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Just happened upon this from Hong Kong. It is a live view of a demonstration there. What I noticed first of all, is that in addition to a bunch of people all hanging out there, in a place that has (never) been American. Has a crowd, waving five large US flags.

Cars are responsible for a lot of the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming, but so is their manufacture. Could plastic made from weeds, modular designs and other innovations help the motor industry reduce its carbon footprint?snip That's why Selena, a research group in Poland, is turning to plants that are not used in the human food chain as a potential source of eco-friendly plastics. It's called the Biomotive project and it has been awarded €15m (£13.5m) from the EU. Car dashboards and other interior components could soon be made from bioplastics, explains Wojciech Komala, research and development director....

Clinton Yates, a columnist for The Undefeated and a panelist for ESPN, became angry when a male flight attendant addressed him by his name. The employee apparently used flight info to try to greet all passengers by their names. And no, not just the lucky ducks in first class who get the warm lemon-y towels and warm chocolate chip cookies. But also the masses, ... And then, “Yeesh. I feel bad for all these people whose names were just put on blast for no reason.” Is your name “put on blast” when an Airlines employee says hello? Soon Yates began...

The father whose 1-year-old twins died after he allegedly forgot them inside a hot car in the Bronx for eight hours on Friday has been charged in their deaths, police said. Juan Rodriguez, 39, was charged with two counts each of criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter for leaving his infant twins, Mariza and Phoenix, in the back seat of his Honda Accord while he was inside James J. Peters VA Hospital in Kingsbridge, where he works as a social worker. The father, who lives in Rockland County, told cops he parked at his job at 8 a.m. He only realized...

We have seen people like Alex Jones and other conservatives get silenced, this is not new. However, Kathy Zhu was subject to one of the most childish and new liberal smear tactics; the take back. We all remember the kid in elementary school, who made up a game and changed the rules because you were winning. Maybe they even changed the rules because they didn’t like you. This is what happened to Kathy Zhu, she was subject to the Liberals who play this anti-Trump game in the same fashion as the schoolyard bully. The only problem is that they aren’t...

July 27 2019 Saturday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Ex 24:3-8 When Moses came to the peopleand related all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all answered with one voice,"We will do everything that the LORD has told us."Moses then wrote down all the words of the LORD and,rising early the next day,he erected at the foot of the mountain an altarand twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. Then, having sent certain young men of the children of Israelto offer burnt offerings and sacrifice young bullsas peace offerings to the LORD,Moses...

President Erdogan says Turkey may re-evaluate its procurement of the aircraft from the US following Ankara's suspension from F-35 fighter jet project. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said that Ankara may have to "re-evaluate" existing orders for Boeing airplanes worth $10 billion, in comments underlining the country's strained ties with the US. "I've told [US President Donald] Trump [at the G20 summit] in Osaka even if Turkey is not buying the Patriot missile system, we are buying Boeing," Erdogan was quoted by Bloomberg. "We are good customers. But if it goes on like this, we'll have to rethink...

“This is a 10-week gravid uterus,” Zoey Thill said, holding up a "pregnant" papaya the size of a large fist. “And this,” she added, gesturing to her own pregnant belly, “is a 38-week gravid uterus.” Thill, a New York City-based abortion provider, was explaining the anatomy of the uterus to a group of about a dozen of us, in Verso Books’ Brooklyn office on a Monday night. The narrow part of the papaya, where the stem would be, is like the cervix, she said. The broader portion of the papaya is like the upper area of the uterus known as...

MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE SUBJECT: Reforming Developing-Country Status in the World Trade Organization By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby directed as follows: Section 1. Policy. The World Trade Organization (WTO) was created to spur economic growth and raise standards of living by establishing international trade rules premised on principles of transparency, openness, and predictability. Although economic tides have risen worldwide since the WTO’s inception in 1995, the WTO continues to rest on an outdated dichotomy between developed and developing countries...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, July 26, 2019 Bronx Man Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support for Terrorism Delowar Mohammed Hossain was Arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport While Allegedly Attempting to Travel Overseas to Join the Taliban in Order to Kill Americans John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael McGarrity, Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, and...

KFC in Australia is re-embracing the chain’s full historic name it was known as prior to the 1990s: Kentucky Fried Chicken. It could be the end for the initials “KFC”. Not only that but the chicken chain’s famous slogan “Finger Lickin’ Good” is also having a renaissance. The firm’s Australian arm is busying itself trademarking a slew of retro themed logos, including a new signature for Colonel Sanders. Marketing and trends experts have told news.com.au, the re-emergence of the firm’s full name is a sign the public, wary of the modern day, is finding solace in nostalgia. It’s also an...

The U.S. government will pay American farmers hurt by the trade war with China between $15 and $150 per acre in an aid package totaling $16 billion, officials said on Thursday, with farmers in the South poised to see higher rates than in the Midwest.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he agreed to drop the threat of economic sanctions against Guatemala after the country agreed to apply new migration measures to citizens from Honduras and El Salvador, Friday, July 26.

In a 5 to 4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily given the green light to the Trump administration to reallocate $2.5 billion in Pentagon military funds for construction of a border wall, even as court challenges continue. The court's conservative majority, siding with the White House, lifted a lower court injunction that had temporarily put a hold on the move as the case proceeds. "The government has made a sufficient showing at this stage that the plaintiffs have no cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005," the court wrote in a...

* Kiev, allies want Ukraine to remain gas transit route for Europe * Current deal lapses at year-end * Europe stockpiling gas to guard against winter disruption * Russia previously halted transit, accused Ukraine of "siphoning" (Adds Novak quotes in paragraphs 11-12) MOSCOW/BRUSSELS, July 26 (Reuters) - Russia wants to strike a short-term deal with Kiev on gas transit to Europe when the current 10-year agreement expires in order to buy time to complete pipelines that will bypass Ukraine, four sources familiar with Russian thinking said. The current deal with Ukraine lapses at the end of this year. Moscow's stance...

You probably remember that Donald Trump won Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in 2016. Somewhat lost to history — but not to Trump himself — is the fact that he almost won in deep blue Minnesota as well. Trump insisted repeatedly on Tuesday that he’ll win Minnesota in 2020, first with a tweet posted in the morning in which he smeared Rep. Ilhan Omar as “America hating.” (Omar is a Somali refugee and one of the first Muslim women in Congress, and also one of the four progressive congresswomen with whom he’s been feuding since he posted loaded tweets asking them...

Jewish model Elizabeth Pipko says she has received numerous rape and death threats over her support for President Trump. Pipko is the face of the Jexodus Movement, which attempts to lure away Jewish voters who traditionally vote Democrat. However, she has received a violent backlash for her political activism. “I get a lot of death threats, rape threats and other things I never thought I’d receive,” Pipko told The Times of Israel. “I’m doing this for my people — not to sound cliché — for my parents and grandparents, who escaped to come to America so they wouldn’t have to...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Healthcare, Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to withdraw recognition of the special "developing nation" status of China and other relatively rich countries at the World Trade Organization unless changes are made to the body's rules. The global trade body uses "an outdated dichotomy between developed and developing countries that has allowed some WTO members to gain unfair advantages," Trump said in a statement. Without "substantial progress" to reform WTO rules within 90 days, Washington will no longer treat as a developing country any WTO member "improperly declaring itself a developing country and inappropriately seeking the benefit of flexibilities in WTO...

Democrats reacted with disappointment to Friday's Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to divert $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds for border wall construction. The 5-4 ruling, which broke along ideological lines, means President Trump can tap into military funds to begin work to replace fencing along the southern border in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Earlier this month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco had agreed with a lower-court ruling that prevented the government from tapping that funding. Trump declared a national emergency along the border to get up to $8.1 billion for wall construction,...