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- FW: [Info] October 19, 1960 MLK arrested & [Info] October 20, 1962 - Peter, Paul & Mary hit #1
- FW: BOOM: 13 Republicans just agreed
- FW: Stand with us to say: #NoMuslimBanEver
- FW: Trump wants even more detentions
- FW: Donald Trump's Passion for Cruelty
- FW: If we don't defeat Trump's playbook in this election, we're in trouble
- FW: The ADL needs to decide who they really want to be
- FW: BREAKING: The next big fight begins
- FW: Guns (in) Control; Law & Disorder; Who Started #MeToo; How 'Protection' Works; Anita Hill
- FW: Stop the Unconstitutional War in Yemen
- FW: Evidence of Military Grade EMF Accelerants Used in Sonoma, Napa Fires
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From: Nita and Shaunna, UltraViolet Action
Subject: BOOM: 13 Republicans just agreed
UPDATE: Yesterday, thirteen Senate Republicans announced support for bipartisan action to stand up to Trump and stop his plan to sabotage our health care and make premiums spike by 20%. We likely have enough votes to pass this bill--we just need to convince Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to put this to a vote.1 That's going to take a massive public outcry.
Can you add your name to this petition before we deliver it next week? -Nita & Shaunna
After failing multiple times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump is doing everything he can to sabotage it. His latest executive order--signed last week--could cause premiums to skyrocket by at least 20% and throw the entire insurance market into chaos, meaning higher costs and more uncertainty for us all.2
The good news is that even Republicans don't like Trump's new executive order,3 and if we put the pressure on NOW, we can get Congress to block it. But we know Congress won't take action to save our health care unless we generate enough outrage in the media and in their home states. That's why this petition is so urgent--if Congress doesn't act now, we'll see premiums start to rise as soon as January. Will you sign?
Tell Congress: "Stop Trump's reckless plan to rip affordable health care away from millions of families. Appropriate funds for cost-sharing reduction now." |
After months of uncertainty, Trump is cutting off the funding called cost-sharing reduction that stops insurance companies from charging families more. This funding helps seven million families afford their deductibles and co-pays.4
The real-world implications if Congress doesn't act are grave. We'll go back to the days of patients picking and choosing which prescriptions to fill because they can't afford the co-pays on all of them. Moms will skip well-woman visits, including cancer screenings, to afford check-ups for their kids. Parents will put off major procedures or even check-ups because the deductible is simply too high.
That's why health policy experts on all sides are opposing Trump's decision. State insurance commissioners of both parties and the conservative Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate's Health Committee have warned that cutting off this financial help means low- and middle-income people will pay the price.5
But we can defeat Trump's plot. Republican members of Congress know they'll get the blame if, all of a sudden, low- and middle-income constituents--including Republicans--can't afford basic co-pays and deductibles. That's one reason they're opposing Trump on this one. That political fear is powerful and, combined with our grassroots strength, we can take Trump on and restore this critical, life-saving financial help.
Can you sign the petition right now to save affordable health care for millions of families?
Sources:
- The new bill to fix Obamacare has enough votes to pass — but Trump and the GOP could still kill it, Business Insider, October 19, 2017
- “Vast, Pointless Sabotage”: Trump Announces Decision To Collapse Nation's Health Care, Vanity Fair, October 13, 2017
- Senator announces bipartisan health care hearing on Obamacare, CNN, August 2, 2017
- Halt In Subsidies For Health Insurers Expected To Drive Up Costs For Middle Class, NPR, October 13, 2017
- From Maine, a Call for a More Measured Take on Health Care, New York Times, June 4, 2017
TDCI Shares Carrier’s Rate Filings for 2018 Marketplace, Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, July 7, 2017
Insurance Commissioner Announces Single-Digit Aggregate 2018 Individual and Small Group Market Rate Requests, Confirming Move Toward Stability Unless Congress or the Trump Administration Act to Disrupt Individual Market, Pennsylvania Pressroom, June 1, 2017
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From: Mary Zerkel; Communities Against Islamophobia, AFSC
Subject: Stand with us to say: #NoMuslimBanEver
Today, Muslim Ban 3.0 was set to go into effect. It has been blocked for now by a federal judge, but it's still crucial that we all take a stand and speak out against the Trump administration’s racist policies targeting Muslims. Join AFSC and a coalition of more than 100 community groups and thousands of individuals across the country to say #NoMuslimBanEver.
The Muslim Ban is a dangerous step back toward past policies that have criminalized and dehumanized marginalized groups in the U.S., including the Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese internment camps, and the post-9/11 registry targeting Muslims.
Now is the time to speak out loudly against the Muslim Ban—and let the Trump administration and everyone we can reach know that we will push back against this and all discriminatory policies.
Let's flood social media with messages and resources that affirm the right of all people to live and pray in peace without being criminalized by policies based in ignorance and fear.
We've made it easy for you to join the online conversation with our #NoMuslimBanEver social media toolkit. You’ll find graphics, resources, and sample messages to share on Facebook, Twitter, and more. You can even download and print our free posters if you’re headed to a rally or want to show your support at work, school, congregations, or any other places people gather.
Find out more about the #NoMuslimBan campaign here.
Thank you for joining us to make our voices heard today in saying #NoMuslimBanEver.
From: Donna De La Cruz, Reform Immigration FOR America
Subject: Trump wants even more detentions
In less than a year, we’ve already seen 43% more detentions of undocumented people than we had under Obama — but Trump wants even more.
We’ve just learned that the Trump Administration is working to open even more federally-funded, privately-run detention prisons across the country.
Tell your members of Congress that Not One Dollar should go to support Trump’s detention machine.
Arrests of undocumented immigrants are on the rise, and many of the people ICE has arrested have no criminal records. They’ve come here to make a good living and create a safe new home, just as immigrants have done throughout our history. Immigrants have always made America better and stronger. But Trump has been relentless in demonizing, detaining, and deporting undocumented people — and with this increase in private prisons, Trump's detentions and arrests will benefit a billion-dollar industry that profits off the inhumane suffering of inmates and detainees.
Sign the petition: demand that Not One Dollar of funding goes to building more detention centers.
It’s time for Congress to step up and deny funding in the budget for Trump’s hateful anti-immigrant agenda, and that means giving no money to build more detention centers.
Add your voice and urge Congress to stand against Trump’s hate.
From: Judy Burnette
Subject: Henry A. Giroux | "Donald Trump's Passion for Cruelty"
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42157-donald-trump-s-passion-for-cruelty
Donald Trump's Passion for Cruelty
Donald Trump seems addicted to violence.
It shapes his language, politics and policies.
He revels in a public discourse that threatens, humiliates and bullies.
He has used language as a weapon to humiliate women, a reporter with a disability, Pope Francis and any political opponent who criticizes him. He has publicly humiliated members of his own cabinet and party, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a terminally ill John McCain, not to mention the insults and lies he perpetrated against former FBI Director James Comey after firing him.
(Continue reading by clicking here!)
From: Deadline Tonight (Virginia)
Subject: If we don't defeat Trump's playbook in this election, we're in trouble
Paul Krugman of the New York Times says:
If [Republican candidate for governor] Gillespie pulls this off, all the worst impulses of the Trumpist G.O.P. will be empowered; you might think that things can't get even worse, but yes, they can...
Virginia is now the most important place on the U.S. political landscape -- and what happens there could decide the fate of the nation.
Please rush your most generous donation now to help us turn out our voters and elect Democrat Ralph Northam as governor and progressives all the way down the ballot>>
From: Lesley Williams; Jewish Voice for Peace
Subject: The ADL needs to decide who they really want to be.
I am an African-American Jew by choice. I grew up in Chicago in the ‘60s and ‘70s with public school teacher parents who were very involved in civil rights. To us, the Anti-Defamation League was one of the organizations you could really trust— one of the few white organizations that was looking out for African-Americans.
I started to become disenchanted in the early ‘80s when the ADL began opposing Affirmative Action during the Bakke case. It was a shock, and a moment when a lot of African-Americans were beginning to ask: if the ADL is supposed to be our ally, why would they not support us?
More recently, seeing the ways the ADL has systematically attacked Palestinian students and censured critique of Israel, their extensive espionage efforts— spying not just on pro-Palestinian organizations but on the ACLU and the NAACP… more and more I saw that the focus on overall civil rights seemed to be diminished in favor of single-minded advocacy for Israel, and my thinking really began to change
So when I learned about the ADL’s law enforcement exchange programs that bring U.S. police, border patrol, and ICE officers to train with Israeli military and police, and how they promote racial profiling and militarized policing, I was saddened— but not terribly surprised.
Tell the ADL: stop running these Deadly Exchange programs now.
Although the stated goal is “counter-terrorism” training, to me it seems clear that the ADL’s Deadly Exchange programs have two actual goals. One is legitimizing violent policing in the U.S. and Israel. The other is building up more unconditional support for Israel within the U.S. Sadly, they've been very effective at both.
When U.S. police go to Israel on these ADL trips, they come back and talk about how wonderful Israel is, how ahead of us they are, how we should be copying their techniques… but they don’t see the effects of those techniques on Palestinians, the effects of surveillance on those communities. Israelis likewise do not see what's happening in Englewood and the West Side of Chicago, how these police techniques are affecting and disrupting those communities. Both Israeli and U.S. law enforcement come away with a skewed idea, encouraged to double down on their already harmful practices.
If the ADL is really standing up for the rights of immigrants, Muslims, and African-Americans, why do they oppose Affirmative Action? Why do they publish a dossier attacking the Council of American Islamic Relations, the largest civil rights organization for Muslims in the United States? Why do they celebrate someone like Daniel Pipes, who is responsible for a great deal of institutionalized Islamophobia? Why do they create educational materials for schools that equate the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement with far-right antisemitism? Why are they leading trainings that encourage racial profiling and overly aggressive, military-style policing against communities of color?
And why do they throw all their supposed values out the window when it comes to Israel?
Click here and tell the ADL to end their Deadly Exchange programs now.
When ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt talks about African-American civil rights, he is talking about a romanticized view of the past. He's encouraged legacy tours where African-Americans and Jews go together to the South to look at all the sites where we collaborated, and talk about Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman, and Rabbi Heschel. But he seems to have no respect for young African-Americans who are the face of the civil rights movement today, particularly the Black Lives Matter movement.
And he fails to understand why people who are involved in anti-racism and anti-colonial struggles globally would not see this relentless, unquestioning cheerleading for Israel as problematic.
My message to the ADL is: take a good hard look at yourselves. If you want to be an Israel advocacy organization, fine. If you want to be in bed with some of the most reactionary and right-wing people in the United States today, okay. Then stop pretending to be a civil rights organization.
If you want to return to your original mission of protecting the civil rights of all minorities, then join us and do the real work. Start by ending these Deadly Exchange programs, now.
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From: Ben, Seth, Elsie, Erica, and the rest of the team, MoveOn.org Civic
Subject: BREAKING: The next big fight begins
BREAKING: Republicans in the Senate (and only Republicans) just approved a budget that envisions a grotesque future—trillions of dollars in tax giveaways to the ultra wealthy, funded by cutting trillions from Medicaid, Medicare, and other vital programs for the poor and middle class.1,2
This vote is the starting gun for what might be the most consequential legislative fight of the Trump era: the looting of the U.S. treasury to reward billionaire GOP donors and mega-corporations, at the expense of the rest of us.
If Republicans succeed, their backers will reward them with boatloads of campaign cash—fueling their efforts to hold power in 2018 and 2020. If they fail, they'll turn on each other—opening the door toward a potential Democratic landslide. And beyond the political stakes, the human impact is vast: the acceleration of plutocracy in America and the shredding of the basic protections that tens of millions of American families depend on.
MoveOn, as part of the larger Resistance movement, is gearing up to tackle this fight with all of the urgency and relentlessness that we've brought to the battle against the Affordable Care Act repeal. Read on for a quick briefing on what's to come, but first, I need to ask you:
Can you chip in $10 to help fund our fight against tax giveaways to billionaires? Donate
Here's how this fight will go down:
Tonight's vote was on a budget resolution. Budget resolutions are nonbinding—they don't become law. Instead, they are moral documents—statements of priorities that shape future legislation. They have one critical function: You need to pass a budget resolution to open the door to a budget reconciliation bill, which is the only kind of tax cut bill that can't be filibustered, so it would need only 51 votes. And one of those 51 votes could be Vice President Mike Pence.
In other words, with this budget resolution in place, the GOP can shoot for a tax bill without a single Democratic vote. To defeat it, we'll need unified Democratic opposition, plus three Republicans in the Senate or 24 in the House. It's the same math that we faced with health care repeal. But winning this one will be even harder.
After the House and Senate iron out the differences between their budget resolutions (likely before Halloween), we'll enter the second stage of the battle: the fight over the tax scheme in the House.
Amidst the constant barrage of other news, the tax fight has been relatively low-profile so far. It'll probably stay that way until some time in early November, when the curtain is pulled back and the House GOP tax bill is revealed.
The public's reaction at that moment will be critical. Donanld Trump and his Republican pals will be in turbo spin mode, lying about who would benefit. (If you think that Trump has told some wild lies so far, wait until he has the chance to lie about money and a bill that would make him richer.) We can't let them get away with this. If enough of us raise our voices, together—with phone calls, protests, social media posts, letters to the editor—we can break through and make sure that the public learns what's really in the GOP bill and how it will tear at communities and hurt families around the country.
If the GOP has its way, the bill will sail through the House before Thanksgiving. But if we succeed in fighting back and make sure that it doesn't pass in November, there's a good chance that it won't pass in early December either, due to a hard deadline to pass a different, politically-complicated bill in order to avoid a government shutdown.
At some point, though, there's a good chance that this bill will pass the House. Then it goes to the Senate—the critical battlefield, where, again, three Republicans means victory.
Bob Corker of Tennessee has already said that he won't vote for a tax cut that raises the deficit by even a dime—and the GOP bill certainly does, ballooning it by at least $1.5 trillion. If Corker stands by that commitment (and we won't know until there's an actual vote), that means that we still need to secure two more Republican votes. And more if we can win them, just in case. This is our mission.
Just as with health care, we'll work in close partnership with a huge array of allies. MoveOn is a key part of two coalitions: Not One Penny—as in, not one penny in tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy corporations—and Americans for Tax Fairness. We'll partner on days of action, coordinate floods of calls to Congress, and use creative ways to channel and dramatize the public's opposition to a bill that would make an already-rigged economy much more rigged in favor of the already best-off.
And all along the way, we'll make clear who ultimately pays for these tax cuts: people who depend on Medicaid, Medicare, and other essential government services to stay alive.
The GOP knows the political stakes. As Lindsey Graham said on national television, if Republicans don't pass these tax cuts, "we're dead."3 If they can't cut taxes for the rich and repeal the Affordable Care Act, he said that "[they're] going to lose across the board in the House in 2018."4
If the GOP loses in 2018, the American people win. And that's exactly our plan. Can you help make that happen?
Because you've saved your payment information with MoveOn, your donation will go straight through. Donate
The fight over the GOP tax bill is ultimately a fight about the moral character of our country. Are we a democracy, with government by, of, and for the people? Or are we an oligarchy, ruled by a tiny, self-serving elite?
Win or lose, standing up for the fundamental democratic idea of America is a central challenge of our time. It's a fight that we have to take part in. It's a fight that our grandchildren will thank us for winning.
Sources:
- "Senate Approves Budget Plan That Smooths Path Toward Tax Cut," The New York Times, October 19, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/19404?t=4&akid=191854%2E1195276%2EGKnjWs - "Republican Budget Priorities, Tax Breaks for Billionaires, Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid," Senate Budget Committee Minority Staff, accessed October 19, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/19386?t=6&akid=191854%2E1195276%2EGKnjWs - "Will Congress pass tax reform? 'If we don't we're dead,' says Sen. Lindsey Graham," CBS News, October 15, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/19377?t=8&akid=191854%2E1195276%2EGKnjWs - Ibid
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From: Thomas Scott
Subject: Guns (in) Control; Law & Disorder; Who Started #MeToo; How 'Protection' Works; Anita Hill
- How Chicago Gets Its Guns — ProPublica
- Gun waiting periods prevent hundreds of homicides, according to 45-year study
- Major Gunmaker Admits “Heightened Fears” of Crime and Terrorism Help Sales
- Meet Tarana Burke, Activist Who Started “Me Too” Campaign to Ignite Conversation on Sexual Assault
- How Lawyers Protect the Harvey Weinstein in Your Workplace
- Anita Hill on the Weinstein Scandal: This Type of Shit Happens Every Day
From: Daytonians Against War Now (DWAN) On Behalf Of Logan Martinez
Subject: [DAWN] Stop the Unconstitutional War in Yemen
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/opinion/yemen-war-unconstitutional.html
Stop the Unconstitutional War in Yemen
By RO KHANNA, MARK POCAN and WALTER JONES on OCT. 10, 2017
WASHINGTON — Imagine that the entire population of Washington State — 7.3 million people — were on the brink of starvation, with the port city of Seattle under a naval and aerial blockade, leaving it unable to receive and distribute countless tons of food and aid that sit waiting offshore. This nightmare scenario is akin to the obscene reality occurring in the Middle East’s poorest country, Yemen, at the hands of the region’s richest, Saudi Arabia, with unyielding United States military support that Congress has not authorized and that therefore violates the Constitution.
For nearly three years, the United States has been participating alongside a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in a brutal military campaign in Yemen. The United States is selling the Saudi monarchy missiles and warplanes, assisting in the coalition’s targeting selection for aerial bombings and actively providing midair refueling for Saudi and United Arab Emirates jets that conduct indiscriminate airstrikes — the leading cause of civilian casualties. Meanwhile, the Saudi coalition is starving millions of Yemenis as a grotesque tactic of war.
This is horrifying. We have therefore introduced a bipartisan congressional resolution to withdraw American armed forces from these unauthorized hostilities in order to help put an end to the suffering of a country approaching “a famine of biblical proportions,” in the words of Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council. After all, as Foreign Policy has reported, the Saudi coalition’s “daily bombing campaign would not be possible without the constant presence of U.S. Air Force tanker planes refueling coalition jets.”
How did we get to this point?
In March 2015, the United States introduced its armed forces into the Saudi regime’s war against an uprising of Yemen’s Houthis, a rebel group that rapidly took control of Yemen’s capital, Sana, and eventually most of the country’s cities, by allying with forces loyal to an ousted former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. But the Shiite Houthi rebels are in no way connected to the Sunni extremists of Al Qaeda or the Islamic State, which the United States has been going after across the globe under the Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001. American participation in the war in Yemen is not covered by that authorization.
Al Qaeda has been referred to by The Associated Press as a “de facto ally” of Saudi Arabia and its coalition in their shared battle against the Houthis. This raises the question: Whom are we actually supporting in Yemen?
American involvement in this unauthorized conflict against the Houthis was pursued by the Obama administration for political purposes — “a way of repairing strained ties with the Saudis, who strongly opposed the July 2015 nuclear deal with Iran,” as Foreign Policy put it.
There’s a good reason that the Constitution reserves for Congress the right to declare war — a clause taken in modern times as forbidding the president from pursuing an unauthorized war in the absence of an actual or imminent threat to the nation. Clearly, the founders’ intent was to prevent precisely the kind of dangerous course we’re charting.
The State Department found that the Saudi war against the Houthis has allowed Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamic State’s Yemen branch “to deepen their inroads across much of the country.” In other words, the power vacuum left by the war has made Al Qaeda’s deadliest branch stronger than ever — yet there’s never been a public debate over the American role in deepening that threat to our own national security.
Four decades ago, as a bloody United States military campaign across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos drew to a close, Congress overrode President Richard Nixon’s veto to enact the War Powers Resolution of 1973, reflecting the legislature’s determination to confront executive overreach as a coequal branch of government. Now we congressmen are invoking a provision of that 1973 law, which defines the introduction of armed forces to include coordinating, participating in the movement of, or accompanying foreign military forces engaged in hostilities.
That law affords our bill “privileged” status, guaranteeing a full floor vote to remove unauthorized United States forces from Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemeni Houthis. In doing so, we aim to reassert Congress’s sole constitutional authority to debate and declare war.
This resolution may create discomfort for some of our colleagues who have been content to cede Congress’s oversight responsibilities to the White House and Pentagon in recent decades. But now more than ever, the House of Representatives must serve as a counterweight to an executive branch that has long run roughshod over the Constitution — especially at a time when our president has threatened, in front of the United Nations, to “totally destroy” an entire country, North Korea.
Exercising our constitutional duty is the key to alleviating the catastrophe that’s engulfing Yemen.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs declared last April that “Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world,” and in August the charity Save the Children warned that one million malnourished Yemeni children were at risk of contracting cholera. Nowhere else on earth today is there a catastrophe that is so profound and affects so many lives, yet could be so easy to resolve: halt the bombing, end the blockade, and let food and medicine into Yemen so that millions may live.
We believe that the American people, if presented with the facts of this conflict, will oppose the use of their tax dollars to bomb and starve civilians in order to further the Saudi monarchy’s regional goals. Our House resolution is a first step in expanding democracy into an arena long insulated from public accountability. Too many lives hang in the balance to allow this American war to continue without congressional consent. When our bill comes to the floor for a vote, our colleagues should consider first the solution proposed by the director of Unicef, Anthony Lake, for stopping the unimaginable suffering of millions of Yemenis: “Stop the war.”
Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, and Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican, are members of the House Armed Services Committee.
Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin Democrat in the House, is a co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
From: Lori Price; CLG News Editor-in-Chief, Legitgov
Subject: Evidence of Military Grade EMF Accelerants Used in Sonoma, Napa Fires
News Updates from CLG on 20 October 2017, http://www.legitgov.org/
All links are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Previous edition: Russian defence ministry doubles down, again accuses U.S. of supporting ISIS --which, of course, Google relegated to the sp*m bin. Here is a recap of the top three stories sent Thursday, for those who didn't receive that edition:
Russian defence ministry doubles down, again accuses U.S. of supporting ISIS | 04 Oct 2017 |
Britain makes battle plans for war with North Korea: Top brass could send new aircraft carrier before it's even had flight trials --A senior Whitehall source said: 'We have plenty of ships to send' | 08 Oct 2017 |
'Betting on the downfall': George Soros had a $42 million short open on MGM | 10 Oct 2017|
Evidence of Military Grade EMF Accelerants Used in Sonoma, Napa Fires Video/summary by inTruthbyGrace | 13 Oct 2017 | Something turned these houses into in furnaces to allow for near complete combustion... The evidence of what we are seeing defies the laws of physics for an open air fire, I have ALREADY documented the wind speeds were marginal for the areas at the time the fires started. The fact that a tree is burning AS IF IT IS A FURNACE is noteworthy and should be of great concern to anyone educated prior to 1995 when physics and chemistry actually taught us what is possible with a mere open air burn versus with a furnace. TOTAL combustion of material is NOT possible outside of a furnace, yet that is exactly the damage we are observing with temps reaching high enough values to MELT GLASS.
Proof California Fires Started by HAARP Matches | 14 Oct 2017 | The tree pictured is burning from the inside out! The video is very important with eyewitness testimony proving HAARP EMP weapons being used to start California fires. Some witnesses saw blue sparks and flashes in the sky that were NOT lightning! Some felt a weird energy in the air that made their heart palpitate. Some felt an "energy vortex" move through their homes. A firefighter known by one of the guests on Scott Bennett's radio show...told some shocking details on the air. He said a cop went and knocked on the door of a house and told them they had to be out of there in one hour. The fire was nowhere around the home at that point and that's why they had an hour. The policemen came back to that same house in 5 minutes and the house was fully engulfed in flames! No way the fire would have moved from nowhere around there to fully engulfing the house in 5 minutes.
What caused these fires in California? Video/summary by Jerry Toney | 13 Oct 2017 | ...What caused the fires in California? Yet the pine trees did not burn up. The homes and everything in them turned to white ash. Why?
Cal Fire incident commander: Investigations are 'confidential' --Death toll rises to 42; 53 are missing | 19 Oct 2017 | A Santa Rosa couple filed the first lawsuit against PG&E in connection with the deadly Northern California wildfires and alleges negligence and violations of various utility and safety codes. At the same time, the death toll from the disaster grew to 42 after the remains of a man were found in a residence late Tuesday, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office confirmed Wednesday morning. As of Wednesday, 53 people remained missing in Sonoma County alone although there are also wildfires in Napa, Mendocino, Lake, Butte and several other Northern California counties...As for the investigation into the wildfires, Cal Fire incident commander Bret Gouvea said the probes "are still ongoing." He added that the investigations are "confidential" at this point.
ISIS 'plotting new 9/11': Homeland Security chief says jihadists are working on a 'big explosion' and want to bring down planes to inflict mass civilian casualties | 18 Oct 2017 | Islamic State fanatics and other terror groups are planning another massive attack on the scale of 9/11, a top US security chief warned today. Elaine Duke, Donald Trump's acting Secretary of Homeland Security, said jihadists were using crude knife and van attacks to keep their members engaged and their finances flowing as they plot another 'big explosion' similar to the September 2001 atrocities. Speaking at the US embassy in London, she said intelligence is pointing to extremists plotting to take down planes to inflict mass civilian casualties. Mrs Duke said ISIS is currently in an 'interim' period focusing on a much bigger endgame.
MI5 boss Andrew Parker: UK terror threat evolving at scale never seen before | 17 Oct 2017 | The UK is facing a "multidimensional threat" that is rapidly evolving "at a scale and pace we've not seen before", the director general of MI5 has warned. Andrew Parker said the security service is operating at an unprecedented level and has seen "a dramatic upshift in threats this year". "Today there is more terrorist activity, coming at us more quickly, and it can be harder to detect. We're now running well over 500 live operations involving around 3,000 individuals known to be currently involved in extremist activity in some way."
Multiple people injured in shooting at Swedish market | 13 Oct 2017 | At least four have been seriously injured after at least one gunman reportedly opened fire at a market in Trelleborg, Sweden, according to local authorities, who launched a "major police operation" in response to the incident. At least four people have been taken to hospital, local media report. The police initially said that the four victims suffered gunshot wounds, but have later clarified their statement.
France approves restrictive anti-terrorism law to replace 2-year state of emergency --The state of emergency was imposed in France to combat terrorism in the wake of the deadly 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, and has been extended six times since. | 19 Oct 2017 | The French parliament has approved a new controversial anti-terrorism law, replacing the soon-to-expire two-year state of emergency. The new legislation has prompted fears it will severely limit civil liberties. The French senate approved the new anti-terrorism law on its second reading on Wednesday...It also allows the authorities to confine suspects to their town or city for up to a year and have them report to police every day. Any movement beyond that requires them to wear a tracking bracelet.
Lawsuit Claims Three U.S. Companies Funded Terror in Iraq | 17 Oct 2017 | A lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday contends that major American corporations doing business with the Iraqi government during the Iraq War also provided it with free drugs and medical devices that became an important source of funding for a Shiite militia that targeted United States troops. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of members of the American military who were injured or killed by attacks between 2005 and 2009, at the height of the Iraq War. It accuses five companies -- American firms General Electric, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer and European drugmakers AstraZeneca and Roche Holding A.G. -- of winning contracts to sell their products to the Iraqi Ministry of Health with the understanding that they also provide additional medical supplies and medicines for free...After the 2003 [illegal] overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the procurement budget for Iraq's health [sic] ministry soared to more than 1 billion in 2004 from about 16 million, in part because of an infusion of aid from the United States. A State Department cable from 2006 quoted a top Iraqi politician as describing the health ministry as "The Ministry of Weapons Transportation."
Taliban attacks kill 58, nearly wipe out Afghan army camp | 19 Oct 2017 | The Taliban have killed at least 58 Afghan security forces in a wave of attacks across the country overnight, including an assault that nearly wiped out an army camp in southern Kandahar province, officials said Thursday. The attack on the army camp took place late on Wednesday and involved two suicide car bombs, said spokesman Dawlat Wazir. It set of hours of fighting, killing at least 43 soldiers. Nine other soldiers were wounded and six have gone missing, Wazir said, adding that 10 attackers were killed.
2 children injured in Afghanistan as US troops allegedly 'open fire' on them | 17 Oct 2017 | US forces in Afghanistan allegedly shot at and injured two children in eastern Afghanistan after their classmates threw stones at US military vehicles. Two of the eight pupils at a school on the outskirts of the city of Jalalabad in the Nangarhar Province were injured in the alleged shooting, its head teacher told RT's Ruptly news agency. Saying that the incident happened at 7:00 Monday morning, the man explained that he "was standing at the main gate of the school where the pupils enter."
Nuclear war may break out any moment, says N. Korean UN envoy | 17 Oct 2017 | North Korea's deputy UN ambassador has warned the UN General Assembly that the crisis on the Korean Peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment." Kim In-ryong said North Korea is the only country in the world subjected to "such an extreme and direct nuclear threat" by the US, AP reports. He accused Washington of hatching a "secret operation aimed at the removal of our supreme leadership" and defended his country's nuclear arsenal, at the heart of the crisis, as being for self-defense.
Trump's decision to decertify nuclear deal harms US credibility - Iranian FM | 14 Oct 2017 | US President Donald Trump's recent decision not to recertify Tehran's compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement will only undermine Washington's own credibility in the international arena, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. "Nobody else will trust any US administration to engage in any long-term negotiation because the length of any commitment, the duration of any commitment from now on with any US administration would be the remainder of the term of that president," the top Iranian diplomat told CBS News.
Trump decertifies Iran nuclear deal, imposes 'tough sanctions' on Revolutionary Guard Corps | 13 Oct 2017 | US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will not certify Iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement and deferred it to Congress to establish new conditions on the deal. He also announced new US sanctions against Tehran. "I am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification," Trump stated Friday. He said he expects Congress to come up with legislation that will amend the nuclear deal and "strengthen enforcement," as well as include Iran's ballistic missile program, and remove the 'sunset clauses' in the agreement. If negotiations fail, Trump said, "the deal will be terminated."
US troops met with 'overwhelming force' in Niger ambush, official says | 19 Oct 2017 | Confusion over what happened during an ambush of U.S. Special Forces in Niger earlier this month apparently sparked a full Pentagon probe of the incident announced Thursday, which some officials say could have had even worse casualties than four American soldiers killed from the small, "out-matched" team. Officials have described a harrowing burst of violence in or near a village close to Niger's border with Mali on Oct. 4, which led to the first U.S. combat deaths in the small African nation battling Islamist extremists.
Fourth U.S. Soldier Found Dead in Niger After Ambush Reportedly Linked to ISIS | 06 Oct 2017 | The death toll in the first fatal U.S. military incident involving hostile fire in Niger has been raised to four, after the White House said the body of a U.S. soldier who went missing during an ambush has been found. The U.S. service member's body was discovered by Nigeri-n forces roughly 48 hours after he went missing, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday. Initially, the government said three soldiers were killed and two wounded in the ambush. [What is the US military doing in Niger, anyway? Why does no one ask this question?]
Facespook: Social media giant becomes arm of US intel | 18 Oct 2017 | Facebook [FaCIAbook, as CLG has always known], the world's top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses. Purportedly with the aim of weeding out planting "fake news" and "foreign meddling" "globalists' meddling" in elections. If that plan, reported by Bloomberg, sounds sinister, that's because it is. For what it means is that people who share the same worldview as US intelligence agencies, the agencies who formulate classified information, will have a direct bearing on what millions of consumers on Facebook are permitted to access...Under the preposterous guise of "protecting" from "fake news" and "foreign meddling in elections," Facebook is turning into a government censor.
US consulting firm with ties to the Clintons lobbied on behalf of Russia's nuclear giant | 19 Oct 2017 | A Russian company, whose former executive was the target of an FBI investigation and who admitted to corrupt payments to influence the awarding of contracts with the Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation, paid millions of dollars in consulting fees to an American firm in 2010 and 2011 to lobby the U.S. regulatory agencies and assist the Russians, who would go on to acquire twenty percent of American uranium, according to court documents, a former FBI informant and extensive interviews with law enforcement sources.
A sixth shooting victim is identified by police in Delaware after three people were shot dead and two hospitalized in a Baltimore granite company - and police say 'armed and dangerous killer' is still on the run | 18 Oct 2017 | Police say that the man believed to have killed three people and injured two more in a shooting at a Baltimore-area granite company at around 9am Wednesday then shot a sixth victim in Delaware later on. Police said Radee Labeeb Prince, 38, opened fire at Advanced Granite Solutions in Emmorton Business Park, Edgewood, around 20 miles northeast of central Baltimore, Maryland, hitting five people, WBALTV11 reported. Two of the Maryland victims died on the scene and a third died later. One of the surviving Maryland victims is in critical condition and the third in serious condition. It's believed that Prince then fled the scene...in Wilmington, Delaware, and shot a man three times.
Police: Virginia State University on lockdown after shooting on campus | 15 Oct 2017 | A man was shot at Virginia State University Saturday evening and the school was placed on a lock down, according to the Chesterfield County Police Department. The victim in the shooting was said to have received injuries that were not life-threatening. Police say the shooting took place around 8:25 p.m. By late Saturday, they reported the campus was still on a lockdown.
Las Vegas massacre survivor dies abruptly after posting her detailed eyewitness account of multiple shooters on social media | 13 Oct 2017 | A woman by the name Kymberley Suchomel, 28, who attended the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, passed away Monday at her Apple Valley home just days after she had survived the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history unscathed, reports say. Suchomel, who posted her eyewitness account of the Las Vegas massacre in astonishingly vivid detail to her Facebook page on Oct. 4, subsequently passed away in her home on Oct. 9 from what reports are claiming were 'natural causes.' Shockingly, just days before her death, Suchomel posted key details about the shooting to Facebook contradicting the official narrative that Stephen Paddock is a lone gunman.
Jesus Campos, the Las Vegas security guard shot before rampage, has vanished --Campos vanished before scheduled appearances on the Sean Hannity show on Fox, as well as news shows on CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC. | 17 Oct 2017 | Unarmed security guard Jesus Campos, the man that many want to honor and who can help bring clarity about the timeline of the shooting has vanished from the public eye, less than two weeks since the Oct. 1 massacre... Sheriff Joseph Lombardo [a complete and utter tool of the Deep State sociopaths who executed this blatant false flag] also said the guard had been investigating an alarm for a door that had been left ajar on the 32nd floor, where the shooting occurred. He also said that [alleged gunman Stephen] Paddock had checked into the hotel on Sept. 25, not Sept. 28 as had been previously reported.
GOP staffer who worked for President Trump's campaign is found dead in his bed after being shot thirteen times by his 'best friend' roommate --He explained to deputies that he and Corvino were watching television and drinking the night before the shooting. Waddell told police that he could not recall harming his 'best friend' of '10 years,' adding that the two had been drinking together just a few hours before the shooting. [?!?] | 14 Oct 2017 | A former Republican Party staffer who worked on Donald Trump's presidential campaign was allegedly killed in his sleep by his roommate at their Florida home. Authorities say Nick Corvino, 30, was shot 13 times Tuesday evening in Osceola County, suffering wounds to his head, back and legs, according to The Orlando Sentinel. Police arrested Corvino's roommate following the incident, who was discovered with blood covering both his hands and feet when they arrived to the house. Scott Waddell has been charged with first-degree murder and is being currently held at the Osceola County Jail. Corvino previously worked as a GOP staffer on Capital Hill. He later campaigned for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, becoming his central Florida political director.
Oil rig explodes in Louisiana lake injuring multiple people, police say | 15 Oct 2017 | An oil rig exploded Sunday night in Lake Pontchartrain in St. Charles Parish, a Louisiana police department said. Kenner Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brian McGregor said Sunday evening that rescue boats are being sent from the Kenner Boat Launch, and that officials with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office are assisting, The Times-Picayune reported. There were "a lot of injuries," many of them serious, with at least six confirmed and more expected, McGregor said.
Dead woman billed on 100th birthday by Hollywood Hills nursing home [that killed her] | 19 Oct 2017 | Even though Albertina Vega is dead and the sweltering nursing home where she died is shut down, the facility still billed her on what would have been her 100th birthday. Vega, 99, was one of 14 deceased residents of the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills where the central air conditioning failed during Hurricane Irma. Carmen Fernandez, the wife of Vega's cousin, said she went to the bank to close Vega's account only to learn there was no m-ney in it..."I was enraged. They let her die and then they bill her," she said.
Up to 266 possibly exposed to TB at Durham school | 18 Oct 2017 | As many as 266 students and staff at Northern High School may have been exposed to a student with tuberculosis. Northern High students who may be affected by a potential spread of tuberculosis are being watched and treated for the infectious disease. On Thursday, students who have a class or ride the bus with the student affected will be tested, according to a robocall message to parents from the school principal, Dan Gilfort.
Dow hits 23,000 for the first time | 17 Oct 2017 | The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 23,000 mark for the first time on Tuesday -- just two and a half months after it breached the 22,000 milestone. Shares have mounted their historic rally amid continued optimism on Wall Street over President Trump's plans to slash taxes and regulations, as well as continued strength in corporate profits. Still, some strategists wonder that the risks of a bubble are growing.
Senate narrowly passes 2018 budget, paving way for tax reform | 19 Oct 2017 | Senate Republicans took the first step Thursday evening toward passing a tax plan and fulfilling a long-held campaign pledge. Senators narrowly voted 51-49 to pass the fiscal year 2018 budget after a grueling hours-long marathon on the Senate floor. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) joined with every Democrat to vote against the bill. The spending blueprint is key to Republicans' efforts to pass tax reform because it includes instructions that will allow the plan to avoid a Democratic filibuster.
Trump to Scrap Critical Health Care Subsidies, Hitting Obamacare Again | 12 Oct 2017 | President Trump will scrap subsidies to health insurance companies that help pay out-of-pocket costs of low-income people, the White House said late Thursday. His plans were disclosed hours after the president ordered potentially sweeping changes in the nation’s insurance system, including sales of cheaper policies with fewer benefits and fewer protections for consumers. The twin hits to the Affordable Care Act -- on successive days -- could unravel President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement, sending insurance premiums soaring and insurance companies fleeing from the health law's online marketplaces. After Republicans failed to repeal the health law in Congress, Mr. Trump appears determined to dismantle it on his own.
Trump eases ObamaCare rules with executive order | 12 Oct 2017 | President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at taking action on ObamaCare on his own after Congress failed to repeal the law. Trump said Thursday the order is "starting that process" to repeal ObamaCare. It will be the "first steps to providing millions of Americans with ObamaCare relief," Trump said. Administration officials said the order is just the beginning of the administration’s actions related to the health-care law. Experts warned that the order could undermine the stability of ObamaCare markets by opening up skimpier, cheaper plans that would divert healthy people away from ObamaCare plans.
Universities warn against costumes based on other cultures | 17 Oct 2017 | Universities across the country are once again encouraging students to think twice about their costume choices this Halloween, promoting the yearly "Culture Not a Costume" campaign. The "culture not a costume" campaign was first popularized by Ohio University students in 2011, with a series of images showing minority students holding photos of people dressed as interpretations of their respective ethnicities. This year, Towson University announced that is has joined "Ohio University and universities across the country in reminding our community this Halloween that 'we're a culture, not a costume.'"
Students aggressively mock, harass Charles Murray at UMich | 11 Oct 2017 | Charles Murray's event at the University of Michigan was completely overthrown by student protesters, who occupied the auditorium and loudly interrupted Murray for 40 minutes before sauntering out of the room. The event, set to begin at 6:00 p.m. EST, was immediately shut down by protesters before Murray even was given a chance to begin as one demonstrator projected a "white supremacist" hologram above his head...Until protesters left the venue, Murray was allowed only brief periods to speak, as one protester took to the stage to ask him a question.
Globe had 2nd warmest year to date, 4th warmest September on record --Arctic and Antarctic sea ice coverage remains small | 18 Oct 2017 | The average global temperature set in September 2017 was 1.40 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 59.0 degrees, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. This average temperature was the fourth highest for September in the 1880-2017 record. This marked the 41st consecutive September and the 393rd consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average. The year-to-date average temperature was 1.57 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 57.5 degrees. This was the second warmest for this period, 0.23 of a degree behind the record set in 2016.
The Polite (Canadian Way) to Get Rid of Bears | 19 Oct 2017 | The most Canadian way to get rid of bears (video).
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