidly Republican and not a Purple State. Blackburn should win  if voters turn out.\n\nIts not finished until its finished but Blackburn is surging.\n\nThis Senate race has been called the most important in the country.\n\nAll eyes are on Tennessee.\n\nThe Democratic Party is not popular in Tennessee for a reason. Bredensen IS a Democrat.\n\nHe may waffle and try to couch his terms but he would vote with Chuck Schumer 100% of the time.\n\nHe was a Clintonista and detests Trump.\n\nBlackburn on the other hand supports the Republican majority and would have voted FOR Judge Kavanaugh.\n\nShe is for due process while her opponent couldnt even decide what he was for.\n\nMake this go viral in the Volunteer State.","title":"Midterm 2018 TENNESSEE Marsha Blackburn vs Phil Bredensen","date":"2018-10-18","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A member of a drill music group has been stabbed to death and two others have suffered knife injuries in south London.\n\nThe deceased man is understood to be a 23-year-old known as Incognito, a well-known figure in Londons underground rap scene and one of the Moscow 17 group.\n\nHe was killed on the same road as another member of Moscow 17, 17-year-old Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, who was shot dead in May.\n\nPolice say they are treating the incident as gang-related and have launched a murder investigation into the killing.\n\nTwo men aged 18 and 19 remain in custody on suspicion of murder after being arrested close to the area. A police cordon is in place around the crime scene and officers are calling for witnesses to come forward.\n\nPolice and Londons Air Ambulance Service were called to Warham Street in Camberwell at around 7.20pm on Wednesday where all three men were found.\n\nOne of the victims was declared dead at the scene, the Metropolitan Police said, while the two others aged 16 and 31 were taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.\n\nA statement released by the Met said the deceased mans next-of-kin had been informed.\n\nDetective Chief Inspector Richard Leonard, who is leading the murder investigation, said: Another young man has tragically and needlessly lost his life through an act of violence.\n\nWe are keeping an open mind about the positive motive for this attack, but at this early stage one line of enquiry is this being gang-related.\n\nId like to reassure the community that we have made two arrests and we are working around the clock to establish what happened and bring those responsible to justice.\n\nHowever, we cannot do this alone and Id appeal to any witnesses or anyone with information to get in touch with us as a matter of urgency. Any information, however insignificant you think it is, is vital to our investigation. Any information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence.\n\nA Twitter account for Moscow 17 posted: Today we have taken a very sad loss in our member @SK017_ \/Incognito , we ask for all prayers be directed towards him & his family.\n\nDrill music often features violent lyrics and has been used by territorial gangs to threaten each other.\n\nSadiq Khan said on Twitter: My heart goes out to the family of the 23-year-old man fatally stabbed last night in Southwark.\n\nAt the time of Rhyhiems death in May, his mother Pretana Morgan called for a halt in the wave of violence in the capital.\n\nShe said: Let my son be the last and be an example to everyone. Just let it stop. What must be, must be.\n\nIts not about race, its not about nation, its not about culture. Nothing. Its just a human race.\n\nJust one human race. So children, please let my son be the last.\n\nThe latest stabbing comes after Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick said violent crime was starting to stabilise in London.\n\nThe murder rate in the UK capital briefly overtook New Yorks earlier this year after a spate of deadly knife attacks.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to call the incident room on 020 8721 4622 or police on 101.","title":"Drill music rapper Incognito killed in south London stabbing","date":"2018-08-02","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Imran Awan worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz for thirteen years since she came into office in 2004 as a Florida representative.\n\nImran and his two Pakistani brothers managed the IT affairs for several Democratic government officials.  They were relieved of their duties in February 2017 on suspicion that they accessed specific computer networks without permission, also known as hacking.\n\nAbid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives in February 2017.\n\nImran Awan was married to two women at once, including his first cousin, as is his countrys custom.\n\nImran had his court case rescheduled recently until next month.\n\nDaily Caller investigative journalist Luke Rosiak joined Lou Dobbs on Wednesday to discuss the latest in the Imran Awan Pakistani hacking scandal.\n\nIn his interview Wednesday night Luke Rosiak mentioned that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is refusing to bring up charges against Wasserman Shultzs IT expert Imran Awan.\n\nNow this...\n\n The Awan brothers server with much of the key evidence to the case has gone missing.\n\nThe Epoch Times reported:\n\nIn a behind-closed-door briefing to the House leadership in September 2016, the inspector general said their activity was suspicious in part because the IT workers had taken steps to conceal their identities. Excessive logons are an indication that the server is being used for nefarious purposes and elevated the risk that individuals could be reading and\/or removing information, reads a presentation by the inspector general that was not released to the public. The inspector general also warned of the risk that the server could be used as a repository to store documents taken from other offices or evidence of other illicit activity. The investigation had uncovered Dropbox accounts installed on at least two Democratic Caucus computers used by the IT workers, against House IT policy. The two accounts associated with the Dropbox accounts on the computers each contained thousands of files. We have not been permitted to view content of the files on these workstations. However, based on the file names, some of the information is likely sensitive, the presentation says. The inspector general also warned House leadership that the accounts could have been used to exfiltrate information. While file-sharing sites, such as Dropbox, have legitimate business purposes, use of such sites is also a classic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization. Following a second briefing in late September 2016, in which the House inspector warned the House leadership of continuing unauthorized access, the investigation was moved to the Capitol Police in October. It was not until months later, on Feb. 2, 2017, that the House sergeant at arms banned the IT workers from the House network. The Democratic Caucus server, which had been identified by the inspector general as ground zero of the suspicious activity, had disappeared at that time. Three senior government officials with knowledge of the situation told the Daily Caller News Foundation last year that it had been physically stolen.","title":"KEY EVIDENCE GOES MISSING Server Belonging to Wasserman Schultz IT Worker Imran Awan Is Physically","date":"2018-06-08","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Donald Trump calls the traditional media Fake News. He was condemning the pillars of the communications industry, newspapers and television news outlets that police themselves rigidly. Yet, the president calls them the true Enemy of the People. Why?\n\nHe has incredibly thin skin, and his idea of the press is Fox News  especially Sean Hannity. These members of the media fawn over POTUS, and he eats it up, just as he takes in the fake adoration shown to him by cruel dictators around the world. Yet, the real news irks him to no end. He just tweeted:\n\nThere is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame...\n\nWhat Trump apparently does not understand or refuses to understand is that the news job is to hold the president, any president accountable. The man currently sitting in the Oval Office hates to be held accountable.\n\nNo, he wants to make up stories and statistics and create lies out of thin air every day, multiple times. Then, he expects the news to ignore that and gush over his so-call great economy and accomplishments. Never mind that President Barack Obama saved the country from certain financial disaster and started the economy on its current trajectory.\n\nTrump wants the press to ignore the caged immigrant children, the ban on Muslim immigrants, and his hate-filled rhetoric that gins up his followers to the point of inciting violence in some cases.\n\nWriter for The New Yorker, Maggie Haberman retweeted Trumps inaccurate morning tweet simply yet powerfully:\n\nTwitter world lit up. Check out some of our favorites below:","title":"Pulitzer Prize Winning NY Times Reporter Responds To Trumps AM Media Attacks","date":"2018-10-29","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Jose Mourinho believes he will make a maximum of one new signing in January, claiming it will take crazy money to bring in Manchester United calibre targets.\n\nMourinho was left bitterly frustrated by the failure to secure a top class centre back in the summer, and defensive reinforcements remain his priority when the transfer window reopens in January.\n\nToby Alderweireld, Milan Skriniar, Harry Maguire and Kalidou Koulibaly are among his defensive targets, but the United manager has revealed his concerns about the clubs ability to secure the worlds top players in the modern era.\n\nThe club are in the process of restructuring their scouting and recruitment departments, but Mourinho admits they are still have considerable work to be done to bring in the players he believes are required to return United to the summit of English football.\n\nThe transfer market is very difficult unless the clubs want to go to what I call crazy numbers, he said.\n\nYou have no chance in the market unless you go to crazy numbers, or instead you go to what you call the second level players and still have crazy numbers. But that second level is the level people say, and I agree, thats not what Manchester United is.\n\nMourinho has spent around 375million since taking over at Old Trafford in 2016, and also made Alexis Sanchez the highest paid player in the history of United - on around 400,000-a-week - when signing the Chilean from Arsenal in January.\n\nBut Mourinho believes he still needs to make significant improvements to a squad that currently sits 14 points adrift of Premier League leaders Manchester City and seven points off the top four.\n\nMourinho claims a big factor in Uniteds struggles is their inability to pick off the cream of the talent from English rivals.\n\nFootball has changed, he said. Its more difficult to buy players of a high, high, high level. The clubs are more powerful. The clubs dont want to sell, and to sell is to go to absolutely incredible levels.\n\nBefore the smaller clubs were almost begging the big clubs: 'Get my best players. I need to sell. Please, you are powerful. Buy my best player.' At this moment, they dont want to sell. They dont want to sell.\n\nIts more difficult to make the team better and stronger with buying unless you do what some clubs do and for some reason they can do this and others cannot, which is say: 'I need a right back and a left back; send away the ones you have and buy four at the same time.'\n\nIts difficult. We do what we can. Last season, it was fantastic to finish second and we are fighting hard. I know that we have to do better than what we are doing, absolutely, we have to do better, but one thing is to do better and another is to compare ourselves with what Manchester United was in the past because it is impossible.\n\nNot just because Manchester United was fantastic, but because there was a big difference to the others and now it is not like that.\n\nI give you an example that I hope is a good example. Is Manchester United by its history, by its dimension, bigger than Tottenham? With all respect Tottenham is an amazing club. I think everybody would say yes.\n\nCan you buy Tottenhams best players? No, because they dont sell. Of course, they are so powerful that they can say no.\n\nA few years ago, who was Tottenhams best player? Michael Carrick. And a few years later, who was the best player? (Dimitar) Berbatov. Can we go there now and bring Harry Kane?\n\nDele Alli, (Christian) Eriksen, (Heung-min) Son? Can we go there and bring those players here? No. So who is more powerful now? Them or us?\n\nAlderweireld is one Spurs player considered attainable, with the centre-back still to sign a new contract at the club.\n\nThe Belgian will be available for 25.4m next summer, meaning a compromise deal could be struck in January.\n\nPressed on Alderweireld, Mourinho said: Its very hard for me to go for names in that sense.\n\nIts easier to say we cannot buy Eden Hazard or we cannot buy (Sergio) Aguero than to speak about names where the general feeling is there is a chance. I cannot go in that direction.","title":"Jose Mourinho sets out Man Utd January transfer window plans in aposcrazyapos market","date":"2018-11-30","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Happy Birthday to our beautiful First Lady, Melania Trump.\n\nThe First Lady turned 48 years old on Thursday.\n\nWe are so blessed to have such a gracious and beautiful First Lady.\n\nFirst Lady Melania is a mother who exudes warmth and absolutely loves children.\n\nChildren light up when Melania Trump enters the room.\n\nShe often visits hospitals to comfort sick children.\n\nMelania also has amazing style and can rock high heels like no other FLOTUS.\n\nAnd who could ever forget how stunning the White House looked this past Christmas thanks to First Lady Melania.","title":"Happy Birthday to Our Beautiful First Lady Melania Trump","date":"2018-04-26","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Discussing the illegal nature of people who enter the United States without permission is an apparent trigger point for Twitter, which is now actively de-platforming groups like the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) simply for mentioning the topic on the social media platform.\n\nAccording to The Daily Caller, CIS was unable to promote tweets on its page that contained video footage of alien trespassers crossing the southwest border with Mexico because Twitter decided that the content was hateful.\n\nThe footage in question was captured by The Daily Caller, showing hordes of illegal aliens pouring across the United States-Mexico border without obstruction. The tweet containing this footage explained how it depicts precisely why the U.S. is in dire need of an impenetrable border wall at its southern border.\n\nTwitter just rejected paid promotion of the tweet .. saying: This determination is based on the following Twitter Ads policy: Hateful Content,' wrote Mark Krikorian, Executive Director for CIS in a follow-up tweet following the first tweets removal from Twitter.\n\nIts because it contains the phrase illegal alien, which @TwitterAdsHelp deems unacceptable, he added.\n\nThree other tweets from CIS posted between September 6  11 were similarly rejected and removed by Twitter for using words like illegal, alien, and criminal to describe people who illegally enter the U.S. in violation of the law.\n\nSponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: Lab-verified Nascent Iodine solution is a dietary supplement that provides your body with supplemental iodine to help protect your thyroid during radiation exposure. Nuclear accidents such as Fukushima (or nuclear war) can expose your body to radioactive iodine-131, a dangerous radioisotope. Pre-loading your system with stable iodine occupies the iodine receptor sites on your organs, causing your body to naturally expel radioactive iodine you may have been exposed to through air, food, water or milk products. This defensive strategy is recommended by nearly all health authorities, worldwide, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Discover more at this link.\n\nThough all of this terminology has long been encapsulated in federal law and Supreme Court precedent, Twitter doesnt like it because it apparently has a negative connotation with regards to human beings, none of whom can possibly be illegal, according to the leftist liberals in charge at Twitter.\n\nTwitter is not allowing us to promote any tweets including the phrase illegal alien(s), citing it as Hateful Content, CIS has stated. However, the phrase illegal aliens has been used in both federal law and by the Supreme Court.\n\nWhen questioned about why simple ads demonstrating the illegality of people who dont belong in America rushing across the border are considered Hateful Content, while actual hateful content calling for innocent men to have their lives completely ruined in order to take down the patriarchy is fully allowed, Twitter had this to say:\n\nWe dont have a comment. For background, our ads policies are enforced dispassionately and are detailed here for all advertisers.\n\nUpon perusing the link provided by Twitter, Natural News discovered that Twitter doesnt in any way accurately or fairly enforce its Hateful Content guidelines. It clearly states at the link provided above that hate speech, as defined by Twitter, includes disparaging content against gender identity, which would include men being disparaged by angry feminists.\n\nBut angry feminist content is all over Twitter and, as far as we know, has never once been removed. Meanwhile, factual information about illegal activity taking place on American soil is being pulled left and right by Twitter for allegedly being hateful.\n\nAt the same time, Twitter and others are colluding with one another to manipulate and steal American elections on top of all this censorship, which is why Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, is calling on the heads of all these companies to be arrested and charged with racketeering and fraud for their crimes against America.\n\nGoogle is a serious threat to democracy, wrote Adams about another major tech giant thats selectively censoring content in defiance of its own stated policies and guidelines.\n\nJust like the other tech giants, Google declares anything it doesnt like to be either fake news or Russian propaganda.'\n\nFor more news on tech giant censorship, visit Censorship.news.","title":"Illegal aliens are the new protected class just like transgenders any criticism of either group","date":"2018-09-21","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Ten days after the shooting massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida  and after survivors of that shooting leapt into action pressing lawmakers for new gun control legislation  Republican politicians and the NRA on Sunday signaled they would resist most new gun laws.\n\nI do want to caution people, because I know that people are trying to find daylight between President Trump and 5 million law-abiding gun owners all across the United States, NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch told George Stephanopoulos on ABCs This Week.\n\nThese are just things that hes discussing right now, she said of Trumps comments in support of raising the age to buy rifles.\n\nLoesch said the group opposed any legislation to raise the purchase age for firearms, as well as legislation to require universal background checks for gun purchases. She also said the group opposes a ban on bump stocks, noting that the NRA would leave it to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to do its job and make sure that these classifications are consistent.\n\nRepublican politicians signaled similar resistance to most new gun legislation.\n\nIm not into banning specific weapons, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) told Fox News Chris Wallace. I think what you need to do is ban specific people from having weapons. Focus on the problem. \n\n \n\n Scott recently released his plan to prevent future school shootings in Florida, including raising the age to purchase any gun in Florida to 21, from 18 for rifles. He also called for a ban on bump stocks.\n\nRep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), pictured above, was more absolutist in an interview with NBCs Chuck Todd.\n\nI wish that background checks stopped criminals, or stopped school shootings, but they dont, he said, asked about legislation to require universal background checks for any gun purchase. Criminals are going to get ahold of guns. What weve got to look at is, whats the solution?\n\nHe said the vast majority of gun sales prevented by background checks had occurred because the background check system is flawed, and added separately that the proposal by some to ban AR-15s, like the one allegedly used in the Stoneman Douglas massacre, was ridiculous.\n\nIf you take out New York and California, 8 percent of Americans have concealed carry permits, he said separately, appearing to cite a number published in 2017 by the Crime Prevention Research Center, a pro-gun research group.\n\nMassie promoted his bill to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act and said he supported President Donald Trumps proposal to arm teachers who volunteer for that responsibility.\n\nAnd Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) told Todd that he would be very skeptical of legislation to raise the age of purchase to 21, because the vast majority of 18, 19, 20, 21-year-olds are law abiding citizens who arent a threat to anyone.\n\nAsked about a ban on the AR-15, he countered: Heres the problem, Chuck. Theres a lot of hunting rifles that are as powerful as an AR-15. The difference between the AR-15 and an awful lot of commonly sold rifles is just cosmetic.\n\nToomey promoted his legislation, written with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), to require background checks for gun shows and online purchases. But he acknowledged it would be an uphill battle.\n\nI havent gotten anyone who said, Yes, sign me up, but there are definitely members who are reconsidering, Toomey said.\n\nStill, Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), in an interview with CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, continued to break with his party in calling for ending the sale of assault rifles and a host of other measures.\n\nIn a New York Times op-ed Friday, Mast said Congress should define, and then ban, anything it considers to be an assault or tactical firearm, as well as require universal background checks and other new laws.\n\nI think theres a very real opportunity here for response, and for action, and thats what really brought me to my change of heart in talking about this, he told Brennan.","title":"NRA Republicans Draw Familiar Lines On Gun Control Debate","date":"2018-02-25","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"As part of a cutting-edge team for the advancement of consciousness, for lack of a better category in which to put these amazing thinkers, individuals like William Brown and Nassim Haramein are challenging all that we know about cosmology  both the scientific aspect and the spiritual  which really should never have been separated. The vast is in the minute. Our Universe is programmed fractally into every single tiny particle. This is also what I explain in the book The Power of the Elevation of Consciousness: Soul Restructuring, when I talk about our multidimensional expression, and how consciousness can be found etherically in the center of every atom.\n\nAs scientists struggle to describe a mechanism that organizes the cosmological order, they have come up with several hypotheses. Among the most recent of these is the cosmological inflationary paradigm. Alan Guth first postulated that the Universe was growing larger in 1981,[1] and many of his peers have supported his assumptions, namely, that early in the formation of our Universe, density perturbations produced larger scale structures like planets, stars, and even black holes, that we can observe today.\n\nWhat is most fascinating to observe, however, is how mainstream science is catching up to the predictions of rogue physicist Nassim Haramein, who has specifically described how an entire Universe is within a single atom. In a talk about his theories, Haramein details how the energy of an enormous black hole is present within a single elementary particle.\n\nAs Haramein states clearly, Einstein didnt have some of the mathematical tools and data that we have today. . . weve drilled down to galaxies, stellar objects, and atoms. And as we drilled down on both sides of the equation, we reach a very interesting point. . . in the middle of the sun [or any other cosmological object] is a point of infinite density. Some may call this a point of singularity. It only follows that the Universe is not necessarily expanding, but that it is already Infinite, just as the ancient sages and shamans predicted.\n\nAncient shamans describe our cosmology in this way: it is multi-layered and spreads out to Infinity. Is this not what physicists like Haramein and biologists like Brown are able to show, not just in theory, but with scientific and mathematical data? I think that the universe is not expanding in the sense of linear expansion, but it moves outwards following a toroidal pattern that give us the impression of growth, but in reality it is only re-positioning what is already there, in the same infinite space.\n\nThe evolution of consciousness parallels this cosmological pattern. We begin with personal consciousness, which extends to humankind, then to nature, then to the spheres of the stars and planets, and so on out to the solar system, and beyond. We then begin to experience the consciousness of light itself, and the properties of light as it moves through the omnipresent realm. We may even learn to hear the primordial sound that accompanies the Infinite in an act of creation  manifesting all into material form. These seven levels or wheels of consciousness are described in Vedic texts[2], ancient South American texts, and in oral traditions from American Indians, Aboriginal peoples in Australia and so on. This also happens to correspond to the Seven rishis the seven main chakras of the body, and so on.  But of course, if the Universe is in every elementary particle, would this not also alter their organization and form?\n\nIt is as if human kinds very best are struggling to break free from a consciousness which sees itself as all there is (i.e. the lower three chakras which are involved primarily with food, sex, and gaining shelter or material wealth) to an expanded view of ourselves as part of the larger Cosmology.\n\nAgain as Haramein describes it, as we drill down into the atom, we see that not only are the particles quantized, but the electromagnetic field. If you missed the magnitude of that statement, it means that there is an infinite amount of energy AT ANY POINT IN SPACE. Why? Because any point, even in the tiniest particle, the God particle, you might say, even though there is no God particle, only the God pattern, the entire Cosmology is present.\n\nTo then expand this theory of Haramein even further, there are multiple infinities. If each point contains the energy of infinity, and more than one point can exist simultaneously we have the possibility for infinite infinities. Yes, its almost impossible to even wrap your head around such as notion. No matter the complexity of this mathematical notion, it exists.[3]\n\nWhen mathematicians want to discuss Infinities this always leads back to the Planck length (10^-33), which is essentially just the super small electromagnetic fluctuations of an elementary particle as it blinks in and out of existence (wave-particle theory).\n\nAt Planck length, classical ideas about gravity and space-time as weve been taught, all go out the window. Quantum science prevails, or as Einstein dubbed it spooky action from a distance, or the idea of quantum entanglement which Einstein himself struggled to come to terms with.[4]\n\nThe Planck length is also present in what we traditionally call space  the material world, in fact, is made up of 99.9999999% space. There is space between planets and stars on the macro-level and at the level of tiny particles, there is still 99.99999999% space. The atom itself contains this amount of space. We pay far more attention to the .000000001% and expect to find answers. In reality, we have a majority of space that is slightly disrupted with vibration, to flicker in and out of existence to become matter.\n\nThink about this for a moment and what it truly means. We think that the place we were born or the parents we had, or the job we have now, or the person we are in a relationship with now dictates our reality. We think that our DNA is formed and set in stone based on unrelated events that we are just the unintended recipient of. WHOA. Lets look again.\n\nWere infinite space (wisdom and possibility) vibrating in and out of material form at the Plank level, with the energy of multiple infinities (multiple singularities) ready and waiting at our fingertips because we arent just connected to the Cosmos, we are the Cosmos. We can affect our outcomes at any fraction of a second with quantum entanglement, by altering the vibration of matter, and because we become conscious of the space of which we are made, we can, just as Infinite Expression, change it.\n\nYou touch your thigh and think its a dense accumulation of muscles and bone, but you havent yet awakened to the higher levels of consciousness awaiting you in the cosmological order. You are like a harmonic oscillator processing vibration.[5] To change your life, change the electromagnetic field within which you are vibrating. Its all there. Einstein would be proud.\n\nThe Quantum Universe is in the Elementary Particle was last modified: by","title":"The Quantum Universe is in the Elementary Particle","date":"2018-06-11","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on March 16th with just hours to go before he was set to retire with a fat, taxpayer funded pension.\n\nMcCabe immediately released an angry statement following his firing.\n\nHe blasted President Trump for tweeting about him and calling for him to him to be stripped of his pension. McCabe also claimed he was being singled out for what he witnessed in the aftermath of Trumps firing of FBI Director James Comey.\n\nOn Friday, Andrew McCabe defended himself against his firing in a scathing op-ed for the Washington Post.\n\nNot in my worst nightmares did I ever dream my FBI career would end this way.. McCabe says in his op-ed.\n\nHey, McCabe, were sure General Flynn feels the same way after Deep State criminals, led by you ruined his career.\n\nMcCabe describes the moment he found out he was fired:\n\nSo, after two decades of public service, I found out that I had been fired in the most disembodied, impersonal way  third-hand, based on a news account. Shortly after getting word, I noticed an email from a Justice Department official in my work account, telling me that I had been removed from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the civil service.\n\nAndrew McCabe then claims he did nothing wrong:\n\nI have been accused of lack of candor. That is not true. I did not knowingly mislead or lie to investigators. When asked about contacts with a reporter that were fully within my power to authorize as deputy director, and amid the chaos that surrounded me, I answered questions as completely and accurately as I could. And when I realized that some of my answers were not fully accurate or may have been misunderstood, I took the initiative to correct them. At worst, I was not clear in my responses, and because of what was going on around me may well have been confused and distracted  and for that I take full responsibility. But that is not a lack of candor. And under no circumstances could it ever serve as the basis for the very public and extended humiliation of my family and me that the administration, and the president personally, have engaged in over the past year.\n\nMcCabe then goes on to describe Trumps celebratory tweets as cruel and hurtful.\n\nWe dont feel sorry for Andrew McCabe. He was a part of a clique inside of the FBI who were all about control.\n\nMcCabes firing had nothing to do with President Trump; the investigation into his behavior began before Trump became president.\n\nIn fact, many agents inside the bureau cheered McCabes firing.\n\nFox News Catherine Herridge with more on McCabes op-ed:","title":"McCabe Speaks Out About His Firing in Scathing Op-Ed Not in My Worst Nightmares Did I Ever Dream My","date":"2018-03-23","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Prime Minister of France Edouard Philippe in Paris, France on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sean Kilpatrick\n\nNearly a month after striking an all-party agreement to investigate the wider implications of the massive Facebook data leak that gave UK-based data strategy firm Cambridge Analytica unauthorized access to personal information on tens of millions of users  including, according to the latest estimates, more than half a million Canadians  the House privacy committee is finally ready to launch the promised probe, which will also explore the inherent risk of platform monopolies, as well as the threat that such breaches could pose to the democratic process.\n\nThe hearings  which are expected to continue for several weeks  are set to kick off this morning with a briefing by Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien, who has publicly voiced his concern over the need to boost protection for personal data, which could include extending the federal regime to cover political parties, which are currently exempt from the law.\n\nLater this week, the committee will hear from Facebook Canada head Kevin Chan, whose office, the Toronto Star reports,  offered to provide a closed-door courtesy pre-brief on the controversy in advance of his public appearance, a move that left the committees lone New Democrat member, Charlie Angus, bristling.\n\nIt speaks to, I think, Facebooks disregard as a massive international corporation lobbying various governments on major policy, Angus told the Toronto Star on Monday.\n\nThis is an attempt to hear our concerns so theyre better prepared for television, and perhaps, outside of the view of the public, kind of win us over. Thats not how committee work is supposed to be done.\n\nIts a reaction that Chan, at least, might have anticipated, given his past experience on the Hill.\n\nA former mid-level-and-rising Privy Council Office official, he spent a stint as senior policy advisor to then-Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, an experience that, one might reasonably conclude, should likely have given him a pretty good idea as to just how such a gambit would go over on the opposition side of the aisle.\n\nAlso on the Hill today: New Democrat Sheila Malcolmson, Anne Minh-Thu Quach and Peter Julian hit the House Foyer to release a report card on Finance Minister Bill Morneaus most recent budget  and specifically, its ostensible focus on womens equality.\n\nMeanwhile, their caucus colleague Matthew Dube is ready to share his partys as yet unassuaged concerns over the governments proposed overhaul of the anti-terror and national security regime, which is currently undergoing clause-by-clause review.\n\nDube, as per the advisory, intends to ask the Liberal government to accept the NDPs amendments and to work with him in defending the rights and freedoms of Canadians.\n\nOutside the precinct, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is slated to spend a second day making the rounds in Paris, where hell stop by the Senate for a quick one-on-one with Prime MInister Edouard Philippe before heading to the National Assembly, where hell officially become the first sitting Canadian prime minister to address the French legislature.\n\nAfter that wraps up, hell drop by a closed-door reception for French parliamentarians and meet with representatives from the Canadian Commercial Delegation, after which its wheels up for London.\n\nAlso out and about today: Morneau joins his G20 colleagues in Washington, DC to discuss the state of the global economy at the spring session of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group.\n\nHoward Mann and Aaron Cosbey: Dont put taxpayers on the hook for Trans Mountain\n\nCharles Burton: Why China should have chosen honesty in its U.S. trade war\n\nCornelya F. C. Klutsch and Catarina C. Ferreira: Riding the tide of political will to maximize biodiversity research investment","title":"iPolitics AM MPs kick off Facebook leak probe as PM makes the rounds in Paris","date":"2018-04-17","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"When Johnson Controls announced GLAS back at CES, the flagship feature of the $319 translucent smart thermostat was its integration with Microsofts Cortana smart assistant. Now Cortana has company: ahead of its upcoming August 24th release date, the company has announced that GLAS will support Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, too  but theres a catch.\n\nOnly Cortana on the device itself\n\nGLAS itself does feature a built-in microphone and speaker, which will let users talk to and interact with Cortana straight from the device. But only Cortana is getting those privileges  users will still be able to use Alexa and Assistant through skills to control the temperature in their homes through GLAS, but youll need to use another device like an Echo or Google Home to do it.\n\nGLAS is a smart thermostat similar to the Nest Learning Thermostat, with the ability to remotely control the temperature in your home and automatically learn your schedule and living patterns. Its also like the Ecobee 4, which has a built-in Alexa speaker. But it looks to stand out from the crowd by offering the ability to track both indoor and outdoor air quality and then adjust the climate inside your home accordingly.\n\nCustomers are able to preorder GLAS for $319 from Amazon and Johnson Controls website, with the first batch of devices set to ship later in the month on August 24th.","title":"GLAS the 319 Cortana-powered thermostat is getting Alexa and Google Assistant support","date":"2018-08-16","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"The running water in the province looks like mud.\n\nThousands of people took to the street in protest to lack of drinking water.\n\n The mullahs cant even keep the water running.\n\nHere is more video of the chaos in Khorramshahr.\n\nYou can hear the regime open fire on the people in this clip.","title":"Horror in Iran Regime OPENS FIRE on Demonstrators Protesting Lack of DRINKING WATER","date":"2018-07-02","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) re-upped his interest in releasing transcripts related to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked lawyer, Politico reported.\n\nIn January, Grassley indicated he wanted the transcripts released and told Politico this week that the documents are nearly ready for public consumption, as soon as redactions are completed.\n\nI dont understand the process of redaction, Im not an authority in that, and I think you have to have people who are an authority in it, Grassley told Politico. But we ought to get the redactions done and get them out.\n\nThe committee also plans to make public statements from Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who attended the meeting with Trump Jr., as well as White House adviser Jared Kusher and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.\n\nAccording to emails that Trump Jr. released last summer, the meeting was held under the pretense that the Russian lawyer wanted to share damaging information about Trumps then-opponent Hillary Clinton. The discussion ended up reportedly being centered around adoption and Russia sanctions.","title":"Grassley Again Says He Wants 2016 Trump Tower Meeting Transcripts Released","date":"2018-04-27","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"After one brief moment of what felt like humility from the U.S. president after he chose to criticize and threaten California with a loss of federal funds as 23 American citizens lie dead, Trump was right back to his ridiculous disinformation campaign.\n\nRep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and even Guns n Roses frontman Axl Rose sounded more informed about the California wildfires than the president. They tried to explain, but their words will surely fall on deaf ears since Trump is in many ways directly responsible for the death and devastation.\n\nTrump had multiple warnings that cutting funding for volunteer firefighters and fire science research. New Yorks Daily News said in July 2017, as a previous fire raged across the state of California:\n\nMother Jones warned just three months ago that Trumps defunding of the Joint Fire Science Program would make conditions even more dangerous:\n\nThe Trump administration has offered no reason for targeting the Joint Fire Science Program. Its among dozens of areas the White House has proposed slashing or eliminating science funding. As in the White Houses 2018 budget request, only the Pentagon, Department of Veterans Affairs and NASA would get increased research funding in 2019.\n\nOf course, political analysts warned of the dangers of a Trump presidency in 2016, as well. No one listened then, either.\n\nTwitter had lots to say about Trumps return to threats and accusations before the bodies have even been buried in California. See some of their responses below:\n\nFeatured image via Twitter by Gage Skidmore under a Creative Commons license","title":"Trump Tries To Educate Public On CA Wildfires Makes A Total Fool Of Himself","date":"2018-11-11","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The former Marine reported for The Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers, the AP, CBS and others.\n\nThe Gateway Pundit reported on Austins disappearance in 2012.\n\nIn August Austins parents pleaded for the return of their son.\n\n\n\nNow this...\n\n Robert OBrien, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, says Austin Tice is alive.\n\nThe New York Post reported:\n\nA freelance journalist from Texas abducted in Syria over half a decade ago is still alive, according to US officials. Robert OBrien, US Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, said Tuesday investigators have every reason to believe that Austin Tice, who was taken in August 2012, is being held captive in Syria  but didnt elaborate on the reporters condition... ...Washington has declined to identify who they believe is holding the former US Marines captain. The Syrians say they have no clue where he is.","title":"Update US Officials Say Reporter Austin Tice Is Still Alive Six Years After Kidnapping in Syria","date":"2018-11-14","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Jean-Claude Juncker took a huge swipe at Brexit Britain during his State of the Union address claiming no single member state could have achieved Galileos success.\n\nTheresa May unveiled new plans for a new British-made satellite navigation system to rival the European Galileo programme should the EU continue to threaten to kick the Brexit Britain out of the project.\n\nSpeaking during his State of the Union address, the President of the European Commission took a swipe at the UK claiming no single member state could have achieved the success of Galileo.","title":"EU President Doubles Down on Contested Galileo Satellite","date":"2018-09-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"At this point, its well-established that President Donald Trump responds to the ongoing persistence of the Russia investigation as if hes overwhelmingly guilty of something. Now, a new report from the Associated Press has some details about just why that might be the case.\n\nThe Justice Departments Bruce Ohr  frequently targeted by the president  explained to members of Congress in a private interview this week that, in 2016, former British spy Christopher Steele told him Russian intelligence believed they had then-candidate Trump over a barrel. Steele was tasked during the 2016 U.S. election season with assembling opposition research on Trump; his efforts produced his infamous dossier that he sought to sound the alarm over throughout the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.\n\nPart of his methods included a July 2016 breakfast meeting with Ohr, at which time Steele also asserted that former Trump adviser Carter Page had met with higher ranking Russian officials than hed admitted to at the time. In his aforementioned dossier, Steele claims that Page met with longtime Putin confidante Igor Sechin and Kremlin official Igor Diveykin during a July 2016 visit to Moscow that was billed as for a speech.\n\nAccording to Steeles initial allegations, Sechin presented Page with an opportunity for a huge brokerage fee covering the sale of a portion of the Russian energy giant Rosneft should Trump take power and lift sanctions on Russia. In addition, Diveykin allegedly claimed to Page that the Russian government had a collection of damaging information on Trumps then-electoral rival Hillary Clinton  and one on Donald Trump, too.\n\nPage eventually admitted to meeting with Rosnefts head of investor relations Andrey Baranov during his time in Russia. His Trump campaign approved trip overseas came just months after hed emerged as a foreign policy adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, who named him during an interview with The Washington Post. On the flip side of that, Steeles meeting with Ohr at which he raised concerns about Page came just weeks after hed filed a memo with Fusion GPS, the firm he was working for, outlining his findings.\n\nIn the time since, Trump has torn into Ohr time and time again for his interactions and relationship with Steele.\n\nAs recently as Thursday, he tweeted:\n\nNellie Ohr did not work on the investigation into Trumps background associated with the 2016 U.S. elections, and Bruce, for what its worth, has been reassigned from his previous position. After having previously served as associate deputy attorney general, he lost that position and one as director of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force as well. He told Congress Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explained to him that the latter shift was to keep him out of interactions with the White House, which the position would entail.\n\nTrumps relentless attacks on Ohr figure in his broader continued assault on the Justice Department, which has at times targeted Sessions himself among a whole host of others.","title":"AP Makes Friday Pee Pee Hooker Tape Steele Dossier Announcement","date":"2018-08-31","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"It is a wonderful autumn day with bright foliage, sun and mist hanging over the fields in the early morning. The atmosphere is cheerful and carefree. And then two weeks later it is November.\n\nThe clouds arrive suddenly, bringing rain, and the days never really get bright any more. Our mood becomes cloudy too, and the winter blues begin. But what happens to make us feel this way?\n\nWhen the days get shorter, your body reduces the production of the neurotransmitter serotonin. But serotonin makes you happy, and reduces anxiety, grief and hunger. In turn, you then need more tryptophan, which the body uses to make serotonin. This means you can (indirectly) eat your way to happiness with walnuts, bananas and chocolate, which are all rich in trytophan. But take care not to eat too much, or you will gain weight.\n\nThe short, dark days also prevent vitamin D from forming in our skin. Vitamin D is such an important vitamin: it acts like a hormone, and also regulates the production of serotonin. If you cannot eat, or do not like, fatty fish, then you should supplement vitamin D in winter. It can protect you from so many diseases.\n\nB vitamins also support the breakdown of stress hormones and the build-up of serotonin. People who consume little or no meat or eggs, or who take medication for the stomach or metformin, are often especially deficient in Vitamin B12. Make sure you get some.\n\nOur mood is also influenced by our immune system. Protect yourself with fruit and vegetables rich in zinc, vitamin C for colds, and drink enough fluids. But healthy eating is not everything. Walk a lot in the fresh air, dance, or take 10,000 steps a day. Wear colourful clothes, too. Meet friends. Laugh as much as you can. Our brain releases happiness hormones when we use our facial muscles for a hearty laugh. Take a bath with lavender, hops or melissa and play soothing music. Buy yourself a fabulous bouquet of colourful flowers, smell it, and set off on your dream journey to the most beautiful place you have experienced in your life. And enjoy the happiness that flows into you.","title":"How to banish the winter blues","date":"2018-11-05","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  With a strong economy and a new success in North Korea, President Donald Trump will cruise to re-election in 2020, his lawyer predicted, particularly if the Democrats nominate a moron like former Vice President Joe Biden.\n\nThey need someone new, who would be more threatening to us, Rudy Giuliani, himself a failed presidential candidate in 2008, told HuffPost. Theyve got to hit us with a surprise.\n\nGiuliani said not one of the candidates currently receiving attention as potential 2020 opponents worries him, but he reserved his harshest comments for the former vice president.\n\nJoe Biden is a moron, he said, claiming that Biden finished last in his law school class at Syracuse University and had been unable to understand issues Giuliani tried to discuss with him when he was a federal prosecutor and Biden was a Delaware senator. Im calling Joe Biden a mentally deficient idiot.\n\nBiden unsuccessfully ran for president in 1988 and 2008. He considered running in 2016, as the sitting vice president under President Barack Obama, but did not, citing the recent death of his son Beau from brain cancer.\n\nIts unclear why Giuliani felt compelled to attack Biden personally. In a poll early this year, 58 percent of Americans saw Biden favorably compared to 28 percent who saw him unfavorably. In contrast, approval ratings for Giulianis boss, Trump, have ranged from the mid-30s to the low 40s through his presidency thus far.\n\nGiuliani also said Democrats would hurt themselves if they asked Obama to campaign for Democratic congressional candidates this fall, saying that would limit them to just 42 percent of the vote. Please, bring him back, he said.\n\nGiuliani has taken charge of the legal team defending Trump in the ongoing investigation into contacts between Trumps 2016 campaign and Russian spy agencies, which the U.S. intelligence community determined had worked to elect Trump.\n\nThe FBI had begun its probe of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians well before Election Day. Control of the investigation was shifted to special counsel Robert Mueller after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. Soon after, the president told NBC News as well as senior Russian officials visiting the Oval Office that he had fired Comey because of the investigation.\n\nMuellers investigation has so far resulted in the guilty pleas of five individuals, including three former Trump campaign staffers, and the indictment of 15 other people and three companies. That total includes 14 Russians, Trumps former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and the Internet Research Agency troll farm that was used to create and disseminate propaganda to help Trump win.\n\nA related investigation by Giulianis former office is examining the dealings of longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. A former business partner of Cohen has agreed to cooperate in that probe and plead to New York state charges.\n\nNotwithstanding all this, Giuliani said the ongoing investigation into contacts between Russia and Trumps 2016 campaign would not result in anything damaging to Trump. At most, he said, it would offer a possible basis for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to seek an impeachment vote, should Democrats take control of the chamber in November.\n\nGiuliani predicted she would not do so, though, because she was in the House in the late 1990s, when Republicans chose to impeach Democratic President Bill Clinton and saw it backfire against them.","title":"Giuliani Trump Will Win Second Term Easily Especially If Dems Nominate Moron Biden","date":"2018-06-15","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"The two 13- year-olds recorded a cover of Emeli Sande and Professor Green's Read All About It with their own lyrics, as a tribute to their friends who died in the Grenfell Tower fire. They have amassed more than 110,000 hits on YouTube for it and are raising money for relief efforts.\n\nHis empire, with 900 shops in 50 countries, has a 995 million turnover and donated 13.3 million to charities and activist groups last year.\n\nFounder and Chair of African and UK based charities with over 1.5m beneficiaries across entrepreneurship and social impact, the British philanthropist also recently launched a 1m short film fund grant supporting diversity.\n\nHis company Winton Global Investment Management is one of the worlds biggest hedge funds and he has given vast sums to educational establishments, museums, galleries and research centres.\n\nAs well as heading the worlds largest independent oil trading company, Taylor is a significant giver through his family foundation and is chairman of the trustees of the Royal Opera House, with subsidised tickets for children from poor backgrounds.\n\nFounder of The Felix Project charity, which has fed thousands of hungry people with surplus food. He is also chairman of the Evening Standard.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex directs much of his philanthropic work through the foundation he co-founded with his brother in 2009. He also founded the orphan charity Sentebale and launched the military sports event the Invictus Games.\n\nSet up Freedom to promote awareness of forced marriage in Britain and also uses her novels to engage young people with issues including FGM.\n\nThe ex-prime minister of Denmark took up her post at Save The Children in 2016 - also  on the board of several other international organisations.\n\nThe fund invests in education programmes to break down barriers preventing 130 million girls around the world going to school.\n\nThis  London restaurant helps migrant and refugee women build careers in the food industry.\n\nDelivers weekly sessions for groups of young women from marginalised background, and voted one of the 100 most inspiring women by Amnesty International..\n\nKnighted this year for services to philanthropy, the founder of Travelex is also chair of the Princes Trust International and a donor to Great Ormond Street and Jewish charities.\n\nChairman of the family-founded foundation that gives grants totalling over 60 million a year.","title":"The Progress 1000 Londons most influential people 2018 - Social pillars Charity amp Philanthrop","date":"2018-10-10","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"What produces the healing power of sound?\n\nWe can feel it when we turn on the radio and our favorite song happens to be playing, or when we sit quietly and listen to the rain. There is a palpable peace when we are absorbed in quiet and a different kind of rejuvenation when we hear the wind in the trees. There is no doubt that sound has subtle, but profound effects on our body, minds and spirits. How exactly does sound work, though, to heal us?\n\nHave you ever listened to an orchestra prepare to play an invigorating symphony? There is a cacophony first with the woodwinds and strings, horns, and timpani making quite a ruckus, but when they tune their instruments precisely, the sound that washes over you like a wave, can bring peace and excitement that surpasses some of the most invigorating practices on earth  like sky diving, or dropping 45 feet into a hidden cave.\n\nSound is not unorganized chaos. It is a dynamic but ordered pattern.  Dr. Hans Jenny\n\nThe body works in much the same way. If a single instrument (organ, or organ system) is playing its own tune, and not in harmony with the rest of the body, disease is more likely to happen. As sound therapist, Dr. John Beaulieu, ND, PhD explains,\n\nOne of the most effective ways to change the energy field is through a science named cymatics. Though he was not the first to discover that sound could heal, Dr. Hans Jenny, M.D. of Basel Switzerland put together some fascinating experiments where we could literally see how sound works.\n\nJenny created cymatics when he put sand, fluid or some other powder on a metal plate that was attached to an oscillator. An oscillator is essentially a vibrator, but his oscillator was controlled by a generator that was able to produce many thousands of types of frequencies. Some of these can be found in nature, and others are created by man.\n\nBy changing the frequencies on the oscillator, Jenny found that sand, or water or whatever substance he was using to create a visible medium for his sound, would morph into some very interesting shapes. These shapes mimicked the properties of divine geometry, and the higher the frequency, the more complex the shapes would appear to be. He wrote:\n\nWhat Jenny was observing was really a simple way of observing matter come to life. Since we now understand, through the emerging field of quantum physics, that patterns emerge via waves of energy, the plates were showing the scientist a similar phenomenon. In ancient Sumerian society, this was a known fact.\n\nThis is why practices like mantra were held in high esteem. The seed syllable, OM, for example, causes a certain frequency to imprint upon the matter around it, and thus change the energetic field.\n\nThe kind of singing that we do calms the spirit and helps us live in peace with our world and with one another, says Abbot Philip Lawrence, a scholar of chant who also leads the Monastery of Christ In The Desert  home to an American order of Benedictine monks from Abiquiu, New Mexico.\n\nChanting has some strange effect on the brain waves according to various studies, continues Abbot Philip, but this effect is certainly not the Monks of the Deserts objective; rather their goal, and that of Gregorian chant, notes Abbot Philip, is to focus on the words rather than the challenge of voice production or sight reading.\n\nIt is always our hope that our singing will bring others to peace, inner tranquility and an appreciation of beauty. These values can help create a world in which peace and tranquility prevail.\n\nSince all matter is just different frequencies of the collapsed wave, or quantum field, then we have the ability to create a different reality with sound.\n\nThe possibility for great healing can be seen in the science of sound. The picture of the Sri Yantra, a mandala created by sound, and said to be imagined by a yogi in deep meditation, is a representation of one of the oldest sounds in the world.\n\nSome call it a manifestation of divine sound. The triangles that appear in the Sri Yantra are perfectly integrated based on the divine number, Pi, which is also the basis for the golden mean, Phi.\n\nThe Greek philosopher, Pythagorus understood sound and divein geometry, and it was written about by Euclid in Elements around 300 B.C., by Luca Pacioli, a contemporary of Leonardo Da Vinci, in De Divina Proportione in 1509, by Johannes Kepler around 1600.\n\nMany others knew of this cosmic mathematics, and its power to heal throughout the ages.\n\nThe harmonics of sound work to create order out of chaos\n\nThe harmonics of sound work to create order out of chaos. Disease, you might say, is a form of chaos in the body. According to Dr. Robert Friedman, the connection between the Golden Ratio and ideal health was a no-brainer.\n\nDuring his medial residency in the 1980s, Dr. Friedman began observing the Golden Ratio throughout the human bodyon the anatomical, physiological, and molecular levels.\n\nThe deeper I looked, said Friedman, the more deeply I discovered this incredible and ubiquitous Code to be embedded throughout the structure and function of the body...it only followed that the more one could harmonize with this grand principle, the more efficient and effortless life could be.\n\nOver millennia, those who have studied the science of sound, have come to understand that certain frequencies are very healing for the human body. Overall, however, you are trying to create resonance  When two systems are oscillating at different frequencies, there is an impelling force called resonance that causes the two to transfer energy from one to another.\n\nWhen two similarly tuned systems vibrate at different frequencies, there is another aspect of this energy transfer called entrainment, which causes them to line up and to vibrate at the same frequency. (Richard Gordon)\n\nCertain frequencies are very healing for the human body.\n\nWhen we entrain with healing frequencies, our bodies and minds vibrate in harmony. These include:\n\n285 Hz  Signals cells and tissues to heal. Leaves the body feeling rejuvenated.\n\n396 Hz  Liberates guilt and fear to make way for higher vibrating emotions.\n\n417 Hz  Allows the undoing of challenging situations.\n\n528 Hz  Said to heal DNA, repair cells, and awaken consciousness\n\n639 Hz  This is the vibration associated to the heart. It allows feelings of love for self and other until there is no longer a distinction. To balance relationships, listen to this frequency.\n\n741 Hz  Said to clean the cells and heal them from exposure to electromagnetic radiation. Helps shift someone into empowerment so they can create the reality they wish to see.\n\n963 Hz  Activates the pineal gland, and aligns the body to its perfect, original state. Of course, there are further frequencies, many of which that are not even within the human range of hearing, but they are healing nonetheless. George Lakhovsky, a Russian engineer understood the power of sound as well.\n\nHe understood that certain frequencies would make a living being grow stronger. I hope you are able to find healing in the frequencies Ive described, and that this introduction to why sound heals will spur you to learn more.\n\nChristina Sarich is a staff writer for Waking Times. She is a writer, musician, yogi, and humanitarian with an expansive repertoire. Her thousands of articles can be found all over the Internet, and her insights also appear in magazines as diverse as Weston A. Price, Nexus, Atlantis Rising, and the Cuyamungue Institute, among others. She was recently a featured author in the Journal, Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and Healing Arts, and her commentary on healing, ascension, and human potential inform a large body of the alternative news lexicon. She has been invited to appear on numerous radio shows, including Health Conspiracy Radio, Dr. Gregory Smiths Show, and dozens more. The second edition of her book, Pharma Sutra, will be released soon.\n\nwas last modified: by","title":"Why Sound Heals","date":"2018-06-28","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"NASA might still be waiting for its next-generation planet spotting telescope to get off the ground, but the aging Hubble is still doing a fine job in the meantime.\n\nThe telescope, which was originally launched way back in 1990, has spent the last 28 years delivering some truly breathtaking images from space, and one of its latest photos is yet another entry into its long list of achievements.\n\nThe image you see above is a galaxy known as NGC 4036. At around 70 million light-years away, it would be a bit of a trip to actually make it there, but Hubble is capable of delivering a pretty fantastic glimpse at it from Earth orbit.","title":"Hubble spies distant dusty galaxy","date":"2018-09-11","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Vladimir Putin: Last year there was one extradition case by the United States... Mueller can use this treaty as an official request to us... in this case this kind of effort should be a reciprical one... For instance we can bring up Mr. Browder... They sent a huge amount of money $400,000,000 to Hillary Clinton!\n\nPutin offered permitting officials in the US, including Mueller, to Russia to assist in their investigation of the supposed Trump-Russia collusion story. Then Putin dropped his bomb where the US could reciprocate Russia in one of their investigations \n\nFor instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this particular case.  Business associates of Mr. Browder have earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money escaped the country. They were transferred to the United States. They sent [a] huge amount of money, $400,000,000, as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton.  Well thats their personal case.  It might have been legal, the contribution itself but the way the money was earned was illegal.  So we have solid reason to believe that some [US] intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions.  So we have an interest in questioning them.\n\nThe Russian Prosecutor Generals Office is ready to send a request for the questioning of staffers of US intelligence services and public officers within the framework of a criminal case against Hermitage Capital founder William Browder, prosecutors spokesman Alexander Kurennoy told a briefing on Tuesday. Within the framework of a probe into a criminal case against William Browder and his criminal group, we are ready to send another request to the US competent agencies for a possibility to question these staffers of US special services, some other public officers of the US and a number of entrepreneurs in order to later charge them with the crimes committed by Browder, Kurennoy said. Browder has transferred $400,000 to accounts of the US Democratic Party, Kurennoy said.","title":"RUSSIA READY to Send Request to US Over Bill Browder and his 400000 in Controversial Donations to","date":"2018-07-17","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Given stress is bad for health while probiotics are good for the gut, Argentinean researchers decide to determine whether or not the latter can offset the former. Their experiment on stressed mice revealed that probiotic supplements could boost the immune system of the gut against infection.\n\nStress conditions disrupt the natural balance of the body. These physiological changes extend their negative effects on the endocrine and immune systems.\n\nChronic stress, in particular, triggers changes in the immunity of cells and bodily fluids. Stressful situations release glucocorticoids and catecholamines that affect immune functions and increase the chances of infection.\n\nExposure to stressors also affects the normally-stable microbiota in the gut. The population of beneficial Lactobacilli drops, weakening the intestinal barrier and allowing other microbiota to move into secondary lymphoid organs, which leads to inflammatory bowel diseases.\n\nFurthermore, acute and chronic stress also reduce the levels of white blood cells that fight enteric pathogens. No wonder stress is associated with cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, diabetes, and respiratory tract infections in humans. (Related: Dont sweat the exam: Another study confirms mindfulness reduces stress.)\n\nThis is where probiotics come in. Beneficial bacteria boost immunoglobin presence in the mucosal immune system, which restores permeability to mucus barriers and improves the local immune response.\n\nThis benefit extends to the intestinal barrier and associated immune system. Probiotics can mitigate the local inflammatory response against enteric infections, and they can also alleviate metabolic disorders.\n\nAn earlier study by the Argentinean team showed that the consumption of Lactobacillus casei improved the gut mucosal immune response and raised immunological parameters. This experience led them to develop a hypothesis that probiotic supplements could improve or reduce the negative effect of stress on the immune system.\n\nFor their new study, they created an experimental stress model where mice were deprived of food for 12 hours and immobilized for three hours every day for 11 days. They administered probiotic supplements  either one of the Lactobacillus casei CRL 431 or Lactobacillus paracasei CNCMI-1518 strains, or probiotic fermented milk with L. paracasei CNCM I-1518  to some of the lab animals.\n\nOn the 12th day, some of the mice from each group were sacrificed and analyzed. Researchers looked at parameters for intestinal barrier reinforcement, the innate immune response, and the effects of probiotic supplements.\n\nAccording to their findings, probiotic supplementation restored the normal shape and the length of the intestinal villi in the guts of stressed mice. Healthy villi can properly absorb nutrients, maintain normal gut function, and provide the proper signals for the small intestines immune cells.\n\nWith regards to the immune system itself, probiotics were able to reduce the negative effects of stress-induced glucocorticoids and corticosterone on the macrophages that fight infections. Both probiotic strains normalized the activities of peritoneal and spleen macrophages before OVA immunization.\n\nAfter OVA immunization took place, only the L. paracasei CNCM I-1518 strain was able to affect the macrophages in the spleen and bodily fluids positively. Both strains retained effectiveness in normalizing the phagocytic activity of macrophages in the peritoneum, the tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen and supports most abdominal organs.\n\nThe researchers also established that probiotic supplementation was also able to compensate for the immunosuppressive effect of stress hormones. By bolstering adaptive immune response, probiotics can protect against Salmonella thyphimurium and other infectious pathogens.\n\nThe probiotic fermented milk with L. paracasei CNCM I-1518 was considered to be the most effective shield against Salmonella infection.\n\nThe researchers concluded that probiotic supplementation is a safe and effective way to bolster gut and immune system health during stress conditions.","title":"Probiotics found to offset the detrimental effects of stress on the immune system","date":"2018-04-01","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"RIVIERA BEACH  Breaking from normal practice, the Palm Beach County elections supervisor banned media from filming and photographing the high-profile midterm election ballot review process amid allegations of incompetence by Gov. Rick Scott.\n\nTensions flared Friday morning when Bucher threatened to have camera operators and newspaper reporters arrested for filming ballot tabulation as Palm Beach County. The meeting at least half a dozen television cameras and even more reporters as Palm Beach County is one of the last in Florida to report unofficial results in an election with three tight statewide races. Bucher accused several reporters of illegally taking pictures and videos of signatures on the envelopes of mail ballots.\n\nReporters repeatedly assured Bucher that they were filming the board members from a safe distance as they examined ballots and decided whether to toss or count them. Signatures were not visible in any Palm Beach Post photos.\n\nStill, Bucher insisted that shed bring officers to forcibly remove any member of the media who filmed the process.\n\nDespite objections from reporters, the canvassing board insisted that the meeting not be filmed or photographed.\n\nThere is no way the canvassing board can determine or ascertain what those cameras, those recording devices are recording, said Judge August Bonavita, chair of the canvassing board. We have to focus exclusively on whats in front of us. We cant pay attention to your cameras.\n\nFive Palm Beach County Sheriffs deputies watched the meeting both from inside the room and behind the glass windows lead inside. Under threat of arrest and removal from the meeting, reporters shut down their cameras.","title":"Rubio Sounds the Alarm Palm Beach Elections Supervisor Bans Media Cameras From Public Ballot Counti","date":"2018-11-10","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"ASTANA, August 17. \/TASS\/. Kazakhstan plans to ratify the Convention on the\nLegal Status of the Caspian Sea in the near future, the Kazakh Foreign\nMinistrys Ambassador-at-Large Zulfiya Amanzholova said at a briefing on\nFriday.\n\n\"We intend to ratify the convention in the near future. The Foreign Ministry\nwill launch the necessary procedures immediately. We will submit the\nconvention to the government, the time frame and all the procedures are\ndetermined, so I dont think there will be any delays,\" she said.\n\nAccording to her, the Kazakh government will later pass the document to the\nparliament. Amanzholova also said that it had taken the Caspian states a long\ntime to agree on the matter so there was no reason to \"delay its\nratification.\"\n\nThe presidents of the five Caspian states (Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan,\nIran and Turkmenistan) singed the Convention on the Legal Status of the\nCaspian Sea, which had been agreed on by the five states foreign ministers at\ntheir Moscow meeting in December 2017, at the Fifth Caspian summit held in\nKazakhstans city of Aktau. Besides, several documents on regional cooperation\nwere also signed.\n\nIn other media","title":"Kazakhstan to ratify Convention on Legal Status of Caspian Sea in near future","date":"2018-08-17","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"This fall, New York's celebrity chefs havent strayed far from home with their elaborate expansion plans. Instead of opening restaurants out of state, theyre simply expanding their reach by focusing on super-niche aspects of their current menus in nearby neighborhoods.\n\nIsraeli chef Einat Admony, famous for bringing Israeli food to New York with her restaurant Balaboosta, has opened a fast-casual eatery devoted to couscous. The team behind Lower East Side Vietnamese spot An Choi opened the Instagram-friendly, pho-focused Di An Da in Greenpoint. The Frankels Deli co-owners brought their love of deli fare to Bernies, a retro restaurant in Greenpoint. And the new Gladys Jerk Center is an expansion of the Michelin star-winning Gladys, a bright Caribbean restaurant in Crown Heights.\n\nEach chef already has a cult following, but now theyre taking what they do best and giving it a cool twist.\n\nIsraeli chef Einat Admony opened Kish Kash, a restaurant devoted entirely to couscous, in June. Before the summer opening, the restaurant was in the works since 2016. The Tel Aviv born chef is also the mastermind behind the now-defunct Balaboosta and the rapidly expanding fast casual falafel restaurant Taim. Taim, which translates to tasty in Hebrew, is known for its freshly made falafel and smoothies.\n\nBut Kish Kash is all about the couscous, and its not the grocery store variety you microwave for five minutes. Instead, the Moroccan delicacy is pillowy and light as air, paired with root vegetables and spicy sauces. At the beginning of the meal, freshly-baked challah is served. While the white walls make it feel extremely fast casual, it's perfect for a quick luncheon.\n\nWhile theres been a sudden influx of solid Vietnamese restaurants in the city, including Hanoi House and the Sarah Jessica Parker approved Madame Vo, An Choi has always been a Lower East Side stronghold. Now, the owners have opened the far more Insta-ready Di An Di in Greenpoint, a Brooklyn neighborhood thats expecting far more traffic after the L train goes down in the spring.\n\nAt Di An Di, the focus is pho...and a more Instagram-worthy experience. An Choi is tucked away on the Lower East Side, where patrons sit at small tables with Sriracha. At Di An Di, there's ample space to snap a bowl of pho or a more elaborate Vietnamese crepe.\n\nFrankels might be a traditional Jewish deli in Greenpoint, but its owners have unexpected hip-hop ties. Rapper Despot and Run the Jewels rapper El-P are two of the investors. Alex Frankel, whos in the Brooklyn band Holy Ghost! opened the restaurant with his brother Zach in 2016. Since then, Justin Bieber has stopped by with Hailey Baldwin for what was deemed a 'PDA filled outing.'\n\nNow, Zach has opened Bernies, this time with an even more retro vibe. Instead of bagels with schmear and hot latkes, theyre serving up Americana fare. Come for the pop star company, stay for burgers.\n\nGladys has long been a go-to for Crown Heights cocktails (try their slushy Dark & Stormy) and inventive Caribbean fare (one favorite is the Guyanese Chow Fun). With turquoise walls and jerk chicken, its a solid spot to bring back those long-departed summer vibes.\n\nOwners Michael Jacober and Junior Felix, whos also the chef, have now expanded with a much larger 'Jerk Center' so you wont have to wait in quite as long of a line for your ice cold cocktails. There are a few small differences; the Jerk Center serves cabbage instead of bok choy. Otherwise, its the same Michelin-approved vibes at a much lower price point.\n\nMissy Robbins didnt venture far from her Williamsburg celebrity hot spot Lilia when she opened her new restaurant, Misi, down the block. Former Disney star Cole Sprouse and model Barbara Palvin are all fans. But even A-listers have to wait with everyone else. When Jennifer Lawrence went to the restaurant in May, she hung around more than 30 minutes for a table.\n\nNow, Robbins has opened Misi (she thought the 'i' made it sound more Italian) in the new Domino Park development, which is pasta heavy. The Lilia follow-up is honing in on noodles and vegetables, which are what she does best. But like Lilia, its almost impossible to get a reservation. Even now, the only ones available are at 11:00 pm. If youre not looking for a midnight snack, the trick is getting there early. Sure, 5pm dinner is an early bird special, but you wont regret it once youve tasted the pasta.","title":"The new niche restaurants from star chefs to try out in New York this winter","date":"2018-11-14","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Ministers have committed to order a review of hate crime law following calls to recognise misogyny as an aggravating factor if it motivated upskirting.\n\nLabour's Stella Creasy urged the Government to fund a Law Commission review into hate crime in new and existing legislation as the Voyeurism (Offences) Bill was debated in the Commons.\n\nThe Walthamstow MP said the true extent of hate crimes against women was being \"masked\" in the criminal justice system because misogyny is not currently recognised as such, but withdrew her amendment to the legislation following the Government's commitment.\n\nJustice Minister Lucy Frazer spoke against the proposals to amend the Bill, saying statutory aggravating factors \"don't usually apply to one or two offences\" and would make them \"inconsistent with all other sexual offences\".\n\nShe told MPs: \"While I recognise the intent behind the amendments, this narrow Bill is not the time to debate misogyny becoming a hate crime.\n\n\"However, we as a Government are concerned to ensure our hate crime legislation is up to date and consistent, and I'm pleased to announce today I will be asking the Law Commission to undertake a review of the coverage and approach of hate crime legislation following their earlier recommendation to do so.\n\n\"This will include how protective characteristics, including sex and gender characteristics, should be considered by new or existing hate crime law.\"\n\nMs Creasy thanked Ms Frazer for \"listening\", telling the Commons her commitment was \"really, really welcome\".\n\nThe announcement came amid concerns raised by Conservative Maria Miller that the upskirting legislation risks \"artificially narrowing\" the number of potential convictions.\n\nThe chairwoman of the Women and Equalities Committee warned that the Bill is \"very narrowly defined\" as she urged ministers to accept her amendment which sought to make all upskirting a crime.\n\n\"The Bill explicitly doesn't outlaw upskirting per se, it outlaws it in certain circumstances,\" Mrs Miller told the Commons.\n\nShe pointed to figures from Scotland, where she said only a \"handful\" of cases had been brought since legislation was introduced eight years ago, despite research suggesting that \"one in 10 young people in this country experience upskirting\".\n\n\"That would mean a far higher rate than just three in Scotland or just under 30 in the UK.\"\n\nThe Government has used the Scottish legislation as a base for the Bill, but Mrs Miller said ministers had not reflected changes made to address \"significant shortcomings\" in the original law.\n\nShe told the Commons: \"My concern is that in drawing the Bill in this way it is artificially depressing the number of people that will come forward.\n\n\"And I think the courts may think that Parliament, in its very specific omission of certain groups of people who are perpetrating this crime, and we know they are already, they are artificially narrowing the number of convictions that might be brought forward and I don't think that is the way Parliament wants this Bill to work.\n\n\"And amendment 3 would make sure that it worked far more broadly than that, and actually call to account all of the people who are committing this crime - not just a very small section of them.\"\n\nConservative former minister Sir Christopher Chope said he did not believe misogyny should be an aggravating factor.\n\nHe said: \"The activity itself should be criminalised, it shouldn't be a motive.\n\n\"Why do we need to have a motive in respect to an offence that outrages public decency?\"\n\nHe also called for the law to be \"toughened up\" to put upskirting offenders motivated by sexual gratification on the sex offenders register.\n\nLiberal Democrat Wera Hobhouse (Bath) condemned upskirting as a \"vile practice\" that should be a specific offence.\n\n\"The harm caused to the victim is substantial regardless of the intention of the perpetrator,\" she said.\n\nThe Bill later received an unopposed third reading and will undergo further scrutiny in the Lords.","title":"Government reviews misogyny in hate crime law to protect women from street and sexual harassment","date":"2018-09-06","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"London Mayor Sadiq Khan has watched his popularity plummet as a result of the largest epidemic of violence in the capitals history.\n\nFigures released Thursday show that 32 percent of patients treated by airborne trauma specialists and paramedics in the first six months of 2018 were stabbing or shooting victims.\n\nThe second largest group of emergencies with 27 percent of the total were road traffic accidents, with injuries sustained from a fall or height making up 20 percent.","title":"Londons Stabbing Crisis Dramatically Increases Air Ambulance Use","date":"2018-09-13","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Icons of the so-called #NeverTrump resistance are growing increasingly unhinged as Trump Derangement Syndrome continues to rob them of their ability to think and act rationally.\n\nThere is nothing that these people wouldnt do to depose the president  one way or the other  and they regularly dog whistle that sentiment to their equally deranged supporters. But now two of them  conservative Bill Kristol and anti-Putin Russian chess master Garry Kasparov  have begun fantasizing openly about holding show trials for all of POTUS Trumps supporters before throwing them in prison (or worse).\n\nThose who stand against Trump will move on to many different things when hes gone, but those who still support him should never be forgotten or forgiven, he recently tweeted.\n\nHis tweet became semi-viral; it got about 10,000 retweets and 34,000 likes, Information Liberation reported.\n\nBut Kasparov wasnt through. In a follow-up tweet that received far less attention, he wrote, Im not talking about functionaries attempting to keep the government working despite Trump, but people of influence who know exactly what he is, and enable him for their own gain.\n\nMind you, Kasparovs outrage was nowhere to be found when it was Barack Obama corrupting and politicizing our governing institutions, especially the Justice Department and the FBI. No, he only has rage for Trump (despite the fact that in reality, Trump is being far harder on Putin than Hillary would have been or Obama was).\n\nWhen a Twitter user asked him what he meant by never should be forgiven, Kasparov expounded.\n\nForgiving a crime or threat that is still clear and present and invites further offense, he wrote. Ill leave forgiveness to the next generation, when the threat is gone.\n\nKasparov, the little Twitter revolutionary, wasnt done. The following day he doubled down on his wanderlust for wanting to make Trump supporters pay for electing him. (Related: New report from UC-Berkeley blames LEFT-wing violence on  wait for it  conservatives.)\n\nPeople should know that their choices come with a price. Feel empathy if you can, but dont act from pity because we know such people dont have any for us when they have power, he claimed.\n\nThat is particularly rich, considering that the American Left which this man obviously supports is the faction without any empathy for their political opponents, as evidenced by all of the actual violence visited upon Trump supporters at every opportunity.\n\nAnd: Working with demagogues and autocrats is like working with cancer. You cut it out. These arent political differences, its deciding if were going to have politics at all, he continued.\n\nAgain, its the Left that harbors and uses violence to quell political differences. The Left is where we see the demagogues (Obama being D-gogue #1). The Left is where politics ends and violence begins.\n\nThen theres Kristol. He tweeted this gem late last month:\n\nRan into a long time friendly acquaintance at the cleaners. He (for somewhat understandable institutional reasons) is very much on the Trump train. He jokingly asked if Id be a character witness for him at the Vichy trials after this is all over. Seemed shocked when I said no.\n\nKristols answer shouldnt surprise anyone who knows him. Hes bitter. Hes angry. Its tough being a #NeverTrump RINO and completely shut out of the first Republican majority government in nearly a decade.\n\nBut to accept the premise of his friend  that Trump supporters should be subjected to show trials like those held for Nazi sympathizers in France during World War II  is wrong from the outset.\n\nTrump supporters arent the Nazis here; the Left, with its Brown Shirt tactics of political violence and intimidation, harken back to Hitlers Nazi regime.\n\nIf we think the #NeverTrump faction has been violent thus far, just wait to see what happens if Republicans hold all of Congress and POTUS Trump gets reelected in 2020. The derangement will lead to social chaos.\n\nRead more about the Lefts increasing violence at Violence.news.","title":"Deranged anti-Trumpers now pushing for show trials to criminalize imprison all Trump supporters a","date":"2018-09-05","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Desperate to discredit any investigation into the Trump campaigns contact with Russia, along with the subsequent obstruction of justice efforts, Republicans recently put all of their eggs in one basket. Most pro-Trump politicians and media banded together to cast doubt on Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller (and the whole Department of Justice), claiming a vast conspiracy of FBI abuse of surveillance warrants.\n\nRep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), in his now infamous memo, claimed that the entire Trump\/Russia investigation was based on a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Carter Page. In addition, Nunes memo claimed that the warrant application (that he didnt even read himself) was based entirely on the famous Steele dossier. The Nunes memo goes on to say that the Steele dossier was a partisan effort paid for by the Democratic Party.\n\nEarlier today, sources confirmed that the partisan nature of the Steele dossier was indeed disclosed. Also, a close read of the Nunes memo shows that the FISA warrant on Carter Page was granted before the current line-up of the FBI. FISA warrants are tough to get, and must be renewed every 90 days:\n\nThe Republican case is quickly falling apart. Its now obvious that the FISA warrant for Carter Page was not based solely on the Steele dossier.\n\nTIME has recently uncovered a 2013 letter, written by Carter Page. In this letter that he sent to a manuscript editor, he bragged on his Kremlin connections:\n\nOver the past half year, I have had the privilege to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the Kremlin in preparation for their Presidency of the G-20 Summit next month, where energy issues will be a prominent point on the agenda, the letter reads.\n\nThere it is, in Pages own words.\n\nMaybe this has to do with his 2013 recruitment by Russian spies?\n\nGuess the White House and pro-Trump Republicans have some explaining to do.","title":"TIME Magazine Rocks Trump FBIFISA Warrant Evidence Released Donald Is In Trouble","date":"2018-02-20","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) If your doctor tells you that some major health problems like obesity or heart disease run in your family, shouldnt you first check to see if your family members have all been eating the same blood-clogging fats and health-wrecking chemicals that cause those diseases or disorders, and if any of them ever exercised? Todays medical doctors just love to tell all their patients that every health problem runs in the family. In fact, thats the first set of questions on the medical forms you fill out. You have to check off dozens of boxes saying if anyone in your family has a history of any of a whole gamut of ills.\n\nWhy? Because that way the doctors can convince you that theres no cure for your heart disease, high cholesterol, or obesity, and that theres no problem if you eat processed food all day and never workout, walk, or jog, because he or she has some magic pills to manage your symptoms. The only way to help you, according to most M.D.s, is to prescribe you chemical medications to manage the symptoms of your hereditary nightmares. You see, its all your parents and grandparents fault. Yep, they gave you those bad genes and theres nothing you can do about it, right? Think again.\n\nHave you been conned by Big Food to SuperSize everything you eat? Have you noticed when you go out to eat at a restaurant, the average plate of food off the menu is enough to feed a whole family? If youre overweight and suffering from heart disease, the odds are you werent born that way. Its time to check your lifestyle habits, and scrub them against those of your parents and their parents, and maybe even their parents too.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nObesity and heart disease are caused mainly from consuming animal fat, canola oil, and processed foods. Obesity and heart disease are also fueled and perpetuated by lack of exercise. Does sitting on the couch all day, eating fast food, fried food, and baked goods run in your family? Clogged arteries are not inherited. Sorry to break it to you.\n\nSure, there are some folks out there who have chemical imbalances and nutrient deficiencies that contribute to their health ills, but the core of most health issues arent passed on from your parents and their parents  thats just a crock of saturated fat spread like propaganda to keep you from seeking out natural remedies and an effective fitness regimen you can handle.\n\nCertain diseases, like cystic fibrosis, are scientifically proven to be a direct result of genetic abnormalities, because some people inherit defective copies of a single gene from their mother and father that show characteristics of the condition. However, with regards to coronary disease, genetic influences have hundreds (if not thousands) of genetic variants, many of which are not inherited, but rather altered, mutated, or modified after birth. Thus, we cant equate the word genetic with inherited, because not everything thats genetic is hereditary. Get it?\n\nOne recent study shows that physical exercise, a healthy diet, and not smoking can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease by 50 percent, even if you have some slight gene variants that make you more susceptible to it. This means we as humans can modify dramatically the risks so many scientists say we are born with.\n\nScience and nutrition experts now believe its our culture, not some obesity gene, that makes people so overweight. Ever wonder why restaurants with buffets always advertise them as all you can eat instead of all you care to eat? Ever wonder why fast food joints let you Supersize servings by simply paying a few extra pennies on the dollar?\n\nA report that claimed scientists had cracked the code behind the obesity gene was all a huge hoax.\n\nFirst of all, there is no obesity gene, so theres no code to be cracked. Theres really no way around fixing diet and exercise, but scientists at MIT and Harvard University want us to start buying into chemical medicines that Big Pharma pushes for every other disease and disorder out there.\n\nThe obesity epidemic in America has nothing at all to do with genetics when speaking of inherited DNA. Thats just a big distraction from addressing the root of the problem, for which allopathic medicine is infamous. It is, however, scientific fact that excitotoxins like monosodium glutamate (MSG) and the artificial sweetener Aspartame are addicting and make people crave more salty foods and more sweets, causing weight gain, inflammation, thyroid irregularities, hormone imbalances, and hypertension, among other health ills.\n\nMany of todays teenagers are so obese they cant even serve in the military. Thats a major problem.\n\nPlus, American advertising influences people to eat all the wrong foods. The main foods and beverages perpetually advertised via mass media are soda, pizza, subs, chips, beer, cheeseburgers, sugary cereals, and fried chicken. Its all part of a complete and balanced breakfast, lunch, or whatever theyre paid to say. Even the portions and servings are way too big these days.\n\nSo no, genetics didnt load your gun. The American culture loads the proverbial food gun but you have to pull the trigger yourself. Plus, medical doctors often give the wrong advice, or no nutritional advice at all, along with pushing chemical pills that make matters worse, including horrific side effects, like depression and thoughts of suicide.\n\nConclusion: Two-thirds of the U.S. population is overweight or obese, and its not because they inherited the magically tragic fat gene. If youre overweight, look into a clean food regimen of raw organic produce and spring water, and start walking, jogging or running until your non-inherited condition greatly improves.","title":"Its not that heart disease and obesity runs in your family its that nobody in your family RUNS","date":"2018-11-03","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Journalists in the United Kingdom have successfully challenged the reporting ban issued by a judge in the Tommy Robinson case.\n\nLizzie Deardon of the Independent wrote to the judge asking for the ban to be lifted and representatives from Leeds Live News made oral argumentS on Tuesday.\n\nI wrote to the judge asking for the order to be lifted and he said representatives of the press also made oral submissions in Leeds today, Dearden, a Home Affairs Correspondent for the Independent, tweeted. So to everyone accusing the MSM of being part of some dark conspiracy, just remember that were the only reason reporting this is now legal.\n\nRobinson, a 35-year-old independent journalist and activist was arrested on Friday for suspicion of breaching the peace for his reporting and is now serving a 13 month sentence for contempt of court, as he already had a suspended sentence for a similar offense. He was arrested, charged and sentenced within five hours.\n\nThe judge also issued a reporting restriction, barring the press from covering Robinsons case or imprisonment. Articles from the Daily Record, Birmingham Live, The Mirror, and even Breitbart News were all taken offline in the hours following his detention due to the order.\n\nThe arrest was over his livestreaming outside the trial of a child grooming gang. That trial is currently under a temporary reporting ban over concerns that the defense could successfully argue that the jury was tainted if there is public outrage over the details. That reporting restriction remains in place.\n\nRobinsons lawyer, Matthew Harding, told Leeds Live that his client was mindful, having spoken to others and taken advice, not to say things that he thought would actually prejudice these proceedings.\n\nMr Harding said Robinson had been the victim of assaults while serving time in prison before and there had been a price on his head during his last prison term with inmates being offered the reward of drugs and mobile phones to kill him, Leeds Live reports.\n\nHarding made this case during the hearing, but the judge stated that people have to understand that if they breach court orders there will be very real consequences.\n\nRobinson is a husband and father of three.\n\nGerman conservative MP Petr Bystron announced on Sunday that he is offering the political prisoner asylum.\n\nFreedom of speech is under attack all across Europe. I was at the AfD march in Berlin today, where people were waving #FreeTommy signs. I grew up under Communist dictatorship, and I will not let our freedoms be taken away again, Bystron told The Gateway Pundit.\n\nOn Saturday, one day after Robinsons imprisonment, hundreds of supporters flooded Downing St. to demand his freedom.","title":"BREAKING UK Journalists Successfully Challenge Tommy Robinson Reporting Ban in Court","date":"2018-05-29","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Normally, a congressional hearing is not the place to look for revelations of undiscovered truths. Typically, not much hearing happens at a hearing, anyway. It's often just an opportunity for congressmen to grandstand and yell out a few talking points so their staffers can make","title":"Transparency Would Wipe the Smirk Off Strzoks Face","date":"2018-07-19","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The American media that promotes diversity in politics, schools and jobs isnt very inclusive.\n\nIn not taking a page from their own headlines, the news industry is 77 percent white and 61 percent male, according to the latest report from the Pew Research Center.\n\nOverall, the U.S. workforce is 65 percent white, 53 percent male.\n\nThe numbers are similar to others taken by the industry itself. For example, according to Pew, the American Society of News Editors in 2012-2015 estimated that newspaper employees were 87 percent-88 percent white, 63 percent-64 percent male, and 56 percent-57 percent white and male.\n\nSurveys by the Radio Television Digital News Association in 2012-2016 estimated that television newsroom staff were 77 percent-79 percent white and 56 percent-60 percent male, while radio newsroom staff were 87 percent-91 percent white and 61 percent-69 percent male.","title":"Study Diversity-Preaching Media Far Whiter More Male Than US Workforce","date":"2018-11-03","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  Six months late and about 17 hours after they first introduced the bill, House lawmakers on Thursday approved a 2,232-page spending bill that will fund the federal government until October and prevent an imminent shutdown.\n\nThe massive omnibus spending deal was the culmination of months of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats. Congress has passed five continuing resolutions since September to extend government operations and allow lawmakers more time to negotiate this deal.\n\nUnder a previous agreement to lift spending caps, the $1.3 trillion deal increases defense spending by $80 billion and non-defense spending by $63 billion for this fiscal year. The military gets a 2.4 percent pay raise, while civilian personnel get a 1.9 percent bump.\n\nPresident Donald Trump gets some $1.6 billion for border security measures, although not necessarily for the wall he has long promised. Instead, the bill provides $251 million for secondary fencing, $445 million for levee fencing, $196 million for primary pedestrian fencing and $445 million for the replacement of existing fencing, according to The Washington Post. The legislation specifically prohibits Trump from making any of the wall prototypes designed last year.\n\nThe bill provides funding for a number of infrastructure projects  including the New York-New Jersey Gateway program, a rail project for the New York City area. Trump fought hard not to simply fund that project, believing he could negotiate money for his wall with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in exchange for Gateway spending. But ultimately the New York-area lawmakers who wanted the project won.\n\nThe legislation also includes the so-called Fix NICS measure, which tightens up the system for reporting criminal records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. And the bill corrects a grain glitch in the GOP tax law that gave farmer-owned cooperatives a significant tax benefit over other agricultural corporations. In exchange for that adjustment, Democrats got an expansion of a low-income housing credit.\n\nThe process that produced the spending bill was the exact sort of backroom dealing that Trump railed against in his election. Key lawmakers kept details of the legislation private for months, and then they sprung the text of the measure on other members a little after 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday, the House was voting on the legislation, meaning it was impossible for any of those other lawmakers to have read the bill in its entirety before the vote.\n\nRep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said he tried to stay up all night to read the bill. As fast as I was reading it, theres no way they read it, Meadows said, noting that he reached the 700s pages of the 2,232-page bill.\n\nHouse Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) also made a theatrical show of the bill, holding up the massive stack of pages and saying he was waiting for the tea party who harangued me and my party about reading the bill.\n\nHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused her GOP colleagues of attempting to speed through the process and get out of town before the big march for gun control in Washington on Saturday.\n\nRep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), another Freedom Caucus member, also criticized the process, claiming that congressional leaders had planned a two-week recess just before this vote so they could pressure other lawmakers into supporting the bill.\n\nIts why Im leaving Congress, Labrador said, who is instead running for governor of Idaho. These people have no shame. And theyll say whatever to get elected. But I think the American people deserve better than this.","title":"House Passes 2232-Page Omnibus Spending Bill That No One Read","date":"2018-03-22","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"# Progressive Ousts 20-Year Incumbent in MA Primary Upset","title":"Progressive Ousts 20-Year Incumbent in MA Primary Upset","date":"2018-09-05","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The tide of scandal from inside the Trump administration is continuing to build as the president and his allies struggle  and fail  to avoid accountability for their actions. The president has sought to escape the Russia scandal, for instance, only to have it crash down upon his administration, with Special Counsel Robert Mueller so far having brought charges against four former associates of the president.\n\nTheres now a new report about yet another scandal building inside the White House. Evidently, the fact that neither the president nor some of his closest allies had any experience with public service upon assuming their present positions isnt paying off, since they keep running afoul of ethics laws.\n\nIt has come to light that the office of the White House counsel is looking into the question of whether or not meetings that Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner had with the heads of a pair of financial institutions violated government ethics laws.\n\nDemocratic U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi was told as much by acting director of the Office of Government Ethics David Apol, whom Krishnamoorthi had pressed about the issue of the meetings in question.\n\nI have discussed this matter with the White House Counsels Office in order to ensure that they have begun the process of ascertaining the facts necessary to determine whether any law or regulation has been violated and whether any additional procedures are necessary to avoid violations in the future. During that discussion, the White House informed me that they had already begun this process. I have asked the White House to inform me of the results of that process.\n\nThe meetings that Apol is referring to as possibly having facilitated a law or regulation being violated both took place last year. Kushner, who has taken on an array of roles within the White House, met with Joshua Harris, who co-founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management, last year. In November, Apollo lent $184 million to the Kushner family business, which Jared himself formerly led.\n\nKushner also met with Citigroups chief executive Michael Corbat last year, and the firm consequently lent Kushner Companies $325 million.\n\nCorbat has claimed to have had no knowledge of his bank being in the process of closing a real estate loan to the Kushner family business when he met with the presidents son-in-law last year. He is apparently the one to have requested the meeting in the first place, having sought to discuss U.S. trade policy.\n\nAs for Apollo, the company has similarly claimed that Harris had nothing to do with the massive loan to the Kushner family business.\n\nNews of the White House counsel looking into the question of whether or not Kushners meeting comes at an already perilous time for the presidents son-in-law and the Trump administration as a whole.\n\nKushner recently lost his temporary security clearance in the midst of a reshuffling of the entire process by which security clearances are granted inside the White House. That loss means that the real estate owner turned political leader had his work cut out for him.\n\nHanging over the entire administration is a cloud similar to the one hanging over Kushner in particular  that of the Russia scandal. Although the House Intelligence Committee has winded down its inquiry, Special Counsel Muellers investigation is still proceeding full steam ahead.","title":"BREAKING Jared Kushner Put Under Intense White House Investigation DETAILS","date":"2018-03-27","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The EUs chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said he is ready to come forward with an improved proposal on the Irish border in an attempt break the deadlock in the Brexit talks.\n\nAfter briefing EU foreign ministers in Brussels, he insisted the EU offer would fully respect the territorial integrity of the UK.\n\nHe said the next full summit of EU leaders on October 18, would be the moment of truth when it would become clear whether it was possible for the two sides to reach a deal.\n\nIt is then we shall see whether agreement we are hoping for is in our grasp, he told a news conference.\n\nThe issue of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic has emerged as the main obstacle to an agreement ahead of the UKs withdrawal in March 2019.\n\nThe EU is insisting on a backstop proposal which would see Northern Ireland remain in the customs union in the event of the two sides failing to reach an agreement in order to avoid the return of a hard border.\n\nBut Theresa May has rejected the plan as unacceptable, arguing that it would effectively create a border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nBarnier said he was working on a plan to de-dramatise the controls that would be necessary in the event of the backstop coming into play.\n\nWe are ready to improve this proposal. Work on the EU side is ongoing.\n\nWe are clarifying which goods arriving in Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK would need to be checked and where, when and by whom these checks could be performed, he said.\n\nWe can also clarify that most checks can take place away from the border at the company premises or in the markets. We need to de-dramatise the checks that are needed.\n\nHe reminded the British, however, that the checks were the result of their decision to leave not only the EU but also the single market and the customs union.\n\nWhat we need in the withdrawal agreement is a legally operational backstop which fulls respects the territorial integrity of the UK.\n\nIt is a backstop that will only apply unless a better solution is found, he said.\n\nHis comments came as EU leaders prepare to gather in Salzburg on Wednesday for an informal summit - the first time they have met together since May published her Chequers blueprint for Brexit in July.\n\nThe Prime Minister is expected to brief the other 27 leaders on proposals over dinner and they will then have a separate discussion on Thursday after she has left.\n\nAhead of the meeting, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said it was time for the compromises made by the UK to be matched on the EU side.\n\nIn an interview with European newspapers, he said that there had to be movement on the Irish border issue.\n\nWhat Im not going to do is to say that I would refuse to entertain any further proposals that the EU comes up with but theyve got to be respecting the equities that weve set out, he said.\n\nWhile Barnier highlighted the October summit as the moment of truth, European Council president Donald Tusk confirmed that a further summit could be held in November to finalise an agreement.\n\nIn a letter to EU leaders ahead of the Salzburg meeting, he said he wanted to avoid the catastrophe of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nHe said the meeting should also reconfirm the need for a legally operational backstop on Ireland to avoid a hard border.\n\nTusk, who will chair the talks, also urged the leaders to work on limiting the damage caused by the UKs withdrawal.\n\nUnfortunately, a no-deal scenario is still quite possible. But if we all act responsibly, we can avoid a catastrophe, he said.","title":"EU To Offer Compromise On Irish Border Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier Says","date":"2018-09-19","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"After months of promising supporters that theyd magically be allowed to say MERRY CHRISTMAS again now that Trump has won the presidency because apparently, Christmas had been outlawed at some point, he now makes a point to exclude every other religious holiday in favor of saying the phrase at every opportunity, even if its a month too early.\n\nTrump remembered for once to include his wife and family in his sentiments, but no one really cares. Do you?\n\nOf course, Trumps Christmas wishes only extend to some people. For instance, hes not wishing peace to the hearts of any migrant woman who walked a thousand miles with a baby on her back to get her family to a better life. Transgender soldiers are also excluded this holiday season, as are Muslims, journalists, anyone from a sh*thole country, and Hillary Clinton. Hes offered no joy to the soldiers actively fighting in war who will get no visit from the president this Christmas, no cheer to the veterans going bankrupt waiting on VA payments for their housing and education, and no warmth to the haters and losers.\n\nIts as if Trump just doesnt understand that he cant serve as the Twitter-troll-in-chief for 364 days a year and then play the statesman on social media when it suits him. There are few more xenophobic acts than insisting that white Christianity is superior to every other religion and that one group of people who celebrate a holiday are more important and deserve special recognition every year while ignoring everyone else.\n\nTwitter wasnt exactly in the holiday spirit after reading Trumps tweet. Read some of their comments below:","title":"Trump Tries To Tweet A Holiday Message After Being A Grinch All Day","date":"2018-11-29","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"She was renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, as well as her 1987 collaboration with Freddie Mercury .\n\nSpanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe has died at the age of 85.\n\nFrank Hoensch via Getty Images Montserrat Caballe has died at the age of 85\n\nA spokesperson for the Hospital Sant Pau confirmed her death early on Saturday.\n\nMontserrat had been staying in the Barcelona hospital since September after entering because of a gall bladder problem.\n\nHowever, spokesman Abraham del Moral said the singers family had requested her cause of death not be released.\n\nSpanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez has paid tribute, saying: A great ambassador of our country has died. Her voice and tenderness will remain with us forever.\n\nDuring her carrer, Montserrat starred in 90 opera roles with nearly 4,000 stage performances.","title":"Montserrat Caballe Dead Spanish Opera Singer And Freddie Mercury Collaborator Dies Aged 85","date":"2018-10-06","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"She fell in her office.","title":"BREAKING RUTH BADER GINSBURG HOSPITALIZED 85-year-old Justice Broke 3 Ribs","date":"2018-11-08","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"MINNEAPOLIS  John Gagliardi, who won more games than any other college\nfootball coach with his unconventional methods at a small Minnesota school,\nhas died. He was 91.\n\nSt. Johns University said Gagliardi died Sunday. A cause of death was not\nimmediately known.\n\nGagliardi retired in 2012 after a record 64 seasons as a head coach, with 60\nof those at St. Johns, an all-male private school in Collegeville, Minnesota.\nGagliardi finished with 489 victories, 138 losses and 11 ties, winning four\nnational championships with the Johnnies. But he drew as much national\nattention to a school with fewer than 2,000 students with his laid-back\napproaches to the sport. His policy was to not cut any players from the roster\nand guide nonstrenuous practices that never exceeded 90 minutes.\n\nJohn Gagliardi was not only an extraordinary coach, he was also an educator\nof young men and builder of character, St. Johns President Michael Hemesath\nsaid in a statement. John inspired deep and enduring loyalty and passion\namong his players across the decades because he taught them lessons through\nthe medium of football that served them well in their personal and\nprofessional lives long after graduating from St. Johns University. His is a\nlegacy any educator would be extremely proud of.\n\nGagliardi passed Gramblings Eddie Robinson for all-time coaching victories\nwith No. 409 in 2003 and again for all-time games coached with No. 588 in\n2008. The major-college leader in wins is the late Joe Paterno, who finished\nwith 409 at Penn State.\n\nThe journey for Gagliardi began at Carroll College in Montana in 1949 when\nthree conference titles in four years changed that schools mind about\ndropping the sport. He then moved east to St. Johns, a Catholic institution\nfounded in 1857 by Benedictine monks who came to minister to the influx of\nGerman immigrants in central Minnesota. Though Gagliardi  born in the mining\ntown of Trinidad, Colorado  knew little about the school when he showed up,\nhe soon found his niche.\n\nDuring the hiring process, the monks asked him if he could beat rival St.\nThomas and another conference foe, Gustavus.\n\nI had never heard of them, Gagliardi said. But I said, Sure.'\n\nSt. Johns went 6-2 and won the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference\nin his first season, his first of 27 MIAC titles.\n\nWhen I came to Minnesota ... Id never seen television, Gagliardi said in a\n2003 interview with The Associated Press. I was unmarried at the time, living\nin the dorms. I asked them if I could have a TV set. They werent so sure at\nfirst. But after we beat St. Thomas and Gustavus, they were like, You still\nwant that TV?'\n\nGagliardi is survived by his wife, Peg, two daughters, two sons and numerous\ngrandchildren.","title":"John Gagliardi dies at 91 Colorado native was college footballs winningest coach","date":"2018-10-07","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Melania Trump is not exactly a rocket scientist, the woman has been in the country for decades and her English is still hard to make out. Needless to say, shes not a master of anything, nor does she seem to have anything that interests her at all outside of buying clothes and accessories, and getting her hair and nails done.\n\nNo hobbies, and no pride in anything in particular. The woman barely even interacts with her own son. She has loneliness written all over her tightly-pursed face, but if you were going by her immigration record, youd think Melania Trump was a total genius.\n\nThats because the practically mute first lady is in the country on a Visa for people with extraordinary abilities. Also known as the Einstein Visa, the EB-1 program is designed for renowned academic researchers, multinational business executives or those in other fields, such as Olympic athletes and Oscar-winning actors, who demonstrated sustained national and international acclaim.'\n\nThe year that Knauss  now first lady Melania Trump  got her legal residency, only five people from Slovenia received green cards under the EB-1 program, according to the State Department. In all, of the more than one million green cards issued in 2001, just 3,376  or a fraction of one percent  were issued to immigrants with extraordinary ability, according to government statistics. Melania Trumps ability to secure her green card not only set her on the path to U.S. citizenship, but put her in the position to sponsor the legal residency of her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs. The Washington Post reported earlier this month that the couple is now close to obtaining their own citizenship.\n\nMelanias track record isnt exactly impressive. Her resume reads like a middle-aged failed models resume should. Shes done very little, yet laughable work. WaPo reported that Melanias credentials included runway shows in Europe, a Camel cigarette billboard ad in Times Square and  in her biggest job at the time  a spot in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated, which featured her on the beach in a string bikini, hugging a six-foot inflatable whale.\n\nMelania is also a college dropout, despite the proven lie on her website. Melania left school in Slovenia to come to New York to find the old man that would fund the rest of her life. And thats exactly what she did.\n\nDont forget the presidents tweet last November about chain migration; the program Melanias parents used to retain residency in the United States:\n\nSo apparently, Trump is allowed to lie on federal immigrations documents, and nothing is really done about it. This is why the man thinks he can say and do anything he wants with no regard for others. Hes been getting away with it for 71 years, and it doesnt look like that will be stopping any time soon.","title":"Melanias Immigration Status Revealed What It Says Has Einstein Rolling Over In His Grave","date":"2018-05-07","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Actor Sadie Frost is in talks with a young, up-and-coming actor to star in her next film. And who is the lucky leading man in the making? Her son, Rafferty.\n\nFrost, who starred in Shopping, The Krays and Bram Stokers Dracula, started a career in film production in 2013, launching Blonde to Black Pictures with friend Emma Comley.\n\nTheir companys latest film, Two For Joy, stars Samantha Morton and Billie Piper and received critical acclaim. Now Frost is planning her next steps.\n\nIt felt empowering to let the whole thing go and to figure out whats next, she says of the film.\n\nI am thinking about featuring him [Rafferty] in one of the films Im working on, Frost tells The Londoner.\n\nWere currently having talks with him about it.\n\nRafferty, 22, is Frosts son with actor and ex-husband Jude Law.\n\nHe has no professional acting experience. He has, however, worked as a model, taking to the catwalk for a DKNY show and appearing in high-profile campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana and Timberland.\n\nHe also sings: he debuted a single, State Your Name, at the start of this month with his new band, London-based indie group Outer Stella Overdrive and previously released a solo single, Support Network, under the name Raff Law.\n\nHis 18-year-old sister, Iris Law, is pursuing modelling and has starred in campaigns for Burberry. Rafferty, though, may need some guidance from his famous parents, having once described his talent in the acting department as slightly lacking.\n\nI did feel a bit of pressure when I joined my first boarding school [Bedales in Hampshire].\n\nIn my drama lesson, I think everyone thought: Oh God, hes going to be so brilliant. he recalls.\n\nThen they realised that I wasnt that good, so they just let me get on with it.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg has told an Australian media company  that there is a risk of an accidental departure from the European  Union without any agreement  having been made.\n\nThe comments were published yesterday, on the same day that  the Conservative MP for North East Somerset was writing in The Mail on Sunday, arguing for a No Deal Plus.\n\nThis plan will cost money, he  wrote, but finally dispel the crash out Project Fear nightmare scenarios. Nightmare scenarios such as accidentally departing from the EU without an agreement, for example?\n\nReporters Without Borders brought its press freedom awards to London for the first time last week. Channel 4s Lindsey Hilsum, hosting, introduced the BBCs Lyse Doucet as her journalism twin. Fact check, Doucet responded drily. Lindsey is, in fact, four months older than me.\n\nChiwetel Ejiofor lives between London and the US, so has been keeping an eye on the mid-term elections. Its sad times in America but the mid-term elections were exciting, the Twelve Years a Slave star tells us. It was great to see the numbers go up so high, and it really broke the mould with the electing of more black women and a Muslim woman. The tide is changing.\n\nRupert Everett has been enjoying a new round of success of late, starring in and directing Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince. But the film world hasnt always been so kind. While making Spanish film Finding Altamira in 2016, the only way to get him out to the set in Santander was the daily Ryanair flight. Darling, he told apologetic producers. I know I once counted for something in the world. But spending ones morning in the Stansted Wetherspoons has convinced me otherwise.\n\nActor Haley Bennett and British director Joe Wright, whose divorce from sitar player Anoushka Shankar was finalised in May, celebrated their forthcoming bundle of joy this weekend. Bennett shared a photo of their celebration of divine creation and the wonder-filled flow into motherhood. AKA: a baby shower.\n\nDita dresses up for a dual celebration at the Connaught\n\nThe Connaught Hotel in Mayfair made for an old-school Hollywood-themed backdrop last night for a dual celebration.\n\nFashion designer Jenny Packham was marking her lines 30th anniversary while partygoers were also welcoming the arrival of burlesque star Dita Von Teeses Art of the Teese revue in London as part of its European tour.\n\nThe show, which is coming to the London Palladium this week, displays Von Teese in various states of elegant undress but last night she wore a plunging blue gown, specially made by Packham.\n\nThe designer is a hit with the aristocracy, both real and imagined. Packham, whose clothes are a particular favourite of the Duchess of Cambridge, was joined at the dinner by Michelle Dockery. The Downton Abbey actor has just finished filming for the  feature film of the period drama.\n\nAlso in attendance at last nights dinner was the designers brother, Autumnwatch presenter Chris Packham, as well as actor Olivia Grant and comedian Harry Hill.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has come under fire from a Nicaraguan citizens group  for being deafeningly silent on the anti-government crisis that has engulfed the Central American country since April SOSNicaragua has written an open letter pointing out that the Labour leader has mentioned the country in Parliament 210 times but has failed to take a position.\n\nCorbyn was also criticised for wearing a casual raincoat at the Cenotaph yesterday. He once turned up  to a GQ shoot similarly attired. Sighed editor Dylan Jones: (His people) didnt really seem to understand that he couldnt just turn up in his anorak.\n\nYou should never be without a plectrum, Education Secretary Damian Hinds tells Nick Robinson. Hinds once saw a rock star decline to play a song for a fan because no one had a guitar pick. Which one? Either the guy from Green Day or Noel Gallagher.\n\nQuote of the Day\n\n\"Brexit can be stopped\" --  Keir Starmer contradicts his party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who last week said Brexit cant be stopped","title":"The Londoner Sadie Frost takes Law in her own hands","date":"2018-11-12","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trump has described Emmanuel Macron's call for an EU army to protect\nitself from the US as \"very insulting\".\n\nThe US president touched down in Paris on Friday evening ahead of a weekend of\nevents commemorating the end of the First World War but did not take long to\nhit out at his French counterpart.\n\nMr Trump tweeted a response to **[an idea floated by Emmanuel\nMacron](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/emmanuel-macron-calls-for-real-european-\narmy-to-defend-against-russia-and-us-11546376) ** for the European bloc to\nhave its own dedicated military, designed to defend Europe from China, Russia\nand the US.\n\nImage: President Trump's hand is given a good squeeze by President Macron\n\n\"President Macron of France has just suggested that Europe build its own\nmilitary in order to protect itself from the US, China and Russia,\" Mr Trump\nwrote.\n\n\"Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO,\nwhich the US subsidises greatly!\"\n\nThe frosty air had not thawed when the pair met in Paris this morning.\n\nSitting down in front of cameras at the Elysee Palace, Mr Trump reiterated his\ncomplaint, saying: \"Different countries have to also help and it's only\nfair... and the president (Mr Macron) and I very much agree on that.\"\n\nWhile Mr Trump looked straight ahead, seemingly angry, Mr Macron responded: \"I\ndo agree... But it's unfair to have the European security today being assured\njust by the United States... I do believe that we need more European\ncapacities - more European defence - in order to take this part of the\nburden.\"\n\nA smiling Mr Macron finished by patting the US president on the knee.\n\nImage: Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron have appeared to get on well during\nprevious meetings\n\nThe two leaders are holding wide-ranging talks expected to delve deeper into\nEuropean security, Syria and Iran.\n\nMr Macron's suggestion of a European army was pitched during an interview with\nradio station Europe 1 before a meeting of defence ministers from nine\nEuropean countries to discuss how such a force would operate.\n\n![Trump rips into reporter.](https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/18\/11\/320x180\/skynews-\ndonald-trump-\nreporter_4482139.jpg?20181109210622https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/18\/11\/640x380\/skynews-\ndonald-trump-\nreporter_4482139.jpg?20181109210622https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/18\/11\/736x414\/skynews-\ndonald-trump-\nreporter_4482139.jpg?20181109210622https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/18\/11\/992x558\/skynews-\ndonald-trump-\nreporter_4482139.jpg?20181109210622https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/18\/11\/1096x616\n\/skynews-donald-trump-\nreporter_4482139.jpg?20181109210622https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/18\/11\/1600x900\n\/skynews-donald-trump-\nreporter_4482139.jpg?20181109210622https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/18\/11\/1920x1080\n\/skynews-donald-trump-\nreporter_4482139.jpg?20181109210622https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/18\/11\/2048x1152\n\/skynews-donald-trump-reporter_4482139.jpg?20181109210622) 0:21\n\nVideo: Trump blasts reporter's 'stupid question'\n\nHe told the station that Europe needed to be less reliant on the US,\nespecially in light of Mr Trump's decision to **[pull out of a Cold War-era\nnuclear treaty](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/trump-confirms-us-to-pull-out-of-\nnuclear-treaty-with-russia-11531257)[ with Russia](http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\n\/trump-confirms-us-to-pull-out-of-nuclear-treaty-with-russia-11531257).**\n\n\"We have to protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia and even the US,\"\nMr Macron said.\n\n\"When I see President Trump announcing that he's quitting a major disarmament\ntreaty which was formed after the 1980s Euromissile crisis that hit Europe,\nwho is the main victim? Europe and its security.\n\n\"We will not protect the Europeans unless we decide to have a true European\narmy.\n\n\"We need a Europe which defends itself better alone, without just depending on\nthe US.\"\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly criticised the amount of money European nations commit\nto NATO compared to the US.\n\nEarlier this year, [**during a private meeting with NATO leaders in\nBrussels**](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/donald-trump-nato-allies-should-double-\ndefence-spend-goal-11433650), he suggested allies double their targeted 2024\nspending commitment from 2% of their GDP to 4%.","title":"Trump hits out at Macrons very insulting call for EU army","date":"2018-11-09","source":"skynewsus","label":1}
{"content":"It was a bad day in court for former associates of President Donald Trump on Tuesday, and it could foreshadow hard days ahead for the president.\n\nIn a New York courtroom, Trumps former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations. Cohen said Trump directed him to arrange the payment of hush money to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, acknowledging the payments were made to influence the election.\n\nIn Virginia, a jury found former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of eight financial crimes unrelated to the campaign. It was the first trial victory for prosecutors in the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, whose investigation Trump has derided as a witch hunt.\n\nWhat do the developments mean for the president? Some questions and answers:\n\nQ: Does Cohens guilty plea mean Trump violated the law?\n\nA: Cohen said in court that he made one payment in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office and the other under direction of the same candidate. The amounts and dates all line up with the payments made to Daniels and McDougal.\n\nProsecutors did not go as far as Cohen did in open court in pointing the finger at the president, saying Cohen acted in coordination with a candidate or campaign for federal office for purposes of influencing the election.\n\nDaniel Petalas, former prosecutor in the Justice Departments public integrity section, said the issue of whether Trump violated the law comes down to whether Trump tried to influence an election, whether he knew and directed it and whether he knew it was improper.\n\nPetalas said Cohens plea brings Trump closer into the criminal conduct.\n\nBut Trumps attorney Rudy Giuliani said in a statement, There is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the President in the governments charges against Mr. Cohen.\n\nTrump denied to reporters in April that he knew anything about Cohens payments to Daniels, though the explanations from the president and Giuliani have shifted multiples times since.\n\nThe president has certain protections while a sitting president, but if it were true, and he was aware and tried to influence an election, that could be a federal felony offense, Petalas said. This strikes close to home.\n\nQ: Does Cohens plea mean Trump could be forced to submit to questions?\n\nA: Trumps lawyers have been negotiating with Mueller about whether the president would submit to an interview as part of Muellers Russia investigation. Now Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti says hell renew efforts to get Trump to submit to a deposition in a lawsuit Daniels filed to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement she signed ahead of the 2016 election.\n\nAvenatti tweeted that the Cohen pleas should permit us to proceed with an expedited deposition of Trump under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it.\n\nDaniels case is currently on hold, but Avenatti said hell be looking to get that hold lifted.\n\nThe Supreme Court in 1997, ruling in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Paula Jones against President Bill Clinton, held that a sitting president could be made to answer questions as part of a civil lawsuit. But that ruling did not directly address whether a president could be subpoenaed to testify in a criminal investigation, a question the Supreme Court may have to confront if Mueller tries to compel Trumps testimony in his probe.\n\nQ: If there is evidence of wrongdoing, can Trump be indicted?\n\nA: The Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal advice and guidance to executive branch agencies, has held that a sitting president cannot be indicted.\n\nTrumps lawyers have said that Mueller plans to adhere to that guidance, though Muellers office has never independently confirmed that. There would presumably be no bar against charging a president after he or she leaves the White House.\n\nSol Wisenberg, who conducted grand jury questioning of Clinton as deputy independent counsel during the Whitewater investigation, said he still wanted to see more details of Cohens plea deal, but said obviously its not good for Trump. The stuff on Stormy Daniels is not good for Trump.\n\nIm assuming hes not going to be indicted because hes a sitting president, said Wisenberg. But it leads him closer to ultimate impeachment proceedings, particularly if the Democrats take back the House.\n\nQ: How does Cohens plea relate to the Mueller investigation?\n\nA: While the Manafort case was part of Muellers investigation, the Cohen case was not. It was handled by prosecutors in New York. Still, it could give Mueller a boost.\n\nLaurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, argued that Cohens plea knocks back the argument that the investigations swirling around Trump are a witch hunt, as the president has called Muellers Russia investigation.\n\nNo longer can you say Mueller is on a witch hunt when you have his own lawyer pleading guilty to things that were designed to impact the election, she said.\n\nA: Trump has already shown hes not afraid to use his pardon power, particularly for those he has viewed as unfair victims of partisanship. He pardoned Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who clashed with a judge on immigration, and I. Lewis Scooter Libby, a Bush administration official convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in a leak case.\n\nAs for whether a president can pardon himself, not surprisingly, courts have never had to answer that question. Giuliani, Trumps lawyer, has said it wont come to that anyway.\n\nPardoning himself would be unthinkable and probably lead to immediate impeachment, Giuliani told NBCs Meet the Press in June. And he has no need to do it, hes done nothing wrong. Still, Giuliani argued that Trump probably does have the power to pardon himself.\n\nAssociated Press writers Jessica Gresko, Jonathan Lemire, Catherine Lucey, Michael Sisak and Eric Tucker contributed to this report.","title":"Q A Presidents former allies took a beating But how bad was it for Trump","date":"2018-08-22","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk joined the Joe Rogan Experience to talk about artificial intelligence, Google, the Singularity, and simulated reality.\n\nDuring the podcast Thursday, Musk confirmed many of the same claims made by Alex Jones, including the elites desire to merge with AI machines and Googles real purpose of functioning as a techno-biological interface using humans as nodes to program its AI learning.","title":"Elon Musk Confirms Alex Jones Right About AI Google Transhumanism","date":"2018-09-10","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Minister for Health Simon Harris has said the Scally report showed there were huge failings that needed to be addressed in the cervical cancer screening programme but insisted the programme was safe.\n\nMr Harris said the report into CervicalCheck found a system-wide failing and that the audit of the programme was clearly utterly botched in how the information produced by the audit was handled.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at Government Buildings before the unveiling of the report, Mr Harris particularly welcomed the findings that the laboratories being used for the screening programme meet quality management processes and that there was no reason that they cannot continue to be used.\n\nI have been asked the question - is it safe to use the labs? . . . Today Dr Scally answers the question clearly. And that message cannot get lost, he said.\n\nThe Minister said it wasnt about cancer misdiagnosis - he does find that the labs were safe to use, but he acknowledged the additional pain and suffering caused to women and their families by the non-disclosure of the results of the audits.\n\nHowever, Mr Harris said the widespread non-disclosure of the results of screening audits was a substantial breach of trust for the women and families involved.\n\nThe Minister said he would bring forward proposals next month for an independent patient safety council, adding there would be two patient representatives on the new board of the HSE.\n\nHe said the Government would legislate for a new duty of candour requiring mandatory disclosure of serious reportable events and said the new laws would impose an individual duty of disclosure on healthcare professionals, not just on the hospital they work in.\n\nMr Harris said the Government would recruit new leadership for the screening programme.\n\nHe said the report found blame could not be ascribed to individuals. Its the easiest thing in the world to say this person did it or that person did it, and when individuals fail, individuals should be held to account. But sometimes the truth is more complex, Mr Harris said.\n\nSometimes the truth is that people who set out in the words of Dr Scally to do something laudable had systems and structures in place that [make] an absolutely botched job of it, that caused pain and hurt and suffering that Im sure was not intended, he said.","title":"Simon Harris says screening programme audit utterly botched","date":"2018-09-12","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"MOSCOW, September 3. \/TASS\/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has decorated\nfour citizens of Pakistan with the Order of Friendship for rescuing a Russian\nmountain climber who found himself trapped on a largely inaccessible mountain\nslope.\n\nThe four Pakistani rescuers are Qazi Muhammed, Abid Rafiq, Muhammad Anjum\nRafiq and Fakhar-e-Abbas.\n\nClimbers Alexander Gukov from St Petersburg and Sergei Glazunov from Irkutsk\nfound themselves blocked on a steep slope of Mount Latok I in Pakistan.\nGlazunov fell down and died while Gukov got stuck at the height of 6,200\nmeters without foodstuffs or access to mobile telephony and also practically\nwithout any equipment, most of which had been lost during his partners\ndownfall.\n\nBad weather made it impossible for Pakistani rescuers to approach him for\nseveral days.\n\nRescuer works coordinator Anna Piunova said Gukov had been rescued and taken\nto hospital in the town of Skardu.\n\nLatok I is broadly viewed as one of the most challenging mountains in the\n7,000+ meters category in terms of climbing.\n\nIn other media","title":"Putin decorates 4 Pakistanis with Friendship Order for rescuing Russian climber","date":"2018-09-03","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"The Trump administration officially levied tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese products at the start of a major trade battle predicted to exact significant costs on consumers and businesses. China was expected to announce its own comparable tariffs on $34 billion of U.S. goods Friday. Chinese officials had said they would not announce the tariffs until after the U.S. did so. The Chinese tariffs, including a 25 percent charge on soybeans, are expected to hit U.S. farmers particularly hard, since the country currently buys nearly two-thirds of the soybeans exported by U.S. farmers.\n\nBut Trump, who has attacked Harley-Davidson for plans to move some production to its overseas plants to avoid retaliatory European tariffs, is looking to save my farmers from the trade war he launched. Rural support was critical to his presidential victory. Unhappy farmers could spell trouble for midterm elections.\n\nAgriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said last month at a Chicago convention that the Commodity Credit Corporation is a tool hes considering to comply with Trumps instructions to craft a strategy to support our farmers against retaliatory tariffs. The program, which was started to help farmers during the Great Depression, allows the Agriculture Department to borrow as much as $30 billion from the U.S. Treasury that could be used to buy crops from farmers that would go unsold in a trade war.\n\nIts a whole lot easier not to wreck the car in the first place than it is to think about what a repair might look like.\n\nI am against a one-time bailout of a situation created by the administration, Peterson said earlier this year. Farmers want their markets left intact and not screwed up by some policy. Giving them money isnt necessarily going to buy them off.\n\nEven Republican farm state Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said last month in a call with reporters that subsidies are not what farmers in Iowa want  help from the federal Treasury, the Des Moines Register reported.\n\nCritics say that spending the massive fund is a waste of public money to mitigate a Trump bungle. It would also be a significant expenditure just as the U.S. debt is on track to be the biggest in history due to corporate tax cuts and spending hikes.\n\nFormer USDA chief economist Joseph Glauber told The Financial Times earlier this month that many farmers already have some safeguards from government-backed price and income supports and insurance.\n\nAs for using CCC money, Glauber added: I just dont like the idea of the government coming up with some balm to spread over wounds that are self-inflicted. It seems to be a huge moral hazard problem.\n\nEven those who support using the funds say they wont be enough to save farmers grappling with decreasing demand triggered by retaliatory foreign tariffs. Farmer also risk losing key markets in the long term even as theyre subsidized. Farmers in Brazil are boosting soybean production to scoop up the Chinese market.\n\nIts a whole lot easier not to wreck the car in the first place than it is to think about what a repair might look like, a spokesman for the American Soybean Association told The New York Times earlier this year.","title":"As Trade War Begins Feds Eye 30 Billion Bailout Fund For Farmers Facing Losses","date":"2018-07-06","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Former mayor Rudy Giuliani blew a big hole in Donald Trumps legal defense. Did he do it intentionally, or was this the result of being well past his prime and not ready for prime time, as Stormy Daniels attorney, Michael Avenatti, said? The real problem for Donald Trump is the former mayor may have admitted the president committed four felonies.\n\nThere has been a recent, substantial turnover in 45s legal team. Giuliani just came aboard to serve in a public relations role. He may have been trying to divert attention away from the special counsel, Robert Mullers investigation into Russias attack on the 2016 presidential election and possible Trump campaign conspiracy.\n\nPossibly, the presidents legal team believed that there was a strong advantage in focusing the public on the adult entertainment actress and directors case. She sued for defamation of character and for release from an unsigned nondisclosure agreement.\n\nCongressman Ted Lieu is an Air Force Reserve colonel and represents California. He also serves on the House Committee on the Judiciary. He tweeted about those possible felonies:\n\nAnother heavyweight chimed in on the situation. Senior fellow at the highly respected Brookings Institute and CNN commentator, Norm Eisen, tweeted a powerful  response. Eisen also served as President Barack Obamas White House Ethics Czar and the former ambassador to Prague.\n\nEisen is also chair of CREW, an:\n\nAggressive legal action, in-depth research, and bold communications to reduce the influence of money in politics and help foster a government that is ethical and accountable. We highlight abuses, change behavior, and lay the groundwork for new policies and approaches that encourage public officials to work for the benefit of the people, not powerful interests.\n\nThe Twitter world went wild. Check out some of our favorite tweets below:","title":"US Congressman Makes 4 Potential Felony Charges Against Trump Announcement","date":"2018-05-06","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"France will not accept a European Commission proposal to exclude French ports from a re-routed trade corridor between Ireland and mainland Europe after Brexit, the government has said.\n\nAt the moment much of Irelands trade with the continent goes via Britain in trucks. But with less than eight months to go until Britain leaves the European Union there is still little clarity on its future trade relations with the bloc, or the Republics Border with Northern Ireland.\n\nThe new route advanced by the commission would connect Ireland by sea with Dutch and Belgian ports, including Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. French ports such as Calais and Dunkirk would be bypassed.\n\nFrance and Ireland maintain important trade channels, both overland via Britain and via direct maritime routes. The geographical proximity between Ireland and France creates an obvious connection to the single market, wrote French minister for transport Elisabeth Borne to the EUs transport commissioner on August 10th.\n\nSurprisingly, the Commission proposal in no way takes this into account. This proposal therefore is not acceptable to France, noted Ms Borne.\n\nAt stake are jobs, millions of dollars worth of port revenues and possibly EU infrastructure funding.\n\nMs Borne said that French ports had the necessary resources to ensure they could handle the likely increase in trade flows, hinting at concerns of congestion in ports such as Calais, Frances busiest passenger port.  Reuters","title":"Brexit France to veto re-routed trade plan between Ireland and Europe","date":"2018-08-11","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"What Happened to that 'Blue Wave'?","title":"What Happened to that Blue Wave","date":"2018-11-09","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"While the right-wing failure to be moved by either teenage survivors of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead or the parents and families of 20 murdered elementary school children and six school officials at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, has been stunning, it will be difficult for them to ignore the dangers police officers face because of the easy access to guns in this country.\n\nTwo police officers and one civilian were shot near a Home Depot in northeast Dallas, Texas on Tuesday. Sources confirm that one officer has died. The other is currently listed in critical condition, although the civilians injuries or medical status has not yet been reported.\n\nOfficers were searching for the suspected shooter near the wooded area and along the creek behind the store. Dallas police were helping an off-duty officer working with store security to make an arrest when shots were fired, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported.\n\nAn NBC affiliate in Dallas-Ft. Worth issued a photo of 29-year-old Armando Juarez, who is wanted for questioning in relation to the shooting, although law enforcement says he is not a suspect at this time.\n\nA statement issued by the Dallas Police Department on Twitter also said:\n\nWe can confirm that two Dallas PD officers have been shot and critically wounded. We will provide updates as we get them. Please pray for our officers and their families.\n\nFurther details will be reported as they are made available.","title":"BREAKING Shooter Hits Home Depot Leaving Multiple People Victims Including A Cop","date":"2018-04-25","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The Christmas lights have gone up on Oxford Street dividing Londoners as some react with exasperation and others with joy.\n\nAn array of hundreds of baubles and a sign which reads 'Christmas is calling' have been erected over the last week and a half along the bustling central London shopping street.\n\nThe decorations, which are the same as last year's, started going up on September 26, a full 90 days before Christmas Day.\n\nSome Londoners have taken to social media in surprise and disappointment, while others embraced the festive spirit.\n\nOne tweeted \"too soon\" while another pointed out \"it's not even Halloween yet\".\n\nThe news comes despite particularly un-Christmassy weather in the capital with temperatures forecast to reach 24C in London this week.\n\n\"I've only just accepted that summer is over,\" another person said.\n\nWhile some people are clearly having their trouble wrapping their heads around such scenes, others aren't struggling quite so much.\n\nThe Oxford Street light switch-on is expected to take place next month.","title":"Too soon Londoners divided as Christmas lights go up on Oxford Street","date":"2018-10-08","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Just before he was inaugurated, President Donald Trump was busy trying to get a Democrat to switch parties, just like he once did.\n\nWhile courting Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) for a potential Cabinet position in December 2016, Trump asked her if shed consider joining the Republican Party, according to The Washington Post.\n\nWhen I visited him in Trump Tower before he was sworn in, he asked me to switch parties, Heitkamp told the Post on Tuesday. He says, You should switch parties. ... I said You should give me and Ex-Im bank.\n\nHeitkamp was referencing the Export-Import Bank, which, at the time, she was a vocal advocate for.\n\nHeitkamp, a moderate Democrat, also suggested that last December was not the only time the President had asked her to switch sides. When he asked her to join him while he pitched his tax plan in North Dakota last September, Trump might have asked me on that trip to become a Republican, she said.\n\nHes always ribbing me a little bit about being too conservative to be a Democrat, she said. I think he knows its not going to happen.\n\nHeitkamp, who will likely face a Trump-backed conservative in her reelection bid this fall, said she has often found middle ground with Trump and even agrees with his policy on issues like deregulation and fighting for working people, she told the Post.\n\nRead the Posts full report on Heitkamp here.","title":"WaPo Before Inauguration Trump Asked Heitkamp To Switch Parties","date":"2018-04-11","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Toronto Mayor John Tory says municipalities across Ontario have offered to help handle the influx of asylum seekers that has caused a housing crisis in the city.\n\nTory met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this morning to discuss the issue as well as Torontos escalating gun violence.\n\nTory says many mayors in the province have told him they have jobs available for refugee claimants and asylum seekers.\n\nTrudeau says he will support Torontos efforts to help refugees and to combat the gun and gang violence that is currently gripping the city.\n\nThe Ontario government says the province will face a crisis next month if Ottawa doesnt help find space for refugees and asylum seekers currently sheltered in university dorms.\n\nLisa MacLeod, provincial minister in charge for immigration, urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to commit federal resources to relieve overcrowding in Torontos shelter system.\n\nAbout 800 refugee claimants and asylum seekers are staying in Toronto college residences that must be vacated on Aug. 9 before students return to campus.\n\nMacLeods comments come a day after Premier Doug Ford said Trudeau had put a strain on local and provincial services by encouraging foreigners to come to Canada illegally.\n\nFord issued a statement just before his first meeting with Trudeau on Thursday, saying the federal government should foot 100 per cent of the bill for resettling the newcomers.\n\nFord said the prime minister had put a strain on local and provincial services by encouraging asylum seekers to come to Canada illegally, and that Trudeaus government should foot 100 per cent of the bill for resettling the newcomers.\n\nTrudeau said after the meeting that hed explained to Ford how the asylum-seeking system works and what Canadas obligations are.\n\nIn a radio interview Friday morning, the prime minister condemned leaders who engage in anti-migrant rhetoric.\n\nUnfortunately conservative politicians here and around the world are playing a very dangerous game with something that shouldnt be fodder for division, Trudeau said on CBC Radios Metro Morning.\n\nCanadians are supportive of immigration and accepting refugees. They need to be reassured, as they can be, that we have a system in place that is going through all the processes.\n\nTory has said all three levels of government must work together to address local gun crime, after a string of shootings left three people dead and at least eight injured over the past week.\n\nThe mayor spoke to federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale on Tuesday about ways their respective governments could co-operate on the issue.\n\nA spokesperson for Goodale said the threat to public feelings of safety is a deep concern.","title":"Other mayors offered to help with influx of asylum seekers Toronto mayor","date":"2018-07-06","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Firsthand take on the latest example of YouTube censorship.","title":"Fulcrum News Is Erased From YouTube","date":"2018-09-06","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A Muslim food cart vendor in Portland, Oregon admitted to attacking a Black woman customer on Wednesday, and calling her the n word, but he blamed the stress of fasting for Ramadan, as well as family and business stress, for the outburstpart of which was recorded on video by the customer. The vendor, Islam R. El Masry, subsequently posted two videos to YouTube talking about the attack.\n\nWillamette Week first reported on the food truck incident, which was allegedly the result of the vendor getting violently angry when the Black female customer tried to pay for her order with quarters.\n\nThe owner of a downtown food cart was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges this afternoon after hurling a Gatorade bottle at a black customer and then allegedly spraying her with Sriracha. A video taken by the alleged victim, Carlotta Washington, was provided to Willamette Week by an eyewitness. It shows Islam El Masry, owner of the Small Pharoahs halal cart, arguing with Washington, who claims that El Masry called her the n-word after she attempted to pay for her lunch with quarters The video shows El Masry telling her to get the (f***) away from the cart, then throws a Gatorade bottle at her, causing her to drop her phone...\n\nThe Oregonian\/OregonLive reported Friday on the videos posted by El Masry with the headline, Portland food cart owner admits to using racial slur and dousing woman in Sriracha in videos\n\nA food cart owner accused of a racist attack on a customer earlier this week released two rambling videos Friday, defending himself, blaming fasting for the incident and the media for blowing it out of proportion, and saying he hopes to go back to Egypt, his home country. He also talks about using the racial slur and dousing the woman, who is African American, in Sriracha sauce. Islam R. El Masry, the owner of Small Pharoahs Egyptian and New Yorker Food at Southwest Fifth Avenue and Stark Street in downtown Portland, was arrested Wednesday after being filmed throwing a Gatorade bottle at customer Carlotta Washington. ...Washington told KGW in an interview that she never threw anything at El Masry. El Masry says that after the bottle broke on the grill, he had to throw everything he was cooking in the garbage. Then, he says, he started insulting her really bad, got the Sriracha sauce and put it in her face. He says he was in a bad mood because of pressure on his business and fasting for Ramadan. I was fasting at that day, and you know Ramadan, he says, we fast for like 18 hours now, and its really hard like to be in a hot place, no water and no food, and youre cooking the food right in front of you. ... plus also Im a smoker, and I cant smoke during the fasting. El Masry says even before the incident his main concern is selling his business so he can go home. My mom is sick, he said. My fathers sick.\n\nEl Masry also said the victim threw a bottle at him, which the victim denied in an interview with KGW-TV.\n\nWashington, who is a regular at the food cart on Southwest 5th Avenue and Stark Street, said El Masry appeared to be agitated with the customer before her and became more infuriated when he found out she was trying pay for her $7 lunch, in part, with quarters. Washington said she thought El Masry was going to count her money when he it took it from her hands but he instead threw it underneath the counter. At that point, Washington realized he wasnt going to count it and asked for the money back because she was confident it was more than $7. Thats when he started getting angry, talking about, I dont have time for this, Washington said. I really wasnt putting two in two together. It was crowded and I just wasnt really thinking and even considering how angry he was. El Masry told KGW he was extremely busy during the lunch rush and told Washington he didnt have time to count the change and asked her to take her business elsewhere. Washington said El Masry called her the n-word and ended up throwing the money back at her. She said thats when she began crying, took out her cellphone and started filming. ...She said she never threw bottles at El Masry but shoved the bottles on his counter after he threw the Gatorade at her. After she stopped filming, Washington said El Masry sprayed her with Sriracha hot sauce. El Masry said he has a lot going on in his private life and his emotions got the best of him. He also said hes not a racist. My father is black, Im African too, he said.\n\nThe national news media has ignored this story of racial hate and violence. A news search shows only Portland media reporting on it, with the exception of the African-American focused site, The Root.\n\nUPDATE: The New York Daily News reported on June 7; Raw Story late on June 6 and NewsOne on June 7.\n\nThe story never broke through nationally thougheven with videolikely because the perp did not fit the medias narrative of who is racist in America.","title":"Muslim Food Cart Vendor Blames Ramadan Fasting for Violent Racist Attack on Black Customer","date":"2018-06-10","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) What does it mean to be organic, anyway?\n\nIn the U.S., food can only be labeled as organic after undergoing certification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Main requirements for products to be labeled as organic include the absence of any genetic engineering, ionization, and sewage sludge procedure in the creation of the product. In addition to this, processes that are undertaken for the product must also be certified as organic.\n\nAs organic labels are taking over the supermarket, and possibly other areas as well, a lot of questions need to be answered. What exactly does it mean to be organic? How does it differ from others? How is it better than other types of food?\n\nThis is exactly what the researchers from Cornell University set out to learn with their study You taste what you see: Do organic labels bias taste perceptions? In the study, they examined the effects of labeling products to be organic, especially when it came to the consumers. What they found was astonishing: the organic label greatly affects how the product is perceived. The organic label led consumers to believe that these products were healthier than others, thus altering their perception of the foods calories, taste, and value. Researchers call this the health halo effect.\n\nFor the study, 115 people were asked to evaluate three pairs of products: two yogurts, two cookies, and two potato chip portions. An item from each pair was labeled as organic, while the other one was labeled regular. Participants then had to evaluate the food: rating the taste and caloric content of each, as well as giving an amount that they will shell out to pay for it. Questions about the participants shopping habits and environmental practices were also asked.\n\nMother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary \"sulforaphane\" and \"glucosinolate\" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here.\n\nHowever, the researchers didnt tell the group that both products were organic and identical.\n\nThe results of the study indicated that the organic label attached to the products skewed the perception of the participants regarding it. The group estimated the caloric content of the cookies and yogurt to be fewer, and they were willing to pay up to 23.4 percent more for them. This shows that labeling a product to be organic already creates a health halo around it. This effect is not limited to perception alone. People reported that the organic and chips were more delicious and that they believe these are lower in fat than the regular kind. Even the taste was affected by the label. People reported that organic chips were more mouth-watering, and yogurt was more flavorful compared to its regular counterparts.\n\nThe university had already delved into the study of how perceptions are skewed with the use of food. In an earlier study, the health halo effects were also studied by scientists in relation to low-fat foods. In this study, they discovered that people tend to eat more if a snack carries the low-fat label. A key factor in understanding the results of the study would be how the participants perceived low-fat food, with people stating that they initially surmised the calorie content to be lower than 50 percent of the regular snack.\n\nWith all this mix-up regarding organic labels, how do we become more aware? The study found that consumers who regularly check the labels of their food, have a pro-environmental outlook, and those who practice buying organic food as part of their lifestyle were found to be less likely to fall victim of the health halo surrounding organic food.\n\nMost importantly, the organic label does not indicate health benefit, rather, it is a way to know that your product was made using natural methods.\n\nSo before you choose from the two pair of cookies on the shelf, its best to read them first. After all, cookies, organic or not, are still cookies at the end of the day.\n\nTo learn more about the food we consume every day, go to FoodScience.news.","title":"Reminder Organic cookies are still cookies organic on the label isnt a free pass","date":"2018-10-14","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"This time, the President called out Obama directly.\n\nTrump took it straight to Obama Sunday afternoon.\n\nTrump tweeted: Why didnt President Obama do something about the so-called Russian Meddling when he was told about it by the FBI before the Election? Because he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win, and he didnt want to upset the apple cart! He was in charge, not me, and did nothing.\n\nThe simple answer is any attempts by the Russians to influence the 2016 election was so infinitesimal, Obama didnt act.\n\nVery few people saw social media posts by Russian troll farms. The notion that the Russians tipped the election in favor of Donald Trump is laughable at best. The majority of the Russian ads were posted after the election and they didnt favor any particular candidate.\n\nThe bottom line is Trump wasnt supposed to win.\n\nWhat we are seeing is an attempted coup by the Deep State simply because Trump is a threat to business as usual in DC.\n\nThe Russian collusion hoax was the insurance policy the Trump-hating FBI agents were discussing in McCabes office; it was created by Obama and Hillary.\n\nEarlier Sunday, President Trump slammed the phony Russian collusion witch hunt, accurately stating Mueller has devastated and destroyed many peoples lives.","title":"POTUS Trump Rips Obama For Doing Nothing About So-Called Russian Meddling He Thought Crooked Hillar","date":"2018-05-27","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The President of the Palm Beach Country Police Union urged NFL fans to boycott the Miami Dolphins NFL team during his interview on FOX and Friends on Monday.\n\nThis comes after several Miami Dolphins players took a knee during their preseason game to protest police brutality in black communities.\n\nJohn Kazanjian told Brian Kilmeade the Palm Beach Police Union is breaking ties with the Dolphins after the continued anti-police protesters.\n\nKazanjian also urged NFL fans to boycott the Dolphins games.","title":"Palm Beach County Police Union Breaks Ties with Miami Dolphins Urges Fans to Boycott Their Games VI","date":"2018-08-13","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A fierce backlash over Theresa Mays handling of the Brexit negotiations is growing after she offered the idea of extending the transition phase.\n\nThe firestorm within her Tory party deepened further last night, with former leader Iain Duncan Smith saying an extension would mean falling into the next EU budget.\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary David Davis is also reportedly \"on manoeuvres,\" calling ministers yesterday to try to urge a change of course in the negotiations.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said this would mean the UK would pay tens of billions of pounds extra to the bloc, money he said has been promise for domestic programmes.\n\n\"I couldn't understand why we would offer to extend the transition period when we still haven't got anything back in return, he told BBC2's Newsnight.\n\n\"By extending the backstop we are likely to fall straight into the next budget of the EU which will mean tens of billions of pounds extra to be paid across to the EU.\n\n\"It would be very hard to tell the British people that we are extending another year or more into the implementation phase, and we're then going to pay tens of billions of pounds over when we actually say we need it for other domestic programmes.\n\n\"We are in a negotiation but at the moment it begins to look more like a capitulation than a negotiation. We have got to get some steel in our backbone and do something about actually negotiating, rather than saying 'what would you like?\"'\n\nIt comes after EU chiefs said they are prepared to extend the post-Brexit transition period if the UK asks. And shortly before the Prime Minster gave a news conference in Brussels, European Commission president Jean-Claude Junker said an extension to the transition period \"probably will happen\".\n\nTory MP Nick Boles, who backed Remain in the EU referendum, told Channel 4 News that he would oppose moves by Mrs May to extend the deadline.\n\nHe said: \"I think that so many of the things that she has told us about what she was proposing have turned out either not to be true, or she hasn't stuck to them, so when the Prime Minister first suggested this transition, and remember what this transition is, we stay in the EU in effect, bound by all of its rules, in all of its institutions, paying our normal contribution for two years.\n\n\"We have no vote. It's actually worse than being a member of the EU. She said, we are going to be in there until December 2020, not to negotiate a deal, to implement a free trade deal that would already have been negotiated.\n\n\"Now, what we hear, is that, actually, no, that's not enough time, and, no, we are not going to be implementing.\n\n\"We are going to be negotiating that long term relationship, and now we might need a third year.\n\n\"That third year would not cost an additional ten billion euros, it might cost 18 billion euros because we'd be in the new budget cycle of the EU where all of the contributions go up.\n\n\"That is just an absolute mile from what we were originally told was necessary.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a fresh blow to Mrs May's authority, prominent Tory MP Johnny Mercer, who has been seen as a rising star of the party, branded the Government a \"shit show\".\n\nIn response, Mr Duncan Smith said: \"It's not the language I would use - but I can understand his frustration.\n\n\"I think what we've seen over the last 24 hours has really made people quite concerned - not only in the party, but in the country.\"\n\nBritain had originally sought a transition period ending in December 2020 after it formally exited the EU in March 2019.","title":"Fierce backlash over Theresa Mayaposs move to extend Brexit transition phase grows as EU ready to","date":"2018-10-19","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) According to unnamed sources and as reported by The Hill, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been meeting with pharmaceutical companies as of late to ask them to voluntarily cut drug prices. If the negotiations are successful and these companies do decide to cut prices (which is extremely unlikely), then it would mean that the Trump administration could tout the benefits of the Presidents drug pricing plan instead of waiting for regulatory actions to be implemented and take effect.\n\nTowards the end of last month, Trump announced that in two weeks drug companies would announce voluntary massive drops in prices. But as that two-week deadline draws closer, officials still have not provided many details regarding what the president meant with those remarks.\n\nWe are working with stakeholders across the spectrum including drug companies, [pharmacy benefit managers], distributors, patients, health care professionals, physicians, insurers, etc., to respond to President Trumps call to action and help patients pay less for their prescription drugs, said a spokesperson for the department of Health and Human Services in an interview with The Hill. The statement came following a question regarding the meetings that have been taking place in recent weeks with drug companies.\n\nBut even though Donald Trump and his administration are at least trying to bring down costs of pharmaceutical drugs, the fact of the matter is that voluntary price cuts will never be enough to solve the problem. At the end of the day, Big Pharma is a business that is out to make as much money as they can possibly make, just like every other company in the United States and abroad. To ask pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily cut prices simply doesnt make any sense for them, and to be frank, most of the ones that the Trump administration have met with thus far have most likely laughed it off.\n\nSupport our mission and enhance your own self-reliance: The laboratory-verified Organic Emergency Survival Bucket provides certified organic, high-nutrition storable food for emergency preparedness. Completely free of corn syrup, MSG, GMOs and other food toxins. Ultra-clean solution for years of food security. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store.\n\nNatural News has been reporting on Big Pharmas efforts to prevent you from purchasing cheaper alternatives for quite some time now. As Natural News contributor J.D. Heyes explained in an article published in 2016, even though there are currently provisions in place for Americans to buy drugs at cheaper costs, Big Pharma is working day and night to block them. What ends up happening is that pharmaceutical companies essentially team up with Internet intermediaries in order to prevent Americans from buying alternative options from other countries, even though they have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. (Related: Big Pharma conspired to destroy a supply of life-saving cancer drugs by putting profit before people.)\n\nHowever, these alternative drugs are not as dangerous as the pharmaceutical companies say that they are. As the FDAs senior associate commission for policy planning and legislation William Hubbard put it, Discretionary guidelines developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and enforced by the [Customs and Border Protection] allow American consumers to import a 90-day supply of some prescription medications for personal use, including by bringing them across border checkpoints in personal luggage, or by mailing them from overseas.\n\nDonald Trump should be commended for at least trying to address the problem of pharmaceutical drug costs, and for keeping the promises that he made out on the campaign trail in 2016. However, he and his team at the department of Health and Human Services need to understand that asking pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily cut the costs of drugs is never going to solve the problem in the long run, and further action will inevitably have to be taken in order to stop Big Pharmas oppressive campaign.","title":"Trump officials sit down with Big Pharma to negotiate voluntary drug price reductions Drug gia","date":"2018-06-17","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"A 68-year-old man in Turnhout, Antwerp had his face broken in 11 places after receiving a vicious beating from migrants who were offended by how the victims dog smelled.\n\nBelgian broadcaster RTV reports that the man, Lucas Claes, was walking his dog in a park when it ran over to the group of migrants.\n\nAfter disagreeing with the gang that his dog smelled, Claes was subjected to a brutal assault and lost consciousness.\n\nI woke up when a woman said: Sir, are you alright, said Claes, who described his attackers as foreigners.\n\nClaes was rushed to hospital, where he was treated for 11 breakages in his facial bones.\n\nClaes said that despite being traumatized by the incident, he wouldnt let it affect his routine, commenting, What else can you do? The dog needs to be walked, theres no other option.\n\nOnly one of the five suspects has been arrested by police.\n\nThis is by no means the first instance of migrants assaulting an elderly person in Antwerp.\n\nBack in July, an elderly handicapped woman was approached by a gang of a dozen migrant youths, pelted with large stones and called a dirty, stinking Belgian.\n\nLike Molenbeek, Antwerp is notorious for parts of it being migrant-populated ghettos where crime and physical attacks are commonplace.\n\nLast year, the Mayor was forced to slap a ban on public gatherings in the city after riots between Turkish and Kurdish migrants. Antwerp was also hit by widespread rioting in migrant areas in 2002.\n\nStatistics show that around 75% of children in Belgiums second largest city have migrant backgrounds.\n\nPaul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.","title":"Belgium Migrants Viciously Beat Up 68-Year-Old Man Because His Dog Smelled","date":"2018-10-19","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"BEIJING  Dont mess with China and its growing cadre of powerful luxury consumers.\n\nDolce&Gabbana learned that lesson the hard way when it faced a boycott after Chinese expressed outrage over what were seen as culturally insensitive videos promoting a major runway show in Shanghai and subsequent posts of insulting comments in a private Instagram chat.\n\nThe company blamed hackers for the anti-Chinese insults, but the explanation felt flat to many and the damage was done. The Milan designers canceled the Shanghai runway show, meant as a tribute to China, as their guest list of Asian celebrities quickly joined the protests.\n\nThen, as retailers pulled their merchandise from shelves and powerful e-commerce sites deleted their wares, co-founders Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana went on camera  dwarfed against the larger backdrop of an ornate red wall-covering  to apologize to the Chinese people.\n\nWe will never forget this experience, and it will definitely never happen again, a solemn-looking Gabbana said in a video statement posted Friday on social media.\n\nThe apology video, and the sharp public backlash that demanded it, shows the importance of the Chinese market and the risks of operating in it. More broadly, it highlights the huge and still-growing influence of China, a country that cannot be ignored as it expands economically, militarily and diplomatically.\n\nThese trends are intertwined in frequent outbursts of nationalist sentiment among consumers who feel slighted by foreign brands or their governments. Its not the first time a company has apologized, and it surely wont be the last. Mercedes-Benz did so in February for featuring a quote by the Dalai Lama on its Instagram account.\n\nFor Dolce&Gabbana, it could be mark the end of its growth in China, a crucial market for global luxury brands that it has cultivated since opening its first store in 2005 and where it now has 44 boutiques.\n\nI think it is going to be impossible over the next couple of years for them to work in China, said Cary Cooper, a professor of organizational psychology and health at Manchester University in England. When you break this kind of cultural codes, then you are in trouble. The brand is now damaged in China, and I think it will be damaged in China until there is lost memory about it.\n\nThat could shake Dolce&Gabbanas financial health. The privately held company does not release its individual sales figures. But Chinese consumers are responsible for a third of all luxury spending around the globe, according to a recent study by Bain consultancy. That will grow to 46 percent of forecast sales of an estimated 365 billion euros ($412 billion) by 2025, fueled by millennials and the younger Generation Z set, who will make a growing percentage of their purchases online.\n\nWithout China, the hinterland for growth, D&G will obviously be in a weak competitive position and in danger of being eliminated, the Chinese business magazine New Fortune said in a social media post Sunday. This is one of the major reasons why D&G finally lowered its head. They really cannot survive without the Chinese market.\n\nWhile Dolce&Gabbana has displayed a knack for social media engagement, inviting millennial influencers with millions of collective followers to sit in their front rows or walk in their shows, that engagement has been a double-edged sword. Pop idol Karry Wang, who has drawn hundreds of screaming Chinese fans to the designers Milan showroom for season runway shows, was one of the first to disavow the brand, saying he was ending his role as Asia-Pacific brand ambassador.\n\nDolce found himself on the defensive several years ago after Elton John lashed out for comments that suggested he did not support gay couples using surrogate mothers to have children. At the time, more than 67,000 tweets urged #boycottdolcegabbana, while Courtney Love vowed to burn her Dolce&Gabbana garb and Martina Navratilova pledged to trash her D&G shirts.\n\nGabbana, who has 1.6 million Instagram followers, faced a more contained backlash earlier this year when he responded to a collage of Selena Gomez photos on Instagram with the comment, Shes really ugly.\n\nCelebrities took to social media Wednesday to blast Dolce&Gabbana and said they would boycott the show, which was canceled. By Thursday, the companys goods had disappeared from major e-commerce websites. The prevailing sentiment was captured by an airport duty-free shop that posted a photo of its shelves emptied of D&G products: We have to show our stance. We are proud to be Chinese.\n\nThe rapid escalation into a public relations disaster was fueled by social media. Individuals posted videos of themselves cutting up or burning their Dolce&Gabbana clothes, or picking them up with chopsticks and putting them in the trash. A parody of the offending Dolce&Gabbana videos, which featured a Chinese woman using chopsticks to eat pizza and an oversized cannoli, shows a white man trying to eat Chinese food with a fork and knife. At least three rap bands took up the cause with new songs.\n\nCompanies that dont respect us dont deserve our respect, Wang Zixin, team leader of CD Rev, a nationalist rap band, said by phone from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. Its new song had been viewed more than 850,000 times on Weibo.\n\nWe hope people will remember companies that have ever insulted China, and not forget about them when the fallout passes, Wang said.\n\nThat sense of pride reflects a nationalism that has been encouraged by the government, often in disputes China has with other countries over other foreign products.\n\nSales by Japanese automakers plunged in 2012 amid tensions between islands both countries claim in the East China Sea. The clash also illustrated the complexity of Chinese sentiment: Industry analysts said buyers didnt want to be seen in Japanese auto showrooms but went ahead with planned purchases once tensions had passed.\n\nMore recently, several foreign companies ran afoul of Beijings insistence that they explicitly refer to Taiwan, a self-governing territory, as part of China. Many complied, showing how important the Chinese market has become.\n\nDelta, American and other airlines agreed to refer to Taiwan as part of China, and Zara now says Taiwan, China on its website after regulators criticized the fashion brand for calling Taiwan a country. Marriott announced it respects and supports Chinas sovereignty after it was ordered to shut its China website for a week.\n\nActor Richard Gere, a supporter of the Dalai Lama, has told The Hollywood Reporter that movie studios balk at hiring him for fear of an official or public backlash that might affect ticket sales in China.\n\nIt remains unclear whether the D&G mea culpa video will stop the backlash  or if it will have implications for Made-in-Italy at large. The scandal erupted as Italys high-end furniture and design companies were making an annual presentation in Shanghai and as Miu Miu, the Prada Groups little sister line, showed its cruise line in Shanghai.\n\nItalian designers have so far refrained from comment.\n\nItalian commentators mused whether the Dolce&Gabbana protests were truly spontaneous or if there was some level of government control behind them. The government has publicly said the spat had no diplomatic element and would not comment.\n\nAnywhere in the world, an entrepreneur can make a mistake, use inappropriate language. Usually it is the consumers and the market to decide the seriousness of the offense, the Milan daily Corriere della Sera wrote in a commentary. Only in China is one forced to produce a humiliating video with public self-criticism, like in the time of Maos revolution. Now China feels powerful and is applying re-education on a global scale.\n\nBarry reported from Milan. AP journalists Joe McDonald and Dake Kang and researchers Henry Hou and Jiawei Chen contributed to this report.","title":"DolceGabbana fiasco shows importance risks of China market","date":"2018-11-26","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"A giant animated spider Ariane moves from the roof of the Hotel-Dieu in Toulouse, southern France, on Nov. 1, 2018, during the show \"Le Gardien du Temple\" performed by the theater performance company La Machine. (Photo by ERIC CABANIS \/ AFP)ERIC CABANIS\/AFP\/Getty Images","title":"PHOTOS A giant mechanical spider descends on France","date":"2018-11-02","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"A 19-year-old man has died after falling ill at a music festival in Co Meath.\n\nThe man had been attending the Boxed Off festival at Fairyhouse Racecourse, Ratoath, when he became ill.\n\nHe received medical attention at the scene and taken to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown where he was pronounced dead on Sunday morning.\n\nA Garda spokesman said a file would be prepared for the local coroner.\n\nThe festival organisers said the young man became unwell as people were leaving the festival site on Saturday night.\n\nThe onsite medical team including an emergency doctor and advanced paramedics treated the man on site. He was then transferred to James Connolly Hospital by one of the onsite ambulances. Despite the efforts of all medical teams the young man tragically passed away early this morning, the organisers said in a Facebook post.\n\nThey expressed their condolences to the mans family and friends.\n\nThe whole festival team is devastated by the news. We will continue to work closely with An Garda Siochana on this matter.\n\nBoxed Off bills itself as Irelands largest one-day electronic music festival and this is the fourth year it has taken place.","title":"Festival organisers devastated as man 19 dies after falling ill at event","date":"2018-09-30","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"Not sure if anyones mentioned it, but Strictly heads to Blackpool this weekend. While Kate Silverton declared she would be swimming in the sea upon arrival (if you believe that, youll believe anything), the dancers are more excited to let loose on the huge sprung dance floor of the Tower Ballroom.\n\nThe space tends to dwarf the couples so expect backing dancers, props and various examples of faffing around (we miss you, Len), which either adds to the spectacle or detracts from the actual dancing, depending on your point of view. And stand by for many, many mentions of Blackpool being the home of ballroom dancing, a veritable temple for dancers, the place where Kevin Clifton and AJ Pritchard won their titles etc. This episode is always ideal for drinking games.\n\nAway from the cliches, were at the stage in the competition where we can expect some sensational dancing. With a perfect 40 still up for grabs, theres real incentive for the couples to give it some welly.\n\nFaye Tozer and Giovanni Pernice promise a fierce paso doble, Ashley Roberts and Pasha Kovalev are bound to excel with an exuberant jive and the judges will surely coo over Stacey Dooleys salsa-based homage to Eurovision Queen Gina G.\n\nJoe Sugg, who is delighted to be taking his nan with him to Blackpool (she danced there in her twenties), will be simultaneously quickstepping and playing a walking piano, the kind shown in the film, Big. Could be fun!\n\nDance-off veterans Charles Venn and Graeme Swann will really need to impress if theyre going to avoid the bottom two this week. Its Graemes turn to take on a couples choice number, and hell be waving those the jazz hands for a theatrical routine, while Charles is bringing the party to Blackpool with a samba to La Bamba (Im so excited, Im rhyming...).\n\nAficionados will know that Blackpool always offers up a show-stopping group number too. Seriously, if you think Strictly proper is camp and glitzy, wait until you see this. Its even fronted by Gloria Estefan, singing a medley of her greatest hits. This, my friends, is what November Saturday nights were made for.","title":"Strictly Come Dancing has landed in Blackpool hereaposs what to expect for tonightaposs episod","date":"2018-11-17","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Tortillas are an important food for Mexicans and their neighbors, but maize lacks vital proteins. Looking for natural ways of fortifying the grain, researchers chose flour made from nontoxic Jatropha curcas (J. curcas) plants. The resulting fortified maize tortillas looked, felt, and tasted like ordinary ones while also packing more proteins.\n\nMaize is rich in calories, but it lacks lysine and trytophan. It also lacks micronutrients like iron, zinc, and various important vitamins.\n\nThe combination of poverty and burgeoning population forced many Mexicans to adopt less healthy diets that rely on tortillas. To fix this, maize dough was fortified with flours from more nutritious crops.\n\nJatropha curcas is a widespread plant that originated in Central America. Its seeds are rich in protein and oil that are used for biofuels. (Related: Adding ginger powder to wheat pasta found to boost nutrition.)\n\nThe production process leaves behind cake residues that retain more than half of its protein. The cake from the nontoxic ecotype is safe for use by humans and is easily digested.\n\nFurthermore, J. curcas meal contains all the essential amino acids except for lysine. Its amino acid levels are close to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)\/ World Health Organization (WHO) requirements.\n\nEarlier studies have looked at soybean and amaranth flours to fortify maize flour and improve the protein content and quality of tortillas. But there are no earlier studies about the use of J. curcas flour in fortified foods.\n\nThe researchers acquired the seeds of nontoxic Jatropha curcas plants, milled them into flour, and removed the oil through a defattening process. The maize flour was a commercial brand. The two flours were mixed with J. curcas flour constituting five percent, 10 percent, 15 percent, or 20 percent of the total amount. Pure maize flour was set aside as a control.\n\nSupport our mission and protect your health: Organic Seeds of Life combines Red Raspberry Seed Power, Black Cumin Seed Power and Red Grape Seed Powder into the most potent nutrient-rich supplemental superfood powder you've ever experienced. Loaded with flavonoids, antioxidants, anthocyanins, OPCs, ALA and a vast array of vital nutrients. Learn more here.\n\nThe research team measured the protein, ash, moisture, and fiber in all flours and tortillas. The team also analyzed the dough textures and the quality, characteristics, color, and taste of the tortillas.\n\nThey reported that maize flour contained more moisture than either J. curcas flours. The former also had far fewer proteins, especially when compared to defatted J. curcas flour.\n\nFortified tortillas have slightly more lipids than pure maize ones, looked smoother, and lasted longer. Defatted J. curcas meal contained high levels of ash rich in minerals like calcium, phosphorus, and iron.\n\nThe dough made from the different flour mixtures showed altered properties. Adding J. curcas flour made the dough softer, less sticky, and stretchier.\n\nThe higher protein levels may have increased moisture content. However, the levels are acceptable and in the same range as tortillas fortified with white beans in earlier studies.\n\nThe mixture with 20 percent J. curcas flour showed the best protein increase. It matched mixtures with four percent soybean or five-20 percent whole chia seeds. Increases in ash and minerals are comparable to 20 percent amaranth flour.\n\nFiber went down with defatted J. curcas. However, it still matched mixtures with four percent soybean flour. The researchers concluded that the best percentage for boosting the nutritional value of tortillas is 20 percent.\n\nTortillas made from flour with 15 percent J. curcas flour are softer, easier to roll, inflate less, and break more often. While amaranth and bean flour-fortified tortillas have darker colors, J. curcas flour tortillas are only slightly more yellow.\n\nPeople who inspected and tasted the tortillas could barely tell the difference between fortified ones and pure maize ones. They looked at the color and smell and didnt notice any change in taste.\n\nIn sum, fortifying maize flour with nontoxic Jatropha curcas flour made the tortillas much healthier while barely affecting the foods appearance or taste.","title":"Nutritionists find a way to boost the nutritional profile of maize tortillas naturally","date":"2018-06-12","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"I worked for the House of Commons for 12 years, and have contributed to the Cox Inquiry and the BBC Newsnight reports about harassment and bullying in Parliament.\n\nWhen the Cox Report described the House of Commons as having a culture, cascading from the top down, of deference, subservience, acquiescence and silence it sparked some outrage, but little surprise. That politicians have abused their privilege, as they did in the expenses scandal, and that senior public servants were powerless and\/or unwilling to do anything about it, has shocked no one. It was ever thus.\n\nFor those of us who have worked in Parliament and have witnessed, and been subject to, these abuses, the Cox Report has confirmed what we have always known and have been trying to vocalise for a long time.\n\nParliament does a good job of normalising all sorts of anachronistic rituals, and poor conduct and bad behaviour by politicians and senior public servants has become another.\n\nWe have long expected no better, and so it lurks in plain sight. Some commentators have almost prided themselves in their lack of surprise about the findings of this report  because who wants to appear naive  but those of us that experienced bullying and harassment in Parliament and worked in that culture of deference, subservience and silence, cynicism acts as little comfort.\n\nDuring my time in the House of Commons I reported two harassment cases: one against a manager and one against a Member of Parliament. Both complaints were upheld, but no sanctions were brought against either.\n\nI know dozens of former colleagues and friends who have been bullied, assaulted and abused during their time working for the House, all of whom submitted their stories to the Cox Inquiry but many are still too traumatised to talk about it publicly. Many of them, like me, left the House because they did not feel safe and they had no trust in, or support from, House management after reporting abuse or harassment.\n\nThere has been a haemorrhage of talent from Parliament because of this issue alone and some of the brightest, most capable people I worked with are no longer there because of the treatment they received. This is not only bad for public service, but it turns the patriarchy into a self-fulfilling prophesy in one of the most high profile organisations in the country.\n\nThe Cox Report should be a pivotal moment in Parliaments evolution into a modern workplace and those of us that contributed to the inquiry felt relieved and vindicated that we had finally been believed when we read the report and recommendations. But there is already talk that the report could get kicked into the long grass and the tribal warfare surrounding the Speaker, and Brexit, have meant that this issue that has affected so many lives and careers, is in danger of being drowned by politics again.\n\nMargaret Becket said that Brexit trumps bad behaviour, which begs the question  what else would trump bad behaviour? Is there a list of constitutional crises of varying severity that would be more important than victims of abuse?\n\nThe moral compass inside the House of Commons has been stuck pointing at its own navel for centuries. The notion that nobody quite understands the unique challenges of the political environment, and just how terribly important and stressful it all is, has consistently been used as an excuse for abuses of power and privilege and lack of transparency. But there are people who know about the challenges of the political environment  the staff of the House  who write the reports, who do the research, who martial proceedings, who cook the food and empty the bins. Some of them are even experts on Brexit. They know all about that environment, they work tirelessly and invisibly in public service and continue to provide a world class service, even to their abusers.\n\nLaura Cox wrote in her report: I find it difficult to envisage how the necessary changes can be successfully delivered, and the confidence of the staff restored, under the current senior House Administration and I have a similar lack of faith in the current top tier of the House of Commons. My experience of senior management in the House was that they were generally oblivious to pressures put on staff by Members, and were often unapproachable, and sometimes blatantly dismissive of concerns raised about bullying until they reached crisis point. The House of Commons Commission will have a large role in what happens next. The Commission is made up of some of these senior managers along with the Speaker who, when he was just a regular backbencher, once screamed at me and called me a little girl simply because he had been unable to find an envelope (which was exactly where I said it was, for the record).\n\nThese are not people who even know what the problem looks like, let alone capable of examining whether they are part of that problem. They are not trained in HR, they have limited experience of other workplaces where employees are not protected by parliamentary privilege and while their procedural knowledge may be exemplary, they are part of a self-serving culture that has normalised abusive behaviour and othered those that have dared to speak out.\n\nUnlike the expenses scandal, this story has relied on the personal testimonies of people who have been bullied, abused and harassed. It is not the same as finding a box of receipts and doing the sums. This is the story of people putting their careers on the line, of people dredging up painful, traumatic memories and people who have been repeatedly dismissed and disbelieved finally feeling that their truth is being heard.\n\nThe staff of the House are incredibly discreet and professional and have always run the risk of becoming victims of their own stoicism. If the House of Commons pulls the strings of self-regulation and buries their truth, it will once again be reducing them to the human collateral of a toxic tradition.\n\nLibby Bradshaw worked for 12 years in the House of Commons from 2000-2012. After being contacted by HuffPost, a spokesperson for the Speakers Office said: The Speaker has absolutely no recollection of this alleged incident.","title":"I Left Parliament Over Bullying MPs Must Not Bury The Truth","date":"2018-10-19","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  When the Obama administration used its authority under a Depression-era law to give struggling farmers some extra help, Congress got mad and passed another law to prevent that from happening again.\n\nEarlier this year, the legislators changed their minds and restored the U.S. Department of Agricultures ability to use the financing authority  just in time for President Donald Trump to dish out billions to farmers harmed by his trade agenda.\n\nIts a reflection of the Congress hopefully understanding and appreciating that restricting the Secretary of Agricultures capacity to deal with unforeseen circumstances is probably not the best policy, Tom Vilsack, who served as President Barack Obamas agriculture secretary, told HuffPost.\n\nAmerican farmers export a lot of crops, so they are particularly vulnerable to Trumps trade policies, which are supposedly designed to reduce the nations trade deficit with the rest of the world. To that end, Trump slapped tariffs on imported aluminum and steel earlier this year and has also targeted a range of Chinese imports. Just as predicted, other countries have responded with retaliatory levies on U.S. agricultural exports, which has sent commodity prices down the tubes.\n\nThe Trump administration announced in July that it would create a one-time aid package worth as much as $12 billion to tide farmers over while the trade wars drag on. This is a temporary measure to help farmers in the meantime whove been affected by the trade disruption, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.\n\nThe program will be ready in September, according to the USDA, and farmers will learn how to apply for the aid this month. The agency said it will use its authority under the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to pay farmers directly and to buy surplus crops. The Commodity Credit Corporation dates back to the 1930s, when the federal government first started buying up surplus crops in order to give farmers money and mitigate falling prices.\n\nVilsacks USDA had used its Commodity Credit Corporation authority in 2010 to help farmers hurt by heavy rains in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. The agency spent $348 million on commodity purchases and payments to farmers that year, according to the Congressional Research Service.\n\nFrom the beginning, I questioned whether USDA had the legal authority to do this, and I stand by that, Rep. Frank Lucas (Okla.), a top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee, said that September. Other Republicans assailed the payments as an effort to help vulnerable Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) win re-election. (She lost anyway.)\n\nIm not suggesting that USDA would take action in every instance where a commodity sector or group of producers is hurting, Perdue testified, but it would be helpful for the secretary to have authority to evaluate the needs of U.S. agriculture and use these tools when appropriate.\n\nNot only did they lift the constraint, but they are utilizing it at a time when its not about market dynamics, its not about weather, Vilsack said. Its about the impact of a policy the administration itself put in place that has detrimentally impacted farmers.\n\nDale Moore, a former USDA official and current executive with the American Farm Bureau Federation, pointed out that Congress didnt stop Vilsack from spending that extra $348 million in 2010. And he said it would be unfair to call the currently planned assistance a bailout because farmers havent done anything wrong.\n\nThe $12 billion will be doled out on top of the roughly $17 billion the U.S. already spends each year supporting agribusiness. The latter subsidies mostly take the form of help with crop insurance payments and compensation for price drops or crop losses.\n\nThe Trump administration should take steps to ensure that wealthy farmers dont take advantage of the new program, said Scott Faber, a policy expert with the Environmental Working Group, which advocates for stricter limits on existing farm subsidy programs. As part of the latest farm bill, which reauthorizes farm subsidies and nutrition assistance, he noted that Republicans are currently pushing for tighter eligibility standards for food stamp recipients.","title":"Congress Hated Obamas Aid To Farmers Seems OK With Trumps","date":"2018-08-17","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Imagine being able to go back in time to relive those experiences from your childhood which have had the greatest impact on your life. Imagine being able to witness yourself as a child, but from the perspective of yourself today, looking at traumatic events with the understanding and compassion of an adult.\n\nOn the cutting edge of human health and mental wellness is the exploration of the effects of childhood trauma on the long-term health of human beings. Dr. Robert Block, former President of the American Academy of pediatrics remarked, adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our nation today.\n\nAmerican pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris looks at how exposure to adversity and trauma during their developmental years leads to mental health diagnoses such as ADHD, anxiety and depression. She points out the negative effects of trauma on the developing brain and immune systems of children, as well as how traumatic events can develop into chronic stress, and even PTSD.\n\nHer viewpoint that behavioral and physical issues can be rooted in adverse childhood experiences (ACE) runs counter to the popular understanding of illness, which presumes strictly material causality and dismisses intangible psychological factors. A 1990s study on ACE, however, demonstrates significant corollaries between trauma and lifelong health, linking them to illnesses and high-risk and impulsive behaviors such as drug addiction.\n\nCounseling, psychotherapy, hypnotism and even prescription psychotropic medications may be used to help people resolve traumatic experiences, but some view this type of healing as an issue of spiritual health. Dr. Gabor Mate looks at severe drug addiction as the result of childhood trauma, treating some patients with the ceremonial use of Ayahuasca.\n\nApproaching trauma with the use of shamanic plant medicines can be quite effective, and the African plant medicine iboga is uniquely powerful in this regard. Ingestion of this sacred medicine is known to induce a powerful and visionary psychological experience which allow the participant to review and relive key moments of their past.\n\nIboga is a psychoactive plant medicine derived from the root bark of the Iboga tree, found in certain parts of Africa. It is administered ceremonially in rites of passage and healing ceremonies tended to by master shamen who have successfully negotiated the spiritual realms into which the medicine plunges its participants. It is known for its power to bring a person into direct contact with the realms of the deceased, and also for allowing a person to see deeply into their past in a way that permits open communication with themselves as they were in the past. The psychoactive journey typically lasts for up to 36 hours and dramatically detoxifies the physical body, as well as the psycho-spiritual body. [Source]\n\nRemarking on how iboga assists patients with sever PTSD, Gary Cook of Iboga Wellness in Costa Rica remarks:\n\nPeople that have gone through the iboga process to work on their PTSD describe the experience as comparable to 10 years of therapy compacted into a week. Iboga gives you a chance to go deep. It not only helps with detoxing the body, but the mind as well. As long as the person is open and willing to work on themselves, iboga is a powerful tool. Many people have said that it gave them a chance to relive a traumatic event from an observers point of view. During a retreat they were able to forgive and move on, experiencing closure for the first time. Also, it gave their body a chance to detox from anti-depressants that they have tried with no success. Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey. [Iboga Wellness]\n\nThe journey itself is an adventure through the timeless realms of consciousness and the cosmos, looking at the entire library of information about ones life, and making corrections and connections to rewrite the present by re-integrating the past and understanding the future.\n\nI commented on this experience in a 2014 article entitled, Opiates, Iboga and the Roots of Self-Destruction:\n\n...the shaman or healer will guide the patient in additional iboga journeys, opening up an introspective experience where a connection is made with an over-soul or cosmic consciousness that assists the mind in a deep examination of the self from an objective, omniscient and timeless perspective. In this, a process of self-revelation unfolds which unravels ones past, offering life-changing insights and liberation from accumulated self-judgments and harmful thought patterns. For 12-24 hours the patient lies still, with blindfolded eyes, in a bizarre dream-like state where the brain behaves as if in REM sleep, but, while the conscious mind remains awake, very alert and able to interact with and direct the content of the mental journey. As the experience deepens, the barrier between the conscious and sub-conscious mind seems to dissolve, and the information in the sub-conscious mind becomes available for review and rejection by the reflective self. In this, a lifetimes worth of learned mental processes, memories, emotional impressions, false judgments and psychological conditioning that combine to inform and instruct the self are presented to the patient in rapid fire fashion... a sort of high velocity behind-the-scenes tour of ones personality. A multi-dimensional impression of ones character emerges, and they are given an incredible opportunity to re-assess or reject misunderstood feelings, traumatic events, implanted suggestions, negative self-images, and habitual behaviors. ~Dylan Charles\n\nWhile the term adverse childhood experiences typically refers to severe physical or sexual abuse and\/or emotional neglect, often, seemingly less significant events can also cause a lifetime of problems.\n\nAs an example, I like to tell the story of a friend who was able to overcome 54 years of emotional turmoil in one night during a powerful iboga journey. Going into the ceremony, she set the intention of working to understand why she had always had night terrors and high anxiety over an event which happened when she was less than two years-old.\n\nFor her entire life, she was carrying around the terrorizing imprint of this shocking event, which had all this time remained incomplete in her mind, leaving her confused and resentful. All she could remember was being stuck in a crib, screaming for help, as her mother and aunt came and went in a frenzy, totally ignoring her.\n\nDuring her journey, she asked to relive this moment, and she did so, but from the perspective of herself as an adult, having a better understanding of human behavior and dramatic situations. Seeing herself in the crib in startling clarity, she was able to explore this event, and she discovered that this terrible memory was of the day her father had a heart attack.\n\nShe was able to see her father, collapsed in the hallway outside of her room, as her mother and aunt worked frantically with the medical crew to ensure his survival. Until this moment, she had never before understood why she felt so scared, confused and ignored,\n\nIboga gave her the ability to see what had really happened, and she was able to instantly forgive her family and herself of any enduring blame or guilt about the traumatic event. In the morning she was a brand new person, with a light and bright smile on her face. It was a life-changing and liberating realization for her.\n\nThe efficacy of shamanic and psychedelic plant medicines in treating the root causes of trauma, addiction, disease and behavioral disorders is being demonstrated by a growing body of research and experiential evidence. And as more and more personal accounts of such journeys are presented online, we inch closer to an integration of these medicines into the contemporary scientific worldview.\n\nThis article (How the Shamanic Medicine Iboga Can Resolve and Heal Childhood Trauma) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to DylanCharles and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.\n\nHow the Shamanic Medicine Iboga Can Resolve and Heal Childhood Trauma was last modified: by","title":"How the Shamanic Medicine Iboga Can Resolve and Heal Childhood Trauma","date":"2018-02-20","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"PHOENIX (AP)  The only two black members of the Arizona Legislature were formally chastised for speaking out against a Republican lawmakers published column, which included a racial slur and they say derided black activists while attempting to discredit leaders of a teacher group protesting for better pay.\n\nRep. Maria Syms wrote in a column published in the Arizona Republic that the two best-known leaders of the #RedforEd movement are political operatives who are radicalizing Arizona youth. She called Noah Karvelis classroom exotic and said he prides himself on teaching students music from the hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar. Syms included a lyric from the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist that included a derogatory term for African-Americans.\n\nDemocratic Rep. Reginald Bolding, who is black, said he was offended by the language she used.\n\nThis article attempts to discredit this teacher because he may have introduced lyrics in the classroom written by a black entertainer, Bolding said. This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he takes inspiration from a black civil rights activist. This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he admires a professor that taught at a historically black college for women.\n\nThe more I read the more I was disappointed that it appears to be OK to use a racial slur about black people in the article, Bolding continued. Let me be crystal clear: Its not acceptable to us a racial slur even if that slur is used as a quote.\n\nMajority Republicans voted to formally rebuke Bolding as well as the only other black member of the Legislature, Democratic Rep. Geraldine Peten, when she began speaking on the same subject.\n\nThe fight was at least the third this year where Democrats were shut down over what Republicans called violations of House rules of decorum and debate.\n\nSpeaker J.D. Mesnard was incensed over what he saw as violations.\n\nI dont know why its so hard to follow the rules, Mesnard said. It doesnt matter whether you are white or black or brown on whatever the color the color of your skin is, you follow the House rules.\n\nSyms defended the article and thanked fellow Republicans who came to her defense.\n\nI think the one thing that we can agree on is that these terms are terribly offensive, Syms said. If anyone would read the article they would know that those words were used in the article to expose the offensive nature of language used by the leader of #RedforEd in the classroom. Every person in the state of Arizona should be offended by these racially offensive words that are being used in our classrooms right now.\n\nKarvelis said it was ridiculous that his hip-hop lesson plans were being brought up and that he never used the racial slur in class.\n\nTens of thousands of Arizona teachers who have organized under the grass-roots Arizona Educators United group that Karvelis helped organize are set to strike starting Thursday. Theyre seeking a 20 percent teacher pay raise, competitive pay for support staff, annual salary increases, school funding boosts to 2008 levels and no new tax cuts until per-pupil funding reaches the national average.\n\nGov. Doug Ducey is offering a 20 percent pay raise but has mainly ignored the other demands. Republican leaders of the Arizona House and Senate say they wont bend to teacher demands for more than raises.","title":"AZ Black Legislators Chastised For Chiding GOPer Column With Racial Slur","date":"2018-04-26","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Have you ever sent a message on Facebook prematurely? Or littered with typos? We've all been there, desperately trying to recall a message as soon as we see the blue bubble filled with text appear.\n\nFacebook has answered your calls and is introducing a new feature to its Messenger app, which will give you a 10-minute window to delete a message.\n\nThis comes after Facebook-owned messaging company WhatsApp recently gave users the chance to delete messages within seven minutes of being sent.\n\nTwitter user Matt Navara spotted the new addition to the app and pointed out that it is 'coming soon' to users with the 191.0 version of Messenger on iOS devices.\n\nThe caption on Messenger in the Apple Store says: \"Coming Soon: Remove a message from a chat thread after its been sent. If you accidentally send the wrong photo, incorrect information or message the wrong thread, you can easily correct it by removing the message within ten minutes of sending it.\"\n\nThis will be a welcome relief for Facebook users across the world who have immediately regretted sending a message with no way of retrieving it.\n\nWhile there is not yet a release date for the new feature, we can only hope it's before the festive season gets into full swing: too many tipples can lead to risky messages.","title":"You can now aposunsendapos messages on Facebook Messenger","date":"2018-11-08","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Todays mail-bomb terror threat has all the characteristics of either a false flag or ANTIFA inspired attack.\n\nMatt Bracken joins Alex to discuss the lefts agenda to use the bomb scare to smear conservatives who support President Trump.","title":"Hoax Bombs Antifa False Flag","date":"2018-10-24","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"More than 24,000 people have died on the States roads since records began  about 5,000 more than the population of Sligo.\n\nAccording to the Road Safety Authority some 24,255 people have died since the recording of fatalities began in 1959.\n\nAccording to provisional Garda figures covering January 1st this year up until Saturday night, 130 people were killed on the States roads. The figure is about two less than were killed in the similar period last year.\n\nHowever the Road Safety Authority which marks World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on Sunday, has consistently said all road deaths are avoidable.\n\nThat view was reiterated by Minister for Transport Shane Ross who, addressing Remembrance Day, said too many people were left asking, what if?\n\nIf only the driver of the other car had not had that second pint. What if the other car had kept to the speed limit. If only she had worn her hi-vis jacket. What if he had put his seat belt on? were just some of the recriminations in which people engaged, said Mr Ross.\n\nFar too many people are asking these questions, not just today, but every day as they struggle to cope with the tragedy that took their loved one from them he said.\n\nThe Department of Transport is working on graduated penalties for speeding which the minister has previously said he hopes to bring in to reflect the Governments determination to reduce the numbers killed on the roads.\n\nMr Ross is also concerned that some 50,000 drivers were caught using their mobile phones while driving. How many think they have gotten away with it, until they cause a collision? he asked.\n\nMr Ross said unbelievably there were people still out there  and in our parliament  who think its worth taking a risk and driving while over the [drink-driving] limit.\n\nWhatever about risking their own lives  and surely they have families and friends who would mourn them deeply  they are also risking the lives of others.\n\nThat is, quite frankly, unforgiveable, he said.\n\nToday, please spare a moment to think of them and the loved ones they have lost. And then remember that it didnt have to be like this. Road fatalities are preventable. Totally preventable. Which makes them all the more tragic, he said.","title":"Drink-driving frankly unforgiveable says Minister for Transport","date":"2018-11-18","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"President Donald Trump continues to push the same old racism that he utilized in his initial rise to national prominence during the 2016 U.S. presidential election season. His team produced a new ad recently explicitly equating angry cop killers with immigrants to the United States, and CNN refused to run it. When Donald Trump Jr. accused them of hiding the truth, they responded  no, the ad is just racist.\n\nThe ad in question features footage of Luis Bracamontes during a trial in 2014, when he threatened to kill more police officers soon after having already murdered two others. Text overlaying footage of the murderer reads:\n\nIn fact, the reality of the situation is more complicated than that. Bracamontes was deported during the tenure of President Bill Clinton  who was a Democrat  before re-entering the United States and being deported again in 2001. The Washington Post reports that he seems to have last entered the U.S. under the tenure of President George W. Bush  who was very much a Republican, despite Trumps attempt to cast opening the doors to criminals as part of the Democratic platform.\n\nStill, no matter the lies, the Trumps are keeping at it. To the president, the Democrats want open borders so that criminals and terrorists embedded with caravans of asylum-seekers can sneak into the United States. In fact, Democrats just aim for more humane immigration policies that exclude measures like the unnecessary separation of immigrant parents for their children. Concurrently, there remains no evidence that there are any Middle Eastern terrorists aiming to sneak into the U.S. via high profile caravans in Central America, and the vast majority of those involved are just asylum-seekers including plenty of women and children.\n\nNevertheless, Trump Jr. complained of CNNs refusal to get on board with their nonsense:\n\nThe Trumps antagonistic relationship with CNN  and the facts  goes way back. President Trump has long singled the network out as among the worst purveyors of fake news despite a glaring lack of actually faked stories.\n\nMeanwhile, the president has been documented to have lied thousands and thousands of times upon taking office. Ahead of the midterms  which conclude in just a few days  Trump has dug into his positions of racism, lies, and beyond, pushing narratives including that of an impending migrant invasion and economic collapse if voters dare support Democrats. Trump Jr. has helped him push this narrative on voters, appearing at rallies across the U.S.\n\nThey dont seem to care. Across the United States, Democrats are expected to come in far ahead of Republicans in the overall U.S. House vote, picking up dozens and dozens of seats  and who knows what else.","title":"CNN Brazenly Tweets Direct Saturday Response To Trump Jr Its Fantastic","date":"2018-11-03","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"During Brett Kavanaughs testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday, he complained that if things rocked on, more accusations would come out about him and that his already ruined life would be ruined even more.\n\nPoor Brett. It seems he was correct, and its not looking good for the good ole boy who just loves his beer.\n\nIn a letter sent to Senator Kamala Harris office, a horrific allegation was laid out for the senators.\n\nIn an interview between Kavanaugh and staff members for Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Diane Feinstein, it was revealed that Senator Harris received an anonymous letter that detailed an event in which Kavanaugh, yet again, allegedly sexually assaulted a young woman.\n\nThe anonymous woman claimed Kavanaugh picked her up to give her a ride home; however, that was in no way his intention. He forcibly kissed her, groped her, and raped her several times. He was also with a friend.\n\nThe details below are graphic.\n\nKavanaugh kissed me forcefully. I told him I only wanted a ride home. Kavanaugh continued to grope me over my clothes, forcing his kisses on me and putting his hand under my sweater. No, I yelled at him. The boy in the backseat reached around, putting his hand over my mouth and holding my arm to keep me in the car. I screamed into his hand. Kavanaugh continued his forcing himself on me. He pulled up my sweater and bra exposing my breasts, and reached into my panties, inserting his fingers into my vagina. My screams were silenced by the boy in the backseat covering my mouth and groping me as well. Kavanaugh slapped me and told me to be quiet and forced me to perform oral sex on him. He climaxed in my mouth. They forced me to go into the backseat and took turns raping me several times each. They dropped me off two blocks from my home. No one will believe if you tell. Be a good girl, he told me.\n\nSo far, six allegations have been made against Kavanaugh.\n\nYou can read the entire transcript here.","title":"Brett Kavanaugh Hit With ANOTHER Accusation This Time A Brutal Rape","date":"2018-10-02","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Two out of five people said they had avoided visiting their doctor because they could not afford the appointment fee, a new survey has found.\n\nSome 42 per cent of 1,000 adults surveyed said they had avoided going to the GP as they were too busy. The research was carried out on behalf of the Irish Cancer Society, to mark Cancer Week Ireland.\n\nJust under a third of respondents (31 per cent) said they were worried that their concerns would waste the doctors time, and 29 per cent of people said they had avoided attending their GP as they were worried about what they might find.\n\nSome 35 per cent of people said they had put off visiting their GP as they had too many other issues to worry about.\n\nGrowing waiting lists for appointments featured in peoples decision to avoid booking a doctors visit, with 28 per cent of people saying they felt they would have to wait too long for an appointment.\n\nSome 27 per cent of people said they were too embarrassed to ask their GP about a symptom they had, and one in five said they felt it would be too difficult to talk to their doctor about a symptom or issue they were having.\n\nThe poll was carried out by Coyne Research over two days in July.\n\nThe Irish Cancer Society said the survey shows people may be missing early cancer diagnosis by putting off a visit to the GP, for various reasons.\n\nAveril Power, chief executive of the society, said it was disappointing to see the range of barriers putting people off visiting their doctor. When it comes to cancer, early diagnosis can be the difference between life and death, she said.\n\nNo one should ever feel ashamed or embarrassed when it comes to talking about their health. Nor should cost be a factor in accessing professional medical advice, Ms Power said.\n\nThe research comes at the start of Cancer Week, run by the Irish Cancer Society and Trinity College Dublin, to promote public conversations around the disease.\n\nIn 2016, 1.68 million people had a medical card, and 470,000 people had a GP-visit card, both allow people to visit their doctor free of charge.","title":"Two out of five people unable to afford doctors visit","date":"2018-08-13","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) It seems that Amazons latest tactic for spreading their left-wing disinformation and propaganda is through email. With an undoubtedly massive list of subscribers, the companys reach is practically unmatched. New reports say the latest fake news articles by The Washington Post are being emailed en masse by Amazon  the liberal publications parent organization. If youve got an Amazon account, it may be time to check your subscription settings, if you dont want to be bombarded with propaganda.\n\nAs The Gateway Pundit reports, Amazon sent an email to an untold number of customers denigrating FOX News, Sean Hannity and the majority of Americans that support the current President of the United States. In an effort to promote fake news, Amazon shared a story by The Washington Post which accused Fox News of ignoring the latest news about Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen. As the Pundit notes, these accusations are patently false.\n\nAnother WaPo story promoted by Amazons emails alleged that President Trump worked with his lawyer, Cohen, to silence two women.  Both stories were selected to serve the left-wing narrative that President Trump is a criminal that needs to be impeached. Indeed, the political agenda here is clear. This is not the first time that Amazon has been accused of using technology, in one form or another, to push their political leanings on the masses either.\n\nThe use of email to spread propaganda and fake news is just one of the many tactics being employed by left-wing corporations to smear conservatives and quash dissenting opinions. Amazon, like other tech companies, has been using a third-party organization to silence conservatives. Specifically, the online retailer relies on the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to police the Amazon Smile charitable program. By using a biased third party, Amazon is able to claim that their company isnt biased  though its not a very convincing argument.\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson told The Daily Caller News Foundation, We remove organizations that the SPLC deems as ineligible. The spokesperson further commented that Amazon uses the SPLC because we dont want to be biased whatsoever, but as Daily Caller reports, the Amazon mouthpiece was unable to confirm if Amazon considers SPLC to be an unbiased organization.\n\nSPLC is a participant in the Smile program  yet they alone decide what other groups are allowed to participate. Only liberals would find a way to turn charity into dictatorship.\n\nTo make matters worse, Amazons beloved personal assistant, Alexa, has been accused of espousing liberal bias as well as spying on users. Recall last years viral video of Steven Crowder doing a question and answer session with Alexa: The device declared that Jesus Christ was fictional while praising the Prophet Muhammad, and also said there were more than two genders.\n\nSo the left-wing is using technology to silence dissenting opinions, spy on everyday people and push their political agenda. You know what they say, if it looks like a fascist and quacks like a fascist, it probably is a fascist. But the left-wing has already re-defined fascism to suit their agenda, too.\n\nSee more coverage of the left-wings latest atrocities and read more stories on Jeff Bezos at JeffBezosWatch.com.","title":"Amazoncom now emailing its customers left-wing propaganda that bashes Fox News and claims Trump is","date":"2018-09-03","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Thousands of dead fish have been left scattered across roads in North Carolina as flood waters recede following Hurricane Florence.\n\nFire crews have been sent to clear fish off highways with a hose after storm surges brought them far inland last week.\n\nPenderlea Fire Department posted pictures of the unusual scene on one interstate road, writing: Well, we can add washing fish off of the interstate to the long list of interesting things firefighters get to experience.\n\nIt added: Hurricane Florence caused massive flooding in our area and allowed the fish to travel far from their natural habitat, stranding them on the interstate when waters receded.\n\nSome commenters questioned whether leaving piles of rotting fish by the roadside would create a horrendous odour.\n\nBut the fire department responded: The smell is what it is; this was done for the safety of motorists since some of the fish were actually quite large and could be dangerous if hit, or if swerved around.\n\nBe sure to keep your windows closed and air on circulate, we will be!\n\nHurricane Florence has claimed the lives of at least 43 people since slamming into the Carolina last week.\n\nEmergency management officials said residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed will begin moving into hotel rooms Monday.\n\n\"Hurricane Florence has deeply wounded our state, wounds that will not fade soon as the flood waters finally recede,\" Governor Roy Cooper said Saturday.\n\nIn South Carolina, more evacuations were ordered over the weekend as rivers continue to rise in the aftermath of a storm that has claimed at least 43 lives since slamming into the coast.\n\nSouth Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has estimated damage from the flood in his state at $1.2 billion.","title":"Dead fish litter North Carolina roads after flood waters from Hurricane Florence recede","date":"2018-09-23","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"It seems that disgraced Guardians of the Galaxy writer and director James Gunn doesnt just like to joke about pedophilia  he also attends pedophilia themed parties.\n\nFeatured on his website were photos of himself attending a To Catch a Predator themed party  based on the show which busted pedophiles who targeted children online.\n\nThe images feature the former Disney director dressed up as a priest surrounded by women dressed like young children.\n\nGunn was fired by Disney after many disturbing jokes about pedophilia were uncovered on his Twitter account. The company is now reportedly in negotiations with him, and may give him his job back, after actors from the GOTG franchise spoke out in his defense.\n\nThe offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studios values, and we have severed our business relationship with him, Alan Horn, chairman of  Walt Disney Studios, said in a statement at the time the tweets were uncovered.\n\nAccording to reports that came out hours before these new photos surfaced, Marvel is also lobbying Disney to take Gunn back.\n\nTweets included jokes such as Eagle Snatches Kid is what I call it when I get lucky and other obscene comments about children.","title":"Hollywood Director James Gunn Publicly Posted Photos of Himself at a Pedophilia-Themed To Catch a P","date":"2018-08-11","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"It was only a matter of time before Kellyanne Conways fallback media tactics became transparent to even the most casual of observers, but she got caught relying on them during an interview with Jon Karl on ABCs This Week and made Trump look even worse than he already has for the past year.\n\nWhen Karl asked Conway a simple question that she was utterly unable to spin into an acceptable answer, she resorted to her well-known and highly recognizable method of conflating the point, playing the victim, and constructing a non-answer. The answer to this particular question, however, has no possible spin.\n\nSince the question has only one possible answer  there is none  Conway flubbed through a few possible non-committal spins. Her first fallback was how unfair the media covers Trumps administration.\n\nKarl pressed on, clarifying that he was asking which West Wing staff the president works with every day who can represent the needs of the black community. Conway had no answer, so she deflected with more the media is unfair attempts by talking about how not enough coverage was given to Mike Pences receipt of the remains of American soldiers from North Korea and how low the black unemployment rate is, although Karl had literally discussed the low black unemployment rate just moments before her interview.\n\nShe did eventually dredge up the name of one black staffer, JaRon Smith. He has no office in the West Wing and is not an adviser to the president.\n\nOnce upon a time, the GOP styled itself the new Tea Party, fighting for no taxation without representation, although they somehow turned that into some argument against billionaires paying taxes at all. Now, however, 13 percent of the population, who happens to also be the most vulnerable population in the country, has no representation in the White House.\n\nMeanwhile, the presidents most recognizable adviser cannot even answer questions as to why that might be.","title":"Kellyanne Conway Goes On Sunday TV Regrets Doing So In 7 Crazy Seconds VIDEO","date":"2018-08-12","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Cabbage of any kind has always been one of my favourite things to eat, and thats because A: it cooks quickly, B: Indian food can be so experimental with spices  by adding just a little something it can completely change the taste of the dish!\n\nI really love to ferment cabbage and enjoy it with various dishes. But here, cabbage isnt that popular, and especially not with children. One reason why kids dont enjoy or are not keen on eating cabbage in this country is that it can be very bland: after boiling alone the cabbage is just tasteless!\n\nYou dont have to add spices to make it taste better, you can add garlic, ginger or onions along with peas or beans, and saute, creating a whole new dish that will help people see it in a different light. I think cabbage is one vegetable that is really underrated!\n\nHeat the oil in a pan on medium and once its hot, add the nigella and fennel seeds. Then add the curry leaves, but make sure not to burn the leaves by lowering the heat a little.\n\nOnce the pan starts sizzling add the grated ginger and cook for 2 minutes.\n\nAdd the green chillies along with the chopped cabbage and cook for 4-5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the salt and turmeric and cook for further 2-3 minutes.\n\nOnce cooked serve hot with a chapatti or wrap.\n\nRomy Gills restaurant is in Thornbury (Romyskitchen.co.uk). Follow her on instagram @romygill","title":"How to make Romy Gillaposs cabbage with fennel and nigella seeds","date":"2018-10-03","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The mask is off and the true radical face of the Democrats has been exposed. They are seemingly more concerned with protecting their radical open-borders agenda than the lives of innocent Americans.","title":"Dem Reaction to Tibbetts Death Heartless Despicable","date":"2018-09-04","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"In the wake of this years Black History Month, there is no doubt that weve come a long way since the days when 60 per cent of employed black women worked as domestic servants, or since 44 per cent of white people said they would relocate if a black family moved in next-door. In the not so distant past, we have witnessed movements from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr, the passing of the great Civil Rights Act of 1964 and most recently, the inauguration of the first black President of the United States.\n\nThere is a common belief that the struggle against racism has been from the ground upwards; that it has always existed and that with every bold step forward, ethnic minority people have achieved a greater social standing than they ever had before. History, however, tells us otherwise.\n\nRacial prejudice as we know it today simply didnt exist, for example, during the Egyptian, Greek and Roman empires. It was noted that people came in a variety of hues, but only as an indication of where they may have come from.\n\nDoes responsibility lie with the millennial generation to move forward? Not necessarily. Another recurring belief is that to change societal perceptions, we must start with those in their 20s and 30s. These people are thought to have enough knowledge of the world to understand the issues at stake, but their opinions can still be influenced and moulded. The sad truth is that the attitudes of this generation are already too far ingrained and that when we reach a certain age, we actually shift the responsibility onto the next, and expect them to lead the charge.\n\nIn reality, biases start to take hold during childhood, so unless we are encouraged and led to reject them at a very early age, we wont move forward at pace. We wont build a society in which peoples experiences and the wider perception of racism is different to that of today.\n\nIts encouraging to see some brands making concerted efforts to address this issue. In 1980, an official African American Barbie doll was created, alongside a Latina Barbie. These were the first of a collection that, to date, includes more than 40 different international Barbies. Fast-forward nearly 40 years, and this trend is still continuing. Thomas the Tank Engine, for example, has just recently introduced a roster of multi-cultural characters, such as Ashima from India and Yong Bao from China.\n\nThis trend can be seen in adult entertainment too. Dont forget that 50 or so years ago, it was rare to see ethnic minority characters on TV, and when you did, they were often blacked up white performers. Take the programme, Curry and Chips, for example. Black singer and actor, Kenny Lynch, was a regular on the show, but the lead role of a Pakistani immigrant was played by Spike Milligan; a white man. Whilst this would be unthinkable today, at the time the show was incredibly popular, even with minorities, who actually related to the stories and events depicted.\n\nAside from pandering to stereotypes though, historically, very few minorities have featured in adult entertainment. Again, that has changed dramatically. The most recent series of Doctor Who, for example, though experiencing criticism from some viewers for being too politically correct features its first female lead, as well as a black actor and Asian actress as the titular characters companions.\n\nDespite some backlash though, the progress that has been made over the last 50 years shouldnt be underestimated. We need to ensure that this trend continues until diversity is seen in all forms of entertainment, both for adults and children, as well as in educational and business material.\n\nThe more we highlight the issue and encourage discussion, the more attention well draw to the fact that racism still exists. Currently, debates on race are fractious, challenging and confrontational. This is why most of us choose to avoid the topic altogether, looking the other way until a case arises that we simply cant ignore. Even then, we may have no better response than to wring our hands and wait for other news to push whatever has made us uncomfortable out of the headlines.\n\nWe may have come a long way, but there is still a lot to be done. First and foremost, we need to recognise and deal directly with the new strain of subtle racism that exists today. Racism is not a thing of the past  yet. But we can make it so.","title":"We Need To Recognise That Racism Still Exists We May Have Come A Long Way But There Is Still A Lot","date":"2018-11-02","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Its not the most pleasant topic, but at some point, youve probably thought about what youd like to happen to your remains when you pass away. You might want to be buried underground in a cemetery plot, or perhaps youd rather be cremated. One thing you probably havent considered is having your remains liquefied and then dumped into the sewers of your city, but thats exactly what is happening to some deceased Canadians.\n\nHiltons Aquagreen Dispositions uses a process called alkaline hydrolysis to dissolve dead bodies. According to their website, pressure, heat, alkali and water are used together to hydrolyze a persons body, with only fragments of bone remaining and any medical devices the person had implanted. Family members can recover things like pacemakers and titanium implants and have them recycled, while the bone fragments are then pressed into a white powder and given to the dead persons loved ones to be kept somewhere or scattered.\n\nYou might be thinking that nothing seems too untoward there, but the company found itself in hot water after it was discovered that they were draining the liquid byproduct of the process into the sewage system of the town.\n\nIn fact, the Bereavement Authority of Ontario suspended the companys license earlier this year. It was also noted that they did not always have a funeral director on hand during the cremations, which is a requirement to ensure the deceased person is given proper and dignified handling.\n\nWhile its billed as an eco-friendly solution, its really the opposite if it means the heavy metals like mercury that survive the liquefication process are ending up in city sewage. And guess where that city sewage ends up? Many cities have been turning their sewage it into biosolids that are then dumped onto food crops.\n\nThe use of biosolids, or biosludge, is an upsetting practice under normal circumstances as it spreads pharmaceutical chemicals, industrial pollutants, and heavy metals onto crops, but its even more disconcerting to think that the food we eat could have been fed the remains of other people. Perhaps its not technically cannibalism, but its close enough to make many people feel very uneasy.\n\nWithout that final step of putting peoples remains in the food crops we eat, this might indeed be the eco-friendly solution it claims to be. Current methods are not perfect, with the concept of flame-based cremation requiring the same amount of gas and electricity that a single person uses throughout an entire month, according to the Guardian. It emits greenhouse gases and is also responsible for a significant portion of mercury pollution  16 percent in the UK  because of dental fillings.\n\nBurial isnt much better, with coffins using up wood and often sealed using formaldehyde resin. Formaldehyde is also used in embalming bodies. On top of that, underground casket burials can take up a lot of land, which is already at a premium throughout much of the world.\n\nThe bottom line is that if youre seeking a green solution for your remains, you might want to make sure it is truly as environmentally friendly as it seems before you make such a serious decision.","title":"Eco-friendly company comes up with ingenious way to dispose of the entire population using city se","date":"2018-02-13","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Kim Kardashian has hit out at the mummy shamers after she turned her daughter into the contour queen.\n\nKardashian, 37, shared a video of five-year-old North experimenting with products from her latest makeup range.\n\nThe famous tot, whose father is Kanye West, was pouting with pink lips and glowing from her mothers highlighter.\n\nAnother Instagram clip sees her standing in front of a mirror with a thick strip of makeup on her nose and blue eye shadow as she attempts to apply lipstick with a brush.\n\nShe captioned the clip with a crown emoji and the words: Contour queen.\n\nAware that fellow parents could take aim at her decision to let North paint her face, Kardashian quickly explained that she let her loose with her makeup in a bid to bribe her daughter to leave the house.\n\nNorth wearing shade #6 in the new Classic Blossom Collection, she wrote. Relax mum shamers its coming off in a few mins.\n\nI needed a bribe to get out of the door... you feel me?!?!?!\n\nIt is not the first time North has sampled her mothers makeup. In June she left Kardashian laughing as she attempted to apply eye shadow from her Mario palette.\n\nIn a video shared to Instagram Kardashian tells her: North, what are you doing with my Mario palette? Stop it. Thats not how you put on eye shadow.\n\nKardashian, who also has son Saint, two, and seven-month-old daughter Chicago, recently came under fire from fans who accused her of damaging Norths curls by straightening her hair.\n\nKardashian previously opened up about her daughters love of curly hair and how she encourages her to appreciate it.\n\nSpeaking to Interview magazine she said: Shes obsessed with her curly hair, and if she finds someone who has the same hair, she runs to them and is like, You have curly hair like me? And we get to talk about it.","title":"Kim Kardashian lets daughter North transform into aposcontour queenapos as she slams aposmummy","date":"2018-09-14","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"In what was almost certainly the final act of his UFC career, Zubaira Tukhugov climbed into the Octagon and attacked Conor McGregor during the chaos that followed McGregors loss Saturday to Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229. An apparently unrepentant Tukhugov took to social media Sunday to say that in striking the Irishman, he had followed through on a promise.\n\nTukhugov was among three members of Nurmagomedovs entourage arrested in the wake of the post-fight melee that marred the UFC lightweight champions victory in the much-hyped event. The men were reportedly released after McGregor declined to press charges, but its likely just a matter of time before Tukhugov is formally dismissed from the company.\n\nIf so, it may well have been worth it to Tukhugov to judge from his remarks Sunday, video of which was posted and translated in part by Karim Zidan of the MMA blog Bloody Elbow.\n\nI slapped him as promised, Tukhugov said of McGregor to a camera. I promised to make him answer for his words, and I did.\n\nNurmagomedov made brief comments at a post-fight news conference in which he apologized for sparking the fracas by leaping out of the cage to violently confront a training partner of McGregors who was yapping at him during his four-round triumph. However, the undefeated Russian was also quick to ask reporters why the focus was on his actions rather than what he saw as unacceptable remarks by his opponent leading up to the event.\n\nHe talk about my religion. He talk about my country. He talk about my father, Nurmagomedov said of McGregor, adding, This is a respect sport, this is not a trash-talking sport. ... You cannot talk about religion, you cannot talk about a nation, you cannot talk about this stuff. For me, this is very important.\n\nNurmagomedov was referring to his father being called a quivering coward in a social media post by McGregor about a month before the fight, as well as verbal jabs that included Dagestani rat. McGregor also tauntingly offered whiskey to Nurmagomedov, a practicing Muslim, and called his Egypt-born manager, Ali Abdelaziz, a terrorist.\n\nNurmagomedov also brought up McGregors April attack on a bus carrying UFC fighters and staffers, an attempt to confront his nemesis over a previous confrontation between Nurmagomedov and Artem Lobov, a UFC fighter who is close with the Irishman. McGregor ended up pleading guilty to a misdemeanor in July, a punishment Nurmagomedov made clear he found insufficient.\n\nImmediately after the melee, UFC president Dana White vowed that whoever jumped into the Octagon to attack McGregor will never fight here in his company. A disgusted White included Nurmagomedov in claiming, These guys are in big trouble. It is going to be ugly.\n\nNurmagomedovs $2 million purse has been withheld by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, pending an investigation into the fracas. He could receive a lengthy suspension that White indicated could cost Nurmagomedov his belt.\n\nTukhugov, also a Russian and devout Sunni Muslim, was scheduled to fight Lobov at UFC Fight Night 138 later this month, but he presumably wont be in the company at that point let alone on the card. Shortly before UFC 229, Tukhugov said that after squaring off with Lobov, he looked forward to taking on McGregor himself  outside of the Octagon.\n\nHe explained that he was deeply offended by McGregors comments in an Instagram post last month that if Tukhugov were a true Chechen, he would never assist in a Dagestani led attack on another Chechen, referring to Nurmagomedovs confrontation with Lobov.\n\nIn comments earlier this month to MMA Fighting, Tukhugov said in halting English, McGregor wants Chechen and Dagestani upset with each other  never do this, never, because were brother republics. Tukhugov added that instead of lobbing shots via Instagram, If youre a man, you tell him [to his] face, and said his preference was to have no cage for his planned showdown with McGregor.","title":"UFC 229 brawl MMA fighter who hit Conor McGregor in melee crows about fulfilling a promise","date":"2018-10-08","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"# Get alerted on heavy metals and pesticide test results for foods and\nsupplements\n\n![](Images\/Health-Ranger-Suit-75x75.jpg)Natural News is about to begin\nreleasing lab test results for off-the-shelf food, supplement and pet food\nproducts, covering heavy metals, nutritive minerals, pesticides and\nherbicides. These details will be released exclusively to Natural News email\nnewsletter subscribers (FREE) and will NOT be publicly posted on the website.\nTo be alerted, join our free email newsletter now, and watch for lab test\nresults in the weeks ahead.\n\nEnter your email address below to subscribe to our email announcement list\n(but don't use gmail). Your privacy is protected and you can unsubscribe at\nany time. If you don't join our email list, you may never see our valuable\ncontent again via Facebook, Google or YouTube. CENSORSHIP has now reached\nEXTREME levels across the 'net. The truth is being suffocated. Subscribe now\nif you want to escape the delusional bubble of false reality being pushed by\nGoogle and Facebook.","title":"Scientists find this traditional Mexican remedy to be effective against hepatitis","date":"2018-11-04","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Having been in office for over a year at this point, U.S. President Donald Trump has had plenty of opportunities to share a whole host of excuses for the Russia scandal. Often, its fake news; sometimes, the Russians didnt meddle in the election at all  and sometimes, Barack Obama should have done more to stop it.\n\nThats the excuse that Trump shared on Twitter this Saturday while overseas, where he will soon meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.\n\nIts not as though many people expect to find evidence that Obama covered up Russian election meddling in support of Hillary Clintons presidential candidacy.\n\nNo amount of rhetorical maneuvering from the current president will change reality. Obama, on a basic level, did do something about it, having imposed sanctions on Russian interests and expelled Russian officials from the United States after the election. Its Trumps own first national security Michael Flynn who undercut those very sanctions in talks with then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak, admonishing the Russians against taking the sanctions too personally considering the friendliness towards Russia of the then-incoming Trump administration.\n\nThose communications were not immediately known. In the meantime, Obamas administration continued to work to address Russian election meddling. It was on January 6 of last year, in the last few weeks of the Obama administration, that the nations intelligence agencies  headed by individuals hed put there  released a comprehensive report to the public outlining their understanding of Russian meddling activities during the 2016 election cycle.\n\nThen, Donald Trump took office. He has refused to take major steps to accept the responsibility of addressing Russian election interference. Reporter Jim Sciutto noted in response to another similar tweet from the current president that the nations current intelligence chiefs told the Senate as recently as mid-February of this year that Trump had given them no direction to counter Russian election meddling.\n\nIn the absence of presidential leadership, the task of addressing Russian election meddling has fallen to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who the president routinely tries to undercut.\n\nAs recently as this past Wednesday, Trump posed the fallacy riddled question on Twitter:\n\nThere remains no evidence that any of Peter Strzoks personal feelings about the repugnant behavior of Donald Trump ever affected the course of an investigation.\n\nThis past Friday, the rigged witch hunt led by Special Counsel Mueller produced indictments of twelve Russian intelligence officers for election meddling related crimes. Those indictments provide the context for the presidents latest ranting about the investigation.\n\nWhether he likes the idea or not, that investigation will continue.","title":"Trump Just Blamed Obama For Muellers Latest Russia Indictments Like A Giant Wank","date":"2018-07-14","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"# Get alerted on heavy metals and pesticide test results for foods and\nsupplements\n\n![](Images\/Health-Ranger-Suit-75x75.jpg)Natural News is about to begin\nreleasing lab test results for off-the-shelf food, supplement and pet food\nproducts, covering heavy metals, nutritive minerals, pesticides and\nherbicides. These details will be released exclusively to Natural News email\nnewsletter subscribers (FREE) and will NOT be publicly posted on the website.\nTo be alerted, join our free email newsletter now, and watch for lab test\nresults in the weeks ahead.\n\nEnter your email address below to subscribe to our email announcement list\n(but don't use gmail). Your privacy is protected and you can unsubscribe at\nany time. If you don't join our email list, you may never see our valuable\ncontent again via Facebook, Google or YouTube. CENSORSHIP has now reached\nEXTREME levels across the 'net. The truth is being suffocated. Subscribe now\nif you want to escape the delusional bubble of false reality being pushed by\nGoogle and Facebook.","title":"The all-around superfood Curcumin in turmeric prevents liver fibrosis","date":"2018-10-23","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Amid an ongoing probe into separate allegations against Kavanaugh, the Iowa Republican asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Saturday to look into what he described as materially false statements provided to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) last week.\n\nGrassleys letter to the law enforcement officials says that a man, whose name was redacted, contacted Whitehouse on Monday with a claim that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted a female acquaintance of his on a boat in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, in 1985.\n\nThe Judiciary Committee later questioned Kavanaugh about the allegations, which he vehemently denied.\n\nI was not in Newport, havent been on a boat in Newport, Kavanaugh said. This is just completely made up, or at least not me. I dont know what theyre referring to.\n\nThe man who made the accusation later recanted his story, saying hed made a mistake, the Providence Journal reported.\n\nGrassley said in his letter that the mans actions may have amounted to a crime.\n\nThe Committee is grateful to citizens who come forward with relevant information in good faith, even if they are not one hundred percent sure about what they know, Grassley wrote. But when individuals provide fabricated allegations to the Committee, diverting Committee resources during time-sensitive investigations, it materially impedes our work. Such acts are not only unfair; they are potentially illegal.\n\nIt is illegal to make materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements to Congressional investigators. It is illegal to obstruct Committee investigations, he continued.\n\nPresident Donald Trump ordered the FBI on Friday to launch an investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, which the judge has denied. Several women  including Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor, and Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Kavanaughs  have accused the judge of misconduct.\n\nTrumps order came on the heels of a surprise call by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to delay Kavanaughs final confirmation vote until an FBI probe  one limited in time and scope  is complete.","title":"Sen Grassley Asks FBI To Investigate Retracted Kavanaugh Allegations","date":"2018-09-30","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) An amazing new channel on money and finance has joined REAL.video. Its called ITM Trading, and it features Lynette Zang, who youll quickly find is extremely well-informed on how money really works. Watch her videos and youll potentially save yourself a fortune as fiat currencies continue to erode (and collapse) around the world.\n\nSee all six videos at this link for ITM Trading.\n\nThe most amazing video shes posted yet is the following, called Brace for Impact: how Gold and Silver Perform During Currency Resets.\n\nI consider this a must-watch video for anyone who hopes to navigate the currency crisis now unfolding.\n\nSee more than 20,000 other videos now at REAL.video. Create your own video channel for free at this link.","title":"Learn how to survive the currency reset - ITM Trading launches video channel on REALvideo - must","date":"2018-09-03","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Recently, activated charcoal has been the talk of the town: You can find it in face masks and other skincare products, teeth whitening products and even food. But what is it exactly, and is it good for you?\n\nActivated charcoal is a fine, orderless, black powder that is produced when a source of carbon, such as wood or coconut shells, is burned. The high temperature eliminates all of the oxygen and leaves a highly absorbent material that has countless tiny pores. These tiny pores capture, bind and remove heavy metals, chemicals, and poisons.\n\nActivated charcoal is generally considered safe. However, it may cause unpleasant symptoms or side effects in some people, but these are said to be infrequent and rarely severe. Its potential side effects include nausea, vomiting, constipation, and black stools. It should also only be used as an emergency antidote for poison in people who are fully conscious. There is a risk that it can go to the lungs instead of the stomach if the person receiving it vomits or is drowsy or semi-conscious. People taking prescription drugs should consult a medical professional first before taking activated charcoal because it may interact with other drugs.\n\nGLYPHOSATE testing is now being applied to all Health Ranger Store branded products. Our in-house lab uses LC-MS-MS (triple quad mass spec). See the full lab science tour video and announcement here. Shop for ultra-clean, lab-tested superfoods, personal care products and more at the Health Ranger Store, the world's most trusted source for clean foods and lab-verified nutritional solutions.\n\nDosages for different conditions range from 1.532 g per day. In case of drug poisoning, a dosage of 50100 g is given for adults, while children receive 10 to 25 g only.\n\nRead more news stories and studies on remedies like activated charcoal by going to AlternativeMedicine.news.","title":"The many uses of activated charcoal as a dietary supplement","date":"2018-11-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The painter, inventor and polymath Leonardo da Vinci may have had a squint that helped him capture the Mona Lisas smile and create his masterpieces, according to researchers.\n\nDoctors from the Optometry and Vision Sciences School at City University of London have diagnosed the Renaissance master with strabismus after analysing the eye alignment of works believed to have been modelled, in part, on himself.\n\nStrabismus is a common vision disorder where one of the eyes looks inward, outward, up or down when the other eyes is focused on an object.\n\nThe condition is thought to be beneficial to painters as it lets them better focus on close-up flat surfaces and has been identified in a number of famous artists, including Rembrandt.\n\nThere are notoriously few validated images of da Vinci and historians can only speculate on the extent he put himself into his work. However, Leonardo's own text the Codex Atlanticus says that artists can't help but be self inspired, stating: [The soul] guides the painters arm and makes him reproduce himself,  since it appears to the soul that this is the best way to represent a human being.\"\n\n\"A number of famous artists have been identified as having strabismus on the basis of the eye alignment evident from their self-portraits, including Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Albrecht Durer, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (who was also known as Il Guercino, Italian for the squinter), Edgar Degas, and Pablo Picasso,\" the studys author, neuroscientist Professor Christopher Tyler, said.\n\nSome forms of strabismus are thought to facilitate artistic work by suppressing the deviating eye, which creates two-dimensional monocular vision advantageous to painting and drawing\n\nWhile having two eyes focused on an object (stereoscopic vision) is integral to our depth perception, it can make translating three-dimensional scenes to canvas more tricky, as each eye will be seeing objects slightly to the right or left.\n\nThis can be illustrated by holding a finger in front of your nose and shutting your eyes alternately causing the digit to jump side to side.\n\nIf one eye deviates, the brain will deprioritise signals from the unfocused eye, preventing this effect and giving a more static image to work from.\n\nFor the study published in JAMA Ophthalmology, Professor Tyler measured the alignment in six art works believed to be partly self-inspired by fitting circles to the irises of each eye and measuring the average deviation from alignment.\n\nWorks included two drawings, two oil paintings and two sculptures. Among them his world famous Vitruvian Man sketch, the bronze sculpture David  reputedly a depiction of the young Leonardo and Salvator Mundi, his painting of Jesus Christ which recently became the most expensive in history.\n\nIn all cases, the eye misalignment was measurable, though not severe and averaged a 10.3 deviation from the focussed eye across the six pieces.\n\nThis negative number means the eye would tend to look outwards (exotropia) and Professor Tyler argues that da Vancis strabismus may have been non-existent when focusing intently on an object, but would come in when he relaxed into painting. This would give him the best of both worlds.\n\nThe professor said: The weight of converging evidence suggests that Leonardo had intermittent exotropia, with a resulting ability to switch to monocular vision.\n\nThis would perhaps explain his great facility for depicting the three-dimensional solidity of faces and objects in the world and the distant depth recession of mountainous scenes.","title":"Leonardo da Vinci may have had an eye disorder that helped him paint masterpieces","date":"2018-10-18","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Paul Ryan is on his way out so hes on a kamikaze mission to push through mass amnesty.\n\nIngraham tweeted: Warning to @realDonaldTrump: An effort is underway by liberal Repubs (+Dems) on a mass amnesty in the House thru a discharge petition, supported by @SpeakerRyan. Total travesty & mid-term turn-out killer.\n\nLaura Ingraham then fired off a second tweet clarifying her first one about Speaker Ryan.\n\nIngraham tweeted: To clarify: @SpeakerRyan does NOT publicly support the discharge petition. GOP must stick with the clear & principled push for Kates Law, no funding for sanctuary cities, MS-13 bill. Amnesty wont pass in Senate anyway. #NoDischargePetition\n\nRINOs and Dems in the House are essentially forcing a vote on mass amnesty.\n\nMore than a dozen House Republicans are issuing a rare challenge to their own partys leaders: Allow immigration bills to get a vote now, or well force a vote. Theyre circulating a petition to do just that, and its only seven signatories shy of overriding House Speaker Paul D. Ryans (R-Wis.) opposition and forcing votes on a variety of immigration bills to provide a path to citizenship for dreamers. It would be the first time the House has passed an immigration bill since Republicans came to power in 2011.\n\nAmericans dont want mass amnesty. We voted for Trump to end the amnesty insanity.\n\nPresident Trump ran his 2016 presidential campaign on building the wall and putting America first.\n\nIn fact, in response to DREAMers demanding amnesty, then-candidate Donald Trump told reporters in February of 2016, I want dreamers to come from the United States.\n\nI want the people in the United States that have children, I want them to have dreams also. Were always talking about DREAMers for other people. I want the children that are growing up in the United States to be dreamers also. Theyre not dreaming right now, Trump continued.","title":"INGRAHAM WARNS TRUMP RINOs Dems Working on MASS AMNESTY in the House Through a Discharge Petitio","date":"2018-05-14","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"President Trump takes his midterm campaign blitz to Council Bluffs, Iowa, to stump for Gov. Kim Reynolds and Rep. David Young, and to explain details of the USMCA trade deal set to replace NAFTA.","title":"Watch Live Trump Talks Trade at Iowa MAGA Rally","date":"2018-10-09","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Infowars.com brings you the latest breaking midterm election news and live analysis from Alex Jones and other great special guests.\n\nYou can also tune in at infowars.com\/show.\n\nShare this link on Facebook and other social media, and get your friends and families to tune in to this widely-censored broadcast!\n\nAlso, tune in on Tuesday, November 6, starting at 8AM CT for special all-day Midterm Election Day coverage til midnight and later!\n\nAlso, check out the Secrets Of The 2018 Election Released By Alex Jones:","title":"Watch Infowars Live Election Coverage","date":"2018-11-06","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"FALLS CHURCH, Va.  State delegate Lee Carter wants you to know that he is in the midst of his third divorce, cant hold a job, lobbed homophobic insults when he was young, and may even have explicit photos of himself floating around on the internet.\n\nIts not that the incumbent Democrat wants to lose the election next year; he just wants to get all of the potentially damning information out there before any of his opponents can.\n\nI think weve moved past the age where folks in politics can pretend that their past doesnt exist, Carter, a 31-year-old first-term delegate from Manassas, told The Associated Press in explaining his decision to release the less-appealing aspects of his life in a series of 15 tweets.\n\nStephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington, acknowledged that Carters strategy is unusual but said the approach might be crazy like a fox.\n\nIn the age of (Brett) Kavanaugh, trying to peddle false or incomplete narratives about ones past appears to be a high-risk strategy, said Farnsworth, referring to the Supreme Court justice whose nomination was in the balance after he was publicly accused of sexual assault when he was a high school student more than three decades ago. Kavanaugh vehemently denied the charges and was confirmed.\n\nCarters approach has the benefit of disclosing everything now, a year away from his re-election, making it old news by the time youre in front of the voters again, Farnsworth added.\n\nThe incumbent, for his part, rejects any comparison between his behavior and the accusations against Kavanaugh; he said nothing in his background is equivalent to the accusations of attempted rape levied against the justice.\n\nCarter, whose admissions range from the trivial to the potentially serious, said hes made no effort to scrub his internet history to hide anything embarrassing.\n\nAmong his voluntary confessions: He said that growing up in the South he didnt always have the same revulsion for the Confederate flag that he does now.\n\nAnd, Just like everyone else under 35, Im sure explicit images or video of me exists out there somewhere, he said. I never sent them unsolicited, and never while I was in a relationship. Thats just a reality of dating in the smartphone era.\n\nCarter also said hes a rape survivor. He declined to discuss it any further, however, saying he did not want to name or indirectly identify the woman who he says attacked him when they were in a relationship.\n\nThe incumbent also released some details about one of his failed marriages, saying in his tweets that a custody fight for his daughter got ugly, to the point where a baseless claim for termination of parental rights was filed against me.\n\nI agreed to pay arrearage I didnt actually owe in the settlement because it was cheaper than paying a lawyer, he wrote.\n\nCarter, a self-described democratic socialist with an unconventional outlook on politics, was not considered a serious candidate by the political establishment when he ran last year against Republican incumbent Jackson Miller. He received little support from the state Democratic Party, and his campaign largely flew under the radar until Election Day, when a Democratic tidal wave helped carry him to victory.\n\nAs a result, he acknowledges his background didnt receive the same scrutiny as most candidates. He expects that to be different in 2019, when he figures he will be a top target of Republicans.\n\nTo all the Republicans who are tasked with following my social media, enjoy that oppo dump, Carter wrote in the last of his 15 tweets. Have fun in 2019.\n\nAs for the reaction hes received, he said theres a generational divide. Older people are shocked hed willingly disclose embarrassing facts in public, while younger people react with a shrug.\n\nI put the bad out there with the good, he said. When it comes time to vote, they have a complete picture. They can look at my personal life, my professional life, and make their decision. ... I did this so we can focus on the issues, and the fact that people have messy lives wont be a distraction.\n\nHis expectation is that voters will be more interested in the issues than in his personal life. He says the socialist principles he advocates are popular once people get past the label. The core principle, he said, is that workers, not corporations, should enjoy the benefits of their own labor.\n\nBill Card, chairman of the Republican Party in Prince William County, said he was surprised by Carters online admissions.\n\nIn my generation, people dont live out their lives in public to that degree, said Card, 65.\n\nBut he said he expects that whoever the GOP fields to run against Carter next year will be as eager as Carter is to run on the issues. He does not believe either the socialist tag Carter applies to himself  or the policies associated with it  will appeal to the electorate.\n\nA socialist is just a patient communist in my book, Card said. The end goal is the same.","title":"Candid Virginia candidate voluntarily airs dirty laundry","date":"2018-10-19","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"Nice work Democrats!\n\n Republican voters are now more angry and energized that Democrat voters after the Kavanaugh attacks and hoaxes and the mob attacks by Democrat protesters.\n\nRepublicans are madder about the Kavanaugh controversy than Democrats are and more determined to vote in the upcoming elections because of it.\n\nA new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 54% of all Likely U.S. Voters say they are more likely to vote in the upcoming midterm elections because of the controversy surrounding President Trumps U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Only nine percent (9%) say they are less likely to vote. Thirty-four percent (34%) say the controversy will have no impact on their vote. (To see survey question wording, click here.)\n\nSixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans are more likely to vote because of the Kavanaugh controversy, compared to 54% of Democrats and 46% of voters not affiliated with either major political party.\n\nSixty-two percent (62%) of all voters are angry about the U.S. Senates treatment of Kavanaugh, with 42% who are Very Angry.","title":"MOB TACTICS BACKFIRE Republican Voters Now More Angry and Energized after Kavanaugh Attacks and Li","date":"2018-10-10","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"From election night 2016, Infowars presents a compilation of Alex Jones predicting leftist attacks as a result of the Trump win in the 2016 presidential election.","title":"Watch Alex Jones Predict The Future On Election Night 2016","date":"2018-11-05","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Celebrity Big Brother star Ben Jardine has begged fans to leave Roxanne Pallett alone, saying she has been punished enough.\n\nPallett, 35, sparked mass outrage after she accused fellow housemate Ryan Thomas of deliberately punching her repeatedly in the ribs, despite footage showing he barely touched her during a light hearted play fight.\n\nThe former Emmerdale actress was trolled online with her Wikipedia page edited to describe her as a pathetic human being while others called for her to be banned from TV indefinitely.\n\nJardine, who struck up a friendship with Pallett in the house, said people need to move on from the incident.\n\nSpeaking to Lizzie Cundy on FUBAR Radio he said: I think everyone now should just get on with it. She's been punished, bless her, leave her be.\n\nJardine, who found fame on Married at First Sight, admitted he had a connection with Pallett despite her being engaged.\n\nI was taken in with her, he said. We clicked, I'll admit that, and there was a connection.\n\nWhen I looked into the little ones eyes you can see a little bit of a lost soul there.\n\nPallett walked from the house after hearing fans chanting for her to leave. She apologised for accusing Thomas of deliberately hurting her and said she accepts that she is the most hated woman in Britain.\n\nThomas broke down in tears on seeing footage of himself professing his innocence in the Diary Room after learning of Palletts accusations which saw him issued with a formal warning from show bosses.\n\nSpeaking to Jeremy Vine on Wednesday he said: Ive not seen any of that back. Its strange. You have no idea whats going on when youre in there. You just want your friends and your loved ones with you when something like that happens.\n\nIt caught us all by surprise. That house when something like that happens can become very isolated. It did for me personally.\n\nThomas said he appreciates Palletts apology, but has no plans to see her in the future.\n\nI think Roxanne has been through a lot he said. Big Brother makes headlines, sometimes for the wrong reasons. I appreciate Roxannes apology and its time to move forward and not dwell on the past.\n\nShes suffered enough and I dont want to be a part of that. Shes got a lot to deal with and seeing her again is not my first priority.","title":"Leave Roxanne Pallett alone Celebrity Big Brother star Ben Jardine begs fans to move on from apos","date":"2018-09-14","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Hope Hicks, President Donald Trumps former communications director, has been hired as chief communication officer for New FOX, a separate entity after Twenty-First Century Fox merges with Disney that will encompass the Fox News channel.\n\nAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, the company announced the hire on Monday.","title":"Hope Hicks Hired To Head Comms For New FOX Including Fox News","date":"2018-10-08","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) announced last week that the next phase of his investigation of the events that led to the appointment of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III will focus on the State Department. His apparent area of interest is my relationship with former British intelligence professional Christopher Steele and my role in material that Steele ultimately shared with the FBI.","title":"The Truth About My Invovement With the Dossier","date":"2018-02-12","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Evidence that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Ireland may have harmed their health by under-cooking their fish has been uncovered by researchers examining samples from a 7,500-year-old lakeside site in Co Longford.\n\nResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, including Waterford man Robert Power, analysed parasites from the ancient site at Derragh, near Lough Kinale. They found new evidence that the humans of the time were likely heavily infected with a parasite from undercooked fish that causes tapeworm.\n\nA science known as archaeoparasitology explores human infections due to contact with animals in an archaeological context. It is increasingly used as a tool in archeological research to investigate relationships between past humans, environments, diets and disease and can be particularly useful where there are no human or animal remains to examine, but where parasite eggs are preserved.\n\nThe Derragh site was first excavated 13 years ago and the only human remains found there consisted of a single tooth.\n\nHowever, all 12 samples recently analysed by the experts in Germany found evidence of the parasite Diphyllobothrium sp., which had never before been detected in European Mesolithic populations.\n\nIn living populations, the majority of individuals with diphyllobothriasis, the infection caused by the parasite Diphyllobothrium sp., have no symptoms. But in about one in five infections, individuals experience diarrhoea and abdominal pain, and may also experience symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, constipation and pernicious anaemia.\n\nDue to the rarity of Mesolithic human remains in Ireland, insights into health during this period have been limited.\n\nThe positive results from Derragh are the earliest reported parasites and the first unambiguously human-associated prehistoric parasites from Ireland, the research published last week in the Journal of Archaeological Science said.\n\nOur research at the Mesolithic site of Derragh has made unprecedented insights into early Irish diet and health by identifying Irelands earliest case of fish tape worm infection, Dr Power added.\n\nThis find for the first time tells us how the health of Irelands hunter-gatherers was negatively impacted by under cooking freshwater fish that they ate. Although the health of Irelands first peoples is of great scientific interest it has been entirely unknown due to the lack of human remains from the period.\n\nBefore this work it was not known that the parasite fish tapeworm even was present in Mesolithic Ireland which only recently had emerged from the icy grips of the last glaciation.\n\nAnalysis of samples from the lakeside site shows it was occupied from 7420-3530 BP (Before Present, i.e. before 1950).\n\nDr Power, an archaeological scientist, said the research he conducted with six other scientists, was only possible as the site was excavated by the Irish Research Institute Discovery Programme between 2003 and 2005.\n\nI knew about the site and I wanted to look at it further because I heard about some of the finds recovered from the site and the exceptional preservation of organic material.\n\nThere is no archaeoparasitology lab in Ireland but fortunately a colleague, Angela Perri, had recently set one up in the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology where I was doing my PhD. So it was my idea to have Derragh checked for archaeoparasites.\n\nA small quantity of fish remains were discovered during the excavations at Derragh. The researchers noted all of this material was burnt, most of it to high-temperature calcinations. A majority of the remains were from eel.","title":"Irish hunter-gatherers may have become ill from undercooked fish","date":"2018-08-06","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Former Google engineer Jack Poulson resigned in August and warned that the evil corporation must be stopped. The senior researcher said he is fearful of Googles ambitions; the corporation is working with China to build an Android app that covertly censors and monitors Chinese citizens online.\n\nThe Intercept published details about Google and Chinas exploratory project, code-named Dragonfly. According to the Intercept, Google bosses demanded that employees not discuss the project with anyone. Google bosses allegedly instructed employees to delete the internal memo about the project. However, hundreds of Google employees have defied the orders and have written to the company in protest.\n\nGoogle admits they have been working with China for several years to develop Android and other mobile apps such as Google Translate and Files Go. Their latest project finds the company working with Chinas leaders to develop a search engine that complies with Chinas authoritarian censorship laws. In a letter to U.S. lawmakers, Jack Poulson describes the project as disturbing. The Senate Commerce Committee received the letter during a hearing called examining safeguards for consumer data privacy. Mr. Poulson wrote, Dragonfly is part of a broad pattern of unaccountable decision making across the tech industry.\n\nGoogles head of search, Ben Gomes, spoke with the BBC about it. Right now all weve done is some exploration, but since we dont have any plans to launch something theres nothing much I can say about it.\n\nGet more news like this without being censored: Get the Natural News app for your mobile devices. Enjoy uncensored news, lab test results, videos, podcasts and more. Bypass all the unfair censorship by Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Get your daily news and videos directly from the source! Download here.\n\nGoogles chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, confirmed that the company is working with China on a project named Dragonfly, but the company has assured the world, We are not close to launching a search product in China.\n\nIn order for a search product to be released in China, it would have to comply with extensive blockages and content restrictions. In order to expand their power, Google would have to restrict freedom of expression and information to comply with Chinas great firewall, which blacklists any news and information that questions communism and other topics not approved by Chinese leaders.\n\nMr. Poulson gave more details about Googles plans. This includes a detailed blacklist that complies with the Chinese governments demands. Terms mentioned in the blacklist include human rights, student protest, religion, and Nobel prize. Several phrases involving Xi Jinping and other government officials are also not allowed in the search. Googles plan also violates Chinese citizens privacy, allowing joint venture companies unilateral access to user search queries based on the users phone number.\n\nGoogle has allegedly written code that directs a Chinese users search to only display government-approved data. This manipulation of data applies to user searches on regional air quality data. Due to these efforts alone, Google has violated their own internal policies on privacy and have showed their true intentions: suppressing human freedom.\n\nU.S. leaders must stop taking money from Google and stop being swayed by their evil agendas. Under the Obama Administration, Google enjoyed a revolving door with the government, sitting in on the former Presidents weekly meetings, while funding the former administrations campaigns and enjoying lax regulations from the FTC. Google should be kicked out of government policy and favor. Instead, the rule of law should apply; Google should be shuttered until they show proof that they are not engineering censorship in their products based on political gain, government favor. America should be a place where digital privacy is of utmost priority, where people are secure in their houses, papers, and effects. America should be a place where people are not tracked, a place where freedom of speech, information, and expression is guaranteed online. Because of their track record of suppressing conservative content, Google should be subpoenaed weekly to court to give proof that their platform is treating all Americans equally.\n\nU.S. companies that try to suppress freedom of expression, speech, and thought should be held to a high standard or be kicked out of the country and sent directly to China, where they can continue to cozy up to totalitarian, thought-control regimes. If Google wants to join China in their efforts to censor and control its citizens, then they should move their headquarters there so they can better feel the oppression that they wish upon everyone else.\n\nFor more on Googles evil agendas, visit Censorship.News.","title":"Former Google engineers warn the EVIL corporation must be stopped","date":"2018-10-01","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"MOSCOW, October 27. \/TASS\/. The Russian-German trade turnover rose almost by\n25% in first eight months of 2018 year-on-year, according to the documents\nprepared for the upcoming visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to\nIstanbul for the quadrilateral summit on the Syrian settlement along with\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and a number of bilateral meetings between the\nleaders on Saturday.\n\nIn 2017, the trade between Russia and Germany gained 22.8% to $50 bln. \"In\nJanuary-August 2018, the Russian-German trade increased by 24% (plus $7.5 bln)\ncompared with the same period in 2017 to $39 bln. Russian exports to Germany\nrose by 35% to $22.1 bln, while imports grew by 12% to $16.9 bln,\" the\nKremlins press service said.\n\nThe total amount of accumulated German investments in the Russian Federation\nexceeds $18 bln, while Russian investments in Germany stand at $8.1 bln.\n\nMeanwhile, the trade turnover between Russia and France added 22.5% in\nJanuary-July period of 2018 year-on-year, while the Russian-Turkish bilateral\ntrade went up by 30% in first eight months of this year, the documents for the\nsummit said.\n\nIn other media","title":"Russian-Germany trade up almost by 25 year-to-date Kremlin says","date":"2018-10-27","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Britoins are getting their biggest pay rise for three years as record low unemployment heaps pressure on employers to bump up wages and ministers loosen the public purse-strings, official figures showed on Tuesday.\n\nAcross the UK economy, pay was 3.1% higher than a year earlier in July, the Office for National Statistics said  the biggest increase since August 2015. Driving the increase was a 3.2% annual rise in private-sector pay  equalling the best for three years  as well as a big jump in public-sector pay growth after the scrapping of the 1% cap.\n\nIn July, when ministers announced inflation-busting settlements for the armed forces, prison officers and teachers, annual growth in public-sector pay hit 3%, the strongest growth for six years. With inflation at 2.5% in July, UK workers are now seeing stronger real-terms pay rises as the immediate effect of the pounds post-referendum devaluation fades from the figures.\n\nAlthough the unemployment rate is at its lowest level for more than 40 years, at 4%, employers are still on the hunt for staff, pushing vacancies to the highest level since records began in 2001. Between June and August there were 833,000 job vacancies, some 44,000 higher than a year earlier.\n\nThe data will reassure the Bank of Englands rate-setters who have been looking for stronger evidence of falling unemployment to make itself felt in pay growth. Nomura economist George Buckley said rises in pay over the past three months could add up to wage growth of more than 4% if seen over a full year, potentially paving the way for another rise in interest rates as soon as February. He said: If we have got a deal and it is put through the House of Commons before then there is no reason why they should not raise rates.\n\nThe pound, already bolstered by EU negotiating chief Michel Barniers emollient comments on a deal, gained ground today, moving further above $1.30. The Bank of England is all but certain to hold interest rates at the current 0.75%, but Anthony Kurukgy, a trader at currency broker Foenix Partners, said markets could be set for a surprisingly hawkish outlook from the Bank given this weeks developments.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce meanwhile flagged up vacancies as further evidence of persistent skills shortages. Economist Suren Thiru said: Firms continue to report that attempting to recruit staff with the right skills is an increasingly uphill struggle.","title":"Biggest pay rise in three years lifts prospect of early rate hike","date":"2018-09-11","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Two middlemen have each been sentenced to four years in prison for corruption offences in the first ruling of a huge bribery trial involving oil giants Shell and Eni. A judge also ordered the seizure of more than $120m from the pair.\n\nNigerian Emeka Obi and Italian Gianluca Di Nardo were convicted of international corruption by a Milan court for their role in a $1.1bn deal for rights to one of Nigerias most promising oil blocks.\n\nItalian prosecutors allege that hundreds of millions of dollars from the 2011 sale of a field was distributed as bribes.\n\nA judge ordered authorities to seize $98.4m from Mr Obi, and 21m Swiss francs from Mr Di Nardo.\n\nThe pair had elected to have a fast-track trial which took place behind closed doors and meant that their sentences would be reduced if they were convicted.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Mr Obi was in frequent contact with Eni executives trying to broker the sale and intended to pay out some of the money as kickbacks to politicians and Eni managers.\n\nNow all eyes will turn to the main trial, with a hearing scheduled for 26 September. Both Shell and Eni deny any wrongdoing.\n\nThirteen individuals are also in the dock including Eni chief executive Claudio Descalzi and his predecessor, Paolo Scaroni as well as four former Shell employees, among them Malcolm Brinded, former executive director for Shells upstream operations.\n\nFor years Shell had claimed that it only transacted with the Nigerian government when buying the oil field, known as OPL245 which is thought to contain around nine billion barrels of crude. After years of investigations by NGOs, the London-listed company admitted that it had known former Nigerian oil minister and convicted money launderer Dan Etete had been behind the deal.\n\nMr Etete, who is a defendant in the case, awarded OPL245 to a company called Malabu in 1998, which it later turned out he controlled.\n\nAntonio Tricarico of the Italian NGO Re:Common said Milans public prosecutors were right to bravely take on the two companies and several of their senior managers.\n\nThe time has come that the Italian government, as main shareholder of Eni, considers suspending all those managers involved in the case until the final judgement, he said.\n\nLanre Suraju, Chairman of Nigerian NGO Human and Environmental Development Agenda said the conviction vindicates what international and Nigerian civil society has claimed for years: OPL 245 was a corrupt deal.\n\nAs Shell and Enis trial looms, time will tell whether its just the middlemen who pay the price for this epic crime against the Nigerian people, he said.\n\nBut one things for certain: this judgment will send shivers down the corporate spines of the oil industry  and will surely alarm Shell and Eni employees and shareholders who have been repeatedly told that there was nothing amiss with the OPL 245 deal.\n\nA spokesperson for Eni said the company acknowledged the judgment and maintains \"full confidence\" of the appropriateness and legality of its actions.\n\n\"This was a completely legal and legitimate transaction conducted directly with the government of Nigeria,\" the spokesperson said.","title":"Two middlemen convicted of corruption over Shell and Eni Nigerian oil field deal","date":"2018-09-21","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"George Soros is a major talking point in American politics, as Republicans desperately try to control the narrative all around. They claim that he funds Democratic debauchery, and even pays actors to play the part of victims of tragedies that happen all across the country.\n\nNow, Soros has apparently been targeted by conservatives, and this time, its not a meme or hashtag. According to Huffington Post:\n\nLaw enforcement officials responded to an incident at the home of liberal billionaire George Soros on Monday evening, an officer with the Bedford, New York, police department told HuffPost. Soros has been a frequent target of conspiracy theories and fear-mongering by hyper-nationalist conservatives in the U.S. and Europe, who often rely on anti-Semitic tropes when they characterize him as a shadowy figure who is encouraging mass migration and torpedoing traditional Christian culture. President Donald Trump has personally attacked him as well. A spokesman for Soros declined to comment on the record about the role that rhetoric might have played in inspiring an attempted attack on the billionaire. The Anti-Defamation League did not immediately to a request for comment.\n\nAn explosive device was found on Monday in a mailbox at the Westchester County home of George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who is a favorite target of right-wing groups, the authorities said. A law enforcement official confirmed that the device was found near Mr. Soross home. It did not explode on its own, and bomb squad technicians proactively detonated it, the official said. Federal and state law enforcement officials responded to the scene in Katonah, N.Y., a hamlet in the upscale town of Bedford in northern Westchester, after the Bedford Police Department received a call about a suspicious package at about 3:45 p.m. An employee of the residence opened the package, revealing what appeared to be an explosive device, the police said in a statement. The employee placed the package in a wooded area and called the Bedford police.\n\nSoros was not home at the time of the attempted attack.","title":"BREAKING Bomb Found In George Soros Mailbox Detonated","date":"2018-10-23","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) A study published in the Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine has shown that being deficient in vitamin D may lead to or worsen rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease wherein the immune system mistakenly attacks the joints, creating inflammation. This inflammation causes the tissue lining the inside of the joints to thicken, which in turn, cause swelling and pain in and around the joints.\n\nVitamin D is said to have immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties, and a deficiency in this vitamin is associated with autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore, researchers from Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital in India studied the link between vitamin D and rheumatoid arthritis. (Related: Vitamin D deficiency symptoms explained: the top 9 warning signs.)\n\nIn the study, they aimed to determine the differences between vitamin D levels in a healthy population and rheumatoid arthritis patients. Then, they correlated vitamin D levels with rheumatoid arthritis disease activity.\n\nFor the study, they recruited a total of 100 participants aged between 18 and 75 years. Half of the participants were rheumatoid arthritis patients, while the other half were healthy individuals. They measured and compared the levels of vitamin D of the participants. Then, they examined the vitamin D levels of rheumatoid arthritis patients in different stages of disease activity.\n\nThe results revealed that most of the rheumatoid arthritis patients  particularly 84 percent  were vitamin D deficient. Their vitamin D levels were also significantly lower than healthy participants. The researchers also saw that the levels of vitamin D tended to decrease as the disease worsened.\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nBased on the findings of the study, the researchers concluded that vitamin D deficiency is more common in people with rheumatoid arthritis patients and this deficiency may cause or worsen the disease.\n\nThe current recommended daily dose of vitamin D in the U.S. is 400 international units (IUs). However, most experts suggest that this is not enough and that all adults should take at least 2,000 IUs of vitamin D every day. Getting exposed to direct sunlight for 10 to 30 minutes a day can boost vitamin D levels. However, this may be difficult due to colder temperatures and inclement weather. During this time, people are more likely to stay inside their houses and fail to get enough sunlight vitamin. So how do you avoid vitamin D deficiency, especially during winter? One of the best ways to prevent vitamin D deficiency is through diet. You can incorporate these vitamin D-rich foods to your diet:\n\nRead more news stories and studies on the importance of vitamin D on health by going to VitaminD.news.","title":"Being deficient in vitamin D may worsen rheumatoid arthritis symptoms","date":"2018-10-30","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Nick Grimshaw has revealed that his early starts for Radio 1s Breakfast Show have had a negative impact on his love life for the last six years.\n\nThe presenter, 33, said that finally stepping down from his role as Breakfast host and switching to drivetime means that he can finally start dating again and potentially find love.\n\nI think I will have more time to put my life first. I have committed to this show, especially the last year, and I have put my head down. But now I can go for dates with people and the new show will help, he told the Daily Mirror.\n\n\"I have been trying to date people, but you dont want to day date and even two weeks ago, I went on a date and then he said, do you want to go to the cinema, its at 8.20pm?.\n\nAnd I was thinking, 8.20, arrggh the film wont start until ten-to-nine so it wont finish before 11 so home and asleep at midnight and that is if I fall asleep straight away.'\n\nHe added: \"It does send you a bit mad and sort of becomes your life, because everything you are watching and consuming each day you are trying to produce content for the next morning, because you cant do it before 5am.\"\n\nGrimshaw said that he has had a number of short-term relationships in the past and has even tried dating app Bumble, but to no avail.\n\nThe DJ took over the early-morning radio programme from Chris Moyles six years ago but announced his departure in May saying he was \"really tired\".\n\nHe will be replaced by Greg James and will take over his Radio 1 drivetime slot in a job swap between the pair.\n\nGrimshaws final show aired on Thursday morning, opening with Kanye West and Jay-Z collaboration N***** In Paris - the first song he played when he started the job in 2012.\n\nIn May 2018, Grimshaw became the Radio 1 Breakfast Show's second longest-running host in the programme's history, taking over the previous record held by Tony Blackburn.","title":"Nick Grimshaw reveals Radio 1 Breakfast Show early starts ruined his love life aposNow I can go o","date":"2018-08-09","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"A police officer who tasered her forces race relations adviser in the face after mistaking him for a wanted man used unreasonable force, a misconduct hearing has heard.\n\nActing sergeant Claire Boddie claims she believed 65-year-old Judah Adunbi was a threat when she discharged the weapon in Bristol in January last year.\n\nA misconduct hearing at Avon and Somerset Polices headquarters in Portishead was told that she and a colleague mistook Mr Adunbi for wanted man Royston McCalla when they spotted him walking with his dog.\n\nThis case starts off with an incident of mistaken identity, said George Thomas, presenting the case against Ms Boddie.\n\nIt escalated from that to the point at which PC Boddie used a Taser on Mr Adunbi. One of the barbs of the Taser struck Mr Adunbi in the face, causing a minor injury to his chin.\n\nMs Boddie, 47, was cleared of unlawfully discharging a taser and assault by beating at Salisbury Magistrates Court in May.\n\nDuring the trial, Ms Boddie  regarded as a well-trained officer with more than 20 years experience of frontline policing  said she felt the use of force was reasonable in self-defence, to defend her fellow officer PC Darren Weston, and in order to make an arrest.\n\nShe said she was acting in accordance with her training and the force she used on Mr Adunbi was lawful, claiming he posed a threat as he had keys in his hand and was using violence to escape.\n\nFootage taken from bodycams worn by Ms Boddie and PC Weston showed the officers repeatedly asking Mr Adunbi to identify himself, with the community elder replying: I'm not telling you my name. I have done nothing wrong.\n\nHe is heard shouting: Why you coming to torment me? Go f*** off about your business and don't follow me. Stop, stop, if you put your hand on me I'm gonna f*** you up.\n\n\"I'm not threatening you. I'm telling you if you put arms on me I'm going to defend myself. This is not the first time you have done this.\"\n\nIn separate mobile phone footage, a neighbour is heard telling the officers: \"He is just trying to get into his house. Leave him alone.\"\n\nMr Thomas said Mr Adunbi, who had previously been stopped by police officers in the belief he was Mr McCalla, was under no obligation to provide officers with his identity.\n\n\"It is apparent from the footage that angry though he is, Mr Adunbi is indignant that he has been stopped,\" he added.\n\nFootage showed Ms Boddie drawing her taser at Mr Adunbi and used it to put a \"red dot\" on him, before putting it away.\n\nThere was a scuffle after Mr Adunbi used his keys to open his gate and Ms Boddie discharged her taser in what Mr Thomas described as an \"unnecessary, unreasonable or disproportionate use of force in the circumstances\".\n\nHe said there was a \"three second window\" between Ms Boddie claiming she had seen Mr Adunbi punch PC Weston and her discharging the taser.\n\n\"It doesn't appear that she really takes any care to aim it, other than roughly in Mr Adunbi's direction, before she pulls the trigger,\" Mr Thomas said, saying the weapon was discharged when he was moving away with his hands down.\n\n\"It is not alleged that PC Boddie deliberately aimed that taser to Mr Adunbi's face.\"\n\nMr Adunbi was later taken to hospital to have the barb removed.\n\nHe was a member of the forces independent advisory group which raises policing matters which could cause the public concern.\n\nGiving evidence at her trial, Ms Boddie said: I was not sure it was Mr McCalla. I wanted to give him the opportunity to identify himself and calm him down.\n\nIn a statement made after the incident, which was read to the court, she described Mr Adunbi as hostile from the start.\n\nAt the misconduct hearing, Ms Boddie said she was acting using the police National Decision Model at all times and in the knowledge Mr McCallas file had markers for violence and weapons.\n\nShe claimed Mr Adunbi threatened that he would \"put to sleep\" PC Weston, adding that she took this to mean: \"That he was going to kill him.\"\n\nMs Boddie said she drew the taser for the first time but Mr Adunbi was still not \"fully calmed down\" and she still viewed him as a threat.\n\nAfter putting it away, Mr Adunbi was in a \"fighting stance\" and used his gate to \"crush\" PC Weston as the officer attempted to handcuff him, she said.\n\nIn a statement, PC Weston said: \"He has pulled the gate against me with a lot of strength. I have tried to grab his left wrist to apply handcuffs and he has wrenched it from me with force. He needs to be arrested.\"\n\nMs Boddie said she believed Mr Adunbi had punched her colleague and drew her taser for a second time, aiming it at Mr Adunbi's chest area.\n\nMs Boddie started her policing career in 1994, working at Avon and Somerset Police as a special constable before joining Wiltshire Police as an officer in 2008.\n\nIn 2012, she attended an initial taser training course and was authorised to carry the weapon. She completed refresher training in 2013 and transferred back to Avon and Somerset Police that year.\n\nMs Boddie then completed a second initial taser training course in 2014 and has not previously been accused of misconduct or using unlawful force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing, which is expected to last for two days, continues.","title":"Police officer who tasered race relations adviser in face used aposunreasonableapos force misco","date":"2018-09-04","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The president, its long been clear, regards himself as supremely intelligent. He said as much in a tweetstorm following the publication of an incendiary book by author Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury, which contained revelations that cast the presidents mental stability into question.\n\nOn other occasions, Trump has insisted that when making important policy decisions, he consults  wait for it  himself.\n\nApparently, according to new reporting from The Washington Post, Trump wasnt bluffing when he insisted that he has a massively egotistical self-perception.\n\nAccording to the publication, Trump has opted out of actually reading the document prepared for the commander-in-chief on a daily basis that summarizes major points of U.S. intelligence on the goings-on of the world. Instead, according to the publication, he prefers to stick to getting just an oral briefing, something that concerned interests warn could leave him in the dark about important issues.\n\nIts not as though hes seemed to be very competent about issues of foreign policy since taking office. Although there are new sanctions in force against the North Koreans, he was unable to keep the country from getting to the point of claiming to have nuclear capabilities.\n\nIn addition to this, hes been very public in his dismissal of the legitimacy of the nations intelligence agencies. In the context of the intelligence communitys continued insistence that Russia really did meddle in our most recent presidential election, Trump dismissed the most recent set of intelligence leaders as political hacks, and hes extended his criticism to more recent leaders in the intelligence community as well.\n\nTrump has even personally criticized the volume of information hes expected to take in.\n\nAppearing on Fox in late 2016, the then-president-elect commented:\n\nEven still, at least one member of the Trump administration rushed to defend the commander-in-chief.\n\nCurrent Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats commented that any notion that President Trump is not fully engaged in the [written daily intelligence briefing materials] or does not read the briefing materials is pure fiction and is clearly not based on firsthand knowledge of the process.\n\nMaking his defense of the president suspicious, Coats went on to resort to Trump-ian rhetoric, commenting that  President Trump engages for significantly longer periods than I understand many previous presidents have done during briefings.\n\nIn the alleged absence of the president taking the time to read the daily briefing materials, copies are reportedly provided to officials including national security adviser H.R. McMaster, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.\n\nTrump declining to fulfill the responsibilities actually associated with his position as president is continuing to prove a detriment to the U.S., with security threats that hes currently not addressing including the already mentioned crisis over North Korea and the issue over Russian meddling in our elections.","title":"JUST IN Trump Now Refusing To Read Daily Briefings In Latest Show Of Mental Decline","date":"2018-02-09","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"It's all getting musical this week as Stormzy leads London into November.\n\nThat's just as well because the urge to stay in bed gets ever stronger the colder it gets.\n\nIf you need a little more motivation, we've got some inspiration for you right here. Don't let the\n\nNot content with being an award-winning recording artist, Stormzy has collaborated with Penguin Random House to set up a new publishing platform for young writers. At this event, hell be chatting to hip hop artist and activist Akala about the power of books. A panel with Malorie Blackman, Jude Yawson and Chelsea Kwakye will explore the role literature plays in our lives.\n\nTime to pick your your tree  its November so thats basically Christmas. Making it official, Oxford Streets lights will be turned on. Its more than watching someone flick a switch: theres music from Kara Marni, Ray BLK and Novelist as well as shopping and dining offers along the street. Read our guide to London's Christmas lights here.\n\nLooking for a way into the music industry? Head over to Tobacco Dock where BBC Introducing Live is kicking off. You can learn from the experts  Annie Mac, Lauren Laverne and Huw Stephens  as well as listening to performances by Ben Howard, Marika Hackman and Malt Maltese.\n\nBack for its eighth edition, Film Africa festival touches down across London venues from Rich Mix in Shoreditch to BFI Southbank. This week you can see the UK premiere of Eddy Munyanezas Uncertain Future and a series of shorts about contemporary Nigeria in Naija New Wave.\n\nArtist Scottee gets his kit off in this rebellious dance show about flab and wobbles. He is joined by four others and together they wonder why fat men are never sexy but always funny, and always the before shot but never the after shot.\n\nAugmented reality meets dance in this movement installation at Sadlers Wells. Dance company AE invite you to get involved, explore and interact with the work, where your own actions determine your experience.\n\nTheatre Royal Stratford East launches a new night to celebrate the East Ends queer scene. Drag kings Chiyo and Benjamin Butch, queen Dolly Trolley, dancer Rubyyy Jones and Girls Aloud drag tribute group Gals Aloud are on the line up hosted by Rhyss Pieces.\n\nAsia Week takes designers, architects, artists and culture lovers on a journey spanning the breadth and influence of Asian creativity, from woodblock printing to lithographs and paintings to ceramics that merge modernity and tradition.\n\nDavid Threlfall and Rufus Hound come together for the RSCs farcical production at the Garrick Theatre. Losing his grip on reality, self-styled knight Don Quixote (Threlfall) goes off on an utterly ludicrous adventure with his sidekick Sancho Panza (Hound) through medieval Spain.\n\nBuy tickets for Don Quixote with GO London\n\nThe storming launch of Emma Rices new theatre company is coming to a close this week. Wise Children  the name of both the Old Vics play and Rices company  is an adaption of Angela Carters novel about show business, family and Shakespeare. Its a joyful celebration of life on the stage, and not to be missed before it closes.","title":"Things to do in London next week","date":"2018-10-29","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Half a century ago, being a Cook County worker meant fabricating documents to get the job, being forced to buy political fund-raising tickets to keep it and relying on political connections to get promoted.\n\nThat left employees defeated and disillusioned, said Mary Robinson, the compliance administrator for the county.\n\nIt took nearly fifty years of federal oversight to rid the county of its rampant patronage problem.\n\nAnd Cook Countys employment practices are now free from that federal supervision.\n\nMagistrate Judge Sidney I. Schenkier removed the county from the constraints of the Shakman decree Wednesday, finding the county to be in substantial compliance with the fair hiring and employment practices that were established in a 2006 supplemental relief order that laid out a plan to address the countys employment practices.\n\nI am proud of the work weve done over the last eight years to bring this suit to conclusion and, as Mike Shakman said, this is a good day for Cook County government and a good day for the people of Cook County, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said, calling the decision a substantial milestone.\n\nThere were no objections and no one spoke in opposition to the decision, which will effect about 10,500 employees offices Preckwinkle oversees, including the Cook County Health and Hospitals System, the Office of the Independent Inspector General and the Public Defender.\n\nPreckwinkle announced in August that she wanted out of the constraints the lawsuit set. Since 2006, the Shakman suit has cost county taxpayers around $8 million. Around $3 million of that went to claims from employees who said patronage played a role in them advancing in their careers.\n\nLaura Lechowicz Felicione, legal counsel to Preckwinkle, said that the other costs have been operational and helped the county usher in improvements to curb patronage. The county now has an online application system and technological improvements resulted in a verified employment process.\n\nThe suit was initially filed in 1969  with a consent decree following in 1972  but it wasnt until the 2006 order that employment reforms started in earnest at the county.\n\nMichael Shakman, who filed the landmark lawsuit that culminated in the federal consent decree that bears his name, said the county being found in compliance is a historic moment and a happy day.\n\n[The government officials, courts and special monitors] reformed Cook County government in an important way thats going to make a real difference to the people who work for county government, who are getting a fair employment system, a fair chance at advancement, Shakman said. Its great for the public because patronage has been eliminated from county government and that means that people who are paying the taxes will get a fair days work for a fair days pay.\n\nIn ruling that the county was in compliance with the decree, Schenkier commended Preckwinkle, Inspector General Pat Blanchard, Public Defender Amy Campanelli and Jay Shannon, CEO of the health and hospitals system for their work in bringing the county into compliance with the clout-busting plan.\n\nGoing forward, Blanchards office will be in charge of investigating patronage complaints.\n\nThis is a big day, Schenkier said. A day where we see we dont have to be trapped by the past, trapped by the history of things. We can move forward, but it takes dedication.","title":"No longer trapped by the past county freed from political hiring oversight","date":"2018-10-31","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"Pregnant Meghan Markle sought medical advice about the risk of contracting the Zika virus in Fiji and Tonga ahead of her and Prince Harrys Australian tour, a royal spokesman has confirmed.\n\nThe 37-year-old royal is expecting her first child with Harry next spring.\n\nThe couple touched down in Sydney today, kicking off their first international tour as a couple.\n\nIt is recommended that pregnant women do not travel to areas affected by the Zika epidemic unless vital. Travellers are also warned to sleep under mosquito nets to avoid being infected.\n\nThere have been reports in Tonga and Fiji of the Zika virus, which can cause abnormalities to babies in the womb.\n\nHowever, a royal source said: The Duke and Duchess will have taken advice at the highest level before deciding that they were happy to go ahead and plan the trip.\n\nZika is an infection spread mainly by mosquitos and is usually very mild for most people  but can be serious for pregnant women. It can cause babies to be worn with microcephaly, a condition that results in a baby having an abnormally small head.\n\nAfter taking precautionary measures, there will be no change to the Duke and Duchess of Sussexs planned schedule, comprising of a 16-day trip coinciding with the fourth Invictus Games.\n\nKensington Palace announced the couples happy news in a statement on Monday morning.\n\nIt read: \"Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Sussex is expecting a baby in the Spring of 2019.\n\n\"Their Royal Highnesses have appreciated all of the support they have received from people around the world since their wedding in May and are delighted to be able to share this happy news with the public.\"\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May was among the first to offer her congratulations, saying: My warmest congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on the happy news they are expecting a baby in the spring. Wishing them all the best.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, posted on Twitter: Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on their happy news! Prayers for them in the months ahead.\n\nThe baby will not be a prince or a princess unless the Queen overrules a royal protocol dating back to 1917 that limits titles within the royal family.\n\nThe announcement sparked speculation over names with traditional royal choices among the favourites, including Victoria and Albert, Diana and Philip were suggested by experts.\n\nGrant Harrold, a former butler to Prince Harry, today told the Standard that he believes Harry may choose to name the child after his late mother if it is born a girl.\n\nHe said: As far as royal names go  for a boy we may have a Charles or Philip, or for a girl Diana to honour the baby's grandmother, or perhaps Elizabeth.\"\n\nThen again, they may decide to go with a name that has close connections for the Duchess.","title":"Royal baby Meghan and Harry sought medical advice over Zika virus ahead of Australia tour","date":"2018-10-15","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The video is very disturbing  These people are ignorant and unhinged and want to lead this country.\n\nThe violence of these Democrats is just insane.\n\nFOX News reported:\n\nAn intern for Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been arrested and charged with battery for throwing chocolate milk on College Republicans tabling on campus before she kicked Gillums opponent Republican Ron DeSantis sign out of the ground.\n\nThe far-left student activist who had the profanity-laced meltdown, Shelby Shoup, is listed as an intern for the Andrew Gillum for Florida Governor Campaign on LinkedIn and a member of FSU Students for Justice in Palestine. Gillums campaign did not return a Fox News request for comment.\n\nA portion of the profane exchange with the College Republicans on campus was caught on camera.\n\nShoup threw her drink on SFU College Republicans Vice-Membership Chair, Daisy Judge, and when another student passing by tried to de-escalate the situation, she threw the remainder of her drink on him, according to a statement released by the College Republicans at FSU.\n\nYou are supporting Nazis, Shoup said in the video posted online. Do you understand that?","title":"Jobs Not Mobs Gillum Staffer and Commie Arrested on Battery Charges For Hurling Drink on College Re","date":"2018-11-03","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Donald Trump must have thought he got a great burn in on Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) when he referred to him as little Adam Schitt on Twitter, or else hes just too dumb to notice his misspellings. Schiff, however, was ready with a response.\n\nIt isnt as if Americans can be shocked anymore by Trumps petty Twitter attacks. After all, hes referred to a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair horseface, President Obama as a sad and sick guy and told everyone to check out a sex tape that featured a Miss America winner who criticized him when there was no such tape.\n\nThe president of the United States referring to a member of Congress using this grade school bully level of pettiness, however, was not only disgusting but surprising.\n\nOn Saturday, it seemed Trump was trying to soften his tone, praising Nancy Pelosi and offering to help her get votes, singing the praises of Floridas gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum, after calling him corrupt and a thief, and even Stacey Abrams, whom he had tried to convince his Twitter followers was trying to steal the race.\n\nIts bad enough that Trump lies repeatedly to the country, his attacks are embarrassing. Its impossible to imagine the calm, cool, and collected No Drama Obama ever doing such a childish thing, or the absolute frenzy Fox News would have exploded into if he had.\n\nTwitter was there to back up Schiff and remind Trump that hes the least-liked president in history. See some of their comments below:","title":"Adam Schiff Instantly Responds To Trumps Tweet Attack Donald Is Floored","date":"2018-11-18","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Facebook allows you to select a certain number of pages to see first in your News Feed. We hope that youll include The Revolution, Dc Gazette , The Marine Patriot Blog , The Trump News Gazette , and Unofficial: President Trump page.\n\nOur journalists work to provide thoughtful investigative reporting, news, analysis and commentary about your local communities, people, sports and institutions. We want to make sure you continue to find that content on Facebook and heres how can make sure that happens:","title":"How to Get Around FBs Opressive Algorithms","date":"2018-02-02","source":"dcgazette","label":0}
{"content":"A former Fine Gael TD has had an assault conviction against him upheld, following a two-day appeal at a special sitting of Monaghan Circuit Court.\n\nJudge Petria McDonnell ruled against an appeal by Sean Conlan, Main Street, Ballybay, Co Monaghan, after hearing conflicting accounts in relation to an incident at his family pub in the town on the night of August 23rd, 2015.\n\nThe former Cavan Monaghan TD was found guilty at Monaghan District Court in February 2017 of assaulting Enda Duffy of Annahia, Ballybay.\n\nHe was fined 750 by Judge Conal Gibbons,who said a custodial or suspended sentence was not merited as the incident was at the lower end of the scale.\n\nA charge of producing an article with intent to cause harm during the course of a dispute was taken into account by the court. This was in relation to a broken pint glass that Conlan was alleged by a number of witnesses to have used in causing cuts to MrDuffy arm.\n\nIn her ruling, Judge McDonnell indicated that she was affirming the District Court ruling in all its aspects, and thereby leaving the 750 fine in place for the assault and taking the production of an article count into consideration.\n\nConlan resigned from Fine Gael while still a TD, but lost his Cavan-Monaghan seat while standing as an Independent candidate in the 2016 general election.","title":"Former Fine Gael TD loses appeal against assault conviction","date":"2018-10-25","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) You probably know by now that carotenoids are good for your eyes. But have you heard about them boosting your cognition and your hearing as well? Experts are suggesting that carotenoids like lutein are able to sharpen a persons brain and hearing through the same processes that lets them enhance ones eyesight, an article on Nutra Ingredients USA stated.\n\nThe intriguing proposal first came up at the recent Nutrition 2018 conference. During a carotenoid-centric symposium, University of Georgia (UGA) professor Dr. Billy Hammond made his case for luteins beneficial effect on the hearing of humans.\n\nMany studies have shown that carotenoids interact with the human eyes. In contrast, the body of scientific literature that covers their connection with the human ears is much more sparse.\n\nHammond is very familiar with luteins effects on the brain. He is the author of a 2014 study that showed the optical density of macular pigments are linked to general cognition in people who suffer from mild cognitive impairment (MCI).\n\nThe macula are circular areas in the center of the retina of human eyes. They are responsible for visual acuity. They also contain plenty of pigments like lutein and zeaxanthin, which can be analyzed to measure the amounts of each carotenoid in the body.\n\nPublished in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, the 2014 study reported that low levels of these two carotenoids are linked to lower cognition in participants with MCI. Meanwhile, macular pigment optical density only affected visual-spational and constructional abilities in healthier adults. (Related: Lycopene is found in a variety of fruits, offering an array of antioxidant carotenoid benefits.)\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nHammond also published another study about lutein and zeaxanthin in the 2017 issue of the journal Nutritional Neuroscience. His more recent paper investigated the possible connections between the two carotenoids and the human auditory system.\n\nThis work began by noting that lutein is throughout the central nervous system, Hammond explained in an interview. Early work looked at how much of it was in the retina, but then it was found throughout the brain, and also specifically in the auditory cortex.\n\nThe auditory cortex is the part of the brain that processes sounds and other auditory information. It can distinguish between signals and noise in order to interpret each individual sound. Some theories link this part of the brain to some forms of higher thinking, such as translating other languages.\n\nThis and other parts of the brain appear to be improved by dietary carotenoids. Improvements to visual acuity and brain power are apparently mediated by the amount of lutein and zeaxanthin in the macula and other important parts of the retina and brain.\n\nHammond theorized that the carotenoids raise the efficiency of neurons in the brain, making them significant factors in brain power. Lending support to his theory was the discovery that both lutein and zeaxanthin are found in the auditory cortex.\n\nThe findings of the 2017 study showed that the levels of lutein and zeaxanthin pigments are connected to the proper and optimal function of the auditory system.\n\nCarotenoid specialist Dr. Elizabeth Johnson of Tufts University was at the symposium when Hammond made his presentation. She was excited about the unexplored region of new research on carotenoids that the UGA study uncovered.\n\nJohnson said that she and her fellow researchers first studied carotenoids for their beneficial effects on visual acuity. Never did she think that her research would lead her to human cognition and now the auditory system as well.\n\nIf you want to know more about how carotenoids and other nutrients can improve your senses, visit Nutrients.com today.","title":"Carotenoids are also good for your hearing Study","date":"2018-08-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Newly released text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reveal President Obama wanted updates on the bureaus Hillary Clinton email investigation.\n\nNewly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted to know everything were doing. The message, from Page to Strzok, was among thousands of texts between the lovers reviewed by Fox News. The pair both worked at one point for Special Counsel Robert Muellers probe of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Page wrote to Strzok on Sept. 2, 2016 about prepping Comey because potus wants to know everything were doing. Senate investigators told Fox News this text raises questions about Obamas personal involvement in the Clinton email investigation.\n\nThe text messages also reveal the FBI agents likely used untraceable phones to communicate about Hillary Clinton.\n\nWe text on that phone when we talk about Hillary so it cant be traced, Strzok texted to Page.\n\nFox News contributor Sara A. Carter previously reported text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page revealed discussions about purchasing Apple iPhones to bypass government collection, systems. During one of their exchanges, Strzok told Page, If I want to copy\/take classified, Im sure as hell not going to do it on this phone.","title":"Newly Released FBI Text Suggests Strzok-Page Used Untraceable Phones When Talking About Hillary","date":"2018-02-07","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) A study published in the African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines revealed that taking neem oil may help mitigate the risk of suffering from sleeping sickness. A team of researchers at the Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya, conducted a series of in vitro and in vivo assays to determine the beneficial effects of neem oil on sleeping sickness models.\n\nData from the in vitro trial revealed that neem stem bark extracts showed utmost efficacy in mitigating three strains of the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma. During the in vivo trials, the researchers examined 35 mice models that were randomly divided into seven groups. Three of the groups received varying amounts of neem oil extracts, while two others received either suramin or melarsoprol. One group served as the control population, the researchers stated.\n\nThe results revealed that the treatment groups exhibited a delay in the commencement of parasite appearance. More specifically, animal models that received up to 400 milligrams of neem extract per kilogram of weight were able to maintain significantly low levels of parasitemia throughout the trial.\n\nNo animal mortality was observed during the 14 days of experimentation. There were no visible signs of acute toxicity among the animals treated with the extract at the doses used in the study, the researchers reported.\n\nThe current study established that the methanol extract of A. indica stem bark possess both in vitro and in vivo antitrypanosomal activity against T. brucei rhodesiense. Isolation and characterization of constituents of the extract, which is currently on-going research, could yield a potential antitrypanosomal lead compound, the researchers concluded.\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nHealth experts at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine confirmed that there are no currently available medications that may help keep the condition at bay. Likewise, an article published on the World Health Organizations (WHO) media center revealed that some of the most commonly-used drugs to manage sleeping sickness often spur adverse effects. Among these drugs include:\n\nHealth experts explained that sleeping sickness is a disease transmitted by the parasitic tsetse fly. The disease was found to be mostly prominent in tropical African countries including Angola, Central African Republic and Chad. Scientists added that the disease is also widespread in Congo, Malawi and Tanzania as well as Sudan, Uganda and Zambia. (Related: Kazakhstan town plagued by mysterious illness that causes residents to fall unconscious for days.)\n\nPeople infected with the sleeping sickness may exhibit certain symptoms including:\n\nDeath usually occurs within several weeks to months if the disease was left untreated. People who experience symptoms of sleeping sickness were advised to consult a health care provider for proper diagnosis.\n\nVisit Outbreak.news and be on the lookout for the latest in infectious diseases and epidemics.","title":"Neem oil found to be effective at fighting sleeping sickness","date":"2018-10-15","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Welcome to Small-Cap Spotlight where the Evening Standard business team will bring investors rolling coverage and analysis on all the major small cap news this morning.\n\nTop story sees Rockrose shares climb after the oil firm posted first-half, pre-tax profits of 3.8 million, compared to a deficit of 1.8 million last year.\n\nThere are plenty of other updates out there for discussion.","title":"Small-cap spotlight Rockrose Energy and Eve Sleep shares on the up","date":"2018-09-20","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Celebrity Hunted is back for another year to send four pairs of famous faces on the run for two weeks.\n\nThe eight celebrities are used to a life in the spotlight but hope to fly under the radar for 14 days as they hope to avoid being captured by a special team hunting them down  all in the name of charity.\n\nLast years The Wanteds Jay McGuiness and Siva Kaneswaran managed to evade the elite hunters for the fortnight, bagging 100,000 for Channel 4s Stand Up to Cancer.\n\nAhead of the first of two episodes, here are the celebrities taking part in Celebrity Hunted...\n\nLove Islands greatest bromance to date, Hughes and Cetinay, signed up for the ultimate test of their friendship in the televised game of cat-and-mouse.\n\nThey admitted that they signed up because they love doing stuff together, as well as a desire to help an amazing cause but after Cetinay admitted that the pair could be a shambles, it might be the last time we see them cosying up.\n\nSky News stalwart Burley is one of the most recognisable faces on television but teamed up with Mercer to go incognito.\n\nMercer, a Conservative MP who served in the British Army before heading into politics, and Burley were united in wanting to do something different to raise money for charity, with Burley citing a strong connection to several cancer charities  raising both funds and the profile of the organisation.\n\nBonded by Strictly Come Dancing, professional dancer Pritchard and former champion Smith swapped their dancing shoes for running trainers as they headed off on the run.\n\nThe stars, who both hail themselves competitive, came up with their gameplan early on as they vowed to get out of Londons CCTV range as quickly as possible  potentially bribing strangers with dance training for their silence or a place to sleep.\n\nAn unlikely pairing, Joly called out for the former Geordie Shore star when he was approached to go on the run having seen her survive in the Im A Celebrity jungle, emerging victorious.\n\nDespite being avid watchers of the show and how it works, the pair decided not to come up with a plan to help them settle into being short-term fugitives, preferring to be a fly by the seat of our pants team and torment the hunters.","title":"Celebrity Hunted 2018 cast Start date plus full list of the famous faces on the new series","date":"2018-10-16","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The most haunting image in Mothers Day (BBC2) was of the mortally wounded Tim Parry swaddled head-to-toe in bandages and suspended above a hospital bed, as if levitating. The camera didnt linger but simply let the horror speak for itself. Nor was there any dwelling on the observation that his room smelt of burning, a result of the 1993 IRA Warrington bombings that would shortly afterwards claim the life of the 12-year-old, along with that of three year-old Jonathan Ball, killed instantly in the attack. Ball had been in town with his babysitter shopping for a Mothers Day card.\n\nThe challenge writer Nick Leather (Broken) faced in this 90-minute drama was communicating the abhorrence of the bombings without sensationalising a real tragedy or exploiting the suffering of Parry, Ball and their families. He was assisted by powerfully nuanced performances by Anna Maxwell Martin and Daniel Mays as Tim Parrys parents, and by a steely turn from Vicky McClure as Dublin mother Susan McHugh, whose campaign of protest against the IRA's savagery helped move the Northern Ireland conflict towards the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nLeft unsaid but very much implied was that this peace  always fragile  is now threatened by Brexit and the spectre of police and customs barriers running through what, just 25 years ago, was a war zone.\n\nThe form a reinstated border might take was hinted at as McHugh travelled north, through a heavily armed checkpoint, to bring her message of peace to Belfast. She was met with disbelief at what the conflict-hardened survivors of the Troubles regarded as her naivety in speaking out against Warrington. In one of the many scenes that spoke to the tremendous subtlety Leather brought to a complicated subject, a mother who had lost a child to the security forces in the North wondered why McHugh was helping create a hierarchy of victims, whereby a victim of the IRA in England was worth more than one killed by an RUC plastic bullet in Belfast.\n\nNorthern Ireland is a knot that refuses to be untangled. Mothers Day did an effective job laying out the complexities of the Troubles, applying shades of grey to what is often portrayed as a black and white situation. This it achieved while also weaving a powerful human interest story as McHugh and the Parrys found a common cause in trying to ensure there would never be another Warrington (there of course would be  the Omagh bombing, carried out by IRA dissidents, was still five years away).\n\nThe only glaring flaw was McClures Irish accent, which had nothing in common with the real McHughs Dublin background and instead seemed to have parachuted in from a Hollywood movie about leprechauns and merry peasants in thatched cottages (it got better as she went on but initially she sounded like Mummy Zebra from Peppa Pig).\n\nThe soap opera elements, however, felt earned and respectful towards the real suffering of the families. As Tim lay dying, Colin Parrys way of coping was to step before the cameras and urge peace. But Wendy, whose bottomless grief, Martin conveyed with understatement, just wanted to mourn her son.\n\nThus she initially regarded the appearance on her doorstep of the campaigning McHugh as a visitation from an amiable but slightly dodgy saleswoman. A cheaper drama would have framed the story around the relationship between these two mothers, one grieving, the other outraged at what the IRA had done ostensibly in the name of Irish freedom. And it might have insisted that a storybook ending had taken place when Wendy Parry travelled to Dublin, with her husband, and found a common cause with Susan.\n\nInstead Leather let the facts speak for themselves, understanding this story of courage, selflessness and empathy was powerful enough on its own. The crescendo came as the Parrys appeared on television in Dublin, breaking the hearts of a nation as they explained that they did not blame Ireland for what had happened.\n\nThe most devastating was saved for last with a cut to footage of the real Susan McHugh, at a peace rally in Dublin, and of Wendy and Colin Parry going onto Gay Byrnes Late Late Show. And then to a final shot of Tim Parry, smiling from a faded photograph, and the quiet yet insistent implication that, 25 years after his death, it is unthinkable anyone should wilfully reignite a conflict never really extinguished, merely reduced to a simmer. It also demonstrated that drama can tackle complex and difficult subjects without making the viewer feel as if has sat through a lecture.","title":"Mothers Day BBC2 review Powerful IRA drama avoids lecturing viewers","date":"2018-09-03","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"An Australian teenager with a love of Apple decided to hack his favourite company and is now facing criminal charges.\n\nAccording to Australian newspaper The Age, the 16-year-old accessed Apples backend network multiple times over last year and managed to download 90GB of secure files and customer accounts.\n\nThe files were stored in a folder on his laptop labelled hacky hack hack.\n\nApple has come out and said that no user data was compromised in the attacks.\n\nWe ... want to assure our customers that at no point during this incident was their personal data compromised, a spokeperson told Reuters.\n\nThe tech giant called in the FBI after noticing the attacks were happening.\n\nThe FBI then passed on the allegations to the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The AFP carried out a search on the teens home last year and seized two Apple laptops, a mobile phone and a hard drive, which all matched the serial numbers and IP addresses that had intruded into the organisation.\n\nWhen the AFP searched the teenagers devices, the agency found the laptop's boosted hacking software. This software was used to access authorised keys, which grant log-in access to the Apple mainframe.\n\nThe AFP reported that the teen used WhatsApp to boast about his misadventures to others.\n\nAccording to The Age, the teenagers lawyer said he hacked Apple because he was such a fan of the company.\n\nFollowing his hacks, he has become so well known in the international hacking community that even mentioning the case in detail could expose him to risk.\n\nThe teen pleaded guilty to the charges, however, he will not be sentenced until next month due to complexities surrounding the case.\n\nTeenager hackers is a sub-category all on its own. Last year, Adam Mudd was jailed for two years after creating a computer hacking business when he was 16. After selling this software to cyber criminals, around 1.7 million attacks were carried out on websites such as Minecraft, Xbox Live and Microsoft.\n\nYou cant fault them for their skills and talent, but you can for the way they use them. Thats why the UKs National Crime Agency now has a rehab course for teen hackers which discusses what is illegal online and encourages the teens to use their skills in the security industry.","title":"Apple hack teenage fan hacks his favourite company but doesnapost compromise customer data","date":"2018-08-17","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"These arent people, these are animals. And were taking them out of the country at a rate thats never happened before. This quote was President Trumps response to a question on MS-13 transnational gang members from a California sheriff who disagrees with her states recent so-called sanctuary protections for dangerous illegal immigrants.","title":"Protect Hispanics by Attacking MS-13","date":"2018-05-26","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Prosecutions have reached an all-time low despite crime soaring to a new record high, official Government figures reveal.\n\nThe number of people dealt with by the criminal justice system in England and Wales fell by 7 percent in the latest year while recorded crime shot up by 11 percent to 5.5 million.\n\nThe Victims Commissioner warned that unless the trend is reversed people will simply give up reporting crimes, creating a real disconnect between the public and law enforcers.","title":"UK Criminal Prosecutions at Record Low Despite Crime Near All-Time High","date":"2018-08-16","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Its no secret that Obamas CIA director, John Brennan, is no fan of POTUS Donald Trump, as he has made clear on Twitter and on cable news programs regularly.\n\nIts also no secret to people who have taken the time to research Brennan that in the 1970s, as the Cold War with Russia was in full swing, Brennan actually voted for an American Communist Party candidate for president something that should have negated his ever becoming a staffer back in 1980, much less head of the countrys most powerful spy agency.\n\nThe president finally did justice and the American people a favor when he recently revoked Brennans security clearance. But according to a bombshell report, thats just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nAs noted by Teaparty.org, some believe that Brennan has been actively plotting against the United States for years, even allegedly playing a pivotal role in allowing the 9\/11 hijackers inside the country:\n\nObama, Clinton, Kerry, Jarrett...far too many people in the previous administration had highly troubling ties to the terrorist state of Iran and in Obamas case, there is quite a bit of evidence pointing to the fact that he was a Muslim, a fact which remained in question throughout the entirety of his presidency and he did little to dispel by always referring to the Koran as The Holy Koran and the Bible simply as the Bible.\n\nObama points to his decades-long association with a Christian church in Chicago, where he lived and served as a state, then U.S., senator before becoming president. But the pastor of that church was Jeremiah Wright, whose fiery sermons can best be summed up as anti-white and anti-Republican, to say the least, and who was regularly critical of America in general.\n\nThere is even some speculation that Brennan may have converted to Islam at some point.\n\nBut theres more. According to Freedom Outpost, Brennan was the CIA station chief in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, when the 9\/11 hijackers were given visas to travel to the United States. There are even reports he gave the final approval for those visas.\n\nIn September 2014, a whistleblower named Greg Ford, a former military intelligence officer, told Ground Zero Radios Clyde Lewis that Brennan actually overrode CIA objections to the approval of those visas.\n\nFord said on the show: All 19 high jackers? Where did they get their visas stamped before they came to this country to launch 9\/11? They got their visas stamped in the CIA station in Jeddah. And the second in command said, No way, absolutely we are not going to stamp those visas. And the fellow who was in charge, his name was John Brennan. He was the person who overrode those concerns and cautions and ordered those visas stamped in Jeddah.\n\nFreedom Outpost noted further that Michael Springman was, at the time, head of the American visa bureau in Saudi Arabia, a post he held during the Reagan and Bush administrations, from September 1987 through March 1989. He said during his time there he was ordered by higher State Department officials to hand out visas to applicants who were not qualified. He said the applications were for recruits of Osama bin Laden, who was fighting against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and who was sending recruits to the U.S. for training by the CIA.\n\nSpringman made his incredible claims during an appearance at the National Press Club on June 10, 2002.\n\nThe National Review subsequently reported that none of the 9\/11 hijacker visas were completed in the proper manner, turning the U.S. government into a travel agency for terrorists.\n\nThe magazine, citing an August 2004 report[.pdf] from the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, said the visa applications for the 19 hijackers were replete with data fields left blank and questions that were not fully answered, and yet U.S. officials approved 22 of 23 visa applications for the hijackers.\n\nOf the 15 Saudi terrorists, four of them received visas through the Visa Express Program in June 2001.\n\nIf it werent for John Brennan, 9\/11 may never have happened, Freedom Outpost concluded.\n\nRead more about Islamic terrorism against the U.S. at Terrorism.news.","title":"Was John Brennan a traitor who allowed 911 terrorists to enter the United States and murder thousan","date":"2018-09-04","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"In October, Instagram added a polling feature to its ephemeral stories. Today, the company is introducing a new twist on polling with the questions sticker, which lets your friends submit questions for you to answer in a subsequent story post. Instagram says its a way to start conversations during moments when you dont necessarily have a photo or video to share. In other words, its a way to ensure that people continue posting even if they have totally run out of content ideas.\n\nThe new feature can be found in the sticker drawer. Tap it, type out a prompt, and place it on your post. When friends see it, they can tap the sticker to send replies. Somewhat confusingly, replies will appear in the list of people who have viewed your story, which appears in the bottom-left corner of the post. (Wasnt Instagram Direct built for this exact sort of thing?)\n\nFrom there, you can tap the question to create a new story post. The question will be inserted into the story, and you can answer however you like. Youll know who asked the question, but their username or photo wont appear in the post.\n\nThe questions sticker is rolling out today on Android and iOS.","title":"Instagram adds the questions sticker a new way to poll your friends","date":"2018-07-10","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Residents of the sleepy, rural town of Brownwood, Texas (population 19,000) awoke Sunday to find four monuments at a local veterans memorial knocked over and shattered on the ground. The memorials were en-scripted with the names of local area veterans who have served.\n\nThe damage was discovered by President of the Memorial Harold Steiber on Sunday morning. I found it at 8 a.m. Sunday morning when I came to work on the (recently acquired Vietnam UH-1 Medi-vac) helicopter, and my power tools wouldnt work. The breaker is just behind one of the (monuments) and after I flipped it, I looked up and saw what had happened.\n\nThe downed granite memorial monuments paid tribute to the men from Brown County who fought in World War 1, World War 2, Korea and Vietnam, as well as the Infantry Division that called Camp Bowie home during WWII.\n\nThe estimated damage done to the memorial is close to $40,000. Assistant Brownwood Police Chief James Fuller, who was in training today with Chief Nichols, said this weekends weather could be the cause for the toppled monuments. We had straight line winds on Sunday. Damage around town included power outages and several large downed trees.\n\nCol Tom Gray, who also volunteers at the memorial, says it was not an accident. The engineers say no way it was wind, not with the amount of tonnage we are dealing with here. Gray continued It mustve been some big old boys, more than one for sure to knock those down.\n\nThe Memorial Day service scheduled for the Central Texas Veterans Memorial will still be held next Monday despite the damage, according to Memorial Secretary and Treasurer Joyce Leidig. We start at 11:00, right here said Leidig. The public is also invited to attend.","title":"Vandals Destroy Veterans Memorial In Texas","date":"2018-05-22","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Nobody does reinvention like Madonna.\n\nSince she first broke out in 1982 with the hit Everybody, the beauty chameleon has experimented with just about every look under the sun.\n\nFrom '80s club kid, to punk through various highly-sexed sirens, to geishas and megawatt Hollywood glamour, Madge has managed to effortlessly channel her rebellious rock star status into many a magical makeup moment.\n\nAs the founder of her own cosmetics line, MDNA Skin, the beauty chameleon always has a flawless alabaster complexion as the starting point for her look. Her signature style is to then offset this with a punchy red lip, a slick of liquid eyeliner and high-impact falsies, but over the years shes also rocked glowing skin and lip glossed glamour, shimmering pink eye shadows and, of course, that signature beauty spot.\n\nWhen it comes to her locks, the OG queen of pop has pulled off platinum blonde, brunette, jet-black, redhead, curly, straight and cropped with equal amounts of panache.\n\nKnown for her insistence on growing older on her own terms, the mother-of-sixs best beauty moment has got to be the gold and diamond-encrusted grillz, which she rocked back in 2013.\n\nAs she celebrates her 60th birthday today, we salute the the superstars ever adventurous, high-octane approach to beauty.\n\nScroll through the gallery above for Madonnas most notable hair and beauty moments.","title":"24 times Madonna switched up her beauty lookand we loved it","date":"2018-08-16","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Robinson will be appearing via Skype, telling Gateway Pundit that he has accepted an invitation to go to Australia for ten days and does not want to be away from his family for too long. He has received many invitations to come and speak in the US and is planning a proper tour for a future date.\n\nI want to bring my warning to America, not just to Congress  but all corners of America, Robinson told the Gateway Pundit. I think its better to plan a proper tour. My message is too important to cram into four days.\n\nWednesdays event is being hosted by the Middle East Forum and is titled, Silenced! Censoring Public Discussion of Islam. Others on the panel include MEF President Daniel Pipes and Rebel Media founder Ezra Levant.\n\nThe pattern is clear: Question Sharia Law  and find yourself banned from Facebook and Twitter. Criticize a radical Imam, get fined. Call for limits on immigration, get fired. Plan a talk on female genital mutilation, get deplatformed, the MEF invitation reads.\n\nThe MEF is an activist-think tank that identifies and promotes American interests as they relate to the Middle East and Islam.\n\nThe event will be taking place from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building. The MEF asks that people register to attend and arrive early with a photo ID to get through security. They will be providing lunch and ask that guests wear business attire.\n\nRobinson had also been invited by seven members of Congress to come and speak before the Conservative Opportunity Society, a caucus of conservative members of the US House of Representatives at 8 a.m. on Wednesday  but that will likely happen at a later date. Signatories on the invitation included Rep. Paul Gosar, Rep. Steve King, Rep. Ralph Norman, Rep Brian Babin, Rep. Scott Perry, Rep. Andy Harris and Rep Louie Gohmert.\n\nRobinson told Gateway Pundit that he has an open invitation to come speak before Congress any time that he wants  so there is no need to rush his visit.\n\nI have so many people I would like to thank in the United States that I want to plan it properly. I want to thank everyone who helped to free me in person, Robinson said.\n\nIn May, Robinson was arrested for contempt of court while filming outside a Pakistani grooming gang trial in Leeds, as the case was under a reporting ban. His arrest and immediate imprisonment leads to protests all over the world  from London to Washington, DC.\n\nIn August, the charge was struck down by Lord Chief Justice Burnett and two other judges  but he may now be subjected to a retrial.\n\nRobinson appeared before a judge at the Old Bailey last month. He had brought his prison bag and was prepared in case he was sent back to jail  but instead the judge referred the case to the Attorney General. Thousands of his supporters gathered outside and celebrated when the outcome was announced.\n\nThough it was what Robinson and his lawyers were hoping for, it means the case continues to drag on and he remains stuck in limbo, uncertain if he will have to return to prison. He expects to be cleared soon, which will also open him up for easier travel.\n\nRobinson was recently banned from PayPal, who said that they do not allow PayPal services to be used to promote hate, violence, or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory. They have additionally frozen the money that he had in his account for 180 days.\n\nThey just dont like my opinion and want to silence me, Robinson told the Press Association. The government and establishment can see I have public support, they can see I have the ability to fight back.\n\nAdditionally, 55 anti-free speech British MPs wrote a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him not to let Robinson into the country to speak. It does not appear that Pompeo has responded to them.\n\nOn the eve of last months hearing, Robinson sat down with the Gateway Pundit to discuss his case  as well as his hopes and fears.\n\nYou can watch the video here:","title":"Tommy Robinson to Discuss Censorship of Those Who Speak About Islam at Capitol Hill Event on Wednesd","date":"2018-11-09","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The Trump administrations massive cuts to social services have left lots of people in need, and that has created fresh work for tech nonprofits that are hoping to address it.\n\nThe nonprofit sector is doing a lot of the work the government should be doing, said Tiffani Ashley Bell, founder of the Human Utility, which provides debt forgiveness for people with overdue water bills. And there is a lot of that in the nonprofit sector. Bell founded the organization working to restore water service to people who are unable to pay their bills. The organization, which was founded in 2014, began its work in Detroit and has since expanded to Baltimore.\n\nPeople in Detroit were having to live without running water because they couldnt afford the bill, and, at that time, it was probably 30,000 households in Detroit that had that going on, Bell said. And a lot of it was they literally couldnt afford the bill. Weve spoken to people where they didnt have any furniture in their house.\n\nThats one reason why Bell says the tech industry should pay more attention to peoples basic needs. She suggests more tech workers devote the time they save from using services like Instacart or Amazon Prime to volunteering for a cause they believe in. You dont have to dedicate a whole eight-hour day to volunteer or anything like that, she said. Two hours would help somebody.\n\nMore than 14 million people in the United States have trouble paying utility bills, Bell said. To date, the Human Utility has helped more than 1,000 families pay their bills. It developed its own platform for crowdsourcing donations and built a separate platform for managing the cases of its clients. Bell credits a strong focus on a handful of key metrics, learned at the prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator, for its growth to date.\n\nBell lays out her thoughts on how Silicon Valley should change its priorities on this episode of Converge, an interview game show where techs biggest personalities tell us about their wildest dreams. Its a show thats easy to win, but not impossible to lose  because, in the final round, I finally get a chance to play and score a few points of my own.\n\nYou can read a partial, lightly edited transcript with Bell below, and youll find the full episode of Converge above. You can listen to it here or anywhere else you find podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Google Play Music, Spotify, our RSS feed, and wherever fine podcasts are sold.\n\nCasey Newton: It sounds like youd like us to reckon more with nonprofits in our lives.\n\nTiffani Ashley Bell: Totally. I just think about how the nonprofit sector is doing a lot of the work the government should be doing. Like the work I do with water or the crisis now with kids at the border. Thats something that the government actually shouldnt be doing, but we get into that realm of picking up the slack for the government. And there is a lot of that in the nonprofit sector.\n\nAnd I think, especially here in San Francisco, if youre getting your groceries at the grocery store yourself, you have a lot of free time. So you could probably volunteer. Go to your closest nonprofit and volunteer your development talent or something like that because they would love to have something like that. Thats one easy way for a lot of people here to get involved.\n\nI like that, and I also like the challenge of when you look at the services that you as a person in the tech industry used to save time. Then ask yourself, what are you doing with that time? And then ask yourself, if any of that time being spent helping anybody else?\n\nSeems like kind of a good two-part exercise that people who listen to this show could go through.\n\nTotally, and its not even that hard. You dont have to dedicate a whole eight-hour day to volunteering or anything like that. Two hours would help somebody.","title":"Why tech nonprofits are increasingly stepping in for the government","date":"2018-07-18","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"The events took place in Santa Coloma de Gramenet in Catalonia two days ago. The young lady was traveling on the Metro with her boyfriend when the Moroccan manada (or wild herd, as the Spanish call sexually violent groups of men) started molesting her.\n\nThe youths followed the couple out of the train compartment and inserted themselves inside an elevator in the train station with them and proceeded to knife the young man as he defended his girlfriend, and violently sexually attack the young lady.\n\nThe group was arrested by the local police of Santa Coloma de Gramenet this past Sunday, November 11th, in the house they were squatting in.","title":"Spain 14 Moroccans Sexually Abuse Girl Stab Her Boyfriend","date":"2018-11-13","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Brighton travel to Anfield this evening looking to build on their incredible win over Manchester United with an even tougher test at Liverpool.\n\nJurgen Klopp's men have enjoyed a perfect start to their campaign, dispatching West Ham for four before travelling to Selhurst Park to win 2-0 in the first Monday Night Football of the season.\n\nBrighton meanwhile had a poor opening weekend; beaten by Watford at Vicarage Road where they rarely looked likely to sting the Hornets at any point.\n\nThe Seagulls season was then kick-started on Sunday afternoon when Chris Hughton's side heaped pressure on United manager Jose Mourinho with a 3-2 win.\n\nLiverpool vs Brighton will kick off at 5:30pm on Saturday 25th August\n\nThe match will be televised live on BT Sport 1, with coverage starting from 5pm. BT Sport subscribers will be able to stream the match online via the video player and the BT Sport app.\n\nFor Liverpool ticket information, click here to access the clubs official website.\n\nFor Brighton ticket information, click here to access the clubs official website.\n\nClick here to find the latest match odds and place a bet\n\nThis will be the 28th meeting between the two sides in competitive action, with the home side winning the majority of the games (15), and just four wins for the visitors.\n\nWith Joel Matip returning to the Liverpool match day squad for their victory at Crystal Palace, it seems the defender could return at centre-half as they look to continue their perfect start to the season.\n\nLewis Dunk limped off the Amex Stadium pitch early on in the game against United after a heavy challenge from Romelu Lukaku. The defender is a big doubt for the trip to Anfield, but with the performance that Dunk's replacement - new signing Leon Balogun - provided, Brighton fans shouldn't be too worried.","title":"Liverpool vs Brighton Premier League 2018-19 prediction tickets betting tips and odds how to wat","date":"2018-08-21","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"With the governors signature, Illinois is now one of more than a dozen states with red flag laws in place, including at least eight that have passed legislation as a response to the February shooting in Parkland, Florida.\n\nA judge must hold a hearing within a week of the filing to review evidence and determine whether to issue an order. If the restraining order is granted, the person must remain away from guns for up to six months. Their firearm license will be suspended, and theyre otherwise barred from buying guns. If the individual is believed to be in possession of firearms, the judge would then direct law enforcement to seize those weapons for the duration of the order. Any person who knowingly provides false information in requesting a firearms restraining order would face felony perjury charges.\n\nThe bills sponsor, state Rep. Kathleen Willis (D), has proposed similar legislation in previous sessions, only to have it fail amid accusations that it would lead to Second Amendment violations. Willis said it wasnt until this year, following recent mass shootings that she saw widespread bipartisan support for the bill. These incidents included attacks in Las Vegas, Parkland, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee, where a man shot up a Waffle House with guns hed purchased in Illinois.\n\nIt took some tragedies to finally open up peoples eyes to realize that when red flags are there, families see them first, Willis said. People close to the shooters often see those red flags and are powerless to do anything.\n\nWith the addition of Illinois, 13 states now have some sort of red flag law on the books. Eight states have enacted new measures since the February massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in which 17 people were killed. Floridas law went into effect in March, and Vermont, Maryland, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware and Massachusetts later followed suit.\n\nSupporters of red flag laws have held up the Parkland shooting as an example of the sort of incident these statutes might be able to prevent. The suspected gunman in that case, a 19-year-old former student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, had attracted the attention of local police on numerous occasions before his attack. Officers, however, never pursued criminal charges that mightve otherwise opened the door for his guns to be seized.\n\nWith firearm restraining orders at their disposal, police can remove guns from dangerous individuals before harm is done, said Robin Lloyd, director of government affairs at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) founded the national nonprofit after she was shot at a constituent event in 2011.\n\nThe new Illinois law also allows for the filing of emergency restraining orders against individuals who pose an immediate and present danger of causing harm to themselves or others. In these cases, court hearings will be held on the same day the petition is filed, or the next day court is in session. These proceedings can be done ex parte, meaning the individual isnt notified. If the order is granted, the persons firearms can be removed immediately, at which time they can petition for a followup hearing within two weeks.\n\nAlthough much of the conversation around red flag laws has revolved around their ability to get guns away from those at risk of harming others, advocates have also pointed to their effectiveness in preventing suicides, which account for 60 percent of all firearms deaths in the country and around one-third of all fatal shootings in Illinois, according to federal statistics.\n\nThe National Rifle Association had initially come out as neutral on HB 2354,  only to change its stance, choosing to oppose it, just minutes into the debate over the legislation, Willis said. More generally, the organization has been inconsistent in its support for red flag laws. The NRA did not respond to a HuffPost request for comment.\n\nWere not talking about things that may or may not have happened in a casual setting, were talking about evidence that has to go before a court, Lloyd said. Its balancing somebodys right to due process with the fact that there are dangerous people who have risen to the court system level and have had contact with law enforcement.","title":"With New Illinois Gun Law Red Flag States Have More Than Doubled Since Parkland","date":"2018-07-16","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Theresa May once wanted to abolish the same 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs that could now seal her fate as Prime Minister, because she saw it as archaic according to a former adviser.\n\nMay was not yet a minister when she decided that the backbench-only group did not reflect the modern Tory Party, says the source. The 1922 Committee, chaired by Sir Graham Brady, is the body that triggers votes of no confidence in Conservative leaders. If Brady receives enough letters of no confidence in the leader, the threshold for which is 15 per cent of the parliamentary party  currently 48 letters  he must call a vote of no confidence. Last night Jacob Rees-Mogg said that he was closer than ever before to sending in his letter.\n\nAs her ministers resign, the proximate threat to Mays leadership is one that, if she had got her way, would not now exist.\n\nThe 22, as its known, is a focal point for discontent among Tories with their leader. Open only to backbenchers, it is an alternative powerbase within the party that explicitly excludes the Government.\n\nThe committee holds its meetings in the fusty, oak-panelled committee room 14 in Parliament where MPs subject leaders to bear-pit style politics, either loudly banging desks or remaining in stony silence.\n\nMay is not the only leader who has wanted to reform the Committee. David Cameron in 2010 said he wanted to change the rules of the 22 to encompass the whole parliamentary party and include ministers as well as backbenchers. To show contrast, he held meetings that included the Chief Whip in the modern surroundings of Portcullis House.\n\nWhere is David Davis, the former minister who everyone speaks of as the caretaker leader should May be toppled? The Londoner can reveal that Davis flew to Washington on Wednesday morning to talk about trade, and was also expected to give a speech to an American university. Asked if he would be returning early from the States, his adviser told us: No comment.\n\nWhat was the DUPs Arlene Foster doing deep in conversation with Labours Kate Hoey? And why did they leave the Commons in the same car? Hoey, who decried the minimal interest shown by her colleagues in Northern Ireland, may have been practising what she preaches, but the two are old friends, meeting in their student days. Foster says: When I was nominated by the DUP, [Hoey] asked me if there was anything she could do to help. I suggested she should come to Enniskillen to endorse my candidature.\n\nGrayson Perry is a one-man stand against marketing forces capitalising on the everyday. I stopped sending Christmas cards five to 10 years ago, he told us yesterday at the Baillie Gifford book prize, railing: Stop telling me how to live my life. Theres a national day for everything. Stop telling me how to wipe my f**king arse.\n\nRachel Weisz, dropping the c-bomb during an interview in the US, made the journo uncomfortable. In England we say it all the time, Weisz explains. If Im with another Brit, well say, So and so is being such a c***, and laugh. Cambridge grad Weisz added: Its an old English word. From Shakespeare. Or maybe Chaucer.\n\nActor Zoe Kravitz has accused singer Lily Allen of misrepresenting a kiss between them. In Allens recent memoir, My Thoughts Exactly, she recalls an occasion when Zoe and I went out partying and ended up kissing.\n\nKravitzs memory of the event is markedly different. If by kissing she means, like, attacking, then yes, she kissed me, a visibly uncomfortable Kravitz told a US talk show yesterday. It was portrayed [in the book] like I wanted it.\n\nHost Andy Cohen inquired whether Kravitz had read the book. I dont think anybody read the book, she replied.\n\nDon we now our sparkly apparel: London is glittering as Christmas approaches. Designer Christopher Kane unveiled his bright new Christmas terrace at Scotts in Mayfair last night, celebrating the launch with friends including models Edie Campbell and Lara Stone, who walked in his very first show. I love Christmas: I love the glitz, I love the glamour, he told The Londoner. Mercifully he has not yet started planning his celebrations, although I have friends who have already done everything, which is depressing. Im very last minute.\n\nAmong other guests at the restaurant was Amercian singer and hellraiser Courtney Love having a quiet dinner.  Over at The Box in Soho, shimmering burlesque star Dita von Teese was the star guest of Absolut Elyx, and Betty Bachz, Naomi Harries and Jack Guinness sparkled at Londons Bargehouse on the South Bank, for this years Veuve Clicquot Widow Series.\n\nJo Johnson described Brexit as a parlour game in this weeks Spectator and offered an insight into government machinery when a minister resigns. The Department for Transport driver knocked on our front door for the second time in half an hour and said he was collecting the red box full of ministerial papers hed delivered minutes before, he said. There was also the instantaneous deletion of my policy advisers entire email system from her smartphone while she was in the middle of sending a message.\n\nSome Tory MPs are very angry that Theresa May met Jeremy Corbyn to discuss the deal, when she cancelled morning meetings with Peter Bone and Jacob Rees-Mogg, with half an hours notice.\n\nGreg Hands MP celebrated his 53rd yesterday a little irritated that this 585-page document is dated on my birthday. So he took it to bed, explaining, I pledged to read it before making any comment.\n\nQuote of the day\n\n'We are both, it seems, leaving it late when it comes to career progression'","title":"The Londoner Theresa May aposwanted to abolish the 1922 Committeeapos","date":"2018-11-15","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Weve all been there: crucible afternoon meeting and your breath is, well, less than fragrant. Keep this winning formula in your drawer: its the coolest looking mouthwash weve seen. Gargle and smile with this peppermint-flavoured, alcohol-free rinse. No burn. 15, at mrporter.com.\n\nIts just a little heavier than the famous Brompton fold-up bike but fellow commuters will like the big, sturdy wheels and seven gears. Perfect for getting into and out of the city. At a great price. Tern Link A7 folding bike, 400, at evanscycles.com.\n\nDid somebody say James Bond? Get your hands on these high-summer shorts from Orlebar Brown. Each pair is printed with stylised visuals from the old and arguably best 007 films. Take your pick from Sean Connery in Thunderball or Roger Moore in Live and Let Die, E-Type Jag and chest hair optional. 245 (orlebarbrown.com)\n\nThese are a classic pair of Bass penny loafers cleverly souped up by one of the capitals coolest labels, Universal Works. The formers cobbling nous and the latters modern take on a classic wardrobe have combined in these just-launched summer beauties. Wear yours with smart shorts or rolled-up chinos. From 175 (ghbass-eu.com)","title":"Menaposs style What to buy now","date":"2018-08-01","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Watching sport is one of the most expensive habits to enjoy, but no group of fans are ripped off quite as much as boxing aficionados. With fights scattered across different television channels and two warring domestic promoters, fans are forced to subscribe to two expensive products merely to keep in the loop.\n\nThe monthly cost of Sky Sports and BT Sport represents over a daily wage for a huge number of people, but the quality of shows on those platforms have dipped massively over the past year. There is a myth that these channels are free-to-air, but they are nowhere near, and yet for the big fights to happen, fans are often asked to fork out another 20 to watch it.\n\nThis is an unacceptable system which has been ruthlessly exploited in recent years by both Frank Warren and latterly Eddie Hearn, whose quotes about pay-per-view boxing recently verged on absurdity.\n\nHearn, the same man who promoted Tony Bellew vs Nathan Cleverly and Kell Brook vs Frankie Gavin as pay-per-view main events warned of the dangers of too many pay-per-view events and that other fighters will take risks on pay-per-views that wont work.\n\nThe problem for Hearn is that you cant serve up successful nonsense and not expect others to follow suit. Yes, there are far too many pay-per-view events scheduled until the end of the year from Sky, BT and ITV, but the recent phenomenon of fleecing fans on phony hype has been perfected by Hearn, who promotes his latest offering this weekend when Heavyweight supremo Anthony Joshua fights Alexander Povetkin.\n\nIs this a big fight? Yes. Will the event look great on television, with close to 80,000 people sipping beers, wearing blue shirts and sneaking off to the toilets often? Perhaps. But do the public really need to shell out? Well, yes.\n\nEven at the lowest level of boxing, a heavyweight fight remains one of the most intriguing sporting contests. What could be better? You take two big lads with power and questionable stamina and wait for the first oak to fall.\n\nThis fight adds a great deal of skill and swagger to those basic principles, but the allure is still the same. Two powerhouses, 12 rounds, and three of the four heavyweight title belts on the line. Whats not to love?\n\nJoshua, who was the main event for his first pay-per-view event for the British title against Dillian Whyte in 2015, has become Eddie Hearns golden child, with a flawless professional record, three championship belts and a mass audience of adoring supporters.\n\nDoes he deserve it? On paper, absolutely. After out-scoring Joseph Parker in his last fight to add the WBO heavyweight title to his IBF and WBA belts, Joshua reaffirmed his status as the best heavyweight on the planet, and he will be aiming to exert even more pressure over the field against Povetkin.\n\nFor the first time in his career Joshua was taken the distance in a professional fight by Parker and failed to look spectacular, which will give Povetkin some confidence. Povetkin, like Joshua, is a former Olympic gold medalist, and the veteran Russian has lost just once in a 35-fight career against Wladimir Klitschko.\n\nThe former WBA champion failed a drug test in 2016 ahead of a potential bout with Deontay Wilder and has been tarred with the reputation of a cheat ever since. Victory over Joshua would give a semblance of redemption towards the end of a lengthy career which has seen significant natural talent regress as the ageing process constricts.\n\nPovetkin was last seen in action against Britains David Price on the Joshua\/Parker undercard, and though he stopped the Liverpudlian in the fifth round, he was given an almighty scare by the hard-hitting giant earlier in the bout. Price has always had power but has fought timidly in recent bouts, which made his huge shot all the more impressive.\n\nThe Russian escaped with a stoppage win, but its clear his best days are behind him. At nearly 40, its unlikely hell have the stamina to out-score Joshua, who looked durable and fresh against Parker.\n\nInstead, Povetkin will be looking to enjoy similar success that his old rival Klitschko showed against Joshua  soak up the early pressure, time the punches and then hit hard and often. Does the Russian have the power? At one point he did, but the explosive surprise of his heavy shots have dimmed.\n\nJoshua has spoken of nerves and rebuilding heading into this fight, and despite slower sales than usual for this Wembley bout, he is by far the biggest ticket seller in British boxing history. Hes tall, handsome and boasts a Herculean figure, but beyond the six-pack lies a complex character full of contradictions.\n\nIs he the successful every man with celebrity mates and an easygoing face on chat shows, or is he, as some believe, a media creation who hides his genuine self through meaningless mantras and eyebrow raising social media activity? One thing is for sure, his personality inside the ring is far different to his public behaviour outside it. Once the bell rings, Joshua is a stalking machine, who is not shy at using the dark side of boxing to his advantage.\n\nThe WBA and IBF heavyweight champion is full of aggression and has been known to hit his opponents just after the bell or after they have been knocked down. Theyre moves which are unseen by many eyes but happen with just enough frequency to be noted. The aggression is teamed with serenity, which makes him a highly dangerous foe at any stage in the fight. When Wladimir Klitschko knocked him down hard during their 2017 bout, Joshua, though ragged, showed huge amounts of calm to weather the storm, and take the overall victory.\n\nThats what he does, despite all the pressure and expectation. He just wins, over and over, then takes the microphone and talks in platitudes. That just wont do this weekend though, not with the looming sight of Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury both jostling for attention.\n\nLike it or not, for the first time in years, the heavyweight division is buzzing without Joshuas involvement in a fight. Though hes still the main man, the critics are itching for weakness, while even his most ardent fans are beginning to beg him to shut up his giant rivals.\n\nBeating Povetkin is a great achievement, but what would be even grander is what happens after. This is the moment Anthony Joshua needs to rip the microphone and remind everyone that hes the best in the world, that he is not defined by his promoter, by money or fame, but by being the greatest.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"Anthony Joshua vs Alexander Povetkin Joshua not his promoter Eddie Hearn must remind everyone why","date":"2018-09-22","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Update (11:15 am ET): Police have the shooter in handcuffs and are in the process of clearing the synagogue. According to scanner reports, at least 11 people have been tagged dead on arrival.\n\nHeres the scene from a few blocks away:\n\nUpdate (11:11 am ET): The suspect has reportedly surrendered according to police scanner reports. According to police scanner reports, he was armed with a Glock pistol and an AR-15.\n\nAt least four people have died and a cop has been shot in the wrist. The suspect is crawling out of the building and communicating with the SWAT team.\n\nAccording to police, the suspects name is Robert Bower. He is 46 years old. He reportedly shouted all Jews must die at police after being subdued. The suspect was officially in cuffs as of 11:13 am ET.\n\nMore bodies are reportedly being brought out. Police have also found a military style package on the first floor.\n\nWith the country still on edge from the flurry of more than a dozen attempted mail bombings of prominent Democratic political figures this past week, as many as eight people have been killed after a gunman opened fire during Shabbat services at a synagogue in Pittsburghs Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The shooter, who is armed with an AK-47, has taken members of the congregation hostage, according to Pittsburghs CBS affiliate station.\n\nOfficers were forced to hide behind their cars after arriving at Tree of Life Congregation, which is located on the corner of Wilkens and Shady Avenues, as the gunman opened fire on them. At least 4 have been confirmed dead, and scanner reports suggest the total could already be seven or eight. According to one report, the gunman is holed up on the third floor of the synagogue and is engaged in a gun battle with members of the SWAT team.\n\nAs one YouTuber who put the scanner feed online noted, were listening to a terrorist attack in real time.\n\nHere are some excerpts from the scanner courtesy of RT:\n\nDetails of dramatic police standoff with the shooter are emerging via police radio broadcast on the Broadcastify website. An officer at the scene has told his colleagues over the police radio that there are four down in the atrium. Another one said Ive got one alive.\n\nWe need armor, one police officer is heard saying, while another one requested to open up the back for rescue.\n\nSaturday is Shabbat in the Jewish faith, and the shooting reportedly took place during a crowded prayer service. According to one local reporter, Tree of Life has one of the largest congregations in the city.\n\nAccording to the Daily Mirror, the area around the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue and the area surrounding it have been sealed off.\n\nOne purported witness said she saw 15+ police cars speeding toward the synagogue.\n\nLocals have been asked to avoid the area. Nearby Carnegie Mellon University is reportedly on lockdown.\n\nWatch these videos below showing Infowars predict escalating violence ahead of midterms:\n\nDemocrats Call For Civil War If Republicans Are Elected In Midterms\n\nObama Activates His Domestic Army To Carry Out Violent Attacks Ahead Of Election\n\nThe Democrats Have Created, Formed, And Mobilized An Angry Mob\n\nDemocrats Attempt To Blame Their Violence On Republicans","title":"Breaking At Least 11 Dead Several Others Shot At Pittsburgh Synagogue","date":"2018-10-27","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"During the recent heat wave I realised just how assimilated to Ireland I have become. No, it wasnt because I complained that the temperature was too high just three days in. It was because I kept making cups of tea, hot cups of tea. Somehow in 17 years a beverage I just about tolerated in cold weather became suitable refreshment for any weather.\n\nThis got me thinking about the technology that I use to make my tea. I imagine that almost every household in Ireland owns an electric kettle. They are, to my continued surprise, not very popular in the United States. One of the earliest uses of electricity to power a small household appliance, the kettle hasnt changed very much in over 50 years.\n\nAn electric kettle changes electrical energy into heat (just another form of energy), the heat then boils the water. Heat is generated by passing an electrical current through a material that provides resistance. The bottom of the kettle is generally where heat is created, replacing the fire over which it might have been boiled. The use of electricity to produce clean heat in the home expanded in the 1880s with a particular focus on cooking technologies such as electric stoves. However, it was not until the 20th century that the availability of household wiring and the lower price of electricity made home electrical appliances more attractive. Small appliances were connected at a lamp socket, in place of the lamps that represented the first use of electricity in homes.\n\nEarly electric kettles look exactly like standard kettles except with a flex attached. They were not as efficient as current kettles, taking perhaps 20 minutes to boil. One model, the Prometheus kettle from the turn of the century, can still be found as an antique. In 1929, the ESB advertised a copper electric automatic safety kettle that looked much like the Prometheus of 30 years before. They enticed customers with the promise that the kettle will not get black and was absolutely clean because electricity heats without flame.\n\nThe automatic safety element the ESB advertised was one of the first modifications of the design. Prior to its introduction, it was possible to boil the kettle dry causing the kettle to fail and risking an electrical fire. Yet the safety device created its own problems. A person whose kettle had stopped working was tempted to investigate the cause of the failure themselves. Death by electrocution often followed. A series of articles in the British Medical Journal as late as the 1960s suggested that women over 60 were particularly vulnerable to electrocution due to the use of scissors in the investigation of the connectors of electric irons and kettles. One doctor even described the electric kettle with its safety device as a booby trap for old ladies.\n\nUnbeknown to the old ladies and indeed their old doctors, a modified safety switch was already available. The new switch, one that we tea drinkers are familiar with from its happy click, was operated by steam and turned off the kettle once it had boiled. The kettle did not boil dry nor did it short circuit and those thirsty for tea were not tempted to poke at wiring with the nearest available pointed object. By the 1960s the electric tea kettle was a standard, and safe, home appliance.\n\nIf you are intrigued by the history of household technologies then I recommend a visit to Johnstown Castle in Co Wexford. The gardens are beautiful for a walk and you can even feed the peacocks. But if you fancy a break from the heat, or youre lucky enough to get a rainy day, the museum is well worth a visit.\n\nBilled as an agricultural museum, this is in many ways really a museum of the history of technology. There is plenty of technology relating to farming from early tractors to milking machines to pesticide spreaders. On the very top floor, almost at the end of the exhibition is an exploration of household technologies. You can compare model kitchens pre and post electrification and read about a variety of different home electrical devices and their introduction. And then you can go downstairs to refresh yourself with a cup of tea and an excellent scone.","title":"The history of the kettle","date":"2018-08-10","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"Between 20,000 and 30,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Iraq and Syria despite the jihadist groups defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its ranks, according to a UN report released Monday.\n\nThe report by UN sanctions monitors estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 IS jihadists were based in Libya while some of the key operatives in the extremist group were being relocated to Afghanistan.\n\nMember-states told the monitors that the total IS membership in Iraq and Syria was between 20,000 and 30,000 individuals, roughly equally distributed between the two countries.","title":"Tens of Thousands of ISIS Fighters Remain in Iraq Syria UN","date":"2018-08-14","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"President Donald Trumps son, Eric, is accused of making anti-Semitic comments in reference to Bob Woodwards new book about his fathers White House.\n\nThe presidents son appeared on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning and denounced Woodwards book, Fear: Trump in the White House, as fiction.\n\nIt all started when co-host Steve Doocy noted that the book and last weeks anonymous New York Times op-ed criticizing the president as amoral and vapid have stirred fresh chaos in the White House.\n\nEric Trump pushed back, saying the media only wants to make his dad look bad.\n\nDont you think people look through the fact, you can write some sensational, nonsense book, CNN will definitely have you on there because they love to trash the president, Trump said.\n\nThen, in what some people interpret as a dog whistle to white nationalists, Trump added:\n\nItll mean you sell three extra books, you make three extra shekels, at the behest of the American people, at the behest of our country, thats doing a phenomenal job by every quantifiable metric. Is that really where we are?\n\nThe shekel is the currency used in both ancient and modern-day Israel. Keegan Hankes, senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Centers Intelligence Project, which tracks hate groups, noted that the term also can be used as a slur.\n\nShekels is a derogatory term used by white supremacists that ties into the myth that Jewish people only care about money, Hankes told HuffPost. The term is tied to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews control the financial system, he said, and is used constantly by the extreme right and particularly neo-Nazis.\n\nTrumps use of the word on Fox News certainly seems like a dog whistle, Hankes added.\n\nERIC TRUMP attacks Democrats: \"Anti-law enforcement, high taxes, and elimination of plastic straws is not a message that will win in November.\"\n\n\n\nERIC TRUMP then dismisses WOODWARD book as \"sensational nonsense\" he wrote \"to make 3 extra shekels.\" pic.twitter.com\/GuTXMpPLHG  Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 12, 2018\n\nOutrageous. If you want to see how the neo-Nazis use the term \"shekels\" take a quick glance at The Daily Stormer. Eric Trumps three extra shekels attack on Bob Woodward is not some accident any more than Hillary Clinton's image over a Star of David. https:\/\/t.co\/DyJTcqyX4H  (((JonathanWeisman))) (@jonathanweisman) September 12, 2018\n\nI can't think of any reason--other than the odious one--why Eric Trump would use \"shekels\" instead of \"dollars,\" \"bucks,\" \"clams,\" \"greenbacks,\" or \"smackers.\" https:\/\/t.co\/5iKsniwPrY  David Corn (@DavidCornDC) September 12, 2018\n\nUm, wow. The only people who refer to being paid off as wanting \"extra shekels\" are Israelis speaking Hebrew and anti-Semites speaking English outside Israel. Eric Trump doesn't speak Hebrew, so you know exactly who he has been reading online. https:\/\/t.co\/evuub9L1xV  (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) September 12, 2018","title":"Eric Trump Accused Of Anti-Semitism For Bob Woodward Shekels Criticism","date":"2018-09-12","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Esther McVey has slammed \"crumbling\" Cabinet ministers in a furious Twitter tirade after she quit as Work and Pensions Secretary over Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nThe MP shared a series of posts on Twitter earlier this week, retweeting messages of support from followers and accusing senior members of being feeble in EU negotiations.\n\nShe also uploaded a video on her first day as a backbencher, admitting \"change is difficult\" adding that she now had to find a new office.\n\nLast week, Ms McVey was one of several cabinet members to dramatically resign in protest at the PM's draft Brexit deal.\n\nOn Sunday, Ms McVey shared a link to a Mail on Sunday story about her on Twitter, adding: Hilarious; seems a bit of straight talking from me to ask Cabinet members to vote on the most important matter in a lifetime made them crumble!\n\nMakes you wonder if this is how feeble senior members have been in negotiations with the EU over our future.\n\nThe article reported Cabinet ministers were so alarmed by Ms McVey's behaviour during last week's Brexit Cabinet meeting that they thought security would have to be called.\n\nIt came amid a flurry of retweets by the MP, who shared messages of support from Brits over her decision to quit.\n\nThe MP for Tatton then shared a video on Monday talking about her first day as a backbencher in which she said she had to find a new office and start all over again.\n\nShe told her followers that she believed her decision was worth it because you have got to believe in something and I believed that the withdrawal agreement wasnt good enough for the people of the UK.\n\n\"I am still an MP for Tatton and I will pursue all the matters for our local residents and for the local area and I will also pursue those issues that made me an MP in the first place like social mobility like the blocs of empowerment from education to opportunities to attainment, thats what I am going to do.\"\n\nMs McVey added: I believe in the people of the UK and so Im going to fight for what is best for them.\n\nThe MP also hit back at a Twitter critic who attacked Universal Credit reforms, suggesting she would not lose money for quitting her Cabinet job - unlike benefit claimants.\n\nShe wrote: \"Hi Paul In answer to your question. By resigning, my salary has been halved.\"\n\nMs McVey was rumoured to be one of the most vocal critics of the deal at a Cabinet meeting the night before her resignation.\n\nShe is understood to have asked a show of hands from ministers in support of the document.\n\nShe said in her resignation letter that it was very obvious to everyone the deal does not honour the result of the referendum and doesnt meet the tests you set from the outset of Mrs Mays premiership.","title":"Esther McVey slams aposcrumblingapos Cabinet and posts video complaining aposIaposve got to","date":"2018-11-20","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Stan Lee was in the process of creating one final Marvel superhero before he died, its been revealed.\n\nJC Lee, the daughter of the late comic book legend, vowed to see the male character through to completion. His name? Dirt Man.\n\nSpeaking to TMZ Live, she said: We have been working on a character called Dirt Man. [Hes the] last little angel that weve got tucked away.\n\nShe revealed the character was created after pleading with her father to shin clatter and steel in favour of getting down and dirty.\n\nIts very interesting and its not over yet, she added. We still have a little trickery.\n\nLee passed away at the age of 95 in Los Angeles on Monday (12 November). His death sparked an outpouring of tributes from people whose lives have been touched by the characters he created, including Spider-Man, Hulk and the original X-Men.\n\nHe co-created Marvel in 1961 with The Fantastic Four, designed to appeal to an older audience at a time when comic books were mostly read by children.\n\nHis daughter announced a new foundation shes launching in memory of her father named the Stan Lee Childhood Literacy Foundation.\n\nThe importance of the written word is to not be underestimated, she said. One reason why Stan is Stan the Man is he took his craft very seriously and theres a lot to say to pass on to children about reading and writing.\n\nThe last tweet posted from Lees Twitter account featured a photo of him taken when he was serving in the US Army, which he entered in 1942. Lee has said that his title during the Second World War was playwright.\n\nCelebrities who led tributes to the comic book icon included Robert Downey Jr, Chris Pratt and Captain America star Chris Evans.","title":"Stan Lee created one final Marvel superhero before his death","date":"2018-11-14","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Amazon has gradually been improving Alexas calendar features recently. Outlook.com and iCloud support arrived last year, and now Alexa is getting improvements for managing meetings. While youve always been able to add new events and schedule them, Alexa is now supporting one-on-one meetings and the ability to move events around.\n\nYou can say Alexa, move my meeting or Alexa, move my meeting at 8AM to tomorrow at 10AM to avoid those early morning meetings where, lets be honest, youd be better off in bed. The one-on-one scheduling also works just as easily, letting you create a calendar event by saying Alexa, schedule a meeting with Tom. Alexa will access your contacts and pick the colleague or friend, and suggest times based on the availability of both the organizer and participant.\n\nAlexas new calendar features are available today in the US, and Gmail, G Suite, Office 365, and Exchange accounts are all supported.","title":"Alexa now lets you avoid meetings by moving them with your voice","date":"2018-05-22","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Religious to-ing and fro-ing in the music world continues: while a couple of weeks ago Islam gained a follower in Sinead OConnor, it appears to have lost superstar singing Yorkshireman Zayn Malik. In an interview with Vogue the Bradford-born 25-year-old said he no longer identifies with any particular religion.\n\nI dont believe you need to eat a certain meat thats been prayed over a certain way, I dont believe you need to read a prayer in a certain language five times a day. I dont believe any of it. I just believe if youre a good person everything is going to go right for you.\n\nIts par for the course, perhaps, given the way Islamophobia has politicised peoples faith, that this matter has become the stuff of sensation and headlines.\n\nWere he divorcing from a Christian church, well, there would be fewer tweets commending his bravery or, alternatively, ones along the lines of: I WILL NEVER LISTEN TO YOUR MUSIC AGAIN BECAUSE YOUVE LET ME DOWN.\n\nAmong the many who look to him as a role model, those who are Muslim may understandably feel a loss  you cannot get more mainstream than where he is and he is a thousand miles from the fanatics who tend to be Islams key avatars, at least so far as the press is concerned.\n\nI totally understand that for many young Muslims, seeing a young, good looking, cool and famous Muslim popstar out there made them feel represented in a positive light, far away from the awful headlines and the casual Islamophobia of commentators.\n\nTo have him reject the very thing which made them bound to him and look up to him, I understand, might be a blow. They should take heart that he is still a Brit of Asian heritage in a career where he is a trailblazer. And in any case, Mo Farah is not running away from his religion  and boy can he run.\n\nMalik too can count his lucky stars: were he a popstar in Shia-fundamentalist Iran, hed be locked up and very probably executed as an apostate who has succumbed to western arrogance.\n\nThe singer told Vogue that while there were mosque visits as a child, his parents always made it clear that as an adult it would be his prerogative to worship, or not, as he pleases.\n\nNonetheless, he has still been pilloried and insulted online by those who regard the spiritual journey he sees himself on as a betrayal of theirs.\n\nMalik will have known exactly what reaction he would get from these quarters. He could have stayed quiet. But he decided to share.\n\nLets face it, he hardly cut a devout figure  his tattoos alone are enough to raise eyebrows in the Islamic context.\n\nMalik is known to smoke and drink and party  he and his girlfriend Gigi Hadid keep readers glued to glossies. Even I ogle when Im meant to be working.\n\nIt shouldnt be considered brave to leave Islam but for many it really is. During my three-year tenure as president of Humanists UK  I am being succeeded by the wonderful scientist Alice Roberts  I got to learn of the work of a brilliant charity called Faith to Faithless. Founded by former Muslims Imtiaz Shams and Aliyah Saleem the organisation supports those who have left a religion, gives them a platform to speak out against discrimination they might be facing from their community and helps them through the loneliness and fear they might face.\n\nMalik was emphatic about not wanting to represent something he did not believe in. He detailed practices within the faith that he had to admit to himself meant nothing to him and he wanted his fans to know where he stood, knowing that some of them would be upset by this. This honest and steadfast refusal to appease by someone with such a high profile really is a big deal.\n\nIf we are to move towards a world where the secular voice is heard and not overridden or cowed by religious ones, Malik should be invited to do a Thought for the Day on Radio 4.\n\nHis honesty may have disappointed the very religious, but perhaps he will have given a little hope to others across religions, who feel they are living with a faith they no longer connect with.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"Bravo Zayn Malik for standing up for what you believe in although I do feel a little sorry for you","date":"2018-11-16","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"ZHUHAI \/China\/, November 9. \/TASS\/. Russias rocket engine producer Energomash\nand S7 Space will develop a technical design of an engine for a reusable\nrocket by the end of the year, Energomash CEO Igor Arbuzov told TASS at the\nAirshow China exhibition on Friday.\n\n\"We have now set up a joint working group to develop technical specifications\nfor this engine that will be based on the RD-171MV. We will formulate its\nbasic technical characteristics by the end of this year,\" the chief executive\nsaid.\n\nIt is presumed that the new engine should feature the option of its restart as\ncompared to its prototype, Arbuzov said, adding that the number of engines had\nnot been discussed at the talks with S7 Space.\n\nAs S7 Space CEO Sergei Sopov told TASS earlier, RD-171 engines can be used on\nthe first stage of a reusable rocket, which this private company is developing\non the basis of the conceptual design of the Soyuz-5 carrier (being developed\nby Energia Space Rocket Corporation).\n\nThe company has dubbed the new rocket \"Soyuz-7\" and \"Soyuz-7SL\" (Sea Launch).\n\nIn other media","title":"Russian hi-tech firms to develop design of new engine for reusable rocket by yearend","date":"2018-11-09","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"TASS, August 28. The Air Force of the Saudi-led coalition carried out a strike\non the international airport in Yemens capital of Sanaa, Al Arabiya TV\nchannel reported on Tuesday.\n\nThe strikes also targeted a military air base located to the north of the\nYemeni capital, according to the report.\n\nThe confrontation between the government forces and the Houthi rebels has been\nongoing in Yemen since August 2014. It entered the most active phase in March\n2015, when the Saudi Arabia-led coalition invaded the country.\n\nIn other media","title":"Saudi-led coalition conducts air strikes on Yemens airport - TV","date":"2018-08-27","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Combining medieval splendour with groundbreaking architecture, an abiding respect for tradition with a sunny Mediterranean disposition and temples to art with shrines to fashion, Barcelona has exploded in popularity in recent years. Luckily, the vastly improved hotels have made it easier to find a quality room than ever before, and with a little forward-planning it's possible to get some great deals.\n\nHere are my top hotel picks in Barcelona.\n\nOverlooking the Port Vell, The Serras makes the most of its enviable location with huge floor-to-ceiling windows (some rooms even have tubs from which you can watch the yachts bobbing in the harbour), but the best view is from the rooftop terrace. Newly revamped and expanded, it now has a leafy open-air restaurant to add to its cocktail bar and plunge pool.\n\nA stylish but impressively relaxed place, it works hard to keep its guests happy, providing luxuries such as mobile phones with free data and international calls, Diptyque toiletries and a 24-hour bar.\n\nThe Room-Mate chain is a quirky Spanish affair that styles each hotel around an individual, fictional, person. Whoever Anna is, she sure has elan and a quirky sense of style. The cartoony fish wallpaper in the corridors sets the playful tone, which continues all the way to the neat little pool, surrounded by Tim Burton-inspired striped cushions. Rooms are filled with colour, but a little more sober, although the nicest (\"Deluxe\") have a sumptuous Eastern theme and are worth splashing out a little extra for.\n\nWith the sort of luxe comfort and service you'd expect from a Mandarin Oriental, the Barcelona branch has character in spades, as well as a notable selection of restaurants and bars. The outstanding Moments has (deservedly) won two Michelin stars for its chef Raul Balam, whose mother Carme Ruscalleda  one of the most garlanded chefs in the world  oversees Blanc, a less formal dining option. There are two outdoor bar-restaurants, one of which serves Peruvian cuisine, as well as the celebrated Banker's Bar.\n\nThough it's only been open a couple of years, Barcelona's Soho House already has the venerable and clubby feel of one of its London counterparts. There are elements of Catalan craftsmanship in the design, but the look is overwhelming Cotswold retreat  which works surprisingly well in combination with a view over the Med. Rooms are small but luxurious, abundantly stocked with Cowshed toiletries and what can only be described as maxi-bars. There are various bars and restaurants, a rooftop pool and a small private cinema.\n\nSet in the 19th-century neo-classical building that once housed the city's guild of cotton producers, the hotel runs with the theme. The reception desk is adorned with vast sprays of cotton bolls; the rooms (dazzling white) are named after fabrics, and there is a discreet Atelier, lined with bolts of cotton, where you can have a shirt made. Dazzling architectural features include the coffered library-turned-cocktail bar and the 1950s suspended staircase.\n\nA smart, sexy hotel with an understated deco elegance, the Grand Hotel Central has one outstanding feature  its rooftop infinity pool, star of a million Instagram shots. The view from up here (where there is also a bar\/restaurant) is breathtaking, and enhanced by a curious maritime mural. The story goes that the family that owns the hotel, frustrated by the neighbouring building blocking what would be a view of the sea, bought it for themselves and commissioned a vast mural to be painted on one side.\n\nEverything about Casa Bonay is designed to engage and give back to the local community, and during the day it becomes something of a co-working space for young Catalans, who gaze at MacBooks while eating homemade granola with almond milk and sipping a cold-pressed coffee. In the evenings, they return for the Asian food or for events such as the outdoor cinema on the citrus tree and herb-filled rooftop terrace. In the simply designed, light-filled rooms, rugs, blankets and hand-crafted furniture is by local designers, and much of it is for sale.\n\nBowls of M&Ms, an honesty bar, hammocks in the rooms, a little slice of rainforest, complete with shower, on the roof  these are the things that make up the Casa Camper experience. Rooms  painted crimson and overlooking a hanging garden  are divided into two, with sitting rooms across the corridor from the bedrooms (strangers padding around in dressing gowns is less awkward than it sounds), and an excellent 24-hour free snack bar is a social hub day and night.\n\nThe Sofia is up in the business district, which means there are bargains to be had in holiday periods. Rooms on the higher floors have fabulous views, and the dining options  three restaurants and an underground speakeasy with cabaret  are surprisingly good. The pool is a little too close to the road to be peaceful, but the spa is exceptional. Genuinely relaxing, it's a vast and leafy space, with expert therapists and a range of treatments, along with a caldarium, sauna, salt room and ice-fountain.\n\nNot for the shy, the seaside W is unabashedly aimed at the young and glam (there is an actual recording studio in the basement, not to mention a ferocious entrance policy for the main bar). The rooms, however, are all about the sea, decorated with a maritime theme and with beds placed dead centre, all the better to gaze out at the view. The gym and pools also face out to sea, as do the various restaurants, one of which is practically on the sand itself.\n\nWe may earn some commission if you click on a link in this article and buy a product or service, but we never allow this to influence our coverage.","title":"Barcelona hotels 10 best places to stay for value and location","date":"2018-10-23","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The popularity of socialism has spread like wildfire, especially since the Obama administration.\n\nJoel Gilbert points out the dangers of allowing such a flawed philosophy to be encouraged.","title":"American Socialism On The Rise","date":"2018-11-16","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"An Irish sailor has been rescued from the Indian Ocean after his yacht was damaged when he tried to help an injured rival during the Golden Globe Race.\n\nIndian sailor Abhilash Tomy is safe on a French fishing vessel with Dublin man Gregor McGuckin, a spokesman for Mr McGuckin said.\n\nThe mast of Mr Tomys yacht Thuriya broke off when it was rolled in a storm on Friday, and the yachtsman suffered what he described as a severe back injury.\n\nThe 39-year-old Indian navy commander was incapacitated on his bunk inside his boat some 1,000 miles south west of Perth in western Australia, race organisers said.\n\nMr McGuckin was dismasted in the same storm.\n\nIn a statement issued on Monday, the rescue team said Mr McGuckin and Mr Tomy were onboard the French fisheries patrol vessel Osiris.\n\nThe vessel initially rescued Indian sailor Abhilash Tomy who is reported to be conscious and talking. The vessel then sailed approximately 30 miles to safely evacuate Gregor McGuckin. McGuckins condition is good and has reported nothing more than bumps and bruises.\n\nIn an incredible show of seamanship, the 32-year-old Irishman managed to build a jury rig and hand steer his yacht Hanley Energy Endurance for the past four days to within 30 miles of his fellow competitor in order to be on site to assist with the rescue if required.\n\nMcGuckin did not declare an emergency for his own situation despite being rolled over and losing his mast. However, given the extremely remote location and the condition of his yacht, it was deemed the appropriate course of action to abandon his yacht under a controlled evacuation scenario as the opportunity arose. The considered move ensures in the event that his own situation deteriorated in any attempt to reach land in the coming weeks a second rescue mission would not be required.\n\nThe Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Canberra reported that Tomy is conscious, talking and onboard the Orisis, according to the statement.\n\nMr McGuckin has been commended for his actions.\n\nOnce the two solo yachtsmen are safely aboard the Osiris, the French fisheries patrol ship will proceed to Amsterdam Island where the rescued sailors will be given a full medical examination. The hospital on Amsterdam Island is well equipped with X-ray and ultrasound equipment.\n\nThe 2018 Golden Globe Race departed Les Sables dOlonne, France, on July 1st. Competitors are aiming to sail solo, non-stop around the world, via the five Great Capes and return to the French port.PA","title":"Irish sailor rescued after yacht damaged during Golden Globe Race","date":"2018-09-24","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"Spain will look to make it two from two against England in the Nations League when they face Gareth Southgates side in Seville.\n\nLuis Enriques men are in buoyant mood after they swept Wales aside in Cardiff, and they will be confident of continuing their form against teams from the United Kingdom at the home of La Liga side Real Betis.\n\nEngland were defeated at Wembley by La Roja last month in both sides Nations League opener, with Saul and Rodrigo replying to Rashfords opener.\n\nWhat time does it start?\n\nSpain vs England kicks off at 7:45pm (BST)\n\nWhere can I watch it?\n\nThe match will be shown live on Sky Sports Main Event channel from 7pm. Highlights will be shown on the Sky Sports Football channel at midnight.\n\nJordan Henderson  The latest crisis to form a cloud over the England football team concerns the lack of a quality passers, and with opposite numbers such as Isco and Saul so fluid on the ball that criticism has only intensified. However, while the likes of James Maddison have been called up to attempt to address that problem, it will be up to the more experienced heads, such as Liverpools Henderson, to guide the younger stars as England look to rebuild their midfield.\n\nEnglands last visit to Spain will not serve as any inspiration to Gareth Southgate, but nonetheless it took two special strikes from current Villarreal players to defeat the Three Lions. Mario Gaspar acrobatically diverted a lofted Sergio Busquets pass into the top corner, before Santi Cazorla, an Arsenal player at the time, deceived Joe Hart to beat him at his near post and secure victory in Alicante. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=63Qkr3Sz8qk\n\nPaco Alcacer  The Spaniard ended his Barcelona exile by joining Borussia Dortmund on loan in the summer and the forward has not looked back since. His double against Wales took his tally to nine goals in five games in all competitions, and therefore Englands defence will have to be aware of the former Valencia forward.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"Spain vs England LIVE Nations League what time how to watch odds and more","date":"2018-10-15","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Everything about Jeremy Corbyns interview with Der Spiegel yesterday was fascinating, including the publication in which it appeared. The leader of the opposition believes his relations with the British press are so poor he has to go to foreign journalists for a fair hearing.\n\nThe most important thing he said was picked out by Der Spiegel for its headline: We cant stop Brexit. It was published just two hours after Jo Johnson resigned as transport minister in order to argue the opposite, which rather took the shine off Remainer optimism that Johnsons resignation was the start of something big.\n\nDer Spiegel asked Corbyn: If you could stop Brexit, would you?\n\nHe didnt answer the question, but his reply is worth quoting in full: We cant stop it. The referendum took place. Article 50 has been triggered. What we can do is recognise the reasons why people voted Leave.\n\nNot only did he not answer the question, he failed to rehearse the partys carefully crafted policy. Remember all the fuss at the annual conference in Liverpool about how, if Labour couldnt force a general election, all options would be on the table? Well, one option not on the table on which Corbyn was photographed, in the leader of the oppositions office overlooking the Thames, was the option of staying in the EU.\n\nThat lends some clarity to the uncertainty that lies ahead. It has become fashionable to say that there is no majority in the House of Commons for any of the Brexit options. But that cannot be true, because on any vote there are only Ayes and Noes, and one number must be larger than the other.\n\nIf Theresa May strikes a deal, then I think any attempt to postpone Brexit  to allow for further talks or a referendum  would be defeated. Then my view is that MPs, faced with a choice between a deal or leaving without a deal, would vote for the deal.\n\nWhat is harder to predict is what happens if May cannot reach agreement. In that case the choice becomes leaving without a deal or seeking an extension of the Article 50 deadline.\n\nThat is where Corbyns words are so significant. He really is a Eurosceptic. He was prepared to make an unenthusiastic case for the social side of the EU during the referendum, but he is quite excited to be leaving. I do not believe he will support a new referendum (as long as remaining in the EU is one of the options), or indeed any delay to Brexit beyond 29 March. Which means that we are likely to leave on that date.\n\nThis is not just a matter of his long-held beliefs. It is a matter of the surprisingly Blairite strategy of his inner team in wanting to maintain the broadest possible coalition of voters, on the Leave and Remain sides of the divide.\n\nThat inclusiveness is the surprising theme running through Der Spiegels interview. In it, Corbyn started off by attacking Tony Blair for wanting to turn traditional social democracy into what he called a third way.\n\nThis prompted Jorg Schindler, his interviewer, to say: Which led to him winning by a landslide in 1997. (Even the foreign press turns out to be unbelievably hostile, the phrase Corbyn used to describe the British mainstream print media.)\n\nWhat was interesting, though, was that, although Corbyn criticised Blair for moving Labour to the right, he didnt describe his own policies as a turn to the left. Instead, he spoke about how popular his policies are, and about the values that lie behind them. Which is a rather Blairite thing to do, especially when the values, that you work for the entirety of society and dont blame minorities, that you invest in education, but above all, that you give people hope, are ones with which Blairites  and most Tories  could agree.\n\nWhen he was asked about his opponents among Labour MPs, Corbyn said: I reach out to all  all the time. And he rejected the idea that it would be easier for him if his adversaries left to set up a new centrist party: No, I dont want the party to be split because any split would be dangerous for the future of all of us. I want them to stay together and recognise that, unless we offer an inclusive radical alternative to what this Tory government is doing, were not going to win the election.\n\nVote-getting pragmatism rather than ideological purity? Whatever next?\n\nAs I say, there was a lot in that interview. But the most important part, over the next four months, was the bit where Corbyn said that Brexit cannot be  that is, will not be  stopped.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"Donapost listen to Jo Johnson listen to Jeremy Corbyn he doesnapost want to stop Brexit","date":"2018-11-10","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Transhumanism is well on its way to becoming a reality in the United States military, as the Pentagon has announced that its working on a new neural interface technology that would connect human brains directly to machines as a way to control them.\n\nThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also known as DARPA, says the technology, known as Next-Generation Non-Surgical Neurotechnology, or N3, will allow troops to connect to special military control systems using just their brainwaves. The technology will allow for humans to not only control military machines with their minds, but also the inverse  military machines would be able to transmit information to users brains as well.\n\nThe goal is to combine the speed and processing power of computers with humans ability to adapt to complex situations, according to DARPA. It will allow people to control, feel and interact with a remote machine as though it were a part of their own body.\n\nFrom the first time a human carved a rock into a blade or formed a spear, humans have been creating tools to help them interact with the world around them, says Al Emondi, the program manager at DARPAs Biological Technologies Office. The tools we use have grown more sophisticated over time ... but these still require some form of physical control interface  touch, motion or voice. What neural interfaces promise is a richer, more powerful and more natural experience in which our brains effectively become the tool.\n\nMark of the beast: melding humans with machines\n\nDARPA claims that the technology is completely innocent, as similar iterations of it for disabled veterans are already in use. Revolutionizing Prosthetics, as its called, is a program by DARPA that implants electrodes into disabled veterans brains, allowing them to control prosthetic limbs simply by thinking about it.\n\nBut isnt that always how egregious new forms of transhumanism typically start? Positive anecdotes about how invasive technologies are helping people almost always functions as the gateway to more government control over humans  in this case, military servicemen who are being told that implantable technologies stand to benefit humanity.\n\nDARPAs rhetoric would have us all believe that combining man with machine is somehow beneficial and even natural, even though its true implications are more mark of the beast than they are revolutionary breakthrough.\n\nConsider that with N3, able-bodied members of the military would need to ingest different chemical compounds, according to reports, in order to activate external sensors that both read and write information to the brain. This technology has to be bidirectional, claims DARPA, though the agency has not fully revealed precisely why this is the case.\n\nIts the type of thing one might expect to see in a sci-fi movie, except its now happening in real life. In the future, as openly admitted by DARPA, members of the military will be able to control attack drones with their brains, or deploy robot warriors using just brain motor signals and thoughts.\n\nThe technology is even being designed to provide real-time feedback about events happening in the world, such as cyber attacks. Users will purportedly be able to feel these events inside their bodies through sensations.","title":"The Pentagon Is Building Technology Allowing Troops To Control Machines With Their Minds","date":"2018-09-30","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Hotep Jesus joins Alex Jones live via Skype to discuss his experience during the black conservative conference at the White House just a few days ago.","title":"See Hotep Jesus Censored White House Speech","date":"2018-10-30","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"The son of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi left Saudi Arabia on Thursday, according to CNN, after having originally been prevented from leaving the country by a travel ban. Salah bin Jamal Khashoggi, a dual US-Saudi citizen, had his passport restricted by the kingdom earlier in the year.\n\nSalah is the eldest son of Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed by a Saudi hit squad after entering his countrys consulate in Istanbul on 2 October. Earlier in the day the Saudis effectively admitted the murder was planned when in the latest twist in the narrative, they admitted the killing was a premeditated act.\n\nAs we reported on Tuesday, Salah Khashoggi was pictured shaking hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the man widely believed to have organized the killing of his father, during a visit between the Khashoggi family and the Saudi royal family, including King Salman.\n\nAccording to SPA, the king and crown prince offered their deepest condolences to the family of the assassinated journalist, while Sahl and Salah Khashoggi expressed their utmost thanks to the royal family for their condolences.\n\nHowever, as Middle East Eye notes, a Saudi human rights activist and close friend of the late Khashoggi, Yahya Assiri, told Middle East Eye the visit was a serious assault on the family of the murdered journalist, particularly as authorities continued to bar them from traveling.\n\nJamal told me that his wife was forced to divorce him after she was banned indefinitely from travel, Assiri said. He said Khashoggi had also told him that Saudi authorities barred his entire family from travel in an attempt to pressure him to return.\n\nIn addition to admitting responsibility for the crime, Saudi authorities must immediately allow the Khashoggi family to travel, if they are genuinely keen on uncovering the truth, he said. Assiri said the visit most likely took place under pressure on the family to cover up the crime.\n\nMeanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said: There are still questions that need answers over the premeditated murder, demanding the Saudis explain why the 18 were arrested. Who gave them the orders? he asked, pointing out that Khashoggis body had still not been found.\n\nWhere is (the body)? You admit they did it, but why are they not saying (where)? Cavusoglu told a press conference in Ankara with Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki. His family also wants to know and pay their final tribute. The Turkish minister repeated Erdogans demand that those involved in the murder should be legally tried in Turkey, adding that Ankara was willing to cooperate with everyone.\n\nOn Tuesday, CIA Director Gina Haspel visited Ankara for talks, with pro-government Turkish media claiming on Wednesday intelligence officials shared evidence with her. The officials provided Haspel with video images and audio tapes as well as evidence gathered from the consulate and the consuls residence during a briefing at the Turkish Intelligence Organisation (MIT), Sabah newspaper reported.\n\nAsked to confirm whether this was true, Cavusoglu said he could not provide an exact answer but Turkey would share documents and evidence in our hands with countries and institutions which wanted it.","title":"Son Of Khashoggi Leaves Saudi Arabia Despite Travel Ban","date":"2018-10-25","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"In What Works For Me - a series of articles considering how we can find balance in our lives - we talk to people about their self-care strategies. If youd like to contribute your story, email us. The first thing Cherry Healey does when she gets a day off work isnt go out and enjoy a rare moment of freedom. Instead she blocks out space in her diary, puts on her comfiest socks and jogging bottoms, and hibernates with her two children, Bear, 4, and Coco, 9, at home in Shepherds Bush, west London.  The 37-year-old BBC TV presenter can go for periods of more than 40 days filming a new show, often away from home, so when she gets a chance to choose her own schedule she chooses to scrunge  a term made up by her family to describe lazy days. I cant believe thats now officially out there, but it is my favourite thing to do. Scrunging is magic. A typical days scrunging will include time spent in the kitchen  preferably baking with her son while her daughter draws nearby  but the key ingredient is that it has to be done slowly. Everything in my life is so rushed, back to back and minute to minute, so this is the way I relax and find peace, she tells me.\n\nThe day starts with a visit to their local shops  weekday shopping is done at the Tesco Metro down the road  but a scrunging day sees the family go to a local deli, butchers and fishmongers. There the shopkeepers take time to talk Bear through the ingredients, the colours of vegetables, the difference between organic and non-organic, filling up his paper bag with items of his choice. My daughter isnt interested in food and couldnt care less, but Ive cooked with Bear since as soon as he articulated he wanted to do it, says Cherry. What my son really wants to do is for me to lay out all the ingredients in front of him and just watch  his own little cookery show. Her son will either help her with the meal prep  he chops the onions and the mushrooms  or he will take centre stage and bake his own cake, gradually learning the perfect ratios of eggs, flour and sugar needed to make it rise. Like many parents, Cherry says that too often her post-work dinner can end up just being a pitta bread and hummus or a bowl of cereal. So she relishes time spent cooking or baking with her son. She says she has never purchased as much self-raising flour as she did during the summer holidays.\n\nRegardless of what they make, its the process itself that allows this single mum to unclench. This involves letting her kids get messy and not getting stressed. Its quite a good mindfullness exercise to remind myself to let go a little bit, she says. Being calm at home and not jumping on a train or racing around a factory or getting on an aeroplane. All things shes recently done on camera. Just taking things slowly is really fabulous.  Once theyve finished baking the three of them settle down on the sofa with a crisp cocktail (different flavours of crisps all mixed together in a single bowl)  for some reason my kids think that is the naughtiest most hilarious thing ever  and watch television. Currently they are working through classic films from the 1980s. Last weekend, they watched Back To The Future.\n\nTo be with my kids at home in our socks and sloppy clothing is so blissful, she says. Scrunging is a really important part of self care. When someone says, are you busy on this day? I factor that in. To other people it looks like Im not busy but I dont understand why people need that explaining. My job requires so much of me. The days are very long and its a lot of emotional investment. I can only do that once Ive filled up my cup. You cant pour from an empty cup.\n\nCherry places a lot of importance on being organised to maintain her mental wellbeing. Running a home is running a business: you have people and they need constant feeding, and doing admin and bills and payments. Luckily I love logistics. I have calendars and Excel spreadsheets everywhere. Last week she left her paper diary on an aeroplane. It was awful and I had to buy another one right away. I just ran to WHSmith. I couldnt wait a moment. For the mother-of-two, this isnt just about her own wellbeing, but everyone around her who relies on her carrying on. Im driving the bus and theres a lot of people on the bus  my kids, the people I work with  and if I dont carry on they wont have the things they need. There arent many times I can actually chill out so I have to create the space to do it.","title":"What Works For Me Scrunging With My Kids Is My Kind of Self Care","date":"2018-09-23","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Vinay Patels ambitious play probes ideas of home, freedom and ageing, as well as the legacy of colonialism. It draws inspiration from the experiences of his grandparents, who had an arranged marriage and moved from Gujarat to Britain via Kenya.\n\nIts a romance and also a work of history, which spans the period from 1954 to the present and pays particular attention to the Kenyan independence movement, though its less interested in facts than moods.\n\nIts instantly engaging, as sparky teenager Jyoti (Anjana Vasan) sizes up one of the five suitors chosen by her father. This is Shubham Sarafs wide-eyed, wounded Rasik. Their relationship begins on amusingly awkward terms, but soon theyre making big plans, with Rasik insisting that India has no future and they must build their own world elsewhere.\n\nThey embark on a journey that transports them from the turbulence of Fifties Nairobi, where they fall in with fiery Kenyan patriot David (Martins Imhangbe), to London in the Seventies, where union disputes rage and their daughter Sonal (Aysha Kala) fantasises about adventures of her own.\n\nThe Bushs artistic director Madani Younis has crafted a clear-sighted production, and although some of the musical choices are iffy the atmosphere is often beguiling. Its not hard to imagine a shorter, pacier version of the play, but Younis, who commissioned it, has clearly given Patel licence to be expansive.\n\nThe result is a running time over three hours and a sense of luxuriating in the more dreamlike moments. This can feel indulgent, yet the performances are finely detailed, and Patel combines a gift for creating complex characters with a piercing emotional intelligence.\n\nClick here to buy London theatre tickets with GO London Tickets","title":"An Adventure review Ambitious romance shows Vinay Patelaposs gift for creating complex characters","date":"2018-09-12","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Strictly Come Dancing contestant Graeme Swann has claimed bosses have tightened the leash on the professional dancers in the wake of Katya Jones kiss with Seann Walsh.  The cricketer has told Radio 5Live that the pros were ordered to wind their necks in and told they could not attend certain events after Seann and Katya were caught on camera snogging on the street during a night out.\n\nSpeaking on the Test Match Special podcast, he said: I think the pros were told wind your neck in. And they were all very angry because they couldnt go to a couple of functions that they wanted to. A curfew was placed upon them. So its very much like being in a team, if one person lets the side down... HuffPost UK has contacted a Strictly spokesperson for clarification, and is awaiting a response.\n\nGraeme, who is partnered with Oti Mabuse on the BBC ballroom show, also admitted Seann had not seen the funny side to the backlash he and Katya received over their illicit kiss.  He told of how the comedian was not amused during the first meeting of the celebrities and professionals after the incident. Graeme revealed: You meet together on a Friday when you do your run-through with the band and stuff, and I really enjoyed it because Im friends with Seann so I was the first person he saw when he walked in. I was there with a stupid grin on my face laughing at him  not at what hed done but at the situation hed found himself in all week. Graeme said he thought Seann would see the lighter side of it because of his job as a comic but added: He didnt. I said to him I want to see how awkward the first introductions since the incident are going to be. I thought hed find the funny side. He just looked at me and said please dont mate and walked off.\n\nEarlier this week, Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood said Katya should not have allowed their kiss to happen, likening the situation to when a teacher snogs their student.  Speaking on Loose Women, he said: Ill put the ball in Katyas court, she should not have allowed it to happen. One, shes married, two, hes in a relationship that is no longer. Talking as Craig Revel Horwood personally  this is not the view of the BBC  its a teacher snogging the student, isnt it? He added: They are there to be professional, lets not forget they are being paid to do the job  both of them. Strictly Come Dancing continues on Saturday at 6.45pm on BBC One.","title":"Strictly Come Dancing Pro Dancers Slapped With Curfew After Seann Walsh And Katya Jones Kiss Drama","date":"2018-10-18","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"TheGalleyEp A fire has broken out at an oil refinery in Stanlow.\n\nIt is believed the blaze started inside a manufacturing building within the plant.\n\nCrews were called to reports of a fire in Oil Site Road, Ellesmere Port at 2.16pm on Wednesday.\n\nHuge plumes of smoke billowed over Stanlow, outside Liverpool, with the fire visible from several miles away.\n\nFirefighters battled a fire at a major UK oil refinery on Wednesday afternoon, with hundreds of staff being evacuated from the premises.\n\nI'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure Stanlow refinery isn't meant to have that much flame and smoke. This is the view from Woodside, 8miles away. pic.twitter.com\/05KMvgpaHq\n\nAccording to owners Essar Oil UKs website, Stanlow refinery employs more than 900 staff and 500 contractors on site and supplies 16% of all road transport fuels.\n\nCheshire Fire Service said that all staff at the oil refinery have been accounted for and evacuated.\n\nCrews are working with onsite firefighters to extinguish the fire which is believed to be in a manufacturing building within the plant, the fire service said in a statement.\n\nSix fire engines have been deployed from stations in Ellesmere Port, Powey Lane, Chester, Widnes and Northwich.\n\nBrian Howell, 60, said he was relaxing in the Eastham Ferry area, around eight miles away, before he heard a loud whoosh type explosion.\n\nHe added: I looked over to Stanlow and there was an aggressive fire and lots of black smoke.\n\nThe fire did not disrupted the refinerys operations, a spokeswoman for Essar Oil UK said.\n\nThe Environment Agency said it was working with the fire service to try and reduce any harmful environmental effects.\n\nFirefighters worked with on-site staff to deal with the unfolding emergency.\n\nThe refinery produces 4.4 billion litres of diesel, three billion litres of petrol and two billion litres of jet fuel annually, according to Essar Oil UK.","title":"Stanlow Oil Refinery Hundreds Evacuated As Fire Crews Tackle Blaze","date":"2018-08-22","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Anyone reading Donald Trumps Twitter feed on Wednesday morning without knowing the results of the 2018 midterm elections would not only think that the GOP won big, theyd think Trump alone had achieved something big. Fortunately, that just isnt true.\n\nOn Tuesday, Republicans won one seat in the Senate, but hey also lost 23 House seats and may lose as many as 10 more, as well as seven governors. Nancy Pelosi, who Trump repeatedly bashed in rally speeches, will once again serve as speaker of the House in January. The three states that won Trump the presidential election, which include Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, served up sizable victories for Democratic candidates.\n\nEven better, with Democratic control of the House of Representatives, Trump stands to finally be held accountable for his actions. His tax returns will be demanded and disclosed. Trumps and his familys violations of the emoluments clause will mean more than just a lawsuit. Any reports released by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into the alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian government operatives will be taken seriously and not dismissed.\n\nThe midterms were not a win for the GOP and certainly not a win for Trump.\n\nAs he has done after every special election between November 2016 and the 2018 midterms, Trump once again blamed every Republican loss on a failure of candidates to simply fall in line with his agenda, although some candidates, like Kris Kobach, who have served as Trump puppets lost their seats. The entire political landscape has changed, and it spells bad news for Trump and his GOP friends.\n\nTwitter did not allow Trump to revel in his lies. Read some of their comments below:\n\nFeatured image via Flickr by Gage Skidmore under a Creative Commons license","title":"Trump Goes Ballistic On Twitter After Realizing Dems Won House Power","date":"2018-11-07","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"ABRAU-DYURSO, October 7. \/TASS\/. Consumption of wine in Russia can grow more\nthan twofold by 2030 and total 250 mln decaliters per year, the Russian Union\nof Viticulturists and Wine-Makers said in its pre-reads for the Russian Summit\nof Wine-Makers.\n\nDomestic wine consumption can increase to 84 mln decaliters and consumption of\nimported wine can drop to 33 mln decaliters as of 2018 year-end, the Union\nsaid.\n\n\"Tasks [of the sector [are highly ambitious, for example, to reach the\nvineyards area of 350 hectares,\" President of the Union Leonid Popovich said\nat the summit.\n\nAmong other goals of the branch is to achieve grape harvest of 3 mln tonnes\nand wine production of 210 mln decaliters by 2030. 560,000 tonnes of grapes\ncan be harvested this year vs. 538,000 tonnes a year earlier. 32 mln\ndecaliters of wine can be produced, the Union forecasts.\n\n\"The key objective is to achieve common understanding that Russia is a wine-\nmaking power, a leading producer. We rank fifth across the globe by\nconsumption in absolute terms. The task is to be fifth by production,\"\nPopovich said.\n\nIn other media","title":"Wine consumption may grow twofold in Russia by 2030 - Union of Wine-Makers","date":"2018-10-07","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"The Trump administrations proposal to send Islamic State fighters to the offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay could end up destroying the shaky legal basis for the yearslong U.S. bombing campaign against the terrorist group.\n\nThe government is considering transferring Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, two ISIS fighters accused of participating in the murder of American hostages, to the Guantanamo facility, NBC News reported on Thursday. If President Donald Trump follows through on this plan, one or both men would probably oppose it. In the resulting court battle, the government would likely be forced to defend using a law that was passed in 2001 to authorize war against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks to fight a group that was formed more than a decade later.\n\nFor many years, the government has argued that various terrorist organizations are associated forces of al-Qaeda and therefore legitimate targets under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Since the U.S. started bombing ISIS in Iraq and Syria in 2014, the government has pointed to the AUMF as the legal basis for fighting that group.\n\nLegal scholars are divided over whether ISIS, which al-Qaeda formally split from in 2014, falls under the 2001 war authorization. Successive presidents have managed to avoid litigating the issue in court. But if an ISIS fighter were sent to Guantanamo, he would almost certainly challenge his imprisonment by filing a habeas petition and raising the murky legal basis of the entire military campaign against ISIS.\n\nTrump sending additional people to Guantanamo virtually guarantees a litigation challenge about the authority to detain alleged ISIS fighters under the 2001 AUMF, said Hina Shamsi, director of the national security project at the American Civil Liberties Union.\n\nFederal courts tend to be deferential to the executive branchs authority to make foreign policy and war-waging decisions. It would still be a risky legal battle for the Trump administration: An appeals court decision saying the government cant detain ISIS fighters at Guantanamo would likely undermine the militarys ability to fight the Islamic State without a new war authorization.\n\nBoth the Trump and Obama administrations have worked to avoid this kind of court battle. President Barack Obama seemed aware that the 2001 AUMF was a weak legal basis for a war against ISIS. He sent Congress a draft version of a new ISIS-specific AUMF in 2015, months after he started bombing the group. But lawmakers, split along partisan lines about how restrictive a new war authorization should be, repeatedly punted on the issue.\n\nTrumps Justice Department has made it clear that it does not want a court battle over the 2001 AUMFs application to the Islamic State. The government is currently facing a habeas challenge from an unnamed American accused of fighting with ISIS who is being held by the U.S. military in Iraq. Once it became clear that the case would eventually delve into AUMF issues, the government tried to release the alleged terrorist into Syria.\n\nA good way for the government to avoid this kind of legal fight would be to send ISIS fighters to the U.S. for prosecution in federal courts, which have proven to be an effective venue for securing terrorism convictions.\n\nFederal courts are used to dealing with terrorism cases and have a legitimate basis under the law for doing so, said Shamsi, the ACLU lawyer. By contrast, the novel military commissions [operating in Guantanamo] are still mired in disputes about fundamental legal, procedural and trial issues.\n\nThe five men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, for example, were arraigned before a military commission in Guantanamo in 2012. Their case is still in pretrial proceedings and the judge overseeing the case plans to retire next month.","title":"Trumps Guantanamo Plan Could Force Court Battle Over Legality Of ISIS War","date":"2018-08-31","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"On Thursday, news broke that legendary singer Aretha Franklin had passed away after a battle with cancer. With that news, many have taken to social media to express their condolences and honor the Queen of Soul including President Donald Trump.\n\nHowever, it came off as the usual garbage that he tweets indicating his inability to appreciate just what a loss the world has experienced with Franklins passing.\n\nIn his tweet, he said:\n\nBasically, its the same crap he spews every time someone hes probably never even heard of or appreciated has died. If Trump wants to truly honor Franklin, the best thing he could do would be to STOP BEING RACIST. Otherwise, shut your Big Mac eating pie hole.\n\nTrump is not an eloquent man by any means especially when you compare him to President Barack Obama. Obama honored Franklin with an articulate and expressive tweet.\n\nAretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade-our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace.\n\nWho can forget the time Obama cried while listening to Franklin sing?\n\nTwitter users responded to Trumps tweet. You can check out their responses below.","title":"Trump Tweets Two Sentences About Aretha Franklin Obama Shows Up Puts Him To Shame","date":"2018-08-16","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"As the midterm election season continues to roar on, voters across the United States are encountering a familiar but still potent problem  technical difficulties. In states that rely on electronic voting machines, early voters have noticed their votes going to the candidate they dont want and faced some difficulty in switching the mark. A new report along these lines has now emerged out of Texas.\n\nTexas voters who have attempted to use a function selecting all of the candidates of a particular party  including both Democrat and Republican  have reported noticing their votes going to the wrong person. Democratic voters including Houstons Mickey Blake and Fort Bend Countys Cordell Hosea, both of whom spoke to local Texas media, have just barely kept their support from going to U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, whos fighting for re-election through a credible challenge posed by El Paso Democrat Beto ORourke.\n\nImagine how many other voters might not have noticed that the machine recorded their selection incorrectly in time.\n\nBlake added that she tried multiple times to no avail to fix her selection, going through the selection process at least three times.\n\nTexas authorities acknowledged that the issue has persisted for some voters, but not for everyone.\n\nThe problem, which has plagued Democrats and Republicans alike, has gone on for at least six years, according to Fort Bend County Election Administrator John Oldham, who adds that hes spoken to the Texas Secretary of State about the issue.\n\nThe issue reportedly stems from voters interacting with two of the voting machines controls at once  but theres not been any apparent update to make the system less delicate and more user-friendly. Texas doesnt even have a pop-up on its electronic voting system admonishing voters to make sure their machine accurately recorded their selection.\n\nThe state isnt the only one where reports of issues with electronic voting machines have emerged this year. Just recently, the Georgia NAACP filed complaints with Secretary of State Brian Kemps office over voting machines inaccurately recording voters attempted selections in the states governors race.\n\nThat state has seen a whole host of problems of its own beyond that issue. Kemp  who is running for governor  has led what amounts to a voter suppression campaign with tactics ranging from a delay in processing tens of thousands of voter registrations to a purge of tens of thousands of names from the states voting registry.\n\nNeither his voter suppression efforts nor those of any Republican elsewhere in the United States will necessarily tamp down on the blue wave thats coming. Democrats are expected to take the U.S. House and control across state governments too.\n\nFeatured Image via Screenshot from the Video","title":"Texas Voting Machine Malfunction Changing ORourke Votes To Cruz","date":"2018-10-26","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"MONTREAL  Canada can preserve its dairy supply management system and resolve its trade dispute with the United States over dairy subsidies by ending its domestic milk ingredient pricing system, the head of Canadas largest dairy processor said Monday.\n\nDespite U.S. President Donald Trumps tweets denouncing Canadas supply management system, dairy farmers across the border arent petitioning to get rid of that system, said Lino Saputo Jr.\n\nThe milk supply management system has served the dairy industry well since the 1970s and weve been through a number of negotiations and a number of trade deals where the milk supply management system has remained in place, said the Saputo Inc. CEO in an interview.\n\nThe irritant to U.S. farmers is the Class 7 pricing agreement struck in 2016 that has effectively restricted U.S. exports of ultra-filtered milk used to make dairy products, he said.\n\nThe policy allows Canadian dairy processors to buy domestic milk at world market prices instead of higher prices controlled by the national supply management system. The U.S. dairy groups say that provides the processors with an incentive to cut milk imports.\n\nU.S. farmers have argued that the policy was designed to intentionally block imports from the United States, which would make them in direct violation of Canadas trade commitments.\n\nUltimately that changed the rules of engagement, changed the rules of the game with respect to dairy trade north and south. So to me, I think the simple solution on the dairy file would be the elimination of Class 7. I think it would be the smartest thing that Canada could do, Saputo said.\n\nHe said the powerful Canadian dairy farmers group has its head in the sand by calling for the preservation of all facets of the protectionist system.\n\nIts like theyre asking for their cake and wanting to eat it too. It doesnt make sense to me.\n\nWhile the pricing system has neither been a hindrance or benefit to Saputo, it exacerbates a problem that more solids are available than global demand.\n\nAs an industry, I dont think it makes a lot of logical sense to increase production when consumption isnt there.\n\nEnding Class 7 is out of the question, said the Dairy Farmers of Canada.\n\nAlthough the comments took us by surprise, perhaps they are the product of the confusion around the notion of flexibility suggested by the federal government with respect to the NAFTA negotiations, it wrote in an email.\n\nNotwithstanding, the association representing dairy processors across Canada continues to support both supply management and Class 7. Thus, the sector speaks with one voice.\n\nThe introduction of Class 7 has strengthened the Canadian dairy system and resulted in more than $500 million in investments in the last two years from Dr. Oetker, Nestle, Coca-Cola and Gay Lea Foods, said Graham Lloyd, CEO of the Dairy Farmers of Ontario.\n\nI dont think that its a valid irritant, remembering we dont compete with them on the international market, he said in an interview, calling Saputos suggestion not a solution.\n\nIt does not make viable sense for how the Canadian marketplace is working. It priced domestic products, domestic ingredients at a competitive price, thats all it did.","title":"Canada can end dairy dispute with US by ending pricing irritant Saputo","date":"2018-06-18","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"A High Court judge has warned that people who have sued over alleged delays in cancer diagnosis and alleged misdiagnosis may die before their cases are heard.\n\nCalling for more judges to be appointed to the High Court to deal with the personal injuries list which has been swamped with complex cases including those related to the CervicalCheck controversy, Mr Justice Kevin Cross said without more judges on the bench, he did not know how they could get all the cases heard.\n\nHe said that great injustices will be caused particularly for those in extremis.\n\nThe judge made the comments when hearing an application to have the case of a woman who is suing in relation to CervicalCheck case managed as the womans health is failing.\n\nIt is sad to think that people will have passed away before their cases are dealt with, he said.\n\nMr Justice Cross heads up the personal injuries section of the High Court and usually specially fixes cases on certain dates so they have a chance of getting on before a judge once the cases are called.\n\nBecause the specially-fixed dates for next year are filling up, the judge has said he has discussed the matter with higher authorities.\n\nHe said it was not going to be possible to deal with the number of cases coming in to the system in relation to the CervicalCheck contoversy, breast cancer cases and cases in relation to the swine flu vaccine.\n\nMr Justice Cross said the cases including Cervical Check are each going to take six weeks and it seemed to him the cases, which are complex, are going to run their course.\n\nThe judge stressed there are only three other judges available to him on the personal injuries list and without more being appointed,he did not know how all the cases will get on.\n\nLast July, in an update to TDs, the Dail Public Accounts Committee was told there were 35 active legal cases, three cases had been settled and there were at that stage two further potential cases.\n\nIn court on Thursday, Mr Justice Cross was told the legal team for Ruth Morrissey, whose case was adjourned after hearing her evidence and that of her husband Paul last July are now are seeking more discovery from the defendant laboratories in the action.\n\nMs Morrissey, a 37-year old mother who has cancer, is suing over the alleged alleged misinterpretation of her cervical smears taken under the CervicalCheck screening programme in 2009 and 2012.\n\nThe Morrisseys, of Kylemore, Schoolhouse Road, Monaleen, Co Limerick have sued the HSE and the US laboratory Quest Diagnostics Ireland Ltd with offices at Sir John Rogersons Quay, Dublin along with Medlab Pathology Ltd with offices at Sandyford Business Park, Dublin 18.\n\nIt is claimed there was an alleged failure to correctly report and diagnose and there was an alleged misinterpretation of her smear samples taken in 2009 and 2012.\n\nA situation it is claimed allegedly developed where Ms Morrisseys cancer spread unidentified, unmonitored and untreated until she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in June 2014.\n\nIt is further claimed a review of the 2009 and 2012 smears took place in 2014 and 2015 with the results sent to Ms Morrisseys treating gynaecologist in 2016, but she was not told until May this year of those review results which showed her smears were reported incorrectly.\n\nThe HSE the court has heard admitted it owed a duty of care to Ms Morrissey but not to her husband and it admits the results of her smear reviews should have been made known to Ms Morrissey. The laboratories deny all claims.\n\nMs Morrissey suffered a recurrence of her cervical cancer this year and was also diagnosed with breast cancer.\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Morrisseys counsel Jeremy Maher SC asked that the court hear a motion for discovery of certain matters including relating to standard operating procedures.\n\nThe judge fixed next week to hear the motion and said the Morrissey case will resume full hearings at the end of January.","title":"Judge says women may die before cancer diagnosis cases heard","date":"2018-11-29","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) New Brunswick, New Jersey-based pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer Johnson & Johnson is facing its first investor class action lawsuit.\n\nAccording to a legal complaint filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on Thursday, February 8, investors suffered from losses when the price of Johnson & Johnsons stock plummeted after reports went public that the company knew decades ago that its talc products contained asbestos fibers that could cause cancer.\n\nJohnson & Johnson is currently under hot water as it is facing thousands of consumer lawsuits over the alleged link between its talcum products  even baby powder  and ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. As of its last quarterly filing, Johnson & Johnson is facing around 5,500 lawsuits.\n\nOne of these lawsuits was lodged by Tina Herford in Los Angeles, alleging that the companys talcum powders can cause mesothelioma due to it being tinged with asbestos. Johnson & Johnson won in the Hertford case in November 2017.\n\nInvestors are saying the company lied about the decades-old link by insisting that their talc products are were asbestos-free and safe. (Related: Johnson & Johnson to pay $2.2 billion for making false marketing claims and engaging in kickbacks.)\n\nJohnson & Johnsons vice president of media relations Ernie Knewitz said the lawsuit was baseless and that other allegations concerning asbestos were soundly rejected by a California jury in November 2017.\n\nJohnsons Baby Powder does not contain asbestos or cause mesothelioma or ovarian cancer, and we are confident that our talc products are, and always have been, free of asbestos, based on decades of monitoring, testing, and regulation dating back to the 1970s.\n\nSample testing by independent laboratories, independent scientists, governmental agencies, and academic institutions spanning decades have all confirmed the absence of asbestos in our talc products, Knewitz said.\n\nThe investors accusations are taken from a document that was revealed during one of the consumer lawsuits. According to the complaint, the document revealed that Johnson & Johnson marketed its talc products as asbestos-free even with the knowledge during the 1970s that asbestos might have been present in some of its talc mines.\n\nThe new shareholder lawsuit, which was filed by Frank Hall on behalf of the other investors who purchased Johnson & Johnson shares between February 2013 and February 2018 claimed that Johnson & Johnson has known for decades that its talc products, such as its Baby Powder, include asbestos fibers and that the exposure to those fibers can cause ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.\n\nThe lawsuit claimed that in a 1973 memo titled WINDSOR MINERALS AND TALC, a Johnson & Johnson employee wrote, We believe this mine to be very clean; however, we are also confident that fiber forming or fiber type minerals could be found.\n\nThe employee added that the talcs used in the packaging materials contain widely varying amounts of tremolite or fibrous talc, and suggested that they replace talc with corn starch.\n\nJohnson & Johnson stock dipped to $2.28 per share after Bloomberg blew wide open the report in September 2017, according to the complaint.\n\nAccording to study, asbestos fibers present in cosmetic products such as talcum powder have the potential to be released into the air and inhaled during normal personal talcum powder application. Inhaling asbestos fibers can affect the lungs and lymph nodes, which can develop into a variety of health conditions, including lung fibrosis, ovarian cancer, and mesothelioma.\n\nStay up-to-date with the latest news on cosmetics and their health risks at Cosmetics.news.","title":"Johnson Johnson facing class action suit over the asbestos in its talc products","date":"2018-02-27","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"In 2010, it was found that roughly 100,000 Americans die each year from prescription drugs alone. When it comes to opioids, the number of deaths is in the tens of thousands while a quarter of patients who were given a short-term prescription transitioned to long-term use.\n\nNow, according to a recent Harvard University analysis, doctors who prescribe these pain-killers are being paid huge sums of money from their manufacturers.\n\nThe research, which was conducted by Harvard scientists and CNN, discovered that in 2014-2015 thousands of doctors were paid over $25,000 from opioid manufacturers and hundreds more were rewarded with six-figure sums. Also, the more opioids that were prescribed, the larger the reward.\n\nThe Harvard\/CNN analysis found that the 5% doctors who prescribed opioids at a volume which was higher than that of the average physician were paid twice as much money from manufacturers. Likewise, doctors in the top 1% were paid four times as much.\n\nFor the top 10th of 1 percent, that number increased nine-fold. To put this in perspective, roughly 54% of doctors who wrote prescriptions to Medicare patients, which numbers more than 200,000, received payment from pharma companies which manufacture opioids.\n\nIt is not legal for doctors to prescribe drugs in exchange for compensation from the drug companies, and it is also not provable that most of these doctors were paid in reward for prescribing opioids or if the prescription of opioids attracted the money from pharmaceutical companies.\n\nHowever, there is nevertheless a clear financial incentive for doctors to continue to prescribe opioids, even when it isnt in the best interest of the patient.\n\nThe effects of opioid addiction can be extremely damaging. One patient who was prescribed a mega powerful opioid (50-100 times more powerful than morphine) known as Subsys claims that the drug placed her in a zombie-like state, where she would sometimes wake up on the front lawn or kitchen floor in need of more else she would experience uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea.\n\nWhen eventually asked to switch medications away from opioids, her doctor became belligerent, she claims.\n\nA number of patients have filed lawsuits against their doctors for prescribing opioids for the indented purpose of receiving payments and kickbacks, against the interest of the patient.\n\nCarey Ballou, a patient who was prescribed opioids, recalls her doctor bragging about being flown across the country to lecture other doctors, all paid for by drug companies.\n\nCarey has since filed a lawsuit against Dr. Steven Simon, who was paid over 1 million dollars by opioid companies according to the federal Open Payments database.\n\nAs more patients become aware of the way doctors prescribe opioids and to their effects, the number of patients who become addicted, or worse, will inevitably drop.\n\nThis article (Harvard Investigation Shows Doctors are Paid Huge Sums to Prescribe Addictive Opioids) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Phillip Schneider and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.\n\nwas last modified: by","title":"Harvard Investigation Shows Doctors are Paid Huge Sums to Prescribe Addictive Opioids","date":"2018-03-15","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"YOUTUBES CONTENT ID SYSTEM WORKING FOR CREATORS: A recent report by Google indicated that YouTube has already paid out $3 billion to copyright owners through its state-of-the-art Content ID system.\n\nContent ID, as one might surmise, is a system which scans user uploads against a database of files submitted by content owners and creators. If it detects that an upload uses another creators intellectual property, then Content ID enables payout to the original owner of the material.\n\nGoogle invested $100 million into developing the Content ID system so that customers have legitimate access to content that drives revenue for creators and dissuades piracy.\n\nYouTube has also paid $1.8 billion to the music industry between October 2017 and September 2018 solely for advertising, Engadget reports.\n\nMore information on the topic can be found in Googles aptly titled report, How Google Fights Piracy.\n\nThe Standing Committee on Industry continued their Statutory Review of the Copyright Act. Meetings occurred on Oct. 29, Oct. 31, Nov. 5, and Nov. 7, though the last meeting was predominantly about the recent Statistics Canada-financial information controversy.\n\nRepresentatives from the Consumer Technology Association and Creative Commons Canada came together on Oct. 29 to discuss the detriment of extended copyright terms found in the USMCA, as well as the importance of fair dealing provisions. Much of the discussion on Oct. 31 focused on Indigenous art and how to ensure royalties for Indigenous artists, to which Johnny Blackfield, an expert on blockchain, espoused the benefits of blockchain in this regard. Contrary to what many witnesses had argued in past meetings, David Fewer of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic argued on Nov. 5 that legislation currently exists to deal with cases of copyright infringement in court.\n\nCANADIAN COPYRIGHT BOARD FULLY STAFFED: Minister of Innovation Navdeep Bains announced two new appointments to the Copyright Board of Canada on Wednesday, filling its final vacancies.\n\nKatherine M. Braun and Rene Cote, the two new appointments, will assume their positions immediately for a term of four years.\n\nBraun is an economist who has worked with Alberta and Ontario on provincial policies, as well as the United Nations on various international development projects. Cote, on the other hand, is a professor at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal who has spent much of his career in academia working on computer law and intellectual property law.\n\nThe Government of Canada expects these appointments to improve efficiency and balance on the Copyright Board of Canada.\n\nGREEK COMMITTEE ORDERS BLOCKING OF WEBSITES WITH PIRATED CONTENT: The Committee for the Notification of Copyright and Related Rights Infringements on the Internet ordered Greek internet service providers to block access to 38 websites containing pirated movie and television content for a period of three years.\n\nThe decision came on Nov. 6. ISPs were given 48 hours to comply with disobedience carrying a fine of 850 daily for as long as the websites in question remain accessible.\n\nThis is the first decision made by the Committee for the Notification of Copyright and Related Rights Infringements on the Internet which was only established in September 2018.\n\nTHERES NO NEED FOR NEW INTERNET INJUNCTIONS: Despite pleas for new, explicit internet intermediary injunctions having constantly risen during the Standing Committee on Industrys Statutory Review of the Copyright Act, Michael Geist argues that theres really no need for these new laws.\n\nGeist notes that Canadian law already provides rights holders with the legal tools they need. In fact, injunctions or orders have been obtained against websites, search engines, and many other intermediaries. The power to obtain injunctions for infringement is clear under the Copyright Act.\n\nHe concludes that the Industry Committee should demand evidence that the current set of tools are inadequate based on real-world usage before entertaining the possibility of expanding the already-extensive enforcement toolkit.","title":"Copyright Brief YouTube has doled out 3 billion to creators through Content ID system","date":"2018-11-09","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Back-to-school season is here. Alongside sales, shopping and students, you may have noticed that something else is back: The flu shot. The push to get vaccinated is in full swing, whether youre at the grocery store or simply watching the evening news. Its never too early to get the flu shot, vaccine pushers are saying. And after the massive failure of the 2017 flu shot, its no surprise that pro-vaccine propaganda is already everywhere.\n\nAs the masses become more aware of the fraud behind the flu vaccine, Big Pharma and their puppets are going to be working overtime to sell their disinformation. In 2017, the flu vaccine was so ineffective that experts warned there would be a Flu-pocalypse. As a news video by The Highwire with Del Bigtree shows, media pundits around the world declared that the 2017 flu shot was only about 10 percent effective, yet companies and hospitals around the U.S. are forcing employees to get vaccinated.\n\nIts a terrible vaccine, Bigtree states. But whats outrageous is how much fear theyre creating around the idea that they may not have a vaccine, he contends. Indeed, the fear here is actually being used to serve the vaccine industry. Its as if these people believe the human immune system simply cant function without a shot.\n\nAfter years of toxic inoculations, that may not be so far-fetched (unfortunately).\n\n \n\n As Bigtree contends, the media seems to use fear-mongering to push people towards vaccination, even when the vaccine clearly doesnt work. Last years vaccine was a total sham  and this years inoculation will be no different. But everywhere you look, theres an advertisement for the shot. Some places are even doling out flu shots for free, but it seems Big Pharma cant even give these things away anymore.\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nWhile the mainstream media likes to claim that any increase in the case of flu is a result of people not getting vaccinated, data from the CDC shows that by the end of the flu season, approximately the same number of people were vaccinated in 2017 as years past. While the CDC writes that early season vaccination was lower, the data presented in their charts clearly shows that by the end of flu season, the numbers of vaccinated people are consistently about the same every year:\n\nIndeed, the failure of the flu vaccine is not due to a dramatic decrease in the number of people being vaccinated, though that is what the vaccine propagandists would like for you to believe. But as Mike Adams, founder of Natural News and the pro-freedom video-sharing platform REAl.video, reports, the real science on vaccines lies in stark opposition to the pro-vaccine narrative.\n\nEssentially, the way flu shots are made renders the flu strains useless for promoting immunity  which is why so many people still get the flu, even after vaccination. This failure rate is then used as propaganda to promote more vaccination.\n\nBut as Adams reported earlier this year, studies have now also shown that the flu vaccine doesnt just fail  it can also cause disease to spread. Once again, mainstream media and conventional medicine have dropped the ball.\n\nSee more coverage of stories about health hoaxes disguised as medicine at Vaccines.news.","title":"Flu-pocalypse The shocking failure of the flu vaccine exposed","date":"2018-08-30","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) After two years of lab science research, investment and training, Im thrilled to report that we have achieved validated glyphosate testing in our in-house lab, and we are now in the process of certifying all Health Ranger brand products as Glyphosate Tested with glyphosate residues achieving non-detected status.\n\nWe are able to determine this using complex chemistry and a triple quad mass spec instrument (LC-MS-MS) that required an investment of about half a million dollars and two years of studying analytical chemistry and instrumentation operations.\n\nSoon, everything you buy at the Health Ranger Store thats an in-house brand will be certified glyphosate tested. This is in addition to the heavy metals testing, microbiology testing and other tests we routinely conduct to achieve our reputation as providers of the cleanest foods, superfoods and supplements in the world. Shop at HealthRangerStore.com to take advantage of our lab-tested products, now featuring over 700 different solutions for health, green living, personal care, superfoods, pet care and more.\n\nSee the full video announcement here:\n\nIn case youre curious how lab testing works, Ive posted two videos here that provide a detailed tour of our lab instruments and testing process. One of the videos below has already been derided as a geek fest of pure geekdom, so prepare for some technical jargon. But I wanted to communicate what were doing to both consumers and scientists alike. What we have achieved in glyphosate quantitation is considered extraordinary by nearly all analytical scientists. The clean chromatography we produce is almost unheard of for glyphosate, which is widely considered to be the single most challenging chemical compound in all of agriculture. Normally, glyphosate produces extreme tailing while bleeding off the column spanning several minutes. Weve managed to reduce the peak width to about 0.6 minutes, which is still wide compared to other compounds, but its fantastic for glyphosate.\n\nGLYPHOSATE testing is now being applied to all Health Ranger Store branded products. Our in-house lab uses LC-MS-MS (triple quad mass spec). See the full lab science tour video and announcement here. Shop for ultra-clean, lab-tested superfoods, personal care products and more at the Health Ranger Store, the world's most trusted source for clean foods and lab-verified nutritional solutions.\n\nSee a screen shot of a typical peak were producing from glyphosate standards. This peak shows the area response for a concentration of 80 ng\/mL:\n\nIf youre curious about the sensitivity of our detection, we have determined that our Limit of Detection (LoD) is below 1 ppb. Its actually closer to 500 parts per trillion, or 0.5 pg\/ml. We may be able to get even more sensitivity with further tweaking of our chemistry.\n\nOur Limit of Quantitation (LoQ) is currently between 1 ppb and 2 ppb (1 ng\/ml and 2 ng\/ml). This means we can accurately quantitate glyphosate contamination in food samples at 1-2 ppb. With further refining of our method, we expect to get this even lower, to around 0.5 ppb, or 0.5 ng\/ml.\n\nWe have already completed glyphosate testing for over two dozen popular products offered through HealthRangerStore.com, and we have confirmed zero detectable glyphosate in all of those products. This shouldnt be surprising, since we purchase almost exclusively organic, non-GMO raw materials, yet its comforting to know that glyphosate is being independently tested and confirmed to be non-detectable, even at around 1 ppb sensitivity.\n\nOver the next several weeks, youll see us rolling out Glyphosate Tested icons across the Health Ranger Store, indicating which products have completed glyphosate testing. In time, this testing will be expanded to nearly every product under our brand, with a few exceptions that dont require glyphosate testing such as Himalayan Salt, for example.\n\nNote that many non-GMO agricultural products are routinely sprayed with glyphosate, including wheat, oats, barley, rye and all sorts of grains. Glyphosate has become the No. 1 most common pollutant in the food supply, and a California court case recently ruled that glyphosate causes deadly cancer. Monsanto (now Bayer) is currently facing over 8,000 lawsuits that claim its glyphosate product  Roundup  caused cancer, yet there are very few labs that have mastered the quantitation of glyphosate due to the extreme complexity of the molecule (and the bizarre chemistry required to analyze it).\n\nI have been told by numerous scientists that glyphosate is the single most difficult pesticide chemical to try to analyze. (Scientists often refer to herbicides, pesticides and fungicides as belonging to the same general group: pesticides.)\n\nWith this announcement  and supported by your ongoing trust in our clean foods product line and lab testing  the Health Ranger Store becomes the first online retailer in the world to test its own brand for glyphosate using in-house laboratory testing.\n\nIts yet another first in the realm of clean food, and it underscores our commitment to bringing you the cleanest, most intensely scrutinized food and superfood products in the world.\n\nAs you shop at the Health Ranger Store, youll come to appreciate the fact that we test nearly everything for heavy metals, microbiology, glyphosate and soon an increasing list of pesticides as well. Nobody in the world subjects their products to this level of scrutiny, and no one has the strict cleanliness requirements that we impose on ourselves.\n\nHeres the full video where I explain how mass spectrometry works. Put on your thinking cap for this one, because its a rigorous scientific explanation of how analytical labs operate:","title":"Health Ranger Store announces glyphosate science breakthrough Entire brand being certified zero de","date":"2018-11-20","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Noor Salman was arrested by the FBI in January months after her husbands mass killing at a gay night club.\n\nIn June 2016 after the shooting Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted to reporters she had no idea where Omar Mateens wife had went off to.\n\nIn an interview with The New York Times in November 2016 Salman said she did not know her husband was planning an attack and that she thought he was out with a friend that night.\n\nMandolfos opening statement also included a preview of the evidence the government plans to use to convict Salman, who is accused of aiding and abetting her husband and of lying to federal investigators after the attack. Mandolfo said Salman scoped out Disney Springs with her husband before the shooting. He said, What would make people more upset  an attack at a club or an attack at Disney? the prosecutor said. Salmans defense has argued that some of the claims she made in statements to the FBI after the attack  including that she and Mateen had driven around Pulse together days before the massacre  are contracted by cellphone records, which dont place them in the area. Her statements are a key element in the case. Mandolfo said Salman knew Mateen had been looking at jihadist material  and that it was so extreme, she would pull her 3-year-old son away from the room. Mandolfo said Salman knowingly hid her husbands intentions from his family and the police. Prosecutors intend to prove this point using text messages Salman sent to Mateen, in which they say she helped him concoct a cover story for where he was going in the hours before the attack. If ur mom calls say nimo invited you out and noor wants to stay home,  she wrote, referring to a friend of Mateens. She asked where you were xoxo. Love you. Mandolfo also said Salman was aware of her husband spending thousands of dollars to prepare for the attack.","title":"Prosecutors Omar Mateens Wife Gave Him a Green Light to Commit Pulse Club Massacre","date":"2018-03-14","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Join us this Thursday, November 15 at 8PM CT, for a special Facebook premiere of Alex Jones hit documentary Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement.\n\nGet your friends and family to tune in and watch this highly-acclaimed feature-length documentary exposing the globalists ultimate plans to bring about a one world government.\n\nAlso, Like and Follow the Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement Facebook page.\n\nFor the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place, they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the worlds population while enabling the elites to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker Alex Jones reveals their secret plan for humanitys extermination: Operation ENDGAME. -Jones chronicles the history of the global elites bloody rise to power and reveals how they have funded dictators and financed the bloodiest wars  creating order out of chaos to pave the way for the first true world empire. -Watch as Jones and his team track the elusive Bilderberg Group to Ottawa and Istanbul to document their secret summits, allowing you to witness global kingpins setting the worlds agenda and instigating World War III -Learn about the formation of the North America transportation control grid, which will end U.S. sovereignty forever -Discover how the practitioners of the pseudo-science eugenics have taken control of governments worldwide as a means to carry out depopulation -View the progress of the coming collapse of the United States and the formation of the North American Union\n\nYou can also find Endgame on Youtube, or pick it up at the Infowars Store, where your purchase helps fund this operation.","title":"Watch Infowars Facebook Premiere of Endgame Blueprint for Global Enslavement","date":"2018-11-14","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Hundreds of Londoners stood in silence as the iconic Piccadilly Circus adverts were switched off as part of a tribute to more than one million servicemen and women who were killed during the First World War.\n\nFor one hour, from 6pm on Friday, the billboard's vibrant advertising in central London was replaced by a commemorative film that aimed \"to bring home the scale of the conflict 100 years ago\".\n\nBoots representing soldiers killed in the conflict marched through the screen as the heart of the West End was bathed in red light.\n\nThe film also told eleven personal accounts from the conflict, while a tally at the bottom of the screen will count the number of lives lost during the war.\n\nCreated by Westminster City Council in collaboration with TMW Unlimited, it marked the beginning of Remembrance events being held throughout the weekend to commemorate the centenary of the end of WWI.\n\nAccording to the film's creators, it would take more than 10 days and 19 hours for all of those who lost their lives to march through the billboard.\n\nAhead of the screening, Westminsters Armed Forces Champion, Councillor Rachael Robathan said: It is hard to imagine how anyone could cope in the circumstances facing the young men and women caught up in World War One.\n\n100 years on it remains truly humbling to hear the stories of bravery and resilience that we remember today.\n\nThe thousands of marching feet combined with the very personal stories featured in this poignant film conveys the scale of the tragedy.\n\n\"Over the last four years people across the city, in our schools, archives, libraries and community groups, have taken part in touching tributes.\n\n\"This screening is a fitting end to Armistice centenary events in Westminster.\n\nMichael Richards, The Unlimited Groups MD said: We are very proud to collaborate with Westminster Council to commemorate such a poignant moment in time.\n\n\"We hope this unique film, from our Agency TMW Unlimited, will remind us all of the incredible and selfless bravery that people showed during such a nightmare time.\n\n\"We must never forget the sacrifices made.\n\nA Welsh Guards bugler will bring proceedings to a close a rendition of the Last Post at the end of the screening followed by two minute silence mirroring a similar event at the start of 100 year anniversary commemorations in in 2014.","title":"Piccadilly Circus adverts switch off for poignant film paying tribute to 1m who died in WWI","date":"2018-11-09","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Various studies have already tried to determine the most effective ways to prevent cancer. However, since a lot of factors that determine cancer risk, such as age and genetic predisposition, cant be controlled, experts suggest studying ones familys medical history and trying to live a healthy lifestyle.\n\nMaria Baker, professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology\/Oncology at Penn State Cancer Institute, explained that while certain elements that define a healthy lifestyle may vary, current recommendations often include regular aerobic activity for about 30 minutes at least five times a week. She added that individuals need to incorporate weight-bearing exercises for each workout session.\n\nOther common suggestions from experts often include the following:\n\nBaker said that not everyone would benefit from genetic testing to confirm a predisposition to certain types of cancer. She commented that its our responsibility to look into our family and personal history.\n\nIts also up to us to figure out how to tailor screening recommendations. Baker emphasized the importance of communicating with relatives to take note of your family medical history. Having this information is important, so you always have access to data like common disorders and diseases among your family members.\n\nDr. Sarah Ines Ramirez, a family medicine physician at Penn State Medical Group in Harrisburg, said that in most cases, healthcare professionals would refer to a patients medical chart. A patient will also need to answer questions about their habits, lifestyle, occupation, where and who they live with. Patients also have to stay updated when it comes to their screenings and developments in their family or personal medical history.\n\nAlthough not all patients are aware of the importance of discussing habits like alcohol consumption and smoking or data like body mass index (BMI) and menstrual patterns, these factors often help healthcare professionals monitor screenings that can help catch or prevent cancers at an early stage.\n\nFor example, even if you dont smoke you may be at risk for lung cancer if you are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke.\n\nDr. Ramirez pointed out that healthcare professionals must also be familiar with certain differences in factors that determine cancer risks among the populations they serve. For example, while cervical cancer rates are highest in Latin women, most casualties occur among African Americans. Dr. Ramirez added that African-American women with breast cancer tend to have more aggressive forms of the disease during diagnosis. (Related: 4 Ways to Lower Stress and Prevent Breast Cancer.)\n\nDr. Ramirez noted that healthcare professionals would benefit from making an effort to learn more about their patients. She also noted that even those who dont regularly consult a healthcare professional could be more active when it comes to their health by inquiring about their family health history, asking if they require any preventative treatments, and being honest with a healthcare expert.\n\nShe concluded that patients who have certain concerns or worries shouldnt be afraid to ask healthcare professionals any questions that they might have. After all, prevention is always better than cure.\n\nHere are other lifestyle tips that can help lower your risk of cancer:\n\nYou can learn more about cancer and how a healthy lifestyle can help prevent it at Cancer.news.","title":"When weighing all the factors experts say leading a healthy lifestyle is your best bet against canc","date":"2018-04-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"MOSCOW, November 26. \/TASS\/. The deployment of the US Aegis Ashore systems as\nballistic missile defense infrastructure in Europe is a direct breach of the\nIntermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Russian Deputy Foreign\nMinister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday.\n\n\"There is a new problematic issue, which has caused, perhaps, our greatest\nalarm and which we have started to raise before the United States in the\nbilateral format in the context of the treaty. It relates to the ground-based\ndeployment of universal Mk-41 launchers as part of Aegis Ashore systems being\ndeployed in Europe allegedly for solving solely anti-missile tasks,\" the high-\nranking Russian diplomat said.\n\n\"However, contrary to the treaty, the above-mentioned launchers allow for the\ncombat use of Tomahawk medium-range cruise missiles and other strike armaments\nfrom the ground. We consider this as a direct and flagrant breach of the INF\nTreaty,\" Ryabkov stressed.\n\nAn Aegis Ashore missile facility went into operation at the Deveselu military\nbase in Romania in May 2016. The facility comprises the ballistic missile\ndefense control center and mobile Mk-41 batteries with SM-3 interceptors. They\nare serviced by 200 US servicemen. SM-3 missile interceptor batteries are\nscheduled to go in operation in Poland in 2020 under the Aegis Ashore program.\n\nRussias Foreign Ministry has stated on many occasions that the deployment of\nAegis Ashore land-based ballistic missile defense systems in Eastern Europe is\nWashingtons breach of its commitments under the INF Treaty.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said on October 20 that his country would quit the\nINF Treaty because Russia was allegedly in breach of that agreement. Russian\nDeputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov described this as a dangerous move. Washington\nwas also criticized in Berlin and Beijing. In the meantime, London came out in\nsupport of the United States and NATO placed the responsibility for Trumps\ndecision on Russia, because in its opinion Moscow had apparently violated the\ntreaty.\n\nThe INF Treaty was signed on December 8, 1987 and took effect on June 1, 1988.\nIt outlawed deployed and non-deployed intermediate range (1,000-5,000\nkilometers) and shorter range (500-1,000 kilometers) ground-based missiles.\n\nIn recent years, Washington has repeatedly alleged Russia was in breach of the\nagreement. Moscow emphatically dismissed the charges and countered them with\nits own claims over the United States non-compliance.","title":"Russia slams US Aegis Ashore missile deployment in Europe as direct breach of INF Treaty","date":"2018-11-26","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"The Kentucky Senator called John Brennan the most biased, bigoted, unhinged Director of the CIA weve ever had in response to Brennans latest attack on President Trump labeling the Putin summit performance treasonous.\n\nJohn Brennan started out his adulthood by voting for the Communist Party presidential candidate, Rand Paul said. Hes now ending his career by showing himself to be the most biased, bigoted, over-the-top, hyperbolic sort of unhinged director of the CIA weve ever had.\n\nOn Monday, former CIA Director, John Brennan claimed Trumps presser with Putin exceeded the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors then said it was nothing short of treasonous.\n\nPresident Trump slammed the former CIA Director in an interview with Fox News Tucker Carlson, calling Brennan a very bad guy.\n\nI think Brennan is a very bad guy and if you look at it a lot of things happened under his watch, Trump told Fox News Tucker Carlson. I think hes a very bad person.\n\nBrennan continued to attack President Trump on Tuesday after calling his Putin summit performance treasonous.\n\nJohn Brennan, like every other hysterical leftist, is afraid of what President Trump may have discussed during his private meeting with Vladimir Putin.\n\nIn what sounded like a signal to Deep State operatives, Brennan warned the Intel community may begin to withhold vital intelligence from President Trump to protect information.\n\nBrennan routinely attacks President Trump from Twitter; he previously warned Trump about Muellers investigation, telling the president to Stay tuned.\n\nJohn Brennan is also the puppet master behind the Trump-Russia collusion narrative and he helped promote Hillarys garbage Russia dossier.","title":"Rand Paul Savages John Brennan as Most Biased Bigoted Unhinged CIA Director Ever VIDEO","date":"2018-07-18","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A teenage boy who shot and critically injured a teenage student at DSST Cole Middle School has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, authorities say.\n\nThe boy, who has not been identified, is also charged with first degree assault and possession of a handgun by a juvenile, said Ken Lane, spokesman for Denver District Attorney Beth McCann.\n\nThe shooting occurred around 2 p.m. on Aug. 28 on a grassy area outside the schools Mitchell Building in the 3200 block of Marion Street in northeast Denver.\n\nCheck back on this breaking news story for updates.","title":"Teenager who shot student at Cole Middle School charged with attempted murder","date":"2018-09-05","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Since the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC in 2010, the funding behind politicians has gotten murkier and murkier. Politicians began accepting donations not only through their official campaign funds, but also to political action committees (known as PACs).\n\nBefore this, all campaign donations were directly traceable to their donor. The Citizens United ruling allowed people to obscure their political donations. It also removed the barrier to corporations donating to politicians and political causes.\n\nNow it is par for the course that candidates for nation-wide office are attached to a leadership PAC. These PACs are not subject to donation limits. In a bombshell announcement today, we learned that Sen. Marco Rubios (R-FL) leadership PAC received $1,000,000 from a Russian billionaire connected to Vladimir Putin.\n\nUnsurprisingly, Rubio was not alone:\n\nDespite Trump (and the GOP) projecting their guilt onto Democrats like this:\n\n... this new Russia\/GOP connection is damning. Lest you think that this is selectively presented information thats omitting all of the Democrats that Blavatnik donated to, consider the hard facts.\n\nAccess Industries is the U.S. company that Blavatnik uses to donate to American politicians. Sourced from public record, heres the history of Access Industries political contributions:\n\nWhat could possibly account for this incredible increase in donations?\n\nIn 2014, Access Industries sold an oil and gas company to Rosneft, the Russian state oil company. Blavatnik received $7,000,000,000 in profits from the sale.\n\nThis sale was a big deal. According to Reuters:\n\nSo it comes down to this: money from a Russian oligarch (which came from the Russian purchase of an energy company) went straight into the campaign coffers of Marco Rubio.\n\nAnd weve got the receipts.","title":"Rubio Caught Red Handed Taking Money From Russia The Details Are Disastrous","date":"2018-03-29","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Mueller's Questions Indicate He Lacks Evidence of a Crime\n\nThe Justice Department should not permit the president to be interrogated on so paltry and presumptuous a showing.","title":"Muellers Questions Indicate He Lacks Evidence of a Crime","date":"2018-05-02","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"For years now, Chicagos gun violence problem has been growing. This is a recognized fact nationwide. There simply is no getting around the reality that the city needs to do something to curb the crime problem.\n\nThe people of the city itself are now being vocal about that  which is a good thing as they are taking to the streets to demonstrate something needs to be done. Unfortunately, on Saturday, the chosen street was Interstate 94, and the protesters blocked traffic to the northern suburbs.\n\nWhen police closed all five lanes, a long stretch of I-94 behind the closure turned into a virtual parking lot. Vehicles on the highway were lined bumper-to-bumper, with nowhere to go except for a few exit ramps. Some motorists, with nowhere to go if they werent near an exit, left their cars for a time.\n\nThere is a dispute between the Republican governor of Illinois and the march organizers as to how many lanes were agreed to be closed in the beginning (two), however, in the end, the mob took all five.\n\nThere is no question that gun violence in Chicago needs this kind of attention, perhaps not in this way, though, and certainly not by trying to do more of the same that gave Chicago the title of most dangerous city in America in the first place.\n\nPriests like this give Catholics a bad name.\n\nAll of that is great, but until respect for human life and property is restored, and potential victims have the ability to shoot back, all that is going to do is throw money at a problem without solving it.\n\nChicago has a gun violence problem. On that, no one disagrees. Its what will solve the problem that is in dispute.","title":"Chicago FINALLY Protests Over Gun Violence Rates Chooses Wrong Tactic","date":"2018-07-08","source":"dcgazette","label":0}
{"content":"When alleged Russian agent Mariia Butina and her alleged handler, Alexander Torshin, traveled to Washington, D.C. in April 2015 and reportedly attended meetings with Treasury and Federal Reserve officials arranged by the Center for the National Interest (CNI), Butina and Torshin also spoke at an off-the-record discussion attended by a career State Department official, CNIs executive director Paul J. Saunders told TPM Tuesday.\n\nReuters was first to report on the 2015 meetings set up by CNI, a think tank that supports engagement with Russia. Top officials from the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department met separately with Butina and Torshin, and the two Russians also spoke at an event on the Russian financial situation and its impact on Russian politics, Reuters reported. Saunders told TPM in a phone call that a career State Department official was present at the off-the-record discussion, a detail that was previously unreported.\n\nSaunders, who attended that discussion, said that he did not recall what was covered at the event because it was a long time ago [and] not a remarkable discussion.\n\nIt was a very transparent meeting, Saunders added. He was giving a presentation.\n\nButina was indicted last week for conspiracy against the U.S. and failing to register as a foreign agent. Prosecutors alleged in the indictment that Butina attempted to infiltrate the National Rifle Association and establish backchannel communications with American politicians. Butinas lawyer has maintained she is innocent, and she is currently being held without bond pending her trial after prosecutors argued she was an extreme flight risk.\n\nStanley Fischer, the Federal Reserve vice chairman at the time of the meetings, confirmed to Reuters that he met with Torshin. The Treasury department official, Nathan Sheets, declined to comment to Reuters. A spokesperson for the Russian central bank told Reuters that Torshin declined to comment.\n\nSaunders told TPM that when CNI learned Torshin would be coming to Washington in 2015, we invited him to speak.\n\nAs someone whom we had invited to speak, he asked for help in facilitating a few meetings, Saunders continued. We reached to a few offices in a way that we would do for anyone else who we invited to speak. It was an entirely routine thing on our part that we do for visitors from a lot of different countries when they come here to speak.\n\nThe Russian Central Bank, he said, actually was pretty highly regarded.\n\n[Torshin] wasnt under sanctions, Saunders said. We certainly werent aware of any derogatory information about Mr. Torshin. So we helped to facilitate meetings. No one from our staff was present, and since no one from our staff was present, no, I really dont know what happened.\n\nButina, he said wasnt somebody who we invited to the event with Torshin at CNI.\n\nHe brought someone to interpret for him, he said. That was Mariia Butina. She wasnt somebody who we invited. She wasnt somebody who we knew. He brought her with him. He was the principal, and she was, like, an aide or something.\n\nWe had no way of knowing, really, who she was, Saunders added.\n\nCNI, along with Jared Kushner, organized then-candidate Trumps first major foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in April 2016, a year after the events with Torshin and Butina arranged by CNI. On the sidelines of the Mayflower speech, Trump, Kushner, and then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) met with then-Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak.\n\nThis post has been updated.","title":"Think Tank Director Butina Torshin Met With Career State Department Official","date":"2018-07-24","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Make no bones about it, awakening is not a walk in the park. It is a ride through hell. It is the tearing down of all of your cherished beliefs and everything you thought about yourself. There is no way around this. In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, they had to enter into the Mirkwood Forest to get to their destination. There was no other way for them. It was not a walk in the park. Likewise, we must enter the shadowlands, and come face to face with our shadows. It is there that our false ideas of who we are are shattered. It is there that all of our false beliefs are destroyed. We must face these false notions and see them for what they are. This is the only way to heal, to become whole again, to live in integrity.\n\nMy good friend, Julie Anne gave a good description of this process in Enlightenment. It is a complete surrender, a process of brutal self honesty. It is a path of complete acceptance of the truth, no matter how difficult it is to bear. I still remember it vividly.\n\nWe go through life with so many false notions  of the world, of spirituality and of ourselves. We build up masks and we believe the facades. Its all a charade. It is all based upon illusions and deceit. We deceive ourselves at every moment, and the world also deceives us at every moment. We live in perpetual cognitive dissonance, justifying the most absurd things in our minds. We constantly lie to ourselves.... and we believe it.\n\nBut we are too attached to the lies. We want to hold on to the illusions and to become enlightened at the same time. That is not possible. But there are hundreds of phony gurus and spiritual teachers that will tell you it is. They offer you processes to become happy, fulfilled, calm, find your soulmate, be positive, get the right job, make lots of money, balance the chakras, become healthy and whatever else you may be desiring. This has nothing to do with awakening. This is only polishing the ego. They all lead you right back into the matrix. You may even be lucky enough to get a golden cage, but it is still a cage, and you remain imprisoned in slavery. This is the road that most people choose to follow. This road is well traveled by the herd.\n\nIt takes courage, discernment and self honesty to walk the Siddhartha road to truth and freedom. Not many people have that. We have been weakened by the onslaught of programming since our childhood. Most people want to remain in the herd, as they find comfort in the company of other deluded souls. It takes a certain individual to break free of the herd. The Siddhartha road is not easy. It is a treacherous road that will shatter every part of your existence. No, it takes a certain type of person to walk that road; a person that is willing to give up everything to find his true Self.\n\nMy story was one that took me through so many paths to nowhere; detours, dead ends and off of cliffs. I had to eventually be dragged, kicking and screaming through the abyss by Grace herself, for me to awaken. It was simply my time.\n\nNow the strange thing about this, is that worse things have happened to me before, so why did this hit me so hard? I believe because it was supposed to, for me to transform. I took everything much harder, than I ever did before. Also, everything came crashing down at once. In the past, I was strong, and I kept my sense of self, of who I thought I was. But this time, my sense of self, who I thought I was, gave up. I stopped trying to be strong. I just collapsed.\n\nYes, I remember it well. My entire life story collapsed overnight. My girlfriend of five years ran off with another man. And she lived across the street. So every morning I would look out the window to see his van, just to rub it in. I kept saying, There must be a purpose for this. My health collapsed, my business collapsed, and those that I thought were my friends were not. I was alone. I tried to be in denial, grabbing straws as I was being dragged down into the abyss. My world around me collapsed, but so did my self-worth, self-esteem and my false ego. I felt unloved and abandoned. My life story shattered.\n\nI was left in this darkness for some time; four months. In that time, I was slowly being dismantled, as I had to face the hard cold facts. I had to be brutally honest with myself. Eventually, I came to the point of realizing that I hated my broken body, I hated the world, I hated myself, and I really hated god. Yes, I was very angry at him. He abandoned me. I felt the entire world abandoned me. It wasnt fair. I threw out everything spiritual in my house. I was facing my darkness with brutal honesty. I sat with that for a while. Imagine the despair of seeing what lies hidden behind your persona, behind the lies you tell yourself daily.\n\nThis continued for two weeks, right through Christmas. I felt so rejected, so abandoned, so alone. The pain of being stripped naked in the frigid cold, with no hope in sight. But I accepted what was happening. I was no longer trying to push it away. The suffering felt endless, yet I endured it. I dont even know how to explain it. And then on the morning of January 1, 2004, I woke up. Not to a new year, but a new life. The suffering was gone, all was forgiven, and I was at peace. A peace that I had never known before. That which I thought I was no longer existed. My false perception of Self vanished. I remember the singing of the birds, the sun entering through the window, and everything around me was seen in a new light  a light of awe and amazement. My mind had ceased its chatter, I was experiencing a very deep peace.\n\nAnd then it started  wave after wave of revelations, of deep knowings. I began to awaken to who I Am. I became acutely aware that I Am eternal and sovereign. Each wave awakened me more to my deepest Self. Each wave also shattered the illusions and deceptions of the world. As I awakened, my eyes saw a very different world. All the pieces fell into place. Someday I will describe the many revelations that flooded over me. I have already written much about it.\n\nThe largest wave came a couple of weeks into this. I was meditating, and I went so deep, following the river of life to the depths of my Being. I was empty, but then from this emptiness, a powerful divine love sprang forth, inundating my entire mind and body. This love is unconditional. It spread out from me everywhere. All of the bugs, the lizards, the birds, the plants, the trees, everything was inundated with this love. I could not tell where I ended and the other Beings began. We were all intrinsically connected with this love; and yet my individual Self remained. I was not the bugs, the birds or the plants, but the connection was so deep, that I felt they were as if a part of me. There was simultaneously separation and no separation. It is not easy to describe, but this divine love is nothing like the love of this world.\n\nBut when you do awaken, and you do see the world with new eyes, you soon realize that no one else is seeing the same thing. I tried to tell a few people what had happened to me, but no one believed me. They thought that perhaps I cracked under the pressure of suffering and had gone crazy. No one wanted to hear anything I said, as it exposed their false beliefs. So I remained quiet for eight years.\n\nHow can I possibly explain something so deep, beyond the mind, where people have no concepts or understanding? What I woke up to I call Knowings, as opposed to knowledge. Knowledge comes from outside of the Self, either from the world, or from up above. Knowings are who you are. It is not new information, but rather an awakening to your true Self. Someone who has not awakened to his true Self has a difficult time understanding. They believe it is just knowledge, a different set of beliefs. Therefore people say things like, That is your idea of Truth. Its different from mine. or There is no absolute Truth, only relative truths. They think they are only my beliefs. It is quite pointless to explain this to people, because all they know is beliefs. So I remain alone, with but a few friends that have experienced their own dark night of the soul, and awakened to their true Self, if sometimes only a glimmer. That is all it takes for one to see that their is a deep consciousness separate from the vast majority of people.\n\nWhen one decides to take the Siddhartha road to the Self, he soon realizes he is alone on that road. The herd is going in the opposite direction. One must be prepared for that, to find comfort in being alone, not understood by others.\n\nI cannot take any credit for my awakening. I was dragged, kicking and screaming, grasping straws. No, I take no credit. It was by Grace alone.\n\nAs Eckhart Tolle has stated, you dont have to wait for the dark night of the soul to dismantle your false notions, your false self, your life story. You can consciously take that road. But it demands courage, discernment, and a brutal honesty of yourself. The mind is a very tricky opponent, and will deceive you at every step, as your awakening is the end of its control over you. But it can be done. Nisargadatta Maharaj did it. You must simply allow Grace to act within you.\n\nSo the choice rests with each of you. No one can do this for you. All I, or anyone else, can offer you are sign posts, pointing in the direction. But you, and you alone, must take that road. It does little good to read my writings and not act upon them, to not take that road yourself. Otherwise, you are only hanging out at the signposts, believing that you have already arrived at the destination.\n\nThis road is not for the timid or the faint of heart. Not at all. But there is no other road. No one will simply wave a magical wand over you. It is a road of destruction and the question is, How much are you willing to give up? How much can you endure? Because on this road, you must give up everything. Every piece of you will shatter. Can you endure that? As the great Bhaktivinode Thakur has written, You must die to live. So how serious are you? How much do you want it? How much will you pay for it?","title":"Awakening is a Destructive Process","date":"2018-11-26","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"Ernest House Jr. has driven every which way from Denver to McElmo Canyon. He has watched the sunset in the San Luis Valley and has been chased into Utah by blizzards. He knows where the two pockets of cell phone service are in Wolf Creek Pass, which came in handy when the White House once called. He can drive back home in his sleep.\n\nOn his bi-weekly drives to the Ute Mountain Reservation in southwest Colorado, he sees more than just a scenery; he sees history. He sees the land his Ute ancestors and many other tribes used to roam.\n\nFor more than a decade, House worked to be a liaison between American Indians and the state as the executive director of the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs. He stepped down from the post in September, transitioning to a new role at the Keystone Policy Center. In his time at CCIA, House helped create educational resource guides, organize a dramatic apology for a centuries-old massacre and led politicians through tours of his tribal home, trying to re-sow the fissures of history caused by colonization.\n\nErnest has played a tremendous role in ensuring our state government never lost focus on our tribal communities, said Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne in a news release. Our tribes have an important seat at the table and a strong voice thanks to Ernests commitment and dedication.\n\nWith House gone, the agency will carry out the projects he started and wait until a new governor is inaugurated to appoint his replacement.\n\nHouse began at the bottom, leaping up the ranks of the commission to take the helm 13 years ago. After a year as the agencys intern, he applied to lead it in 2005, not thinking he had a chance to land the job.\n\nWe were ready to go be ski bums once I got the no, House said, referring to him and his wife.\n\nBut he put his ski-bum dreams on hold when, to his surprise, he was offered the job. House worked with three administrations over 11 years and countless lawmakers from both parties. He took a brief two-year pause from CCIA in 2010, but was coaxed back by Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia in 2012.\n\nTwo reservations  the Ute Mountain and Southern Ute  are partially in Colorado. But 48 tribes have cultural affinity to the land of present-day Colorado. While the commissions first job is government-to-government communication, House saw his role as being a link to all American Indians who call Colorado home.\n\nBy the end of his latest stint, his list of accomplishments had grown long enough to earn him his own honorary day, Sept. 28, as Ernest House Day.\n\nHouse often deflects praise from himself to others who have helped him along the way.\n\nHe said his father, Ernest House Sr., was my greatest resource. House Sr. was the longest-serving tribal chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. In his 30-plus-year tenure, the elder House worked to expand public safety on a reservation that has been plagued by violence. His work endeared him to many in the tribe, according to Pearl Casias, a Ute Tribe councilwoman.\n\nCasias saw the work that Ernest House Sr. did continue with the his son.\n\nErnest was the right fit for the position, Casias said.\n\nHouses great-grandfather Jack House was the last hereditary chief of the Weeminuche band of Ute and looks down on his great-grandson from a black and white portrait that hangs in Houses office.\n\nDespite coming from a family of leaders, House faced many challenges in Denver. Stereotypes and a lack of visibility for American Indians still permeate many parts of the largely progressive city.\n\nIf (people) know American Indians exist, they may have heard about a tribe and then they associate it to a casino, House said.\n\nOne way he tried to elevate the voices of other Indigenous Coloradans was by taking new political leaders to the Four Corners region.\n\nFrom above, the Ute Mountain Reservation is a ruffled tan sheet of desert crinkled by veins of green creek beds. Irrigated circles of farmland dot the ridges leading to  physically and spiritually  the most prominent part of the reservation, Sleeping Ute Mountain.\n\nHouses childhood home in McElmo Canyon is one of those streaks of green just north of the mountain.\n\nThe present-day political borders of American Indian reservations were divorced from their ancestral boundaries long ago. The Ute Mountain reservation spills into New Mexico with flecks of tribal land dotting southwestern Utah, a shadow of the land that his ancestors used to roam across the Colorado Plateau.\n\nMany of the other tribes that once lived in the area of present-day Colorado, such as the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Kiowa were forced to reservations in Wyoming and Oklahoma. Forty-eight tribes used to live in Colorado before being forced out, according to the CCIA website.\n\nThe history is engraved into Houses consciousness and is one he shared with visitors he took to the reservations. Alcoholism, drug abuse and violence are issues that reservations grapple with. But on the visits, House strove to show that the reservation was more than just bleak statistics.\n\nAlong with working to educate people across the state about modern-day issues, House worked to try and heal the past. One of the biggest wounds House tried to mend was the Sand Creek Massacre.\n\nIn late November in 1864, a nomadic village of Cheyenne and Arapaho settled near where present-day Kansas bleeds into the plains of southeastern Colorado.\n\nSeveral hundred Union soldiers came upon the camp. White flags and star-spangled banners flapped over the tepees, a sign the camp was peaceful. Most of the men were away on a buffalo hunt.\n\nBullets and havoc tore through the camp, scattering the women, children and the wounded who tried to escape. At least 160 Arapaho and Cheyenne were killed, by some estimates. The soldiers walked away from the village-turned-killing-field with mutilated body parts, trophies of the massacre.\n\nFor the 150th anniversary of the massacre, House had an idea. He pitched to Gov. John Hickenlooper that he say two words many had been waiting to hear for over a century: Im sorry.\n\nOn Dec. 3, 2014, tribal leaders, indigenous people and Colorado residents stood on the steps of the Capitol listening to Hickenlooper speak. Young indigenous people had run over 170 miles in an annual spiritual run from the massacre site to Denver.\n\nHouse stood off to the side, flanked by Hickenloopers aides, and listened to the words many had been waiting to hear for a long time.\n\nWe should not be afraid to criticize and condemn that which is inexcusable, Hickenlooper said. On behalf of the state of Colorado, I want to apologize.\n\nThe crowd erupted into a chorus of cheers as the governor turned to shake the hands of the tribal leaders. House looked on with satisfaction, seeing months of work come to fruition.\n\nHouse ranks the apology as one of his proudest accomplishments. Others include releasing a American Indian history resource guide for teachers.\n\nBut what he loved doing most was being a voice for people he feels have for too long not had one.\n\nAn earlier version of this article refers to the Keystone Police Center as the Keystone Policy Institute, the error has been corrected.","title":"After over a decade linking Indian Country to Denver Native leader steps down","date":"2018-11-14","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"French President Emmanuel Macron has publicly criticized Trumps America First, nationalist agenda and instead promotes globalism.\n\nNEXT LEVEL LYING: Zooming in is not Doctoring","title":"Infowars Most Censored Videos Frances Macron Declares Nation-States The Enemy","date":"2018-11-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"It has been long known that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2017. Typically, people with glioblastoma survive an average of 16 months. McCain has been receiving treatments but his prognosis is serious and can cause other complications as well. So, there has also been a question of what will happen to his Senate seat if he dies or resigns.\n\nRepublicans who control the Arizona Senate were prevented from ensuring that ailing Sen. John McCains seat isnt on the November ballot if he leaves office.  Minority Democrats voted as a block on Monday against the measure, preventing an emergency clause from being tacked onto legislation changing how members of Congress who die or resign are replaced.\n\nGOP state lawmakers introduced a bill which would have allowed individuals appointed to vacant Senate seats to occupy them for two full years, if the seat became vacant within 150 days of a regularly scheduled primary election.\n\nTherefore, anyone that was appointed by Governor Doug Ducy (R-AZ) after March 31 would remain in the Senate seat until 2020. Currently, according to Arizona law, McCains seat would be on the next general election ballot if he left the post by May 30. The actual bill is HB2166.\n\nDemocrats voted to prevent the measure to minimize the risk of losing McCains seat if it came up for grabs during the 2018 midterm elections.\n\nMcCain was hospitalized for an intestinal infection on April 15. His wife posted via Twitter that he arrived back home in Sedona on Monday.","title":"Democrats Deliver Major Upset Block GOP From Taking John McCains Senate Seat","date":"2018-04-25","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Ayatollah Khomeini should never be allowed to have nuclear weapons","title":"Trump Has Rebuilt Americas Bond With Israel","date":"2018-07-31","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"A county Carlow man has won first place at the World Ploughing Contest in Germany.\n\nEamonn Tracey took the top prize in the conventional class at the championship held in Einsiedel at the weekend.\n\nJohn Whelan from Wexford secured silver for Ireland in the reversible class at the competition.\n\nManaging director of the National Ploughing Association Anna May McHugh said: This is a fantastic win for both men and Irish ploughing as a whole. Since winning the nationals last year, the men have been working hard on preparing for the worlds in Germany and all their effort have paid off. They have done their country extremely proud. Congratulations and a very well done to both. The general secretary of the World Ploughing Organisation, Anna Marie McHugh said Ireland had always been highly respected internationally in terms of producing ploughmen to compete on the world stage.\n\nHowever, Eamonn and John in particular are held in extremely high esteem not only in Ireland but across the international ploughing community. Another great result such as this for both men further adds to their global reputation as masters in their field.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland team at the competition were coached by Patsy Condron of Laois.","title":"On top of the world Irishman is new World Ploughing Champion","date":"2018-09-03","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"Terrified passengers on a Ryanair plane at Barcelona were ordered to evacuate after a mobile phone caught fire.\n\nThe passengers device was being charged by a battery pack while the aircraft was on the ground preparing to depart aboard a Boeing 737 for the short flight to Ibiza.\n\nDramatic footage shows that it initially burned a hole in an aircraft seat before being knocked to the floor in flames.\n\nWith smoke pouring from the fire, cabin crew organised an emergency evacuation using the inflatable slides. Footage shows some disorder, with passengers being sent down the chutes even though others had not cleared the slides.\n\nA passenger, \"anthcarrio\", filmed the fire and uploaded it to Instagram, adding: \"Looks like it harfer [sic] to get to ibiza then we thought. I've never seen so many people so scared in there [sic] life! Portable charger blew up in the same row as I was sitting.\"\n\nThe airline said: Passengers on a Barcelona-Ibiza flight on the ground in Barcelona experienced an emergency evacuation caused by a mobile phone catching fire as it was being charged by a battery pack.\n\nAll passengers were safely evacuated back to the terminal and cabin crew dealt with the mobile phone. Ryanair worked to arrange a spare aircraft to re-accommodate these passengers with the minimum delay.\n\nRyanair allows passengers to carry two spare lithium ion batteries in carry-on baggage. These must be individually protected to prevent short circuits, says the airline.\n\nBattery terminals must be either recessed or packaged so as to prevent contact with metal objects including terminals of other batteries.\n\nAviation safety experts have long warned about the risks associated with portable electronic devices - and allowing battery chargers on flights.\n\nIn February, a Frontier Airlines flight from Orlando to Phoenix was diverted to Tampa when a similar blaze took hold. During the climb, a passengers battery that was connected to a smartphone ignited, burning the owner who knocked it to the floor.\n\nIn December, a passengers iPhone on a United Airlines flight from Barcelona to New York caught fire after it was inadvertently crushed when the seat was reclined.\n\nPassengers are now warned not to operate reclines and alert cabin crew if they lose an electronic device in the seat mechanism.\n\nAccording to the latest Federal Aviation Administration figures, \"air\/airport incidents involving lithium batteries carried as cargo or baggage\" happen, on average, once every 50 days.","title":"Ryanair passengers forced to evacuate plane after mobile phone bursts into flames","date":"2018-08-01","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Earlier this month Socialist Michael Moore said Pope Francis told him capitalism is sin.\n\n\n\nIn 2014 Pope Francis famously called for the global redistribution of wealth.\n\nPope Francis warned Sunday in his weekly sermon that calls for help from the poor are growing stronger  yet they continue to be ignored as the wealthy grab more resources that belong to everyone.\n\nThe cry of the poor daily becomes stronger, but heard less, drowned out by the din of the rich few, who grow ever fewer and more rich, he said, the Vatican reported.\n\nIt is the cry of all those forced to flee their homes and native land for an uncertain future. It is the cry of entire peoples, deprived even of the great natural resources at their disposal ... while the wealthy few feast on what, in justice, belongs to all.\n\nHe said: Christians cannot stand with arms folded in indifference or with arms outstretched in helplessness, but must act to help. Do we have eyes to see, ears to hear, hands outstretched to offer help? he asked.","title":"Commie Pope Francis The Rich Are Enjoying What Should Belong to Everyone","date":"2018-11-19","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Under normal circumstances, an American politician would be in trouble for having employed a figure as compromised as Paul Manafort, whose role in US President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign ranks with some of the country's most famous scandals. But these are not normal circumstances.","title":"Trumps Manafort Problem","date":"2018-08-08","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) drank a glass of chocolate milk Wednesday in order to demonstrate the value of diversity at various levels of corporate leadership.\n\nThis chocolate syrup represents diversity, Hyatt Hotels vice president for diversity and inclusion, Tyronne Stoudemire, said as he squeezed it into a glass of milk held by Rauner. When you look at most organizations, diversity sits at the bottom of the organization. You dont get inclusion until you actually stir it up.\n\nRauner played along, as shown in a video captured by WBBM:\n\nIts really, really good. Diversity! Rauner, whos up for re-election in November, announced.\n\nA spokesperson for the governor told the Chicago Tribune: This was the event moderators example of diversity that an audience of all ages could see and understand. It was one of two demonstrations at the event, both of which received ovations from the crowd.\n\nStoudemire confirmed to the paper that the governor didnt know what he was getting into, and noted he usually picks the most powerful person in the room to help with the milk.","title":"Illinois Governor Drinks Chocolate Milk Celebrates Diversity","date":"2018-02-22","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Lord Sugar has been accused of objectifying women after he posted yet another controversial tweet.\n\nThe Apprentice boss posted an image of a blonde woman in a low cut top with the caption: \"Went into a shop in Croatia to buy a jumper. After 20 mins my wife said what the hell is he doing in there, he has been ages.\"\n\nHe tagged former colleague Nick Hewer, an advisor on his apprentice show however appeared to tag the wrong account.\n\nPeople online have hit back at Lord Sugar claiming that the post is 'sexist and he is 'objectifying' the woman in the picture.\n\nIt comes after Lord Sugar posted a tweet online in which he mocked up a picture of the Senegal football team next to handbags and sunglasses with the caption \"I recognise some of these guys from the beach in Marbella. Multi tasking resourceful chaps.\"\n\nHe was forced to apologise for the tweet and deleted it.\n\nRhian Barnes wrote: \"Racist AND sexist! What's next? Homophobic? Let's make it a hat trick!\"\n\nAfter his tweet about the Sengal football team, Lord Sugar was forced to apologise.\n\nWhile others demanded that the BBC take action.\n\nLabour MP Dawn Butler led calls for the billionaire businessman to be disciplined by TV bosses.\n\nWhile other critics urged people to complain to the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards about his online behaviour.\n\nLord Sugar sits as a crossbench peer in the House of Lords after quitting the Labour Party in 2015, saying he was \"disillusioned\" at the direction of the party.\n\nThe latest season of the BBC's hit show The Apprentice is due to air later this year. The US version of the show has previously been hosted by now-US President Donald Trump.","title":"Lord Sugar under fire again over tweet aposobjectifyingapos Croatian shop assistant","date":"2018-07-31","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Meghan looked super chic  and more than a little bit sexy  when she arrived at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London on Wednesday night wearing a short black tuxedo dress, designed by Canadian label Judith and Charles.\n\nShe and Prince Harry were there for a special gala performance of Hamilton in aid of Sentebale - the charity Prince Harry founded with Prince Seesio to support children and young people affected by HIV in Lesotho.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussexs dress, which costs 327, not only featured a surprisingly short hemline for a member of the British royal family, but was also remarkably similar to one her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana, wore to a performance of The Marriage of Figaro in 1991.\n\nAs the 21st anniversary of Dianas death approaches (August 31), could this tribute have been an unintentional one?\n\nGiven Meghans track record of impeccable sartorial diplomacy, we suspect not.\n\nThe dress which Diana wore was an gold buttoned silk satin ensemble with white cuffs and an exaggerated white lapel.\n\nMeghan opted for a simpler, sleeker tuxedo dress with a simple black collar and tonal buttons - reportedly styled for her by her BFF Jessica Mulroney.  Its currently available to pre-order online and available to purchase now in a burgundy colourway.\n\nShe finished the look with a black and gold box clutch bag and a pair of black pointed courts by Paul Andrew, at a price 495.\n\nThis isnt the first time Meghan has worn a coat as a dress. The pale pink-nude sleeveless trench coat dress by Canadian brand Nonie that she wore back in July gave a fresh spin to what many regard as quintessentially British outerwear.\n\nNot only was last night's dress a fitting nod to Diana, but it was also very on trend for autumn 2018.\n\nTuxedo dresses were first seen on the spring runways, with crisp black versions at Alexander Wang and Dion Lee, mannish white pinstripes at Eckhaus Latta and tartan and tweed versions at Area and Matthew Adams Dolan.\n\nIndeed, in an article back in February, Vogue hailed the return of the tuxedo dress, describing the item as a handy alternative for actresses who want to access their androgynous potential without compromising on the chance to show off the rewards of that Tracy Anderson subscription.\n\nMeghan most certainly had more leg on show than is customary for a royal, but frankly, if we had pins that perfectly toned, wed want to show them off too.","title":"Was the tuxedo dress Meghan wore to see Hamilton a tribute to her late mother in law","date":"2018-08-30","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Infowars is on the southern border delivering the migrant caravans next movements.","title":"Livestream Migrant Caravan Moving From Tent City to New Shelter","date":"2018-11-30","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Paul Krugman, whos wrong about everything, sucked up to Nancy Pelosi as he nervously gushed about what a huge honor it was to sit down and interview her.\n\nAt one point, Pelosi stuttered and lost her train of thought as she spoke about the Kavanaugh confirmation.\n\nNancy Pelosi either forgot Justice Brett Kavanaughs name or couldnt bring herself to say his name.\n\nIn the next clip, Nancy Pelosi was asked by Paul Krugman what the Democrat agenda would be if they were to take back the House following the midterms.\n\nPelosi gave a long-winded answer and mumbled her way through her Democrat talking points about gun safety, LGBT rights, abortion and hey if theres some collateral damage for Republicans along the way, so be it.\n\nYes, she really said this.\n\nIf theres some collateral damage, for some others that dont share our view, well so be it, Pelosi said.\n\nVote red all the way down the ballotGod help us if these violent, lawless Democrats ever regain power again.","title":"Nancy Pelosi on Democrat Agenda If Theres Collateral Damage to People Who Dont Share Our Views W","date":"2018-10-18","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  President Donald Trump says that he is willing to shut down the government over funding for his long-promised border wall but that hell always leave room for negotiation.\n\nTrump was asked about his shutdown threat during a joint press conference with Italys premier Monday.\n\nTrump says, Ill always leave room for negotiation. But hes stressing the need for border security and overhauling the nations legal immigration system.\n\nHe says, I would certainly be willing to close it down to get it done but also says he has no red line.\n\nTrump is also defending U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying it defends the U.S. against MS-13 nests of bad, bad people.\n\nTrump had said during his campaign that Mexico would pay for his wall, but Mexico has balked at that request.","title":"Trump says room for negotiation over shutdown","date":"2018-07-30","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"The Muslim Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, approved an angry baby Trump blimp to fly near the Parliament for two hours on July 13th during the Presidents visit to the United Kingdom.\n\nIronically, the group behind this angry baby Trump blimp refer to themselves as anti-fascists.\n\nThe group has already raised over 14,000!\n\nWestmonster reported:\n\nFollowing Sadiq Khans approval of a balloon mocking President Trump to be flown over Parliament during his visit to the UK, a counter-campaign has surged to over 10,000 out of nowhere for a balloon depicting the London Mayor to go up. The campaigns appeal reads: To have a giant size Sadiq Khan, Baby Khan balloon fly over London to demonstrate our unhappiness with him as our Mayor of London. It goes on to explain: In light of the Donald Trump Baby Trump ballon being allowed to fly over London during his visit to the UK, lets get a baby Khan one and see if FREE SPEECH applies to all and whether or not Mr Khan and the London Assembly will also approve this. More than 600 people have backed the move already, to the tune of more than 10k.\n\nYou can donate here.","title":"Brilliant Online Campaign to Raise Cash for Baby Khan Blimp During Trump Visit Smashes 10k Targe","date":"2018-07-06","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Saline solutions have a wide range of medical uses, with one of the most prominent being in intravenous (IV) infusion. However, new research has revealed that switching from saline to a different intravenous fluid could make a major difference in the lives of patients. On top of decreasing the number of kidney failure cases, using something other than saline could also improve a patients chances of survival.\n\nTo arrive at this conclusion, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers carried out two different studies between 2015 and 2017. The first had them observing more than 13,000 patients who were admitted into the emergency department (ED); the other study involved examining over 15,000 intensive care unit (ICU) patients. In both studies, the patients were given either IVs of saline or balanced crystalloids.\n\nFor the ED patients, the saline and balanced crystalloids had no impact on the number of hospital-free days, which was defined as the number of days alive following discharge prior to the 28th day. However, the researchers found that the patients who were administered balanced crystalloids were less likely to experience major adverse kidney events (4.7 percent against 5.6 percent) within the span of a month.\n\nA similar effect was noted among ICU patients. Of the 7,942 patients whod received balanced crystalloids, only 1,139 or 14.3 percent went through a major adverse kidney event. By comparison, around 1,211 out of 7,860 saline patients, or 15.4 percent, underwent this. Persistent renal dysfunction was more prominent in the saline group (6.6 percent versus 6.4 percent), as was the occurrence of new renal replacement therapy (2.9 percent against 2.5 percent). Moreover, those in the saline group had a greater in-hospital mortality rate (11.1 percent) when measured against those in the balanced crystalloids group (10.3 percent).\n\nIn addition to the lower incidence of kidney failure and death, the balanced solution has chloride and sodium concentrations that were much closer to regular blood levels than saline solution. The higher concentrations of sodium and chloride in saline makes it near identical to table salt. (Related: 10 Common Habits That Seriously Damage Your Kidneys.)\n\nThe researchers have estimated that swapping out saline could cut back the number of yearly kidney failure cases in the U.S. by as much as 100,000. Furthermore, as many as 70,000 lives could be saved by making this simple change.\n\nThe difference, while small for individual patients, is significant on a population level. Each year in the United States, millions of patients receive intravenous fluids, said study author Dr. Wesley Self. When you look at the millions and millions of patients that have fluids given to them every year in the U.S., a one percent difference for each patient starts to be a big number when you multiply it out by millions.\n\nDue to these findings, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has since opted for balanced solutions instead of saline solutions in their IV bags. Fortunately, the balance fluids utilized by Vanderbilt University Medical Center command the same price as the saline solution.Because balanced fluids and saline are similar in cost, the finding of better patient outcomes with balanced fluids in two large trials has prompted a change in practice at Vanderbilt toward using primarily balanced fluids for intravenous fluid therapy, explained Assistant Professor of Medicine, and Dr. Selfs colleague, Dr.Matthew Semler.\n\nHe added: There are tens or hundreds of thousands of patients who would be spared death or severe kidney problems by using balanced fluids instead of saline.\n\nFar from being the only institution to make this drastic change, the University of Pittsburgh has followed suit. Dr. John Kellum, a critical care specialist who played no role in the study, stated that he and his constituents had been sounding the alarm for 20 years on the detrimental effects of saline. Regardless, Kellum has expressed relief that the potential harm caused by saline has been acknowledged and put out to raise public awareness.\n\nGo to Medicine.news to stay up to date on news about medicine and the healthcare industry.","title":"Saline solution in hospital IVs found to cause kidney failure","date":"2018-03-04","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"MISSOULA, Mont.  President Donald Trump praised a Republican congressman for body-slamming a reporter last year, calling him a tough cookie and saying he thinks it might have helped him win election in Montana.\n\nAt a campaign rally in Missoula Thursday, Trump lauded Rep. Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for an attack on Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs. The attack came a day before Gianforte won a 2017 special election to serve the remaining 18 months in the House term vacated by now-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.\n\nAny guy that can do a body slam  hes my kind of guy, Trump said to cheers and laughter from the crowd. Hes a great guy, tough cookie.\n\nHis remarks praising Gianforte come amid an international furor over the apparent assassination of a Washington Post columnist, who, according to an account in Turkeys Yeni Safak newspaper, allegedly had his fingers cut off and was decapitated inside a Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago.\n\nIn the case of Gianforte, witnesses including members of a Fox News crew say Gianforte became enraged over what he perceived as biased coverage before body-slamming Jacobs, throwing him to the ground and punching him.\n\nGianforte initially misled investigators about what had happened, falsely claiming that Jacobs had grabbed him by the wrist and pulled both of them to the floor, according to documents released under a court order following requests from news agencies.\n\nThe president said he was in Rome with other world leaders when he heard about what had happened.\n\nAnd I said, oh, this is terrible. Hes going to lose the election, Trump recalled. And then I said, well, wait a minute. I know Montana pretty well. I think it might help him. And it did.\n\nGianforte pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in June 2017 and said in an apology letter that he alone was responsible for the attack. He paid a $385 fine and completed 40 hours of community service and 20 hours of anger management counseling. He also donated $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists.\n\nTrump referenced Gianforte again later in the rally when discussing former Vice President Joe Biden, who once said he would beat the hell out of Trump if they were in high school.\n\nOn Biden challenging him to a fight, Trump said, Hed be down, faster than Greg would take him down.\n\nGianforte, who attended the rally with the president, is up for re-election in November and faces former state legislator Kathleen Williams. The presidents next stop on his three-day trip out West is Arizona.","title":"Trump praises Montana congressman who body-slammed reporter","date":"2018-10-19","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that it had obtained the NRAs tax records which showed a $55 million decrease in revenue between 2016 and 2017.\n\nAccording to the report:\n\nThe National Rifle Association of America reported $98 million in contributions in 2017, down from nearly $125 million in 2016, according to new tax records obtained by The Daily Beast. Nearly one-fifth of its contributions last year came from a single anonymous donor, who chipped in nearly $19 million to the group.\n\nThis tremendous loss of funding could be attributed to a lot of factors, but its definitely worth noting that the NRA spent record sums in order to ensure that Donald Trump was elected. Since Trump took office, weve seen an unprecedented increase in gun violence, including the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida where 17 people, most of those children, were mowed down by a man carrying an assault-style weapon. As a result, Floridas uber-conservative former Governor Rick Scott signed the first gun control law enacted by the state since the shooting occurred. Because of this new law, the NRA is now suing the State of Florida, which is just one more thing that probably isnt helping their bottom line.\n\nNow, the NRAs media wing  NRATV  is being affected by this loss in revenue and is being forced to lay off employees.\n\nCameron Gray, a reporter and spokesperson for NRATV, announced the layoffs on his personal Twitter account on Wednesday, saying:\n\nSome personal news: Just shy of my 10-year anniversary, me and several colleagues had their positions terminated this morning. So, if you have or know of any jobs available in the DC-area, or any that can be done remotely, please let me know.\n\nTwitter users responded exactly as you might expect. Here are some of our favorites:","title":"NRA Makes Massive Layoffs After Devastating Numbers Report","date":"2018-11-30","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Have you heard of the new vegan burger that bleeds just like a real hamburger? Known as the Impossible Burger, its been turning up in hundreds of restaurants and fast food outlets around the country lately.\n\nThis food product garnered a lot of hype when it was in development. It attracted $400 million in funding that included contributions from Bill Gates. Its debuting in 400 White Castle burger outlets this month and is already sold in places like Bareburger, Applebees, Whalburgers, and countless independent restaurants. Its just the sort of menu item that appeals to health-conscious consumers  at least in theory. Vegan? Check. Delicious? Reports from those who have tried it have been generally positive. Organic? Not so fast.\n\nThe big beef many health-conscious consumers have with this product is related to this meat alternatives defining characteristic: the way it bleeds when you cut it.\n\nAlthough there are a lot of things you might miss when you give up traditional burgers for good in favor of healthier vegan options, one thing you probably dont miss is their bloody appearance, reminding you that an innocent cow made the ultimate sacrifice for your feast. However, Impossible Foods somehow felt this was a desirable characteristic and went to the trouble of genetically modifying a soy protein called legume hemoglobin to give the product this effect.\n\nYes, thats right: its genetically modified. Why, then, are so many restaurants marketing it as organic? Its not clear whether theyre simply confused because the company hasnt been upfront or theyre being intentionally misleading. According to Grub Street, organic burger chain Bareburger says that everything going into your body is coming from nature  even though the heme in the burger is created in a lab. Some of its locations even used hash tags like #nongmo and #organic while promoting this Frankenfood.\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nChicago burger chain M Burger calls the product 100% free of hormones, antibiotics and artificial ingredients, while the Hopdoddy chain placed in on a list of sandwiches that are made with fresh, all-natural ingredients. Buyer beware.\n\nThe Impossible Burger is made with a completely new ingredient to the human food supply; theres never been anything like it before, and while that might make it innovative, that also means we dont really know if its safe. Theres no precedent for exposure to such high amounts of this protein from either the natural form or the lab-grown variety used in the burgers. When the company asked the FDA if it would review the burgers safety  something it did even though it wasnt required  the agency initially responded that the safety of the soy leghemoglobin (SLH) had not been established.\n\nIt was later revealed that the startup tried to fix the situation by testing the additive on rats, earning the ire of environmental groups that were once on board with its approach, like PETA and the Sustainable Foods Summit.\n\nTo be fair, the company doesnt hide the fact that SLH is GMO. While it does its best not to advertise that fact, it admits it halfway down the FAQ page of its website  explaining it in a way that somehow makes it sound not nearly as risky as it is, of course. They and their restaurant partners obviously know that its something many consumers wish to avoid, which is why they do their best not to draw too much attention to it. This situation underscores the importance of doing your homework when it comes to food choices and ensuring they are as healthy as they appear on the surface.","title":"Trendy Impossible Burger is actually made with questionable ingredients such as GMOs","date":"2018-09-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"A Sunday Washington Post report brought the startling revelation that yet another Russian reached out to the Trump campaign to offer dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race.\n\nAt a previously undisclosed May 2016 meeting brokered by former Trump adviser Michael Caputo, a Russian intermediary named Harry Greenberg offered GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone $2 million in exchange for this damaging information. Both Caputo and Stone say they rebuffed and then simply forgot about the remarkable encounter, and did not disclose it publicly or to Congress as a result.\n\nThe episode actually came to light after special counsel Robert Muellers team grilled Caputo about it during a May 2, 2018 interview.\n\nFearing that the meeting would be used against them, Caputo launched a well-funded effort to gather information that would help cast the meeting as just another example of an insidious anti-Trump conspiracy at the FBI.\n\nOn the same day the Post article dropped, Caputos team sent out a press release linking to a glossy new website detailing Greenbergs past work as an FBI informant. The site, DemocratDossier.org, claims that Caputo conducted his research using money from the crowd-sourced legal fund set up to cover the costs of his defense in the Russia probes. It links to a separate GoFundMe campaign requesting donations for additional investigations into the informants the intelligence agencies planted into the Trump campaign to spy on various advisers.\n\nAs the Post reported, Greenberg did claim to work as an FBI informant under a different name until around 2013. But the newspaper noted that there was no evidence that he was doing so in his interaction with Stone, and Greenberg denies that he was acting on the FBIs behalf.\n\nThe FBI informant narrative also does not explain why Caputo and Stone failed to disclose the encounter for almost two years, and falsely testified before Congress that they had no meetings with Russian nationals during the election.\n\nBut by controlling how the story went public and tying the Greenberg incident to the preexisting FBI spygate narrative, the pair of Trump allies allowed themselves to avoid a defensive crouch and remain on the attack.\n\nThe seeds of this story line were planted not long after Caputos May 2 interview with Mueller. That evening, Caputo told CNN that the special counsels team remained really focused on Russia collusion and that they know more about the Trump campaign than anyone who ever worked there.\n\nThe special counsel is spearfishing, Caputo said. They know what they are aiming at and are deadly accurate.\n\nIt was around this time that reports first surfaced that an FBI informant contacted several members of the Trump campaign in July 2016 to suss out their contacts with Russians. That individual, who was in touch with both Carter Page and George Papadopolous, turned out to be Cambridge professor and longtime U.S. intelligence source Stefan Halper.\n\nOn May 21, Caputo went on Fox News and suggested that multiple covert informants tried to entrap Trump associates during the 2016 election.\n\nThis informant, this person that they planted, try to plant into the campaign and even into the administration if you believe Axios, hes not the only person that came at the campaign, Caputo told host Laura Ingraham. I know because they came at me, and Im looking for clearance from my attorney to reveal this to the public.\n\nWhen we finally find out the truth about this, Director Clapper and the rest of them are going to be wearing some orange suits, he added.\n\nThis nefarious description of Greenberg as a plant dispatched to take down the Trump campaign does not quite square with Caputo and Stones claims that they had no memory of interacting with him.\n\nI didnt talk to anybody who was identifiably Russian during the two-year run-up to this campaign, Stone told the Washington Post in an April 2017 interview. I very definitely cant think of anybody who might have been a Russian without my knowledge. Its a canard.\n\nCaputo, meanwhile, told CNN that he spent the bulk of his June 2017 interview before the House Intelligence Committee denying any interaction with Russians.\n\nI spent my time in front of the committee detailing the fact that I had no contact with Russians, that I never heard of anyone with the Trump campaign talking with Russians, that I was never asked questions about my time in Russia, that I never even spoke to anyone about Russia, that I never heard the word Russia, and we did not use Russian dressing, Caputo said.\n\nBut then, during his May 2 interview, special counsel investigators showed Caputo text messages that he and Stone exchanged about the Greenberg meeting in Florida.\n\nAs the Post reported, Greenberg was decked out in Make America Great Again gear when Stone met him for lunch at a restaurant in Sunny Isles. The Russian national told Stone they really want to help Trump and asked if the GOP presidential candidate would pay $2 million for damaging political information about Clinton. Stone replied that Trump doesnt pay for anything, he recalled to the newspaper.\n\nIn subsequent text messages, Caputo asked how crazy is the Russian? Stone said that Greenberg wanted big money and called the meeting a waste of time.\n\nBoth men told the Post they will now amend their congressional testimony to account for the meeting with Greenberg, and that they simply forgot about the inconsequential encounter.\n\nI just didnt remember. 2016 was a pretty busy year, Stone told ABC News. I dont think a failure of memory constitutes a perjury.\n\nCaputo, too, brushed it off as a non-issue, claiming that he only learned that Greenberg was Russian during his interview with the special counsel, who knew more about it than I did.\n\nCongressional follow-up seems unlikely, particularly from the deeply divided House Intelligence Committee.\n\nFew of the Trump team witnesses have proved worthy of being taken at their word, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who sits on the House Intel Committee told TPM in a statement, but the House Intelligence Committees Republicans refused to issue the subpoenas necessary to confirm or disprove these stories. The latest revelation about Roger Stone proves how irresponsible it was for the Republicans to accept witnesses testimony blindly and then end the investigation while insisting there were no more facts to find.\n\nRep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the House Intelligence Committees top Democrat, released a harsh statement on Sunday accusing his GOP colleagues of shielding witnesses who may have testified before us untruthfully.\n\nIn multiple respects now, the testimony of Roger Stone appears inaccurate or deliberately misleading, Schiff said. Similarly, Michael Caputos testimony omitted mention of this interaction with a Russian offering dirt on Hillary Clinton, something which could not plausibly have escaped his recollection. The truthfulness of many of our witnesses has been difficult to ascertain, which is why I have urged the committee to make the transcripts available to Special Counsel Mueller for a determination whether any witnesses committed perjury before our committee. The Majoritys unwillingness to do so demonstrates that protecting the President remains its paramount objective.\n\nChairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has actively promoted the notion that there were anti-Trump spies planted in the campaign, and released no statement responding to the Greenberg episode.\n\nNunes office did not respond to TPMs Monday request for comment.\n\nAs the Post noted, Stone and Caputos communications with Greenberg means that 11 Trump associates or campaign officials have now admitted to interacting with a Russian during the campaign or presidential transition.\n\nPresident Trump and his allies have denied anything untoward about those contacts, framing themselves as the target of a sprawling witch hunt.","title":"Why Is Roger Stone Only Now Coming Clean About May 2016 Russia Contact","date":"2018-06-18","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Brown University has vowed to offer a tuition-free Masters Degree to illegal immigrants if the government opts to shutdown the unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.\n\nThe school will also use their funding to provide them with enhanced Counseling and Psychological Services, and create in-school and post-graduate opportunities for students unable to work legally to engage in stipend-supported research and education that is not citizenship-dependent.\n\nThe Dean of the College and the Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services are collaborating to establish Brown Experiential Learning Fellowships that will offer eligible students an opportunity to engage in independent, project-based experiences that include a research component. In addition to this, the University will offer tuition-free, fifth-year Masters program enrollment for eligible 2018 graduates of Brown. Admitted students would receive a stipend and health insurance, Provost Richard M. Locke said in a statement last month.\n\nThe university already covers the cost of DACA renewal application fees, provides grant money to pay for legal representation, and has extra institutional scholarships for students whose work authorization expires, Campus Reform reports.\n\nThe handouts for non-citizens come as our own young adults struggle to be able to afford an education.\n\nDACA, as noted by the Heritage Foundation, is an administrative amnesty for illegal aliens that President Barack Obama lacked the constitutional and legal authority to implement.\n\nIn May 2011, then-President Obama stated that he cannot just bypass Congress and change the (immigration) law myself. ... Thats not how a democracy works.\n\nA year later, he did it anyways.\n\nIn September, Brown University vowed to continue to contributing to the lawlessness by asserting that they will not cooperate with law enforcement officials unless they have a subpoena.","title":"Ivy League University Vows to Give Free Masters Tuition to DACA Students","date":"2018-03-24","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Each day, I review hundreds of science and medicine headlines for assigning stories to websites like Science.news and Medicine.news, and I repeatedly see new science papers published about the links between oral bacteria and chronic diseases such as heart disease. The science is clear: If you have bacteria lurking in an old root canal, or hidden in your gum line, or even hiding out in pockets between your teeth, you may be inadvertently poisoning yourself with microbiological toxins that can seriously compromise your health.\n\nNow, theres a way to educate yourself with the knowledge you need to prevent disease and protect your own health for life. From March 12  19, a free online docu-series called The Holistic Oral Health Summit brings you 35 experts in oral health, disease prevention, nutrition and more. You can view the series at no charge by simply registering at this link.\n\nOne of the speakers in the summit is the incredibly gifted and knowledgeable Griffin Cole, DDS, NMD, who I personally visited for an incredibly difficult cosmetic dental procedure involving an old root canal I had as a child (following a sports injury, which was a real teeth smasher...). I know firsthand that Dr. Cole is, without question, the most gifted holistic dentist I have ever personally encountered. He completed a very difficult procedure on me that three previous dentists utterly failed to resolve. And his work has remained rock solid to this day, years later. (That must be why Dr. Cole has something like a six-month waiting period for new patients in the Austin area. If you want to see him as a patient, visit GriffinCole.com and request an appointment. Hes well versed in mercury-free dentistry.)\n\nIn addition to Dr. Griffin Cole, the Holistic Oral Health Summit features 34 other health experts, including Chris Shade, PhD (an expert in mercury toxicity and chelation therapy), Boyd Haley, PhD, David Kennedy, DDS and many other tremendously knowledgeable speakers.\n\nThis docu-series will change your life. In some cases, it may even help save your life from chronic degenerative disease. Sometimes the root cause of disease is quite literally the toxic bacteria lurking inside an old root canal. Other times, a simple change in your dental hygiene can make an astonishing difference in your recovery from cancer or heart disease.\n\nIf you want to stay healthy and avoid chronic disease, you need to see this docu-series. Its one of the best Ive ever been interviewed for. The wisdom youll discover in this series is so much more advanced than what youll ever hear from a conventional dentist that it puts common dentistry to shame. (Hopefully more dentists will watch this series, too, so they can pass this wisdom along to their own patients...)\n\nEach episode can be viewed any time during the day or night, through your own browser.\n\nRegister NOW at this link. (You will thank me once you see these videos.)","title":"Hidden poisons in your MOUTH may be causing cancer arthritis heart disease and even obesity","date":"2018-02-13","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Getting involved with stock trading isnt simple. After all, there are thousands of stocks to choose from, and if youre new to the market, it can seem like an impossible feat separating the winners from the losers. Even with a StockTwits review to help you make your decision, youre going to need some extra help if you want to avoid spending money on a lost cause. The more time you spend in the world of trading, the more youll be able to develop your skills and strategies that will help you to make positive decisions for the future of your financial health. However, when youre just getting started in the day trading world, there a few simple things that you should always look for when assessing any stock.\n\nThe first thing to look at when youre examining stocks for your day trading strategy is volume. An active day trader needs plenty of stock volume so that they can exit and enter trades on demand. The higher the volume of stock, the easier it will be to exit positions at the end of your day trading session, without having to worry about slippage. For those new to the market, slippage refers to when the market order or stop loss fills at a price thats separate to what you expected. While preferences differ, most day traders will only trade stocks with around 1,000,000 in daily volume, though many prefer several million.\n\nVolatility is another major component to consider with your day trading strategy. Many day traders approach stocks which have a significant amount of movement each day. Each share comes with its own volatility personality. While some stocks move on an average of 1%, others move up to 5% per day. The stocks you choose to trade will depend on the kind of trading style that works best for you. However, most people prefer the smaller movements between 0.5 and 2% a day. Bigger swings of 5% a day can be tough to handle, particularly when youre new to the market, and youll need very quick reflexes and an excellent knowledge of the market to win big with these assets.\n\nFinally, trend or range is another major component thats worth considering for your day trading strategy. There are both trend traders and range traders on the market today, as well as those who know how to alter between both plans. The best way to figure out which stocks suit the method that you prefer to use is to use a stock screener. Stock screeners help to filter out the thousands of stocks that appear on the market each day, so youre not wasting time changing commodities that arent right for you. Stock screeners also help to isolate stocks in ranges or trends, so you have a list of stocks to get started with when youre ready to begin trading. Remember, finding stocks that consistently conform to your trading method is going to take some time and effort. However, its something you should take seriously, as it will help you to earn the most significant return on investment.\n\nWhat to Look for in Day Trading Stock was last modified: by","title":"What to Look for in Day Trading Stock","date":"2018-10-11","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"Living through one family tragedy is hard enough, especially when its something as vicious as one of your family members being a victim of a serial killer. But what happens when tragedy strikes again, but this time, its the fault of someone related to you by blood. This is the true story of the Gilbert family.\n\nIts one of pure horror and unbelievable pain, and yet, its a reality that their family has had to face, each and every day.\n\nMari Gilbert was the mother of four girls, Shannan, Sarra, Sherre and Stevie. But when her children were young, there was a time when they had to be placed in foster care. Mari was a single parent who had to work hard to make ends meet, but who also had her own demons to deal with, mental issues being one of them.","title":"The Unbelievably Bad Luck Of The Gilbert Family","date":"2018-05-17","source":"trueactivist","label":0}
{"content":"In a stunning move Thursday evening, the Pentagon announced that President Donald J. Trumps military parade through the nations capital will be postponed until 2019.\n\nDepartment of Defense spokesman Col. Rob Manning told reporters that both the military and White House have now agreed to explore opportunities in 2019, delaying the Nov. 10 parade championed by the president to honor the troops and commemorate the centennial of World War I\n\nNo makeup date for the procession has been scheduled but the Pentagon move came hours after The Associated Press and other media outlets reported that military officials pegged the price tag for Trumps event at $92 million.","title":"President Pentagon put off Washington parade","date":"2018-08-17","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Donald Trump is used to saying whatever he wants without anyone stopping him to say no, that is not true. People sit quietly and even applaud as he repeats lies and bullies someone in every single speech he gives. Hes a man who is used to having his ass kissed at every turn, with no one daring enough to call him out.\n\nDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is at the White House this afternoon to discuss the tariffs Donald Trump placed on goods from others countries.\n\nTrump started with his usual lies about how wonderful his relationships are with our foreign allies, despite the clearly visible tension when they are in the same room, not to mention the negative statements to the press given about Trump by those allies.\n\nHowever, when Trump tried to say that whether or not a compromise is met regarding the tariffs, the outcome would be positive, Rutte had heard enough. The smiling leader said as nicely and loudly as possible, No.\n\nTrump continued, trying to speak over Rutte, saying:\n\nTrump then foolishly pretended not to hear Ruttes disagreement, and laid on his usual pretend-president spiel pretty thick. Check out the awkward exchange below:\n\nThe response section of this tweet was too good to pass up. We saved the best ones for you below:","title":"Dutch PM Interrupts Trump Tariff Lies With Resounding NO Donald Scrambles VIDEO","date":"2018-07-02","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The chaos king, Donald Trump, has appeared to get pleasure from sitting back watching his staff duel it out. As a result, smart, talented people have refused to take the many open positions in this administration. Not only that, the president appears to prefer it that way, which is frightening.\n\nHis desire for chaos just alienated longtime U.S. allies at the G-7 Summit in Canada. It was almost as if POTUS late-night phone calls included pillow talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump could not have carried out the former KGBs (FSB) playbook any better.\n\nTIME magazines cover showed the commander-in-chief looking into the mirror and seeing a reflection of himself alone as king. Trump has had no desire for a U.S. democracy or a traditional White House administration, as his praise of cruel dictators has amply indicated.\n\nAs much as the internal White House warfare amused the man sitting in the Oval Office, it has been a miserable environment for the staff. Even Chief of Staff John Kelly told senators that the place, The New York Times reported:\n\nSenior fellow at the Brookings Institute, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a staff turnover expert, said in the wake of the midterm elections that many talented people will shun working at the West Wing. She also said that Trump believes that he is his own best chief of staff, spokesman, and human resources manager, according to the New York Times:\n\nTenpas, said that when the president relied on outside advisers that was an indicator of emasculation of Kelly:\n\nThose who entered the White House for the first time have watched Trumps behavior as deteriorating. He has driven off those who might provide him cover.\n\nTrump has relied upon his secret core advisers, the ones he called as he sat alone in his bed surrounded only by cheeseburgers. The three men he looked to have been his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, friend for many years David Bossie, and the errant Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt.\n\nAuthor of The Gatekeepers, Chris Whipple, wrote about the history of White House chiefs of staffs, and he said:\n\nNow, 45 has decided to throw down 70 years of proven diplomacy and jetted over to Singapore for a meeting with North Koreas dictator, Kim Jong Un. Trumps actions have indicated that he feels far more comfortable with the tyrants of the world than any ally with the same values as the American people and alone in the White House.","title":"WH Staffers Defect Leak Humiliating Inside Trump Details To Sunday NY Times DETAILS","date":"2018-06-10","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"### Russian Defense Ministry\n\n Stoyan Vasev\/TASS\n\nMOSCOW, August 27. \/TASS\/. Rumors about an air strike allegedly carried out by\nRussian planes in northern Afghanistan have nothing to do with the reality,\nthe Russian Defense Ministry told the media on Monday.\n\n\"Reports by Reuters Russian planes have allegedly attacked militants of the\nIslamic movement Taliban (outlawed in Russia - TASS) in a northeastern border\nregion of Afghanistan have nothing to do with the reality. Russian military\nplanes have carried out no combat missions in the area of the state border\nbetween the Republic of Tajikistan and Afghanistan,\" the Defense Ministry\nsaid.\n\nReuters quoted two Afghan officials on Monday as saying that Tajik or Russian\ncombat planes had carried out bombing raids in northeastern Afghanistan on the\nborder with Tajikistan after a clash between Tajik border guards and militants\non the ground.\n\nAn Afghan police spokesman said the planes remained unidentified. Eight\nTaliban militants were reportedly killed and six others wounded as a result of\nthe air strike.\n\nTajikistan denies its militarys participation in the incident.\n\nIn other media","title":"Russian Defense Ministry denies rumors about air strike in Afghanistan","date":"2018-08-27","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"The great Christmas switch-on has been lighting up the capital for weeks but now were on the cusp of December and London is sparkling with a new type of decoration.\n\nFestive firs glitter in shop windows and lavish pines lure us into hotel lobbies. Each year its a competition to be the most inventive and this winter is no exception: the question for Londoners is how to see them all.\n\nPlan your tree-spotting in advance: Claridges, the unofficial marker for Christmas in the capital, unveiled its tree yesterday, Brixton Village turns its lights on this Friday November 30, while the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch launches its Japanese moss-covered sculpture, Bonsai\/Christmas Everywhere by Greens Green, next week.\n\nIts time to spruce up your night out: from swirling Shard-inspired snowdomes to scented firs, here are the finest Christmas trees to rock around.\n\nWhat to know: the unveiling of the Claridges Christmas tree represents the unofficial start of the festive season in the capital, and this year the theme is love. Designed by Diane Von Furstenberg and called the Tree of Love, its a wonder to behold: a six-metre blue iridescent sculptural tree decorated with 8,000 hand-painted silver leaves, glass spheres and 150 hand-blown glass hearts.\n\nUSP: six silver-leafed animals adorn the tree  an owl representing knowledge and wisdom; a dove symbolising peace; a horse conveying strength and endurance; a deer representing gentleness; a mouse to portray curiosity and a peacock symbolising beauty  perfect for showing off to your friends on Instagram.\n\nWhat to drink: start your night with a glass of Laurent-Perrier La Cuvee Brut as you marvel at Von Furstenbergs creation over Claridges festive afternoon tea (90). If youre lucky, choirboys will sing you festive carols over your Christmas pudding.\n\nWhat to know: most Christmas trees are static but Sir Michael Craig-Martin, the designer of the Connaughts tree, wanted his to be ever-changing. The magnificent nine-metre-high Norway Spruce is adorned with 12,000 bulbs that glow, fade and change colour all night long.\n\nUSP: its outside. The Connaughts tree stands tall outside the hotel in Carlos Place so it can be enjoyed by anyone passing by.\n\nWhat to drink: after one  or several  of the Connaught Bars legendary martinis, continue in the Christmas spirit and head to to Christmas By The River Market at London Bridge City where, from tomorrow, you can take part in a series of complimentary masterclasses, from wine tasting to storytelling. The market launches on Thursday with a festive carol parade.\n\nWhat to know: maverick design studio Bompas & Parr is behind Aqua Shards annual Christmas tree this year and its a multi-sensory marvel: a swirling snowstorm inside a grand sculpture inspired by the shape of the Shard. The so-called Snowscape is adorned with wild, frosty branches reaching up through the atrium and surrounded with a base of natural forest foliage inspired by a winter wonderland.\n\nUSP: its hands-on. Reach inside the structure through a pocket in the side of the tree and feel the breeze of the perpetual whirling snowstorm. If youre feeling thirsty, catch a golden snowflake and youll win an exclusive Snowscape cocktail, available during the bars two golden hours, Monday to Friday.\n\nWhat to drink: the Snowscape cocktail is a frosty blend of rum, coconut cordial, Becherovka liqueur and gold tea served inside a delicate snow globe (18).\n\nWhat to know: a towering 40ft tree returns to the courtyard at Somerset House for its Christmas residency. Lit up since mid-November, its the centrepiece for a winter line-up of exhibitions, DJ sets and alpine-themed pop-up restaurants.\n\nUSP: the ice rink. Get your skates on under the tree at Somerset Houses series of Skate Lates, complete with rink-site decks its the perfect time to see the tree lit up.\n\nWhat to drink: mulled wine and mince pies at Fortnums Lodge (28).\n\nWhat to know: Hotel Cafe Royal has teamed up with luxury perfumier Diptyque for this years celebrations, and its two trees for the price of one. The festive firs are located in the new lobby and outside the historic Oscar Wilde Lounge. They are hung with decorations in the shape of the brands famous oval and letters of the alphabet in its signature typeface.\n\nUSP: scented firs. Diptyques Spain de Lumiere fragrance evokes a snow-covered forest and the rich scent of fir trees with delicate neighbouring cedars  go down to smell it for yourself.\n\nWhat to drink: the hotels very own Celestine brew: a bespoke chocolate tea made with organic Madagascan vanilla, roasted cocoa and two velvety Chinese black teas (8).\n\nWhat to know: art fans should start their night with a cocktail in the Lobby Bar at the London Edition, where the Christmas tree is decorated with more than 160 hand-sculpted snowflakes designed by paper artist Zoe Bradley. Its a handcrafted approach: each snowflake on the Lobby Bars 14ft Nordmann fir tree has been meticulously crafted with more than 20,000 folds, taking 100 hours to create. A majestic white peacock sits perched on top, with a plume of feathers cascading down the side.\n\nUSP: the feelgood factor. 2 from every cocktail goes to mental health charity Heads Together.\n\nWhat to drink: an Alpine Spritz cocktail at the Lobby Bar, made with Grey Goose, green chartreuse, oakmoss syrup, citric acid, two dashes of absinthe and garnished with a mint sprig, pine needle and icing sugar (14).\n\nWhat to know: Victoria Beckham has previously said Christmas is absolute chaos at her family home but at work its another story. This year the designer has transformed her entire Dover Street outpost into a luxury winter wonderland in collaboration with nearby Harrys Bar. The store features a giant 16ft tree adorned with pink, green and rose gold baubles and a 12,000-bauble canopy hanging from the ceiling.\n\nUSP: its got its own hashtag. Posting a picture of the decorations on Tuesday, Becks thanked Harrys Bar with the hashtag #WhenHarryMetVictoria and urged fans to please come and visit. She doesnt need to ask twice.\n\nWhat to drink: Becks knows best: head straight over to Harrys Bar for a signature Bellini (7.95).","title":"Londonaposs most luxurious Christmas trees The complete guide","date":"2018-11-28","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where its Friday! Its also National Prime Rib Day. Sounds like an excuse to throw a couple steak on the BBQ this weekend.\n\nWe start with ongoing rail service woes in Western Canada. Saskatchewans largest potash company announced Thursday it was halting production and has notified 470 of its employees yesterday that they wont be needed on site at its Vanscoy operation today. The temporary slow down is being blamed on a lack of rail service. Nutrien said in total some 1,300 workers will be affected, CBC News has more.\n\nOn Thursday, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe called on the federal government to intervene. This is a direct result of the federal government not taking action where there is a huge problem and they have clear authority to fix it.\n\nMeanwhile, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, the Keystone Agriculture Producers, the Agriculture Producers of Saskatchewan and the Alberta Federation of Agriculture teamed up to urge MPs to pass the Liberal governments proposed overhaul of this countrys transportation system (Bill C-49), issuing the most recent plea in an open letter Thursday. It cannot continue, the letter reads, referring to ongoing shipping delays in western Canada, before urging the House to pass the bill as amended without further delay. iPolitics has more.\n\nThe House agriculture committee will be back in action on Monday. At an afternoon meeting theyll discuss advancements of technology and research in the agriculture industry that can support Canadian exports. The committee last met for the study in March. Theyll host the Canada Grains Council, CropLife Canada, Bayer CropScience Inc. and BioFoodTech at that meeting.\n\nFarm and Food Care Ontario announced that Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd.-nominee Christine Schoonderwoerd will take over as its chair for the coming year. She replaces Brian Gilroy, who assumes the role of past chair. Real Agriculture has more about the appointment. Heres where you can see the organizations full board for the year of 2018\/19.\n\nThe federal government has announced regulations for methane emissions in the oil and gas sector that impose more costly requirements on industry than rules that the Alberta government unveiled on Tuesday, potentially setting up conflict between the governments. The Globe and Mail detailed the rules introduced by both governments.\n\nAlberta Health Services said yesterday that it linked an E. coli outbreak that killed on person and made another 36 ill to the Meat Shop at Pine Haven, operated by the Pine Haven Hutterite colony. Western Producer has more on the outbreak.\n\nOntario led all provinces last year in agriculture equipment exports, reporting $773 million worth of sales up from $710 the year before. FarmTario details the provinces record-setting year.\n\nForeign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is skipping a trip to Brussels where she was supposed to meet with NATO foreign ministers to remain in Washington and continue negotiating NAFTA. Mexicos economy minister Ildefonso Guajardo will also remain in Washington as discussions about the agreement continue. The Canadian Press has more on the state of the deal.\n\nWhile NAFTA negotiations continue, the Center for Automotive Research attempts to predict the impact of proposals under consideration. It didnt produce good news Thursday, releasing a study saying that new NAFTA rules could increase the cost of a car by hundreds or even thousands of dollars, act as a multibillion-dollar tax and ultimately hurt sales. The Canadian Press has that story.\n\nThe European Union backed a proposal Friday banning all outdoor use of neonicotinoids in an attempt to protect honey bees. Reuters has more.\n\nBehaviour such as how close someone sits to someone else and whether or not they dodge or move chairs blocking aisles reveals whether the cultural roots of a Chinese person can be traced to southern China rice farmers or northern China wheat farmers, according to a new study released this week. Read more about how the ingrained cultural differences were observed through the coffee shop study, courtesy of ScienceNews.\n\nReuters presents the story of Ethiopian researchers embarking on a beauty-seeking mission to create the perfect chicken. An unlikely ally, Belgian concept artist Koen Vanmechelen who has spent 20 years crossbreeding chickens from far-reaching corners of the globe, will join their noble quest. It sure has been a good week to embrace chicken beauty.\n\nThats your agriculture news for this week. Have a great weekend and well see you Monday.","title":"The Sprout Rail woes continue on the Prairies","date":"2018-04-27","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Aaron Ramsey's sumptuous flick was the pick of five superb goals scored by Arsenal en route to thrashing Fulham at Craven Cottage - with Unai Emery's side securing a ninth consecutive win in the process.\n\nThe Gunners have not enjoyed such a lengthy winning streak in 11 years but, despite being slow out of the traps, Alexandre Lacazette's brace set them on course for a 5-1 Premier League win to move them above neighbours Tottenham and into third place.\n\nTwo unerring finishes from Lacazette either side of an Andre Schurrle equaliser had Arsenal ahead, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang netting twice off the bench after Ramsey had scored mere seconds after his introduction.\n\nRelive the action with Standard Sport LIVE from Craven Cottage!\n\nThe match will be televised live on BT Sport 1 and BT Sport 4K UHD. BT Sport subscribers will be able to stream the match online via the video player and the BT Sport app.\n\nYou can follow the action with Standard Sport's LIVE blog.\n\nThe two sides have met 26 times in the Premier League, with Fulham winning just three of those games.\n\nArsenal have won 18 games - nine at the Cottage - but all of Fulham's three wins have come at home.\n\nThe last time the two sides met in the top flight was back in the 2013-14 season, with Arsenal winning 3-1 away at 2-0 at home.","title":"Fulham vs Arsenal Predictions team news betting tips live stream TV - Premier League 2018-19 pr","date":"2018-10-06","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"WESTERVILLE, Ohio  Two high-stakes elections that tested President Donald Trumps clout and cost both parties millions of dollars were too close to call early Wednesday. Trump claimed victory in one nevertheless.\n\nIn battleground Ohio, the president took credit for Republican Troy Baldersons performance, calling it a great victory, even though the contest could be headed to a recount. Democrats could also celebrate their showing in a district that has gone Republican for decades.\n\nWere not stopping now, Democrat Danny OConnor told cheering supporters. Hell reprise his campaign against Balderson from now through Novembers general election.\n\nIn deep-red Kansas Republican gubernatorial primary, the candidate Trump backed on the eve of the election, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, was neck and neck with current Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer.\n\nThe days races in five states, like many before them, tested the persistence of Trumps fiery supporters and the momentum of the Democratic Partys anti-Trump resistance.\n\nThe results were helping determine the political landscape  and Trumps standing within his own party  as the GOP defends its House and Senate majorities this fall.\n\nIn Kansas, Republicans were fighting among themselves in an unusual battle for governor in which the president sided with the incumbents challenger.\n\nShould the polarizing Kobach win the primary, some Republican operatives fear he could lose the governorship to Democrats this fall. The race could become further disrupted if Kansas City-area businessman Greg Orman makes it onto the November ballot. He submitted petitions Monday with more than 10,000 signatures for what could become the most serious independent run for Kansas governor in decades.\n\nHe is a fantastic guy who loves his State and our Country  he will be a GREAT Governor and has my full & total Endorsement! Strong on Crime, Border & Military, the president tweeted on the eve of the election.\n\nRepublicans were hoping for Democratic discord in Kansas 3rd Congressional District, a suburban Kansas City district where several candidates were fighting for the chance to take on Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder in November.\n\nThe five-way Democratic primary featured labor lawyer Brent Welder, who campaigned recently with self-described democratic socialists Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and ascending political star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York congressional candidate.\n\nAlso in the race: Native American attorney Sharice Davids and former school teacher Tom Niermann.\n\nIn Ohio, the script for the special election was somewhat familiar: An experienced Trump loyalist, Balderson, was fighting a strong challenge from OConnor, a fresh-faced Democrat, in a congressional district held by the Republican Party for more than three decades. As voters were going to the polls, Trump said Balderson would make a great congressman.\n\nThe winner takes the seat previously held by Pat Tiberi, a nine-term incumbent who resigned to take a job with an Ohio business group.\n\nBalderson and OConnor will reprise their race in the general election in just three months. There were at least 3,367 provisional ballots left to be reviewed. Thats enough for OConnor to potentially pick up enough to force a recount.\n\nThe Associated Press does not declare winners in races subject to an automatic recount.\n\nIn a special election season that featured nearly a dozen congressional contests, Democrats claimed just a handful of wins, but they may have cause for optimism this fall. In virtually every special election test dating back to the spring of 2017, Democratic candidates performed significantly better than their party in those same places two years earlier.\n\nTrump won Ohios 12th Congressional District, for example, by more than 11 points in 2016; on Tuesday night, Balderson and OConnor were separated by less than 1 point.\n\nThere are 79 House races this fall considered more competitive than the Ohio district  at least looking at Trumps 2016 performance  according to data compiled by the Democrats national campaign committee.\n\nDespite the deadlocked race, the specific Ohio returns suggest considerably higher Democratic enthusiasm less than 100 days before the midterms.\n\nOConnors total of nearly 100,000 votes far exceeded what the districts former Republican congressman Pat Tiberis Democratic opponent got in 2014. Baldersons total  just more than 101,500 votes  is barely two-thirds of Tiberis 2014 mark of about 150,000.\n\nThe two will face off again in November to see who holds the seat in 2019 and 2020.\n\nOver the next three months, Im going to do everything I can to keep America great again, so that when we come back here in November  get ready, we gotta come back here in November  I have earned your vote for a second time, Balderson told supporters.\n\nIts unclear how much Trumps support helped or hurt Balderson. Described by campaign operatives as a Whole Foods district, the largely suburban region features a more affluent and educated voter base than the typical Trump stronghold.\n\nOhio Gov. John Kasich, a leading voice in the GOPs shrinking anti-Trump wing, once represented the district in Congress.\n\nAt times, the race centered on Trumps tax cuts as much as the candidates.\n\nOConnor and his Democratic allies railed against the tax plan, casting it as a giveaway for the rich that exacerbates federal deficits and threatens Medicare and Social Security. Balderson and his Republican allies have backed away from the tax plan in recent weeks, training their fire instead on top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi.\n\nOConnor dominated Balderson on the local airwaves. His campaign spent $2.25 million on advertising compared to Baldersons $507,000, according to campaign tallies of ad spending. The Republican campaign arm and its allied super PAC were forced to pick up the slack, spending more than $4 million between them.\n\nIn Michigan , three mainstream Democrats in suburban Detroit were among those vying for a chance at retiring Republican Rep. Dave Trotts seat in November. The field included Fayrouz Saad, who would be the first Muslim woman in Congress.\n\nAnd in suburban Seattle, three Democrats vied in a jungle primary for the seat held by another retiring Republican, Rep. Dave Reichert.\n\nThe field was set in two Senate contests as well.\n\nIn Missouri, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill claimed her partys nomination, while state Attorney General Josh Hawley will represent the GOP.\n\nAnd in Michigan, Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow will take on military veteran and business executive John James, who won the Republican nomination. He would join Tim Scott of South Carolina as the only black Republican senators if he wins in November.\n\nHours before polls opened, Trump again weighed in on Twitter, casting James as a potential Republican star.\n\nPeoples reported from Washington. Associated Press writers John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas, and Angie Wang in Westerville, Ohio, contributed.\n\nSign up for Politics in Focus, a weekly newsletter showcasing the APs best political reporting from around the country leading up to the midterm elections: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2ICEr3D","title":"Ohio and Kansas races deadlocked Trumps candidates lead as five state elections test presidents c","date":"2018-08-08","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Like so many figures who come to be enshrined as quintessentially New York, Harold Ross, the founder and first editor of this magazine, was an outsider who arrived in the big city nursing an ambition. Ross was born in Aspen and grew up in Salt Lake City. At the age of thirteen, he dropped out of school, and before long he was bouncing around newsrooms from Hoboken to Panama City. An odd-looking man with widely spaced teeth and a porcupine-ish pompadour, he made his journalistic bones during the First World War, in Paris, editing Stars & Stripes. In 1919, he washed up in the dawning Jazz Age of New York, the city of Babe Ruth and Langston Hughes, Ratners and the Cotton Club.\n\nIn 1924, Ross sent around a prospectus to would-be investors and readers, saying that his invention, The New Yorker, would be a reflection in word and picture of metropolitan life. It will be human. Its general tenor will be one of gaiety, wit, and satire, but it will be more than a jester.\n\nAnd so on, for pages. In large measure, Ross was guessing out loud. His formula of reporting, fiction, poetry, criticism, cartoons, and art would not fully settle into place until the next war. When the magazine was launched, in February, 1925, it published some sparkling voicesRobert Benchley, E. B. White, James Thurber, Dorothy Parkerbut it barely made it to 1926. It was, Thurber wrote later, in The Years with Ross, the outstanding flop of 1925, a year of memorable successes in literature, music, and entertainment. Circulation went from an initial print run of fifteen thousand to a low of twenty-seven hundred. One night, Ross, desperate for copy, turned to Parker. I thought you were coming into the office to write a piece last week, he said. What happened? Parker replied that she couldnt carry out the assignment. Somebody was using the pencil, she explained.\n\nRoss subsisted on nicotine, coffee, and nerves. The hours he kept were horrible, and his three marriages failed. But he fulfilled his dream. The New Yorker found its footing during the Depression. And although the magazine began to venture far beyond midtown with the start of the Second World War, the city remained an essential terra firma, a spirit and a home.\n\nThis week, while we digest one holiday and prepare for more, weve decided to open the archive and republish a sampling of New York stories, New York essays, New York poems, and New York drawings. Theres even a classic New York cover, by the Mexican artist Matias Santoyo. All the pieces youll find in this issue, fiction and nonfiction, are set in the city, and all are deeply personal.\n\nSome come with a notable backstory, too. Take James Baldwins Letter from a Region in My Mind, which was published here, in 1962, and then became the heart of The Fire Next Time. In 1959, William Shawn, Rosss successor as editor, asked Baldwin to write about an extended trip he was taking to Africa with his sister. A few years earlier, Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary, had asked Baldwin to write about his early life in the city. Baldwin failed to complete the Africa essay, but he did write a piece about his childhood in Harlem, which evolved into a longer exploration of religion, race, and the Nation of Islam. He gave it to Shawn. Podhoretz never quite forgave Baldwin, Shawn, or The New Yorker.\n\nRoss, in the end, had been surprised by the depth that his creationa fifteen-cent comic paperhad taken on. Just before he died, in 1951, he wrote to a friend, I started to get out a light magazine that wouldnt concern itself with the weighty problems of the universe, and now look at me.","title":"The City That Shaped The New Yorker","date":"2018-11-25","source":"newyorker","label":1}
{"content":"Occasionally, I reprint this article. I wrote it some years ago, during research on toxic chemicals pervading the landscape. I used to send the piece to mainstream reporters, but I eventually gave that up as a bad bet.\n\nTheyre dedicated to fake news...and now theyre losing control over public consciousness. Losing badly. Independent media are in the ascendance, and rightly so.\n\nIn 1997, Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson, two respected mainstream journalists, peered into an abyss. They found a story about fluorides that was so chilling it had to be told.\n\nThe Christian Science Monitor, who had assigned the story, never published it.\n\nTheir ensuing article, Fluoride, Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb, has been posted on a number of websites.\n\nAuthor Griffiths told me that researchers who study the effects of fluorides by homing in on communities with fluoridated drinking water, versus communities with unfluoridated water, miss a major point: studying the water is not enough; toxic fluorides are everywherethey are used throughout the pharmaceutical industry in the manufacture of drugs, and also in many other industries (e.g., aluminum, pesticide).\n\nI want to go over some of the major points of the Griffiths-Bryson article.\n\nGriffiths discovered hundreds of documents from the World War 2 era. These included papers from the Manhattan Project, launched to build the first A-bomb.\n\nGriffiths\/Bryson write: Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production...millions of tons...were essential for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War.\n\nThe documents reveal that fluoride was the most significant health hazard in the US A-bomb program, for workers and for communities around the manufacturing facilities.\n\nGriffiths\/Bryson: Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was generated by A-bomb program scientists, who had been secretly ordered to provide evidence useful in litigation [against persons who had been poisoned by fluoride and would sue for damages]... The first lawsuits against the US A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage, the [government] documents show.\n\nA-bomb scientists were told they had to do studies which would conclude that fluorides were safe.\n\nThe most wide-reaching study done was carried out in Newburgh, New York, between 1945 and 1956. This was a secret op called Program F. The researchers obtained blood and tissue samples from people who lived in Newburgh, through the good offices of the NY State Health Department.\n\nGriffiths\/Bryson found the original and secret version of this study. Comparing it to a different sanitized version, the reporters saw that evidence of adverse effects from fluorides had been suppressed by the US Atomic Energy Commission.\n\nOther studies during the same period were conducted at the University of Rochester. Unwitting hospital patients were given fluorides to test out the results.\n\nFlash forward. Enter Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, the head of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston. In the 1990s, Mullenix did a series of animal studies which showed that, as Griffiths\/Bryson write: ...fluoride was a powerful central nervous system (CNS) toxin...\n\nMullenix applied for further grant monies from the National Institutes of Health. She was turned down. She was also told that fluorides do not have an effect on the CNS.\n\nBut Griffiths\/Bryson uncovered a 1944 Manhattan Project memo which states: Clinical evidence suggests that uranium hexafluoride may have a rather marked central nervous system effect...it seems most likely that the F [fluoride] component rather than the [uranium] is the causative factor.\n\nThe 1944 memo was sent to the head of the Manhattan Project Medical Section, Colonel Stafford Warren. Warren was asked to give his okay to do animal studies on fluorides effects on the CNS. He immediately did give his approval.\n\nBut records of the results of this approved project are missing. Most likely classified.\n\nWho was the man who made that 1944 proposal for a rush-program to study the CNS effects of fluorides? Dr. Harold Hodge, who worked at the Manhattan Project.\n\nWho was brought in to advise Mullenix 50 years later at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston, as she studied the CNS effects of fluorides? Dr. Harold Hodge.\n\nWho never told Mullenix of his work on fluoride toxicity for the Manhattan Project? Dr. Harold Hodge.\n\nWas Hodge brought in to look over Mullenixs shoulder and report on her discoveries? It turns out that Hodge, back in the 1940s, had made suggestions to do effective PR promoting fluoride as a dental treatment. So his presence by Mullenixs side, all those years later, was quite possibly as an agent assigned to keep track of her efforts.\n\nGetting the idea here? Build an A-bomb. Forget the toxic fluoride consequences. Bury the fluoride studies. Twist the studies.\n\nMore on Hodge. In 1944, a severe pollution incident occurred in New Jersey, near the DuPont plant in Deepwater where the company was trying to build the first A-bomb. A fluoride incident. Farmers peach and tomato crops were destroyed. Horses and cows became crippled. Some cows had to graze on their bellies. Tomato crops (normally sold to the Campbell Company for soups) were contaminated with fluorides.\n\nThe people of the Manhattan Project were terrified of lawsuits and ensuing revelations about the toxic nature of their work. A heads-up memo was written on the subject. Its author? Harold Hodge. Among other issues, he reported on the huge fluoride content in vegetables growing in the polluted area.\n\nAlso the high fluoride levels in human blood.\n\nThe lawsuits were settled quietly, for pittances.\n\nHarold Hodge wrote another memo. Get this quote: Would there be any use in making attempts to counteract the local fear of fluoride on the part of residents [near the A-bomb facility]...through lectures on F [fluoride] toxicology and perhaps the usefulness of F in tooth health?\n\nGriffiths\/Bryson write: Such lectures were indeed given, not only to New Jersey citizens but to the rest of the nation throughout the Cold War.\n\nThis was a launching pad for fluorides as successful dental treatments.\n\nNow you know why promoting toxic fluorides as a dental treatment was so important to government officials.\n\nFootnote: In Stanley Kubricks 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper rails about the destruction fluorides are wreaking on the pure blood of pure Americans. Of course, General Ripper is fleshed out as a crazy right-wing fanatic. Hes ready and willing to start a nuclear war. How odd. Apparently unknown to the Strangelove script writers, fluorides were, in fact, very toxic and were an integral part of the program that created atomic bombs in the first place...\n\nJon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29thDistrict of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.\n\nThis article (Fluorides, the Atomic Bomb, and Fake News) was originally created and published by Jon Rappaports Blog and is re-posted here with permission.","title":"Fluorides the Atomic Bomb and Fake News","date":"2018-02-02","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"While the fake news media desperately pins its hopes on ex-White House aide Omarosas claims that a tape exists of President Donald Trump using the n-word, they need look no further than his predecessor for audio proof of a racist slur being uttered.\n\nDuring a podcast interview in 2015 with comedian Marc Maron, former President Barack Obama casually used the n-word in a response about racism in the United States, arguing public elimination of the racist epithet does not indicate racism has been eradicated from society.\n\nThe legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow, and thats still part of our DNA thats passed on. Were not cured of it, Obama said. And its not just a matter of it not being polite to say n***er in public. Thats not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. Its not just a matter of overt discrimination. ... Societies dont overnight completely erase everything that happened 2-300 years prior.\n\nAs expected, the leftist media gave Obama a pass when he said the word. Time Magazine even published an op-ed encouraging people to use the n-word.\n\nThe utterance wasnt the first time Obama said the n-word during his presidency.\n\nIn an audiobook recording of, Dreams from My Father, Obama used the word while quoting a figure from his childhood, saying, You aint my bitch, ni**a, buy your own damn fries.\n\nAs far as Trump goes, several people have dismissed Omarosa Manigault Newman as a disgruntled employee whos going to great lengths to promote her new book, Unhinged.\n\nOn Twitter, President Trump declared a tape does not exist and categorically denied ever using the word, declaring, I dont have that word in my vocabulary, and never have.","title":"Revealed Tape Exists of President Using N-Word","date":"2018-08-15","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"The Revenue office has urged taxpayers to ignore a new phishing email which has appeared in recent days claiming to offer customers a large payment in the form of a tax refund.\n\nThe email, entitled your refund is available and signed Revenue Team, advises users to follow a hyperlink to claim more than 680 in tax refunds. This tax scam is just the latest in what has become a long line of fraudulent emails, calls and text messages in recent years purporting to come from banks, credit card companies and government departments which encourage people to hand over personal details in return for a cash payment.\n\nThe Revenue Commissioners office has confirmed that the email did not come from its account and that the senders are in no way connected to the Revenue security systems.\n\nA spokeswoman said Revenue would never send emails requiring customers to send personal information via email, text message or pop-up windows. Anyone who receives an email which claims to come from Revenue and which looks suspicious should simply delete it, she said.\n\nAny person who does provide personal information to fraudulent emails or text messages should contact their bank or credit card company immediately.","title":"Revenue says email offering tax refunds is a scam","date":"2018-09-12","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"The Cabinet will meet on Wednesday morning to discuss developments on a Brexit deal, Government Buildings said on Tuesday night in a short statement.\n\nThe statement was issued in response to the news that Britain and the EU had reached a deal on a draft Brexit withdrawal agreement, including a mechanism to guarantee that there will be no hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nThe Government was tight-lipped beyond that, declining to say whether it has seen the text of the agreement, though it is understood it was discussed on Tuesday night by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tanaiste Simon Coveney, Minister for Europe Helen McEntee and senior officials.\n\nSources said that Dublin wished to avoid saying anything that would make British prime minister Theresa Mays task with her cabinet any more difficult, especially with significant Northern Ireland-only elements thought to be included in the deal. But privately the Government is pleased with the outcome as it preserves the goal of avoiding a hard border in all eventualities, and Dublin will say that the text is consistent with the December agreement of last year.\n\nHowever, there was uncertainty about the review process in the agreement, under which the UK would exit from the backstop.\n\nAs first reported by The Irish Times last week, the backstop will apply to the entire United Kingdom and see Britain remain in a customs union with the EU if no solutions to avoid a hard border are found.\n\nHowever, the withdrawal agreement will have additional measures for Northern Ireland to ensure there is no hard border.\n\nEarlier in the Dail, Mr Varadkar said Britain remaining closely aligned with EU customs arrangements will benefit Irish businesses.\n\nHe was speaking before news of the breakthrough in the Brexit talks became public, though he would have been fully aware of the contents of the deal.\n\nResponding to questions from Micheal Martin, Mr Varadkar said the Fianna Fail leader was correct to say that the UK staying in a customs union for a time or staying in a temporary customs arrangement would be beneficial for Ireland because of the benefits of frictionless trade east-west between Britain and Ireland, which is very important for the agrifood sector, our small and medium enterprises and also for Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, the Taoiseach declined to go into detail on a review of the backstop expected to be included in the withdrawal agreement. After news of a potential deal emerged on Tuesday night, Fianna Fails Brexit spokeswoman Lisa Chambers said the detail of the final deal needs to be examined.\n\nLabour Party leader Brendan Howlin said any agreement needed to ensure there was a permanent backstop to protect a borderless Ireland.","title":"Taoiseach welcomes breakthrough in Brexit talks","date":"2018-11-14","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"Police officers in Surrey might soon be able to tell their beef from their GOAT, after a list of popular slang words was drawn up to help them engage with younger residents.\n\nThey were joined by officers in Reisgate and Banstead, who pooled their knowledge to create an index of terms, such as blood, ting and swear down.\n\nOther words featured included Stormzy which is defined as not the weather but a popular rapper from Croydon.\n\nAlthough these guidelines are meant to be tongue-in-cheek, some people found it useful to read. Tara Fowler described it as educational on Facebook. Peter Doyle, wrote: Excellent, it makes so much more sense now!\n\nReigate and Banstead Beat Facebook page then picked it up, before commenting: Just to make it clear, this is totally a joke! The photo is from our friends at Lancashire Police.\n\nA Surrey police spokesperson told HuffPost UK: The whiteboard is for fun and has been borrowed from our colleagues at Lancashire Police.","title":"Police Slang Index Helps The Feds Get Down With The Bluds","date":"2018-09-10","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Brenda Battel was fired from the Huron Daily Tribune Monday night after her Editor heard the voicemail.\n\nVia Henry Rodgers, Capitol Hill reporter for The Daily Caller: I have listened to the voicemail left by Brenda Battel to Mr. James campaign, and find no reason to defend this behavior, Huron Daily Tribune editor Kate Hessling said in a statement. Brenda Battels employment has been immediately terminated.\n\nHi, my name is Brenda Battel, Im a reporter with the Huron Daily Tribune in Bad Axe, Michigan, Battel said in the voicemail.\n\nIm looking to set up an appointment with Mr. James for some time on Wednesday for a phone interview regarding the election results, she continued. Im probably going to send an email over to the [email protected] with some details. Um, if youd like to call me back, my number is [redacted] Thank you.\n\nAt this point Brenda Battel tries to hang up the phone after leaving her number, but the phone remains connected to the line and continues to record her voice.\n\nMan, if he beats her... Jesus! F*cking John James. That would suck! Whew I dont think its going to happen though, Battel said not realizing she is being recorded.\n\nGOP Senate candidate John James, a combat veteran, husband and father is running against Democrat incumbent and Soros puppet, Debbie Stabenow.\n\nIn case you missed it, below is the audio of the voicemail:","title":"Update Reporter FIRED After Caught on Tape Disparaging GOP Michigan Senate Candidate John James","date":"2018-11-06","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Shops will be banned from selling Red Bull and other drinks packed to the brim with caffeine to teenagers, under plans announced by Theresa May.\n\nThe scheme will see retailers blocked from selling energy drinks to under 16s and possibly even under 18s.\n\nInsiders told The Independent the intention is to use the same sanctions as selling cigarettes to children  meaning shops could be slapped with fines of 2,500.\n\nMs May said she was acting as evidence shows excessive consumption of the drinks by children is linked to serious health problems. Some deaths are even connected to them.\n\nThe move was welcomed by campaigners including Jamie Oliver, but there will be a backlash from manufacturers and even some ministers who see it as nanny-statism.\n\nSpeaking during her trip to Africa, the prime minister said: With thousands of young people regularly consuming energy drinks, often because they are sold at cheaper prices than soft drinks, we will consult on banning the sale of energy drinks to children.\n\nIt is vital that we do all we can to make sure children have the best start in life.\n\nShe launched a consultation on exactly how the ban should work, though the intention is it will apply to drinks with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre.\n\nConfirming the measure will now be pushed through, one government insider said: It is a question of how, not whether we do it.\n\nOne 250ml can of Red Bull contains around 80mg of caffeine  the equivalent of nearly three cans of cola.\n\nSome energy drinks also contain exceptionally high levels of sugar, with on average 60 per cent more calories and 65 per cent more sugar than other regular soft drinks.\n\nWith more than two-thirds of 10 to 17-year-olds and a quarter of six to nine-year-olds consuming energy drinks, they are likely contributing to both obesity and tooth decay.\n\nOfficials argue that excessive consumption has already been linked to health issues in children, from headaches and sleep problems to stomach aches and hyperactivity.\n\nThe death of Irish 18-year-old Ross Cooney in 2000, after he drank four cans during a basketball match, led to calls for more research.\n\nSurveys from teachers unions have also suggested that they contribute to poor behaviour in classrooms.\n\nPublic health minister Steve Brine said: We all have a responsibility to protect children from products that are damaging to their health and education, and we know that drinks packed to the brim with caffeine, and often sugar, are becoming a common fixture of their diet.\n\nOur children already consume 50 per cent more of these drinks than our European counterparts.\n\nThe drinks are already banned for sale to children by some major retailers, but remain readily available in vending machines and smaller shops.\n\nIn the UK grocery market, including corner shops, only 21 per cent of locations are signed up to the voluntary restrictions.\n\nTV chef Jamie Oliver said: We have a massive problem with kids and energy drinks.\n\nToo many children are regularly using them to replace breakfast.\n\nHe said teachers across the country had told him lessons are disrupted because of the drinks packed with stimulants.\n\nCalling the ban great news he added: The energy drinks industry has never thought these products were suitable for children. They even say not for children on the labels.\n\nProfessor Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics, and Public Health England chief executive Duncan Selbie also backed the ban.\n\nBut Ms May is likely to face push back from the drinks industry already subject to sugar restrictions.\n\nOne senior minister also hit out last night that government policy has been reduced to a ban a day.\n\nThe frontbencher fumed: \"Every day, something else banned. It's just so depressing.\"\n\nThe consultation launches on Thursday lasting 12 weeks and invites views on the age from which restrictions on buying energy drinks should apply  either 18 years old or 16 years old as options.","title":"Government proposes energy drinks ban for teenagers and children","date":"2018-08-30","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Sharon Osbourne has finally conceded that her decision to step down from The X Factor wasnt quite as mutual as wed been led to believe. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Sharons role in the ITV talent show would be cut down, and that rather than appearing on the panel throughout the series, shed be appearing during live shows as an impartial fifth judge. When the series got underway, though, she released a statement saying she wasnt sure how needed she was, and had decided not to put in an appearance after all.\n\nHowever, speaking to radio presenters Jim Norton and Sam Roberts, Sharon came clean about what led to her departure. As the hosts asked whether it had anything to do with her prior disparaging comments about the show and its boss Simon Cowell, she explained: It was very weird, because I had a contract for this series, and... the goal posts kept moving. We want you, we dont want you, yeah, we want you and... we dont know what were gonna do with you. And then it was yeah, we know what were gonna do, youre gonna judge the judges... and it just didnt feel good. And I think it was because they had to pay me a lot of money, and I was there, and they thought, well, weve gotta use her for something. I think.\n\nRevealing that her infamous Howard Stern interview came after shed seen the first episode of this years X Factor, she continued: [Howard] said whats the show? and I said, its shit!. And... in England, where that show is, there arent shows like [Howard Stern], and so when people come on and you talk, but you talk real... I was kind of disrespectful... of course, Simon got upset, as he should. Hes paying me a lot of money, yadda yadda. Sharon went on to say that after two weeks, when it was getting near to the live shows, she was called into a meeting to discuss her comments, eventually telling show bosses to leave it. I dont care, she claims she told them. I honestly dont care, Im not comfortable in the position. Anyway, 10 days later, they call me and they go, we dont really know that we need you. I was like, its fine, just keep sending the money, its fine. When asked if Simon was personally responsible for her being axed, Sharon responded: Its Simons show, and when Simon says its not me, its ITV!... its you. Its not unfair to say that the current series of X Factor has been the shakiest yet, with technical difficulties, missing judges and the lowest ratings in its 14-year history. Clearly ITV isnt ready to pull the plug just yet, though, with Simon Cowell revealing earlier this week that the network had extended the shows contract by three to five more years.","title":"Sharon Osbourne Discusses X Factor Exit Admitting She Was Fired After Disrespectful Comments","date":"2018-11-16","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"MOSCOW, August 17. \/TASS\/. Russias human rights commissioner Tatyana\nMoskalkova welcomes the idea of liberalizing Article 282 of the Criminal Code\n(Incitement of Hatred and Humiliation of Human Dignity) in order to ease\npunishment for likes and reposts in social networks.\n\n\"I support the idea of liberalizing this article. I believe it is important to\navoid artificially increasing the number of people with convictions, because\nthis fundamentally upsets human lives,\" she said when asked about punishment\nfor reposts in social networks.\n\nMail.ru group earlier asked Moskalkova to formulate a query to the\nConstitutional Court with a question if the enforcement of Article 282 of the\nCriminal Code was a violation of the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens\nproclaimed by Article 29 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees the\nfreedom of thought and speech. Moskalkova believes that \"no violation of\nconstitutional norms is observed here.\"\n\n\"It is necessary to address this issue in the normal fashion: through law-\nmaking activities by the State Duma and agencies with the right of legislative\ninitiative,\" Moskalkova said.\n\nMail.ru Group also asked the State Duma to initiate a bill on the amnesty of\nthose convicted for actions in social networks, if such actions had not\nentailed socially harmful effects, and the Supreme Court, to summarize courts\nlaw enforcement practices in cases involving responsibility for crimes in the\nInternet (in particular, reposts, likes and posts in the social networks).\n\nIn other media","title":"Russias ombudsman for liberalizing punishment for likes reposts in social networks","date":"2018-08-17","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"There are 14 years between the first Incredibles movie and its new sequel Incredibles 2, but one thing thats thrilling to see pay off in both films is watching baby Jack-Jack play with his various powers, sometimes at the expense of the family.\n\nIn the first movie, the only people who see Jack-Jacks powers are the babysitter, Kari McKeen, and the villain, Syndrome. From their vantage point on the ground, the Parr family missed out on the aerial fight between Syndrome and Jack-Jack, and theyre certainly not home when he tortures the unwitting babysitter.\n\nWriter-director Brad Bird said in an interview with The Verge that the way the first movie left the question of Jack-Jacks powers gave the sequel huge payoff potential: I knew that the audience knew Jack-Jack had multiple powers, but the Parr family did not, he explains. So I knew Jack-Jack was going to play a big role in any new film.\n\nAt one point in the new film, Bob Parr declares with a mixture of pride and fatigue that his son has 17 powers. But is Jack-Jack really the jack of that many trades?\n\nIn the original Incredibles, we see Jack-Jack turn into a baby made of flames, a baby made of metal, and then into a hobgoblin, all in an attempt to escape Syndromes kidnapping. Were made to believe Jack-Jacks power is polymorphism.\n\nBut audiences who caught the DVD short Jack-Jack Attack discovered that, once triggered by a Mozart sonata, Jack-Jack can also shoot purple laser eyes and float around the house, teleporting through different dimensions. Thats a total of three powers (six if you count each of Jack-Jacks forms as a separate power).\n\nNow with The Incredibles 2, we know hes got a lot more than that. Heres the complete list of powers weve seen. (Spoilers ahead if you havent seen the film.)\n\nThats a total of 14 unique powers  not quite 17, so well have to assume Bob was exaggerating. (In his defense, he was pretty sleep-deprived and learning a whole new math system.) It seems like, for now, Jack-Jack is mainly a polymorph who chooses to take whatever the most convenient form is given his circumstances. He also continues to be delighted by Mozart, which seems to inspire an increase in power output, luring him toward other dimensions until hes hungry for snacks.\n\nIf an Incredibles 3 ever gets made or the franchise gets a spinoff, an adolescent Jack-Jack managing his powers himself, rather than flustering his babysitters, could be a great basis for the Parrs next story.","title":"Here are all of Jack-Jacks powers in Incredibles 2","date":"2018-06-16","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Many of us are under the mistaken impression that getting cancer is very much a case of bad luck, that there is very little we can do to prevent this deadly disease. The truth is, however, that the vast majority of cancers can be avoided through simple lifestyle changes like maintaining a healthy weight, not smoking, drinking alcohol in moderation, exercising regularly and eating an organic, nutrient-dense diet.\n\nBut, what about genetic cancers? Isnt it true that there are some cancers which are caused by specific gene mutations, making certain families more susceptible to disease and almost inevitably causing cancer?\n\nWhile it is true that scientists have identified mutations of certain genes like the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes which seem to predispose certain women to breast, ovarian and other cancers, a groundbreaking new study published in the journal Oncotarget recently found that breast cancer is primarily a metabolic disorder, not a genetic disease. (Related: Groundbreaking study looks at the regenerative potential of vitamin C for hormone health and cancer prevention.)\n\nThe study was conducted by an international team of 35 researchers from 17 research facilities located in Europe, Brazil and the United States, and included over 1,200 participants.\n\nFor several decades, scientists have been convinced that cancer cells are metabolically different to other cells, but before the advent of mass spectrometry testing  which allows researchers to precisely analyze, measure and quantify substances found in blood chemistry  it was impossible for them to prove their theory.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nThe team used mass spectrometry to measure incredibly small amounts of amino acids, sugars and lipids in the blood of cancer patients and control subjects. They were able with 95 percent accuracy to identify a specific metabolic signature in the cancer patients. This indicates that breast cancer patients experience metabolic changes which predispose them to developing the disease.\n\nEssentially, the researchers found that cancer develops because cancerous cells utilize energy in a different way to normal, healthy cells.\n\nRobert Nagourney, M.D., the studys lead author, explained, This suggests that cancer is not a genetic disease arising solely from mutations as we have all been taught, but instead a metabolic condition that develops under the stress of cellular nutrient deprivation. He added, Cells that cannot generate enough energy due to lack of oxygen, sugars or proteins, common to many cancers, use altered metabolic pathways to ensure their survival. Unfortunately these cancer cells success comes at the expense of the host patient.\n\nThis indicates that rather than being caused by genetic mutations, breast cancer develops when cells borrow mutated pathways as a result of limits in their nutrient supply. And it is a sobering warning that cancer is even more linked to diet, weight control and lifestyle than we may previously have thought. (Related: Maintaining optimal vitamin D levels is key to preventing cancer.)\n\nAs cancer is increasingly associated with obesity, this study provides scientific proof that diet and lifestyle contribute the stresses that, in predisposed individuals, can lead to malignant transformation and death.\n\nThe research team believes that the study offers new hope for the prevention and early diagnosis of breast cancer. Currently, more than a quarter of a million American women are diagnosed with this disease each year, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. Unfortunately, the current screening protocols like mammography and ultrasound cannot detect the disease at its earliest and most curable stage. The research team hopes that their study will provide the basis for earlier, more accurate prediction of which women may be predisposed to this deadly disease.\n\nLearn more about cancer prevention and medical myths at CancerMyths.com.","title":"Medical myth busted Cancer is primarily a metabolic disorder NOT a genetic disease","date":"2018-11-24","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The black vote in Florida is up 6% from 2016.\n\nRon DeSantis and Rick Scott are winning 14-15% of the black vote according to the Trafalgar exit polls.\n\nThis is NOT good news for Democrats.","title":"Florida Exit Poll Black Vote for GOP Up 6 Points from 2016 DeSantis and Scott Winning 14 of Bla","date":"2018-11-06","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Real Madrid are out to protect their 100 per cent start to the 2018-19 La Liga season as they travel to face Athletic Bilbao on Saturday night.\n\nJulen Lopetegui's Champions League holders have won their opening three games, and an attack led by Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale appears to be thriving following the sale of former talisman Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus.\n\nBilbao have made a decent start to the campaign with four points from their opening two games, and will not be about to let Real have an easy ride in the Basque County.\n\nAthletic Bilbao vs Real Madrid kicks off at San Memes Stadium at 7:45pm BST on Saturday, 15 September.\n\nYou can follow all the action with Standard Sport's LIVE blog.\n\nWe will have expert analysis from our Spanish football correspondent Ben Hayward.\n\nSky Sports have lost television rights to broadcast La Liga this season, with new kid on the block Eleven Sports securing exclusive coverage in the UK.\n\nFans can watch the match on Eleven Sports through iOS mobile and tablet apps as well as Android mobile.\n\nClick here for information about Bilbao tickets.\n\nClick here for information about Real tickets.\n\nClick here to find the latest match odds and place a bet\n\nReal have beaten Bilbao in 31 Liga games, while Bilbao have won 11 matches. The sides have shared eight draws.\n\nHowever, Real were held to a goalless draw at the famously atmospheric San Mames stadium last season and have only won two of their five league visits to the ground since it was built in 2013.\n\nLopetegui has a fully fit squad to choose from, with Casemiro returning to training following the international break.","title":"Athletic Bilbao vs Real Madrid Predictions teams betting tips live stream TV channel La Liga","date":"2018-09-14","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Last Tuesday Republican Todd Rokita (R-IN) introduced legislation to condemn outspoken anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan and his long history of racist, hateful, anti-white speech.\n\nRokita proposed the legislation after several Democrats have met with Louis Farrakhan in recent years.\n\nLike Louis Farrahkan, Malik Shabazz also has his own long history of racist insults and violent threats against white people and Jews.\n\nIn 2015 Malik Shabazz told conservative Steve Malzberg the real thugs are the Founders and fore fathers of America.\n\nIn 2012 Malik Shabazz announced he was going to build an army of black men to kill.\n\nAlso in 2012 Shabazz also threatened to burn down Detroit at a public meeting.\n\nIn 2007 Malik Shabazz marched with Obama and the Black Panthers.\n\n \n\n In 2007 while Obama was campaigning for the White House he marched with Malik Zulu Shabazz, the former leader of the New Black Panther party, in Alabama.\n\nIt would be helpful for congressional Democrats if Louis Farrakhan would quietly fade from view, at least until Nov. 6, but it doesnt appear that hes going anywhere. A delegation of black organizations made the rounds Monday on Capitol Hill to promote a proposal condemning President Trump and lobby against an anti-Farrakhanresolution introduced by Rep. Todd Rokita, Indiana Republican. Whether the group changed any minds is unclear, but the effort did serve to stoke the uproar engulfing members of the Congressional Black Caucus over their ties to Mr. Farrakhan, known for his anti-Semitic rhetoric. Led by Malik Zulu Shabazz, president of Black Lawyers for Justice, the group included members of the 10,000 Black Mens March, New Black Panther Party, Anacostia Citizens for Justice, Prince Georges County Peoples Coalition, and Black Lives Matter, according to a press release.","title":"PERFECT Noted Racist Malik Shabazz Lobbies Democrats on Capitol Hill to Vote Against GOP Resolution","date":"2018-03-20","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"We're never further than a few taps from ordering our groceries, new gadgets and last-minute gifts, with consumers demanding increasingly efficient service in every sector.\n\nSo, as Amazon announce their investment in a start-up prefab housing company, could factory-built homes become the next voice-controlled, super-efficient must-have?\n\nCheaper and quicker to build than traditional housing, modular homes are billed as a way of combating the housing shortage.\n\nAnd, with smart technology taking over ever more aspects of our lives, it seems Amazon is keen to ensure the homes of the future are fully-compatible with the latest Alexa capabilities.\n\nPlant Prefab, a prefabricated housing company, has just secured 5.14million in first-round funding from investors including Obvious Ventures and the Amazon Alexa Fund  a venture capital fund which supports companies using voice technology in their products.\n\nVoice has emerged as a delightful technology in the home, and there are now more than 20,000 Alexa-compatible smart home devices from 3,500 different brands, said Alexa Fund director Paul Bernard.\n\nWere thrilled to support [Plant Prefab] as they make sustainable, connected homes more accessible to customers and developers, said Bernard.\n\nBased in California, and just two years old, Plant Prefab calls itself a \"home factory\" whose secret building system \"reduces construction time by 50 per cent and cost by 10-25 per cent in major cities.\"\n\nBy building off-site and assembling in pieces, using a full-time workforce, Plant Prefab say their projects tend to be completed faster and at a lower cost than site-based projects which can be impacted by variables such as local labour shortages or sub-contractor premiums.\n\nThe company estimates factory costs to be around 100 ($130) per square foot for a larger multi-home project to from 153 ($200) per square foot for their higher-end, steel-framed homes.\n\nIn the housing-crunched major cities [...] it takes too much time to build a home from groundbreaking to occupancy, and labour shortages, construction delays and increased construction costs are exacerbating this trend even further - and making homes increasingly less affordable,\" said Plant Prefab Founder and CEO Steve Glenn.\n\nMore consumers are demanding homes that use less energy, water, and resources  and that minimise indoor air pollution, says Plant Prefab, while demand for building quickly, cost and time efficiently, and sustainably is growing.\n\nPlant Prefab's other major investor, Obvious Ventures, is a venture fund that focuses on #worldpositive projects.\n\nWhile Plant Prefab have no plans to expand outside of North America at the moment, modular homes are increasingly viewed as one answer to the housing shortage on this side of the Atlantic, too.\n\nThe nHouse\n\n The hi-tech nHouse is designed to live up to high-tech modular expectations.\n\nThe three-bedroom, two-bathroom homes can be built from scratch in just under three weeks, or 19 days to be exact.\n\nThey feature delivery drone landing pads, facial recognition technology to unlock the front door, robot vacuum cleaners and interactive bathroom mirror screens, as standard.\n\nEco-friendly credentials include rainwater collecting gutters, solar roofing and a car and house battery pack. Prices for the nHouse, minus the land and VAT, start from 180,000.\n\nLoft conversion specialist, Landmark Lofts, boldly claims to be able to deliver and install a complete loft conversion in just 14 days.\n\nOn day one the scaffolding goes up. The following day the roof comes off. On day three your loft is delivered by HGV and craned into place with pre-plastered walls  some even get lifted on with fully tiled bathrooms.\n\nOver the next few days the stairs are installed and utilities are connected. Then the loft is inspected and signed off. By day 14 it should be ready to carpet and furnish.\n\nAccording to Landmark, its modular lofts, built with a cold rolled steel frame, are also less likely to sag or warp than a conventional timber loft.\n\nThe company says a fully finished loft conversion on a mid-terrace Victorian house should cost about 45,000 to 50,000. This is in the middle to upper end of the estimates you should expect for a wood-framed conventional loft on a similar property.\n\nThe 14 days does not include the pre-planning process or the time you must allow for a really thorough survey, as when the loft arrives it has to be a perfect fit.","title":"Will Amazonaposs deliver-on-demand smart homes be the future of housing","date":"2018-10-09","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Match of the tournament: Rafael Nadals 0-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-7, 7-6 victory over Dominic Thiem in the quarter-finals was a high-tempo match full of great shot-making\n\nShot of the tournament: Nikoloz Basilashvili scurried forward to chase down a Rafael Nadal shot which had clipped the top of the net. Having done brilliantly to get there, the Georgian showed exquisite touch to play a delicate cross-court winner\n\nBest newcomer: It might be pushing a point to describe the Indian Wells champion as a newcomer, but Naomi Osaka had never gone beyond the fourth round of a Grand Slam competition until last week. She won the title in only her 11th appearance in a Grand Slam tournament\n\nBiggest upset: There were plenty in the womens tournament but possibly none greater than Garbine Muguruzas defeat by the world No 202, Karolina Muchova, who had come through qualifying\n\nBiggest disappointment: Once again Alexander Zverev gave a below-par performance in a Grand Slam tournament. The No 4 seed was beaten in four sets in the third round by Philipp Kohlschreiber\n\nBest British moment: Andy Murray returning to Grand Slam competition after a break of 14 months and winning his first match\n\nWorst British moment: Kyle Edmund, who has been Britains best performer in Murrays absence, went out in lacklustre fashion in the first round against the 36-year-old Italian, Paolo Lorenzi\n\nSaddest farewell: Playing in his last Grand Slam tournament, David Ferrer had to retire because of injury in the second set of his third-round match against Rafael Nadal\n\nBest comeback: Taylor Fritz was outplayed by Mischa Zverev in the first round but rallied to beat the German 4-6, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-2\n\nMost emotional comeback: Bethanie Mattek-Sands was on crutches here last year after suffering a horrific knee injury at Wimbledon. Her triumph in the mixed doubles alongside Jamie Murray was her first title since returning to competition in March\n\nBest mixed doubles player: Jamie Murray has established himself as the worlds best performer in mixed in the last 15 months. He has played in four of the last six Grand Slam finals in mixed and won three of them. Murrays victory with Mattek-Sands was his third title success here in the last three years following his 2016 win in the mens doubles with Bruno Soares and his mixed doubles triumph last year alongside Martina Hingi\n\nOldest winner in town: Mike Bryan won a record 18th Grand Slam doubles title at the age of 40. Bryan and Jack Sock, who stepped in for his partners injured brother Bob, won both Wimbledon and the US Open this summer\n\nMost bizarre moment: Alize Cornet receiving a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct for taking off her shirt on court, having realised she had put it on the wrong way round. In the furore that followed, the tournament said female players would in future be able to change their shirts on court or could leave to do so without punishment\n\nLuckiest umpire: Mohamed Layhani was fortunate to escape with only a ticking-off after his actions during Nick Kyrgios match against Pierre-Hugues Herbert. With Kyrgios a set and a break down, Layhani got down from his chair and gave Kyrgios what amounted to a pep talk, upon which the Australian turned the match around\n\nBest innovation: The on-court shot clock, ensuring that players took no more than 25 seconds between points. Not many players fell foul of it and it clearly helped to speed up play\n\nFunniest moment: Nick Kyrgios, asked at a press conference for his best qualities, replied: My unbelievable movement, my returns, and my mental strength\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"US Open awards Match of the tournament most bizarre moment best newcomer and more","date":"2018-09-10","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Serves 4 as a starter or 2 for a light main course.\n\n12 squash peeled and diced, approximately 500g\n\n 1tsp fennel seeds\n\n 150g blackberries\n\n Juice and zest of 1 orange\n\n 12 medium red chilli, roughly chopped\n\n Juice and zest of 1 lemon\n\n 30ml cider vinegar\n\n 1tsp honey\n\n 1 bunch of watercress\n\n 100g of English feta cheese\n\n 50g toasted walnuts\n\nMix the squash pieces together with a little olive oil, fennel seeds and orange and lemon zest. Arrange the mixture as a flat layer on a baking tray. Roast at 160C for 30-40 minutes until the squash has just softened and is slightly catching on the edges.\n\nWhilst the squash is cooking, blend 100g of blackberries, orange juice, lemon juice, vinegar, honey and chilli into a smooth dressing and season.\n\nWhen the squash is cooked, remove and arrange on a serving platter, scattering over the remaining blackberries, walnuts and feta cheese. Liberally dollop over the blackberry dressing and scatter over the watercress.","title":"How to make River Cottageaposs squash salad with English feta walnuts and a blackberry dressing","date":"2018-11-09","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"An Idaho wildlife official is facing calls to resign over a photo he posed for with a family of baboons he killed on a hunting trip last month in Namibia.\n\nBlake Fischer, an Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner, has come under fire for a picture of him smiling and posing with what looks to be three adults and baby baboon on a recent hunting trip.\n\nThe image was included in an email obtained by The Idaho Statesman newspaper through a public documents request with the governors office.\n\nIn the photo, Mr Fischer is holding up the baboons while he kneels in the dirt, a quiver of arrows can be seen in the foreground.\n\nThe email also detailed at least 14 other animals Mr Fischer and his wife had killed on his trip, including a leopard and giraffe.\n\nOther animals they killed include impala, sable antelope, waterbuck, kudu, warthog, gemsbok, and eland per the email sent to more than 100 people.\n\nMr Fischer said that he believes he didnt do anything illegal\".\n\n\"I didnt do anything unethical. I didnt do anything immoral, he said.\n\nHe is one of seven volunteer commissioners appointed by the governor and approved by the state Senate to represent different parts of the state.\n\nAccording to the Fish and Game Commission, these seven officials must adhere to the statute that All wildlife, including all wild animals, wild birds, and fish, within the state of Idaho...shall be preserved, protected, perpetuated, and managed. It shall be only captured or taken at such times or places, under such conditions, or by such means, or in such manner, as will preserve, protect, and perpetuate such wildlife, and provide for the citizens of this state and, as by law permitted to others, continued supplies of such wildlife for hunting, fishing and trapping.\n\nOn the email were also several former Fish and Game Commissioners.\n\nI have a difficult time understanding how a person privileged to be an Idaho Fish and Game commissioner can view such an action as sportsmanlike and an example to others, Fred Trevey, who was a Fish and Game commissioner from 2007 to 2015, said.\n\nHe wrote to Mr Fischer asking him to resign.\n\nTony McDermott, another former commissioner also on the email, wrote to Governor Butch Otters office to say he and six of commissioner colleagues agreed that to resolve the potentially explosive issue Mr Fischer must resign from his post.\n\nMr Fischer interpreted the statue as saying: Were supposed to manage all animals for Idaho, and any surplus of animals we have we manage through hunting, fishing and trapping. Africa does the same thing.\n\nWhen asked why he shot the baboons, Mr Fischer explained to the newspaper he was required to pay trophy fees for other animals he killed in Namibia.\n\nBaboons are free... I get it  theyre a weird animal. Its a primate, not a deer, he said.\n\nIn every picture, we try to pose the animals in a natural position, wipe the blood off the mouth, place the rifle or bow over the bullet hole. ... These are normal hunting photos. You shoot an animal, you take a picture of it, Mr Fischer said.\n\nHe does not have plans to resign but the governors office has been made aware of the viral picture and the controversy it has caused.\n\nSteve Alder of Idaho for Wildlife, a pro-hunting group in the state, told the newspaper about the baboon photo: You just dont do that. I hate wolves as much as anyone, but Im not going to take a wolf family and put it on display and show the baby wolf.","title":"Calls for Idaho wildlife official to resign after baboon hunting picture surfaces","date":"2018-10-15","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trump has never acted presidential in his time in office...not even once. Hes spent his time in office dividing the country and inciting violence at every turn. Weve never had a president do anything close to that. Hes never had one ounce of decorum. Take for instance what happened after todays right-wing terrorist attack in Pennsylvania. Trump went through with one rally in Indianapolis, and afterwards, he was asked about canceling tonights rally in Illinois but he refused to do it. Shortly thereafter he did say, however, that he would consider canceling his self-love festbut only because he was having a bad hair day.\n\nTodays right-wing terrorist attack took the life of 11 people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and the only thing Trump can think about is his hair. Thats just ludicrous! A real president would have immediately canceled any rallies that had been scheduled and stood up to lead this country. Instead, we have a self-absorbed, narcissistic, man for our president. He can only think about how current affairs affect him. He doesnt care about this country or any of her citizens.\n\nHas anyone noticed that Trump refuses to say the words right-wing terrorist? After all, he incorrectly railed against President Obama for not saying Islamic terrorist, why is Trump afraid to call terrorists what they are? It could be because hes the one inciting these crazy right-wingers into committing acts of terror. Weve suffered two weeks of attacks by conservative crazies, first by a bomber, then todays attack on Jewish parishioners, and its time for Trump to verbally take credit for what hes caused.\n\nDonald Trump is the most dangerous man whos ever lead this country and its time for him to leave office. Check out what the Twitterverse had to say about Trumps insensitivity:","title":"Trump Jokes About Cancelling Conference After His Hair Got Wet In The Rain","date":"2018-10-28","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The president won the election in an electoral landslide with a promise to build a border wall with Mexico.\n\nPaul Ryan has not once including funding for the Trump border wall in any financial package since Trumps election.\n\nToday President Trump called on the GOP Congress to finally pass funding for the border wall.\n\nThe Pelosi Democrats take over in January.\n\nPaul Ryan has ONE LAST CHANCE to prove he is not a back-stabbing liar.","title":"NEVER FORGET Speaker Paul Ryan Promised to Fund Trump Border Wall But Knew He Was Lying","date":"2018-11-23","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Democrat Tammy Baldwin the incumbent and a self-described progressive is running against Leah Vukmir, a respected Wisconsin State Senator.\n\nThe two women candidates couldnt be further apart on health care, immigration, abortion, vets, taxes and jobs.\n\nDemocrat Baldwin actually wants Medicare for all; a single payer government plan than goes far beyond Obama care.\n\nOpposing capital punishment, Baldwin is weak on crime and police. She is also proudly the first lesbian in the State Assembly.\n\nRecognized as one of the MOST liberal members of the US Senate Baldwin wins all the awards from Progressives.\n\nHer opponent quipped; Tammy is more at home in The Hamptons in New York with her friends than at a Friday night fish fry in Wisconsin.\n\nThis is a race Republicans would like to tighten since Trump carried the state in 2016.\n\nA conservative nurse with deep roots in the state who will vote with the Trump train is better than a thousand pound supporter of Clinton and the entire left leaning Democratic crockery.\n\nVukmir is an American first Republican and deserves your support.\n\nMake this go viral in Wisconsin.","title":"Midterm 2018 WISCONSIN Tammy Baldwin vs Leah Vukmir","date":"2018-10-19","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"As previously reported by TGPs Kristinn Taylor, President Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon he is ordering the Justice Department to investigate whether the Obama administration spied on his 2016 presidential campaign.\n\nThe order comes on the heels of leaks to the New York Times and Washington Post that the Obama administration had an informant make several approaches to three Trump campaign officials, included one that involved an offer of cash and another an offer to advise the campaign.\n\nTrump tweeted: I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI\/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes  and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!\n\nOn Sunday evening, the Justice Department asked Inspector General Horowitz to investigate whether there was impropriety or political motivation into the FBIs infiltration of Trumps campaign.\n\nFreedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows doesnt believe the DOJ can be trusted to investigate themselves and blasted Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein.\n\nMark Meadows tweeted: This is the right call from @realDonaldTrumpweve seen disturbing evidence that the FBI engaged in political targeting.\n\nBut the DOJ cant be trusted to investigate themselvesCongress needs the documents too. Rod Rosenstein: where are the documents? Show Americans the truth.\n\nPresident Trump, Rep. Mark Meadows and other members of the Freedom Caucus are on the front lines fighting the Deep State while AG Sessions is AWOL.\n\nOn Wednesday, with the backing of Rep. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Meadows sent President Trump a letter requesting he use his Presidential powers to instruct AG Sessions to declassify and release ALL FISA abuse documents and the unredacted Rosenstein memo detailing Muellers scope.\n\nIn the year that has passed since these committments were made, the Department of Justice has failed to fully comply with regular and repeated Congressional requests and subpoenas. Our power as Congress to conduct investigations is broad, inherent and mandated by the Constitution. As a separate and equal branch of government, we have a constitutional right to these documents, Meadows said in his letter to President Trump.\n\nRep. Meadows requested documents related to FISA abuses, documents related to the initial investigation into Trumps camp before the Special Counsel was appointed, and the unredacted August 2nd memo penned by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein detailing Muellers scope.\n\nChairman Meadows is correct. The leaky DOJ cannot be trusted to investigate themselves; the American people deserve answers.","title":"Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows Demands Documents From Rosenstein The DOJ Cant Be Trusted to In","date":"2018-05-21","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Two months after Vice President Mike Pence announced the plan to create a Space Force, the military is fighting over how to make it happen. This week, an internal Air Force estimate leaked to the press that said the Space Force would cost nearly $13 billion to create. And an Air Force organization is arguing that we shouldnt create the Space Force at all, but rather rename the Air Force.\n\nThis is just the beginning of a debate about the right way to move forward with the Space Force, says Brian Weeden, a space expert at the Secure World Foundation, a nonprofit that specializes in space security. Creating a new branch of the military is going to require a lot of complicated bureaucratic reshuffling. The other piece of it is, how do we create something that is going to placate Trump while doing what actually needs to be done, Weeden said.\n\nHere are all the Space Force updates that happened this week and what they mean:\n\nOn Monday, multiple outlets reported that they had received an internal memo, signed by US Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and dated September 14th, that said creating both a Space Force and a unified space command would cost $3.3 billion for fiscal year 2020. The memo, tweeted out by Inside Defense reporter Courtney Albon, showed that more than 13,000 new personnel would be needed, as well as a five-year budget of $12.9 billion.\n\nThats a lot of money to create a separate branch of the military that would effectively do what the Defense Department does now. The DOD has launched many satellites that do surveillance, missile detection, and communication. And the people who oversee these technologies are spread throughout the Department of Defense, situated in the Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Navy. The Space Force, presumably, would take the people working on space missions within those branches and put them in one central branch.\n\nBut the leaked memo seems to be calling for a bunch of new people and infrastructure, in addition to what the military already has. Reading through the remarks, it seems shes talking about those people stay there now, and we add a bunch of new people and new budgets, Weeden says.\n\nOf course, this memo only refers to what the Air Force thinks will be needed to create a Space Force. No one told the Air Force to come up with an estimate, but Secretary Wilson said it was the branchs duty. As airmen, we have a responsibility to develop a proposal for the president that is bold, and that carries out his vision, Wilson said on Monday during the Air Force Associations annual Air, Space and Cyber Conference. But the Defense Department may ultimately choose to completely disregard what the Air Force suggests. We wont know what the real arrangement will be until President Donald Trumps budget request comes out in February.\n\nIts all part of the process  seeing the sausage being made.\n\nIts all part of the process  seeing the sausage being made, Marcia Smith, a space policy expert and founder of SpacePolicyOnline.com, tells The Verge.\n\nBut other people see this leak as an attempt to derail the Space Force, since its harder to get Congressional support for an expensive idea. This is the highest estimate I think you could possibly come up with, Todd Harrison, a budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told reporters on Thursday.\n\nThis could be a poison pill, says Weeden. By putting it out there, a bunch of congressman are going to be like, Oh yeah we cant afford that, and undermine it.\n\nMeanwhile, the Air Force Association, a nonprofit organization that promotes the Air Force, released a paper on Monday, arguing against the Space Force. The group argues that the Air Force has been managing most of the militarys space missions for decades now and those capabilities shouldnt be taken away.\n\nThe US Air Force has led the Armed Forces in establishing Americas space capability.\n\nThe US Air Force has led the Armed Forces in establishing Americas space capability such that it is unrivaled in the world, the Association wrote in the paper. Today, to split up the well-integrated set of air and space capabilities that have been organized to seamlessly contribute to Americas military capabilities would result in more harm than good.\n\nInstead, simply rename the Air Force to the Aerospace Force, the group argues. Its a move that makes sense for the nonprofit, since supporting the Air Force is their top priority, according to Weeden. It was not surprising that an institution that supports the Air Force would be against taking away a significant amount of people and mission from the Air Force, he says.\n\nHowever, the AFA does make a few good points. The organization argues that there is a strong link between air and space technologies, which is why the two should stay under one branch. Many of the technologies needed for aircraft are used in spacecraft as well. NASA develops both kinds of technologies; it is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, after all.\n\nThese were the previous arguments form the Pentagon.\n\nThe AFA also argues that there arent any weapons that have been developed and deployed in space right now. Most of the militarys space assets revolve around information gathering and communication. Currently there are no space arms which are fundamental to setting up an armed service, the AFA said in its statement.\n\nPlus, these arguments arent new. Actually a lot of the arguments they put forward were the arguments that Sec. Wilson and others were putting out before the presidents directive, says Smith. That this is not the time to be dividing things. These were the previous arguments form the Pentagon.\n\nDeputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan gave a speech at the Air Force Associations Air, Space and Cyber Conference on Wednesday, where he said that creating the Space Force is a complicated process. Mainly, no one agrees about how the branch should be structured, he said.\n\nShanahan noted that one debate is over whether to keep the space acquisitions  or the procurement of new space technologies  and space warfighting decisions within the same organization. We get into these arm-wrestling contests where there will be no separation between the fighter and the acquisition process, he said during his speech. And then you have some people like me that are saying, Well, I dont know. Maybe we should have separation. Youll see thats kind of where the debate is.\n\nWe get into these arm-wrestling contests.\n\nCombining warfighting with procurement seems like a strange move, says Weeden. Those two functions are separate elsewhere in the military, with different chains of command. One is the organize, train, and equip function, or OTE, which involves making decisions about the types of equipment and technologies the military needs and then training personnel to use those technologies. This is what the Air Force, Navy, and Army do, and technology acquisitions fall under these branches as well. The warfighting chain of command is responsible for deciding how to implement the technologies and personnel that the military branches comes up with. Warfighting is done under the USs unified chains of command, such as Centcom or USStratcom.\n\nRight now, space warfighting is done within USStratcom, which oversees nuclear deterrence. However, Congress recently proposed making the space warfighting chain of command its own separate organization called the US Space Command, in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019. Now it seems as if there is some debate over whether the Space Force should also include space warfighting. The space force is the acquisitions and service, and the US space command is the warfighter, says Weeden. Traditionally those are two separate things and they seem to be lumping them together.\n\nThe Department of Defense has to come up with a complex plan on how to create the organization before February. That way Congress can consider the proposal for the next NDAA. Theyve been given a very short schedule to do all this, and its been a long time since the Department of Defense has tried to create a new department, says Smith. I think its going to be a challenge to pull something together, but they are the Pentagon, and they follow orders.\n\nMeanwhile, not everyone is sold on the idea of a Space Force yet, and with midterm elections coming up, the makeup of Congress could shift very soon. That might put Space Forces chances in jeopardy, especially if more stories about soaring budgets come out. Still, nothing is certain until the presidents budget request is published next year, which is when well get a definitive breakdown of the Space Force structure and cost. Then its up to Congress to decide whether they want it.","title":"Trumps Space Force may come with a big price tag and no one can agree how to structure it","date":"2018-09-22","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"The United States continues to grapple with the rampant problem of sexual harassment and assault, an effort that has culminated in whats known as the #MeToo movement. The majority of sexual assaults go unreported, but throughout recent months  and years  high profile men have finally begun to face some accountability for their actions. Victims across the nation  and world  have begun saying me too.\n\nU.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks thats a wonderful development. Speaking last Wednesday night to first year law students at Georgetown University, she explained her own experience, commenting:\n\nNow, though, shes reassured by society finally kicking  or at least trying to kick  the boys will be boys idea to the curb. In her own words, shes cheered on the development, noting:\n\nHer comments emerge on the national scene in the midst of a national reckoning with the idea that President Donald Trump and Republicans want to put a credibly accused sexual predator  Brett Kavanaugh  on the U.S. Supreme Court, the very body she serves on.\n\nHes facing credible accusations from three women of carrying on with sexually predatory behavior throughout his younger years, the burden of which theyve had to carry with them throughout all the years since.\n\nThursday morning, the first Kavanaugh victim to come forward, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first time. She faced questioning from Republican Senators designed to poke holes in her story as if shes being cross-examined as part of a criminal trial, while Democrats sought to steer the proceedings back on course. They alternated between questions meant to point out the strength of Fords account and assertions that the matter should be handled by the credible investigative authorities at the FBI.\n\nYears ago, when during his own confirmation hearings, current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced his own very credible allegations of sexual misconduct, the FBI handled an investigation, but now, Republicans only caved after massive public pressure to that.\n\nOverall, theyre just digging into their repugnant positions. A Wisconsin segment of the Republican Party went so far as to make a joke on social media centering on the make-believe that Ginsburg herself claimed to have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Abraham Lincoln  because to them, thats funny apparently.\n\nIn reality, millions upon millions of Americans from all walks of life face sexual harassment and assault daily. The case surrounding Judge Kavanaugh  who Ginsburg did not mention by name Wednesday night  has highlighted a very personal issue for large numbers of Americans. She, and other prominent Democrats have distinguished themselves by responding seriously to the issue, while Republicans continue to run and hide in the face of reality.","title":"Ruth Bader Ginsburg Releases MeToo Statement That Has Republicans Clamoring","date":"2018-09-30","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Paul Joseph Watson breaks down how a social justice warrior Swedish student who refused to allow a plane that was deporting a criminal migrant now faces jail time herself.","title":"Swedish Student Who Stopped Migrant From Being Deported Faces Jail","date":"2018-10-22","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Hungary is expelling a Ukrainian consul in retaliation against Ukraines expulsion of a Hungarian consul, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced on Thursday.\n\nEarlier in the day, Ukraines foreign ministry declared a Hungarian consul serving in Berehove (Beregszasz) persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours.\n\nHungary and Ukraine have been locked in a diplomatic row over dual citizenship ever since hidden camera footage showing the Hungarian consul conducting a Hungarian naturalization ceremony for Ukrainian citizens at the consulate appeared online. Szijjarto stressed that Hungary will continue to block Ukraines aspirations to join NATO and the EU.\n\nHe told a press conference that the foreign ministry had summoned Ukraines ambassador to Hungary and told her that a consul working at the embassy would have to leave Hungary within 72 hours. Hungarys interest lies in fostering good relations with all of its neighboring countries, Szijjarto said. But over the past several months, he said, Ukraine had been escalating the conflict with Hungary.\n\nThe minister insisted the consul that Ukraine has expelled had not broken any of Ukraines laws by conducting the oath-taking ceremony. He said it was a fact that the recording of the ceremony had been a Ukrainian secret service operation that went against every written and unwritten rule of diplomacy.\n\nOn another subject, Szijjarto said that Ukraines parliament on Thursday started debating a language bill he said would be detrimental to the Hungarian community, in spite of the countrys promises to hold off on a debate. He called it unacceptable that the bill would now require that a language must to be used by 33 percent of the population in a given administrative area in order for it to be declared an official language instead of the original 10 percent requirement.\n\nUnder the law, Szijjarto said, the 150,000 Hungarians living in western Ukraines Transcarpathia region would lose their right to use their mother tongue. The minister said such a situation would be in breach of international regulations. Szijjarto also noted that Ukraine was deploying police and military forces near its border with Hungary. If a country with aspirations to join NATO deploys a portion of its troops at the border of a NATO country, then it cannot join the alliance, he said. And if a country hoping to join the European Union launches an attack on the institution of dual citizenship, then that countrys aspirations for European integration cant be seen as credible, either, he added.","title":"Hungary Retaliates Against Ukraine Over Consul Expulsion","date":"2018-10-05","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Im devasted right now. #WalkAway Campaign is a grassroots movement. We dont have corporate sponsors. We dont have backers. We are raising the money and the awareness for our event ourselves. We use GoFundMe to raise money. And today Facebook took away my ability to communicate with the 180,000 members of the campaign leading up to the March. This is going to smash my ability to provide information, answer questions, raise money, and rally with my people. I am crushed, Straka told The Gateway Pundit.\n\nToday I was banned by Facebook from communicating with my audience leading up to the March on Washington. This is devastating as they are depending on me 4 info. I was banned 4 mentioning the name of a conservative also recently banned from all platforms, Straka tweeted.\n\nIt looks like Brandons account will be blocked until after the march and rally in October.","title":"Update WalkAway Protest Leader Banned by Facebook Until After Planned March on Washington Is Over","date":"2018-09-13","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"People using strong painkillers, opioids, have twice the risk of hip fracture compared to non-opioid users, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. The risk was highest in the first two months of opioid use. The results were published in the PAIN journal.\n\nThe risk of hip fracture increased with increasing opioid strength. Use of weak opioids, such as codeine and tramadol, was not associated with the risk of hip fracture. However, moderately strong opioids, such as buprenorphine, were associated with a two-fold risk, and strong opioids, such as oxycodone and fentanyl, were associated with almost a three-fold risk, compared with non-use. Buprenorphine and fentanyl were almost solely used as patches in this study.\n\nOpioids are used for the treatment of severe pain in cases where other painkillers fail to produce a sufficient response. Opioids impact on the central nervous system and for this reason, opioid use may cause attentional impairment or drowsiness. Opioids are known to increase the risk of falls which, in turn, may lead to hip fracture in older people.\n\nThe study was based on the nationwide register-based MEDALZ study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland. For this study, 23,100 community-dwelling persons diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in Finland during 2010-2011 were included. From this sample, new opioid users were identified and matched with opioid non-users.","title":"Strong Painkillers Opioids Increase Hip Fracture Risks Among Alzheimers Patients","date":"2018-11-26","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Given all the special privileges that corporations have enjoyed for so long, its high time corporate boards include the people who constitute more than half the persons in America, Gov. Jerry Brown wrote in a message when signing the bill into law.\n\nThe bill, titled SB-826, was introduced by state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara).\n\nIt requires any corporation based in California to have a minimum of one woman on its board of directors by the end of 2019. By the end of 2021, the bill mandates that number increase to at least two women directors if the corporation has five directors, or to a minimum of three women if the corporation has six or more directors.\n\nJackson thanked Brown in a tweet Sunday, writing yet another glass ceiling is shattered, and women will finally have a seat at the table in corporate board rooms.","title":"California Gov Jerry Brown Signs Landmark Bill Requiring Women On Corporate Boards","date":"2018-10-01","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Apple will be taking part in Black Friday, the company has confirmed.\n\nAnd it won't only be Friday: the sales are set to run over the entire long weekend, with deals available until Monday.\n\nCustomers will have to wait until Friday to find out what they actually are, however, with Apple only announcing that it will be running offers between 23 and 26 November.\n\nAnd those deals probably won't be of the kind offered by other companies and shops. Apple has traditionally resisted Black Friday, instead running small offers but not slashing prices or offering deep discounts.\n\nIn the last couple of years, for instance, the company has just offered gift cards when people bought specific products. Those gift cards have to be spent in the Apple Store and the products still sold at full price.\n\nApple said almost nothing about this year's deals. It announced them with a mysterious set of phrases, reading only: \"Four days. Special offers\" and making clear the dates.\n\nAs such, Apple's own website does not traditionally offer the best deal on the company's own products. Better offers can often be scored through other retailers  and a complete list of the best of them can be found in this list.","title":"Apple announces it will take part in Black Friday 2018 with days of deals","date":"2018-11-21","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Coming on the heels of Mike Pompeos confirmation as secretary of state, Grenells confirmation fills a position that has been vacant since January 2017 when Trump dismissed the political ambassadors appointed under President Barack Obama.\n\nGrenell, a Republican and close political ally of Trump, has a background in communications and worked with incoming national security adviser John Bolton at the United Nations under President George W. Bush. He also worked briefly as a national security and foreign policy spokesman on Mitt Romneys presidential campaign in 2012.\n\nTrump had reportedly considered Grenell for the U.S. ambassadorship to the United Nations before nominating Nikki Haley, a former U.S. representative, for the position.\n\nWith his confirmation, Grenell becomes one of the most prominent openly gay Trump appointees. Grenells supporters include Stuart Milk, co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation and nephew of the late gay civil rights leader. Milk told The New York Times in March that he believed Grenells confirmation would send an important message to the LGBTQ community about their place in the Trump administration.\n\nThe Senate vote was delayed earlier this week over several Democrats concerns regarding Grenells past comments about women. Grenell has a reputation for launching sexist attacks through his Twitter account and disparaging women in media and politics.\n\nOn Monday, a spokeswoman for Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said in a statement to CNN that the senator was concerned about Grenells significant history of making misogynistic and other incendiary statements online.\n\nShe added that Grenell has also been dismissive of the threat of Russias meddling in the US, a fact that is doubly concerning as Germany is one of our closest and most important allies in pushing back on Russian aggression on the world stage.\n\nThe confirmation comes ahead of a visit to the White House by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is expected to push Trump not to abandon the Iran nuclear deal nor hit Europe with new U.S. tariffs. French President Emmanuel Macron made similar appeals to Trump during his three-day state visit this week. But where Trump and Macron have appeared to develop an easy rapport, relations have been notably chillier between Merkel and the U.S. president.\n\nThe liberal world order with its foundation in multilateralism, its global norms and values, its open societies and markets  is in danger, wrote a group of 12 German foreign policy experts in an op-ed last year. Donald Trump is the first U.S. president since World War II to fundamentally question the ideas and institutions of the liberal international order.","title":"Senate Confirms Richard Grenell Trump Nominee For Ambassador To Germany","date":"2018-04-26","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Watch below as Alex Jones predicted the pipe bomb attacks:","title":"Watch Alex Jones Predict The Pipe Bomb Attacks","date":"2018-10-24","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)  The Iowa State Fair opens this week, complete with its signature deep-fried Oreos and prize hog judging. Country star Reba McEntire will be on the grandstand, but another type of celebrity will be missing: marquee names eyeing the White House.\n\nThe fairs time-honored mix of late-summer family fun and high-wattage political pageantry will instead feature the Democratic backbench of presidential hopefuls, including Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan. The visit generating the most buzz this week is Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for the adult-film actress suing Trump who is attending the state Democratic Partys annual summer fundraiser.\n\nFor now, top-tier prospective Democratic presidential candidates, including former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York are largely steering clear of Iowa.\n\nThe Democratic Partys top stars have their reasons. Several say they are focused on ensuring the party is successful in regaining control of at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections. Some will be on the ballot themselves in November so they must lock down their own victory before being so bold as to go to Iowa.\n\nStill, their absence surprises veteran Democratic activists and stokes the perennial worry about the future of the states early status.\n\nThe anxiety isnt entirely misplaced. The case for giving the overwhelming white, rural state a prized role in picking the Democratic nominee has become more complicated as the partys base becomes less white and rural. Meanwhile, other states have been challenging it on influence and candidate appeal. For aspiring politicians, the place to make an impact this cycle is Georgia, which has a hot governors race and a sizable African-American population.\n\nThe quiet has been observed by Iowans with typical understatement.\n\nIts not as busy as I would have expected it to be, said former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a Democrat.\n\nIve never seen us three months away from the midterms where we havent had people like that here, said Sue Dvorsky, a longtime Democratic activist in Democrat-heavy Iowa City and a former state party chairwoman.\n\nThe positioning that is happening in Iowa ahead of 2020 is largely playing out in private.\n\nWarren has spoken with Vilsack by phone several times this year, the former governor said. He has also fielded regular calls from other 2020 presidential prospects.\n\nBiden has kept in touch with Dubuque-area Democrats, notably ahead of his June endorsement of a congressional candidate.\n\nMark Smith, Democratic leader in the Iowa House of Representatives, said he discussed statehouse campaign contributions with Booker last month at a New Jersey diner.\n\nHarris offered Iowa secretary of state candidate Deirdre DeJear some in-person encouragement at an event in Los Angeles in April, DeJear said.\n\nSanders visited Iowa in February as a favor to his former caucus campaign director Pete DAlessandro, who lost a June primary for a Des Moines-area House seat. He has been less guarded than his potential 2020 rivals, arguing amid his travels that the party needs to broaden its appeal everywhere.\n\nMost others have played down any Iowa contact, except in pursuit of midterm goals.\n\n Harris has been very clear that her top political priority this cycle is to elect and protect more Democrats in the Senate, said her spokeswoman, Lily Adams. She has also made sure to put her support behind candidates who share her values and to make statehouses look more like the population of this country.\n\nStill, some potential candidates are dipping their toes in other early voting states. In June, Warren headlined the state Democratic Party convention in Nevada, which has the cover of a close Senate race this year. Biden endorsed his friend, South Carolina lawyer Dick Harpootlian, for state House last week.\n\nPrevious presidential prospects have often set up at least skeleton Iowa organizations by this point, in part to sow goodwill with activists who can be crucial to victory in the caucuses.\n\nThen-Vice President Al Gore began visiting Iowa more than a year ahead of the 1998 midterms to lay down a marker that kept all but New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley from challenging him in the 2000 caucuses.\n\nAt the same time, presumed Democratic powerhouse Hillary Clinton stayed away from Iowa during the 2006 midterm campaign while then-Sen. Evan Bayh and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, now a senator, tried to establish themselves early as viable challengers. They visited often in early 2006 and financed campaign staff for 2006 Iowa races.\n\nThat campaign produced the unexpected dynamic of two party superstars, as Barack Obama, then a freshman Illinois senator, decided late in 2006 to explore running for president. His rock-star reception at a September Democratic fundraiser in Iowa that year foretold the head-to-head clash of the two stars.\n\nAfter losing the 2008 caucuses and the nomination to Obama, Clinton returned to Iowa in September 2014 and became the early target of Sanders, who would narrowly lose to Clinton in the 2016 caucuses and dog her throughout the primaries.\n\nIts hard to be first, Vilsack said. You put yourself out there, and the analyzing and criticizing starts.","title":"Top-Tier Potential 2020 Dem Candidates Steer Unusually Clear Of Iowa State Fair","date":"2018-08-06","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Youd be forgiven if you thought the tide of public opinion had turned against capitalism. As the news media eagerly report on polls showing that millennials increasingly reject capitalism, progressives energetically push the Democratic Party to the left. A forceful rebuttal has arrived in the form of a new book by Andy Puzder, the one-time nominee to be U.S. secretary of labor. Puzder, the former chief operating officer of CKE Restaurants, uses history to make a rousing defense of capitalism in The Capitalist Comeback: The Trump Boom and the Lefts Plot to Stop It. He also details the never-ending war to defeat it.\n\nIn all of human history, capitalism is the only economic system that has ever [produced] the expansive growth that lifts people out of poverty, raises their standard of living, and reduces income inequality, he writes. He also shows how capitalism always dovetailed with the Founding Fathers commitment to limited government and individual freedom.\n\nDespite capitalisms successes, Puzder acknowledges its challenges. He argues that unrestricted free trade and loose immigration policies, which have been free-market Republican mantras, have had devastating consequences for low-skilled workers, particularly those in the industrial Midwest.  Free trade might sound good on paper, but when a town loses its economic engine thanks to a factory moving to Mexico or China, the residents might have a difficult time understanding the benefits, he writes.\n\nHe notes that in 2016 this wasnt a theoretical conversation  it was the economic argument that propelled so many working-class Americans to vote for Donald Trump, who promised to bulldoze the countrys existing trade and immigration policies. But even with improved policies on trade and immigration, Puzder concedes, we will still need economic growth to create good-paying jobs that lift people from one economic class to another.\n\nPuzders book offers a sweeping historical view of capitalism  and of the opposition to it, ranging from the lefts war on profit following the Gilded Age and the rise of labor unions to modern progressives vilification of business and their rejection of the views of moderate Democratic Party leaders such a John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.\n\nPuzder describes the election of Barack Obama as progressives version of Mission Accomplished in this regard. The left believed that President Obamas commitment to expanding government through a trillion-dollar stimulus package, administrative regulatory expansion, and a health-care coverage mandate on every American would usher in a lasting Progressive Era. Instead, Puzder contends, it had a deleterious impact on the American economy and its workers. The regulatory state expanded, taxes increased, and investment declined, hobbling growth, he writes. Growth averaged a meager 2.1 percent following the end of the recession, when it should have surged, he added. For Obamas final year in office, GDP growth slowed to an anemic 1.5 percent.\n\nPuzder sees the election of Donald Trump, a businessman with no political experience, as Middle Americas clear rejection of progressivism. Hillary Clinton assured voters she would continue Obamas failed progressive legacy as president, he writes. The author also notes that the day after working-class voters defeated Clinton, Americas free market erupted with optimism. The [stock market] surged up 250 points. It hit record highs more than seventy times in President Trumps first year, he writes. Much of the initial enthusiasm was based on the anticipation that President Trump would reverse President Obamas antibusiness policies by aggressively reducing government regulations and cutting taxes. After delivering on some of his promises, the Dow is up 35 percent since the 2016 election and capital investment has soared.\n\nIn todays information-driven economy, business and scientific talent constrains growth. High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that dont serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result. Low-skilled workers are increasingly dependent on management technologies, like Uber and CKE, to increase low-skilled productivity with a minimum of high-skilled supervision. At a time when so many low-skilled workers have dropped out of the workforce, Puzder saw the effects of the safety net on the motivation of low-skilled workers where his restaurant crew members were declining promotions to shift leader positions because the increase in income would disqualify them for food, housing, medical, or other government benefits. Instead of rocketry, perhaps philanthropists should focus their efforts here.\n\nThe Capitalist Comeback provides a valuable historical defense of capitalism. While Puzder acknowledges the progressive forces on the left arent giving up on defeating capitalism, he is optimistic that Trump will succeed and his policies will lead to sustained economic prosperity that keeps capitalisms adversaries at bay. While its a shame that more businessmen like Andy Puzder arent helping to form Americas economic policy, at least hes still on the field fighting the good fight.","title":"The Capitalist Comeback and Its Adversaries","date":"2018-06-09","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Omarosa Manigault Newman says theres one way to combat President Donald Trumps fiery rhetoric and constant attacks on Twitter: Dont give him the attention.\n\nTheres one way to shut Donald Trump down and that is to just dont give him the oxygen, Manigault Newman, who served as an aide to the president until her dismissal in December, said on The Daily Show Tuesday night. And the oxygen comes from the clicks, the likes, the shock, the discussions.\n\nIf you ever see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.\"\n\n\n\n.@OMAROSA discusses her new book Unhinged,\" her secret tapes, and the one way to bring Trump down. Extended intv: https:\/\/t.co\/YFYQDK32NZ pic.twitter.com\/05fGiaiQj0  The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 15, 2018\n\nHer comments amid a headline-grabbing media tour promoting her new book Unhinged, which includes allegations that there is a recording somewhere of Trump using a racial slur during the filming of his reality show, The Apprentice. Manigault Newman has released several secret recordings from her time in the administration, including the audio of her being fired by White House chief of staff John Kelly and another of Trump himself speaking to her after her dismissal.\n\nThe Trump campaign has taken legal action against the presidents former aide, alleging she violated a nondisclosure agreement.\n\nManigault Newman noted Tuesday that she couldnt speak about the recordings due to the lawsuit, but did say recent attacks on people like LeBron James thrilled the president, even as they caused a firestorm of outrage.\n\nDonald Trump enjoyed every moment of that, Manigault Newman said. He enjoyed every single person that was shocked by his abrasiveness, his attack on this African American male athlete  which is his favorite go-to thing. He loved it and he thrived off it.\n\nShe continued: If you ignore him, then you starve him of the thing he loves the most  and that is controversy and attention.","title":"Omarosa Theres One Way To Shut Donald Trump Down","date":"2018-08-15","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) The United States isnt the only country in the world where media censorship is a rampant problem. The Netherlands appears to be even worse, with very few alternative or independent media outlets telling it like it is  mostly because the nations government doesnt allow this.\n\nIn a recent video on his Make Netherlands Great Again! channel, host Micha Kat reveals how his RevolutionAirOnline.com website has made him a major target in his country. He says hes been arrested more than 20 times and spent time in jail, all for revealing truths that the mainstream media would never dare to cover.\n\nThe Netherlands is one of the most repressive police states in the world, says Micha in a video posted to his Make Netherlands Great Again! REAL.video channel. Nearly all of the alternative media outlets have been silenced, harassed ... and put in jail or put before the courts.\n\nBe sure to watch his full video at REAL.video below:\n\nWhile there are other independent media outlets in The Netherlands besides just Michas, they are few and far between. Some of them, he says, no longer report the same way they used to, while others have gone silent for months at a time, raising questions as to what became of their owners.\n\nThe website Niburu.co is one of the few free speech Dutch websites besides his own that tries to cover the whole situation thats going on in the world, Micha says. Everything from the economy to Bilderberg to the New World Order to spirituality  they dont shy away from any political topics, he adds.\n\nSponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: Lab-verified Nascent Iodine solution is a dietary supplement that provides your body with supplemental iodine to help protect your thyroid during radiation exposure. Nuclear accidents such as Fukushima (or nuclear war) can expose your body to radioactive iodine-131, a dangerous radioisotope. Pre-loading your system with stable iodine occupies the iodine receptor sites on your organs, causing your body to naturally expel radioactive iodine you may have been exposed to through air, food, water or milk products. This defensive strategy is recommended by nearly all health authorities, worldwide, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Discover more at this link.\n\nAnother is XanderNieuws.punt.nl, which specializes in issues related to immigration. There, the Dutch can find heaps of information about the terrible crisis caused by refugees, the violence, the rapes.\n\nWhile this site doesnt do actual research themselves, they do present stories from all over the world, mostly from Europe, that reveal whats really going on with regards to multicultural criminality, which Micha admits is ruining The Netherlands (and many other white countries).\n\nAt Nico van den Hams blog, the Dutch can find pertinent information about corruption in the countrys judiciary, including judges who thwart justice to protect criminals.\n\nTheres also Martin Vrijlands website, which focuses mostly on the spiritual aspects of the New World Order, mind control MK Ultra, and other such subjects. Vrijland actually had to leave his homeland in order to avoid all of the persecution he was receiving for reporting on the truth.\n\nThe Rob Scholte Museum website is another interesting place, seeing as how this popular artist was actually blown to pieces, according to Micha, back in 1994 by the Dutch deep state. Police actually prohibited any proper investigation into the case, which remains unsolved to this day.\n\nAt the BOUBlog, you can find more news and information about the corrupt judiciary, pedophile horror networks, and other issues relating to deep state sexual abuse and ritual crimes against minors. But Micha says this site, too, has gone silent in recent years, and doesnt cover these issues as much as it used to.\n\nKleintje Muurkrants website is another great source for truth, especially because Muurkrant has a good reputation in the mainstream journalistic market. Hes covered the pedophile power networks on many occasions. However, because of repeated injunctions and cease and desist orders, Muurkrants site has been in total free fall, says Micha.\n\nBe sure to watch Michas full video post about the few Dutch news sources that tell the truth at REAL.video.","title":"Making The Netherlands Great Again REALvideo clip exposes authoritarian control over Dutch media","date":"2018-08-14","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"President Donald Trump has maintained the support of his base throughout his time in office, but hes made few  if any  real, new fans. Among those who hes ostracized are segments of his own Republican Party, including Michael London, whos a former leader of the GOP in Connecticut. He was elected as a Republican to the Trumbull town council five times, and for many years, he says, he served on the local GOP town committee.\n\nNow, though, hes left the Republican Party, registering as an unaffiliated voter and explaining his decision in a piece published in the Hartford Courant.\n\nThe focus of his arguments against the GOP is President Trump, but he also faults Republican leaders around the country for refusing to stand up to the belligerent businessman turned president.\n\nAt one point in his piece, London explained:\n\nI blame President Trump for turning the Grand Old Party into a lame, extreme right-wing group of people unwilling or unable to see the truth. But Trump is not alone in causing my disillusionment. I have had it with the state and federal branches of the Republican Party that tolerated the presidents behavior. None of our GOP candidates for governor denounced Trump. None of the leaders of Connecticuts GOP will speak out.\n\nIts true that under Trump, extreme right-wingers have come out into the open in larger numbers than they were before. Its under the Trump administration that large numbers of white nationalists turned out to Charlottesville, Virginia, last year to host a rally that turned violent and ended with three people dead, including one counterprotester whod been run over by a racist demonstrator and two police officers who died when the helicopter they were using to monitor the scene crashed.\n\nTrump has buttressed public displays of white nationalist fervor with policies targeting minorities. Just recently, for instance, it came out that his administration was questioning the citizenship of Hispanics living in the U.S. near the border with Mexico. That comes after other measures and proposals like the border wall and the unilateral separation of undocumented immigrant families arriving at the border seeking refuge.\n\nTrump is simply the worst president our country has had  ever. He is encouraging increased pollution and disavowing the need to halt climate change. He is taking credit for a strong economy when it was the previous president (like him or not) who set the current strong economy in motion. He has separated immigrant mothers and children. He has, more likely than not, supported (or participated in) collusion with an enemy.\n\nNot even his allegiance to Republican economic ideals gives him enough common ground with the president to keep his faith in the GOP intact.\n\nTrump may continue to seek to avoid the scrutiny of people like London, hiding behind his lies about his approval rating, but he cant run from reality.","title":"GOP Hero Lifetime Republican Resigns From Party Blames Trump On Way Out","date":"2018-08-31","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Here is the video in French.\n\nIt took only a few hours for President Donald Trump to respond.","title":"French President Macron Turns on Trump President Trump Responds","date":"2018-06-08","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"President Donald Trump tweeted Monday about the lax U.S. borders laws that have helped facilitate the illegal migrant caravan with the migrants knowing U.S. law forbids Border Patrol from stopping the invasion. The agents must let the migrants in and then detain them for processing.\n\nVideo of the Mexican government allowing the migrant horde to illegally cross the border from Guatemala.\n\nTrump also called on Mexico to stop the caravan before it reaches the U.S. border.\n\nMexico has the absolute power not to let these large Caravans of people enter their country. They must stop them at their Northern Border, which they can do because their border laws work, not allow them to pass through into our country, which has no effective border laws..... ...Congress must immediately pass Border Legislation, use Nuclear Option if necessary, to stop the massive inflow of Drugs and People. Border Patrol Agents (and ICE) are GREAT, but the weak Dem laws dont allow them to do their job. Act now Congress, our country is being stolen! DACA is dead because the Democrats didnt care or act, and now everyone wants to get onto the DACA bandwagon... No longer works. Must build Wall and secure our borders with proper Border legislation. Democrats want No Borders, hence drugs and crime! Mexico is making a fortune on NAFTA...They have very strong border laws  ours are pathetic. With all of the money they make from the U.S., hopefully they will stop people from coming through their country and into ours, at least until Congress changes our immigration laws!\n\nThe illegal migrant caravan is being aided by the Mexican government which opened its border with Guatemala to let them in and is arranging transportation for the migrants at various towns along the way.\n\nThe caravan caught the attention with the publication of this article by Buzzfeed reporter Adolfo Flores who is embedded with the caravan.","title":"POTUS Trump Urges Congress to Pass New Border Laws Our Country Is Being Stolen","date":"2018-04-02","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) may be hoping that you forgot that he owes you $84,000 in taxpayer money that he used to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit against him, but at least one congresswoman has not.\n\nRep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) privately pressed House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) last week to do more to make sure Farenthold does not weasel out of paying back the taxpayer money he spent to settle a lawsuit involving gross allegations by a former female aide three years ago. Among other things, Farenthold allegedly told a staffer that the female aide could show her nipples whenever she wanted to and that he had sexual fantasies and wet dreams about her.\n\nDetails of his settlement werent public until last December, at which point he said he would retire at the end of 2018 and immediately repay the money. He never did.\n\nI urge you to make sure that Congressman Farenthold keeps his promise to the American people and reimburses the U.S. Treasury immediately for the full amount of the settlement, Speier wrote in a March 15 letter to Ryan, which HuffPost has obtained.\n\nShe describes the GOP congressmans changing justifications for refusing to repay the money, and says that while an ongoing House Ethics Committee probe into his office is important, its not relevant to the $84,000 he vowed to pay back for which taxpayers have already been on the hook.\n\nIt certainly appears that Farenthold is trying to get out of paying back the money. Hes gone from saying he would repay it immediately, to saying he would do it after the House passed a bill related to workplace protections on Capitol Hill, which it did, to saying that he wanted to see what the Senate and President Donald Trump do with that bill.\n\nOnce the final bill is done and the law is changed and is complete and he can see that, he will make a determination of how he proceeds, Farentholds chief of staff Bob Haueter told HuffPost in February.\n\nA Farenthold spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment on when, or if, the lawmaker plans to repay the money.\n\nRyan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said only that The speaker has reiterated to Mr. Farenthold that he needs to keep his promise to repay taxpayers for the settlement.\n\nPolitico reported last week that Farenthold may be planning to resign from Congress sooner than the end of the year. That would allow him to dodge the House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed other members of his staff, used official money for campaign purposes, and lied or omitted details in previous testimony to the committee.\n\nSpeier, a leading voice in the push to crack down on sexual harassment on Capitol Hill, told HuffPost in February that GOP leaders could be doing more to demand that Farenthold repay the $84,000  or compel him to step down.\n\nThey have the ability to force it, said the California Democrat. Blake Farenthold has to be, I think, cajoled, embarrassed, pressured by all of us to pay the money back. We had a situation on the Democratic side, we pressured members to resign, and they did.","title":"Congresswoman To Paul Ryan Make Blake Farenthold Repay 84000 Sex Harassment Settlement","date":"2018-03-27","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON (AP)  The Trump administration is seeking to deny asylum to migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.\n\nNew regulations will block migrants from claiming asylum if they do not come to an official border crossing.\n\nThey are intended to speed up rulings on asylum claims, instead of having migrants try to circumvent official crossings on the nearly 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) border.\n\nThe move was spurred in part by caravans of Central American migrants walking toward the border. They are now about 600 miles (965 kilometers) away. President Donald Trump has vowed to stop them from entering the country.\n\nThe new rules are subject to a presidential proclamation expected Friday in which Trump will invoke the same justification he did for the travel ban. The new rules will almost certainly face court challenges.","title":"Trump Admin Moves To Block Migrants From Claiming Asylum","date":"2018-11-08","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"The people of Indiana have been lied to about a deal then-Governor Mike Pence made to keep the Carrier Corporation in the state. It was a deal that then candidate Donald Trump bragged about to show his followers that he was concerned about companies fleeing America to operate outside the country. Now, an Indiana judge has ruled that Governor Eric Holcombs office must turn over all emails made between Mike Pence and Donald Trump, over their rotten agreement.\n\nUSA Today reported that Marion County Judge Heather Welch gave Republican Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, who replaced Mike Pence as governor when he became the vice president, 30 days to deliver the documents, siding with Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, which first requested the emails in December 2016. The Citizens Action Coalition want the emails in the name of transparency because it appears that the governor is hiding something.\n\nTrump frequently called Carrier out over their plans to cut 2,100 jobs in Indiana and move them to Mexico. He later worked with Pence to formulate a deal with Carrier that allowed half of those jobs to stay in Indiana, in exchange for $7 million in tax incentives and training grants as long as Carrier agreed to stay in Indiana for at least a decade. The company also agreed to invest millions in upgrades and automation. Even though they agreed to those terms, 600 workers in its Indianapolis factory still lost their jobs.\n\nCarrier claims that theres still 1100 workers still working in the plant, but the union says thats a lie...there are only about 700 workers left. Kerwin Olson, the executive director of Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana had this to say about the judges ruling\n\nFor his part Governor Holcomb said that his office would comply with the judges ruling. Hopefully the people of the state of Indiana can get some much needed answers if he comes through with those emails.","title":"Judge Orders Emails Between Trump Pence From 2016 Be Public GOP Panics","date":"2018-09-30","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Thirty-eight years ago today, Jimmy Carter hosted a well-known houseguest at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. -- and made him sing for his supper. On a lovely late-summer evening, Willie Nelson performed on the South Lawn, a set that included a duet with Rosalynn Carter.\n\nAfter bidding the president good night, Willie retired to his own room. He was restless, however, and after the First Family was safely abed the great country singer went to the White House roof where he took in the sights of the capital city and fired up a fat boy.\n\nNelson revealed his midnight toking in his autobiography -- he called his joint a big fat Austin torpedo\" -- although it wasnt a revelation that surprised anyone. Marijuana is in the process of being decriminalized in the U.S. these days, but that wasnt the case in 1980. Willie Nelson was a man ahead of his time: Hes had as many marijuana arrests as wives (four), and has served on the board of directors of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.\n\nThe president wasnt on the White House roof smoking weed with Willie on September 13, 1980, which is just as well: More worldly souls than Jimmy Carter  , to hang with the singer in that pursuit. On the other hand, it might have helped Carter relax. It was a trying time in his presidency. The U.S. economy remained in the dumpster, the Iranian hostage crisis showed no signs of abating, and it had finally dawned on Carter that Ronald Reagan, his general election opponent, was one tough customer.\n\nA longtime dry fly fisherman, Carter found solace by tying flies while listening to Willie Nelsons records and reading the Bible at night. But on this evening 38 years ago, Carter derived pleasure from hearing his old pal team up with the first lady on a spirited rendition of  Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother. \n\nJimmy Carter will turn 94 in a couple of weeks. Willie Nelson is 85. Neither man has retired. Six years ago, Willie was performing at Atlantas Chastain Park amphitheater when he invited Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter on stage to join him in Amazing Grace.\n\nCarter, not exactly known for letting his hair down as president, even donned Willies trademark red bandana for the occasion. Times (and technology) being what they are, someone in the audience  . Its not great filmmaking, or even great music anymore, but what took place on that Georgia night was a pretty good definition of aging gracefully.\n\nThey are still at it, both guys, and they arent sitting out the 2018 election season, either.\n\nAt his annual July 4 picnic and concert this year, Willie invited Texas senatorial candidate Beto ORourke onstage to join him in closing out his set. ORourke had brought his guitar for the occasion, just in case, and joined the band in playing Will the Circle Be Unbroken?\n\nIn two weeks time, Willie is scheduled to be one of the headliners for an ORourke rally in Austin -- the first time in the singers long career,  , that hes done a public performance for a political candidate.\n\nMeanwhile, Jimmy Carter is looking even farther into the future -- to the next presidential election. Carter tempers his criticisms of Donald Trump   that this isnt the time for them to veer too wildly to the left. I dont think any Democrat is going to vote against a Democratic nominee, he said earlier this week at The Carter Center, the site of his presidential library in Atlanta. Independents need to know they can invest their vote in the Democratic Party in 2020.","title":"Smoke Signals When Jimmy Carter Hosted Willie Nelson","date":"2018-09-13","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg and disgraced anchor Dan Rather joined CNNs Reliable Sources with host Brian Stelter Sunday.\n\nDuring the course of the interview, Stelter asks Hogg about his future plans, even prompting the 17-year-old to ask the God Father of Fake News for career advice.\n\nSTELTER: I wonder David, Ive been interested in your story because you were working for the TV station at school, you were the news director of the station. You have been thinking about getting into journalism. Are you thinking about trying to major in journalism some day or are you thinking about more of a political path?\n\nSTELTER: To both. Still thinking about it.\n\nHOGG: So honestly, what Id like to do personally is Id love to go somewhere like Harvard for poli sci or go to Northwestern for journalism. But, honestly, even a day after the shooting, I got rejected from one of my safety schools, Cal State Long Beach.\n\nSTELTER: It happens to all of us.\n\nHOGG: Yeah, it does, it really does. But, um, I mean honestly, I wanna continue on. I wanna continue learning. I might have to take a gap year to during midterms to help out on these campaigns. I want to continue to change the world and the only way Im going to be able to do that, the only way the American public is going to be able to do that, is through education.\n\nSTELTER: Anything you wanna know from Dan Rather?\n\nRATHER: Writing is the bedrock of the craft. If you want to do anything in journalism, learn to write. Dedicate yourself to a lifetime of improving your writing. I cant guarantee youll be famous and make a lot of money. But you can have a very satisfying career if you concentrate on writing.","title":"CRINGE David Hogg Asks Fake News Legend Dan Rather For Career Advice Live On CNN VIDEO","date":"2018-02-26","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) A severe side effect of drug treatment is liver damage. In some cases, a specific medication that a physician may have prescribed to treat a disease may make it worse for your liver  the organ primarily responsible for purifying toxins in the blood.\n\nOne such case is isoniazid, a commonly used drug for treating tuberculosis. While it is known to treat Mycobacterium tuberculosis effectively, its hepatotoxic side effects can interfere with the course of treatment. To counter these effects, researchers from Jahrom University of Medical Sciences and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran have suggested using orchid extract (salep) to protect the liver against the effects of isoniazid. The results of their study were published in the Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine.\n\nEver since its introduction into clinical practice in 1954, isoniazid has been credited with the sharp decline in morbidity and mortality of tuberculosis. However, it also accounts for the most common cause of serious liver injury. In the U.S., the drug is known to cause acute liver injury with jaundice, in some cases even causing death. Risk factors that increase isoniazid-related liver injury include alcohol consumption, old age, malnutrition, underlying hepatitis B or C, and the use of other anti-tuberculosis medications.\n\nFor this study, the researchers built on the results of their previous studies, which showed that salep (Orchis maculate L.) possessed anti-hepatotoxic properties in general. In traditional medicine, salep is applied topically to relieve chest pain, and it is known to treat chest and intestinal disorders, tuberculosis, diarrhea, Parkinsons disease, and cancer. Earlier studies have also shown that salep possesses potent antioxidant properties.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nTo learn how salep can reduce the incidence of drug interruption in isoniazid treatments for this study, the team first collected salep plants and, using the dried roots, made flour. This was then processed and filtered to make an aqueous extract for the study. They then used 56 Wistar rats for the experiment, randomly assigning each rat to seven groups. Aside from the control group and the sham group, one group was given 50 mg\/kg of isoniazid. The four remaining experimental groups received 40, 80, 160, and 320 mg\/kg of orchid extract, respectively. The extracts were administered every day for a month, after which blood samples and liver tissues were analyzed.\n\nThe results revealed that the rats administered with salep had significantly lower levels of liver enzymes, bilirubin, MDA, and total oxidant content  which were markers for liver damage  than the rats that were not given salep. The salep group also had a higher level of antioxidants and protein over those which only had isoniazid. The tissue analysis also revealed that the rats in the salep group had no liver injury.\n\nResearchers deduced that salep might help prevent the destructive effects of isoniazid on the liver. It seems antioxidant compounds present in orchid extract stabilize membranes of liver cells through reducing production of free radicals, decreasing release of liver enzymes into blood, and by improving liver protection indices in rats poisoned by isoniazid, they wrote in the report. Administration of salep (as a complementary drug in TB therapy) may increase the power of the patient against the hepatotoxicity and this drug may decrease the chance of drug interruption.\n\nSalep, the starch that comes from the dried tubers of orchids, is well-known in the Middle East, where it is used anywhere from a thickener in cooking to its most famous variant, a creamy drink.\n\nThe drink is especially popular in winter, where it not only warms a person up but also helps with cough. It is readily available in markets in countries such as Turkey. However, because making salep flour is an arduous process and some varieties of orchids used in production are already endangered, it is prohibited to export salep outside of Turkey.\n\nIf you can get your hands on salep flour, a simple way to prepare it is to mix one tablespoon of salep flour with two teaspoons of sugar. Add two cups of milk to the mix and stir. Put the mixture over low heat for 10 minutes, constantly stirring until it thickens. Pour the salep into mugs and put cinnamon, nutmeg, or ginger on top. (Related: 8 Hot Comfort Drinks to Beat Winters Chill.)\n\nYou can also try other fine starch, such as glutinous rice flour  a staple in Asian cuisine  as an alternative.\n\nLearn even more foods that support the liver at Food.news.","title":"Flour made from orchid tubers can protect the liver from drug-induced toxicity","date":"2018-08-03","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Despite progress over the last four years across the district, black and Latino children enrolled in Chicago Public Schools still lag behind their white and Asian counterparts, a new report shows.\n\nThe report, released Thursday by Thrive Chicago, outlines how CPS students fared in five areas from the 2013-2014 school year to 2016-2017: pre-K enrollment; high school readiness; high school graduation; postsecondary enrollment and completion, and youth employment.\n\nThrive, a nonprofit group with ties to Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, works with other organizations to promote education and youth services.\n\nCPS saw its biggest gains in K-12. According to the report, 4,329 more children were enrolled in a full day CPS pre-school education program in 2016-2017 than in 2013-2014  a 48 percent jump.\n\nThe report also shows more third-graders reading at or above national standards, up to 58 percent last year from 52 percent in 2014, while eighth-graders scoring at or above national standards in math went up to 63 percent from 51 percent.\n\nIn 2017, 89 percent of CPS freshmen were on track to graduate within four years, up from 84 percent in 2014. The CPS high school graduation rate also improved to 75 percent in the 2017 data, which looked at freshmen entering high school in 2013, up from 65 percent in 2011, which includes freshmen who entered in fall 2007. That growth of 10 percentage points was more than three times faster than the national rate, according to the report.\n\nLess impressive are the statistics for postsecondary success. While 66 percent of CPS high school graduates enrolled in two- or four-year colleges in 2016  up from 62 percent in 2014  the college graduation rate for CPS grads lingered at 49 percent.\n\nLastly, the report shows the percentage of youth ages 20-24 who are employed but not enrolled in school hit 67 percent, up from 63 percent.\n\nThese uplifting statistics for Chicago youth are tempered by a persistent racial gap throughout the report.\n\nIn 2016, for example, a $20,000 gap separated the average earnings of black youth ($14,000 a year) and white youth ($34,000). Also, one in four black youth age 16-24 neither worked nor were in school in 2016, the report found; thats most of the nearly 50,000 Chicago youths who fall into that category.\n\nOverall, black and Latino youth were two-to-three times more likely to be disconnected from work and school than their white peers, the report concludes.\n\nRacial disparities are also reflected at the elementary and high school level: While 46 percent of black third-graders in CPS met or exceeded national reading standards in 2017, the number of Asian students who did so was 87 percent.\n\nAnd despite an impressive 14 percentage point jump in black eighth-graders meeting or exceeding national math standards from 2014 to 2017, they remain more than 30 percentage points behind their Asian and white counterparts.\n\nLatino third- and eighth-graders in CPS also saw improved reading and math test scores, but remain behind Asian and white students by double-digit margins.\n\nFurther, the report shows that the high school graduation rate has remained stagnant since 2015 for black (67 percent) and Latino (78 percent) students.\n\nSandra Abrevaya, president of Thrive Chicago, said the disparities are no coincidence, but instead are symptoms of entrenched systematic barriers that continue to create persistent socioeconomic and racial opportunity gaps. To ensure equity for all, we must collectively remove those barriers.\n\nShe called the report a valuable tool that sheds a light on the some of the racial disparities that persist on youth outcomes, and hopes it will galvanize leaders already focused on these issues to double their efforts.","title":"Chicago black Latino students gain ground still lag due to systemic barriers","date":"2018-08-02","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) In a move that is sure to get liberal snowflakes rushing to their safe spaces faster than ever, Princeton University is now encouraging students to report problematic experiences based on [their] identity. This means that if students find themselves in a situation that makes them feel offended or uncomfortable in anyway, they can  and should, according to Princeton  go tell somebody about it, even if it is something that normally wouldnt result in disciplinary action.\n\nPosters that have been plastered on walls across the Ivy League schools campus by the Office of Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity remind students that even though not every experience can or should be addressed through a disciplinary process, they can rest assured knowing that there are always resources available to help you manage your experience. In addition, the posters encourage students at Princeton to consider reporting your experience.\n\nEven if you do not want to pursue disciplinary action, or your experience is not appropriate for disciplinary action, the posters encourage students to report negative identity-related experiences because it helps Princeton monitor behavior on campus and identify opportunities to improve it.\n\nWhen it comes to actually reporting on these identity-related incidents, the posters explain that students have a number of options. They can talk to someone informally at the Carl A. Fields Center for Diversity and Cultural Understanding, the Womens Center, the LGBT Center, the International Center, the Office of Religious Life, or the Office of Disability Services. Students also have the option to report the experience to Institutional Equity and Diversity, which monitors information about interactions that may not meet the definition of discrimination or harassment but suggest a pattern of a larger hostile environment. (Related: Millennial snowflakes are now claiming that calling them snowflakes damages their mental health.)\n\nThere once was a time when colleges only encouraged students to report incidents that involved some kind of harassment or discrimination; now, it seems as though an incident can be reported for just about any reason at all. The Millennials are being coddled more than any generation that came before them, and if it doesnt stop, then it will have a severe negative impact on the future of our country.\n\nEarlier this week, the Daily Wire reported that the University of Minnesota is now holding an event to teach students about white supremacy in response to an upcoming speech by conservative speaker Ben Shapiro, which has incidentally been pushed to an off campus venue. While the organizers of the event told Campus Reform they do not know where Ben Shapiro is a white supremacist, the event will lecture students on the alleged connections between white extremist groups and American conservatism today. (Related: This college is now requiring students majoring in politic science to take a course on the abolition of whiteness.)\n\nIt really is sad that college students would feel the need to hold an entire event just because someone is scheduled to speak on campus with whom they disagree. If this lecture on white supremacy never happened, then whats the worst that would happen? Ben Shapiro would come to the school, deliver his speech, liberals would disagree, and everyone would go on with their lives. But instead, Millennials are being coddled yet again.\n\nThe problem with schools going out of their way to make sure that students never feel uncomfortable or offended is that it essentially sets them up for failure. In life, when you encounter an identity-related incident, theres not going to be seven or eight different offices for you to choose from and report the experience. When you hear someone giving a speech on something that you fundamentally disagree with, there wont always be a counter event for you to attend to make you feel comfortable and safe.\n\nIts time for schools to truly start preparing young people for the real world, and they can start by teaching them how to deal with beliefs that are different from their own.\n\nSee more reports of the insanity on left-wing college campuses by reading CampusInsanity.com.","title":"LOONS ON PARADE Princeton University unleashes actual identity police to REPORT people for ident","date":"2018-02-25","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"BELGRADE, October 1. \/TASS\/. Belgrade expects support from Russia in the\nsettlement of its political and national tasks, and the upcoming talks with\nRussian President Vladimir Putin are of special importance for Serbia,\nPresident Aleksandar Vucic told reporters in Moscow on Monday.\n\n\"The moment at which I am meeting with President Putin is among the most\nsignificant for us in the past few years,\" President Vucic said. \"The\nsituation in our region is very difficult, it is necessary to weigh up every\nword and of course every political step. At the moment when we can be\nsatisfied with economic progress, we have substantial political problems in\nthe region,\" he went on to say.\n\n\"That is why a meeting with President Putin is of special importance,\" Vucic\nwas quoted by Serbian national television.\n\nAccording to the president, the two leaders intend to discuss bilateral\nrelations. \"They are good politically, good from the economic point of view,\nbut they should be much better,\" he noted. \"We will discuss a lot of concrete\nprojects that are of major importance for a better life of our citizens,\"\nPresident Vucic said.\n\nHe said they would also discuss the situation in Europe and in the world. \"Now\nwe face different conditions and possibilities, big tensions and it is\nimportant to speak about all of this. About all isolated incidents, which did\ntake place and which can happen in the future,\" the Serbian leader said.\n\nThe Kremlin press service said on Monday that the Russian and Serbian leaders\n\"will discuss key issues of further development of Russian-Serbian relations,\nas well as topical regional and international issues\".\n\nEarlier, Vucic said he intended to discuss with Putin the situation in Kosovo\nand Metohija and ask for his support.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday\"this meeting was scheduled back\nseveral months ago, that is why it is not related to growing tensions in the\nregion\". Peskov said \"the peoples of the two countries share a common history,\nwarm feelings and extensive trade-economic ties\".\n\n\"And of course, growing tensions in the adjacent region - all this will be on\nthe agenda of the talks, which, I repeat it once again, were scheduled several\nmonths ago,\" he specified. Peskov stressed that Serbia was a long-standing\npartner of Russia. He said the upcoming talks would come in \"continuation of\nregular working contacts of the Russian and Serbian leadership\".\n\nPutin and Vucic will meet on Tuesday, October 2.","title":"Serbian president highlights upcoming talks with Putin amid tensions in the region","date":"2018-10-01","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"More than half (61 per cent) of Britains young men feel pressured to man up as a result of damaging gender stereotypes, new research from YouGov reveals.\n\nAccording to the findings, 67 per cent of 18-24 year olds felt compelled to display hyper-masculine behaviour in tough situations and 55 per cent said crying in front of others would make them feel like less of a man.\n\nThe survey, named Future Men, sheds light on the prevalence of archaic attitudes towards male identity and also revealed that very few people associate masculinity with positive traits.\n\nFor example, just one per cent of the 2,058 adults surveyed associated the term with honesty and only three per cent associated it with kindness.\n\nOne of the most dated stereotypes surrounding men and women is that the latter are more emotional while the former are stoic - but even this was found to be a prevalent attitude among those surveyed, with 53 per cent of young men saying they feel like society expects them to never ask for emotional support.\n\nTo be masculine is often associated with being boorish, aggressive, inconsiderate and sometimes violent,\" says Christopher Muwanguzi, CEO of Working With Men, the charity who commissioned the survey for International Mens Day.\n\nMuwanguzi tells The Independent that these links are instilled from a young age.\n\n\"We see it as early as the toddler years, when a boy who falls down, is told not to cry and to be a man versus the girl that is comforted.\n\nHe went on to explain how important it is to tackle these attitudes if were to address some of the worrying statistics surrounding men, such as suicide being the biggest killer of men under 45.\n\nMen are often expected to man up when faced with challenges, even when tackling serious mental health issues or complex problems. This means that many of them will not ask for help early enough, reinforcing the tradition of men asking for help when its often too late.\n\nHe added that a call to action is needed now from than ever, particularly one year on from #MeToo, the global movement encouraging victims of sexual assault and harassment to speak out.\n\nBy helping young men and boys understand that they dont have to conform to archaic aggressive stereotypes of masculinity, we hope to reduce antisocial behaviour, mental health struggles, suicides, gender-based crime and domestic violence.","title":"Toxic masculinity leaves most young men feeling pressured to aposman upapos","date":"2018-11-20","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trumps idiotic tariffs are nothing but a tax on consumers here in the United States. His trade stances havent only put the U.S. at odds with our trading partners, but theyve put him at odds with American companies too. Take Ford Motor Company for example. A little over a week ago they announced that they would not be selling the Chinese-made Focus Active here because Trumps tariffs have taken all the profit out of it. Now Trump is trying to pressure the company to build the cars here tariff free...but Ford refuses to do that.\n\nThe New York Times reported today that Ford quickly responded to Trump telling him\n\nFord also added that it would be expanding its lineup in the U.S. by adding trucks, sport utility vehicles, hybrids and electric models and that it would like to get its profit margin in North America to 10 percent. Unfortunately, it wouldnt be profitable enough for the company to fit out a factory to build just 50,000 cars per year, so Trump is out of luck there.\n\nYou would think that since Trump always brags about being a businessman he would understand how profit margins work...but sadly that doesnt seem to be the case. His lack of basic knowledge about how tariffs work is astounding. The ones hes already put in place have done nothing but hurt U.S. consumers and the companies that operate here. His escalating problems with China over tariffs are only going to get worse. Were bordering on a trade war with them right now and thats bad news for everyone involved.","title":"Ford Motors Humiliates Trump With Fact Check Of His Morning Tweet Tantrum","date":"2018-09-10","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) If youre looking to get rid of stubborn belly fat, try raiding your spice rack. A preliminary study has suggested that cinnamon may be efficient in preventing fat from settling around the belly, DailyMail.co.uk reported. A study presented at a conference hosted by the American Heart Association found that the spice, commonly used in both sweet and spicy dishes, slowed the fat-storing process and lowered the risk of heart damage caused by eating unhealthy food.\n\nFor the study, scientists conducted a series of tests over the course of 12 weeks, during which time a cinnamon supplement was administered to rodents. Results showed that at the end of 12 weeks, rodents were found to have more antioxidant anti-inflammatory molecules which protected their bodies from damages caused by stress. The rodents were also found to weigh less and have a lower amount of belly fat, even if they were consuming a high fat diet.\n\nIf these results prove similar in humans, fat reduction and weight loss can be added to the long list of health benefits associated with the favored household spice. In a study published in Pharmacognosy Research, researchers listed the many health benefits of cinnamon:\n\nSponsored solution from CWC Labs: This heavy metals test kit allows you to test almost anything for 20+ heavy metals and nutritive minerals, including lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum and more. You can test your own hair, vitamins, well water, garden soil, superfoods, pet hair, beverages and other samples (no blood or urine). ISO accredited laboratory using ICP-MS (mass spec) analysis with parts per billion sensitivity. Learn more here.\n\nAdditionally, a study by researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has found that a sprinkle of cinnamon added to a hot drink, oatmeal, or cereal boosted a brain protein that improved learning ability by enhancing the organization and storage of memory. The same study also attempted to explore the cinnamons potential to reverse changes in the brain caused by Parkinsons disease.\n\nWith so many benefits to be enjoyed, adding a dash of cinnamon to all your meals may be worth it.","title":"Cinnamon spice found to help eliminate unwanted body fat","date":"2018-07-04","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"OTTAWA  Canadas lobbying czar says she needs more funding to meet the growing demands of her office and to properly modernize the countrys lobbyist registry.\n\nThe federal lobbying commissioners office has not received an increase to its annual budget of $4.5 million since it was first created 10 years ago.\n\nCommissioner Nancy Belanger said she believes more must be done to increase education and outreach efforts to ensure all lobbyists and public office holders understand lobbying rules and to maintain a high level of transparency for the public  but she needs more money to do it.\n\nWe will not be able to sustain the level of demands on our staff right now and (on) the registry, Belanger said in an interview.\n\nIf we want to be able to modernize, there is no way we will be able to do it with the current budget. Thats clear. So one day we wont be able to put another Band-Aid on it and it will crash.\n\nHalf of the offices budget currently pays for salaries, which leaves little for program development, Belanger said, and even less for updating the technical aspects of the registry itself.\n\nAs a result, the registry has been forced to forgo more modern features, such as allowing lobbyists to upload information on mobile devices.\n\nWe need to modernize our system, but I have such a small budget its very difficult to prioritize and get to it when its so I.T.-based and so expensive.\n\nBelanger, who was appointed as Canadas lobbying watchdog last December, tabled her offices annual report last week.\n\nIn 2017-18, some 9,084 lobbyists were registered over the course of the year  the largest total in seven years, and a number thats only expected to grow. Thats why Belanger said she needs to be able to expand her offices capacity.\n\nThe monthly communications reports have been going up, everything is increasing, she said.\n\nThat enhances the demand on our staff on all fronts, so at some point, with a team of 26 people, theres only so much we can do.\n\nHer office asked Treasury Board for a one-time increase of $3 million over three years over three years to pay for modernizations like a new website and updates to the registry, as well as $700,000 more a year in base funding. No such help materialized in the federal budget.\n\nBelanger said her office is maintaining things for now, but hopes government will consider an increase soon.\n\nTreasury Board did not respond to media inquiries Tuesday.\n\nAs for the work of her office, Belanger said she believes theres a lack of knowledge and understanding about what lobbyists do and why her work is important.\n\nFor many, lobbying remains a dirty word awash in corruption and secrecy  something thats simply not true in Canada, where stringent rules govern organizations and companies that wish to influence the decision-making powers of government, she argued.\n\n(Lobbyists) appear to have a negative reputation, when in fact the work that they do is good for democracy, Belanger said.\n\nIts good for our public office holders to have the information in order to make decisions that are in the public interest.","title":"Lobbying czar calls for federal investment after 10 years of stagnant funding","date":"2018-06-13","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"LA MALBAIE, Que.  Donald Trumps fellow G7 leaders greeted the presidents aggressive pre-summit bluster with a warm, reassuring breeze in an attempt to bridge their vast divide with him on trade and welcoming Russia back to their fold.\n\nTrump, in turn, responded by using his first public remarks on Canadian soil as president to crack jokes with summit host Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at their bilateral meeting at a scenic Quebec resort overlooking the St. Lawrence River.\n\nThe president also offered reassurance that Canada and the U.S. have made progress in their trade dispute over his administrations punishing steel and aluminum tariffs on all the other G7 members.\n\nTrump insisted the Canada-U.S. relationship is as good or better than it has ever been, and he even quipped that there might be a way the badly divided G7 could reach a consensus in their final communique on Saturday.\n\nI think well have a joint statement, Trump said.\n\nThe possibility of that seemed far-fetched only hours earlier.\n\nFor the past week, it was an open question in Ottawa whether Trump would actually show up, after he imposed the heavy tariffs. The G7 leaders were planning to press him to lift those duties in their opening sessions Friday, egged on by Trumps early morning tweets complaining about unfair trade and Canadas supply management.\n\nThen Trump upped the ante. He mused to reporters at the White House in pre-departure remarks about allowing Russia back into the G7. That moved him squarely offside with most of his fellow G7 leaders, including Trudeau, on one of their most serious, shared international security concerns.\n\nWhy are we having a meeting without Russia in the meeting? Trump said at the White House just before departing.\n\nThey should let Russia come back in because we should have Russia at the negotiating table.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte  a rookie populist whos been on the job only a week  fuelled the disharmony amongst the G7 by tweeting his support for the U.S. presidents position.\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk expressed broad concern about Trumps opposition to the international rules-based order, because it is being challenged, quite surprisingly, not by the usual suspects but by its main architect and guarantor, the U.S.\n\nWe will not stop trying to convince our American friends and President Trump that undermining this order makes no sense at all because it would only play into the hands of those who seek a new post-West order where liberal democracy and fundamental freedoms would cease to exist, said Tusk.\n\nForeign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland flatly rejected allowing Russia back into the G7 fold. She listed the reasons why the G7 yanked Russias invitation to the club in 2014, including its invasion of Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea and the recent chemical weapon attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in the British town of Salisbury.\n\nFreeland said Russia has made it clear with actions like these that it has no interest in following the rules of Western democracies, like those in the G7.\n\nCanadas position is absolutely clear that there are no grounds whatsoever for bringing Russia, with its current behaviour, back into the G7, Freeland said in La Malbaie.\n\nBut in a sign of the attempt to lighten the mood, Freeland also said the first leaders working session with Trump on the state of the world economy was a rich and productive discussion.\n\nFreeland said the Russia issue did not come up in any formal way around the G7 tables Friday, although she noted Canada discussed it with allies during bilateral meetings.\n\nShe acknowledged that Canada and the U.S. have disagreed on significant issues in the past  such as the Vietnam and Iraq wars  and still have differences today when it comes to things like climate change and the steel and aluminum tariffs.\n\nBut she stressed there are many areas where Canada is working closely and effectively together. A major example, she added, is Trumps summit in the coming days with North Koreas Kim Jong Un.\n\nI think one of the results of this G7 leaders meeting will be to talk about the situation on the Korean peninsula and let the U.S. president know, and let the world know, that he will be travelling to Singapore to the meeting with the North Korea with the strong support of his allies, Freeland said.\n\nOne source speaking on the condition of anonymity described the overall cordial tone with Trump as an attempt to lay a positive foundation for tougher discussions that would follow.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron, who was fiercely critical of Trump as recently as Thursday in Ottawa, posted a video of his meeting with the president on Friday that contained a caption out of a Hallmark greeting card.\n\nPursuing the conversation. Engaging, keeping the dialogue alive, now & ever. Sharing, reaching out, always, to promote the interests of the French people, and all those who believe in a world we can build together, Macron wrote.\n\nTrudeau addressed Trump by his first name off the top of their meeting and offered warm greetings. The two also appeared relaxed in their welcome handshake  despite a harsh, public exchange of insults over the past few days.\n\nTrump injected levity into his photo-op with Trudeau before the start of their meeting. He joked that hed won his trade dispute with Canada on the metal tariffs.\n\nWell Justin, its been really great. And I appreciate, you know, Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers between Canada and the United States. So Im very happy, Trump said, as the room erupted in laughter.\n\nWe are actually working on cutting tariffs in making it all very fair for both countries and weve made a lot of progress today. Well see how it all works out, but weve made a lot of progress.\n\nBefore the two leaders went behind closed doors, someone shouted a question at the prime minister to ask if he was disappointed the president intended to leave the summit early on Saturday.\n\nTrump answered for Trudeau with a joke: Hes happy. The quip drew laughs and Trump flashed a big grin.","title":"Trudeau G7 leaders try warm welcoming touch with combative Trump","date":"2018-06-09","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Tate Modern is on to something.\n\nFor its forthcoming exhibition about Pierre Bonnard it is promoting what the curator, Matthew Gale calls slow looking. That is to say, its encouraging visitors to take time to look at pictures at length, for as much as half an hour, especially those that reward careful scrutiny... with details that only reveal themselves gradually. Hes planning slow looking events to help people see the pictures properly by discussing the artists imagery, structure and techniques. The exercise is, he observes, a challenge in this day and age.\n\nToo true. I went to the Chinese gallery at the British Museum this week, to find the institution the equivalent of Piccadilly Circus, about as unpropitious for slow looking as its possible to get. If you want to stand and stare at one of the more famous works youll have to take your turn next to tourists whose object is to take a picture on their phone and then move rapidly on. It bears out a study done by the Metropolitan Museum in New York a year ago, which found the average time taken by a visitor in front of a work of art is 28 seconds. It does make you wonder whether the object of the exercise is to look at a work, or to say youve seen it.\n\nSome museums already encourage slow looking. At Sir John Soanes Museum, for instance, which is fascinating in all sorts of ways, there arent any intrusive labels; visitors are encouraged to put their phones aside and simply to focus on the exhibits. Earlier critics took for granted that looking properly at works of art took time; John Ruskin would write about spending an entire morning in a church looking at its art and architecture. With our notoriously short attention spans, were made of less stern stuff.\n\nBut standing in front of a painting with your alarm timed for 30 minutes isnt the way to do it. Kenneth Clark, the celebrated art critic, wrote a book called Looking at Pictures, which discussed how to learn to interrogate a painting. Looking at pictures requires active participation and, in the early stages, a certain amount of discipline, he observed.\n\nHe divided the experience into three stages: the first, the general impression of tone and colour  for him, that took about two minutes. Then there is bringing knowledge of the artist to bear on a picture. That engagement keeps the attention fixed on the work. Finally, the picture takes effect, and you may find it changes how you see the world.\n\nHere are some suggestions for works of art in London that repay extended slow looking. Take the time for details to emerge. Read a little about the artist, look at their other works. Seeing a work of art is a matter of moments; looking at it takes time.\n\nG F Watts, a great sculptor as well as a painter, thought that access to great art would have an ennobling effect on the population. Well, you cant get better public access than this, the bronze cast of his monumental sculpture, Physical Energy, bang in the middle of Hyde Park. It is, essentially, a man on a horse, with the rider shading his eyes with his hand. Its colossally elemental; Watts himself described it as that restless physical impulse to seek the still unachieved in the domain of material things. Its an allegory of human and animal vitality and, in its splendid isolation, is both arresting and exhilarating.\n\nThe story was that Rembrandt placed this picture behind an actual window, and it was so realistic that passers-by thought the young woman was real. Turns out this wasnt true, but its impossible not to respond to the direct gaze of this girl who looks straight at the viewer, leaning on a stone ledge. We dont know who she is, what she is. She could be a figure from the Old Testament, or a servant; theres a sensuousness about the loose chemise and ruddy complexion. She looks at you; you look at her.\n\nThis is a cheat: a series of pictures, not just the one, but its a cracker. Hogarths gravestone in Chiswick observes that his pictured morals change the mind; and through the eye, correct the heart and this is a moral lesson in eight pictures. Its the story of a young man who inherits a fortune, fritters it away in loose living, then sinks down and down into moral turpitude until he ends up in the madhouse. A bracing warning, then, against imprudence and self-indulgence, with enough riveting detail to detain you for at least 30 minutes. If you dont fancy Hogarth, in the same room  theres a wonderful Canaletto.\n\nIts bedlam again on the V&A ground floor now, but on the upper floor, next to the museums wonderful under-visited picture gallery, theres a darkened gallery with this extraordinary series of tapestries that is often near-empty. The original riot of colour in these huge canvases is faded now  some colours predominate as they wouldnt have done originally  but these tapestries, probably from Arras in France and almost certainly executed by women, are still a fabulous fantasy of hunting, courting, rural life, courtly life and snogging. The subject is hunting  otters, swans, bear, deer  but the packed canvases are a riot of all kinds of activity.\n\nIts extraordinary to think that this was painted when the artist was only 19 or 20; it was his calling card, to advertise his skills. It is a genre picture, depicting a humble occupation, but its really a sublime reflection on youth and age and a study in light that recalls Caravaggio. Look at the textures: the shiny glazed ceramic vessel, the unvarnished terracotta, the wool of the old mans tunic, the young ones crumpled linen collar. Look closer; see the fig in the glass, the shadowy figure of a man between the boy and the waterseller. And in this gallery theres space to sit down and contemplate the pictures.\n\nThis joyful piece of rococo art shows an older man in the shadows pushing a girl in riotously frothy pink on a swing, with her lover looking at her from below as her slipper flies off and her little dog barks. Look at the statue of Cupid, with his finger to his lips. Its erotic, of course, but its innocent and coquettish and mischievous too. An enchanted world in which we can all take refuge.\n\nAgain, this is a cheat: the stations of the cross give you the Passion of Christ in 14 successive panels, and you walk through them in turn. They are carved in low relief in Hopton Wood limestone, and they are marvels of restrained impassive simplicity. They got a dusty reception from critics when they were first put in the Cathedral  grotesque and undevotional was one observation  but this misses the point. The emotion comes from the viewer.\n\nCezanne once claimed that nature should be treated in terms of three-dimensional geometric shapes, and this landscape has the blocks of colour that we can see as art on the path to abstraction. Its a masterly exercise in colour and form; see how the framing branch of pine curves into the outline of the mountain.\n\nIt exudes light and heat; an enormously satisfying picture. Tbh, it was a tough call as to whether to go for this Cezanne, or his Card Players in the same gallery. Try both.\n\nAnother man-and-horse bronze sculpture but very different from the Watts. Elisabeth Frink called it an ageless symbol of man and horse, and its curiously immobile, serene, stylised and simple. The rider has no tack, no saddle, not even reins; one hand rests on the horses mane, the other on his flank. Both look to the left; at what, no one knows. Its a serene and enigmatic piece. And in its new position (it was on Dover Street) theres less chance of getting run over during slow looking.\n\nThis one is only going on show next year after restoration, but it will be unmissable. Its a self-portrait of this extraordinary woman artist, the first woman member of the artists Academy of the Arts of Drawing in Florence. Artemisia, an artists daughter, was raped by the painter her father brought into his studio to teach her perspective; the trial was a sensation. This self-portrait was painted in the following period and shows her in the guise of the patron saint of scholars. By identifying with this hugely popular virgin martyr, this depiction is an extraordinary act of self-assertion. Its a wonderful portrait, only rediscovered in France last year: itll be worth the wait.","title":"How to make the most of slow looking in London art galleries","date":"2018-08-06","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Its hardly outlandish for vast segments of the American population to refuse to get on board with the presidents policy platform. He has gone after minorities at every opportunity, peddled sexism, and sought to undercut the nations regulatory system at the expense of the environment. Thats not exactly a platform poised to be very popular among those who dont live in the GOPs ivory towers.\n\nIn that light, Democrats are gearing up for a blue wave this fall in the midterm elections. The Democrats have to take about two dozen seats in the U.S. House and two seats in the U.S. Senate in order to become the majority party in the respective chambers, and Democratic candidates chances are looking pretty good.\n\nIn addition to the national races, there are, of course, numerous lower level races set to play out this fall too, and down in Florida last week, weve now gotten another glimpse into how those lower level races might play out.\n\nLast Tuesday, Democrat Javier Fernandez won the race to represent Florida House district 114 in the state legislature, beating out Republican Andrew Vargas by approximately four percent. The race culminated in the last legislative special election in Florida before the midterms later this year; the race was sparked by the resignation of Democrat Daisy Baez in the face of what the Miami Herald terms a residency scandal.\n\nBefore Baez, the district Fernandez won this week was represented by Republican Erik Fresen, who was busted in a massive tax evasion scheme that covered the years he was in the Florida House.\n\nFernandezs victory comes after a string of special election victories for Democrats in the state of Florida, which Donald Trump won by a thin margin in the 2016 presidential election. In September of last year, Democrat Annette Taddeo won a state Senate race in the south Dade area, and more recently, Democrat Margaret Good won a state House race in the Sarasota area.\n\nFlorida Democratic Party chairwoman Terrie Rizzo summed up the developments by commenting:\n\nSeats in Floridas government ranging from the legislature to the governors office itself will be available later this year in the midterm elections, so well have to wait and see how the current Democratic surge plays out in the broader course of the state.\n\nIn the meantime, Democrats have not only enjoyed a string of special election victories in Florida. Across the country, Democrats have picked up dozens of seats formerly held by Republicans. Among the most prominent victories are no doubt those of Doug Jones and Conor Lamb in Alabama and Pennsylvania, respectively.\n\nIf Democrats are able to become the majority party in even one house of Congress, it will set up a major roadblock to the implementation of the presidents agenda. He will have far less of a clear shot to seeing some of his most incendiary promises become reality.","title":"Democrat Stuns America Wins Special Election In Major Red State GOP Enters Spiral","date":"2018-05-06","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Nigel Farage revealed the EU is offering an alternative to an extended transition period that would avoid the UK becoming a rule-taker and a vassal state but would keep Britain shackled to the EU for longer.\n\nThe former Ukip leader told Sky News there is a possibility he will stand for re-election to the European Parliament as a suspension of Article 50 could be agreed as an alternative to an extension to the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe British MEP argued the alternative would give Britain an extended seat at the table but would inevitably mean the UK extending its membership to the EU indefinitely.","title":"Farage Eyes Re-Election for Brexit Shock Solution","date":"2018-10-18","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"### Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\n\n Donat Sorokin\/TASS\n\nTOKYO, September 14. \/TASS\/. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday\nhe expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in November and\nDecember.\n\n\"Russian-Japanese top-level meetings in November and December will be truly\nimportant,\" Abe said during Friday debates in the run-up to the election of\nthe ruling Liberal Democratic Partys leader.\n\nAbe did not elaborate on the possible venue of those talks. However, according\nto public sources, both leaders may attend the 2018 East Asia Summit in\nSingapore.\n\nCommenting on the Russian leaders proposal to sign a peace treaty by the end\nof the year, the Japanese premier said that Putin was \"truly committed to the\nidea of signing\" this document, but Japans official stance is that \"the peace\ntreaty should be signed after the territorial problem is solved.\"\n\nDuring the Eastern Economic Forums plenary session on September 12, Putin\nsuggested concluding a peace treaty between Moscow and Tokyo without any\npreconditions before the end of the year. Commenting on the initiative, the\nJapanese Foreign Ministry told TASS that Tokyo would engage in talks with\nRussia on the peace treaty only after the territorial dispute is settled.\n\nSince the mid-20th century, Russia and Japan have been holding consultations\nin order to clinch a peace treaty as a follow-up to World War II. The Kuril\nIslands issue remains the sticking point since after WWII the islands were\nhanded over to the Soviet Union while Japan has laid claims to the four\nsouthern islands. In 1956, the two countries signed a common declaration on\nending the state of war and restoring diplomatic and all other relations,\nhowever, a peace treaty has still not been reached. Moscow has stated many\ntimes that Russias sovereignty over the islands could not be questioned.\n\nIn other media","title":"Japanese prime minister expects to meet with Putin in November December","date":"2018-09-14","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Mitch McConnell is the butt of Republican jokes, and if it werent for the way he looks, he would probably be less of a target for jokesters. Probably not though, because, while Mitch is hard to look at, he also makes some of the dumbest remarks imaginable. Now, Americans are fed up.\n\nMcConnell was surprised Friday night while dining out with his wife at a Cuban restaurant.\n\nThe Kentucky Senator was eating dinner with his wife at Havana Rumba in Louisville, when 4 men confronted Mitch. The main aggressor screams at McConnell, Why dont you get out of here?  Why dont you leave the entire country? The woman who shot the video tells us, before she started recording, the main aggressor slammed his fists down on McConnells table, grabbed his doggie bag and threw the food out the door of the restaurant. The woman says the main gripe seemed to be the Senators stance on Social Security and health care.  McConnell recently said entitlement programs are the main cause of massive debt. The woman says before she started shooting, the main aggressor was screaming that McConnell was killing people with his views. McConnell kept his cool and afterward thanked some of his supporters, shaking their hands. And theres this ... the woman who shot the video says before McConnell left there appeared to be some dispute over the bill. They talked to the waiter and restaurant manager and apparently resolved it.\n\nIn the video, a man can be heard shouting at McConnell and his wife Why dont you get out of here?! Why dont you leave the entire country. McConnell sits uncomfortably while the altercation continues.","title":"Mitch McConnell Just Tried Going Out In Public Karma Hit Instantly","date":"2018-10-21","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Mick Fleetwood has spoken about guitarist and co-vocalist Lindsey Buckingham's departure from Fleetwood Mac, ahead of the band's upcoming tour of North America.\n\nBuckingham left the group in April after a 40-year career, and it was later announced that he would be replaced on tour by Mike Campbell [Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers] and Neil Finn [Crowded House].\n\nHis departure from the band caused shock for fans, particularly given the conflicting statements issued by himself and the remaining members of the band.\n\nAt the time, Buckingham claimed he was fired and accused the band of \"losing perspective\". Speaking to Billboard, Fleetwood has now said he remains positive for the future of the band.\n\n\"Obviously this is a huge change with the advent of Lindsey Buckingham not being a part of Fleetwood Mac,\" he said.\n\n\"We all wish him well and all the rest of it. In truthful language, we just weren't happy. And I'll leave it at that in terms of the dynamic.\"\n\nHe praised Campbell and Finn as he spoke about rehearsals for the tour, and added: \"If you know anything about the history of this band, it's sort of peppered with this type of dramatic stuff. It's a strange band, really.\n\n\"It's ironic that we have a 50-year package coming out with all the old blues stuff with Peter Green, all the incarnations of Fleetwood Mac, which was not of course planned.\"\n\nFleetwood Mac's tour of North America begins in October this year and runs until April 2019.","title":"Mick Fleetwood speaks out over Lindsey Buckinghamaposs departure from Fleetwood Mac ahead of North","date":"2018-08-06","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Dr Christine Blasey Ford, the woman testifying that a US Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her, was faced by a sea of men in suits as she relived her ordeal at an historic hearing on Thursday.\n\nBlasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she feared Judge Brett Kavanaugh  President Donald Trumps nominee for the highest court in the States  would rape her in an assault 36 years ago. He denies the allegations\n\nAs the terrified professor of psychology recounted the events which took place, which she said have been seared into my memory and have haunted me episodically as an adult, a panel of all-male Republicans looked back at her.\n\nAn image of the room soon went viral on social media, with a number of prominent writers and commentators voiced their weariness  with many making comparisons to Margaret Atwoods 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaids Tale.\n\nThe book, recently adapted into a popular television series, centres on the patriarchal oppression of women after a US liberal government has been overthrown and and renamed the Republic of Gilead.\n\nNew Yorker writer Osita Nwanevu tweeted a picture of the scene, and wrote: This is what Christine Blasey Ford is looking at as she describes her sexual assault. The tweet quickly gathered speed with tens of thousands of retweets.","title":"Dr Christine Blasey Ford Details Sexual Assault Allegations To A Room Packed Full Of Men","date":"2018-09-27","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Trumps son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner may be out the door soon as his relations with other countries become even more problematic. Kushner and his wife are already in financial crisis after accumulating millions of dollars in debt in 2017, and he may also be one of the worst real estate investors ever.\n\nOn Tuesday, according to The Washington Post:\n\nThen nations specifically discussing how to influence Kushner to their advantage are the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel, and Mexico. The Post reported:\n\nLast week, Kushners security clearance was downgraded last week from the top-secret to secret level, meaning he would no longer have the same access he has had to highly classified information.\n\nAccording to The Post:\n\nH.R. McMaster, President Trumps national security adviser, learned that Kushner had contacts with foreign officials that he did not coordinate through the National Security Council or officially report. The issue of foreign officials talking about their meetings with Kushner and their perceptions of his vulnerabilities was a subject raised in McMasters daily intelligence briefings, according to the current and former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.\n\nEven from the beginning, the White House saw Kushners  lack of government experience and his business debt as potential points of leverage that foreign governments could use to influence him. Not only that, but these contacts could have legal implications.\n\nSpecial Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has been investigating Kushners foreign contacts as well. The Post reported:\n\nWhat has been problematic is that for a senior White House aide, his combination of business arrangements and foreign entanglements is strangely complicated. Kushner needs top security clearance to perform the jobs that Trump hands down to him which include negotiating foreign trade deals and overseeing the Middle East peace process. However, his behavior while in office and the fact he has been stripped of some of his security clearance, heightens concerns.\n\nWhite House security adviser H.R. McMaster was a bit shocked when he learned of some of Kushners foreign contacts. One official said:\n\nAccording to this official, McMaster: \n\nCouncil spokesman, Michael Anton, spoke about the relationship between Kushner and McMaster, saying:\n\nIt is not out of the ordinary for foreign governments to discuss ways they can influence senior officials in all administrations though. One person familiar with intelligence intercepts of foreign officials said:\n\nStill, all of this has the White House becoming even more skeptical of Kushner in recent days. He is on a slippery slope.","title":"JUST IN Foreign Corruption Bombshell Rocks White House WaPost Strikes Again","date":"2018-02-28","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) The communist Chinese government is using internet surveillance, AI and data collection to revolutionize their society  but not in a good way. Combined with a social credit score, Chinese citizens are now facing digital totalitarianism, as the government harnesses technological prowess and turns it into absolute power.\n\nCurrently, there are multiple initiatives to gather more data about people and corporations. This data is then used to inform decisions and policies, and the government devises systems of incentives and punishments to control peoples behavior. Even owning too many books may result in a person getting flagged by the government.\n\nTechnology that was once used to support the free sharing of information has been corrupted, and is now being used to control the masses and penalize so-called dissenters. But this isnt just a problem in China: Recall the massive tech-sponsored censorship of conservative voices here in the United States. Across the board, technology is now being used for a sinister purpose: To quash freedom.\n\nAs Technology Review explains, China has been seeking to make its citizens more modern and more governable since at least the 1980s, when the implications of information technology were first realized. The nations current leader, Xi Jinping, has turned to AI, surveillance and data collection to better understand (and control) his constituents. After becoming the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi has demanded cyber sovereignty to bolster censorship efforts and take complete control of the nations internet.\n\nMany of Xis aspirations involve increasing the countrys technological prowess; one of his most lofty goals is for China to become the world leader for artificial intelligence by 2030. At a meeting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi reportedly stated that technology was vital to the great goal of building a socialist and modernized nation.\n\nAn official from the U.S. says that Xi used to receive daily briefings on social disturbances and public concerns via data scraped from social media.\n\nBut the most encompassing initiative to control the masses is the recently implemented social credit score system, by far. The goal of the system, which targets both individuals and businesses is the construction of sincerity in government affairs, commercial sincerity, and judicial credibility. China hopes to have the credit system fully implemented by 2020. Local governments are already adopting smaller-scale social credit systems.\n\nUnder Chinas ludicrous social credit score system, citizens are either rewarded or penalized for their actions. Those who end up on the blacklist may be barred from flying, from purchasing a home, or even from sending their kids to private school. Journalist Liu Hu says he was banned from flying because he was on a list of untrustworthy people. Chinese courts demanded that he apologize for a series of tweets he wrote  but ultimately, the courts decided his apology was insincere.\n\nI cant buy property. My child cant go to a private school, Liu stated.\n\nYou feel youre being controlled by the list all the time, he added.\n\nEarlier this year, Xiao Qiang, a professor of communications at the University of California-Berkeley, called Chinas data-driven approach to government a digital totalitarian state. Algorithms are being used in the province of Xinjiang, for instance, to predict who may be likely to commit future acts of violence or defiance.\n\nWhat, precisely, will get you flagged is unknown, but it is believed that even owning too many books will put a target on your back. Is this going to be Americas future, too? With left-wing dogma taking over the world of tech, you never know.","title":"Chinas police state algorithm flags citizens who own too many books because now even thats susp","date":"2018-08-23","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Boris Johnsons allies will urge him to launch another bus tour to stir up opposition to Theresa Mays Brexit plans at a crunch meeting of eurosceptics next week.\n\nHuffPost UK has learned the former Foreign Secretary, who quit the Government over its negotiating stance with the EU, will be pressured into hitting the road in the run up to the Conservative Party conference in September.\n\nThe roadshow would focus on firing up grassroots Tories to oppose Mays so-called Chequers Agreement.\n\nJohnson will hold a meeting with his closest allies next week to thrash out the details of the roadshow, but an influential pro-Brexit MP confirmed to HuffPost UK the idea of replicating the bus campaign used in the 2016 EU referendum campaign would be on the table.\n\nIt seems Johnson would require some persuasion, with a source close to the former London Mayor ruling out another bus tour.\n\nJohnson will be urged to go on tour by other Tory MPs who share his concerns the Chequers Agreement will leave the UK tied to EU rules on goods and agri-foods without having any influence on those laws.\n\nAsked about the plans for a new bus tour, a senior Tory Brexiteer MP confirmed that was one of the options being considered, adding: Theres a lot going on, people are trying to work out what can be done without tearing the party in two.\n\nA source close to Johnson admitted the planning meeting is scheduled for next week, saying: Something is definitely in the offing. We want to make it clear that we are still campaigning for a proper Brexit.\n\nJohnson is already planning to cause a stir at the four-day Tory party conference in Birmingham, scheduled to start on September 30.  The Sun has reported he will deliver a key-note speech at a fringe meeting  likely to become the main event for anti-Chequers Tories at the gathering.\n\nOne ally of Johnson told the Sun: Boris has always been the biggest draw at party conference.\n\nHe will make the fringe meeting look like the conference hall and the conference hall will look like a fringe meeting.\n\nJohnsons presence on the Vote Leave bus became one of the most iconic images of the 2016 EU Referendum campaign.\n\nThe bus was emblazoned with the slogan We send the EU 350 million a week  lets fund our NHS instead  a claim that was contested as the figure did not reflect the money returned to the UK from Brussels.","title":"Boris Johnson Urged To Consider Another Bus Tour To Campaign For Brexit","date":"2018-08-16","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Targeting for elimination yet another racist policy carried over from the Obama era, the Trump administration is calling on colleges and universities across the country to stop discriminating against Asians and whites with unfair affirmative action admissions policies.\n\nIn a recent statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions delineated the administrations new guidelines on the matter, explaining that they aim to undo the state-sponsored policies of discrimination imposed by Obama in order to promote diversity in education.\n\nThe Department of Education (DOE), in conjunction with the Department of Justice (DOJ), is basically advising schools to base their admissions standards on factors like merit and character, rather than skin color, which will naturally draw in a diverse grouping of students.\n\nThese proposed changes come in response to an ongoing lawsuit against Harvard University, which alleges that the Ivy League has been unfairly discriminating against Asians in order to admit more blacks and other racial minorities.\n\nWhen issuing regulations, federal agencies must abide by constitutional principles and follow the rules set forth by Congress and the President, Sessions stated in an announcement, referring to Obama-issued guidelines that the Trump administration says are in violation of what the Supreme Court has already ruled.\n\nDocuments issued by the Obama administration both in 2011 and 2016 go far beyond what the law allows, the Trump administration claims. They also mislead schools into believing that legal forms of affirmative action are somehow simpler to achieve than whats legally provisioned under the law.\n\nIn previous administrations, however, agencies often tried to impose new rules on the American people without any public notice or comment period, simply by sending a letter or posting a guidance document on a website. Thats wrong, and its not good government, Sessions added.\n\nImmediately following news of the new recommendations, Obama DOJ appointee Anurima Bargava, who was in charge of enforcing civil rights in schools under Obama, issued her own statement of disapproval concerning the new guidelines.\n\nHardly surprising was Bargavas pulling of the race card in claiming that the Supreme Court has ruled twice in reaffirming the importance of diversity in education.\n\nThis is a purely political attack that benefits nobody, she stated to the media.\n\nBut if the current legal filings against Harvard are any indication, they would seem to suggest that Asians and whites alike will both benefit from this alleged attack. The only ones who wont benefit are those whove gotten used to being treated like academic superstars simply because of their ethnic heritage.\n\nAnd while the Supreme Court has, in fact, ruled in favor of affirmative action policies, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who recently announced his retirement from the bench, once stated otherwise concerning their future in American education.\n\nHe argued that institutions of higher learning need to continually review their affirmative action policies in order to assess both their positive and negative effects, which is exactly what the Trump administration is right now encouraging them to do.\n\nThis seems more likely than ever as President Trump considers a replacement for Justice Kennedy  one who will more than likely lean to the right as opposed to the left.\n\nMore than that, there are also other ways to bring in a more diverse student body that dont involve actively discriminating against Asians and whites, which appears to have become the norm on many college campuses. These include considering applicants socioeconomic backgrounds, eliminating early admissions programs, and increasing community college transfers.\n\nSchools could also better consider the personal scores that they assign to prospective students, which gauge the character of applicants. Data consistently shows that Asians score the lowest on these personal tests compared to people of other ethnicities, suggesting the need for a more balanced admissions approach.","title":"Trump administration orders universities to stop being racist against Asians","date":"2018-07-09","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"During his interview with 60 Minutes that was broadcast Sunday night, President Donald Trump regularly dodged questions and criticized the medias dishonesty when interviewer Lesley Stahl pushed back on his non-answers.\n\nAs Stahl pressed Trump on whether he intended to consider bringing back the family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump deflected and maintained that the policy was started by former President Barack Obama.\n\nIt was on the books, but he didnt enforce it. You enforced it, Stahl said.\n\nStahl pressed Trump on what his immigration policy actually is multiple times before Trump bemoaned that the 60 Minutes interviewer was treating him differently than she had treated Obama.\n\nI disagree, but I dont want to have that fight with you, she said.\n\nLeslie, its okay, he said. In the meantime, Im president and youre not.","title":"Trump Upset About 60 Minutes Questions Im President And Youre Not","date":"2018-10-15","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"San Francisco will be deploying a newly-formed Poop Patrol to mitigate the citys now-infamous crisis of human waste in public areas.\n\nA team of five Public Works staffers will begin patrolling the alleys around Polk Street and other hot spots in a vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.\n\nThe Poop Patrol will work to remove feces before locals have a chance to report incidents to a city 311 hotline  which has already received nearly 15,000 such complaints thus far in 2018, the Chronicle reports.\n\nWere trying to be proactive, said Mohammed Nuru, Director of Public Works. Were actually out there looking for it.\n\nSan Francisco Mayor London Breed recently told local media that there is more feces on the sidewalks than Ive ever seen.\n\nInfowars has documented the on-going decay of San Francisco and other regions along the West Coast, where socialist policies have led to rampant homelessness, drug abuse, and a mounting health emergency.\n\nA grievance filed recently with the California Department of Transportation by the International Union of Operating Engineers alleged that the health and safety of highway maintenance personnel were being jeopardized because they were forced to clean up toxic homeless encampments.\n\nFeces and urine and feminine products and all kinds of things on the ground; needles, syringes  you know they use buckets, five-gallon buckets for toilets, and it gets really disgusting, said Director of Public Employees, Steve Crouch.\n\nIn Oregon, Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner issued a public statement last month blasting city officials for allowing the city to become a cesspool.\n\nLivability that once made Portland a unique and vibrant city is now replaced with human feces in businesses doorways, in our parks, and on our streets, Turner wrote.","title":"San Francisco Poop Patrol to Tackle Citys Fecal Crisis","date":"2018-08-15","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Its a week of both dystopian dreams and feverish fantasies as two dance troupes bring two very different shows to the table.\n\nElsewhere, get prepping your Christmas prezzies and follow the white rabbit into a wintery wonderland.\n\nHeres the best of what to get up to this week.\n\nBased on the hit films Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL comes a steamy live production. Set on a 360 degree surround stage, the show mixes dance, acrobatics, striptease and drama, conceived and produced by Channing Tatum himself. Who knows? He may even make an appearance.\n\nSix months worth of heats culminate in the grand final of the citys biggest gin competition. Sixteen brands have been whittled down to four, and drinkers can decide the overall winner at Graphic Bar on Monday. Youll get a cocktail with each spirit in to help make your mind up.\n\nDancers Honki Want and Sebastien Ramirez took inspiration from composer Nitin Sawhneys album Dystopian Dream to devise this show about loss, isolation and continuity. The collaboration combines choreography, live music and theatre on the Sadlers Wells stage.\n\nTumble into a rabbit hole of adventure in Southwark Park. A massive 160 giant lanterns are on display to tell the story of Alice in Wonderland, with an illuminated Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts and life-size Mad Hatter's Tea Party. A total of 29 immersive scenes make this a magical interactive experience for the whole family.\n\nHidden stories from the Stonewall Riots, 1970s drag scene and AIDs activism come into the spotlight at the West Ends Duchess Theatre to raise money for the 56 Dean Street clinic. Alexis Gregorys one man show uses the words of three figures in recent gay history, followed by a Q&A.\n\nIts without a doubt Christmas shopping time, so Columbia Roads finest are keeping their doors open well into the evening on Wednesday to give you more time to pick up your gifts. The road, famous for its flower market, is also home to one of Londons finest Christmas tree purveyors, so pick up your seasonal sapling here.\n\nComedian Mawaan Rizwan sold out his Edinburgh Fringe run, has more than 18 million views on YouTube and is very much on the rise. He brings some friends with to Aces and Eights for an evening of super-woke comedy.\n\nZak Ghazi-Torbati and Toby Marlow present a seasonal treat, taking you back in time with a Christmas Carol-style show. Its from the writing team behind West End musical Six , so is sure to be filled with smashing original songs.\n\nWright Brothers Battersea is throwing a birthday party on Wednesday to celebrate its first birthday. Naturally, the exclusive five-course menu (at 40 or 65 with a wine pairing) will be fish-heavy, consisting of oysters, octopus and monkfish as well as sorbet and cheesecake.","title":"Things to do in London this week","date":"2018-11-26","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Incoming Garda Commissioner Drew Harris made a point of bringing a copy of the Patten Commission report with him when interviewed by The Irish Times late last year. The then PSNI deputy chief constable was considering applying for the big Garda job, although at the time he kept his intentions to himself.\n\nA seminal document was how he described the 128-page report. It is looked at right across the world, Harris added.","title":"Harris likely to bring experience of PSNI reform to Garda role","date":"2018-09-02","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"BERLIN, August 19. \/TASS\/. The agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin does\nnot include a meeting to discuss a presidential aides idea to withdraw excess\nrevenues from Russias mining and chemical enterprises, Kremlin spokesman\nDmitry Peskov said.\n\n\"There is no [such meeting on his agenda], the president cannot chair meetings\non all issues currently being studied by the government,\" he said.\n\n\"There is an expert point of view [on the issue], and there is also the\npresidents consent to study the matter,\" he said, adding that the president\nwill express his opinion of the initiative after the government studies it.\n\nThe idea to withdraw 513.7 bln rubles ($7.7 bln) worth of bumper revenues from\nRussias top mining, chemical and petrochemical companies was previously\nproposed by presidential aide Andrey Belousov in a letter to Vladimir Putin.\nThe proposal relies on the fact that the tax rate in those industries is lower\nthan that in the oil sector, while the profitability is higher. According to\nBelousov, the money can be spent on the implementation of the May presidential\ndecree.\n\nThe list of companies include NLMK, Severstal, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel\nWorks, Mechel, Metalloinvest, Evraz, Norilsk Nickel, Alrosa, Polyus, Sibur,\nUralkali, Phosagro and others.\n\nThis initiative will be discussed at the meeting of Russian First Deputy Prime\nMinister Anton Siluanov and representatives of major companies on August 24.\n\nIn other media","title":"Putin has no plans to attend discussion on extra revenues of mining chemical firms","date":"2018-08-19","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Theresa May could face a leadership challenge within the next 24 hours amid the fallout over her Brexit deal, it was reported today.\n\nPolitical sources have claimed a vote of confidence could be forced through by lunchtime on Thursday as the prime minister faces a fierce backlash from both sides of the Brexit divide.\n\nMrs May cleared the first hurdle when Cabinet ministers finally approved the draft terms of her EU withdrawal agreement at a stormy five-hour meeting on Wednesday.\n\nBut she now faces a battle to get it through Parliament as Brexiteer Conservative MPs - as well as some Remainers - condemned the plan, accusing her of breaking promises and handing control back to Brussels.\n\nThe BBCs political editor Laura Kuenssberg reported: One senior Tory told me tonight there is likely to be a move against the prime minister in the next 24 hours.\n\nAnother said they would be amazed if enough objections to start a contest hadn't emerged by lunchtime.\n\nShe added that this could be the moment the Tory party falls into a leadership contest almost by mistake.\n\nRumours continue at Westminster that the tally of Conservative MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence in Mrs May is about to reach the 48 threshold needed to trigger a vote on her position.\n\nITV political editor Robert Peston also fuelled rumours that a vote of no confidence was imminent, claiming a source told him there would be enough letters to force one by lunch on Thursday.\n\nTory Brexiters become angrier and angrier as they wade through 585 pages of the Withdrawal Agreement, he wrote.\n\nThey tell me there will be enough letters in with Brady of [the committee] by lunch tomorrow to force vote of confidence!\n\nNicola Sturgeon, appearing on Pestons show on Wednesday night, said she wouldnt put money on Mrs May still being prime minister on March 29, the day the UK is due to formally leave the EU.\n\nShe said: The prime minister has proved to be resilient over the last month so you know lets not count her out in that respect.\n\nI thought, and remember Im doing this interview just after shes made her statement, all sorts of things could have changed, but I thought her language about the collective decision of the Cabinet not a unanimous decision said something, I thought her body language looked very shaky and I wouldnt rule out cabinet resignations tonight, obviously I dont know that thats going to happen and right now I cannot see how she gets this deal through the House of Commons.\n\nNow you know a week is a long time in politics as the old saying goes and in this climate a day, a few hours, is a long time in politics but right now things are looking extremely dicey for the Prime Minister and who knows whether shell still be in office by the end of the week, let alone by the 29th of March.\n\nFollowing the release of the 585-page agreement document, Jacob Rees-Mogg - the leader of the pro-Brexit European Research Group - wrote to all Tory MPs urging them to vote against it.\n\nRumours continued to swirl at Westminster that the tally of Conservative MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence in Mrs May is about to reach the 48 threshold needed to trigger a vote on her position.\n\n\"Certainly this has dented my confidence,\" he told ITV's Peston programme. \"Politics depends on trust and this document is shattering to trust.\"\n\nWhile the Cabinet agreed to collectively support the agreement, there was speculation that some ministers were so unhappy that they could still quit in protest.\n\nReports suggested as many as a third of the 28 ministers attending the meeting in No 10 voiced doubts about the deal.\n\nNick Timothy, Theresa May's former chief of staff, wrote in the Daily Telegraph that Parliament will \"surely\" reject the proposal.\n\n\"The proposal presented to Cabinet is a capitulation,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Worse, it is a capitulation not only to Brussels but to the fears of the British negotiators themselves, who have shown by their actions that they never believed Brexit could be a success.\n\n\"This includes, I say with the heaviest of hearts, the Prime Minister.\"\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey was said to be particularly upset amid reports she was shouted down after she tried to press for the agreement to be put to a vote.\n\nMrs May described the debate around the Cabinet table as \"long, detailed and impassioned\", in a clear indication her proposals had come under intense challenge from ministers.\n\nSpeaking outside 10 Downing Street minutes after the meeting concluded, she acknowledged she faced \"difficult days ahead\" as she attempts to win round critical MPs.\n\n\"I firmly believe, with my head and my heart, that this is a decision which is in the best interests of the United Kingdom,\" she said.\n\nAt the same time she warned Brexiteers that if they failed to back her plan they risked ending up with \"no Brexit at all\".\n\nChief Whip Julian Smith has said he is confident the Government will get the support of Parliament for the deal.\n\nBut with the DUP - whose 10 MPs prop up Mrs May in the Commons - voicing their unhappiness at the agreement, and the prospect of a significant Tory backbench revolt it is hard to see how ministers can make the numbers add up.\n\nJeremy Corbyn again made clear that Labour was unlikely to come to the Government's rescue.\n\n\"I don't believe that the deal that I've heard of so far is in the national interest. It doesn't meet the interests of all parts of Britain, it doesn't give us a security of our trading relationship with Europe in the future,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker issued a statement that \"decisive progress\" had been made, clearing the way for a special summit for leaders of the remaining 27 EU states to give their stamp of approval, probably on November 25.\n\nSenior UK Government officials said the final text of the withdrawal agreement featured important gains for the UK on the so-called backstop arrangements to be implemented if no trade deal can be reached.\n\nThe outline political declaration - which will be subject to further negotiation over the coming weeks - expresses an ambition to achieve zero tariffs and no quotas in EU-UK trade, something the officials said no other major economy had achieved.\n\nThe facilitated customs arrangements and \"common rulebook\" proposed in Mrs May's Chequers plan are replaced by the concept of a \"sliding scale\" of commitments and market access, which means the UK would not be tied to an off-the-shelf deal of the kind previously offered to countries such as Canada.\n\nUnder backstop arrangements designed to keep the Irish border open, if no trade deal is agreed by the end of the transition period in December 2020, a temporary \"EU-UK single customs territory\" would be established.\n\nThis could be terminated only by mutual consent of Brussels and London but each side would be legally bound to make \"best endeavours\" to bring it to an end by sealing a permanent deal on their future relations.\n\nThere will be a provision to allow the two sides to extend the transition to a fixed date rather than activate the backstop.\n\nA five-person arbitration panel, with two representatives of each side and one independent member, will be set up to rule on disputes, with the chair chosen by drawing lots if members cannot agree.","title":"Brexit news latest Theresa May could face leadership challenge aposwithin 24 hoursapos amid fur","date":"2018-11-15","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"July 1. Mubarek Ali, a 35-year-old former ringleader of a Telford child sex abuse gang, was sent back to prison after breaching the terms of his parole.\n\nIn 2012, Ali was sentenced to 22 years in prison for child prostitution offenses, but he was automatically released in 2017 after serving only five years. Telford MP Lucy Allan said that there are many questions to be answered about why Ali was released, and also about how the justice system treats so-called grooming cases:\n\nNow he is back in jail, justice demands that he must serve the remainder of his sentence in custody; anything less would show a casual disregard for the nature of his crimes and for the victims whose lives he changed forever.\n\nJuly 2. Abdul Rauf, a 51-year-old imam from Rochdale, was imprisoned for one year and five months after admitting to assaulting more than 20 children at a mosque. Inspector Phil Key, of Greater Manchester Police, said:\n\nAbdul Rauf is a nasty, bully of a man who beat the children in his classes until it became normalised. The children were left cowering and holding onto their ears, their arms and their legs after he repeatedly used violence as a punishment. The parents of the children had no idea that they were leaving their children in the care of a man who would leave them writhing in pain and covered in marks and bruises.\n\nRauf is a different defendant to 49-year-old Abdul Rauf, formerly of Rochdale, who was convicted as part of a child sex gang that targeted girls as young as 13 in the town.\n\nJuly 3. A judge in Iraq said that British jihadis found in the country would be executed by hanging. Abdul Sattar Beraqdar, spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, said that such a form of capital punishment would be good for British security:\n\nThe punishment, as much as it seems strong, will affect the security of your country. I am sure there are hundreds of people in Britain at this moment thinking of committing similar crimes. Thats why we, as Iraqis, if we are tough in sentencing these people, they will think thoroughly before taking any action.\n\nSome 800 Britons have journeyed to Syria and Iraq to fight for the Islamic State, with 130 killed in the conflict, according to British officials, but it is unclear how many British jihadis have been captured or have faced the death penalty. A British Foreign Office spokesman said: We oppose the death penalty in all cases.\n\nJuly 5. Laurel Ellis, a conservative candidate for a council by-election in Merthyr Tydfil, a town in Wales, was suspended after sharing social media posts that were critical of Islam. Labour Assembly Member Dawn Bowden said that the posts were Islamophobic. A spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives said that the party seeks to reach out to, and represent, all communities and people from all walks of life in Wales.\n\nJuly 6. Police in London revealed that they intervened to stop a suspected child sex party at kebab shop in Bethnal Green. So-called uck parties involve young girls being plied with alcohol and drugs before older men have sex with them. Authorities in Tower Hamlets, which has the highest percentage of Muslim residents in England and Wales, have since revoked the kebab shops alcohol license.\n\nJuly 7. The Daily Mail reported that Imran Waheed, a 41-year-old psychiatrist with the National Health Service in Birmingham, is also working as an expert witness to British courts, even though he is an Islamist who has said he does not believe in democracy and is not obedient to secular law. In a BBC interview he said: Ive got no respect for any law other than Allahs, so I dont care about the law to be honest... I care for the law of Islam. I dont care for the law of any man.\n\nJuly 8. An opinion essay published by the Guardian claimed that a new a new art exhibition in Florence reveals the deep connection between Europe and Islam:\n\nEmbodied in the Renaissance view is certainly a sense of Islam as the other. But it is intertwined with curiosity, respect, even awe. There is a willingness, too, to reach beyond the otherness of Islam and to see the Muslim world not as demonic or exotic but as a variant of the European experience....\n\nYet, at a time when many politicians present Islam as alien to the European experience, such shows are a useful reminder of how historically deeply intertwined are the worlds of Europe and Islam.\n\nJuly 9. Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, the schools regulator, accused Muslim groups of having a sense of religious and\/or cultural entitlement and attempting to exert an outsize influence on school policy:\n\n... for some children, school may be the only time in their lives that they spend time every day with people from outside their immediate ethnic or religious group, or at least where the values of people outside their own group can be explained and openly discussed....\n\nIslamist extremists  particularly fuelled by the online propaganda of Daesh and others  prey on a sense of isolation and alienation in some minority communities.\n\nJuly 12. Thousands of Muslim pupils in Blackburn, Burnley, Hyndburn, Nelson, Preston and Rawtenstall were instructed to boycott all school meals when they return to class in September. The move follows the decision by the Lancashire County Council to stop supplying schools with only halal meat from pre-stunned sheep and cattle.\n\nJuly 13. Sophie Rahman, the former head teacher of Eton Community School, a primary school in Ilford, was banned for life from teaching after it emerged that she had allowed the London Bridge jihadi Khuram Butt to teach after-school Arabic classes at the facility. Butt reportedly told children that non-Muslims were the worst creatures and that it was okay for them to lie to their parents. A panel found Rahman guilty of unacceptable professional conduct. She confirmed that the last day that Butt taught the children was June 2, 2017. The next day, Butt, along with Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba, plowed a van into people on London Bridge before launching a knife rampage around Borough Market. The attackers were shot dead by police officers.\n\nJuly 15. Samantha Lewthwaite, a 34-year-old British convert to Islam, was reported to be recruiting suicide bombers to target summer holidaymakers in Britain, Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Turkey. The mother-of-four  known as the White Widow after her jihadi husband killed himself and 26 others in the 2005 London suicide bombings  was feared to have recruited up to 30 jihadis, who have been taught how to build suicide vests and choose their own targets. An intelligence source said:\n\nThe White Widow hates Britain and everything the West stands for. She has completely turned her back on her country and her former life. She has mentored dozens of female terrorists and favours white converts to Islam because she feels they attract less suspicion by the security services.\n\nJuly 17. The Independent reported on an inquiry which found that the British government received information detailing the activities of Muslim pedophile gangs in Rotherham as far back as 2002 but failed properly to act on it, apparently out of fear of being accused of racism. A large-scale inquiry was not launched until a decade later, after a Times report on the scale of grooming in Britain provoked a national scandal. Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, said it was clear that the Home Office knew about child sexual exploitation in Rotherham since 2002:\n\nWhy, when so many in authority knew the scale and severity of this crime, did it take until 2014, with the publication of the Jay report, for a large-scale investigation to occur? How many lives could have been protected if swift action had been taken a decade before?\n\nJuly 18. Naaimur Zakariyah Rahman, a 20-year-old British-Bangladeshi jihadi from North London, was found guilty of plotting to behead Prime Minister Theresa May. The court heard how Rahman, who was the focus of a sting operation mounted by counter-terrorism officers from the Metropolitan police and MI5, told undercover officers of his plans:\n\nI want to do a suicide bomb on Parliament. I want to attempt to kill Theresa May. There are lorries [trucks] here with big gas tankers, if a brother can drive it next to Parliament I will bomb. [God willing] will be very big if Im successful. I cant mess up. I cant get [martyrdom] if I get caught.\n\nJuly 20. Khalid Ali, a 28-year-old plumber-turned-jihadi from London, was handed three life sentences with a minimum term of 40 years in prison for plotting a knife attack on MPs and police outside the Houses of Parliament. Ali had three knives when he was arrested by armed police in Parliament Square on April 2017 following surveillance by counter-terrorism police. Ali spent five years in Afghanistan, where he made Taliban bombs used to maim and kill British and NATO troops. In an interview with officers, Ali said he wanted to deliver a message to British leaders telling them to leave Muslim lands, destroy the state of Israel and release prisoners of war. I would consider myself as a mujahid [Islamic warrior], he added. Jihad is what we do.\n\nJuly 20. Former Prime Minister David Cameron said it is a mistake to understand terrorism as a clash between Christianity and Islam.\n\nListening to Trump makes me feel that it is a clash between Christianity and Islam. It is wrong, Cameron said at an interactive session organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce...\n\nAccording to Cameron, it was, indeed, a clash within Islam  between the civilised ones who want to practice their faith peacefully and those who had taken a radicalised and perverted view of the religion.\n\nJuly 21. The Sunday Telegraph reported that former Prime Minister Tony Blair was being paid 9 million ($11.5 million) to advise the government of Saudi Arabia. An article on Blairs website states:\n\n[T]he Crown Prince has demonstrated a level of conviction, clarity and coherence in identifying and understanding the nature of Islamist extremism that Western policymakers should seek to learn from. Britain should learn from Saudi Arabia and how it has demonstrated a clear commitment to tackling the politicization of Islam to inform policymaking, with no moral ambiguity in delineating Islam, the faith, from Islamism, a politicised ideology.\n\nJuly 23. A leaked letter sent by Home Secretary Sajid Javid to US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, which revealed that Britain refrained from demanding assurances that two British jihadis, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, not be executed in America, provoked a public backlash that they could face the death penalty. Diane Abbott, a Labour Party politician who serves as shadow home secretary, said that Javids stance was abhorrent and shameful. As a result, Javid abruptly halted cooperation with the United States on the case. The United States accuses the two men of being part of a cell that beheaded at least 27 people. The murdered victims include American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid-worker Peter Kassig. Britain abolished capital punishment for all crimes in 1998 and when assisting foreign governments with prosecutions, typically seeks assurances that the death penalty not be used.\n\nJuly 24. Majud Hussain, a 41-year-old police officer from Nottingham, was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 17-year-old girl. Judge James Sampson told Hussain, a married father of four: You have shown absolutely no remorse whatsoever. You are clearly a disgrace to the uniform of police officers and you are obviously unfit to be a police constable.\n\nJuly 24. Khalid Baqa, a 54-year-old man from East London, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for disseminating jihadi literature on the London Underground. Commander Clarke Jarrett, Head of the Mets Counter Terrorism Command said:\n\nBaqa was reproducing and distributing terrorist related material in the hope of getting others involved and drawn into the same toxic ideology he was peddling. Not only that, but he also radicalised and involved a young impressionable 17-year-old, whom he then used to help distribute his pamphlets and CDs.\n\nJuly 25. Home Secretary Sajid Javid ordered research into the ethnic origin of sexual grooming gangs, apparently in order to discover why men convicted of group sex crimes are disproportionately of Pakistani origin. Javid, a British-Pakistani, said that exploring the particular characteristics of offenders was critical to our understanding of what happened across the country, including in Newcastle, Telford and Rotherham.\n\nJuly 25. Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Irelands biggest health trust, reported 17 cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) between April 2017 and January 2018. The women were aged from 24 years to 46 years. Their country of origin was not recorded.\n\nJuly 26. The director of the Royal College of Midwives in Northern Ireland, Breedagh Hughes, said that women are being let down by a lack of clarity over procedures for reporting incidents of female genital mutilation (FGM):\n\nThe fact that there have been no official, practical guidelines for nurses, midwives, social workers, anyone working at the coalface [on the front lines], means its very difficult for anyone to know what to do when confronted with a case of FGM....\n\nThere is also an issue of jurisdiction. If the offence was carried out on someone over 18 outside of Northern Ireland, what do they do?\n\nJuly 27. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Britain expressed fears of violent persecution after cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan announced victory in Pakistans general election. The Ahmadiyya community is considered heretical by orthodox Muslims because its followers do not believe that Mohammed was the final prophet, an offense, under Pakistans blasphemy laws, that is punishable by death. We are standing with Article 295c and will defend it, Khan said at a gathering of Muslim leaders in Islamabad. He was referring to a clause of the Pakistani Constitution that mandates the death penalty for any imputation, insinuation or innuendo against Mohammed. Some 30,000 Ahmadiyyas are living in Britain.\n\nJuly 28. Six men were charged in connection with an acid attack on a three-year-old boy, who was on a shopping trip with his mother. The father of the boy, a 39-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, was among those charged in the attack. Police believe the Afghan man had intended to attack his estranged wife, who, with their three children, left him last year and moved to another house to start a new life.\n\nJuly 29. The Sunday Times reported that not a single Christian was among the 1,112 Syrian refugees resettled in Britain in the first three months of 2018. The Home Office agreed to resettle only Muslims and rejected the four Christians recommended by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.\n\nJuly 30. A couple who tricked their teenage daughter into traveling to Bangladesh in an attempt to force her to marry her first cousin were sentenced to four-and-a-half years and three-and-a-half years to prison, respectively. The husband and wife, who were not named for legal reasons, were found guilty in May of using violence, threats or coercion to force their daughter into marriage.\n\nDuring a three-week trial in Leeds, a jury heard that in 2016, the couples daughter, then 18, was taken out of college during classes to go on what she thought was a six-week holiday to Bangladesh to see family and celebrate an Islamic holiday. She was told of the marriage plans less than a week after arriving in the country. When she refused to take part, her father threatened to slit her throat.\n\nShe was rescued days before the wedding was to take place after her younger sister contacted the British High Commission, which worked alongside the UK governments Forced Marriage Unit and Bangladeshi police to bring the woman back to the UK.","title":"A Month of Multiculturalism In Britain July 2018","date":"2018-08-23","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A doctor best known for overseeing the introduction of guidelines on caring for victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), has admitted to possessing prohibited pictures of children and a film depicting the sexual abuse of a dog.\n\nObstetrician Manish Gupta pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 19 October to possessing 14 images of children and other images and film depicting violence. He will be at the same court sentenced next month.\n\nCalling the images disturbing Melissa Garner, a senior prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service, said they were found on his laptops.\n\nShe added: These included 14 prohibited images of children and violent acts against women. Some of these were found on a laptop used for work after it was seized by police following a referral from the NSPCC.\n\nGupta, 47, was co-chair of the Guidelines Committee at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), where in 2015 he oversaw the production of fresh rules on how health professionals should treat women who have undergone FGM.\n\nThe RCOG was informed of a police investigation regarding Dr Manish Guptas role at Whipps Cross Hospital and all direct College involvement with Dr Gupta was immediately halted, a spokesperson for the organisation said. This included him stepping down from his position as a co-chair of the RCOG Guidelines Committee and all related activity.\n\nHe also worked as a consultant obstetrician at Whipps Cross University Hospital, which is run by Barts Health NHS Trust.\n\nA spokesperson for the trust said it had cooperated fully with the police after allegations about the pornography first arose almost two years ago.\n\nAs soon as the police contacted us, his contact with patients and confidential records ceased, the spokesperson added. His work email and computer files were searched and no concerning documents or images were found. We have not found evidence of abnormal behaviour or other findings of concern with respect to patient care.\n\nThe obstetrician was immediately suspended and has not worked for Barts Health since, they added.\n\nIn a statement after Gupta admitted guilt, the NSPCC childrens charity said: By possessing and viewing these images Gupta  a man in a respected and trusted position of care  has contributed to an industry that trades on the suffering of real children being subjected to horrific abuse.\n\nIt is vital the children in those images are identified and given the help they need to recover.","title":"Doctor responsible for FGM treatment guide admits to possessing extreme porn","date":"2018-10-23","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Chinese reporter Liang Xiangyi eye-rolled during another reporters long-winded question at the National Peoples Congress yesterday and the moment has gone viral. Many Chinese residents have created dozens of videos, GIFs, memes, and illustrations inspired by the scene, having identified with Liangs frustration. (Since Liang dressed in blue and the other reporter dressed in red, the moment has also birthed blue and red memes.)\n\nChinese state-run media has responded by censoring the videos of the incident. Internet censors have also blocked searches for Liang Xiangyis name. Its an unusual moment, considering the Congress is typically dry and uneventful.\n\nDuring the National Peoples Congress last night (Tuesday morning in Beijing time), Liang, whos with the Shanghai-based business channel Yicai, looks back at the reporter next to her whos going on and then looks away out of disdain, rolling her eyes hard. The American reporter, Zhang Huijun, is from America Multimedia TV, a Chinese-language TV station, which has a partnership with Chinas CCTV.\n\nZhang introduces herself and then asks a long and wordy question to a state council regulator about how overseas assets of state-owned enterprises will be effectively supervised to prevent the loss of capital from state-owned enterprises.\n\nHer question, which can already fit two paragraphs in English, repeated itself twice and was filled with padded statements. Liangs eye roll seems to have been a sign of disgust at Zhangs flattery. Liang reportedly said she rolled her eyes because the person next to me was being an idiot, according to a leaked chat spotted by WhatsonWeibo.\n\nOther reporters have called Liangs behavior into question. The state-run Guangzhou Dailys staff member Dai Bin wrote in a personal Weibo post, This is a serious occasion, and people have to pay attention to the time they use asking a question  after all, its the National Peoples Congress. As for the woman who rolls her eyes, perhaps she is forgetting that she is being filmed, and forgot about her manners. May this be a lesson for her, as translated by WhatsonWeibo.\n\nThe Congress started its two-week meet over the weekend and quickly voted to abolish term limits for President Xi Jinping. Anything that could be remotely perceived as anti-government has been censored in the past few weeks, as locals frustration over Xis possible lifetime rule grows.\n\nPolice have even ordered restaurants in Wudaokou, a popular student area in Beijing, to place limits on how many foreigners they can serve at a time. Pyro Pizza posted a notice this week saying, Until March 22nd, every Friday night and Saturday, as requested by local authorities, we can only allow a maximum of 10 foreigners in our store at a time.\n\nAs residents frustrations increase, and Not My President and I disagree posters continue to crop up outside of China, we can expect more viral moments like this one, as veiled and obscure as they might be, and we can expect censorship to follow.","title":"A Chinese reporters frustrated eye roll goes viral in China and is censored","date":"2018-03-13","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Facebook has been growing increasingly desperate in recent months as it works to repair the damage caused by several high-profile scandals. However, their attempts to improve their relationship with the media likely had the opposite effect as a Facebook executive made some tasteless threats to a gathering of Australian media companies.\n\nWhen Facebooks Global Head of News Partnerships, Campbell Brown, addressed a group of more than 20 publishers and broadcasters Down Under, she said Facebook wants to help media companies to create sustainable business models. It might have been a welcome message had she not delivered it by implying that their businesses would die without the help of Facebook.\n\nAccording to The Australian, at one point during the four-hour, closed-door meeting, she said: We will help you revitalise journalism ... in a few years the reverse looks like Ill be holding your hands with your dying business like in a hospice.\n\nBrown, whose past roles include being a correspondent for NBC News and a prime time host on CNN, was hired by Facebook last year to improve its relationships with news organizations after it came under fire for the role it played in spreading misinformation in the run-up to the presidential election in 2016.\n\nMaking matters worse, she went on to say that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg does not care about publishers. She added: We are not interested in talking to you about your traffic and referrals anymore. That is the old world and there is no going back  Mark wouldnt agree to this.\n\nSupport our mission and enhance your own self-reliance: The laboratory-verified Organic Emergency Survival Bucket provides certified organic, high-nutrition storable food for emergency preparedness. Completely free of corn syrup, MSG, GMOs and other food toxins. Ultra-clean solution for years of food security. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store.\n\nFacebook has stated that the quotes were taken out of context and are not accurate, but they have failed to release transcripts of the meeting to support this claim. At least five sources who attended the meeting confirmed Browns comments to the media.\n\nThese remarks are further evidence of the arrogance and runaway monopolistic power of tech giants, and they should give people serious pause when they consider the influence that firms like Facebook and Google have over modern society. Their I own this town attitude is unappealing, even if there is an element of truth to it. These companies think they run the world, and in a way, they do  but only because people let them. The masses have become so addicted to the conveniences offered by technology like smartphones that they dont stop to think about how theyre really paying for free services like Facebook, YouTube, and Google Maps. In most cases, theyre giving up a lot more personal data than they realize, while letting these companies gain an incredible amount of power over the flow of information in society and which opinions are allowed to be heard.\n\nFacebooks Samidh Chakrabarti has also said they dont want to be arbiters of truth, yet they are quick to claim that anything going against their ideals is fake news, and sites like Googles YouTube have come under attack for censoring conservative voices.\n\nPresident Trump might get a lot of things wrong, but he was definitely on the right track with his recent comments that these tech businesses out-of-control censorship needs to be stopped.","title":"Evil Facebook now threatening the media Work with us or DIE","date":"2018-08-22","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has provided insight on Apples lineup of new products in a research note obtained by MacRumors. The note discusses the reception of the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and Apple Watch Series 4.\n\nKuos report says that demand for the iPhone XS Max is higher than expected, and is about three to four times higher than demand for the iPhone XS. Gold and space grey are far more popular than silver when it comes to color options, and the 256GB version is the most popular. The note also says that the 512GB version could face a shortage because of reliance on Samsung as a supplier:\n\nWe have determined that the demand for XS Max is better than expected (34 times that of XS). The gold and space-grey colors are significantly more popular than the silver. 256GB is the most popular, and 512GB is subject to a serious shortage because only Samsung can currently ship NAND Flash well. We are positive that XS Max shipments will grow steadily in 4Q18 thanks to demand from Asia market and the gift season.\n\nKuo also says that demand for the Apple Watch Series 4 is higher than expected, and has increased the forecast number for expected units Apple will sell:\n\nApple Watch Series 4 demand is much better than expected. The capacity of the assembler Quanta is full already; therefore, the supply cannot improve significantly until second supplier Compals mass production for Apple Watch Series 4 starting from November. We have increased the Apple Watch shipment forecast in 2018 from 18mn to 18.519.5mn units.\n\nFinally, per MacRumors, Kuo also says that more customers will choose to upgrade to the iPhone XR and hes confident that the choke points Apple is facing with display-related production will markedly improve by October.","title":"The iPhone XS Max is outselling the iPhone XS according to analyst report","date":"2018-09-24","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) The chemicals used in fracking and other unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction processes are reported to be linked t0 potentially cancerous growths in the mammary glands of female mice. The lab animals were deliberately exposed at a young age to chemical levels considered detrimental to the environment.\n\nResearchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst published their findings in the journal Endocrinology.\n\nThe researchers recommended that further studies should determine the full effect of these findings on the overall health of the mammary gland over a long period of time, with particular emphasis on the capacity to lactate and developing the risk of breast cancer.","title":"Fracking chemicals found to cause changes in breast tissue","date":"2018-03-20","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The evolution of the toy has changed so much over the last century that sometimes its hard to keep up. And for most toy companies, they do whatever they can to remain relevant, no matter how bizarre their creations get.\n\nTake a look at 30 of the most peculiar toys and why you cant blame kids for actually wanting them because theyre just so weird.\n\nWhile little girls love to pretend to be mommies, this just may be taking it a tad too far. Although this toy also has most of the items that a new mommy will need to take care of her newborn when he or she finally comes out, one has to wonder if the missing portion of her dress will ever be found. We all know Barbies regular clothes will never fit her so she may just need to borrow Kens shirt if she ever wants to be fully clothed again.","title":"30 Toys That You Wont Believe Are Meant For Kids","date":"2018-10-12","source":"trueactivist","label":0}
{"content":"A bomb was detonated in a van in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing 11 people at a military checkpoint in an apparent suicide attack for which Isis has claimed responsibility.\n\nThe blast took place on Basilan, the island stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group notorious for kidnapping and banditry. It was also the home of the former leader, or emir of Isis in southeast Asia, killed last year by Philippine troops.\n\nA suspected bomber, a soldier, five paramilitary troopers and four civilians, including a mother and her child, were killed and seven people were wounded in the blast, an army spokesman said.\n\nVehicle bombings are rare in the Philippines, despite decades of separatist and Islamist violence that have destabilised the Mindanao region and lured foreign extremists.\n\nIn a statement carried by its Amaq news agency, Isis claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing attack, which it called a martyrdom operation.\n\nPresidential spokesman Harry Roque condemned the bombing as a war crime, calling it an illegal use of force, even in times of armed conflict.\n\nTuesdays explosion happened moments after troops stopped the vehicle and spoke to the driver, who was alone and probably detonated the bomb, the military said.\n\nA soldier who witnessed the attack said in an interview on private-run Dzmm radio that the driver spoke in an unfamiliar dialect and may have been foreign.\n\nHowever, military spokesman colonel Edgard Arevalo said security forces were investigating and there was no basis yet to conclude that the incident was a suicide bombing or had been carried out by a foreigner.\n\nIntelligence indicated that militants planned to build homemade bombs and target army bases, he added.\n\nBasilan is a no-go area for most Filipinos and Western countries typically warn citizens to stay away because of the presence of Abu Sayyaf and fierce military offensives against its fighters.\n\nAbu Sayyaf is infamous for taking fishermen and crew from commercial ships as hostages and beheading Western captives for whom ransom is not paid.\n\nPresident Rodrigo Duterte was on a neighbouring island at the weekend and has offered peace talks with several Abu Sayyaf factions.\n\nMr Dutertes offer came two days after he approved a law to allow minority Muslims in the region to create a new autonomous area with its own political and economic powers.\n\nTuesdays blast was a horrifying attack and a cowardly act said opposition lawmaker and senator Risa Hontiveros, a backer of the autonomy law who urged that the attack should not derail moves towards self-determination for the regions Muslims.\n\nThe bombing was a sign extremists were bent on sabotaging a peace effort that had a chance of success, said security expert Rommel Banlaoi.\n\nThese pro-Islamic State militants will pose a tremendous challenge for the implementation of the Bangsamoro Organic Law, he said, referring to the autonomy law.","title":"Suicide bomb attack kills 11 in south Philippines","date":"2018-07-31","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Brett Kavanaugh is in a lot of trouble. He told blatant lies that can easily be debunked, and he even claimed that, although he did drink to get drunk in high school and college, he claims never once did he not remember the night before, or wake up to his friends saying, dude, do you know what you did last night? This would make anyone who has ever been to a kegger or a house party give some serious side eye because, duh, when you drink as a young person, you are learning limits, and in order to learn them, they have to be surpassed.\n\nHe also lied about the legal drinking age, claiming that it was legal for him to drink in high school, despite law raising the legal age to 21 before he reached high school. He can claim he simply did not remember, but if one thing is certain, a young person knows the exact date that they are allowed to go to a bar for the first time.\n\nNow, he has an FBI investigation on his hands, and as if that wasnt bad enough, he also has authorities in Maryland, where Christine Blasey Ford claims the assault took place in 1982, saying that they will open an investigation into the claim if the alleged victim asks for one.\n\nThe disclosure by Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger and Montgomery County States Attorney John McCarthy came Friday, the same day that President Trump ordered the FBI to conduct a limited supplemental investigation. But Manger and McCarthy noted that prosecution was unlikely in Maryland because authorities would have to apply the law that existed at the time of the offense, not the law that exists now.\n\nThe Montgomery County Police Department and the Montgomery County States Attorneys Office stand ready to investigate any sexual assault allegation from any victim where the incident occurred in our jurisdiction. To date, there have been no criminal reports filed with the Montgomery County Department of Police that would lead to the initiation of any criminal investigation related to Judge Kavanaugh.\n\nAccording to the Baltimore Sun:\n\nA group of state legislators from the county on Tuesday had called on police and prosecutors to investigate allegations that Kavanaugh committed one or more sexual assaults while a high school student at Georgetown Prep in the 1980s. The lawmakers asked authorities not to wait for an alleged victim to make a complaint to them before starting an investigation.\n\nThe police responded with the following letter:\n\nThe report states that, In their letter Tuesday, the delegates said they were writing to express our concern about the need for an investigation into recent high-profile allegations of sex assault in our county.... We believe local law enforcement has the authority to investigate allegations of crimes without need for a formal complaint, and we further believe third parties have standing to bring such complaints.'","title":"Maryland Officials Make Brett Kavanaugh Announcement That Rocks The WH","date":"2018-10-12","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Late night TV and liberal media back up Elizabeth Warrens outrageous claim that her DNA test proves she has Native American ancestry.\n\nTucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones and Laura Ingram join in on a music montage making fun of Warren.","title":"Trump VS Pocahontas LMAO","date":"2018-10-19","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Arthritis is an unfortunate part of getting older for many people. If youre not experiencing it now, theres a good chance you will as the CDC predicts that one out of every two individuals will develop osteoarthritis by their 85th birthday. The good news is that you might not be stuck taking pills to treat the condition thanks to new discoveries related to one of natures top anti-inflammatories.\n\nIts widely known that curcumin boasts powerful anti-inflammatory effects, but its poor bioavailability in the body can make it challenging for people to get enough of it in their system to make a difference. Thats why many of the studies illustrating curcumins benefits for arthritis have involved injecting large amounts of it.\n\nNow, there is good news for people suffering from arthritis who dont want to resort to pharmaceuticals as researchers have developed a specialized complex of curcumin that offers seven times the bioavailability of standard curcumin.\n\nThe new complex is known as BCM-95, and it contains curcumin that has been purified and reconstituted. Researchers tested out the complex in a study involving rheumatoid arthritis patients. One group was assigned 500 milligrams a day of the new curcumin complex, the second group was given 50 milligrams a day of the standard arthritis medication diclofenac, and a third group took both the curcumin and the diclofenac.\n\nThe researchers measured the patients levels of joint swelling and tenderness to determine how the various treatments might have improved their symptoms using increments of 20, 50, and 70 percent. They found the group that took only curcumin experienced the best outcome, with 93 percent reporting a significant reduction (20 percent) in pain and swelling. Nearly three fourths of this group noted a 50 percent reduction, while a third noted 70 percent less joint swelling and tenderness.\n\nMother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary \"sulforaphane\" and \"glucosinolate\" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here.\n\nThe group that only took curcumin also came out on top when it came to a reduction in pain; the group noted a decrease in pain of 60 percent. You might think that adding the diclofenac medication to the curcumin would reduce their pain even further, but the group that took both treatments reported a drop in pain of 56 percent. Meanwhile, those who took the diclofenac on its own only noted a 50 percent reduction in pain.\n\nSelf-reported levels of pain are inherently subjective, although theres a lot of value in feeling improvements whether they can be scientifically measured or not. However, the researchers also looked at a concrete measurement of inflammation: erythrocyte sedimentation rates. They found that those taking the curcumin with diclofenac saw their erythrocyte sedimentation rates drop by 13.3 percent, while those taking just curcumin noted slightly lower drop of 11.2 percent. Those taking just diclofenac fared the worst in this regard with a reduction in their sedimentation rate of just 8.3.3 percent.\n\nThey also looked another inflammation marker, C-reactive protein measurements. Here, the difference between those taking curcumin and the other groups was even more noticeable. The group that only took curcumin saw their CRP reactive protein levels cut in half, while the diclofenac group experienced no CRP reductions and actually had slightly higher amounts of the inflammatory protein.\n\nIn addition to its superior performance, curcumin also has an edge what it comes to side effects. The patients in the curcumin-only group did not experience any adverse reactions or side effects. Meanwhile, those who took diclofenac experienced problems like liver toxicity, allergic reactions, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Other drugs that are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis arent much better. Methotrexate, for example, suppresses the immune system and can raise your risk of infection.\n\nBecause curcumin is so good at addressing inflammation, its uses extend far beyond treating rheumatoid arthritis. It also can help prevent or alleviate cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimers disease, multiple sclerosis, and even cancer.","title":"Turmeric extract combats the joint-damaging effects of arthritis","date":"2018-11-14","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"I usually dont finish games I start because the ending often feels like a culmination of something Ive been working toward for hours and consequently already understand. So Im impressed that We Happy Few, the second game from Canadian studio Compulsion Games, kept me obsessively hooked to the last moment. Less impressively, I was so obsessed because I just wanted the game to be what it had promised, not the thing Id been playing for the last 28 hours. We Happy Few is a unique piece of dystopian worldbuilding. Its also frequently confounding, occasionally miserable, and eventually lost within its own ambitions.\n\nThe colorful, creepy We Happy Few is set in a British town called Wellington Wells in an alternate 1964, where a non-Nazi German Empire won World War II after America chose to remain neutral. While under German occupation, the people of Wellington Wells did something terrible  so terrible that they chose to erase their memories with a euphoric hallucinogen called Joy. A couple of decades later, Wellington Wells is a groovy, rainbow-hued high-tech police state where being a drug-free Downer is illegal and every respectable citizen sports a permanently smiling mask. The towns infrastructure is falling apart, a plague is infecting residents, and the outskirts are filled with Joy-resistant wastrels. But nobody is rude enough to mention all that, if they notice at all.\n\nThe games primary character is a weedy censorship bureau employee named Arthur Hastings, who goes off his Joy when a newspaper story dredges up old memories of his long-lost brother. But its divided into acts featuring three protagonists with different gameplay styles. After starting with Arthur, it shifts to his childhood friend Sally Boyle, a stealth-focused chemist who is secretly (and illegally) raising a baby. It ends with the story of his old neighbor Ollie Starkey, a military veteran who prefers brute force and hallucinates the ghost of his young daughter. The characters stories intersect, but each is seeking redemption for a different all-consuming regret, while trying to survive a world where regret is a mortal sin.\n\nWe Happy Few draws from the classics of British dystopian fiction, evoking The Prisoners saccharinely sinister Village, Brazils euphemism-cloaked retro-futurism, Brave New Worlds drug-fueled faux-utopia, and 1984s Oceania with its constantly rewritten past. But it has a singularly creepy sort of bucolic coziness. Your characters literally know everyone in town by name, since the game generates (extremely, archetypally British) names for every single bystander, enemy, and corpse.\n\nCharacters treated gravity as more of a suggestion than a law\n\nWellington Wells repressive oligarchy runs the town from a handful of brutalist monoliths, but the most common threat is random citizens who will spontaneously attack you for things like wearing the wrong clothes in the wrong district. A torn suit in a fancy area reminds citizens that something is wrong, and a fancy suit in a wastrel district reminds outsiders of what theyve lost. The whole town is on a collective mission to forget, and if you anger someone, they will furiously insist that you get happy while bludgeoning you to death.\n\nA lot of encounters are darkly, absurdly funny because they involve characters acting out a charade of normal life in a practically post-apocalyptic landscape. This goes a long way toward making We Happy Fews high-concept setting tenable. The game reveals the towns atrocity early on, but it elides most questions about how Wellington Wells established its super high-tech society and what the rest of the world looks like. This is a solid bit of narrative discipline, so its too bad that most of the game is such a mess.\n\nWe Happy Few initially launched as an early access sandbox survival game in 2016, while the team worked on a story-focused campaign. The final product rests awkwardly between a gritty scavenging simulator and a Dishonored-style sneaky immersive sim. I hit a workable balance of story and survival early on, but the survival parts soon became annoying busywork locking up the story. Sally fights primarily by spraying or injecting enemies with drugs, which means every single takedown requires expending limited resources. Ollie is ambiguously diabetic (the game simply calls him unwell), so I limped around, slowly assembling a bee-proof suit for collecting honey that he could inject with a scavenged syringe. That is the kind of video game crafting shorthand that sounds increasingly ridiculous as you actually type it out.\n\nWellington Wells residents are alternately so inhumanly stupid and so inhumanly agile that mastering its simple stealth mechanics and clumsy melee combat feels pointless. My PC copy of We Happy Few also glitched constantly. Characters treated gravity as more of a suggestion than a law, and I had to abandon or restart quests because objects had disappeared or important characters had stopped reacting. And trying to fix bugs by reloading an auto-saved checkpoint creates a catch-22 because you have to quit to a main menu to load a save, but quitting overwrites the autosave with your latest progress.\n\nBut the biggest problem is that We Happy Few runs far, far too long  especially because it approaches Arthur, Sally, and Ollies acts as one interlocking narrative. Arthur has the most extended and revelatory arc, and his story bookends the game, which sets up Ollie and Sallys acts as tangential.\n\nThe game loses control over its own plot\n\nThe overall framing puts a strange, borderline misogynist spin on Sallys section. Arthur and Ollie are both atoning for clearly harmful choices they made during the occupation, and their arcs follow a defined pattern of remembering a minor transgression, going on a journey of redemption, and coming to a far more horrible revelation about themselves. Everything we learn about Sally, though, suggests that shes trying to atone for entering relationships with abusive men. The narrative structure paints this not as unreasonable self-loathing, but as loosely equivalent to Ollie and Arthurs decisions.\n\nI dont think We Happy Few is actively trying to draw these equivalences. The game just loses control over its own plot and worldbuilding as it progresses, to the point that Im not even sure whether some strange moments were bugs, and whether some storytelling choices were intentional or not. A few of the scenes that different protagonists share with each other, for instance, change script or location depending on who youre playing. The map of Wellington Wells changes between characters as well. This is probably the result of narrative streamlining and Compulsions reliance on procedural generation because it doesnt serve a clear purpose for the plot.\n\nEventually, We Happy Few managed to push me into a state where I simply constructed an alternate version of the game that was intentionally confusing and nonsensical, from the fetch quests that amounted to grabbing an object 10 feet away from the quest-giver to the moment everyones eyes turned red and the sky teemed with orange lines. (Unless that actually was intentional?)\n\nI doubt this was supposed to happen, but its somehow appropriate: while my version of the game might not be real, at least it makes me happy.\n\nis available now on PC, Xbox One, and PS4.","title":"We Happy Few is a creepy fascinating game that gets lost in its own ambition","date":"2018-08-10","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Special Counsel Robert Mueller is currently investigating whether George Nader, an advisor to the United Arab Emirates, is influencing U.S. policy, the New York Times reported on March 3rd. A new report by the AP shines light on the shadowy, past of Nader, who is known as a globe-trotting fixer, who once had an alleged appetite for minors.\n\nA key witness in the investigation into President Donald Trumps alleged collusion with Russia has fled the country, DailyMail.com can disclose. [...] He met Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon in Trump Tower just before the inauguration at a meeting they held with the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates. [...] Now DailyMail.com can reveal he has flown back to the UAE, according to two sources close to the countrys de-facto ruler Mohammed bin Zayed, who is known by his initials MBZ. [...] A Czech Republic court sentenced him to a year in prison in 2003 for ten cases of sexually abusing minors between 1999 and 2002. In one case, Nader asked for oral sex from a 14-year-old boy in a hotel room at the Hilton in Prague. When the boy refused, Nader masturbated in front of him and paid him 2,000 koruna, equivalent to around $100 today, a court official told the Associated Press. Politico then revealed he was convicted in 1986 in  a federal court in Northern Virginia in 1991 on a felony charge of transporting sexually explicit materials in foreign commerce  importing child pornography from overseas. He also had a 1986 charge of importing from magazines depicting nude boys from the Netherlands dismissed on a technicality.\n\nNader fleeing the country comes at a time when President Trump is using Twitter to turn the heat up on Mueller.\n\nSpecial Council is told to find crimes, whether a crime exists or not. I was opposed to the selection of Mueller to be Special Council. I am still opposed to it. I think President Trump was right when he said there never should have been a Special Council appointed because........there was no probable cause for believing that there was any crime, collusion or otherwise, or obstruction of justice! So stated by Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, Trump tweeted Wednesday.\n\nOn Monday, the President labeled the probe a total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest.\n\nOn Saturday, Trump tweeted, The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!","title":"REPORT Robert Muellers Shadowy Witness Flees The Country After Hes Exposed As Convicted Child M","date":"2018-03-21","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Donald Trumps handmaiden, Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA), worked on Trumps campaign and has continued to help him, even as chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Later, he creeped around in the middle of the night on a Trump errand. Now, the representative has been caught enjoying a very expensive lifestyle on campaign funds.\n\nTwo nonpartisan watchdog groups and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) have discovered how Nunes PAC spent nearly $43,000 on catering, hotels, meals, and site rentals in Las Vegas. He spent $7,229 in just seven high-end Las Vegas restaurants and hotels.\n\nThe watchdogs found that Nunes took political donations to buy almost $15,000 for Boston Celtics basketball game tickets and paid $3,594 at the four-star hotel the Omni Parker House in Boston. They also discovered he bought six luxurious winery tours for $5,000 and paid Gold Coast Limousine $5,000, too.\n\nLeadership PACs run by congressional leaders were designed to let them donate money to other political campaigns. Unfortunately, these Congress members also use them for other so-called fundraising expenses.\n\nBrendan Fischer and Maggie Christ authored a report by Campaign Legal Center and Issue One. The nonpartisan group keeps the spotlight on the ways Congress members use leadership PACs to subsidize lavish lifestyles on their donors dimes. The Fresno Bee reported that Fischer said:\n\nThe Fresno Bee interviewed Nunes and asked whether he had any intention of holding some local forums or town hall meetings. He responded:\n\nA McClatchy reporter went up to Nunes to ask about his PAC spending, but he refused to comment:\n\nLiz Mair Republican is a political strategist and head of the anti-Trump group Swamp Accountability Project. The organization currently funds anti-Nunes ads. She said:\n\nSet aside that Nunes has got to be one of about 15 people in his district that spends the NBA season rooting for the guys from Teddy Kennedys turf instead of local favorites; the fact is, the FEC is not going to look favorably on a dude who uses his tax-exempt political entity like a personal slush fund, flying himself to Boston to watch them while apparently engaging in no activity relevant to the purpose of the political organization.\n\nNunes spent $4,409 at the Sea Venture beach hotel near Santa Margarita, California. The representative itemized his Las Vegas, Boston, and winery charges as fundraising expenses.\n\nThus far, the representative raised over $7 million for his own re-election campaign PAC, named New PAC, in 2018. In the past, he only raised between $1 million and $2.5 million.\n\nWhen Nunes attached his star to POTUS, he became well-known. That enhanced his ability to fundraise for the GOP. His New PAC gave about 52 percent of its money to other politicians campaigns and political committees.\n\nUnfortunately, the House Ethics Committee rarely enforces its ban on using leadership PACs for personal use. The FEC has been cloudy on the matter.","title":"Devin Nunes Caught Funneling 43000 For Wild Las Vegas Party Lifestyle DETAILS","date":"2018-07-19","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Microsoft and Amazon are integrating their digital assistants this week. A new preview is being offered to both Cortana and Alexa users in the US that will allow each digital assistant to summon each other and access additional apps and services. The integration was first announced last year and demonstrated earlier this year at Microsofts Build developer conference, and now Microsoft and Amazon are seeking feedback before its broadly rolled out to all devices.\n\nThe integration is rather basic right now and requires users to summon each digital assistant through a rather clunky process. Alexa, open Cortana will launch Cortana on an Echo device, and Hey Cortana, open Alexa, will do the same on Windows 10 PCs and devices like the Harman Kardon Invoke speaker. Cortana and Alexa will both be enabled as a skill on each platform, allowing you to call up Cortana from an Echo device and get access to some of the Windows \/ Office specific features of the digital assistant. Likewise, Windows 10 users will be able to access Alexa through Cortana to access a host of skills and smart home integrations.\n\nMicrosoft and Amazon are working to integrate Cortana and Alexa further\n\nWhile the integration might be clunky, Microsoft and Amazon are working towards improving this in the future. The goal is to have two integrated digital assistants who can carry out tasks across different dimensions of daily life, explains Microsofts Jennifer Langston. Features like streaming music or alarms are not available just yet, but Microsoft says additional skills and features will be added over time. Engineers will use feedback from the public preview to deepen the collaboration between Cortana and Alexa, explains Langston.\n\nAmazon is also bringing Alexa to a number of Windows 10 PCs with a dedicated app that can listen for the Alexa wake word. Microsoft hasnt really been pushing ahead with Cortana, though. With the exception of the Cortana-powered thermostat, Microsofts digital assistant has not started appearing in more speakers, cars, fridges, toasters, and thermostats like the company promised. Cortana has now fallen far behind both Alexa and Google Assistant, and Microsoft has now placed its Outlook for iPhone boss in charge of Cortana to help improve the situation.\n\nIf you want to try out Alexa on Cortana, and vice versa, you can simply say Hey Cortana, open Alexa on a Windows 10 PC, or say Alexa, open Cortana on an Echo device.","title":"Microsoft and Amazon release preview of Cortana and Alexa integration","date":"2018-08-15","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may appear on the big screen in a cameo for an upcoming biopic on her early career.\n\nStephen Root, an actor in On the Basis of Sex, told The Hollywood Reporter that the high court justice recently filmed a brief appearance on a set of courthouse steps. The filming occurred in November, according to The Associated Press.\n\nThe movie, directed by Mimi Leder and written by Ginsburgs nephew Daniel Stiepleman, stars Felicity Jones as a young Ginsburg, working on what would become a landmark gender discrimination case. It also chronicles Ginsburgs relationship with her late husband Martin Ginsburg, played by Armie Hammer.\n\nRepresentatives for Participant Media, a production company for the movie, could not immediately be reached for comment.\n\nThe movie, out later this year, is one of two recent big screen projects featuring the justice and cultural icon sometimes dubbed the Notorious RBG. An eponymous documentary about her, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, will land in theaters in May before airing on CNN.\n\nGinsburg, a noted opera and theater fan, has also previously appeared on stage in several operas, as well as a cameo during a 2016 production of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice  playing a judge.","title":"Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Might Be Coming To A Movie Theater Near You","date":"2018-04-17","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton, took a moment to thank the Secret Service for helping to ensure her parents safety Wednesday.\n\nEvery day, I am grateful to the women and men of the United States Secret Service. Thank you, she tweeted.\n\nEvery day, I am grateful to the women and men of the United States Secret Service. Thank you.  Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) October 24, 2018\n\nBill Clinton also echoed this gratitude to the agency.\n\nThank you to the @SecretService and all law enforcement agencies who responded to this week's incidents. They work tirelessly to keep our country and communities safe. I am forever grateful for their efforts.  Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) October 24, 2018\n\nThe Secret Service intercepted suspicious packages containing potential explosive devices that were sent to the Clintons home in the suburbs of New York City late Tuesday, and President Barack Obamas office in Washington D.C. Wednesday.\n\nThe packages were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such. The protectees did not receive the packages nor were they at risk of receiving them, the Secret Service said.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been briefed on the situation and tweeted I agree wholeheartedly with Vice President Mike Pences sentiment that These cowardly actions are despicable & have no place in this Country.\n\nBill Clinton, Marc Mezvinsky, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky, Chelsea Clinton, and Hillary Clinton depart Lenox Hill Hospital on June 20, 2016, in New York City.\n\nOn Wednesday, CNNs newsroom was evacuated when a suspicious package was sent to its headquarters in New York City, causing an alarm to sound while CNN hosts Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow were on air.\n\nThe New York Police Department confirmed it responded to the incident at CNNs Time Warner Center headquarters.\n\nThese are developing stories, please check here and here for updates.","title":"Chelsea Clinton Thanks Secret Service Amid Hillary And Bills Bomb Scare","date":"2018-10-24","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Google reportedly ordered its employees to delete an internal memo detailing its controversial plan for a censored search engine in China.\n\nThe confidential document, according to a new report from The Intercept, reveals the secretive search engine not only requires users to link their identity and location to searches by logging into an account, but that a Chinese partner would be granted unilateral access to the data.\n\nGoogle soon discovered that the memo had begun circulating this month among unauthorized employees opposed to the project and demanded the content be purged from all devices.\n\nGoogle human resources personnel emailed employees who were believed to have accessed or saved copies of the memo and ordered them to immediately delete it from their computers, The Intercept, citing three sources, reported. Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained pixel trackers that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined.\n\nDesigned to censor information deemed sensitive by Chinas ruling Communist Party, the search engine, which will be available as apps for both Android and iOS, will also link users searches to their phone number as well.\n\nThe memo adds that Chinese users movements would also be stored, along with the IP address of their device and links they clicked on, The Intercept states. It accuses developers working on the project of creating spying tools for the Chinese government to monitor its citizens.\n\nSources also said a prototype of the search engine blacklisted results on specific queries including human rights, Nobel Prize and student protest.\n\nThe Intercept also reports that Google is believed to have a special internal unit known as stopleaks tasked with preventing unauthorized disclosures.\n\nU.S. lawmakers just last week sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding answers regarding the Dragonfly project.\n\nGoogle should not be helping China crack down on free speech and political dissent, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) tweeted. I just sent this letter with some of my Republican and Democratic colleagues raising our serious concerns and questions about what theyre doing.\n\nThat same day a report from The Intercept also revealed that senior Google scientist Jack Poulson quit over the project after he says his concerns were ignored.\n\nDue to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents, Poulson wrote in a resignation letter to Google. I view our intent to capitulate to censorship and surveillance demands in exchange for access to the market as a forfeiture of our values and governmental negotiating position across the globe.\n\nMore than 1,400 Google employees also signed a letter to Pichai last month seeking information on what were building.\n\nA group of leading human rights organizations wrote a similar letter to Pichai last month as well, calling on Google to immediately end the project.\n\nLike many of Googles own employees, we are extremely concerned by reports that Google is developing a new censored search engine app for the Chinese market, the letter said. The Chinese government extensively violates the rights to freedom of expression and privacy; by accomodating the Chinese authorities repression of dissent, Google would be actively participating in those violations for millions of internet users in China.\n\nGoogle and Pichai, who recently drew the ire of the U.S. government after refusing to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, has thus far declined to publicly comment on Dragonfly.","title":"Google Employees Reportedly Forced to Delete Chinese Censorship Memo","date":"2018-09-21","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"It's that time of year again - I'm A Celebrity is officially back on our screens, keeping us occupied during those long winter nights in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nThe reality show favourite returns with a fresh set of celebrities gearing up for a stint in the Australian jungle to prove they can handle the great outdoors.\n\nAmong those being put through their paces is actress Emily Atack, best known for her breakout role in The Inbetweeners.\n\nShe hit headlines in October after pictures surfaced of her with Strictly star Seann Walsh amid his kissing scandal with professional dancer Katya Jones.\n\nSpeaking ahead of her jungle debut, the 28-year-old said she wouldn't turn down the opportunity at finding romance.\n\n\"I am single at the moment. And never say never,\" she said.\n\n\"We are in a situation where we are not all going to smell our best, not going to look our best and I can't really imagine it happening but hey, who knows?! It's just a bit of fun.\"\n\nHere's everything you need to know about Emily Atack:\n\nAtack rose to fame playing Charlotte Hinchcliffe, the love interest of Simon Bird's Will McKenzie, in The Inbetweeners.\n\nThe hit sit-com aired on E4 from 2008 to 2010.\n\nThe actress has also been in Dad's Army, Rock and Chips, Tracey Ullman's Show and the Keith Lemon Sketch show.\n\nShe has also had parts in a handful of independent films including Iron Sky: The Coming Race and Lost in Florence.\n\nIn her latest project, she stars alongside Avengers' Cobie Smulders in new comedy film Alright Now.","title":"Who is Emily Atack Meet the Inbetweeners actress and Iaposm A Celebrity star","date":"2018-11-13","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) As if the pain of having and living through cancer wasnt bad enough, diagnosing the disease is, in itself, an ordeal. But invasive biopsies may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a low-cost, chip-based blood test developed by researchers at the University of Kansas (KU), according to a study published in Integrative Biology.\n\nCancer is not like most diseases. In most cases, doctors are able to make a diagnosis after confirming symptoms or performing a test or two. In cancer, physicians have to conduct a biopsy which, in certain types of cancer, can be very invasive and painful.\n\nIn blood cancers, for example, a biopsy means extracting a bone marrow sample by inserting a large bone biopsy needle through an incision. In certain cases, a larger incision could be made and a section of bone taken through surgery.\n\nFortunately, things are looking better. Researchers from KU have developed a low-cost, reliable blood test that provides the same information as a bone biopsy but with less pain and only a blood draw.\n\nFor the last 10 years, weve been developing a blood-based test for a variety of cancer diseases  one of them is multiple myeloma, said Steven Soper, professor of chemistry and mechanical engineering at KU.\n\nThe blood test uses a plastic chip the size of a credit card. It can tell the doctor various crucial details about the patient and the disease, such as the cancer stage and any sign of recurrence in the event of a remission. The technology is not new  there have been similar tests in the past but they tended to tag normal blood cells as myeloma cells, leading to highly inaccurate readings. In comparison, KUs chips have been improved in terms of performance and precision, particularly for multiple myeloma.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nWe get very few blood cells, Soper said. Only multiple myeloma cells. So, the ability for us to efficiently detect those cells is very high and thus, diagnose the disease at a more treatable stage.\n\nSopers team was able to circumvent another common misgiving about the technology  manufacturing. Similar chips have been considered too complicated and costly to produce. The KU researchers claimed that their technology using injection-molded plastic, the very same process used to make CDs and DVDs. This brings the cost down to just a few dollars per chip.\n\nAs of this year, the technology is going through testing and is exhibiting very promising results. Its creators claim it could be applied to other types of cancer as well. The current test was designed to detect multiple myeloma, but they have developed similar chips that can detect ovarian, prostate, colorectal, pancreatic, and breast cancers.\n\nThey hope that the technology would make screening for cancer a more routine procedure so that more people can obtain treatment before their condition has become difficult to address.\n\nMultiple myeloma is one of the three main types of blood cancer besides leukemia and lymphoma. It affects white blood cells called plasma cells whose main function is to protect the body by microbial pathogens. In multiple myeloma, the cancer cells gather in the bone marrow. This is why its diagnosis usually requires the extraction of a little portion of the bone marrow.\n\nCancer impedes plasma cells from performing their job. Instead of fighting off germs, they produce abnormal proteins that cause many of the complications associated with the disease, including anemia, bone problems, and kidney impairment. Because the disease affects the bodys line of defense against disease, sufferers are also prone to infections. (Related: Science journal confirms eating turmeric cured myeloma cancer in 57-year-old woman.)\n\nMultiple myeloma has no known specific cause, but its risk factors may include:\n\nCheck out other less painful methods of diagnosing cancer at AntiCancer.news.","title":"Low-cost chip-based blood test for multiple myeloma may be safer and less painful alternative to bo","date":"2018-09-22","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Scott Ostrem sentenced to life in prison for murdering three in 2017 Thornton Walmart shooting","title":"National Republican group pulls 1 million out of Mike Coffmans race","date":"2018-10-19","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"The firm of globalist billionaire George Soros invested millions in several tech giants just months before they underwent a coordinated purge of Infowars and Alex Jones.\n\nSoros Fund Management invested in major tech and social media companies in the second quarter, Fox Business reported Wednesday.\n\nThe family office of billionaire investor George Soros added stakes in Apple, Facebook and Twitter, while reducing stakes in Amazon and Googles parent company, Alphabet.\n\nSoros isnt the only billionaire with a renewed interest in Big Tech.\n\nBerkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett revealed in a regulatory filing earlier this month that his firm bought billions of dollars of additional Apple stock in its most recent quarter, Silicon Valley Business Journal reported.\n\nLast week, Apple, Facebook, YouTube [Google], and Spotify all inexplicably banned Infowars from their platforms, with many others following suit days after, justified under the weak guise of flagging hate speech.\n\nAdditionally, Twitter suspended both Alex Jones and the Infowars twitter accounts this week for appealing to President Trump to take action on online censorship.\n\nIs it a coincidence these same companies blacklisted Infowars  the sworn enemy of Soros  after the globalist kingpin got involved in them?","title":"Coincidence Soros Invests in Tech Giants Months Before Infowars Banned","date":"2018-08-15","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Austerity has had a devastating effect on local government. Although as leaders of the LGA Labour Group, we each represent very different communities of the UK  the city of Newcastle, the inner-London borough of Lambeth, and the shire districts of the East Midlands - we all share a similar experience of the dreadful way that austerity has affected the lives of our residents since 2010. Government cuts have seen over 500 childrens centres and 475 libraries close, potholes are left unfilled, and 80% of councils workers now say have no confidence in the future of local services.\n\nLocal councils were the very first target of Tory and Lib Dem austerity in 2010, with George Osbornes emergency budget slicing funding from programmes like Sure Start within weeks of taking office. He then returned to slash billions in funding for councils year after year, cheered on by Eric Pickles. From the very start the Conservatives have tried to use the cynical ploy of passing the blame for cuts onto councils  and particularly onto Labour councils, who were given the biggest reductions. Since 2010 an astonishing 16billion has been cut from council funding, equivalent to more than 60p from every 1. Austerity was thrown at councils with a ferocity greater than any other area of government.\n\nSo when Theresa May announced in her conference speech last month that austerity is over many presumed that the first target of this reverse would be local government. As the biggest losers from austerity, and with many council services close to crisis, surely councils would be the first in line for new investment if austerity is over? But no - incredibly the Government is actually planning a further cut of 1.3billion next year, with grants slashed by another 36% in 2019\/20 and 168 councils set to receive no central funds from government at all. With Northamptonshire already bankrupt, there is little doubt that if these planned cuts go ahead many other council budgets will be plunged into a similar crisis.\n\nCouncils are now at breaking point  which is why as Labour councillors we formed the Breaking Point campaign, which is calling for the Government to cancel the planned cuts for next year, and to immediately invest 2billion in childrens services and 2billion in adult social care to stop these vital services for vulnerable people from collapsing. The response from Labour councillors has been overwhelming - in less than two weeks over 5,000 Labour councillors signed the petition, more than 85% of all Labour councillors in England and Wales. Many also took the time to share their own heart-breaking stories of the effects that austerity has had in their own communities. The Breaking Point petition is now the most-signed petition of Labour councillors ever - it reveals our common strength of feeling about the need to end Tory austerity and our sense of unity in coming together to say that enough is enough.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has been clear that if Labour were in power we would end austerity, and wed be re-investing in the sort of preventative services that actually save the public purse in the long run. But until a General Election is called we have no other option but to make our voices heard loud and clear to Theresa May and Chancellor Philip Hammond. So today were taking the campaign to the heart of government, and delivering it to 10 Downing Street, along with shadow Communities and Local Government secretary Andrew Gwynne MP, and some of our many other supporters in Parliament.\n\nDoubtless this arrogant Government will try to dismiss our campaign as a political stunt  but that couldnt be further from the truth. The campaign is a clear warning that local councils just cannot go on like this  if the cuts continue, vital public services that keep vulnerable children safe, provide dignity to people at the end of their lives, or offer routes out of homelessness for people with nowhere else to turn, will simply collapse. Over five thousand Labour councillors have joined together because we understand that it is our duty to speak out  but ultimately it is Theresa May and Philip Hammonds responsibility to listen.","title":"Councils Are At Breaking Point - If Cuts Continue Vital Services Will Simply Collapse","date":"2018-10-18","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Alex Jones crashes a Buzzfeed event in downtown Austin, Texas and confronts the brainwashed liberals and leftist zombies who have gathered to cheer on the censorship of conservatives across the country.","title":"VIDEO Leftists Triggered By America Is Back Chant","date":"2018-10-01","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Citizen journalist Laura Loomer shares the latest on her fight against Twitter silencing conservatives and libertarians.","title":"Live Exclusive Laura Loomer Statement","date":"2018-11-30","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Humanity has, for millennia, been led down the road of an entirely false agenda. So much so, that every aspect of society is almost the precise reverse of what it should be.\n\nJust a glimmer of awareness reveals that the true potential of the majority of mankind remains locked away, unable to exert any influence on the course of events on our planet.\n\nGiven the scale of this imprisonment, it becomes apparent that the world has been moving on a trajectory invented and directed by a false intelligence, whose interests are diametrically opposed to the intelligence of natural planetary consciousness.\n\nI use the word intelligence because its hard to find the right word to describe that which is very clever, but lacks the ability to feel love or compassion; and is often ruthless without ever showing emotion. Intelligence should have a more human ring to it, but the word has been hijacked by the spying networks: the CIA, FBI, MI5 for example, all call themselves intelligence agencies. Not exactly warm-blooded institutions!\n\nWithin the hierarchies of banks, corporations, the military, governments, the media and various global trading organizations, one will find a plethora of quasi-humans in line to get their hands onto the levers of the central control system. The top-down pyramid which steers the daily agenda for millions of mortals caught-up in the 9 to 5 treadmill. Yet, those climbing the employment ladder within these same institutions, more often than not lack any awareness of what is going on above their heads.\n\nWe should consider the following question: at exactly what point within this typical corporate pyramid, does the ordinary mortal metamorphose into the ranks of the subhuman control master? Which floor serves as the subtle switch-point where the 9 to 5 worker just doing a job shifts into a dedicated trainee in the art of power over the people management?\n\nI am not proposing to answer this, as it is a largely hypothetical question; but I suggest that the process whereby the false agenda for humanity is able to be maintained, year in year out, relies heavily on the unquestioning cooperation of those who, at some point, change their identity  or have their identity changed  from just ordinary workers to corporate clones. In other words those who see the world entirely through the lens of the corporation they work for.\n\nThe renowned social psychiatrist\/psychologist Dr Erich Fromm, in his last major thesis The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness traces the decline of the sentient human at the hands of a corporate intelligence which is specifically designed to dehumanize those climbing up its ranks. So that by the time they reach the top, such people have become robotic, in virtually every action they undertake.\n\nHere lies the mechanism whereby the human becomes less than human; the less than human becomes inhuman; and the inhuman becomes a biological robotic clone and proponent of Transhumanist Artificial Intelligence  which takes the false agenda for humanity ever nearer to its ultimate goal.\n\nPerhaps not ultimate, but far enough to ensure that humanity as we know it, is superseded by another form of intelligence that has nothing to do with nature or the exigence expressed in natural human emotions of love, joy, pain and sorrow.\n\nCyborgian artificial intelligence is just that: artificial. Art put in reverse so as to eliminate the godly, the beautiful, the spontaneous  all that which gives expression to what it really means to be human.\n\nBut consider the fact that it is people suffering these type of symptoms who are in the driving seat of world affairs; running governments, banks and technocratic institutions like the European Union. The mentality is that of a corporate trained control freak  and the greater the power on hand, the greater the ego fueled top-down control manipulation becomes.\n\nThe structural design of the neoliberal\/neoconservative capitalist Leviathon is not an accident. It is a deliberate formula for the entrapment of mankind. One which puts into reverse  and thereby completely distorts  the true hierarchical themes of nature and the cosmos. In just the same way as Hitler inverted and reversed the design of the original swastika, an ancient peace symbol from Southern India, into a twisted symbol of war.\n\nThe symbols that adorn all top-end corporate chains and industries, follow this same pattern. They are nearly all based upon ancient archetypal forms. Forms that symbolized mans desire to give expression to the powers of nature, as well as the cosmic influences that were mythologized into gods and pantheistic forces of power and influence. Symbols that expressed higher aspirations of bygone civilisations.\n\nThe big-chiefs of corporate globalization adorn their high-rise totems and plush office suites with the very same symbols, but what do they stand for now?\n\nQuite simply, a crassly materialistic paradigm which has usurped the nature gods of old; declaring itself the new supreme force to which mankind must go on its knees in unquestionoing obeisance.\n\nAnd, as we know, the majority of mankind has been complicit in fulfilling this role, ensuring a self-inflicted avenue of slavery and passive acceptance of the role assigned by the prevailing status quo.\n\nIndeed, there appears to be no end to the butchery and bullying in the cause of keeping the Leviathan rolling forward. The US military  backed by its European allies  ranges the planet in support of the ceaseless profligate mining of valuable minerals, to make the fuels that fill the tanks of Big Pharma, Big Agro, Big Army and Big Business. While the public, rather than rising up against mammon, appear to be paralyzed by the spectacle, unable to imagine anything less destructively domineering that might take its place.\n\nI used the words appear to be because there is, of course, another emergent energy that tells another story. That breaks through the deception that man is nothing more than a psychopathetic instrument in the hands of all dominant, aggressive and less than human oppressors.\n\nIt is not just any other energy. It is the long-buried  and steadily more volcanic  energy of liberated spirit. A revivified spirit which is finding its way back into the arteries of an ever-growing number of ex hostages of the status quo, as well as new arrivals on this planet.\n\nEveryday this spirit is gaining further momentum and a stronger equilibrium. Cracks in the false agenda are widening; the confidence of its perpetrators is wavering; the old power base is leaking.\n\nChinks of light glitter amongst the darkness; the sense of an upwardly rising change is in the air, counteracting the stench of stagnation and decline.\n\nWhat is this?\n\nWe the people have arrived at a critical point in this apocalyptic epoch, finding out that we are possessed of power we never knew we had; starting to believe in a Self we never knew we cradled; hearing a voice we never could hear before. Finding in each other, sources of mutual support, not just a shackled fellow prisoner.\n\nAs this process grows, so the false agenda is further revealed for what it is, and its chief perpetrators are exposed ever more clearly for what they are. The seemingly inexorable drive towards a cybernetic future, or one populated and run by gender-bent, micro-chipped mock-humans, is being infiltrated by warm-blooded, nature loving true humans. Trees are being planted where concrete was once the only landscape.\n\nWe are learning that where our thoughts go  energy follows. And that if these thoughts are full of creativity and life, so will our lives also be. We are learning that we can take charge of our destinies after all. That, at any moment, we could dispense with the false reality of the top down centralized command system, and be free to start our own version of reality. One informed by our love of Truth  a determination to act on this truth  and a growing aspiration to Be rather than to have.\n\nJulian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer, actor and international activist.\n\nHe is President of the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside. Julian is the author of two acclaimed titles: Changing Course for Life and In Defense of Life, which can be purchased by visiting www.julianrose.info. He has just completed his third book Overcoming the Mechanistic Mind for which he is currently seeking a publisher.\n\nwas last modified: by","title":"A False Agenda for Humanity","date":"2018-02-05","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"Jonathan Shuttlesworth joins Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne to discuss the role of preachers in Americas hyper-partisan climate. Jonathan reveals the true source behind the political agenda of the left.","title":"Preachers Must Standup Proclaim The Truth","date":"2018-10-22","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Troubled retailer House of Fraser is set to move ahead with store closures after reaching a settlement with landlords who had challenged the terms of its rescue deal.\n\nIn June, the department store chain announced plans to close 31 stores, more than half of its branches, under company voluntary arrangements aimed at allowing the company to deal with mounting debt problems.\n\nThe group said the costs of running its store network had become unsustainable, and closing branches was a necessary step in order to continue operating.\n\nHowever, a group of landlords challenged the firms plans, on the basis that they were being taken advantage of via the CVA (company voluntary arrangement) process.\n\nCVAs are often used by companies facing financial difficulty, allowing businesses to pay lower rents and offload expensive real estate space.\n\nHouse of Frasers CVA supervisors and the landlords group reached a legal settlement over the weekend, meaning the retailer can go ahead with its store closures, while continuing to seek an investor to fund a rescue deal.\n\nA spokesperson for the joint supervisors of the House of Fraser CVAs said the settlement has been reached to avoid the costs of litigation, and added that it allows the companies to continue looking for a solution without the CVAs being subject to the risk of further legal proceedings.\n\nIn a statement released by their legal team, the landlords said: Although we will not have our day in court, we are pleased with the outcome and hope that our landmark legal challenge sends a clear message to any other companies considering a CVA, on the importance of transparency and fair treatment for all creditors throughout a CVA process.\n\nLandlords are always willing to enter into a proper dialogue with companies and their advisers with the aim of rescuing a business. However, the retail CVA process in the UK has become increasingly misused and prejudiced against landlords and needs correcting. CVAs were designed as a means to rescue a business, not simply a tool to shed undesirable leases for the benefit of equity shareholders.\n\nMark Williams, president of retail property organisation Revo, said: House of Fraser is a business that has been underinvested in for many years and thats the ultimate reason for its failure.\n\nLandlords are motivated to work with the retail industry, as evident here, and absolutely want to avoid these situations, but the fact is that the inherent weaknesses of the CVA process remain, as this particular case demonstrates, and this needs to be urgently addressed by the industry and by government.\n\nA number of British retailers have turned to CVAs in recent months, as high street brands struggle to cut costs in the face of huge debts, with Mothercare confirming 50 store closures under a CVA, and Italian restaurant chain Carluccios announcing plans to shut up to 30 branches.","title":"House of Fraser to close 31 stores nationwide after reaching legal settlement with landlords","date":"2018-08-06","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"On the 200th anniversary of her terrifying story, we uncover the heartbreak that inspired Mary Shelley  and examine the gruesome masterpieces that followed her monstrous creation","title":"Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Turns 200","date":"2018-10-31","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calf.) spoke on the House floor for more than eight hours Wednesday, adamant she would not support an emerging long-term budget deal unless House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) commits to allow a vote on legislation protecting young undocumented immigrants. Such an announcement would be similar to the one Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made last month that helped reopen the government.\n\nHer speech set a record for the longest continuous remarks on the House floor. The record had been previously set in 1909, when a lawmaker spoke for five hours and 15 minutes, according to the House Historians Office.\n\nTop Senate leaders are working to finalize a two-year budget deal that would boost defense spending sought by President Donald Trump as well as some domestic spending sought by Democrats. The House, meanwhile, passed a short-term bill on Tuesday that would extend funding for the government until March 23, but it is expected to be altered in the Senate ahead of a Thursday deadline.\n\nTrump put nearly 700,000 undocumented young people at risk of losing deportation protection and work permits when he ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, in September. He told Congress it had until March, when DACA recipients will begin to lose protections in larger numbers, to pass a bill to help them.\n\nPelosi shared personal stories of many so-called Dreamers, the term for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, on Wednesday and read aloud their words about wanting to remain in the U.S. The California Democrat delivered extended remarks, according to her rights as minority leader, which allow her to speak without a time limit on the House floor.\n\nShe and other Democrats have been calling for a vote on the Dream Act, a bill that would grant legal status to undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children, including DACA recipients. But Ryan, who controls the House floor, hasnt allowed for a vote on the Dream Act or other bipartisan bills to help Dreamers.\n\nI dont know when well have another opportunity that matches today for us to just get a simple commitment from the speaker of the House that he will give us a vote, she said. Theres no guarantee. Well have the debate. People will weigh in. They will make their voices heard. Congress again will work its will.\n\nMcConnell said on Tuesday that after Congress approves funding on Thursday, the Senate will have an open process for considering immigration legislation, allowing all members to present their ideas. But Ryan said hell only allow the House to vote on an immigration bill that Trump will sign.\n\nTrump said he would support a path to citizenship for 1.8 million Dreamers but is demanding measures that Democrats and even some Republicans oppose. Democrats have said they would support border security in exchange for Dreamer protections  some of them even saying they would allow for Trumps wall  but draw the line on measures that would hurt asylum-seekers, including children. Democrats also oppose Trumps demands to dramatically reduce legal immigration options by ending the diversity visa lottery and phasing out types of family-based green cards. Some Republicans also oppose cuts to legal immigration.\n\nMany advocates believe the best chance for Dreamer protections is for Congress to pass what it can and then send it to the president, versus conforming to his demands that tank a deal.\n\nThe speaker of the House is saying we dont matter here, the members of the House, she said. We dont count in this consideration. Because maybe we just dont have the courage to do what we need to do. I believe we do.","title":"Nancy Pelosi Holds The Floor More Than 8 Hours To Demand Immigration Promise","date":"2018-02-07","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"The White House has fired Steve Goldstein, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, after contradicting the account of Secretary of State Rex Tillersons dismissal.\n\nOn Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced he was replacing Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. In addition, the President revealed Gina Haspel has been selected to replace Pompeo at the CIA.\n\nMike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all! Trump tweeted.\n\nAs The Gateway Pundit reported, there have been rumblings Tillerson was on the way out for several months now.","title":"FLASH Under Secretary of State FIRED After Contradicting Account of Tillersons Dismissal","date":"2018-03-13","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Like anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, I cannot get enough of the actor Idris Elba. From drug-dealing Stringer Bell in The Wire to Asgardian sentry Heimdall in the Marvel Universe, from his starring role in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom to his spacecraft captain in Prometheus, he never met a line he didnt nail or a scene he didnt improve.\n\nNext James Bond or not (not, according to the man himself), he could star in Speaking Clock and spend two hours intoning At the third stroke, the time sponsored by Accurist will be... 720 times, and Id go to the cinema for that.\n\nAll of which is a tediously gushing preamble to the pained admission that, for now at least, though its the earliest of days, the director Idris Elba is another matter.\n\nIn Yardie, his passion-project debut behind the camera, there are some promising signs. Elba tells the tale of a basically good Jamaican boy propelled to badness by grief with visual flair.\n\nIn the early scenes he adroitly juxtaposes the lush beauty of Jamaicas mountains with the bullet-ridden bleakness of wild west Kingstons dirt-track roads. He gets up close to the action to paint a vivid portrait of a paradise lost to poverty and its blood brother, violence.\n\nWhat he lacks, when the plot moves to London, is perspective. He never draws far enough back from the (overly intricate) narrative to decide what he wants to say. He has an eye for framing a shot but little vision. He has an ear for dialogue but seems rather deaf to the themes that lurk beneath the words.\n\nWith a stronger story this would matter less. But the tale of Dennis Campbell (Aml Ameen), known as D, feels less original and engrossing today than a quarter of a century ago when Elba, as a young Hackneyite, was wowed by Victor Headleys ground-breaking 1992 novel.\n\nThat flatter-to-deceive opening shows 10-year-old D being brutalised by two murders  the first of a schoolgirl friend caught in drug-gang crossfire; the second of his older brother, known for rasta-locks reasons as Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary), who he worships.\n\nIn 1973 Jerry DJs an impromptu gig he hopes will unite warring Kingston gangs in reggae harmony. With his One Love concert in 1978 Bob Marley (who doesnt feature alongside Black Uhuru, Grace Jones and others on the gorgeous soundtrack) tried something similar on a grander political scale  with similarly blood-soaked results. Jerry is leading the crowd in the chant No more war in the ghetto when someone misinterprets the message and shoots him dead. This event, as a reflective D narrates, shunted him to a defining crossroads. Do I take the righteous path, or the path of the damned?\n\nNo holiday-of-a-lifetime star prize for guessing which. At 16, prey to psychotic jags and dreams of avenging Jerry, D is packing a piece in the employ of drug lord King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd), who a few years later sends him to London with a kilo of choicest cocaine strapped to his leg.\n\nSo far, so good... but no further. The moment D glides through an endearingly hands-off customs search at Heathrow the authentic flavour of the Jamaican scenes begins to evaporate.\n\nIt never wholly vanishes thanks to rigorous attention to period detail that goes beyond the clothes and cars. The shots of desolate tower blocks and underlit streets perfectly recreate the desolation of 1980s east London. In the club scenes, where rival soundclash crews preface the rap contests to come, you can almost smell the mixed scent of ganja and sweat.\n\nAfter D tracks down nurse Yvonne (Shantol Jackson, the standout performer here), who fled Kingston with their baby and rages at him for revisiting on them the violence she thought theyd escaped, their relationship has real ice and fire.\n\nIts in the gangstery stuff that Elba loses the plot. Marooned between Guy Ritchies facetious geezerdom and the visceral brutality of Martin Scorsese, he gives in to broad-brush retro silliness until you half expect John Thaw and Dennis Waterman to rap on Yvonnes door, yelling Oi, open up, you slaaaag. Its the Sweeney.\n\nWhen D isnt hallucinating the brother whose spirit he kept from eternal rest by interrupting his funeral, he mixes with some unlikely hoods. Rico (Stephen Graham), the drug baron to whom he was supposed to deliver the cocaine, is a raving mad white man who switches at random between Jamaican patois and Kraytwinese. The teenaged henchmen Rico sends to recover his missing flake include a sweetly soppy boy who might be auditioning for Rodney in an Only Fools And Horses musical. Like the eruptions of strangely anodyne violence, none of it feels real.\n\nA talented Anglo-Jamaican cast do their best to mask the humourlessness of a patchy script and the threadbare characterisation, though this film would have been stronger, as if it needs saying, had Elba joined them on screen.\n\nThere is so much to be said about the experience of Caribbean immigrants to an unimaginably less welcoming city than, for all the Windrush outrage, it is today. Elba hints at the sense of dislocation for those who swapped one ghetto for a rainier alternative. But he doesnt explore it in any more depth than he brings to Ds moral confliction and search for redemption.\n\nIf his first film often looks good and always sounds great, beneath its skin it is short of heart and soul. But nothing lies beyond the powers of a man who can charm you even when hes flogging Sky subscriptions on telly. His second, I feel certain, will be better.","title":"Yardie review Idris Elbaaposs directorial debut is sadly short on heart and soul","date":"2018-08-31","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"After the controversial Democratic primaries between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Democrats are looking ahead to 2020 in hopes of putting forth the best candidate possible to unseat Mr. Trump. This past week, the Democratic National Committee hosted its summer meeting in Chicago aimed at voting on policies and reforms.\n\nOn Saturday, The DNC voted overwhelmingly on a new policy to dramatically reduce the power and influence of superdelegates in choosing the partys presidential nominee. According to NPR:\n\nDNC members voted on a proposal to take away the role of elected officials and other party dignitaries in selecting a nominee at the Democratic convention  leaving it up to delegates selected in primaries and caucuses only  unless the process becomes deadlocked. Opponents of the move stood down and the measures were adopted in a voice vote. A DNC panel overwhelmingly approved the move earlier this summer.\n\nThe reforms adopted also encourage individual states to do away with caucuses and switch to primaries administered by state and local election officials. If states continue to hold caucuses, which are in-person meetings, there has to be a provision for people to vote absentee in circumstances where there are barriers such as military service, childcare, or disabilities.\n\nTodays decision by the DNC is an important step forward in making the Democratic Party more open, democratic and responsive to the input of ordinary Americans. This has been a long and arduous process, and I want to thank Tom Perez and all of those who made it happen.\n\nIn 2016, Hillary Clinton also largely earned the backing of the Democratic Partys superdelegates, and won the majority of the delegates decided in the primaries and in the caucuses. However, many Sanders supporters felt that support from the party establishment was an unfair advantage, and a means to which other outside candidates could be prevented from seriously contending for the nomination. It was inevitable that Hillary would win the nomination.\n\nIn June, the DNCs Rules and Bylaws Committee voted 27 to 1 o prevent superdelegates from voting on the first round of ballots at presidential nominating conventions. Perez said:\n\nWeve always said that we are the party of all, and we are proving it by working this resolution and moving and changing our rules. When we include all voices, we have the power to move mountains.\n\nThe proposal drew criticism from some though. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA)., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, wrote a letter to Perez, saying:\n\n(the policy would) disenfranchise elected officials for no substantive reason and would create unnecessary competition between those elected and their constituents. The thought that a member of Congress would have to compete with their constituents in an election to secure a first ballot vote on the partys nominee creates unnecessary friction between those elected and the people they are elected to serve.\n\nFormer interim DNC chair Donna Brazille also criticized the proposal, saying:","title":"Democrats Vote To Limit Power Of Superdelegates Outcome Has Trump Freaking Out","date":"2018-08-25","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Since the dawn of time, various factors have forced animals to evolve so they can improve their chances of survival. But according to an evolutionary biologist, even humans and growing cities are somehow responsible for animal evolution.\n\nDuring an interview with Simon Worrall from National Geographic, Professor Menno Schilthuizen, an evolutionary biologist, posited that cities act as powerhouses of evolution. The professor explained that because of various cities, animals are forced to adapt to their environment at unprecedented speeds.\n\nProfessor Schilthuizen, the author of Darwin Comes to Town, stated that instead of the barren wilderness, thriving cities are responsible for the creation of new species. He added that because of humans, the evolutionary process has accelerated and produced very surprising results.\n\nIn the interview, Professor Schilthuizen talked about how urban environments have produced the London Underground mosquito. But despite its specific name, the London Underground Mosquito can be found all around the globe. The new breed of mosquito makes it home in underground environments like basements and subway systems.\n\nIt is believed that the London Underground mosquito is unable to interbreed with above ground mosquitoes since it is a whole new species.\n\nProfessor Schilthuizen, who is also a professor in biodiversity at Leiden University in the Netherlands, commented, I think Darwin underestimated the speed [that evolution] can happen, particularly with species that have numerous generations in a short space of time.\n\nGet more news like this without being censored: Get the Natural News app for your mobile devices. Enjoy uncensored news, lab test results, videos, podcasts and more. Bypass all the unfair censorship by Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Get your daily news and videos directly from the source! Download here.\n\nHe continued, Generation time is the evolutionary clock speed, so if you have multiple generations per year you can accumulate evolutionary changes much more quickly than humans can, for example, which have one generation every 20 years.\n\nProfessor Schilthuizen shared that bobcats in Hollywood have changed, unlike those that live north of the 101 freeway. One factor that contributed to this change is fragmentation, which tends to happen in cities.\n\nWith urban ecology, humans often construct various barriers, such as roads and highways.\n\nThe bobcat population north of Los Angeles is separated by two huge highways that bisect their home. Like the situation that produced the London Underground mosquito, the barriers also triggered evolution that was confined to areas that were isolated from other populations.\n\nIn Darwin Comes to Town, the professor also discussed how the Hawksbeard plants in small parks can now produce heavier seeds compared to those in open fields. With the added weight, the heavier seeds have better chances of landing in the soil.\n\nBecause of urban evolution, great tits (Parus major) are now able to remove caps from milk bottles. Some lizards have also developed stickier feet so they can hang on to buildings. (Related: Scientists look at how human activity has altered evolution in the natural world: The consequences of exploding populations of rats, bedbugs, mosquitoes in cities.)\n\nAccording to a study by researchers from the Goethe University Frankfurt, human activity has forced animals around the globe to abandon their wild ways so they can stay close to their habitats.\n\nStudy findings revealed that mammals that live in locations with high human activity move about three times less far than animals in areas isolated from people.\n\nThe pattern was the same in various locations around the globe. It affected all sorts of species, from foxes and red deer in Britain to forest elephants in Africa.\n\nFences, human settlements, and roads block off the animals natural habitat. These obstacles also obstruct the natural migration of mammals, which allows fatal diseases to spread even faster.\n\nUnfortunately, habitat fragmentation also affects animals ability to find food and shelter. It even affects their mating abilities. This reduced mammal movement also has repercussions for the environment since various plants need mammals to scatter their seeds.\n\nDr. Adam Kane, the study author from the University College Cork, concluded that earlier studies have already confirmed how crucial the geographical movement of animals in the wild is since it helps animals find food, water, mates and new habitats to live in.\n\nRead more articles on how urban environments can influence animal evolution at Environ.news.","title":"Evolutionary biologist says that the rapid growth of cities has forced animals to evolve at unprece","date":"2018-07-08","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Fellow Democrat and Minnesotan running against Ellison in the AG primary, Debra Hilstrom, shared the viral Facebook post and demanded that Ellison address the allegations.\n\nAustin Monahan described seeing video of Keith Ellison Screaming f*cking bitch! and dragging his mother off a bed by her feet!\n\nIn the middle of 2017, I was using my moms computer trying to download something and I clicked on a file, I found over 100 text and twitters messages and video almost 2 min long that showed Keith Ellison dragging my mama off the bed by her feet, screaming and calling her a fucking bitch and telling her to get the fuck out of his house.\n\nThe Democrat Party Deputy Chairman responded to the shocking abuse allegations on Sunday afternoon by denying the accusations.\n\nOn Tuesday investigative reporter Laura Loomer uncovered a second Minnesota woman who accused Rep. Keith Ellison of domestic violence.","title":"MOOK SPOOKED Robby Mook to Democrats DONT Campaign with Keith Ellison VIDEO","date":"2018-08-16","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Hazing has been a rampantly practiced ritual that has been going on for centuries. Although its purpose began as a way for freshmen students and other college fraternity hopefuls to form bonds and solidarity as a group, the processes of which they are done these days has drastically changed.\n\nHere are a number of horror hazing stories that will make you think twice about ever wanting to join a fraternity.\n\nTim Piazza had an amazing future ahead of him. A second-year student at the Pennsylvania State University, he chose to join the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, where he needed to undergo their form of initiation before being a full-fledged member. On the night of February 2, 2017, Piazza was forced to drink copious amounts of alcohol while having to complete an obstacle course at the same time which they called The Gauntlet. Due to his extreme drunkenness, he ended up falling down the stairs and getting knocked completely unconscious.","title":"10 Savage Hazing Rituals That Ended In Death","date":"2018-06-14","source":"trueactivist","label":0}
{"content":"The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor is a story about the unification of the indigenous peoples of North America with those of South America. The Eagle of the north is said to represent masculine energy, as well as the energy of technological advancement and the focus of the mind. While the Condor of the south represents feminine energies and our connection to the earth and our own nature, along with the softness of the heart.\n\nOf Incan origin, the prophecy has been told in many cultures, and points to the present day when after a long period of separation and dominance by the masculine, the two will again unite, bringing balance and harmony to our aching world.\n\nThe unification would heal old wounds and temper the destructive and dominating characteristics of modern society precisely at a time when all seems lost.\n\nHere, author and former economic hitman John Perkins describes this prophecy.\n\nIn the following video, indigenous leaders and elders from both continents speak about the meaning of this prophecy and what it holds for our future.\n\nIndeed it is a time of transformation, and we can see how the cultures of North and South America are coming together in order to transform, largely to share sacred plant medicines and to work together to create alliances to conserve and protect mother earth, and to resist the domination of the corporate state.\n\nThe hour is late, however, and in the back pages of the news a pair of recent stories offer a warning that this prophecy is in danger of being plowed under by the unchecked powers of the corporatocracy.\n\nIn Argentina, activists recently issued a call for help to save the condor, which is at present being wiped out by the poisons introduced into the environment by the agrochemical industry.\n\nRecently, thirty-four condors in Mendoza, Argentina were found dead, the result of chemical poisoning. Fundacion Bioandina Argentina warns that this happening in many parts of the country.\n\nArgentina is being poisoned on a massive scale by the carless overuse of Monsantos deadly herbicide glyphosate. The poisoning is affecting the health of people, causing shocking deformations and crippling illnesses, yet the industry presses onward, continuing to market and sell these chemicals as a safe way to boost agricultural production.\n\nAt the same time, conservationists in North America are asking for help to save the American bald eagle, who is at present suffering a similar fate. Eagles are being brought into rescue centers, some barely able to lift their heads, as their environment has become so toxic, poisoned by lead, DDT, and modern agrochemicals.\n\nThe heart-breaking significance of these die-offs is felt in the context of the Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor. Our chances at reunification and global transformation are being killed off by the forces of greed and domination. This prophecy of hope is being stolen from us.\n\nSupport the movement to save South American condors by signing this petition. And support efforts to help the bald eagle by supporting The Indigenous American.\n\nDylan Charles is the editor of Waking Times and co-host of Redesigning Reality, both dedicated to ideas of personal transformation, societal awakening, and planetary renewal. His personal journey is deeply inspired by shamanic plant medicines and the arts of Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Yoga. After seven years of living in Costa Rica, he now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he practices Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and enjoys spending time with family. He has written hundreds of articles, reaching and inspiring millions of people around the world.\n\nThis article (The Dying Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to DylanCharles and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.\n\nThe Dying Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor was last modified: by","title":"The Dying Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor","date":"2018-02-12","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"The Texas GOP tried to make Beto ORourkes punk rock past an issue on Tuesday, but it ended up getting rolled in the process.\n\nBack in the 1990s, the Democratic Senate candidate played bass and guitar in a post-hardcore band called Foss.\n\nSince then, hes moved on to politics, and polls show him in a tight race with Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.\n\nAfter ORourke declined to participate in a debate scheduled for Aug. 31, some strategist at the Texas GOP decided that bringing up his musical past was the best way to shame him.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Texas GOP Twitter account shared an image of ORourke and his former band with the words, Sorry, cant debate. We have a gig.\n\nSpoiler alert: It didnt work. At all. And Twitter users let the Texas GOP know it.\n\nOmg. Your strategy is to make fun of him for being in a 90s band?!?! You need a new strategist! Half your GOP base was in a band as a kid. In fact, its one of the few bipartisan ways we bond - laughing as we remember our outdated hair, music, and high school bands.  Hannah Wanebo (@hannahwanebo) August 29, 2018\n\nSome people had a hard time dealing with ORourkes musical past, but not in the way the Texas GOP probably hoped.\n\nOthers pointed out the flaw in the attempt to appeal to the pearl-clutching demographic.\n\nYeah, dont vote for people who liked to play music in college. And you wonder why no one under 55 votes GOP.  I'm for America (@exelephant2017) August 29, 2018\n\nOne person warned the GOP that making ORourkes musical career an issue would only make Cruz look worse  and they provided photographic evidence.\n\nIs Ted Cruz really trying to scare voters with pictures from Beto's band days when there are pictures of him out there as a mime? pic.twitter.com\/waHTLM1fi5  Schooley (@Rschooley) August 29, 2018\n\nAfter all the backlash, the Texas GOP responded with a tweet it probably thought would own the libs, but that instead came off as more You kids get off my lawn.\n\nBased on the reaction to our tweets we can confirm that Beto is in fact going to receive 100% of the vote from Buzzfeed contributors, out of state liberals, and people who use the word \"rad.\" We feel very owned :'(  Texas GOP (@TexasGOP) August 29, 2018\n\nBy the way, heres a video of ORourke rocking out with his former bandmates (you can thank us later).","title":"Texas GOP Slammed For Trying To Make Beto ORourkes Former Punk Band An Issue","date":"2018-08-29","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"In a truly disturbing video posted on Twitter by Daily Caller reporter Benny Johnson, the leftists heckled the pro-life group who simply had red tape over their mouths with the word life.\n\nAccording to a report by Johnson, the pro-life activists were part of a group called Bound 4 Life.\n\nThey dont mind Kavanaugh jumping on a woman and putting the tape over her mouth, an abrasive leftist said, inciting laughter from her crew. Maybe if [Kavanaugh] had raped her and got her pregnant she would have had to have that Kavanaugh baby with no welfare and no healthcare.\n\nAccording to their website, Bound4LIFE is a grassroots prayer mobilization movement targeting the ending of abortion, the increase of adoptions, and the sending of revival to reform government and culture.","title":"VIDEO Leftist Protesters Joke About Pro-Life Activists Being Raped","date":"2018-10-06","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"History has oftentimes sidetracked women and their abilities in favour of their stronger male counterparts, tipping the scales to one side unfairly, limiting their contributions to society to menial domestic tasks versus the great deeds credited to men in the pages of time. They say that behind every successful man stands a woman, a notion long-believed true only because traditional history has always mentioned women as mere associates to famous men. This repression of women has been going on for thousands of years mostly because of religious and political beliefs which are now, in modern days, being challenged.\n\nWomen have always proven that their abilities equal those of men, if not, even surpass them. Ladies who refused to remain silent and chose to break away from the bonds of male dominance, ironically, had to pretend and even tried to appear like the men they look to challenge just to show that they too can accomplish feats far greater than their brothers.\n\nHere is a list of 10 Things Achieved by Women Masquerading as Men.\n\nIn 1967, Katherine Switzer signed up to run in the Boston Marathon, until then an all-male sporting event as the belief at the time was that women were too dainty to run a full 42 kilometers, registering under a generic sounding name to get past the screening committee. K.V. Switzer, runner No. 261, arrived at the marathon wearing a baggy sweatshirt, which was the perfect disguise except for one thing...","title":"10 Unbelievable Things Achieved By Women Masquerading As Men","date":"2018-10-02","source":"trueactivist","label":0}
{"content":"On Tuesday, the president took a trip to southern California, where he surveyed eight different prototypes for a border wall meant to go up in between the U.S. and Mexico. He has long pushed for such a structure, but hardly without opposition, and hes failed to secure the funding hes requested for it.\n\nAlthough Republicans have a simple majority in both houses of Congress, there are enough Democrats in the Senate to ensure that the GOP cant push through plans to fund the wall without running into a roadblock.\n\nAt one point during the budget showdown earlier this year that culminated in the government shutting down not just once, but twice, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was reported to have offered to support funding for the wall if the president would go along with instituting protections for undocumented immigrants brought here as children. The president didnt bite, and Senators eventually managed to strike a deal to re-open the government, removing the urgency behind Schumers actions and giving him the opportunity to withdraw his offer.\n\nThat doesnt mean, however, that the president has proven to be deterred in his efforts to see a wall go up.\n\nAfter his visit to the wall prototypes in California this Tuesday, he took to Twitter with a statement about the issue, writing:\n\nAlong with the statement was a short video montage chronicling the presidents visit.\n\nCheck it out below.\n\nWhile in California, the president railed against the jurisdictions that have become known as sanctuary cities, where local authorities bar local police officers from turning into federal immigration law enforcement personnel. Jurisdictions fitting that description pepper California; one  Oakland  was involved in a high profile recent incident involving federal immigration law enforcement.\n\nOakland Mayor Libby Schaaf got word of an impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in her city and chose to warn her constituents. In the aftermath of that warning and the subsequent operation, federal officials including U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed that Schaafs warning had allowed as many as 800 criminal undocumented immigrants to escape authorities.\n\nThat number was disputed by the now former regional spokesperson for ICE covering the area, James Schwab, who resigned in the face of the misleading facts that he says are being pushed.\n\nEven though its outrage is questionable considering Schwabs testimony, the Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against the state of California over its refusal to turn its police officers into extensions of ICE. As Reuters describes it:\n\nConsidering the Trump administrations past lack of success when it comes to issues related to the border wall, its hardly a given that theyre going to come out on top here. The president claimed Mexico was going to pay for the wall, and we all know how that turned out.","title":"President Trump Lands In California Immediately Starts Acting Like A Giant Ass VIDEO","date":"2018-03-14","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Obamas event in Las Vegas was held at the UNLV womens basketball pavilion which holds up to around 2,500 \n\nThe crowd was so small he had to partition it off to make the event look larger than it was \n\nIs the Blue-Wave only a puddle?\n\nIt looked like only 1,000 to 1,500 at max for the event \n\nThe event wasnt even full with special guests J Balvin, Salt-N-Pepa and a couple DJs","title":"Obama Cant Even Fill Small Las Vegas Pavilion Partition Added to Make Crowd Size Look Larger Ho","date":"2018-10-23","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A Spanish-made film advertisement aired in June 2018 is now serving as a jolting wake-up call, offering a frightening peek into humanitys future if it continues its irresponsible practices concerning the indiscriminate use of plastics.\n\nIn a description from the website Adsoftheworld.com, the advertisement, entitled Plastic Fish, was created by Barcelona-based advertising company, Piece of Cake for the NGO, Espacio CREA, to Explain the extreme situation of our oceans because of pollution caused by plastics.\n\nThe 46-second long video begins with a showcase of what seem to be mouth-watering gourmet dishes being prepared and served. The viewer immediately realizes that the feast contains plastic rubbish in place of what is expected to be the fresh ingredients. The clip then transitions to a single piece of plastic floating underneath the ocean surface with a warning that, By 2050, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish,and an appeal to the viewer that for a sustainable world, we all have much to do.\n\nData from a World Economic Forum report in June 2018 show that the worlds oceans are infested with plastic, with 8 million tons of it dumped into our waters every year. Numbers also show that 90% of the plastic polluting our oceans come from only 10 rivers systems: Eight from Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa  the Nile and the Niger.\n\nAt the recently concluded G7 summit of world economic leaders held in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada,Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the European Union endorsed a G7 ocean plastics charter calling on member countries to reduce the use of plastics and, where alternatives are not available, find ways to include more recycled materials in the plastics they do use.\n\nThe United States and Japan declined to sign the agreement.","title":"Chilling Spanish-Made TV AD Warns of Our Oceans Future","date":"2018-08-19","source":"trueactivist","label":0}
{"content":"Earlier this week, the New York Times published a 14,000-word investigation that detailed the Trump familys financial history. They uncovered calculated schemes to avoid paying taxes, which in all certainty amounts to criminal fraud.\n\nAs you might expect, this report by the Times put Trump in a total rage and hes been even more defensive than usual since Tuesday as you have probably noticed on his Twitter page.\n\nBut regardless of his defense, he cant deny what the was printed in the New York Times  the man has no proof of his innocence because hes refused to come forward with his tax returns, and after this bombshell, you can be sure he never will unless its subpoenaed by the court.\n\nInterestingly enough, that might happen sooner than we think, as just today  in an effort to thwart Trumps motion to dismiss the lawsuits against his family and their foundation  the New York Attorney Generals office filed new documents alleging that the family used their foundation during Trumps campaign.\n\nAccording to the filings:\n\nFor more than a decade, the Foundation operated in persistent violation of state and federal law governing charities. The Board abdicated its fiduciary duties entirely, leaving the Foundation to operate without any oversight, and permitted Mr. Trump to use the Foundations assets to satisfy his and his for-profit companies legal obligations, to promote Trump hotels, to purchase personal items, and, in 2016  at the direction of Mr. Trump and his presidential campaign- to promote Mr. Trumps candidacy for political office.\n\nThe Trumps knew exactly what they were doing was wrong, but they did it regardless.\n\nMr. Trump was aware of the limitations on political activity by not-for-profits: he signed documents under the penalty of perjury attesting that Foundation assets would not be used for the benefit of any Foundation officer or director or for political purposes, and he even campaigned for the repeal of one prohibition on using charitable assets to intervene in a political campaign.\n\nIts interesting to note that Trump and his cronies have in the past suggested that a sitting president cannot be indicted because of the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution, but the NY Attorney Generals office claims that there is no precedent for such a claim.\n\nHeres to hoping that the New York AGs office will test that claim, and do so very soon!","title":"New York AGs Office Just Doubled Down On TrumpTax Fraud Lawsuit","date":"2018-10-05","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The President said Brenda Snipes is a disgrace and called for her to be fired Wednesday in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller:\n\nTheDC asked the president specifically if he considers this behavior illegal and what Snipes future in her role as an election official should be.\n\nHe pointed to Snipes past alleged election illegality, which included destroying ballots and opening ballots illegally.\n\nYou look at her past, shes a disaster, Trump said, Even with me. I won Florida and, you remember? That area, Broward, didnt come in, Trump said of Broward County, Fla. and Snipes. You can only put in so many votes, although she may change that system.\n\nWhen asked about how to prevent a repeat situation in the 2020 presidential election, Trump bluntly said Snipes needed to go, along with her cronies.\n\nFirst thing you do is fire her and her cronies. You get em out, Trump said, recalling his own election night in 2016. Remember how long it took to get Florida? But I had, fortunately, enough votes, and they were sitting there waiting. They said, Broward County is not reporting. This went on for hours.\n\nTrump continued, The panhandle was so devastating to Crooked Hillary  that thing came in, then all of a sudden Broward came in. And I won by, you know, I won by a lot of votes. I call it four Yankee stadiums.","title":"President Trump Calls For Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes to be Fired","date":"2018-11-14","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"SEOUL, South Korea (AP)  North Korea said Friday that its still willing to sit for talks with the United States at any time, (in) any format, a remarkably restrained and diplomatic response, from a nation noted for its proud belligerence, to U.S. President Donald Trumps abrupt cancellation of a summit with the Norths autocratic leader, Kim Jong Un.\n\nThe statement by Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, a longtime nuclear negotiator and senior diplomat, which said the North is willing to give the U.S. time and opportunities to reconsider talks that had been set for June 12 in Singapore, could be driven by a need to use the summit to ease crushing international sanctions, or by a determination that a summit with the mercurial Trump is the best opportunity the North will ever have to elevate itself, and its nuclear program, to equality with its archrival. One analyst marveled that the North Korean response was close to an apology letter.\n\nRegardless of the motivation, Kim Kye Gwans statement is the latest whiplash development in efforts to diplomatically address what might be the worlds most dangerous standoff. Focus will now swing back to how Trump will respond to the Norths seemingly conciliatory gesture.\n\nThe stakes are high. A scrapping of diplomacy could see a return to the torrent of weapons tests  and the fears of war they created  that North Korea unleashed last year as it sought to put the finishing touches on a nuclear-armed missile program meant to target the entire U.S. mainland. Since January, Kim has taken a radically softer approach to foreign affairs, sending his sister to the Olympics in South Korea, meeting with his South Korean counterpart on their shared border and exploding parts of his nuclear testing site Thursday in an apparent sign of good faith. The Singapore summit would have been the culmination of this outreach.\n\nEarlier comments by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, seen as a driving force behind the summit and just returned to Seoul from a meeting with Trump in Washington, suggested that the South, a top U.S. ally and host to 28,500 U.S. troops, was blindsided by Trumps statement. Moon said he was perplexed at Trumps announcement that he was canceling the summit because of what the U.S. president said was North Koreas tremendous anger and open hostility. Moon urged direct talks between Trump and Kim to get things back on track.\n\nMany observers had expected a belligerent North Korean response to Trumps cancellation, but the comments by Kim, the Norths vice foreign minister, seemed, at times, almost meek, and in stark contrast to the bellicose declarations last year of the Norths willingness to pursue nuclear war.\n\nKim said Pyongyangs objective and resolve to do our best for the sake of peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and all humankind remain unchanged. Kim said the cancellation of the talks shows how grave the status of historically deep-rooted hostile North Korea-U.S. relations is and how urgently a summit should be realized to improve ties.\n\nAs far as the historic (North Korea)-U.S. summit is concerned, we have inwardly highly appreciated President Trump for having made the bold decision, which any other U.S. presidents dared not, and made efforts for such a crucial event as the summit, Kim said. His sudden and unilateral announcement to cancel the summit is something unexpected to us and we cannot but feel great regret for it.\n\nKim speculated that Trump may have lacked the will for the summit or he might not have felt confident, but that the North has exerted sincere efforts for talks that would mark a meaningful starting point for peace and security in the region and the world.\n\nKim Dong-yub, a North Korea expert at Seouls Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said the North Korean response was notably courteous, reserved and diplomatically refined, which he said shows that Pyongyang is eager to talk with Washington and believes that the United States needs more time to prepare for the summit.\n\nTrumps cancellation of the summit came amid mounting skepticism about the Norths sincerity after the countrys earlier threats to scrap the Kim-Trump summit. That may have been aimed at bolstering its negotiating position, rather than killing the meeting.\n\nThey wanted to face the United States in a more confident position. Obama or (Bill) Clinton could have accepted (these kinds of North Korean statements). But its Trump. Hes decided not to enter talks while being pushed (by North Korea) like this, said Choi Kang, vice president of Seouls Asan Institute for Policy Studies.\n\nKoh Yu-hwan, a professor at Seouls Dongguk University, said Kims statement was close to an apology letter.\n\nThe North might have also sensed an opening in Trumps seemingly mixed messages.\n\nI really believe Kim Jong Un wants to do whats right, the U.S. president said at one point. Trump also said from the White House that a maximum pressure campaign of economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation would continue against North Korea  with which the U.S. is technically still at war  but he added that it was possible the summit could still take place at some point.\n\nIn his statement to the North, Trump said: If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write.\n\nIt was unclear whether Trump was engaged in what he saw as a negotiating ploy or if his moves were a manifestation of mounting internal concerns over ensuring a successful outcome for the summit.\n\nWhile the statement may keep the possibility of a summit alive, there were also hints in North Koreas response to Trump that Pyongyang was willing to walk away.\n\nKim said the United States is at fault for what Trump described as North Koreas hostility, saying that Pyongyang was responding to excessive U.S. comments pressuring the country to unilaterally discard its nuclear weapons ahead of the summit. Trumps move to cancel the summit has forced the North to rethink whether the efforts we have so far put in and the new path we have taken is the right choice.","title":"North Korea Still Open To Talks With US At Any Time In Any Format","date":"2018-05-25","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  President Donald Trump escalated his messy clash with former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Tuesday, referring to the longtime colleague, who had been the top African-American in his White House, as that dog!\n\nThe pressure on Manigault Newman increased, as the Trump presidential campaign filed arbitration action against her, alleging a breach of a confidentiality agreement. A campaign official said the action was filed with the American Arbitration Association.\n\nTrump tweeted a barrage of insults Tuesday morning as Manigault Newman continued promoting her White House tell-all and releasing secret audio recordings. Her book paints a damning picture of Trump, including her claim that he used racial slurs on the set of his reality show The Apprentice.\n\nWhen you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didnt work out, Trump said. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog! John Kelly is White House chief of staff.\n\nWhile Trump trades in insults on a near daily basis, deeming Manigault Newman a dog was a stunning move in a row that touched on several sensitive issues in Trumps White House, including a lack of racial diversity among senior officials, security concerns  Manigault Newman taped her firing in the White House Situation Room  and extraordinary measures such as non-disclosure agreements to keep ex-employees quiet.\n\nTrump has also pushed back against Manigault Newmans claim that she had heard an audiotape of him using the N-word. He tweeted that he had received a call from the producer of The Apprentice assuring him there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa.\n\nTrump insisted, I dont have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. He said Manigault Newman had called him a true Champion of Civil Rights until she was fired.\n\nManigault Newman, the former White House liaison to black voters, writes in her new memoir that shed heard such tapes existed. She said Sunday that she had listened to one after the book closed.\n\n Omarosa: Trump has done nothing to stem Chicago violence\n\n  Omarosa scores a Trump nickname: Wacky Omarosa\n\n  White House says Omarosa claim of Trump racism is false\n\nOn CBS Tuesday, Manigault Newman released another audio recording that she said showed campaign workers discussing an alleged recording of Trump using the racial slur. The White House and the campaign did not immediately respond to questions.\n\nOne of the people allegedly featured on the tape is Katrina Pierson, an adviser to Trumps re-election campaign who served as a spokeswoman for his 2016 campaign. Pierson has said she never heard Trump use this type of language and said on Fox that the only person she heard talking about a tape was Manigault Newman.\n\nAsked if the book can be backed up by email or recordings, Manigault Newman said on CBS that every quote in the book can be verified, corroborated and its well documented, suggesting she may have more information to release.\n\nThe dispute has been building for days as Manigault Newman promotes her memoir Unhinged, which comes out officially Tuesday.\n\nIn a series of interviews, Manigault Newman has also revealed two audio recordings from her time at the White House, including portions of a recording of her firing by Kelly, which she says occurred in the high-security Situation Room, and a phone call with Trump after she was fired.\n\nManigault Newman says she has more recordings. Asked on MSNBCs Hardball if special counsel Robert Mueller  investigating possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia  would be interested in any of them, she said, If his office calls again, anything they want, Ill share.\n\nTrump officials and a number of outside critics denounced the recordings as a serious breach of ethics and security  and White House aides worried about what else Manigault Newman may have captured in the West Wing.\n\nThe tape recording appears to show Trump expressing surprise about her firing, saying nobody even told me about it. But Manigault Newman said he probably instructed General Kelly to do it.\n\nOn Twitter, Trump declared Monday that she had been fired for the last time, a reference to her appearances on his reality TV show. He said Kelly had called her a loser & nothing but problems, but he himself had tried to save her job  because he liked her public comments about him.\n\nI told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me  until she got fired! Trump tweeted.\n\nResponding on NBC, Manigault Newman said, I think its sad that with all the things thats going on in the country that he would take time out to insult me and to insult my intelligence.\n\nShe added, This is his pattern with African-Americans.\n\nFirst lady Melania Trump, meanwhile, is disappointed that Manigault Newman is lashing out and retaliating in such a self-serving way, especially after all the opportunities given to her by the President, said White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.\n\nManigault Newmans exit does highlight the lack of diversity among Trumps top aides. She was the highest-ranking African-American on the White House staff. She said on NBC that in her absence theyre making decisions about us without us.\n\nTrumps battle with Omarosa underscores the racial tensions that have defined his presidency. He notably blamed both sides for violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, a year ago and has questioned the intelligence of other prominent black figures including California Rep. Maxine Waters, basketball star LeBron James and TV journalist Don Lemon. He also has targeted black NFL players for kneeling in social protest during the national anthem.\n\nManigault Newman also alleges that Trump allies tried to buy her silence after she left the White House, offering her $15,000 a month to accept a senior position on his 2020 re-election campaign along with a stringent nondisclosure agreement.\n\nThe offer raises fresh question about the ways that White House aides are being offered safe landing spots after they leave. For example, Trumps former personal aide John McEntee, who was removed from his job in April, went to the campaign.\n\nIt was not clear exactly what he was referring to. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday on ABC that there are confidentiality agreements in the West Wing. And Trumps campaign said that in the 2016 race she signed the exact same NDA that everyone else on the campaign signed, which is still enforceable.\n\nMeanwhile, Trumps attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said on Fox and Friends Monday that Manigault Newman may have broken the law by recording private conversations inside the White House.\n\nShes certainly violating national security regulations, which I think have the force of law, Giuliani said.\n\nBut experts in national security and clearance law said that, while she seriously violated rules  and would likely be barred from ever being granted a security clearance  she probably didnt break any law unless the conversations she recorded were classified.\n\nIn the recording with Kelly, which Manigault Newman quotes extensively in her new book, Kelly can be heard saying that he wants to talk with her about leaving the White House.\n\nIts come to my attention over the last few months that theres been some pretty, in my opinion, significant integrity issues related to you, Kelly is heard saying, before adding that if she makes it a friendly departure then she can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation.\n\nManigault Newman said she viewed the conversation as a threat and defended her decision to covertly record it and other White House conversations, saying otherwise no one would believe her.","title":"Trump lashes out at Omarosa calls her that dog","date":"2018-08-14","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"David Davis has warned of the dire consequences for Conservatives at the next general election if the government continues with its Chequers plan.\n\nIn a letter to Conservative MPs, the former Brexit Secretary said that Theresa Mays plan would deliver none of the benefits of Brexit.\n\nHe added that the Chequers deal would make it very obvious\" to voters at the next general election that the government had broken promises from the 2017 Conservative manifesto.\n\nMr Davis repeated his call for the Cabinet to ditch the Chequers plan, which envisages a free trade area for goods based on a \"common rulebook\", and go for a looser free trade agreement like the Ceta deal between the EU and Canada.\n\nIn his letter, obtained by The Sun, Mr Davis said that the EU was likely either to reject the Chequers proposals at next week's crunch summit in Brussels, or to demand \"further significant concessions\".\n\nBut he said a \"Canada-plus-plus-plus\" deal was \"within our grasp with political will and imagination\".\n\nAnd he told fellow MPs: \"If we stay on our current trajectory, we will go into the next election with the Government having delivered none of the benefits of Brexit, with the country reduced to being a rule-taker from Brussels, and having failed to deliver on a number of promises in the manifesto and in the Lancaster House speech.\n\n\"This will not be a technicality, it will be very obvious to the electorate.\n\n\"The electoral consequences could be dire.\n\n\"So it is in both the party's interest, and crucially the national interest, that we reset our negotiating strategy immediately and deliver a Brexit that meets the demands of the referendum and the interests of the British people.\"\n\nHe cautioned Mrs May against using \"preposterous threats\" that a refusal by Tory MPs to back Chequers could result in Brexit being lost altogether or watered down in order to get it through Parliament on the back of Labour votes.\n\nMr Davis's letter came after the Prime Minister was warned that she faces a Commons rebellion of at least 40 Conservative MPs if she returns from Brussels with a deal based on her Chequers plan, leaving the UK \"half in, half out\" of the EU.\n\nFormer Brexit minister Steve Baker told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that as many as 80 Tories are ready to oppose the plan agreed by Cabinet at Mrs May's country residence in July, adding: \"The whips would be doing incredibly well if they were to halve the numbers.\n\n\"My estimate is that there are at least 40 colleagues who are not going to accept a half-in, half-out Chequers deal or indeed a backstop that leaves us in the internal market and the customs union, come what may.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs May told her Cabinet that Britain will not accept an EU withdrawal deal without a \"precise\" political declaration setting out how its requirements on trade and security will be delivered.\n\nDespite optimistic comments from senior EU figures about the prospect of progress at the October 17-18 European Council summit, the PM made clear that agreement has not yet been reached on key issues including the Irish border.\n\nMrs May told the regular weekly Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street that talks to finalise a withdrawal deal were continuing \"on an intensive basis\".\n\nHer official spokesman said: \"She made clear that we can't agreed to a withdrawal agreement without a precise future framework which delivers the future trade and security partnership which the Government wants.\n\n\"The PM said the UK would continue working hard in the talks on Brexit and the message from EU leaders is that they want to reach a deal.\"","title":"Brexit news David Davis warns Tory party of aposdire electoral consequencesapos if Chequers pla","date":"2018-10-09","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) The regulatory effects of established Chinese herbal formulas as well as time-honored practices such as acupuncture and moxibustion were recently reviewed by a team from the Bureau of National Health Insurance of Taiwan. In it, researchers found that holistic treatments based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) were effective in reducing symptoms of pediatric asthma. The authors concluded that a TCM program could lower exacerbations and hospitalization frequency for children with asthma by reducing the vagal tone in asthmatic patients.\n\nThese results further emphasize the importance of using TCM for various conditions. Asthma, a condition that affects millions of children globally, is typically treated with daily medications and a quick-relief inhaler. The concept that conventional medicine uses is that asthma can be properly managed so that patients can live a relatively normal life. This differs from Eastern medicine which believes in treating diseases at their core  illnesses are symptomatic of an underlying imbalance. TCM, in particular, applies this philosophy and treatment programs usually involve not only the intake of various herbs and teas but the application of other practices such as tai chi. A full dietary plan can also be discussed with ones TCM practitioner.\n\nResearchers of the new study were curious to discover if TCM could be an effective alternative to traditional asthma treatments. As part of the study, they studied around 60 children (with an average age of six) from Taiwan between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2010. Children who participated in a comprehensive TCM program during the time period were less likely to visit the hospital for an asthma attack and had fewer breathing problems.\n\nMother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary \"sulforaphane\" and \"glucosinolate\" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here.\n\nTheir findings establish TCM as a scientifically validated healing practice for the reduction of asthma symptoms.\n\nA 2016 review of 29 studies concluded that herbal medicines combined with pharmacotherapy improved asthma outcomes greater than typical medicine alone. The herbs used within these studies included licorice root, crow-dipper, angelica, and astragali. Across all boards, asthmatic patients who used these herbs had improved lung function and were less likely to check themselves into a hospital or health clinic for a severe asthma attack.\n\nIn conjunction with herbal remedies, TCM healers may prescribe acupoint herbal patching (ACP) to ease breathing patterns. ACP uses specific Chinese herbs that are hot in nature. These plants are then ground into powder and mixed with ginger extract to form small pellets which are then pressed into specific acupoints. TCM healers have said that ACP is an unusually effective treatment for asthma as it stimulates and regulates specific meridians in the body that make the body cold.\n\nA study testing the efficacy of ACP for asthma proved this. Another 2016 analysis of the TCM practice concluded that ACP reduced asthmatic symptoms by 69 percent. Furthermore, no adverse effects were noted among the patients.\n\nAll in all, TCM programs for asthma would involve the ingestion of specific herbs and regular ACP sessions. The effects of the program are cumulative; those with severe conditions should not expect results within a few days. As with any other TCM treatment program, these healing practices take time. That said, their effects are usually longer lasting than conventional medicine.\n\nThere are four pillars that govern the TCM practice. These influence how your treatment program will be made. Understanding these concepts will help you better understand why you are being told to eat a certain food or go through a specific treatment.","title":"Holistic treatments for asthma in children TCM found to be effective at reducing attacks hospitali","date":"2018-09-11","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Alex Jones breaks down news that Kanye West is leaving politics after disagreements with the president and Candace Owens.","title":"Kanye West Responds To Trump And Candace Owens","date":"2018-10-31","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our new biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.\n\nDigging through Facebook or Twitter to figure out a friends birthday isnt something youd normally think twice about. Even if you arent especially close, its a fairly normal thing. But in Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You this everyday activity takes on a more sinister tone. The game asks you to find information not for yourself, but for a fictional foreign government. The context suddenly changes this innocuous act into a much more challenging and uncomfortable situation depending on your feelings about surveillance, privacy, and security.\n\nOrwell is structured sort of like a visual novel, but the entire experience plays out through the interface of a fictional research \/ surveillance program called Orwell. The game consists of five episodes, which were released over the course of five weeks starting in late October 2016. The game tasks you with using Orwell to help solve the mysterious bombing of a public plaza in a fictional country called The Nation. At the same time, you attempt to prevent further attacks by trawling publicly available websites and documents for clues to who might be involved.\n\nThe Orwell program is something of a best-case scenario ethically for how a powerful surveillance program might work since there are a lot of rules dictating not only how it can be used, but also who can use it. You play as a brand-new researcher overseen by an adviser. The researchers job is to comb through the sources Orwell presents to find information that might be relevant to the case and add those bits of data to profiles on subjects of interest in the case.\n\nYou find these datachunks (as the game calls them) on different websites. You might come across someones birthday from the games fictional social network, their home address off their medical records, or their feelings about the government based on a post on their blog. While Orwell is able to access all kinds of data, it only presents you with new sources when it deems it relevant. For instance, you dont automatically have access to someones medical records even if theyre a suspect. But if you happen to find their medical identification number, then you are able to access that information. What datachunks you can add to profiles are highlighted by Orwell, but its up to you as the researcher to decide if that data is relevant, or if its false and something to ignore.\n\nThe advisers job is to interpret the data you add to the profiles and make decisions for what to do based on that, as well as advise the researcher on certain leads to follow. Initially, this setup between researcher and adviser seems designed to make it feel like you, as the researcher, have no real agency over the choices made by the adviser. It seems like a mindless job where youre merely moving data from one place to another. Its a bit like youre on a train shoveling coal into the engine, while the adviser is driving.\n\nBut as things progress, it becomes apparent that you actually have a lot more control than even the adviser since theyre only able to make decisions based on what data you provide them. So while certain pieces of information, like where the subject lives, are obviously pertinent, others are a judgment call. What happens when you find a 10-year-old blog post where the subject is cursing out the government? Is that reflective of their feelings today? Or maybe they were just blowing off steam on a site they never expected anyone to read? Including it is going to make them seem potentially more suspicious, even though much of their current behavior doesnt reflect that outburst.\n\nThese decisions became so uncomfortable that I frequently considered stopping. This act of systematically digging through personal information to find bits of seemingly circumstantial evidence felt like a huge invasion of privacy for no real gain. I couldnt help but think of the online vigilante witch hunt for the Boston bomber (in part because the bombing in the game happens in a city called Bonton) and how that only led to innocent people getting accused.\n\nIt feels a bit counter-intuitive to express how unpleasant something was as a selling point, but its rare for a game to put you in such a morally compromising position. On top of that, Orwell, similar to games like Papers, Please, puts you in a position where there isnt a good or right answer to the choices youre presented with. Each decision offers a trade-off, both in terms of repercussions in the game and how youre able to rationalize your choice outside of. By the end of the game, the decisions I made didnt reflect my feelings or the outcome I wanted. But Im okay with how the story wrapped up, despite that the last choice still didnt feel wrong  or that might just be the compromise I made with myself so I can sleep at night.\n\nOrwell: Keeping an Eye on You was created by Osmotic Studios. You can get it on for $9.99 (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux). It takes about four or five hours to finish.","title":"Orwell Keeping an Eye on You is a morally challenging game about surveillance","date":"2018-03-04","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"These days, theres nothing truly surprising about the dirt that has been dredged up on Mr. Trump. Authors are starting to line up to tell the truth including former FBI director James Comey whose new book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership was recently published. This past fall, author Michael Wolff wrote Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, detailing what the Trump transition was like behind the scenes.\n\nNow, Pulitzer prize winner, author Michael DAntonio, who wrote the 2016 book The Truth About Trump, spoke out on CNN about the lies and deceit that have come from Trump. DAntonio talked about the lies Trump has been telling his entire life. There are credible reports that Trump has even used the aliases of John Miller and John Barron to deceive reporters.\n\nDuring the segment, Anderson Cooper said:\n\nThis is just kind of bizarre that he would have done this. It shows the extent to which he wanted to be seen as being incredibly rich and getting his name in the paper and bragging about women he had been with.\n\nCooper went on to say:\n\nCooper gave his own analysis of it, saying:\n\nIts interesting, though, because a lot of the lies he told in the past, and even nowadays, they require you to be an idiot. Theyre sort of based on the idea that the person listening is just dumb and doesnt put the pieces together.\n\nOh yes. This is Donald, really going back to his school days when he was a boy, he insisted to others that he had hit home runs he had never hit in ball games. He left the New York Military Academy declaring himself the greatest baseball player in New York state. And it went on and on and on. He was named the ladies man at a school that had no young women at it.\n\nCheck out the clip here:","title":"Biographer Reveals Trumps Ladies Man Stature In School Theres Just One Glaring Problem","date":"2018-04-21","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Over the past few days the shape of what many in Europe and the United States call a new Cold War has begun to emerge  with threats and nuclear weapons that resemble the old one, punctuated by new dynamics, in part because of the rise of a rich, expanding and Nationalist China.\n\nThe change was evident as President Donald Trump explained his decision to abandon a 31-year-old arms-control treaty with Russia  hinting he was ready to plunge into a new arms race with both Moscow and Beijing, and as the Justice Department filed charges, for the third time this year, against Russians accused of interfering in U.S. elections.\n\nPast attempts to embarrass President Vladimir Putin into changing his behaviour, in both the nuclear and cyber-conflict arenas, have failed. During the Obama administration, the exposure of Russias violations of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2014 did nothing to alter Moscows arms buildup. Nor did the decision to name Putin as the man behind the 2016 attack on the Democratic National Committee and the widespread use of social media to widen fissures in U.S. politics. There is little evidence that the indictment of the Internet Research Agency and members of Putins military intelligence have deterred the Russians.\n\nBut in both cases China is also lurking in the background, a powerful force in a way it never was in the first Cold War, which began just as Mao declared the creation of the Peoples Republic. And while China appears to be the reason for Trumps decision to pull out of the missile treaty with Russia, it is causing new anxieties in a Europe already mistrustful of Trumps America First foreign and trade policies.\n\nTrump argued correctly that the arms treaty, signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, left China free to build up its own nuclear and conventional missiles of all ranges. (China was never part of the negotiations, and never a signatory to the treaty.) And perhaps as part of his effort to deflect discussion of whether Russia succeeded in manipulating the 2016 election, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have accused China of meddling, too  seeking to shape American public opinion more through investment, trade and theft of intellectual property than covert cyber-manipulation.\n\nThe Trump administration identifies both Russia and China as revisionist powers and strategic competitors of the United States. But when it comes to countering their nuclear advances and their increasingly innovative use of cyber-conflict to outmanoeuvre their adversaries, Trumps long-term strategy remains a mystery  beyond promises to match every military buildup, and strike back hard.\n\nWhether it was real or a negotiating ploy, Trumps declaration Saturday that he was ready, if necessary, to plunge the world back into a 1950s-style arms race is bound to cause yet another rift between Washington and its European allies  exactly the kind of fracture inside NATO that Putin has tried to create.\n\nAnd in cybersecurity, Trump has veered from denying Russian activity to authorizing the newly created U.S. Cyber Command more latitude to conduct pre-emptive strikes without presidential authorization. That raises fears of escalation with no clear reason to believe that the United States, its sprawling networks still vulnerable, would come out on top.\n\nThe Europeans do not deny that Russia has violated the INF treaty, which Kevin Ryan, an expert on Russian arms at the Belfer Center at Harvard, noted recently was negotiated at a time that was equally, if not more, contentious. At the time, hundreds of thousands of Europeans demonstrated against the deployment of U.S. Pershing II intermediate-range missiles on their soil as a counterbalance to Soviet SS-20s. That deployment led to the INF treaty Trump now wants to dump.\n\nMost European leaders  especially the Germans  believe other weapons systems deter the Russians, including air- and ground-launched missiles. For them, Trumps decision to abandon one of the few remaining treaties controlling nuclear weapons fits a narrative of America First at the expense of existing, long-term alliances, like NATO  and is the latest in a series of abandoned agreements, from the Paris accord on climate to the Iranian nuclear deal.\n\nIn this case, they see few advantages from leaving the treaty. Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister, called the move a gift to Russia that exposes Europe to a growing nuclear threat, because as the United States enters an arms race, Russia can quickly deploy new weapons in numbers.\n\nThe German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, called the decision regrettable, noting that it poses difficult questions for us and for Europe since it is the Europeans who are in range of the Russian missiles, not the United States.\n\nGorbachev, unsurprisingly, decried the Trump decision as reckless, asking: Do they really not understand in Washington what this can lead to?\n\nMoreover, the Europeans believe Trumps strategy  praising Putin when the two appear together as they did in Helsinki, then letting his aides step up pressure  is, if anything, emboldening the Russian leader. They were stunned to see Russia send a hit squad to Britain to try to kill a former Russian intelligence officer, Sergei V. Skripal, despite having exchanged him in a spy-swap years before. And Russia continues to freely meddle in European politics, most recently trying to block the accession of Macedonia to both NATO and the European Union.\n\nBut the European reaction has been disorganized. While NATO countries have put more troops in Baltic nations and Poland, and are preparing a huge military exercise in the North Atlantic, there is no agreed-on strategy over what red lines should be set to respond to Russian activity. Nowhere is that clearer than in the realm of cyberwarfare, where Europeans are spending more money on collective defense, but NATO has no offensive capability and no agreement about what kind of interference by the Russians calls for a response.\n\nFor his part, Putin has calibrated his actions with care. He denies that the Russian deployment of what the West calls an SSC-8 missile violates the treaty. And he has accused the United States  long before Trump was elected  of violating the treaty itself, arguing that anti-missile batteries it has placed in Europe could be used to fire other missiles that violate the ban on weapons that can reach 300 to 3,500 miles.\n\nIf the breach with Russia opens, it will most likely rekindle the Europeans fear that their territory would be the battlefield for the superpowers.\n\nI am deeply worried, Wolfgang Ischinger, the former German ambassador to the United States, said on Sunday. He urged Washington instead to try to expand the treaty, by bringing in China. No way European allies like Germany could live through another I.N.F. deployment, he wrote on Twitter, a la 1980s: that road is closed.\n\nTrump himself seemed to open up that possibility on Saturday. If they get smart and if others get smart and they say, Lets not develop these horrible nuclear weapons, I would be extremely happy with that. But as long as somebody is violating that agreement, were not going to be the only one to adhere to it, he said.\n\nBut missile treaties are not like NAFTA, the trade agreement Trump criticised and then renegotiated with Mexico and Canada.\n\nPutin has little incentive to negotiate a new INF treaty; his intermediate-range missiles fit a strategy of disruption. The Chinese have even less incentive to join any talks: Most of their missiles, nuclear and non-nuclear, fall within the range of weapons prohibited by the treaty. They would be giving up one of their primary tools for keeping the United States at a distance in the Pacific. And the Americans, the Chinese point out, have missiles of the same range at sea and on aircraft, which are permitted by the treaty.\n\nTrumps strategy is even harder to discern in the cyberattacks. While the Justice Department has indicted Russians working for the Internet Research Agency, officers of the intelligence organisation formerly known as the GRU, and now an accountant charged with aiding influence campaigns with millions of dollars, none is known to be in custody. (The United States will not describe the whereabouts of the accountant.)\n\nThe newly elevated U.S. Cyber Command has put together a team to counter election interference, but said little about its tactics. Fighting disinformation is especially hard: Cyber-command officials say they are far more comfortable turning off Iranian centrifuges or sabotaging North Korean missiles than they are waging counter-information wars.\n\nWhile Trump can build missiles to match the Chinese or Russian arsenals, there is no simple way to match Russian or Chinese influence operations.\n\nFor the Trump administration, it is like the early 1950s all over again, said one of the presidents top advisers, as a new threat emerged and Washington argued over how, or if, to counter it. But this time Washington does not seem to be consulting its allies.","title":"Trump could revive the Cold War but China has the power to change the dynamics of it","date":"2018-10-24","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Josey Jewell earned his nickname, The Outlaw, over four seasons and 49 games leading Iowas defense from his middle linebacker spot.\n\nBut keeping Jewells rugged reputation in the NFL required a shift of perspective when the Broncos picked him No. 106 overall (fourth round) in Aprils draft. Jewell thrived as the lone inside linebacker in the Hawkeyes 4-3 scheme. Now, hes playing alongside either Brandon Marshall or Todd Davis with a pair of rangy linebackers on the edges in Denvers 3-4.\n\nEarly on in OTAs, Jewell said, it was a bit of a learning curve.\n\nThe Broncos removed Jewells training wheels, quickly, as a knee injury to Marshall advanced the rookies role in base-and-nickel packages through three games. Jewells defensive snap count progressed from seven (Seattle) to 14 (Oakland) to 38 (Baltimore). Hes totaled eight tackles, including one for loss. Kickin it with Kiz: Will Broncos coach Vance Joseph get taken to school by K.C.s Andy Reid in Monday-night mismatch? Around the NFC: Bears rebounding nicely from opening-night collapse Count Broncos star linebacker Von Miller among those who have caught Rocktober fever\n\nA lot of learning lessons for me, especially, coming in early like that and playing on the defense, Jewell said. A lot of things that you realize after a week, you look at the film, think about it, watch it by yourself and you understand what you did wrong. You try to improve yourself every day.\n\nGetting these early ones, I think you try and critique yourself even harder. Because if theyre going to put you in, you better be able to go out there and fit.\n\nBack in the Broncos locker room, Jewell does his best not to revel in the early playing time, no matter how dream-fulfilling it might be, as he enters the first of what he hopes are many Monday Night Football appearances as an NFL linebacker.\n\nI havent really thought about that yet and Im trying not to think about it, Jewell said. Im going to try and live in the moment and understand what I need to do week-to-week and day-to-day.","title":"Inside the game Broncos rookie Josey Jewell adapts to new NFL defensive scheme","date":"2018-09-30","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is offering up to 50,000 to three resilience advisors who will prepare for, and respond to, and recover from civil emergencies.\n\nThe jobs are advertised as nine-month temporary roles but could be made permanent.\n\nThe advert reads: The posts would suit those who are keen to understand how government works and to be part of new and developing areas of resilience policy.\n\nDaily Star Online revealed last month how police chiefs had drawn up emergency plans for a no-deal Brexit.","title":"Brexit Special agents recruited to deal with CIVIL EMERGENCIES","date":"2018-10-09","source":"thedailystar","label":0}
{"content":"Was the assassination of JFK by Lee Harvey Oswald still getting as much media coverage three weeks after his death as it did that first week after Nov. 22, 1963? Not as I recall.\n\nYet, three weeks after his murder, Jamal Khashoggi, who was not a U.S. citizen, was not killed by an American, and died not on U.S. soil but in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, consumes our elite press.\n\nThe top two stories in Mondays Washington Post were about the Khashoggi affair. A third, inside, carried the headline, Trump, who prizes strength, may look weak in hesitance to punish Saudis.\n\nOn Sunday, the Post put three Khashoggi stories on Page 1. The Posts lead editorial bashed Trump for his equivocal stance on the killing.\n\nTwo of the four columns on the op-ed page demanded that the Saudis rid themselves of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the prime suspect in ordering the execution.\n\nPage 1 of the Outlook section offered an analysis titled, The Saudis knew they could get away with it. We always let them.\n\nPage 1 of the Metro section featured a story about the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia that began thus:\n\nCorey A. Stewarts impulse to use provocative and evidence-free slurs reached new heights Friday when the Republican nominee for Senate disparaged slain Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi...\n\nStewart appears to be moving in lockstep with extremist Republicans and conservative commentators engaging in a whisper campaign to smear Khashoggi and insulate Trump from global rebuke.\n\nThis was presented as a news story.\n\nInside the Business section of Sundays Post was a major story, More CEOs quietly withdraw from Saudi conference. Featured was a photo of JP Morgans Jamie Dimon, who had canceled his appearance.\n\nOn the top half of the front page of the Sunday New York Times were three stories about Khashoggi, as were the two top stories on Monday.\n\nThe Times lead editorial Monday called for a U.N. investigation, a cutoff in U.S. arms sales to Riyadh, and a signal to the royal house that we regard their crown prince as toxic.\n\nWhy is our prestige press consumed by the murder of a Saudi dissident not one in a thousand Americans had ever heard of?\n\nAnswer: Khashoggi had become a contributing columnist to the Post. He was a journalist, an untouchable. The Post and U.S. media are going to teach the House of Saud a lesson: You dont mess with the American press!\n\nMoreover, the pre-planned murder implicating the crown prince, with 15 Saudi security agents and an autopsy expert with a bone saw lying in wait at the consulate to kill Khashoggi, carve him up, and flee back to Riyadh the same day, is a terrific story.\n\nStill, what ought not be overlooked here is the political agenda of our establishment media in driving this story as hard as they have for the last three weeks.\n\nOur Beltway elite can smell the blood in the water. They sense that Khashoggis murder can be used to discredit the Trump presidency, expose the amorality of his foreign policy and sever his ties to patriotic elements of his Middle American constituency.\n\nFirst, there are those close personal ties between Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, son of the King, and Jared Kushner, son-in-law of the president of the United States.\n\nSecond, there are the past commercial connections between builder Donald Trump, who sold a floor of a Trump building and a yacht to the Saudis when he was in financial straits.\n\nThird, there is the strategic connection. The first foreign trip of the Trump presidency was, at Kushners urging, to Riyadh to meet the king, and the president has sought to tighten U.S. ties to the Saudis ever since.\n\nFourth, Trump has celebrated U.S. sales arms to the Saudis as a job-building benefit to America and a way to keep the Saudis as strategic partners in a Mideast coalition against Iran.\n\nFifth, the leaders of the two wings of Trumps party in the Senate, anti-interventionist Rand Paul and interventionist Lindsey Graham, are already demanding sanctions on Riyadh and an ostracizing of the prince.\n\nAs story after story comes out of Riyadh about what happened in that consulate on Oct. 2, each less convincing than the last, the coalition of forces, here and abroad, pressing for sanctions on Saudi Arabia and dumping the prince, grows.\n\nThe time may be right for President Trump to cease leading from behind, to step out front, and to say that, while he withheld judgment to give the Saudis every benefit of the doubt, he now believes that the weight of the evidence points conclusively to a plot to kill Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nHence, he is terminating U.S. military aid for the war in Yemen that Crown Prince Mohammed has been conducting for three years. Win-win.\n\nPatrick J. Buchanan is the author of Nixons White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.","title":"Time For Trump to Call the Saudis Out","date":"2018-10-23","source":"theamericanconservative","label":1}
{"content":"STUNNING IN STRIPES-\n\nLovely US First Lady Melania Trump met with schoolchildren and played bowls today in England while President Trump took part in a press conference with Theresa May.\n\nThis video is great!\n\n The kids cheering her is the best part!","title":"Stunning First Lady Melania Trump Visits with School Children Bowls with Theresa Mays Husband in","date":"2018-07-13","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"POTUS is helping the Republican party by speaking at multiple rallies leading up to next weeks midterm elections.","title":"Watch Live As President Trump Rallies Americans Against The Democrats Army of Dead Voters","date":"2018-11-01","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"When we told our parents we wanted to open a restaurant here, they tried everything to persuade us not to, says Shaun McCarron, who runs front of house in the newly opened Little Chartroom.\n\nAlong with wife and head chef Roberta Hall (the couple were married just a week and a half before opening), McCarron went for it against all opposition, and the duo opened their restaurant on Leith Walk, which leads down to Edinburghs dockland area. It was the location that was most problematic.\n\nTheres little to do to skirting around the location. Known as the shit end of town, Leith Walk is neither the beautiful Old Town with its tiny, wonky stone staircases and sloping cobbled streets, nor the wonderfully planned wide streets of James Craigs New Town. The shipping port of Leith wasnt even part of Edinburgh until 1920, but was incorporated as it grew (although some still consider it to be separate entity).\n\nAnd as these places always are, its described as the up and coming area, where rents are cheaper for businesses and the bonus is theres plenty of people living there already.\n\nFinally, the long-promised trams are due to arrive in the area. The plan to connect the airport to Leith was abandoned years ago after overspending reached a mere 400m (how?). For years, locals and businesses endured the annoyance and disruption of roads being pulled up and cables being laid underneath.The infrastructure is now there, and soon, so will be the trams.\n\nAside from the location, the restaurant has not come without its problems. Ceilings have been lowered and walls brought in after serious issues were found after taking on the lease, but Hall and McCarron still made it work.\n\nInside, its cosy (made more so after the construction work). It seats only 18, with four of those at the bar. These stools overlook the area that doubles up as half bar and half kitchen (the back worktop is the bar with fridges below and the front forms the kitchen preparation area), where diners awkwardly (my awkwardness, not theirs) watch the chefs plate up starters and desserts.\n\nBut from this viewpoint, were able to watch the cogs turning in this little machine. And its silent. Each member of the tiny team (we count six?) almost glides, never bumping in to one another, as if theyve worked here years, not the mere 10 weeks its been open. Each seems to know exactly their colleagues next moves.\n\nMcCarron later tells us that the two chefs in front of us (doing starters and puddings) have only been there for a couple of weeks. But they seem part of the furniture, each filing in where needs be (washing up and all, which I can only just see from my perch).\n\nThe main kitchen seems to be much the same; little is said loudly, bar the call of check on from Roberta.\n\nBut shes probably more used to a larger kitchen, considering her previous post: three years at Tom Kitchins restaurant, The Kitchin (even further into Leith, about a 10-minute drive down Leith Walk, up and coming etc), before helping to open the French restaurant, Castle Terrace (you guessed it, right in front of the citys castle) where she became head chef. She also spent a year working at the Burj in Dubai (complete change of scenery).\n\nAnd as the restaurant and kitchen are small but perfectly formed, so must the menu be. Not only can they not store a huge array of ingredients, Im sure, but where would they all be cooked? Starters, mains and desserts have a trio of choice each. Its refreshingly small.\n\nWe watch the starters prepared in front of us: tiny strips of cured sea trout are laid across a thin layer of the same fish thats flaked in a small shallow bowl (with tweezers) and topped with tiny pieces of cucumber and a few spots of avruga caviar (which does not contain fish roe). As delicate as it is, its an incredible flavour; pretty much as fresh as it comes.\n\nI have the heirloom tomatoes dish. Its made up of six different varieties, two of which are tiny and cured, and a large dark tomato thats wonderfully tender, accompanied by wedges of yellow ones and long slithers of bright red specimens. Tiny dollops of feta are circled around dish but the real beauty of this is that its sweetened with a watermelon and white vinegar jus (that Im specifically given a spoon to be able to scoop up the dregs with, and Im glad I saved some bread for).\n\nFrom the three mains, we go for the hake dish and the bavette of beef. Mine, the beef, is succulent, tender and almost creamy; served with gnocchi (nicely crisped), a whole load of shredded beef thats hidden under the bavette (making the dish way bigger than you think it is), a little wilted spinach and a whole loads of girolles. Its enormous and seriously worth its value. But the hake, well, I have food envy. The hefty chunk has its well-cooked skin on, and is flaky and delicate while the accompanying shellfish bisque is rich and robust. The chargrilled vegetables  fennel and cauliflower  retain their shape and match the boldness of the bisque while teeny tiny (I imagine the tweezers came out again) cubes of orange give it a zesty punch of freshness. Its a memorable dish, and I didnt even order it.\n\nThe standard doesnt drop for the desserts either. The carrot cake choice is a long slither of moist fingers stacked atop each other, sandwiched and topped with cream and a little portion of carrot ice cream. It sounds like its straight out of Hestons kitchen, but it has a welcome hint of savouryness, and is the best carrot cake Ive ever had, says my partner.\n\nIt was before Id even sat down that Id chosen my dessert, thanks to that multi-use kitchen counter. When we walked in, I spied a beautifully formed circular chocolate pudding, topped with crushed pistachios and a little ball of tart cherry ice cream. I was sold.\n\nThe level of food that comes from such a tiny kitchen and team is beyond impressive, as is the way its created. Halls experience and flair shines through tremendously, but without fuss and pomp; its a place to visit again and again. Lets hope the trams do get there sooner rather than later, as its worth going straight there from the airport.","title":"The Little Chartroom restaurant review Edinburgh From small things come great plates","date":"2018-08-30","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Have you ever felt the need to escape the confines and restrictions of society? If you have, then homesteading might be for you. Not everyone is built to withstand the aggression of city life, and not everyone wants to spend so much for food you can actually grow at home.\n\nHomesteading is a lifestyle, not just the act of building a self-sustainable home. Before you jump on the bandwagon, make sure youre willing to commit your time and efforts towards this endeavor. Since the basic idea of homesteading is being off the grid, there is little to no automation, unless you have a hand in it. So, check this off your list first before continuing on to the next part.\n\nBefore actually building your homestead from the ground up, youll need to finalize a few legal aspects, since youre still living in a country with laws and regulations. Once you buy the lot or location youll be building your homestead in, make sure other legal matters are settled. Things to double-check are your lots legal boundaries, the rights to minerals and water, and every other little detail as much as possible. This will enable you to have a lawsuit-free future, in case society-based things go haywire around you.\n\nAnother step to take is to observe and record your environment and the weather in your location. Knowing what the usual temperature is, and the type of soil you have makes it easier for you to grow food. Not all plants can be grown in specific locations, especially if the plants are native to somewhere hotter or colder. If your soil is not that good, youd want to allocate more resources into creating an indoor garden or a small greenhouse that could accommodate a large variety of plants. This costs much more money than usual, but if youve budgeted correctly, youll save in the long run. (Related: Its easier than you think: How to grow a vegetable garden.)\n\nSponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: The Big Berkey water filter removes almost 100% of all contaminants using only the power of gravity (no electricity needed, works completely off-grid). Widely consider the ultimate \"survival\" water filter, the Big Berkey is made of stainless steel and has been laboratory verified for high-efficiency removal of heavy metals by CWC Labs, with tests personally conducted by Mike Adams. Explore more here.\n\nEfficiency is also key when building a homestead. When building your homestead, you dont want to break the bank and be penniless, especially during your first few observation months. If a certain material is way more expensive than projected, find an alternative. Youll be surprised to find that there are many options and alternative resources, especially when your primary choice would leave you empty-pocketed. Say for example, the type of wood you want to use for flooring. Buying wood flooring from a local hardware store (near your homestead, of course) instead of buying it from a supermarket \/ hardware chain store can be up to 70 percent cheaper. Buying your materials from family-run stores would help the local community, and help you manage your money better.\n\nLast but not the least, know thy neighbor. As big as the country is, you might be surprised to find a neighboring family living on the outskirts of your lot. Say hi, and get to know them. That way, youll be able to discuss property limits and other matters like trespassing without being too awkward or too formal towards each other. You can even help each other with tasks like plowing or building vine trellises or tree houses. While most homesteaders are private people, some are as helpful as providing you with your first homesteading weeks supply of homegrown vegetables!\n\nIf you wish to learn more about homesteading, gardening, and self-sufficient living, visit Homesteading.news.","title":"Important things to consider when building your new homestead","date":"2018-09-02","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Now that the October Pixel event has wrapped up, weve seen all the new flagship phones coming out from Google, Apple, and Samsung this year. The much-leaked Google Pixel 3 still had some surprises, like Google spam call screening transcription and improved AI photo capabilities on top of an already great camera. Some of the new features Google introduced today are completely exclusive to the Pixel line, while others are features weve seen before on other phones.\n\nTake for example, Top Shot, a new Pixel 3 feature that uses AI to automatically pick out the best frame from the moment a photo was taken. Apples Live Photos does a similar thing, saving the moments a photo is taken and letting you manually choose which frame you want to keep. The iPhones photo burst mode does this as well when you hold down the shutter to take multiple photos, but the AI will choose what it thinks is the best photo for you.\n\nThe Pixel 3 and 3 XL also got the added advantage of another camera in the front, introducing a new feature called Group Selfie Cam. Manually zooming out with the wide-angle lens will let you capture 184 percent more of the scene than the iPhone XS, as Google claimed during its presentation.\n\nNumbers-wise, Samsung wins at battery life capacity and the lowest starting price of $719 for the Galaxy S9. It also gets brownie points in my book for keeping the headphone jack. If you want to take a look at all the specs across the board, take a look at the chart below and make your own judgements.\n\nIf youre thinking of buying a Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL, Googles including six months of YouTube Music Premium and unlimited Google Photos storage with your purchase. Heres how to trade in your old Pixel phone if you want to upgrade, and some different options for preordering. The phone ships October 18th, so get your preorders in by then.","title":"How the Google Pixel 3 stacks up against the iPhone XS and Galaxy S9","date":"2018-10-09","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Harlequins co-captain James Horwill has called on his teams fans to make Premiership leaders Saracens visit to the Stoop tomorrow night as uncomfortable as possible.\n\nHorwill hopes plenty of fans will come to the Stoop following the afternoon match between Northampton and Leicester over the road at Twickenham, which is in aid of his former Australia team-mate Rob Horne.\n\nQuins secured a vital win at Gloucester last weekend after three straight defeats but know they must up their game against Saracens, who have enjoyed a perfect start to the season, with five bonus-point wins.\n\nIts a huge game for us, its a proper derby and it means a lot to us and the fans, said Horwill. We need to give them something to cheer about.\n\nIts a huge challenge  Saracens are the best team in the league, playing some class rugby  and what we did last weekend is not going to be enough, we need to step up again.\n\nThe fans are always behind us  and we want to make the Stoop as uncomfortable as possible for anyone that comes there. Its a massive game, and its a night game which should be a bit different and create a great atmosphere.\n\nHorwill enjoyed a successful return from injury last week (he had been out since April) but knows Harlequins  who sit fourth, heading up a group of four teams on 13 points  must continue to improve their defence and discipline, their major focus under new head of rugby Paul Gustard.\n\nIt was an important win for us, said Horwill. The reward equalled the effort we put in, which is very pleasing. Now we need to capitalise on it. Its vital we tighten up and keep improving.","title":"Harlequins co-captain James Horwill urges fans to make a racket and unsettle Saracens","date":"2018-10-05","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"A new billboard in Calvert County Maryland is turning a lot of heads.\n\nThe sign warns Democrats about their plans to overthrow the 2016 election.\n\nFor some odd reason local liberals are taking offense to the sign.\n\n They believe it is a threat.\n\nThe local owner has agreed to change the sign.","title":"Maryland Billboard Warns Liberals Better Get Your Guns If You Try to Impeach Trump","date":"2018-05-09","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"President Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to highlight research indicating that Google is artificially boosting leftist news reports that are overwhelmingly negative about his Presidency.\n\nTrump described the findings as very serious and vowed to take action.\n\nThe original report from PJ Medias Paula Bolyard suggests that of the first 100 results provided by Google for Trump news, almost all were from left-leaning outlets.\n\nGoogle has maintained that all outlets are treated fairly, but nevertheless, conservative sites have reported reduced search traffic and, in the case of Google-owned YouTube, content creators have been banned and demonetized. Bolyard writes.\n\nBolyard found only five stories by conservative news sites turned up on Googles search results. Three of those were from the Wall Street Journal and two from Fox News.\n\nBolyard also noted that CNN stories mostly populated the search results, after she conducted the experiment on multiple different computers owned by and registered to different people.\n\nA cursory search shows this to be accurate:\n\nWhile not scientific, the results suggest a pattern of bias against right-leaning content, she writes.\n\nThe top 10 sites that had the most results show that only one is right-leaning: 1. CNN (21), 2. Washington Post (11), 3. NBC (11), 4. CNBC (8), T5. The Atlantic (5), T5. Politico (5), T5. New York Times (5), 8. Vox (4), T9. CBS (3) and T9. Wall Street Journal (3).\n\nIts not the only research that indicates Googles algorithm works with a left wing bias.\n\nA study by search engine optimization company Can I Rank found exactly the same outcome.\n\nThe research found that search results are 40% more likely to contain pages with a Left or Far Left slant than they are pages from the right.\n\nIn addition, 16% of political keywords such as gun control, abortion, TPP, and Black Lives Matter contained zero right-leaning pages on the first page of results.\n\nIn addition to the obvious hypocrisy of a supposedly neutral information source favoring certain political leanings, research from psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein has found that negative search results can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by up to 43.4 percent.\n\nIn this sense, Google is enabling election manipulation.\n\nThe findings are hardly surprising given that Google is one of the leaders of the big tech move to censor conservative content on the internet.\n\nConservative employees within Google has leaked information suggesting that the company is dominated by a far-left doctrine. Those who speak up in opposition to it are risking their careers.\n\nThe company is facing a class-action lawsuit from former employees who have charged that it discriminates on the basis of political viewpoint, race, and gender.","title":"Trump Slams Rigged Negative Google Searches","date":"2018-08-28","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Charles Kushner, White House senior adviser Jared Kushners father, is trying to take the fall for the familys calamitous investment in 666 Fifth Avenue to shift blame from his son, according to a CNN report Tuesday morning.\n\nI pushed Jared to do the deal, Charles Kushner told CNN, adding that the deal was bad timing and bad judgment.\n\nKushner Companies paid $1.8 billion in 2007 for the skyscraper, a bet that backfired when a crashing market left the property saddled with $1.2 billion in debt. Attempts to recruit foreign investors to salvage the purchase have come back to haunt Jared Kushner, when stories of his meetings linked to the Chinese government leaked while he was working as a foreign affairs liaison on his father-in-laws transition team.\n\nIn the interview with CNN, Charles Kushner alluded to a deal in the works currently to recruit above-the-board investors and mitigate the financial burdens. His attempt to take the blame for his son points to the criticism surrounding the younger Kushner over what some see as a failure to properly divest from his business interests while working in a senior capacity in the Trump administration.","title":"Charles Kushner On 666 Fifth Avenue I Pushed Jared To Do The Deal","date":"2018-04-24","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Paul Casey plans to tee off like it is his last Ryder Cup when Europe lock horns with the United States in Paris from tomorrow.\n\nTen years after his third and last Ryder Cup appearance, Casey is back in the fold as one of Thomas Bjorns four wildcard picks having climbed his way back to No21 in the world.\n\nAt 41, I dont know how many opportunities Im going to get to play another European-based Ryder Cup, said Casey, who lives in Arizona. I dont want this to be my last European Ryder Cup but theres a chance that it is.\n\nRyder Cups in the past have gone so quickly and I just want to make sure I remember this. So, I just want to make sure that I pay attention to it and enjoy it, deliver points, play my heart out but enjoy it at the same time.\n\nThe US are bidding for a first win on European soil in 25 years, with rival captains Jim Furyk and Thomas Bjorn set to announce their line-ups for tomorrow mornings fourballs at the opening ceremony at 4pm at Le Golf National today.\n\nWhether Casey plays in the opening session remains to be seen but the Englishman teed off with fellow veteran Sergio Garcia and rookies Tyrrell Hatton and Alex Noren in the final quartet out on the course this morning.\n\nFor a one-time stalwart of the European side, Caseys return has been a long time coming. In 2010, he was overlooked by Colin Montgomerie, despite being a sensible wildcard pick in many peoples eyes.\n\nHis form in 2012 and 2014 was not good enough to make the team, while two years ago he was not eligible after opting not to rejoin the European Tour, a situation he addressed in a bid to make the team in Paris.\n\nDespite a decades absence, Casey insisted he did not have a point to prove. He said: Im just here to play the golf Im capable of and see what that produces.\n\nI felt I could and I would [return to the Ryder Cup], it was just a matter of when. When youre playing bad golf, you can never see how to play good golf again but you just get on with it. You just deal with it. I just worked through it.\n\nBjorn has earmarked Casey as a role model for the rookies in the team, while the player himself admits he did not realise how much he had missed being part of the event until he joined up with his team-mates.\n\nAsked what he missed the most, Casey (left) said: The team part, the team element. The vibes in the team room. You know, we hang out a lot on Tour around the world when were playing but its not the same.\n\nI miss putting on the clothes in the morning. I miss that first tee. But I think the most is missing the team, how close you get with these guys.","title":"Ryder Cup 2018 Paul Casey to aposplay heart outapos as he gears up for swansong","date":"2018-09-27","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Ben Youngs: Well go for the throat against All Blacks\n\nEngland have an attacking, aggressive gameplan as they bid to suffocate New Zealands free-flowing game in the first meeting of the two teams for four years at Twickenham on Saturday.\n\n\n\nScrum-half Ben Youngs said England hoped to make the world champions feel claustrophobic and that hoping to contain them would be ruinous.\n\n\n\nWe looked at some of the bits from the Rugby Championship where we felt the defences arent as aggressive or creating as much pressure as we would like, Youngs said. A lot of what we do is create that claustrophobic feeling.\n\nOne thing about the All Blacks is that you are going to have to score tries. I dont like the word containing because it implies we will go out there and see what they have got. That is one thing we definitely dont want to do because we know what they are capable of. \n\nIt is about going out there and really taking the game to them, whether that is without the ball and cutting down their time and space, or with the ball, trying to go through phases.\n\n\n\nEddie Jones last night opted, where possible, to stick with the players who won the opening game of their autumn international series, as he shaved his squad from 35 to 25.\n\n\n\nTom Curry is out with an ankle injury and has been replaced by Sam Underhill, while Courtney Lawes and Manu Tuilagi are in contention after injury. Brad Shields, after a performance of promise against the Springboks, will feature but faces a battle to retain his starting spot. Lawes or Maro Itoje could move to blindside to beef up England, while defence coach Steve Borthwick says Underhill, Zach Mercer and Mark Wilson are options at openside.\n\n\n\nShields, the former Hurricanes captain and New Zealand Under-20 who until last year harboured hopes of playing for the All Blacks, knows Saturdays opposition better than most and will be a central figure whether he starts or not. When returning to Wellington one last time before moving to Wasps, he stayed with Beauden Barrett and hid an England training top from the tour of South Africa in his drawer as a prank.\n\n\n\nShieldss bat is straighter this week, especially when asked about what must be a peculiar occasion. His view is that until his selection is confirmed, the idea of facing the Haka and sledges from his old mates is not worth considering.  Instead, he has been passing on intelligence on the All Blacks, with his view being that England need a lung-busting 80-minute performance to ensure they are not outlasted by the visitors.\n\n\n\nBrads knowledge is really important, said Youngs. He can tell us what the guys he has played with dont particularly like and the traits they have in their game. We dont just want to contain the All Blacks, we want to throw our gameplan at them.\n\n\n\nYoungs took particular note of Shieldss observation that Barrett is New Zealands most regular ball-carrier. Overall, though, Shieldss message to England is that there is no magic formula to New Zealands excellence.\n\n\n\nThats it: its rugby played very well, said Shields. If you do the basics very well, which they do, if you can make the most of your opportunities, then you will come away with a lot of wins.","title":"England vs New Zealand rugby LIVE Autumn international as it happened","date":"2018-11-10","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The metaphorical revolving door at the front of the Trump White House is coming back to haunt the president. Last year, Omarosa Manigault-Newman left a communications position at the White House in a storm of controversy, with competing accounts of her time in the White House and her exit. Now, she has a new book ready to share with the world in which she lays out her own contentious take on the Trump administration.\n\nIn the book  called Unhinged: An Insiders Account of the Trump White House and out August 14  Omarosa, as shes often known, writes that she felt there was clear evidence of the presidents mental decline while she was on the inside.\n\nSpeaking of a presidential sit down with NBCs Lester Holt in 2017, she explained:\n\nIn that interview, Trump tore his administrations then-young defense for firing FBI Director James Comey to shreds. Ahead of that interview, the White House claimed that Trump fired Comey because of a recommendation to do so from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein thanks to the directors alleged mishandling of the Clinton email investigation. Comey attracted controversy for circumventing precedent both in declaring Clinton innocent in mid-2016 and in publicly revealing the email probe to be re-opened shortly before the election. Clinton herself has blamed that latter action in part for her loss.\n\nWhile speaking to Holt, Trump said that he was planning on firing Comey no matter what anyone else recommended because of the weight of the Russia investigation, which he led at the time. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has since taken that over, and the presidents own former campaign manager Paul Manafort is currently on trial in Virginia and facing a second trial later this year in Washington, D.C.\n\nIn other words, any Trump efforts to stop the Russia investigation have certainly failed.\n\nOmarosa thinks that the presidents persistence with his own gibberish evidences a declining mental state, which is a serious accusation to make about the health of a man who controls the United States nuclear arsenal.\n\nContinuing on about the interview with Holt, she said:\n\nShe explained that then-White House communications director Hope Hicks had gone over the talking point that hed fired Comey because of a recommendation a dozen times. Even still, Trump did not hesitate to offer his alternative reasoning for the dismissal.\n\nTrump has behaved in that manner time and time again outside of the confines of that interview. He routinely veers wildly off script and attracts, at times, wide criticism of the sort that followed his recent denial of evidence of Russian interference in U.S. elections while in Finland. In the face of past accusations of a questionable mental state from author Michael Wolff, Trump asserted himself a stable genius  but we all see what he does.","title":"Omarosa Releases New Book About Trumps Mental Wellness Donald Is Freaking","date":"2018-08-03","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"I don't know the book acquisition budget of the public library in the town of St. Michaels, a quaint little tourist trap on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I hope it's large enough to buy several copies of Ryan T. Anderson's new book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. Given the strange new world they've been cast into, the patrons will find it useful.Last week, a U.S. District judge named George L. Russell III declared that the local high school in St. Michaels is violating the rights of a student named Max Brennan, who was born a girl but has decided he is a boy. (Like the parties to the case, judge, defendant, and plaintiff, we'll refer to Max as a boy, for courtesy's sake.) When Max told school authorities about his decision, they did what they could to accommodate him, calling him by his new name and referring to him with masculine pronouns. On Max's behalf, they even subjected school staff to a professional development workshop on the subject of transgender students.","title":"A Guide for the Gender-Perplexed","date":"2018-03-18","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"We reached more than 224 million page views in 2017.  This surpassed our previous record from 2016 of 182 million page views.\n\nWe thank all our readers for all their support.\n\nOn the other hand, 2017 was a very challenging year for TGP.  Facebook and Twitter have often altered their platforms to prevent TGP stories from being shared.  They have employed far left operatives who deem which stories are acceptable and others they kill off before they go viral.\n\nStories like Hillary is going to win in a landslide, Hillary is not sick or Trump colluded with Russia are considered accurate reports.  These powerful tech firms act as gatekeepers and prevent conservative content from being shared online.\n\nIn 2016 we were one of the few conservative sites that supported candidate Trump  along with Breitbart, The Drudge Report, Infowars, Zero Hedge and Conservative Treehouse.  We are proud of our efforts to report the truth that led to Trumps historic win.\n\nBecause of this we were targeted and have seen our numbers related to Facebook and Twitter decline dramatically.\n\nIn every single Facebook category our numbers are down. In page visits our numbers were skyrocketing before the election. Then in three distinct periods our numbers were cut off.\n\nThis had nothing to do with the quality of our posts as we have proof that our generic numbers are up and and continue to increase.\n\nIn all statistical categories provided to us by Facebook our current numbers are below linear projections of where we should be.\n\nIn February Facebook launched another algorithm change to their platform. With the changes we saw our traffic dwindle even further.\n\nWe werent the only ones to be affected. The algorithmic change caused President Donald Trumps engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping 45%.\n\nIn contrast, according to Breitbarts Allum Bokhari, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not appear to have suffered a comparable decline in Facebook engagement.","title":"Criminal Facebook Corporation Shut Down Gateway Pundit Today Because of Our Conservative Beliefs Wh","date":"2018-03-03","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Now a NFL cheerleader is protesting the National Anthem.\n\nA San Francisco 49ers cheerleader took a knee Thursday night prior to a game with the Oakland Raiders, which is likely the first known example of a cheerleader partaking in the protest.\n\nThe cheerleader was not identified, and the team has yet to comment on the matter.\n\nThe take-a-knee protest famously started with the 49ers when then-quarterback Colin Kaepernick dropped in protest of the American flag.\n\nThat said, only about three players are still protesting, which makes the cheerleaders sudden devotion to the cause a little strange.\n\nNot to mention that, unlike players who are typically locked into expensive, multi-year contracts, cheerleaders are fairly easy to sack.\n\nKaepernicks protest backfired spectacularly for the NFL; YouTube and social media were flooded with videos by long-term fans burning their team jerseys, and NFL ratings have been in free-fall ever since.\n\nNFL ratings are facing yet another brutal blitz this fall  and few pundits are betting that they wont get sacked, reported the New York Post. With ratings having plunged 8 percent in 2016 and nearly 10 percent last year, experts say this seasons ratings could fall even faster as the league continues to grapple with a slew of ugly controversies that have turned off viewers.","title":"Photo NFL Cheerleader Takes a Knee During National Anthem","date":"2018-11-02","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Like an opening act at a rock festival, Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, warmed up the Catholics at the World Meeting of Families pastoral congress with his folksy charm.\n\nHe had landed in Dublin hours earlier at midnight and was running on only one hour of sleep.\n\nA jovial crowd, enjoying the first full day of the congress and its carnival atmosphere, loved it when he joked that he might doze off during his speech.\n\nFrom the laughs it was easy to understand why this cleric has been tipped as a future pope.\n\nRiffing on the view of the festivals weekend headliner Francis, that modern society had become a throwaway culture, Cardinal Chito lamented how the rise of modern consumerism and disposable fashions and products have threatened the value of the people and the planet.\n\nEven if your car worked well, artificial obsolescence made you feel that your car was no use, he said.\n\nSometimes, because of the influence of the throwaway culture, we dont even notice that we gauge people according to their market value, he said.\n\nOther things deemed to be useless, according to the pope, in our utilitarian culture were the unborn child, the elderly, people with so-called disabilities, he said to several hundred people gathered in Hall Two at the RDS.\n\nNext door, in Hall Four, consumerism and Catholicism sat comfortably beside each other with dozens of religious orders and retailers peddling services and products.\n\nThere were even little foetus models on one stall, as captured by a Reuters photographer.\n\nOliver Brady had shifted quite a number of Pope Francis dolls, imported from Spain, at his Pope Doll Shop.\n\nDefending the 35 price tag on the doll, he said: It is licensed, it is limited edition and the quality is actually very good.\n\nCar maker Skoda has used the popes visit, and his use of four of its cars in Dublin and Knock this weekend, to put a specially commissioned stained glass windowed Skoda Karoq on display.\n\nIt wouldnt pass the NCT with that, said Skoda PR man Cathal Kealey, standing next to the vehicle with 87kg of stained glass and 25m of lead wrapped around the windows.\n\nArtist Evan Connon said the stained glass depicted 17 couples to celebrate the family. The images included a same-sex couple.\n\nWe wanted to show the modern car to a modern family in a modern Ireland,  said Kealey.\n\nIt is a model Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh would quickly have disposed of. His exclusive view of family, according to his keynote address yesterday, was a faithful and exclusive union between a married man and a woman as a cherished space for the bearing and upbringing of children.\n\nFamily man Diarmuid Hegarty and his wife Catherine, up from Cork with their six children (aged three to 13), were enjoying the many events for children on offer at the congress.\n\nHegarty, only a baby the last time Ireland had a papal visit, felt the church was right to resist change that has taken place since then for the benefit of a la carte members or social Catholics; it might lead to a better, more pure church, he argued.\n\nIf people want to be part of a club, they have to sign up to the rules, he said.","title":"Papal visit Potential future pope employs folksy charm amid Catholicism and consumerism","date":"2018-08-23","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"British MEP Janice Atkinson warns that the UN Compact on Migration would lead to Europe being flooded with 59 million new migrants within the next 6 years.\n\nThe document is not legally binding, but governments will be under pressure to follow its dictates. Numerous countries, including the United States and Hungary, have said they will refuse to sign the pact.\n\nIf you think youre in control of your borders, think again, said Atkinson, adding, This compact backs the EU and the UNs aim to flood our nations with 59 million migrants by 2025.... just 6 years.\n\nAtkinson went on to explain the source of the new pact; A 2000 declaration that concluded Europes ethnic population was in decline and therefore needed replacing.\n\nThis has been disproven by youth unemployment in some European countries being 50% or higher, as well as many new migrants being unemployable, with only around 13% employed on average according to Atkinson.\n\nThe MEP savaged British Prime Minister Theresa May for promising to take back control of British borders via Brexit and yet planning to sign the UN migration pact next month.\n\nRemember  the UN and the globalists want to flood our continent with 59 million migrants by 2025, Atkinson emphasized, adding that the UN document states mass immigration is inevitable, desirable and necessary.\n\nWarning that the plan would lead to European countries having their culture and identity crushed, Atkinson also pointed out that the pact could lead to hate speech laws that make it illegal to use the term illegal migrants, replacing it instead with irregular migrants.\n\nIt will be illegal not to use their prescribed language, warned Atkinson, adding that European citizens could say goodbye to your democracy and your way of life, unless they demand their leaders refuse to sign the document.\n\nThe MEPs concern about language policing is shared by Dutch MEP Marcel de Graaff, who said that the pact would grease the skids for laws that would criminalize criticism of mass immigration as hate speech.\n\nPaul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.","title":"MEP Warns UN Pact Will Flood Europe With 59 Million Migrants by 2025","date":"2018-11-30","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"This is after the liberal media repeated the word impeachment 222 times in one day this week!\n\nPresident Trumps approval rating is currently at 46% on Rasmussen Reports.\n\nMedia darling Barack Obama had an approval rating of 44% on August 26, 2010.\n\nAnd a majority of Americans believe the Manafort and Cohen verdicts will not result in criminal charges against Trump.\n\nAnd this is while 90% of network media coverage has been negative of President Trump.\n\nAnd this is while the media ran a impeachment cheers for the past several days of reporting.","title":"DESPITE MEDIA HELL WEEK President Trumps Approval Number Still 2 Points Ahead of Obama at Same Poi","date":"2018-08-26","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Melania Trump continues to dazzle the American public with her impeccable style, grace, intellect and beauty.\n\nNot only is Melania Trump the only First Lady to speak five languages fluently, she is also the only First Lady to hold down a major career as a top fashion model.\n\nThis week Melania Trump revealed the 2018 White House decorations.\n\n The photos and video were stunning.\n\nThe media ripped Melania Trump for her Christmas decor this week.\n\n They are not used to seeing such elegance in the White House.\n\nThe hula hoops and dunked basketballs are but a memory.\n\n\n\nAnd grace is back in the White House.","title":"Liberal Media Stunned by Melania Trumps Impeccable Style Following Prior Years of Trailer Park Chic","date":"2018-11-28","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The normal wait at a California state run DMV is several hours.\n\nAh  the joys of Socialism!\n\nIn California, long lines are a fact of life at Department of Motor Vehicles offices across the state, but for California lawmakers and their legislative staffers, theres an alternative.\n\nKCRA has learned of a DMV office that is not open to the public.\n\nIts located inside the Legislative Office Building on N Street, adjacent to the state Capitol.\n\nThe office, inside Room 121, has no markings on the door and was locked when KCRA visited it on Thursday, but after knocking, a worker confirmed it was a DMV office and said its set up to handle customer complaints that escalate to the legislative branch.\n\nHowever, having a private office for legislators and their Capitol staff is a source of frustration for Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno. His request for an official DMV audit was denied when three Democrats  Senators Ricardo Lara, of Los Angeles; Ben Allen, of Santa Monica; and Jim Beall, of San Jose  abstained from voting.","title":"California Lawmakers Set Up Secret DMV Office So They Dont Have to Wait in the Heat for Hours to Re","date":"2018-08-10","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Brett Kavanaugh faced another blow to his hopes of being confirmed as a US Supreme Court judge when it was revealed today that he was quizzed by police over a bloody bar fight he was involved in while a student at Yale University.\n\nThe embattled nominee, now 53, was accused of throwing ice at a man in a bar during a brawl following a UB40 concert in September 1985.\n\nThe fight allegedly broke out because Mr Kavanaugh and his friends mistook the man for the Birmingham bands lead singer Ali Campbell and he asked them to stop staring at him.\n\nThe report came as the FBI were investigating allegations by three women of sexual misconduct by Mr Kavanaugh at parties he attended when he was a student.\n\nThe US Senate has delayed a make-or-break vote to decide whether to confirm him as the newest member of Americas highest court until the probe is completed.\n\nAccording to a police report obtained by the New York Times, Mr Kavanaugh was blamed for starting the fight at Demerys bar in New Haven, Connecticut.\n\nThe victim, Dom Cozzolino, claimed he was hit in the ear by a glass thrown by one of Mr Kavanaughs college friends. He was treated in hospital for the injury.\n\nThe report said Mr Kavanaugh and four other men were questioned by police over the incident but he was not arrested.\n\nOne of the men drinking with Mr Kavanbaug was fellow Yale undergraduate Charles Chad Ludington, who issued a statement yesterday claiming his old friend lied about the extent of his drinking in college.\n\nHe told the New York Times that the victim took exception to the group looking at him while trying to work out if he was the UB40 star.\n\nHe said Mr Kavanaugh swore and then threw his beer at the guy.\n\nThe guy swung at Brett, added Mr Ludington, now an associate professor at North Carolina State University. He said one of the group, Chris Dudley, took his beer and smashed it into the head of the guy, who by now had Brett in an embrace.\n\nI dont know what Brett was doing in the melee, but there was blood, there was glass, there was beer and there was some shouting, and the police showed up, he added.\n\nThe police report said Mr Dudley denied the accusations and Mr Kavanaugh didnt want to say if he threw the ice or not.\n\nDemocrats desperately attack Judge Kavanaugh for throwing ice during college. What motivated New York Times reporter to write this ridiculous story? Throwing ice 33 years ago, or her opinion of Judge Kavanaugh in July? she tweeted, pointing to a past comment on Twitter by the reporter that was critical of President Trumps Supreme Court pick.\n\nAfter claims in the US media yesterday that suggested the White House wanted to restrict the FBI inquiries into Mr Kavanaugh, Mr Trump said today that he wants a very comprehensive investigation to be carried out into the sex abuse claims.\n\nBut he said that he didnt want it turned into a witch hunt and added: Id like it to go quickly.\n\nAmong the people already questioned by agents was Mr Kavanaughs close friend Mark Judge, who was reportedly in the bedroom at the time of one of the alleged assaults at a house party in 1982.\n\nRepublican senators have said the FBI must wrap up its inquiries by the end of the week and they plan to hold the delayed confirmation vote on Friday or Saturday.","title":"Brett Kavanaugh quizzed by police over involvement in bloody bar fight during student days at Yale","date":"2018-10-02","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"FORT COLLINS  As climate change jeopardizes the worlds doomsday seed vault near the North Pole, a similar Fort Collins facility continues to stock up its collection.\n\nThe modern-day Noahs Ark, located on the campus of Colorado State University, houses more than 850,000 plant seeds and materials, as well as various DNA samples from about 160 breeds of livestock.\n\nLike the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway  which needs a $12.7 million upgrade to combat melting permafrost  the Fort Collins vault is meant to preserve plant types in case they are wiped out by natural or man-made disasters.\n\nThe facility, formally known as the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, is run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.\n\nThe whole point is we are saving the resources for the world, said Gayle Volk, a scientist at the Fort Collins seed vault for the past 19 years.\n\nThe Fort Collins seed vault was built by the federal government in 1953  decades before the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in 2008 on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The Choice City was chosen because of the dry climate and adjacent university.\n\nThe building has thick cement walls and is specifically designed to withstand natural disasters like tornadoes or severe flooding if Horsetooth Reservoir were to break.\n\nBackup generators are installed to guarantee complete climate control. An actual vault locks in the countrys largest seed collection every night, and only a handful of the sites 40 employees know the combination.\n\nThis building has the ability to handle catastrophes, and thats really important, said Harvey Blackburn, a scientist at the Fort Collins facility for the past 19 years.\n\nThe seeds and animal matter are preserved either in cooler rooms set to minus-18 degrees Celsius or submerged in liquid nitrogen inside of stainless steel tanks. Some plants, like apples, have their twigs saved because those trees grow from grafting and not directly from seeds. Small portions of roots are saved from some plants, like strawberries.\n\nStaff are continually testing the stored seed and plant matter to make sure they are still alive.\n\nAs you go from one species of a plant to another, it requires a different set of technique, Blackburn said. And we are constantly refining our technique here.\n\nSome seeds in the collection are nearly a century old  90-year-old cotton seeds from the facility were recently grown as part of a research project.\n\nA famous 1940s experiment started in California is now housed at the facility. Test tubes containing those seeds are tested regularly and many have survived.\n\nAll new seed patents in the U.S.  like the GMO varieties made by Monsanto  are also required to be stored in the vault.\n\nWe work for scientists of the future but also with scientists of the past, said research leader Christina Walters, who has worked at the Fort Collins vault for three decades.\n\nThe collection in Fort Collins serves as the basis of research for scientists around the world. A third of the requests for seeds come from outside of the U.S.\n\nRare wild ancestor plant seeds are stored and offer crucial genetic clues to researchers. Some specific plants, like corn, have their entire evolution preserved in Fort Collins.\n\nAs humans have domesticated seeds, they have gone from being small and dark to bigger and lighter.\n\nSeeds from the Fort Collins vaults have specifically helped scientists create wheat resistant to a harmful disease called Russian Wheat Aphid, more efficient corn and better harvests of sunflowers, corn and chickpeas.\n\nThe animal matter has also been used to reintroduce two Y chromosomes to Holstein cow breeders and helped farmers fight a lethal mutation that was found in Angus cattle.\n\nWe are working collaboratively with breeders to help solve these problems, Volk said.\n\nAbout 700 people come tour the Fort Collins vault every year. Many of the visitors are from other countries. A group earlier this month featured people representing 24 different countries.\n\nScientists from Fort Collins often travel around the world to share insights and collect new items for the vault, preserving history and protecting the future of plants from around the world.","title":"Fort Collins seed vault preserves world collection of plants","date":"2018-09-30","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"RIGA, October 7. \/TASS\/. The Social Democratic Party Harmony, which advocates\nthe interests of Latvias Russian-speaking citizens, is winning 19.8% of the\nvote in the final vote count, the republics Central Election Commission said\non Sunday.\n\nAccording to the Central Election Commissions data, other parties, which win\nseats in the parliament, are The Who owns the state? Party (14.25%), the New\nConservative Party (13.59%), the Development\/For! Party (12.04%), the National\nIndependence Movement (11.01%), the Union of Greens and Farmers (9.91%), which\nnow leads Latvias ruling coalition, and the New Unity party (6.69%).\n\nThe Harmony party will get 23 seats in the new parliament, while The Who owns\nthe state? Party and the New Conservative Party will secure 16 seats. The\nDevelopment\/For! Party, the National Independence Movement, the Union of\nGreens and Farmers and the New Unity party will receive 13, 11, and 8 seats,\nrespectively.\n\nLatvia held parliamentary polls on Sunday. A total of 16 political parties and\ngroups, represented by 1,461 candidates, fought for 100 seats in the\nparliament. Some 954 polling stations were opened in the republic, and another\n121 were opened in 45 countries. Latvia is home to 1.9 mln people, and nearly\n1.5 mln of citizens are eligible to vote. The voter turnout reached more than\n54%.\n\nThe Central Election Commission is due to confirm the results within three\nweeks after the vote.\n\nIn other media","title":"Harmony party leads in Latvian parliamentary polls with 198 of vote","date":"2018-10-07","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Roll out all your recipes for rhubarb, because the herb is a powerful brain food packed with the protective compound rhein. A Chinese study reported that eating rhubarb can shield your brain against the side effects of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) that are growing more common these days.\n\nDubbed the silent epidemic, TBI is caused by physical impacts to the head during accidents. They are followed by secondary brain injuries that trigger various reactions such as inflammation and oxidative stress.\n\nOxidative stress is perhaps the biggest instigator of brain malfunctions. It appears shortly after the brain gets injured and aggravates the other reactions.\n\nThe brain is particularly vulnerable to oxidative stress. It has a lot of fatty acids that require a plentiful supply of oxygen, making it a prime target for reactive oxygen species (ROS) that cause oxidation in lipids.\n\nThe organ is protected by antioxidant enzymes like catalase (CAT), glutathione (GSH), and superoxide dismutase (SOD). Another external source of protection is traditional Chinese medicine, which prescribes various herbal medicines  such as rhubarb  that can prevent oxidative stress. (Related: Rhubarb shows promise for treating chronic liver disease.)\n\nRecent studies have covered the neuroprotective properties of rhubarb against traumatic brain injury. The medicinal plant prevents the oxidation of lipids in the brains of rats and slows down the self-destruction of cells.\n\nRhubarb has shown satisfactory efficiency in the treatment of TBI. Its component rhein (also known as cassic acid) is a powerful antioxidant.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nThe Central South University (CSU) research team sought to determine the specific means by which rhubarb can treat TBI. They analyzed the antioxidant effects of rhein in order to find out if it could be used as the active ingredient in a TBI treatment medicine.\n\nThe researchers used a rat model with six groups of animals. Five groups were given controlled cortical impact (CCI) surgery to simulated traumatic brain injuries while the sixth underwent sham treatment that caused no brain injury.\n\nThree groups of CCI mice received different amounts  three, six, and 12 grams per kilogram (g\/kg) of rhubarb extract. A fourth group received 12 mg\/kg of rhein compound. At the end of the trial, all mice were sacrificed so that the brain and blood samples could be taken.\n\nThe researchers scanned the brain tissue of mice to see if rhein had been absorbed into those tissues. They then analyzed the blood and tissue samples to measure the levels of antioxidant enzymes and oxidation-causing substances.\n\nBased on the results of their experiment, the CSU team confirmed that rhein was present in the brain tissue of CCI rats that were given rhubarb. rheins presence is proof that rhubarb can affect the brain and its traumatic injuries.\n\nBoth rhubarb and rhein treatments improved the levels of the antioxidant enzymes SOD, CAT, and GSH. These chemicals are the brains natural means of preventing oxidative stress from taking place.\n\nFurthermore, rhubarb improved the GSH\/GSSG ration. It ensured that there is enough glutathione antioxidant to handle the oxidation-causing glutathione disulfide.\n\nAs rhein was the bioactive chemical that was absorbed by the brain, the researchers reasoned that rhein enabled the antioxidant activities. The compound could possibly join rhubarb as a neuroprotective drug that treats TBI.\n\nThe CSU researchers summed up their study by stating that rhubarb and rhein reduced the formation of destructive free radicals that caused oxidative stress in the brains of rats. They recommended future studies to determine the signal pathway taken by rhein and rhubarb when they provide antioxidation activity for the brain.\n\nRead about more advances in treating brain diseases and injuries at Brain.news.","title":"Natural brain food Rhubarb protects against severe damage caused by traumatic brain injury","date":"2018-09-10","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) made disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok recite his most controversial text messages to his lover Lisa Page during Thursdays House Judiciary Committee hearing.\n\nRep. Issa gave Strzok a printout of the texts to read during the heated and contentious hearing, in which the agent referred to Trump as a douche and a disaster.\n\nIm going to ask one series of questions very quickly if I could. You did a number of texts. All of the texts that were presented to us, as far as I know, came from your government phone, correct? Rep. Issa asked.\n\nStrzok responded, I believe that to be the case, yes.\n\nRep. Issa then questioned if Strzok sent similar messages to Page on his private phone, prompting Strzok to ask what he meant by similar.\n\nCommenting on Mr. Trump or Hillary Clinton or anything else politically in nature, Issa clarified.\n\nI dont specifically recall, but its probably a safe assumption that yes I did, Strzok responded.\n\nRep. Issa then directed Strzok to a sheet of paper that was presented to him and asked him to read his own words from March 14, 2016.\n\nYou want me to read this? Strzok asked.\n\nOMG, hes an idiot, Strzok read from his texts.\n\nIssa then asked for him to read the text from May 4, 2016.\n\nThe Congressman then asked him to read from July 19, 2016.\n\nHi, how was Trump other than a douche? Melania? Strzok read.\n\nTrump is a disaster. I have no idea how destabilizing his presidency would be, Strzok recited.\n\nRep. Issa next asked him to read the text from August 6, 2016, which Strzok claimed that he did not recall writing.\n\nOkay, its been attributed to you, so well go on to the next. August 8, 2016 and Ill preference it by saying this for context  Ms. Page said Not ever going to become president, right, right?' Issa continued.\n\nRep. Issa moved on to ask him to read from August 15, 2016.\n\nI want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andys office that theres no way he could be elected, but Im afraid we cant take that risk. Its like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before youre 40, Strzok read.\n\nThe reading continued for several minutes.","title":"Rep Darrell Issa Makes Peter Strzok Recite Controversial Anti-Trump Text Messages He Sent to Lisa P","date":"2018-07-12","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A Mediterranean haven will emerge in downtown Denvers concrete jungle Tuesday, Sept. 4, when Kevin Taylors restaurant group unveils its newest concept: Mila.\n\nThis 6,000-square-foot eatery, located in downtowns Denver Place, will welcome guests with a sleek, coastal color scheme and a creative-yet-classic execution of Mediterranean-inspired cuisine.\n\nExecutive chef and partner Austin Cueto, a veteran of the restaurant group, will offer an array of dishes including house-made pastas like Pork Shoulder Bolognese; pizza with spicy lamb sausage, goat cheese, fennel and rosemary (yes please); fresh seafood such as the Roasted Branzino with with toasted farro, baby beets, peas and saffron lobster brodo; along with salads, crudo and more. Signature dishes include Pork Belly Porchetta with Israeli couscous and oyster mushrooms, and a harissa lamb burger with cured tomato, bibb lettuce, feta and red beet ketchup.\n\nCueto, who most recently served as executive chef at Kevin Taylors at the Opera House, has spent more than a decade with the KTRG, formerly fulfilling the executive chef role at Restaurant Kevin Taylor and Palettes at the Denver Art Museum. He has also led the culinary department of the Denver Art Museums catering and events.\n\nMila hosts a 16-seat bar, 48-seat wine cellar ideal for special events, and a 2,000-square-foot outdoor patio with 100 seats. The space offers a bright escape with distinctly urban views.\n\nDinner will be served Monday through Saturday, as well as lunch service Monday through Friday, beginning Sept. 10. A happy hour menu will be available from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 5 to 6 p.m. Saturday. The restaurant will be closed on Sundays.\n\n999 18th St, Denver, 303-228-0770; miladenver.com; Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday 5 p.m to 10 p.m., Sunday: Closed, Happy Hour: Monday-Friday 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.","title":"Mediterranean haven with 100-seat patio opening next week on 18th street in Denver","date":"2018-08-30","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"A spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) asserted that some of the remaining conditions to be determined for Thursdays hearing are non-negotiable.\n\nLawyers for Christine Blasey Ford announced earlier Sunday that she was committed to appearing in an open hearing of the committee to testify about her allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.\n\nBut the statement from Blasey Fords team noted committee Republicans refusal to invite other alleged witnesses of the assault to give testimony, and said it was unresolved whether senators or staff attorneys for the majority would be asking questions at the hearing.\n\nThe chairmans spokesperson appeared to respond to that point Sunday, writing: I have noted the issues that you raised on the call. But again, as with any witness who comes before the Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee cannot hand over its constitutional duties to attorneys for outside witnesses.\n\nThe Committee determines which witnesses to call, how many witnesses to call, in what order to call them, and who will question them, the Grassley aide wrote.\n\nRead the whole statement below:","title":"Grassley To Blasey Ford Witnesses And Who Will Question Them Are Non-Negotiable","date":"2018-09-23","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Elections in Florida are not over, even though the voting portion of the midterms concluded this past Tuesday night. Three statewide races are headed towards an apparent recount, including two that are so close the recounts will likely be carried out by hand. Outgoing Republican Governor and Senatorial hopeful Rick Scott has challenged the vote counting process as supposedly ripe for fraud, and Democrat Andrew Gillum, who had been running to replace Scott, has made his own position clear.\n\nThursday night, Scott announced that he was suing elections authorities in south Florida, since late counted votes from Broward and Palm Beach counties are in large part responsible for the tiny margins.\n\nStanding outside the Florida governors mansion, he railed:\n\nPresident Donald Trump has backed Scott up in his assertions of possible fraud, reiterating the claims on Twitter and when speaking to reporters Friday at the White House. When pressed, though, about whether there was evidence of a particular claim of voter fraud in Arizona (a claim also driven by the GOP), Trump told reporter Peter Alexander:\n\nAs Gillum indicates, theres no reason to believe that any partisan considerations are at play in the ongoing vote counting process, despite the fact that Scott is so paranoid he filed a lawsuit.\n\nAt present, Gillum sits around 36,000 votes behind Republican challenger Ron DeSantis, which translates to an around 0.4 percent losing margin  and is under the state mandated 0.5 threshold for a recount. Gillum has offered a concession speech, but his campaign has since acknowledged that theyre keeping a close eye on the proceedings.\n\nIncumbent Democrat Bill Nelson has taken an a perhaps more active step, hiring Democratic lawyer Marc Elias in his bid to hang onto his U.S. Senate seat. He trails Rick Scott at present by around 15,000 votes  which translates to an around 0.2 percent margin and is under the state mandated 0.25 percent threshold for a hand recount.\n\nDemocrat Nikki Fried is the most successful candidate for statewide office so far, having pulled ahead of Republican challenger Matt Caldwell by just under 3,000 votes  which leaves their race also poised for a hand recount.","title":"Andrew Gillum Woke Up Got Online Tore Rick Scotts Florida Lawsuit To Shreds","date":"2018-11-09","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) An international defense contractor has announced a new, multifunction unmanned ground vehicle that eventually can operate with artificial intelligence.\n\nCalled Ironclad, the UGV can carry out missions such as camera-equipped reconnaissance, casualty evacuation, area denial (i.e., a remote weapon station), and bomb disposal, all of which are dangerous functions normally handled by human infantry soldiers. BAE Systems, Ironclads manufacturer, says that the UGV can run for 30 miles on a single battery charge, and can navigate in both urban and non-urban environments.\n\nOperated by wireless remote control, the AI hardware apparently can be added at a future date when the technology emerges.\n\nIronclad comes in two versions and is projected to have at least four modular equipment packages, including a machine gun installation, advanced sensor modules, robotic arm, and stretcher mounts, the Firearm Blog noted.\n\nIronclad...is also a step towards the battlefield of the future where we expect fleets of unmanned air and ground vehicles to work together, sharing situational awareness and pursuing combat objectives. There will always be a human in the loop, but increasing use of autonomy and unmanned vehicles means they can focus on key decisions and have more options to avoid putting people in dangerous situations.\n\nThis versatile robotic vehicle appears to have many life-saving military applications, from transporting wounded soldiers from the battle zone to protecting troops in the field from harm.\n\nEarlier this month, Natural News reported that the Pentagon has signed an $11 million deal with a defense contractor that will develop over the next decade various forms of robot technology prototypes. Ultimately, future warfare may perhaps involve the deployment of robot soldiers, unmanned aerial assault techniques, underwater drones, and self-driving, weaponized vehicles.\n\nSeparately, however, autonomous military weaponry, i.e., operating independent of human oversight, in general, may be too close for comfort for some scientists. There is some concern that it could turn into scenarios played out in SciFi movies such as the Terminator franchise. According to the London Telegraph, about 100 AI and robotics experts have petitioned the United Nations (for what thats worth) to ban the development of so-called killer robots that could open fire without human control.\n\nTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence could give rise to self-replicating machines that might threaten humanity.\n\nBack in 2015, Health Ranger Mike Adams, the founder of Natural News, similarly cautioned that once AI technology develops into highly evolved, self-aware, systems, the human race has a big Terminator problem on its hands.\n\nOnce AI criticality is achieved, it wont take long for a highly intelligent machine to design another machine thats an order of magnitude more intelligent than itself. Follow this along for just 4-5 generations and you get machines with demigod-level cognitive capabilities, and it wont take but a microsecond for such a machine to conclude that humans are a threat to its own existence.\n\nDo you think that battlefield robotics will prove to be a benefit or a detriment to the military, and by extension civilization itself?","title":"Defense robotics company introduces multi-role battlefield robot that can drag wounded soldiers off","date":"2018-11-18","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"President Donald Trump declared that anyone voting for Democrats in the 2018 midterms is crazy at a rally in Mesa, Arizona.\n\nThe president spoke to a crowd of supporters in an aircraft hangar, while campaigning for Rep. Martha McSally, who is running against Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema in Arizonas Senate race. The seat is currently held by Sen. Jeff Flake, who is retiring.\n\nTrump, who centered much of his speech on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, called Democratic elected officials unhinged and too extreme, among a string of harsh criticisms.\n\nLeaving Arizona after a fantastic Rally last night, in Mesa, honoring, and for, Martha @RepMcSally McSally. She is an inspiration & will be a GREAT SENATOR for the people of Arizona. Her opponent is a Nancy Pelosi puppet, really bad for State. Early Voting NOW! Will be back soon.  Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2018\n\nAnybody that votes for a Democrat now, is crazy, when you look at whats coming up, crazy he said in a video published by The Washington Post. The Democrats dont care about what their extremist immigration agendas will do, to your communities; your hospitals...\n\nHe later added: Lets get these people out of there, theres something wrong, theyre cuckoo.\n\nDuring his speech, Trump criticized Central American migrants trying to reach the U.S. border, as part of his ongoing attacks on Twitter this week.\n\nFor years, caravans have been organized for Central American migrants seeking asylum and fleeing violence and corruption.\n\nTrump also claimed without evidence that Democrats dont care about illegal immigration because everybody that comes across the border, for the most part, theyre gonna vote Democrat, he said.\n\nYour vote in this election will decide which party controls Congress, Trump said at one point earlier in the rally. He added: Democrats produce mobs, Republicans produce jobs.","title":"Trump Says Anybody Voting For Democrats Is Crazy At Arizona Rally","date":"2018-10-20","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Fiona Bruce had to flag down a police car to get her a studio in time to present BBC News at Six.\n\nAfter a technical glitch caused havoc at BBC Broadcasting House, the team made the decision to head to the BBC Millbank studio.\n\nStuck in standstill traffic, the news anchor and Antiques Roadshow host persuaded a policeman to get her to the other studio with only minutes to spare.\n\nMs Bruce said: \"I've never had to do that before in 19 years of presenting the news.\"\n\nBBC News home editor Mark Easton had tweeted pictures of the frantic journey.\n\n\"In a taxi with Fiona Bruce and editor of BBC News At Six heading for Millbank. Studio at Broadcasting House gone down!! Traffic dreadful. Aagghhh\", he wrote. \"Now in a police car being escorted through the demo. BBC News is at stake!\"\n\nAnd later he added: \"Policeman Josh has saved the day! BBC News should be on air!!\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the BBC has been forced to run previously recorded content on its live news channel due to the technical issue.\n\nViewers were left baffled when BBC News's Afternoon Live programme showed repeated programming from an hour beforehand, along with a small \"recorded\" banner visible on the top left of the screen.\n\nA BBC spokesman had earlier said: \"We're working hard to resolve this as quickly as possible. The BBC News website is operating normally.\"\n\nThe issue appeared to last for around one hour before the news channel returned to air.","title":"Fiona Bruce flags down police car to avoid being late for News at Six","date":"2018-10-11","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"France is headed to the European Court of Justice to establish whether it can force companies such as Google to de-list search results globally.\n\nFrances data regulator is seeking clarification on whether material removed under the right to be forgotten (RTBF) law should only be removed within France or if it should be de-listed on every Google domain.\n\nRTBF was established in 2014 when a man called Mario Costeja complained that searching for his name on Google returned out-of-date material about an unsettled debt and didnt reveal that his debt was settled.","title":"France Takes Google to Court","date":"2018-09-10","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Weve now moved into the phase of Trumps presidency in which he decides the U.S. Constitution only applies to those he decides it does. For now, the people hes decided are no longer eligible for the constitutional protections provided to all people, not just citizens, are undocumented immigrants.\n\nIn the U.S. Constitution, the 5th Amendment is not only applicable to U.S. citizens, but to all persons.\n\nNo person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.\n\nFrustrated by the process of legally deporting undocumented immigrants, which takes some time since the number of courts and judges are far too low to allow for a speedy process in determining which immigrants are eligible for asylum, Trump has recently declared our immigration laws stupid. Protection through due process, Trump says, is stupid.\n\nThis is not just another Trump scandal of the day. When the president begins trying to subvert the constitution to suit his own needs, following the mass incarceration and separation of brown people for misdemeanor crimes, and after hes promised to also ban immigrants based on their religion, were in a constitutional crisis.\n\nTwitter agreed. See some of their comments below:","title":"Ted Lieu Reminds Trump Those Stupid Immigration Laws Are The Constitution Its Hilarious","date":"2018-07-01","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The UAE is considering an appeal for clemency from the family of British academic Matthew Hedges after he received a life sentence on spying charges.\n\nSulaiman Almazroui, the UAEs ambassador in London, said in a statement on Friday morning that British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt had a good conversation with his Emirati counterpart.\n\nMr Almazroui, who also held a private meeting with Mr Hunt on Thursday, rebutted criticism that the PhD student was victim of a show trial and said his government did not dictate the courts, comparing his countrys processes to the UK.\n\nReacting to the ambassadors statement, the researchers wife Daniela Tejada said the judicial system in the UAE and the UK cannot be compared.\n\nMatt was held in an undisclosed location in solitary confinement for over five months, with no charge, no lawyer and very limited consular access. When he did receive consular access, he was not allowed to talk openly about his case and thus never received advice as to what his rights were, she said.  We have asked for clemency, we will wait to see what happens.\n\nIt comes after Mr Hunt, who is leading the diplomatic efforts in Mr Hedges case, said his conversation with the UAEs foreign minister was constructive.\n\nMr Hedges, originally from Exeter, was arrested at Dubai Airport as he tried to leave the country on 5 May. He denies the charges.\n\nMs Tejada has stressed her husbands innocence and said the Durham University academic, who was finishing his thesis at the time of his arrest, was the victim of a misunderstanding.\n\nProfessor Stuart Corbridge, vice-chancellor of Durham University, said there is no reason to believe that Matt was conducting anything other than legitimate academic research.\n\nMr Hunt said he has seen absolutely no evidence to support claims that Mr Hedges was spying when he visited Dubai earlier this year, and he threatened serious diplomatic consequences if he is not freed.\n\nIn his statement on Friday, the Emirati ambassador described the case against Mr Hedges as extremely serious and unusual, saying many academics worked in the Middle Eastern nation without breaking the law.\n\nThe 31-year-old was not convicted after a five minute trial as some have reported, Mr Almazroui said.\n\nInstead, three judges evaluated compelling evidence in three hearings over the course of one month, according to the diplomat.\n\nMr Hedges family has claimed he lacked adequate legal representation, but Mr Almazroui did not address the allegation in his statement.\n\nMs Tejada, who said she spoked with her husband briefly, earlier told the BBC she feared her husbands health was deteriorating.\n\nHe is not well. He mentioned that his panic attacks have become worse than they were before. However, he did say that he has access to a doctor, she said.\n\nI wasnt allowed to know where he is, so still dont know anything about his whereabouts, and I think hes just absolutely terrified at the idea of having to spend the rest of his life behind bars for an offence he hasnt committed.\n\nMr Hedges was given 30 days to challenge the court ruling, and Ms Tejada has launched a petition on Change.org which has gathered more than 200,000 signatures.","title":"Matthew Hedges UAE considering clemency for British academic jailed for life on spying charges","date":"2018-11-23","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"While President Donald Trump continues to make light of racism through such means as his incessant dismissal of the peaceful protests launched by concerned pro athletes, untold numbers of minority community members face the scourge every single day. One such individual is DeWayne Wren who  until recently  worked at a lube shop in Belleville, Illinois.\n\nHe first got his job at the car service establishment earlier this year. In the months following coming on board, though, he faced the ugly and continuing reality of owner Paul Beelers racism. At one point, for instance, Beeler was explaining a story about his days as a milk truck driver in part by comparing black children to monkeys  which has an ironic connection to the current national political climate.\n\nRepublican candidate for Florida governor Ron DeSantis introduced himself to the nation, in part, through admonishing voters not to monkey this up by electing his Democratic opponent, a black man named Andrew Gillum, in November. Although even Fox News, where he made the comment, distanced himself from his language, the Congressman turned Trump-backed gubernatorial hopeful has refused to concede that he did anything wrong  which says a lot.\n\nSimilarly, when confronted, Beeler refused to accept that hed done anything wrong in using the language in question. He eventually directed his racist outbursts at Wren himself, exclaiming that he didnt understand why black people dont like to be called the n-word when they when they wear their pants on their ass, because that is what they look like, and at the time, Wren had been struggling with his clothes on a hot day. Beeler made clear that to him, Wren also looked deserving of the n-word.\n\nAfter that incident, Wren and a few other, all white employees confronted Beeler and his wife, but they asserted the owner could say whatever he wanted  and fired Wren.\n\nIn protest, a number of other white employees quit, including Ethan Haas and Samuel Sargeant, the latter of whom told the owners wife:\n\nThis is the 21st century, you and Paul should be better than to be saying racial slurs towards, around, or behind anyone even more importantly my good friend DeWayne who I know is a hard worker. I do not stand for that and will not let it happen to my friends.\n\nBeeler, though, remains hardly alone in his commitment to racism. As the months  and years  pile on, stories of serious racist incidents continue to compound. In plenty of cases, the person being victimized has been in actual physical danger  or killed. Early last year, for instance, a racist attacker in Kansas shot an Indian man dead after shouting that he wanted him out of the country.\n\nEven still, some people  from Beeler to President Trump  think its no big deal. Outside of some high profile very questionable  and racist  choices of language, Trump has substantively shown his commitment to racist ideals through such means as asserting that immigration is doing irreparable harm to Europe.\n\nGoing forward, theres an opportunity in less than two months via the midterms to put a check on that racism  and in two years to kick it out of the White House.","title":"Black Man Fired For Calling Out Racist White Boss Then Something Amazing Happened","date":"2018-09-10","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Donald Trump has accused Google of \"rigging\" search results - giving greater\nprominence to negative stories about him while suppressing positive articles\nfrom conservative news organisations.\n\nIn a tweet written at 5.24am on Tuesday morning (10.24am UK time), the US\npresident claimed search results for \"Trump news\" only showed reports from\n\"Fake New [sic] Media\", with his arch nemesis CNN featuring heavily.\n\nMr Trump went on to accuse the tech giant of \"controlling what we can and\ncannot see\" and warned it was a \"very serious situation\" which \"will be\naddressed\".\n\nHe also claimed that 96% of Google results were from the \"National Left-Wing\nMedia\", adding this was \"very dangerous\".\n\nThis figure seems to have been broadcast on the Lou Dobbs Tonight programme, a\nshow on the Trump-friendly Fox Business Network, the evening before the\npresident tweeted.\n\nGoogle responded in a statement: \"When users type queries into the Google\nSearch bar, our goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant answers in\na matter of seconds.\n\n\"Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results\ntoward any political ideology.\n\n\"Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure\nthey surface high-quality content in response to users' queries.\n\n\"We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results\nto manipulate political sentiment.\"\n\nGoogle is immensely secretive about how it ranks search results and news\nstories, and is attempting to **[personalise its Google News\nservice](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/google-news-to-use-ai-in-personalisation-\nrevamp-11363980)** towards its users' preferences.\n\nAccording to Matthew Gertz, a senior fellow at the Media Matters foundation,\nthe data that the Fox show used counts The New York Times, Bloomberg and the\nBBC as left-wing news sources.\n\nThe US cable channel CNN is often criticised by the president for what he\nperceives as its bias against him.\n\nEarlier this month, nearly 350 news organisations came together to warn Donald\nTrump against his **[\"fake news\" rhetoric](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/us-\nnewspapers-unite-against-donald-trumps-fake-news-rhetoric-11473905)** with a\ncoordinated series of editorials.\n\nThe publisher of The New York Times, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, said in July\nthat **[he had warned Donald Trump](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/the-new-york-\ntimes-donald-trumps-attacks-on-media-putting-lives-at-risk-11453804)** his\nattacks on the media were \"putting lives at risk\".\n\nThose warnings followed the **[deaths of five\njournalists](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/several-dead-after-newsroom-shooting-\nin-the-us-11420269)** who were killed in a shooting at The Capital Gazette\nnewsroom in Maryland in June.","title":"Presidents fury at Google results for Trump news","date":"2018-08-28","source":"skynewsus","label":1}
{"content":"Len McCluskey has warned Labour MPs they must vote against Theresa Mays Brexit deal.\n\nWriting for HuffPost UK on Monday, the general secretary of the Unite union said the Commons must not be bounced into a bad Brexit by the prime minister.\n\nHe said MPs must hold their nerve, act for the people and vote down her plan.\n\nSome Labour MPs have indicated they would be willing to back the governments Brexit deal in order to avoid the UK leaving the EU with no deal at all.\n\nJeremy Corbyn is due to set out his plan for a good Brexit at the CBI conference on Monday.\n\nMay will use her own speech at the conference to face down rebels in her own party who want last minute changes made to her deal.\n\nThe prime minister will say the withdrawal agreement has been agreed in full.\n\nAndrea Leadsom, the pro-Brexit Commons leader, has said there is still the potential to improve the draft.\n\nShe is reported to be one of five ministers hoping to change the deal before it is rubber stamped at an EU summit on Sunday.\n\nAfter a week which saw Cabinet ministers resign over the Brexit deal and the campaign to replace May broke cover, all eyes will be on Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee.\n\nSpeculation is mounting over whether he has received the 48 letters of no confidence required to challenge her leadership of the Conservative Party.\n\nConservative MP Anne Marie Morris said this morning there was no question that the threshold would be reached this week.\n\nBut environment minister Therese Coffey said if there was to be a vote of no confidence May would win it convincingly.\n\nMay is expected to say today there is an intense week of negotiations ahead of us.\n\nDuring that time I expect us to hammer out the full and final details of the framework that will underpin our future relationship and I am confident that we can strike a deal at the council that I can take back to the House of Commons, she will say.\n\nThe core elements of that deal are already in place. The Withdrawal Agreement has been agreed in full, subject of course to final agreement being reached on the future framework.\n\nIn his blog, McCluskey said: If the Prime Minister would only stop listening to the hard-line rump on her own backbenches, she would realise that there is a different deal available.\n\nThat it is perfectly possible to secure a natural majority in parliament for leaving the European Union, as the British people mandated in June 2016 but in a way that unites the nation.\n\nShe needs to reach out to Jeremy Corbyn and forget about Jacob Rees-Mogg and her disloyal cabinet.\n\nShe needs to actually listen to trade union concerns, rather than pretending to do so. Jeremy Corbyn extended the possibility of agreement in his Party Conference speech in September. Now is the time to take up the offer.\n\nBut he added: I doubt Mrs May will take up the path offered by Corbyn seeking what is right for our nations - MPs should, therefore, hold their nerve, act for the people and vote down her plan.\n\nFormer president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said there was little prospect of altering the Brexit deal at this stage.\n\nHe told the BBC: On the main parameters what I hear is that there is almost no room for manoeuvre.\n\nIt was reported on Monday that the EU could extend the transition period by two years in order to allow more time for a trade deal to be negotiated.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, the EUs chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, told ambassadors the transition could go on until as late as December 2022.","title":"Len McCluskey Warns Labour MPs To Vote Against Theresa Mays Brexit Deal","date":"2018-11-19","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where the holiday season is just around the corner. If youre looking to start capturing the magic of the season, this gingerbread creation in Edmonton might help.\n\nThe United States and Mexico cant exclude Canada from entering formal trade negotiation with China, Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay says  despite an ongoing global trade war and questions about a clause in the trilateral trade deal.\n\nIt certainly does not inhibit us from dealing with China, or any other country around the world, MacAuley said. And we told them that quite clearly in China, I might add. China is a major trading market for Canadian agriculture products.\n\nMacAulay was asked by reporters on Monday about a clause in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that allows any member of the trade pact to veto a free trade agreement with a non-market economy  including China. A non-market country is a country that doesnt operate on free-market principles that go beyond traditional trade protections. As a result, pricing doesnt reflect the true value of a product. iPolitics has more.\n\nParliament resumed today for its three weeks of sittings before the Christmas holidays.\n\nAgribition kicks off in Regina, where former agriculture minister Gerry Ritz kicked of the celebrations by burning the brand.\n\nThe Trudeau governments progressive trade agenda is under fire from conservative members of Congress who say theyre unhappy with a clause in the USMCA that protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination. In a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump sent Friday, the 40 lawmakers say a trade agreement is no place for the adoption of social policy. iPolitics has more.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isnt saying what hes planning to do about the letter. As the Huffington Post reports, Trudeau said he wont negotiate the matter in public. We got to a good agreement that I think represents Canadian values, a Canadian approach, but also values that are broadly shared amongst citizens of our three countries, Trudeau said. In any trade deal, there are going to be people who would like this or like that, or not want this or not want that.\n\nThe president of one of Canadas largest farm groups says hes hoping next weeks federal fiscal update will let producers write off the purchase of new farm equipment  a provision that already exists in the United States. If a farmer was going to buy new equipment  and he buys that equipment  and he can write off that purchase against income tax thats due very quickly, that would make it more attractive to buy that new equipment, Ron Bonnett, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, told iPolitics.\n\nTrump says additional forest-fire help will be included in the pending Farm Bill, Politico reports.\n\nThe American president left Finns baffled this weekend after he resisted the notion that wildfires are the result of poor forest management. He cited a conversation he supposedly had with the president of Finland, who told him they (Finns) spend a lot of time raking and cleaning. Problem is, Finlands president has no idea what Trump is talking about. BBC News has more.\n\nIn other Farm Bill-related news: Senate Agriculture Committee ranking member Debbie Stabenow is apparently considering the Farm Bill proposal put forward by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and House Agriculture ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn. The Fence Post has more.\n\nAnd the New York Times takes a closer look at whether the Trump administrations $12-billion aid package for farmers who are affected by the ongoing trade war is actually helping those its meant for.\n\nIan Robson, a board member with the National Farmers Union, argues that former federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz should not have been inducted into the Agriculture Hall of Fame.\n\nWe end tonight with a prank that left yours truly laughing so hard, her sides hurt this weekend. College students across the United States are texting their parents to ask them how to cook a 25-pound turkey in the microwave. The responses? Well, theyre priceless.","title":"The Sprout Trade with China still possible says MacAulay","date":"2018-11-19","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Justin Rose is out of the running to win the European Tours Race to Dubai after deciding to skip the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.\n\nWhile it was a long shot, needing a win and Ryder Cup hero Francesco Molinari to finish outside the top 40, Rose was still in with a chance of claiming the No.1 spot on the European Tour, having won the PGA Tours FedEx Cup in September.\n\nRoses Ryder Cup teammate Paul Casey has also decided to avoid the tournament, won last year by Jon Rahm.\n\nEuropes ten other stars from Le Golf National are in the field for the final event of the season, with captain Thomas Bjorn also playing.\n\nRose, 38, is currently No.2 in the world and has one win on the European Tour this season, the Turkish Airlines Open earlier this month.\n\nSpeaking after his victory, the Englishman said: \"I have a lot going on the next couple weeks, so it [playing in Dubai] would be a big shift for me.\n\n\"It [why he isn't playing] might become apparent next year, but there are things that I need to kind of get figured out.\"","title":"Ryder Cup stars Justin Rose and Paul Casey skip season ending DP World Tour Championship","date":"2018-11-12","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"On the evening of 27 July, the gold-toothed, pot-bellied, moustachioed Mikhail Khachaturyan dozed off in his favourite cream armchair at his home in Altufyevo, a suburb of Moscows anaemic northern suburbs.\n\nWhen Khachaturyan awoke, his three daughters were standing over him. The eldest, Kristina, 19 directed pepper spray in his face. The youngest, Maria, 17, stabbed him with a hunting knife. The middle daughter, Angelina, 18 hit him on the head with a hammer. The father cried for help, and attempted to flee, but was unable to get far. He died in the corridor outside the family apartment, a dozen hammer blows and 36 stabbings to the neck, chest and heart later.\n\nWhat happened that day, and the years before, has polarised Russian society. Were the three Khachaturyan sisters cold-blooded murderers, or victims of an abusive father? Did the Russian system fail them? Is it about to fail them again with huge prison sentences?\n\nThe story goes to the heart of the issue of domestic violence in Russia  one and a half years after battery at home was controversially decriminalised.\n\nOver the last two weeks, the Russian public has been entertained with a prime-time trial by live state television, with key personalities in the story wired up to lie detectors. High justice it probably isnt, but witness by witness, the shows have built up a persuasive picture of the daughters predicament, and of the kind of man their father was.\n\nOutwardly, the head of the family put on a good face. He was conspicuously religious, went to church, and pilgrimaged to Jerusalem. His family home was covered in icons and pictures of him kissing various sacred symbols. He was a leading member of the Armenian diaspora, which viewed him as leading authority. He was known for showering family and friends with lavish gifts.\n\nBut away from high society, a different story played out. Neighbours recall a man who enjoyed conflict, and whom they tried to avoid if they possibly could. A man who loved firearms, and loved threatening neighbours and family members with them. There is evidence that he shot at his eldest son, Sergei, with an air rifle. He never did get on with him, considering him a girl, and threw him out on the street aged 16.\n\nHe also threatened to shoot his submissive wife, Aurelia, did stab her once, and would regularly beat her with a baseball bat. Two and a half years ago, after 20 years of living together, Khachaturyan threw his wife out too. For some reason, however, the three daughters remained under his roof  and to devastating consequences.\n\nIts important to understand that the girls had a victim psychology, says Ivan Melnikov, the Secretary-General of the Public Oversight Commission, a non-governmental body that inspects prisons and defends prisoner rights. They thought it was safer for everyone if they stayed.\n\nMelnikov was one of the first people to talk with the three sisters after their bloody deed. He met with them hours after they were delivered to a temporary detention centre in their district, and then, once they were transferred to a prison in southeast Moscow four days later.\n\nSpeaking with The Independent, he describes the three sisters as kids, nervous and hardly conscious of what they had done.\n\nHe says they told him terrible things about a slave-like existence inside the second floor, two-bedroomed flat on 54, Altufyevskoye Highway. The father had installed a video surveillance system, and would rarely let his daughters out of his sight.\n\nHe kept a bell by his armchair, which he would use to instruct the sisters to do menial tasks. He beat them on the flimsiest of pretexts and had a propensity to verbally abuse them too. In audio recordings released following his murder, he calls his daughters \"whores,\" among many other expletives.\n\nThere is also a strong suspicion of sexual abuse, even rape. Melnikov said he did not raise this issue with the three sisters given their fragile and nervous state.\n\nIn Melnikovs view, police and social services let the three sisters down. There were enough warning signs to act, he says: The neighbours complained to the police about being threatened with firearms. They attended school only seven times last year. That should have been enough to get social services to act. Its unclear how he managed to get away with it all.\n\nSome have suggested Mikhails connections with the underworld and police helped him evade the law. He was reportedly friends with the local police chief, and his social media profile shows him meeting with mid-level bureaucrats. Close friends have also accepted that he was connected with criminality. Local media go further, describing him as a smotryashy, or district chief, reporting to the mafia. There are also reports he was a drug dealer, and he probably suffered from addiction himself  police found a bag of heroin in his car.\n\nNot everyone accepts the picture of a tyrant who brought about his own death, however. Mikhails two nephews have been steadfast in defending his honour, portraying him as a no-nonsense, if admittedly hot-headed, parent. On various talk shows, they have claimed that the father had provided the girls with everything they wanted, but had been upset by the girls immorality. (The unsolicited pornographic material contained in messages sent to the sisters friends does, however, cast some doubt as to the deceased mans supposed moral virtues.)\n\nOther supporters draw attention to what they describe as a pre-meditated aspect to the murder. There were, apparently, text messages made by one of the girls to a former boyfriend that showed her deliberating killing their father. There was the organised, three-pronged nature of the operation itself. The girls also apparently used Mikhails own hunting knife, which, supporters allege, was only kept in his car.\n\nThese arguments have played out on social media, which has amplified the traditional split in Russian society between conservatives and progressives. For every message suggesting that the girls saved themselves, there is another demanding the evil sisters be dealt with using the strictest hand of the law.\n\nWithin a few days, several thousand had signed up to one social media discussion forum set up in support of the sisters. That forum was then controversially blocked by hosts Vkontakte following anonymous complaints.\n\nThe founder of the forum, psychologist Dara Miletskaya, told The Independent that men who consider domestic violence to be the norm were determined to block womens voices. She says the service has been slow to respond to her request to reinstate the forum.\n\nIve had an inbox full of men criticising, telling me to keep my nose out, she says. But Ive also had many women write to me. They tell me how society doesnt believe them when they complain about their situation. I try to help as best I can.\n\nDomestic violence is a major problem in Russia. According to official government figures, which most likely underestimate the situation, there are 16 million victims of domestic violence every year. As a comparison, the British Office for National Statistics registered 1.1. million cases in 2017, from a population base about half the size. Russia is also one of the only major countries not to have dedicated laws for domestic violence, and, in 2017 decriminalised domestic battery for first-time offences.\n\nThe situation has created an uneven fight  womens activists up against the establishment, which has generally sided with abusers. Ultraconservative MP Yelena Mizulina, who led the decriminalisation campaign, suggested husbands should not be labelled criminals for a slap. The Russian Orthodox Church condoned the use of corporal punishment at home as God's will.\n\nAccording to Alyona Popova, the prominent womens rights campaigner, official indifference means that most cases are eventually dropped by law enforcement. Those domestic abusers who receive an administrative sentence are fined an average of 5,000 rubles [58].\n\nThis is the equivalent of two parking offences. Men get a very clear message from this, she tells The Independent.\n\nPopova says that the Khachaturyan case contains classic  if extreme  signs of domestic abuse: Its very clear in my mind that they were acting under the effect of a tyrant father. There was clearly sexual violence involved, at a minimum. In audio recordings, the father talks about the girls as his property, and frequently refers to their physiology, in ways that a father should not do.\n\nThe case bore some similarity with that of Galina Kotorova, says Popova. After killing her husband in March 2017, Kotorova was sensationally acquitted on appeal. Justice would be served by a similar outcome this time, the activist says.\n\nSo far, however, law enforcement agencies have given ominous signals for supporters of the Khachaturyan girls. In anonymous briefings with state news agencies, prosecutors said there were clear signs of pre-meditation in the sisters behaviour. Their crime was also recently re-qualified as premeditated murder committed by a group of people. This carries a maximum 20-year sentence; or 10 years in the case of under-age Maria.\n\nPrisons monitor Ivan Melnikov says he hopes that the offence will eventually be reclassified to take into account self-defence, with correspondingly lower tariffs.\n\nIts a very dangerous moment, but the sisters told me things that have to be taken into account, he told The Independent. Ive met with thousands of prisoners. Its clear to me that these girls arent criminals.","title":"Three sisters How a bloody patricide and claims of modern-day slavery has split Russia","date":"2018-08-14","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) The delicious and healthy fruit pomegranate enjoys a long history of connection with the human race. Now, a fairly recent medical study revealed that the pomegranate can stop or even reverse the progress of cardiovascular diseases, reported a GreenMedInfo article.\n\nPublished in the medical journal Atherosclerosis, the study involved a breed of mice that was prone to developing coronary artery blockages. Researchers gave the three-week old animals pomegranate extract through their drinking water for two weeks.\n\nAccording to the results of the study, pomegranate extract served as a natural broom that cleaned plaque sticking to the mices coronary arteries. This prevented atherosclerosis, where the walls of the arteries get thicker due to accumulating fatty materials that turn into plaque. (Related: Ginger and rosemary found to benefit the heart by maintaining healthy cholesterol levels.)\n\nAtherosclerosis is the primary cause of heart attacks. The pomegranate extract-based treatment very clearly reduced the presence of atherosclerotic plaques in the aortic sinus. It also decreased the percentage of blocked coronary arteries.\n\nFamous scientist Linus Pauling believed cardiovascular disease develops in the absence of vitamin C. Humans are unable to bio-synthesize vitamin C so we need to take it from external sources such as fruits.\n\nAccording to GreenMedInfo, the astringent taste in the mouth of a person consuming pomegranate seeds or juice is similar to its cleansing effect on the interior walls of the arteries.\n\nThe lining of human mouths and arteries are made of epithelial cells, which constitute epithelium. The astringent effect in the mouth results from the shrinkage and disinfection of epithelium layers. A similar process is taking place in your arteries.\n\nGreenMedInfo also reported that a separate research study from 2004 discovered that year-long consumption of pomegranate juice reversed the build-up of deadly plaque in the arteries of patients who were suffering from plaque blockage of 70 to 90 percent of their internal carotid arteries.\n\nThe mean intima media thickness of the left and right common carotid arteries in severe carotid artery stenosis patients that consumed pomegranate juice for up to one year was reduced after three, six, nine, and 12 months of pomegranate juice consumption by 13 percent, 22 percent, 26 percent, and 35 percent, respectively, said the 2004 Israeli study.\n\nAccording to the researchers, pomegranate exhibited three properties responsible for its effectiveness against atherosclerosis.\n\nFirst, pomegranate possesses antioxidant properties. It prevents heart disease from overcoming the bodys ability to purge toxins or repair damage. Second, the fruit was proven to lower systolic blood pressure. It can heal the endothelium lining the inner part of the artery, allowing it to relax and function properly. Finally, pomegranate has a positive effect on plaque-causing lesions. By reducing cholesterol and lipid peroxides as well as preventing oxidation of low-density lipoprotein, pomegranate makes the lesion smaller and less capable of causing atherosclerosis.\n\nGreenMedInfo called the finding quite revolutionary. Current medical knowledge diagnoses carotid artery stenosis (the abnormal narrowing of the major blood vessels that supply the brain and head) through the size of the plaque-causing lesion. No one has looked at the lesions quality.\n\nThe second study also suggested that measuring the quantity of cholesterol in the blood does not give an accurate picture of the bodys health. Low-density lipoproteins remained benign unless oxidized. By improving the bodys internal environment, pomegranate reduced the rate at which bad cholesterol got oxidized into plaque, thereby preventing atherosclerosis. Finally, the study showed that pomegranate juice does not interfere with conventional drugs. In fact, it either complemented or compensated for them.\n\nAll the participants in the second study were also undergoing drug-based treatment. Several members of the control group (which did not receive any pomegranate) deteriorated despite taking drugs.\n\nRead Health.news for more coverage of health and medicine discoveries.","title":"Prevent and even reverse cardiovascular disease with pomegranate it cleans your arteries","date":"2018-02-27","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"With the midterms under a week to conclusion, concerns about voter suppression remain in full swing across the United States. Georgia has proven a particular flashpoint, where Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp is running for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams. A federal judge has now yet again ruled against Kemp and in favor of Georgia voters, further solidifying that he wont be able to hide behind voter suppression and escape the actual opinions of his states people.\n\nHes launched a multi-pronged suppression campaign thats included the delay of tens of thousands of pending voter registrations, the removal of tens of thousands of names from the states voter rolls, and a continued attempt to be free to reject absentee ballots at will.\n\nTheyve got little to no system in place for judging whether the signature on said ballots is close enough to that accompanying the voters registration, but they wanted the freedom to throw out ballots over signature concerns anyway.\n\nJudge Leigh Martin May has now again ruled against Kemp on this front, insisting they cant just throw out ballots  which youd think would be a given anyway. Hed wanted to delay the implementation of a previous injunction of hers forcing them to respect the absentee ballot voting process, but she said no.\n\nThe original injunction had demanded that such guidance be issued, dictating that instead of throwing out questionable ballots, local election authorities mark them as provisional and notify the voter of their concern.\n\nAgain, youd think that such a practice would be essentially a given, but not for Republican Brian Kemp. He blasted full speed ahead with the voter suppression that other Republicans have sought to inflict elsewhere through means like voter ID laws that shut out some poor people and minorities.\n\nHes made his intentions clear, too. He was caught on tape bemoaning the get out the vote effort that Stacey Abrams has undertaken, seemingly wishing that potentially Democratic voters would just stay home. In other words, he might not be too sure that hes got enough campaign strength to build his own base, so he wants to attempt to erase someone elses.\n\nFiveThirtyEights election analysis certainly reveals that hes got cause for concern. They rate the Georgia governors race a toss-up, putting Kemp only barely ahead of Abrams with a 4 in 7 chance at victory.\n\nHes hardly the only Republican gubernatorial candidate struggling. In neighboring Florida, FiveThirtyEight pins the states governors race winner as likely Democrat Andrew Gillum. That would leave Trump-backed Republican Ron DeSantis out of the job.\n\nIn Congress, Democrats are expected to continue that streak and become the majority party in the U.S. House, but theyre not expected to do the same in the Senate. Still, every newly elected Democrat can pose a significant roadblock to President Trumps agenda.","title":"Federal Court Makes Last Minute Voting Rights Ruling The GOP Is In Trouble","date":"2018-11-01","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"If youve always wanted to visit Walt Disney World in Orlando or Disneyland in California, but dont like the idea of long lines, humid weather, and thousands of people then theres good news today. Google is bringing 11 Disney parks to Google Maps Street View, allowing you to virtually visit the tourist destinations from the comfort of your home. There are a variety of parks to choose from, including Epcot, Magic Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios, and you can cruise around them freely to look at all the attractions and imagine youd paid the entry fee and secured your special Fastpass tickets for all the rides.\n\nWhile its all make believe, the Street View experience of Disney parks could come in useful if youre a particularly meticulous planner and boss of the family. Otherwise, you could play the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse album at full volume and put your favorite VR headset on to experience Disney in all its glory. All of the Disney Street View locations are right here:","title":"You can now pretend youre in Disneyland on Google Maps","date":"2018-03-06","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Watching the left and liberals, in general, react to the Donald Trump presidency has been quite entertaining, but until Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement  and the reality that The Donald was going to get to name another conservative to the post when Kennedy had been a court swinger, occasionally throwing decisions the lefts way  we really hadnt seen the resistance at its worst.\n\nThere have been a lot of loud-mouthed celebrities spouting off about the regime and power change in Washington, but The Views Joy Behar put it in terms that this weeks hysteria demanded.\n\nA dictator is a single individual calling all the shots. President Trump needs all the other parts to actually make things run. Its called being a republic.\n\nBesides, weve seen this movie with other casts of characters before. Bill Clinton had Congress, and so did Barack Obama. Thats how we got the Death Tax and ObamaCare, and ant-Americans Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Sonja Sotomayor, and Elena Kagen on the court. Conservatives didnt like that, but we didnt call those two dictators.\n\nFellow co-host Whoopi Goldberg was also very upset at the prospect of Trump being able to get another judge on the bench. If you take my right away from me to judge what I do for my family and my body, I got a little problem with that, she said. You got a problem  you dont want people to take your guns, well get out of my behind. Get out of my vagina.\n\nWhoopi, honey, hate to break this to you, but no one with any sense wants to be anywhere near your vagina.\n\nWhen it comes down to it, the left is rightfully terrified that there is a bullseye on Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized killing children in the womb and violated the states rights of all fifty state governments. That would put the procedure and its legality in the hands of the locals, something those in favor of killing babies really do not want.\n\nAnd just wait...theres at least one other justice of a seasoned age who might not be around the court much longer. The liberals will really be in pain over that when and if it comes to pass.","title":"Joy Behar Goes All Splodey Head Over Trump Getting To Name Kennedy Successor","date":"2018-07-02","source":"dcgazette","label":0}
{"content":"When Hillary Clinton said that Republican voters were a basket of deplorables she hit the nail on the head. Republicans see anyone who doesnt agree with them as an enemy, and often an enemy that should die. After Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came forth with the information that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when the two were in high school, right-wing nut jobs started threatening her life. She was forced to move her family into hiding because the threats were so credible. Today her attorney told NBC News that Dr. Ford is still receiving threats and that its still not safe for her to return home yet.\n\nDr. Fords family has been through a lot. They are not living at home. Its going to be quite some time before theyre able to live at home. The threats have been unending. Its deplorable. Its been very frightening.\n\nDuring the interview Katz also denounced the one-week FBI investigation into the womens accusations, saying it was not thorough. The FBI reportedly did not interview Ford or Kavanaugh as part of the probe.\n\nThe investigation was nothing but a joke. There were reportedly 45 people who had come forward with damning information about Kavanaugh and the FBI only interviewed nine people. Thats ridiculous!\n\nAs far as Dr. Ford and the death threats go, cant conservatives see that theyve won? Why are they still attacking a sexual assault victim? The despicable Congressional Republicans placed the proven liar and alleged sexual predator, Brett Kavanaugh, on the bench already, so they need to quit threatening Dr. Ford immediately. Now that we have an illegitimate Supreme Court that will supposedly start voting with their personal feelings instead of being guided by the law they should be happy that they got what they wanted.","title":"Christine Blasey Ford Forced From Her Home The Reason Is Deplorable","date":"2018-10-08","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The problem with partisan politics is the absolutely vicious nature of pitting one against the other. Furthermore, when you mix in the ability to freely speak through social media, you really begin to see just how twisted and dangerous some people can be.\n\nIn Winter Haven, Florida, a man was arrested by Polk County detectives after he made threats to kill or injure Democratic congresspeople and weak Republicans who would possibly not confirm Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh.\n\nJames Royal Patrick, Jr. (53) was reported to be posting threats via Facebook.\n\nSpecifically, the charges stem from back in September when he wrote several posts threatening to shoot representatives in Congress and their families if they did not vote for Kavanaughs confirmation.\n\nIn the report on the Polk County Sheriffs office website, one threat read:\n\nSheriff Grady Judd commented on the investigation and the current polarized atmosphere throughout America:\n\nWithin five hours of receiving an email tip about the posts, our detectives investigated it, obtained an arrest warrant and search warrant, and took the suspect into custody without incident. People need to calm down, and stop making threats of violence  we will not tolerate it. Anyone who threatens to kill a public officer or law enforcement officer will go to jail.\n\nThe report also listed several of the threats Patrick made.\n\nJust bought 12 boxes of hollow point 50 caliber bullets....have plenty of ammo for my sniper rifle and bought a suppressor. Have made sure all my arrangements have been made and care for my dogs because I will not be coming home. Have made extra precautions and added more supplies in the tunnel under my house in case local or federal law enforcement tries to stop me. (note  there are no tunnels under his house\n\nIn the report, they noted they found no tunnels underneath Patricks house. They did find guns and ammunition, however.\n\nJust cleaned out the gun shop where I get guns, ammo, and target practice. Bought all their 50 cal hollow points. I expect to be confronted and I will be ready to kill and ready to die. I am about to accept an offer on my house just to get more money to fund my plan to kill Democrat office holders and their families. It is all I think about night and day. I even wake up in the middle of the night, most nights, thinking about it. Ultimately I will be killed but hopefully I will have killed many many liberal [sic] elected in Washington. I can tell it seems I will be sacrificing my life for my country. But I am ready and will know who needs to be killed after the vote to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. I believe democrats need to be afraid to do what they are doing right now and weak republicans that do not vote for him need to pay with their lives. I cant do this by myself! Need more conservatives going into liberals homes at night killing them in their sleep!\n\nWhen arrested, he claimed he was just trying to annoy liberals and had no real plan to kill anyone. He also noted because he did not threaten one specific person, he thought it wasnt illegal.","title":"Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill Officials Who Vote NO On Kavanaugh","date":"2018-10-06","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"President Trump highlighted the medias role in an increasingly hostile political environment in America, saying, The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly.\n\nAlso, Brazils Trumpian presidential candidate won his election and the left-funded migrant caravan approaches the United States border.","title":"Watch Live As The Trump of Brazil is Elected Globalist Merkel is Out Signaling a Populist Red Wave","date":"2018-10-29","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Only a few months after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, tragedy struck again at Santa Fe High School 30 miles south of Houston. A student started shooting in an art classroom with his fathers shotgun and revolver. Ten people died and 10 others were wounded before the shooter surrendered to the police.\n\nThus far, little is known about the motives of the shooter, making it difficult for commentators to blame something specific. He was not a jihadist (as was another high schooler who was caught before carrying out mass murder at Stonebriar Mall in Frisco, Texas); he was not mentally handicapped; he wasnt committed to any ideology at all really. The only red flags Dimitrios Pagourtzis exhibited were some morbid posts on social media and the black trench coat he wore everydaywhich, in the Texas heat, probably should have aroused more suspicion.\n\nWhile New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has virtue-signaled yet another sanctimonious campaign of gun-control activism, others are discussing how to stop these troubled students before they snap. Many schools have followed that latter approach, training teachers and students to look for signs of violent behavior and intervene. In most cases, this means sitting through a PowerPoint presentation about depression, learning the number for a bullying hotline, and watching some video that dramatizes the situation (Evan, produced by the Sandy Hook Promise group, is a perfect example).\n\nAs practical as this strategy sounds, it fails on a few levels. First, it assumes that identifying these types of students is easy when it is not. Second, it invests too much confidence in laughably superficial training. And third, it completely ignores the limits of educators and students in successfully dissuading a psychotic young adult from committing mass murder. Rather than saving these troubled students, advocating intervention and watchfulness mostly encourages vicious paranoia (anyone can be a mass murderer), undeserved guilt (this kid went on a shooting rampage because students and teachers didnt care enough about him), and despair (the safety of a school rests on the maturity of classmates and perceptiveness of teachers).\n\nThese three problems result from serious misunderstandings about high schools and the people who spend their days in them. To identify potential shooters, students and staff are told to look for signs of depression, like a person muttering that he hates school or that he thinks people are awful or that he wants to sleep all the time. As any teacher or student can attest, thats pretty much every student at some point.\n\nWhile a few happy exceptions exist, teenagers are, on the whole, a dark and depressing lot. They do not sleep enough, eat healthily, or bother with developing productive habits. On the contrary, they waste much of their days hunched over a screen, agonizing about their self-image, ignoring their homework, and blaming everyone and everything for their problems. These days, few of them have the luxury of two parents, good friends, or a church community to support them as they cope with the hormonal turbulence of puberty.\n\nGiven all this, who can really tell which one is Evan, the proverbial teenage mass murderer? Obviously, not a group of students and teachers equipped with a few hours of suicide prevention training. And yet most potential shooters usually act out in some way and have a large amount of documentation on file in the form of disciplinary referrals, behavioral intervention plans, and abysmal report cards that should serve as warnings of suicidal\/homicidal tendencies. Frequently, though, this too means nothing. No heart-to-heart come to Jesus speech from a concerned adult will fix a broken home. No number of suspensions and restorative practices will help a student who is hopelessly lonely. And apparently, no legal authority, however well informed, can stop a young person from illegally acquiring a gun and making bombs. If an angry teenager wants to shoot up a school, he usually can unless he does something obviously stupid.\n\nSo if gun control and suicide prevention training can do little to change the situation, what will it take? In order to answer this, society should ask another question: why are the shootings happening in the first place? This seems like an impossible question with a million different answers. However, the only answer needed is the one that holds true for all high school shootings, so perhaps a better question would be: what do all of them have in common?\n\nTwo word: the internet. In the decades preceding Columbine, kids struggled with the same kinds of problems and had the same potential access to guns. They also attended schools that were far easier targets. Nevertheless, far fewer mass school shootings took place and none of them had the body counts that have become normal today. This is because depressed and angry teenagers never became radicalized by countless hours of online propaganda. Today, they can log in instantaneously and learn about various ideologies of hate, educate themselves on maximizing their destructive potential, and desensitize their consciences with pornography and violence. This internet radicalization is essentially the same thing thats happened with Islamic terrorists all over the Western world.\n\nSo why not take it away? This sounds extreme, but it falls in line with the other things society prohibits from kids: driving, drinking, voting, joining the military. Most parents dont allow even their teenage kids to go anywhere alone. However, when it comes to the internet, a vast unregulated repository of every horrible thing imaginable, adults let their unsuspecting children roam wild and free. That so many do this betrays a pervasive kind of materialist worldview that agonizes over every physical danger while remaining completely oblivious to any spiritual or psychological one.\n\nIn order to combat the violence and bullying happening at schools, parents in all communities should take away smartphones and personal computers from their children and strictly oversee what little usage they deem appropriate (like emailing Grandma or typing up an assignment for school). Imagine the benefits in store: safer schools, happier youth, and an internet at least partially purged of the garbage produced by, and for, young people.\n\nThose worried about taking away young peoples freedom to browse should consider the other greater freedoms at stake because of school violence. With every school shooting, no matter who or what causes it, politicians demand the end of the right to bear arms, crackdowns on hate speech, and government intrusions into child-rearing. These rights have already disappeared in Canada and Western Europeand those places dont even have school shootings.\n\nSuccessfully defending these rights doesnt depend on better arguments, but on real action that effectively solves the problem of school shootings. Concerned parents and those who call on others to Do something! should now lead the charge to take away internet access from children until they reach maturity. This could save not just their lives, but their innocence and well-being.\n\nAuguste Meyrat is an English teacher at The Colony High School in Texas. He has an MA in Humanities and an MEd in Educational Leadership. His writing has appeared in The Federalist and The Imaginative Conservative, among other publications.","title":"School Shootings It Isnt the Guns Its the Internet","date":"2018-06-12","source":"theamericanconservative","label":1}
{"content":"Instagram has a new tool that lets users download their data from the social media photo site, reports TechCrunch. Submit your email address, and Instagram will send you a copy of your photos, comments, profile information, and more, although the site notes that it could take up to 48 hours to actually collect and send you that data.\n\nThe tool is only available on the web for now, but it should be accessible to iOS and Android users in the future, too. It is similar to one Facebook has included for its primary website and mobile app for quite some time.\n\nAs pointed out by TechCrunch, the tool is necessary as part of Instagrams compliance with the EUs upcoming new GDPR privacy regulations. But despite the legally required motivations behind it, its still nice to know users looking to get their data out of Instagram now have the option to do so.","title":"Instagram adds new data download tool to export pictures and user information","date":"2018-04-24","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Senator Chuck Grassley, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a second letter today Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Chris Wray on Friday regarding creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti.\n\nGrassley sent a second criminal referral to the DOJ about Michael Avenatti regarding another declaration he submitted to the committee about Brett Kavanaugh.\n\nThis comes after Grassley became aware of additional information regarding Mr. Avenatti that has since come to the Committees attention.\n\nOn Thursday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) criminally referred creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick to the DOJ.\n\nThis does not look good for the Democratic Party presidential candidate.","title":"Sen Grassley Sends SECOND CRIMINAL REFERRAL on Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti to DOJ","date":"2018-10-26","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Whats your uterus called? Lena Dunhams is called Judy. Judy is dead, because Dunham had a hysterectomy nine months ago, whose anniversary she marked via an Instagram post of her naked body showing an RIP Judy tattoo on her rib. Explaining the agonising struggle with endometriosis which had led her to this point, she wrote: \"Today I offer myself gratitude: from the most pained place, I somehow knew to choose myself.\"\n\nWomen havent traditionally been encouraged to choose themselves. That so many are doing so must be an inconvenience to those who would rather they continued putting themselves second, or last. Shut up, women. Stop getting naked, shaving your hair, moaning about postnatal depression and bleating on about #MeToo. Put it away. We dont want to see it.\n\nWe dont want to know.\n\nBut you have to know. Only by knowing will things become better for everyone. For me  Worlds Most Repressed Person  to admit this is hard. I would offer up a personal anecdote at this point, but I cant. Come and join me in the repressed corner. I have wine. Although for the good of your mental health, youd probably be better off unburdening. Like Laura Dockrill, whose blog about post-pregnancy psychosis wouldnt have gone viral were it not for the heads-up from her BFF, Adele. Nobody talks about how some women lose their minds after giving birth, just as nobody talks about how some women lose their minds during menopause, or through suffering endometriosis, a condition that affects an estimated 176 million women worldwide.\n\nLast week I watched Rose McGowan talk at the Edinburgh Book Festival about the abuse she suffered as an actress  a difficult subject, but as she explained, other peoples discomfort isnt her problem. Everyone who shares their stories is brave. We should all be braver. Silence is golden? Nah. Silence is dangerous.\n\nYesterday, I opened my fridge to find half a lettuce, a tub of mouldy hummus, a can of beer and one dried-up slice of chorizo. Even for a family whod been out of town, this was a new low. Naturally, I took my anger out on the condiments. Nothing says \"Im in control of my life\" like chucking jars into a bin.\n\nOut went the tahini, the harissa, the salsa brava, the kicap manis, the beetroot ketchup, the chilli bacon jam and the miso paste that is mandatory in the fridges of all Londoners with aspirations to marinate. Ill tell you what I didnt chuck in the bin, though: the mayo. Theres been a real hoo-haa about how millennials have turned their backs on mayo (sales are down 6.7 per cent in the US), with think pieces abounding about how its the end of days. Fear not: this isnt a British thing. Mayo sales increased last year by 6.9 per cent, outstripping ketchup to become the UKs Favourite Condiment.\n\nPS: anyone who doesnt use Hellmans is a psychopath.\n\nAnd in this weeks gripping instalment of Random Celebs Who Go On Holiday Together, we bring you Damon Albarn, Kim Jones, Alexa Chung, Serena Rees, Bob and Pixie Geldof, Fran Cutler, Nick Grimshaw, Sadie Frost and the bloke out of Massive Attack. I cant supply pictorial evidence, but they were all in Deia, which almost led me to write Is Deia the New Ibiza?, but then I checked myself, because it isnt, although if anyone can make a sedate coastal village into a fun palace, its this crew. But wait. Where was Karlie Kloss? I think we must be told.","title":"Laura Craik on the women who dare to speak out why mayonnaise will never die and the hottest celebr","date":"2018-08-23","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"CBD is short for cannabidiol, which is one of many cannabinoids derived from the cannabis plant. It is noteworthy that CBD and other cannabinoids communicate with the human endocannabinoid system (ECS). This system is responsible for keeping balance in our bodies, regulating functions like pain, sleep, appetite, emotions, moods, digestion, metabolism, memory, inflammation, and so forth. Furthermore, the human body naturally produces endocannabinoids, so when you use CBD, this fantastic compound imitates endocannabinoids.\n\nAs revealed by several recent studies, CBD can be used as a treatment for a wide array of illnesses, medical conditions, and symptoms. As a result, the popularity of CBD oil is flourishing. More and more people are experiencing the incredible health benefits of this compound. As well, people are discovering that there are multiple ways of consuming CBD. For many consumers, using CBD vape oil may be one of the most effective methods.\n\nVaping CBD is an appealing way of taking cannabidiol for many people because it is one of the best natural ways to experience the potential health benefits of CBD admixture. (The admixture is a blend of CBD extract and a carrier oil.) Furthermore, consuming vape oil is the quickest way for this compound to reach our bloodstream. As such, for people suffering from chronic pain, epilepsy or other health conditions, vaping CBD is convenient and provides fast relief.\n\nConsequently, many users prefer CBD vape oil, instead of swallowing it, as this method makes more CBD bioavailable faster. It means that by using CBD vape products, the human body can enjoy more of the effects of this marvelous compound, versus when using another method of consumption.\n\nSwallowing CBD oil limits the amount of the compound that our bodies can use. In addition, the body may need more than 30 minutes to digest edible forms of CBD before it enters the bloodstream. For those people who are consuming CBD to alleviate anxiety, seizures, chronic pain, or other similar medical conditions, waiting 30 minutes may be quite miserable, if not dangerous. As revealed by various users, they are experiencing the results of vaping CBD more quickly and prominently when compared to other ways of taking this compound.\n\nUnlike THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), which is another well-known cannabinoid, CBD is a non-psychoactive compound, meaning that it wont get you high. Further, it should be noted that hemp products, consisting of less than 3 percent THC, are legal in the United States. Thus, as the THC level in CBD oil products is less than 0.3 percent, CBD-based products are 100 percent legal to purchase in all 50 states. However, please note that it is highly recommended that you consult with your doctor before starting any new treatment.\n\nThere are two significant advantages of vaping CBD, which make this option preferable to other methods: quick relief and efficient results. By ingesting CBD orally, the amount of the solution that will enter your bloodstream is only 15 percent. When you vape it, CBD enters through the lungs allowing for about 60 percent of it to reach your circulatory system.\n\nOther CBD products, such as edibles, capsules, supplements, and drinks need to pass through the digestive system. As well, they are processed by the liver. CBD vape products, on the other hand, enter the lungs as a liquid and are directly absorbed into the bloodstream.\n\nConsuming the highest quality pure cannabidiol is very important for many people. Moreover, by vaping CBD, you can consume less product overall, so it lasts longer.\n\nVaping helps you to customize daily serving of CBD, so you an be more precise in your treatment.\n\nMany people prefer vaping CBD, as this method is often quite relaxing for users. According to some users, vaping CBD also helps them with cravings and side-effects connected to quitting smoking.\n\nVape pens are small and discreet, and many people find them attractive. Thus, these features make it easy to vaporize whenever and wherever a user wants.\n\nIn the end, each person must decides what kind of methodology is the best for them. However, the majority of users do not want to wait up to an hour to experience all the health benefits of CBD oil. Thats why many CBD consumers are switching to vaporization as the main method of consuming CBD.\n\nDont forget that some of the CBD products in the marketplace are not entirely natural, therefore may not be as effective in providing treatment. If you purchase low-cost CBD oils, theres a high chance that youre taking in all sorts of chemical-based solutions. For example, some vape oils may contain propylene glycol, a thinning agent that turns toxic at high temperatures. Furthermore, brand new vape technology isnt always structured in alignment with standards set by the Food and Drug Administration. Take some time to compare premium-quality products with low-end ones, so you can avoid facing certain health issues in the long term. Consequently, double-checking the ingredients of the CBD admixture you decide to purchase will guarantee that youre only ingesting the purest CBD solutions.\n\nThis article (5 Amazing Benefits of Using CBD Vape Oil) was originally created and published by Waking Times. Copyright 2018 Waking Media LLC.\n\nDisclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of Waking Times or its staff.\n\nwas last modified: by","title":"5 Amazing Benefits of Using CBD Vape Oil","date":"2018-11-02","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"As the world is driven into a state of chaos by a combination of top down despotism and bottom up politically correct pacifism, seekers of the path sit in the lotus position contemplating their navels or drifting into the ether of another world.\n\nSeeking to participate in inner spiritual disciplines can quite easily be used as an excuse for doing nothing. Nothing about anything that actually matters. Nothing that would constitute making a stand against the destruction going on all around us. I say can be quite easily used because many aspirants who fill spiritual seminars, workshops, conferences and retreats all over the planet, have adopted the popular view that they shouldnt be involved in confronting anything  except possibly, themselves.\n\nThe claim they make is that trying to prevent something bad from happening goes against inner spiritual work. It is confrontational and therefore encourages a negative vibration, when what is called for is peace, love and tolerance.\n\nThis is an evasion of the simple human responsibility (response-ability) to act when faced by stark cases of injustice and cruelty. It is not a spiritual reaction at all; it is rather the opposite, a simple act of cowardice which hides behind metaphysical teachings that say one must go inward only, rather than outward, if one wants to do any good in the world. Such a convenient mantra for those who wish to avoid feeling or taking any responsibility for the shocking levels of cruelty and destruction which they themselves freely admit to witnessing, and indirectly supporting, on a daily level.\n\nNo such people say, we will make a better world only by meditating and changing the vibrational level from carbon to crystalline. It is not for us to do battle with the forces of evil that control this world. If they succeed in their ambitions  and trash our planet in the process  it is because evil is still more prevalent than good, so we must keep meditating in order to become more spiritual and avoid being caught up in any form of conflict!\n\nNow the irony of this situation is really quite profound. Because what these spirit seekers are saying and doing  assuming that at least some are really doing their spirit work and are not on a purely escapist trip  is not out-and-out wrong. But, without an equal and complementary commitment to cease supporting that which they know to be insupportable  plus a commitment to give active service to humanity and pressing planetary needs, it is essentially meaningless and should be recognized as a form of deception.\n\nOnly half of something whole  taken as if it was whole  is a dangerous delusion. A half truth, when taken to be whole truth, is indeed a grand deception and one particularly popular with the political class. Spiritual self-improvement must always be coupled to tangible actions in support of humanity, otherwise it becomes regressive.\n\nAt the other end of the spectrum, there are those who join protest movements and direct action groups, who wont hear of anything to do with the spiritual getting in their way. People who are often brave and indeed courageous souls, and whose struggle to protect the Creators kingdom against wanton acts of destruction is considerably closer to the true essence of spirituality than is the cosseted world in which many of the so-called spiritual aspirants reside.\n\nBravery is an important quality, but many of those heading out to block attempts to drive a new motorway through a pristine forest would be a hundred times more effective if they added the power of a conscious spiritual intent to their struggle.\n\nWhy, oh why, do people have to identify with one or other of these approaches? Why cannot we all settle for declaring ourselves spiritual activists and get on with the job? This is the quality that really has the power to make\/bring change for the better. Nothing can stand in the way of fully committed passionate souls, who combine their inner and outer powers to protect and promote all that has value and beauty on planet earth.\n\nWhile it may sound heroic, this is in fact the natural state of expression for a human being who has not succumbed to societys ubiquitous mind control techniques and\/or fallen prey to pretentious propaganda. An unsullied human instinct will react to acts of obvious injustice by expressing a strong sense of righteous indignation which leads on to the desire to take action! This is because we are all linked-up, and on the collective subconscious plain, are one. When one see ones fellow kind being kicked in the head by some crazed vagrant, ones first (and best) instinct is to try to help the person in trouble.\n\nNow extend that emotion into the animal, plant and all living matter kingdom, and one will find that it is ones heart that is leading the way. It is ones heart that is leading the rebellion against rank injustice  and no one will argue against the fact that the heart lies at the centre of our innate spirituality.\n\nTo follow ones heart is the first stepping stone on the road of truth. Actions that flow from here represent a genuine spiritual response. One based on compassion and empathy for and with the divine diversity of creation. Taking action to defend that creation is spiritual activism. Here is the response of someone whose inner and outer self are not alienated or in conflict with each other.\n\nIt is the dynamic of balance. A state in which the collective spirit of love that we share with fellow beings, is activated and acted upon. Yes, activated and acted upon. Both.\n\nThe spiritual activist is our natural state of pre mind controlled being. The being who has not been pacified by indoctrination to the ways of the status quo. Who has not sought to identify with the spirit alone  or with the warrior alone  but quite naturally finds that he\/she is, by sheer dint of being human, is both these. How our world would rejoice should this breed of actor emerge at the forefront of the affairs of man!\n\nWe have had enough of compartmentalized divisions of oneness. Quite enough, thank you. Nowhere is precisely where we will get so long as people continue to split themselves up into divisions of the whole and then believe they have found the way.\n\nSo, do meditation and spirit work by all means, but then immediately pour the fruits of it into taking action against injustice  and beyond that  towards the process of building a new model of humanity.\n\nReal Action is not about congratulating ones self for sending a pre-prepared text message to Greenpeace to stop oil drilling in the Arctic. Real Action is where one puts ones self on the line  body, mind and spirit  to fight for a decent future for humanity in all the myriad ways in which this is so absolutely vital today.\n\nAlbert Einstein said The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Never were truer words spoken.\n\nAt a time of mass deceit and corruption at the highest levels of society, worldwide, everyone who has a heart needs to have their hands clasp onto the rope of resistance. Everyone who has a soul, and some basic level of awareness, needs to go forth into the world and start setting in motion a great turning in the affairs of man. A turning which will reflect the potential, beauty and power of the human actor in full creative flow. Spirit and action in movement  conjoined as one.\n\nSo from here on in, say Godspeed to the emergence of the spiritual activist  and say goodbye to the world of half way houses that twist the truth into selfish self-concern for a cosseted life of make-believe sainthood.\n\nAnd while youre at it, also say goodbye to all other such deviations from the truth that sap the life blood out of existence.\n\nJulian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer, actor and international activist.\n\nJulian Rose is an international activist who, in 1987 and 1998, led a campaign that saved unpasteurised milk from being banned in the UK; and a Say No to GMO campaign in Poland which led to a national ban of GM seeds and plants in that country in 2006. Julian is currently campaigning to Stop 5G WiFi. He is the author of two acclaimed titles: Changing Course for Life and In Defence of Life and is a long time exponent of yoga\/meditation. See Julians web site for more information and to purchase his books www.julianrose.info\n\nSpirit Led Activism  The True Power of the People was last modified: by","title":"Spirit Led Activism The True Power of the People","date":"2018-09-17","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Steam burns may look harmless on the outside, but research has shown that the lower skin layer, which is invisible to the naked eye, may already be severely damaged. Researchers at Empa revealed how this happens in their study, which was published in the journal Scientific Reports.\n\nIn their study, they used pig skin to mimic the effects of a steam burn in human skin. After exposing the skin to hot steam, they examined the water content of the different layers of the skin with the use of Raman spectroscopy, an analytical method that allows conclusions to be drawn about material properties through the scattering of light.\n\nScientists discovered that during exposure to hot steam, the heat first penetrates the upper layer of the skin, eventually reaching the lower skin layers. While the process is also seen when the skin is exposed to dry heat, it happens faster in hot steam  with an increase in water content for all skill layers happening in the first 15 seconds. This is because the uppermost layer of the skin has pores that are typically much bigger than a water molecule, allowing water vapor to pass through them without any hindrance. Its only when the epidermis becomes swollen from the amount of water it has absorbed that the pores become too small for the water vapor. However, the lower skin layers may have already been damaged, even if its invisible at first.\n\nThe afterburn effect is a problem with all burns. The epidermis, the outer layer of the skin, is a relatively poor heat conductor. After the skin has absorbed heat, particularly in the lower layers of the skin, the releasing of heat occurs very slowly. Because of this, the heat can harm the tissue for longer and cause more damage. This effect is especially strong when burns are caused by water vapor.\n\nSupport our mission and protect your health: Organic Seeds of Life combines Red Raspberry Seed Power, Black Cumin Seed Power and Red Grape Seed Powder into the most potent nutrient-rich supplemental superfood powder you've ever experienced. Loaded with flavonoids, antioxidants, anthocyanins, OPCs, ALA and a vast array of vital nutrients. Learn more here.\n\nPeople who work with steam pipes or in the kitchen are often at risk of steam burns. When the boiling hot steam comes into contact with the skin, it will immediately cause burns. Even firefighters are also at risk because of their own sweat. If their sweat evaporates under the heavy protective clothing in the heat of the fire and is trapped, it condenses on the cooler skin and burns it.\n\nIn the case of a steam burn, the skin must, therefore, be cooled for a long time  two minutes in an ice bath is not enough to dissipate the high amount of energy from the deeper layers of skin, explained Rene Rossi, lead researcher of the study.\n\nHere are some things you can do to minimize the damage caused by steam burns.\n\nLearn more about other remedies that promote skin healing at Remedies.news.","title":"What you need to know about steam burns","date":"2018-06-19","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) A study in the American Chemical Societys (ACS) Environmental Science & Technology found that triclosan  a compound which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned for use in over-the-counter antiseptic soaps, gels, and wipes  could stick to materials usually used on toothbrush heads.\n\nMore questions need to be answered about the design of consumer products  especially those for personal care  with absorptive polymer elements for use as chemicals, researchers concluded\n\nHan J, Qiu W, Campbell EC, White JC, Xing B. NYLON BRISTLES AND ELASTOMERS RETAIN CENTIGRAM LEVELS OF TRICLOSAN AND OTHER CHEMICALS FROM TOOTHPASTES: ACCUMULATION AND UNCONTROLLED RELEASE. Environmental Science & Technology. 2017;51(21):1226412273. DOI: 10.1021\/acs.est.7b02839","title":"Triclosan and other chemicals from toothpastes accumulate on nylon bristles exposing users to uncon","date":"2018-03-20","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Democrat Kyrsten Sinema is the gift that keeps on giving.\n\nThe far left Democrat and Arizona Senate candidate is an enemy of the United States.\n\n No wonder the Democrats are running her!\n\nIn a 2003 radio interview  just two years after the 9-11 attacks  Sinema said I dont care if Americans want to go fight for the Taliban.\n\nU.S. Democratic Senate hopeful Kyrsten Sinema said I dont care if people go and fight for the Taliban in Afghanistan in a newly resurfaced radio interview and co-hosted a radio show with a conspiracy theorist who claimed the September 11, 2001 terror attacks were perpetrated by the government, Fox News can reveal. Sinema appeared on a radio show in February 2003 hosted by Ernest Hancock, a libertarian activist who presented The Valley of the Sun program on a local Arizona radio station. During the interview, Sinema told the host that she didnt object to individuals going abroad and fighting for groups hostile to the U.S. As an individual, if I want to go fight in the Taliban army, I go over there, and Im fighting for the Taliban, Im saying thats a personal decision, Hancock told Sinema, who was then a Green Party activist. Fine. I dont care if you go and do that, go ahead, she replied, according to the audio recording obtained by Fox News.","title":"Senate Democratic Candidate I Dont Care if People Go Fight for the Taliban Against US VIDEO","date":"2018-10-12","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Before getting to the question posed in the headline, lets take a very quick trip down memory lane  specifically, to last September, when your friendly neigbourhood Process Nerd marked the first round of hearings on Team Trudeaus pot legalization plans by looking at just how far MPs could go in rewriting government legislation at the committee table.\n\nWeighing in at just over 140 pages, the prosaically titled Cannabis Act was, at the time  and, come to think of it, may arguably still be  the most ambitious policy initiative on the Liberals to-do list, which made it an excellent case study to explore the parameters of the power of a parliamentary committee to amend bills before sending them back to the House.\n\nThere was, however, a caveat: namely, that it would only deal with bills that had successfully passed at second reading.\n\nAs noted at the time, thats a crucial distinction, as the second-reading vote is generally considered to be on approval in principle, which means that any subsequent amendments at committee must stay within the scope of the bill as initially adopted by the House.\n\nBills can, however, be referred to committee before second reading, and thats exactly what Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale proceeded to demonstrate in November.\n\nWhen it came time to kick off the first round of debate on his proposal to overhaul Canadas national security and anti-terror laws  which, for those who may have lost track, the then-campaigning Liberals had pledged to review to remove any problematic elements brought in via the previous Conservative governments controversial C-51  he announced that he would be asking the House to send it to the public safety committee for a thorough going-over before being put to a vote.\n\nThe motion passed  with the support of not just the governing Liberals, but the New Democrats as well  and the committee has spent the last few months surveying a swath of expert witnesses on how the bill could be improved.\n\nLast week, they began clause-by-clause review, and while the process is still very much underway, the committee has already exercised its authority to rewrite the bill.\n\nSo far, though, the Liberal members who collectively control the majority at the table have only backed amendments put forward by their fellow Liberals, which are, for the most part, being offered on behalf of the government.\n\nAnd as iPolitics writer Rachel Gilmore reported last week, at least one of the changes made to the bill was sufficiently substantive as to raise a red flag for the Conservatives: specifically, the addition of a new section that will give the full weight of law to Goodales 2017 ministerial directive on the use and sharing of information with a substantial risk of leading to mistreatment or torture by a foreign entity.\n\nIts a significant piece of additional information to this bill that we havent had a chance to have any conversation about, Conservative MP Glen Motz complained.\n\nUnder the standard committee protocol, its the the sort of amendment that would almost certainly face a procedural challenge if proposed after a bill had secured House approval in principle.\n\nAfter all, the word torture does appear in the original version of the bill, but not specifically in relation to information-sharing, nor are any such concerns included in the preamble.\n\nUltimately, it would be up to the committee chair  or possibly the speaker  to decide if it fell outside the scope of the legislation as drafted, which would render it inadmissible.\n\nBut by referring the bill to committee before second reading, MPs have given their colleagues the authority to refine  or expand  not just the text of the bill, but the overall goal and the underlying principles.\n\nWhen the newly redrafted bill goes back to the House, MPs will be able to debate the pros and cons of the change, and, eventually, vote on whether to approve it, in principle and as written.\n\nThat, in a nutshell, is whats going on with the proposed security law revamp right now. Will it result in a new and improved framework for balancing public safety and civil liberties to which members on both the government and opposition sides of the committee table have made meaningful, substantive contributions? On that front, the jury is still out.","title":"Process Nerd Whats going on with the post-C-51 revamp of Canadas anti-terror laws","date":"2018-04-23","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Some Broncos fans say the teams new mobile-only ticketing policy caused long waits at stadium gates and for some to miss part of Sundays season opener.\n\nThe Broncos rolled out mobile-only ticketing during the preseason. The team reported no major issues at that time. Sunday was the first regular season game where the process was in place.\n\nThe Broncos acknowledged the first game did have hiccups. A team spokesperson said delays were due to security and season ticket holders using mobile ticketing for the first time, since a lot of them dont go to preseason games.\n\nOne fan tweeted that they missed the entire first quarter. Another said they missed half of the first. Schafer says she missed pregame and the first few minutes of the game. Those posts were a small minority of the thousands in attendance. Broncos Day After: 10 takeaways from Denvers 27-24 win over Seattle If Peyton Manning ran for political office, he would win, Tennessee congressman says Broncos Demaryius Thomas not concerned about shaky start against Seattle Kiszla vs. OHalloran: Is Phillip Lindsay the Broncos best running back?\n\nIts disappointing. The Broncos make enough money. They should be able to get us into the game on time, said one fan.","title":"Broncos fans miss part of home opener due to issues with mobile tickets","date":"2018-09-11","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg is refusing to appear before a grand jury at the request of special counsel Robert Mueller, reports the Washington Post.\n\nNunberg spoke to CNN on Monday and he said, Mueller thinks Trump is the Manchurian candidate. WOW.\n\nIn an interview with the Washington Post, Nunberg says he refuses to appear before a Grand Jury even though he has been issued a subpoena.\n\nNunberg also said to CNN that President Trump is right when he calls it a witch hunt.\n\nCNN asked Nunberg, Have you talked to them [Muellers team] about the general direction, without naming names, about the general direction you think Mueller is going in?\n\nYes Mueller thinks that Trump is the Manchurian candidate...and I will tell you I disagree with that, Nunberg told CNN.\n\nOf course Donald Trump and his supporters have been right the entire time about this unconstitutional Russian collusion witch hunt.\n\nMuellers entire team is comprised of liberal hack lawyers who are hunting down Trump without even naming the crime he committed.\n\nPresident of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton has been saying all along about Muellers operation: SHUT IT DOWN!","title":"Former Trump Aide Who Spoke With Muellers Team Mueller Thinks Trump is the Manchurian Candidate","date":"2018-03-05","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Owen Shroyer is on the ground in Washington DC to cover the #WalkAway March, and gives the latest breaking analysis of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that killed eight by an anti-Trump gunman.","title":"Watch Live WalkAway March Takes Over DC","date":"2018-10-27","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Psychotronic weaponry is being deployed under the name of 5G technology. 5g is not one system but a collection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies designed to work together. According to the governments, we must accept this new upgrade, by law, or be left behind the rest of the modern world. Forget about taking precautions. Humans must be able to download movies at faster and faster rates, lest we become a third world country.\n\nWhen you cannot trust government for truth or transparency, there are other ways to discover them for yourself: the prophecies.\n\nAn interpreter of prophecy who calls himself The Naughty Beaver (NB) cross- references galactic events with the prophecies of Revelation, Nostradamus, Mother Shipton, and the Hopi People to identify where in humanitys evolutionary timeline we sit. Where others have guessed the dates of Tribulation and pole reversal, NB has mapped out the proof. His message is that we all have a role to play during this critical time of transformation.\n\nNaughty Beaver is a messenger. He says he is not a mentor, and that you dont have to be a Christian to understand the connections he makes between Biblical prophecy and other prophecies. His role is to interpret the signs so that we can change the odds of surviving as a species. According to his translation, NB believes all signs point to an imminent pole reversal for Earth. What does that mean?\n\nPole reversal is a test for humanity. Evidence suggests Earth has experienced at least four previous pole shifts, the last one being the fall of Atlantis. Here again, we face the same probability. For our current timeline, The Great Sign in Heaven begins the seven years of Tribulation of the Bible, Revelation 12:\n\nNB references Bible prophecy to the galactic alignments of Nostradamus prophecies. See Nostradamus Century 3,  Quatrain 46:\n\nNaughty Beaver identifies the date of The Great Sign in Heaven as September 23, 2017.  Three and a half years from this date is the date of Satans return, on March 23, 2021. See Revelation 12:\n\nThen another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.[a] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.\n\nThe great dragon was hurled downthat ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.\n\nThe 1260 day span reflects 3 1\/2 years after the Great Sign in Heaven, based on the new calendar (versus the old Hebrew). See how NB pieces it together here. Satans arrival is synched up to when humanity is most vulnerable to mind control, which coincides with the rollout of 5G.\n\nIn Nostradamus when the bearded star appears in Cancer, it sets off a chain of Biblical events in Revelation that features Satans return to earth in physical form, by March 23, 2021:\n\nDuring the appearance of the bearded star (see NIBIRU, above photo);\n\nAnd what of the Pope? Pope Francis has hinted he may not be around in 2019.\n\n10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water 11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. [Wormwood means curse in Hebrew].\n\nAnother source of prophecy comes from Mother Shipton, who wrote this excerpt from her poem in 1559, preceding Nostradamus:\n\n{Volcanoes, earthquakes (in unknown land  America?) destroying town after town, fighting between nations. Speaks of a Chinese (yellow)  Russian (bear) alliance against the west. Most of Chinas current weapons have come in deals with Russia.}\n\nHopi Prophecy says the rotation of our Earth is being manipulated by not so benevolent star beings (on the moon) to alter our connection to Source.\n\nNostradamus indicates the moon has been replaced and serves as a base inhabited by those who control Earth. In Century One Quatrain 48:\n\nAccording to NB, Earth is moving counterclockwise, in anti-time. Because the natural rotation of Earth is clockwise, the only way to restore our connection to Source is to stop the rotation or flip the earth upside down: a pole shift.  Hopi Prophecy describes how that will happen:\n\nThe twins will be seen in our North Western skies. They will come and visit to see who still remembered the original teachings flying in their Patuwvotas, or flying shields. They will bring many of their star family with them in the final days.\n\nNB identifies the twins in Earths atmosphere as  two motherships (see one at arrow). Seen by special filtering, these star families are here to move Earths poles back to their proper position and rotation. The twins are the good guys. Unfortunately, the power they require to transform Earth could drain our sun. There no warnings from world leaders about the consequences of these events. The paradox is that there is a war above the Earth simultaneous to the war on Earth. As Above So Below. How to distinguish good from evil forces and the eventual outcome? Understand prophecy.\n\nIn Century 9, Quatrain 62, Nostradamus warned that during the Tribulation a dragon would be released on Oct. 3rd. The Raugon will be released on the third of October.\n\nIn the Bible Revelation 12: Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth.\n\nNaughty Beaver points to an armada of shadow ships around the moon. Check out the view from here. Connecting the tiny moving dots would suggest that we are approaching a reckoning. Could the dragon refer to China? Why on October 10th, 2018, did a test emergency alert from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Federal Communications Commission go out to all cell phones?\n\nIn a previous article, I shared how government is complicit in spraying populations with chemicals to experiment, as well as to hide the sun and other celestial bodies. We know the rays of the sun are life-giving and its frequencies provide humanity with energetic upgrades. However, not only is the sun blocked by chemtrails, it is also blocked by the sun simulator.  Between the sun simulator, the artificial moon, NIBIRU, the twin motherships, and the moons armada, our skies are filling up.\n\nThe launch of an artificial sun contradicts the global warming propaganda.  It not only reveals that Earth is cooling as the sun moves toward a grand solar minimum, it suggests something more dire. As evidence, Wisconsin, on April 2018, conducted a mass power outage preparedness drill across the state called the Dark Sky event: a coming mini ice age.\n\nIf an armada is here under lunar command, then the one who takes the reign from the moon is not the messiah. The true messiah does not return until the earth is frozen over... when hell freezes over.\n\nMeanwhile, on Earth, nanochips and Smart Dust are weaponized technology for the human microchipping agenda. Radio Frequency (RF) ID microchips have been called the Mark of the Beast for the plain reason that it is a method of complete control of humanity by the Beast System, a computer simulated system, run by government and entities serving the New World Order Agenda. RFID chips are a receiver and transmitter of information. A chip can control body and mind as easily as it controls a self-driving car.\n\nNanochips whether implanted by vaccines, chemical fallout, or implantation, go against Natures laws. Without question, we are experiencing hell on Earth. Perhaps Earth is set up as a living hell from which we must finally transcend. Would our current condition be a reason for God to reset Earths poles?\n\nNaughty Beaver believes the Tribulation is not an end of days scenario because prophecies do not show what only the Creator can determine.  Even though the Tribulation is estimated to wipe out 75% of life on the planet, it is only a warning. We, as human consciousness, have a choice. Going forward, we can co-create heaven or hell. However, the Rapture that Christians await will not happen until after the seven years of Tribulation. Which Earth we land on will be based on how we choose to live now and if we can stop dividing ourselves and work together. Sound surreal?\n\nWe have come to see that we have been distracted from the truth of who we really are. When we divide ourselves by gender, race, religion, and status we follow the ego while forgetting the soul. We are light beings having a human experience. We live and breathe frequencies. Everything is energy. Each of us ignores this critical aspect to our collective detriment.\n\nWe are organ systems connected through a nervous system, endocrine system, and a chakra system  wheels of light.  When aligned, we connect to our spirituality, the higher self, to Creator Source, through the crown chakra.\n\nBecause the chakras are connected to the glandular system in the body, the health of our glands is integral to a strong energetic connection to our higher self. The pineal gland is the gland associated with the seventh chakra, the connection to Source. Fluoride in the public water supply calcifies the pineal gland as one way to block our connection to Source.\n\nThe design of the chakras, themselves, suggests that they have been designed to be controlled. If we do not protect the energy flow through our chakras with energetic boundaries, like the borders of a country, we can easily lose our energy to others who take it for themselves. Everything is a dual universe is a paradox, to be used for both good and bad. But our calling is to break through duality to reconnect to Source. There is no outside technology to assist us. We are the technology.\n\nThe technology being rolled out is purposely used to suppress the natural evolution of humanity to block our natural connections to the Sun, and Source Creator. Fortunately, there is a window of opportunity to prevent the Fire and fury of the prophesies. President Trump can lead the world to peace and end the prophecy now. Will he do it when he threatens North Korea that they will be met with fire and fury if they threaten the United States?\n\nIt is written in the Hopi Prophesy known as the Story of The Blue Kachina:\n\nMany will appear to have lost their souls in these final days. So intense will the nature of the changes be that those who are weak in spiritual awareness will go insane, for we are nothing without spirit. They will disappear, for they are just hollow vessels for any thing to use. Life will be so bad in the cities that many will choose to leave this plane. Some in whole groups.\n\nOnly those who return to the values of the old ways will be able to find peace of mind. For in the Earth we shall find relief from the madness that will be all around us.\n\nWhat the prophecies hope to reveal is a picture of a possible future, a forewarning, one that we as a people can change if we care to come together for peace. The countdown has begun. We have six years to get it right.\n\nEveryone has a role to play.\n\nIf the prophecies go forward on the current track, we follow an Alien Agenda into an age of A.I. Movies, TV, and politicians have been disclosing what Nostradamus foresaw in the 1500s; a One World government and Transhumanist Agenda. In Century 2, Quatrain 2o:\n\nWhat happens when millions of people feel disconnected as world calamities increase with intensity and prophesies are fulfilled? What will it look like if the world goes dark? Or crazy? It doesnt have to come to that.\n\nHumanity is ascending. Ascension is a new level of understanding, where humanity comes into a new dimension of higher (Christ) consciousness. Christ said that the Kingdom of God is within each of us. He was a messenger. We are now presented with a window of opportunity to turn things around for man and beast: humans and beavers.\n\nWe know that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only change form. However we are here to recognizethat we are eternal light beings and that light is information to be used to our advantage. According to prophecy, the great sign has come and gone, telling us that the New World will be created in our time. We need to be aware of false prophets who are here and those yet to come.\n\nThe information is written in the stars, and in crop circles. By having foreknowledge of galactic alignments, we have windows of opportunity to stop events from manifesting.\n\nLife in 3D is a temporary existence. We came here for school, to be refined, to learn the difference between good and evil, to deny evil, to accept love, to die to the flesh, and to ascend as pure spirit.\n\nWe can acknowledge that anything gained in this world is temporary and worthless while the things we leave behind are of great value. That value is inside each of us. It is the frequency of love. It is the one frequency that can transform the negative frequencies of fear and evil that attempt to usurp what is left of Earth and humanity.\n\nRosanne Lindsay is a Naturopathic doctor and Tribal healer under the Turtle Island Provider Network. She is a writer, Earth keeper, Health Freedom advocate, co-founder of Wisconsin For Vaccine Choice, and author of the books The Nature of Healing, Heal the Body, Heal the Planet.and  Free Your Voice, Heal Your Thyroid, Reverse Thyroid Disease Naturally. Find her on Facebook at Rosanne Lindsay and Natureofhealing. Consult with her (Skype or Zoom consults available) at natureofhealing.org. Subscribe to her blog at http:\/\/www.natureofhealing.org\/blog\/.\n\nPole Shift, Prophecies and Ascension  The Coming War and the Future of Humanity was last modified: by","title":"Pole Shift Prophecies and Ascension The Coming War and the Future of Humanity","date":"2018-10-31","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, fifth from left, and Governor General David Johnston, centre, pose for a group photo with the new Liberal cabinet at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015.\n\nOfficially, its just another sleepy midsummer Wednesday in the capital, but while reporters are still waiting for the formal summons to Rideau Hall to pop up in their inboxes, theres a near-universal expectation that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will unveil his freshly revamped front-bench roster later this morning.\n\nUPDATE: And now its official. As per the just-in notice to the press gallery: Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, will preside over a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall on Wednesday, July 18, 2018, at 10 a.m.\n\nA quick roundup of the pre-shuffle predictions suggests a near-universal consensus on at least one new addition to the lineup: GTA-area rookie MP Mary Ng, who previously served as Trudeaus appointments director, and is widely believed to be poised to take over the small business portfolio currently held by Government House Leader Bardish Chagger.\n\nBeyond that, however, there is remarkably little overlap in the predictions emanating from the various unnamed Liberal sources cited in the flurry of speculative pre-shuffle coverage: Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc seems to be near the top of the list of the ministers most likely on the move, along with Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi.\n\nThere does, however, appear to be widespread agreement that Team Trudeaus senior ranks will remain largely unchanged, with Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale leading the list of those who will be continuing on in their current jobs.\n\nOther names that can tentatively be added to that subset, based on their as-yet-uncancelled scheduled appearances outside Ottawa today:\n\nAccording to a party-issued advisory, Conservative MP Lisa Raitt will hit the House Foyer this morning in advance of the anticipated Liberal cabinet shuffle, a choice of venue and timing that seems odd, given that most media outlets will be deploying all available resources to Rideau Hall to cover the shuffle itself.\n\nIts also not immediately clear what pertinent commentary Raitt can offer on the changes before the official announcement comes out, although presumably, she can always break out that old deck chairs on the Titanic cliche.\n\nAlso today: Canadas provincial and territorial premiers descend on St. Andrews for their traditional midsummer summit.\n\nBefore that gets underway, however, theyll meet with indigenous and First Nations leaders, several of whom have already publicly voiced their disappointment in not being invited to the main event.\n\nL. Ian MacDonald: Trudeau poised to play it safe in looming cabinet shuffle","title":"iPolitics Team Trudeaus pre-election lineup to be unveiled at Rideau Hall today","date":"2018-07-18","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Aldi sales passed 10bn across the UK and Ireland in 2017, with the discounter also announcing plans to open 130 new stores over the next two years.\n\nSales rose 16 per cent to 10.2bn, while profit increased by 29 per cent to 417.3m.\n\nThe supermarket also reported that customer numbers grew by more than 1.1 million to 15.8 million, giving Aldi a 7.6 per cent market share in the UK.\n\nLast year, the grocer announced that it would invest 1bn in new stores and upgrades of existing branches during 2017 and 2018.\n\nThe company has now confirmed plans to open 130 new stores between 2019 and 2020, with three new regional distribution centres also planned.\n\nAccording to Aldi, the planned expansions will create 5,000 new jobs over the next two years.\n\nGiles Hurley, chief executive officer at Aldi UK and Ireland, said: Our future investment plans underline our continued commitment to growing responsibly in the UK. That means having a positive and lasting impact on the economies where we operate and improving the lives of British people.\n\n\"Our fundamental purpose remains  to bring outstanding quality groceries at the lowest prices for our customers, creating jobs and supporting British farming and manufacturing.\n\nHe added: The revolution in British grocery shows no sign of slowing. Savvy customers know they can swap and save with Aldi, thanks to great quality products at lower prices. This is happening on a massive scale, with more than 1.1 million new customers shopping with us throughout 2017.\n\nWhile other grocers introduced more complexity into their businesses in their struggle to win back customers, we stuck to our guns and focused on doing what Aldi does best  buying smart, staying lean, improving quality and keeping prices low.\n\n\"Our biggest strength is our simplicity  a carefully selected range of exclusive own-label brands and award-winning products at the lowest prices. Millions of Britons can put fantastic tasting food on their table every day of the week, at prices they can afford.","title":"Aldi UK sales pass 10bn as discounter plans to open 130 new stores","date":"2018-10-01","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Tottenham have the option to play a 'small number' of Premier League and Champions League home games at Wembley if their new stadium is not ready on schedule, the Football Association (FA) has said.\n\nSpurs will return to Wembley - their temporary home for last season - for Saturday's match against Fulham but they are due to move to their new 62,000-seater stadium for Liverpool's visit on 15 September.\n\nHowever, the FA have confirmed that Spurs could continue at the national stadium for an extended period.\n\nAn FA spokesperson said: \"Tottenham Hotspur have the option to play a small number of Premier League and Uefa Champions League group stage home matches at Wembley Stadium, but their intention is not to and they have only scheduled the Fulham home game at Wembley Stadium.\"\n\nAccording to the Sun newspaper, Spurs paid the FA 'a significant amount' of money to secure the option, which has already been activated.\n\nSpurs were granted permission by the Premier League board to play at two different home stadiums in one season because their 850million home would not be ready for the start of this campaign.\n\nUefa has no hard and fast rules about playing European fixtures in the same home stadium, so Spurs could conceivably move to The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after one or two Champions League group stage matches  or for the knockouts.\n\nThree-thousand workers are operating around the clock to try to finish the stadium on time.\n\nThe NFL  which has a ten-year deal with Spurs to play at least two games per season at the new stadium  has said that it has the option of moving Oakland Raiders against Seattle Seahawks on October 14 to Wembley.","title":"New Tottenham stadium fixtures FA confirms Spurs have option of more Wembley games","date":"2018-08-13","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has not had a good 2018. The year has found him facing scrutiny over actions including the delivery of hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels, covering an affair with the man who is now president. That initial area of concern has ballooned into much more, with Cohen facing a government criminal investigation into possible bank and campaign finance fraud.\n\nSenate Democrats are adding to Cohens woes this week, claiming emails theyve uncovered to reveal that he has lied about the extent of the White House access he sought to sell during 2017.\n\nHes previously been revealed to have been paid large sums of money by major corporations including the drug company Novartis for insider perspectives on and help in dealing with the Trump White House. Although the company has previously claimed their cooperation with Cohen to have ended in March 2017, Senate Democrats say the company was in contact with the lawyer through at least September of last year.\n\nTopics of conversations between Cohen and Novartis CEO Joe Jiminez during those additional months reportedly included the Trump administrations drug pricing proposals, Novartiss potential investment in a small drug company backed by Columbus Nova, and... opioid lawsuits.\n\nSenator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) summed up the findings by saying:\n\nWhat Cohen was actually able to provide to Novartis was downplayed by Jiminez, who is no longer the companys chief executive  although his claimed low view of the Trump lawyer in 2017 didnt stop him from staying in contact after his companys contract with Cohen ended, apparently.\n\nSpecifics of the post-March 2017 communication between Cohen and Jiminez include a claim from the Trump lawyer that he would pass on a drug pricing plan from Novartis to an unnamed friend who was getting ready for a talk with the White House.\n\nWhat Cohen was or wasnt able to do would weigh on whether or not he broke the law in not having registered as a lobbyist. If he was bluffing, its not an issue, but if he actually served as an intermediary between Novartis  and any other company  and the White House, then thats lobbying, former Office of Congressional Ethics lawyer Bryson Morgan noted.\n\nPoints that Novartis sent Cohen were somewhat reflected in a plan for prescription drug pricing released by the White House earlier this year, but at least some of the drug companys plans had been advocated for publicly.\n\nWhether Cohens work with Novartis plays majorly into the ongoing criminal investigation hes facing remains to be seen. It remains an open question whether or not he will plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors as a part of that investigation.","title":"BREAKING Senate Dems Reveal Cohen Lied Caught Selling Access To Trumps WH","date":"2018-07-13","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The Premier League will introduce VAR (Video Assistant Referees) for the start of the 2019\/20 season after the league's 20 clubs came to an agreement in principle at a Shareholders' Meeting today.\n\nVideo refereeing has already been introduced in the likes of La Liga and has been trialled in the FA Cup and Carabao Cup this season as officials attempt to develop the best method of reviewing decisions.\n\nThe vote will now be subjected to approval from football lawmakers.\n\nIn a statement on their official website, the Premier League stated: \"Premier League clubs have agreed in principle to introduce Video Assistant Referees (VAR) to the competition in the 2019\/20 season.\n\n\"At a Shareholders Meeting today, clubs were provided with an update on the non-live VAR trials being undertaken by the League and Professional Game Match Officials (PGMOL) this season.\n\n\"Key learnings from VAR's use in the FA Cup and Carabao Cup, and other leagues across the world, were discussed in detail.\n\n\"The Premier Leagues non-live testing programme will remain in place for the rest of this season, with a continued emphasis on those Saturday afternoons which have several matches being played concurrently, and developing a clear protocol for communicating VAR decisions to fans.\n\n\"The League will now formally make a request to the International Football Association Board and FIFA to use VAR next season.\"\n\nThe decision comes after Southampton's controversial draw with Watford last weekend when Saints striker Charlie Austin insisted on VAR's introduction after his goal was incorrectly disallowed.\n\nPremier League clubs had voted unanimously against bringing in VAR last season as they wanted another campaign to test the system further and ascertain what would be the most efficient and fan-friendly way to implement it.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"Premier League to introduce VAR for start of 201920 season","date":"2018-11-15","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Broken Love Island couple Georgia Steel and Sam Bird managed to avoid an awkward reunion at a club night by appearing 10 minutes apart.\n\nThe couple, who got together on the ITV2 show, announced they had split last week with a devastated Bird suspicious of his girlfriends loyalty.\n\nAnd the duo were both booked to appear at a club night in Gloucester last week but neither of them wanted to drop out, leading to a plan to avoid locking eyes.\n\nBoth were pictured on social media attending the club night but never appeared to be in the same room.\n\nA source told OK! Online: Their appearances were about 10 minutes apart.\n\nWhen Georgia came in, Sam went into the cheesy room upstairs but still stayed in the club. Neither of them spoke.\n\nThe insider added that they heard Bird speak about Steele but Steele allegedly didnt refer to her ex.\n\nShortly after their split, Bird claimed that it was because of her ex that the relationship had failed. Steel denied any third party involvement in their split.\n\nIn a now-deleted Instagram statement, she wrote: Last night Sam told me he was going to the press so I just want to make clear ahead of any interviews that there was NO third party involved in the break up between him and I.\n\nSam thinks I cheated because he went through my phone, read and took screen shots of banter I had between me and my best mate which hes now threatening to sell to the press.\n\nThe banter was about my ex-boyfriend from which hes then put two and two together and come up with an imaginary scenario.\n\nIn an interview with The Sun, Bird claimed that Steel led a double life behind his back and that he was left heartbroken reading messages between her and a friend talking about staying with her ex-boyfriend overnight.","title":"Love Island stars Sam Bird and Georgia Steel aposavoid awkward reunion at club nightapos followi","date":"2018-10-22","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Upon first coming to light, many believed that the case of adult film star Stormy Daniels would be one that ultimately fizzled out of the national spotlight, as have a great deal of other cases that came against the president in his early days in office. As many women spoke out about the unwanted sexual advances made by the then-businessman despite their not giving consent, the Daniels case stuck out for the major reason that the $130,000 in hush money payment made to the adult actress raised concerns about Trumps knowledge of it on the campaign trail, leading to speculation of illegitimate use of campaign funds.\n\nAs the case has progressed, one figure has remained prominent in keeping the suit at the top of headlines in the media, due to his impassioned comments and direct criticisms aimed at Trumps personal attorney Michael Cohen. The lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, has made his position clear on an array of news shows since the case first began, essentially leading to bad press and poor positioning for Cohens defense as the case has carried on. Clearly, Cohen has been feeling the pressure placed by Avenatti, as can be seen in recent actions to keep the high-profile attorney quiet throughout the proceedings.\n\nAccording to an article by CNN:\n\nPresident Donald Trumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen filed for a restraining order late Thursday against Stormy Daniels lawyer, Michael Avenatti, to prevent him from speaking to the press about the adult film stars lawsuit. Avenattis actions are mainly driven by his seemingly unquenchable thirst for publicity, the filing said, alleging that Avenatti routinely denigrates Cohen. Avenattis publicity tour, the filing said, is likely to result in Mr. Cohen being deprived of his right to a fair trial, and threatens to turn what should be a solemn federal court proceeding into a media circus.\n\nCohens filing aims to place a level of blame on Avenattis media appearances, claiming that the things that are said on the news outlets have an impact on the courts decisions on how they may rule. To Cohens point, Avenatti has become a fiery figure on mainstream media outlets, however, to imply that such appearances would have an impact on the decision of the federal courts would be a direct insult to the United Statess judicial process, believing that outside sources would ultimately influence the decision of the judges.\n\nAvenatti was quick to strike back at the attempted gag order proposed by Cohens defense, claiming that the filing was not only baseless, but provided insight into their inability to deal with reality.\n\nRegardless of the character portrayed by Avenatti on news outlets, the fact remains that he has remained within his legal bounds as an attorney, and has not provided any information that would compromise the facts of the case.\n\nHowever, despite his greatest attempts to keep a handle on the spiraling case, the judge tasked with reviewing the gag order very quickly denied Cohens request. As claimed by Avenatti in his initial tweets, the filing inherently was baseless, as was identified by presiding judges.","title":"Cohen Tries To Get Emergency Gag Order On Avenatti The Judges Response Is Perfect","date":"2018-06-15","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Prager Universitys Will Witt went to California State University dressed as a Native American to hand out pumpkin pies and ask students what they were thankful for.\n\nBut a group of SJW leftists descended on him, threatening physical violence and accusing him of culturally appropriating the Native American headdress and outfit.","title":"Leftist Students Threaten Journalist Dressed As Native American For Thanksgiving","date":"2018-11-21","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"In a letter obtained by Fox News, committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., posed a string of dossier-related questions to current and former intelligence, law enforcement and State Department officials. He specifically wants to know when they learned the document was funded by Democratic sources, and how it was used to obtain one or more surveillance warrants at the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.\n\nIn the Feb. 20-dated letter, Nunes even threatened to issue subpoenas.\n\nIf you do not provide timely answers on a voluntary basis, the Committee will initiate compulsory process, he wrote.","title":"Developing Comey Brennan and Clapper Have Until Friday to Disclose When They Knew Dossier Was Fund","date":"2018-02-27","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The Mueller Special Counsel and New York District Attorneys Office seek to destroy President Trump for paying out $130,000 in hush money to two former paramours.\n\nThe New York District Attorneys office has picked up the case because New York state crimes can not be pardoned by a president.\n\nMost experts believe paying hush money is not a crime.\n\n The media believes the alleged bribe ranks as one of the worst criminal act in US history.\n\nBarack Obamas crackpot anti-Semitic and anti-American pastor caused a stir in the summer of 2008 after video was released of the pastor screaming, Goddam America from his church pulpit.\n\nVia The New York Post:\n\nMan, the media ate me alive, Wright told me when we met in his office at Chicagos Kwame Nkrumah Academy. After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election. It was from one of Baracks closest friends. Not directly, Wright said. He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me. How much money did he offer you? Did Obama himself ever make an effort to see you? Yes, Wright said. Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place. And I said, Youre used to coming to my home, youve been here countless times, so whats wrong with coming to my home? So we met in the living room of the parsonage of Trinity United Church of Christ, at South Pleasant Avenue right off 95th Street, just Barack and me. I dont know if he had a wire on him. His security was outside somewhere. And one of the first things Barack said was, I really wish you wouldnt do any more public speaking until after the November election. He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, I wish you wouldnt speak. Its gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.","title":"Flashback Obama Offered 150000 Bribe to Silence Crackpot Hate Preacher Jeremiah Wright","date":"2018-08-24","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Although Infowars is in no way connected with a pirate radio station in Austin Texas, the MSM implies Alex Jones has shady business relationships.","title":"Fake News Alex Jones Has Flagship Pirate Radio Station Shut Down","date":"2018-08-17","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Heres an interesting flashback.\n\n Hillary Campaign manager John Podesta and former Clinton advisor Lanny Davis made a secret agreement regarding Hillary Clintons leaked emails.\n\nThis was released by Wikileaks in 2016\n\nAnd heres another interesting email from Lanny Davis to Hillary Clinton  via Wikileaks:\n\nLanny Davis tells Hillary Clinton: Aside from Carolyn, my four children, and my immediate family, I consider you to be\n\n the best friend and the best person I have met in my long life. You know that from the dedication and appreciation of\n\nyou I have always felt and expressed to you over four decades.","title":"WIKILEAKS FLASHBACK Lanny Davis Makes Secret Agreement with John Podesta Swoons Over Crooked Hill","date":"2018-08-23","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A-level students have celebrated or commiserated their exam results with hilarious memes.\n\nMany have taken to Twitter to celebrate while others who did not get the results they were looking for, shared their disappointment online.\n\nOthers who have already gone through the results process decided to wade in with some advice.\n\nAccording to official results, the number of top grade A-levels dropped this year after the biggest exam shake up of a generation, with boys outperforming girls.\n\nUCAS revealed today that a record 27.9 percent of 18-year-olds in England have been accepted onto university courses.\n\nAccording to UCAS, a total of 411,860 students from across the UK have been placed on undergraduate courses so far.\n\nThis is a decrease of one percent compared to A-level day last year.\n\nThere is now fierce competition among universities to attract the students who have not yet been accepted onto a course because the drop in applicants has created a buyers market.\n\nAaron Anthony wrote on Twitter: \"It's not A-levels results day without a tweet from Jeremy Clarkson.\"\n\nAnd of course earlier today, Mr Clarkson posted a tweet aimed to make those who hadn't obtained their ideal results feel better.\n\nThis year, around one in 12 entries scored an A* grade, down 0.3 percentage points on last year.\n\nThe overall A*-E pass-rate has fallen 0.3 percentage points to 97.6% - the lowest since 2010.\n\nA subject breakdown shows that Chinese has overtaken German in popularity for the first time.\n\nThere were 3,334 entries for Chinese this year, up 8.6% on last year, while 3,058 took German - down 16.5%.\n\nStem subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) are attracting increasing numbers of students.\n\nMore than a third (36.2%) of A-level entries were in these subjects, up from 34.5% last year, and 28% in 2009.\n\nThe results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland come after a major overhaul of the qualifications in England.","title":"A-level students celebrate and commiserate with hilarious memes","date":"2018-08-16","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The train of repugnant revelations about those President Donald Trump has surrounded himself with just keeps chugging along. Now, The Daily Beast has outlined how it could very well be that close Trump ally and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro still owes over half a million dollars in debt that accumulated during her four month campaign for Senate all the way back in 2006.\n\nPirro still lives under the cloud of that ill fated attempt to unseat Hillary Clinton in other ways, taking it upon herself, for instance, to go to an area where the Clintons were and pester townspeople as to whether or not theyd seen the eventual presidential candidate.\n\nAs it turns out, though, her grudge against Clinton could have stemmed not just from politics, but from a continued effort to evade financial responsibility for her campaign against the candidate  although technically, she never made it out of the Republican primary.\n\nHer campaign committee is apparently still active, because its against the law for such entities to dissolve before theyve paid their debts. For the duration of a campaign committees existence, its required to file financial disclosure forms with the Federal Election Commission  but Pirros committee hasnt filed the form for around seven years.\n\nThe last time it did so was in 2011, five years after the failed Senate run concluded, when it revealed that although it still owed $589,000 to 20 different interests, campaign treasurer and consultant Bruce Bellmare and the sanctioned consultant Jeffrey Buley  both of whom had worked with Pirros husband  were garnering an income from the campaign.\n\nThe FEC has gone after the campaign as recently as last month, warning them that financial penalties could result from refusals to file the required forms, but they have received no response.\n\nThat hasnt stopped Pirro from charging on with her message of law and order or else anyway, a message she brought to a campaign stage next to Donald Trump shortly before the midterm elections after having consulted with the president multiple times in the past.\n\nHilariously enough, Pirro is still going after Clinton, fourteen years after failing in her bid to unseat her in Congress.\n\nIn other words  Pirro wishes to discount Clinton as a misogynist for her response to the behavior of someone else in the case of Lewinsky, who had an affair with her husband and Broaddrick, who claims Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her.\n\nThe addition of the claim about a young rape victim is based on the hyperbole that as a young lawyer, Hillary adamantly defended an accused child rapist.\n\nWith the newest revelations from PAYDIRT delivered through The Daily Beast, weve got more of a view of exactly what foundation all of Pirros all-too-familiar nonsense rests on.","title":"Judge Jeanine Pirro Caught In Half Million Dollar Scandal Like A Crook","date":"2018-11-25","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Over the last year, it has been fairly clear that President Trump has a personal vendetta, for whatever reasons, against the current immigration policy in the country. Through his various calls for policy reform, Trump has aimed to dismantle the very fabrics that gave America its fundamental values and ideals, looking to turn away as many refugees, immigrants, and asylum-seekers as possible. In promoting the anti-immigrant agenda, certain actions taken by the Trump administration can be seen as outright abhorrent, especially in regards to the mistreatment of those looking to live a fully legal and compliant lifestyle in the country.\n\nMost recently, reports have emerged regarding a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is suing the Trump administration for their behavior and treatment of a Congolese mother and daughter pair, both of whom are asylum-seekers in the country. According to an article written by the Associated Press:\n\nThe mother and daughter entered the U.S. together in California in November and turned themselves into U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. Initially, the two were kept together. But about five days after they entered the U.S., the child was taken away screaming and crying, pleading with guards not to take her away from her mother, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Diego.\n\nCurrently, the Congolese mother is being held in a facility in San Diego, while immigration officials have relocated her daughter to another holding facility on nearly the other side of the country, in Chicago. Despite the fact that these two asylum-seekers aimed to abide by the legal guidelines of the country, it is clear that the Trump administration has put a target on the backs of immigrants, even in the case of those fleeing oppressive circumstances.\n\nThe ACLU believes this is yet another case in which Trumps policies and actions focus on dismantling immigrant families, and an outright disregard for this countrys rule of law. The woman in question has already passed the initial screening in regards to fearing for her physical safety if extradited back to Congo, but has yet to be granted asylum by federal officials.\n\nAccording to the ACLU, the Trump administration has been far stricter on immigrant families than administrations in the past. In previous years, those illegally entering have been held in detention centers, and on certain occasions separated from their families. However, Trump has ramped up this sort of action, sending a clear sign to anybody entering that even their families are at risk if they attempt to come into the country illegally.\n\nCurrently, the ACLU is working on the womans case, as she is extremely worried about whether or not she will be able to see her daughter again. The pair have only spoke on the phone a handful of times since their separation last November. As the Trump administration shows a ruthless disregard for the relationships between families, especially during difficult times of seeking asylum and escaping their countries, it is apparent that their actions are having very real detrimental impacts on the specific individuals involved.","title":"ACLU Drops Massive Legal Bomb On Trumps White House Donald Is Throwing A Fit","date":"2018-02-27","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Police officers in Vacaville, California, were in a race against time to rescue animals from a shelter on August 11 as a wildfire was fast approaching.\n\nThe Nelson Fire had already burned through 2,100 acres and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SCPA) shelter lay directly in the path of the encroaching fire.\n\nOfficers Carly Stone and Kirsten Jennings were first on the scene outside the shelter. They rushed in and began rounding up the animals, bundling cats into crates and leashing dogs to ferry them to safety.\n\nWithin 10 minutes, the police, along with shelter employees, had safely removed 60 animals as flames and smoke billowed just a short distance from the shelter.\n\nThe dramatic rescue was captured on Officer Stone's body camera, which she edited into a short video and shared on Facebook.\n\nOfficers were seen sprinting to and from the shelter, placing animals anywhere they could fit in their police cars. After being rescued, local residents generously volunteered to house the animals temporarily overnight.\n\nEven though the dogs had never met us before, and we were in a strange uniform, it was almost like they knew we were there to help them, Officer Stone said in an interview with Anderson Cooper.\n\nLieutenant Mark Donaldson, of Vacaville Police, said: California has had a particularly dry season, meaning we are always susceptible to wildfires  even in suburban areas, rather than forested.\n\n\"After a sudden gust of wind changed the fires path downhill and towards the SPCA, our officers only had minutes to react.\"\n\nThe Nelson fire lasted 24 hours before being extinguished the following day. All the animals were safely returned to the shelter on Sunday.","title":"Police officers race against time to rescue sheltered animals from spreading wildfire","date":"2018-08-15","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The mainstream media is attempting to distract from CNNs Jim Acosta placing his hands on a woman during yesterdays White House press conference by claiming a video of the incident tweeted by Sarah Sanders is doctored.\n\nAcostas press access was revoked yesterday after he became embroiled in a verbal spat with President Trump and then appeared to overpower a White House staffer who tried to retrieve the microphone from him.\n\nIn an obvious effort to distract from Acostas behavior towards the woman (which some claim represents minor assault or battery), CNN and the rest of the mainstream media crafted a conspiracy theory that the video clip later tweeted by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was doctored, sped up or manipulated.\n\nThe clip is not doctored or sped up. As you can see from the original editing track in Sony Vegas Pro, none of the individual tracks are sped up. A track that is sped up would show wavy lines in the original track field, which it doesnt.\n\nThe claim being made my some media outlets that I sped up the Acosta video is a brazen lie.\n\nHeres the original editing in Sony Vegas Pro. As you can see, no tracks are sped up (sped up tracks would show wavy lines). I just zoomed in.\n\nThe only editing done to this clip is that it is zoomed in. The speed has not been altered from the original clip posted by the Daily Wire.\n\nOriginal video footage of the full encounter also proves that the footage is not sped up.\n\nWhile Acosta did not assault the woman, the White House is perfectly correct in asserting that he placed his hands on the female staffer. Acosta clearly used his strength to push down on the womans arm and overpower her so he could keep the mic.\n\nEfforts by the media to invent conspiracy theories about doctored footage are a transparent effort to distract from Acostas behavior and shield him from criticism.\n\nPaul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.","title":"Media Lies Claims Acosta Video is Doctored","date":"2018-11-08","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Avenatti subsequently withdrew his motion to represent Stormy Daniels in the Cohen case after the judge blasted him for his publicity tours.\n\nTrumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen is under investigation for a $130,000 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.\n\nThe FBI raided Michael Cohens home and office and shortly after Michael Avenatti began to leak Cohens bank records to the public.\n\nThe sleazy porn star lawyer quickly became a darling of the fake news media.\n\nCNN and other fake news outlets interviewed Avenatti over 147 times in a 10-week period.\n\nAvenatti was even seen partying it up with his new friends at CNN.\n\n\n\nThe federal judge absolutely ripped Avenatti on Wednesday morning for his ridiculous publicity tours.\n\nWow, Stormy Daniels lawyer took a major beating in court today: Judge Wood wont let him appear provisionally before her just yet.\n\nAnd then alluding to his thing for publicity tours, she told him this: You will not be permitted to use this court as a platform for anything.\n\nThis part was insane: Judge Wood cited the New York rules of professional responsibility and the likelihood of prejudice to Michael Cohen.\n\nIf admitted, she said, youd have to stop doing some things that youve been doing.\n\nJudge Wood then reminded Michael Avenatti that this is not a criminal case just yet but could one day become one and require actual jurors.\n\nShe suggested that the potential for undue publicity\/document release could rob Michael Cohen of a fair trial by tainting the jury pool.\n\nAvenatti withdrew his motion to represent Stormy in the Cohen case, reported CNNs Shimon Prokupecz:","title":"Sleazy Avenatti Withdraws Motion to Represent Stormy Daniels in Cohen Case After Taking a Beating Fr","date":"2018-05-30","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) The debate on socialism has surfaced yet again with the recent congressional primary election victory of 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, to New Yorks 14th Congressional District. Socialism is often held in contempt over its many failures, yet it still maintains support from young and old minds for being great in theory, but not in practice. This old quip is represented by the generations of thinkers that have tried to improve the economic system, but it ignores the undeniable truth: that socialism, in all of its manifestations, is untenable both in theory and in practice.\n\nIn recent history we have seen the rise and fall of many socialist states. Although the existing self-declared socialist states are kept alive by meager market reforms or neighboring-nation support, they maintain despotic control and low standards of living. We must ask what caused these nations to develop and then devolve so rapidly. Specifically, what does each state have in common? Each nation varies within their political and economic organization, but they all share centralized decision making, also known as central planning.\n\nThis fundamental attribute of the large industrial and agricultural states is best represented by a simple thought experiment, one that highlights the conflict that exists between government and society.\n\nTo show this relationship, let us create our own imaginary planned society. Imagine you are the head of your own country. You are in charge of making decisions that will lead to the greatest benefit of your nation. This may be simple to do with only a few people, but real nations do not consist of just a few like-minded people. In reality they contain several million individuals with objectives and desires that may not reflect those of your central authority. When decisions are centralized, you will lack meaningful participation and input from those who stand to be affected by any policies created. This will lead to widespread disagreement and dissatisfaction among the citizenry. Due to the lack of information and ability to satisfy all conditions, you will find it virtually impossible to centrally plan successfully, as has been the fate of every country that has tried.\n\nSponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: The Big Berkey water filter removes almost 100% of all contaminants using only the power of gravity (no electricity needed, works completely off-grid). Widely consider the ultimate \"survival\" water filter, the Big Berkey is made of stainless steel and has been laboratory verified for high-efficiency removal of heavy metals by CWC Labs, with tests personally conducted by Mike Adams. Explore more here.\n\nThis most inherent and observable failure in socialist theory pertains to the abolition of private property. The most attractive aspect of socialism to many is the claim that under socialism, private property will be abolished, or collectively owned in order to attain an equitable distribution of resources. This proposition is famously quoted from Karl Marx that resources are to be distributed by a central planner to each according to his needs. This raises the question: how will the central planner effectively achieve this equitable distribution with the abolition of private property? When private property ceases to exist, there becomes nothing to buy and sell. When there is nothing to buy and sell, the universal means to make bids or offers of exchange necessarily goes with it. Money will be rendered obsolete in this vision of society and because of it, society will have no agreed upon terms of trade. When there is no agreed upon terms of trade, there will be no prices to relay the relative value of goods and services.\n\nThis is where socialist theory breaks down in all practical applications. Prices are the means of reflecting all available information within the market. Prices are the signal from each individual producer and consumer to inform each other of the relative preference or scarcity of any and all available goods and services. When the abolition of private property leads to the abolition of prices, every actor within the market, including the supposed omniscient central planner loses a vital calculative device that dictates how to efficiently apply the means of production to alternative uses in order to achieve maximum efficiency and welfare within the society. This in turn renders the central planners objective to economically plan with maximum efficiency and regard for well-being an impossibility.\n\nWith this error in socialist theory, the process to even begin making decisions for a nation with so many conflicting opinions you must first set a goal which you can direct society toward. With that goal in mind you must then assign merit to each of the citizens many needs and wants, granting merit only to those who advance the societys interests. These merits may take the form of increased pay for desirable industries, special privileges, and even punishment for those who act in opposition to this goal. No goal has a chance of success unless the entire society is mobilized to achieve it; for example, outlawing murder can only yield desirable outcomes if the law is enforced everywhere. Such mobilization, like laws to prevent murder, are only viable when wielded with the threat of force behind them.\n\nThe fundamental error within this method of governance is that when society is organized by force rather than free choice, leaders must necessarily sacrifice the needs, wants, and freedoms of those who deviate from its direction. This fate of all socialist societies is the result of the misallocation of resources that occurs in the absence of decentralized decision making. This inefficiency will promote leaders to attempt to correct it by redirecting those objectives to ends that would have otherwise been no part of the individuals intention and desire. This means that each citizen will be subject to sacrifice their own objectives in order to promote those of the central planners. If you want to create an industrial society, you must sacrifice the product of the painters, musicians, and sculptors. If you want society based on the merits and benefits of agriculture, you must be prepared to sacrifice the opulence derived from industry.\n\nNo matter how virtuous a goal or objective might be, you will never be able to fully rally a society behind you for any length of time with the use of force, as force will create an offset toward any authority, and you will only end up with many objectives and goals sacrificed. It is only by the destruction of individuality that any predetermined objective can hope to be achieved.\n\nThe most popular misconception today is that these infringements on civil liberties cannot happen under socialism because it is supposed to be democratically based. This is absurd as socialism must ultimately be fundamentally undemocratic. The purpose of any advocated socialist society is to reach some assumed optimum of which society can function. This is the goal that is established. Whether it be equality, industry, or leisure, it does not change the system that will be installed to reach that goal. Besides the obvious and documented danger of majority rule, any democratic decision would have to be enforced by some central authority; without one there would be no chance to achieve such a goal. When the central authority is realized, the individuality of each citizen will be usurped by the collective society and central planning will ensue. Democracy can only serve as a means to socialism, an otherwise undemocratic end.\n\nThe just society is not some game of chess where we can move around each person like they exist to carry out the will of the people. We must not forget that in real life, these pawns move with their own objectives. If we depart from the notion that each person is an individual with their own unique attributes and objectives, we can guarantee ourselves that only misery and despotism will quickly follow.","title":"Want a socialist society First abandon your hopes and dreams","date":"2018-08-07","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Remaking horror classics is a tried-and-true tradition, but its still a little mystifying why anyone felt 1977s Suspiria was a good candidate. Dario Argentos giallo classic, about a dancer training in a school that is secretly home to a coven of witches, isnt influential for its setting and premise, so much as for its bold visual style, its mood, and the hypnotic score by prog-rock band Goblin. Many of the elements that made the original Suspiria unforgettable were the precise things any remake would necessarily lose.\n\nDirector Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) seems to acknowledge that fact in his remake, which arrives in theaters on October 26th. Set in 1977, the year of the original films release, its less a traditional reboot than a remix. It replaces all the key elements that made the original film work  its patience, its dread, its haunting music and visuals  with ones of Guadagninos own design. In that sense, it feels as if the new film captures the essence of the original Suspiria, even as it explores a new set of thematic preoccupations. The result is unlikely to be as influential as Argentos movie, and it will test some viewers patience, but its still a bold, hypnotic work, an example of the richness that todays generation of filmmakers are bringing to the horror genre.\n\nThe film opens with Patricia (Chloe Grace Moretz), a dancer from the Helena Markos Dance Company in Berlin, visiting her therapist, Dr. Josef Klemperer (Tilda Swinton, under some extremely effective makeup prosthetics). Patricia has become convinced that the dance school is home to a coven of witches. Later, when she vanishes, Klemperer begins investigating what happened to her, and whats going on at the school.\n\nMeanwhile, aspiring American dancer Susie (Dakota Johnson) has traveled to Germany to audition for the troupe. When she performs, the mysterious Madame Blanc (also Swinton) recognizes her raw talent  and otherworldly power. Susie lands a coveted spot in the troupe in spite of her lack of previous training or credentials, and she quickly bounds up the pecking order, earning the role of lead dancer. Still, something seems awry with the dance school, and the peculiar behavior of both the women that run the place and fellow dancers like Sara (Mia Goth) increase the sense that something isnt quite right. Eventually, Susie discovers that shes at the school to do far more than dance.\n\nTheres a mystery and menace to Swintons dance teacher that helps the unease to bloom\n\nDwelling on plot machinations isnt the best way to delve into Suspiria, however, because Guadagnino and screenwriter David Kajganich are less interested in the characters and storylines than in the atmosphere and mood. Johnson plays Susie as suitably wide-eyed and naive when she first joins the troupe, and while she becomes more assured in her skills, the film doesnt reveal much depth to her as she moves from dance sequence to dance sequence. Swintons Madame Blanc is similarly a cipher, which is clearly deliberate when the film begins  the mystery and menace about her helps the unease to bloom  but she also feels underutilized, even as the film reveals hints about what she and the other women in the school are really up to. Swintons performance as Dr. Klemperer is the more compelling turn, as the doctor spends his days investigating whats actually happening in the school, and revealing a moving backstory about the wife he lost in the Holocaust.\n\nBut Guadagnino and Kajganich make the most of the films setting, leaning into the idea that the physicality of dance itself has power  as a metaphor for Susies own growing confidence, but literally supernatural power as well. Its clear from very early on that the films witchcraft is tied closely to the dances the women in the troupe perform, and one particularly gut-wrenching sequence drives that home as Susies avant-garde performance literally rips apart the body of a dancer trapped in another room. Its a nerve-wracking sequence, combining skillful cross-cutting, effects, and the work of choreographer Damien Jalet to create a few minutes that are hard to shake as the film continues.\n\nThose kind of standout, nightmarish moments are threaded throughout the film, with Guadagnino often deploying his horror show imagery in discordant jump cuts, or quick flashes that disorient the audience much as Susie is feeling increasingly off-balance. Its a far cry from Argentos blood-soaked, operatic approach  Guadagninos film is dour and filled with browns and dark greens, a sharp contrast to Argentos often garish color palette  and the difference in approach manifests in the score as well. While Goblins work in the original film was relentless and full of creepy, chanted whispers, the 2018 films score, by Radioheads Thom Yorke, is delicate and beautiful, stringing together gentle piano lines and fragile vocals.\n\nGuadagnino seems fascinated with how many ideas he can explore within a genre framework\n\nWhat the film isnt, at least in the traditional slasher movie sense, is scary. Theres certainly gore, and the film is remarkably unsettling, but Guadagnino seems most interested in what ideas he can explore within the framework of the genre. This is a story about a dance studio run by witches, but its also a film about Cold War-era Germany, which is tearing itself apart over the course of the film. Terrorist attacks by the Baader-Meinhof Group feature prominently in the story, and the conflict between a generation coping with the aftermath of the Holocaust, and a younger generation that wants to forge its own path as a fresh start after those atrocities, runs heavily throughout the entire movie. The visuals and score give the film an added depth and gravitas  even as cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom indulges in frequent 1970s-style snap zooms  that help the different threads feel warranted, in spite of the premises potential silliness.\n\nThe excess of style can make the 2018 Suspiria feel overstuffed at times, so full of ambition that its easy to lose the thread of the story among all the ideas Guadagnino has in play. Its easy to appreciate the sheer scale of what hes trying to do, but it leads to an awfully long film  more than two and a half hours, nearly an hour longer than Argentos original. Its not wise to judge a film on run time alone, and wed all be better off if more filmmakers had the ambition Guadagnino does with genre fare. But the new Suspiria does often feel long, like a movie that loses its way at key points. Given that the opening title card announces the film will take part in six acts and an epilogue, its easy to wind up wearily counting the acts while hoping for the final, bloody conclusion to finally arrive.\n\nWhen it does, it is absolutely satisfying, wrapping the many pieces together in a way thats horrifying, subversive, and legitimately emotional. It turns out theres a humanity to the darkest characters in Suspiria, an ability to recognize pain and suffering as abominations that should not be tolerated. Its one final, unexpected twist, one last layer in a film that seems obsessed with adding as many as possible. But its perhaps the most important of the entire bunch. If the cost of landing on it is a movie that feels a little too long and as if its exploring a few too many things, thats an easy price to pay.","title":"Suspiria is an ambitious remix of a horror classic","date":"2018-10-23","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Renowned pianist and regular NPR contributor Christopher ORiley doesnt like people who support Donald Trump. In fact, he believes that all of them are so deplorable that they should be euthanized en masse.\n\nThis seems to be a growing sentiment among the radical left, and its being fueled by American traitors like Jim Acosta from CNN, who following a recent Trump rally in Tampa, Florida, called video footage of the presidents exuberant supporters a sad scene. This fueled the rage of fake news imbibers like ORiley, who not long after tweeted:\n\nCalling them Deplorables is euphemizing them. Maybe better to euthanize?\n\nDuring a recent segment of InfoWars that aired on the REAL.video platform, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, discussed the outrageous comment and what it suggests about the hate-filled left, which isnt holding back in revealing what it truly thinks about Americans who support our Commander-in-Chief.\n\nThis is on top of The New York Times editorial board member (Sarah Jeong) who goes on this racist rampage saying that white people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins,' Adams states, reading various headlines of leftists calling Trump supporters Nazis and members of the KKK.\n\nYou know, Ive seen goblins, and theyre pretty much leftists, Adams jokes.\n\nIts nothing short of eye-opening to see the very same people who co-opted the catchphrase Love Trumps Hate rage with utter hatred towards their political opponents like this. Never before in the history of America have people with conservative values been so vilified and slandered by leftists that they actually face the prospect of genocide, should leftists ever see their maniacal dreams come true.\n\nSponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: Lab-verified Nascent Iodine solution is a dietary supplement that provides your body with supplemental iodine to help protect your thyroid during radiation exposure. Nuclear accidents such as Fukushima (or nuclear war) can expose your body to radioactive iodine-131, a dangerous radioisotope. Pre-loading your system with stable iodine occupies the iodine receptor sites on your organs, causing your body to naturally expel radioactive iodine you may have been exposed to through air, food, water or milk products. This defensive strategy is recommended by nearly all health authorities, worldwide, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Discover more at this link.\n\nWhite conservatives, especially, seem to be bearing the brunt of the lefts gross intolerance and racism  two more adjectives that leftists love to erroneously tack onto conservatives. As the whole world can now plainly see, its the left, and not the right, that embodies evil traits like hatred, racism, and intolerance for everyone who doesnt think like they do.\n\nThe mass hysteria of the left is peaking right now, says Adams, noting that the recent hiring of anti-white racist Sarah Jeong to The New York Times editorial board demonstrated even further what the leftist media thinks of people of Caucasian descent who have white skin.\n\nIf youre a racist, bigoted, discriminatory dingbat, then you can work for The New York Times, adds Adams. Is anyone surprised? And then these people wonder why real Americans hate the media. Why we think that CNN is fake news. Why The New York Times is despised: because youre hiring racists.\n\nAs for other baseless claims by the left that conservative white people are racists and members of the KKK, for instance, Adams reveals that these are the actual traits of those making such false accusations. Its the left, he points out, that hates people based on their skin color, and based on their conservative values.\n\nYou are the new KKK, Adams says, referring to The New York Times.\n\nThe NYT is the KKK of the online news world today. Youre hiring racist bigots. You might as well have her wear a black pointy hood of some kind, or a white pointy hood. It doesnt matter what the color is; just put a pointy hood on that girl so the world can see what she really is. Shes a racist. She hates white people.\n\nBe sure to check out the full segment of InfoWars at REAL.video.\n\nYou can also learn more about the leftist-fueled racial animosity thats rapidly growing in America today by visiting RaceWar.news.","title":"Leftist celebrities call for Trump supporters to be EUTHANIZED watch at REALvideo","date":"2018-08-26","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Comments from inside the Garda on the fire-retardant hoods or balaclavas worn by gardai at the Take Back the City housing crisis protest in Dublin have focused on safety.\n\nAnd while the hoods are a Garda-issue piece of safety kit, many in the force say they were being worn on Tuesday night to guard against a new hazard: online intimidation.\n\nThey point out that when the Government was trying to introduce water charges, gardai were deployed to ensure workers installing water meters could do so unimpeded by protesters who sought to physically stop them.\n\nAnd during those policing operations, a new practice became pronounced; gardai being videoed and photographed on mobile phones and the images being posted on social media.\n\nGardai complain that this now happens incessantly, adding they are often taunted  sometimes for hours  by sections of a protest crowd hoping to illicit a reaction that can be captured for sharing online.\n\nA number of gardai who have spoken to The Irish Times in recent days said they believed the public order gardai wore their balaclavas on North Frederick Street on Tuesday night so they would not be identified in social media campaigns.\n\nThe Garda Representative Association (GRA) and Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (Agsi) have raised the issue of online harassment repeatedly at their annual conferences.\n\nDelegates have said gardai policing protests regularly become a target for the anger that demonstrators feel towards the State or whatever agency they are protesting against.\n\nThey have complained that many social media users posting images and video of gardai on duty invite others to identify them.\n\nIn many cases, the comments have been very aggressive and gardai have not only been identified but their home addresses, details of their daily routines, family members names and photos of their homes have also been shared.\n\nAt the Agsi annual conference last year, it emerged the young son of a garda was approached at a GAA match and told his father was a scumbag for policing a protest. This had occurred after a social-media campaign was run against the boys father.\n\nGarda sources said the online activity is harassing and stressful for the Garda members involved and their families. And against that backdrop, they say, it was no surprise some of the gardai policing the protest on Tuesday sought to conceal their faces.","title":"Balaclavas worn to prevent social media harassment claim Garda","date":"2018-09-13","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"Asia Argento has reportedly been sacked from The X Factor Italy in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.\n\nArgento was accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old and paying him a $380,000 settlement, according to the New York Times.\n\nThe Hollywood reporter has now claimed Argento has been dropped as a judge on the reality singing contest with someone else set to replace her ahead of the live shows.\n\nShe will reportedly star on the first seven episodes of the series as these were shot before the allegations surfaced.\n\nAccording to the publication, the new judge will be announced September 5 during the X Factor press conference in Milan.\n\nStandard Online has contacted representatives for Argento for comment.\n\nRose McGowan, who has been at the forefront of the #MeToo movement, has spoken out about the claims made against Argento.\n\nIn a statement published by Deadline today, McGowan explained her involvement in the case.\n\nShe wrote: Many people believe that because we have been close in each other's lives over the past year that perhaps I am affiliated with this incident or being complicit. I am not.\n\n[Its] only been the past year through our shared experience of the HW [Harvey Weinstein] case that we have bonded.","title":"Asia Argento aposdropped by X Factor Italy over sexual misconduct allegationsapos","date":"2018-08-28","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Disney has released their remake of The Lion King\n\nThe footage, which lasts just over a minute, is an almost shot-for-shot remake of an iconic scene from the iconic animation.\n\nMufasa  once again voiced by James Earl Jones  offers the same Everything the light touches is our kingdom speech to Simba, who will be voiced by Donald Glover. Watch above.\n\nThe cast also includes Beyonce as the lioness Nala, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Seth Rogen as Pumba, Billy Eichner as Tomin, and John Oliver as Zazu.\n\nAlfre Woodard voices Sarari, while Eric Andre, Florence Kasumba and Keegan-Michael Key voice Scar's three spotted hyena henchmen. Young Simba and Nala will be played by up and coming actors JD McCrary and Shahadi Wright Joseph.\n\nThe film is billed along similar lines to the successful live-action remake of The Jungle Book, which was directed by Jon Favreau, who will also helm The Lion King reboot.","title":"Lion King trailer Disney releases first look at remake starring Donald Glover Beyonce and Seth Rog","date":"2018-11-23","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Ohio teachers are flocking to a gun training class being offered by an Ohio Sheriffs department.\n\nButler County Sheriff Richard Jones told Fox & Friends that when they decided to offer the firearm training class to teachers they expected maybe 20 educators to sign up  instead there were hundreds.\n\nWe put it online, we thought wed get 20 school teachers maybe. Within 20 minutes we had 40. Within an hour we had 100. Within four hours we had 200. By the next morning, at 300, we cut it off, Jones said.\n\nThe class was open to teachers as well as secretaries and maintenance workers that work in schools.\n\nWe cant stop the school shootings, we cant stop guns from being manufactured, but weve got to do something, weve got to make the schools more of a hardened target, he added.\n\nThe classes were offered in response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 17 students and staff were killed.\n\nWe have to do something here because we cant wait for our government to do anything. All they do is fight, they get nothing done, he said.\n\nThere are currently only a few schools in the state that allow staff to concealed carry, but Sheriff Jones is hoping that school boards will have the guts to expand it to staff throughout the state. He additionally believes that school staff should be trained to identify the sounds of gunfire and be able to have an idea of where the noise is coming from to be better able to protect themselves and others during an incident.","title":"Gun Training Classes for Ohio Teachers SELL OUT After Hundreds Sign Up","date":"2018-02-25","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The Assistant Commissioner responsible counter-terror, Neil Badu has revealed that a record number of terror investigations are being conducted in the UK, with around 80% focused on the threat from Islamic extremism.\n\nSpeaking Parliaments Home Affairs Committee today, Commissioner Badu said that the dreadful series of terror attacks carried recently were not a temporary escalation of the threat but a sustained shift of that threat.\n\nHe said that the overriding threat remains those inspired by Daesh (ISIS) and the resurgent Al Qaeda along with very disturbing extreme right-wing threats.","title":"80 of UK Terror Investigations Target Islamists","date":"2018-10-24","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Police officers who abuse their power of arrest to illegally detain Americans in the service of public-relations campaigns should be fired","title":"New Holiday Tradition Abuse of Police Power","date":"2018-11-24","source":"dcgazette","label":0}
{"content":"Amber and yellow weather warnings for severe rain and wind have been issued by forecasters at the Met Office for Friday.\n\nWales is set to experience a heavy spell of rain, with up to 40mm set to to fall from midday, creating the risk of fast-flowing or deep floodwater, which could cause danger to life.\n\nThe downpours are set to continue on Saturday across south west Wales from 6am until 11pm and there is a risk of hail and thunder too.\n\nLondon, the south east, the south west, and parts of Scotland are set to be pelted with up to 50mm of heavy rain from 1pm. Strong winds with gusts of up to 70mph are also expected.","title":"UK Weather Met Office Issue Severe Warnings For Rain And Gales","date":"2018-11-09","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"With its 2018-19 winter season just days away, Arapahoe Basin Ski Areas plans to reimagine its summer on-mountain recreational offerings recently took a giant jump into the future.\n\nThe White River National Forest announced on Tuesday that its Dillon Ranger District is now accepting comments on A-Basins plans for approximately 10 miles of new trails for hiking and mountain biking and two via ferrata zones  one beneath tree line at lower mountain terrain and one above tree line on upper mountain terrain.\n\nA via ferrata  which is Italian for iron path  traditionally is a protected climbing route most often involving a steel cable that runs along the route and is periodically fixed to the bedrock, in this case A-Basins East Wall and a rock face within the ski areas Steep Gullies terrain. The proposal doesnt mention if those areas would be affected in the winter season. Climbers then typically scale the via ferrata by securing themselves to the cable, which limits the possibility of falling. Additional climbing aids are often provided as well, with a via ferrata kit.\n\nVia ferratas are traditionally found in the Alps, though Telluride has the most well-known example in Colorado. As for via ferratas at ski areas like A-Basin, there is currently one at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.\n\nRead more about the via ferratas and trails at Summit Daily.","title":"A-Basin plans 10 miles of hiking biking trails and new climbing zones","date":"2018-10-18","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Oxford United will be hoping to stage one of the biggest EFL Cup shocks in recent memory as they host holders Manchester City this evening.\n\nPep Guardiola's City won a Premier League and EFL Cup double last season, and while the priority now will be going further in the Champions League, the Catalan coach will not want to fail in the defence of a domestic trophy so early on this term.\n\nFollow all the goals LIVE with Standard Sport!\n\nCan't see the blog? Click here for the desktop version.\n\nThe match will not be televised live in the UK.\n\nThe two sides have met 13 times, with City winning six times, Oxford five, and two draws.\n\nThe last time the two sides met was in 1998 in the old Division 1, with Oxford winning 2-0 at City.\n\nMan City are set to make a raft of changes to the side that thrashed Cardiff at the weekend.\n\nBrazilian defender Danilo could make his first appearance of the season, having been sidelined since injuring his ankle at the World Cup, while fringe first-teamers Oleksandr Zinchenko and Brahim Diaz are set to be involved.\n\nNicolas Otamendi and Riyad Mahrez may feature in the third-round clash, while manager Pep Guardiola is weighing up whether to hand a City debut to teenage goalkeeper Arijanet Muric.","title":"Manchester City LIVE score stream EFL Cup 2018-19 latest goal updates as cup holders face Oxford Un","date":"2018-09-25","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"An armed bystander with a CHL permit stopped a fleeing suspect after a fatal stabbing in Seattle, Washington, according to local news.\n\nAnd while the story was picked up by local outlets, it was largely ignored by the anti-gun, national media.\n\nThe CHL holder, Scott Brown, said he chased after a knife-wielding man who was fleeing the scene of a domestic dispute.\n\nI saw a girl on the ground laying on someones lap, people rushing over, he told KCPQ. I saw the knife in his right hand, so I ran after him. I kept getting him to try and put down the knife.\n\nWe kept walking backwards and backwards and backwards.\n\nAnd, despite having the upper hand with a drawn handgun, Brown said he was getting concerned because it was taking way too long for first responders to arrive.\n\nAnother man pepper sprayed the suspect to subdue him until police arrived.\n\nWhile the story was reported by local Seattle media, it barely got any attention by the mainstream media, which isnt surprising given that the story doesnt fit into the anti-gun agenda.","title":"Not in National News Armed Citizen Stops Stabbing Suspect","date":"2018-11-05","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Commercial food products such as prepackaged, quick meals contain high levels of toxic additives, preservatives, and artificial flavors. These can increase the risk of life-threatening diseases such as cancer.\n\nThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains a list of more than 3,000 ingredients that can be used in food production, which includes items such as artificial food dyes and aspartame. The U.S. consumes more than one billion pounds of these toxic chemicals per year, which equates to about six to nine pounds per person. Holistic Nutritionist Kelly Agnew has listed six of the most dangerous food additives that are hiding in our food.\n\nMother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary \"sulforaphane\" and \"glucosinolate\" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here.\n\nStaying healthy can be done by simply avoiding junk. Read more about toxic food at StopEatingPoison.com.","title":"REVEALED Six dangerous additives hiding in your food","date":"2018-08-09","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Author David Kirkpatrick, a staunch critic of Facebook, believes the technology giant has little chance of existing in the decades to come.\n\nFacebook is confronting an existential crisis on a global scale that threatens the long-term viability of the company, according to the author of a book on the social networking giant.\n\nThe reality is that Facebook is threatening global democracy. Its a threat to liberal democracy on a global scale, David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect, said in the latest edition of POLITICO Money. [...]\n\nIt will survive in the short-term partly because it is so profitable and they will continue to find ways to make it acceptable for users, and advertisers really have no alternatives as a place to go that is comparable for the ability to target customers, he said.\n\nBut Facebook is essentially a 14-year-old design that for all its evolution is still founded on the ideas of 14 years ago. So no, the answer is it will not survive long term.","title":"Facebook Critic Warns Company Will NOT Survive Long Term In Wake Of Existential Crisis On Global","date":"2018-03-28","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"NEVER TRUST THE ANTI-TRUMP CONSPIRACY MEDIA\n\nFour days ago Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar announced what he hoped would be hundreds of thousands of protesters storming the Israeli border with Gaza on Monday.\n\nFormer IDF spokesman Avi Mayer posted this tweet today reminding readers the violence at the Gaza border today was neither spontaneous or popular.\n\n\n\n\n\n Avi also attacked CNN for their dishonest headline.\n\nGaza officials reported 41 protesters were killed today when they tried to storm the border with Israel.\n\n What did they expect? A welcome wagon?","title":"Hamas Terror Chief Announced Violent Protests 4 Days Ago Liberal Media Feigns Outrage and Shock As","date":"2018-05-14","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Infowars and other pro-Trump media outlets have been warning Americans about the possibility of false flag attacks to be blamed on patriots before midterm elections.","title":"Infowars Predicted These Planted Bombs Months Ago","date":"2018-10-25","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Last year, Mr. Trump made headlines mocking Senator Elizabeth Warrens (D-MA) self-professed Native American heritage by calling her Pocahontas. He has revived the nickname over and over, and last November, he even tossed the derogatory nickname out again while honoring Native American veterans at an event at the White House.\n\nOn Thursday night, Trump called Warren Pocahontas again, vowing to offer her a $1 million charitable donation to undergo genetic testing to prove her ancestry. Trump said:\n\nAccording to The Washington Examiner:\n\nThe president said the kit has to be tossed gently because were in the MeToo generation.:\n\nWe will very gently take that kit and slowly toss it hoping it didnt hit her and injure her arm even though it weighs probably two ounces. We will say, I will give $1 million to your favorite charity paid for by Trump if you take the test and it shows youre an Indian.\n\nTrump went on to say:\n\nHeres what Twitter had to say:\n\nSenator Warren is a potential challenger for Mr. Trump in 2020, and has said that her mothers family is Cherokee. There arent any conclusive reports of Warrens Native American ancestry though. Warren has been accused by Trump and other Republicans of using her heritage to advance her academic career.\n\nAccording to Trump, Warren thinks she is Native American because her mother said she has high cheekbones.","title":"Trump Snaps Uses Racial Slur On TV Demands Democrat Take Genetic Test","date":"2018-07-06","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"A Polish nun who risked her life by hiding Jews from the Nazis during the Second World War has died aged aged 110, the archdiocese of Krakow in Poland has announced.\n\nSister Cecylia Roszak, who was believed to have been the oldest nun in the world, died last week in the Dominican convent in the city of Krakow, southern Poland, where she had lived for nearly 90 years.\n\nThe archdiocese posted a photo of the nun on Twitter with the message: In Krakow the oldest sister in the word died  sister Cecilia Maria Roszak from the monastery of Dominican sisters.\n\nMs Roszak was born on 25 March 1908 in the village of Kieczewo in west Poland and joined the Dominican monastery of Grodek in Krakow, aged 21.\n\nIn 1938, with a group of nuns, she went to Vilnius in Lithuania to establish a new monastery, but the plans were scrapped when war broke out.\n\nDuring the fighting, the sisters reportedly hid around a dozen Jews from Nazis. One of those she helped was activist and writer Abba Kovner, who later testified at the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.\n\nGerman authorities arrested Ms Roszaks superior and closed down the convent in 1943.\n\nFollowing the war, Israel awarded the nuns the Righteous Among the Nations medal, which it gave to non-Jewish people who risked their lives during the war to save Jews.\n\nAfter the war Ms Roszak returned to Krakow, where she worked as an organist and cantor for more than 80 years.","title":"Polish nun who helped hide Jewish children from Nazis dies aged 110","date":"2018-11-21","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Suffering stressful events may compromise the bodys perception of new threats or danger, a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has revealed.\n\nThe study carried out by a team of researchers at the New York University challenges a long-held notion that stress keeps the body on high alert. The researchers have noted that while predicting potential threats in the environment is crucial for survival, it remains equally important to prime the body into a flexible state where stress responses can be effectively controlled when new sources of threat are available.\n\nThe research team conducted a series of tests that focused on Pavlovian threat-conditioning in order to examine the participants flexibility in responding to stressful conditions. The experts instructed the participants to view images on a computer screen. The experts then used a mild, electric wrist-shock that accompanied a certain image that served as the threat cue. On the other hand, some images did not accompany any shock and served as the safe cue.\n\nHalf of the study participants were placed in an experimental set-up designed to replicate a stressful condition. During the procedure, the participants in the stress group placed their arm in an ice-water bath for a few minutes. The procedure was intended to increase the respondents two stress hormones alpha-amylase and cortisol. All the participants eventually went through the same stress test. The scientists then recorded the participants physiological arousal responses to evaluate how they anticipated the outcome of each cue.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nWhen youre under stress and ramped up, youre not paying enough attention to whats going on around. Youre just not changing or updating your response. You could argue that the kinds of stress were encountering in day-to-day life, psychological stresses, are more distracting. This is all honing in on the idea that when youre under chronic stress or other stress, you just arent adapting as well. Exposure to social media and things...you could argue that you have access to changes of the world more frequently, so stress could change your ability to integrate changes of information and things going on around you, Dr. Riao has told the Daily Mail online.\n\nDuring the first day of testing, the research team observed a complete switch between the participants stress cues. According to their results, the respondents earlier threatening cue no longer predicted shock during the experiment. However, the formerly safe cue did stimulate shock among the participants, the scientists noticed.\n\nThe second day of testing also showed that participants in the stress group were less likely than the controls to change their responses to threats. According to the research team, the formerly safe visuals have already been perceived as shock-delivering images among the stress group. The findings demonstrate that stress has significantly impaired the stress groups capacity to be flexible in responding to non-threats, the scientists have stated.\n\nThe research team also noted a marked reduction in a physiological response to threat among patients who have been stressed. According to the scientists, participants in the stress group exhibited learning deficit and a reduced attention signal. This indicates that experiencing stressful conditions may impair learning, the scientists have reported.\n\nStress does not always increase perceptions of danger in the environment, as is often assumed. In fact, our study shows that when we are under stress, we pay less attention to changes in the environment, potentially putting us at increased risk for ignoring new sources of threat. As a result, stress can reduce the flexibility of our responses to threats by impairing how well we track and update predictions of potentially dangerous circumstances, lead author Dr. Candace Raio has stated in a Futurity article.","title":"Stress slows your reaction to danger new study finds increasing vulnerability","date":"2018-08-05","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Nikki Haley will be leaving the UN as Ambassador and it may save the lives of millions if we can avoid the wars she pushed with false flags.\n\nBut the top candidate to replace her is even worse  Dina Habib Powell  the darling of the globalists & never-Trumpers like Max Boot.","title":"Dina Powell at UN Shes McMasters Huma Abedin","date":"2018-10-10","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"These days, Mr. Trump does not seem to be falling in line with what other world leaders are doing or trying to do what is in the best interest of our country or for our relations with the rest of the world. Trump made a visit to Paris, France, on Saturday, which included meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. However, he declined to join the other world leaders for a World War I memorial at a U.S. cemetery because of the rain.\n\nOn Monday, it was reported that 50 nations and over 150 tech companies pledged to do more to fight criminal activity on the internet including interference in elections and hate speech. However, the U.S., Russia, and China were not among the 50 that were part of the pledge.\n\nAccording to The Associated Press:\n\nThe document is supported by EU countries, Japan, and Canada, and is also being supported by tech giants including Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. At the front of the initiative is French President Emmanuel Macron. The Associated Press reported:\n\nSpeaking at the Internet Governance Forum organized at the Paris-based U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, Macron said its urgent to better regulate the internet. The French leader also said that Facebook had accepted to let a team of French officials observe the way it monitors and removes hate speech content.\n\nMacron spoke about the initiative, saying that the goal is:\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also spoke at another summit focusing on new technologies in Paris city hall. He said:\n\nCorrupt Trump and Putin cannot pledge to fight election interference when they are knee-deep in the crimes themselves. As most Americans know by now, last May, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to oversee the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. There is plenty of evidence pointing to the fact that the Trump campaign and Russian officials were in communication before the election. There is also strong speculation that more indictments are going to come in the near future.\n\nIn addition, lets not forget that Mr. Trump is guilty of his own cyberbullying on a daily basis it seems. It is clear that Trump has been the largest bully of the press, and even referred to them as the true enemy of the people, which has escalated into a hostile and dangerous climate for reporters these days.\n\nMr. Trump slings insults on a daily basis, and people saw the irony when First Lady Melania started a anti-cyberbullying campaign of her own, and now the fact that the U.S. wont sign on to a pledge to fight cyber crime kind of makes Melanias campaign null and void. The so-called president of the United States is as corrupt as they come.","title":"50 Nations Reach Cyber Crime Agreement Trump Putin Refuse To Sign","date":"2018-11-13","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) If youre waiting for someone to save you from the tidal wave of corporate censorship, government authoritarianism and deranged left-wing violence, youre following a mirage. No one is coming to save you. If you want to live as a free person in a free world, youre going to have to demand it, fight for it and secure it.\n\nTech giants, for example, absolutely will not stop their censorship unless they are forced to stop.\n\nTyrannical government will never shrink its own size and power unless it is forced to shrink.\n\nThere are no saviors running for office.\n\nThere are no angels running tech companies.\n\nAnd God is not going to intervene and stop evil people from destroying our world.\n\nNo one is coming to save us.\n\nWere going to have to fight this (metaphorical) battle ourselves. Its time we all owned up to this reality and started taking action to protect our basic human rights in the face of unrestrained tyranny. Destroying the tech giants censorship stranglehold on humanity is now a matter of self-defense.\n\nCreate your own video channel for free at REAL.video.","title":"Message from Adams No one is coming to save us we must fight or be destroyed","date":"2018-08-13","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"For years, I have been warning people about facial recognition in retail stores, but this story might convince you to avoid retail stores altogether.\n\nA recent article in Biometric Update. com (BU) reveals that retail stores have a master plan to convince Americans to accept facial biometrics.\n\nBU interviewed four facial biometric company CEOs and what they revealed is frightening.\n\nThe article starts off innocuously enough by telling us that U.S. retail biometrics is used primarily in loss-prevention but things quickly take a turn for the worse.\n\nBUs interview with FaceFirst CEO Peter Tripp is especially disconcerting, as he reveals how retailers plan to use a facial recognition opt-in environment.\n\nThere is another step though that exists which has more to do with consumer loyalty, and consumer experience, that is not quite as expensive an endeavor, and I think there are lots of folks looking at ways of doing that in a friendly opt-in environment, where privacy is not the cornerstone issue, Tripp said.\n\nIf any of this sounds familiar [its] because they are doing the exact same thing with digital drivers licenses.\n\nBiometric companies are trying to convince Americans to accept digital drivers license by tying them to loyalty rewards programs.  Last year the Lincoln Motor Company installed complimentary TSA PreCheck biometric scanners in all their new vehicles so customers can get through airport and sport stadium check-in lines quicker.\n\n\n\n According to a recent ZDNet article a new partnership between SureID a biometric fingerprinting company and Robbie.AI a facial recognition company could create a national biometric database.\n\nAdding facial recognition from Robbie.AI gives the two firms the building blocks of a nationwide biometric database that could be used in a number of settings, from retail authentication and employment verification to more speculative applications like driver-identification for keyless self-driving cars or even user recognition in future robotic platforms. As technology emerges and companies adopt more sophisticated forms of security, it will be crucial for safety and security to authenticate the real identity of technicians and consumers, says Ned Hayes, General Manager at SureID.\n\nBUs article reveals how retailers plan to identify every customer.\n\nWhoo.ai CEO Arturo Falck said,  Once companies are using this type of technology for crime prevention purposes, theres no reason why they should not be using it for upselling their customers.\n\nSensibleVision CEO George Brostoff sees customer loyalty rewards as a logical next step in the U.S. And Goode Intelligence Founder Alan Goode, sees a huge potential for biometric customer loyalty programs.  Goode also thinks retail facial recognition should be used for age verification in self-check out systems.\n\nA company called BiteKiosk wants restaurants to use their self-service facial recognition kiosks to increase profits and offers customers food discounts as an incentive to use them.\n\nFalck said, loyalty rewards could be used to convince the public that facial recognition is not that bad.\n\nGoode admits that facial recognition is really about creating a national biometric database.\n\nOddly or perhaps by design their is no mention of retailers creating facial recognition watchlists.\n\nSo what is their master plan?\n\nTripp revealed that retailers are planning on a gradual expansion of facial recognition.\n\nThe BU article goes on to say that retailers have been slowly installing facial recognition in back-of-house deployments which builds familiarity not only with retailers but with the staff as well.\n\nThe article ends on a disturbing quote, the infrastructure in this case is peoples perspective. That can change quickly.\n\nOur perspectives had better change or corporate America will buy everyones identity using rewards programs and the ability to skip check-in lines.","title":"National Facial Recognition Database To Use Loyalty Rewards To Identify American Shoppers","date":"2018-11-15","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"The political war being waged against President Trump is both despicable and effective. Despicable because the basis of the animus  alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 election  has no basis in fact, and effective because it is perpetrated by the U.S. legal and intelligence community who, in the minds of most Americans, are seen as defenders of the United States.\n\nThe indictments by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein of Russian intelligence officers allegedly involved in the 2016 presidential election was rather transparently meant to undercut Trump and his summit with Vladimir Putin. Instead it looks like payback to the administration for having the temerity to question the intelligence communitys assessment that Russia interfered in the election.\n\nThe indictments gave lie to the assertion that the Justice Department and the intelligence community are not political. These indictments were meant for domestic political consumption. Their purpose was to arm the presidents political enemies with the on-going charge of Russian involvement in his election and to undercut his presidency.\n\nThe central campaign in this political war has been to pit Trump against the intelligence community. Needless to say, many within the various agencies, including the CIA, FBI and NSA, are devoted public servants with the best interest of the country at heart and who do their jobs honestly and effectively. But many are also committed leftists in whom progressivism, anti-Americanism, multiculturalism, and moral relativism are deeply embedded.\n\nWitness that this is the same intelligence community that had been led, under President Obama, by CIA chief John Brennan -- who admitted in a polygraph test that in 1980, at a dangerous point in the Cold War, he voted for Communist Party candidate Gus Hall for president. That the Communist Party USA was loyal to the Soviet Union should be lost on no one. That Brennan would have been allowed to run the Central Intelligence Agency is itself nothing short of amazing. Such was the lack of moral and intellectual seriousness exercised by Congress during the Obama administration. That he should call President Trumps press conference with Putin nothing short of treasonous is the act of an intelligence operative who wishes to bring down a government.\n\nBoth Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are hard-core leftists who, although they lacked any credible evidence, lent credibility to this notion of Russian collusion  and hence gave credence to the Mueller investigation. It appears that their purpose was to signal to Washingtons ruling class that the intelligence community was going to resist the transformation of American politics that the election of Donald Trump had ushered in. Even stranger, that ruling class is now the protectorate of the US intelligence community. The testimony and actions of the FBIs Peter Strzok bear this out.\n\nFor the record, let us state that Russia meddles in the affairs of the United States and has done so for the past century. It is what a great nation would do to influence world events to its liking. Russian intelligence services are masters at manipulations great and small. When called upon they can do everything from foment domestic insurrections to sponsor terrorism while ensuring plausible deniability. Hacking into the DNC servers is not quite so challenging.\n\nAt the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union annually spent billions in an attempt to demoralize the United States and undermine the West. Its method was to engage in sophisticated disinformation campaigns and deception operations around the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the cultural conflicts of the 60s and 70s, and the campaign for nuclear disarmament, to name but a few. During that time, Soviet intelligence had agents of influence in Washington and around the U.S. In this effort, the Soviets had thousands of university professors, left-wing intellectuals and journalists who were useful idiots in the anti-Americanism that pervaded Washingtons political discourse, and the universities that educated Americas children. The world we live in today and many who lead this country on the political left have been shaped by this anti-Americanism. Such is world politics.\n\nAs I have written previously, it was not in the interest of Russia to help elect a candidate like Donald Trump, who had pledged to rebuild the American military, build a national missile defense, and guarantee total energy independence. Each is antithetical to the strategic and economic interests of Russia. If Trump gets just one of these three things right, and he is likely to get all three, it will have dramatic negative ramifications for Russias position in the world. Trumps bold announcement recently about a Space Force capable of ensuring American security against Russia and China is further evidence of that.\n\nIf Hillary Clinton had won, Russia would have had to deal with a liberal interventionist who had demonstrated little strategic comprehension of world affairs. This is the same Hillary Clinton whose behavior as secretary of state was a daily exercise in collusion and general malfeasance. In that role, Clinton, with her unsecured server, laid bare the inner workings of the Obama State Department to the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and every other enemy intelligence service. She also saw no problem in using her office as a fundraising arm of the Clinton Global Initiative, allowing her husband to collect speaking fees from countries doing business before her, including Russia. All things considered, the Russians know well how to manage crooked politicians. A Hillary presidency would have been a dream come true.\n\nAs it stands, the Russians are being charged with hacking into computer systems and manipulating various internet sites and social media to somehow give Donald Trump the advantage. The purpose of Russias interference is perhaps exactly how it has played out: the creation of a useful narrative that can be exploited in the press and the U.S. intelligence community to undermine the president and somehow foster the despicable meme that he and his family are traitors. The unfortunate part is that the intelligence community took the bait. Given the political leanings of Brennan and Clapper, it is not surprising.\n\nThis political war is far from over. Thankfully, Donald Trump is not giving an inch to his political enemies. Unfortunately, despite their lack of success, his enemies are not giving in either.","title":"The Trouble With Brennan Clappers Political War vs Trump","date":"2018-07-21","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes joins the Alex Jones Show to discuss the lefts fear of black Americans waking up to the terrible policies of the Democrats.","title":"Gavin McInnes Blexit Is Taking Over Brian Stelter Stalks Alex Jones","date":"2018-11-01","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"It is unclear if Lisa Page will appear.\n\nThe House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former FBI lawyer Lisa Page to appear for a private interview on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the subpoena. Page exchanged text messages critical of Donald Trump with FBI agent Peter Strzok, who will testify publicly before the panel on Thursday. Page and Strzok both worked on the FBI investigation into Hillary Clintons emails and later special counsel Robert Muellers Russia investigation. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the subpoena isnt public.\n\n It is unclear if Page will appear. Her lawyer, Amy Jeffress, said in a statement that they are still waiting to work out a reasonable date for the interview. Jeffress said they are also still waiting on documents from the FBI to prepare. We asked the committee staff to explain the scope of the investigation and provide sufficient notice that would allow her to prepare, which are normal conditions for congressional committees, but these committees have not followed the normal process, Jeffress said.\n\nLisa Page resigned from her position as an FBI lawyer on May 4th.\n\nFBIs chief of counterintelligence, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were caught exchanging anti-Trump text messages over the summer of 2017.\n\nLisa Page subsequently left the Special Counsel investigation in September of 2017.\n\nIn what is believed to be the most damning text exchange between the FBI lovebirds was a discussion about an insurance policy to keep Trump out of office.\n\nI want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andys office...that theres no way [Trump] gets elected...but Im afraid we cant take that risk, Strzok text messaged to Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 exchange, referring to Andrew McCabe.\n\nIts like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before youre 40, Strzok added.\n\nIn another very damning exchange between the FBI lovebirds, Peter Strzok told a very worried Lisa Page well stop Trump from becoming president.\n\nStrzok is set to publicly testify this Thursday in a joint hearing to the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees.","title":"House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Trump-Hating FBI Lawyer Lisa Page","date":"2018-07-09","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"# Get alerted on heavy metals and pesticide test results for foods and\nsupplements\n\n![](Images\/Health-Ranger-Suit-75x75.jpg)Natural News is about to begin\nreleasing lab test results for off-the-shelf food, supplement and pet food\nproducts, covering heavy metals, nutritive minerals, pesticides and\nherbicides. These details will be released exclusively to Natural News email\nnewsletter subscribers (FREE) and will NOT be publicly posted on the website.\nTo be alerted, join our free email newsletter now, and watch for lab test\nresults in the weeks ahead.\n\nEnter your email address below to subscribe to our email announcement list\n(but don't use gmail). Your privacy is protected and you can unsubscribe at\nany time. If you don't join our email list, you may never see our valuable\ncontent again via Facebook, Google or YouTube. CENSORSHIP has now reached\nEXTREME levels across the 'net. The truth is being suffocated. Subscribe now\nif you want to escape the delusional bubble of false reality being pushed by\nGoogle and Facebook.","title":"Prevent obesity-related diseases with hooker chive","date":"2018-11-05","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The Department of Justice on Wednesday said it would look into allegations of misuse of government resources to advance personal interests after James OKeefes Project Veritas released a second video this week exposing deep state federal employees pursuing socialist agendas while on the clock at their government jobs.\n\nIn the latest undercover video, DOJ paralegal and Democratic Socialists of America member, Allison Hrabar, reveals that there is a lot of talk about how we can, like, resist from the inside. She discusses a fellow DSA member working from within the Department of Agriculture who is slowing down the process by which people are eliminated from the food stamp program.\n\nPV Journalist: ...she mailed it to you in like physical snail mail like post office and then you like got it. Thats like awesome.\n\nSchubel: Yeah. Its kind of like the Nixon, deep throat type of thing.\n\nWe have a member who works for the people who distribute food stamps, and they can, like, take that away, and theyre slowing what they do... What theyre doing means that people are going to be able to stay on food stamps for another month or two, which is, like, really important, Hrabar said.\n\nHrabar also appears to use her DOJ work computer to research DSA political targets  including looking up the license plate of a lobbyist in order to organize a protest outside his home.\n\nIn another portion of the video, Jessica Schubel  former Chief of Staff for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under teh Obama administration says that there is like, a little resistance movement within the government. Schubel also states that she received confidential information from a friend at the Department of Heath and Human Services.\n\nIn response to the Veritas videos, a DOJ spokesperson said: These allegations are deeply concerning. Department policy prohibits misuse of government resources to advance personal interests. We are looking into this immediately and have referred this matter to the Inspector General as well.","title":"DOJ to Investigate After Veritas Video Exposes Resistance in Agencies","date":"2018-09-20","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Right wing comedian Tim Young isnt being paid for his appearances on Fox 5 DC, so he decided to make the most of his time and spent an entire segment making gifs of himself to use on Twitter.\n\nDuring the interview, Young managed to get material for eight separate gifs.\n\nHey listen, you know I dont get paid to be here right? Young asked the host, Jim Lokay, at the start of the interview.\n\nIm aware. We pay you in coffee, Lokay responded.\n\nWatch, this is what were going to do tonight. Im going to get free gifs out of this. Watch hold on, Tim said, looking at the camera and pointing at his head. Im going to use that on my Twitter.\n\nThe fun continued throughout the six minute long interview.\n\nIm tired of typical political commentary and want to have fun with it, Young told The Gateway Pundit. I always see gifs used on twitter.... so I thought why not make them while Im on TV this time?\n\nLokay, had no idea about Youngs plan for using the segment to his social media advantage.\n\nJim, the host had no idea that I was going to do it... and you  could see that he thought it was hilarious when i started with it in the clip.  Afterwards he shook his head and laughed more, Young said.\n\nYou can catch Tim Young on The Final 5 on Fox DC on Friday evenings.","title":"Right Wing Comedian Hilariously Uses TV Segment to Make as Many Gifs of Himself as Possible VIDEO","date":"2018-07-21","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The long-awaited Android app for Fortnite could be released as early as this week by its developers Epic Games, but there's a couple of catches.\n\nThe first is that the release of the popular game  described by its developers as a cross between Minecraft and Left 4 Dead  may coincide with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9. A deal between Samsung and Epic Games means the game could be exclusively available on the premium device for a 30-day period.\n\nThis means that only people willing and able to shell out around 1,000 on the Samsung smartphone will actually be able to play Fortnite on Android.\n\nSamsung is expected to release the Note 9 at an event on Friday, 10 August, though there has been no official word about the deal from either Epic Games or Samsung. Instead, rumours that Fortnite will be pre-installed with the phone have come from reports in blogs 9to5Google and XDA Developers.\n\nThe second catch is that the app will not be available through the Google Play Store, after Epic Games complained about the \"disproportionate\" cut that Google takes for enabling downloads through its online app store.\n\nGoogle takes a 30 per cent cut of sales made through Google Play, which is the main platform through which Android users download apps to their smartphones and tablets.\n\nTim Sweeney, the chief executive of Epic Games, said in a statement shared with The Verge that his firm wants a \"direct relationship with our customers on all platforms where that's possible.\"\n\nHe added: \"The great thing about the internet and the digital revolution is that this is possible, now that physical storefronts and middlemen distributors are no longer required.\"\n\nAndroid is the last major platform yet to support Fortnite, with players already able to download the game for PC, Mac, Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and iPhones and iPads through Apple's official app store.\n\nApple also takes a 30 per cent cut of sales through the App Store, however the Cupertino company has much tighter controls over installing apps and software through unofficial platforms.\n\nFortnite for Android devices will therefore only be available for download through the Epic Games website, and only in September. Its lack of availability has attracted cyber criminals, who have sought to capitalise on the game's popularity through fake links to Android versions of Fortnite.\n\nVideos on YouTube also purport to explain how to download Fortnite for Android, leading to fake versions that contain malware.\n\nLukas Stefanko, a malware researcher for computer security firm ESET, told The Independent in June: \"There are dozens of YouTube videos with millions of views leading users to fake ad-generating revenue.\"\n\nMr Stefanko added that anyone who downloads these versions risk infecting their devices with ransomware, banking malware and surveillance software that allows hackers to spy on people through their smartphone and tablet cameras.","title":"Fortnite for Android release date rumour hints at imminent launch but not on Google Play","date":"2018-08-06","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The media gets it wrong more times than not. But perhaps their biggest miss was predicting that the economy couldnt grow under President Donald Trump.\n\nTo get the latest in outrageous media bias, be sure to follow us on Facebook, subscribe to our YouTube channel, and send us your Media Misses to [email protected].\n\nThe post Media Misses: How Leftists and Pundits Got It Wrong on the Economy appeared first on The Daily Signal.","title":"Media Misses How Leftists and Pundits Got It Wrong on the Economy","date":"2018-11-25","source":"dcgazette","label":0}
{"content":"A major NHS report has found that one in eight young people in England, aged between five and 19, suffer with a mental health disorder.\n\nThe survey, which looked at data from more than 9,000 children living in England and registered with a GP, found an increase in conditions such as anxiety, depression and OCD in children over the past decade.\n\nA worrying one in 18 children aged two to four years now has at least one mental health condition, while 17-19-year-old girls have been identified as a high risk group, with one in four suffering with disorder and 46.8% of children in this age category attempting self-harm or suicide.\n\nThe emotional wellbeing of children is just as important as their physical health, and while having a conversation with your child about mental issues can be challenging, it can be the important first step in helping them to find the support they need.\n\nSarah Kendrick, head of service from childrens mental health charity Place2Be, reveals the dos and donts for talking to a young people you think may be struggling to cope.\n\nIts never too early or too late to start thinking about your childs mental health  but do make sure you choose your language carefully, says Kendrick. From a young age, children can start to understand difficult feelings and worries. Referring to characters in story books or on TV can be a helpful way to get them thinking about different emotions and how to cope with them.\n\nIts important to be honest with your children and answer their questions, but be careful not to bombard them, warns Kendrick.\n\nShe suggests answering simply and in a way that addresses their personal anxieties. Check what it is they want to know, so youre focusing on what theyre asking you.\n\nDo... wait for the right moment\n\nIf you become aware of a problem, it can be tempting to rush in and insist on a chat straight away  but sometimes, waiting until things calm down can be the best approach.\n\nFinding a way not to put pressure on them, such as in the car or over a quiet activity, can help the conversation feel like less of an interrogation, says Kendrick, which is especially helpful for teenagers.\n\nDont... pretend to have all the answers\n\nRather than jumping straight to suggesting solutions, try to think with your child about what might be helpful, and come up with the answers together, Kendrick advises. This will help empower your child and give them a sense of having some control over their situation.\n\nIts really challenging when we all lead such busy lives, but getting rid of distractions will let your child know that you have time for them. Committing to this regularly will remind your child that they can come to you if theyre struggling with something.\n\nDont... tell them to just get over it\n\nIf your child tells you something is bothering them, take it seriously, Kendrick stresses. What can seem small to us as adults can feel enormous for a child. Whats more, it will keep the future lines of communication open when other challenges come up.\n\nAs parents, we are constant role models, says Kendrick. Its important to think about your own behaviour and how you deal with emotions, such as anger and frustration, in front of your children  as this will influence how they behave and cope themselves.\n\nDont forget that its natural for everyone to get upset or angry sometimes, and parenting can be a very stressful experience.\n\nAnyone can be affected by poor mental health, including children and young people. We wouldnt feel embarrassed or ashamed if our child had asthma  the same goes for mental health issues.\n\nDo... ask for help\n\nIf you talk to your child and youre still concerned, Kendrick says the best thing you can do is talk to someone  either someone at your childs school, or your GP can recommend local organisations who can offer support.\n\nIf at first you dont succeed, says Kendrick, dont give up. It may feel difficult, particularly if your young person doesnt seem to want to open up, but they will appreciate the effort and in the long run, will remember that they can come to you to talk when the time is right for them.","title":"One in eight children have mental health disorders how should we talk to kids about emotional well","date":"2018-11-26","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"If this latest revelation from the New York Times doesnt drive President Trump to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, or convince Congress to impeach him, then we cant imagine what would.\n\nIn a shocking report citing a bevy of anonymous DOJ officials, the NYT recounted on Friday an aborted mutiny attempt organized by Rosenstein, who allegedly tried to organize members of Trumps cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment to oust Trump from office. In an attempt to persuade the clearly reluctant members of Trumps cabinet, Rosenstein suggested that he or other officials should secretly tape Trump to expose the chaos he said was engulfing the West Wing. According to NYT, the sources were either briefed on Rosensteins plans, or learned about it from the files of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired after being disgraced by an inspector general investigation. ABC News, which also reported the story, cited sources familiar with McCabes files. A grand jury is also weighing whether to press charges against McCabe for allegedly misleading the inspector general.\n\nMr. Rosenstein made the remarks about secretly recording Mr. Trump and about the 25th Amendment in meetings and conversations with other Justice Department and F.B.I. officials. Several people described the episodes, insisting on anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The people were briefed either on the events themselves or on memos written by F.B.I. officials, including Andrew G. McCabe, then the acting bureau director, that documented Mr. Rosensteins actions and comments. None of Mr. Rosensteins proposals apparently came to fruition. It is not clear how determined he was about seeing them through, though he did tell Mr. McCabe that he might be able to persuade Attorney General Jeff Sessions and John F. Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security and now the White House chief of staff, to mount an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment.\n\nAccording to the NYT, this all happened during the spring of 2017, shortly after Trump cited a letter that Rosenstein had penned criticizing former FBI Director James Comeys handling of the Clinton probe as justification to fire Comey. Rosenstein reportedly felt he had been used by the president as an excuse to fire Comey. Rosenstein soon began telling colleagues that he would ultimately be vindicated for his role in Comeys firing. Around the same time, he began to express his displeasure with Trumps handling of the hiring process for Comeys replacement.\n\nThe presidents reliance on his memo caught Mr. Rosenstein by surprise, and he became angry at Mr. Trump, according to people who spoke to Mr. Rosenstein at the time. He grew concerned that his reputation had suffered harm and wondered whether Mr. Trump had motives beyond Mr. Comeys treatment of Mrs. Clinton for ousting him, the people said. A determined Mr. Rosenstein began telling associates that he would ultimately be vindicated for his role in the matter. One week after the firing, Mr. Rosenstein met with Mr. McCabe and at least four other senior Justice Department officials, in part to explain his role in the situation. During their discussion, Mr. Rosenstein expressed frustration at how Mr. Trump had conducted the search for a new F.B.I. director, saying the president was failing to take the candidate interviews seriously. A handful of politicians and law enforcement officials, including Mr. McCabe, were under consideration.\n\nRosenstein also tried to recruit some of his would-be co-conspirators to surreptitiously record Trump in the Oval Office.\n\nHowever, although Rosenstein appeared conflicted, regretful and emotional during what can only be described as a coup attempt against a sitting president, even the paper admit that his conduct in attempting to solicit the illicit wiretapping of a sitting president was extremely reckless and unwarranted, and that, if uncovered, it could be used as grounds to fire Rosenstein.\n\nIf not him, then Mr. McCabe or other F.B.I. officials interviewing with Mr. Trump for the job could perhaps wear a wire or otherwise record the president, Mr. Rosenstein offered. White House officials never checked his phone when he arrived for meetings there, Mr. Rosenstein added, implying it would be easy to secretly record Mr. Trump. The suggestion itself was remarkable. While informants or undercover agents regularly use concealed listening devices to surreptitiously gather evidence for federal investigators, they are typically targeting drug kingpins and Mafia bosses in criminal investigations, not a president viewed as ineffectively conducting his duties. In the end, the idea went nowhere, the officials said. But they called Mr. Rosensteins comments an example of how erratically he was behaving while he was taking part in the interviews for a replacement F.B.I. director, considering the appointment of a special counsel and otherwise running the day-to-day operations of the more than 100,000 people at the Justice Department.\n\nThe Times and ABC reported that Rosenstein told McCabe that he believed Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly would go along with the plan. Another source said they believed Rosenstein was being sarcastic when he  made the comment about recording Trump\n\nRosenstein has decried the story as factually incorrect and said that based on my personal dealings with the president, that there isnt any basis to invoke the 25th amendment. This, of course, is tantamount to a deep state insider admitting that there is no factual basis to impeach Trump.\n\nA lawyer representing McCabe told CNN and the Times that his client had documented his conversations in Rosenstein in a series of memos, which he later turned over to Mueller more than a year ago. However, a set of those memos was left at the FBI when McCabe departed.\n\nMcCabes lawyer, Michael Bromwich, said in a statement to CNN that his client drafted memos to memorialize significant discussions he had with high level officials and preserved them so he would have an accurate, contemporaneous record of those discussions. When he was interviewed by the special counsel more than a year ago, he gave all of his memos  classified and unclassified  to the special counsels office. A set of those memos remained at the FBI at the time of his departure in late January 2018. He has no knowledge of how any member of the media obtained those memos, Bromwich added.\n\nThe Washington Post reported that FBI lawyer Lisa Page (the former lover of disgraced FBI special agent Peter Strzok) was also at the meeting where wiretapping was discussed. WaPo also said that McCabe had pushed for the DOJ to open an investigation into the president, to which Rosenstein replied, what do you want to do Andy, wire the president?\n\nWhile Rosenstein and Trump clearly never saw eye to eye, the level of resentment that Rosenstein harbored toward the president was not previously known. Unsurprisingly, the story has already fired up speculation  that Rosenstein may have been the anonymous administration official who penned a critical op-ed that was published earlier this month in the New York Times. Underscoring the seriousness of these allegations, CNN reported that the McCabe memos that were described to ABC and the Times have been turned over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.\n\nRosentein has been working as a public servant since clerking for a federal judge after graduating from Harvard Law School, according to the Times, which also notes that Rosenstein also considered appointing James Cole, a former Deputy AG, as special counsel. Cole, the Times noted, was a lawyer and longtime confidant for close Clinton associate Sydney Blumenthal.\n\nThe story is bound to revive suspicions about the FBIs role in trying to stifle the Trump presidency, an d further erode the bureaus already damaged credibility. As Arthur Schwartz put it, enough is enough:\n\nAnd if you still had any lingering doubts that the deep state doesnt exist...well...","title":"Video Rosenstein Proposed Secretly Recording Trump Invoking 25th Amendment","date":"2018-09-22","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Despite their unassuming appearance, slugs can wreak so much damage in your garden. They will eat all kinds of plants, from annual flowers to different vegetables.\n\nSlugs will chew on any part of a plant, but they tend to leave their telltale bite-marks on plant leaves. The holes in the leaves will then leave the plants weak, and they will eventually get destroyed.\n\nSlugs tend to be active in both spring and fall. These pests thrive in cool and damp conditions. Slugs will also decimate plants overnight. This is one reason why theyre hard to get rid of. Since slugs are nocturnal, your garden usually gets damaged while youre sleeping soundly at night.\n\nUse these methods to get rid of slugs in your garden: (h\/t to OldWorldGardenFarms.com.)\n\nSponsored solution from CWC Labs: This heavy metals test kit allows you to test almost anything for 20+ heavy metals and nutritive minerals, including lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum and more. You can test your own hair, vitamins, well water, garden soil, superfoods, pet hair, beverages and other samples (no blood or urine). ISO accredited laboratory using ICP-MS (mass spec) analysis with parts per billion sensitivity. Learn more here.\n\nInstead of pesticides that can harm your plants, use these natural strategies to keep pesky slugs out of your gardens.\n\nRead more articles with tips on how to get rid of garden slugs at HomeGardeningNews.com.","title":"Stop slugs from ruining your garden with these natural strategies","date":"2018-07-03","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Michale Graves, formerly of The Misfits, joins Alex Jones and Owen Shroyer to discuss the massive deception by MSM on the American people as they deny Jim Acosta put his hands on a White House intern as well as denying the possible danger looming as the migrant caravan approaches our southern border.","title":"Michale Graves The Left Is Trying To Usher 1000 Years Of Darkness Into America","date":"2018-11-09","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Centrist Democrats Are out of Ideas","title":"Centrist Democrats Are out of Ideas","date":"2018-08-01","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"It is well-known that Mr. Trump has had affairs with many women and most likely, several that havent come to the publics attention yet. Most recently, Trumps scandalous affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels was brought into the open along with the fact that he likely directed his personal attorney Michael Cohen to pay her $130,000 in hush money to stay quiet about it.\n\nNow, it has been reported that former National Enquirer editor Barry Levine is penning a book about Donald Trumps love life, and may even lift the lid on the controversial relationship between American Media owner David Pecker and the president.\n\nA source says that the book will look into Trump and his women, although other insiders tell us that it could be more wide-ranging, even looking at the formerly cozy relationship between the Enquirers owner, David Pecker, and Trump. That said, its unclear exactly what Levines contract with the Enquirer would allow him to reveal about Pecker.\n\nPecker has been at the center of the investigation into hush money payouts to Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal. Both women claim to have had affairs with Mr. Trump while he was married to First Lady Melania Trump. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal back in June:\n\nLevine seems to have a sort of patent on political exposes, and was part of a team that uncovered vice presidential candidate John Edwards love child in 2010. Levine told New York Magazine:\n\nDuring the interview, he also said:\n\nThe Enquirer has been accused of using its financial muscle to buy up the stories of women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump and then burying them. Karen McDougal, who claims to have had an affair with Trump while he was married to his wife Melania, alleges she was the subject of a so-called catch and kill operation to silence her, whereby the magazine bought the exclusive rights to her story but then did not publish it.\n\nPecker was also an old friend of Trumps who had been a guest at the presidents Mar-a-Lago resort before, and once published a magazine called Trump Style.\n\nIn August though, Pecker accepted immunity in Mullers investigation, which led to speculation that he may be willing to provide details on whether Trump was involved in paying his accusers hush money.\n\nIf Mr. Trump did indeed break the law in regards to hush money payments, Peckers testimony could provide evidence of that because he was involved in the transactions.","title":"Trumps Numerous Sexual Affairs Put On Front Street In New Book Its Gross","date":"2018-11-25","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Responding to a New York Times op-ed written by an alleged saboteur within the White House, President Trump Tweeted out Treason? and called it a gutless editorial.\n\nWe have somebody in what I call the failing New York Times talking about how hes part of the resistance within the Trump administration, POTUS told the media during a meeting with county sheriffs from around the nation.\n\nMocking the media and joking about being re-elected in 2020, Trump said, Someday when Im not president, which hopefully will be in about six-and-a-half years from now, The New York Times and CNN and all of these phony media outlets will be out of business ... because therell be nothing to write.\n\nTrump also took the opportunity to remind the media of all the positive economic news they could cover instead of hit pieces written by unnamed sources.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also responded to the piece on Twitter, saying, This coward should do the right thing and resign.\n\nThe article, released on Wednesday, was penned by an anonymous writer claiming to be a senior official in the Trump administration who is part of a quiet resistance in the White House.\n\nThe failing NYT admitted the authors gender, writing, he and others are working to frustrate the presidents misguided impulses.","title":"Treason President Trump Slams Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Gutless Editorial","date":"2018-09-05","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A socialist bookshop ransacked by fascists. The home of Jacob Rees-Mogg daubed with offensive graffiti. The now routine threats of death and rape on social media. The well-documented rise in antisemitic and Islamophobic attacks. Mosques and Jewish graveyards desecrated. Talk of betrayal and treason over Brexit. The fevered speculation about Tommy Robinson, the continuing terrorist plots hatched by Islamists and British nationalists; the EDL, mistrust of mainstream media, attacks on journalists, at least in America, as well as the assassination of Jo Cox MP during the EU referendum campaign, a moment that should have been a turning point, but turned out not to be.\n\nIve even had it myself, taking a call only last week from someone who sounded like they were trembling with rage about Tommy Robinson, Brexit, uncontrolled immigration and the mainstream media, full of conspiracy theories about black people conspiring to kill him. I did my best to allay his fears and talk reason, and explain the difference between patriotism and nationalism. He thinks the press is covering up more child abuse rings, even though papers such as The Times broke the stories. I tried to deflect him, but what was most disturbing was how the familiar soundbites of the Trumpists and the Farageists and alt right YouTube stars came right back at me, as in an echo chamber.\n\nThis young man had got through to me, a supposed member of the media elite, and I couldnt just dismiss him, Gordon Brown-style, as just some ignorant, bigoted racist. He wanted to know why his community had been so damaged by globalisation, and thats a perfectly good question. He blamed immigration, which too many do.\n\nThat was where the argument has long since been lost, with consequences we will have to live with for a long time. He also employed the whataboutery techniques in argument, which is now the way of Twitter  play the man, not the ball. So if you say immigration can be good for public services or economic growth, you get a line about it being OK for the rich, and so on. Its just like when Alastair Campbell, say, challenges Aaron Banks on Twitter about the EU Leave campaign: Banks just hits back with stuff about Blair and the Iraq war. It is an attack style of debate familiar to students of the press  personal assassination, not argument, like the openly gay ex-Olympic fencer High Court judge who voted the wrong way on Article 50. The editors of the Mail, Murdoch and Express titles have much to answer for.\n\nSo now I ask you as much as my caller asked me: what is happening to our poor old country?\n\nFor people to feel enraged enough about what is happening to them and their communities, they need the worst of propaganda and the worst of leadership. Step forward our tabloid press, all happy to furnish any quantity of scare stories about Muslims and gypsies, about terror arriving with child refugees, about scroungers and paedophiles, about hypocritical media luvvies, about crooked EU bureaucrats and British politicians, about capitalists only out to fleece you, about celebrities who are too fat or too thin, too rich or too poor, too grand or too common  anything, anything, anything at all, to give their readers something to hate. They are far more effective hate preachers than Abu Hamza was.\n\nTheir reach is immensely larger nowadays, thanks to the internet, and they are now joined by an increasing number of bogus news sites. All of these websites, old and new, give the impression that no one  not the BBC, the churches, the courts, MPs, the civil service, celebs, Meghan Markles dad, Ed Milibands dead dad (who supposedly hated Britain), Gary Lineker, your GP or the lollipop man  can be trusted or respected.\n\nIt is one thing to hold power to account; quite another to provoke hysterical paranoia. Now, though, like so much else, the phenomenon is instant and globalised, funded and transmitted across borders. And stupid: the leader of Ukip, Gerard Batten, veers from the nasty (his views on Islam) to the clownish when he calls for a boycott of Walkers crisps, so incensed is he at Lineker, who you may remember does telly ads for them sometimes. But he has a stronger voice than before because no one edits his barmy copy.\n\nSocial media, even now only a decade old, is the great incubator for the propagandists of today  a paradise where anyone can become their very own proprietor, editor and journalist with the aid of a smartphone and Twitter account (and not just Donald Trump). These thousands of keyboard warriors feed on the tabloids and the alternative facts news sites by sharing their lies; and they, in turn, pick up and amplify Twitterstorms, and pour their bile into the comments sections of news websites (please see the DM Reporter Twitter feed for some alarming examples of the type).\n\nOnce upon a time this kind of scale of amplification of bar-room prejudice was impossible, not because the nutty ideas werent around  from the inchoate Jewish international conspiracy to theories of racial superiority they have a long, inglorious history  but because the technology for it didnt exist. If you were unlucky enough, you might find a bunch of neo-fascists or revolutionary socialists trying to sell their overpriced, underpowered newspapers on a street corner or outside a football match on a wet Saturday afternoon. Or you might get a leaflet through the door of an evening calling for compulsory mass repatriation or for capitalism to be smashed, while all you want to do is watch Corrie. But that was about it. They, far left and right alike, tried, with limited success, to infiltrate the mainstream, but they were beaten back. They were tiny; they had little access to broadcast media, nor the press.\n\nWe know that the internet has changed everything, and not the least of it is to spread both leftist and rightist propaganda, but most of all the nutcase stuff. We now live in a world where Abu Hamza says hes a fan of Donald Trump; and David Dukes, of the Ku Klux Klan, praises Jeremy Corbyn. I am not claiming equivalence between the two, except insofar as they both endanger rational debate and proper liberal democratic values. Which they do.\n\nUsually I resist the temptation to take a few fragmentary pieces of evidence, stitch them together and create some kind of unifying narrative. Joining the dots isnt always the answer. Ive lived long enough, too, to recall episodes of violent political action in the past. National Front marches in the 1970s; counter-demos and the death of the activist Blair Peach in Southall in 1979; the anarchist Angry Brigade who sent letter bombs to cabinet ministers; the violence of the miners strike and the Wapping dispute; race riots in the 1950s and 1980s; the poll tax riots in 1990. Peer further back in British history and youll find the Peterloo massacre, the Suffragettes, a naval mutiny, Mosleys blackshirts and the Cable Street riot, a civil war and much else, and thats aside from Ireland. British political life has always been a rougher game that wed like to think.\n\nYet there is a new thing going on here, and its this. What we have now isnt the occasional set piece demo or riot, or epochal change, but a generalised increase in low-level violence  violence of language and gestures usually, but sometimes more, and now much more routine than once it was. Its sad.\n\nI really never thought Id feel sorry for Jacob Rees-Mogg, the fabulously wealthy eccentric Conservative MP who, in their eccentric way, many in his party would like to make prime minister. I fancy he doesnt need my sympathy. Yet the images of the vandalism at his home in Somerset were upsetting. True, there was no violence against the person (the Rees-Moggs  all eight of them, or maybe more were on a break in New York while Somersets finest were daubing scum on their Land Rover Discovery and leaving condoms around the place, presumably a protest against Mr Rees-Moggs views on abortion). Shut up and die was scrawled on the garage, along with the puzzling slogan politics = death.\n\nMomentarily the incident put me in mind of the time Alan Partridge found that someone (scum, sub-human scum)  had graffitied his Rover 800 with the slogan COCK PISS PARTRIDGE so that he found himself basically driving around in an obscene publication. Alan  quite smart, this  altered the graffiti to read COOK, PASS, BABTRIDGE, so maybe the Rees-Moggs could make the Land Rover read STUNNING, pending the respray.\n\nBut of course this is no laughing matter, any more than the thugs who turned over the socialist bookshop wearing Trump masks  a hardly coincidental message. It is ugly violence, and you only need to ask how you would feel if some did that to you. Where will it all end?\n\nIt wont, most likely, as it is becoming the new normal, even when Brexit is over. In fact, especially when Brexit is over, because the likely economic disruption it will cause  house prices crashing, a large increase in joblessness, generally less money around  will provoke an orgy of blame-throwing, and someone will have to take the role of scapegoat because, after all, we cant admit it was our own fault.\n\nWe know from the Sky News FOI request from local councils that many are making contingency pas for civil disturbances and theyre right to do so. We will have more such low level attacks: on media offices, on MPs and their property; on big companies that dont pay their tax; on government buildings, on party offices, on mosques and temples, on synagogues and churches and, indeed, on socialist bookshops.\n\nThis will be the new level of background noise to British politics. It does not mean were heading for Prime Minister Tommy Robinson, or even Ukip and its current extremist leadership. It is not like the last days of the Weimar Republic or the Romanovs, or something. In the 1970s there were books written asking if Britain had become ungovernable, thanks to a combination of union and corporate power, and the rise of Trotskyist and neo-Nazi extremism. That didnt come to pass, and nor will it now.\n\nBut we will find ourselves getting acclimatised to what they once in Northern Ireland called an acceptable level of violence, about which little can practically be done and which we will just have to get used to, along with the occasional terror attack and political assassination. As Donald Trump himself might say: Sad.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"If you think Jacob Rees-Moggs home being vandalised or Trump mask-wearers trashing a socialist book","date":"2018-08-06","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) It has come to our attention here at Natural News that Google is now marching in lockstep with the authoritarian Chinese government and its communist agenda of total censorship and population control.\n\nAccording to new reports, Google is right now in the process of developing a completely redesigned search engine platform for China that meets all of the totalitarian regimes communist guidelines for permissible content.\n\nChinese dictator-for-life Xi Jinping reportedly partnered up with Google to design a brand new platform controlling everything that Chinas 1.3 billion citizens are allowed to see online. In other words, only government-approved content will be allowed to show up on Googles new and improved search engine in China.\n\nMeanwhile, Google is now actively censoring conservative content here in the United States, as well as manipulating search results to favor Democratic political candidates like Hillary Clinton.\n\nWe can only imagine what such a search engine might look like: Looking for information about Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and its Buddhist population? writes David Unsworth for PanAm Post.\n\nTibet has always been part of China, the Dalai Lama is a fraud and a counter-revolutionary, and Buddhists are not good Communists. Want to find out about Chinas mass concentration camps for political prisoners? They dont exist. The Tiananmen Square massacre? It didnt happen, he adds about the types of politically-correct content thats sure to show up on Google China Edition.\n\nSponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: The Big Berkey water filter removes almost 100% of all contaminants using only the power of gravity (no electricity needed, works completely off-grid). Widely consider the ultimate \"survival\" water filter, the Big Berkey is made of stainless steel and has been laboratory verified for high-efficiency removal of heavy metals by CWC Labs, with tests personally conducted by Mike Adams. Explore more here.\n\nRevisionist history will be rampant on Chinas Google, in other words, and the general population will be none the wiser because thats what will be presented to them as fact. And its exactly what Google and other tech platforms here in the States are doing in the name of combating fake news and Russian propaganda.\n\nTo many leftists, this online book burning by Google is a necessary step to preserve democracy. But American patriots will immediately recognize Googles censorship agenda as an evil plot to abolish freedom of speech all around the world  not to mention the U.S. Constitution itself.\n\nCensoring people like Alex Jones, whom the establishment claims is spreading wild conspiracy theories and hate speech, represents the first step in a total information takeover by Big Tech. Its an unabashedly pro-communist agenda thats now in plain view for the entire world to see.\n\nLiberals are, of course, cheering it all on because the current target happens to be conservatives. But what these useful idiots on the left fail to realize is that their day will eventually come, too. All free speech will one day be abolished if multinational corporations like Google arent stopped.\n\nGoogle is led and staffed by the far-left, says Unsworth. Peruse their campaign contributions ... which go almost entirely to the Democratic Party. Take a look at the way they inject far left-wing bias into search results.\n\nGoogle isnt even being honest about what the corrupt left is doing to other people on the left, perhaps most notably Hillary Clintons theft of the Democratic nomination for president from who should have been the rightful recipient, Bernie Sanders.\n\nWhen it comes to our democracy ... its very foundation is freedom of speech, concludes Unsworth. Freedom of speech is under attack from our nations own big tech. And that should be a major cause of concern for us all.\n\nMore news on the lefts continued attempts to eliminate freedom of speech in America with the help of Big Tech, is available at LiberalMob.com.\n\nAlso, be sure to check out REAL.video for uncensored truth videos that you wont find at Google-owned YouTube.","title":"Same tech giants that refuse to display Alex Jones content are thrilled to help the communist Chines","date":"2018-09-23","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Westminster Bridge killer Khalid Masood was a controlling and arrogant person who believed he was \"a genius\", an inquest heard.\n\nIn a psychological profile, Dr Brock Chisholm told the Old Bailey how Masood had believed he was extraordinary since he was a child.\n\nMasood killed four pedestrians on the bridge in March last year, before fatally stabbing PC Keith Palmer.\n\nDr Chisholm told the inquest on Tuesday: Masood believed he was more intelligent than other people.\n\n\"He enjoyed dominating people and viewed himself as special in the eyes of God. Indeed, like a genius.\n\n\"He believed he was extraordinary and believed this since he was a child.\n\n\"When this was threatened he behaved in a way that masked that. When he didn't get into grammar school he blamed his mother for this.\"\n\nHe added: \"Masood appeared unable to form meaningful and long-term relationships, this is likely because he had impaired ability to empathise to understanding the emotions of others and act accordingly.\"\n\nGareth Patterson QC, asking questions on behalf of the families of the four victims who died on the bridge, told the witness a copy of Masood's CV was found in the car the killer was driving to carry out his plan.\n\nDr Chisholm said there were a number of reasons to have done this - to avoid the wrong person being framed, or to seek recognition for his achievements.\n\nHe also suggested Masood may have been in two minds over whether or not to go through with the rampage, and was looking to his qualifications for a possible way out.\n\nDr Chisholm agreed with Mr Patterson that there was nothing to suggest the killer was insane at the time of the attack, nor that he had been radicalised by others - although he had adopted an extremist version of Islam.","title":"Westminster Bridge killer Khalid Masood aposbelieved he was a geniusapos","date":"2018-09-25","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"President Trump, First Lady Melania and 12-year-old Barron Trump were sitting at a table with about a dozen children coloring when Acosta began shouting out questions to Trump about DACA.\n\nMr. President what about the DACA kids? Should they worry about whats going to happen to them, sir? Acosta shouted.\n\nThe president replied to Acosta, The Democrats have clearly let them down.\n\nVIDEO of Acosta screaming at President Trump via Daily Caller reporter Benny Johnson:\n\nAcosta was referring to Trumps scorched earth tweetstorm on Easter Sunday. Trump responded to the caravan of illegal aliens marching through Mexico to the US border by saying, NO MORE DACA DEAL!\n\nParscale tweeted: Maybe its time for Jim Acosta to get a suspension for breaking protocol. He continues to embarrass himself and CNN. Pull his credentials for each incident.\n\nBrad Parscale then responded to Think Progress founder and Editor Judd Legum who accused him of calling for a reporter to be suspended for asking a question.\n\nAnd of course James Woods couldnt resist, calling Acosta a Democrat Whore:","title":"CNNs Jim Acosta Gets SAVAGED For Yelling At Trump While He Was Coloring With Children at White Hous","date":"2018-04-02","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Conor Lamb's Campaign for Trump Voters in PA-18","title":"Conor Lambs Campaign for Trump Voters in PA-18","date":"2018-03-13","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Two men have been awarded 7,500 and 5,000 in compensation at Naas Circuit Court for injuries they claimed they sustained in a crash.\n\nTheir evidence was contradicted by a taxi driver involved in the incident, whose account was supported by a member of the Garda. An insurance company doctor told the court he could not find any real reason for the injuries complained of.\n\nJudge James ODonoghue, sitting in Naas Circuit Court, said he believed a crash had occurred.\n\nHe accepted the insurance company doctors characterisation of both men as fairly strong, he awarded them compensation, which he said was at the lower end of the scale, plus their costs.\n\nThe case was taken by Patrick Carthy (30), an unemployed man of Robertstown, Co Kildare, and his friend Tyrone Bowers (29), an apprentice electrician.\n\nThe court heard that on September 19th, 2015, they had been drinking in a pub and called a taxi at 10.30pm. Mr Carthy asked the driver to divert to his house on the way to change his footwear and collect ID for a nightclub.\n\nMr Carthy said in evidence he indicated several times to the taxi driver where to turn.\n\nHe just braked and then all of a sudden, there was a bang from behind, a big bang from what I can remember, said Mr Carthy. When we crashed, I hit my head off the window and I felt a pain up my back.\n\nMr Carthy said he got out of the taxi and vomited while Mr Bowers said he urinated on himself.\n\nBoth men went to K Doc, an out of hours medical service, and subsequently went to their GPs. Both complained of soft tissue injuries and pains and underwent physiotherary.\n\nThe court heard the driver of the other car could not be found and neither Mr Carty nor Mr Bowers contacted gardai at the crash or immediately after it.\n\nThe taxi driver, Michael Nolan, said that when he stopped his vehicle, he felt a tip or a jolt at the rear which he described as medium in strength.\n\nNeither Mr Carthy nor Mr Bowers complained of any injury at the time, he said. He said he rang his taxi company to send out a replacement car but both men left the scene before it arrived and had refused to pay him.\n\nMr Bowers said he took a photograph of the car that allegedly crashed into the taxi. The image showed the front of a vehicle badly damaged, with its bumper hanging off.\n\nShown the photograph, Mr Nolan said: It definitely wasnt like that . . . the car was completely intact.\n\nHe also said there was no damage to his vehicle from the incident.\n\nGarda John OSullivan from Naas Garda station went to the scene of the crash. Shown the photograph by Judge ODonoghue, he said: Thats certainly not what I seen on the night. . . the bumper was still intact, the headlights were still intact. There were no fluids on the road. I cant explain where that photo came from.\n\nMr Bowers said he took the photograph on his phone at 11.53pm on the night of the incident. He gave it to his solicitor about two weeks ago but not the Garda. I didnt think the gardai would need that, he said.\n\nThe photograph was given to the defence for the first time in court.\n\nThe court was told Dr Michael Glynn had examined both claimants on behalf of FBD Insurance and the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland.\n\nHe effectively found that you were not co-operating, Philip Fennell BL for FBD put it to Mr Carthy. You were actively resisting that examination. Mr Glynn felt that you werent co-operating and exaggerating.\n\nMr Carthy disagreed. I co-operated with him as much as I could, he said.\n\nIn the case of Mr Bowers, Mr Fennell said that Dr Glynn could not find any real reason for the injuries complained of. He believed the pain to be psychosomatic.\n\nCounsel for the two, Tom Clarke BL, said both men had been to their GPs and Mr Bowers had been to K Doc nine times for treatment.\n\nMaking his ruling, Judge ODonoghue said While I have to take cognisance of what Mr Glynn says, I am disinclined to agree exaggeration.\n\nMr Nolan was exonerated of any blame, he ruled. There was a conflict of evidence as to the severity of the damage in the incident. I am inclined to give the benefit of doubt to both plaintiffs, he said.\n\nHe awarded Mr Bowers 7,500 and to Mr Carthy, of whom he noted Dr Glynn was pretty scathing of, 5,000.\n\nIt is understood that an appeal is being considered.","title":"Men ruled by doctor to be exaggerating injuries awarded damages","date":"2018-10-26","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"Thousands of girls and women are sharing how Little Mix have helped their body confidence after the band released a teaser for their new single Strip.\n\nThe song is a body confidence anthem calling on women to strip back their makeup and insecurities, because youre sexiest when [youre] confident. The video features a whole host of body image campaigners and the band have posed for a nude photoshoot to promote the single, with insults such as fat and ugly written on their skin.\n\nShelby Pearson, 20 from Wales, is among the fans whove shared a #StripWithLittleMix post to support the band. She told HuffPost UK that Perrie, Jade, Jesy and Leigh-Anne have helped her body confidence because they are just four completely normal girls.\n\nRegardless of their fame, theyre so easy to relate to, she said. Theyve taught me to be carefree and happy and no matter what youre going through, itll get better.","title":"Little Mixs Strip Encourages Fans To Share Their Own Body Confidence Photos","date":"2018-11-15","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"County Commissioner Jesus Chuy Garcia decided Monday not to join the crowded race to succeed Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a surprise move with potential to boost the mayoral campaign of County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and create an opening for Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza.\n\nFour years ago, Garcia forced Emanuel into Chicagos first-ever mayoral runoff even though he got a late start, was out-spent by a four-to-one margin and Preckwinkle refused to endorse Garcia, her County Board floor leader.\n\nThis time, Garcia firmly believed he could capitalize on his strong showing in the March primary as the anointed Democratic congressional nominee who carried all of the candidates he endorsed.\n\nThat included Aaron Ortiz, a 26-year-old political newcomer who defeated State Rep. Dan Burke (D-Chicago) in a race dominated by Edward Burkes property tax reduction work for Trump International Hotel and Tower.\n\nBut on Monday, Garcia gathered his kitchen cabinet together to tell them that he had opted out, in spite of the Draft Chuy movement launched by retiring U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Chicago).\n\nMoney just might be a driving force.\n\nIn 2015, nearly all of the $6 million he raised came from progressive unions: the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 1.\n\nThis time, SEIU Local 1 was firmly in Preckwinkles corner. And the CTU was non-committal and expected to remain so, at least for the time being.\n\nWithout SEIU or CTU, where would his money have come from? said a source familiar with Garcias decision-making.\n\nHe would have been forced to forge a brown-white coalition with the business community. His old friendspeople who have been with him since the `70s and `80s  were not comfortable with that.\n\nGarcias decision to take his seat in Congress does not mean that he and Preckwinkle have mended fences.\n\nIn fact, Garcia has not yet forgiven Preckwinkle for withholding her support in the 2015 mayoral race and for taking sides against virtually all of the candidates Garcia endorsed and helped carry to victory in March.\n\nBut, even if there is no detente, Garcias decision to take a pass is widely viewed as a potential boon to Preckwinkle.\n\nToni and Chuy would have been progressive vs. progressive. It would have been challenging to distinguish their records. Without Chuy, she now has the potential to create that elusive coalition of African-Americans and Latinos, said political operative Victor Reyes, who has spoken to five of the top-tier mayoral candidates, but is leaning toward Preckwinkle.\n\nPrior to Garcias decision to take a pass, Reyes did a ward-by-ward analysis of a run-off between Preckwinkle and Garcia that concluded that Preckwinkle would have won with 54 percent of the vote.\n\nThe analysis concluded that Preckwinkle would capture all eighteen of the citys majority black wards and come out of that 50,000 votes ahead of Garcia, who would win all of the majority Hispanic wards as well as the 19th, 38th, 40th, 41st and 45th.\n\nIn order to overcome that 50,000-vote differential, Garcia would have to perform somewhere in the 60 percent range in all of the lakefront wards, Reyes said.\n\nHe would have to do Rahm-like numbers on the lakefront to beat her. And if you look at Preckwinkles numbers against Fioretti, she killed him in the lakefront wards, Reyes said.\n\nIn spite of his history as a loyal supporter of the late Mayor Harold Washington, Garcias 2015 mayoral campaign did not manage to resurrect the black-Hispanic coalition that culminated in Washingtons election as Chicagos first African-American mayor.\n\nIn fact, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.), a former Emanuel critic who endorsed the mayor over Garcia, argued then that Garcias attempt to resurrect that multi-racial coalition had cheapened Washingtons legacy.\n\nIn calling out Garcia, Rush tiptoed around the historic tension between blacks and Hispanics that has forced the two groups to compete against each other for jobs and contracts while immigration reform has leapfrogged over the issue of economic fairness.\n\nStill, Reyes believes theres a chance to put the band back together.\n\nChuy is gonna look at what he thinks is best for the Latino community, not looking for revenge, he said.\n\nAnother Democratic operative, who asked to remain anonymous, argued that Mendoza stands to benefit most from Garcias exit.\n\nAlthough Mendoza needs to wait until she is safely re-elected next month to launch her mayoral campaign, she shares Garcias appeal to younger voters who backed Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.\n\nPreckwinkle will and does have problems there....This opens the door for Susana, who is young, to step in, the operative said.\n\nWithout Garcia, Gery Chico remains the only Hispanic candidate in the crowded field. In 2011, Chico nearly forced Emanuel into a runoff with support from Gutierrez.\n\nOn Monday, Chico had only praise for both Garcia and Gutierrez, apparently holding out hope of winning over both men.\n\nTheres never been a more important time to be a member of Congress, especially when it comes to protecting immigrants, Chico said.\n\nI know theres gonna be a seamless transition between Chuy Garcia and Congressman Gutierrez, who also worked tirelessly over the years paving the way for immigration reform.","title":"Garcias exit a boon to Preckwinkleand an opening for Mendoza","date":"2018-10-01","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"Tropical Storm Michael has now officially become a hurricane, the US National Hurricane Centre said.\n\nThe storm off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula has rapidly strengthened and is expected to strike the Gulf Coast in the Florida Panhandle with potential winds of 100mph.\n\nFlorida Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in 26 counties as the hurricane approaches the state.\n\nFollow live updates below with all the latest on Storm Michael.\n\nPlease allow a moment for the liveblog to load.","title":"Hurricane Michael - live updates Florida declares state of emergency in 26 counties as aposlife-t","date":"2018-10-08","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The death toll in Northern California has risen to 42, as firefighters continue to battle the so-called Camp Fire, while the state-wide death toll has reached 44.  Hundreds of people also remain unaccounted for, many in the town of Paradise, which was almost completely destroyed four days ago.  Victims have been found in burned-out cars, in the smouldering ruins of their homes, and next to their vehicles, apparently overcome by smoke and flames before they could escape.\n\nIn some cases, all that remains is charred fragments of bone and investigators have been using wire baskets to sift and sort them.  As the search for victims continues, friends and relatives of the missing have been calling hospitals, police, shelters and the coroners office in the hope of learning what became of their loved ones. Paradise was a popular retirement community and about a quarter of the population was over 65. Tad Teays awaited word on his 90-year-old dementia-stricken mother while Darlina Duarte was desperate for information about her half-brother, a diabetic who was largely housebound because he had lost his legs.\n\nBarbara Hall tried in vain to find out whether her aunt and the womans husband, who are in their 80s and 90s, made it out alive from their retirement community. Did they make it in their car? Did they get away? Did their car go over the edge of a mountain somewhere? I just dont know, Hall said, adding that the couple had only a landline and calls were not going through to it. The blaze is one of numerous fires currently burning in California.\n\nIn Malibu, firefighters appear to be gaining ground against a roughly 143 square mile blaze that has destroyed at least 370 structures, with hundreds more feared lost. Some of the thousands of people forced from their homes by the blaze were allowed to return overnight, and authorities reopened US 101, a major highway through the fire zone in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Malibu celebrities and mobile-home dwellers in nearby mountains were slowly learning whether their homes had been spared or reduced to ash. In Northern California, fire crews still fighting the blaze that obliterated Paradise contended with wind gusts of up to 40mph overnight. The fire had grown to 177 square miles and was 25% contained, authorities said. Winds were expected to weaken on Monday night.","title":"California Wildfires Death Toll Rises To 44","date":"2018-11-13","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Federal Election Commission records show that CrowdStrike, an FBI contractor and private cyber security firm, received a $98,849.84 check from the Democratic National Committee the day after slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered.\n\nRich, 27, worked as the voter expansion data director at the DNC for two years. Rich had been working for the DNC at a time when emails from the organization were provided to WikiLeaks for publication.\n\nThe series of emails revealed that high-ranking DNC officials and the Clinton team sabotaged Sanders candidacy, used racist, anti-gay and sexist slurs when referring to constituents. The emails, indicating the party was manipulating the primary race in favor of Clinton, led to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultzs resignation as DNC chair.\n\nSeth Rich had just accepted a job with Hillary Clintons presidential campaign before he was killed near his apartment in an affluent Washington, D.C. neighborhood.\n\nIn the summer of 2016, in the heat of a highly contentious presidential campaign, Rich was fatally shot twice in the back, and his wallet, credit cards, watch and phone were left in his possession. Still, the Metropolitan Police Department has described his murder as a botched robbery.\n\nPrivate investigators, however, have previously claimed Rich was the source WikiLeaks used to obtain thousands of DNC emails released on the eve of the partys presidential nominating convention last July.\n\nLess than a month after Rich was murdered, attorney Shawn Lucas, 38, was found dead in his bathroom on Aug. 2nd, 2016.\n\nThe next day, CrowdStrike received a check for $113,645.77 from the DNC.\n\nLucas delivered a lawsuit to DNC headquarters for a local court in early July 2016. The suit alleged the Democratic Party committed fraud by rigging their primary election in favor of Hillary Clinton.\n\nThe source of the checks is the Federal Election Commission (FEC).\n\nAccording to Heavy, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, D.C., said in November 2016 that Lucas Aug. 2 death was accidental and was caused by the combined adverse effects of fentanyl [a synthetic opioid pain medication], cyclobenzaprine [a muscle relaxant], and mitragynine [better known as kraton].\n\nCrowdStrikes computer software customers include Congress, the White House, the State Department, Democratic National Committee, SONY, and Google.\n\nFollowing WikiLeaks publication of DNC and Clinton campaign emails, DNC officials refused to avail the DNC server to the FBI for forensic examination, which would determine when the server was breached or whether the server was actually hacked.\n\nThe Obama Justice Dept. never took custody of the server  no subpoena, no search warrant. Former FBI Director James Comey said last year that the DNC had denied the bureaus requests to examine the breached server.\n\nCrowdStrike was the only one to access the DNCs computer systems.\n\nGoogle, which gave millions of dollars to the Clinton campaign and was under fire during the election for manipulating and suppressing negative search results for Clinton, is one of CrowdStrikes primary investors.\n\nRich and Lucas are among 33 people associated with the Clintons who have died mysterious and often violent deaths.\n\nUPDATE: America First Media first reported on the DNCs conspicuous payments to CrowdStrike in September.","title":"UPDATE FEC Records Show DNC Issued Checks to CrowdStrike Day After Murder of Seth Rich Shawn Lucas","date":"2018-05-21","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Watch the latest UK weather forecast from the Independent for today.\n\nWe'll be updating this page daily with the latest available live video.\n\nThis forecast is supplied to us by the Met Office, which is the national weather service for the UK.\n\nThe Met Office provides internationally-renowned weather and climate science and services to support the public, government and businesses.\n\nThe organisation makes meteorological predictions across all timescales from weather forecasts to climate change.\n\nFor further information and weather predictions, visit the Met Office website.\n\nFor more interesting stories about the days weather in the UK, visit our UK Weather section here.","title":"UK weather The latest Met Office forecast","date":"2018-09-21","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"British Steel is to cut 400 jobs, including roles in the UK, in order to secure a sustainable future, just two years after the company began trading.\n\nThe firm was created in 2016 by the sale of Tata Steels Long Products Europe business to Greybull Capital, a deal that saved 4,400 UK jobs.\n\nThe cuts will affect managerial, professional and administrative roles at its operations throughout the UK, Ireland, France and the Netherlands.\n\nThe company operates manufacturing plants in Scunthorpe, Skinningrove and Teesside, and carries out research and development in Rotherham.\n\nBritish Steels finance chief said the recent weakening of the pound and the euro had implications for the group because the raw materials it uses are all traded in US dollars.\n\nRoland Junck, the companys executive chairman, said: Following our launch and early growth as a new company, its important our business continues to evolve. Its imperative we enhance our products and services and become more competitive so we can increase our foothold in the market.\n\nHowever, the pace of change we need in this challenging industry requires further and continued investment along with more agile and efficient operations.\n\nTo help us achieve this, we have to make difficult decisions and our plans unfortunately include the proposed reduction of 400 roles across our global workforce.\n\nMr Junck added: Were sad to be making this announcement, particularly for our colleagues who could be affected. The skill and dedication of our employees has helped us come a long way in a short period of time.\n\nHowever, its vital our transformation continues so we can build a sustainable future for the whole business, nearly 5,000 employees and many more people in the supply chain. Were confident these proposals will help achieve this.\n\nA spokesperson for the National Trade Union Steel Coordinating Committee said the announcement will come as a body blow to the workforce who have already made huge sacrifices to make the business sustainable.\n\nThe spokesperson added: We recognise these are challenging times for UK steelmakers, and its high time the government stepped up and delivered for us by supporting investment in strategic steel assets.\n\nHowever it is particularly disappointing the company has chosen to cut jobs so soon after celebrating a second successful year and first quarter profits of 21m.\n\nThe company must now comply with its European and UK consultation obligations and present the detail behind the proposals to employee representatives. Throughout the consultation process the trade unions will challenge every job reduction and seek to mitigate the impact of the companys proposals on our members.","title":"British Steel to cut 400 jobs to apossecure a sustainable futureapos","date":"2018-09-14","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Leftists marched in Washington Thursday protesting the nomination of Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh.\n\nDemonstrators carried signs with slogans that read, Unfit to serve, Kava Nope, and Our Courts Our Lives, with others in support of Kavanaugh sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford, stating, We Believe Survivors, and Sexual Violence is a Crime.\n\nLeft-wing comedian Amy Schumer, niece of NY Sen. Chuck Schumer, was arrested at the protest after reportedly telling officers she wanted to be arrested, in addition to lefty darling Emily Ratajkowski.\n\nMeanwhile, Planned Parenthood appeared to threaten senators in a tweet telling them to Vote No on #Kavanaugh Or else were coming for you:\n\nRadio host Dana Loesch asked the abortion giant to clarify their remarks, so as not to prompt another violent reaction from a radical leftist.\n\nLike doxxing republican senators? Or like how Paul was attacked in his yard? Or Cruz ambushed in a restaurant? Or McConnell at the airport? Ill omit the baseball field. You should clarify this. The left interprets everything to mean violence except when they say it, Loesch wrote on Twitter.","title":"Watch Deranged Leftists Protest Kavanaugh As Planned Parenthood Threatens Senators","date":"2018-10-05","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"For nearly 40 years, the gender gap in voting has been the subject of continued speculation. How much does it matter? Would it be wide enough to put Democrats in office? Now, with President Trump ascendant, the question becomes still more urgent.","title":"What Happens If Gender Gap Becomes a Gender Chasm","date":"2018-07-12","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Friday joined renewed calls to pass legislation in Congress to protect special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation now that President Trump has appointed Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general.\n\nCollins said in a statement that she is concerned about Whitakers past comments about the probe. He has advocated limits on the Russia investigation.","title":"Collins Calls For Bill To Protect Mueller","date":"2018-11-09","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trump has been highly criticizing people for protesting police violence. Yet, this Tennessee shooting just proves that he has been wrong all along.\n\nDeKalb County, Tennessee deputies tried to pull over Michael Dial last April, because he was driving on a suspended licence. Instead of waiting, the suspect drove away in a 40-plus-year-old pickup truck pulling a fully loaded trailer.  Nevertheless, the police followed him on a very low-speed chase.\n\nThey told investigators the speeds topped out at 50 mph, according to The Guardian:\n\nDeputies at first used a Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT) to slow Dials pickup. That involved nudging his vehicle to turn it sideways. That was when Sheriff Oddie Shoupe radioed the officers and told them to stop that maneuver, and just shoot the driver.\n\nThe deputy had nudged Dial from the road when Deputy Adam West came up in his own personal vehicle and fired three shots into the pickup as it rolled down into a ditch.\n\nDial died from a gunshot wound to the head.\n\nThe Sheriff Shoupe arrived on the scene, obviously upset that he had missed the action.\n\nShoupe did not realize that he was being captured on tape by another deputys body camera at the time. He said:\n\nDials widow, Robyn Dial, sued the sheriff for allegedly using excessive force against her unarmed husband. The lawsuit filing read:\n\nThe filing also called Shoupes decision proof of malicious and sadistic mindset. The city of Sparta and the two officers who fired on the unarmed man were also named as defendants.\n\nIn June, the county district attorney declared the shooting justified. That was when Mrs. Dial went forward with the suit.","title":"Excited Cop Caught On Cam Shouting I LOVE THIS SHT After Executing Suspect","date":"2018-02-08","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Turkey Is Turning Into the Next Pakistan\n\nThe U.S. should make clear to ersatz alliesA that betrayal has consequences.","title":"Turkey Is Turning Into the Next Pakistan","date":"2018-03-03","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The Green Party has welcomed the European Parliaments approval of a ban on a range of single-use plastics.\n\nItems such as straws and cotton buds are to be banned from the EU from 2021, under draft plans approved on Wednesday by the European Parliament.\n\nA wide range of plastic items which have existing alternatives, including cutlery, plates, drinks stirrers, balloon sticks and polystyrene fast food containers, will be banned from the EU in order to tackle marine pollution.\n\nMembers of the European Parliament backed the proposals by 571 to 53 and will now enter into negotiations with the Commission and member states to make it binding legislation.\n\nGreen Party leader Eamon Ryan TD welcomed the news, but criticised the Government lack of action on the issue.\n\nIts just a pity that Fine Gael are still dragging their heels and blocking the same sensible legislation here at home. We could be leaders on this, instead it looks like well be playing catch-up once again, he said.\n\nWe have a Bill that would put us ahead of the curve on this, but the Government continues to use delay tactics. They need to issue the money message that would allow us to move forward with our Waste Reduction Bill.\n\nMairead McGuinness Fine Gael MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament said: The new law is aimed at reducing waste from single-use plastic products, which is polluting oceans and clogging landfills. Our oceans are swimming in plastic waste, much of it originating in Europe but shipped outside the EU.\n\nA member of the Parliaments environment and public health committee, Ms McGuinness cautioned that plastic products could not be eliminated overnight.\n\nSpeaking from Strasbourg, she said, We need to turn concern into action and already industry is responding to the recycling challenge and work is underway on more sustainable alternatives.\n\nHowever, its important to note that plastic plays a vital role in our society, particularly for hygiene purposes in healthcare and hospitals. Where there are alternatives available, efforts must be made to encourage consumers and producers to opt for the more sustainable options.\n\nFine Gaels Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune said that the ban would help significantly in the fight again plastic.\n\nThere is a responsibility on us as users of plastic to ensure we use it responsibly and there is also a focus on producers to ensure that plastic is easier to reuse and recycle.\n\nThe next step in this process is negotiating a final position with the European Council and I hope to see talks progress in a positive way.\n\nMEPs also supported a target to cut use of plastic food containers where there are currently no alternatives by 25 per cent by 2025.\n\nThere are also measures to ensure 90 per cent of plastic drinks bottles are collected separately and recycled by 2025, and to cut down on cigarette filters containing plastic.\n\nWith fishing gear making up more than a quarter of the waste found on Europes beaches, the plans will require member states to collect 50 per cent of lost and abandoned gear each year and recycle at least 15 per cent by 2025.There are more than 150 million tonnes of plastic in the oceans, entangling wildlife, polluting beaches and being eaten by creatures such as sea turtles.  Additional reporting from PA","title":"MEPs vote to ban single-use plastics such as straws and cotton buds","date":"2018-10-24","source":"theirishtimes","label":1}
{"content":"The Special Counselor is sex obsessed. You cant impeach a president over his private sex life. Having affairs isnt a crime. The American people dont care. The prosecutor is over-reaching. The American people elected our president based on his politics, not his personal life. They dont care about his sex life. This is Sexual McCarthyism. The special prosecutor is a sex pervert. He is jealous of the president. This is a political and sexual witch-hunt.\n\nYes, these charges all apply to Robert Mueller. But Ive heard all of this before. Every charge above came direct from the liberal playbook defending President Bill Clinton from the Ken Starr investigation. I was there. Im a witness. Every liberal friend and colleague I knew back in 1998 used these exact words. They all called Ken Starr a sex pervert and branded his investigation of Bill Clinton a sexual witch-hunt based on partisan politics.\n\nBut it wasnt just average everyday liberals who cried sex pervert. It was liberal celebrities and high-profile Democrat politicians too. I know. I was a regular guest on Bill Mahers Politically Incorrect on ABC TV back in the late 1990s. I debated about the Bill Clinton-Ken Starr investigation nonstop. Liberal celebs called Ken Starr a sex pervert. They said he had no right to politicize our presidents sex life and make it into an impeachable crime.\n\nBut wait, it gets better. The Village Voice was New York Citys famous newspaper for the liberal gay community. Their headline in 1998 about the Ken Starr investigation was Sexual McCarthyism. So, liberals in 1998 compared an investigation into a presidents sex life by a special prosecutor, to the Senator McCarthy witch-hunt of the 1950s.\n\nNow lets compare Bill Clintons sex scandal with President Trumps. Clintons scandal was the peoples business. It was worthy of an investigation. Clinton had sex while being paid by taxpayers, while in the White House. Clinton had sex with a White House intern, in the oval office. Then he lied about it under oath. He did commit crimes. Clintons sex with an intern would today be called sexual assault. The liberal feminist #metoo movement would demand impeachment. Ken Starrs investigation was certainly warranted.\n\nToday Robert Mueller has turned an investigation of Russian Collusion that never happened into a sexual witch-hunt. This truly is Sexual McCarthyism. Mueller has even destroyed attorney-client privilege with a raid on Trumps lawyers office, home and hotel suite to investigate possible affairs with Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, and Trumps Access Hollywood videotape. My math says his investigation is about sex, sex and sex. This is now a Triple X investigation.\n\nUnlike Clinton, all three incidents happened to a private citizen Trump, before he was president. The sex was consensual. None of this involves the American people. It may be Melanias business, but its not yours or mine, or Robert Muellers.\n\nYes, in a few rare instances attorney-client privilege has been broken in the history of America. Maybe for a mob lawyer protecting a mass murderer...or a lawyer hiding evidence on behalf of a billionaire drug trafficker...or a terrorism case.\n\nBut never before in American legal history has a lawyer been raided by the federal government on the basis of sex affairs, minor FEC infractions, or a videotape of a private citizen bragging to a TV host about sex with beautiful women.\n\nThis is absurd. This is CHILLING. This is Soviet Gulag tactics. This is criminal. Im talking about Robert Mueller.\n\nThe system is rigged. If this attack on attorney-client privilege stands, none of us can trust our attorney ever again. If the government can raid my lawyer over minor infractions and read my confidential privileged conversations with my lawyer, and try to pressure my lawyer to turn against me (for any reason) then America is lost. The Judicial System is gone. We are all finished. If politics and sex can be used as weapons by a Special Counselor, and the ACLU and Bar Association say nothing, we are a Banana Republic. Stalin would be proud.\n\nWe can all debate whether the Bill Clinton investigation was justified. Whether Ken Starr over-reached. But today, there is no debate. Muellers investigation is a travesty. If liberals called Ken Starr a sex pervert what dopes that make Mueller? He is over-reaching. The American people wont stand for this. Muellers approval ratings are plunging. For good reason...\n\nThis truly is Sexual McCarthyism.\n\nWayne Allyn Root is the host of WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show on Newsmax TV, nightly at 8 PM ET, found on DirecTV channel 349, Dish TV channel 216, or at http:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/Shows\/The-Wayne-Allyn-Root-Show He is also a nationally syndicated radio host of WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show found at http:\/\/usaradio.com\/wayne-allyn-root\/","title":"WAYNE ALLYN ROOT Sexual McCarthyism","date":"2018-04-16","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)  Florida counties have reached the deadline for submitting the results of their election recounts.\n\nA federal judge earlier rejected a request to give counties more time beyond the 3 p.m. Thursday deadline to finish their recounts. Palm Beach Countys election supervisor had warned that the county would not be able to complete the recount on time.\n\nThe election will be certified Tuesday.\n\nThe states 67 counties were required to do machine recounts of more than 8 million ballots cast in the contentious midterms. The U.S. Senate and governors races were among the three within the vote margin to trigger a machine recount.\n\nSeveral lawsuits have been filed by Democrats and Republicans in the wake of the close election.","title":"Florida Counties Hit Deadline For Submitting Recount Results","date":"2018-11-15","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"Theresa May was accused of a calculated deceit of the British public by former minister Jo Johnson today.\n\nIn his first newspaper interview since resigning on Friday night, Boris Johnsons brother told the Evening Standard that the Prime Minister was trying to conceal from voters the bitter price of leaving the European Union, even under the terms that she aims to announce this week.\n\nAt the same time, Mrs Mays hopes of getting a Brexit deal through Parliament were dented when the leader of Remain-backing MPs, Dominic Grieve, said he was picking up a sea change in the mood of back-benchers against the PMs proposals.\n\nHe said more ministers are likely to break ranks, including by making calls for a fresh referendum on whether to press ahead  with Brexit or stay in the EU.\n\nFrom the Brexiteers, there were warnings that Mrs Mays leadership was at stake if she refused to abandon her proposals for a deal that Jacob Rees-Mogg claimed would turn the UK into a colony of the EU.\n\nDeepening Brexit uncertainty caused a steep fall in the pound. In early trading, sterling lost nearly one per cent against the dollar to $1.2845 and was down 0.2 against the euro, at 1.1422. Penny Mordaunt, the International Development Secretary, fired a warning shot past Mrs May by saying Cabinet could block a bad deal. She said: The important thing is theres two checks on this deal, theres Cabinet and theres Parliament.  No 10 was hoping for a decisive breakthrough in talks with the EU in the next 48 hours. Mrs Mays chief Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins was in talks in Brussels with Michel Barniers deputy Sabine Weyand aimed at ironing out sticking points and technical issues. European foreign ministers poured cold water on Mrs Mays hopes of securing a get-out clause, demanded by many Tories, to prevent the country being stuck permanently in a Northern Ireland backstop. French Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau said: If you have any sort of temporary arrangement, this needs to be a bilateral decision from the EU27 and the UK at the same time. Jeremy Corbyn was contradicted by his shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer, who made clear that the departure from the EU can be stopped. Sir Keir said a fresh referendum must be kept as an option. The four floating Cabinet ministers whose verdict will be crucial if a deal is reached  Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, Michael Gove and Dominic Raab  were keeping their powder dry. But a source close to one of them predicted that all four would reluctantly fall into line behind Mrs May because frankly, there havent been enough no-deal preparations to prove an alternative. Mr Gove, the Environment Secretary, told reporters on his doorstep that any deal must deliver on the referendum.\n\nA major pharmaceutical firm announced plans to relocate to Ireland after Brexit. Steris said the move would preserve benefits of EU Membership\n\nUnusually, no agenda for tomorrows weekly Cabinet meeting was issued to senior ministers before the weekend, suggesting Mrs May was aiming for a breakthrough in time to present a plan for approval.\n\nIf talks succeed, a legal text running to 500 pages, setting out withdrawal terms, will be presented. A separate text is expected to outline a political agreement on future trade and relations, with the final deal subject to more negotiations.\n\nIn his exclusive interview, former rail minister Mr Johnson said he decided to resign in advance of a deal because leaked plans showed Mrs May would drown out the voices of dissenters with a massive public relations campaign to get it through.\n\nHe was furious that the leaked plan included telling the public what Mrs Mays deal would mean for the people compared with a shambolic no-deal exit  but would not show how much worse growth would be compared with staying in the EU.\n\nThis is a calculated deceit on the British people, he said. I challenge the Government to come clean on the cost of Brexit. The reason they cant look us in the eye, its because they know this will leave us worse off and with less control. Its a gross abuse of civil service impartiality.\n\nNo 10 rejected Mr Johnsons claim and disowned the leaked document. We have made a prior commitment that the House would be provided with appropriate analysis ahead of the meaningful vote a Downing Street political source said.\n\nMr Grieve told the Standard that he had found a hardening of opposition to Mrs Mays plans among Tory MPs on both sides of the Brexit debate over the weekend, and more support for a referendum. Its clear that we are seeing a deepening crisis, he said. The options for a smooth Brexit are non-existent and each day shows this more clearly. We need to consider alternatives, including the public having a final say in a referendum.\n\nThere is a sea-change in mood among my Conservative colleagues who are focused by this crisis. I would not be surprised if more colleagues in senior positions speak out.  Former International Development Secretary Justine Greening said she thought more Remain-backing ministers were considering quitting.\n\nMs Greening said she did not believe Mrs Mays plan could get a majority in the Commons. We should be planning as to how we can put this final say on Brexit in the hands of the British people, she told the Today programme. In his Daily Telegraph column today, Boris Johnson called for the Cabinet to mutiny against plans that would see the UK remain in captivity.","title":"Jo Johnson accuses Theresa May of deceiving British people over Brexit","date":"2018-11-12","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch is suing for documents relating to activities undertaken by George Soros Open Society Foundations abroad.\n\nThe Soros Open Society Foundations of Romania lawsuit was filed after State and USAID failed to substantively respond to an October 16, 2017, FOIA request seeking among other records: All records relating to any contracts, grants or other allocations\/disbursements of funds by the State Department to the Open Society Foundation  Romania and\/or its personnel and\/or any OSFR subsidiary or affiliate. All assessments, evaluations, reports or similar records relating to the work of Open Society Foundation  Romania and\/or its subsidiaries or affiliated organizations. The Soros Open Society Foundations of Colombia lawsuit was filed after State failed to respond to an October 23, 2017, FOIA request seeking among other records:\n\nIt is time for Americans to be allowed to see State Department documentation regarding the public funding of Soros Open Society Foundations, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement Wednesday.\n\nThe billionaire George Soros needs zero assistance from taxpayers to promote his far-left agenda abroad.\n\nLast October, Soros transferred billions of his personal wealth into his infamous Open Society Foundations. The non-profit is one of the worlds top funders of open-borders causes. As Soros approaches 90 years old in the Trump-era, it appears the hedge fund manager is going all in.\n\nGeorge Soros, who built one of the worlds largest fortunes through a famous series of trades, has turned over nearly $18 billion to Open Society Foundations, according to foundation officials, a move that transforms both the philanthropy he founded and the investment firm supplying its wealth, reported the Wall Street Journal.","title":"Judicial Watch Sues For Documents On Activities Of George Soros Open Society Foundations","date":"2018-03-28","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Adidas believe that the stellar global brand of Arsenal is ripe for exploiting after agreeing a 60million-a-year deal to manufacture the Gunners kit from next season.\n\nArsenal announced a five-year agreement with the German sportswear giants earlier this week, ending an association with rivals Puma that dated back to 2014 in a deal that doubles their annual return and places them on a par with Chelsea as the Premier Leagues second highest earner behind Manchester United.\n\nThe Gunners last wore Adidas during the 1993-94 season but the company put together a sizeable offer  sufficient that Puma opted not to activate their right to first refusal on an extension at the same price  to bring Arsenal back to the three stripes.\n\nIndeed chief executive Kasper Rorsted described moving for Arsenal as a no-brainer for Adidas.\n\nWhen we look upon the Arsenal brand, its a stellar global brand thats been under-performing in the last couple of years, he said at the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nWe believe that long-term there is so much upside in Arsenal.\n\nIf you look at how theyre playing right now, 5-1 at Craven Cottage against Fulham, playing some of the best football, some of the best goals were made ... [Aaron] Ramsey when he scored the goal with his heel.\n\nIts just stellar football. They had a good weekend, but in the wrong kit!\n\nArsenals deal is believed to be the joint-fifth most valuable in world football, behind only Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Manchester United. It is double that which Nike pay Tottenham to manufacture their kits.\n\nThe new Adidas contract, along with the 40m-plus per season extension the club agreed with sponsor airline Emirates in February, should ease the financial pressure that has developed at Arsenal in recent months.\n\nA 350,000-a-week contract for Mesut Ozil and big money deals for new signings Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan pushed the clubs wage bill over 200million per annum at a time when the riches of Champions League football are no longer so easily accessible for the north London club.\n\nHead coach Unai Emery will hope these new sponsors can top up his transfer fund, which was relatively restricted for a club of Arsenals size as they spent 70m in his first summer window at the club. The Gunners hope to sign a new midfielder with Aaron Ramsey expected to depart and have closely monitored Miguel Almiron, valued by MLS side Atlanta United at over 30m.","title":"Adidas see great upside in aposstellarapos Arsenal brand after years of under-performance","date":"2018-10-11","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school last month, the nation saw an array of young students rise up to advocate for their beliefs, and push legislators to change gun control laws in the country. Although there was a great deal of conspiracy spewed by ultra-right wing individuals regarding the outspokenness of the young activists, it became clear that these students were taking matters into their own hands, as they viewed their representatives in office incapable of implementing reform.\n\nOne of the students that quickly became a spearhead for the gun reform movement was that of Parkland shooting survivor, Emma Gonzalez, whose ability to rile awareness and activism has caused her to become one of the focuses of the aforementioned attacks.\n\nOne of the individuals that has received backlash because of his attacks, more recently, is that of Congressman Steve King (R-IA), who published a Twitter post that presented racial bias and attacked Gonzalez for her Cuban heritage. In the post, King references that Gonzalez is merely claiming Cuban heritage despite her inability to speak Spanish, and that previous generations of her family left the Cuban dictatorship due to being unable to protect themselves via firearms.\n\nDespite taking down the post very quickly after it was published, it was up long enough to get the attention of the social media world, and consequently some rights advocacy groups.\n\nThe Democratic Coalition Against Trump, a grassroots resistance organization, has formally filed an ethics complaint against the racially-fueled attack against Gonzalez, asking the House Office of Congressional Ethics to further examine the nature of Kings post.\n\nUnfortunately for King, however, the nature of the complaint submitted does not solely surround that of the racist social media post, but further asks the Ethics Committee to look into improper handling of finances and misallocation of campaign jobs by King. The watchdog group found during their investigation that King has a long history of financial improprieties, as well as a pattern of employing his own family members for official positions within his campaign and office.\n\nCo-Founder of the Democratic Coalition, Scott Dworkin, has claimed that between 2004 and 2017, there has been over $800,000 paid by King to members of his family, via various independent groups, of which were primarily operated by relatives of the Iowa congressman.\n\nKing has been long known for his history of racial attacks, which stem back to the Obama era presidency as well. During the years of the former administration, King was a strong advocate of the Birther movement that erroneously accused Obama of being born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and has similarly appeared on mainstream media outlets racially attacking minorities for their contributions to society. With Trump taking office last year, King has become even more comfortably vocal with his pattern of racial rhetoric.\n\nDespite the fact that King and his campaign attempted to mitigate backlash that would arise from the racially-charged post against Gonzalez, it is clear that the congressman is now being thrust into deeper waters as a result. Not only will his history of racism be investigated, but circumstances surrounding his financial record may cause even further problems, and potentially leave his post in public office in an imbalance.","title":"Rep Steve King Faces Jail Time For Homophobic Rant Against A Child Karma Strikes","date":"2018-03-29","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Ontario's Finance Minister Vic Fedeli arrives for a meeting with Ontario Premier Doug Ford and members of cabinet, as they sit down with economists from major Canadian banks to discuss the province's economic outlook and the ongoing NAFTA negotiations at Queens Park Legislature, in Toronto on Thursday, August 30, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris Young\n\nTORONTO  Ontarios deficit has more than doubled as the Ford government announced it adjusted the books to bring them in line with the financial accounting rules approved by the auditor general.\n\nAn independent report commissioned by Doug Fords government in July and released Friday also booked higher expenses and lower revenues. The result is a deficit that has ballooned from $6.7 billion to $15 billion.\n\nAs a result of the changes, the government says for the first time in three years Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk has given Ontarios public accounts a clean opinion.\n\nIn a speech at the Economic Club of Canada Finance Minister Vic Fedeli said the truth may not be much fun, but at least you know its the truth.\n\nFedeli tasked the independent commission  headed by former B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell  with probing the Liberal governments accounting methods surrounding a pair of teacher pension plans and the provinces Fair Hydro Plan.\n\nThose accounting practices had led to a two-year fight with Ontarios auditor general, who said in April that the Liberals understated their deficits by billions.\n\nLysyk suggested that the $6.7-billion deficit projected by the Liberals for 2018-2019 would instead be $11.7 billion, and the projected $6.5 billion for 2020-2021 would actually be $12.5 billion.\n\nThe Progressive Conservatives have also commissioned a line-by-line audit of government spending, which is expected to be finished in the coming weeks.\n\nMore to come.","title":"Ontario deficit 8 billion higher than Liberal numbers Finance Minister","date":"2018-09-21","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"With Christmas suddenly looming and thoughts turning to online shopping, Jodie Whittaker's seventh outing as the Doctor is perfectly judged. The setting is a deep-space version of an Amazon warehouse  or at least an Amazon warehouse if it was the backdrop for the wackiest ever episode of Westworld.\n\nDespite living in a blue box that traverses time and space, the Doctor is somehow at home when her internet order of a Fez hat is delivered (talk about untrammelled fantasy).\n\nBut along with the natty headgear is a note pleading for help. Obviously she has no choice but to immediately divert course, along with her regular crew of Yaz (Mandip Gill), Ryan (Tosin Cole) and Graham (Bradley Walsh).\n\nTheir destination is the moon-size shipping centre of the all powerful Kerblam corporation  a dystopian virtual retailer whose packages are conveyed by cheery\/creepy robots resembling cyberpunk Postman Pats.\n\nKerblam would run perfectly well as a machine-only enterprise. As a concession to pesky humans, however, 10 per cent of the workforce is organic. What could go wrong? Lots, it turns out. Several organics have vanished recently and now friendly warehouse worker Dan (comedian Lee Mack) has joined the missing.\n\nThis is, at one level, a serious instalment with a sobering message about the replacement of humans by machines. However, Kerblam also brims with irascible wit (the Postman Pat-bots are unnerving but there's something hilarious to their creepiness). And with Doctor and crew soon go pegging around the infinite warehouse, having passed themselves off as new recruits, the hour zips by.\n\nIt all adds up to an important course correction after last week's despair-filled rumination on the partition of India  an hour of sci-fi sociopolitics that sent my eight year old to bed confused and a bit depressed (not what you want on a school night).\n\nThe stark humour carries through to secret villain Charlie (Leo Flanagan) and his plan for wiping out tens of thousands of Kerblam customers. His goal is to fuel a backlash against machines and create more jobs for humans (genius, they should make him Brexit Secretary). He's invented a deadly strain of bubble rap, which explodes with a single pop  the first law of human behaviour being nobody can resist bubble rap.\n\nThe big reveal is that the cry for help received by the Doctor is from the Kerblam hive mind, not from any of the flesh and blood employees on the moon. But the other arguable twist is the creative casting. Mack displays surprising acting chops and show-runner Chris Chibnall's old Broadchurch mucker Julie Hesmondhalgh pops up as Kerblam's very confused head of human resources (Matthew Gravelle, likewise from Broadchurch, provides Kerblam's scary gameshow-host voice).\n\nWith the day saved  though Charlie's work crush Kira (Claudia Jessie) comes to a sticky end  the upbeat ending also provides a nice contrast to the mopey tone of the previous episode. This, in other, words is Doctor Who at its finely-teased best. There's a grown-up point  do we really all want to be replaced by machines?  but also lashings of quippy banter and funny\/scary robots. Just what the Doctor ordered.","title":"Doctor Who review aposKerblamapos is the BBC series at its finely-teased best","date":"2018-11-16","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Omarosa Manigault Newman has a stash of video, emails, text messages and other documentation supporting the claims in her tell-all book about her time in the Trump White House, a person with direct knowledge of the records told The Associated Press Friday.\n\nManigault Newman has made clear that she plans to continue selectively releasing the pieces of evidence if President Donald Trump and his associates continue to attack her credibility and challenge the claims in her book, Unhinged. Shes already dribbled out audio recordings of conversations, and video clips, texts or email could follow, according to the person who described what Manigault Newman has called a multimedia treasure trove. The person was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly and asked for anonymity.\n\nI will not be silenced. I will not be intimidated. Im not going to be bullied by Donald Trump, the former Trump aide told The Associated Press this week as she seemed to dismiss a threat from Trumps campaign. She spoke to the AP hours after Trumps campaign announced it was filing an arbitration action against her alleging shed violated a signed agreement with the campaign that prohibits her from disclosing confidential information.\n\nShe told PBS in a separate interview this week: I have a significant amount, in fact, a treasure trove, of multimedia backup for everything thats not only in Unhinged, but everything that I assert about Donald Trump.\n\nManigault Newman claims Trump officials offered her a job on the campaign as a way of silencing her, after she was fired from the White House. Shes accused Trump of being racist and suffering from a mental decline.\n\nThe White House has countered by branding Manigault Newman as a disgruntled former staffer with credibility issues who is now trying to profit from a book based on false attacks against an individual she has called a mentor and has admired for more than a decade.\n\nSimon & Schuster this week also dismissed threatened legal action from Trumps campaign. A campaign attorney told Simon & Schuster in a letter that Unhinged violated Manigault Newmans confidentiality agreement, but the publisher responded that it was acting well within its rights.\n\nManigault Newman was director of communications for a White House office that networks with various constituency groups until she was fired last December by chief of staff John Kelly, citing significant integrity issues. Before joining the administration, Manigault Newman handled African-American outreach for Trumps presidential campaign. She has known Trump since 2003, when she became a contestant on Trumps TV show, The Apprentice.\n\nShe has already released several secret audio recordings, including of the meeting in which she was fired by Kelly.\n\nIn another recording, Trumps daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is heard offering Manigault Newman $15,000 a month - after she was fired from the White House - for a campaign job requiring her to be positive. Lara Trump is a senior adviser on Trumps re-election campaign.\n\nManigault Newman also alleges that tape exists of Trump using a racial slur while working on The Apprentice. Trump has denied this, saying on Twitter that I dont have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up.","title":"Omarosa Has Stash Of Video In Addition To Audiotapes Report","date":"2018-08-18","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trump is known for thinking and speaking highly of himself, and if any opportunity to gloat presents itself, he is sure to jump at it. The presidents cocky demeanor and conceited rhetoric has placed him at the top of the list of the most mockable people, and almost weekly, there is newspaper or magazine released with his orange face on it.\n\nTIME Magazine is one of the main perpetrators of these amazing cover pages, even going as far as to release video covers on Twitter. The latest cover features Trump in front of a mirror, and in that mirror, a reflection of Trump dressed in royal attire appears.\n\nThe reactions to this tweet will absolutely have you on the floor. We saved the best ones for you below:","title":"TIME Releases A Trump Cover So Accurate Donald His Goons Are Dead Silent VIDEO","date":"2018-06-13","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The Pound soared on financial markets after the statement by chief negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nIt represents a stunning coup for PM Theresa May, who has spent the summer battling for her Chequers Brexit blueprint against her own party.\n\nMr Barnier said: We are prepared to offer Britain a partnership such as there never has been with any other third country.\n\nWe respect Britains red lines scrupulously. In return, they must respect what we are. Single market means single market.","title":"Brexit breakthrough EU says Britain can have unique deal","date":"2018-08-29","source":"thedailystar","label":0}
{"content":"Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will be sent to the International Space Station two-and-a-half weeks earlier than planned, as part of the fallout from the failure to launch the last group of astronauts headed to the station.\n\nSaint-Jacques will go to the International Space Station (ISS) on Dec. 3 instead of the previously planned launch date of Dec. 20.\n\nThis new launch schedule will help guarantee the continuity of world-class science and time-critical operations on the space station, the Canadian Space Agency said in a statement.\n\nThe last launch, orchestrated by Russias space agency on Oct. 11, failed during its ascent. It was carrying American astronaut Nick Pague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. The capsule fell back to Earth and neither was hurt.\n\n[READ MORE: No failure to launch for Canadian astronaut, says Garneau]\n\nRussias space agency says a deformed sensor caused its Soyuz rocket to crash. The sensor became deformed during the rockets assembly, causing one of the rockets four strap-on boosters to separate incorrectly, officials said. The Russian space agency released this video from the launch, which was posted online by Space.com:\n\nSaint-Jacques will be joined by American Anne McClain and Russian Oleg Kononenko on Dec. 3. The current ISS crew will return to Earth on Dec. 20, according to a Russian news source. The current crew was supposed to come back when the previous crew arrived at the space station.\n\nSaint-Jacques explained last week that his trip could suffer due to the smaller crew aboard the ISS.\n\nUnfortunately, what it means when the staffing of a space station goes down is that there are fewer ... hours available, so the first thing that we lose is the time to do science experiments, Saint-Jacques said.\n\n[READ MORE: Canadian astronauts trip will suffer because of failed Russian launch]\n\nWe cant really cut on the maintenance (and) repair tasks; we have to keep the station working, because its keeping us alive, so thats why its in everybodys interest that we resume Soyuz flight operations as soon as its deemed safe, Saint-Jacques said.\n\nHe warned that space walks  when a crew member leaves the station to work on part of its exterior  could be cut from the mission because of the smaller crew, but Canadas space agency said Thursday that wasnt the case.\n\nAs a fully trained space-walker and robotic operator, Saint-Jacques will provide skills necessary at a time when multiple space walks and maintenance tasks are required, the agency said. And as a medical doctor, Saint-Jacques will also tend to the health of his crew while theyre aboard the ISS.\n\nSaint-Jacques said its still possible Pague and Ovchinin will join his crew aboard the station at a later date.\n\nHe also said the failed launch made him more confident in the Soyuz rocket, from which hell be launching, as well.\n\n(The Soyuz spacecraft) is very robust. Of course, space is hard. Things will fail, but it was very reassuring to see that even such a badly timed problem at such a bad spot  even then, the crew were completely safe (and) the search-and-rescue operations were swift and efficient, Saint-Jacques said.\n\nDavids the creme de la creme, the best there is, and were really excited and confident going forward, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said alongside Saint-Jacques last week.","title":"Canadian astronauts trip to space station bumped up 2 12 weeks","date":"2018-11-01","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) No matter how old you are, you will benefit from taking phosphatidylserine supplements. Phosphatidylserine is a type of fat that naturally occurs in all cells in the body, but is mostly found in the brain. It is one of the few brain supplements that has been proven safe and effective for people of all ages. Here are six ways that phosphatidylserine supplementation supports brain health:\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nIn addition to supplements, phosphatidylserine can mostly be found in unusual animal foods, such as cow brains, Atlantic mackerel, chicken hearts, eel, and offal. Tuna and white beans are the only two common foods abundant in phosphatidylserine, although it can also be found in small amounts in foods like soy, egg yolks, chicken liver, and beef liver. Just keep in mind that phosphatidylserine may cause some side effects, such as gas, insomnia, and an upset stomach. It may also have a blood-thinning effect.\n\nRead more news stories and studies on brain health supplements by going to SupplementsReport.com.","title":"People of all ages can benefit from phosphatidylserine supplementation","date":"2018-09-04","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Crystal Palace are supporting Responsible Gambling Week, the biggest ever industry-wide campaign to trigger a national conversation about what it means to gamble responsibly.\n\n#RGWeek18 will take place from November 1-7 under the slogan Lets Talk about Responsible Gambling. It is supported by leading gambling charities, GambleAware, GamCare and Young Gamblers Education Trust.\n\nAnd Palace will promote Responsible Gambling Week messages at its home match against Arsenal this Sunday.\n\nBarry Webber, Palace commercial director, said: As a Premier League club, we recognise our responsibility to help promote safe and responsible gambling.\n\n\"We were the first Premier League club to form a partnership with GambleAware, and we are committed to spreading messages about responsible gambling to the widest possible audience.\n\nJon Collins, Director of ManBetX, who are Palaces shirt sponsors, said: ManBetX are committed to helping people gamble responsibly and welcome the clubs involvement with Responsible Gambling Week.\n\n\"As the official shirt sponsor of Crystal Palace FC, we have an added degree of responsibility to support those who offer help and free advice to ensure people gamble responsibly, both within football and the wider community.","title":"Crystal Palace supporting Responsible Gambling Week at Selhurst Park against Arsenal on Sunday","date":"2018-10-26","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"CHANGZHOU, China, Sept. 13, 2018 \/PRNewswire\/ -- Trina Solar Limited (\"Trina\nSolar\" or the \"company\"), a leading total solutions provider for solar energy,\nhas received a top rating in the latest annual module bankability report,\npublished by Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). With this latest report, Trina Solar is now\nthe only module manufacturer to be rated as fully bankable three times in a\nrow by 100% of industry experts participating in the BNEF survey.\n\nWhen assessing the bankability of a PV manufacturer, banks focus on the\nfinancial health of the company; the track-record of its modules in the field;\nand the manufacturer's warranties, according to survey participants. For its\nsurvey, Bloomberg NEF reached out to banks, funds, EPCs, independent power\nproviders (IPPs) and technical advisors worldwide. These experts represent an\ninstalled PV capacity of 29GW globally. BNEF also conducted a series of in-\ndepth interviews with quality inspectors and technical advisors, complementing\nthe survey.\n\nRongfang Yin, Executive Vice President of Trina Solar, commented: \"We are very\nproud of the great result Trina Solar has achieved once again in this renowned\nindustry report. The fact that we keep holding the top spot for the third year\nin a row is not a coincidence, but reflects a solid financial situation and\nhealthy quality record, which are both valued by banks and investors around\nthe world who are deeply involved in project financing.\" Yin added, \"This\nunbiased distinction may give additional reassurance to companies looking for\na reliable long-time partner in an industry situation characterized by\nuncertainties and where more fragile players are dropping out of the market.\"\n\nThe latest BNEF report also quotes the PV Module Reliability Scorecard,\npublished by DNV GL, where Trina Solar has emerged as \"Top Performer\" among\nglobal module manufacturers for the fourth time since 2014. The scorecard is\nthe most comprehensive comparison of PV module reliability test results\npublicly available on the market today. According to DNV GL, participating\nmanufacturers are seeking third-party endorsement for their high-quality\nmindset.\n\n## **About Trina Solar**\n\nTrina Solar is a leading global total solutions provider for solar energy.\nFounded in 1997, Trina Solar develops proprietary smart PV solutions for large\npower stations as well as commercial and residential solutions, energy storage\nsystems and photovoltaic modules. As the world's leading provider of\nintegrated solar energy solutions, Trina Solar has taken the lead in evolving\ninto a brand in the world of energy IoT (internet of things) and is committed\nto becoming a global leader in this new and emerging sector. For more\ninformation, please visit www.trinasolar.com.","title":"Trina Solar A Top Bankable Module Supplier Third Year in a Row","date":"2018-09-13","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Traill\/Invision\/AP","title":"The Progressive War on Whiteness","date":"2018-08-27","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Thats why Infowars has announced our latest contest to find the best Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson or other Infowars-themed meme capable of reflecting the Lefts robotic and predictable nature, with a humorous twist.\n\nDont sit back and let the Meme Revolution pass you by! Get involved in this contest running until next Monday October 22nd and participate in the most epic meme battle against the Left to date!\n\n: NPC memes must somehow incorporate Infowars or Alex Jones to qualify.\n\nSubmissions will ONLY be accepted through the email [email protected].\n\nOne lucky winner will be chosen to receive a $10,000 grand prize!\n\nOnly legal and lawful memes will be accepted!\n\nCheck out examples of the NPC meme below:\n\nYou can also scan the NPC Snapchat filter below to jumpstart your meme creativity!\n\nWatch: Why the NPC Meme FREAKS OUT the Left\n\n\n\nRELATED: NEW YORK TIMES ADMITS MEMES ARE TOOLS OF INFLUENCE AS TWITTER DROPS BAN HAMMER\n\nInfowars has been banned by Facebook. Please help by sharing this article on your own Facebook page.\n\nWatch: Dont Be A NPC, Be The Hero\n\n\n\nWatch: New York Times Writer Wants To Ban Memes","title":"Meme War 30 Infowars Launches 10K NPC Meme Contest","date":"2018-10-17","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Something bad has happened to Rudy Giuliani. The man once known as Americas mayor has apparently sold his soul to the devil. Dan Rather, one of Americas most beloved and respected journalists, has certainly recognized Giulianis downfall and posted a scathing tweet about it. Rathers tweet should have Giuliani hanging his head in shame.\n\nRathers tweet said it all. Giuliani did make a great name for himself taking down the Italian mafia that ruled New York for decades. He also guided his city through the horrendous terrorist attack on 9\/11. He probably could have even become president after the way he stoically guided his city back from that attack. It seemed like everyone in America knew him and loved him. Now hes nothing but a washed-up has-been, and he appears to have gone mentally insane in his defense of Donald Trump.\n\nGiuliani used to live his life in the pursuit of justice, now he spends his days appearing on the 24-hour news networks telling lies and attempting to explain away and cover up all of the crimes Trump has committed. His most famous client ever is an unindicted co-conspirator to several felonies, and Giuliani cant make up lies fast enough in his attempts to hide the truth.\n\nConsidering that Trump is the head of the biggest crime family going these days, Rather is spot-on when he says that Giuliani sounds like a mob lawyer. Giulianis downfall is something the history books will scorch him for. In fact, its so bad that his crazy rantings are all hes going to be known for for the rest of his life, and the rest of this nations history too. No one will remember him for the great accomplishments hes made in life, theyll remember him for defending this centurys Benedict Arnold.","title":"Dan Rather Destroys Rudy Giuliani In Highly Explosive Friday Tweet Like A Boss","date":"2018-08-25","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The doctor struck off over mistakes that led to the death of a six-year-old boy, Jack Adcock, in 2011 could return to work after the Court of Appeal upheld her challenge against the decision.\n\nOn Monday Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba won her appeal against a High Court ruling earlier in 2018 which said erasing her from the medical register was the only way to maintain confidence in the profession.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal found the earlier judgement was wrong and overturned its decision that Dr Bawa-Garba should be erased, reinstating a 12 month suspension. The General Medical Council (GMC) has said it will not challenge the Court of Appeal judgement further.\n\nThe case and the GMC's role has become a flash point for the medical profession who have raised concerns about the chronic understaffing and unsustainable pressures in the health service, and the lack of protection for those working under these conditions.\n\nThe judgement by chief justice Lord Burnett of Maldon, Sir Terence Etherton, and Lady Justice Rafferty said: The Court of Appeal unanimously allows the appeal and it holds that divisional court was wrong to interfere with the decision of the tribunal.\n\nThe Court of Appeal sets aside the order of the divisional court that Dr Bawa-Garba should be erased from the medical register and restores the order of the tribunal that she be suspended from practise for 12 months, subject to review.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from Nigeria after the ruling, Dr Bawa-Garba said: \"Im very pleased with the outcome, but I want us to pay tribute and remember Jack Adcock a wonderful little boy who started this story.\n\n\"I want to let the parents know I am sorry for my role in what has happened to Jack.\"\n\n\"Ive dedicated my life to medicine, it is my purpose. I cant see myself being anything else but a practising doctor serving the community. So of course when I got the news that I can be given the opportunity to work again, I was very pleased and I thank god for this day.\"\n\nJack, who was born with Downs syndrome and a heart condition was admitted to Leicester University Hospitals NHS Trust with digestive and respiratory issues and was treated for acute gastroenteritis initially, but died from sepsis brought on by pneumonia.\n\nThough still training to be a paediatric consultant Dr Bawa-Garba was the senior doctor on the ward and was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence over the death, but the GMCs own tribunal service ruled in 2017 she should be allowed to return to work after a suspension of 12 months.\n\nThe Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service had said erasure was disproportionate taking into consideration failings at the trust, including a lack of senior consultant cover, IT problems and staff shortages leaving Dr Bawa-Garba covering several wards.\n\nHowever the GMC argued it was not the tribunal services job to overrule the courts and that Dr Bawa-Garbas mistakes, including failing to spot barn door signs of sepsis according to expert witnesses, should lead to her de-registration.\n\nMondays ruling confirms that the tribunal service was right to take account of the wider context and mitigating factors in forming its judgement.\n\nDoctors and supporters raised hundreds of thousands to hire an independent legal team for the appeal, with many saying Dr Bawa-Garba was being scapegoated for systemic failures which were becoming increasingly common across the NHS.\n\nFormer health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt had also spoken out against the decision to have Dr Bawa-Garba struck off, saying it would harm efforts to introduce a learning culture in the NHS and ordering a review into the gross negligence manslaughter charge in healthcare.\n\nWe fully accept the Court of Appeals judgment, GMC chief executive Charlie Massey said, saying it acted in good faith and the complex case had provided important clarity on the roles of criminal courts and tribunals.\n\nAs the independent regulator responsible for protecting patient safety we are frequently called upon to take difficult decisions, and we do not take that role lightly.\n\nWe are sorry for the anguish and uncertainty these proceedings have had on Jacks family, Dr Bawa-Garba and the wider profession.\n\nMr Massey added that the case had rightly showed the GMC it could do more to speak out in support of doctors working in highly pressurised environments.\n\nDr Chaand Nagapul,chair of the British Medical Association, said: We welcome todays judgement of this important case...We hope that Dr Bawa-Garba will now rightly be given space to resume her career.\n\nTodays successful appeal in no way detracts from the tragic circumstances of this case and the unexpected death of a young boy, and we once again send our deepest condolences to Jack Adcocks family.","title":"Hadiza Bawa-Garba Doctor at centre of sepsis death case should be able to return to work Court of A","date":"2018-08-13","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a most unusual surprise in the midst of answering the of reporters traditional questions during the White House briefing. A member of the press asked if she would mind calling on his young associate next.  Sanders gave a genuine smiled when she saw something the cameras has not yet captured and agreed.\n\nAfter Sanders finished responding to the reporter, she called on the reporters young colleague. A little voice piped up, and she took his question quite seriously.\n\nThe cameras showed a carefully groomed six- or seven-year-old boy in a coat and tie speaking fearlessly into the crowd of professionals. The mike made him look very small indeed.\n\nThe boy asked her how the Trump administration intended to protect kids like himself from being shot to death at school.\n\nThe kids words clearly touched Sanders. Her emotion was clear in her voice as she struggled to hold back tears. The White House press secretary has three preschoolers of her own, and frequently refers to them during the briefings as a way to loosen up the room.\n\nSanders dual and competiting roles as mother and White House press secretary were evident when she responded, as the PBS Newshours YouTube showed:\n\nSanders continued, saying she was so sorry the young man was afraid:\n\nThe entire press briefing can be seen in the video below:","title":"Sarah Huckabee Sanders Cries After Boy Calls Her Out About Shootings At Press Briefing","date":"2018-05-30","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Its impossible to grasp the full significance of the fact that of the worlds two major religions, one is engaged in a generations long campaign of torture and murder of non-believers, and the other is always mired in sex scandals involving child rape, pedophilia, molestation and high level cover ups. If our spiritual leadership is guilty of the worst kinds of crimes, and with such outstanding impunity, what chance do human beings have of rising above our current level of destructive consciousness?\n\nThe amount of cognitive dissonance it takes to seek spiritual growth in the footsteps of such seriously corrupt organizations is overwhelming. And somehow, people still show up to churches and mosques to worship the stories, symbols and figures of organizations that abuse their good faith.\n\nBut spirituality is a major part of being human, and we need leadership in order to cultivate the best virtues within ourselves. But something has gone wrong.\n\nWhile this might seem like an exclusively modern problem, the religious mindset, as presented in the form of so many organized religions, has long been recognized by many as being toxic and dangerous to the world at large. Of note here is the perspective of Taoism.\n\nLooking through a translation of the ancient Chinese text of divination, the I Ching, I found a passage telling of a legend in which ascended spiritual masters describe what they saw as the faults in the human race, many of which were related to religion and its effects on humankind.\n\nAs the legend goes, in short, a family of highly evolved spiritual beings chose to incarnate as humans on earth many times over a period of six-thousand years in order to guide humans toward spiritual clarity. At the end of this experiment, these masters meet up to discuss what they saw and what they learned by living hundreds of human lives.\n\nConsider the following passages as quoted from their report on the decline of the human race. Note how they view religion as a source of confusion, chaos and destruction in our world.\n\nRegarding how religions use fear as their main selling point:\n\nArtificial religions make people behave decently out of fear of being punished by Heaven. This fear is widely preached and is the degradation of human spiritual dignity. Thus, people are losing the true knowledge of their deep inner root of universal life. With their spiritual focus misguided and misused, our human friends have lost their natural direction and seek the temporary relief that some religions offer. They cannot see that the most important element of a religion should not be fear of some remote and omnipotent god. ~The Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth Free Online Event: Learn to bring healing energy into the body to overcome stress.\n\nThe purpose of this is noted here:\n\nReligions use symbols and idols to mislead people:\n\nAnd by using exaggerated public displays of piety, religions trick people into a perceptual authoritarianism:\n\nMaking a public declaration and spectacle of ones piety does not indicate real spiritual growth. Such people have known to criticize, attack and murder those of different beliefs in order to demonstrate their piety. In reality, they are totally lost. A social design that was given the term religion by earlier leaders, cannot be good for all times and all people. Any system that imposes rigid patterns on a society must inevitably lead to suffering, pressure and tension. Any benefit, including military strength, is ultimately nullified by the resulting deadlock of inflexible conditions. Compare this to a society that is naturally free and has less armed strength: the people stay open-minded, free, natural and harmonious. ~The Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth\n\nThe religious mindset is not easily questioned or deposed once one has accepted it as part of their reality:\n\nRecent converts, or people who are born into a particular religion, are usually not objective about their religion. They are affected by stories that temporarily correspond in some manner to their own emotions and life experiences. As strong sympathizers and firm believers, they reinforce their emotional patterns and follow the particular destiny of the religion they have chosen. The direction of their lives is not based on spiritual growth or deep individual awareness. ~The Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth\n\nHuman beings are incredibly diverse in ideas and culture, but the presence of dogmatic religions creates conflict, as it violates the truth of the individuals experience.\n\nThis Taoist legend is ultimately about the total spiritual development of human beings and how religion leads us down the wrong path toward enslavement rather than awakening.\n\nDylan Charles is the editor of Waking Times and co-host of Redesigning Reality, both dedicated to ideas of personal transformation, societal awakening, and planetary renewal. His personal journey is deeply inspired by shamanic plant medicines and the arts of Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Yoga. After seven years of living in Costa Rica, he now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he practices Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and enjoys spending time with family. He has written hundreds of articles, reaching and inspiring millions of people around the world.\n\nThis article (Taoist Ascended Masters Comment on How Religions Enslave Us Instead of Awaken Us) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to DylanCharles and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.\n\nTaoist Ascended Masters Comment on How Religions Enslave Us Instead of Awaken Us was last modified: by","title":"Taoist Ascended Masters Comment on How Religions Enslave Us Instead of Awaken Us","date":"2018-09-06","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"Never Trumper, and EIC of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, appeared on HBOs Real Time With Bill Maher Friday evening and said Trump is too stupid to have colluded with Russia but if he did collude, hes happy to see the Mueller indictments and ultimately happy to see Trump impeached.\n\nCollusion isnt even a federal crime, so theres that.\n\nThe Mueller witch hunt is a political hit job by the Deep State. Its riddled with conflicts of interest and a crime hasnt even been named. Muellers and Rosensteins philosophy is show me the man and Ill find the crime.\n\nObamas corrupt FBI planted spies in Trumps campaign in order to create a Russian collusion narrative.\n\nObamas corrupt officials illegally unmasked members of Trumps campaign and obtained FISA warrants on Carter Page by using a fake, Hillary-funded dossier compiled by a former British spy.\n\nMuellers team of corrupt, Trump-hating liberal hacks is a whos who of Obama and Hillary donors.\n\nThe IG report revealed the same FBI agents who covered for Hillarys crimes migrated over to get Trump on the Russia probe, yet Ben Shapiro had the nerve to say hes happy to see Trump impeached if theres evidence of collusion.\n\nTheres growing evidence McCabe altered Mike Flynns 302 interview summaries, so how can we trust anything these corrupt FBI agents do? They obstruct, lie, obfuscate, communicate on burner phones in order to sneak around and use their resources to target political adversaries.\n\nTo this day the FBI still has not done a forensic inspection of the DNC server so we have no proof the server was even hacked, and if hacked, by whom?\n\nShapiro also said if Trump ends Muellers witch hunt, impeachment should be on the table.\n\nIf he throws it in the trash or quashes the Mueller investigation then, yes, impeachment should be on the table, Shapiro said.","title":"Ben Shapiro Im Happy to Wait For the Mueller Indictments Im Happy to See Trump Impeached VIDEO","date":"2018-07-01","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"American comic book writer Stan Lee has died at the age of 95, according to his daughter.\n\nThe legendary comic book writer and producer was the man behind Spiderman, Black Panther, X-Men and many more iconic creations.\n\nLee was fully on board with his material getting adapted into big-budget Hollywood films for the past two decades.\n\nEven when it seemed as if the studio system wasn't doing his work justice (we're looking at you, X-Men 3. And Spider-Man 3. And Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer), Lee was more than happy to show up for what has become trademark cameos.\n\nWith the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) now thriving, Lee enjoyed more appearances than ever in recent years.\n\nHe are 25 of his greatest walk on appearances in one place for your viewing pleasure.\n\nFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)","title":"Stan Lee Comic book writeraposs 25 best cameos in Marvel films","date":"2018-11-12","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) If you are looking for a diet thats not only delicious and easy to prepare but is also good for your health and the environment, the Mediterranean diet is the right one for you. Adherence to this type of diet is environmentally-friendly because it lowers environmental cost, according to a study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition.\n\nIn the study, researchers from the University of Navarra in Spain and Loma Linda University in the U.S. analyzed the impact of adherence to the Mediterranean diet on land, water, energy use, and greenhouse gas emission. They evaluated the dietary patterns of more than 20,000 Spanish participants in the Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN) cohort. The participants completed a questionnaire regarding their food intake. The foods they consumed were classified on a scale as leaning more or less to a Mediterranean dietary pattern. Then, the researchers assessed the impact of each food item on water, land, energy use, and greenhouse gas emission.\n\nBased on the findings of the study, better adherence to the Mediterranean diet was linked to lower land use, water consumption, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emission. The researchers concluded that the Mediterranean diet is an eco-friendly diet choice as it uses less land, water, and energy, and produces fewer greenhouse gases.\n\nSome people may think that the Mediterranean diet as an expensive kind of diet. The truth is that you do not have to buy or import expensive food items like artichokes or salmon, just eat those that are in season and locally available. If trying to adhere to the Mediterranean style overwhelms you, here are seven tips to help you start:\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nRead more news stories and studies on the Mediterranean diet by going to Detox.news.","title":"Good for your health AND the planet Why the Mediterranean diet is an environmentally-friendly optio","date":"2018-10-01","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"On Tuesday, at least two Democrat lawmakers called for President Trumps interpreter to testify before Congress about his private meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe Democrats are so unhinged and so afraid of what President Trump may have discussed with Putin in a private meeting, they are calling for the presidents interpreter to appear in a hearing on Capitol Hill.\n\nTo hell with the interpreters professional ethics, executive privilege or government rules, right, Democrats?\n\nSenator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said Trumps interpreter can help determine what President Trump shared\/promised Putin on our behalf.\n\nShaheen tweeted: Im calling for a hearing with the U.S. interpreter who was present during President Trumps meeting with Putin to uncover what they discussed privately. This interpreter can help determine what @POTUS shared\/promised Putin on our behalf.\n\nRep Joe Kennedy: @realDonaldTrumps translator should come before Congress and testify as to what was said privately immediately. If Republicans are as outraged as they claim, then issue the subpoena today, he demanded.\n\nThe Democrats and Obamas Deep State thugs lost their minds over Trumps meeting with Putin.\n\nDuring the presser with President Trump, Russian President Putin dropped a bomb on the Deep State members in the intelligence community, the Obama Administration and the Clintons.\n\nFor instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this particular case.  Business associates of Mr. Browder have earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money escaped the country. They were transferred to the United States. They sent [a] huge amount of money, $400,000 as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton, Putin said.","title":"Unhinged Democrat Lawmakers Call For Trumps Interpreter in Putin Meeting to Testify Before Congress","date":"2018-07-18","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Desire to 'Do Something' on Guns Blinds Rational Response\n\nAmerica continues to mourn the 17 people killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida last month.","title":"Desire to Do Something on Guns Blinds Rational Response","date":"2018-03-25","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The federal governments action plan on official languages will include significant investments in early childhood education and encourage Francophone immigration in a minority setting.\n\nIn an interview with The Canadian Press, Heritage Minister Melanie Joly is pledging historic investments, without revealing a dollar amount.\n\nThe last federal budget earmarked $400 million starting next year and $88.4 million annually after that.\n\nJoly, who will unveil the five-year action plan with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Thursday says it will end a decade of funding stagnation for minority language communities.\n\nThe plan follows consultations that took place in 2016 in 22 cities across the country.\n\nMuch of the funding will go directly to organizations instead of the provincial and federal governments.\n\nIts a plan to strengthen our communities, ensure their vitality, and also, it is a plan for investments in two areas that have not been supported in the past, which are early childhood and those of Francophone immigration, Joly said in an interview.\n\nFrench-language education will be an important part of the action plan with money for training French teachers as well as cultural activities in schools and community centres.\n\nAnglophone communities in Quebec will also have a share of the pie, especially those outside of Montreal.\n\nSums will be set aside for special projects with the support of the newly created secretariat for relations with English-speaking Quebecers created by the Couillard government.\n\nThere will also be funding to help the City of Ottawa become officially bilingual.\n\nA bill to formalize this status for the Canadian capital was passed by the Ontario legislature in December.","title":"Liberals promise historic investment as official languages action plan unveiled","date":"2018-03-28","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"It may be a little later to the party than 2018 TVs from other manufacturers, but Vizios flagship P-Series Quantum 4K HDR TV is now available to purchase for $2,099.99.\n\nUnlike Vizios other models, the P-Series Quantum only comes in one 65-inch size. The main difference (which Vizio charges roughly $800 more for over the 65-inch model of the standard P-Series line) is the P-Series Quantums 2000 nits of peak brightness, or double the peak 1000 nits output of the non-Quantum model.\n\nThe P-Series Quantum also offers more full-array local dimming zones (a total of 192) than the regular P-Series models, which top out at 120. It also uses a similar quantum dot technology that Samsung features in its QLED line for better colors.\n\nPicture quality aside, the rest of the P-Series Quantum isnt exactly a slouch either: theres a nearly bezel-less design, Dolby Vision HDR support, full 4K resolution, Vizios 2018 SmartCast OS, and integrated Chromecast support, too.\n\nThe 2018 P-Series Quantum is available today from stores like Best Buy, Costco and Sams Club.","title":"Vizios 2018 flagship P-Series Quantum TV is now available for 209999","date":"2018-07-24","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"The goons stormed the restaurant and then harassed Charlie and Candace at breakfast.\n\nMaxine made the threats in June at a Democratic rally.\n\nPot meet Kettle for the party that preaches tolerance like no other. This isn't the fringe of the Dem Party. This is the Dem Party & the next Chair of the House Fin Svcs Cmte if Dems gain control of House this Nov. pic.twitter.com\/5mkMe3KgF1","title":"Is Maxine Waters Liable Conservatives Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens Attacked by Leftist Mob at Re","date":"2018-08-06","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"President Trump delivered remarks to recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor at a White House reception Wednesday.","title":"Trump Hosts Medal of Honor Society Reception","date":"2018-09-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A giant blimp of London Mayor Sadiq Khan in a tiny yellow bikini has been granted permission to fly over the city on September 1.\n\nThe hilarious inflatable is in response to the Trump baby balloon that flew over a small protest during the US presidents visit last month.\n\nThe design is a play on an advertisement that Khan infamously banned in 2016 for promoting unhealthy or unrealistic body images. The ad had featured a model in a yellow bikini and asked are you beach body ready?\n\nOver 3,400 people contributed to funding the balloon, which raised $75,000 through a crowdfunding campaign.\n\nThe 29 foot balloon will be flying over Parliament.\n\nUnder Sadiq Khan, we have seen crime skyrocket to unprecedented levels. People in London dont feel safe and they arent safe, 81 murders this year alone! Khan Out, the funding campaign read.","title":"London Deplorables Strike Back Bikini-Clad Blimp of Mayor Sadiq Khan Ready to Fly Over City","date":"2018-08-30","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"The presidents personal life has been drawn into the publics eye since his rise to power, although even still  until recently at least  the first lady kept a relatively low profile.\n\nThe Washington Post is reporting this week, though, on how the relationship between Melania and Donald Trump has played out behind the scenes, and it underscores a preeminent point of the Trump administration that can be seen in a variety of situations  its about Donald Trump and little else.\n\nAccording to the publication, the couple doesnt even share a bedroom, and despite the fact that the couples young son Barron is in a unique position, thanks to being the first young child in the first family in decades, the president doesnt concern himself with readying him for school or the like.\n\nInstead, in a pattern many of us are familiar with at this point, the president wakes up each morning at around 5:30 AM, watches cable news and gets to tweeting. A short while later, Melania wakes up in her own separate bedroom and readies Barron for school, according to the publication.\n\nWhen it comes to the couples work, The Post describes Melania as having proven distrustful of some of the presidents staff members. One individual to face such scrutiny from the first lady is the now departed former presidential adviser Steve Bannon.\n\nOverall, the publication describes Melania as having set up a de facto wall between the wings of the White House hosting her and her husbands offices. One anonymous source stated that the first lady seldom sets foot in the West Wing.\n\nShe has just this week taken further steps to carve out her own place in the administrations policy platform, taking to the Rose Garden this Monday to lay out a new awareness campaign meant to help protect Americas children against ills like bullying and drug addiction. She has explicitly acknowledged the disconnect between her and her husband in that she is aiming to combat bullying while he is moving forward with it.\n\nOn a slightly more personal level, several current and former aides told The Post that the president and first lady oftentimes dont even eat together. They have even diverged on the treatment of the residence itself, according to the report, with the president opting to show people around often and Melania more keen on maintaining some privacy.\n\nHow all of this may play into the overall trajectory of the Trump administration remains to be seen. The reported disconnect does not seem poised to alter the course of the administrations policy platform; indeed, her recently announced awareness campaign seemed intentionally slanted to avoid the legislature.\n\nMelania is, according to available polling, more popular than the president. In a poll released this past January by CNN, the first lady finished with a 47 percent approval rating while the presidents was at only 40 percent.\n\nIn a more straightforward administration, these sorts of reports might be poised to take off further than they will now.\n\nHowever, even in the context of the presidents personal relationships, his behavior is weighing down on his administration, with him currently fielding very public allegations of affairs from two women, former Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels.","title":"WaPo Reveals Donald Melania Sleep In Separate Bedrooms WH Erupts In Anger","date":"2018-05-08","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"In the latest First-and-Orange podcast episode, Broncos beat writers Ryan OHalloran and Kyle Fredrickson preview Denvers first road game of the season at Baltimore. Topics include: Evaluating the concern over Case Keenums play, what to expect from Lamar Jackson and more.","title":"Broncos podcast All eyes on quarterback Case Keenum for first road test at Ravens","date":"2018-09-21","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Dunce Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made headlines again this week with her bizarre statements on the booming US economy.\n\nHip hip hooray! Unemployment is down. What does that mean to me and my life. I need a bigger paycheck. This isnt just about the unemployment rate, its about wages rising in our country so that consumer confidence is restored. Because our economy will never fully reach our possibilities unless we increase our consumer confidence.\n\nThats when Trish Regan ripped Pelosi for not knowing that consumer confidence is doing well and actually near an 18 year high!","title":"FAIL Nancy Pelosi Rips President Trump for Consumer Confidence Doesnt Realize Its At an 18-Year","date":"2018-06-08","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Democrats and protesters have interrupted the process for the first half hour.\n\n Judge Kavanaugh has not even been sworn in yet!\n\nDemocrat protesters dressed as handmaids for the occasion.\n\nWithin minutes into the hearing today leftist protesters started screaming and disrupting the process.\n\nDemocrat senators immediately attempted to press the chairman to delay the hearing.\n\nSo this is their strategy  interrupt and delay as much as possible.\n\n This is your Democrat Party.","title":"CHAOS Protests Break Out at Kavanaugh Hearing Judge Kavanaugh Not Even Sworn in After First Half","date":"2018-09-04","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Anthony Cumia of Compound Media joins Alex Jones live via Skype to discuss how the coordinated effort across the internet to censor conservative viewpoints is not just a theory, its a real conspiracy.","title":"Conservative Censorship Conspiracy Is REAL Not Just A Theory","date":"2018-09-13","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"This is todays Democrat Party.\n\n Angry, unhinged, repulsive, hateful and without boundaries.\n\nThe left is using Brett Kavanaughs 10-year-old daughter to take down the conservative judge.\n\nDuring Thursdays testimony Judge Kavanaugh told about his daughter telling him to pray for his accusers.\n\n On Monday liberal syndicated cartoonist Chris Britt used the moving story to attack the judge and his little girl.\n\nThey have no concern about who they are harming.\n\nMichelle Malkin said Britt was once a decent man.\n\n This is very troubling.","title":"Disgusting Liberal Cartoonist Uses Brett Kavanaughs 10-Year-Old Daughter in Appalling Attack on He","date":"2018-10-01","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Life gets worse every day for Trumps personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. After his office and hotel room were raided by the FBI in search of documents that may lead to charges of bank fraud, campaign finance violations, and wire fraud, he is facing two judges this week in separate but related cases with lawyers who dont seem to be handling his case very well.\n\nAttorney Brent Blakely, who is representing Cohen in the lawsuit brought by Stormy Daniels (aka Stephanie Clifford) to release her from a non-disclosure agreement she says is invalid, requested a 90-day stay on the case since Cohen may be indicted in 90 days and his testimony in the lawsuit could incriminate him in the separate criminal case. Senior Congressional Correspondent for CNN Manu Raju described the exchange in court on his Twitter feed.\n\nBlakely attempted to point to statements made to the press and on social media by Cliffords lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who has alluded to much larger legal issues looming for Cohen. While Judge Otero did not deny the request outright, he also didnt seem impressed by it, saying the request had some gaping holes.\n\nAt a hearing in Los Angeles federal court, U.S. District Judge James Otero said he needed more time to review Cohens and Trumps request to put Daniels case on hold for 90 days. But the judge told Cohens lawyer Brent Blakely that theres some gaping holes in the request for a stay.\n\nWhile Blakelys request did not appear to go over well with the judge, its not an unlikely possibility. Evidence is still being examined in the criminal case against him and indictments could very well be handed down anytime.","title":"Cohens Lawyer Makes Last Minute Court Requests Michael On The Verge Of Flipping","date":"2018-04-28","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Solar power has a lot of benefits, but one big downside is the fact that places where its overcast more often than not cant make the most of this clean power source. All that could be set to change, however, as scientists in often-cloudy British Columbia have found a way to use E. coli bacteria to convert light to energy.\n\nAs the building blocks that make up solar panels, solar cells covert light into an electrical current. Biogenic solar cells made using living organisms arent a new concept, but this novel iteration sets itself apart by producing a very powerful current. Best of all, it works just as well under dim light conditions as it does on a bright, sunny day. In these cells, the bacteriums dye is excited by light to a point where it releases electrons that generate electricity.\n\nThe researchers say they were inspired by the dreary skies of British Columbia to find a more reliable way to supply clean energy as the Canadian province aims to become a leader in de-carbonized economies.\n\nUniversity of British Columbia Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Vikramaditya Yadav, the studys leader, said: These hybrid materials that we are developing can be manufactured economically and sustainably, and, with sufficient optimization, could perform at comparable efficiencies as conventional solar cells.\n\nHe estimated that the process could reduce the cost of producing dye to just one tenth of its normal cost. If they ultimately cant match the strength of conventional cells, they could still prove tremendously useful in low-light settings like those found in deep sea exploration or mines.\n\nSupport our mission and enhance your own self-reliance: The laboratory-verified Organic Emergency Survival Bucket provides certified organic, high-nutrition storable food for emergency preparedness. Completely free of corn syrup, MSG, GMOs and other food toxins. Ultra-clean solution for years of food security. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store.\n\nIn past attempts to create biogenic solar cells, scientists have tried to extract the natural dye used by bacteria for photosynthesis. This complex and costly endeavor uses toxic materials that could make the dye degrade, however. The Canadian researchers decided to try a different approach, leaving the dye inside the bacteria and inducing the organism to produce high amounts of lycopene. This dye, which can also be found in tomatoes and red fruits, is highly effective at harvesting light to convert into energy.\n\nNext, they coated the bacteria using a semiconductor mineral and applied it to a glass surface. The coated glass at one of the cell served as an anode for the current to flow, and they managed to generate a current with an impressively high density. They were able to double the amount of electricity collected compared to other bacteria-based solar cells, although it still falls short of the amount needed to compete with traditional solar panels.\n\nAs promising as this sounds, there are still some obstacles to overcome. One of the biggest roadblocks is the fact that the bacteria die during the process. If the scientists can find a way to keep them alive, they can manufacture the cells more efficiently as the bacteria will be able to continue producing the dye indefinitely. Theyd also like to fine tune the cells to try to get enough power out of them to give conventional solar cells a run for their money.\n\nIf they prove successful, the electricity used to run your home might one day be generated by bacteria.","title":"Next-gen solar cells use bacteria that convert light into energy","date":"2018-09-21","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Why Can't We Hate Men?\n\nMy edge has been crossed for a long time, before President Trump, before Harvey Weinstein, before mansplaining and incels.","title":"Why Cant We Hate Men","date":"2018-06-10","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Enjoyed David Attenboroughs remarkable look at the power struggle within a troop of chimpanzees in last weeks Dynasties? Well, settle in, as another programme about monkeying around is about to start. I am, of course, talking about ITVs unwithering reality show Im a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.\n\nThis latest series should be a little different: not only has there been a change of presenter (Ant McPartlin out, Holly Willoughby in), but the twisted jungle gods have managed to round up some actual celebrities, namely former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp. Joining the hot-headed 71-year-old is John Barrowman, of Torchwood fame, DIY SOSs Nick Knowles, and X Factor contestant-turned-somewhat-successful solo artist Fleur East.\n\nAs is standard, the rest of the packs filled out with some D-listers (a Coronation Street regular, a chaser from The Chase, a guitarist of a now-redundant boy band), bulking out Sundays introductory episode  which lasts a staggering one hour and 45 minutes. Expect Monday mornings water-cooler conversation with Jane from HR to be dominated by mundane chat about wholl walk out first (and a word or two on how well Dec and Willoughby keep things afloat).\n\nFor those who dont fancy watching pampered celebrities struggling in Australia, BBC2 offers the complete antithesis with Louis Therouxs latest documentary. The second part in the presenters Altered States series follows Gus, an American man who, at first, seems full of life, until you discover that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Rather than wait for the disease to take hold, the grandfather decides to take his own life at home, surrounded by his closest family.\n\nAlthough he questions the decision, Therouxs disarming and empathetic nature allows him to get close to the family. The result is a fascinating and occasionally distressing insight into one mans death that queries the practice of voluntary euthanasia. Its documentary making at its finest.\n\nChannel 4 also offers some must-watch Sunday television in the form of The Interrogation of Tony Martin. Based on a true story, it stars Steve Pemberton as the eponymous farmer Tony Martin, who made headlines in 1999 after killing a 16-year-old burglar. Its a surprising role for Pemberton, who is best known for the macabre comedy League of Gentlemen, but one that will no doubt win rave reviews as he takes on this stubborn and unsympathetic man. Daniel Mays, meanwhile, plays the police interrogator, while the script comes verbatim from real transcripts.\n\nWhen youre done catching up with Sundays television (which also sees Dynasties, Doctor Who and The Little Drummer Girl continue on BBC1), Monday night sees the HBOs first ever foreign-language series debut on Sky Atlantic. Adapted from Elena Ferrantes novel of the same name, My Brilliant Friend begins with a 60-year-old woman, Lenu, discovering that her friend, Lila, has disappeared. We then flashback to her memories of 1950s Naples, when the two were children and their relationship filled with spite\n\nLenu narrates over their growing rivalry as she becomes jealous  though shes a smart child, its Lila whos hailed as the prodigy. Set in a violent and tense neigbourhood, the Italian series (with English subtitles) makes for a captivating watch.\n\nCome Thursday (and hopefully you are caught up by now), the BBC are offering a look back at their once hugely popular science show, Tomorrows World. The one-off episode  titled Tomorrows World Live: for One Night Only  features former presenters Maggie Philbin and Howard Stableford as they return for a special live interactive show. Brace yourself for all the usual mishaps that the original series came to be known for over its 38-year run.\n\nDynasties (BBC 1, Sunday 8pm); Im a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (ITV, Sunday 9pm); Louis Therouxs Altered States (BBC2, Sunday 9pm); Doctor Who (BBC1, Sunday 6.30pm); The Little Drummer Girl (BBC1, Sunday 9pm); The Interrogation of Tony Martin (Channel 4, Sunday 9pm); My Brilliant Friend (Sky Atlantic, Monday 9pm); Tomorrows World Live: for One Night Only (BBC4, Thursday 9pm)","title":"TV preview aposIaposm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Hereapos should be a little different as","date":"2018-11-16","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON (AP)  Theres much to celebrate but plenty of cause for trepidation, too, as President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet Monday at the White House.\n\nFor all his talk about brokering the ultimate deal between Israelis and Palestinians, Trumps long-awaited peace plan has yet to arrive, even as Palestinians and other critics insist it will be dead on arrival. And although Israels government is overjoyed by Trumps recognition of Jerusalem as Israels capital  with a U.S. embassy set to open in the holy city in May  misgivings are percolating under the surface over Iran, where Israel sees Trumps efforts to date to crack down on Israels arch-enemy as lacking.\n\nOne major, growing concern: that the United States is acquiescing to Irans growing presence in Syria and influence in Lebanon  two Israeli neighbors.\n\nIf we dont come up with a strategy against Iran, were going to make Israel go to war here pretty soon, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday on ABCs This Week.\n\nSwirling legal investigations distracting both leaders at home, and a stunning fall from grace for Trumps son-in-law and would-be peace negotiator, Jared Kushner, have added to the mix of politics, personalities and historical grievances that have always hindered Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. An already volatile situation now looks even more combustible than normal.\n\nNetanyahu arrived in the United States over the weekend as Washington was gearing up for the annual conference of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobby. He planned to hold a meeting and working lunch with Trump on Monday before speaking at the conference later in the week. Top-ranking U.S. officials including Vice President Mike Pence and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley will also address the conference.\n\nIn a poignant reminder of his troubles back home, Netanyahu and his wife were questioned separately by police for hours on Friday before the prime minister left the next day for Washington. Those interviews were part of an investigation into a corruption case involving the countrys telecom giant, and police have recommended indicting Netanyahu on corruption charges in two other cases as well.\n\nThe Trump family has legal problems of its own. Kushner, Trumps point-man for the Mideast, is under intense scrutiny over his business dealings as special counsel Robert Mueller barrels forward with his Russia probe. Kushner has also been stripped of his top security clearance in another blow to his credibility as an international negotiator.\n\nKushners peace proposal is near completion, U.S. officials have said, but Palestinians have already written off Trumps administration as a viable mediator following his decision last year to recognize Jerusalem as Israels capital and move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. A ribbon-cutting for an interim facility is being planned to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Israels independence.\n\nIsraeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, speaking at AIPAC on Sunday, said that the Jewish people will forever remember Trumps decision.\n\nBut while the visit may give Trump a chance to bask in Israels delight, Netanyahu also comes with serious concerns to raise about the presidents broader approach on the Middle East.\n\nIsrael is increasingly worried that Trump is backsliding on a pledge to fix or dismantle the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Of particular concern is that Trump may push new restrictions to prevent Iran from developing intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of hitting the U.S., but will allow Iran to keep developing medium-range ballistic missiles that could strike Israel.\n\nThe Europeans have balked at the possibility of medium-range missile restrictions, arguing that existing U.N. resolutions on Iran only focus on longer-range projectiles. U.S. officials negotiating with Britain, France and Germany appear to agree with the Europeans, prompting the Israeli concern.\n\nAt least publicly, Israel is still giving Trump some political cover, while gently reminding the president that hes long vowed to scrap the deal if it cant be sufficiently strengthened.\n\nI have no doubt whatsoever that this president is willing to walk away, Dermer said.","title":"Trumps Mideast Peace Plans In Limbo As Netanyahu Visits White House","date":"2018-03-05","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"BBC Radio 4s flagship news and current affairs programme, Today, which for decades has set the agenda for the media-political elite, has been haemorrhaging listeners. According to figures released by RAJAR, the official body for the monitoring of radio audiences, the programme has lost more than 800,000 listeners over the past year. Even with Todays sizeable remaining audience of just under 7 million, this is a significant drop.\n\nCommenting on the figures, the BBC noted that audiences for news and current affairs programmes fluctuate over time, and suggested a quieter news agenda partly explained the drop-off. Which makes you wonder if their press officers have been following the news lately.\n\nWhats really going on? Well in truth the BBC doesnt know, and neither does anybody else. RAJARs figures only report on what people listen to and for how long. They dont tell us why they listen (or dont), or what they think about the programmes and stations they listen to. But its safe to say, given that this is the Today programme and that the figures are out of step with the broader sector, that this is a symptom of something political.\n\nThe news didnt come as a surprise to me. Ive had conversations with a number of people over the past year, liberals and leftists, who have finally given up on the programme. My social circles, though, are hardly representative of Todays audience, although admittedly probably more than I would like them to be.\n\nWhat do we know beyond the anecdotal? Edelmans Trust Barometer, published earlier this year, found that one third of the people they surveyed follow the news less than they used to, while a fifth now avoid it completely.\n\nThe three most common reasons given were that the news is too depressing (40 per cent), too biased (33 per cent), or reflects hidden agendas (27 per cent). An earlier survey from Oxford Universitys Reuters Institute found that sixty per cent of respondents said news can have a negative effect on my mood and just under a third said they felt they couldnt rely on the news to be true.\n\nIn the Edelman survey, trust in traditional media  and Radio 4 is certainly traditional  at the same time saw a notable rise. This reflects the increased scepticism about social media and anxiety about fake news, and is consistent with other surveys that show that trust in the BBC remains high, especially compared to the press.\n\nWhat does this suggest about Todays lost listeners? The departures likely reflects some of these more general reasons for news avoidance, coupled with the politics of Today and its audience in particular. I think we can expect that these ex-listeners still trust the BBC over other media organisations, but that they find the Today programme too depressing and\/or angering to bear. And given the profile of its listenership  disproportionately educated, middle-class and concentrated in the south-east  we can expect a significant factor to be the programmes coverage of Brexit.\n\nThe BBC in general has come under fire from anti-Brexit campaigners in the past year  who allege that the corporation has been too soft on the Brexiteers and has failed to report adequately on the misdemeanours of the Leave camp during the campaign. The Today programme in particular, and John Humphrys most particularly, are a focus of complaints. We can also expect another chunk of the departed listeners to be Labour supporters who are exhausted and exasperated at the programmes treatment of the party leadership.\n\nClaims of BBC bias are of course ubiquitous in UK politics, so its easy to be dismissive of allegations when they come from all quarters. Yet there is scholarly research that supports the allegations made by the Remoaners and the Corbynites, albeit indirectly.\n\nFirst, a number of recent analyses have found that broadcast news tends to balance competing claims, rather than scrutinising their veracity. This leads, if not to fake news, then at least to inaccurate or misleading claims  overwhelmingly from the right  appearing unchallenged, or even driving the news agenda.\n\nSecondly, there is evidence that the editorial culture of the BBC, in particular, has shifted rightwards over the past decade. In this sense, the recent appointment of Sarah Sands  formerly of the Sunday Telegraph among other right-wing titles  as editor of the Today programme, is consistent with a broader editorial shift at the BBC, which anyway has always tended to lean towards governmental perspectives in its output.\n\nBoth these alleged failings though  the erroneous balancing complained of by centrists, and the misreporting and overt hostility complained of by the Labour left  in my view reflect a deeper problem with the BBCs editorial culture.\n\nThe anger and disaffection with the BBC is a symptom of a broader political crisis that is extremely difficult for the BBC to navigate editorially. As an organisational thoroughly embedded within the British establishment, it has lost its bearings as that establishment has slipped into crisis. For the most influential figures in the BBC editorial machine, the political spectrum consists of well-meaning, privileged liberals, and more authentically representative right-wing populists.\n\nWhilst at one stage the BBC could orientate itself broadly towards centrist opinion, an anxiety about appearing out of touch led some time ago to a conscious effort to engage extreme opinion; which in practice has meant some clumsy dalliances with the populist, and even far, right  hence why Nigel Farage became such a popular choice for BBC bookers. The outcome of the EU referendum has only strengthened this tendency, and the political movements to which it has granted exposure.\n\nMost recently this has led to sympathetic interviews with supporters of Tommy Robinson, the far-right activist. The left, meanwhile, is still not being treated as a legitimate political force, despite electoral gains. Where this downward spiral will lead, nobody knows, but if the BBC is serious about maintaining its legitimacy it needs to at least start taking its critics on the left and its audiences  past and present  more seriously.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"If the BBC wants to know why nearly a million viewers have dropped the Today programme they might w","date":"2018-08-02","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"When a beloved video game series makes the shift to a free-to-play mobile experience, its not usually a reason to get excited. These transitions rarely go well. Because of this, I wasnt expecting much from the absurdly named Shin Megami Tensei Liberation Dx2, a mobile spinoff of the beloved role-playing series that spawned the Persona games. Its a franchise known for surreal and engrossing stories, and deep, complex battles  not exactly things free-to-play mobile games are known for doing well. So its been a big surprise that over the past week, Liberation has steadily been draining my phones battery. I cant seem to stop playing.\n\nLike every other game in the series, Liberation stars a group of young people fighting off a demonic invasion. But the premise here is quite a bit more contemporary than past games. Liberation takes place in what seems like the near future, and its group of demon hunters includes a viral YouTube star who follows leads on social media. You join the group as a new recruit, and are immediately thrown into investigating demonic disturbances in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. The game is a mix between dialogue-heavy story sequences, which are immediately followed by a series of battles.\n\nThe story is both silly and dark  a series hallmark  and its divided into bite-sized chapters, which is perfect for a mobile game. While the sequences are mostly non-interactive, aside from the occasional dialogue choice, they at least look great, with detailed, animated character portraits. The game features an eclectic cast that includes everything from a demon-fusing nun to a gun-obsessed hunter. It helps that Liberation has some strong talent behind it. The characters were designed by Tatsuro Iwamoto, best known for his work on the Ace Attorney series, while the scenarios were written by Makoto Fukami, who worked on the excellent cyberpunk anime Psycho-Pass.\n\nThe battles, meanwhile, feel like classic SMT but streamlined for a smartphone. There are lots of familiar monsters and moves, and theres the same rock-paper-scissors element where you need to find and exploit an enemys weakness to succeed. But everything moves quickly, and the menus are well-designed so you can play with one hand in portrait mode. You can even talk to certain demons to recruit them, and the process of fusing and upgrading monsters remains in tact. Think of it kind of like a more disturbing take on Pokemon.\n\nThis means that the two most important elements of an SMT game  story and combat  are in place, and, at least over the first two chapters, the experience isnt bogged down by free-to-play nonsense. That doesnt mean that the monetization doesnt intrude sometimes. Theres an energy system that limits how much you can play in any given session, and a huge range of virtual currencies that you can use to upgrade your demons. There are also some really annoying pop-up ads that alert you to limited-time sales. The good news is that, from what Ive played so far, none of this is really necessary. I havent felt the need to spend any money to play more or get stronger monsters. That could well change in later chapters as the difficulty increases, but for now Im having fun with it.\n\nAll of this is a surprise. The kind of deep, engrossing role-playing that the series is known for doesnt typically work well on mobile, especially when you add in the wrinkle of free-to-play. But Liberation does an admirable job of not only keeping the soul of SMT in tact, but tweaking it so that its a lighter experience that fits on your phone. Its worth putting up with a few ads for gems.\n\nYou can check out the game now on both iOS and Android.","title":"Cult RPG Shin Megami Tensei is surprisingly great on mobile","date":"2018-07-29","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"When it comes to bugging out, you need to be realistic and observant. Prepare your BOB and gear right now, if you havent done so already. No one can predict when exactly a survival scenario will take place, but if youve already prepared, then youve already won half the battle. (Related: Whats in YOUR bug out bag? 10 must-have multipurpose survival tools.)\n\nTo get a head start, observe everything happening around you. Estimate events, and compare the possible outcomes with the probable. Once youve narrowed down your list, decide on the best course of action and act when you know and feel it is the time to do so.\n\nThere are 14 keys that will help you pick up on things before SHTF. Remember that the more events you tick off from the list below, the higher the chance of a disaster is. Here are some signs that you need to watch out for:\n\nRemember that this is an incomplete list so you still need to be vigilant. The sad thing is, despite these telltale signs, not everyone will try to prepare for the inevitable need to bug out.\n\nThe best thing to do is to plan ahead, dont tell anyone about your plans, and be self-sufficient so you can keep yourself and your family alive when SHTF.\n\nIf you dont know how to pack a BOB, check out the list below:\n\nItems to include in each BOB:\n\nYou can divide these items between several BOBs for your family:\n\nYou can learn more about prepping and survival at Bugout.news.","title":"Will you know when its time to bug out 14 signs to watch for","date":"2018-02-22","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"McCarthy had the backing of the GOP elite and outgoing RINO House Speaker Paul Ryan.\n\nJim Jordan had the backing of his fellow members and Trump supporters in the Freedom Caucus.\n\nRep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was chosen to be GOP conference Chairwoman.\n\nRep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., beat back a challenge from dark horse candidate, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Wednesday for the role of House minority leader, with Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., nabbing the title of GOP conference chairman. During a closed-door session with House Republicans, the California lawmaker took a decisive victory against Jordan, bringing in 159 votes to the Ohio representatives 43 votes. McCarthy was initially elected to the House in 2006 and has served as the House majority leader since 2014. Jordan is a prominent member of the House Freedom Caucus and an ally of President Trump.\n\nThe Never Trumpers and GOP elite always make sure they keep their power in Congress.\n\nThe more things change, the more they stay the same.","title":"GOP Lawmakers Shun Voters Choose Kevin McCarthy as Minority Leader Over Jim Jordan","date":"2018-11-14","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"It has gotten real, folks, and you can bet Michael Avenatti isnt joking in the slightest. He also knows that Don Jr. would never get into a ring with him unless maybe he was chased into it by a big game animal he was hunting in an enclosure. The contempt between the two is palpable during their regular Twitter fights, and its also pretty entertaining, according to the people who leave comments on them.\n\nNow, another tweet has gone viral, and this one was published from the Vanity Fair Summit on Tuesday:\n\nCan you imagine the hilarity?\n\nAvenatti looks like he hits the gym regularly, and Trump Jr. looks like a science experiment gone wrong. The joining of the two for a brutal display of masculinity would be sad and pathetic, as well as probably the best thing youve ever seen in your life.\n\nPeople on Twitter agree. Check out the responses to that tweet below:","title":"Michael Avenatti Challenges Trump Jr To MMA Fight At Vanity Fair Summit","date":"2018-10-09","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Alex Jones interviews one of the Infowarsstore.com cyber security experts on the recent fake hack operation launched by Deep State operatives and coordinated by the mainstream media.\n\nHe also reads his official statement.","title":"Breaking Exclusive Alex Jones Responds To Deep State Hack Psyop Operation","date":"2018-11-14","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A sublime display from captain Mesut Ozil inspired Arsenal as they came from behind to beat Leicester and extend their winning run to 10 games.\n\nAfter a shaky start from the Gunners, Leicester took the lead through a Hector Bellerin own goal but Ozil - back in the side following a back spasm - turned home an equaliser on the stroke of half-time.\n\nHe was then heavily involved in two goals for substitute Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - who had also netted twice off the bench at Fulham last time out - with Arsenal eventually running out 3-1 winners at the Emirates Stadium.\n\nHead coach Unai Emery will be slightly concerned by the pedestrian nature of Arsenal's opening 40 minutes - but the Spaniard will be pleased to toast a seven-match Premier League winning streak which has taken his side to within two points of the top.\n\nRelive the with Standard Sport LIVE at the Emirates!\n\nCan't see the blog? Click here for the desktop version.\n\nArsenal handed a full Premier League debut to Stephan Lichtsteiner. The 34-year-old was drifted in at left-back, with both Nacho Monreal and Sead Kolasinac missing out with minor hamstring complaints.\n\nLichtsteiner was one of two changes as Mesut Ozil also returned to captain the Gunners.\n\nJonny Evans came in for Leicester to replace suspended captain Wes Morgan in the only alteration from the side beaten 2-1 by Everton before the international break.","title":"Arsenal vs Leicester Predictions teams betting tips live stream TV channel Premier League 201","date":"2018-10-17","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Liverpool surged clear at the top of the Premier League table after a convincing 3-0 home win over Southampton maintained their perfect start to the season, while a disappointing away draw against West Ham saw previous leaders Chelsea drop their first points of the new campaign.\n\nDefending champions Manchester City delivered another ominous show of strength in a 5-0 away demolition of struggling Cardiff City but there were more problems for Jose Mourinho and Manchester United, who were held 1-1 by Wolves at Old Trafford to fall eight points off the pace.\n\nIt was a better weekend for Mauricio Pochettino, however, as Tottenham Hotspur ended a run of three straight defeats in all competitions with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Brighton.\n\nAt the other end of the table Newcastle United, Huddersfield Town and Cardiff all remain winless after their first six matches of the season.\n\nHere are five things we learned from another action-packed Premier League weekend:\n\nAfter dramatically edging out Paris Saint-Germain in a heavyweight Champions League encounter in midweek, Liverpool could have been forgiven if they were not firing on all cylinders when Southampton came to Anfield. Southampton were looking to capitalise on a European hangover; instead they were thoroughly outclassed as the Reds ran out 3-0 winners, the game over as a contest before half-time.\n\nThe definitive test of their title aspirations is approaching, though, with a trip to Chelsea next week followed by champions Manchester City travelling to Merseyside. In between is a visit to Napoli in the Champions League. Its certainly a tricky run but if that does not derail them, what will stop the Liverpool juggernaut?\n\nThe Blues have been going about their business in a rather understated way under new head coach Maurizio Sarri, but were matching Liverpool blow for blow until this weekend. West Ham took four points off the Blues last season and frustrated them again in a goalless draw on Sunday.\n\nIndeed, only the poor finishing of Michail Antonio and Andriy Yarmolenko spared Chelsea from another demoralising defeat at the London Stadium. It is their first setback under Sarri but, with a resurgent Liverpool arriving at Stamford Bridge next week, they have no time to dwell on a bad day at the office. How they respond could define their season.\n\nManchester United looked to have turned a corner after bouncing back from their humbling against Tottenham with wins at Burnley and Watford.\n\nBut they delivered another disjointed display against Wolves and only some vital interventions from the formidable David De Gea spared them a second home defeat in succession as they settled for a 1-1 draw on Sir Alex Ferguson's emotional return to Old Trafford.\n\nJose Mourinho, not for the first time this season, lamented his side's desire and believes they can learn a thing or two from Wolves' wholehearted approach, saying: \"[Wolves] play like I like to play which is like the World Cup final. That's the attitude I like my teams to have every match. We didn't have that, they did.\"\n\nSean Dyche admitted there was a \"nervousness\" at Burnley after four straight defeats and only one point from their opening five games  their worst start to a top-flight campaign for nearly a century.\n\nHowever, they ended their barren run in some style, cruising to a 4-0 victory over a Bournemouth side that sat in the top-five before this weekend's fixtures. It was a timely confidence boost as lowly Cardiff City and Huddersfield Town are their next two opponents.\n\nNeil Warnock took a pragmatic view in light of Cardiff succumbing to their third successive defeat. The veteran manager was correct in his assessment that Saturdays 5-0 setback against Manchester City will not decide their top-flight fate.\n\nBut they have failed to advance their cause this month - albeit following an undesirable run of fixtures against Arsenal, Chelsea and City - and next week's clash against Burnley is already looking like a hugely important fixture in the developing Premier League relegation battle.\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"Liverpool stay perfect Chelsea show weakness and Manchester United pay for poor attitude - five thi","date":"2018-09-24","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Last week, Colorado joined a growing number of states, cities, and counties in suing Purdue Pharma L.P., the maker of the prescription painkiller Oxycontin on the grounds that the company intentionally misled health care providers, policymakers and the public regarding the medications risks.\n\nIts the latest chapter in the current opioid epidemic narrative: Greedy Big Pharma pushed addictive drugs on naive doctors who over-prescribed them to patients with chronic or post-surgery pain. Patients became addicted and, unable to feed their addiction, turned to heroin and other street drugs. Government sued the bad guys on behalf of the victims. The end. The storyline is a rerun of the past two epidemics when Big Food made us all obese and Big Tobacco forced us all to smoke two packs a day.\n\nFrankly, Im grateful to Purdue. Ive had five orthopedic surgeries in ten years and Oxy made recovery from each possible. I didnt lie in bed wailing in pain as I had done post-surgery in the mid-80s when doctors were a bit stingier with prescription painkillers. Opioids made my dads three year battle with terminal cancer livable. Nothing else can block the searing pain of bone tumors. Also, the little white pills keep a friend of mine from losing her mind from unrelenting chronic pain from a rare disease. None of us has taken painkillers recreationally; not that being tired, out-of-it, and constipated isnt tempting. What happens to us when lawsuits drive up the cost of painkillers or encourage doctors to not prescribe them when needed for acute or chronic pain?\n\nThe problem with the current opioid narrative is that it doesnt take into account the millions of people who responsibly take opioids for pain management. In fact, the issue of personal responsibility doesnt come up at all. Drug addiction is always the fault of drug companies, irresponsible doctors, despondency in the Rust Belt, cultural breakdown in Appalachia, or some other cause other than the choices of the person taking the pills. This blame game does not help addicts or those who take painkillers responsibly.\n\nFirst of all, most people who take opioids for pain do not become addicts.  One survey of research found that people without a history of addiction who took prescription opioids for long-term pain relief had a very low risk of developing addiction or abuse.\n\nThey may develop dependence, but thats not the same thing. According to the National Institute for Drug Abuse, drug dependence occurs when the body has come to rely on the presence of the drug and reacts adversely when it is withdrawn. Thats why regular coffee drinkers get a headache when they abstain. Because of severe, possibly life threatening withdrawal symptoms, people who are physically dependent on opioids need medical support to cease use. Drug addition, according to the Institute, is a chronic disease characterized by compulsive, or uncontrollable, drug seeking and use despite harmful consequences and long-lasting changes in the brain. The changes can result in harmful behaviors by those who misuse drugs, whether prescription or illicit drugs.\n\nSometimes a person who has responsibly taken opioids for chronic or acute pain becomes dependent and addicted, is denied refills, and turns to street drugs to treat pain and withdrawal symptoms.  More often than not, though, abuse leads to addiction.\n\nA person who has been in and out of rehab, who has been resuscitated with Naloxone from near death, who has lost custody of his  neglected kids, and who continues to shoot up isnt a hapless victim of Purdue Pharma. Pretending otherwise doesnt help him.\n\nNowhere in 12-step programs for addiction recovery do they encourage blaming others. Rather, addicts are encouraged to acknowledge the power of addiction, their personal responsibility, and their need for help.\n\nAddiction is hard to break and many wonderful people struggle with it.  We can support their recovery without blaming others, conflating their habit with responsible drug use, or resorting to expensive lawsuits that could curtail access to painkillers for those who need them.\n\nKrista Kafer is a weekly Denver Post columnist. Follow her on Twitter: @kristakafer\n\nTo send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail.","title":"Kafer Opioid epidemic narrative omits role of personal responsibility","date":"2018-09-14","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Official website of the Donetsk People's Republic\n\nDONETSK, September 2. \/TASS\/. Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed\nunrecognized Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, who was\nkilled in a terrorist attack in Donetsk on Friday, has been buried at\nDonetsks Donetskoye More cemetery with military funeral honors.\n\nThe burial ceremony was accompanied by artillery and gun salvo. Acting head of\nthe Donetsk republic, Dmitry Trapeznikov, DPR government officials, army\ncommanders, delegates from foreign states, Zakharchenkos relatives and\nfriends came to the cemetery to pay last respects.\n\nThe lying-in-state ceremony was held earlier on Sunday at the Donetsk State\nAcademic Opera and Ballet Theatre, with tens of thousands of people attending.\nThe funeral procession marched along Donetsks main street, with more than\n200,000 taking part.\n\nDelegations from Russia, the Lugansk Peoples Republic (LPR), Abkhazia and\nSouth Ossetia came to Donetsk to pay their respects.\n\nAlexander Zakharchenko, 42, who had been DPRs Prime Minister since 2014, died\nin an explosion in downtown Donetsk on Friday. The blast left two people dead\nand nine injured, including DPR minister of taxes and duties, Alexander\nTimofeyev, and the head of a local youth organization, Nataliya Volkova.\nAccording to DPR Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Trapeznikov, who was appointed\nacting head of the republic, law enforcement agencies have already detained\nseveral suspects in the blast, who confirmed the Kiev governments\ninvolvement. Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) denied any role in\nthe blast.\n\nIn other media","title":"Slain DPR leader Zakharchenko buried in Donetsk with military funeral honors","date":"2018-09-02","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Robert Icke will create a new version of Henrik Ibsens 1884 play The Wild Duck for a production at the Almeida Theatre.\n\nIcke, who is an Associate Director at the Almeida, is known for his acclaimed adaptations of classic plays. He picked up numerous awards for his 2015 production of Aeschylus Oresteia , which went on to transfer to the West End, and won praise in 2016 for versions of Chekhovs Uncle Vanya and Schillers Mary Stuart .\n\nIt will be his first production at the Almeida since his 2017 production of Hamlet , which starred Andrew Scott. The show transferred to the West End and was broadcast on BBC Two earlier this year.\n\nThe Wild Duck is a tragicomedy about one man returning to his family after a long time away, intent on exposing the truth about their lives. It was adapted for a new version in 2011 by Yerma director Simon Stone, in a production that featured a real duck.\n\nCasting for the show is yet to be announced, but the production will be designed by Bunny Christie. It will also be performed for free to under 25s on October 27 as part of the Almeida For Free festival, which also includes workshops and a Q&A with Icke.\n\nThe Wild Duck will run from October 15 to December 1. Tickets go on sale to general public on August 16; almeida.co.uk\n\nClick here to buy London theatre tickets with GO London Tickets","title":"Robert Icke to reimagine Ibsenaposs The Wild Duck at Almeida Theatre","date":"2018-08-01","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"U.S. President Donald Trump has not exactly been known for being normal. Hes attempted to make that a selling point of his rise, but many have had to live with real world consequences of his dedication to charting out a unique course for himself and his administration no matter what the cost.\n\nTwo such specific individuals highlighted by a new report from POLITICO are Solomon Lartey and Reginald Young Jr., both of whom until relatively recently worked in the records management division of the Trump administration. Neither of the men were political appointments, but even still, they were subjected to strikingly out of the ordinary requirements thanks to the changing political winds in D.C. Both of the well paid, career staffers were, along with others in government, tasked with taping documents back together that Donald Trump had ripped up.\n\nThe reason for their job duties changing to include that task once Trump took office is the presidents incessant habit of ripping papers up when hes done with them. That might not have mattered when he was in the private sector, but now, hes subject to the Presidential Records Act, which means that any and all even remotely non-personal documents that he handles have to be preserved.\n\nThat preservation has, according to POLITICO, taken the form of guys like Lartey and Young taping pieces of paper back together again.\n\nNeither of the men set out to share potentially embarrassing information about the inner workings of the Trump administration, POLITICO notes. They first ended up in contact with reporter Annie Karni after she got in touch with Young while researching for an article about unfair firing practices in the Trump administration, seeing as at present the men feel as though they have no answers for why they were abruptly terminated.\n\nThats not to say that they were particularly at home with taping things back together that the president ripped up, however.\n\nWe had to endure this under the Trump administration. Im looking at my director, and saying, Are you guys serious? Were making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.\n\nThroughout all of the time that has so far transpired with Trump in power, scraps of paper being collected by presidential staffers and sent to records management to be taped back together is not known to have stopped. The practice was still ongoing when Young and Lartey left government work earlier this year, despite the efforts of staffers close to Trump to get him to stop ripping things up.\n\nThe story of Trump incessantly tearing papers up is a not particularly reassuring piece of information in the middle of a sea of other indicators of the presidents instability. The perhaps most well known such indicator is his Twitter feed; just recently, he took to the platform to shame the Canadian prime minister as weak.\n\nConsidering past patterns of behavior from Trump, its not likely that he will stop tweeting such material  or ripping up papers  anytime soon.","title":"Wild Trump Tantrum Inside WH Leaked To POLITICO Craziest Thing Ever","date":"2018-06-10","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The final Deadpool 2 trailer dropped this morning, about a month ahead of the movies premiere. As with past trailers, this one shows off a decent amount of Josh Brolins Cable, whos joining the series as the newest evil villain, and X-Force, Deadpools group of mutant superheroes.\n\nIn classic Deadpool style, the sequel looks like itll feature a lot of slapstick violence, explosions, flying motorcycles, kicks to the face, and goofy one-liners, like Deadpools breather in the middle of a gunfight: Ohh, your bullets. Theyre really fast.\n\nThe movie also stars Zazie Beetz as Domino, T.J. Miller as Weasel, and Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, among others.","title":"The final Deadpool 2 trailer is all flying motorcycles slapstick and snark","date":"2018-04-19","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Stephen Miller is one of the most villainous of all of Trumps merry cabinet of morons. His Smithers-like features and personality make him a questionable fit for any work environment, especially one relating to the welfare of others, like a position in the United States government.\n\nMiller is currently Donald Trumps senior advisor for policy, and previously worked as Jeff Sessions communication director. He has made ridiculous statements about atrocious things that he quite obviously cant feel the depth of. One of those things. Torture.\n\nNow, a new story has emerged of Stephen Miller acting like an ass once again. According to a report by Washington Post, One night, after Miller ordered $80 of takeout sushi from a restaurant near his apartment, a bartender followed him into the street and shouted, Stephen! When Miller turned around, the bartender raised both middle fingers and cursed at him, according to an account Miller has shared with White House colleagues.\n\nMiller was apparently furious over the disrespectful employee and tossed out the $80 in sushi he had just purchased.\n\nMaybe he was worried about getting a sneezer.\n\nThis is what you can expect when you have pushed the limits of acceptable behavior to the point that people on the street carry hatred for you without ever meeting you.","title":"Stephen Miller Goes Berserk After Bartender Curses Him Out Hurls 80 Sushi Plate","date":"2018-07-09","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The U.S. has temporarily closed several ports of entry with Mexico after officials received reports that the migrant caravan of 3,000 is preparing to bum-rush the border, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Monday.\n\nThis AM, all of #SanYsidro Port of Entrys northbound lanes were temporarily closed to initiate additional port hardening efforts after @CBP officials were notified that a large # of caravan migrants were planning to rush the border in an attempt to gain illegal access to the US, Nielsen tweeted.\n\nIn response, Customs and Border Protection issued a statement, saying they blocked several port-of-entry lanes and reinforced their numbers to head off the invasion, in conjunction with the Department of Defense.\n\nIn the early morning hours, CBP officials received reports of groups of persons from the caravan gathering in the city of Tijuana for a possible attempt or attempts to rush illegally through the port of entry instead of presenting themselves as required to a CBP officer.\n\nCBP officials suspended operations to safely place impediments at the port of entry that would restrict access to a large group attempting to run through the border crossing. After the CBP response at San Ysidro, no activity materialized at the border crossing, the statement read.\n\nSan Ysidro is known as the borders busiest crossing, with over 100,000 people entering the U.S. daily.\n\nAbout 10 lanes were reopened several hours after the closure.\n\nNielsen reminded the caravan that entering the U.S. by force is illegal and wont be tolerated.\n\nUnfortunately, some members of the caravan are purposely causing disruptions at our border ports of entry. There is a legal and illegal way to enter the US. We have deployed additional forces to protect our border. We will enforce all our laws.\n\nVideo has emerged of residents of Tijuana, Mexico, clashing with members of the caravan over the weekend, saying President Trump was right to call it an invasion.","title":"US Closes Ports of Entry Amid Reports Caravan Preparing To Rush Border","date":"2018-11-19","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Kelly Hoppen MBE started her interior design business when she was just 16 years old. Since then, she has achieved international fame with commissions from the likes of Claridges and Cuixmala to the The Puli Hotel and Spa.\n\nNot only that, but she has designed homes for a legion of celebrities too - from the Beckhams and Martin Shaw to Guy Edwards - and in 2009, was awarded an MBE for her services to interior design.\n\nBut, as it turns out, her creative flair extends well beyond the four walls of a home. Turning her hand to jewellery design, Hoppen launched her first collection of semi-precious pendants, necklaces and earrings in partnership with QVC back in 2015.\n\nThis week, the 59-year-old Londoner drops her second collection with the television shopping channel; a range set in gold vermeil and containing pave topaz stones. Aesthetically, many of the pieces seem reminiscent of Hoppens pared-back, elegant interiors - whilst others bear more playful, paring slogans of Live, Laugh and Love.\n\nWe caught up with Hoppen to talk about her love of jewellery, and how to style the collection.\n\nWhat was the inspiration behind your latest jewellery collection\n\nAll my inspiration really comes from my travels in Italy and especially Capri - I have always loved the jewellery Ive seen over there. I wanted to create a collection that was based on the way I wore jewellery. I love to layer it, so I wanted to make pieces that are easy to wear and that complement one another, with discs and charms that you can add or take off.\n\nThis really allows you to simply change your look from morning to evening, making the collection accessible and affordable.\n\nHow does your approach to designing jewellery differ to interiors?\n\nWell, you cant wear a room! Well actually, you can I suppose...\n\nDesign comes from the same part of the brain, but for me, its more about the tactile feeling of something that youre wearing, and also how it looks on your body, against different textures and clothes.\n\nIn that way its kind of similar, but its just a different medium. With jewellery, you almost have to sample everything to see how it feels, because everybody is unique and it has to feel comfortable.\n\nWhats your favourite piece in the collection?\n\nThis is now my second collection with QVCUK.com and I really couldn't choose! I adore all of the hero chains and the discs with phrases on them. Some of the pieces Ive named after people in my family and a pet too, and theyre definitely important to me, but I love them all.\n\nIf I had to choose something, I suppose it would be the necklaces because I wear them every day and theyre a big part of who I am.\n\nDo you have a mantra when it comes to styling your jewellery?\n\nIt totally depends on how you feel at that moment. I think its like designing a room, sometimes you can put too much in which takes the emphasis away from something thats important. I dont think 'less is more' applies to jewellery but I think you know when you look in the mirror whether it works or not.\n\nWho bought you your first piece of serious jewellery?\n\nMy mother and father. They gave me my beautiful charm bracelet, and they would always buy me a new charm when we travelled. Ive still got it, and then I carried on the tradition and did the same for [my daughter] Natasha.\n\nDo you collect jewellery? And if so how do you store it?\n\nDo I just! I keep it in my K by Kelly Hoppen jewellery box which is also available on QVCUK.com - its fantastic. I designed it so that you can put everything in it - your chains, rings, earrings - in a way that allows you to easily see everything. I love to lay everything out.\n\nDo you have pieces you wear every day?\n\nIve worn the hero chain every day since the day I got it, and I wear a ring [my husband] John gave me. Im pretty uniform with my jewellery and have core pieces that I wear daily, then I add things to them to change it up from day-to-day.\n\nSum up your jewellery aesthetic in 5 words...\n\nShop the K by Kelly Hoppen jewellery collection here","title":"Kelly Hoppen MBE on the difference between designing jewellery and interiors","date":"2018-09-10","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Athletes know that hydration is crucial to maintaining peak performance because water helps to regulate the body temperature. Water also helps lubricate the joints.\n\nAccording to a study, even seniors need to stay hydrated when exercising because it can help them reap the full cognitive benefits of exercise.\n\nThe researchers involved in the study delved deeper into the connection between hydration status before engaging in physical activities and exercise-enhanced cognition among the elderly.\n\nWhile earlier studies have determined that dehydration can negatively affect the brain function and exercise performance of young people, not much is known about its effect on older individuals.\n\nThe researchers, who hailed from New England, said, Middle-age and older adults often display a blunted thirst perception, which places them at risk for dehydration and subsequently may reduce the cognitive health-related benefits of exercise.(Related: Need another reason to drink more water? Check out these amazing health benefits.)\n\nFor the study, the scientists observed a group of recruited recreational cyclists. The participants had an average age of 55, and the group joined a large cycling event on a warm day, with the temperature measuring 78 to 86 degrees F.\n\nThe cyclists took part in a trail-making executive function test where they were instructed to quickly and correctly connect numbered dots on a piece of paper using a pencil. The test was done before and after the event.\n\nExecutive function involves the skills required to plan, focus, remember and multitask. Regular exercise can help boost intellectual health and executive function.\n\nGet CLEAN FOOD and help support our mission to keep you informed: The Health Ranger Store lab verifies everything we sell with accredited testing for heavy metals, microbiology and food safety. Certified organic facility, ISO-accredited on-site laboratory, no GMOs or synthetic ingredients. The world's #1 source of lab-verified clean foods and superfoods for nutritional healing. 600+ products available. Explore now.\n\nThe research team tested urine samples from the participants before they exercised. The volunteers were also divided into two groups, the first being normally hydrated with the second being dehydrated, based on hydration status.\n\nPeople from the normal hydration group had a significantly improved completion time for the trail-making test after cycling, especially when compared to their pre-cycling test results.\n\nEven though the individuals in the dehydrated group also finished the post-cycling test faster, the time reduction wasnt that noticeable compared to the first group.\n\nThe results of the study implied that the elderly must stay hydrated to significantly lower cognitive fatigue. Seniors must also stay hydrated while exercising to potentially maximize the benefits of regular physical activity.\n\nAside from boosting brain function, staying hydrated offers other benefits like:\n\nYou can learn more about how hydration and regular exercise can help you live longer at Longevity.news.","title":"Dont forget to drink water when you exercise Hydration is key to boosting performance","date":"2018-06-07","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka is giving out fake, poorly doctored Fox News business cards, according to a Monday Mediate report.\n\nThe cards, which include his personal number and email, use an outdated Fox News logo alongside different font and coloration than real Fox News cards.\n\nThe fake cards were revealed on the heels of a Daily Beast report that Gorka was banned from the hard news shows on Fox due to his lack of credibility, instead shunted aside to the opinion shows like Hannity and Fox & Friends.\n\nChief of Staff John Kelly booted Gorka from the White House last August.","title":"Faux News Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka Gives Out Fake Fox News Business Cards","date":"2018-08-14","source":"talkingpointsmemo","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) The second that President Trump won the election, conservatives across the country knew that the liberals were going to do whatever they could to take him down. This was to be expected, because thats just how liberals are  if they dont get their way, then they whine and complain until they do. What we didnt expect, though, is how repetitive and downright pathetic the liberals would be in their resistance movement.\n\nEarlier this month, NBC News interviewed Obama era Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity chief Jeanette Manfra, and then proceeded to publish a BREAKING news story on something that was already covered eight months ago. To make matters worse, not only was this breaking news already covered, but it was and continues to be rather insignificant.\n\nWe saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated, explained Manfra to NBCs Cynthia McFadden, adding that she had no doubt that the Russian government interfered. NBC News came up with a headline to go along with this shocking and groundbreaking news  Russians Penetrated U.S. Voter Systems, Says Top U.C. Official  and then tweeted the following:\n\nBREAKING: U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking tells NBC News that Russians successfully penetrated voter resignation rolls of several U.S. states prior to 2016 presidential election.\n\nThe problem here isnt that the report is false, because its not  weve known for quite some time now that the Russians did interfere in the 2016 election, even though there is still no evidence of collusion. Rather, the problem is that NBC News, which prides itself on being a professional and up-to-the-minute news organization, recycled a news story that is almost a year old just so they could take a shot at Donald Trump. Even though the headline itself didnt specifically mention the president by name, its obvious that NBC News revived this story to imply that Trump and his team worked closely with the Russian regime to defeat Hillary Clinton last November.\n\nBut in the case of the liberal media, its not just what they do report on thats the problem; its also what they dont. For example, while NBC News was busy covering this bombshell story that most Americans first heard eight months ago, the media refuses to give any attention to the ongoing FBI scandal, which some are considering to be the biggest scandal in modern American history.\n\nAs Sean Hannity explained in an article published on Fox News earlier this week, Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have released a heavily redacted, yet very revealing copy of their criminal referral against ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who of course is the author of the phony anti-Trump dossier that was released just weeks before the election. (Related: Following the release of the FISA memo, John McCain claims that we are helping Putin.)\n\nHannity went on to explain that, according to Grassley and Graham, Steele was being fed information directly from the Obama State Department and from Clinton allies as well as his usual, sketchy Russian sources while working on a second dossier for Fusion GPS, Clintons opposition research firm. Essentially, this means that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and their allies were working with a foreign spy, Christopher Steele, to discredit and ultimately take down then-candidate Donald Trump. This is what real news looks like, and this is information that the American people need to hear. (Related: A new bombshell report reveals a massive deep state conspiracy to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.)\n\nPerhaps NBC News should take a page or two from Fox News playbook, and while theyre at it, stop acting like radical, anti-Trump activists instead of journalists for a well-established news organization. Read more news coverage of the deliberate disinfo peddled by the legacy media at Disinfo.news.","title":"Left-wing media refuses to cover FBI FISA corruption scandal instead tries to recycle nearly year","date":"2018-02-12","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The Deep State corruptors and criminals have come unhinged since Trump called on the Justice Department to investigate Obamas illegal spy campaign.\n\nTrump tweeted Sunday: I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI\/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes  and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!\n\nThe most corrupt Attorney General in US history, Eric Holder came out swinging and called Trumps move dangerous and a threat to our democracy.\n\nWe have never seen members of the prior administration protest the current administration like this; it is unprecedented.\n\nHolder tweeted: Trump demand for DOJ investigation is dangerous\/democracy threatening. DOJ response is disappointing.There is no basis\/no predicate for an http:\/\/inquiry.It s time to stand for time honored DOJ independence.That separation from White House is a critical part of our system.\n\nPerhaps Eric Holder should take his own advice because in 2011, on Obamas orders the DOJ stopped defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA):\n\nCBS reported in 2011, President Obama has instructed the Justice Department to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, the legal prohibition on federal recognition of same-sex marriages.\n\nOn Sunday evening, hours after Trumps tweet, the Justice Department asked Inspector General Horowitz to investigate whether there was impropriety or political motivation into the FBIs infiltration of Trumps campaign.\n\nRep. Mark Meadows and other members of the Freedom Caucus turned up the heat on the Deep State and demanded Rosenstein hand over pertinent, unredacted documents because the DOJ cannot be trusted to investigate themselves.","title":"Eric Holder Lashes Out at Trump For Calling on DOJ to Investigate FBI Campaign Spies","date":"2018-05-21","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell made waves on Twitter Friday when he suggested the government would use nukes on citizens if a civil war broke out in America.\n\nNewsmax TV host John Cardillo tweeted in response to an article discussing Swalwells proposal to ban semiautomatic rifles, saying, Make no mistake, Democrats want to eradicate the Second Amendment, ban and seize all guns, and have all power rest with the state.\n\nMilitary veteran Joe Biggs commented on Cardillos post, saying a civil war would erupt if politicians like Swalwell get their way.\n\nResponding to Biggs, Swalwell threatened, And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes. Too many of them. But theyre legit.\n\nSo our government would nuke its own country in order to take guns? Wow, Biggs responded.\n\nSuddenly backtracking, Swallwell replied, Dont be so dramatic. No one is nuking anyone or threatening that.","title":"Dem Congressman Threatens to Nuke Gun Owners In Civil War Scenario","date":"2018-11-16","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) There is no doubt that some of us make incredibly poor decisions when it comes to the food we eat. From processed box meals to plenty of junk food, it is probably true to say that the American diet is one of the worst in the world. And this lack of nutrition has become especially apparent in recent years with the increase in the number of people with obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other lifestyle related illnesses.\n\nNonetheless, while many of us could probably use some guidance and assistance in making healthier food choices, very few of us would like the right to choose what we eat taken away from us entirely. And yet, that is exactly what the future may hold, according to Hewlett Packards magazine, Enterprise.\n\nThe magazine claims that technology should be utilized to help us eat better, and says that the time is coming very soon when doctors will write out food prescriptions to be delivered to our doors via a food service, cooked by your smart stove and restocked by your smart refrigerator.\n\nThe theory behind the need for this technological advance is that people are just too busy to cook healthy food, and would therefore rather buy inexpensive, ready-prepared junk food.\n\nAs The New Yorker magazine reported:\n\nFast food has become a synonym for bad food. Yet, the industrial farm system that has made it possible for McDonalds and many other chains to sell cheeseburgers for a dollar has also enabled Americans to spend a smaller percentage of their income on food than people do in any other country.\n\nAnd that, claims Enterprise, is where online ordering and smart technology can save the day.\n\nSince online food delivery services cut out the middle man, they are often considerably cheaper. They also only deliver the ingredients in the exact amount needed for a specific meal or meals, which can cut down on costs.\n\nBut some feel that this model could be taken a step further with the introduction of prescription food services.\n\nEnterprise explains the concept as follows:\n\nSoon your doctor will prescribe more than medicine to get you healthy and keep you that way. That means prescribing technology to help you monitor your condition and maintain your wellness. By this point, the doctor has also diagnosed any conditions you might have and has prescribed a meal plan for you. Food will be delivered and cooked for you with a lot less effort than previously.\n\nYour obedient compliance to this prescription will then be monitored by prescribed medical wearables or other devices, which will report back directly to your doctor via smart apps. The article even claims quite proudly, though its hard to see why, that there may be devices that will analyze your bodily excretions and scan your internal organs  always reporting back to your doctor, of course.\n\nThere are several problems with this whole scenario, the most glaring being the fact that the doctors who would be writing these food prescriptions receive virtually no training regarding nutrition in medical school. Many of them still believe in the debunked carbohydrate-loaded food pyramid, and have no knowledge about the dangers of sugar, how polyphenols, antioxidants, etc., can stave off disease, or any of the really important facts regarding true disease prevention. (Related: Discover what really matters at Nutrients.news.)\n\nHow would they be in the best position, then, to dictate and control the food their patients eat? (Related: Texas  Is medical freedom in jeopardy?)\n\nAnother issue is the fact that much of the feedback to the patient and their doctor would be via smart trackers, which have had very mixed reviews, with some people swearing by them, while others insist that these devices destroy existing healthy habits.\n\nAt the end of the day, human nature is such that being forced to do something usually doesnt work out well, right? After all, if we really want to lose weight and be healthy, well do it. And if we dont, no amount of prescribing, delivering, smart cooking or smart app monitoring will make a jot of difference.","title":"The end of food freedom Future food services may control what you eat by stocking food prescribed b","date":"2018-03-22","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Todays Morning Brief is brought by GovGUIDE Ontario. This new service is your all access GR solution for information on MPPs at Queens Park. Read profiles, access contact information, search by region, committee, cabinet and so much more. To subscribe, contact [email protected]\n\nThis probably isnt news you need before youve had your morning coffee, but it turns out were all going to be paying a bit more for the Trans Mountain pipeline  $1.9 billion more than the original construction estimate from Kinder Morgan. But whos counting? Oh, and it could also take a year longer to finish. Funny how thats all coming out now that Canadians are on the hook. The good news was contained in documents the company filed yesterday with the United States Security and Exchange Commission related to its plan to sell the pipeline to the Canadian government for $4.5 billion.\n\nYay for happy news to start the day!\n\nThe news isnt much better for Saudi students studying in Canada, nor for their schools. The students have been given four weeks to pack their bags and leave the country, regardless whether theyve finished their studies. That comes amid reports Saudi Arabia plans to rescind scholarships for thousands of students currently attending school here. I have never heard of anything like this before, University of Toronto vice-provost Joseph Wong told the Canadian Press.\n\nMeanwhile on the farm, one group says the diplomatic spat thats led Saudi Arabia to halt all international trade with Canada is troubling, as it comes amidst rising protectionism in a number of key trading markets. Its not just a size of a market, Cereals Canadas Cam Dahl told iPolitics. Were seeing this on a growing basis. The list of countries where we have significant market access issues seems to grow on a fairly regular basis and theyre not predictable.\n\nOn other trade fronts, Canadian officials are set to hold a series of high level meetings on the ongoing renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in Ottawa today. Canadas Ambassador to Washington David MacNaughton is expected to sit down with officials from the Prime Ministers Office, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus Chief of Staff Katie Telford. The discussion is expected to focus on strategy and trade positions. This comes on the heels of meetings between the U.S. and Mexico  which Canada wasnt invited to.\n\nGiven how flat Doug Fords announcement about bringing buck-a-beer back in Ontario fell with some yesterday, expect to hear more about it today. And likely tomorrow as well. The premier was pretty hopped up about his plan to approve a new plan for cheaper beer by Aug. 27 by lowering the minimum price of a bottle or can of beer to $1 from $1.25 just before Labour Day weekend. But in a province where plenty of people cant afford food and are looking for affordable housing, protestors who met the premier in Picton said the fact that Ford has made this a priority was ridiculous and insulting to our intelligence.\n\nIn Newfoundland and Labrador yesterday, after years of effort and urging by a community group to spur action, work began in Notre Dame Bay to extract the bulk oil the Manolis L took to the bottom when it sunk more than 30 years ago  and has been leaking since 2013. The 145-person response team is aiming to have the oil sucked out of the wreck, which is sitting in 70 metres of water, by early September.\n\nHERE AND THERE\n\nFor more great cartoons, visit the iPolitics Cartoon Gallery.\n\nIn Ohio last night, a hotly-contested House election was almost too close to call. While Republican Troy Balderson went to bed with a slim lead (101,574 to 99,820), he didnt give his party much to celebrate in a district Donald Trump had won by nearly 20 per cent in 2016. The Democrats have not conceded and most major networks werent making projections about the winner.\n\nOf course none of that stopped President Donald Trump from sending out a premature celebratory tweet to take credit for a great victory.\n\nHes no doubt keen to claim this one, as this election was very much a litmus test, pitting the strength of his fiery coalition against the Democratic Partys anti-Trump resistance. CNN has the latest updates on the results.\n\nGretchen Whitmer won the Democratic nomination for governor of Michigan, joining women in Georgia, Texas, South Dakota and elsewhere who are competing in November to lead their states.\n\nMeanwhile on the Russia front, the negotiation dance is almost done. That dance being determining the terms and conditions required for Trump to do an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said they seem to be down near the end and insisted that were not giving them a straight turndown.\n\nTrump took to Twitter yesterday to say hes seeking world peace by imposing the most biting sanctions ever against Iran, the latest example of escalating tensions between the two nations. Surely the same rationale is behind his plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion worth of Chinese imports starting Aug. 23. The two go hand in hand, dont they?\n\nColombias newly-elected President Ivan Duque took office yesterday, pledging to unite the country and improve economic growth. The conservative political newcomer was elected in June after a divisive election campaign where he saw off left-wing rival Gustavo Petro. In his inaugural address, the former lawyer pledged changes to tackle corruption and invigorate the economy. The leader has also vowed to change the peace deal with the Farc rebel group. The BBC reports.\n\nRobert Mueller doesnt make many public appearances these days  and when he does, youd be hard-pressed to find him smiling. So for that reason, to mark his 74th birthday yesterday, Politico dug up 17 happy photos of him.\n\nSpeaking of happy: The seven Gilligans Island puppies that were found starving and alone on an isolated northern Manitoba island are now in loving hands and on the mend. So after starting with pipelines and boycotts, we end with sweet pups, which should get your tail wagging.","title":"Morning Brief Pipelines premature celebratory tweets and puppies","date":"2018-08-08","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Question: My father says we must not buy the flat we have seen and very much want, because it has good leasehold title. What is the issue?\n\nAnswer: Absolute title is the best form of ownership and is granted when the Land Registry is satisfied with the freeholders\/lessors title. Good leasehold title is granted when the registry is satisfied regarding the leaseholders title to the property but not satisfied regarding the freehold title. An example is when the freeholder cannot be identified.\n\nSometimes an application to register leasehold property is made but the freehold is unregistered. If the applicant fails to provide evidence of the freehold title to the Land Registry, the property will be registered with good leasehold title.\n\nA good leasehold title may be vulnerable to challenge, for example, there may be an issue if someone proves they own the freehold title and that the person who granted the original lease had no right to do so. Accordingly, some lenders will not lend where the security for the loan is a property with good leasehold title. However, some will, provided an indemnity insurance policy is in place upon completion of purchase. Establish your lenders position as you may need to change lenders.\n\nIt is possible to upgrade good leasehold to absolute title. Ask your solicitor if such an application is possible in your case.\n\nThese answers can only be a very brief commentary on the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor.\n\nIf you have a question for Fiona McNulty, please email legalsolutions@standard.co.uk or write to Legal Solutions, Homes & Property, Evening Standard, 2 Derry Street, W8 5EE. Questions cannot be answered individually, but we will try to feature them here. Fiona McNulty is a solicitor specialising in residential property.","title":"What is the difference between a good and an absolute leasehold title","date":"2018-09-11","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"As data-sharing scandals continue to mount, a new proposal in California offers a potential solution: the California Consumer Privacy Act would require companies to disclose the types of information they collect, like data used to target ads, and allow the public to opt out of having their information sold. Now, some of techs most prominent companies are pouring millions of dollars into an effort to to kill the proposal.\n\nIn recent weeks, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber have all made substantial contributions to a group campaigning against the initiative, according to state disclosure records. The $195,000 contributions from Amazon and Microsoft, as well as $50,000 from Uber, are only the latest: Facebook, Google, AT&T, and Verizon have each contributed $200,000 to block the measure, while other telecom and advertising groups have also poured money into the opposition group. After Mark Zuckerberg was grilled on privacy during congressional hearings, Facebook said it would no longer support the group. Google did not back down, and the more recent contributions suggest other companies will continue fighting the measure.\n\nThe campaign to pass the California Consumer Privacy Act is almost wholly funded by Bay Area real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart. To date, Mactaggart has spent more than $3 million on the campaign. He argues that, in the personal data industry, theres so much money, and there are very powerful corporations that really have an immense interest in keeping business as usual going and having no regulations. He started working on the initiative about four years ago, after hearing a Google engineer say the public would be frightened to learn how much data the company holds on consumers.\n\nBig Techs latest resistance to the proposal comes during a key moment. The initiative recently submitted 600,000 unverified signatures to qualify for a place on the November ballot. The state is currently sorting through those signatures to determine whether there are 366,000 legitimate ones, the required threshold for a ballot spot. Mactaggart says the measure is polling well, and he expects the constant drip of data-sharing scandals to further buoy the effort.\n\nThe campaign for the measure has collected more than 600,000 unverified signatures\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the tech industry-aligned group the Committee to Protect California Jobs called the measure flawed and said its not only the tech industry that opposes the plan. Credit unions, grocers, and car manufacturers are among the many recent additions to the coalition and are the top of the iceberg, the spokesperson said.\n\nBut tech companies have been the most visible antagonists and have cast the proposal as anywhere from frustrating to an existential threat to their business models. Protecting peoples information is critical to maintaining customer trust  a principle Amazon was built on, a spokesperson for the company said. While we share the initiatives overarching goal of protecting consumer privacy, we are concerned by unworkable requirements that would hinder our ability to innovate on behalf of our customers. We look forward to working with policymakers to find a solution that allows us to do both.\n\nMactaggart says he and his campaign completely reject the idea that the measure would radically damage business interests, and he says business models like targeted advertising would still be workable.\n\nEarlier this week, the supporters of the initiative slammed Microsoft for its contribution, accusing the company of hypocritically supporting Europes GDPR protections while funding opposition to related efforts in California. In a statement, the company defended the contribution.\n\nMicrosoft believes privacy is a fundamental human right, a spokesperson said. Thats why we are strong supporters of GDPR, Europes new privacy regulation, and why we made the commitment to extend the rights at the heart of GDPR to all of our customers worldwide. Its why we have also advocated for national privacy legislation in the U.S. since 2005. We believe the California measure could have unintended consequences for both businesses and consumers and that there is a better way to give consumers the privacy rights they deserve.\n\nMeanwhile, supporters of the proposal are waiting to hear whether they make the ballot and are challenging tech companies to stop funding the countermeasure. If your commitment to your customers privacy is as strong as you say it is, please, Mactaggart wrote in the Microsoft letter this week, prove it.","title":"Amazon Microsoft and Uber are paying big money to kill a California privacy initiative","date":"2018-06-15","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Donald Trump and his rabid fan base of white nationalists are not unique to the world; instead, they are part of a trend happening in many countries where white people of European heritage are convincing others that brown people are coming into their countries bent on murdering and raping every white person in sight. While the U.S. is not alone in this, we are unique in having a leadership that joins in.\n\nWhen Trump isnt blaming Democrats for his cruel new policy of separating migrant children from their families at the border, hes convincing his followers that roving bands of undocumented immigrants are all MS-13 gang members and that sanctuary cities are crime-ridden wastelands. This is not a new or unique tactic. Its also happening in Germany, and Trump began pushing the same lies as a presidential candidate and uses the lies about Germany as justification.\n\nWhile a raging debate over German Chancellor Angela Merkels immigration stance on asylum for refugees rages, the white nationalist groups continue to push a lie that violent crime, and crime overall, is rising to out-of-control levels because of immigration. This is not the case.\n\nAccording to The Independent:\n\nThe new government figures show that 5.76 million crimes were reported in 2017. As a percentage of the population, crime is now at its lowest level for 30 years. Despite the significant overall fall in crime, the figures also revealed a rise in antisemitic attacks, which have gone up by 2.5 per cent with a total of 1,504 incidents in 2017. Mr Seehofer said this was partly attributable to imported antisemitism, referring to attacks carried out by foreigners, however, this portion was vastly outweighed by attacks on Jews by far-right German nationals, which accounted for 94 per cent of antisemitic attacks.\n\nIt isnt immigrants the U.S. or Germany needs to be concerned about. The rise in nationalism and white domestic terrorists are far more of a threat.\n\nTwitter users reminded Trump of this fact and many others. See some of their responses below:","title":"Trump Attacks Angela Merkel During 5-Tweet Twitter Tantrum Like An Enemy Of The State","date":"2018-06-18","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"In a Detroit neighborhood filled with abandoned houses and empty lots, a black male resident named Marc Peeples decided to spend his time making the area safer and a little nicer for his neighbors. To do so, he began clearing an empty lot to create a community garden and boarded up the windows of abandoned homes that had attracted criminal activity.\n\nThree white women decided the view from their windows shouldnt include a black man and began repeatedly calling the police with claims that he had a gun, painted gang colors on abandoned homes, was involved in a driveby, made threats to their lives and had been stalking them, and that he was a known pedophile who had been banned by local schools from being in the presence of children.\n\nPolice said the claims were outrageous but eventually charged him with three counts of stalking. In court, the women could prove none of their claims.\n\nAccording to The Detroit Metro Times:\n\n36th District Court Judge E. Lynise Bryant dismissed the charges and said that they should have been levied against the women for stalking Mr. Peeples rather than the other way around.\n\nIn court, the women claimed that a local school principal had told them that Peeples was banned from his schools grounds due to allegations of pedophilia. However, neither that principal or any other school official came forward to corroborate the claims. The reports that Peeples had a gun while working on the community garden, which the women claimed he had used to threaten their lives, was unfounded, as well. Police found nothing on the man when they responded to the complaints, other than a rake.\n\nPeeples, whose friends started a GoFundMe page to help cover his lost wages during the legal battle as well as his legal fees, called the womens accusations blatant racism\n\nIt was blatant racism. They didnt like the fact that a black man was in so-called their neighborhood without their permission...Its frustrating to have accusations placed on you with no merit, and they get you all the way into court to go to trial. If someone believed their story and I was found guilty, I would be in county jail doing up to a year just because they dont want ... a black person in their area.\n\nPeeples attorney, as well as residents disgusted by the womens claims, say that his only crime seems to have been gardening while black.","title":"White Women Press Stalking Charges On Gardening Black Man Then Court Happens","date":"2018-10-19","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"How much do you really hate the notch?\n\nCompanies like Oppo and Vivo, which are devoting serious engineering resources to find creative solutions to avoid 2018s most conspicuous design trend, are hoping that the answer is a lot. The Oppo Find X and Vivo Nex both use complex moving parts to hide and reveal components like selfie cameras and face scanners that would otherwise have to be housed in a notch in an all-screen phone.\n\nI was in Shanghai and Shenzhen a few weeks ago, and one thing that struck me was the huge, ubiquitous marketing for these two phones. They may not be expected to sell the most units, but theyre also far from wild experiments. They need to execute on their futuristic promise in order to establish each brand as an innovator.\n\nAnd, based on my time with the flagship Vivo Nex S at least, I can say that its a seriously impressive device that essentially delivers on the full-screen phone dream.\n\nThe headline feature of the Nex S  its elevating selfie camera  first appeared on Vivos Apex concept phone that I saw at Mobile World Congress in February, so that aspect of the hardware wasnt too novel for me. The biggest change is how the blocky Apex has morphed into an attractive and surprisingly slim premium phone with curved glass and a holographic back panel. The phone does pick up a lot of fingerprints, but the way it shimmers and diffracts in different lighting conditions is just really cool and feels appropriate for a phone positioning itself on the cutting edge.\n\nSo, too, does its spec sheet. Inside theres a Snapdragon 845 processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a 4,000mAh battery, a dual-camera setup with a 12-megapixel f\/1.8 primary module, a headphone jack, a USB-C port, and a huge 6.6-inch 2316 x 1080p OLED screen.\n\nAlong with the mediocre haptics and lack of wireless charging, that screen is actually the only part of the phone that doesnt feel as high-end as it could. Its color reproduction, contrast, and viewing angles are all fine  great, even  and the bezels are almost nonexistent all around (except for the bottom edge, which is roughly twice as thick as the rest). But the resolution is slightly insufficient to be stretched over such an expansive canvas; its a PenTile screen, and you can see jagged edges on text if you look closely. This isnt a huge deal, and I tend to think 1080p is the right choice for most phones, but I feel like Vivo could have sprung for a 1440p panel like Samsung and LG if it really wanted to push the Nex S as the most advanced phone on the market.\n\nThe screen does hold one key feature over virtually every other competitor, however: a fingerprint sensor integrated right in the display. This is Vivos thing more than anyone else. The company has been showing off prototypes for over a year, and finally its shipping the recent flagship X21 phone with the feature. Vivo says the Nex S scanner is third-generation with 50 percent higher recognition accuracy and 10 percent higher unlock speed, though, unfortunately, it doesnt have the Apexs much bigger sensor area. You still have to place your thumb on a thumbprint-sized icon.\n\nI havent noticed any improvement over the second-gen sensor in the X21, to be honest; it works almost exactly the same way, only with an area of the screen that lights up neon green instead of teal. As with the X21, I continue to think this is a preferable option to putting a slightly faster traditional fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone or on a chunky bottom bezel, though reasonable people may disagree.\n\nI also think the pop-up selfie camera is an acceptable compromise. Unlike the Oppo Find Xs 3D face-scanning array, its only called into service when you want to use the camera to take pictures or videos, meaning people who dont take selfies or video calls regularly wont see it very often. The mechanism is fast enough to not be a practical problem. The camera will be in position by the time youve framed your shot. At only five megapixels, though, this probably isnt the phone for you if selfies are a priority, even with Vivos assortment of Face Beauty and AI-powered features. Its fine for my needs, but Vivo is a company that markets many of its phones specifically on their selfie capabilities  some with dual front-facing cameras and 25-megapixel sensors, for example  and this is not one of those phones.\n\nOverall, the Nex S deals with the question of where to put a front-facing camera on a bezel-less device far better than any laptop Ive seen. Dells XPS line continues to place webcams below the screen, resulting in unflattering up-the-nose camera angles, while Huaweis MateBook X Pro cleverly integrates a camera into the keyboard but with a similar resulting image. Vivos camera mechanism isnt going to be practical in the ultra-thin top halves of most laptops, of course, but that doesnt make its solution any less ingenious.\n\nThe question, however, is whether theres really much of a problem to solve. Virtually every major Android OEM, from OnePlus to LG to Huawei, has released a phone with a notch already this year, and of course Apples instantly recognizable iPhone X design has rendered the idea extremely mainstream. Theres little evidence yet that consumers consider it a dealbreaker.\n\nA problem doesnt have to be a deal-breaker to have an extremely cool solution, though, and thats exactly what it feels like to use the Vivo Nex S. I cant deny that its more natural and cohesive to use a near-bezel-less screen with two-way symmetry, with the extra landscape usability and notification visibility that notches trade away. The in-display fingerprint scanner and pop-up selfie camera are serviceable in regular use, and the moving parts arent called into action nearly as often as on the Oppo Find X, which has to raise its face scanner every time you unlock the phone.\n\nIs the notch a matter so pressing that it should guide your buying decisions? Probably not. But that doesnt stop the Nex S from being a good product, arguably the most technically advanced Android phone on the market right now, and one that should make the whole world take a long look at Vivo as a serious company.","title":"The Vivo Nexs notch-killing trade-offs are worth it","date":"2018-07-19","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"'Over the past decade, Canadians have become much more aware of the horrific conditions in which eggs, pork and veal are routinely produced, and they have begun calling for better standards.'\n\nMost Canadians are surprised to learn that animals raised for food in our country are hardly protected by the law. (AP Photo\/Handout-Mercy for Animals)\n\nCalifornias recent vote on the humane treatment of farm animals could be a harbinger of change for the world, including Canada, in farm-animal welfare. On Nov. 6, California made history as voters approved Proposition 12, a ballot initiative to prohibit the confinement of hens, pigs, and calves to tiny cages or crates. Proposition 12 also requires that eggs, pork and veal sold in California meet this same standard. The measure was approved by 62 per cent of voters, considered a super-majority, and will benefit tens of millions of animals.\n\nAs the most populous state and the fifth-largest economy in the world, California has set a new legislative standard. Its citizens have stated loud and clear that they support the humane treatment of farm animals, and that its unacceptable to confine hens, pigs and veal calves in cages and crates so small, they can hardly move.\n\nIn Canada, the situation isnt as clear-cut. Over the past decade or so, Canadians have become much more aware of the horrific conditions in which eggs, pork and veal are routinely produced, and they have begun calling for better standards. Most major food companies  retailers like Loblaw and Walmart; iconic chains such as Tim Hortons, McDonalds and Starbucks; manufacturers including Kraft Heinz and Nestle; and food-service providers like Compass Group and Aramark  have agreed its time for these terrible practices to end. They have pledged to stop using cruel battery cages (for laying hens) and gestation crates (for mother pigs) by 2025 and 2022, respectively.\n\nYet none of these changes is codified in Canadian law. The corporate commitments noted above are not guarantees that the factory farms that produce our food will comply with these deadlines voluntarily, if at all. In the meantime, hundreds of thousands of hens, pigs and calves continue to suffer.\n\nMost Canadians are surprised to learn that animals raised for food in our country are hardly protected by the law. There are just two sets of national regulations (both inadequate) that govern their treatment, and they only apply to transportation and slaughter  that is, after animals have left the farm. To make matters worse, only a few provinces have anti-cruelty legislation that protects farm animals. Nearly everything else that happens is regulated by the animal-agriculture industry itself, through standards developed by the National Farm Animal Care Council. The council is comprised largely of agricultural business representatives, and its standards are not legally enforceable.\n\nTheres no doubt the vast majority of Canadians believe farm animals should live more freely. A poll conducted in 2016 revealed that 83 per cent of Canadians think the government should enact laws mandating cage-free egg production, and a 2013 poll showed that 84 per cent of Canadians support a nationwide ban on the use of gestation crates. Stronger laws and sound enforcement are some of the best ways to ensure that animals are treated humanely, and I urge Canada to follow Californias lead.\n\nIn the meantime, businesses and their customers are the biggest drivers of change. Food companies must continue to adopt better welfare practices in their supply chains, and consumers must demand that corporations and governments uphold their values. As individuals, we can also make better choices for animals each time we sit down to eat, through the three Rs of eating: reducing and replacing consumption of animal products, and refining our diets by choosing products from sources that adhere to higher animal-welfare standards.\n\nAs the California vote shows, we can make a difference.\n\nRiana Topan is a campaign manager for farmed animal welfare with Humane Society International\/Canada. Visit www.hsicanada.org to learn more.\n\nThe views, opinions and positions expressed by all iPolitics columnists and contributors are the authors alone. They do not inherently or expressly reflect the views, opinions and\/or positions of iPolitics.","title":"California just made history for animals Heres why it matters to Canada","date":"2018-11-22","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) The notion that the Western diet is not ideal is nothing new; the standard dietary habits in the U.S. and other westernized nations have been linked to major diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and more. But new research has shown that for teenagers in particular, the average American diet could be an even stronger recipe for disaster  especially when it comes to their mental health.\n\nWhile its already been fairly well established that being obese or overweight can increase the risk of depression in teens, budding research from the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania has shown that there is a biological pathway linking poor diet and inflammation to depression. This can spell bad news for teenagers.\n\nProfessor Wendy Oddy, hailing from the Menzies Institute, pioneered this ground-breaking research. Along with her team, they found that diet can influence teens risk of depression and other related mental health issues. While past research has shown that having an overweight or obese BMI can increase the risk of depression in youth, this study has highlighted the fact that diet can also play a substantial role in risk.\n\nAs sources report, the research team found that the typical Western diet  filled with red meats, processed foods and sugar  contributed to depression in more ways than one. While a Western diet can increase the risk of being overweight or obese, and indirectly also increase the risk of depression, the team found that diets role in depression can also stem from inflammation. In other words, diet appears to be an independent risk factor for depression, regardless of weight.\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nOddy and her team of scientists used data from thousands of adolescents collected under the Raine Study. For their own research, Oddys team looked at data from 1600 children surveyed at age 14, and 1,000 teens who were surveyed again at age 17.\n\nAfter analyzing the childrens diets and grouping their dietary habits as Healthy or Western, the team found that there were clear indications that diet had an impact on mental health in teens.\n\nIn their conclusion, the study authors wrote, A Western dietary pattern associates with an increased risk of mental health problems including depressive symptoms in adolescents, through biologically plausible pathways of adiposity and inflammation, whereas a Healthy dietary pattern appears protective in these pathways. Longitudinal modelling into adulthood is indicated to confirm the complex associations of dietary patterns, adiposity, inflammation and mental health problems, including depressive symptoms.\n\nTruly, the notion that a diet low in nutrients can have adverse effects on mental health should come as no surprise; if low-quality diets have been attributed to problems across the rest of the body, why should the brain be any different? Indeed, research has shown that the typical Western diet increases the risk of many diseases, chronic illnesses and early death.\n\nWhether its cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease, a poor quality diet is often in tow. Few people would question the benefits of a healthier, higher quality diet for people with heart disease or diabetes. And it turns out the same holds true for mental illnesses like depression.\n\nLast year, a clinical trial showed that changing over to a better quality, more nutrient-rich diet could help fight depression. Healthy food as an antidepressant could shake up the pharmaceutical industrys hold on people suffering with depression  and it could help give patients a new lease on life. In this trial, 32 percent of people who followed a healthy diet protocol for 12 weeks achieved complete remission  meaning they no longer had depression based on the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale. On average, healthy diet followers improved their scores on the depression rating scale by about 11 points.\n\nIt is clear that diet plays a role in the health of not only your body, but your mind. Who would have thought, our bodies and brains are connected.","title":"Teenagers who eat the standard Western diet found to have increased risk of mental health challenges","date":"2018-09-22","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"The massive caravan making its way up to the U.S. southern border through Mexico has now grown to 14,000 migrants, according to reports.\n\nDespite the mainstream media narrative that the caravan is comprised of hundreds of mostly women and children, local reporting from Mexican newspaper El Universal found that estimate to be grossly misleading.\n\nAdditionally, the majority of the caravan are not asylum-seekers  as the media has falsely claimed  but illegal migrants, as testimony from many individuals claim theyre traveling to the U.S. looking for work, not fleeing political persecution.\n\nThe fact the caravan dismissed Mexicos offer to process asylum applicants is also evidence the caravan isnt interested in protection from persecution, rather theyre migrating to the U.S. in pursuit of their economic interests.\n\nHow 14,000 migrants are procuring food and water, and ridding their waste remains unclear, but reports have emerged suggesting the UN and Soros-backed NGOs are quarterbacking the logistics of the mass migration similar to the waves that hit Europe in 2015.\n\nPresident Trump echoed the notion Saturday, saying the man-made caravan was launched by some bad people to influence the outcome of the midterm elections.\n\nTrump declared a National Emergency Monday following reports the caravan has grown and shows no signs of stopping, announcing he would deploy the military and Border Patrol to seal the border after Mexico failed to halt the caravan.\n\nSadly, it looks like Mexicos Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy. Must change laws! he tweeted.\n\nInfowars has also received reports that Trump is prepared to cut UN funding should the global body continue to enable the giant migrant wave.","title":"Report Illegal Migrant Caravan Swells To 14000 As Trump Prepares To Seal Border","date":"2018-10-22","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"March 2018 was pretty crazy. A ton of stuff happened. You probably forgot about a lot of it. We certainly did.\n\nHeres a list of just some of the news events that happened in March. This is the second list in our new monthly series. (We skipped February because there was just too many events, and we didnt finish.) Heres our roundup from January.","title":"What A Year This Month Has Been","date":"2018-03-31","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  Whats lost when the president of the United States cant  or wont  show up?\n\nAs the remembrances for the late Sen. John McCain shift from Arizona to Washington the rest of this week, President Donald Trump will be glaringly missing. The McCain family asked him to stay away from the four-day tribute to the storied Republican lawmaker. And even if they hadnt, its unlikely Trump would have been eager to eulogize one of his fiercest critics.\n\nBut Trumps absence is about more than just a personal feud between two dramatically different politicians. His inability to seize the ceremonial, symbolic power of the presidency, both in times of sorrow and joy, threatens to change an important aspect of the office itself and remake Americans expectations of their commander in chief.\n\nTheres a loss, says Julian Zelizer, a political historian at Princeton University. A lot of the stuff (Trump) does become norms. Thats the power of a presidency. Now a president can be this way.\n\nThe American presidency has always been tangled in partisan divisions. Most recent presidents have been elected by narrow margins after campaigns focused on party loyalists. Like Trump, his predecessors have frequently stuck to friendly environs, preferring the adulation of supporters to the criticism of detractors.\n\nBut most modern presidents also have recognized that the office comes with certain ceremonial expectations. Americans not only look to the president to run the government, but also to lead in times of tragedy or cheer in moments of national pride.\n\nIn the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Republican George W. Bush rallied Democratic-heavy New York, standing on a pile of rubble at the World Trade Center and throwing out the first pitch at a Yankees game. Democrat Barack Obama walked the streets of reliably red territory in Missouri, Alabama and elsewhere, hugging residents after natural disasters. He helped ease tensions in South Carolina when he broke into a rendition of Amazing Grace at a funeral for victims of a black church shooting.\n\nMcCain asked both Bush and Obama to speak at his funeral Saturday at Washington National Cathedral. Trump is expected to be at the White House, just a few miles away.\n\nTrumps absence in national moments of mourning or remembrance can open the way for others, including potential 2020 opponents, to fill that sort of role and offer a sharp counterpoint to the president. At a Phoenix memorial service on Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden spoke of a different code, an ancient, antiquated code that McCain lived by, one in which honor, courage, character, integrity, duty were what mattered.\n\nTrump stunned many members of his own party during the presidential campaign by mocking McCains capture during the Vietnam War. Their relationship never recovered, and McCain emerged as one of Trumps sharpest GOP critics. In the days after McCain succumbed to brain cancer, Trump resisted aides efforts to pay tribute to the senator and only grudgingly put out a statement honoring him.\n\nWhats striking is that Trump was elected despite few Americans believing he was well-suited to take on some of the traditional obligations of the presidency. A Pew Research Center survey in November 2016, just before the election, showed that 66 percent did not believe he would set a high moral standard for the office. A Pew poll this summer showed that 71 percent believe he has not.\n\nMany Trump supporters argue that he was elected in part to defy convention and change expectations for the presidency. Indeed, the same Pew poll found that 60 percent of those who approve of Trump listed his personality or approach to politics among the things they like most about him.\n\nBut some of his supporters have suggested hes missing an opportunity.\n\nSen. Lindsey Graham, both a close friend of McCain and a Trump ally, urged the president this week to be a big man in a big office.\n\nJohn McCain was a big man, worthy of a big country, Graham said on CBS. Mr. President, you need to be the big man that the presidency requires.\n\nAt times, Trump has tried to unite or heal in moments of tragedy, with varying degrees of success. He traveled to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island, but he feuded with the Democratic mayor of San Juan ahead of his arrival and the lasting image of his trip was his throwing rolls of paper towels into a crowd. He called the mother of an American soldier killed in Niger to offer condolences, but wound up tangling with a congresswoman who criticized him for telling the family that the soldier knew what he was signing up for.\n\nIncreasingly, Trump is simply absent in moments when a president would be expected to show up. He was reportedly asked to not attend funeral services earlier this year for Barbara Bush, the matriarch of one of the nations most prominent Republican families. And with athletes and celebrities often unwilling to be seen alongside Trump, hes sometimes had to skip functions such as the Kennedy Center Honors and cancel sports teams championship celebrations at the White House.\n\nDoug Heye, a Republican strategist who has been critical of the president, said the real concern is not whether Trump can reinstate some of those ceremonial functions, but whether he could bring the country together if he needed to.\n\nIf we need a united national response, and were not united, that makes the job of president to do those good and right things harder, Heye said. That seems not possible right now.\n\nAP polling editor Emily Swanson and AP writer Laurie Kellman contributed to this report.\n\nEDITORS NOTE: Julie Pace has covered the White House and national politics for the AP since 2007. Follow her at http:\/\/twitter.com\/jpaceDC","title":"Analysis Whats lost when the president cant show up","date":"2018-08-31","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Epic Games Fortnite is officially out of beta on mobile, meaning anyone with an iPhone SE \/ 6S or later running iOS 11 (or an iPad mini 4 \/ Air 2 or later) can download the game and jump into a match. Epic announced the news on its Twitter feed this morning. Previously, Fortnite on iOS was available in an invite-only beta period, though invites were generously given out and friends were able to invite up to three others to join the free-to-play platform. You can download the game from the App Store here.\n\nIts been a whirlwind of milestone-breaking and good news for Epic since the beginning of the year, as Fortnite has experienced a meteoric rise in both sales, popularity, and mainstream recognition. (Thanks Drake.) The games free-to-play business model  which sustains itself purely on a mix of clever in-game costumes, items, and an optional three-month subscription service  helped it best its rival and battle royale pioneer Playerunknowns Battlegrounds. But the games pure fun factor, combined with Epics breakneck update cycle, is whats helped Fortnite remain at the forefront of the online multiplayer scene since its September 2017 launch.\n\nJust last week, Epic added a new and improved snipers-only game mode, a ludicrous homing missile weapon, and a number of in-game clues pointing toward the destruction of the games Tilted Towers section, a potential game-changing event for a persistent multiplayer game that now has the whole community talking and swapping theories on online forums. With iOS now open to everyone, it seems like Epic will only continue to add more players.","title":"Fortnite is now open to everyone on iOS","date":"2018-04-02","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"This is so disturbing.\n\nEva has horns, a split tongue, and reptilian body art.\n\n Her nose and ears were whittled down to stumps.\n\nThis is the modern day left, folks.\n\n\n\nEva Tiamat Medusa, a transgender woman from Bruni, Texas, believes shes the most modified transgender person in the world. She also identifies as a dragon, and has spent more than 42,000 transforming herself into a reptile. Evas journey to becoming a dragon started when, while living as a man, Eva was diagnosed with HIV. She became determined not to die a human. Leaving her job as a vice president at a bank behind, Eva began to morph into the reptilian form shed always longed to have, claiming that after being abandoned by her parents at the age of five, she was born again under the care of a western diamondback rattlesnake.","title":"How Awful Texas Woman Mutilates Body Calls Herself a Trans-Dragon Lady VIDEO","date":"2018-03-01","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"British travellers will not need visas to visit the European Union for short stays even if there is a no-deal Brexit, the European Commission has said.\n\nCommissioners made the recommendation to put the UK on the visa-exempt list at a meeting in Strasbourg on Tuesday. The policy is dependent on the UK continuing to offer reciprocal visa-free access for EU citizens.\n\nTravel advice issued by the commission says: The European Commission has proposed to the EU legislator to exempt UK nationals from visa requirements for short-term stays.\n\nThe decision is still technically subject to confirmation by member states but is very unlikely to be overturned.\n\nThe EU puts all countries on either a visa exempt list or a visa required list. Visa policy is coordinated for the whole Schengen passportless area.\n\nBritish travellers could still be inconvenienced by Brexit because the EU is planning to bring in a system where countries outside the bloc will need to apply for an electronic travel authorisation in advance, even if they are visa-exempt.\n\nEtias  the EU Travel Information and Authorisation System  is modelled on the US Esta system and is being introduced on security grounds.\n\nTo what extent British citizens will have the right to work in the EU or move there long-term are separate to the question of travel visas; these questions will be settled as part of the future relationship negotiations between the EU and UK, expected to commence next year.\n\nThe move on visas is part of the EUs intensified planning for a possible no-deal Brexit. In a statement, the European Commission said: The European Commission has today proposed to grant UK citizens visa-free travel to the EU after the United Kingdoms withdrawal from the European Union.\n\nIt would mean that UK citizens would not need a visa when travelling to the Schengen area for short stays of up to 90 days in any 180-day period. In the scenario where the UK leaves the EU without a deal, this would apply as of 30 March 2019. If a deal is reached, however, it would apply as of the end of the transition period, as outlined in the withdrawal agreement. This follows the commissions continued commitment that citizens rights must come first in the negotiations on the UKs withdrawal from the EU.\n\nThis proposal is entirely conditional upon the UK also granting reciprocal and non-discriminatory visa-free travel for all EU member states, in line with the principle of visa reciprocity. The UK government has declared its intention not to require a visa from citizens of the EU27 member states for shorts stays for the purposes of tourism and business. EU rules on non-EU nationals travelling to the EU, such as those on border control, would of course apply to UK citizens once they are no longer EU citizens.\n\nThe visa-free policy covers the 22 EU member countries that are members of the Schengen area and the four Schengen-associated states  Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. It will also apply to Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Cyprus, which are outside Schengen but coordinate their policies with it.\n\nThe advice issued by the commission says holders of British driving licences may need a green card to drive in EU countries, and that they should check with the country they are visiting to see whether an international permit is required.\n\nEU passenger rights to information, reimbursement, or compensation will also no longer apply to UK flights and carriers, as well as much sea, bus and rail travel.\n\nThe commission also says the European Health Insurance Card will no longer give UK citizens rights to reciprocal healthcare when abroad and that travellers should make arrangements to get private insurance.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"Brexit EU says British citizens will not need visas to visit member states in event of no deal","date":"2018-11-13","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The Bank of England governor says a no-deal Brexit will mean higher prices and disruption to trade as we know it, in a stark warning of the impact on the country.\n\nMark Carney urged Theresa May and other governments to do all things to avoid it  just hours after No 10 again insisted she was ready to crash out of the EU with no agreement if necessary.\n\nHe also likened his efforts to stabilise the financial system for the huge shock to the stockpiling of food and medicines, saying: We have already done the stockpiling.\n\nBanks were ready for house prices crashing by a third, interest rates soaring by more than 4 per cent and the economy going into recession  the worst case scenario.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the prime ministers meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the governor described a no deal outcome as highly undesirable  but warned the chances were uncomfortably high.\n\nMr Carney also highlighted the pain already inflicted by the vote to leave the EU, saying: We have gone from the fastest to the slowest growing [economy] in the G7.\n\nThe UK economy had grown by a percentage point less up to spring of this year than we had projected prior to the referendum, he said  with a real pay squeeze on British households.\n\nThe interview came before Ms May is expected to issue a Chequers deal or no deal message to the French president when they meet at his summer retreat in the south of France.\n\nThe prime minister has cut short her holiday in Italy to try to convince Mr Macron that the UK will not compromise further on the proposals thrashed out by the cabinet in June.\n\nIn recent days, senior ministers have talked up the prospects of a no-deal departure insisting Britain can still thrive  although Downing Street has declined to use that word.\n\nBut Mr Carney set out a very different immediate future when asked about leaving with no agreement, saying: It is highly undesirable. Parties should do all things to avoid it.\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 4 what it would mean for people, Mr Carney highlighted disruption to trade as we know it, adding: As a consequence of that, a disruption to the level of economic activity, higher prices for a period of time.\n\nHe described the banks job as trying to prevent problems reverberating through the financial system, to ensure people did not have things to worry about.\n\nWhat we dont want to have is people worrying about their money in the bank, whether or not they can get a loan from the bank  whether for a mortgage or for a business idea, Mr Carney explained.\n\nAnd we have put the banks through the wringer well in advance of this to make sure they have the capital.\n\nAhead of the two leaders meeting, an Elysee Palace ruled out Mr Macron breaking ranks to help the UK, insisting the meeting was not a negotiation and not a substitute for the negotiations led by Brussels.\n\nThe spokesperson said the president had full trust in the EUs chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, adding: Thats how it will remain.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"Brexit Bank of England boss Mark Carney warns no deal outcome will mean higher prices and aposdis","date":"2018-08-03","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Silicon Valley giant Google employs nearly 10,000 foreign workers, importing them to the United States on visas, a newly leaked video obtained by Breitbart News reveals.\n\nThe video is a full recording of Googles first all-hands meeting following the 2016 presidential election in which President Trump historically beat out Democrat Hillary Clinton. These Google meetings occur on a weekly basis and are known inside the company as TGIF meetings, short for Thank God Its Friday.\n\nIn the Google meeting, Vice President of People Operations Eileen Naughton reveals the extent to which the tech conglomerate has imported and currently employs close to 10,000 foreign workers with plans to expand their foreign workforce population.","title":"Google Execs Admit to Importing 10K Foreign Workers to Take US Jobs","date":"2018-09-14","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Rep. Gohmert said not only is Mueller wasting millions of taxpayer dollars, hes covering up his own involvement in the Uranium One scandal while trying to have a coup against the President.\n\nGohmert is one of the few members of Congress speaking the truth about Muellers attempted coup and cover up of past crimes.\n\nHes wasted money right and leftamazingly hes hired people like Weissmann that worked with him and Rosenstein in investigating the Russian illegal efforts to obtain our Uranium which they quashed information in order to allow the sale to go through so that Hillary could get the $145 million for her foundation, Gohmert said. So it is really outrageoushes covering for himself, at the same time hes trying to have a coup against the President.\n\nThe House voted 207-201 to attach the language to a veterans, military construction, and energy and water spending bill that was headed to pass Friday, reported the Examiner.\n\nThe Office of Special Counsel released a statement of expenditures last Thursday revealing over $4.5 million has been flushed down the toilet in just a 6 month period hunting Russian ghosts.\n\nThis $4.5 million is in addition to the $6.7 million the Special Counsel cost the first five months. Add to that other Department of Justice costs related to Russia which brings the figure even higher to what Politico estimates to be $17 million total spent on the Russia probe.","title":"Gohmert SLAMS Mueller Hes Covering Up His Involvement in Uranium One While Trying to Have a Coup","date":"2018-06-09","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Apple has added refurbished HomePods for the first time to its online store, where theyre selling for $50 less than the original price, via MacRumors. Both the white and space gray versions are selling for $299, but youre better off looking elsewhere  Best Buys Black Friday deals show new HomePods selling for even cheaper, at $250.\n\nThe HomePod normally costs $349, which is pretty high for a wireless smart speaker that requires you to be locked into Apple products. If youre undeterred by this and more in it for the superb audio quality, getting the discounted, refurbished product through Apples online store might be the smarter choice once Black Friday deals disappear.\n\nApples refurbished products go through a rigorous testing and certification process, and come with a one-year limited warranty. Thats always an option in case you miss out on Best Buys Black Friday deals, where you can buy a brand-new HomePod for $100 off.","title":"Apple is now selling refurbished HomePods but Black Friday deals are cheaper","date":"2018-11-13","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Almost half of all US residents in the top five largest cities, or 48%, do not speak English at home according to the latest Census Bureau data.\n\nThe Washington Examiner reports that the new report, conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), also reveals that As a share of the population, 21.8 percent of U.S. residents speak a foreign language at home  roughly double the 11 percent in 1980. Overall, roughly 67 million residents dont speak English at home.\n\nIn terms of population, Spanish is the most commonly spoken language at home at 41 million residents in 2017, up from 37 million in 2010. Chinese is the next most common language at 3.4 million using it primarily at home.\n\nIn terms of the fastest growing non-English languages spoken at home, Telugu experienced the most rapid growth, followed by Bengali, Tamil, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi.\n\nRanking non-English speakers by state, California leads the pack, followed by Texas, New Mexico, New Jersey, Nevada and New York.\n\nIn terms of percentage growth by state, Washington D.C. experienced the largest percent growth in non-English speaking homes between 2010 and 2017, followed by Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah, Delaware, Nevada, Maryland and Nebraska.\n\nThe study comes amid several reports of altercations over the use of English, such as last weeks report about a couple who was refused service at a Florida Taco Bell because they did not have any English speaking employees.\n\nIn another case last May, a New York man threatened to call immigration police if customers and employees didnt stop speaking English in a restaurant.\n\nAmong the top findings from the CIS report:","title":"48 Of US Residents In Top 5 Cities Dont Speak English At Home 67 Million Overall","date":"2018-09-30","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"The King of Saudi Arabia has no knowledge of the fate of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Donald Trump said today.\n\nThe US president wrote online: \"Just spoke to the King of Saudi Arabia who denies any knowledge of whatever may have happened to our Saudi Arabian citizen.\n\n\"He said that they are working closely with Turkey to find answer. I am immediately sending our Secretary of State to meet with King!\"\n\nThe update from Mr Trump came as Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul was expected to be searched over two weeks after Mr Khashoggi's disappearance.\n\nA Turkish diplomat said that the inspection would be jointly carried out by Turkish and Saudi officials this afternoon.\n\nUS resident Mr Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, disappeared on October 2 while visiting the consulate.\n\nTurkish officials believe he was killed by a Saudi hit team and dismembered. The kingdom denies the allegations.\n\nSaudi Arabias King Salman today ordered the countrys public prosecutor to open an internal investigation into the case.\n\nThe king and President Erdogan of Turkey also vowed to set up a joint working group to investigate.\n\nIt also emerged today that Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, has pulled out of an event in Saudi Arabia dubbed 'Davos in the Desert'.\n\nMr Dimon was asked last week if he was going to participate in the event, but declined to comment. A JPMorgan spokesman said the bank was not giving any additional comment on Dimon's decision to pull out.","title":"Jamal Khashoggi latest Saudi king has no knowledge of fate of dissident journalist says Donald Tru","date":"2018-10-15","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The Russia investigation as led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is continuing to proceed whether President Donald Trump likes it or not. This Thursday morning, his former lawyer Michael Cohen abruptly entered a plea deal with the special counsels office that includes him pleading guilty to false statements to Congress as part of the overall inquiry. Those false statements seem to cover Trump efforts to make real estate headway in Russia.\n\nHes the fifth former Trump associate to face charges from the special counsels office, all of whom have eventually pleaded guilty. Its unclear how much time the plea might add on to the potential several years he was already facing in prison.\n\nHes already pleaded guilty to other criminal charges in a separate case. Earlier this fall, he declared in a Manhattan courtroom that he had participated in an illegal hush money scheme meant to silence women with whom his boss had affairs at the eventual presidents direction.\n\nIn the time since, more information has come out publicly that only further condemns the president. Trump was closely involved in essentially every aspect of the arrangement to the point of directing Cohen to take care of Stormy Daniels story himself after their previous arrangement for the stories to be bought up by the Trump-allied American Media, Inc. fell through.\n\nSimilarly to that situation, the president stands to be implicated in Cohens newest guilty plea, which accompanies a formal agreement to cooperate with prosecutors. Hed previously sat for questioning from authorities, including those with the Southern District of New Yorks federal court system, but the cooperation hadnt been formalized. Now, ABCs George Stephanopoulos shares that his newest guilty plea will be coupled with dozens of hours of testimony potentially damaging to Pres. Trump.\n\nThe president, fittingly enough, has been freaking out about the Mueller investigation yet again this week.\n\nHis Twitter feed provides a curious window into what hes thinking about, and this Thursday, he put his persecution complex on full display and declared:\n\nIts ironic that hes made the no collusion phrase such a bedrock of his defense when its so easily disproved. His son Donald Trump Jr., for instance, secretly met with Kremlin lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower in New York to get dirt from the Russian government on Hillary Clinton. Thats collusion  and Trump Jr. has worried hell be indicted for lying about it.\n\nMore recently, it came out that around the time he joined up with the Trump campaign, his former campaign manager Paul Manafort had secretly met with Julian Assange, the man whose organization Wikileaks distributed emails the Russians stole from Democrats.\n\nManafort was also recently accused of lying and breaching his plea agreement with the special counsel, which could compound his issues when he faces the sentencing associated with his guilty plea.\n\nIn other words, Trumps got lots of reasons to worry.","title":"BREAKING Michael Cohen Enters Surprise Plea Agreement With Mueller","date":"2018-11-29","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"While in office, President Donald Trump has continued to carve out a unique global policy path for himself. That carving brought him to recently decide to ease sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications company ZTE, which had previously been penalized for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran and North Korea.\n\nIt was on Thursday that the Trump administration formally announced their plans for doing away with sanctions on ZTE, and also on Thursday, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators unveiled their own plan for reimposing those sanctions. The plan comes in the form of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. Debate that will include amendments to the NDAA is expected to begin early next week, Roll Call reports.\n\nThe particular amendment in question that would restore sanctions on ZTE is supported by an as previously mentioned strikingly bipartisan group of legislators including Republican Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Democrat Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. Also on board are Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).\n\nCommenting on the odd and perhaps unfamiliar coupling, Schumer quipped while speaking on the Senate floor Thursday:\n\nWhat all of the Senators want to do is hold back ZTE, because its not as though concerns about the company  along with similarly grouped company Huawei  end with a simple oversight that led them to do business with North Korea and Iran. The companies are, rather, seen as national security threats because of the fact that theyre perceived as vulnerable to being compelled by the Chinese government to have their devices be a part of an espionage program targeting the United States.\n\nThus, the Senators want ZTE and Huawei to remain forbidden from doing business with American companies. Senators had already been working on keeping the government itself from doing business with ZTE and Huawei; because of concerns about espionage capabilities, the Department of Defense prohibited such devices from being sold on military bases  and yet, the Trump administration has proceeded with being open to letting the company advance anyway.\n\nTo be sure, the Trump administration has tried to maintain an about face when it comes to the whole ordeal. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross insisted:\n\nThe cascade of developments comes after an abrupt policy shift led by a tweet from President Trump himself. Although hes maintained an aggressive stance when it comes to the vast majority of foreign trade issues, on May 13, he wrote on Twitter:\n\nNow, we are at the present point, where that deal the president wished for has been accomplished. Whether the involvement of a bipartisan group of leading U.S. Senators in the effort to get the just lifted sanctions reimposed will be enough to get it to a vote  and then get it to pass  remains to be seen.","title":"Group Of Senators Go Over Trumps Head To Reimpose Sanctions On ZTE Donald Livid","date":"2018-06-08","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Nearly 18 months after the Grenfell Tower fire, 96 per cent of council tower blocks in London do not have sprinkler systems, according to research by the Labour Party.\n\nFigures from local councils showed more than 800 high-rises in the capital did not have the fire protection method, leading the opposition party to say council tenants had been betrayed by the government.\n\nIn the aftermath of the inferno that killed 72 people, Theresa May vowed to do whatever it takes to keep our people safe.\n\nHousing minister Kit Malthouse said the government had taken steps to ensure the immediate safety of all high rise buildings, pointing out sprinklers were only one of a host of possible measures that can protect a buildings occupants from fire.\n\nSprinklers were fitted in 32 of 837 blocks that rise higher than 98ft across the capital, figures provided by 29 of 33 councils showed. Nine of those with sprinklers had them before the blaze and 23 have had the systems fitted in the months since, according to the data seen by The Independent.\n\nSince 2007, new blocks over 30 metres tall must be fitted with sprinklers, but the law does not apply retrospectively.\n\nAfter the 2009 Lakanal House fire in Southwark that killed six people, a coroner recommended retrofitting sprinklers in existing high-rise residential buildings.\n\nThe National Fire Chiefs Council, the London Fire Brigade Commissioner, the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service and the London Assembly, have also called for the systems to be retrofitted.\n\nCalling on the government to set up a fire safety fund to help cash-strapped councils pay for the protection systems to be fitted, shadow housing minister Sarah Jones said she knew of 10 councils that had requested funding support specifically for sprinklers, but the government had refused.\n\nOther councils had told the Croydon MP they had been discouraged from requesting funding after the governments refusals of other councils were made public. Not a single council surveyed had been granted a funding application for sprinklers, she said.\n\nCouncils and social housing tenants have been betrayed by this government who promised to do whatever it took after Grenfell to make tower blocks safe, and has since backtracked, said Ms Jones.\n\nIts simply contradictory for ministers to say that sprinklers arent essential in older buildings while requiring them for new buildings. It creates a two-tier system which disproportionately impacts social housing tenants.\n\nWhy should certain people be entitled to safer housing than others?\n\nA London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: Sprinklers save lives, reduce injury and protect property and we have long been urging the government to take action on sprinklers.\n\nWe believe building owners should retrofit sprinklers in tower blocks, especially in the homes of those who would find it difficult to escape a fire such as those with mobility problems and we have also been calling for sprinklers to be mandatory in all new school builds and major refurbishments.\n\nThey are the only fire safety system which detects a fire, suppresses a fire and raises the alarm.\n\nMr Malthouse said: Since the tragic events at Grenfell Tower, we have taken steps to ensure the immediate safety of all high rise buildings.\n\nWe are going to fully fund the removal and replacement of unsafe cladding, like the type used on Grenfell Tower, on high rise buildings owned by councils and housing associations, estimated at 400m.\n\nSprinklers can be effective, but they are one of many fire safety measures that can be adopted. If local authorities have concerns about the costs of essential fire safety measures, they should contact us to discuss their position and any flexibilities we can offer.","title":"No sprinklers in 96 of London high-rise council blocks research finds","date":"2018-11-23","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuels office refuses to release the plan it developed for the citys response to a verdict in the trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.\n\nOn October 5, Van Dyke was convicted of second-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. He was also found guilty of 16 counts of aggravated battery, one for every shot he fired into the body of McDonald.\n\nReleasing this information could enable terrorists and criminals to know in advance where police, fire, and other valuable city resources will be, the mayors office argued in its response to a public records request from Lucy Parsons Labs.\n\nThe Illinois Freedom of Information Act exempts vulnerability assessments, security measures, and response policies or plans that are designed to identify, prevent, or respond to potential attacks.\n\nThe mayors office contends that the action plan can be applied to many types of public safety situations that may arise, a possible effort to avoid comparing freedom of assembly to terrorism. Yet according to the citys statement, the plan was designed to respond to a potential attack upon the communitys population, and the release of this plan could allow persons with this information to effect a strategy in advance for undermining or otherwise targeting public safety efforts.\n\nMany in Chicago braced themselves for the verdict: some for the pain of seeing yet another black person killed by police without consequence, others for what they worried would be civil unrest.\n\nBut by invoking this exemption, the city reveals it was planning for protests if Van Dyke was acquitted in the same way it would prepare for a terrorist attack.\n\nThe citys lack of transparency regarding its plans for the verdict announcement are surprisingly similar to recent rhetoric about protests from Republicans and the far-right. President Donald Trump has stoked fears of the angry left-wing mob, and both federal and state lawmakers have introduced bills to criminalize and suppress protest.\n\nPrevious reporting indicated the city of Chicago created a plan specifically for the Van Dyke verdict.\n\nThe Chicago Police Department also rejected a request for these documents, citing the same exemption.\n\nGiven the Chicago Police Departments history of violence, a secret emergency plan of counterterrorism tactics raises questions about whether the city protects freedom of assembly.","title":"Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuels Office Invokes Terrorism To Keep Response Plan To Van Dyke Verdict Secr","date":"2018-10-25","source":"shadowproof","label":1}
{"content":"Real Madrid have sacked coach Julen Lopetegui, the club have announced.\n\nThe 52-year-old was appointed as a successor to Zinedine Zidane after the Frenchman stepped down late in May, but the timing of the announcement upset the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and saw the Basque lose his job as coach of La Roja on the eve of the World Cup.\n\nHe flew back from Russia and was officially unveiled at the Santiago Bernabeu on June 14, but has lasted little over four months following a disappointing run of results.\n\nVictory over Viktoria Plzen on Tuesday ensured that Lopetegui would be in the dugout for Sunday's El Clasico match with Barcelona.\n\nBut that match, a humiliating 5-1 defeat at Camp Nou, would be his final game in the Real Madrid hotseat. It was a fifth defeat in their last seven matches, and it saw Real Madrid president Florentino Perez finally wield the axe.\n\nLopetegui leaves Real Madrid without a trophy to his name, having lost the Uefa Super Cup to Atletico in his first official game in charge back in August.\n\nA statement released by Real Madrid read: \"The Board of Directors of Real Madrid C. F., after a meeting today October 29, 2018, has agreed to terminate the contract that linked coach Julen Lopetegui with the club.\n\n\"This decision, adopted from the highest level of responsibility, aims to change the dynamics of the first team, when all the objectives of this season are still achievable.\n\n\"The Board of Directors understands that there is a great disproportion between the quality of the staff of Real Madrid, which has eight players nominated for the next Ballon dOr, something unprecedented in the history of the club, and the results obtained to date.\n\n\"The club thanks Julen Lopetegui and his entire technical team for their effort and work and wishes them the best in their professional career.\n\n\"He will be provisionally replaced by Santiago Solari, who will lead the first team starting tomorrow, Tuesday.\"","title":"Julen Lopetegui sacked Real Madrid axe coach after El Clasico defeat at Barcelona","date":"2018-10-29","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Screaming protesters interrupted Mike Pence and were dragged out of the Senate gallery by police.\n\nFirst roll call was taken then Senators cast their votes.\n\nThe Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as 114th Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history.\n\nThe evil Democrats threw everything at Brett Kavanaugh and ultimately the truth prevailed!","title":"Congratulations Justice Brett Kavanaugh ITS OFFICIAL KAVANAUGH IS CONFIRMED","date":"2018-10-06","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A GCSE sociology text book, officially approved by the AQA exam board, has come under fire for offensive statements about Caribbean families, including the claims that men are largely absent and children are passed between relatives.  In AQA GCSE (9-1) Sociology by Rosie Owens and Ian Woodfield, under a chapter discussing the sociology of families, a description of Caribbean families has caused concern that it reinforces negative stereotypes.\n\nThe book reads: In Caribbean families, the fathers and husbands are largely absent and women assume the most responsibility in childrearing. When men and women live together, it is usually in cohabiting or common law relationships that reproduce the traditional patriarchal division of labour. The family system is also characterised by child-shifting, that is, the passing of children to other relatives or acquaintances if the parents find themselves unable to take care of them. As a result, multiple women are involved in childhood socialisation. Social media users have since expressed anger and disappointment at the text, referring to it as divisive and racist without being supported by statistics and demonstrable research. The lone parent charity Gingerbread, says that 21% of single parents are from Black or minority ethnic backgrounds, compared with 16% nationally.  The 2011 census revealed that 16.6% of black Caribbean households are lone parents with children, compared with 6.7% of white British households and 22.7% of mixed white British\/Caribbean families. But overall number of lone parent families in the UK that are white British far outstrips those of black Caribbean heritage. (Of those lone parents, the census did not say whether they were men or women.)  This evidence does not support the statement in the book that says that fathers in black Caribbean homes are largely absent.\n\nSome campaigners feel that the description of Caribbean families in AQA GCSE (9-1) Sociology is symptomatic of wider, racial inequality across schools in general. Recent research has shown that Black Caribbean pupils are being subjected to institutional racism and stereotyping in English schools, resulting in poor academic attainment levels. On Twitter, @MovellDash wrote: I am disgusted to see that your sociology book contains this kind of stereotyping being taught to children as fact. This rhetoric is at best a stereotype and at worst divisive. Shame on you AQA And @Akeko15664091 posted: @AQA you need to justify this with the scientific evidence that will give this credence in education OR retract it because it upholds negative stereotypes for young minds just 15\/16 years\n\nAlso, @Motherhood_rx tweeted: Seeing as its Black History Month...we are astounded at this text from a current GCSE sociology book approved by @AQA exam board. In Caribbean families the fathers are largely absent...also child shifting image being in class reading this? Where is the evidence?\n\nAn AQA spokesperson told HuffPost UK: We dont agree with any stereotypes and theres nothing about Caribbean families in our actual GCSE Sociology syllabus. We dont produce textbooks ourselves - but well speak with the publisher of this book about these concerns. The book was originally released in 2014. It is approved by AQA and published by Hodder Education. HuffPost UK has reached out to Hodder Education and the Department of Education for comment.","title":"GCSE Text Book Stereotypes Caribbean Families By Claiming That Dads Are Largely Absent","date":"2018-10-07","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"I dont believe anybodys ever had this kind of an impact, Donald Trump has said of himself and the effect his campaign blitz has had for Republican candidates ahead of Americas upcoming congressional elections.\n\nThe president has been campaigning aggressively, attending a torrent of rallies designed to fire up Republican voters and boost his partys chances of keeping control of the Senate and the House of Representatives\n\nDespite his efforts, he faces the prospect of a bruising electoral defeat with a blue wave expected to sweep away the Republican dominance in the House, bringing an end to the triple-headed Republican power-hold in Washington.\n\nBut Mr Trump has already absolved himself of any blame if he does lose his majority on 6 November, saying that even though he has tried to help, as he is not running himself, people may not turn up to vote.\n\nIm not running, he told the Associated Press. I mean, there are many people that have said to me ... I will never ever go and vote in the midterms because youre not running and I dont think you like Congress.\n\nHe added: Well, I do like Congress.\n\nThe Democrats need to take both congressional houses in order to regain any control of the US political narrative and block the Trump administrations policy programmes.\n\nThe big prize would be the Senate  control of which would allow Democrats to block Mr Trumps Supreme Court picks and Cabinet appointments.\n\nBut Republicans remain confident they will retain control of the Senate  and with good reason  the Grand Old Party (GOP), is defending 26 seats  far more than the Democrats nine which are up for grabs.\n\nIt is far more likely the Republicans will struggle to retain their House majority. Currently, there are 240 seats held by Republicans, and 195 held by Democrats. The winning party must take 218 to have a majority  meaning the Democrats require a net gain of 24 seats.\n\nThough this sounds like a tall order, Democrat confidence has been boosted by the fact a record 39 Republicans are vacating their seats at the 2018 midterms  many of whom were anti-Trump. Meanwhile 27 Democrat-held seats are not being contested by their incumbents.\n\nIf the president does lose his majority in the house, it could pave the way for Democrats to pursue further investigations into Mr Trump  including into his long-hidden tax returns.\n\nImpeachment may be what many hope the midterm elections might lead to, but this is a stretch  it requires a two-thirds majority in the senate, meaning a significant number of Republicans would have to turn on the president, even if the Democrats somehow won every seat up for grabs.\n\nWhatever the efforts of Democrats seeking to topple the President are in the wake of the vote, Mr Trump has said he will handle it very well.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Trump claimed the Republican midterm campaign rallies were bigger than they have ever been before, including the 2016 election, which took him to the White House.\n\nIf the Republicans do lose control of the House, it would be entirely in keeping with recent US political history and unlikely spell disaster for Mr Trump. Most presidents who lose one or even both houses in their first midterms go on to re-election  including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.\n\nHerbert Hoover was the last president who lost a majority in Congress during his first term and then lost re-election  and that was in 1933 as the US was picking up the pieces of the stock market crash. In comparison, todays US economy is in rude health.","title":"Midterms 2018 Trump says itaposs not his fault if Republicans lose Congress","date":"2018-10-17","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) Colombian researchers studied the bioactive compounds found in the mammee (Mammea americana) and the white milkwood (Tabernaemontana cymosa) for their effects on the dengue virus and chikungunya virus. They reported that extracts from the South American plants exerted powerful antiviral effects.\n\nThey published their findings in the scientific journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine.\n\nCoumarins from the mammee could serve as possible antiviral treatments for both dengue and chikungunya fever, while the lupeol acetate and voacangine from white milkwood could be used to treat dengue fever.\n\nRead the full text of this study at this link.\n\nVisit NaturalMedicine.news to read more articles on natural antivirals that can protect you against infectious diseases.\n\nGomez-Calderon C, Mesa-Castro C, Robledo S, Gomez S, Bolivar-Avila S, Diaz-Castillo F, Martinez-Gutierrez M. ANTIVIRAL EFFECT OF COMPOUNDS DERIVED FROM THE SEEDS OF MAMMEA AMERICANA AND TABERNAEMONTANA CYMOSA ON DENGUE AND CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS INFECTIONS. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2017;17(1). DOI: 10.1186\/s12906-017-1562-1.","title":"Two South American plants evaluated by scientists found to have powerful antiviral effects","date":"2018-07-13","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Kanye West has launched into an expletive-filled rant touching on everything from prison reform to how Donald Trump makes him feel like Superman as part of a surreal meeting in the White House.\n\nWest, who lavished praise on the president ahead of a planned lunch, launched into a near 10-minute monologue that Mr Trump called quite something.\n\nReferring the Make America Great Again hat he was wearing while sat across from Mr Trump in the Oval Office he said that it felt like it gave him power.\n\nThere was something about putting this hat on that made me feel like Superman, West said, as part of the speech that spanned topics from his mental health - saying he did not have dipolar disorder, but was merely sleep deprived - and violence in Chicago.\n\nThe rapper has been criticised over his for his support for Mr Trump, including after a recent appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live.\n\nPeople expect that if you're black you have to be Democrat, he said. What I need Saturday Night Live to improve on, what I need the liberals to improve on: if he don't look good, we don't look good, West said, gesturing at Mr Trump.\n\nTaking out his phone, he showed the president an image of a hydrogen-powered plane and suggested the president should use the design for Air Force One.\n\nWest also said he would like Mr Trump to ditch talk about persuading police in Chicago to institute stop and frisk policies to crack down on crime and violence.\n\nI didn't mean to put you on the (spot), bro, West told Mr Trump, who said I'm open to everything about the subject, adding that West could speak for him any time as he was a smart cookie.\n\nWest also said the president is on a hero's journey.\n\nLet's stop worrying about the future, all we have is today, the music star said, commenting on his own presidential ambitions. Trump is on his hero's journey right now. He might not have thought he'd have a crazy mother-f***** like me [supporting him].\n\nAsked if he saw West as a potential presidential candidate Mr Trump said could very well be with West adding only after 2024 - the end of a potential second White House term for Mr Trump.\n\nOver lunch, according to White House spokesman Hogan Gidley, Mr Trump and his guests - which include former NFL running back Jim Brown and White House advisors Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump - would discuss potential future pardons for convicts along with addressing the massive violent crime surge in Chicago and efforts to create jobs for black Americans.\n\nKim Kardashian-West, who is married to the rapper, had previously raised the issue of pardons in a White House meeting of her own.\n\nBefore leaving the Oval Office for the lunch of roast chicken and potatoes West stood up and gave Mr Trump a hug, saying: I love this man.\n\nIf you want to read how the meeting unfolded, please see what was our live coverage below.\n\nPlease allow a moment for the liveblog to load.","title":"Trump-Kanye West meeting Rapper rants and swears at surreal White House lunch on day president sign","date":"2018-10-11","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) If you have gout, the best possible way to manage it is by changing your lifestyle. An editorial published in the International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology suggested that gout, which is a rheumatologically oriented metabolic disease, can be controlled by making lifestyle and dietary changes.\n\nGout, as defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a kind of arthritis that results in pain and swelling, as well as stiffness in the joints. Other symptoms of gout  which is typically a result of the build up of crystals made of uric acid in the joints  include redness and heat in the affected joints. Usually, it begins in the big toe, but it can also affect other joints in the feet, arms, and legs. It can also cause lumps under the skin and kidney stones.\n\nGout, in its early stage, may have attacks that start at night and come unexpectedly. These attacks are triggered by stressful events, alcohol, drugs, or other illness. Typically, its symptoms will last for at least three to 10 days.\n\nMonoarul Haque of the Bangladesh Physiotherapy Association, author of the editorial, predicted that there will be an increase in the number of people affected by gout in the Western population. This is because people there are less aware of the food they consume. In fact, according to studies, approximately 12 percent of gout cases are associated with peoples dietary intake. They also include a strong link with the consumption of alcohol, fructose-sweetened drinks, meat, and seafood like anchovies, sardines, mussels, scallops, trout, and tuna. Aside from these, physical trauma and surgery elicit the development of gout.\n\nMother Nature's micronutrient secret: Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary \"sulforaphane\" and \"glucosinolate\" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here.\n\nThe people who are at risk of gout are those who are overweight or obese, using certain medications like diuretics, drinking alcohol, eating or drinking food and drinks that are high in fructose, and having a diet rich in purines (which is an organic compound found in some food that the body breaks down into uric acid), insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and poor kidney function.\n\nSome foods that are high in purine include red meat and organ meat. In addition, those who have certain health problems, such as congestive heart failure or high blood pressure, are also at risk of the development of gout.\n\nGout can be managed without the use of medications. It can be controlled in natural ways by making lifestyle changes such as eating a healthy diet, having a healthy lifestyle, and managing weight. The risk of gout can also be reduced by drinking coffee, taking vitamin C, consuming dairy products, and being physically active. In addition, a diet for gout patients should be able to control the levels of uric acid in the body, and at the same time promote proper overall health condition. (Related: Gout  Seek a drugless approach to this painful condition.)\n\nThere are certain foods that can help manage gout because of their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory symptoms. These include cherries, ginger root, apple cider vinegar, bananas, Epsom salt, apple, and lemon juice. In addition, limiting or even eliminating sugar, alcohol, and soda intake can help a person manage gout.\n\nMost of the times medical practitioners give priority on medication during consultation with patients but diet has significant\/immense role if we want to control or prevent gout and to achieve this vigorous awareness campaign can be attempted, promoted as well as instituted, Haque wrote.\n\nRead more stories on ways to manage gout and other diseases at HealingArts.news.","title":"Gout Another metabolic disorder that can be controlled through lifestyle","date":"2018-09-05","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Tom Fitton joined Sean Hannity tonight to discuss Barack Obamas knowledge of the junk Russian dossier that was used to spy on the Trump Campaign and Trump Transition Team.\n\nRice wrote the email to herself on her last day in office to document a January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting between President Obama, former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates regarding the spying operation on Donald Trump.\n\nThe opposition research dossier was a crazy document based on complete lies fed to the DNC by Russian spies. And the Obama administration were all in on this criminal activity.\n\nTom Fitton: There are these dueling memos. The Democrats are eventually going to have their memo come out. Why is it were relying on our summary document? Lets get the underlying information. I know Nunes is asking for it. Weve sued in court for it. And Ive told the White House that they should take this approach of extreme transparency on this Russiagate. It does nothing to protect the president from this solicit activity against him. And it protects people like Barack Obama and the Justice Department and FBI that was misused to target President Trump... The dossier is central to the collusion theory. Its collapsing and if it was central to the Russian collusion theory. We have reports today, quickly Sean, Barack Obama was given the dossier. He was given the dossier. What did he know and why hasnt he been questioned about it?","title":"TOM FITTON Obama Was Given the Russian Dossier What Did He Know and Why Hasnt He Been Questione","date":"2018-02-13","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Global oil producers are getting closer to an agreement on an output cut.\n\nSaudi representatives said Sunday that the kingdom would slash its exports unilaterally next month, as a broader OPEC alliance debated  but didnt agree to  a collective production cut, according to Dow Jones Newswires.\n\nRussia, the worlds largest producer, which usually moves in lockstep on matters with OPEC, has sent mixed signals on whether it would pull back on supply.","title":"OPEC gets closer to a production cut","date":"2018-11-12","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"The Republican-dominated Senate has been walking in lock-step with Donald Trump down a path toward a political implosion. People had begun to question where their patriotism was, as the senators allowed Russia to manipulate the president while he damaged the pillars of U.S. governmental institutions. Then, this happened.\n\nIn a rare show of bipartisanship, senators introduced a new bill that would handicap the Russians for their attack on the nations presidential elections. This attack has continued to this day, when the U.S. has fast approached the midterm election.\n\nSenator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the existing sanctions have failed, Reuters reported:\n\nFor some reason, POTUS has refused to impose sanctions upon the country of his pal, Russian president Vladimir Putin. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said that Trump still has not fully implemented the sanctions Congress passed against Russia a year ago, according to Reuters:\n\nThe new bill restricted Russian access to money generated by energy and other projects. Moscow would lose on its uranium imports, too. These restrictions would greatly hamper Russias oligarchs and politicians.\n\nIn addition, the sanctions would better contain Russians illegal activities in both the Crimea annexation and attacks in Syria. Trump has been remarkably silent on these. Others have speculated that both Trump and Putin entered into the private one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, Poland unfavorable to the U.S. interests.\n\nSpecial Council Robert Mueller began the trial of the first individual, former Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort. This trial was the result of Muellers investigation into Russias attack on the U.S. elections and any conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.\n\nIt appeared as if the commander-in-chief has been feeling cornered by Muellers investigation, especially with Manafort in the hot seat. The president tweeted that his Attorney General Jeff Sessions should halt the investigation right now:","title":"BREAKING Republicans Democrats Band Together To Stop Trump From Destroying NATO","date":"2018-08-02","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"President Donald Trump has once again lashed out at special counsel Robert Muellers Russia investigation, claiming broadly  and without any evidence  that the probes inner workings are a total mess.\n\nMr Trump unleashed the tirade on Twitter just over a week after midterm election losses delivered a rebuke to Mr Trumps presidency by handing control of the House of Representatives back to Democrats for the first time in eight years.\n\nJust after the elections Attorney General Jeff Sessions was ousted from his post, with Mr Trump having repeatedly criticised Mr Sessions for recusing himself from overseeing the probe into Russian election meddling and possible collusion with Trump campaign officials. The firing prompted calls from newly emboldened Democrats and some Republicans to call for legislative protection for Mr Muellers probe.\n\nThe inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess, Mr Trump wrote. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want.\n\nHe continued: They are a disgrace to our Nation and dont care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They wont even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!\n\nA bill that would have protected the special counsel investigation was blocked in the Senate by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday, who claimed that the there was no threat to the investigation from the president who has repeatedly sought to undermine the probe with his \"witch hunt\" taunts.\n\nDemocrats and some Republicans felt compelled to push for the legislation after Matthew Whitaker was named as acting attorney general following Mr Sessions departure.\n\nMr Sessions had to recuse himself from oversight of the investigation, citing his role in the 2016 Trump campaign. Mr Whitaker, though, has previously parroted the presidents language regarding the Mueller investigation, saying it could become a witch hunt and suggesting that the investigation could be hobbled without firing Mr Mueller if the budget is virtually eliminated.\n\nMr Whitaker has claimed he has no intention to cut the budget, and has reportedly consulted ethics experts on whether he should recuse himself from oversight of the investigation as Mr Sessions did.\n\nPrior to this time, the investigation  which is rumoured to be preparing a new set of indictments  has been overseen by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.","title":"Trump claims inner workings of Mueller probe are a apostotal messapos but gives no evidence","date":"2018-11-15","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called three provincial premiers to discuss the possibility of stiff American tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum products  two days before the current exemption expires, his office said Wednesday.\n\nIn a read-out supplied to reporters, the Prime Ministers Office said he called Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard.\n\nDuring the call, his office said the prime minister underscored the strong collaboration between the Government of Canada and the three provinces on Canada-U.S. trade issues and thanked them for their ongoing cooperation.\n\nHe also noted the importance of the steel and aluminum sector, specifically in Hamilton, Sault Ste. Marie, the SaguenayLac-St-Jean region, and Regina.\n\nAll four agreed to continue to defend the industry and its Canadian workers.\n\nCanada is one of the United States biggest suppliers of steel and aluminum products and has, for now, been exempted from proposed tariffs put forward by the Trump administration. U.S. President Donald Trump has said the tariffs (25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminum) are necessary because of national security.\n\nCanada has repeatedly and vehemently refuted that claim.\n\nThis countrys exemption from the tariffs, White House officials have indicated, was because of the ongoing renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Canadas current exemption is set to expire on Friday. Its unclear whether the Americans are willing to issue another exemption.\n\nTrudeau raised the tariff issue Tuesday evening during a call with U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence. The two men also talked about NAFTA.\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland was in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday for a two-hour meeting with her trade counterpart U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, where she raised the tariffs repeatedly.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Ottawa Wednesday morning, Freeland insisted again that its frankly absurd that we would in any way be considered to be a national security threat to the United States. We are probably the closest ally of the United States.\n\n...I would like to absolutely assure Canadians particularly those who work in the steel and aluminum industries that the government is absolutely prepared to and will defend Canadian industries and Canadian jobs. We will respond  we will respond appropriately.\n\nOttawas phone call comes the same day Wynne played up her own efforts on the steel and aluminum file on the campaign trail  despite the fact the federal government has been the lead.\n\nOver the past year, I have met with 37 governors, I have met with senators, Ive met with congresspeople, Ive met with senior members of the U.S. administration, all in an attempt to make it clear what our integrated relationship means to workers on both sides of the border, said Wynne, who has been trailing behind her rivals in recent polls.\n\nWe were assertive, we were steadfast in our effort to make Ontarios case to those decision makers. That threat of U.S. protectionism is not going to scare us off.","title":"Trudeau calls Ont Sask and Que premiers as steel aluminum tariff deadline looms","date":"2018-05-30","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"TORONTO  Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on the Trudeau government to cover the costs of Ontarios cancelled basic-income pilot program.\n\nThis project will provide invaluable data as we look towards the economy of the future, Singh said in a news release. And for the 4,000 low-income residents who signed onto the three-year program, its the right thing to do.\n\nWithin hours of his request, the federal government rejected it.\n\nIn July, Premier Doug Fords government broke an election promise by announcing it would cancel the basic-income pilot launched by the previous government.\n\nSingh said it would cost the federal treasury $15 million to keep the pilot going for the full three years.\n\nThe basic income program was intended to determine whether costs to government were lower when people got a basic income instead of receiving a patchwork of programs and relying on expensive hospital and social services.\n\nIn response, the Trudeau government said its already doing its share to reduce poverty in Canada. Pointing to programs like the Canada Child Benefit, a spokesperson for Families, Children and Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said Ottawa has already spent $22 billion on poverty-reduction programs.\n\nUltimately, the design of provincial social programs, such as a basic income, is up to provincial governments, spokesperson Valerie Glazer said.\n\nIn the summer, Ontario Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said the people who were part of the pilot will receive their last payment at the end of March 2019.\n\nWe have a broken social service system, MacLeod said in a statement at the time. A research project that helps (fewer) than 4,000 people is not the answer, and provides no hope to nearly two million Ontarians who are trapped in a cycle of poverty.\n\nAlong with the pilots cancellation, Ontario promised to complete a review of the provinces social assistance programs by Nov. 8.","title":"NDP wants federal government to fund basic income project","date":"2018-10-23","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"A \"delighted\" Gareth Southgate declared his pride after watching England build on their impressive World Cup showing with a sensational 3-2 Uefa Nations League win against Spain in Seville.\n\nRaheem Sterling scored two goals in the opening 45 minutes, having only scored twice in his previous 45 international appearances, with Marcus Rashford sweeping home in an extraordinary first half at Real Betis' Estadio Benito Villamarin to leave England 3-0 up at the break.\n\nClinical, bold and a joy to behold, talk of relegation from the Nations League's top tier was replaced by hope of perhaps even making the finals after a 3-2 victory that for a while had shades of the 2001 win in Germany about it.\n\nPaco Alcacer netted shortly after his second-half introduction to ratchet up the pressure, and although Sergio Ramos scored with the last act of the game Southgate's young side passed this test of resilience.\n\nEngland's maiden Nations League win will not be forgotten in a hurry, with Spain conceding three goals in a competitive home match for the first time ever as the Three Lions were rewarded for their first-half display of bravery and skill in Seville.\n\nSouthgate believes the victory was up there with some of the best enjoyed by England.\n\nAsked if he could think of many better performances, Southgate told Sky Sports: \"It is difficult to in terms of quality and the fact we have come away from home to play a team on such a good run and have been a top team for years.\n\n\"I am delighted with what we have done. They should be incredibly proud of their performance.\"\n\nSouthgate was particularly pleased that England are not resting on their laurels after finishing fourth at the World Cup this summer, saying: \"What the players achieved (at the World Cup) was incredible.\n\n\"The next challenge was can we advance, look at a new system and some young players. Some players have emerged giving us a lot more options.\n\n\"The mentality of the players and staff has been outstanding and they've got to enjoy tonight.\"","title":"Gareth Southgate England stars should be aposincredibly proudapos after beating Spain","date":"2018-10-15","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"In the early evening following the midterm elections, Fox News host Tucker Carlsons wife was home alone when she suddenly became startled by a loud thumping at her door. The thumping came from a group of Antifa radicals, whose desire it was to strike terror into the hearts of Carlsons family.\n\nSusan Carlson ran upstairs as the mob that CNN refers to as protesters screamed disgusting threats at the Carlson residence, spray-painted the driveway and continued to try to force entry through the front door, which they broke.\n\nThe only thing seemingly missing from this display of intimidation and hatred were burning tiki torches. While the radical left seems preoccupied with labeling everyone that disagrees with their political views as white supremacist Nazis, including Israel-loving Middle Eastern women such as myself, threatening displays like this seem awfully similar to the days of the KKK burning crosses on the lawns of blacks they wanted to leave town.\n\nThat was the message these radicals wanted to send to Tucker Carlson, along with his wife and children, who thank God were not home at the time: leave town and shut up.\n\nAs someone who has had my own personal address posted publicly by a leftist reporter, the thought of a mother of four hiding in her upstairs closet fearing for her life sends chills down my spine, as it should any decent human being.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nWhy is this thirst for intimidation and violence becoming more commonplace?\n\nThose were the exact words of Congresswoman Maxine Waters at a rally in June 2018. Waters then doubled down on her calls for intimidation and harassment in an MSNBC interview, declaring that she has no sympathy for Trump supporters.\n\nCNN bravely came to Waters defense when it reported that President Trump misconstrued the congresswomans words.\n\nSupport the president, and its open season on you. Thats the message of not only the black-masked Antifa cowards who attempted to force entry into Tucker Carlsons home, but Rep. Maxine Waters, and increasingly, the new Democrat party.\n\nFormer Obama Attorney General Eric Holder recently corrected Michelle Obamas notion that when they go low, we go high, referring of course to anyone who didnt support her husbands political agenda.\n\nOr how about former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons statement,\n\nThere is a disturbing dehumanization coming from the very heart of the Democrat party, while dangerous radicals continue to take them at their word, blocking traffic in the streets, chanting obscenities toward the president and his supporters, and even engaging in violence and destruction of property.\n\nThis dangerous trend shouldve been stopped years ago when it started.\n\nOn the same day that CNN reporter Jim Acosta threw a tantrum over not being able to interrupt and talk over the president of the United States at a news conference, Tucker Carlsons wife was hiding in a closet, calling 911, as a leftist mob gathered outside her home.\n\nIts time for local and federal law enforcement to put Antifa on notice that their domestic terrorism will not be tolerated any longer.\n\nIts time for big tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to give as much diligence to snuffing out true hate from the left as they do political opposition from the right.\n\nWaters should have been removed from her position by the Ethics Committee for her incitement to harm her political opponents. Sadly, the GOP  which will soon be in the House minority  failed to even investigate the matter. Consequence? Say hello to the new head of the House Financial Services Committee.\n\nTolerance for terrorizing those you disagree with is not tolerance. Its complicity. If those who fan the flames of radicalism are not held accountable, we can expect more threats, more mobs and more violence.","title":"No Blue Wave In 2018 But A Tsunami Of Hate","date":"2018-11-10","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Over the past half year the West has increasingly taken note of the significantly heightened pace of both Chinese and Russian military spending and surprising leaps forward in terms defense tech advances.\n\nEven when Chinese or Russian systems fail, as with recent news of a nuclear-powered cruise missile touted by Putin as having unlimited range but now apparently lost at the bottom of the sea, Western press takes notice, and a number of Pentagon officials have also warned especially of rapidly advancing Chinese systems.\n\nIncreasingly, the two powers are cooperating more directly as with Russias upcoming military games, said to be the largest such exercise since the Soviet Union, where China is set to participate by sending a mass contingency of elite troops.\n\nAccording to the South China Morning Post (SCMP) the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) will participate by sending about 3,200 elite forces troops, along with 30 fix-wing aircraft and helicopters to the Russian-hosted exercises.\n\nRussias biggest military games in 35 years, called the Vostok 2018 exercises, are set to begin at the Tsugol training range in Russias Far East Trans-Baikal region on September 11, and are scheduled to go through the 15th.\n\nCrucially, one major element to the games sure to attract the attention of Washington military planners is the inclusion of simulated nuclear weapons attacks. Both countries are among the worlds major longtime nuclear armed powers, and both happen to be in the midst of soaring tensions with the United States  Russia the target of sanctions and wide-ranging accusations of election meddling, and China in a trade war that sees no signs of abating.\n\nThe SCMP cites one Beijing based military expert, Zhou Chenming, to explain that the PLA is seeking to gain greater military experience as its last major combat theater stretches all the way back to the Vietnam War.\n\nAdditionally, Zhou told the SCMP, China also wants to show its support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is facing various diplomatic challenges, especially criticism from the US Secretary of State [Mike Pompeo] over Moscows annexation of Crimea. The Chinese military expert further cited that the games site location was chosen carefully and deliberately with this in mind.\n\nPutin wants to use the Russian militarys war games with the PLA to show its military muscle, but he doesnt want to irritate the United States too much and raise the possibility of a misjudgment by the Trump administration, so he chose the less sensitive Trans-Baikal region in the Far East, far from US allies in Europe, Zhou said.\n\nIn response to the impending Vostok-18 games Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said, We urge Russia to take steps to share information regarding its exercises and operations in Europe to clearly convey its intentions and minimize and potential misunderstanding.\n\nThe US defense official further indicated the games will be closely watched by U.S. intelligence agencies due to Russias willingness to simulate nuclear combat. Its their strategic messaging, the Pentagon official said of both Russia and China.\n\nTheres also reports that both countries are experimenting with the development of smaller, tactical nuclear weapons, which of further concern for US defense preparedness.\n\nEarlier this week Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu announced the exercises would be the largest since the Soviet Union conducted its Zapad-81 maneuvers, which saw the deployment of hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops and logistics staff.\n\nThis is the largest armed forces training event since the Zapad-81 maneuvers, it has acquired the status of an international exercise and is of unprecedented scale both in terms of spatial scope as well as the strength of military command and control entities, troops, and forces involved, Shoygu said, while also announcing the Chinese PLA would participate, as well as auxiliary units from the Mongolian armed forces.","title":"Massive Russian-Chinese Joint War Games Will Feature Nuclear Exercises","date":"2018-08-25","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"CNN received another suspicious package earlier Monday amid a string of mail bombs allegedly sent out by Cesar Sayoc.\n\nA 911 caller reported a suspicious package Monday evening at the Midtown headquarters of The New York Times, police said.\n\nCops responded to the newspapers Eighth Ave. headquarters between W. 40th and 41st Sts. at about 8 p.m. No further information is available.","title":"Breaking Suspicious Package Sent to New York Times Building","date":"2018-10-30","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"A students' union in Bristol is introducing a men's officer for the first time.\n\nRepresentatives for women are common at campuses across the country, but now students at the University of the West of England (UWE) will also have a separate officer to represent men.\n\nThe role has been brought in to ensure that mens' perspective is taken into consideration and to ensure issues that are important to male students are raised, James Knight, the only candidate running for the role, told The Independent.\n\nIt has been introduced at UWE students union despite opposition to the proposal from the student body last year.\n\nThe roles of trans, black and minority ethnic (BME) and womens officers have also been brought in.\n\nMr Knight said he wanted to stand in light of the mental health issues facing male students.\n\nHe added: \"Statistically male students are much more likely to not talk about their mental health issues. They are much more likely to follow through and take their lives.\"\n\nTen students from the University of Bristol and two from UWE, which is also based in the city, have died in the past two years. A number have been confirmed as suicides.\n\nBut the new role was criticised by some on social media.\n\nCan someone explain to me why a mens officer is necessary please,\" student Rebecca Sheeres asked on Twitter. \"Especially when UWE students actually voted against such position. Men are not a minority at university and surely appointing a wellbeing officer would cover mens mental health.\n\nBut Mr Knight, who is a third-year politics and international relations student, said: \"It is equally important to have a part-time officer that can concentrate a lot more of their time and effort on male mental health and male suicide rates. I don't think the necessity of a men's officer is surrounding male liberation at all.\"\n\nSarah Lasoye, NUS UK womens officer, said: NUS will always seek to champion the voices of the most marginalised students, which includes women, black, LGBT+ and disabled students. These groups of students face systematic oppression across society, and the discrimination they face can affect their participation, achievement, retention and progression in education.\n\nShe added: Student mental health continues to be a growing crisis, and mens mental health has become a particular focus in recent years. This has opened up a much-needed discussion on the influence of toxic masculinity and societal pressures faced by men.\n\nHowever, when one in seven women experience a serious physical or sexual assault in their time as a student, and when 68 per cent have experienced some kind of verbal or non-verbal harassment, we must recognise that it is women, trans and gender non-conforming people bear the brunt of gender-based oppression.\n\nMost UK universities do not have a mens officer role.\n\nKeele Universitys Students Union used to have representatives for men and women  but now they have gender equality officers.\n\nBut Ilyas Nagdee, black students officer for the National Union of Students (NUS), said he had heard of a number of student unions across the UK which are looking to introduce mens officers.\n\nA UWE Students Union spokesperson said: We have introduced three new part-time officer positions in this years October By-election. The three roles are womens officer, mens officer and trans officer. The womens officer started as a student idea during the academic year 17-18, which was passed through student council and the trustee board, before being implemented for the October election cycle.\n\nThe mens and trans officer roles were brought through from our trustees who felt that there were other groups who would benefit from having a part-time officer campaigning and raising awareness for their communities. The two roles will require final ratification as per our constitution.","title":"University students set to elect first officer to represent men","date":"2018-10-22","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"WASHINGTON -- \"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.\"\n\nWhen the history of the Trump era is written, this quotation from our president will play a prominent role in explaining the distemper of our moment and the dysfunction of his administration. Trump was talking about media coverage of his trade war, but he was also describing his genuinely novel approach to governing: He believes that reality itself can be denied and that big lies can sow enough confusion to keep the truth from taking hold.\n\nThis has advantages for Trump, because it dulls the impact of any new revelation. Old falsehoods simply get buried under new ones. Take the recording of his September 2016 conversation with his one-time lawyer Michael Cohen that was released Tuesday night.\n\nCohen's attorney put out the tape, which, as The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig and Robert Costa reported, shows that Trump \"appeared familiar with a deal that a Playboy model made to sell the rights to her story of an alleged affair with him.\" Karen McDougal sold her tale to the National Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc. The tabloid never ran her account, which clearly protected Trump from this embarrassing tale before the election, although its management has denied that this was its intention.\n\nTrump's lawyer and battering ram Rudy Giuliani insisted that the recording portrayed a Trump who \"doesn't seem that familiar with anything\" that was discussed. This was, shall we say, an eccentric way of hearing the conversation.\n\nObfuscated in this back-and-forth is the fact that four days before the 2016 election, Hope Hicks, Trump's campaign spokeswoman, denied the affair altogether and said that the campaign had \"no knowledge\" of any payoff.\n\nTrump's behavior would be bad enough if it were only about his personal life and his treatment of women. But the big lie strategy extends to policy and national security as well.\n\nFor example, the Commerce Department, which runs the census, claimed earlier this year that it added a question asking if respondents were citizens in response to the Justice Department's desire to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act.\n\nThe question is a terrible idea. Six former Census Bureau directors under both Republican and Democratic presidents urged Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross not to include it. They warned that doing so \"will considerably increase the risks to the 2020 enumeration.\"\n\nThe fear is that many immigrants, documented and especially undocumented, would be reluctant to answer the census if the question were part of it, leading to an undercounting of places with substantial foreign-born populations.\n\nBut for the Trump administration, this is not a problem. It's the goal. Undercounting immigrants would have the effect of shifting political power -- as well as federal money -- largely to Republican areas that have lower immigrant populations.\n\nAnd documents turned over this week in response to a lawsuit against the addition of the citizenship question showed that Ross lobbied for its inclusion much earlier and more actively than his later sworn testimony had indicated. \"Lying to Congress is a serious criminal offense, and Secretary Ross must be held accountable,\" said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon had also pushed for the question when he was in the White House.\n\nThe Justice Department acted months later, a clear sign that the department's alleged concern for civil rights was simply a pretext for a politically motivated skewing of valuable public information. Distorting data collection is an attack on the truth, too.\n\nAnd when it comes to creating new and unhinged narratives to displace those rooted in fact, Trump has no equal. Thus did the man who stood next to Vladimir Putin when the Russian leader said he wanted Trump to win in 2016 declare this week-- with no evidence whatsoever -- that Russia \"will be pushing very hard for the Democrats\" in this fall's election.\n\nContrary to liberal fears, most of the country doesn't believe him. Trump's core support, measured by the proportion in Wednesday's NPR\/PBS News Hour\/Marist Poll who strongly approve of him, is down to 25 percent.\n\nThe bad news is that among Republicans his strong approval number stands at 62 percent. Trump's hope of clinging to power rests on the assumption that he can continue inventing enough false story lines to keep his party at bay. His theory seems to be that a lie is as good as the truth as long as the right people believe it.","title":"Trump Lies And Lies And Lies","date":"2018-07-27","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The Chinese government has called on the US to correct the mistake and withdraw new sanctions on the Chinese military over deals with Russia or bear responsibility for the consequences.\n\nThe Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Chinese military on Thursday for buying fighter jets and missile systems from Russia, in breach of a sweeping US sanctions law punishing Moscow for meddling in the 2016 US election.\n\nIn response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said: China expresses strong indignation at these unreasonable actions by the US side and has already lodged stern representations.","title":"China Tells US to Withdraw Russia Sanctions or Face Consequences","date":"2018-09-21","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Hamas has said it will expand its rocket fire to directly hit the Israeli towns of Beersheba and Ashdod, some 30 kilometres north and west of Gaza, if air strikes on the enclave continue, as the Israeli army warned that overnight attacks on Israel were \"the most intense\" since the last conflict in 2014.\n\nAt least seven people have been killed since heavy cross-border fire erupted Monday afternoon, sparking fears of a new war.\n\nLocal medical officials recorded six fatalities in Gaza, five of them militants. In Israel, one civilian was killed in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon. Local media reported he was a West Bank Palestinian from Hebron although his identity has yet to be confirmed.\n\nIn total, Gaza militants have fired at least 400 rockets and mortars into Israel whose officials said Tuesday they had struck more than 100 targets in Gaza, including Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV headquarters and several Hamas security buildings.\n\nThe spokesman for the Hamas military wing said in a Monday statement that Ashkelon, just over 10 km north of Gaza, \"has entered the range of fire as a response to the bombing of buildings in Gaza.\"\n\nHe added that Ashdod and Beersheba, 30km away, \"are the next targets if the enemy continues bombing civilian buildings.\"\n\nJonathan Conricus,an Israeli army spokesman, said it was \"too early\" to say whether war would break out but warned that Gaza militants had in excess of 20,000 rockets and mortars within their arsenal and so the army was prepared for the long haul.\n\nHamas is forcing this violence and really bringing destruction upon the Gaza Strip because of its actions. We hold Hamas responsible,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the Israeli army had \"enhanced troops in the south of the country but not yet mobilised reserves.\n\nThe sudden flare up in fighting was triggered by a botched Israeli special forces raid on southern Gaza on Sunday night.\n\nSeven Palestinians, including a local Hamas commander, and a high ranking Israeli officer, were killed when the Israeli covert patrol encountered Palestinian fighters at a checkpoint three kilometres into Gaza in the eastern areas of Khan Younis.\n\nHamas officials told The Independent they believed the raid to be a top-level intelligence-gathering operation that had gone wrong. The Israeli army declined to comment.\n\nIsraeli identified its slain officer as Lieutenant-Colonel M, a 41-year-old father-of-two from north Israel. He was the most senior ranking officer to be killed in the enclave since the 2014 war.\n\nShortly after funerals, Gaza militants launched a barrage of rocket fire which continued into Tuesday morning.\n\nIsrael has responded with dozens of air, tank and naval strikes on Gaza targeting what they have identified as military infrastructure and a television building.\n\nThe wave of violence has threatened to derail a long-term ceasefire agreement brokered by Egypt that had seen significant progress over the last few weeks.\n\nJust hours before Sunday's disastrous raid, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had given a lengthy speech in Paris defending Israelis decision to allow Qatar to deliver $15 million to Hamas to pay salaries. In exchange, Hamas scaled back its weekly demonstrations along the Israeli border.\n\nThe UN and Egypt have scrambled to pull back both sides from the brink of war this summer following eight months of clashes along the border fence with Israel.\n\nSince March, tens of thousands of Gaza residents have marched towards Israel every Friday demanding the right to return to their ancestral lands, which they were forced from or fled during the 1948 conflict which surrounded the creation of Israel. They have also protested against an 11-year-old crippling Israeli siege on the Strip.\n\nMore than 218 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since then.\n\nFacing mounting criticism, Israel defended its actions saying that protesters have launched burning kites and balloons tied with explosives at Israel and attempted to break the border fences.\n\nHowever, the last two weeks of Friday protests had been fairly quiet, as Hamas had apparently kept its promise to rein in the violence.","title":"Gaza crisis escalates as Hamas threatens to expand rocket fire to more towns if Israeli airstrikes c","date":"2018-11-13","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The global appetite for true-crime has been whet once again with part two of Making a Murderer, available now on Netflix.\n\nBrand new episodes  10, in fact  explore the cases of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey in more detail, this time with a focus on post-conviction and the tireless efforts of their lawyers to prove convictions they believe are wrongful.\n\nSince the first part landed on the service in 2015, it has become one of the most talked about crime dramas, earning almost cult-like status and spawning conspiracy threads on Reddit.\n\nBut the true-crime genre existed before Making a Murderer, and goes beyond the show. Here are five other gritty non-fiction shows to get your teeth into...\n\nThe 13-part documentary landed earlier this year, serialising the story of Michael Peterson  a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen by pushing her down the stairs.\n\nDirected by Academy-award winner Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, The Staircase starts with the events of that day and chronicles the 16-year judicial battle that followed.\n\nThe Confession Tapes is dedicated to people convicted of murder claim that their confessions were coerced, false or made involuntarily.\n\nEach of the seven episodes, first added to Netflix in 2017, explores tapes on a case-by-case basis.\n\nThe four-part documentary tells the story of an extraordinary American bank heist, dubbed the pizza bomber heist.\n\nIn 2003, a robbery gone wrong and public murder in Pennsylvania captured headlines around the world as law enforcement and the FBI embarked on a game of cat-and-mouse to get to the bottom of what happened.\n\nOriginally aired on ITV, Mark William-Thomas true-crime series was hailed as Britains answer to Making a Murderer.\n\nThe four-part series examined the murder case of Carole Packham, first name Veronica, who disappeared in 1985. The series and William-Thomas work proved so thorough that Dorset CID re-opened the case.\n\nThe 2017 series, comprised of seven episodes, examines the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a nun and teacher who went missing in November 1967. Her slain body was found nearly two months later.\n\nThe case was catapulted back into the headlines in the 1990s after a former student of Sister Cathys came forward with a harrowing account of sexual abuse by the high schools chaplain.\n\nThrough examination of conversations with those who know her, and those who worked to solve the Baltimore case, the documentary series pieces together not only a gruesome death but the story beyond the original crime.","title":"Beyond Making A Murderer Five true-crime shows to binge on Netflix","date":"2018-10-19","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"What will the court look like when neither side of the ideological divide has to walk on eggs to win the favor of the justice in the middle?","title":"A Supreme Court Transformed","date":"2018-09-13","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Guest post by: Ted Malloch, author of The Plot to Destroy Trump\n\nMeet the Ohrs  a very special couple in the coup to overthrow a duly elected President of our United States of America.\n\nThe Ohrs are NOT the Fockers of comedic movie fame.\n\nFar from it. They are part of an American tragedy.\n\nRecall at a press conference during his campaign for the presidency, Trump once joked to the crowd that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and he wouldnt lose any voters.\n\nThough in jest, theres truth behind Trumps joke, and the Democrats knew this.\n\nSo, Fusion GPS, working on behalf of the Clinton campaign, knows that to dig up dirt on a man nicknamed Teflon Donto whom no scandal or dirt seems to stick theyll need more than just one man on the job.\n\nThey task FBI agent Bruce Ohr with the impossible . . .\n\nIn June 2016 Bruce Ohr is an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the US Department of Justice. His office is just four doors down from that of his boss, Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General and the number two-justice officer in America.\n\nOhrs career is going along swimmingly: for the past decade or so he has been climbing up the political ladder and accruing power. Digging up dirt on Trump will surely bring him one rung higher to the top of the ladder. And Fusion GPS, hedging their bets, contracts another agent for the job.\n\nIn a clear case of nepotism and the Deep State at work, Fusion GPS hires Bruces wife, Nellie, to conduct oppo research on Trump and any connections to Russia and similar matters.\n\nNellie is a well-known expert in Russian affairs with an extensive network in that country. She holds a degree in history and Russian literature from Radcliffe\/Harvard and an MA and PhD in Russian Affairs from Stanford University.\n\nThroughout her career, Nellie has published extensively on the subject in peer-reviewed journals and worked for the CIA as an open source analyst.\n\nIn short, she knows all things Russia-related.\n\nNellie not only speaks the language but also knows the turf inside out and is an experienced Russia hand.\n\nPerhaps more curiously, her PhD thesis, titled Collective farms and Russian peasant society, 1933- 1937: the stabilization of the kolkhoz order, blurs the revisionist line as she attempts to defend the millions killed by Stalin as excesses, which, according to Ohr, sometimes represented desperate measures taken by a government that had little real control over the country.\n\nSeems like Steele, a confirmed socialist since his days in Cambridge, has found the perfect woman to carry out his socialist agenda nearly thirty years in the making. He knows Nellies the perfect woman for a crooked mission like this. And she hates Trump as much as he does.\n\nAnd interestingly, only a few months prior, Nellie obtained her ham radio license, which begs the question, why? Could it be to have secure and confidential contact with Christopher Steele?\n\n Could Nellie be more than just an agent conducting research?\n\nCould she be a co-author of the Steele files?\n\nAnd more peculiarly, when prompted by the FBI down the line, why does Bruce hide the fact that his wife is involved? Paid?\n\nIs this a conflict of interest? What else is Bruce hiding?\n\nAre the Ohrs the inside track to the Plot to Destroy Trump?\n\nOhr from inside DOJ and meeting with Fusion GPS Glenn Simpson passing on to his cronies and the FBI computer thumb drives from his own wifeNellie Ohr?\n\nOver the next few months, Bruce Ohr meets not only with Christopher Steele himself but also with Glenn Simpson numerous times, the founder of Fusion GPS, who hired Steele.\n\nSimpson is the operative behind this whole saga.\n\nWhy exactly does Ohr meet with Steele? And how often?\n\nMr. Ohr has told Congress in a secret oversight committee hearing about his doings.\n\nSimpson said one thing and now is caught in his lie and pleads the Fifth.\n\nAnd Mrs. (Bruce) Nellie Ohr yesterday invokes the marital privilege clause to avoid talking about her husband.\n\nThe walls are finally crashing down!\n\nTime for a second Special Prosecutor or just arrest ALL of them.","title":"TED MALLOCH Meet the Ohrs","date":"2018-10-22","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Choosing a hotel in Venice can be a labyrinthine process. An annual influx of 28 million tourists (compared to just 55,000 locals) means the calli are crammed with hotels, B&Bs, Airbnbs and self-catering options. Some are mind-blowing, others distinctly mediocre. How to sort the wheat from the chaff?\n\nLet me help. Ive been staying in Venice hotels since 1999. I visit at least five times a year, stay up to a month at a time, and my hotel fetish means I rarely stay in the same place twice. Ive stayed in Angelinas favourite hotel on company budgets, and in barely one-star digs on my own. Ive stayed in big hitters, and in tiny places with no PR budget. And Ive learned that you dont always get what you pay for  in good ways and in bad.\n\nI dont care about a places reputation, its history or its air miles affiliations  what I want is great design, unstuffy service and something that connects me to the place Im in.\n\nStyle and service without breaking the bank  here at The Independent, its something we call real-world luxury. So whether its traditional or modern, boutique or big, here are 10 of my favourite places in La Serenissima.\n\nBrought to you by the Romanelli family, locals who own art deco-themed Novecento and the Hotel Flora next door, Casa Flora is a bold attempt to grab the younger, design-centric market with a three-bedroom apartment thats a hybrid between a fancy Airbnb and a hotel  and a guaranteed Instagram smash.\n\nIts also an attempt at turning Venice tourism sustainable  everything in the flat, from the marble countertops to the parquet floor, is locally sourced and custom-made. Not that responsible means boring, here  lush plants drape themselves around the doorways and squat in bathroom basins, those countertops are jade, and the colour palettes revolve around lagoon hues  eau de nil, grey-blue and dirty creams.\n\nGuests can use the Hotel Floras facilities next door, and theres also a partnership with restaurant Estro, wholl even send someone to come make you breakfast should you be feeling extravagant. Otherwise, breakfast is served next door in the Floras pretty courtyard.\n\nNot your average Venice digs, Cima Rosa is in lesser known Santa Croce, and is also rather more stylish than other affordable options. A 15th-century palazzo that was renovated by its architect and interior design owners, it sits on the Grand Canal (three of the rooms have prime views) yet manages to stay at one remove from the madness.\n\nInside, its equally unique  the Venetian-American couple who own it have gone for a sober palette of lagoon colours (eau de nil, grey, a hint of blue) paired with antiques theyve done up themselves (they have a furniture restoration business).\n\nIts an intimate space, with just five rooms spread over two wings and communal areas including a courtyard and canalside living room-slash-kitchen, where continental breakfast is served and guests can cook for themselves. Owners Daniele and Brittany are hands-on hosts, and the feeling is of a chic friends house, rather than a B&B.\n\nWas there ever a Venice hotel like this? Technically, yes  its sibling and neighbour, the breathtakingly pricey, Angelina-slept-here, butler-staffed Villa F. But even for those on an A-lister budget, to be honest, the Palladio is nicer. A conversion of a church and house for fallen women by 16th-century starchitect Andrea Palladio on Giudecca, the 58 rooms and 21 suites are spread across the main building and two blocks in the gardens.\n\nThe decor in the main building is slightly dated, as youd expect from 16th-century digs, but the garden buildings are airy, tiki-influenced affairs, with ground-floor rooms opening directly onto the huge gardens, and a wild, flower-filled meadow breaking up the space. And if that sounds boho enough, know that the restaurant is vegan. The only thing missing is a pool.\n\nYoull forget youre in tourist town at Avogaria, a tiny, five-room residence at the far (read: local) end of Dorsoduro. The atmosphere is cosy  theres even a fake cat curled up in the window  and the rooms a modern take on flouncy Venetian design (think mosaic walls and gilded mirrors), while three junior suites sport private walled gardens.\n\nThe hotel is a spin-off of the owners restaurant, so if it all gets too comfy, you can order the menu from room service, too.\n\nTechnically the Hotel lOrologio (Clock Hotel), it calls itself the Hotel LO, which tells you something about the clientele. Dispensing with traditional Venetian style, the lobby is a design-led affair themed around antique timepieces, rooms have glowing cog-themed artwork above the headboards, and bright colours and semi-floating beds give a modern feel.\n\nBut despite being in the real world, at the LO youre also situated plum on the Grand Canal (some rooms have spectacular views), right by the buzzy bar area thats sprung up around Rialto Mercato, so you can nip out for cichetti and an ombra (glass of wine) at Naranzaria or Bancogiro.\n\nFor a more self-sufficient stay (and to take advantage of the Rialto market nearby), the hotel has opened two apartments, both overlooking the Grand Canal.\n\nIn a gothic palazzo in Castello, just east of San Marco, the Liassidi Palace has canal views, yet less of a scrum around it than those in the very centre. Youre well located for sightseeing here  the hotel sits between the Carpaccio paintings at the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni and the Greek church with its tipsily leaning spire  as well as a quick walk to the less populated and more local part of Castello, around San Francesco della Vigna. Just 31 rooms take up the 15th-century palazzo, and the look is classic Venice, with heavy drapes, damask wall-coverings, flouncy headboards and chandeliers aplenty.\n\nA member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World group, its a good combination of affordability and intimacy, just steps from the action.\n\nYou may not want to like the Centurion Palace, if youre in Venice for all things ancient. You may think the idea of gold-plated bathrooms  literally  is too much bling, that the modern, silver sculptures glittering in niches on the Grand Canal are not authentic. That the rooms  plain claret, rust-coloured, brown walls, even  are too modern for this most refined of cities. And then youll get there, and find your fears melt away.\n\nIt turns out that Centurion Palace is Italian-owned, modestly-roomed (there are just 50 in the vast property) and really rather lovely. The bar and restaurant both have seating cantilevered over the Grand Canal; theres an inhouse cat, Centurione. Where other five-star hotels in Venice tend to be fairly stiff-atmosphered, the service here is notably friendly  staff are chatty, and conversations go two ways.\n\nWalls are painted in plain, brash colours instead of swaddled in traditional damask and the corridors have modern photography rather than cod-renaissance portraits. And the Dorsoduro location is central but quiet  squished between the Salute church and Guggenheim collection, a 30-second traghetto ride from the sestiere of San Marco, but a couple of minutes to the Zattere, Venices most beautiful waterfront.\n\nThe closest Venice gets to a W hotel are these Philippe Starck-designed digs in a 16th-century little palazzo (palazzino) next to art gallery Palazzo Grassi. Formerly known as Palazzina G, the 26 rooms are full of signature Starck touches: mirrored walls, ceilings and chairs, carnival masks and stools that look like silver-coated tree-stumps.\n\nTwo buildings spliced together make up the hotel: one set back from the water, whose rooms overlook the alleys below, the other an elegant, slim palazzo on the Grand Canal, squished between behemoths on either side. This one is where the suites are  and theyre actually some of the best-priced Grand Canal suites youll find, as former guest Johnny Depp can tell you.\n\nTheres no check-in desk here  its way too cool for that  but there is a Krug Lounge (the second in the world) and a beautiful main room  low-lit and framed by Corinthian columns  which serves as a restaurant, bar and lobby area.\n\nEveryone notices Palazzo Stern as the number 1 vaporetto glides up the Grand Canal and moors right beside it, at Ca Rezzonico. Not everyone, however, realises its a hotel, with its invisible signage and neat little garden, fringed by doric columns.\n\nWhat used to be a house  built in the 15th century and ending up in the hands of a German art collector  has been converted into a 24-room property. The bedrooms themselves wont win many design awards  theyre typical old-school Italian four-star  but the house itself is a gem, with a grand lobby, staircase, and rooftop hot tub.\n\nIf youre looking for a scene, heres where to find it, in an enormous warehouse on Giudecca converted into a poshtel by the stylish Generator group. On warm evenings, millennials spill out onto the waterfront outside, creating their own mini movida; inside are design-led dorms (think exposed brick walls and beamed ceilings) as well as five ensuite doubles, overlooking the water and San Marco in the distance.\n\nStaying by the bus depot isnt generally the best plan. But in Venice  especially if youre on a tight schedule, or have lots of luggage  things are a little different. The Santa Chiara sits at the mouth of the Grand Canal  not its most beautiful point, but a mere 20m from the airport bus stop. That means instead of sitting on the Alilaguna ferry to reach town (perhaps the most spectacular airport commute, but normally around 90 minutes) and then dragging your cases across bridges and around alleyways, you can get the bus from the airport to the Piazzale Roma terminus and go from Arrivals hall to your room in 25 minutes flat. Sans luggage, you can then walk to anywhere in Venice in about 15 minutes, rather than having to brave another long vaporetto ride. It is, its no exaggeration to say, revelatory.\n\nThe hotel is split across two buildings  a 19th-century convent and a concrete-ish modern building (adventurous or excrescence, depending on your sensibilities), which are joined in the middle so you dont feel the split. Deluxe rooms are the ones to go for (classic rooms are in a separate annexe)  theyre modern and well equipped, with stylish feature wallpaper, comfy beds and faux walnut furniture. Breakfast is taken in a sunny room plum on the Grand Canal, while rooms can either have a canal view or one of the bus terminus behind (the latter are extremely well soundproofed, so there are no worries on that score).\n\nThe hotel is also wheelchair-accessible  as is Piazzale Roma  so if you have mobility issues, its an excellent base.\n\nWe may earn some commission if you click on a link in this article and buy a product or service, but we never allow this to influence our coverage.\n\nThis article was first published in July 2017","title":"Venice hotels 11 best for style and location","date":"2018-11-08","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released thousands of text messages on Wednesday between lovebirds Peter Strzok titled The Clinton Email Scandal and the FBIs Investigation of it.\n\nPresident Trump tweeted on the new text messages between the lovebirds.\n\nLovebirds Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa page were not fond of the pro-life movement.","title":"Pillow Talk Lovebirds Strzok and Page on March for Life Fcking Marchers Making Traffic Problems","date":"2018-02-08","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Its important to recognize events that are likely to trigger the coming civil war. And by civil war, I mean a domestic, kinetic conflict between anti-American Leftists and pro-American patriots. In this case, civil war is not a political metaphor. Im warning about actual kinetic conflict.\n\nFinally, after years of cover-ups, the participants in the Clinton criminal cartel may be facing indictment and imprisonment. Earlier this week, lawmakers joined forces to send a criminal referral to the Dept. of Justice that recommends criminal investigations into James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Hillary Clinton, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe, all swamp creatures who have committed outrageous criminal acts against the people of America.\n\nAs Newstarget.com reports, these co-conspirators are being referred for criminal investigations due to:\n\n1) lying about intelligence in order to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign; and 2) intentionally botching the probe into Clintons criminal mishandling of classified data via an unsecured private server.\n\nSee the criminal referral letter at this House.gov link.\n\nAlso, as reported on JamesComey.news, Comey transformed the FBI into a corrupt, treasonous deep state apparatus that actively obstructed justice in order to make sure Hillary Clinton got elected President:\n\nIn the first draft of a statement former FBI Director James Comey prepared for the press when he discussed the bureaus criminal investigation into then-Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton last summer, he dropped language that would have directly implicated her in a crime.\n\nThis heavy metals test kit allows you to test almost anything for 20+ heavy metals and nutritive minerals, including lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum and more. You can test your own hair, vitamins, well water, garden soil, superfoods, pet hair, beverages and other samples (no blood or urine). ISO accredited laboratory using ICP-MS (mass spec) analysis with parts per billion sensitivity. Learn more here\n\nThe point is, unless President Trump is literally killed in some brazen assassination coup  which is always a possibility  hes going to make sure Hillary Clinton and her cohorts get indicted. Regardless of what happens in the 2018 mid-terms, Trump is still President through 2020, and theres no way hes leaving office without making sure the corrupt deep state gets some serious payback.\n\nThe unhinged Left, of course, will immediately start rioting once Hillary Clinton gets indicted. Once the riots begin, I fully expect kinetic engagement to begin. Note that I do not support such bloodshed, and I dont condone it. The last thing I want to see is the blood of Americans spilled on the streets of America. Yet I fear this is exactly where things are headed for the simple reason that Leftists can no longer participate in a free society in any rational, lawful way. They are deranged, hate-filled lunatics who despise law and order and literally seek to murder their political enemies. The very idea that their own deep state treasonous swamp creatures might face the rule of law will drive Leftists to unhinged extremism, which is likely to include their bombing of government buildings, mass arson, chaos in the streets, the widespread targeting of police officers and the attempted murdering of conservatives and Trump supporters.\n\nThe extreme intolerance, irrationality, anger and lawlessness of the Left, in other words, is simply irreconcilable with a free society. The current situation cannot persist much longer without something breaking.\n\nWe arent far away from a trigger event that could unleash all this. In fact, as Ive explained on Natural News, there are globalist elements that actively seek to push America into a civil war in order to call for United Nations peacekeeping intervention (run by Obama, of course).\n\nListen to my podcast for more details, and make sure youre fully prepared for this dangerous possibility of what may yet come to pass:\n\nRead CivilWar.news to stay informed, and if youre into survival and preparedness, read Preparedness.news.","title":"You have been warned The civil war begins when Hillary Clinton gets indicted","date":"2018-04-19","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Martin Jonasson is the developer behind some of the most acclaimed mobile games around: twofold, inc. and rymdkapsel. But his latest project, Holedown (available on the App Store and Google Play for $3.99), ditches the complicated puzzle and strategy aspects for a more approachable arcade experience thats nearly impossible to put down.\n\nGameplay in Holedown is similar to last years free-to-play chartopper Ballz (created by the controversial Ketchapp Games, who created the viral hit 2048). Players are tasked with burrowing down as far as they can into the core of a planet. This is accomplished by sending a stream of bouncing balls into numerically labeled blocks, which represent the number of times that a block needs to be hit before it breaks. The game starts out simple, tasking players with just a couple of shots and small, easy-to-shatter bricks. But as you unlock more upgrades and abilities, things escalate to the point where youll have dozens of balls ricocheting around a level, sticking blocks hundreds of times in a single shot.\n\nIts a pleasant inverse of an unfortunate trend in mobile games. Instead of developers taking an idea and building a stripped down, ad-filled clone, Holedown takes the Brick Breaker but more concept of Ballz and bundles it into a more polished and deeper experience. (And as an added bonus for anyone looking to play during their commute, the entire game is playable offline, too.)\n\nBut Holedown isnt about blindly brute-forcing your way through the levels. Destroying a lower down block with other bricks stacked on top will destroy the whole tower, adding a nearly requisite tactical element, especially in the more difficult levels. Furthering the challenge is the fact that some blocks are pinned in place, and can only be dismantled by hitting them the appropriate number of times.\n\nTheres a blend of luck and skill here that reminds me of PopCaps Peggle, another addictive time-eater that I once poured hours of my life into. Can you succeed simply by smashing your way downward? Probably, at least for the earlier levels. And even the most well thought out and intentioned shots have a tendency to go awry, with balls bouncing around in wholly unexpected ways. But over the course of the five or so hours it took me to play through the standard levels  imagined or not  I really could feel myself getting better at placing shots and predicting angles.\n\nIm not sure how much time Ill spend in Holedown now that Ive completed the game. The levels are all procedurally generated, and theres an endless stage at the end that challenges players to see just how far they can go for those who want more. Once I had unlocked everything there was to offer, there wasnt much drive for me to keep going.\n\nBut while it lasts, theres something deeply satisfying about watching the chaos as balls careen around the screen and make the larger numbers steadily tick down to nothing. Holedown is charming and engrossing, and definitely worth the trip.","title":"Brick-breaking arcade game Holedown will be your new subway obsession","date":"2018-07-29","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Pop years are like dog years  disappear for more than two and you may as well be gone for ever. Stockholms Robin Carlsson is the anomaly. Eight years since she released her last album, Body Talk, the clamour for her return has only grown louder.\n\nThats partly thanks to the ongoing success of her song Dancing on My Own, a UK top 10 hit for her in 2010, prominent again in 2012 in the first series of Lena Dunhams TV series Girls, and an even bigger hit in 2016 in a wimpy acoustic version by Calum Scott. It set the blueprint for a style of sad pop that has become a genre of its own, with everyone from Lorde to Troye Sivan writing songs that can move the feet while prompting a tear at the same time.\n\nRobyns absence, which has included a long-term relationship break-up, the death from cancer of her close friend and musical mentor Christian Falk and years in therapy, has given her plenty more fuel.\n\nHowever, although Honey sounds downbeat and low-key, its far from heartbroken. Written predominantly with Joseph Mount of Metronomy, it ranges from the alien sparseness of Beach2k20, which sees her repeating Lets go party, to the soft-hearted strings and synth twinkles of Because Its in the Music.\n\nMissing U, her energetic comeback single, is the closest link to her older synthpop, while elsewhere, on tracks such as Send to Robin Immediately, she has gone deeper, quieter, prettier.\n\nIts not an album of pop hits. It sounds like shes outgrown the charts and gone somewhere even more appealing.\n\nIt's nearly Halloween guys! If you want to frighten the marrow out of your party guests, look no further than Thom Yorkes bone-scrapingly effective score for Luca Guadagninos forthcoming remake of the cult 1977 Italian horror movie. As the excellent soundtracks of Call Me By Your Name and A Bigger Splash attest, Guadagnino knows what he likes, music-wise, and the Italian director set his heart on persuading Yorke to compose his first movie soundtrack.\n\nAs it happens, Yorke had spent his time since A Moon Shaped Pool composing a series of instrumental spells to ward away the horrors of Trump, climate apocalypse etc, and they form the core of this meandering double album, recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir.\n\nIt is by turns unsettling, disturbing and flat-out terrifying. However, it also has moments of extreme beauty  Klemperer Walks, The Conjuring of Anke  and in Suspirium and Open Again, a pair of vintage Yorke vocals for Radiohead nuts to cherish.\n\nA Wembley Arena concert with Belinda Carlisle and the remaining Thompson Twin next month suggests Culture Club are unable or unwilling to leave the Eighties. The first album since a flop reunion almost 20 years ago shows barely any sonic progression since their heyday. Alongside the tepid reggae and predictable funk, a burst of trip-hop on God & Love is about as adventurous as it gets. If there was ever any doubt that Boy George was Culture Clubs head boy, his name now officially overshadows that of the group. Fair enough, perhaps, as his suavely soulful vocal is the best thing about this comeback.\n\nIn career terms, though, Life may be an overoptimistic album title.\n\nGaye Su Akyol is the dynamic new singer songwriter on the Turkish music scene. Shes well-known at home and now getting increasing recognition worldwide. She won over a lot of fans at Womad this summer. The title of this album, her third, translates as Consistent Fantasy is Reality and hints at, she says, the surreal difficulties of life in modern Turkey. Musically, it draws strongly on Turkeys psychedelic, Galata Gothic, rock tradition and features a swirling soundscape of guitars, bass, Turkish lutes and intricate percussion. Her voice is seductive and arresting with alluring melismas, while avoiding orientalist stereotypes. Her band, who play masked, weave compelling textures that keep things interesting even when you dont understand the lyrics. Well be hearing plenty more of her, Im sure.\n\nBased on his time spent living in east London, Odells latest album, Jubilee Road, roots itself in everyday matters as the 27-year-old tries to bring his local London community to life.\n\nInspired by the friends he made living there, Jubilee Road tells sweeping stories  everything from tales of whisky-shaking gamblers in the local betting shop to ones of torn couples on bittersweet wedding days.\n\nTheres more of Odell too on this, his most introspective album to date. Despite moving forwards thematically, Odell doesnt venture far from the saccharine, Keane-esque piano balladry hes previously favoured that can at times cloy. There are still plenty of affecting songs here such as the albums title track, If You Wanna Love Somebody and his strong duet with Alice Merton, Half as Good as You.\n\nAmaro Freitas is a young pianist from the steamy Brazilian province of Pernambuco, who grew up practising on an imaginary keyboard, too poor to commute to the local conservatory. From residencies in restaurants, to a wildly acclaimed debut to this, his second album with a trio on double bass and drums, Freitas is proving himself exceptional. Theres the way he mixes the classic jazz of, say, Thelonious Monk with powerful homegrown rhythms including the drum-driven sounds of carnival. Theres his percussive style and quicksilver timing; complex patterns are delivered effortlessly, recalling nimble-fingered Brazilian icon Hermeto Pascoal, and deft flourishes from guest Henrique Albino on flute and velvety saxophone. Breathtaking stuff. Freitas plays Ronnie Scotts, W1, on November 2 and 3.","title":"Albums of the week Robyn Tom Odell and Boy George amp Culture Club","date":"2018-10-26","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"As candidates for the Arizona state Senate discussed gun control legislation last week, one potential lawmaker told the audience how he shot and killed a crazed woman in an act of self-defense when he was a teenager.\n\nThe only way youre stopping a crazy madman whos killing innocent people is that you better have a good guy there with a gun, Republican Bobby Wilson said at a meeting organized by the gun control group Moms Demand Action.\n\nYou can pass all the laws you want to in this world, and when youve got somebody out there that wants to harm somebody, theyre going to do it if you dont stop them, Wilson told the crowd.\n\nWilson is running to represent a southern Arizona district and told The Associated Press that he isnt trying to hide anything in his campaign.\n\nIn the video above, you can watch Wilson tell an audience that one night in 1963, his mother shot at him six times with a rifle while he was in bed in their Oklahoma farmhouse.\n\nWilson also wrote about what happened in his 2010 book Bobbys Trials. The book details how his mother and sister died the same night their house burned down. Wilsons website also states: He and his sister were raised by a deranged mother who was a fugitive hiding in the backwoods of S.E. Oklahoma. In 1963, she tried to murder her own children in the early morning hours and only Bobby survived the deadly chaos that followed.\n\nWhile Wilson was reportedly charged with homicide after the deaths, two trials ultimately led to the court dismissing the case in the early 70s. Its unclear how Wilsons sister died, and Wilson didnt remember what happened that night for many years due to amnesia, according to the Arizona Republic.\n\nWilson is a licensed gun owner and told the AP that the night he killed his mother was the only time Ive ever been in that situation, and I hope its the last time.\n\nHe will be taking on Republican Shelley Kais in the GOP primary for a seat currently held by Democrat Andrea Dalessandro. While his story has led to more scrutiny and criticism of his campaign, that apparently doesnt have him rattled.\n\nWilson wrote on his Facebook page on July 10 that he loved the boos and catcalls. He now knows how Trump must feel with all the fake news stories making the rounds, he wrote in a post on Tuesday.","title":"Pro-Gun Arizona State Senate Candidate Talks About Killing His Mother","date":"2018-07-18","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"New NHS guidance says a decision to prescribe cannabis products should only be made where other treatment options have been exhausted.\n\nThe medicines can only be prescribed by a specialist doctor  not a GP  on a case-by-case basis.\n\nBut as HuffPost UK reported last month , many medics are reluctant to prescribe cannabis as a medicine despite it being legally allowed, either because they dont understand it properly or wrongly link it to street skunk.\n\nThe move follows several high-profile cases, including that of young epilepsy sufferers Alfie Dingley and Billy Caldwell, whose conditions appeared to be helped by cannabis oil .\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid announced last month that new regulations would come into force on Thursday, relaxing the rules about the circumstances in which the products can be given to patients.\n\nDoctors will be able to prescribe cannabis oil to patients in the UK from today.\n\nThough the UK is the largest exporter of medicinal cannabis in the world, it has been illegal for the drug to be grown at home or supplied to ease the symptoms of chronic illnesses ranging from cancer to HIV.\n\nThis forced some normally-law abiding citizens to take matters into their own hands - a 42-year-old property developer in Birmingham for instance, has been making litres of his own cannabis oil in a makeshift garage laboratory\n\nAlfie Dingleys mother Hannah Deacon welcomed the latest development when it was announced, saying: I have personally seen how my sons life has changed due to the medical cannabis he is now prescribed.\n\nAs a family we were facing his death. Now we are facing his life, full of joy and hope which is something I wish for each and every person in this country who could benefit from this medicine.\n\nBillys mother, Charlotte Caldwell, said she wept tears of joy at the move.\n\nShe said: Only relatively recently did our Government and country really start to appreciate just how many wee children and people of all ages were affected by the difficulties associated with accessing medicinal cannabis.\n\nBut once it became clear that it wasnt just about what was perceived to be a small number of very sick children, and that medicinal cannabis could make a life-changing or life-saving difference to more than a million people, the overwhelming support of the public and the incredible speed of reaction of the Home Secretary has delivered an utterly amazing result.\n\nThe decision to reschedule the products came following a specially commissioned review.\n\nAn initial review by chief medical adviser Dame Sally Davies concluded that there was evidence medicinal cannabis can have therapeutic benefits.\n\nThe Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), which carried out the second part of the review, then said doctors should be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis provided products meet safety standards.\n\nThe new law will not limit the types of conditions that can be considered for treatment and it means doctors will no longer need to seek approval from an expert panel in order for patients to access the medicines.","title":"Cannabis Oil Is Now Available On Prescription In The UK","date":"2018-11-01","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Google is helping China establish a censored search engine code-named Dragonfly to monitor its citizens online activity and blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion and peaceful protest.\n\nMeanwhile, a coordinated effort across the internet to censor conservative viewpoints in America has already begun.\n\nThe Dragonfly search engine is eerily reminescent of the dystopian social media seen in the hit show Black Mirrors episode titled, Nosedive.\n\nThe episode portrays a society controlled by a social scoring system that controls every aspect of the lives of its citizens.\n\nChina is creeping closer and closer to implementing a similar social scoring system with the country aiming to have its version monitor all 1.4 billion citizens by 2020.\n\nSome Chinese citizens have already been victimized by the technocratic government such as journalist Liu Hua who has been barred from traveling, purchasing land and taking out loans among other things.","title":"Coming To America Googles Chinese Censorship App and Control Grid","date":"2018-09-26","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Aging takes a toll on the brain, affecting memory and the ability to focus. A study published in the journal Nature Human Behavior found that older people find it difficult to focus because they have a weaker locus coeruleus. This particular brain network is responsible for controlling the ability to focus while under stress or emotional arousal, but it weakens as people age.\n\nIn the study, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) in the U.S., Takachiho University in Japan, and University of Reading in the U.K. used brain scans and the rate of pupil dilation in 28 younger adults and 24 older adults in order to monitor their physiological arousal and locus coeruleus activity.\n\nAs the brains of the participants were scanned, the research team presented pairs of pictures of a building and an object. They manipulated the photographs to make the building appear clear and highlighted while the other object was made to appear faint, or vice versa. For every pair, the participants had to identify which picture was highlighted. To induce physiological arousal, some trials began with a tone warning that they might get an electric shock at the end of the trial, while others began with a tone signaling that there would be no shock. Greater pupil dilation and sweat were seen among the participants during trials when they expected a shock.\n\nOlder adults exhibited less activity in the frontoparietal network when expecting a shock. The network did not seem to efficiently respond to the signals sent by the locus coeruleus. When anticipating a shock, they exhibited greater activity in the parahippocampal place area, which activates when a person is viewing images of places, although it did not matter whether the image was highlighted or not. As a result, they displayed more activity linked with images  highlighted or not  during emotional arousal. This meant that they were easily distracted when stressed or emotionally aroused.\n\nGet more news like this without being censored: Get the Natural News app for your mobile devices. Enjoy uncensored news, lab test results, videos, podcasts and more. Bypass all the unfair censorship by Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Get your daily news and videos directly from the source! Download here.\n\nOn the contrary, when anticipating a shock, younger adults had more activity in the place area when they saw the clear, highlighted image of the building. When they looked at a faint, non-highlighted image, brain activity in the place area diminished. Brain pathways that link the locus coeruleus, the place area, and the frontoparietal network remained uninterrupted. This allowed them to concentrate on more important things, even under arousal. These brain cortex regions help control focus and attention.\n\nTrying hard to complete a task increases emotional arousal, so when younger adults try hard, this should increase their ability to ignore distracting information, explained Mara Mather of USC and senior author of the study. But for older adults, trying hard may make both what they are trying to focus on and other information stand out more.\n\nOlder adults can improve their ability to focus and concentrate with attention training, according to a study conducted by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.\n\nIn the study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain activity of participants aged between 65 and 75. During brain scans, participants accomplished a task that required them to search for target words or numbers while ignoring distracting sounds.\n\nThe researchers explained that the perception of information gathered by the eyes and ears change with age. In particular, older people mix information from the different senses more readily than younger people. As a result, they find it harder to block out distractions from what they see and hear while trying to focus on important information.\n\nThe scans showed brain activity in areas related to sight and sound. Follow-up brain scans revealed that those who received one-on-one training, the activity related to sight increased, while activity related to sound decreased compared to those who participated in a group brain exercise program. Moreover, the formers performance on the task improved. (Related: Ways to naturally improve your focus and concentration.)\n\nThe researchers concluded that attention training can help improve sensory processing by reducing older adults susceptibility to distracting stimuli.\n\nRead more news stories and studies on older people by going to Longevity.news.","title":"This is why older people have a harder time focusing under stress","date":"2018-06-15","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Sister Jean Kenny, once known nationally as the Super Bowl Sister for her amazing NFL championship predictions, is not placing any bets these days.\n\nNot when it comes to how long it will take the Catholic Church to return trust and transparency to its flock due to this weeks pedophile priest disclosures by a Pennsylvania grand jury  revelations dubbed a moral catastrophe.\n\nKenny, a Chicago native who was once a national TV regular due to her sports acumen, and now a semi-retired educator living in Indianapolis, tells Sneed:\n\nPennsylvania is the tip of the iceberg! So many coverups! We are beyond the embarrassed stage. Catholics are rightfully enraged.\n\nThe pray, pay and obey days are over. Father doesnt know best. We now have a very educated Catholic laity and the church leadership has been exposed.\n\nWe need justice for the victims and serious consequences from Rome for the enablers who permitted this crime to continue.\n\nThank goodness we now have the right Pope in Francis. Catholics want actions from the USCCB (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) and not more wordy charters!\n\nSneed is told Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas usually counts 450,000 hits a month on her website, especially when property taxes are due.\n\nSo why did visits to her website spike at nearly 750,000 in July, an all-time high?\n\nWell, for lack of a more boring description, Pappas has become the bag lady!\n\n Backshot: Sneed tipped earlier this year Pappas had begun to pass out bags emblazoned with her name during election season.\n\n Upshot: Sneed now hears Pappas has passed out nearly 200,000 bags, which she stuffs with info not only urging homeowners to use the cookcountytreasurer.com to pay their taxes but to use it to search for $94 million in overpayments going back 20 years.\n\n Bank shot: Shes also alerting senior citizens they may be missing property tax exemptions worth $43 million going back four years.\n\nPeople like bags, especially if they can go to a computer to see if they might get something more than a Pappas bag, said the crafty Pappas.\n\nIts no secret Tesla, the electric car making company, is now dealing with turmoil stirred up by the bizarre behavior of Elon Musk, chairman and CEO of the company.\n\nBut Tesla has serious Chicago connections who now must deal with the firms mess: Board directors Linda Johnson Rice, who is not unfamiliar with turmoil in her own family businesses, and Antonio Gracias, who heads the Valor private equity firm.\n\nVeteran TV newsman Peter Nolan has just written his second broadcast memoir. Titled News Stories, it chronicles Nolans many years in journalism in the latter half of the 20th century and includes a vignette on how Geraldo (gag me) Rivera scooped him.\n\nBe still my tongue.\n\nThis & that from hither and yon.\n\nHeres a few tips on tasty treats if you are planning dinner with Gov. Bruce Rauner and wife, Diana, anytime soon:\n\n To wit: Rauners State Fair purchase of honey and Brie cheese is a fav of the states first lady. And although the govs favorite food group is ice cream and he chose Grand Champion vanilla on the Fairgrounds this past week ... his fav flavor is chocolate chip.\n\nNow arent you glad you read Sneed?\n\nI spy: Rapper superstar Drake spotted sneaking in the back entrance of RPM Italian Thursday night with 13 friends. Hes in Chicago for his Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour. ... Across town, Brit singer Sam Smith dined on Abas patio while sipping on wine with friends following his United Center performance Thursday. ... Saturdays birthdays: Christian Slater, 49; Maia Mitchell, 25; and Mika, 35. ... Sundays birthdays: John Stamos, 55; Bill Clinton, 72; and Matthew Perry, 49.","title":"No predictions from Super Bowl Sister just a plea for justice for the victims","date":"2018-08-18","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"Since the 2018 midterm election results have rolling in, Mr. Trumps mental stability is really being questioned at this point. Even his own officials are steering clear of him at the White House, especially since his trip to Paris last weekend where the whole world watched him make a complete idiot of himself.\n\nOn Friday, Trump went on Twitter  one of the few things he is still doing these days  and made a whiny attempt to make Republicans look good while continuing to discredit the media, claiming that at least the GOP is on track to pick up two Senate seats. He tweeted:\n\nPeople are not being told that the Republican Party is on track to pick up two seats in the U.S. Senate, and epic victory: 53 to 47. The Fake News Media only wants to speak of the House, where the Midterm results were better than other sitting Presidents.\n\nThe president has sounded more and more like a petulant child this past week, and his continued efforts to Republicans and himself look good are only causing him to look worse. In addition to his anger about Democrats taking control of the House, Trump has turned his attention to Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation as he knows there is not much room to wiggle now.\n\nTrump issued a tweet about Bob Mueller and his gang of Democrat thugs...destroy(ing) people. Winter is coming for Mr. Trump and its going to be a brutal one. Back in August, Vice President Mike Pence even voiced that Mr. Trump would be impeached if the Democrats take the House.\n\nTwitter was quick to call Trump out on his stupidity:","title":"Trump Tries To Brag About GOP Winning Senate On Twitter Gets Mocked Hard","date":"2018-11-16","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"WASHINGTON  Congress is starting to consider almost $1.7 billion in new money to aid recovery efforts from Florence.\n\nLawmakers already are facing a deadline this week to fund the government before the start of the new budget year Oct. 1, and members of Congress will try to act on the disaster relief along with separate legislation to fund the government.\n\nThe chairman of the House Appropriations Committee says the money would be available as grants to states to help rebuild housing and public works, and assist businesses as they recover from the storm.\n\nGOP Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey says its a first round and that lawmakers are ready to act quickly if the federal disaster relief agency also needs more money.","title":"Congress considers nearly 17B Florence relief package ahead of budget deadline","date":"2018-09-23","source":"chicagosuntimes","label":1}
{"content":"A pregnant woman was among six people who survived a lift plunging 84 floors\nafter its cables snapped.\n\nThe group, including two law students and two Mexican tourists, entered the\nlift on the 95th floor of the former John Hancock Centre, one of Chicago's\ntallest skyscrapers, in the early hours of Friday.\n\nThey had left the Signature Room restaurant and entered the express lift to\ntake them straight to the bottom of the building when it plummeted.\n\nMexican tourist Jaime Montemayor, who was in the lift, told CBS Chicago: \"At\nthe beginning I believed we were going to die.\n\n\"We were going down and then I felt that we were falling down and then I heard\na noise-clack clack clack clack clack clack.\"\n\nFriends who had come down in another lift quickly realised something was wrong\nwhen the group did not appear after 20 minutes.\n\nIt took firefighters two hours to get to the group, who were in between the\n12th and 11th floors, as there were few openings because it was an express\nlift.\n\nThe firefighters broke through a concrete wall on the 11th floor's garage area\nwhere the lift was dangling after two cables snapped.\n\nRescuers managed to prise the lift doors open and pull the group out.\n\nIncredibly none of the group required hospital treatment.\n\nChicago fire department battalion chief Patrick Maloney, said: \"It was a\npretty precarious situation, where we had the cables that were broke on top of\nthe elevator.\n\n\"We couldn't do an elevator-to-elevator rescue.\n\n\"We had to breach a wall on the 11th floor of the parking garage in order to\nopen up the elevator doors.\"","title":"Lift plunges 84 floors as six people inside escape unhurt","date":"2018-11-19","source":"skynewsus","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) The idea of nutrient loss is a common but troublesome problem that plagues all kinds of soils. Efforts have been made by a number of institutions to combat this issue, to varying degrees of success. Yet, as a team of researchers has demonstrated, the answer could very well lie in a tool widely used by poultry farmers: broiler litter.\n\nFor their study, the researchers followed an undisturbed soil column model using two types of soil. The first type was agricultural soil that had Bermuda grass planted onto it in 2014. The second type was reclaimed coal mine soil that had Bermuda grass as well but planted in 2016. As for the broiler litter, fresh and composted broiler litter were utilized. Some of the broiler litter had been amended with flue gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum, a synthetic product derived from electrical power plant FGD systems.\n\nThe researchers began by applying fresh and composted broiler littler onto their soil columns. These columns underwent weekly leaching with 500 mL deionized water, to which they gradually added at 100 mL increments. Afterward, they extracted and measured the samples of leachate or the fluid that has passed through matter and absorbed some of its constituents. (Related: If you grow food in cinder blocks, you may be poisoning yourself with heavy metals)\n\nAll of the columns had received roughly the same amounts of nitrate from the fresh and composted broiler litter. However, the leachate from composted broiler litter-treated soil was found to have fewer nitrate leaching losses. The researchers calculated a loss of 6.61 kilograms per hectare (kg ha1) against 9.4 kg ha1 from fresh broiler littler-treated soil. Computing the carbon and phosphorus yielded remarkably similar results. Carbon loss was 5.6 against 11.7 kg ha1; phosphorus loss was 5.6 against 6.8 kg ha1. Based on these findings, the researchers stated that composted litter had great potential to decrease soil nutrient loss.\n\nFurthermore, the researchers noted that the addition of FGD gypsum to fresh broiler litter was highly beneficial. Doing this curbed the losses of phosphorus, copper, and zinc by as much as 67, 73, and 84 percent, respectively. These reductions were constant in other leaching events.\n\nBased on the results of their experiment, the researchers stated that composted broiler litter was a suitable management practice for agricultural and reclaimed coal mine soil alike. Compared to fresh broiler littler and nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash (NPK) fertilizer, composted broiler litter was far better at creating a sustainable agricultural ecosystem.\n\nAlso known as poultry litter, broiler litter is a byproduct of intensive poultry production. Its components tend to differ from region to region, but in most cases, broiler litter is usually made up of poultry excrement, bedding materials, feathers, and spilled feed.\n\nThis unique mixture tends to give broiler litter a broad spectrum of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and minerals. But the exact chemical and physical attributes of these compounds will depend largely on the diets of the birds, their species, and the bedding retention times. In general, however, broiler littler mainly contains nitrogen and phosphorus.\n\nBroiler litter has numerous applications. One of the most widespread is in waste management since it calls for the recycling of poultry excrement. Other uses include acting as both a fertilizer and soil conditioner and as a fuel source for power plants.\n\nDespite its usefulness, boiler litter can pose some issues. For some poultry-producing regions in Australia, using it has been expensive due to the rising cost of litter transportation and the strict restrictions regarding land availability.\n\nVisit Harvest.news to read up on more news and studies concerning agriculture.","title":"Organic fertilizer alternatives Composted chicken litter promotes sustainable agro-ecosystems with","date":"2018-03-19","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"To honour Armistice Day this year, a number of prominent artists have created a song and video put together from the letters of fallen soldiers, which will raise money for the Cancer Awareness trust.\n\nCillian Murphy, Ronnie Wood, Brian Eno, Sinead O'Connor, Imelda May and Nick Mason all teamed up for \"One More Yard\" by the Evamore project, which sees Murphy, the acclaimed actor from films including Dunkirk, reading spoken word poetry over beautiful, haunting instrumentation by Eno.\n\nThe track then moves into the song itself, which features O'Connor on lead vocals, Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood on guitars, and Nick Mason on drums.\n\nLyrics on \"One More Yard\" were inspired by letters written by Lieutenant Michael Thomas Wall, of the Royal Irish Regiment, to his mother in Dublin. The term \"one more yard\" was used frequently by soldiers in their letters and diaries, in a reference to the trek across no man's land.\n\nNick Mason describes it as a project that \"allows people such as myself to pay tribute to the young men of 100 years ago who fought for our freedom but also to do something to help young people facing cancer today\".\n\nRonnie Wood tells The Independent: \"As someone who has had to deal with cancer, I am delighted to be part of this new awareness initiative  it's a great idea backed by some brilliant scientific people. I love the track 'One More Yard'  a sad true story set to a haunting melody. It was a pleasure playing on it. I hope everyone gets behind this charity, and there will be more to come.\"\n\n\"This project is something I'm glad to be a part of,\" Imeda May says. \"I was called by producer John Reynolds and instantly knew it was something I had to be involved with. There is a strong connection for me, not just because I;m Irish like the soldier who wrote the letters that inspired the song, but also because of the importance of remembrance and tribute to those lost in WWI.\n\n\"Most importantly I feel using this opportunity to raise money for those affected by cancer through the Cancer Awareness trust. I'm immensely proud to say I contributed to this unique artistic and charitable endeavour.\"\n\nThe Evamore project was founded by Professor Sir Chris Evans, while he was conducting research on creating a new cancer awareness charity. He was struck by the similarities between the emotional struggle of young people confronted with cancer, and the fighting spirit and written expressions of the young soldiers in the trenches of the First World War.\n\n\"It was incredibly moving to see how the words of soldiers 100 years ago were so similar to those of young people suffering from cancer today,\" he says. \"We can only now honour the sacrifice of those a century ago but there is so much to be done to help those who are locked into the greatest struggle of their lives as they confront cancer. We are very privileged that some of the greatest names in rock music and wonderful actors have chosen to get involved in our project.\"\n\nThe Evamore EP is out now  proceeds for the project will go to a new Cancer Awareness Trust which will provide expert clinical advice and guidance to cancer sufferers around the world.","title":"Remembrance Day Music video with Sinead OaposConnor Ronnie Wood and Cillian Murphy pays tribute","date":"2018-11-11","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Last week Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti pararded out accuser Julie Swetnick who accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of serial gang rape.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released a statement last night against Swetnick that was blatantly honest.\n\nOne Defamation Suit Filed Against Her Involving Sexual Harassment Allegations In Oregon\n\nOne Restraining Order Filed Against Her By Her Ex-Boyfriend In Florida\n\nOne Sexual Harassment Lawsuit, Where She Was Represented By Debra Katzs Law Firm\n\nTwo Tax Liens Filed Against Her, Totaling Over $100,000\n\nThree More Court Cases In Maryland That She Was A Party To\n\nSwetnick Was Sued For Defamation By An Oregon Company And A Woman For Unwelcome, Sexually Offensive Conduct And For Ma[king] False And Retaliatory Allegations Julie Swetnick, one of the women accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, faced allegations of her own misconduct during a short stint at a Portland tech company 18 years ago. (Julie Swetnick, A Brett Kavanaugh Accuser, Faced Misconduct Allegations At Portland Company, The Oregonian, 9\/29\/2018) Swetnick was sued for defamation in 2000 by Webtrends Corporation in Oregon and a woman named Margie Huetter who appears to have been their HR Director. (Webtrends Corporation vs. Julie Swetnick, Oregon Judicial Department, Case Number 001112165, 11\/27\/2000) The suit also alleges Swetnick engaged in unwelcome, sexually offensive conduct while at Webtrends and made false and retaliatory allegations that other co-workers had engaged in inappropriate conduct toward her.  The suit alleges Swetnick engaged in unwelcome sexual innuendo and inappropriate conduct directed at two male employees during a business lunch, with Webtrends customers present. Swetnick claimed two other employees had sexually harassed her, according to the suit.  Webtrends suit said it determined Swetnick had engaged in misconduct but could not find evidence to support her allegations against her colleagues. Later, the company alleged, Swetnick took medical leave and simultaneously claimed unemployment benefits in the District of Columbia.  (Julie Swetnick, A Brett Kavanaugh Accuser, Faced Misconduct Allegations At Portland Company, The Oregonian, 9\/29\/2018) Company officials later determined, the suit said, that Swetnick had provided false information on her employment application. The suit alleged that she had misrepresented the length of time she worked at a previous employer and falsely claimed that shed earned an undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. (3rd Kavanaugh Accuser Has History Of Legal Disputes, The Associated Press, 9\/30\/2018) In the suit, Webtrends alleged Swetnick claimed to have graduated from Johns Hopkins University but the company said it subsequently learned the school had no record of her attendance. Webtrends said she also falsely described her work experience at a prior employer. (Julie Swetnick, A Brett Kavanaugh Accuser, Faced Misconduct Allegations At Portland Company, The Oregonian, 9\/29\/2018)\n\nSwetnicks Ex-Boyfriend Filed A Restraining Order Against Her: Shes Not Credible At All. Not At All Swetnicks Ex-Boyfriend: I Have A Lot Of Facts, Evidence, That What Shes Saying Is Not True At All Julie Swetnick ... had a restraining order filed against her years later in Miami by her former boyfriend. A Miami-Dade County court docket shows a petition for injunction against Swetnick was filed March 1, 2001, by her former boyfriend, Richard Vinneccy, who told POLITICO Wednesday the two had dated for four years before they broke up. (Ex-boyfriend Filed Restraining Order Against Third Kavanaugh Accuser, Politico, 9\/26\/2018) According to Vinneccy, Swetnick threatened him after they broke up and even after he got married to his current wife and had a child. Right after I broke up with her, she was threatening my family, threatening my wife and threatening to do harm to my baby at that time, Vinneccy said in a telephone interview with POLITICO. I know a lot about her. Shes not credible at all, he said. Not at all. (Ex-boyfriend Filed Restraining Order Against Third Kavanaugh Accuser, Politico, 9\/26\/2018) Vinneccy, 63, is a registered Democrat, according to Miami-Dade County voting records. (Ex-boyfriend Filed Restraining Order Against Third Kavanaugh Accuser, Politico, 9\/26\/2018) Vinneccy made clear that he did not believe her story. I have a lot of facts, evidence, that what shes saying is not true at all, he said. I would rather speak to my attorney first before saying more. (Ex-boyfriend Filed Restraining Order Against Third Kavanaugh Accuser, Politico, 9\/26\/2018)\n\nSwetnick Filed A Personal Injury Lawsuit In Maryland Against The Washington Metro (WMATA) Claiming She Lost More Than $420,000 In Earnings After She Hurt Her Nose In A Fall On A Train In 1992. Swetnick was on the other side of a civil case in 1994, as a plaintiff, when she filed a personal injury lawsuit in Maryland against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. She claimed she lost more than $420,000 in earnings after she hurt her nose in a fall on a train in 1992. Swetnick, who described herself in court records as a model and actor, claimed she had numerous modeling commitments with several companies at the time of the accident but missed out them because of her injuries. (3rd Kavanaugh Accuser Has History Of Legal Disputes, The Associated Press, 9\/30\/2018) To support her claim for lost wages, Swetnick named Konam Studios as one of the companies promising to employ her. A court filing identified Nam Ko, a representative of Kunam Studios, as a possible plaintiffs witness for her case.  Ko, however, told AP on Friday that he was just a friend of Swetnicks and that he had never owned a company with a name spelled either way and had never agreed to pay her money for any work before she injured her nose. He said he first met Swetnick at a bar more than a year after her alleged accident. (3rd Kavanaugh Accuser Has History Of Legal Disputes, The Associated Press, 9\/30\/2018) I didnt have any money back then. I (was) broke as can be, Ko said.  Ko said he has a hazy memory of Swetnick asking to use him as a character reference but doesnt recall hearing about her lawsuit. I thought it was for a job application, he said. (3rd Kavanaugh Accuser Has History Of Legal Disputes, The Associated Press, 9\/30\/2018)\n\nSwetnick Filed A Sexual-Harassment Complaint A Decade Ago In Which She Was Represented By Debra Katzs Law Firm Roughly a decade ago, Ms. Swetnick was involved in a dispute with her former employer, New York Life Insurance Co., over a sexual-harassment complaint she filed, according to people familiar with the matter. Representing her in the complaint was the firm run by Debra Katz, the lawyer currently representing Dr. Ford. (Third Woman, Julie Swetnick, Makes Allegations Against Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, The Wall Street Journal, 9\/26\/2018) The company ultimately reached a financial settlement with Ms. Swetnick, the people said. A spokesman for New York Life confirmed that Ms. Swetnick worked there as an agent for less than two years, from 2006 to 2008. (Third Woman, Julie Swetnick, Makes Allegations Against Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, The Wall Street Journal, 9\/26\/2018)","title":"Brutal Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Releases Shocking Statement on Kavanaugh Accuser and Liar Ju","date":"2018-10-01","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"MOSCOW, August 27. \/TASS\/. FINOPOLIS 2018 Fintech Start-ups Contest concluded\naccepting participation applications. More than 100 teams from more than 10\nregions of Russia submitted applications. The main focus of start-ups is\nbiometric data processing, services for creating marketplaces, AI-based\ndigital profile creation, scoring solutions and others.\n\nAfter moderation, the contest committee will consider the applications\nreceived and select 10 teams that will participate in the finals of the\ncontest at FINOPOLIS 2018 in Sochi. The finalists will be announced in early\nSeptember.\n\nThe finals will take place on 18 October, the first day of FINOPOLIS 2018 in\nSochi. Participants will present their projects in the format of a seven-\nminute pitching session, will tell about the projects concept, issues it\naddresses and the proposed solution, and also present the business model of\nthe project and its team. Summarizing the results of the pitch sessions, the\npanel of judges will choose three winners, who will receive grants of 1 to 3\nmillion roubles for business development. The awards ceremony will take place\non the final day of the Forum, 19 October.\n\nAlso, during the days of FINOPOLIS 2018 the contest participants will have a\ndesignated area at the FinTech Start-ups Alley for meetings with potential\ncustomers. Start-ups representatives will have an opportunity to attend the\nplenary and section meetings of the Forum.\n\nThe Bank of Russia with the support of the Roscongress Foundation is the\norganizer of FINOPOLIS 2018.\n\n**The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial\ndevelopment** **institution and a major organizer of international\nconventions, exhibition and public events.**\n\n_The Roscongress Foundation was founded in 2007 with the aim of facilitating\nthe development of Russias economic potential and strengthening the countrys\nimage by organizing international __ conventions, exhibitions, and public\nevents._ _The Foundation develops substantive content for such events,\nproviding companies and organizations with advice, information, and expert\nguidance, and offering comprehensive evaluation, analysis, and coverage of the\nRussian and global economic agendas._ _It offers administrative services and\npromotional support for business projects and helps to attract investment,\nincluding in the form of public-private partnerships._\n\n_Today, its annual programme includes events held from Montevideo to\nVladivostok, offering an opportunity to bring together global business\nleaders, experts, the media, and government officials in one place, creating\nfavourable conditions for dialogue and the promotion of new ideas and\nprojects, and assisting in the creation of social enterprise and charity\nprojects._\n\nwww.roscongress.org","title":"FINOPOLIS 2018 Start-ups Contest Finished Accepting Applications","date":"2018-08-27","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"(Natural News) In a Sunday post at Axios, co-founder Jim VandeHei implored his fellow Left-wing journalists to stop using Twitter because they demonstrate their liberal bias every day.\n\nNews organizations should ban their reporters from doing anything on social media  especially Twitter  beyond sharing stories. Snark, jokes and blatant opinion are showing your hand, and it always seems to be the left one. This makes it impossible to win back the skeptics, he wrote.\n\nWell, its not likely that his colleagues would show anything but their Left-wing bias because thats who and what they are. And Twitter enables them by refusing to censor or ban any of them, no matter how repulsive their tweets.\n\nBecause thats what Twitter is.\n\nAs noted by The Daily Wire, Twitter recently banned some conservatives who called Bradley (Chelsea) Manning a traitor for leaking classified information (hint: he is), but if a noted Left-wing leader of the Nation of Islam  Louis Farrakhan  calls Jews termites, nothing happens.\n\nJoe Bernstein, a reporter for Left-leaning Buzzfeed News, couldnt allow that slur  and Twitters obvious ethnic bias  to go unchallenged.\n\nJust in from a @Twitter spokesperson: Louis Farrakhans tweet comparing Jews to termites is not in violation of the companys policies. The policy on dehumanizing language has not yet been implemented. So if you want to compare Jews to rats\/insects  get it in while you can! he tweeted.\n\nOkay, so Twitter did take some action: Farrakhans blue verification checkmark has been removed, but only after he tweeted, Thoroughly and completely unmasking the Satanic Jew and the Synagogue of Satan. The comparison to an insect, however, was still just fine with Twitters obviously biased content managers, even though the social media platforms rules state that no dehumanizing speech would be allowed.\n\nRight. (Related:BUSTED: Undercover media sting reveals Twitter targeting conservatives and independent media for censorship via shadow bans.)\n\nBuzzfeed News noted further that Twitter announced only three weeks ago that non-targeted dehumanizing speech would not be tolerated on the platform and would be banned. An example of such speech is, Statements along the lines of All members of protected group X are dogs or rats or whatever.\n\nTwitter  which already has a policy against hateful conduct and prohibits attacking people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, and serious disease  says the new policy would expand on this.\n\nOfficials with Twitter claimed that they also considered user feedback when adopting the expanded policy.\n\nWe wanted to hear from the broadest array of people that we could come up with about what they like and what they hate, said Del Harvey, Twitters vice president of trust and safety, in an interview with BuzzFeed News. Getting feedback from people will give us the opportunity to bring people along with us into the considerations that go into making this policy.\n\nThat hasnt stopped Leftist media types who are trying to provoke the platform into banning its most high-profile user  POTUS Donald Trump  while pretending he tweets racist, provocative things like infest when hes talking about illegal aliens flooding into the country.\n\nMeanwhile, the platform continues to ban conservatives. It banned Infowars and Alex Jones over what its content Nazis deemed a provocation in violation of abusive behavior rules.\n\nAlso, the platform banned GayPatriot, a popular account run by Bruce Carroll, last week even though he wasnt even given a reason other than being hateful  just that he had been banned and it would not be restored.\n\nTwitters decision to unevenly enforce its rules has drawn a lot of criticism from tens of millions of Americans and even members of Congress, but none of it has mattered. The platform continues to treat conservatives and POTUS Trump supporters as lepers while giving racists and bigots like Farrakhan all the speech they want.\n\nRead more about how the social media giants are biased against conservatives at Conservative.news.","title":"Twitter wont ban Farrakhan for calling Jews termites but bans patriots for calling liberals mind","date":"2018-10-23","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Alex Jones has been on a roll lately ever since his news outlet was de-platformed from social media. Hes really been driving home some powerful truths through other mediums, including the fact that Apple is basically now owned by communist China, and is being used as a tool of tech tyranny to silence American journalists.\n\nDuring a recent segment of his show, available at Brighteon.com, Jones explained how the communist Chinese government recently threatened the United States, using Apple as the object of that threat in retaliation against President Donald Trumps efforts to establish new trade deals that benefit America.\n\nWhile its been known for quite some time that Apple produces nearly all of its tech junk in China, most Americans probably assumed that the California-based company was still American. But according to Jones, thats no longer  and perhaps never was  the case.\n\nCommunist China openly announced ... that they would take over Apple and shut down production if Trump didnt submit to its demands to stop the trade war, Jones revealed, adding that the situation represents an internal embargo by a so-called U.S. company thats now Chinese state-run.\n\nPeople say, well why did you even launch and app on iTunes and Android if theyre going to censor you? Because thats where the commerce is. Thats where the ideas are. Thats the open marketplace of ideas, Jones added.\n\nIts no secret that Apple has long taken advantage of cheap Chinese slave labor to produce overpriced iPhones, MacBooks, and other top-dollar Apple gear. But what wasnt fully revealed at the time was that Apple has been working in lockstep with the communist Chinese government to subvert American interests.\n\nSponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: The Big Berkey water filter removes almost 100% of all contaminants using only the power of gravity (no electricity needed, works completely off-grid). Widely consider the ultimate \"survival\" water filter, the Big Berkey is made of stainless steel and has been laboratory verified for high-efficiency removal of heavy metals by CWC Labs, with tests personally conducted by Mike Adams. Explore more here.\n\nIts a major national security issue that Apple officially announced five months ago that theyre Chinese communist-run, and theyre helping to censor and control the Chinese people, and the main iCloud keys to the entire planet are now state-run by the Chicoms, Jones warns.\n\nThe communist Chinese own our national debt, they control all six of the major movie houses in Hollywood, its been all over the news that they run Hollywood now, they control most of the major universities with their infiltration, they control Silicon Valley.\n\nPerhaps things werent this bad when Steve Jobs was at the helm. But the late founder of Apple has since been replaced by a homosexual tech tyrant, and an apparent American traitor, who has no qualms with selling American interests down the river in exchange for profit and power.\n\nTim Cook, who has the most debilitated, horrible factories in the world that he subcontracts with  Foxconn, suicide nets, all of it  he is literally moving to ban us, not just off of the iTunes streams where we were in the top 10, but now our app that we just launched ... off and on they dont even list it, Jones says.\n\nChina runs Apple ... the Chinese government is silencing American members of the press, he adds.\n\nWhat this all illustrates is that President Trump really knows how to draw the rats out of the woodwork. By holding China accountable for abusing trade with the U.S. prior to this presidency, we now have this revelation that Apple is just another soulless, communist-sympathizing, greed-driven multinational corporation pushing the globalist agenda.\n\nFor more news about tech tyrants like Tim Cook and his Apple empire, be sure to check out Technocrats.news.\n\nYou can also keep up with the latest concerning Big Techs censorship of conservative voices in the run-up to the midterms by visiting Censorship.news.","title":"Apple has officially come out of the closet as a communist Chinese-run tool of tech tyranny Watch","date":"2018-10-25","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"UK officials have pledged to meet a new goal to raise broadband speeds. By the year 2033, they promise to bring fiber broadband to every home in the UK. At the halfway point in 2025, fiber, which is faster than copper, will be available in 15 million households, the government claims.\n\nFiber connections are more consistent, faster, and more affordable than copper connections, but its also ineffective to have a hybrid mix of both fiber and copper. In order to attempt to accomplish this lofty goal, the government is ordering that new homes be built with fiber connections, and its also investing 3 billion to 5 billion to assist companies to bring fiber to rural parts.\n\nIf the government did nothing, it would take over 20 years for fiber connections to reach at most 75 percent of the UK\n\nThese goals, if achieved, would help bring the UK up to speed, compared to the other European countries it trails behind. Only 4 percent of the UK currently uses fiber, according to the press release, while Portugal and Spain lead the charge at 89 and 71 percent, respectively. The percentage is even greater in certain Asian countries: South Korea is at 99 percent and Japan is at 97 percent. A recent government study found that without more investment on a policy level, fiber connections in the UK would only be available for 75 percent of the population at most, and it would take over 20 years to achieve this.\n\nStill, the UKs downward spiral toward being the developed country with the slowest internet speeds has gone on for a while, and the government has made similar promises before  and failed to keep them. Back in 2012, it pledged that the UK would have the fastest broadband in Europe by 2015, a promise that was clearly not fulfilled. This year in the global rankings, the UK came in 35th place for speeds, trailing behind the US and over a dozen other European countries.","title":"The UK wants to bring fiber broadband to every home by 2033","date":"2018-07-23","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"Newly released emails show Gen. Jonathan Vance tried to arrange a discreet meeting with suspended Vice-Admiral Mark Norman to take stock and discuss the future just weeks before Norman was charged by the RCMP.\n\nBut while Norman was initially open to the idea of sitting down with the chief of the defence staff in February, the meeting did not happen and subsequent emails suggest it was Norman who called it off.\n\nThe correspondence between the militarys top two officers was obtained through access-to-information legislation and comes amid expectations that Norman will be shuffled out of his position as the militarys second-in-command.\n\nSeveral other senior officers have served as the acting vice-chief of defence in Normans absence, but there have been concerns inside and outside the Forces about that arrangement.\n\nIn March, the RCMP charged Norman with one count of breach of trust for allegedly leaking cabinet secrets to a Quebec shipyard.\n\nHis case is working its way through the court system; Norman has denied any wrongdoing and plans to fight the charge.","title":"Defence chief wanted discreet meeting with suspended vice admiral","date":"2018-06-15","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"The owner of a fish and chip shop called The Battered Wife has defended the name of her business after facing a ferocious backlash.\n\nCarolyn Kerr said she was a former police officer and a domestic violence survivor herself.\n\nThe owner of the shop, which is in far north Queensland in Australia, posted a photo of herself with a black eye and said she had recently stepped in to protect a woman in a bad situation.\n\nDomestic violence is not a joke, she wrote.\n\nA slew of Facebook posts have branded the chippys name disgusting  saying it trivialises domestic violence.\n\nAustralian group the Womens Electoral Lobby (WEL) said the name of the shop in Wangan, on the outskirts of Innisfail, was not clever or funny.\n\nThis indicates the scope of things that need to change in Australia for us to really see societal and cultural change and a reduction in violence against women and children, the group said on Facebook.\n\nThe owner defends her choice of the name, and claims to have received a black eye from stepping in to defend a woman in danger, they later added. To be honest though, its probably time for her to just change the name and move on. WEL does not condone threats made to the owner or employees of the store. We support constructive change-making.\n\nBut speaking to the ABC, Ms Kerr said: Ive been around domestic violence  I was a copper way back when, and after that domestic violence liaison through courts, and then I found myself in a situation where I was in that as well and I just thought you know, its my little stand to try to make awareness.\n\nThe chippy owner said she had felt trapped in an abusive relationship.\n\nYeah, not as bad as a lot of people, but define the degree and define bad. At the end of the day, I found myself with my brain telling me what the devil are you doing, get out, why are you here? and the hearts going but I love him, hell change, and it just really mucks with your psyche.\n\nIm certainly not a victim anymore and I look at what Ive built and Im so proud of myself for building what I have. And if I can make a difference and if people are listening to this  stop slapping your missus, stop belting your husband if thats the case. Look at your kids and work out what is best.\n\nAll these knockers in the last 24 hours saying that Im promoting domestic violence, its quite the opposite ... I batter fish, Im married to my business and I want to make a difference.\n\nYvette DAth, an Australian politician who is the attorney general of Queensland, said she was appalled by the shops name.\n\nThat business is completely out of step with what [the] communitys expectations are, she said.\n\nDeb Frecklington, the leader of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, said the name was wholly inappropriate.\n\nIt is completely unacceptable in our community that we have anything that goes towards an encouragement of violence towards women, Ms Frecklington said.\n\nNick Dametto, a Katter Australian Party MP, said the name was clever marketing.\n\nHas it got bad taste? Maybe. But has it got some media attention? Absolutely, he said. Right now, everyones either going to be looking at this store or walking in to check how good these fish and chips are.","title":"aposThe Battered Wifeapos fish shop owner defends business name after being accused of trivialis","date":"2018-10-31","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Great being at the @SenateGOP policy lunch today. Judge Brett Kavanaugh deserves the support of every member of the United States Senate. As I said last week, Democrats in the Senate have gone from \"advice and consent\" to \"resist and obstruct\"... https:\/\/t.co\/qjcOUUH0Ve\n\n...Justice Antonin Scalia was confirmed 98-0 and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received support of 96 Senators. If we lived in a more respectful time, Judge Brett Kavanaugh would be overwhelmingly confirmed by the United States Senate. #ConfirmKavanaugh\n\nThe Veeps comments did not go over well. Many Twitter users reminded him of how Republicans denied a Supreme Court seat to Merrick Garland, former President Barack Obamas nominee. They also highlighted the lack of respect President Donald Trump shows to his rivals on an almost daily basis:","title":"Mike Pences Wistful Tweet About A More Respectful Time Does Not Go Over Well","date":"2018-08-30","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Arsenals Hector Bellerin is eager to learn from Stephan Lichtsteiner after the veteran Swiss defenders arrival from Juventus on a free transfer earlier this summer.\n\nLichtsteiner became the first signing of Unai Emerys reign when he joined following the expiry of his contract with the Italian champions, signing a one-year deal with the option for a further 12 months.\n\nThe 34-year-old has won the Serie A title in each of the last seven seasons and was viewed as a veteran presence who can both aid Bellerins development and raise standards throughout the first team.\n\nI think its a great addition to the squad, Bellerin told reporters. Hes a player with loads of top level experience and he can only help us.\n\nI cant wait to learn from him. I think hes a top defender, really solid and has a very good attacking sense as well.\n\nAs a young player, its good to have someone like that I can learn from.\n\nLichtsteiner joined his team-mates in training for the first time on Monday after his exerts with Switzerland at the World Cup, with Lucas Torreira, Granit Xhaka and Nacho Monreal also returning to London Colney.","title":"Hector Bellerin eager to learn from new Arsenal signing Stephan Lichtsteiner","date":"2018-08-01","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"There was a shock for Strictly Come Dancing viewers on Saturday night, as one of the favourites crashed to the bottom of the leaderboard.  Danny John-Jules found himself with just 22 points out of a possible 40 after a performance the judges said was full of so many mistakes.\n\nThe actor and his partner Amy Dowden had performed a Quickstep to Freedom by Pharrell Williams, but after getting off on the wrong foot, they failed to pull it back.  Judge Craig Revel Horwood told them: Nerves and adrenaline took over in that performance, because it went completely out of wack. Better luck next time. Shirley Ballas added: You push your strengths and hide your weaknesses. It snowballed and then didnt recover. I really believe it was a misstep of nerves that couldnt be picked up. It was a huge fall from grace for Danny, who just two weeks ago, topped the leaderboard after scoring the first 10 of the series for his Jive.  Meanwhile, at the other end of this weeks leaderboard, Ashley Roberts found herself at the top again after an impressive Foxtrot.\n\nThe routine to Orange Coloured Sky by Natalie Cole earned her and partner Pasha Kovalev 39 points.  Faye Tozer and Giovanni Pernice were hot on their heels with 38 points for their Tango to Blondies Call Me.\n\nStacey Dooley also bounced back from injury to score 36 points for her street commercial dance to Alicia Keys Empire State Of Mind.  The documentary maker and partner Kevin Clifton were forced to miss two days of training earlier this week, after she tore a muscle in her rib.\n\nKate Silverton also suffered a rib injury leading up to Saturdays show, but did not have the same fortunes as Stacey when she took to the floor with Aljaz Skorjanec.  She scored just 23 points for the first Argentine Tango of the series, which was set to Assassins Tango.\n\nCraig remarked: I felt it was stuck in the mud. I know the audience loved it, but for me it was too heavy, it needs to be a lot lighter. The next celebrity will leave Strictly Come Dancing during tonights results show, airing from 7.45pm on BBC One.","title":"Strictly Come Dancing Danny John-Jules Crashes To Bottom Of Leaderboard Just Two Weeks After Topp","date":"2018-11-04","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and its cash-strapped space agency\nRoscosmos are in conflict over a $1bn contract to launch private satellites on\nbehalf of a US company.\n\nThe FSB reportedly intervened to demand the cancellation of the contract\nbetween US firm OneWeb and state corporation Roscosmos to launch a\nconstellation of internet-connectivity satellites.\n\nBut the space agency's chief executive, former deputy prime minister Dimitry\nRogozin, has been bullish about the project according to Russian news agency\nInterfax.\n\nIn a press conference on Monday, Mr Rogozin said he had sent Roscosmos'\nopinion on the intervention to the government, stressing the contract was\n\"extremely important\" and hadn't been cancelled.\n\nThe contract involves launching 21 Soyuz rockets over 2019 and 2020 as part of\na project by OneWeb to launch a constellation of satellites which would offer\nglobal broadband coverage.\n\nAccording to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the FSB intervened in the\nproject over fears satellite internet access in Russia would allow people to\nroute around the agency's internet monitoring abilities.\n\nImage: A promotional image for OneWeb's satellite constellation\n\nThe FSB is the successor organisation to the KGB and is headquartered in the\nsame building at Lubyanka Square in Moscow.\n\nVladimir Putin was made the agency's director a year before he became the\ncountry's premier.\n\nIts duties include conducting counter-espionage in Russia and Kommersant cited\nsources who claimed security officials feared that OneWeb's satellites could\nbe used to spy on military locations.\n\nAccording to Kommersant, an FSB representative stated there was no guarantee\nthe \"system is not of intelligence nature and will not be able to harm the\ninterests of the individual and society of the Russian Federation\".\n\nNeither the FSB nor Roscosmos commented on the matter when contacted by Sky\nNews.\n\nOneWeb, which was founded by American internet communications entrepreneur and\nformer Google executive Greg Wyler, also declined to comment.\n\nKommersant reported that a final decision will be made on the launches before\nthe end of 2018.\n\nImage: The FSB reportedly intervened in a $1bn Roscosmos contract\n\nWhether the company could find a new launch partner if the FSB succeeds in\ndemanding the cancellation is unclear.\n\nElon Musk's SpaceX may potentially provide the launch capacity, but SpaceX is\ncurrently developing its own rival satellite constellation.\n\nOther constellation projects are being developed by companies such as Kepler,\nTelesat, and Leosat, and industry sources told Sky News they believed all of\nthese services were generally capable of complying with jurisdictional\nrequirements in Russia.\n\nThe loss of the estimated $1bn contract would be a significant blow for\nRoscosmos, which has faced consistent funding issues in recent years.\n\nThe recent **[failure of a Soyuz rocket](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/emergency-\nlanding-for-astronauts-as-rocket-fails-11523326)** transporting astronauts to\nthe International Space Station has also posed risks to its income, although\nNASA stated it would not be cancelling its contracts.\n\nImage: Former deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin (R) now heads Roscosmos\n\nProfessor Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian security affairs, told Sky News:\n\"It's an interesting story that additionally implies the FSB doesn't realise\nthat OneWeb could also use ground stations outside Russia to provide service\nacross the country.\n\n\"This may be driven by ignorance - after all, the FSB is very exercised about\nthe question of internet control - but also potentially politics.\n\n\"Roscosmos is pretty vulnerable at present given a string of corruption cases\nand the recent Soyuz accident, and it, or its new director general, former\ndeputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, might be the target.\n\n\"But an additional possibility is that this is also a clumsy case of the\n'counter-sanction syndrome' of simply wanting to deny a US company something,\nhowever self-harming it may be.\"\n\nAlthough the FSB's reported concerns have not accompanied by a written risk\nassessment, OneWeb's satellites are being manufactured in the US - which may\nhave prompted supply-chain concerns for the FSB.\n\nSupply-chain concerns regarding business processes based in Russia have been\nraised in the US by the Department for Homeland Security, recently prompting\ncyber security company Kaspersky Lab to **[relocate some of these\nprocesses](https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/kaspersky-lab-cyber-security-firm-\nleaves-moscow-over-fears-of-russian-hacking-11553562)** to Zurich in\nSwitzerland.","title":"Russian agencies fight over private US satellites","date":"2018-11-19","source":"skynewsus","label":1}
{"content":"Finney, a teacher at Childrens Community Charter School in Paradise, California, is one of the lucky ones. Most of her school burned down, but her house is still standing, which is more than many of her students and co-workers can say.\n\nIn the morning, students sit around her kitchen table, practicing math problems on a whiteboard that Finney borrowed from a neighbor. In the afternoon, they go outside for recess on her front lawn, wearing plastic masks to protect against the polluted air as they play basketball.\n\nFor teachers in Butte County, Nov. 8 could have been any other day filled with backpacks and blackboards, until the sky became dark and students were ordered to evacuate. Now, after the smoke has cleared, many will never be able to return to their classrooms, after the fire destroyed at least three schools and damaged five more in the Paradise area. County schools have been closed since the fire, with the hope to start up again Dec. 3. But its unclear where classrooms will be housed and how many students will be coming back to the area. Students and teachers will work together on reading, writing and arithmetic, but also on finding on shelter and rebuilding their lives.\n\nFor the past few days, about a dozen students have come to Finneys house, as her husband, a firefighter, has gone out to sift through rubble for missing persons. Only about two of her students still have their homes. Those that are still in the area come to her from temporary trailers and the homes of friends and family members. The structure and sense of normalcy  at least for a few hours a day  has been helping them cope with all the ways in which their typical routine has come crashing down.\n\nMost students from Paradise Unified School District who have been reached by teachers say they hope to stay in the district, according to Marc Kessler, a seventh-grade teacher at Paradise Intermediate School. Kessler has been working with other teachers to try and track down every student in the days since the fires. Students also communicate with teachers and each other through a website that was set up for them to share their experiences.\n\nKessler spends about three hours a day making calls, in addition to delivering gift cards to families in need and trying to track down supplies for the makeshift school that students will eventually return to. Teachers at his school are working to create a school for thousands of students in two weeks. They need computers, chairs and desks.\n\nAldersons school burned down, along with her house. Before the fire reached the school, she spent the morning trying to occupy her students in her classroom, keep them calm with games and tasks that would mask the chaos of the day.\n\nBut eventually, the fire made its way to the back door of her home, and she was sent to collect whatever she could salvage. For her students, the situation only got worse. When a bus came to evacuate students who hadnt been retrieved my parents, it left without taking all the schools kids. Teachers were told to stuff children in their cars and drive for their lives, embers flying all around them.\n\nShafer has been helping at a shelter for those who have been displaced as he works to track down his students, who are spread out between shelters, tents, trailers and houses of family members and friends in other communities. Many of Shafers students  who he treated in schools around the county  already technically fit the definition of homeless before the fires started. He can only imagine how tenuous their already fragile routines must feel.","title":"In California A County Of Children Without Schools","date":"2018-11-24","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"Diplomats from India and Pakistan aired their differences over the disputed region of Kashmir at the UN this week, in what was supposed to be a general session on the merits of mediation at the organisations headquarters in New York.\n\nUN secretary general Antonio Guterres opened the Security Council debate by saying that mediating peace had become increasingly complex in the modern world - and so it proved, as bitter rivals India and Pakistan used the session to trade barbs.\n\nNestled in the Himalayas, the broader region of Kashmir is split by the line of control between India and Pakistan, with both countries claiming it in full. The pair have fought two wars over the Muslim-majority region since the partition of India in 1947, and it remains among the most highly-militarised zones in the world.\n\nPakistans ambassador to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi, used Wednesdays debate to push for India to accept a UN Security Council resolution suggesting Kashmirs fate be decided by a UN-administered referendum on sovereignty.\n\nMs Lodhi said UN mediation in peace disputes was doomed to fail if the Security Councils own resolutions are held in abeyance, by some - a not-so-subtle reference to India.\n\nBoth the Councils credibility as well as the objective of durable peace in our region is at stake, Ms Lodhi said, adding: We must not fail these tests.\n\nIndias ambassador to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, hit back more directly, calling Pakistan out by name as the one isolated delegation that made unwarranted references to an integral part of India.\n\nIndia has repeatedly taken issue with UN resolutions and reports on its portion of Kashmir, the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and Mr Akbaruddin said again on Wednesday that the international body was ill-suited to perform mediation... in every circumstance.\n\nPakistan, he said, was regurgitating a failed approach, which has long been rejected, rather than showing willingness to work towards peace.\n\nAnd in a reference to the election of former cricket star Imran Khan as prime minister of Pakistan, Mr Akbaruddin added: We hope that the new government of Pakistan will, rather than indulge in polemics, work constructively to build a safe, stable, secure and developed South Asian region, free of terror and violence.\n\nSince coming to power, Mr Khan has mentioned Kashmir in a number of different speeches as a foreign policy priority, while emphasising the importance of improving relations with India to Pakistans economic prospects. \"If India takes one step towards us, we will take two,\" he said in his first address after winning Julys election.\n\nFor his part, Indias prime minister Narendra Modi has expressed willingness to pursue \"meaningful\" and \"constructive\" engagement with Mr Khan, in a letter on 18 August congratulating the latter on his inauguration.\n\nRelations between India and Pakistan improved substantially during Mr Modis first two years in power, but plummeted in 2016 following a spate of attacks on Indian diplomatic and military assets that was blamed, by India, on a militant group with close links to the Pakistani security services.","title":"India and Pakistan engage in war of words at UN over Kashmir","date":"2018-08-31","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"After five hours and four playoff holes, Phil Mickelson finally got his one-up on Tiger Woods at floodlit Shadow Creek to take home The Matchs $9m grand prize.\n\nEven if the cameras closed to the scene of Mickelson standing in front of boulders of Benjamin bills, at its the end, once the inane vulgarity of stacks and side-bets were forgotten, the pair produced a compelling finish to stifle the staunchest of critics.\n\nYet after a turgid beginning, beyond even the most scathing premonitions, The Match remained on course to become a heist even the nearby strip would envy. After all, it was the promise of entertaining trash-talk between the two golfing greats, alongside their banknote infatuation, which was supposed to entice people to the pay-per-view event.\n\nIn reality, Woods and Mickelsons opening verbal spar down the first fairway aptly set the tone for a tepid three hours to come. Promised gnaw and nibbles, fans instead found themselves eavesdropping on the pair praising the courses conditions, noting the joy of their children watching, and soaking in the serene Nevada weather like two middle-aged dads at a school gate.\n\nIt was so awkward that, at one point, they would even come to an uncomfortable roadblock where the pressure to create conversation resulted in total malfunction. Im trying to be more talkative, but Im just not, Mickelson said.\n\nLets just get back into our own moods. Try and beat each others brains out.\n\nExcept the problem was those batterings had never begun. The hysteria over a headline-grabbing $200,000 bet on birdieing the first hole was nullified by two missed putts. The first drawing of blood, to Mickelson at the second, came by way of Woods missing a tiddler. And gasps of surprise soon turned to humming sighs as the pair produced the worst highlights of their form in Paris two months ago.\n\nDarren Clarke, hauled out on commentary duties, even at one stage declared it the match of mistakes, while Charles Barkley started ranting about how even he could beat the combined 19 major, 123-time PGA Tour winners as they sliced their way from woodland to bunker.\n\nAnd then there was the needless crass of the much-hyped side-bets, created to add sauce to the watery broth. $600,000 wagered over three closest to the pin competitions  all won by Mickelson  while probability measures were promptly and persistently provided on screen by MGM as though it were a poker contest. The commentary team, with ever-fading subtlety, encouraging viewers to get in on the action, at one point even saying: If I was a bookie, or maybe betting at MGM, I would be really enjoying these Tiger bets right now.\n\nIt was everything feared and worse. A monstrous vessel of hucksterism so laboured Skys broadcast interludes were reduced to merely apologising for Woods pitter-patter monosyllabic swearing that followed him missing umpteen putts on the low side of the hole as if stuck at the summit of a mountain\n\nThe problem wasnt only that The Match was failing to live up to its box office billing, but that it was simply a poor spectacle of sport\n\nUntil finally, as the last ounces of expectation that this could be anything but a complete shill oozed away, Woods seized on a Mickelson mistake to tie the match, before taking the lead at the eleventh with a pin-point pitching wedge approach. It was the shot of adrenaline the match desperately needed and the surge continued as Mickelson immediately responded with a birdie of his own at the par-3 13th. There came the first real clench of a fist and at that moment, back on even keel with five holes to play, the exhibition seemed to finally verge on becoming something genuine.\n\nWoods gifted back the lead on the 15th with a dire chip and dribbled short to make amends at the following hole so by the time Mickelsons tee shot on the par-3 17th settled below the hole it felt as though he was on the brink of victory. But at that moment, with the match ebbing away into the man-made waterfall behind the green, Woods produced magic of old for the minuscule crowd, chipping in from just off the fringe.\n\nSuddenly the pair were heading down the 18th all-square as Mickelson amusingly muttered: Youve been doing that crap to me for 20 years, not sure why Im surprised now.\n\nAnd as ridiculously impossible as the event was, in that surreal second you couldnt help but be suckered in by the prospect of $9m being contested over a single hole. Or so we thought.\n\nAs the last rays of Vegas sunshine set behind the creek, Woods and Mickelson halved the 18th, and then again in the conventional playoff hole.\n\nThen, in a last barmy twist, the match was transformed into a unique 93-yard sudden death shootout. Woods and Mickelson teeing off in the pitch-black Vegas night, illuminated only by floodlights trained on the practice putting green turned tee box. They halved the mini-hole twice  Mickelson missing another makeable match-winning putt  and it seemed as though The Match might never end.\n\nFinally though, to everyones relief, Mickelson found the birdie at the fourth whirl to clinch the obscene prize.\n\nAnd with that, The Match was consigned to a hopefully permanent death. But its undeniable that in its denouement it was inescapably exciting as it finally became an exhibition of enthralling golf rather than repulsive gambling.\n\nOne of the most bizarre moments in golfs history, one which shouldnt be repeated, yet one which, admittedly, might have somehow proved worthy of its pay-per-view price\n\nFollow the Independent Sport on Instagram here, for all of the best images, videos and stories from around the sporting world.","title":"The Match Phil Mickelson defeats Tiger Woods on fourth playoff hole in Las Vegas to win 9 million","date":"2018-11-24","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Over 2700 law professors and professionals signed a letter urging the Senate to vote against confirming then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court (SCOTUS). The Senate ignored them. Law students did not accept that and took action.\n\nNew York University (NYU) School of Law students and those from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law walked out of class to protest Kavanaughs appointment. Students from other schools joined them.\n\nJustine Medina, who is a second-year Brooklyn Law School student, was one of the organizers for the New York demonstrators. She spoke to The Washington Post:\n\nThe student organizers worked with the National Lawyers Guild advocacy group. The walk-out was to occur on three consecutive days. In the students announcement letter, they wrote:\n\nWe are in the middle of a national emergency We do not recognize Kavanaugh as a legitimate member of the United States Supreme Court. We demand that anyone seeking to be elected to Congress in November commits to impeaching Kavanaugh to protect any semblance of rule of law and the people of our communities.\n\nTwitter world went crazy. Check out some of our favorite tweets below:","title":"BREAKING Law Students Stage Massive Walkout Over Kavanaugh","date":"2018-10-11","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) said in an interview with The Hill that the House Intel Panel is investigating whether informants gathered information on Trump and Russia before they were authorized to do so in July of 2016.\n\nIts one of the outstanding questions that we have for the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Weve had that question out to them for pretty much three months now. They have not answered it yet, Nunes told The Hills Buck Sexton.\n\nIs it your belief it is likely that there was activity going on in advance of the start of that official FBI investigation? Sexton asked. I will just tell you we wouldnt be asking those questions if we didnt think we had some suspicion of that, Nunes responded. The problem with this is, running informants into political campaigns, or political campaign actors on the counterintelligence side especially, is a major problem. Its because we give special powers to our counterintelligence officials because really a lot of Americans basic rights are taken away through that process because its dealing with national security, its usually high level, he continued. So there should be a very high bar before you open up a counterintelligence investigation. So, if you are running informants into campaigns before or after you open an official investigation, most Americans, when you sit them down and talk to them, they know that thats something really bad and that only happens in third world countries, he said.\n\nChairman Nunes also told Buck Sexton in the same interview that the redacted portions of the Carter Page FISA docs are worse than what Americans have already seen.\n\nObamas FBI and DOJ were incredibly corrupt, of course they were using informants to spy on Trumps camp before the July 2016 launch of the probe.\n\nSo far we know Stefan Halper was paid a total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for work with the US government that included spying on the Trump campaign.\n\nAccording to Trumps former aide, Michael Caputo, there was more than one informant spying on Trumps camp.\n\nText messages from Peter Strzok going back to 2015 have people speculating the FBI may have initiated multiple spies in the Trump campaign going back to December of 2015.","title":"Chairman Nunes House Intel Panel Investigating Whether Informants Gathered Info on Trump Russia","date":"2018-07-26","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"With so many digital distractions to keep your kids entertained for hours indoors, persuading them to play outside can can be challenging.\n\nBut invest wisely in the right mix of engaging, durable outdoor toys, and your only problem will be getting the kids back indoors at bed time.\n\nToys for outdoor use can be pricey theres no denying it, but factor in the price per use of each item over several summers, and go for toys made from the best quality materials, and you should find you get what you pay for.\n\nThese are the outdoor toys that most impressed us and kept our troops entertained outside for the longest period of time.\n\nClimb inside one of these inflatable bubbles, and you and a pal can collide into each other in perfect safety, thanks to durable vinyl and multiple air chambers.\n\nTheres an inbuilt safety harness to prevent falls and injury so you really can go wild without getting hurt. The whole family had enormous fun with these and kept gravitating towards them long after the novelty of other items had worn off.\n\nBut be warned; they sustained a few holes pretty quickly and have been patched multiple times, so dont expect them to last forever.\n\nA seesaw never goes out of fashion and now you dont even have to trek to the park to play on one.\n\nThis easy-to-assemble seesaw has a 360 bounce and spin action, so itll entertain kids from 3-8 years for longer than the average garden seesaw.\n\nIts also good for encouraging co-ordination and balance skills, so you can tell yourself theyre learning whilst they play.\n\nThis comes with absolutely everything you need to build a den, all packed in a neat little bag with a handy shoulder strap.\n\nAs well as a camouflage tarpaulin and waterproof groundsheet, theres also a rope, wooden mallet, and eight tent pegs. Oh, and a camping mug and a tube of camouflage face paint, which no self-respecting adventurer should be without.\n\nOur testers' gang disappeared off to the end of the garden with this the moment they clapped eyes on it, they almost had to send out a search party at tea time.\n\nWhats not to love about a mini version of the iconic Vespa scooter? Suitable for children aged three and over, this electric motorbike comes with a 12 Volt rechargeable battery and charger.\n\nThe stabilisers are removable so your little style icon can take off on two wheels once theyve mastered balancing on it. Granted, we never had outdoor toys like this back in our day, but this has literally created hours of fun.\n\nAnd yes, it even withstood a little light testing by the grown ups! Thats probably not to be encouraged though.\n\nThis is so easy to assemble that our tester's 13-year-old son managed to do most of it by himself, including reassembling all the bits his parents messed up first time round.\n\nIts the perfect size for a good-sized garden as it doesnt take up loads of space, but theres still ample room for all sorts of athletic showing off.\n\nThe internal enclosure net design keeps the springs out of each and means no collisions with the poles. It even folds away, although weve yet to attempt that.\n\nIts difficult to convey what a glorious bit of outdoor play kit this is. Yes, its expensive but the hours of imaginative play it has inspired make it seem worth every penny, and our tester could see many years' worth of potential in this product.\n\nWeve posted secret notes through the real letterbox, planted strawberries in the window box, made mud pies in the outdoor kitchen and even produced masterpieces on the painting screen.\n\nOur very own eco hideaway has fast become the favourite spot for lunch, making mealtimes fun and hassle-free.\n\nThis versatile swing can convert from a glider for two (age 3+) into an all-age hammock with a headrest.\n\nThe ergonomic design means it fits traditional swing sets so its easy to assemble. Our tester was surprised by how much interest this gets from family members  of all ages!\n\nEveryone went straight for this over the standard garden swing which has long since been abandoned, and this seems to get played with for much longer periods of time than the swing ever did.\n\nWho needs to visit the water park when you can bring the fun of a splashing good time to your own back garden?\n\nThis was fiddly and time consuming to assemble but its worth it in the end  the waterfall was a welcome feature in a heatwave and seemed to keep little ones entertained for much longer than a standard paddling pool.\n\nAnd when grey skies resumed, our tester brought this inside and the fun continued, albeit with the balls rather than the water. Even the cat joined in at that point.\n\nSometimes you just cant beat the classics when it comes to outdoor toys, and this rounders set was a definite hit.\n\nIt comes with a bat and ball plus four base markers, we love that it all packs away into a handy drawstring bag  none of the pieces got lost or left in the car, and its perfect for hanging in the under stairs cupboard until we need it again.\n\nOlder children might want a more robust ball but this was perfect for introducing the youngest family member to the basics of rounders for the first time.\n\nA Wendy house is one of those garden toys that we're not ever sure will be worth the money  an old sheet can often hold more thrall. But this is a playhouse in a league of its own.\n\nThe fabric quality and craftmanship are second to none and our testers' daughter literally played with it for hours from the moment they set it up.\n\nBest of all, it packs neatly away in a cloth bag so you really can take it to the beach, where it provides the perfect windbreak and picnic spot.\n\nNo arsenal of outdoor toys would be complete without a set of wheels, and this is the perfect starter bike.\n\nWe shopped around and plumped for this because its lightweight with a size-specific alloy frame and perfectly proportioned parts  you choose the right bike for your child based on their exact measurements.\n\nAfter years of flying around on a balance bike, our testers' daughter has been reluctant to a make the transition to pedals but she took to this like a duck to water and has to be prised off it.\n\nIf money is no object (or relatives are clubbing together to treat someone to a big birthday present), the Discovery Nature Play Hideaway is like nothing else weve seen and presents limitless opportunities for imaginative outdoor play in all weathers.\n\nBut for all-age family fun, you just cant beat the Body Bubble Balls. We might start solving family disputes whilst wearing these because youre literally guaranteed to end up in fits of laughter.","title":"10 best outdoor toys","date":"2018-08-13","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Oil prices declined slightly Friday due to a stronger dollar and U.S.-China trade worries but remained on track for a second straight weekly increase, as crude supplies seem to be tightening.\n\nLight, sweet crude for October delivery was 0.3% lower at $70.03 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the global benchmark, fell 0.2% to $77.90 a barrel.\n\nU.S. oil prices had fallen on a weekly basis for seven straight weeks until rebounding strongly last week. That upward momentum has been mostly maintained this week, helped by declining U.S. oil inventories and indications Washingtons sanctions on Iran are already curtailing Tehrans crude exports.","title":"Oil Prices Fall as Trade Tensions Ramp Up and Dollar Strengthens","date":"2018-08-31","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Much of the anxiety, depression, and mental illness that plague people today can be traced back to the biochemical changes that take place after repeated exposure to toxic elements such as mercury (Hg).\n\nMercury is one of the most potent neurotoxins, yet it is routinely used in medicine. Millions of people are suffering from mercury poisoning because dentists still insert mercury-based dental amalgams in peoples teeth. Over time this mercury leeches into the mouth and into the blood stream. On average, a person will absorb 100 mg  of mercury daily if they have just one dental amalgam. During an operation, mercury is also inhaled.\n\nOnce inside the body, mercury readily binds to molecules, tissues, and cells, disrupting cellular cycles, causing oxidative stress, mitochondria dysfunction, and harming homeostasis. Exposure to mercury incites behavioral issues, neurological disorders, mood disorders, and mental illness. This is because mercury hinders the production and function of various neurotransmitters. One of the neurotransmitters affected is GABA, a crucial pathway for keeping a person calm and steady. Mercury causes anxiety because it interferes with GABA, causes zinc imbalance, and destroys the protective myelin sheath that blankets the nerves.\n\nMercury not only causes oxidative stress, but it also binds to sulfur and selenium, blocking the therapeutic effect of these minerals. Selenium and sulfur help the immune system identify unwanted cells. By competing with these crucial minerals, mercury allows cancerous cells to survive in the body. If mercury is bound to these important elements, the bodys immune system may turn on itself, causing autoimmune conditions. Mercury also binds to the bodys master antioxidantglutathione. If glutathione cannot do its job effectively, then any toxic substances that enter the body can rapidly damage nerve and immune cells. (Related: Modern dentistry dangers exposed by a dentist.)\n\n100% organic essential oil sets now available for your home and personal care, including Rosemary, Oregano, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, Clary Sage and more, all 100% organic and laboratory tested for safety. A multitude of uses, from stress reduction to topical first aid. See the complete listing here, and help support this news site.\n\nOne of the main problems with the coal industry is mercury emissions. Coal-fired power plants emit toxic mercury into the air, where it rain downs and poisons the water. Over time, mercury accumulates in seafood. The FDA cautions against overconsumption of tuna and other seafood products for this reason. The gastrointestinal system of the human body helps eliminate and dispose of toxic mercury. Certain foods bind with mercury to efficiently eliminate it from the body. Foods such as peanut butter, strawberries, and chlorella are chelating. These foods help remove toxic elements, especially mercury, from the body.\n\nInjected mercury, through vaccination, is a different story. This mercury, along with other neurotoxins found in vaccines, is inserted into the muscle tissue, into immune cells, and into the blood. This mercury bypasses the gastrointestinal system, contaminating the organs more rapidly.\n\nRepeated inhalation and ingestion of mercury, through mercury-based dental amalgams also poses significant harm to people over the long haul. Chronic mercury exposure oxidizes blood vessels and disrupts insulin, leading to chronic high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess abdominal fat, and high levels of unhealthy LDL cholesterol.\n\nIf you have been a victim of mercury-based dental amalgams, consult a holistic dentist. Chronic exposure to mercury is not worth the risk and will strain many important functions of the human body. To restore any  damage inflicted by mercury, consider a diet full of high quality fats, organic olive oil, and bone broth. Consume foods high in selenium, magnesium, and zinc to restore the balance of these elements in the body. Help the body chelate mercury by consuming foods such as strawberries, hemp protein, cilantro, chlorella, raspberries, and other fruit fibers.\n\n .\n\n\n\nFor more helpful information for avoiding mercury exposure, visit HolisticDentistry.News.","title":"The under-recognized epidemic Millions of people are suffering from mercury poisoning","date":"2018-08-08","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"A new book by renowned Watergate journalist Bob Woodward has painted an unflattering picture of Donald Trumps White House, depicting his administration as being in a state of nervous breakdown.\n\nFear: Trump in the White House suggests that senior aides worry about an erratic president who they fear poses a danger to national security.\n\nExcerpts published by The Washington Post paint also allege that some of Mr Trumps key advisers resorted to acting behind his back to prevent him damaging international relations and the US economy.\n\nThe White House has dismissed the book as nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees, told to make the president look bad.\n\nHere are seven key claims made in the book, published on 11 September.\n\nAfter Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical attack on civilians in April 2017, Mr Trump is reported to have told his defence secretary he wanted the Syrian president assassinated.\n\nMr Woodward's alleges that the US leader called James Mattis and said: Lets f***ing kill him! Lets go in. Lets kill the f***ing lot of them.\n\nMr Mattis told Mr Trump he would get right on it, but after hanging up the phone he told a senior aide: Were not going to do any of that. Were going to be much more measured.\n\nThe administrations national security team instead drew up plans for limited airstrikes which did not threaten the Syrian president personally.\n\nLawyer was convinced the president would commit perjury if he spoke to Russia probe leader Robert Mueller\n\nMr Trumps former personal lawyer John Dowd is said to have told the president that he would probably end up in prison if he testified to special counsel Robert Muellers probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nTo illustrate his point he reportedly staged a practice interrogation with the president, who responded to questions with stumbles, contradictions and lies before losing his cool.\n\nDont testify, Mr Dowd allegedly told him. Its either that or an orange jumpsuit.\n\nBut Mr Trump is said to have been convinced he could handle Mr Muellers questions, declaring: Ill be a real good witness.\n\nYou are not a good witness, Mr Dowd replied. Mr President, Im afraid I just cant help you.\n\nHe resigned the next morning.\n\nA frequent target of Mr Trumps Twitter attacks, according to the book, the president is even more scathing about attorney general Jeff Sessions behind closed doors.\n\nSpeaking to then staff secretary Rob Porter, he is said to have described Mr Sessions as a traitor for recusing himself from the Russia probe.\n\nMocking the attorney generals accent, he reportedly added: This guy is mentally retarded. Hes this dumb Southerner... He couldnt even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.\n\nJames Mattis said Trump acted like a fifth- or sixth-grader\n\nSome of the presidents closest advisers are depicted in the book as being exasperated by his ignorance about key issues.\n\nDuring a National Security Council meeting, Mr Trump is said to have asked why the US was spending resources on maintaining a military presence in the Korean peninsula.\n\nWere doing this in order to prevent World War III, his defence secretary told him.\n\nMr Woodward recounts: Mattis was particularly exasperated and alarmed, telling close associates that the president acted like - and had the understanding of - a fifth- or sixth-grader. \n\nWhite House chief of staff John Kelly said on Mr Trump: We're in Crazytown\n\nWhite House chief of staff John F Kelly frequently vented his fury about Mr Trump and told colleagues he thought the president was unhinged, the book claims.\n\nIn one small group meeting, Mr Kelly is reported to have said: Hes an idiot. Its pointless to try to convince him of anything. Hes gone off the rails. Were in Crazytown. I dont even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job Ive ever had.\n\nFaced with Mr Trumps rage and unpredictability, the presidents cabinet members and other senior officials learned to learned to act discreetly to foil his most dangerous impulses, Fear claims.\n\nIn one instance, Gary Cohn, the presidents former top adviser, stole a letter off Trumps desk to prevent the president signing it. Had he done so, it would have formally withdrawn the US from a trade agreement with South Korea.\n\nMr Cohn later told an associate he swiped the letter to protect national security and that the president did not notice it was missing.\n\nHe is said to have used similar tactics to prevent Mr Trump taking the country out of the North American Free Trade Agreement last year.\n\nFacing intense criticism for saying both sides were to blame for deadly neo-nazi violence in Charlottesville in August 2017, Mr Trump was convinced by aides to publicly condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.\n\nAlmost immediately after issuing the statement he reportedly told aides it was the biggest f***ing mistake Ive made and the worst speech Ive ever given.","title":"Fear Trump in the White House Seven most explosive passages from aposretardapos insults to ext","date":"2018-09-05","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"On Saturday, Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee released their rebuttal to the Nunes memo. The counter-memo claims FBI and DOJ officials did not abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign.\n\nAdam Schiff just couldnt help himself and responded to President Trump with more lies.\n\n\n\nTrump: The Democrat memo response on government surveillance abuses is a total political and legal BUST. Just confirms all of the terrible things that were done. SO ILLEGAL!\n\nPOTUS then tweeted, Dem memo: FBI did not disclose who the clients were  the Clinton Campaign and the DNC, Wow!\n\nPOTUS then hammered Schiff and called him a phony.\n\nAdam Schiff responded to President Trump shortly after his mini tweetstorm and once again spread lies about Papadopoulos April 2016 conversation about Hillarys emails. Papadopoulos had a conversation with a Russian about Hillarys missing emails way before the Podesta emails were given to Wikileaks.\n\nPapadopoulos was referring to Hillary Clintons missing emails, not Podestas campaign emails. Schiff always conflates the two in order to spread misinformation. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called Schiff out about these lies before.\n\nSchiff tweeted, Wrong again, Mr. President. It confirms the FBI acted appropriately and that Russian agents approached two of your advisors, and informed your campaign that Russia was prepared to help you by disseminating stolen Clinton emails.\n\nChairman Nunes also lit up Adam Schiff after the junk memo was released.\n\nTo this date, the FBI has not inspected the DNCs servers nor have they interviewed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.\n\nAssange has said many times the Russians DID NOT give him the Podesta emails, yet the Democrats continue to push the lie without providing evidence.","title":"Adam Schiff Goes Into Spin Mode After POTUS Trump Slams Dem Junk Memo","date":"2018-02-25","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Britons have been confronted with the prospect of transport chaos by road, rail and air after a no-deal Brexit, with the release of the latest government advice papers.\n\nMinisters admitted that driving licences may no longer be valid in the EU if Britain crashes out without an agreement  forcing drivers to obtain permits for the countries they visit.\n\nMeanwhile, No 10 did not deny a warning by Frances Europe minister that Eurostar trains would be turned back from the continent, as well as British planes.\n\nThe no-deal documents also revealed that vehicles made and approved in the UK would no longer be valid for sale in the EU after a no-deal Brexit, threatening the vital car industry.\n\nThey were issued just two days after the boss of Jaguar Land Rover attacked Theresa Mays Brexit strategy, warning that tens of thousands of jobs were being put at risk.\n\nThe publication of 28 technical notices triggered fresh criticism from the Confederation of British Industry that firms would be hit with a sledgehammer in the event of no deal.\n\nThe AA leapt on the implications for holidaymakers, who would need to obtain two separate permits to drive to some countries, including France and Spain.\n\nThis will be an extra burden for UK drivers wanting to take a holiday abroad, said Edmund King, the AAs president.\n\nThe advice papers, published by the Brexit Department, also warned that:\n\n* British passport holders will not be allowed into the EUs Schengen area if they have under six months left on their passport.\n\n * The EU-wide ban on roaming charges would disappear  although the government said it would cap fees at 45 a month.\n\n * Operators of ferries and cargo ships may have to supply EU ports with details of their last 10 ports of call, crew list, and full passenger list.\n\n * Civil legal cases are at risk because certain countries may not recognise judgments from UK courts.\n\n * The UK would potentially get less warning about plummeting space debris, after departure from the EUs tracking programme.\n\nKeir Starmer, Labours shadow Brexit secretary, said: The only reason the government is talking about no deal is because the Tory civil war on Europe prevents the prime minister from negotiating a good deal.\n\nWith the clock ticking, ministers should drop the irresponsible rhetoric and start putting jobs and the economy first.\n\nThe threat to the Eurostar was revealed by Nathalie Loiseau, Frances minister for European affairs, who said it was correct that both trains and planes from the UK would be barred.\n\nIf we reach no agreement this is what will happen, among other things, she told an event in London.\n\nThe warning came one week after a secret Treasury document acknowledged there were questions about rail access to the EU if there is a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut No 10 refused to discuss what was meant by the reference on the Operation Yellowhammer document, photographed as a minister carried it into a Whitehall meeting.\n\nThe government has previously acknowledged that planes would be grounded without a post-Brexit agreement, while insisting the prospect was remote.\n\nAsked about the risk to Eurostar services, the prime ministers spokesman said: Its in everybodys interest that that should not happen.\n\nDominic Raab, the Brexit secretary, speaking after a three-hour cabinet meeting, said: We have agreed all of that plan of action with unanimity.\n\nI think we need to be honest about this. In the event of a no-deal scenario, which is not what we want, we would face short-term risks and short-term disruption.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"No-deal Brexit Britons face wide-ranging travel chaos latest government advice papers reveal","date":"2018-09-13","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"Baroness Tonge has been accused of antisemitism over a social media post in which she blamed the Israeli government for the hatred behind the mass shooting in Pittsburgh that claimed the lives of 11 people.\n\nThe independent peer  who resigned from the Liberal Democrats in 2016  criticised the country on Facebook in the immediate aftermath of the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue.\n\nShe wrote: Absolutely appalling and a criminal act, but does it ever occur to Bibi and the present Israeli government that its actions against Palestinians may be reigniting antisemitism?\n\nI suppose someone will say that it is antisemitic to say so?\n\nPlenty of people on social media did say so, condemning her remarks and urging fellow peers to remove her from the House of Lords.\n\nMore than 3,000 people have signed a change.org petition demanding her expulsion from the chamber.\n\nThe politician was a Liberal Democrat MP between 1997 and 2005. After standing down from her seat in Richmond Park, the party made her a life peer.\n\nBut in 2016 she was suspended over allegations of antisemitism, leading her to quit the party.\n\nThe charity Campaign Against Antisemitism said the Liberal Democrats, having secured her seat in the Lords, should now actively campaign for her removal.\n\nJames Cox, the Lib Dems parliamentary candidate for Bristol West, also tweeted: If there is a way to remove her from the Lords it should be pursued immediately.\n\nThe historian and screenwriter Alex von Tunzelmann said her remarks following the Pittsburgh tragedy were outrageous, antisemitic and deeply stupid.\n\nMichael Dickson, executive director of educational organisation Stand With Us, told The Jewish Chronicle: The rock cold heart of Baroness Jenny Tonge was on display for all see. Following the slaying of Jews in synagogue at prayer, she excuses the motivation of the murder, never missing an opportunity to defame the worlds only Jewish country.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips said she was appalled by the blatant propaganda and antisemitism on display.\n\nIn 2016 Baroness Tonge chaired an event in parliament at which speakers reportedly compared Israel to Isis, and suggested Jewish people were to blame for the Holocaust.\n\nThe same year the independent peer claimed Israels treatment of Palestinians was a major cause behind the rise of Isis.\n\nShe said Israel was creating a generation of terrorists.\n\n\n\n The Independent has launched its #FinalSay campaign to demand that voters are given a voice on the final Brexit deal.\n\n \n\n Sign our petition here","title":"Former Lib Dem peer faces calls to be removed from Lords over aposantisemiticapos post about Pit","date":"2018-10-28","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"A former doorman at Trump World Tower has been released from a contract that prohibited him from speaking about his knowledge of an alleged affair between Donald Trump and his housekeeper that resulted in a child.\n\nDino Sajudin signed a source agreement with AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, in 2015 which effectively bought the rights to the story but never published it, reports CNN.\n\nSajudins attorney, Marc Held, said his client had not been able to discuss the contract or the alleged affair without incurring a significant financial penalty but he had been recently released from the deal by AMI.\n\nThe Chief Executive of AMI is David Pecker, who was this week granted immunity as part of a probe into Trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen.\n\nAs part of the deal, Pecker agreed to provide information to prosecutors related to payments made to two alleged one-time sexual partners of President Donald Trump  former Playboy model Karen McDougal and porn actress Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels  in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election.","title":"Dino Sajudin Releases Catch And Kill Contract About Donald Trumps Illegitimate Child","date":"2018-08-25","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Mueller Probe Is 1 Year Old - and It Must Continue\n\nMike Pence, Rudy Giuliani and other Donald Trump proxies want to kill Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. But it's moving rapidly and producing tangible results.","title":"Mueller Probe Is 1 Year Old - and It Must Continue","date":"2018-05-17","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Criminals are increasingly using drones in illegal activity and as a way to counter surveil and disrupt the FBI and other law enforcement agents, according to a report by Defense One.\n\nThe publication cites one instance where an FBI hostage rescue team set up a raised observation post to monitor a situation. A so-called swarm of small drones appeared and assailed the FBI in a series of high-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them. That incident was shared by Joe Mazel, head of the agencys operational technology law unit at the AUVSI Xponential conference in Denver. Mazel said the FBI agents lost situational awareness. We were then blind. It definitely presented some challenges. Swarms of drones were also used to surveil the FBI agents and send video back to other gang members. Mazel declined to elaborate on where or when that incident took place, but said the suspects packed the drones in backpacks and brought them to the area, anticipating the arrival of the FBI.\n\nThat activity has effectively been replaced by drones.\n\nThe incidents illustrate how organized crime groups are increasingly using small consumer drones in support of their activities. Other notable uses include identifying witnesses by surveilling police departments to see who comes and goes from those facilities, and in support of robberies by observing gaps in security patrols and other vulnerabilities at target locations. Mazel also said that drones were being used in smuggling schemes in Australia to monitor port authority workers. The crime groups would force distractions like a false alarm if border guards get too close to a container that contains smuggled goods. Unauthorized drones have also been known to smuggle contraband into prisons.\n\nAssociate chief of US Customs and Border Protection Andrew Scharnweber told Defense One drones are also being deployed as scouts to spot their officers. We have struggled with scouts, human scouts that come across the border. Theyre stationed on various mountaintops near the border and they would scout... to spot law enforcement and radio down to their counterparts to go around us. That activity has effectively been replaced by drones, he said.\n\nDefense One notes there is some recourse in battling criminal use of drones. Drone jamming equipment has been deployed by the US military in Syria and Iraq, though those techniques would likely not be appropriate for use in cities given the risk of interference with mobile phone and airplane signals. There are legal options, like requiring drones to broadcast their operators identity, or to make weaponized consumer drones illegal. There are also anti-drone guns that jam all possible radio frequencies a drone can use to communicate with the operator, forcing it to land or return home. They remain illegal under FCC laws, though.\n\nGovernment officials who spoke at the conference noted that the use of drones in criminal endeavors would likely get worse before it got better.","title":"Criminals used a swarm of drones to surveil and disrupt an FBI hostage operation","date":"2018-05-04","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"If you want your flight to take off on time, maybe give Wizz Air a miss.\n\nA Press Association analysis of the busiest airlines operating from UK airports revealed that the Hungarian carrier has the poorest punctuality record with flights departing on average 23 minutes late in 2017.\n\nNorwegian came in second for tardiness with an average delay time of 22 minutes, followed by Vueling Airlines, Thomas Cook Airline and BMI Regional.\n\nAt the other end of the spectrum, Scandinavian Airlines was the most punctual carrier, with flights taking off on average just seven minutes behind schedule.\n\nThis was closely followed by Aer Lingus, Air France, Alitalia and Delta Airlines.\n\nThe study of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) data covered 44 airlines with a minimum of 2,000 scheduled flights from UK airports in 2017.\n\nPassengers may be disappointed to discover that delays are a common part of the aviation experience, with the average delay across all flights coming in at 15 minutes.\n\nA spokesperson for Wizz Air cited poor winter weather as one explanation for the delays.\n\nA number of issues specific to the UK, including airport infrastructure, airspace congestion and slot restrictions contribute to a significantly worse on-time performance of our UK routes compared to the rest of our network, they told The Guardian.\n\nWizz Airs efforts to reduce future delays include basing eight aircraft in the UK.\n\nNorwegian cited European air traffic control strikes and poor weather as factors for its low ranking.\n\nWe do everything possible to ensure that flights operate to allow passengers to reach their destination as soon as possible, said a Norwegian spokesperson.\n\nNorwegian is committed to keep improving punctuality, and where factors are within our direct control we have introduced new measures to continue delivering a smooth, efficient experience for our passengers.\n\nThe CAA said it published information on carriers performance to allow people to make informed choices about which airlines to fly with.","title":"Wizz Air least punctual airline operating from UK airports in 2017","date":"2018-08-06","source":"theindependent","label":1}
{"content":"A huge cow that is more than six feet tall and weighs more than a car has become an internet sensation.\n\nThe giant black-and-white Holstein Friesian steer, who lives on a farm in Western Australia, has won fame on social media for his immense proportions.\n\nAt seven-years-old, Knickers is almost twice the size of the rest of the herd for whom takes charge of as a \"coach\" and too big to be processed at an abattoir.\n\nAnd predictably Twitter is in awe after photos surfaced of the 6 feet 4 inch animal from Myalup - who weighs a staggering 1.4 tonnes.\n\nUS model Chrissy Teigen tweeted: \"Damn that is one huge cow. this is why I buy internet on flights. I almost saw that 6 hours after you guys did.\"\n\nChristening him with a new name, fashion bloggers Tom and Lorenzo said: \"BOW DOWN TO GODZILLACOW.\"\n\nOthers were quick to share their thoughts on the monstrous animal, whose massive size has helped to save his life:","title":"Knickers the cow The best tweets and reaction to enormous animal","date":"2018-11-28","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"It only gets more politically perilous to be U.S. President Donald Trump. Last week, he faced his former lawyer Michael Cohen pleading guilty to an array of serious crimes  and implicating him in the process. Now, Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti is joining in on the chorus of calls to follow that development wherever it may lead  including to a possible Trump impeachment.\n\nTalk of impeaching Trump has intensified since Cohen pleaded guilty to crimes including two campaign finance law violations. The lawyer  at Trumps direction, he explained to a court  secretly peddled hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money to try and tilt the 2016 elections in his boss favor. Some of that hush money  $130,000 of it, to be exact  went to Avenattis star client, Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with the man who is now president some years ago.\n\nTrump originally claimed to have no knowledge of the payment to Daniels whatsoever. Then, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Fox News Sean Hannity that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the hush money  and now, Cohen has asserted in a court of law that he was acting at Trumps direction in having sent out the hush money in the first place.\n\nWhat legal consequences the president could face for that remain to be seen. He hasnt been formally charged with anything  yet. Special Counsel for the Russia investigation Robert Mueller is continuing his investigation; a referral from his office helped drive the separate federal investigation into Cohen that culminated in his recent guilty plea.\n\nWhether Mueller will indict the president for any crimes remains to be seen  its up in the air whether or not he can even do that.\n\nDemocrats, though, are on track to take back the U.S. House in the midterm elections later this year. FiveThirtyEight currently estimates a 5 in 7  or 72.7 percent  chance that come 2019, the Democrats will lead the lower chamber of Congress.\n\nWith a majority status in the body responsible for drawing up and passing articles of impeachment, roadblocks to impeachment would be out of the Democrats way in the case of the evidence against the president continuing to mount.\n\nWhen it comes to the U.S. Senate, where the president would actually be tried in the case of the House passing articles of impeachment, Democrats have a bit tougher of a road to a majority come 2019 in the Cook Political Reports estimation. The analysts behind the site rate three currently Republican held seats as toss-ups  and one (Ted Cruzs) as only leaning and not likely Republican  but five currently Democrat held seats are rated as toss-ups.\n\nDemocrats have to hold onto all of those and pick up at least a couple more to become the majority party in the upper Congressional chamber  although with generic Congressional ballot polling registering Democrats with an about 8 percent lead at present, the odds are in the lefts favor.\n\nIn the meantime, Avenatti and those who think like him are continuing their messaging.","title":"Michael Avenatti Tweets Push For Impeaching Trump That Has Donald Wetting Himself","date":"2018-08-26","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"Pictures have always fascinated humans ever since the art of photography was invented early in the 1800s. The process by which an image is captured through the camera lens is nothing short of magical, with the power of light imprinting a moment in time on a piece of paper, forever freezing the subjects essence for eternity. In the years that photography has progressed, millions and millions of images of people, places and objects have been archived, some of them mysterious and unexplainable.\n\nThe following pages contain these mysterious images that continue to defy explanation.\n\nJust like a mirage in the dessert, people have dismissed these mysterious pictures being the product of imagination. Experts suggest that the power of the human brain is undeniable, being able to suggest and associate the things our eyes witness with fears hidden deeply within our minds. But are these photos really just our eyes and minds playing tricks on us?\n\nCheck out the photos and find out if they are merely tricks or are they undeniably real.","title":"Mysterious Images That Continue To Defy Explanation","date":"2018-10-02","source":"trueactivist","label":0}
{"content":"The Trump administration earned international criticism earlier this year, thanks to the imposition of steep tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. The president has stood firm, tweeting as recently as Sunday about how great the tariffs supposedly are  but South Carolina manufacturing workers would disagree.\n\nIn the face of the now increased cost of doing business in steel and aluminum  among other products  with China, Element Electronics is shutting down operations at its plant in Fairfield County, South Carolina.\n\nThe company specifically blamed the Trump administrations tariffs in a letter to the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce, writing:\n\nThey hope to be able to re-open in three to six months, and in the meantime they will be maintaining a staff of eight individuals. However, the company asserted that they cannot predict this with any certainty at this time.\n\nThe closure will leave 126 people jobless in an area that has already seen a number of its major employers leave. Element, ahead of the layoffs, ended up one of the largest employers in the county after the areas last textile mill and even its Walmart closed.\n\nIn addition to the aforementioned closures, Fairfield County just recently faced the abandonment of lengthy plans for two nuclear reactors in Jenkinsville. That left 5,000 construction workers job-less and erased the opportunity of any future jobs in the area stemming from the nuclear reactors.\n\nThe Element plant closure is hardly the only consequence of the Trump administrations tariffs. Other American companies dealing in steel, aluminum, and related products with other countries have had their operations threatened too. BMW, for instance, recently notified Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross that as many as 45,000 jobs in South Carolina alone could be in jeopardy because of the trade wars.\n\nWhether Ross will actually pay attention to the companys concern is uncertain. He was just recently on Fox defending the Trump administrations tariffs as carefully thought through  and hes now facing allegations of having swindled associates out of some $120 million.\n\nMeanwhile, American agricultural interests continue to feel the weight of the tariffs and retaliatory tariffs too. China recently cancelled all of their standing orders for specialty food grade soybeans from North Dakota, dealing farmers a loss of over $1 million.\n\nThe president, though, insists that everything is getting along just fine.\n\nAs recently as Sunday, he wrote on Twitter:\n\nTariffs are working big time. Every country on earth wants to take wealth out of the U.S., always to our detriment. I say, as they come,Tax them. If they dont want to be taxed, let them make or build the product in the U.S. In either event, it means jobs and great wealth.\n\nAs the new developments in South Carolina make clear, no, tariffs dont mean jobs and great wealth.","title":"JUST IN Major Television Manufacturer Closes Plant Because Of Trump Tariffs DETAILS","date":"2018-08-07","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"As thousands of migrants march toward the United States southern border, the left is still pushing the narrative that the caravan either doesnt exist or that it poses no threat.","title":"The David Knight Show Invasion USA Begins As Border Tension Escalates Left Pushes For All Out Gend","date":"2018-11-26","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A Christian Yazidi teenager who was enslaved by the Islamic State has moved back to Iraq after she met her captor on the streets of an area near Stuttgart, Germany where he had registered as a refugee.\n\nAshwaq Talo said she was walking home in February when she encountered Abu Humam, a former ISIS guard who had previously purchased her for $100.\n\nI froze when I looked at his face carefully, Talo told Bas News, a Kurdish agency. It was Abu Humam, with the same scary beard and ugly face.\n\nThe teenager said Humam immediately made threats, telling her, I am Abu Humam and you were with me for a while in Mosul. And I know where you live, with whom you live, and what you are doing.\n\nTalo reported Humam to the authorities, but German police said there was no grounds for arrest because the former ISIS man had registered as a refugee.\n\nThe teenager decided to leave Germany after the encounter and moved back to Kurdistan to live with her father.\n\nI will never go back, she vowed.\n\nThe fallout from Germanys decision to accept over a million migrants, mostly from the Middle East, since 2015 continue to reverberate.\n\nWhile Chancellor Angela Merkels approval rating has plunged to an all time low, partly thanks to her open border policy, many on the left have expressed their glee over the situation.\n\nLast month, a write for Huffington Post Germany said, it would actually be best to just replace the German people with foreigners in order to stop the rise of populism.\n\nAt the height of the wave of migrants flooding into Germany in 2015, the Green Partys Stefanie von Berg said in a speech before the Bundestag that Germans will be a minority in their own cities within 30 years and that this is a good thing.\n\nAs we document in the video below, Germans who complain about negative consequences of the migrant wave are being punished by authorities, while scientists have even debated adding drugs to the water supply to make Germans more accepting of foreigners.\n\nInfowars has been banned by Facebook. Please help us by sharing this article on your own Facebook page.\n\nPaul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.","title":"Yazidi Teenager Meets ISIS Captor Who Enslaved Her Hes Now a Refugee in Germany","date":"2018-08-16","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Last Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein referred a mysterious letter about Kavanaugh to the FBI after holding onto it for months.\n\nShe started a firestorm by holding onto this letter about Kavanaugh then releasing it at the 11th hour in a me too ambush in an effort to delay Kavanaughs confirmation.\n\nVia FOX News Congress reporter Chad Pergram: From colleague Connor Marley. Feinstein on Ford. Says Ford is a woman that has been, I think, profoundly impacted, on this..I cant say that everything is truthful. I dont know\n\nFeinstein to Fox on Ford when asked if the accusation will impact how mbrs would vote on Kavanaugh: I know she did not want to go public. Thats why I made the letter. That was taken out of my control\n\nFeinstein then says if Christine Ford doesnt show up Monday to the hearing its up to the Republicans what happens next.\n\nChuck Grassley said on the Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday morning that Christine Ford has not confirmed her appearance at next Mondays hearing and that she has ignored repeated efforts by his staff to make contact with her in the last 36 hours.\n\nThe Senate Judiciary Chairman even threatened to cancel Mondays hearing.","title":"Feinstein on Christine Ford Sexual Assault Allegations Against Kavanaugh I Cant Say That Everythin","date":"2018-09-18","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PULLS OUT OF PLANNED JUNE 12TH SUMMIT IN SINGAPORE\n\nPresident Trump thanked the North Koreans for releasing the US hostages.\n\nPresident Trump: Some day I look very forward to meeting you. In the meantime, I want to thank you for the release of the hostages who are now home with their families.\n\nThis is the hateful insanity coming from the American left today.","title":"Crazy Nancy Pelosi Kim Jong Un Had a Giggle Fit When Trump Called Off Summit VIDEO","date":"2018-05-24","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"## Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Russia offers plan to remove Iranian forces from\nSyria, Netanyahu says\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has offered his assistance to the United\nStates and Israel in reducing Iran's presence in Syria in return for easing\nanti-Iranian sanctions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the\nKnesset behind closed doors. Based on deductions, Putin suggested this to US\nPresident Donald Trump when they briefly met in Paris during the events\nmarking the 100th anniversary of the World War I Armistice, Nezavisimaya\nGazeta writes. Although Russias Foreign Ministry has not confirmed that this\ndiscussion was held at this level, this does not mean that the Russian leader\nhad not put forward these ideas, the paper says. Experts say that Moscow has\nsome leverage over Iran in Syria, though minor at best. The Israeli prime\nminister stressed that this was an unofficial offer and that the Jewish state\nhas not worked out its stance on this issue.\n\n\"Israel believes that Russia has leverage over Iran, but they understand that\nthis is limited rather than complete leverage,\" Israeli political scientist\nand Head of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, a public diplomacy project, Ariel\nBulstein told the paper. The idea that Russia as a country, which de facto\ncontrols all of what is happening in Syria, should bear responsibility for\nthis, and namely stop all of Irans attempts towards turning Syria into a\nfoothold for an attack against Israel, is an Israeli position, he noted.\n\"Touching on a possible bargain, I believe this is not a reasonable approach\nas sanctions against Iran are related to Irans appetite in the nuclear\nweapons sphere rather than Syria. The goal of the restrictions in this case is\nto bring the Iranian leadership to its senses and make it abandon operations\nin purchasing military-grade atoms.\"\n\nRussian experts believe that at talks with its Western partners, Moscow\nsomehow keeps mentioning the Iranian factor. \"Russia may even say that the\ncontainment of Iran is somehow in effect,\" expert at the Russian Council for\nInternational Affairs Anton Mardasov said.\n\nMeanwhile, objectively, Russia is unable to contain Iran, but can only jockey\nfor its influence with Tehran and paint this as containment, he noted. It was\nimportant for Russia to make an offer to the US and Israel in order to show\nthat it is an important diplomatic mediator. \"On the one hand, this boosts its\nstanding as a mediator,\" Mardasov noted. \"On the other hand, this is\nbargaining. For example, Russia can say: we'll contain Iran, but you Americans\nshould leave Al-Tanf. We will contain Iranian ambitions, and you should settle\nthe situation along the eastern Euphrates.\"\n\n\n\n## Kommersant: Eastern Europe confirms TurkStream pipelines route\n\nRussian energy giant Gazprom has decided on the gas supplies route via the\nTurkStream pipeline, which will run through Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and\nSlovakia, and is already participating in the procedure of reserving new\npipelines in these countries, Kommersant writes. Gazprom plans to launch\nsupplies to Bulgaria and Serbia via TurkStream in 2020, and to Hungary in\n2021, and this will make it possible to abandon transit via Ukraine starting\nfrom 2022.\n\nThis is actually the South Stream route, which the European Union froze in\n2014 under American pressure. The systems expansion will be valued at $1.63\nbln. Now it is difficult to pick a bone with this project since Gazproms\napproach is fully compliant with EU legislation, the paper says. But this is\nunlikely to shield the project from political punches.\n\nMarket sources told Kommersant that the Kremlin remembered the letdown of the\nSouth Streams cancellation and sought to delay the moment of announcing the\nreal route in order to reduce the risk of foreign pressure on transit\ncountries. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not exclude restrictions\nagainst TurkStream saying that the US \"throws around these measures and no one\nis protected from pressure.\"\n\nThe fact that Gazprom took part in the open season, a procedure of reserving\nfuture pipelines, means that the Russian company \"is fully compliant with EU\ndemands and the Third Energy Package rules, and given this it would be very\ndifficult to pick a bone with expanding TurkStream,\" analyst Maria Belova from\nVygon Consulting said. Gazprom is not seeking to attract attention to these\nprojects until the open season ends, she noted.\n\n\"There will be certainly political pressure, especially from the US, which has\nsuggested over the past months to impose sanctions on all Russian export\npipelines,\" the analyst said. Meanwhile, it is impossible to stay silent on\nthe project anymore given that the pipeline will be officially launched in a\nyear.\n\n\n\n## Izvestia: Interpol Inequality - EU, US meddling cost Russian general the\nelection\n\nMajor General of the Russian Interior Ministry Alexander Prokopchuk, who had\nbeen widely expected to win the election to the presidency of the global\npolice organization Interpol, lost to South Korean candidate Kim Jong Yang.\nIzvestia writes that Western media outlets, which had stepped up their\nRussophobia amid fears that a Kremlin proxy would win a key post in the\norganization, interpreted the news as \"a blow to Moscow.\" Russia pointed to\nthe unprecedented pressure on the voting process and the political bias of the\ndecision, but took it rather calmly.\n\nThe general tone of the narrative was that Moscow would definitely use the\nsystem of red notices (placing persons on an international wanted list) for a\nwitch-hunt against its political opponents, the paper writes. Ukraine and\nLithuania had threatened to withdraw from Interpol if Prokopchuk had won.\nBritish MPs also called for pulling out of Interpol in protest against the\nRussians potential presidency. Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt\neven suggested that democratic countries could create a parallel organization\nif Prokopchuk emerged victorious. Four US senators, including Marc Rubio, who\nhad authored numerous resolutions with initiatives to punish Russia, China,\nIran and Cuba, sent a letter to US President Donald Trump and Interpols\nGeneral Assembly demanding to prevent the Russian generals election to this\npost, noting that this would be \"akin to putting a fox in charge of the\nhenhouse.\"\n\nThe unprecedented pressure from many politicians, and even the threats by some\nstates to leave Interpol, indicated that politics trumps Interpols primary\ngoals, Alexei Chepa, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma (Russias lower house\nof parliament) Foreign Affairs Committee, told the paper. \"Our candidate is a\ntop-notch professional. Time will only tell who has lost or has gained from\nthis.\"\n\n\"Russia would not have gained anything if Prokopchuk had clinched the position\nbecause Interpols central administration consists of Americans and Britons\nand it would easily block the chiefs decisions,\" professor at the Lomonosov\nMoscow State University and PhD in political science Andrei Manoilo said.\n\nIt is noteworthy that Interpols president is a ceremonial post. The functions\nof its Secretary General, who is in charge of the organizations daily\noperations, are more important. A German, Jurgen Stock, now holds this\nposition.\n\n\n\n## Vedomosti: UK-owned DIY retail subsidiary leaving Russian market\n\nBritish retailer Kingfisher DIY and home improvement tools and supplies, which\nowns Castorama network of hypermarkets, has announced that it is leaving\nRussia, Spain and Portugal, Vedomosti writes. \"This will allow us to apply our\nstrategy with more focus and efficiency in our main markets,\" Chief Executive\nof Kingfisher Veronique Laury said.\n\nCastorama, which has been operating in Russia since 2006, is the fourth\nlargest DIY retailer after Frances Leroy Merlin, Russian company Petrovich\nand Germanys Obi, according to Infoline.\n\nThe retailers accrued losses since the beginning of its work in Russia will\nexceed 12 bln rubles ($183 mln) by the end of 2018, and most losses were\nrecorded in 2014-2018, Director General at Infoline analytics Mikhail\nBurmistrov said.\n\nCastoramas work in Russia was plagued by red tape and was not flexible enough\nand this prevented the company from adapting to the ruble devaluation and\nkeeping profitability amid mounting competition, Burmistrov explained. The\ncompany was very late with launching online sales and was slow in upgrading\nits hypermarkets, which became outdated, Burmistrov said.\n\nNow, Castorama has 18 hypermarkets with the total area of 225,000 square\nmeters and also two stores in shopping malls, and the total real estate is\nvalued as at least 24 bln rubles ($366 mln). Leroy Merlin is seen as a\npotential buyer of Castoramas business, but Russias anti-monopoly\nrestrictions could foil its plans, a member of Maxidom board of directors\nMaria Evnevich told the paper.\n\n\n\n## Izvestia: Russias Fan ID system may be used at UEFA Euro 2020\n\nRussias Fan ID is most likely to be used at the 2020 UEFA European Football\nChampionship, which will be held across the entire continent in 12 cities in\n12 European countries, Izvestia writes. Russian know-how proved its efficiency\nat the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the 2017 Confederations Cup and the\n2018 World Cup, which was recognized as the best in history by the FIFA\nCouncil. The Union of European Football Associations believes that the Fan ID\nexperience will be useful for both football fans and organizers.\n\nAccording to Izvestia, a decision on the need to introduce a compulsory Fan ID\nfor buying tickets for the Euro 2020 games may be made at the UEFA Congress on\nFebruary 7, 2019 in Rome.\n\nHead of the Russia-2018 Organizing Committee and the Euro 2020 organizing\nstructure Alexei Sorokin confirmed that UEFA is interested in using Fan IDs.\n\"After the 2018 World Cup everyone understood that this is not just an\nartificial restriction for security reasons. Fan IDs offer great advantages\nfor fans,\" he said, noting that the card may facilitate free travel and visa-\nfree travel to any country and also be used for payment and discounts on\nvisiting museums and restaurants.\n\nRussia is ready to share its experience of working with Fan IDs with other\norganizing countries of Euro-2020, Sorokin said. Besides St. Petersburg, the\nEuro 2020 matches will be held in Amsterdam, Baku, Bilbao, Bucharest,\nBudapest, Glasgow, Dublin, Copenhagen, Munich, London and Rome.\n\nDuring the 2018 FIFA World Cup more than 1.6 mln Fan IDs were issued,\nincluding for high-ranking officials and celebrities.\n\n\"Not a single major incident occurred during the 2018 World Cup, thanks to the\nFan IDs. You should agree that in the modern world it is important to\nunderstand who and for what purposes is at a stadium,\" Sorokin stressed.\n\nFan IDs may be also introduced during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, French\nAmbassador to Russia Sylvie Bermann told the paper.\n\n\n\n_TASS is not responsible for the material quoted in the press review_","title":"Press review Netanyahu reveals Putins Iran offer and Gazprom maps out TurkStream route","date":"2018-11-22","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"New York Socialist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once blamed ride-sharing giant Uber for leading a yellow cab driver to suicide. Her campaign then took $4,000 worth of Uber rides.\n\nBut Ocasio-Cortez, who rose to prominence after defeating top Democrat Joe Crowley in the partys U.S. House primary in June, is no fan of Uber, if you read her statements on social media.\n\nShe frequently criticized the ride-hailing company for what she sees as underpaying its drivers, decrying their pay as exploitation if they dont get at least $15 an hour, the so-called living wage.","title":"Ocasio-Cortez Sides With Cab Drivers While Campaign Uses Uber Report","date":"2018-08-24","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Now, you can add protection from diarrhea and E. coli to the growing list of reasons why mothers should breastfeed their babies. In a study published in the Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism, authors revealed that a mothers milk prevents the growth of pathogenic Escherichia coli and boost immunity.\n\nResearchers from the University of Notre Dame Australia and the University of Western Australia mixed E. coli with human milk and bovine milk (or cows milk). They incubated these in a shaker for six hours and evaluated the mixed suspension using cell culture and the Kjeldahl methods.\n\nOf the results, the researchers concluded that human milk inhibited the growth of harmful E. coli. Minimal changes in the non-protein nitrogen indicated that there was minimal degradation of immune proteins, they added. [Human milk] may protect the infant by inhibition of the growth of pathogenic E. coli. (Related: Breastmilk: The gift that keeps on giving... Babies who were exclusively breastfed have less than half the risk of eczema as teenagers than those that were not.)\n\nWhile some mothers have no problems with their breast milk supply, others arent that lucky: It takes time for their milk to flow freely. For some mothers, they cant even produce milk for one reason or another.\n\nThese moms need not panic. There are natural ways to increase breast milk supply.\n\nSupport our mission to keep you informed: Discover the extraordinary benefits of turmeric gummy bears and organic \"turmeric gold\" liquid extract, both laboratory tested for heavy metals, microbiology and safety. Naturally high in potent curcuminoids. Delicious formulations. All purchases support this website (as well as your good health). See availability here.\n\nBabies deserve only the best. That means breast milk from the one person who loves them most  Mom.\n\nFollow WomensHealth.news to stay abreast of the latest developments in womens health.","title":"One more reason to breastfeed Microbes in human milk inhibit the growth of E coli","date":"2018-07-14","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"In a disastrous interview with CNNs Jake Tapper Sunday, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel compared himself to a president, while touting his amazing leadership.\n\nWhen Tapper pressed Israel how the Broward County Sheriffs Office could have responded to the shooting differently, the embattled law enforcement officer responded with:\n\nIve exercised my due diligence, Ive led this county proudly as I always have, he said. We have restricted that deputy as we look in to it. You know, deputies make mistakes, police officers make mistakes, we all make mistakes, but its not the responsibility of the general or the president, if you have a deserter. You look into this. Were looking into this aggressively, and well take care of it and justice will be served. Are you really not taking any responsibility for the multiple red flags that were brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriffs Office about this shooter before the incident? Tapper asked. Jake, I can only take responsibility for what I knew about. I exercised my due diligence. Ive given amazing leadership to this agency Israel started. Yes, Jake. Theres a lot of things weve done throughout thisthis isyou dont measure a persons leadership by a deputy not going into these deputies received the training they needed Israel said.\n\nAs The Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft reported, CNN says three Broward County Sheriffs Deputies waited outside the school during the shooting.\n\nWhen Coral Springs police officers arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 in the midst of the school shooting crisis, many officers were surprised to find not only that Broward County Sheriffs Deputy Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer, had not entered the building, but that three other Broward County Sheriffs deputies were also outside the school and had not entered, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. The deputies had their pistols drawn and were behind their vehicles, the sources said, and not one of them had gone into the school.\n\nBroward County Sheriff Scott Israel is currently investigating why Peterson failed to act during the shooting.\n\nOn Friday, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior Brandon Huff told WSVN that Broward Sheriff resource officer, Scot Peterson, hid behind a staircase while pointing his gun at nothing as gunman Nikolas Cruz shot dead 17 people.","title":"In Disastrous Interview Broward County Sheriff Compares Himself to a President Touts His Amazing","date":"2018-02-25","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"U.S. President Donald Trump paraded into office promising to bring jobs that had been transferred out of the country back into the United States. Now, as a direct result of his administrations policies, a new stream of jobs out of the country is beginning.\n\nEarlier this year, enraged at the amount of Chinese goods being sold in the United States, the Trump administration slapped a 25 percent import tax on imported steel and a 10 percent one on imported aluminum. The White House targeted other countries all around the world, too, including some close allies like Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe problem is that a number of companies with operations in the United States had grown to rely on imported goods that have now been slapped with tariffs. Three billion dollars worth of Chinese steel and aluminum has been affected, as have $34 billion worth of Chinese technology goods.\n\nIn the face of the subsequent price hikes, an Illinois manufacturer is moving its last remaining U.S. manufacturing operations to Mexico, the Chicago Tribune reports. On October 12, both Stack-On Products plants will close, leaving more than 150 people without work. The company has persisted in Illinois for some four decades.\n\nThe original decision came when tariffs were first announced. The parent companys human resources director Al Fletcher made clear that the move is a direct result of Trumps tariffs, explaining:\n\nThats darkly ironic considering just how many times Trump has touted his plans to bring jobs like those to be lost in Illinois back into the United States.\n\nFor instance, on January of this year, Trump wrote on Twitter:\n\nTrumps promises and assertions just dont translate to reality, though.\n\nEven in the case of that specific tweet, Trumps lying. No Chrysler operations were moving out of Mexico and into the United States at the time of his tweet. The company was simply bolstering their already in-place operations in the United States.\n\nIn the time since, Trump has made it more difficult for such bolstering to take place. BMW, which employs tens of thousands of people in the United States, has expressed concern about the future of those jobs in the face of Trumps tariffs and the global retaliatory tariffs.\n\nWhirlpool CEO Marc Bitzer exclaimed recently that global steel prices have reached unexplainable levels. On a smaller scale, American workers are suffering outside of the Stack-On situation too. Missouris Mid-Continent Nail Corporation is on the brink of extinction because of the tariffs, with hundreds of American workers out of the job.\n\nTrumps trade policies are not enacting an economic utopia, and yet, hes continuing on with them anyway.","title":"Two Major US Factories Announce Abrupt Closure Blame Trump Tariffs For Lost Jobs","date":"2018-08-17","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"President Trump argued Monday night that media coverage of mail bomber Cesar Sayoc was biased when compared with how news outlets treated James T. Hodgkinsons shooting of Republicans practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game last year. According to the president, Sayocs admiration of Trump was heavily emphasized, whereas the coverage of Hodgkinson barely focused on his loyalty to Bernie Sanders. Some media outlets were quick to dismiss Trumps assertion, but he raises an interesting question: Do the data show any validity to the presidents concerns?\n\nOn June 14, 2017 Hodgkinson opened fire on a GOP baseball practice, wounding several people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. The identity of the shooter and the fact that he volunteered for Sanders presidential campaign was known within hours. Early headlines, including at CNN, clearly pointed out the connection.\n\nHowever, coverage quickly dropped the association with Sanders, with a Politico article three weeks later referring to the shooter merely as James Hodgkinson of Illinois.\n\nIn contrast, one of the most striking elements of coverage of last weeks mail bombing campaign was how blame was almost immediately assigned to Trump. Long before even the most basic information was known about the suspect, media personalities and their guests had largely pinned responsibility on the president. As Philippe Reines later put it on MSNBC, We didnt know the name of the bomber but we know who to blame.\n\nThe timeline below overlays coverage of the first nine days of coverage after both events, showing the percentage of daily English language online news coverage of the event that mentioned Sanders or Trump, as monitored by the GDELT Project.\n\nIn blue is the 2017 shooting. Day 0 represents the date it took place, June 14. The shooters affiliation with Sen. Sanders reached a peak of 31 percent of coverage the following day, then rapidly dissipated as the media largely dropped mentions of Hodgkinsons political affiliation.\n\nIn contrast, in orange is last weeks mail bombing campaign, with Day 0 being Oct. 22, when the first bomb (sent to George Soros) was discovered. By Oct. 25, the day before any information was known about the bombers identity, nearly 70 percent of coverage of the bombs mentioned Trump. By Sunday, nearly 80 percent of coverage associated the bomber with Trump.\n\nIn the end, while the president wasnt entirely correct in claiming that the media didnt associate the 2017 shooting with Sanders, his concerns about a media double standard are borne out. When a Sanders supporter and campaign volunteer opened fire on GOP members, the media quickly stopped mentioning the connection. Yet days before anything was known about last weeks bomber, the media had settled on Trump as the cause. Instead of reflexively dismissing any questions about bias, a bit of self-reflection on how the media covers the presidency in our increasingly divided world might be more productive.","title":"Data Show Trump Is Right About Mail Bomber Coverage","date":"2018-10-31","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Netflix has been banned from competing in the Cannes Film Festival, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. Theirry Fremaux, the head of Cannes, told THR last week the ban is because Netflix refuses to release its films in theaters, choosing instead to debut them on its streaming service and, in some rare cases, do day-and-date releases so the film can be seen both online and off. In the case of Bong Joon-hos Okja and Noah Baumbachs The Meyerowitz Stories  films that were entered into last years Cannes to widespread protest from French filmmakers  Netflix was unable to secure last-minute permits for one-week theatrical releases due to French media regulations.\n\nLast year, when we selected these two films, I thought I could convince Netflix to release them in cinemas. I was presumptuous, they refused, Fremaux told THR. The Netflix people loved the red carpet and would like to be present with other films. But they understand that the intransigence of their own model is now the opposite of ours. Starting with this years Cannes, which takes place in May, films screened in competition will need to have a French theatrical release. Netflix is still allowed to show films at Cannes, Fremaux added, but its films will not be eligible for the prestigious Palme dOr.","title":"Netflix banned from competing at Cannes Film Festival","date":"2018-03-25","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"CHONGQING, China, Aug. 17, 2018 \/PRNewswire\/ -- The first Smart China Expo\n(SCE) will be held in Chongqing on August 23, attracting 436 distinguished\nattendees from home and abroad from different circles. Among them, there will\nbe 23 academicians of the country's leading two academies, 125 senior\nmanagement of well-known domestic enterprises, and 142 guests from 28\ncountries and regions.\n\nHighlighting science and technology, participation and interactivity, the SCE\nwill feature a comprehensive exhibition, an exhibition of large enterprises,\nan innovation exhibition, a special theme exhibition and a smart experience\nsquare where visitors can try latest smart life technologies and products. The\ntotal exhibition area will reach 186,000 square meters.\n\nMany countries and regions such as the United Kingdom, Singapore and the\nNetherlands, have confirmed their participation for the event so far. As the\nguest of honor, Singapore and South Korea will jointly hold high-end summits,\nreleases of partner and promotion activities.\n\nThe event has attracted participation of state government agencies and local\ngovernments such as the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Civil\nAffairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Administration of\nCultural Heritage, Hong Kong, Macao, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Guangxi and Sichuan.\nMeanwhile, leading global companies like Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Google,\nHuawei, Alibaba and Tencent will also attend the event.\n\nDuring the exhibition, Chongqing will hold several high-end forums and\nconferences with state government agencies, associations and research\ninstitutes, which include two keynote conferences on digital economy and smart\nlife innovation with international sister cities. There will also be a forum\nto help establish corporate partnership on digital economy between Chongqing\nand Singapore and other high-end forums on intelligent manufacturing,\nsemiconductor industry, 5G and future networks, industrial internet,\nintelligent era information security, artificial intelligence and intelligent\nsuper-calculation. Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei will also hold seven professional\nsummits on cloud computing and other topics.\n\nIn addition, the event will feature five competitions including the i-VISTA\nautonomous driving challenge, the international drone racing grand prix, the\nglobal \"Internet +\" innovation and entrepreneurship competition, the Chongqing\nopen data innovation application contest as well as collection and release of\nblack technologies. The organizer will also set up a press release center to\npublish the results of the conference in real time, and offer intelligent\nconference services such as face recognition and intelligent navigation to\nattract more viewers to participate in and experience the SCE.\n\nThe SCE will release a report on the country's intelligent development, a\nreport on growth of China's big data industry as well as an action plan for\nChongqing to seek innovation-driven growth led by big data and smart\ntechnologies.\n\nTo organize a green and minimal-waste event, the exhibition has taken a light-\nvolume and recycling design philosophy by using environmentally friendly and\nrecyclable materials.","title":"First Smart China Expo to be Held in Chongqing","date":"2018-08-17","source":"tass","label":1}
{"content":"Barack, the narcissist, even signed his bracket this year.\n\n\n\nBut Obamas curse is too strong","title":"The Curse Lives On Obama Picks UVA to Reach NCAA Finals Instead They Are First 1 Seed to Lose t","date":"2018-03-18","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Trumps presidential administration has become a revolving door of criminals, swamp monsters, and inept appointees who resign or are fired faster than the news can report them. Yet another top cabinet member resigned on Thursday.\n\nScott Pruitts appointment to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was controversial from the start since he had publicly stated that he was vehemently opposed to the creation of an EPA at all. Like many of Trumps cabinet officials, he seemed to be the worst possible choices. His resignation was considered by most to be just a matter of time and surprising since it took as long as it did to get him out.\n\nPruitts questionable personal spending has also made him a target for scrutiny and outrage. Government employees in his department were paid with taxpayer dollars to scout Chik-Fil-A franchises and other businesses and jobs for Pruitts wife, tasked with finding his favorite expensive lotion and used mattresses from Trumps hotels, and ordered to put Pruitts hotel room charges on their personal credit cards (without reimbursement).\n\nRecently, Pruitt was approached by a concerned American citizen who asked him to resign before his scandals took him down and he could continue to implement policy changes that destroy the environment.\n\nThe current deputy administrator of the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will take over for Pruitt. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for the American people, considering Trumps record of appointees and staff members who have been in and out very quickly from the current presidential administration, no one who works for Trump should feel any sense of job security.","title":"Trump Gets Weird Tweets Thursday Afternoon Message To America Hes Unraveling","date":"2018-07-05","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"A St. Clair Democrat leader told a crowd to vote early, vote often, whatever you can get away with during a rally in Caseyville this past weekend.\n\nJ. B. Pritzker, hes going to win. Hes going to win big, says the announcer. But he wont win if we dont get out and vote. We need the early vote. Like I say, we can play East St. Louis, vote early, vote often. Whatever you can get away with. I shouldnt say that, but I really dont care.\n\nThe remark prompted outbursts of laughter from some in the crowd.\n\nThe video was posted by the Illinois Republican Party.\n\nPaul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.","title":"Dem Leader Tells Crowd Vote early and often whatever you can get away with","date":"2018-09-19","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Hanukkah is one of the most joyous occasions in the Jewish calendar, during which time Jews all over the world celebrate the eight-day festival of lights.\n\nAlso known as Chanukkah, it's a time to enjoy food and time with family.\n\nBut what is the story behind the Jewish holiday and why is it celebrated and observed? Here's everything you need to know:\n\nThe date for Hanukkah changes every year, with the Jewish calendar being lunisolar. It does however always fall between late November and December, four days before the new moon. The Hebrew calendar date is 25 Kislev.\n\nThis year it will begin on the evening of Sunday December 2 and conclude on Monday December 10.\n\nHanukkah commemorates the victory of a Jewish rebel army, the Maccabees, over the Seleucids (an ancient Hellenistic empire that ruled much of the Middle East) in 165 BCE and the subsequent re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem that had been desecrated.\n\nDr Maria Diemling, Reader in Jewish-Christian Relations, based at Canterbury Christ Church University told the Standard:  The historical context is the struggle between tradition and assimilation, a recurrent theme in Jewish history.\n\nAccording to Jewish tradition, it celebrates a miracle: inside the Temple, the Maccabees found enough consecrated oil to light the eternal flame in the Temple for a single day but miraculously the oil lasted for eight days, long enough to produce new oil.\n\nThis is the reason why Hanukkah is celebrated over eight days.\n\nMainly observed at home with the family, it involves lighting candles on the Hanukkiah' (or 'Hanukkah menorah') which is a special nine-branched candleholder. The ninth candle is the servant who is used to light the other eight candles.\n\nCelebrations also include eating food fried in oil  referring to the oil of the miracle  playing games and giving little gifts to children.\n\nDr Diemling added: Children often make candleholders in Jewish settings (nursery, schools) and take them home. The lit Hanukkiah is often placed close to a window to announce the miracle of Hanukkah to the outside world.\n\nThe candles on the menorah will be lit each day in order (one candle on the first day, two on the second and so on), and the family will sing traditional songs, eat and spin the dreidel.\n\nA driedel, Dr Diemling explained, is a four-sided spinning top that has different Hebrew letters on each side, forming the first letters of the Hebrew sentence for A great miracle happened there. Players play for money or sweets and lose or gain depending on which letter turns up when they spin the dreidel. Inviting others for the candle-lighting and food is also common.\n\nDr Diemling explained: Food is always an important part of Jewish holidays and celebrations! Traditionally, food fried in oil (referencing the oil miracle) is eaten. These depend on the ethnic origin of the family but common are latkes' (potato pancakes) served with applesauce and sour cream and doughnuts (sufganyot) filled with jam, dulce de leche etc.\n\nThe tradition is to eat food fried in oil but in different Jewish cultures different foods are being eaten: Italian Jewish families, for example, prepare dishes like fried chicken (marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, nutmeg and garlic, then covered in flour and egg before frying), mashed potato pancakes (unlike the latkes mentioned before covered in breadcrumbs), olive oil fried aubergines and honey-soaked dough fritters.\n\nChildren were traditionally gifted money (gelt in Yiddish) and now chocolate coins are traditionally given.\n\nIt has become quite common to give presents on each of the eight days. Some Jewish parents feel that they dont want to their children to miss out compared to children who celebrate Christmas, particularly in countries like the UK or US where there is such a long general build-up towards Christmas and where presents play such an important role, Dr Diemling said.\n\nMany Jewish families give to charity on Hanukkah and also encourage their children to give some of their Hanukkah money to charity.\n\nHanukkah is a post-biblical holiday, Dr Diemling explained. It was therefore traditionally for centuries a relatively minor Jewish holiday but I would say that it is now commonly observed by Jewish families in the UK, including many secular Jewish families.","title":"Hanukkah 2018 Everything you need to know about the Jewish Festival of Lights","date":"2018-11-30","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"The attempt to paint Democrats as an angry, left-wing mob  at least when President Trump is doing the painting -- is deeply disingenuous. Donald Trump has done more to promote violence against his fellow Americans than any president or presidential candidate in modern U.S. history. While running for office in 2015 and 2016, he urged supporters to knock the crap out of protesters, with the promise that he would pay the legal fees. It was Trump who suggested that the Second Amendment people could do something to a President Hillary Clinton if she ever got to make a Supreme Court appointment. As president, he told police officers, Dont be too nice to suspects, while speaking approvingly of banging arrestees heads on squad car doors.\n\nTrumps pugnacious example has trickled down through his party. Last year, Republicans helped elect to the House Montanas Greg Gianforte, sticking with him after he physically assaulted a journalist. Trump recently endorsed Gianforte for re-election by saying, He is a fighter. The Republican gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania recently released a video in which he growls at the incumbent Democrat, I'm going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes.\n\nSo Democrats are understandably irked to see Trump, of all people, call them an angry mob. But that raises another troubling question: Why are some prominent Democrats making it so easy for their critics to pin that label on them?\n\nEver since the early days of the Trump presidency, Republicans have been trying to link Democratic politicians with fringe Antifa and anarchist elements who engage in violent tactics, no matter how far they have to stretch. The hopelessly nerdy Atlanta-area congressional candidate Jon Ossoff was thwarted in his 2017 special election campaign partly by ads claiming he was in league with rioters.\n\nSome of same riot footage was used in a June 2018 video by the RNC to paint Democratic Party leaders as unhinged, juxtaposed with clips of Sen. Bernie Sanders touting how his policy ideas have gone from radical to mainstream, and of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wishing for uprisings (leaving unsaid that she was reacting to the Trump administration policy of separating child refugees from their parents at the border).\n\nOf course, the RNCs effort to define the Democrats as mob instigators was greatly aided by Rep. Maxine Waters exhortation in June (at a rally opposing the child separation policy) to confront Trump Cabinet members in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station.  You get out and you create a crowd. You push back on them. Tell them theyre not welcome anymore, anywhere! Some people have taken her up on the suggestionmost recently, a handful of Antifa and Democratic socialist activists who chased Sen. Ted Cruz out of a restaurant.\n\nDisrupting the lives of people in power is a tactic out of the playbook of legendary leftist organizer Saul Alinsky. In his book Rules for Radicals, he counseled activists to go outside of the experience of the enemy to cause confusion, fear, and retreat. Once, to pressure Chicago officials to follow through on commitments made to a low-income neighborhood, Alinsky threatened to occupy all the bathroom stalls in OHare Airport. Before he could follow through, the city contacted local activists and reassured them all commitments would be met.\n\nBut Waters and others seeking to follow in Alinskys footsteps are not absorbing all his lessons. One of Alinskys rules is that the threat is often more effective than the tactic itself. Alinskys bathroom ploy was a means to an end, not disruption for disruptions sake.\n\nMoreover, the point of disruption is to cause confusion, fear and retreat so your opponents will feel pressure to make concessions. But when Cruz is chased out of a restaurant, Republicans are not disoriented -- they giddily use the footage in their own ads to paint the left as unhinged. If theres one thing the Machiavellian Alinsky would never do, its cling to a tactic that isnt working.\n\nDemocratic leaders cant control what fringe elements do, and they cant regulate how Republican ad makers splice footage.  But they can avoid giving Republican quotes ready-made for splicing, such as when former Attorney General Eric Holder says, When they go low, we kick them, and when Hillary Clinton asserts, You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. Those comments made it into a new RNC video, calling the Democratic left, yes, an unhinged mob.\n\nNeither Holder nor Clinton was actually calling for violence.  In fact, Holder followed up his comment with, When I say we kick them, I dont mean we do anything inappropriate, we dont do anything illegal. Clinton similarly caveated that we don't want to model bad behavior or cross the line into lying.\n\nBut if they felt the need to add those caveats, what exactly were they trying to convey in the first place? Holder said he only meant that we have to be tough and we have to fight ... for the ideals of the Democratic Party. Clinton was a bit more specific, urging Democrats to drive a message about what's really at stake with the presidency of someone who admires dictators, who clearly [has] authoritarian tendencies. Both proposals could have been made without also saying Democrats should be uncivil and kick Republicans, giving Republicans easy fodder with which to whip up their own base.\n\nRepublicans are not squeamish about quoting Democrats out of context. For example, the Unhinged Mob RNC video quotes Sen. Cory Booker telling an audience to get up in the face of some congresspeople. But he wasnt echoing Rep. Waters and egging people on to confront Republicans in restaurants and vent rage. The video cuts out Bookers directive to go to the Hill and tell congresspeople about common sense solutions to reduce homelessness.\n\nNeither Holder nor Clinton was proposing anything all that novel. Its not hard to find Democrats who offer blistering criticisms of Trump, as well as of the Republican Partys conservative agenda. The only ones going easy on Trump are the candidates running for Congress in districts Trump carried, and few Democrats are grousing about it. I didnt hear any complaining when Alabamas Doug Jones and western Pennsylvanias Conor Lamb poached Republican seats in special elections without laying into Trump. Considering that most data suggest Democrats are on the verge of claiming the House, Im not hearing much second-guessing about how Democrats are running in red districts today.\n\nRegardless, Holder may have been compelled to strike an uncivil note because he is eyeing a 2020 presidential run. Michael Avenatti has made hay among pugnacious elements in the Democratic rank-and-file by repeatedly declaring that when they go low, we hit harder. Holder had reason to appropriate Avenattis line. Hes viewed skeptically by some on the left for not prosecuting Wall Street bankers back when he was running the Justice Department. Attracting Republican ire may help Holder bolster his standing with progressives.\n\nBut if Democrats are going to say something provocative, it should have real, practical value. Loose talk about kicking and incivility doesnt serve any purpose except rile up Republicans a few weeks before Election Day. Thats not fighting hard. Thats fighting dumb.","title":"A Democratic Kick in Their Own Shins","date":"2018-10-15","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"A researcher at the University of Californias Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology has found evidence that taller people are more prone to getting cancer due to their larger number of cells. In his paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Leonard Nunney describes his study, involving comparing height with cancer risk and factoring in the total number of cells in the body.\n\nPrior research has suggested that taller people might be more prone to getting cancera finding that has also been seen in other animals such as dogs. In this new effort, Nunney and assistants at UoC gathered statistics on known cancer risks while factoring in height. They used data from studies that gathered such information in Norway, Korea, Austria and Sweden. He and his team then built models to factor in the total number of cells in a persons body.\n\nNunney reports that he found a 13 percent increase in cancer risk for women for each 10 cm of increased height. For men, the number was 11 percent. He reports further that 23 types of cancers were included in the study and that increased height was a risk factor in 18 of them. One type of cancer that did not show any risk associated with height was cervical cancer, which, Nunney notes, has been associated with HPV infections. Skin cancer, on the other hand, showed the highest risk increase. Nunney suggests this could be due to an increase in growth hormones that can cause an increase in cell division rates, leading to the kinds of larger mutations seen in skin cancers.","title":"Taller People More Likely to Get Certain Cancers Simply Because of Having More Cells Study","date":"2018-10-24","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Comey proved once again he has no self-awareness.\n\nOn Monday, President Trump unleashed on AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions and dragged Comey in the process.\n\nTRUMP: Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......\n\nTRUMP: ....The Democrats, none of whom voted for Jeff Sessions, must love him now. Same thing with Lyin James Comey. The Dems all hated him, wanted him out, thought he was disgusting  UNTIL I FIRED HIM! Immediately he became a wonderful man, a saint like figure in fact. Really sick!\n\nComey has no self awarenessin his tweet, hes actually describing himself, McCabe, Brennan, Strzok, Clapper and other Deep State criminals who were once in charge.\n\nComey: To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable. C. D. Larson","title":"Crooked Comey Responds to President Trumps Attack in Cryptic Tweet","date":"2018-09-03","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Far left George Soros related Think Progress reported over the weekend about former President Obamas event in Anaheim, California \n\nANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA  Former President Obama made his first campaign stop of the midterm elections in Orange County, California Saturday to stump for seven Democratic House candidates running in districts currently held by Republicans but that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.\n\nAbout 750 people attended the event at Anaheim Convention Center, where Obama delivered a short speech centered on unity and the politics of hope. And, after a story about getting kicked out of Disneyland when he was caught smoking in the Magic Kingdom after a concert as a teenager, Obama issued an impassioned critique of Trump and the state of American democracy and encouraged the crowd to back the candidates he came to support.","title":"The Thrill Is Gone Only 750 Turn Out to See Former President Obama in Far-Left California","date":"2018-09-09","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"How Gillum Can Repeat His Staggering Primary Win in November\n\nOn Tuesday night, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum won Floridas Democratic gubernatorial primary in an upset, startling the political establishment and earning immediate comparisons to upstart congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.","title":"How Gillum Can Repeat His Staggering Primary Win in November","date":"2018-08-31","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"Sixty-eight percent of people in a recent survey from the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard and the Harris Poll believe Trump needs to do and say more on violence against women. Forty-eight percent of GOP voters believe Trump needs to do more on this issue.\n\nSixty percent of people surveyed said they would support tougher legislation to combat violence against women in the U.S.\n\nThe CAPS-Harris Poll asked respondents about various hot-button issues, including sexual violence and the Me Too movement, gun control, Americans relationship with Russia, and Trumps social media habits. The poll, published on Feb. 22, surveyed 2,148 registered voters from around the country.\n\nThe president has come in for sharp criticism over how his administration handled the recent allegations of domestic violence against former White House staff secretary Rob Porter. Trump, along with other members of his administration, continued to defend Porter even after he resigned from his position earlier this month following reports that he physically, verbally and emotionally abused both of his ex-wives.\n\nMeanwhile, 13 months into his presidency, Trump still has not nominated a director for the Office on Violence Against Women, an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice.\n\nThe CAPS-Harris poll also found that a majority of voters have a favorable impression of the Me Too movement, with 55 percent approving of the movement and 45 percent not approving. Fifty-seven percent of female respondents said they have a favorable impression of the movement.\n\nThe Me Too movement took the internet and world by storm last fall when actress Alyssa Milano asked her Twitter followers to share stories of sexual harassment and assault using the hashtag #MeToo. The movement was originally created by the youth organizer Tarana Burke in 2007. Over the past six months, dozens of powerful men, including Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Matt Lauer, have been called to account for allegations of sexual harassment and assault.\n\nTrump himself has been accused of sexual misconduct  ranging from sexual harassment to assault and rape  by 21 women. Hes denied all allegations against him, tweeting in December that the accusations are fake news. In October, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested that all of Trumps accusers are lying.\n\nIn a December poll, half of American voters said they believed Trump should resign over the multiple sexual misconduct allegations against him.","title":"Majority Of Voters Want Trump To Do More To Combat Violence Against Women","date":"2018-02-27","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"The Trump administration is working on a second summit between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nTheres still a little bit of work to do left to make sure that the conditions are right and that the two leaders are put in the position where we could make substantial progress, Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News. Im hoping Ill be back in Pyongyang before too long to make some more progress. And if thats the case, Im very hopeful that Chairman Kim and President Trump will get a chance to meet in the near future as well.\n\nLast month, Secretary Pompeo canceled what would have been his fourth trip to Pyongyang, citing insufficient progress by North Korea in dismantling its nuclear weapons program. This week, the State Department revealed Kim had agreed to the denuclearization of North Korea, to be completed by January 2021.","title":"Trump-Kim Jong Un Meeting in Works Pompeo","date":"2018-09-21","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes is now publicly recommending to count ballots that have already been independently verified as illegal votes.\n\nWhy hasnt Brenda Snipes been removed from her position by the feds??\n\nMartin Vassolo of the Miami Herald reported that Brenda Snipes is publicly recommending to the canvassing board to accept a mixed batch of provisional ballots which includes at least 20 illegal votes.\n\nVia Martin Vassolo of the Miami Herald:\n\nBrenda Snipes says she recommends the canvassing board ACCEPT the mixed batch of 205 provisional ballots, including at least 20 illegal votes. Attorney for Bill Nelson says he has invited one voter whose ballot was deemed illegal because signature mismatch. Canvassing board discussing It seems unfair to be to disenfranchise 205 voters at the expense of a small number, Snipes says. And if thats being unfair to anyone, I dont think its a large enormous gg number to effect the difference between who comes out of the recount as victor. Broward canvassing board instructs staff to transmit current results (99.997%) to the State. It is our understanding that the batch of 205 provisionals will be included in those results. Republican attorneys assumed to challenge that.\n\nCarlos Lopez-Cantera, Lieutenant Governor of Florida ripped Brenda Snipes for her latest illegal stunt.\n\nCARLOS LOPEZ-CANTERA: Let this sink in. Brenda Snipes is now publicly recommending to count what have been independently verified as ILLEGAL VOTES! This is madness.\n\nBrenda Snipes must be removed as Broward County elections supervisor and prosecuted.","title":"Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes Publicly Recommending to Count ILLEGAL VOTES","date":"2018-11-11","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Turns out, you can live without food  to some extent. This was the case presented by researchers in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, where they stated that intermittent fasting (they called it SER, short for intermittent severe energy reduction) could be a useful way to reduce energy intake; thereby, controlling an individuals body weight. The team came to this discovery after studying the effects of a 24-hour SER in a persons appetite, metabolism, and energy intake.\n\nThe concept of SER  or intermittent fasting, for that matter  isnt a new or novel idea: People have done it for health, spiritual, or even cosmetic reasons since the beginning of time, and historical figures from Hippocrates to Benjamin Franklin were proponents of it.\n\nHowever, a lot has changed in modern times: For instance, how processed food, added sugars, and trans fats are now ubiquitous  leading to an uptick in obesity cases around the world.\n\nThis rise carries disastrous consequences. Obesity not only raises the likelihood of developing chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), it also represents a significant economic burden. Thus, researchers are now looking for ways to mitigate the ever-increasing rates of obesity.\n\nFor this study, researchers from the School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Science at Loughborough University in the U.K. looked at how weight-loss strategies can be successfully used for the long term. For the most part, traditional calorie-restricting diets have some degree of success. However, sticking to it is a different story: Most people claim persistent hunger as one of their challenges in adhering to weight-loss plans. Studying the effects of a 24-hour SER, according to researchers, can shed light on how the body regulates appetite and energy intake, which can help with long-term weight management regimens.\n\nGet CLEAN FOOD and help support our mission to keep you informed: The Health Ranger Store lab verifies everything we sell with accredited testing for heavy metals, microbiology and food safety. Certified organic facility, ISO-accredited on-site laboratory, no GMOs or synthetic ingredients. The world's #1 source of lab-verified clean foods and superfoods for nutritional healing. 600+ products available. Explore now.\n\nEighteen men and women participated in the study. On the first day, they were randomly assigned to either have a standardized diet, which had 100 percent of the daily energy requirement, or an energy-restricted diet, with only 25 percent of the required intake. The second day had participants eat a standardized breakfast and an ad libitum lunch, with researchers studying their appetite regulation and resting metabolism all throughout. Finally, their ad libitum energy intake was measured on the third day at breakfast and by weighed food records.\n\nBased on the results, the participants displayed increased subjective appetite and energy intake during SER; however, appetite hormones did not respond in a manner indicating extreme hunger. Therefore, an acute period of SER may assist with energy-balance management in lean men and women, the researchers concluded. Future studies should aim to examine the chronic effects of intermittent SER on appetite regulation.\n\nDespite popular belief, intermittent fasting isnt a diet, since there isnt a list of food items that you can or cannot eat. Rather, its an eating pattern where a person cycles between periods of eating and fasting.\n\nThe most common forms of intermittent fasting usually involve a 16- or a 24-hour fast twice a week. Some popular methods include:\n\nWhile everyone may be eager to jump on the bandwagon and try out intermittent fasting, it may not be for everyone. People who are underweight or have previous eating disorders are discouraged from doing so. In particular, if you have a medical condition such as diabetes or those who take medications are advised to consult with their healthcare provider before going on a fast.","title":"Intermittent fasting leads to improved energy levels","date":"2018-05-22","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Professor Karim Brohi,a trauma surgeon at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, is also director of the capitals major trauma network, set up in 2010 in response to the July 7 terror attacks in 2005. It has led to a 20 per cent reduction in the capitals mortality rate from major trauma.Last year the network - which established four key hospitals as major trauma centres - was vital in saving many victims of the Westminster, London Bridge and Finsbury Park terror attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nExpert obstetrician who delivered the first set of quadruplets at St Georges in 13 years, and creator of app that allows pregnant women with hypertension to avoid hospital stays.\n\nThe emergency medicine consultant and the A&E sister at Guys and St Thomas hospitals gave up their Christmas to join a Department for International Development and UK Med expedition to help Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh.\n\nPaediatrician who goes beyond the call of duty in helping gang victims and abandoned children who arrive in hospital with nothing but the clothes they are wearing.\n\nSurgeon who saves the lives of knife and gun crime victims - then visits schools urging teenagers to put down their weapons.\n\nPioneering robotic surgeon investigating new techniques to spare men with prostate cancer the potentially debilitating effects of surgery.\n\nPerforms hugely complex life-saving surgery on the tiniest of babies, and spends his holidays taking NHS teams to Nepal to operate on the worlds poorest with no access to Western medicines.\n\nResearch into the causes of diabetes found that thousands of patients may have been misdiagnosed because of misconceptions about the role of ethnicity.\n\nLeading light in the St Georges 24\/7 thrombectomy team that is saving patients from the potentially devastating impacts of stroke.\n\nPaediatrician charged with championing new ideas and sharing best practice across the London NHS.\n\nSkilled clinician who has found his forte on social media - uses Twitter to entertain and inform his audience about the complex (and often unsung) worlds of anaesthesia and trauma.\n\nCase managed her mother Tessa Jowells battle with brain cancer while campaigning for - and securing - a step change in public awareness and Government funding for an hitherto underfunded disease.\n\nSucceeding in turning round the oil tanker in getting Londons biggest NHS hospital trust back on an even keel after years of financial meltdown and (at times) poor clinical care.\n\nPioneering research will revolutionise the standard of care for prostate cancer, with use of MRI scans allowing many men to avoid painful biopsies.\n\nDevised Londons Air Ambulance\/London Ambulance Service\/Barts Health project that puts physicians on the front line, treating patients at home or work and preventing hundreds of admissions to A&E.\n\nConsultant midwife at Barts Health who trains and mentors midwives in Uganda.\n\nThe former refugee from Iran and Goldman Sachs executive is CEO and founder of the app that provides virtual consultation with doctors and health professionals via video\n\nThe Junior doctor and melanoma patient raised a fortune for cancer research - and whose posthumous diary was both a moving memoir and a unique insight for medics treating cancer patients.","title":"The Progress 1000 Londons most influential people 2018 - Social pillars Health","date":"2018-10-10","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"When Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France in May 2017, he was portrayed as a reformer who was going to change everything in France and beyond.\n\nFourteen months later, illusions are gone. The reforms carried out have been essentially cosmetic and failed to slow Frances sclerotic decline. Economic growth is close to zero: 0.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2018. Unemployment, at around 8.9%, remains high. French public spending as a percent of GDP is, at 56.4%, still the highest in Europe. The country is still frequently paralyzed by public transportation strikes. No-go zones continue to spread, and Macron himself recently admitted his helplessness by asking for a general mobilization of the population. Riots are frequent; large-scale public events lead to looting and arson. The night after the French teams victory at the soccer World Cup, hundreds of thugs mingling with the crowds broke windows, vandalized banks and ATMs, destroyed street signs and torched cars.\n\nAs most economic activity in France stops in July and August, Macron might have thought he could enjoy a summer break. He could not.\n\nOn July 19, the daily Le Monde published a video from May 1 showing a man in a police helmet brutally assaulting two people in the center of Paris. A description accompanying the video explained that the violent man was Alexandre Benalla, in charge of the head of states security.\n\nBenalla was, in fact, Macrons personal bodyguard. He protected Macron at all times, including during private trips to a ski resort or on the beach. Documents were made public showing that Benalla claimed to be deputy chief of staff of the President; however, on any official list of staff members, his name never appeared. Benalla also obtained secret security clearance without apparent justification, and although he did not pass the exam to become a gendarme, he magically received the title of lieutenant-colonel of the Gendarmerie  the same title as Arnaud Beltrame, a hero with more than two decades of exemplary service, crowned by exchanging himself for a woman held hostage by an Islamic terrorist who then slit Beltrames throat.\n\nBenalla enjoyed all sorts of perks, from a chauffeur-driven car to a 2,000-square-foot apartment in a sumptuous state-owned building. He also was not prosecuted for a recent hit-and-run.\n\nMacrons political opponents, left and right, asked for a parliamentary commission of inquiry. The Minister of the Interior said he was aware of the May 1 assault but added that he only learned Benallas name by reading it in the newspapers. The Paris police chief spoke of unhealthy friendships but refused to give any details. The secretary-general of the main police officers union (SGP Police FO) spoke upabout the presence in the presidents entourage of shady security guards acting beyond any legal control and clashing with members of the official protection services.\n\nMacron remained silent for six days. Then, at a private meeting with parliamentarians and ministers from his party, he said that he takes responsibility for the Benalla affair. At the same time, he blasted the media, saying We have a press that is no longer pursuing the truth... What I see is media power that wants to become judicial power.\n\nIt seemed he was hoping to intimidate critics and impose silence. He did not succeed.\n\nThe anger of his opponents only intensified. They called Macrons reaction to the scandal insulting and inappropriate. They insisted that many details looked strange, and that a thorough investigation was indispensable. A rival politician spoke of the scandal as rising to the level of Watergate.\n\nBut the Justice Department in France is not independent of the government; no judge will seek to know more. No thorough and deep investigation will take place. The French media are largely subsidized by the government and no more independent of it than the Justice Department is. Even the media that are not funded by the state self-censor what they report, because they are supported by businesses that depend on government contracts. No French journalist will try to discover a thing.\n\nAs the French Constitution does not provide for impeachment, French Presidents enjoy almost complete immunity.\n\nMacron knows that his predecessors were able to stay in power despite their many scandals. Charles de Gaulle created a highly questionable militia that existed for thirty years: the SAC (Civic Action Service). Francois Mitterrand dissolved the SAC after several of its members were involved in a bloody killing near Marseilles. Mitterand then created a counter-intelligence unit  based at the Elysee [Presidential] Palace  in charge of intimidating those who might reveal the existence of his hidden second family. In 2005, nine years after Mitterrands death, members of the unit were tried in court for illegal wiretapping during Mitterrand presidency. Only in 2011, four years after his second term was completed, was Jacques Chirac given a lenient two-year suspended prison sentence for having diverted public funds and abused public trust during his presidency.\n\nThe columnist Ivan Rifoul, in a recent book, described Macrons victory as a masquerade organized by socialists in decline, EU apparatchiks, supporters of the Islamization of Europe, and crony capitalists.\n\nMacron will remain president. He will nevertheless be a diminished president. Macron pretended to embody an exemplary Republic; he will not be able to do that anymore.\n\nWhile Macron had previously been able to marginalize his political opponents, those days seem to be over. His opponents have already been criticizing the absence of results of his economic policy  slight income tax cuts but many new regulations, and small changes in a very rigid labor code  as well as his weak response to the rise of burglaries, car- jackings, rapes and social unrest.\n\nNow all Macrons decisions will be treated with suspicion and scrutinized without mercy. He has already postponed a reform of the constitution that was supposed to strengthen presidential power (namely, his own). Other projects he began  such as mass civil-servant layoffs and early-retirement buyouts and unemployment insurance reform  will likely be abandoned. His approval rates are falling.\n\nThe deterioration of France rolls on.\n\nA violent fight recently broke out between the residents of Calais and illegal migrants living in a vast slum encampment  home to approximately 6,000 migrants  that reporters call the Calais Jungle. The government has promised many times to take care of the situation, but has not solved the problem. Meanwhile, Calais, with 75,000 inhabitants, is a ravaged city: home prices have collapsed, shops and restaurants have closed their doors, and people are moving away.\n\nIn May, some members of parliament published a report on the situation in the Paris suburb of Seine Saint Denis. According to the report, 20% of the areas population consists of people similar to those living in the Calais Jungle; hundreds of businesses are on the verge of bankruptcy and the police are too frightened to do effective work.\n\nThe same situation exists in other parts of the country. Riots recently erupted between Muslim gangs in Nice, on the French Riviera, as well as near Porte de La Chapelle, inside Paris.\n\nThe demographic changes in Frances population that began several decades ago are not easing. A few months ago, the economist Charles Gave used statistical data to demonstrate that if nothing changes, the non-Muslim population of France could be a minority in 40 years. He added: What happened to Spain or Asia Minor in the 10th and 11th centuries will happen to Europe in the 21st century, that is a certainty.\n\nPolls show that if a presidential election were held now, no other French politiciancould replace Macron, even though Macron won only 23.8% of votes in the first round of the 2017 election. The majority of those who voted for him in the second round seemed to be voting more against his opponent than for Macron. He neverhad popular support.\n\nAs for the rest of the continent, Macron is one of the main defenders of a multicultural, post-national, post-democratic and post-Christian Europe. A growing number of Europeans see that trend as leading to the destruction of their own civilization and have been voting for leaders who resist it.\n\nPoliticians who support the same vision of Europe as Macron have, in recent months, been eliminated from the political scene or reduced to faltering positions. Italys Matteo Renzi was badly defeated in the 2018 elections. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, once described as the most powerful leader in Europe, now survives in office only because she agreed to measures aimed at limiting further immigration to Germany.\n\nMacron may not fall as abruptly as Renzi, but his position at the moment looks as precarious as Merkels.\n\nLeaders embodying resistance to post-national multiculturalism, on the other hand, have been gaining ground. Hungarian President Viktor Orban wonreelection in April and is currently serving his third consecutive term. He had campaigned for defending Europes Judeo-Christian roots, for national sovereignty, and against Muslim immigration. Austrias new Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, has a program similar to Orbans. The Polish and Czech governments also hold positions similar to those of Kurz and Orban. Matteo Salvini, leader of The League (an anti-mass-migration party), is now Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister of Italy.\n\nMacron recently revealed what he thinks of populists such as Orban, Kurz and Salvini: a leprosy all across Europe, and called on Europeans to fight them.","title":"Failed Policies Scandals Migrant Violence Sink Macron","date":"2018-08-16","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"To compensate for his current lack of career, Kaepernick has been more and more involved in radical alt-left groups, the most recent of which is a group known as Assatas Daughters, named after Black Liberation Army member and cop-killer Assata Shakur.\n\nThis Sunday, Kaepernick announced that he raised $20k in cash for the radical group through pledges with always-stoned comedian Hannibal Buress and actress Yara Shahidi, who would both be donating $10k to the group.\n\nThe former San Francisco 49ers quarterback announced that comedian Hannibal Buress and actress Yara Shahidi would both donate $10,000 to Assatas Daughters, which says it carries on the tradition of radical liberatory activism encompassed by Assata Shakur.\n\nThe pledges were linked to a previous donation made by Mr. Kaepernick, who announced in April he would give $25,000 to the Chicago-based group as part of his campaign to give $1 million to organizations working in oppressed communities.\n\nMs. Shahidi, star of the ABC-TV comedy Black-ish and the spin-off Grown-ish, thanked Mr. Kaepernick for giving her the idea.\n\nI decided to donate to Assatas Daughters, which is an amazing organization based out of Chicago, said Ms. Shahidi in a video posted on Mr. Kaepernicks Twitter feed. And I just have to say thank you to Colin for such an amazing idea, but also in engaging all of us and helping to contribute to our world. [...]\n\nA direct action advocacy group, Assatas Daughters drew its name from Assata Shakur, formerly Joanne Chesimard, a Black Liberation Army member convicted in the 1977 shooting death of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster.\n\nAfter escaping from prison in 1979, she fled to Cuba and was granted asylum. The FBI has placed her on its most wanted terrorists list.\n\nTrooper Foerster was killed in a shootout with three BLA activists on the New Jersey Turnpike that resulted in the death of BLA activist Zayd Shakur and bullet wounds to Assata Shakur and state trooper James Harper.\n\nA third activist, Sundiata Acoli, was found guilty of firing the shots that killed the officer, while Assata Shakur was convicted as an accomplice. Both were found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.\n\nShakur, who has argued that the jury was racist and that her trial was unfair, has since become a popular figure on the left and at universities, where her autobiography has been assigned on course reading lists.\n\nThe Officer Down Memorial Page described the Black Liberation Army as a violent, radical group that attempted to fight for independence from the United States government in the late 1960s and early 1970s.\n\nThe BLA was responsible for the murders of more than 10 police officers around the country, said the ODMP website. They were also responsible for violent attacks around the country that left many police officers wounded.","title":"Former QB Colin Kaepernick Raises 20K For Group Named After Convicted Cop Killer","date":"2018-02-05","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"President Barack Obama saved the world from certain economic disaster when he took office. The mega banks gambled and lost big. If Obama had not taken office, we would have gone through a crushing Great Depression with 25 percent unemployment. He left the healthiest U.S. economy in decades, but then Donald Trump came to office.\n\nThe current POTUS recently claimed that the U.S. had the lowest unemployment rates in years, which is true. He has ridden the Obama wave of good fortune.\n\nGenerally speaking, that means employers should start to raise salaries to entice employees to come work for them. Unfortunately, that is not happening. Plus, there is one big downside to that low unemployment.\n\nThe rate of inflation has just shot up faster than it has in the past six years, according to the Department of Labors most recent report. High inflation can be caused by supply and demand.\n\nThe fewer goods available, the more suppliers can charge for their product. That should hold true for the supply and demand of human beings. The fewer the people, higher their wages should be, but there has been no evidence of that. under Donald Trump.\n\nIn fact, over the past year average wages did not increase at all. Real average hourly earnings fell 0.1 percent. Of course, there are exceptions. Ivanka Trump and her husband Justin Kushner earned $82 million last year.\n\nWhat is inflation, anyway?\n\nIf a person needed $1.000 to buy something when Franklin Roosevelt became president in 1933, it cost $7,129 when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, according to the Department of Labor.\n\nIt cost  $11,444 when Bill Clinton took office in 1993, $14,100 when George W. Bush took office in 2001, and $16,972 when Barack Obama took office in 2009.\n\nThat same item cost $19,272 when Donald Trump took office in 2017, and $19,967 today.\n\nThe way to reduce inflation is to slow down the economy by spending less. In other words, reduce the supply of money people have to spend.\n\nAnother way to slow down inflation is to increase interest rates on home loans, cars, and credit cards.  That is not a pleasant alternative. At this time, the Federal Reserve is not planning to raise the interest rate.\n\nRepublicans have implemented the trickle down economics in their so-called tax cut bill. Unfortunately, the highest earners g0t the money, and it did not trickle down.\n\nThe consumer price index rose from 0.2 percent between April 2017 and today. It only rose 2.8 percent all of last year. That is the highest inflation rate since February 2102.\n\nGas prices spiked 1.7 percent in May. In April, those prices went up a full 3 percent.","title":"Trump Economy Fails Report Shows Inflation Has Skyrocketed Hourly Wages Stagnated","date":"2018-06-13","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"The intellectual odyssey that laid the foundations for Western civilization began in classical Greece.\n\nUnfortunately, Greek thinkers failed in their attempt to grasp the essential principles of the spontaneous market order and of the dynamic process of social cooperation which surrounded them. While we must acknowledge the important Greek contributions in the areas of epistemology, logic, ethics, and even the conception of natural law, the Greeks failed miserably to see the need for the development of a discipline, economic science, devoted to the study of the spontaneous processes of social cooperation that comprise the market.\n\nWhat is even worse is that when the first intellectuals emerged, so did the symbiosis and complicity between thinkers and rulers. From the beginning, the great majority of intellectuals embraced statism and systematically undervalued and even criticized and denigrated the society of trade, commerce, and crafts that flourished around them.\n\nIt may be too much to ask that, from the very dawn of philosophical and scientific knowledge, the Greeks would comprehend even the basics of political economy, a discipline that is still among the youngest of all the sciences and seeks to study a reality as abstract and difficult to understand as the spontaneous market order. However, it is worth noting that the Greek philosophers, like todays intellectuals, could not avoid the scientistic conceit of believing themselves qualified to impose their own points of view on their fellow citizens via systematic government coercion. History repeats itself over and over, and even today we have progressed very little in this sense.\n\nThe Political-Historical Context\n\n A parallelism exists not only concerning thinkers statist sympathies, but also the rivalry between two radically opposed notions of government and individual freedom. In fact, throughout much of the 20th century, the world and society in general were divided: on one hand, there was the classical-liberal view, based on limited government, respect for civil society, and individual freedom and responsibility (represented, at least in relative terms, by American society); and on the other hand, there was the prevailing socialism, based on reliance on the state to impose the most varied utopias on civil society by force (represented during much of the 20th century by the former Soviet Union). In classical Greece we can also identify two such complete opposites.\n\nThere was the relatively more liberal and democratic city of Athens, which was able to accommodate a thriving sphere of business and craft endeavors within a spontaneous order of social cooperation based on respect for and equality before the law. In contrast, there was the city of Sparta, which was profoundly militarist, and in which individual freedom was practically nonexistent, due to the belief that all resources must be subordinate to the state.\n\nIt is remarkable that the most eminent and distinguished Athenian thinkers and philosophers invariably lambasted and undervalued the commercial order that surrounded and supported them while they took every opportunity to extol the statist totalitarianism Sparta represented. It is as if the intellectuals of that era, like those of today, could not bear the fact that, though considered wise, they were unable to reap in economic terms the fruits of what they saw as their own worth. Likewise, they were unable to resist the temptation to impose their own views of what was good and evil on their fellow citizens, and they continuously aspired to do so via the coercive power of the state.\n\nThe recognition of this truth must not lead us to the mistaken belief that the relatively freer poleis were not also often victims of statism. For example, many politicians did not hesitate to justify imperialist Athenian policies, and even, as Pericles did in the 5th century BC, to misappropriate public funds in order to undertake mammoth works.1 Many politicians were also guilty of trying to convince citizens that what was important was to subject oneself to the will of the state, to ask at all times not what Athens could do for you, but what you could do for Athens.\n\nThe principal characteristic shared by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle  the three greatest philosophers of ancient Greece  was their inability to grasp the nature of the flourishing mercantile and commercial process.\n\n Moreover, the relatively freer poleis were still subject to a political cycle which, as odd and paradoxical as it may seem, continues to affect our present-day societies. Indeed, periods of greater civil liberty based on compliance with substantive laws were invariably followed by crises: cities fell victim to demagogy and the unrest stirred up by small groups with the intention of exploiting certain social groups in favor of other, supposedly larger and less privileged ones. Considerable social, economic, and political tension resulted and eventually led to severe civil disorder and conflict which, in turn, was used to justify increasing the power of the state, embodied in each set of historical circumstances by unscrupulous populist leaders who inevitably insisted upon being referred to as saviors of the homeland.\n\nSome Embryonic Attempts at Economic Analysis\n\n It is very difficult to know the precise thoughts of the first Greek philosophers, because the remaining documents are very few and fragmented. Nevertheless, there is evidence of some encouraging beginnings, which, had they been continued, might have cleared the way for an incipient formulation of the theory of the spontaneous market order.\n\nFor example, as early as the 8th century BC, Hesiod indicates in his poems that scarcity is always present in human actions and is the reason we must allocate available resources efficiently. Furthermore, he mentions the sort of competition that emulation sparks, and which he calls good conflict, and he regards it as a vital entrepreneurial force that often permits the surmounting of the big problems the shortage of resources poses. Moreover, Hesiod felt competition was only possible where there was respect for justice and the law, which foster order and harmony in society. In this sense, Hesiod  and Democritus to a certain extent  was much closer to the correct notion of the spontaneous market order than Socrates, Plato, and even Aristotle himself would later be.\n\nAfter Hesiod, we should give some thought to the Sophist philosophers. Despite the bad press they have received up to the present day, they were certainly much more libertarian, at least in relative terms, than the great philosophers who came later. In fact, the Sophists sympathized with trade, the profit motive, and the entrepreneurial spirit, and they distrusted the centralized, absolute power of the governments of the city-states. Even though we must admit they occasionally lapsed into a relativism similar to the one todays postmodernists subscribe to, they far exceeded the later Socratic thinkers regarding the defense of individual freedom against the government. Finally, we must note the manner in which the scientistic conceit typically shown up to today in support of statism by most intellectuals has led to the systematic discrediting of the Sophists. Always considered politically incorrect, they are branded as illogical, dishonest thinkers.\n\nSubsequently, other more modern thinkers, like Protagoras in Pericless time, theorized about the need for social cooperation and insisted that man is the measure of all things. Taken to its logical conclusion, philosophically speaking, this notion might have given rise to the natural emergence of subjectivism and methodological individualism, which are essential starting points in any economic analysis of social processes. Also, the master historian Thucydides appears to have a more accurate conception of the spontaneous, evolutionary nature of the social order than do many of his contemporaries, and in his outline of the funeral oration given by Pericles, he emphasized better than anyone the relatively more classical-liberal2 quality of Athenian society.\n\nFinally, we should mention Demosthenes, the Greek worlds great champion of freedom against the despotism of the tyrant, Philip. It is no coincidence that Demosthenes understood the customary, evolutionary essence of law, and that hence he was able to overcome the reductionist dichotomy the Greeks had established between the physical (natural) world and the supposedly artificial world of laws and conventions. Indeed, in general the Greeks failed to comprehend that the natural cosmos must include the spontaneous market order and the social relationships which are the object of study in economics, for the Greeks believed that anything related to society was always artificially and deliberately caused by its organizers (whom they hoped would be dictator-philosophers like those imagined by Plato).\n\nThe subjectivist viewpoint, around which all modern economic science revolves, can be found, for example, in the definition of wealth that Xenophon offers in his Oeconomicus, when he defines property as those things which the possessor should find advantageous for the purposes of his life. Moreover, Xenophon could be considered the first scholar to introduce the concept of dynamic efficiency, namely the increasing of ones estate by using it to do business (together with the concept of static efficiency, which is based on avoiding waste and which Xenophon believes can be achieved by keeping the family estate in perfect order).\n\nAt any rate, despite these promising beginnings, and despite great contributions in other areas of philosophical and scientific thought (and maybe precisely because of these contributions), Greek philosophers in general lapsed into the fatal conceit of the scientistic intellectual. Thus they were blinded completely when it came to recognizing the market and the evolutionary social order, and they fell into the arms of statism; it became politically correct to scorn the commercial and mercantile activity of their contemporaries and to mercilessly criticize relatively more classical-liberal thinkers (be they Sophists or not).\n\nThe Particularly Alarming Examples of Socrates, Plato, and Even Aristotle\n\n From the standpoint of our topic, the principal characteristic shared by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle  the three greatest philosophers of ancient Greece  was their inability to grasp the nature of the flourishing mercantile and commercial process taking place between the different Greek cities or poleis (both in Greece itself and in Asia Minor and the rest of the Mediterranean). When they spoke of the economy, these philosophers relied on their instincts rather than on observation and reason. They scorned the work of craftsmen and merchants and underestimated the importance of their disciplined, daily efforts.\n\nHence, it was through these philosophers that the traditional opposition of intellectuals to anything involving trade, industry, or entrepreneurial profit began. This anticapitalistic mentality would become a constant theme among enlightened thinkers all through the intellectual history of mankind from that point until our time.\n\nThe philosopher Socrates serves as a paradigmatic illustration of this intellectual opposition to anything involving entrepreneurial profit, industry, or the market. We must note the arrogant tone and false modesty shown by Socrates in his defense speech before the jury which tried him, a speech Plato records. There is no doubt that Socrates exerted a negative influence on the youth of the city of Athens, whom he attracted by ridiculing the lifes work of their parents, who selflessly devoted themselves to their honest, daily efforts in the fields of trade, craftsmanship, and the market.\n\nSocrates felt that lifes ideal goal lay in the search for virtue, understood as disdain for material wealth, and specifically, entrepreneurial profit. Socrates seized every opportunity to boast of his poverty and to idealize the supposed virtues of the totalitarian state of Sparta, which at that time represented ideals opposed to those of Athens. In fact, in his defense speech, he outrages the jury by proclaiming that his services to the state of Athens were so many that instead of being tried, he should receive a life pension paid for by everyone (in the form of food financed by the city for the duration of his life!).\n\n What is even worse is that Socratess statolatry was so obsessive that it led him to confuse the positive law derived from the city-state with natural law. He believed people should obey all the positive laws derived from the state, even if they are contra naturam, and thus he laid the philosophical foundations for the legal positivism on which every tyranny to emerge after him in history would rest.\n\nIn short, from the standpoint of the scientific theory of market processes, the influence of Socrates is definitely disastrous. He started and promoted the anticapitalist intellectual tradition. He showed a total lack of understanding about the spontaneous market order, itself precisely the source of the Athenian prosperity that permitted Socrates and the rest of the philosophers of his school the luxury of not working and of devoting themselves to thinking instead. And in payment for this environment of relative freedom and prosperity, Athens receives from Socrates only contempt and misunderstanding.\n\nFinally, we should mention this philosophers more-than-egotistic self-immolation. He himself recognized that at his age and with his ailments, there is little he could have done in the few years he would have had left had he accepted the exile his judges and executioners offered him on a platter. Thus, he decided to go down in history by making himself the victim of a supposedly oppressive system, when his death was actually a timely and self-seeking suicide conceived by an arrogant, privileged mind. Indeed, he also sought to use this death to give legitimacy to the worship of oppressive statism while discrediting classical-liberal individualism.\n\nWith a teacher like Socrates, it is unsurprising that Plato compounded his teachers errors. Plato provides the highly dangerous philosophical justification for the most inhuman statism, which has been directly or indirectly imbibed by every tyrant to oppress humanity up to the present day. Plato was the purest embodiment of the gravest intellectual sin a scientist can commit: to have the fatal conceit of believing himself wiser than his fellow human beings and thus authorized to impose his own views upon them by force.\n\nTypical of Plato are attacks on private property; praise for common ownership; contempt for the institution of the traditional family; a corrupt concept of justice; a statist and nominalist theory of money; and, in short, the extolling of the ideals of the totalitarian state of Sparta. These are all typical characteristics of the intellectual who believes himself wiser than and superior to everyone else and who, nevertheless, is ignorant of even the most essential principles of the spontaneous market order, which makes civilization possible.\n\nFurthermore, Plato champions the interest of the state against that of individuals, and he even goes to the extreme of attempting to put his utopian ideals of state tyranny into practice. Inevitably, he and his disciples failed in all of their attempts in Syracuse and in the rest of Greece.\n\nFinally, even in the field of epistemology, Platos contributions were lethal in the long term. His supposed essentialism brought in, through the back door, the crudest positivist historicism: in the social sphere, he tried to derive the conceptual essences from the study of history, thus laying the foundations for the historical-positivist philosophy that has done so much harm by encumbering the development of social science even up to now.\n\nIn short, with Plato, the intellectual ideal of the arrogant scientist who aims to become a social engineer to mold society at his whim gained currency. This approach was even further reinforced with the school of the mathematician Pythagoras, who believed virtue was found in the equality and equilibrium he continually observed in his mathematical formulas and principles, which he felt should be extrapolated to society.\n\nThough Aristotle did not go to the socialist extremes Plato did, he also failed  and dismally  to comprehend in scientific terms the spontaneous market order. A philosopher in the service of the worst dictator of his time (Philip of Macedonia, who put an end to the subtle network of independent city-states that comprised the ancient Greek world), Aristotle was the private teacher of the tyrannical, reckless despot, Alexander the Great. It comes as no surprise that Aristotle failed to escape the sin of intellectual conceit, which Socrates, and especially Plato, had committed: Aristotle also felt nostalgia for the statism of Sparta and for everything the totalitarianism of that city-state represented.\n\nIt is true that he did not go to Platos extremes, that he defended private property, and even that he intuited the subjective theory of value in his distinction between the use value and the exchange value or price of things. However, he condemned usury and never understood the critical importance of interest as a market price that coordinates the behavior of consumers, savers, and investors. His theory of justice is extremely confusing, since it distinguishes between two forms, distributive and commutative justice, which have little or nothing to do with adapting human behavior to general legal and moral principles and which, as they rest on supposed equivalences, have confused human thought on such an important topic practically to the present day.\n\nMoreover, an almost perfect illustration of his failure to grasp the evolutionary, spontaneous market order lies in his conviction that a polis of over 100,000 inhabitants could never survive, because its government would be unable to organize it. Aristotle understood the polis solely as a self-sufficient body organized from above (autarkia), and not as a historic manifestation of the spontaneous process of social cooperation led by flesh-and-blood human beings endowed with an innate entrepreneurial capacity. Finally, Aristotle followed the Socratic tradition of undervaluing work and entrepreneurial profit, which, in an anonymous and decentralized manner, supported the advanced stage of civilization that is precisely what allowed him and the rest of the philosophers to survive.\n\nAristotle also failed to explain the reasons for exchanges. He mistakenly concluded that when they occur, there must be proportional reciprocity (an erroneous idea Marx would ultimately use to form the basis of the false theory of labor value and its corollary, the Marxist theory of exploitation). Aristotle distrusted wealth (ploutos); he expressly criticized entrepreneurial profit3 and undervalued and utterly dismissed traders.4 He also condemned interest (tokos), which he considered an unjustified generation of money from money.\n\nFurthermore, his incapacity to comprehend the spontaneous emergence of institutions led him to state that money was a deliberate human invention (and not, as it in fact is, the result of an evolutionary process), and he also failed to see why the demand for money is never unlimited. Particularly when we take into account Aristotles intellectual brilliance, all of these errors he made contrast sharply with his great contributions to the other sciences, and especially to the field of epistemology.\n\nIt is true that Aristotle shared the errors of Socrates and Plato, since he did not understand customary law, nor the market, nor the rest of the social institutions as spontaneous orders, nor was he able to distinguish between civil society and the state (a distinction the Roman Stoics would grasp perfectly two centuries later). Still, in the field of epistemology, his contributions were momentous. His distinction between potentiality and actuality would even be applied centuries later to explain the evolution of human nature. His conception of formal essences and their specific material realization would serve as a basis for the epistemological distinction between theory and history and would permit their appropriate incorporation.\n\nCloser to the field of economics, we must recognize the Aristotelian approach to the subjective concept of value, and specifically the distinction between the concept of use value (subjective) and that of exchange value (the market price in monetary units). This, to an extent, provides the foundation for the connection between the subjective, inside world of valuations and the objective, outside world of numerical calculations, which makes economic calculation possible. Finally, in contrast with the socialist statism of Socrates, and particularly of Plato, Aristotle built a rational defense of private property, a defense which, though lukewarm and incomplete, for many centuries would constitute the best-known philosophical basis for private property.\n\nA Brief Note on Taoism.\n\n Lastly, it is very interesting to note that, during the same era when classical Greek thought was being forged (from the 6th to the 4th century BC), ancient China saw the beginnings of three great currents of thought: that of the so-called Legalists (who supported the centralized state), that of the Confucianists (who tolerated it), and that of the Taoists, of a much more liberal bent and extremely interesting for historians of economic thought. Chuang Tzu (369286 BC) goes as far as to say that good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. In his criticism of the interventionism of rulers, he describes them as robbers. Also, according to Rothbard, Chuang Tzu was the first anarchist thinker in history. In fact, Chuang Tzu wrote that the world does simply not need governing; in fact it should not be governed at all.\n\nChuang Tzu adhered to the individualistic, liberal views of Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism, and took them to their most logical conclusions. In Confuciuss day (from the 6th to the 5th century BC), Lao Tzu concluded that government oppressed the individual and was always more to be feared than fierce tigers. Therefore, he believed the best policy for governments was inaction, because only then could the individual flourish and achieve happiness.\n\nTwo centuries later, the historian Ssu-ma Chien (14590 BC) theorized on the entrepreneurship typical of the market, which he felt consisted of keeping a sharp eye out for the opportunities of the times. As well as being an advocate of laissez-faire, he correctly identified the effects of government debasement of the coinage, which causes a decrease in its purchasing power (that is, a rise in prices).\n\nTaoism continued its development for centuries, and in the current era, we find Pao Ching-yen (early 4th century AD), for whom the history of the state is a history of violence and oppression of the weak. The state institutionalizes coercion and worsens and intensifies isolated instances of violence, expanding them on a scale unimaginable in the absence of the state. Pao Ching-yen concludes that the common notion that a strong government is necessary to fight disorder reflects the fallacy of mistaking the cause for the effect. It is the state that generates violence and corrupts the individual behavior of the human beings subjected to it; and all the while it stimulates theft and banditry among them.\n\nIn stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government.","title":"Economic Thought in Ancient Greece","date":"2018-10-05","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"I Still Want to Work With GOP to Fix Healthcare\n\nWe already know there's bipartisan common ground on health care. Democrats are at the table. We want to work with Republicans interested in solutions.","title":"I Still Want to Work With GOP to Fix Healthcare","date":"2018-05-15","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"So far, the Presidents warning seems to be working because the organizer of the caravan, Bartolo Fuentes was detained in Guatemala Tuesday.\n\nGuatemalan police officers detained Bartolo Fuentes, a former Honduran lawmaker, from the middle of the large crowd that he and three other organizers had led from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, since Saturday, Reuters reported.\n\nFuentes is reportedly being deported back to Honduras according to the Honduran security minister.\n\nThe migrant caravan has splintered into smaller groups in order to be able to pass through Guatemala undetected, however; according to authorities some of the migrants turned around and headed back to Honduras.\n\nHonduran migrants are still marching northbound, however; it is unclear how many people continue to trek to the U.S.\n\nThe Associate Press reported Wednesday that the Hondurans were spotted in Chiquimula, Guatemala marching through rain, determined to make it the Mexican border.\n\nOn Monday, the migrant caravan, dubbed March of the Migrant, DOUBLED IN SIZE as it crossed through the Guatemalan border on its way to Mexico where they will head northbound to the United States.\n\nAccording to Reuters, up to 3,000 migrants crossed from the Honduras into Guatemala after a standoff with police in riot gear Monday.\n\nPresident Trump didnt even wait until the caravan of Hondurans reached Mexico before issuing a very stern warning to the Honduran president on Tuesday threatening to cut U.S. aid immediately!\n\nThe Presidents fury continued into late Tuesday evening as he fired off another pair of tweets putting Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador on notice.\n\nAnyone entering illegally will be arrested and detained prior to being sent back to their country, President Trump said.","title":"Organizer of Migrant Caravan Detained After President Trump Threatens to Cut US Aid to Honduras G","date":"2018-10-17","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Donald Trump seems to think that decision-making for the entire nation lies solely with him, and that he doesnt need to wait for approval from Congress to spend billions in tax payer money to fund a military force for outer space. Trumps tiny ego is so fragile that having the most powerful country in the world at his fingertips wasnt enough. He now wants to rule the galaxy as well.\n\nAccording to Defense One:\n\nA report that came out just under a week ago from Defense One says just the opposite, however. In that report, it clearly says Trumps Space Force will have to wait:\n\nIf the president wants to create a brand-new military branch, an armed force dedicated entirely to the cosmos, he first needs Congress. The countrys youngest military branch, the Air Force, was established in 1947 through an act of Congress. A space force, or any other future military branches, will need to be authorized in the same way. And it looks like it wont happen as quickly as the president hopes.\n\nIt continues by stating that:\n\nLawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate reached a deal on Monday on a defense policy bill for the fiscal year 2019, and the legislation makes no mention of a space force. The dealwhich will face votes in the House and Senate this summer before reaching Trumps deskdirects the secretary of defenses office to develop a space warfighting policy, but it doesnt recommend officials explore the possibility of the military branch that Trump spoke of so enthusiastically last month.\n\nThe Pentagon released the following statement Monday in hopes that no one would pick up on the fact that the president is completely bypassing the act of Congress that has created every military branch in existence:\n\nThe Department of Defense is establishing a Space Force to protect our economy through deterrence of malicious activities, ensure our space systems meet national security requirements and provide vital capabilities to joint and coalition forces across the spectrum of conflict. DoD will usher in a new age of space technology and field new systems in order to deter, and if necessary degrade, deny, disrupt, destroy and manipulate adversary capabilities to protect U.S. interests, assets and way of life...This new age will unlock growth in the U.S.industrial base, expand the commercial space economy and strengthen partnerships with our allies.\n\nThe Pentagon report gives Trump by the end of 2018 to create this new branch successfully, stating that, the Department will recommend that the President revise the Unified Campaign Plan to create the new U.S. Space Command by the end of 2018 and evaluate the need for any additional personnel, responsibilities and authorities.\n\nEither way, the president has taken over the nation, and is now attempting to do the same to outer space.","title":"Trump Illegally Bypasses Congress With Election-Altering Move To Dominate Outer Space","date":"2018-07-31","source":"bipartisanreport","label":0}
{"content":"A man was shot in Denvers Westwood neighborhood on Friday night and a second shooting happened a short time later in the Valverde area.\n\nThe first shooting happened in the 3400 block of West Kentucky Avenue, according to police.\n\nThe victim was taken to a local hospital. Police did not release information on a suspect or a motive.\n\nThe second shooting happened in the 2900 block of West Cedar Avenue, police said. The two scenes are about 1.5 miles apart.\n\nThe first shooting was reported by police at 9:25 p.m., the second shooting at 10:08 p.m.","title":"Two shootings in west Denver Friday night happen about a mile and an hour apart","date":"2018-10-27","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Mr. Renaccis Senate campaign released a lengthy statement by attorney Laura Mills telling the story of a very credible and professional unnamed woman who has accused Mr. Brown of making an unexpected, uninvited, unwanted, and sudden advance, roughly pushing her up against a wall in the late 1980s.\n\nIt did stop after she expressed dismay and very firmly pulled away, explaining that was not her style nor why she was there, Ms. Mills statement read. He then said he remembered what she had on the day they had met some time earlier and that he had been attracted to her. Although she was able to defuse the situation, it did shake her up and she told friends about it as soon as she got home. They wanted her to report it but, she chose not to do so because it did stop.\n\nThe statement made no mention of when or where the incident allegedly occurred or the events leading up to that point. How the two came to know each other was only explained in that she met him through the course of her work. It said she didnt report the incident because it stopped in that moment.","title":"Ohio Dem Senator Sherrod Brown Accused of Making Unwanted Sexual Advance Against Woman","date":"2018-10-19","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"Amazons disappointing third-quarter results are sending the stock down and dragging the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite lower.\n\nThe Nasdaq dropped as much as 3 percent Friday, on pace for its fourth straight week of losses. The index pared most of its losses in midday trading and is now roughly 2 percent lower on week and trading in correction levels, more than 10 percent off its 52-week high.\n\nThe Nasdaq is on pace for its worst month since October 2008 during the financial crisis, having lost roughly 10 percent this month.","title":"Amazon Single-Handedly Pulls Nasdaq Down","date":"2018-10-26","source":"newswars","label":0}
{"content":"A megamerger between two of the worlds biggest agricultural corporations looms on the horizon. The seed and pesticide giant Monsanto is inching closer to uniting with the German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayera consolidation that could spell disaster for farmers, pollinators, and affordable, healthy food.\n\nHeres why the Monsanto-Bayer merger is a toxic relationship:\n\nWhen the same people who sell seeds for pesticide-resistant crops also make the pesticides, theres a huge incentive for that company to encourage chemical-heavy growing practices, cashing in twice on farmers who become ever more dependent on its products. And when pests and weeds inevitably develop a resistance to those chemicals? More seeds. More pesticides.\n\nIf the merger gets the green light, the result is a megacorporation, not a recipe for competition and innovation. In the past, such monopolies have cost small farmers big-time. Take corn, for example. As the likes of Monsanto and other big ag companies gobbled up smaller seed sellers in recent decades, the cost of corn seed nearly quadrupled while corn prices are roughly the same as they were in 1996.\n\nAs you likely know, pollinators are in trouble. Bees are dying off in record numbers (without them, our crops would take a serious hit) and monarch butterfly numbers have dropped nearly 90 percent in just the past two decades. While climate change and habitat loss are contributing to these declines, we can also point a finger at neonics and glyphosatetwo types of pesticides commonly found in Bayer and Monsanto products. Americans are spraying more and more of these toxins on crops and lawnswe used 3.5 million pounds of neonics in 2011 alone (double the amount used just five years earlier)and pollinators are paying the price.\n\n\n\nAs farmers pay more for seeds and Monsanto-Bayer rakes in more cash, American families could be forking over more money at the grocery store. One in eight families in the U.S. already struggle to put dinner on the table, and climate change threatens to disrupt food production worldwide. Further, the World Health Organization classifies glyphosate, the widely used herbicide found in Monsantos Roundup, as a probable carcinogen, and increasing its use would only put more fieldworkers, consumers, and those living near farms at risk.\n\nIn these challenging times, we need a more diverse marketplaceone that values public health, the environment, and the rights of farmersto spur innovation and encourage resilient food supplies. What we dont need is a megacorporation with the power (and the financial incentive) to lock in a food system that douses our food and soils with toxic chemicals.\n\nWhat Would a Monsanto-Bayer Merger Really Grow? was last modified: by","title":"What Would a Monsanto-Bayer Merger Really Grow","date":"2018-08-09","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"The report, sent by the White House to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the middle of the night, was denounced by Democrats as a whitewash that was too narrow in scope and ignored critical witnesses.\n\nThousands of anti-Kavanaugh protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court and entered a Senate office building, holding signs such as Believe Survivors and Kava-Nope. Hundreds of demonstrators were arrested, including actress Amy Schumer.\n\nBut Republicans moved forward with plans for a key procedural vote on Friday and a final vote on Saturday on confirming the conservative federal appeals judge for a lifetime job on the top U.S. court.\n\nThe timing of the vote could be complicated by Republican Senator Steve Daines, whose office said on Thursday he planned to attend his daughters wedding in Montana on Saturday, making him unavailable to cast his vote.\n\nRepublicans control the Senate by a 51-49 margin. With Daines out of the picture, the party would need every other Republican to vote for Kavanaugh for him to be confirmed in a Saturday vote in the event all Democrats oppose him.\n\nNo Republicans have said they will vote against Kavanaugh, although four have not committed to supporting him.\n\nComments by two of them - Jeff Flake and Susan Collins - indicated the FBI report, which was the latest twist in the pitched political battle over Kavanaugh, may have allayed their concerns about him. Flake, a frequent Trump critic, was instrumental in getting the president to order the FBI investigation last Friday.\n\nTrump, himself accused by numerous women during the 2016 presidential race of sexual misconduct, wrote on Twitter that the FBI report showed that the allegations against Kavanaugh were totally uncorroborated.\n\nCollins said the FBI investigation appeared to be thorough. Flake said he saw no additional corroborating information against Kavanaugh, although he was still reading it. Another undecided Republican, Senator Lisa Murkowski, did not offer her view on the FBI report.\n\nCory Gardner, a Republican from Colorado, wants to finish reading the report before he makes a decision, his spokesman Casey Contres told the Denver Post. Gardners spokesman did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters.\n\nWhile the comments by Flake and Collins were positive, neither explicitly announced support for Kavanaugh.","title":"Protesters Arrested As Republicans Plan To Confirm Kavanaugh Over Weekend","date":"2018-10-05","source":"thehuffingtonpost","label":1}
{"content":"28-year-old Emily Atack is one of the ten celebs taking to the jungle for the 2018 series of Im A Celebrity. What Is She Known For? The British comedy actor, born in Luton, Bedfordshire, is best known for playing Charlotte Hinchcliffe in The Inbetweeners. Charlotte is the most popular girl in school, and by a strange twist of fate ends up sleeping with the shows slightly-nerdier protagonist Will.\n\nEmily hasnt ruled out finding love in the jungle, saying: I am single at the moment. And never say never. She added: We are in a situation where we are all not going to smell our best, nor look our best and I cant really imagine it happening but hey, who knows? Emily has also said that going into the jungle will be the toughest project she has ever taken on. I have no idea how it is going to be but what I would say is that this is probably the most challenging thing I have ever done, she said. But I am up for it. Acting is easy!","title":"Who Is Emily Atack Everything You Need To Know About The Im A Celebrity Contestant","date":"2018-11-16","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}
{"content":"Facebook is giving Messenger a major design overhaul, promising a much simpler and cleaner user experience after years of jamming the chat app full of superfluous features like games.\n\nWhen youre messaging, you really want a simple and fast experience, Mark Zuckerberg said during the companys F8 keynote. Were taking this moment to completely redesign Messenger to focus on these ideas. Zuckerberg again reiterated the clean and fast nature of the revamped Messenger app before moving on in the keynote.\n\nMessenger VP David Marcus said that the refreshed app is coming very, very soon and is something the team has been working on since the start of this year. Its going to have a dark mode, which is a nice addition in our growing world of OLED smartphones.\n\nThe bottom navigation has been simplified to three central tabs that focus on communication. Icons for the camera and video chat remain present at the upper right of the app, but everything looks much more streamlined. It looks like a chat app again. Im guessing that the number of people whove switched to Messenger Lite (or competing messaging apps) mightve made Facebook realize that something had to change about the bloated mess that is Messenger today.","title":"Facebook is completely redesigning Messenger to make it simple again","date":"2018-05-01","source":"theverge","label":1}
{"content":"President Trump again accused Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi of being the FACE of the Democrat Party.\n\nPresident Trump also slammed Democrats for their open borders insanity.\n\nMaxine Waters famously ordered her supporters to harass and abuse Republican leaders whenever they saw them in public.","title":"President Trump SLAMS Crazy Maxine Waters Her Ranting and Raving Will Make People Flee Democra","date":"2018-07-03","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Having trouble these days finding the information youre looking for online? It could be the result of search engine censorship, as mega-platforms like Google are increasingly moving conservative and other non-PC content to latter search result pages  if it even pulls up this content at all  while blatantly prioritizing liberal and official fact-checked content to the front page.\n\nA recent experiment by Paula Bolyard from PJ Media proved this, as she found that while searching for the term Trump on Google, a shocking 96 percent of the results were negative, linking back to liberal, Trump-hating fake news outlets that routinely bash the President.\n\nGoogle claims that it doesnt alter search results to push any specific agenda like this, but Bolyards test results prove otherwise. On the first page, for instance, she observed that there were two anti-Trump articles from fake news giant CNN, another from The Atlantic, and a slew of others from CBS News, The New Yorker, Politico, Reuters, and USA Today.\n\nMissing from Bolyards Trump search were any hits about the positive things that the President is doing to bring jobs back to America, end globalist policies that hurt American families, and restore order and decency to everyday American life. Instead, it was all just hit pieces, slander, and the sky is falling nonsense in relation to the President.\n\nI expected to see some skewing of the results based on my extensive experience with Google, but I was not prepared for the blatant prioritization of left-leaning and anti-Trump media outlets, writes Bolyard. Not a single right-leaning site appeared on the first page of search results.\n\nSponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: The Big Berkey water filter removes almost 100% of all contaminants using only the power of gravity (no electricity needed, works completely off-grid). Widely consider the ultimate \"survival\" water filter, the Big Berkey is made of stainless steel and has been laboratory verified for high-efficiency removal of heavy metals by CWC Labs, with tests personally conducted by Mike Adams. Explore more here.\n\nBolyard went on to conduct an analysis on the top 100 items that Google pulls up when searching for Trump, and what she found is even more indicting. By far, the most common news source that comes up in Google searches for Trump is CNN articles, capturing 21 percent of Googles search results.\n\nCNN is followed by both The Washington Post and NBC, which each capture 11 percent  meaning that CNN, The Washington Post, and NBC together occupy a whopping 43 percent of the top Google search results for the term Trump.\n\nFollowing these are CNBC at eight percent, The Atlantic at five percent, Politico at five percent, The New York Times at five percent, Vox at four percent, and CBS as three percent. Together, all of these left-leaning news outlets make up 73 percent of Googles search results output for Trump.\n\nMeanwhile, popular conservative news outlets like the National Review, The Weekly Standard, Breitbart, The Blaze, PJ Media, The Daily Wire, Hot Air, Townhall, Red State and others were nowhere to be found in the top 100 search results for Trump.\n\nThe only even halfway neutral news outlets that had a place in Googles search results for Trump were The Wall Street Journal and Fox News, which capture three hits and two hits, respectively. This means that less than five percent of what Google turns up for the search term Trump has anything even remotely positive to say about the President.\n\nBolyard conducted the experiment multiple times on multiple different computers and platforms, only to arrive at the same conclusion: Google is intentionally censoring conservative content, and really any content that supports our President and highlights the many good things that hes doing in the interest of our country.\n\nAs more and more people turn to Google and other social media outlets for their news, it may not be hyperbolic to suggest that the biases inherent in human-created algorithms have the potential to affect the fate of democracy, Bolyard writes.\n\nWith all the talk and hand-wringing about fake news and bad foreign actors using social media outlets to attempt to manipulate election results, far too little attention has been paid to power brokers like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and their ability  and perhaps even desire  to manipulate public opinion and shape the world into their own Silicon Valley image.\n\nBe sure to read Bolyards full analysis of Big Tech censorship at PJMedia.com.","title":"The tech giants have turned the internet into a liberal echo chamber where no conservative views are","date":"2018-08-30","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"President Trump just announced a new series of tariffs on roughly $50 billion in Chinese imports. These new tariffs are the result of a seven-month investigation into Chinas continued theft of US intellectual property. We have a tremendous intellectual property theft problem. Its going to make us a much stronger, much richer nation, President Trump told reporters this morning. This has been long in the making.\n\nWhile President Trump is imposing the harsh tariffs to help correct the current trade imbalance, he remained open and confident with US-Chinese relations calling China a friend to the use and stating he had tremendous respect President Xi Jinping.\n\nMore Via The Hill Opinion:\n\nSection 301 gives the U.S. Trade Representative broad authority to take measures against a foreign countrys unfair trade practices. The U.S. is challenging China for alleged violations of IP rights and practices of forced technology-transfers; whereby if an American company wishes to do business in certain areas in the form of joint ventures with a Chinese firm, it often has to share its IP (such as trade secrets or industrial designs). The 301 investigations have potential for broad sanctions on China such as high punitive tariffs on its exports (for examples high-tech products like semiconductors and telecommunications equipment) and restrictions on Chinese investment in the U.S. This would be detrimental to China and provoke retaliatory trade measures.\n\nAides described the $50 billion figure as a conservative estimate of what forced technology transfer and other moves by China cost the U.S. economy. The president suggested the total value of the tariffs could go as high as $60 billion. [...] The proposed tariffs on imports from China follow the administrations decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Those tariffs, which take effect on Friday, have already been watered down. Lighthizer said that in addition to Canada and Mexico, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, South Korea and the European Union will be exempted from the steel and aluminum tariffs, at least temporarily. Administration officials defended the crackdown on China, saying years of dialogue during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations had not produced the desired change. Dialogue continued during the opening months of the Trump administration, but the president has now decided tougher action is required.","title":"President Trump Imposes New Tariffs On China Over Continued US Intellectual Property Theft","date":"2018-03-22","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Painful swellings called lymphedema can appear on a patients arms after undergoing surgery and radiation therapy for breast cancer. A Chinese study suggested that acupuncture could decrease the chances of this complication, thereby improving the quality of life for cancer patients.\n\nDespite the advent of less invasive treatments, lymphedema remains a common problem for breast cancer patients and survivors long after the procedure has been concluded. There are no permanent cures for the condition once it appears, so patients are advised to avoid risk factors that lead to lymphedema. Existing treatments aim to decrease the severity of the symptoms while improving the use of the affected arm. They involve lymph drainage, laser treatment, micro-surgery, and surgical transplantation of axillary lymph nodes.\n\nThese treatments are costly and must be repeated for the rest of the patients life. Therefore, breast cancer-related lymphedema requires a cheap yet effective means of management.\n\nBased on pilot studies and their own observations in various hospitals, researchers from the Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine (GXUCM) believe that acupuncture can serve in that role. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) prescribes the treatment for edema conditions that include the symptoms of lymphedema. The researchers conducted a study to determine the effectiveness of acupuncture on breast cancer-related lymphedema. (Related: TCM medicines confirmed to accelerate cell death of breast cancer tumors.)\n\nFor their trial, the researchers recruited women who were suffering from lymphedema in just one arm. To qualify for the experiment, the affected arm needed to be 10 to 40 percent more swollen than the unaffected arm. Both arms were measured to establish a baseline of comparison for treated arms. A perometer  which uses light-emitting diodes and photosensors to measure an object  was used due to its accuracy, ease of use, and speed of measurement.\n\nThe power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Store and help support this news site.\n\nThe participants were randomly divided between real acupuncture or sham acupuncture groups. They received either acupuncture or sham treatment on both of their arms. For the sham control, the researchers used the Streitberger needle. It can mimic the feel of actual acupuncture treatment while also avoiding any accidental efficacy.\n\nFollowing each treatment or sham treatment, the participants were also given decongestive therapy. The therapy consisted of manually draining lymph on a daily basis, gentle exercise, moisturizer, and elastic compression garments. GXUCM researchers measured the volume of both arms of each participant after a treatment. The starting data and the measurements from the final treatment session were used to calculate the primary and secondary outcomes.\n\nThe primary outcome is the absolute ratio of the volume of the reduced limb. The secondary outcomes covered any adverse effects of acupuncture and sham-acupuncture recipients. The researchers compared the results for both groups. Furthermore, they also determined the overall effectiveness of acupuncture on the recipients.\n\nThe GXUCM researchers acknowledged several significant limitations in testing the efficacy of acupuncture on breast cancer-related lymphedema. The first one involves their application of the standardized acupoint regimen. Traditional Chinese medicine stresses the idea of therapy tailored to the needs of the individual. Future studies must compare the effects of the standardized regimen and individualized treatments.\n\nSecond, TCM established that the sensation of the needle during acupuncture signifies the treatments success. However, the acupuncturists in the experiment were not allowed to ask their patients about this sensation for purposes of experimental blinding.\n\nLast but not least, acupuncture is widely used in China to treat various maladies. Since the participants are Chinese, some of them might have undergone acupuncture treatment in the past. If these regular clients are part of the sham-acupuncture group, they may recognize the Streitberger needle approach as a fake.\n\nFind out natural ways of improving the side effects of cancer at CancerSolutions.news.","title":"Acupuncture reduces the occurrence of breast cancer-related lymphedema Study","date":"2018-09-05","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Mel B was ordered to pay $350,000 of her ex-husbands legal costs as the couple finally settled their bitter divorce.\n\nThe former Spice Girl, real name Melanie Brown, must also pay Stephen Belafonte $5,000 a month in child support for their six-year-old daughter Madison, a judge ruled.\n\nMr Belafonte, 43, today said he had been dragged through the mud, adding: I feel like going to Disneyland.\n\nAt the Los Angeles Superior Court, the former couple agreed to stay 200 yards away from each other after Judge Mark Juhas threw out restraining orders they had tried to put on each other.\n\nIn divorce papers, Miss Brown had alleged Mr Belafonte, a former record producer, beat her up and forced her to take part in threesomes which he filmed then blackmailed her with the footage.\n\nOne of his attacks supposedly happened after she performed with the Spice Girls at the London 2012 Olympics, prompting her to swallow a bottle of painkillers in despair.\n\nMiss Brown also claimed her ex-husband got their German nanny Lorraine Gilles, 26, pregnant and paid her $300,000 to have an abortion.\n\nMr Belafonte denied the accusations. The LA court also ordered him and the singer to set aside $550,000 each when they sell their $8 million home, to pay back taxes from 2016.\n\nMother-of-three Miss Brown, 43, left the court without a word but posted a video on Instagram in which she and friend Gary Madatyan appeared to be celebrating. Meanwhile, Mr Belafonte ranted about her as he left, saying: I got everything I wanted and we could have settled this months ago. Its such a relief that its finally over.\n\nHe added: She didnt get anything out of this. We split everything 50\/50. In fact, my alimony and my child support is more than I had asked for.\n\nThe settlement came after three days of negotiation between the parties who have become bitter enemies since they split up last November after 10 years.\n\nMiss Brown, a judge on Americas Got Talent, claimed Mr Belafonte was physically and emotionally abusive to her and her children.\n\nHe accused her of turning his 10-year-old stepdaughter Angel  whose father is Eddie Murphy  against him, even though he had raised the girl from birth.\n\nAs part of the settlement, Mr Belafonte withdrew his motion for visitation rights for Angel. However, he said he could try again because he would really like to spend time with her.\n\nOutside court, he said: I was dragged through the mud, but she [Miss Brown] didnt show her evidence. She told these lies every time.\n\n\"She got to level all of these allegations at me, played the victim before all the truth came out ... everything she said, including saying that I beat her and put her in the hospital for eight days, is a lie.\n\nMr Belafonte added: I feel like going to Disneyland and jumping for joy.\n\nExceptions to the 200 yards away order will be made for Madisons school events and extra-curricular activities.\n\nThe agreement adds: Neither parent shall make any disparaging remarks about the other parent to Madison or in Madisons presence. The former couple will split time with their daughter, including holidays. Custody on her birthday will alternate each year.","title":"Stephen Belafonte celebrates as Mel B is ordered to pay his 350000 legal fees in divorce battle","date":"2018-08-07","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"OTTAWA  The federal government has blocked the proposed $1.5-billion takeover of Aecon Group Inc. by a Chinese state-owned company for reasons of national security.\n\nAfter markets closed Wednesday, Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains confirmed the governments decision to prevent CCCC International Holding Ltd. (CCCI) from acquiring the Aecon construction firm.\n\nThe move could have an impact on Canada-China relations, which the Trudeau government has made efforts to develop since coming to office in late 2015.\n\nChinas embassy in Ottawa responded to Wednesdays move by warning it wasnt good for the countries business relationship and that it would seriously undermine the confidence of Chinese investors.\n\nThe Trudeau government had been urged by experts to proceed cautiously when weighing any investment bids by Chinese state firms and to be as transparent as possible in reviewing the proposed deal.\n\nOttawa announced a full national security review of the Aecon deal in February.\n\nAs is always the case, we listened to the advice of our national security agencies throughout the multi-step national security review process under the Investment Canada Act, Bains said Wednesday in a statement.\n\nBased on their findings, in order to protect national security, we ordered CCCI not to implement the proposed investment.\n\nOur government is open to international investment that creates jobs and increases prosperity, but not at the expense of national security.\n\nAecon has a long history of participation in Canadian construction and engineering projects such as the CN Tower, Vancouvers SkyTrain, the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Halifax shipyard.\n\nIn a statement Wednesday evening, the Toronto-based firm said it was disappointed with the governments decision.\n\nAecon is and will continue to be a leading player in the Canadian construction and infrastructure market, said John Beck, Aecons president and CEO.\n\nThrough our proposed transaction with CCCI, we had outlined a vision in which Aecon would be better able to compete with the many large global construction companies actively working in Canada.\n\nA representative of CCCI, which is a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company Ltd. (CCCC), said Wednesday that it had no immediate comment about Ottawas decision to block the takeover.\n\nThe Chinese government had been highly supportive of the potential Aecon takeover.\n\nIt remains to be seen how Ottawas decision will be received by Beijing and how deeply it could affect Canadian-Chinese relations.\n\nThese is no doubt that the decision made by the Canadian government is by no means a good news for the investment co-operation between China and Canada, said a statement released by the Chinese embassy in Ottawa.\n\nThis will seriously undermine the confidence of Chinese investors. We express the regret and disappointment at this decision.\n\nThe statement added that the Chinese government hopes Canada will make a joint effort when it comes to promoting bilateral trade and economic co-operation.\n\nLast month, Chinas ambassador to Canada defended the proposed deal. Lu Shaye said there was no reason for concern about the acquisition of Aecon because the Chinese side was strictly focused on business and market interests.\n\nMy first impression, to tell you the truth, (is) that I think the Canadian media or the Canadian public is too sensitive about the Aecon case because Aecon is just a construction company, Lu said in response to a question about the takeover bid during a news conference at the Chinese embassy.\n\nFrom your side, you have your rules and regulations on the foreign companies overtaking Canadian companies. I think for the national security issue it is your internal affairs. The Chinese side does not want to interfere (with) it.\n\nLu, who spoke through an interpreter, added that China just wants to ensure Canada has the same standards for Chinese companies as it does for foreign companies from other countries proposing to take over Canadian firms.\n\nAn internal federal document prepared last fall described CCCC as one of the worlds largest engineering and construction firms.\n\nThe Infrastructure Canada memo said CCCC generated revenue of US$62 billion in 2016 and has core business activities that include the construction of ports, roads, terminals, bridges, rail and tunnels.\n\nAecon, it continued, generated revenue of $3.2 billion in 2016.\n\nThe briefing document was obtained recently by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.","title":"Canada blocks Aecon takeover by Chinese state-owned firm over national security","date":"2018-05-24","source":"ipolitics","label":1}
{"content":"LOS ANGELES  Jewelry with the toxic metal cadmium is showing up on the shelves of national retailers including Ross, Nordstrom Rack and Papaya, according to newly released test results.\n\nAnalysis done for the nonprofit Center for Environmental Health revealed some jewelry sold with womens dresses and shirts was nearly pure cadmium, which can cause cancer and reproductive harm after prolonged exposure.\n\nConsumer advocates were hopeful cadmium had disappeared from the U.S. jewelry market following changes prompted by a 2010 Associated Press investigation that found Chinese manufacturers were using the metal to make kids jewelry. States including California outlawed cadmium in childrens jewelry, and testing by the center found the chemical had virtually disappeared from jewelry by 2012.\n\nNo laws address cadmium in adult jewelry, however, and last year the center decided to check those products. Lab testing found 31 adult jewelry items purchased from retail stores were at least 40 percent cadmium, and most were more than 90 percent, according to results shared exclusively with the AP.\n\nCalifornias law allows no more than 0.03 percent cadmium in childrens jewelry. The precise health risk from the tested jewelry is unclear because researchers did not assess whether small amounts shed when the jewelry is handled and worn.\n\nOver time, cadmium accumulates in the body and can damage the kidneys and bones. Most exposure happens by ingesting small amounts or by breathing it, most commonly through tobacco, which can contain cadmium. Researchers also have documented some absorption through skin contact, though the phenomenon is not well-studied.\n\nMichael Harbut, a practicing doctor who as a university professor has researched cadmiums cancer-causing properties, noted that contact can trigger skin rashes including psoriasis.\n\nCadmium is bad, said Harbut, who teaches at Michigan State Universitys College of Human Medicine. Given a choice between wearing something with cadmium in it, or wearing something without cadmium in it, I would take the product without cadmium.\n\nThe Oakland-based nonprofit bought all the test samples in the San Francisco Bay Area this year or last. The extent to which contaminated jewelry is in stores elsewhere isnt clear, though a national retailer would not typically limit a product to just one region.\n\nThe center said the problem should not be underestimated because of the limited market sampling.\n\nIf youre the person that buys and is wearing that jewelry, you dont really care whether its a common problem or a rare problem, said Caroline Cox, senior scientist at the center. You have a problem.\n\nBrent Cleaveland, executive director of the Fashion Jewelry and Accessories Trade Association, said he does not believe the test results suggest a larger problem. Most major retailers have a stringent system for testing and analyzing what they sell, he said.\n\nMost of the tainted items were sold at Ross, which operates more than 1,400 stores in 38 states. One pendant from a necklace chain was 100 percent cadmium, according to the testing.\n\nIn a written statement, Ross said it is committed to protecting its customers and has addressed this issue with our supplier. The retailer would not say whether it pulled suspect jewelry from stores.\n\nThe brands found with high cadmium levels in Ross stores include Tacera and Vibe Sportswear.\n\nXinwei Xie, chief executive officer at Trend Textile Inc., which owns Tacera, declined to comment when reached by phone. The Skate Group Inc., which owns Vibe Sportswear, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\n\nPapaya said it considers cadmium in its products a serious problem. It operates more than 100 retail locations nationwide.\n\nSteven Kim, an attorney representing Papaya, said the company has recalled the products where contamination was found and stopped buying from the manufacturer in China.\n\nOur manufacturers are required to represent and warrant that their products are in legal compliance, Kim said. Papaya is very strict and stops doing business with any manufacturer which fails to comply.\n\nNordstrom spokeswoman Emily Sterken said the company is reaching out to these vendors to make them aware of the situation and get more information on these items.\n\nThe Center for Environmental Health has long used California law to force companies to reduce levels of harmful materials in consumer products, including cadmium and lead in jewelry.\n\nUnder the states Proposition 65, businesses must inform consumers about significant exposures to chemicals that cause cancer or other reproductive harm. The nonprofit has settled Proposition 65 claims against 36 companies, including Gap Inc. and Target Corp., which agreed to not sell jewelry with more than 0.03 percent cadmium.\n\nThat limit for childrens jewelry took effect after the AP reported in 2010 that some Chinese jewelry manufacturers were substituting cadmium for lead, the use of which Congress clamped down on following a string of imported-product safety scandals.\n\nThe jewelry industry helped write voluntary U.S. standards following the AP investigation, but the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission did not mandate any cadmium limits.\n\nAssociated Press writer Justin Pritchard contributed to this report.","title":"AP Exclusive Toxic metal found in chain stores jewelry","date":"2018-10-11","source":"thedenverpost","label":1}
{"content":"Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has defended the decision of women who backed Brett Kavanaughs confirmation to the US Supreme Court, despite allegations of sexual misconduct against him.\n\nWe looked up and saw in him possibly our husbands, our sons, our cousins, our co-workers, our brothers, she said after the Senate voted 50 to 48 to appoint the scandal-hit judge to Americas highest court.\n\nA lot of women, including me in America, saw him as a victim of political character assassination, said Ms Conway, one of President Trumps most outspoken aides.\n\nMr Kavanaughs nomination divided women across the country after he was accused of sexual abuse involving three women when he was at school and  university.\n\nThousands, including actresses Alyssa Milano, Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski, joined protests against him after Christine Blasey Ford alleged at a Capitol Hill hearing that he pinned her to a bed and tried to strip her at a party when they were both teenagers in 1982.\n\nThe protests continued even up to the nominees swearing in as a Supreme Court Justice on Saturday night.","title":"Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway on women who backed Kavanaugh aposWe saw in him our husbands","date":"2018-10-08","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Fox News Catherine Herridge reported Wednesday evening that House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes received access to the requested two-page unredacted document from the DOJ.\n\nChairman Nunes threatened to hold Rosenstein and Wray in contempt if they didnt produce the document by midnight Wednesday after missing the initial April 5th deadline. Nunes released a statement after meeting with Rosenstein and was given access to the 2-page Electronic Communication document.\n\nChairman Nunes said in a statement via House Intel website:\n\nThe 2-page document known as the Electronic Communication is what launched the investigation into the Trump-Russia collusion probe.\n\nNunes told Sara Carter the Electronic Communication  is a central piece of information necessary to their ongoing investigation into the FBI and related matters.\n\nFox News Producer Jake Gibson also stated the DOJ handed over another 1,000 pages of classified materials Wednesday evening.\n\nIt took Nunes threatening to hold Rosenstein and Wray in contempt and impeachment in order to finally get this very important document.","title":"Chairman Nunes Releases Statement After Being Given Access to Electronic Communication Document Fr","date":"2018-04-11","source":"thegatewaypundit","label":0}
{"content":"(Natural News) Most of us have been stocking food in our cupboards for as long as we can remember. Its not just us: People have been doing it for centuries, mainly so that they have ready access to food when they need it.\n\nHowever, theres also another reason why they store food: To use it as medicine. Across history, different cultures have stocked up on plants, herbs, and spices to use it for treatment. Times may have changed between then and now, but we can still create own food pharmacy, every time we do our grocery.\n\nLearning how to use food as medicine may seem intimidating at first, but opting for a more natural way to address our health issues must be done sooner rather than later. The practice of eating clean and gearing away from potentially harmful drugs decrease the risk of developing diseases and increase the chances of living a longer life. Its also practical  with proper knowledge about the benefits of food, we may be able to say goodbye to expensive and risky medicine.\n\nQuinoa, kale, berries, chia seeds, oatmeal, broccoli, almonds, coconut, hemp seed and celery  the list just goes on as there are a variety of foods available in the market that are packed with nutrition. Recipes and how-to articles are readily available on the internet if we wish to learn simple ways to spice up our meals without compromising our bodies wellness. The secret in stocking up your food pharmacy is replacing processed foods with more natural ingredients.\n\nOur food choices can also help us manage, or even prevent, certain illnesses.\n\nSupport our mission and protect your health: Organic Seeds of Life combines Red Raspberry Seed Power, Black Cumin Seed Power and Red Grape Seed Powder into the most potent nutrient-rich supplemental superfood powder you've ever experienced. Loaded with flavonoids, antioxidants, anthocyanins, OPCs, ALA and a vast array of vital nutrients. Learn more here.\n\nWhen we regularly eat fruits and vegetables, we lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes. Maintaining this kind of diet can also save us from developing heart diseases, stroke and some types of cancer.\n\nWe can also cure common sicknesses with food we have at home:\n\nGoing au naturel when it comes to your lifestyle doesnt have to be so hard. At the Home Medicine Summit, 42 leading natural health experts are coming together to impart their knowledge on alternative, natural medicine and how to lead a cleaner way of life. The summit will help you learn how to properly use food as medicine and even discover delicious and healthy ways to make 100 percent natural remedies.\n\nFor an entire week, you will have full access to expert presentations that will cover topics such as:\n\nThe events keynote speaker, Health Ranger Mike Adams once said in an interview, If someone is not willing to change one thing [in their lifestyle], then they are in fact playing the role of victim and they will continue to be victimized by medicine.\n\nIt is never too late to opt for the better and let go of old ways. Register now, at no cost, to join the week-long Home Medicine Summit. Participants will take home gifts that will help in their journey to a healthier and more natural way of living.","title":"Heres how to stock your food pharmacy and use food as medicine to fight off common health concern","date":"2018-05-14","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"A Good Guy With a Gun Has Saved Many Lives in Florida\n\nA heroic citizen with a permit to legally carry a concealed handgun was able to save countless lives in Florida last week.","title":"A Good Guy With a Gun Has Saved Many Lives in Florida","date":"2018-08-08","source":"realclearpolitics","label":1}
{"content":"# Get alerted on heavy metals and pesticide test results for foods and\nsupplements\n\n![](Images\/Health-Ranger-Suit-75x75.jpg)Natural News is about to begin\nreleasing lab test results for off-the-shelf food, supplement and pet food\nproducts, covering heavy metals, nutritive minerals, pesticides and\nherbicides. These details will be released exclusively to Natural News email\nnewsletter subscribers (FREE) and will NOT be publicly posted on the website.\nTo be alerted, join our free email newsletter now, and watch for lab test\nresults in the weeks ahead.\n\nEnter your email address below to subscribe to our email announcement list\n(but don't use gmail). Your privacy is protected and you can unsubscribe at\nany time. If you don't join our email list, you may never see our valuable\ncontent again via Facebook, Google or YouTube. CENSORSHIP has now reached\nEXTREME levels across the 'net. The truth is being suffocated. Subscribe now\nif you want to escape the delusional bubble of false reality being pushed by\nGoogle and Facebook.","title":"These natural supplements have been proven to keep your blood sugar levels in check","date":"2018-11-11","source":"naturalnews","label":0}
{"content":"Susannah Constantine has become the first celebrity to be eliminated from this years Strictly Come Dancing after facing Lee Ryan in the dance-off.\n\nThe What Not To Wear star was bestowed the dubious honour of first boot alongside partner Anton Du Beke after two disastrous weeks on the floor.\n\nScoring 12 in both weeks -with a one each time from Craig Revel Horwood - Constantine failed to impress with her Samba and Foxtrot, soon landing in the bottom two.\n\nUnanimously, the judges voted to save Blue frontman Lee Ryan and partner Nadia Bychkova after seeing their jive again.\n\nSpeaking to Tess Daly about her very early exit, Constantine said: I know it has gone a bit quick, but you know what I just feel so lucky to have had three weeks learning to dance with Anton and to have met all these amazing people.\n\nAnd for me they are the most important and I feel really privileged to have met them all, and it has been amazing.\n\nThe fashionista graciously praised dance-off counterpart Ryan, admitting that she felt the judges had made the right choice.\n\nConstantine danced the Samba in a Carmen Miranda inspired routine during week one before turning her attention to this week's Foxtrot to They Cant Take That Away From Me by Frank Sinatra.\n\nBoth low-scoring routines the couple rooted to the bottom of the leaderboard, with a combined score of 24, while Ashley Roberts and Faye Tozer topped the table with 61 and 60 respectively.\n\nElsewhere during the first results show of the series, George Ezra performed number one hit Shotgun and the professional dancers performed a show-stopping routine, featuring same-sex partnerships .\n\nThe 14 remaining couples now have just six days to prepare for the first theme week of the series, Movie Week.\n\nStrictly Come Dancing continues Saturday 3 October at 6.30pm on BBC One.","title":"Strictly Come Dancing 2018 Susannah Constantine becomes the first celebrity eliminated after dance-","date":"2018-09-30","source":"eveningstandard","label":1}
{"content":"Back from a two month long hiatus, Dylan looks at the future of this podcast and shares what he believes is the most important message from shamanic plant medicines.\n\nLooking at the journey to becoming an iboga provider, this short episode looks at the difference between how we tend to view ourselves vs. the way others see us.\n\nListen on the go!\n\nSupport us on Patreon, please!\n\nSupport us and subscribe here  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgvKfeUxJacdMvf_MbR_c7A?sub_confirmation=1\n\nVisit us on the web  http:\/\/www.RedesigningReality.com\n\nStop by Dylans site  http:\/\/www.WakingTimes.com\n\n Connect with Dylan here  http:\/\/redesigningreality.com\/dchlist\/\n\nBuy Jeffs book at Amazon  Cosmic Wizard: A Journey from Outer Rage to Inner Sage  http:\/\/amzn.to\/2Da6N60\n\n Connect with Jeff here  http:\/\/www.JourneytoInnerSage.com\n\nwas last modified: by","title":"Redesigning Reality 028 Rethinking Your Self-Image","date":"2018-07-26","source":"wakingtimes","label":0}
{"content":"The family of a Windrush migrant who died while trying to prove his British citizenship have withdrawn from his inquest.\n\nDexter Bristol, 57, collapsed in the street and died following the Windrush scandal, which saw British Caribbeans who had lived in the UK for decades deported, detained and denied access to benefits and healthcare, as they could not prove they were in the country legally.\n\nBristols mother, Sentina, blamed the stress caused by his immigration problems for his death on March 31, and said that Prime Minister Theresa May should resign. His family wanted to make submissions to the court about the role the scandal might have played in his death.\n\nThe family withdrew from an inquest held at St Pancras Coroners Court on Tuesday, after coroner Dr William Dolman ruled that the Home Office should not be considered an interested party  allowing it to play an active part in the hearing  as its policy was not relevant to the immediate circumstances of Bristols death.\n\nDolman ruled that Bristol died from an acute cardiac arrhythmia and that the causes were natural, but said: I accept from the evidence that the deceased was suffering from a great deal of stress at the time.\n\nHe also said that he was sorry that Bristols family were not there to hear the evidence.\n\nThe family had applied for an adjournment at the court for a judicial review and Sentina said they are disappointed.\n\nWe want justice, thats what were fighting for  justice, she added.\n\nJacqueline McKenzie, Bristols immigration lawyer said: Its really distressing that the family decided that they couldnt participate in the proceedings. I think thats really sad but I think they were quite right to do so.\n\nI think the coroner did not show courtesy to the family or to their legal team.\n\nDr Dolman had apologised earlier after accusing Una Morris, representing Bristols family, of trying to tell me how to run my court.\n\nBristol had not realised he could not prove his citizenship until being sacked from his job for not having a passport in 2017.\n\nMcKenzie said: He was prepared to fight but as the months went on and he was required to find more evidence it became very difficult and we saw him just decline into a shadow of himself.\n\nAt the time of his death, he had not visited his GP for more than a year, believing he could not change surgeries unless he could prove his immigration status.","title":"Family Of Windrush Migrant Who Died Walk Out Of Inquest Amid Row With Coroner","date":"2018-08-28","source":"thehuffingtonpostuk","label":1}