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Can you really go blind by staring at the Sun?
Post Date: 2017-08-21 10:54:04 by no gnu taxes
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It’s possible, but the hazard is often exaggerated. Even at midday, a normal eye will only let in enough light to heat the retina by about 4°C. You need at least 10°C to cause thermal damage. Looking at the Sun during an eclipse for more than a minute can cause damage, because your pupils are more dilated during this, but it doesn’t result in total blindness and isn’t usually permanent. If the Sun is within 10 minutes of setting below a sea-level horizon, the more dangerous short-wavelength light is absorbed by the atmosphere and it should be quite safe to look at the Sun.
Doug Casey on Asset Seizures
Post Date: 2017-08-21 10:31:30 by Deckard
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Justin’s note: Jeff Sessions wants to steal your property. Sessions is the U.S. Attorney General. Since taking office in February, he’s done all sorts of idiotic things. He’s threatened to crack down on the legal marijuana market. He’s attacked gay rights. And now, he wants to amp up asset seizures. This is when the government takes money and property from people. You don’t even need to be convicted of a crime. It’s a disturbing development, to say the least. That’s why I called Doug Casey as soon as I heard about it… Justin: Doug, what do you think of Sessions’ latest “bright” idea? Doug: Well, let me preface this by ...
Payback: Trump orders diplomatic response aimed at Putin
Post Date: 2017-08-21 09:55:19 by Tooconservative
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Will the US response to Russia’s diplomatic maneuver last month hit Vladimir Putin where it hurts? After Russia demanded a cutback of 755 positions in US diplomatic personnel, Donald Trump joked that Vladimir Putin had done him a favor by saving the State Department lots of money. Trump found another way to save money — cut off all non-immigrant visas for more than a week, and then severely restrict them afterward: The United States Embassy in Moscow announced Monday it would temporarily stop issuing all non-immigrant visas in Russia and then severely curtail visa operations as it slashes its staff to comply with the latest salvo in Washington’s diplomatic standoff with ...
Democrats long for Obama's return
Post Date: 2017-08-21 07:54:30 by IbJensen
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He’s been out of office for nearly eight months, but former President Barack Obama remains the Democratic Party’s best weapon for 2018. Democrats are already nostalgic for Obama as they battle against President Trump’s agenda. When he talks, they listen, as evidenced this week by a tweet from Obama about Charlottesville that became the most popular in the history of the platform. The tricky question now facing the party is how to use the former president on the campaign trail. Some Democrats are pushing for Obama to have a more elevated role, but the president has made clear he is wary of sliding back into the role of party leader, which could prevent new leaders from ...
Pope: Rights of migrants trump national security concerns
Post Date: 2017-08-21 07:40:38 by IbJensen
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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis urged countries on Monday to greatly improve their welcome to migrants and stop any collective expulsions, saying migrants' dignity and right to protection trumps national security concerns. Francis' politically pointed message was made in view of the Catholic Church's 2018 world refugee day, celebrated Jan. 14. It comes amid mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe following waves of migrant arrivals and Islamic extremist attacks. In the message, Francis demanded governments welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants, saying Jesus' message of love is rooted in welcoming the "rejected strangers of every age." He ...
10 sailors missing after Navy destroyer John S. McCain collides with merchant vessel
Post Date: 2017-08-20 23:13:07 by nolu chan
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10 sailors missing after Navy destroyer John S. McCain collides with merchant vessel By: Geoff Ziezulewicz and David B. Larter Navy Times 20 Aug 2017 Ten sailors were missing early Monday after the destroyer John S. McCain collided with a merchant vessel in the South China Sea, 7th Fleet officials said. It was the second major collision involving a U.S. Navy warship in the Pacific region in recent months, following one on June 17 involving the destroyer Fitzgerald off the coast of Japan, in which seven sailors died. Details on the collision Monday remain sparse, but Navy officials said in a statement that “search and rescue efforts are underway in coordination with local ...
Marco Rubio (AKA "Little Castro") Says It’s OK To Beat People For Their Thoughts
Post Date: 2017-08-20 20:04:47 by Hondo68
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In a truly “free” society, no one gets beaten up for their political views. Laws cannot be passed against thoughts or symbols. And mob violence is not allowed to rule the day. But Florida Senator Marco Rubio, like most establishment political hacks, is not interested in a free society. He’s interested in seizing power in any way possible. And if that means excusing and encouraging mob violence, to achieve his political ends, then so be it. While Rubio may rail against dictators, his statements sound eerily like the late Fidel Castro, and other tyrants like him. Rubio’s statement came in the form of a series of tweets he posted in ...
Jerry Lewis Dead at 91
Post Date: 2017-08-20 14:07:31 by A K A Stone
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It has been reported that the great Jerry Lewis has died. Rest in peace sir.
Antifa Protester Yvette Felarca Says Violence Against The Far-Right Is ‘Not A Crime’
Post Date: 2017-08-20 12:55:16 by A K A Stone
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Yvette Felarca, the Berkeley area school teacher and militant left-wing protester responsible for organizing the riot at the University of California, Berkeley in February 2017, claims that violence against the far- right is “not a crime.” Felarca, who belongs to “By Any Means Necessary,” a far-left group, is currently facing assault charges after she was caught on video assaulting a white supremacist during a July 2016 rally in Sacramento, Cali. The school teacher and her compatriots engaged in violent clashes against members of the far-right Traditional Worker’s Party, which had a permit to march in the city. The violence between the two groups resulted in a ...
Trump has made Afghanistan decision after 'rigorous' review: Mattis
Post Date: 2017-08-20 12:33:08 by A K A Stone
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AMMAN, Reuters - President Donald Trump has made a decision on the United States' strategy for Afghanistan after a "sufficiently rigorous" review process, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Sunday. However, Mattis did not provide details on when the White House would make an announcement or what the decision was on Afghanistan, where fighting still rages more than 15 years after U.S. forces invaded and overthrew a Taliban government. Soon after taking office in January, the Trump administration began a review of U.S. policy on Afghanistan, which has expanded into a broader South Asia review. "I am very comfortable that the strategic process was sufficiently rigorous ...
Watch: Boston Protesters Tell Israeli Flag Wearing Trump Supporter to ‘Get the F—K Out’
Post Date: 2017-08-20 12:24:19 by A K A Stone
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The Washington Examiner reports: Among the eclectic throng of demonstrators in Boston on Saturday, a supporter of President Trump found himself surrounded by protesters who yelled profanities at him. A man wearing an Israeli flag as a cape can be seen in a video shared by Univision’s Jessica Weiss, walking through a crowd of protesters. One person rips off his “Make America Great Again” and throws it away. Amid the obscenaties directed at him, one protester shouted, “Get the fuck out of our fucking town.” Another person can be heard urging the other protesters not to be violent. Weiss asked why he was in Boston to demonstrate, and the man replied, “I want ...
Jeh Johnson: Removal of Confederate Statues a Matter of ‘Homeland Security’
Post Date: 2017-08-20 12:17:01 by A K A Stone
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Former Obama administration official Jeh Johnson said the removal of Confederate statues was a matter of "public safety and homeland security" on Sunday. In the aftermath of deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., when a man with white nationalist ties was arrested for ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters last week and killing a woman, Confederate monuments across the country have been taken down. The furor in Charlottesville began with a protest by white supremacists against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Johnson served as Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, and he said on ABC's "This Week" that the monuments to Confederates were ...
A New Report By Intelligence Experts Reveal With Forensic Evidence DNC Was Not Hacked – It Was A Leak And An Inside Job.
Post Date: 2017-08-20 10:38:15 by A K A Stone
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A group of former U.S. Intelligence officers calling themselves the VIPs have authored an extensive report with forensic evidence that the Democratic National Committee was not hacked by the Russians in July 2016. The report alleges the DNC suffered an insider leak, which was conducted in the Eastern time zone of the United States by someone with physical access to a DNC computer. This report was shared with the respected left-liberal magazine, THE NATION. Author of that report is a well respected writer, Patrick Lawrence https://www.thenation.com/authors/patrick-lawrence/ His credentials are: Patrick Lawrence is a longtime columnist, essayist, critic, and lecturer. He was a correspondent ...
Tech companies crack down on free speech then label it hate speech like the true fascists they are
Post Date: 2017-08-20 09:45:46 by Willie Green
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Technology companies are confronting difficult questions about whether they should use their power to silence hate speech online
Several tech companies have cracked down on white supremacist groups in the wake of a rally in Charlottesville, Va., where a woman was killed by a car driven into a counter protest crowd
Facebook and Twitter took down the accounts of hate groups from their platforms. GoDaddy and Google banned neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer from their domain hosting services, effectively taking it off the internet
But many in the tech world wonder where they should draw the line when policing content, fearing the crackdown could lead to censorship
In an letter to ...
Boston Counter-Protesters Aim To “Make White Supremacists Hide Again”
Post Date: 2017-08-20 09:20:43 by Willie Green
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Editors note: This coverage of the Boston protest provided by our Media Consortium partners at the Boston Institute for Nonprofit JournalismHours before cops in riot gear escalated protest and counter-protest activities into a raucous scene in which marchers including many people of color were trampled, bound, and shoved to the ground, Saturday in Boston started off on a positive note.With thousands of demonstrators waiting on Boston Common for participants in the contemptible “Free Speech” rally to surface their hideous heads, thousands more—led by local and national Black Lives Matter fronts, along with the group Violence in Boston—gathered two-and-a-half miles ...
When Liberals Club People, It’s With Love In Their Hearts
Post Date: 2017-08-20 04:14:24 by Tooconservative
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Apparently, as long as violent leftists label their victims “fascists,” they are free to set fires, smash windows and beat civilians bloody. No police officer will stop them. They have carte blanche to physically assault anyone they disapprove of, including Charles Murray, Heather Mac Donald, Ben Shapiro, me and Milo Yiannopoulos, as well as anyone who wanted to hear us speak. Even far-left liberals like Evergreen State professor Bret Weinstein will be stripped of police protection solely because the mob called him a “racist.” If the liberal shock troops deem local Republicans “Nazis” — because some of them support the duly elected Republican ...
It’s Not Trump They Hate—It’s Us!
Post Date: 2017-08-20 04:04:19 by Tooconservative
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A storm gathers over the United States, threatening to inundate the very foundations of our civic edifice. In the heat of recriminations over the events of Charlottesville it would be easy to divert attention from this underlying reality. But the dangers are so grave that no effort should be spared in seeking to identify it and to respond to it. It is immaterial what President Trump thinks about the extreme Right or the extreme Left, for the simple reason that the campaign to resist Trump calculates really to accomplish the fall of something far more important than a president. We will understand this best if we revisit the months since last November’s election in a clearer light. ...
something earthshaking will occur during the eclipse. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-08-20 02:16:23 by interpreter
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I have a premonition that something earth-shaking will come to pass during tomorrow's eclipse. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It could be along the lines of a child will be born to a couple in Tulsa who are there to pay their taxes. (A bright Venus/Star in the East will appear over the Tulsa area around high noon very much like Venus appeared over Bethlahem when Jesus was born. Or it could be more like MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) if demon-possessed Mr. Un decides to attack us tommorow. Any thoughts anyone?
IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence
Post Date: 2017-08-20 01:46:08 by nolu chan
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IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence By Paul Sperry New York Post August 19, 2017 | 9:13pm Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian intelligence, knowledgeable sources say. What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has turned into a national-security investigation involving FBI surveillance of the suspects. Investigators now suspect that sensitive US government data — possibly including classified information — could have been compromised and ...
Linda Sarsour’s Terrorist Friend Stripped Of Citizenship, Permanently Banned From U.S.
Post Date: 2017-08-19 20:28:15 by Tooconservative
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An associate of Linda Sarsour and an organizer for the Women’s March – who is a convicted terrorist and murderer – was stripped of her citizenship and ordered to be deported from the United States on Thursday after lying to U.S. officials. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh (First name also spelled Rasmea), 70, lost her citizenship and will be removed from the U.S. for intentionally falsifying her U.S. citizenship documents after an in-depth investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), according to a statement from ICE. Making the announcement was acting U.S. Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch and HSI Detroit special agent Steve Francis. ...
Black Matriarch Demonstrates The Moral Myopia of Black Females [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-08-19 20:08:36 by Tooconservative
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Background: 28-year-old Michael Renard Grace Jr. and two accomplices entered a Pizza Hut in Charlotte, NC, with the purpose of robbing the establishment. Grace was armed. An employee in the restaurant saw Grace and his accomplices robbing the store and fired on Grace, killing him. The accomplices fled the scene. Just another day in the life, right? Oh no. The black matriarch who raised Michael Renard Grace Jr. to rob fast food restaurants has to get her two cents in. This is a special treat for me, getting to intersect the Black Matriarchy with the corrective nature of the 2nd Amendment. I’m positively giddy. “What is the policy of employees having guns on the premises?” ...
British spy behind Trump-Russia dossier could be forced to talk after US court ruling
Post Date: 2017-08-19 19:16:02 by Tooconservative
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A U.S. District court judge has put a former British spy one step closer to facing questions under oath about the controversial dossier he authored alleging President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team plotted with Russian agents. A ruling by Judge Ursula Ungaro allows lawyers for a Russian technology executive named in the dossier to seek British approval to question onetime MI6 agent Christopher Steele about the funding and sourcing of the dossier under oath. The request was made as part of a libel suit brought by Webzilla CEO Aleksej Gubarev against the website Buzzfeed, which was first to publish the dossier Steele prepared. “I suspect that I'll be the first to speak to ...
Fearing Trump deportation, Haitians head to Canada and risk dividing their families
Post Date: 2017-08-19 18:25:30 by Tooconservative
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MONTREAL -- Beads of sweat trickled down her forehead as Carole Wembert dragged one bulky black-and-red suitcase and toted two other bags, the load weighing heavy on both her mind and body as she approached the border crossing. After 15 years in the United States, the Haitian immigrant had quit her job at Walmart in Fort Lauderdale. She packed up her four children, flew 1,200 miles to New York City, took a bus for seven hours and then a taxi before finally reaching the heavily forested spot on the U.S.-Canada border that has become a word-of-mouth entry point to a new life for immigrants. The future in Canada was uncertain, but she was pretty sure what faced her in the United States: ...
‘Lay it on the line’: Judge in tea party case orders IRS to disclose employee names, reasons
Post Date: 2017-08-19 18:07:07 by Tooconservative
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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the IRS to name the specific employees the agency blames for targeting tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny and said the government must prove it has ceased the targeting. Judge Reggie B. Walton also said the IRS must explain the reasons for the delays for 38 groups that are part of a lawsuit in the District of Columbia, where they are still looking for a full accounting of their treatment. Judge Walton approved another round of limited discovery in the case and laid out six questions that the IRS must answer, including the employees’ names, why the groups were targeted and how the IRS has tried to prevent a repeat. At a hearing earlier this ...
Federal Judge Schedules Hearing on Legality of DREAMer Program
Post Date: 2017-08-19 15:14:54 by Tooconservative
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In my post on Operation Choke Point I mentioned that one of the hallmarks of the Obama administration was its use of lawless means to further a political agenda. In the process they were willing to damage and even kill people to achieve their ends. One of the major tragedies of this outlawry is his DREAM program. Rather than negotiate with Congress to regularize the status of a half-million-plus people who were brought illegally to the United States as children, he attempted to create a quasi-legal means for them to remain in the United States though without the ability to fully participate in the civic life of the nation. If you recall, back in 2014 an alliance of 26 states sued to stop ...
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