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The oceans are “crying for mercy,” a fact that is starkly revealed in a telling 900-page draft of a forthcoming UN report due for release September 25th. The draft report obtained by Agence France-Presse (AFP) assesses the status of the oceans and cyrosphere. It’s a landmark UN report, and it’s not a pretty picture. In the final analysis, the report amounts to self-destruction that’s largely ignored by most of the leading countries throughout the world. It’s all about greenhouse gassing as a result of human interference in the climate system. People are heat machines! The opening statement in AFP’s news...

Jurors in the Ghost Ship criminal trial acquitted defendant Max Harris on Thursday and hung on defendant Derick Almena, reaching the verdicts in Alameda County Superior Court five months after the trial started and more than a month after receiving the case. Almena, 49, and Harris, 29, faced up to 39 years in prison if convicted on all charges stemming from the Dec. 2, 2016 inferno that killed three dozen people at a warehouse party in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. Defense attorneys for Harris said he could be released from custody as early as Thursday, but Almena’s fate was less certain....

CHART BOOK INDEX Fiscal Policy Outlook: August, FY2019 Snapshot 2018: $779 Billion Deficit Higher Than Average Spending And (Eventually) Taxation Mandatory Spending Crowds Out The Budget Major Components Of Mandatory Spending Entitlements And Interest Is Squeezing Other Priorities Mandatory Spending Is Bad: Interest Is Even Worse The U.S. Is Borrowing To Pay Interest Costs The U.S. Runs A Structural Primary Deficit Debt Ultimately On An Upward Trajectory Debt Ultimately Approaches 1.5 Times The Size Of The Economy What Drives Our Debt? Congressional Budget Process Timetable SHARE CHART BOOK Read more: https://www.americanactionforum.org/chartbook/budget-chart-book-fy2019-q4/#ixzz5ygwA6HrG Follow us: @AAF on Twitter

WHY DOES A FIVE GALLON GAS CAN COST $20? WHY DOES IT TAKE THREE ARMS TO USE AND YET I STILL SPILL GAS ALL OVER THE PLACE? WHAT THE F*** IS THIS RIDICULOUS ENGINEERING OBAMANATION OF A CONTRAPTION AND WHY CAN'T I HAVE A NORMAL GAS CAN WITH A NORMAL SPOUT?!?!?!?! Prepping for a bad storm, I picked up another four five gallon gas cans to top off for my generator and low and behold, WTF are these nightmares? I spilled gas all over myself, all over the generator and all because some environmentalist dickhead managed to convince someone that...

The Department of Energy announced this week that it’s withdrawing the Obama administration’s energy-rationing mandate for certain lightbulbs. Opponents criticized the rule change, arguing that the move would be bad for consumers and the climate. The reality, however, is that families and businesses will be better off, and the change will have a negligible impact on the environment. The Energy Department’s decision to withdraw energy-efficiency standards for candle-shaped, globe-shaped, three-way and reflector lightbulbs is a victory for consumer choice. Whether it’s buying a lightbulb or a new car, families have different preferences and needs. They consider the various trade-offs in...

MEGHAN has sparked new concerns at Buckingham Palace — by using a Hollywood agent, lawyer and business manager. The secret US team is looking after her future career — and believed to be in negotiations for her first children’s book.

In a clear victory for consumer choice, the Trump administration's Department of Energy rolled back Obama-era rules that mandated the use of LED light bulbs. The Hill: DOE argued its rule will have little impact given the increasing demand for LED bulbs, which use less electricity than many other types. “This rule does not prevent consumers from buying the lamps they desire, including efficient options,” the agency wrote in the rule. “The market is successfully transitioning to LEDs regardless of government regulation. Consumers are clearly taking advantage of the energy savings provided by LEDs.” A senior DOE official told reporters...

A controversial Minnesota congresswoman known for racially inflammatory anti-Semitic views has publicly declared her support for a terrorist organization in her native Somalia. Democrat Ilhan Omar is demanding that a telecommunications company founded and operated by a renowned terrorist financier, receive protection from that country’s government and peacekeeping forces. An Israeli-based newspaper broke the story a few days ago, but the American mainstream media has been notably silent on the matter. The company, Hormuud Telecommunications, was created and is operated by Ahmed Nur Ali Jim’ale, a chief financier of al–Shabaab, an east African-based jihadist group that serves as Al Qaeda’s...

The woman was seen in video screaming at a group standing around the Mustang that was blocking her Mercedes-Benz in a crowded area near a taco truck on the corner of Western and Lexington avenues at about 2 a.m. Aug. 25, 2019. She then starts ramming the Mustang with her car, prompting the driver to get out of the vehicle, video shows. One of the car's passengers told KTLA the woman ended up hitting him in the leg with the car before she drove off and returned again on foot. “She ended up coming back on foot and assaulting two...

CNN’s seven hour Climate Change town hall Wednesday night was not enough to propel the network past Fox News and MSNBC in the day’s cable television ratings. During the same time period that Democratic presidential candidates were discussing their plans to combat climate change with a town hall audience, Fox News pulled in 2.5 million viewers compared to just 1.1 million for CNN, according to Nielsen Media Research Fox News also continued to dominate prime-time, averaging nearly 3.2 million viewers, compared to roughly 2.1 million for MSNBC and 1.4 million for CNN.

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Busted on Secret Audio Tapes Buffalo bishop remains defiant The beleaguered bishop of Buffalo, Richard Malone, is now facing furious calls for his resignation. The calls are reaching fever pitch following the release of secret audio recordings revealing that Malone himself thinks he will not be able to survive as bishop much longer. The tapes were recorded secretly by Malone's own personal secretary, Fr. Ryszard Biernat, during a conversation between the two men. In that conversation, Malone confesses that his own staff is saying it's time to go and that he does not think he can survive this latest...

The team of scientists found the Yilingia spiciformis, which translates to "spiky Yiling bug," preserved in layers of rock near the Chinese city of Yiling. It resembled a millipede up to 10 inches in length, broken into 50 segments across its short body. The spiky Yiling bug is one of the earliest bilaterians—that is, animals with bilateral symmetry, like humans—with segmented bodies and movement. They laid the groundwork for larger animals to move, think and impact their environment, he said. Scientists always assumed segmented bilaterians evolved sometime between 635 million and 539 million years ago, but they'd never found evidence...

U.S. Border Patrol agents seized over 1,200 pounds of marijuana in a single incident. Late Monday evening, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Special Operations Detachment working near Fronton, Texas, observed several subjects carrying bundles of narcotics across the Rio Grande. As agents approached, the smugglers abandoned the bundles and fled to Mexico. A search of the area resulted in the seizure of over 1,200 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated street value of $979K. Additionally, over the past three days, agents stopped five marijuana smuggling attempts resulting in the arrest of six narcotic smugglers and the seizure of over...

Cdl. Tobin Attends, Blesses Immigration Protest Leftist Catholic activists, led by Cdl. Joseph Tobin, protest separation of immigrant families NEWARK, N.J. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A New Jersey cardinal has spearheaded a protest against immigration enforcement. Cardinal Joseph Tobin joined hundreds of protesters on Wednesday outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Newark, New Jersey. The cardinal, head of the archdiocese of Newark, said, "I am Joseph, your brother, who has been heartbroken by the inhumanity." He went on to say, "I ask Catholics and others of goodwill to contact their elected officials and urge them not to manipulate immigrant families as...

Amir Tohid Fazel, Iranian state news journalist and the political editor of Mowj News Agency in Iran who accompanied Foreign minister Zarif during his European tour, last week sought political asylum in Sweden on Aug 21, 2019. Fazel was the first reporter who published a list of dual nationals in the Iranian government; an issue that irritates against President Hassan Rouhani, Zarif. In an interview with Swedish national broadcaster SVT that Fazel claimed “asylum” because of a colleague from Tehran warned him that four Iranian plainclothes agents had visited his office with an arrest warrant. Fazel said: “he had published...

To ensure safety of it's customers, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and many other retail establishments who have requested their patrons disarm before entering their stores, will soon start providing their own contracted armed security at all of their retail outlets. I have been looking for the headline above but have yet to see it.

As Democrats try to win control of the White House and the Senate in 2020, they face a geographical puzzle — the path to the presidency may conflict with the one to a Senate majority. Democrats’ best shot at the White House is to win back their old turf — the Rust Belt states heavy with working-class white voters who have become increasingly difficult to hold in the party’s tent. But the path to winning the Senate travels through what many believe is the Democrats’ territory of the future. College-educated suburbanites, young people and minorities make up the winning coalition...

Superman, Spiderman, Hello Kitty or FC Barcelona – if you had the choice to stylize your appearance according to your favorite superhero, which would you choose? This tough choice is one that faces Israeli children about to receive a bionic hand. And according to the man offering these hands, the more colorful and standout they are, the better. “For me personally it was a surprise that the kids don’t want hands that resemble natural ones, but technological hands that are similar to robotic ones,” says Yacov Malinovich, cofounder of Haifa 3D, an organization that provides Israeli children and adults with...

Economist Arthur Laffer weighed in on the trade talks between the United States and China, touting what a deal between the two could do for the market. Laffer agreed with President Donald Trump’s assertion that such a deal could boost the Dow Jones Industrial Average 10,000 points. “I think he’s right about 10,000 on the Dow,” Laffer told Fox Business Network “Mornings” host Maria Bartiromo on Thursday. “I mean, that’s a pull out of a hat, but frankly, it’s a huge thing for that because it starts having a dynamic consequence with the rest of the world — Japan, South...

What was a newsworthy thing to come out of CNN's interminable climate town hall snoozarama last night? Surely not the details of the various candidates' plans to "save the planet." No, the most interesting thing was the way that Joe Biden's left eye filled with blood during his appearance. While it might not bear directly on his fitness for office, it certainly does play into the narrative questioning Biden's age, health history, etc. If you're a Biden campaign aide, surely you groaned when it happened. And you braced yourself for media coverage, particularly by CNN, which hosted the event. But...