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Abrams — RNC Going to Send Off-Duty Police Officers to Scare ‘Voters of Color’ Democrat Stacey Abrams claims Republicans are going to send law enforcement officers into minority neighborhoods to scare them from voting: “The RNC will be allowed to cheat and lie and go into polling places and scare voters, particularly voters of color.” Hat tip to Ryan Saavedra… Democrat Stacey Abrams claims Republicans are going to send law enforcement officers into minority neighborhoods to scare them from voting: “The RNC will be allowed to cheat and lie and go into polling places and scare voters, particularly voters of...

Second aircraft carrier can carry 36 J-15 fighters Global Times By Liu Xuanzun Source:Global Times Published: 2019/8/13 15:54:30 China's second aircraft carrier can carry at least 36 domestically developed J-15 fighter jets, some 50 percent more than the country's first, China's state broadcaster reported on Tuesday. China's first aircraft carrier the Liaoning can carry 24 J-15 fighter jets, China Central Television (CCTV) reported, noting the new ship's increased number of jets will add to its capability. Although the second carrier known as the Type 001A is similar to the Liaoning, it has an optimized flight deck, reduced weapon areas and...

Riot Police Intervene After Protesters Bring Hong Kong Airport to a Standstill 2019-08-13 Riot police stormed the Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday, clashing with protesters after several thousand people occupied the facility and caused the mass cancellation of flights for the second day in a row, amid growing public anger over police violence and government plans to allow extradition to mainland China. Reuters news agency reported that scuffles broke out after an injured person was taken out of the main terminal by medics after he was held by a group of protesters, some of whom claimed he was an...

President Trump is leading top Democrat 2020 candidates in North Carolina, according to a Civitas poll released Wednesday. Harper Polling conducted the survey August 1–4, 2019, and asked 500 likely voters in North Carolina, “If the 2020 Presidential election were held today, which of the following candidates would you vote for?” Trump edged out all of the top tier Democrat candidates, beating Joe Biden (D) 45–44 percent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) 46–44 percent, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) 47–41 percent, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) 46–43 percent. Only Harris’s matchup fell outside the +/-4.38 percent margin of error:

Bahrain to Purchase US Patriot System to Defend Against Aircraft, Missiles - Raytheon Sputnik News 21:20 13.08.2019 WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Bahrain has agreed to buy the US-built Patriot anti-aircraft and missile interceptor system, the Raytheon Company said in a press release. "Bahrain signed an agreement to purchase Raytheon's… Patriot air and missile defense system from the US Army", the release said. "This letter of offer and acceptance allows the US government to begin contract negotiations with Raytheon for… an undisclosed quantity of systems and missiles". The release said that the venerable Patriot Integrated Air and Missile Defence System was designed...

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen said the markets may be wrong this time in trusting the yield curve inversion as a recession indicator. “Historically, it has been a pretty good signal of recession, and it think that’s when markets pay attention to it, but I would really urge that on this occasion it may be a less good signal,” Yellen said on Fox Business Network. “The reason for that is there are a number of factors other than market expectations about the future path of interest rates that are pushing down long-term yields.” The yield on the benchmark 10-year...

US inks deal to purchase Iron Dome missile systems from Israel Tue Aug 13, 2019 09:55PM The US army has formally signed a contract to purchase two Iron Dome missile systems from Israel, according to a report. America's military magazine, Defense News, said in a report on Tuesday that the US Defense Department had finalized a deal to buy two batteries of the Israeli-made Iron Dome missile system for its interim cruise missile defense capability. The report said the contract was signed in the last few weeks and that Israel and the US are currently in talks on transferring the...

Russian Nuclear Accident Highlights New Cruise Missile Moscow silent on radiation spike in northern Europe Bill Gertz - AUGUST 14, 2019 5:00 AM An explosion in northern Russia last week highlights Moscow's continued work on a new strategic cruise missile powered by a nuclear reactor. The blast took place off the coast of Nenoksa, a naval missile test site, on Aug. 8 and killed five people while briefly spreading radiation in the region. The site of the accident is near the port of Severodvinsk where Russian nuclear submarines are serviced. President Trump said Monday the United States is "learning much...

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released 330 pages of Justice Department documents showing Bruce Ohr, who was demoted from his position as U.S. Associate Deputy Attorney General in December 2017, discussing information obtained through his wife Nellie Ohr. This information included anti-Trump dossier materials, including a spreadsheet that tries to link President Trump to dozens of Russians.

PORTLAND (WGME) - Nearly 200 asylum seekers have to be out of an emergency shelter at the Portland Expo by this Thursday as the Red Claws move back in. While state and city leaders scramble to find them housing, some homeless Mainers say they feel left behind. The I-Team found more than 18,000 Mainers are on a waiting list for Section 8 and that's just one program to help low-income families get affordable housing. Many of those people are homeless and hungry and have already been waiting years for their number to be called.

Diversity officials at the University of South Dakota are asking white students to consider if they are “taking up” too much “space” on campus. According to a report by Campus Reform, programming created by diversity office officials at the University of South Dakota asks white students to consider if they are “taking” too much “space” away from minority students. “Are you taking up space or contributing to a space?” the graphic reads. The flowchart asks white students to answer a series of questions that determine whether or not they are contributing to the “diversity” of the campus. In practice, the...

More than 80,000 people have signed a petition urging the city of New York to rename a portion of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue — a stretch that includes Trump Tower — after former President Barack Obama. If the petition is successful, Trump Tower, the heart of President Donald Trump’s real estate empire and where he maintains a residence, will boast a new address: 725 President Barack H. Obama Ave.

Shooter Walks Free As Police Tackle, Arrest AR-15 August 12th, 2019 LOS ANGELES, CA—There was an attempted shooting earlier today but luckily, the police were close by. They managed to tackle the shooter's AR-15 to the floor. They pinned it to the ground and kicked it a few times for good measure, though it did not appear to be resisting arrest. Bewildered, the shooter shrugged and slowly backed away. "Honestly I was kinda hoping to make a name for myself," he told reporters later. "But they just blamed the gun. So... well, I guess I won't be famous after all."...

“Unplanned,” a movie about an abortion clinic director who left her job at Planned Parenthood, is the No. 1 DVD in Amazon sales after surpassing expectations in movie theaters. “You know, without being trite, I think the people have spoken,” Cary Solomon, who directed the movie with Chuck Konzelman, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Tuesday. “Unplanned” tells the true story of Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood clinic director who quit her job with the nation’s largest abortion provider in 2009 after having a conversion experience regarding the procedure. The movie, which stars Ashley Bratcher as Johnson, grossed...

Floundering presidential candidate and former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) will return to the campaign trail Thursday with a “major address to the nation” in El, Paso, Texas.

Well, perhaps not entirely without penalty, but the descriptions we’re seeing in response to Bernie Sanders’ recent accusations against the Washington Post certainly represent a change in tone from when the Bad Orange Man says mean things about the press. So where did this come from? It turns out that Sanders, along with other Democratic 2020 hopefuls are unhappy with some of the coverage they’ve been receiving and are, in some cases, blaming the press for their poor showing in the polls. But Sanders goes several steps further, building a conspiracy theory involving Jeff Bezos. (The Hill) The Democratic presidential...

Now time to begin report on internal research and monitor of Southeast Asia incidents. These that have verified by qualified specialist. Not so be alarmed. Real world attacks not spread geometrically as show in movies. But We will explain. A new age coming.

Trump: Personification of the traditional pro-business, pro-Israel America that has allowed Jews to flourish for more than 200 years. Look at France, Germany just two places in Europe unsafe for Jews, both riddled with Leftism and anti-Semitism With fewer than 450 days to the 2020 election, it’s no longer too early to assert why American Jews ought to vote to re-elect the president: Trump is good for America and America is good for the Jews. As the Trump re-election campaign debuts its “coalitions” outreach effort, the question inevitably arises whether American Jews will in significant numbers switch from their traditional...

2020 presidential long shot Bill de Blasio speculated about the death of alleged child sexual predator and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday. Epstein, 66, died last weekend from an apparent suicide after being found unconscious in his prison cell. The alleged predator had relationships with many influential individuals, including former President Bill Clinton and President Trump. Those relationships were called into question as Epstein awaited trial. De Blasio questioned Epstein's death during a Tuesday evening appearance on Fox Business' Bulls & Bears.

Full title: Schumer to ask Trump to divert $5 billion in border wall funding to fight gun violence, white-supremacy extremists Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Tuesday said he'll ask President Trump to withdraw his request for $5 billion in border wall construction funds, and to instead use that money to battle gun violence and white-supremacist extremism following two deadly mass shootings this month. Schumer's office said he will formally petition the president to put the funding toward gun violence research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Homeland Security counterviolent extremism programs, FBI domestic-terrorism investigations...