Girl Shaming at a Houston School | Houston Press
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Trump Says He Has ‘Obliterated’ ISIS. The Terror Group Seems Not To Have Noticed.
Trump claims he has “eradicated,” “wiped out” and even “absolutely obliterated” ISIS, there is one group that has ignored the president’s words: the terrorists themselves.
According to recent estimates by the United Nations and the U.S. Defense Department’s inspector general, the self-described Islamic State has between 20,000 and 31,100 fighters ― figures nearly identical to CIA estimates of the terror group’s strength in 2014 when it was near its zenith.
What’s more, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ― or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as it is also known ― actually regrouped somewhat earlier this year. Foreign affairs experts suggest it will concentrate on overseas attacks now that it has lost most of the territory it used to control in Iraq and Syria.
Trump Says He Has ‘Obliterated’ ISIS. The Terror Group Seems Not To Have Noticed. | HuffPost
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Liberty Utilities still looking to sell Concord gasholder building
The future of the Concord gasholder building is still up in the air despite its listing this week on the National Register of Historic Places.
The new listing makes the building eligible for certain grants and tax breaks, but does not offer legal protection: Privately owned buildings on the register can still be torn down and replaced.
…Gasholder buildings existing in most American cities before natural gas become popular and while many still exist, Concord’s may be the only one in the country that still holds the huge machinery that was used to contain the gas. This is why it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Liberty has said that it could cost $500,000 to stabilize the building, which has suffered some damage over the years, and perhaps a million dollars to make it usable.
Liberty Utilities still looking to sell Concord gasholder building
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Despite rain, nearly half of New Hampshire is abnormally dry
According to the latest drought map, 48 percent of New Hampshire is abnormally dry, meaning there’s a fine line between being in the clear and a drought.
“We’re predicted to get more rain all the way through August, without getting dry hot conditions, which the big issue there is people using a lot of water when it’s dry and hot,” said Stacey Herbold, of the NH Drought Management Team.
Despite rain, nearly half of New Hampshire is abnormally dry
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Trump asks SEC to consider ending required quarterly reports
Quarterly financial reports are a staple of U.S. corporate practice. The SEC requires public companies to report profit, revenue and other figures publicly every three months. The requirement dates to the establishment of the agency in the 1930s Great Depression, as a way to give investors confidence in company information.
Experts have long asserted that the practice of companies publicly forecasting every quarter how they expect earnings to shake out puts too much stress on short-term performance and stock price gains. That can pressure executives to engage in reckless practices to hit quarterly targets or even to manipulate earnings reports. But quarterly reports on results are distinct from the so-called earnings guidance that company executives provide as a forecast.
The SEC in 2016 considered the idea of cutting the quarterly requirement, and signaled that it might do so.
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said in a statement Friday that the agency “continues to study” the reporting requirement as well as other rules for public companies.
Trump asks SEC to consider ending required quarterly reports – ABC News
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‘I met my IS captor on a German street’
A Yazidi teenager sold into slavery by Islamic State has told the BBC of her horror after she escaped to Germany, only to come face-to-face with her captor in the street.
Ashwaq was only 14 when Islamic State fighters stormed into northern Iraq, including the heartland of the Yazidi people.
They took thousands of women as sex slaves, including Ashwaq – sold for $100 to a man named Abu Humam.
Raped and beaten, she managed to escape three months later and then went to Germany with her mother and one brother.
A few months ago, on the street outside a supermarket, she heard someone call out her name.
…”I know you, he said. And where you live and who you live with. He knew everything about my life in Germany.”
‘I met my IS captor on a German street’ – BBC News
wow….
Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers
A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company’s work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.
Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers : NPR
Police use Taser on 87-year-old woman cutting dandelion green in a vacant lot across from her house
Police use Taser on 87-year-old woman cutting dandelions with a knife – CNN
Jeezus Christ…
The fact that the police responding to this call, even after the caller said it was an older woman cutting vegetation.
The caller should be facing charges of harassment and making a nuisance call and the officer who fired his taser should be relived of his badge immediately and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If the officer didn’t posses the ability to employ better judgment than that they had not business in the uniform.
Mueller team wants George Papadopoulos jailed 6 months
Federal authorities had cornered the man they suspected could be part of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election — and they might have been more successful in their investigation in early 2017 if it had not been for George Papadopoulos, the special counsel alleged on Friday.
…Papadopoulos lied to the FBI in January 2017 about his contact in London with Joseph Mifsud,identified in the filing as “the Professor.” Mifsud had told Papadopoulos the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
…Papadopoulos lied “to minimize both his own role as a witness and the extent of the campaign’s knowledge of his contacts,” the prosecutors said.
Among “at least a dozen” lies at the interview, Papadopoulos concealed the “significance” of when he had learned that Russians possessed thousands of emails about Clinton. Papadopoulos said wrongly several times he had communicated with Mifsud before he joined the Trump campaign.
…In another curious detail in the filing, the special counsel team said Papadopoulos had been given $10,000 in cash “from a foreign national whom he believed was likely an intelligence officer of a foreign country.” The filing noted that the country was “other than Russia.”
Mueller has also recommended a $9,500 fine.
Papadopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Sept. 7.
Another defendant, Alex van der Zwaan, also pleaded guilty to lying to investigators. He received 30 days in prison.
Mueller team wants George Papadopoulos jailed 6 months – CNNPolitics
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Trump considering Erik Prince’s plan to privatize Afghanistan war
…[Trump]has shown interest in a proposal by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to privatize the war.
…He envisions replacing troops with private military contractors who would work for a US envoy for the war who would report to the president. [Cutting the Pentagon, Defense Department and the entire Military out]
…Trump’s national security team was reportedly aghast at the idea.
…And a senior State Department official said there’s “not a chance” it will be adopted.
Trump considering Erik Prince’s plan to privatize Afghanistan war
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Kanye West Defends Trump—Until Jimmy Kimmel Brings Up Migrant Children
When asked if he was concerned about his wife being in the same room as Trump, West replied, “Well, he is a player”—a characterization that the women who have accused the president of sexual misconduct might disagree with.
…“The main thing that I was stressing is the idea of trying love,” West said, speaking again about his TMZ Live appearance. “We’re always pushing out so much hate, and love can cure so much. Just to think, ‘Am I moving in love? Is this out of love, not out of pride?’ . . . When I see people even just go at the president, it’s like, why not try love?”
Then came one of the few moments where Kimmel interrupted his guest. As nice as that message sounds, Kimmel told West, Trump and his administration were literally tearing families apart at the border. “You so famously and so powerfully said, ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people,’” Kimmel said. “It makes me wonder what makes you think that Donald Trump does—or [that he cares] about any people at all.” For a few moments, West was speechless. Then Kimmel cut to commercial.
Kanye West Defends Trump—Until Jimmy Kimmel Brings Up Migrant Children | Vanity Fair
Kayne is such a douchey moron.
Brock Turner Has Lost His Appeal And Remains Guilty Of Sexual Assault
Brock Turner Has Lost His Appeal And Remains Guilty Of Sexual Assault
And a little good news to add to the mix…
Puerto Rico Concedes Hurricane Maria Killed 1,400 People
Puerto Rico Concedes= Hurricane Maria Killed 1,400 People | Time
this cannot be a surprise to anyone who paid any attention.
New Study Indicates That Watching The Kardashians Makes You Less of a Good Person
According to The Telegraph, the study used two control groups, totaling 487 individuals. The people in the study were shown specific media–one group seeing shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians and other materialistic media programs, while the other group was shown shows more “news like,” consisting of neutral images an natural scenery.
After watching the programs, users were polled and asked questions about the shows.According to the research, those who watched Keeping Up with the Kardashians and other shows like it were exhibiting more “materialistic and anti-welfare attitudes.”
New Study Claims That Watching The Kardashians Makes You A Worse Person
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Is the Trump Administration Allowing Asbestos Back Into the Manufacturing Industry?
Is the Trump Administration Allowing Asbestos Back Into the Manufacturing Industry?
in answer to that question, yes, yes he is.
Better question, what does his greedy old fat ass get out of it???!
Maryland elections company bought by Russian oligarch close to Putin
Maryland elections company bought by Russian oligarch close to Putin | US news | The Guardian
Agggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!
No foreign influence over elections, ever! that is supposed to be how it works.
Why , in the everliving fuck, is this type of transacion not 100% illegal???!
Mystery Sting Targets U.S. Senator for Dirt on Russia Sanctions
A staffer for the senator responded to the email and proposed a date and time for a phone call between Shaheen and Rinkevičs. The supposed Latvian official, who called himself “Arturs Vaiders” and listed his job title as the “second secretary of the state protocol,” agreed.
But before the call could take place, Shaheen’s office contacted the Latvian embassy to confirm Vaiders’ bona fides. The embassy responded that the outreach attempt was fake.
Mystery Sting Targets U.S. Senator for Dirt on Russia Sanctions
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Michael Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, sources with knowledge tell CNN. Cohen is willing to make that assertion to special counsel Robert Mueller, the sources said.
…Cohen alleges that he was present, along with several others, when Trump was informed of the Russians’ offer by Trump Jr. By Cohen’s account, Trump approved going ahead with the meeting with the Russians, according to sources.
…The June 2016 meeting was arranged after a publicist who knew Trump Jr. told him in emails — in no uncertain terms — that a senior Russian official “offered to provide the Trump campaign” with damaging information about Clinton, and that the outreach was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” At the time, the Russian operation to covertly boost Trump’s candidacy wasn’t publicly known. Trump. Jr. responded, “if it’s what you say, I love it,” and started to arrange the meeting.
At the meeting, Trump Jr. was joined by his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, who was Trump’s campaign chairman at the time. There were four Russians in the room, including a lawyer with Kremlin ties, a businessman who worked for an oligarch and a lobbyist with old KGB connections.
…Even Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and top Trump campaign official, said the meeting was “treasonous” and speculated that “the chance that Don Jr. did not walk these (Russians) up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero.”
Michael Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting – CNNPolitics
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23andMe Is Getting Lots of Money From Big Pharma and Sharing Your Genetic Data
“It’s one thing for NIH to ask people to donate their genome sequences for the higher good,” Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, told NBC News. “But when two for-profit companies enter into an agreement where the jewel in the crown is your gene sequence and you are actually paying for the privilege of participating, I think that’s upside-down.”
Typically, 23andMe uses and shares its customers’ genetic data after it has been pooled together and stripped of any information that would allow anyone to trace back its origins to a single person. But more recently, the company has also asked customers for added permission to share their individual genetic and self-reported data with outside sources for research. Though this data is said to be stripped of information that would prevent identification, such as your name or date of birth, even 23andMe has warned it cannot “provide a 100 percent guarantee that your data will be safe” in the event of a breach.
Experts have feared that data leaks from genetic testing companies such as 23andMe would allow insurance companies to screen out people with risky genes, regardless of genetic privacy laws.
23andMe Is Getting Lots of Money From Big Pharma and Sharing Your Genetic Data
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23andMe Is Sharing Its 5 Million Clients’ Genetic Data with Drug Giant GlaxoSmithKline
23andMe is partnering with drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to use people’s DNA to develop medical treatments.
…If a person’s DNA is used in research, that person should be compensated, said Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.
“Are they going to offer rebates to people who opt in, so their customers aren’t paying for the privilege of 23andMe working with a for-profit company in a for-profit research project?” Pitts said to NBC.
In addition, even though 23andMe gets the consent of its customers to use their genetic data, it’s unlikley that most people are aware of this.
…The new collaboration isn’t the first time 23andMe’s vast pool of genetic data has been mined by scientists. The San Francisco startup has already published more than 100 scientific papers based on its customers’ data, according to yesterday’s blog post, by Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe’s co-founder and chief executive. In 2015, the company launched 23andMe Therapeutics, which focuses on developing “novel treatments and cures based on genetic insights from the consented 23andMe community,” Wojcicki wrote.
23andMe has more than 5 million customers worldwide who have had their DNA analyzed for ancestral data. People who would like to close their 23andMe accounts can go here, but the company notes that “any research involving your data that has already been performed or published prior to our receipt of your request will not be reversed, undone, or withdrawn.”
23andMe Is Sharing Its 5 Million Clients’ Genetic Data with Drug Giant GlaxoSmithKline
Did anyone with a brain not see this slimey corporate douchebaggery coming from miles away???!
Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
The suspension will last for 30 days, and affects only Jones’s personal account on the social network, not the main InfoWars account. His profile will continue to be published, but he will not be not be able to post content until the suspension elapses.
…The suspension means Jones will not be able to post content to pages for which he is a “page admin”. As the suspension applies only to Jones personally, the channel bearing his name on Facebook will remain active, as will InfoWars itself, which has several page administrators. The intention is to prevent individuals from working around the ban by using multiple pages to violate policy.
…Facebook has previously been accused of “light-touch” moderation for high-profile accounts, even if they seem to be repeatedly violating policies. Earlier this month, Channel 4 revealed, through undercover filming, that some accounts, including those of far-right icons such as Tommy Robinson and Britain First, were marked as “shielded” and prevented from deletion even when normal users would have faced action.
Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones | Technology | The Guardian
Facebook gives out nothing but a slap on the wrist. Might as well have done nothing at all. Lame-asses.
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