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The Department of Defense (DOD) has finalized nearly $2.5 billion in contracts to build a portion of President Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Pentagon’s top spokesman said Thursday. … The administration’s goal is to have completed over 450 miles of wall construction by the end of 2020, Hoffman added. “It’ll take a little while, as we do the planning, we buy the property, we do the environmental assessments . . . and then you’ll see a rapid increase in the amount. Right now, we’re at a pace of about a mile a day and we’ll see that continue...

THE STRANGE “WHYDUNNIT” MURDER OF BILL GWATNEY by Marshall Frank on JUNE 12, 2012 A number of mysterious homicides and other deaths are unexplained in the wake of American politics, strangely linked directly or indirectly to the Clintons and/or Barack Obama. Nothing is provable or determined to be sinister on the part of any politicians. Yet, questions linger. The following “whydunnit” murder got little follow-up attention in the media, though it leaves a myriad of unanswered mysteries about the possibility of links to political figures. On August 13, 2008, less than two weeks before the Democratic Convention, the chairman of...

The Department of State today notified the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the United States requires the imminent departure of two members of Cuba’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations for abusing their privileges of residence. This is due to their attempts to conduct influence operations against the United States. In addition to the required departures, travel within the United States by all members of Cuba’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations will now essentially be restricted to the island of Manhattan. We take any and all attempts against the National Security of the United States seriously, and will...

Aboard Air Force One En Route Joint Base Andrews September 18, 2019 THE PRESIDENT: (In progress.) I’m glad you got to see it. Q Was there anything that surprised you about seeing it firsthand? THE PRESIDENT: No. I mean, I’ve seen it. I mean, I saw it — tiny sections of it — when we were devising it. This was — you know, this is a lot — a lot of work coming out. We have two concepts. We have that concept and we have a point at the top — it’s a little complicated; nobody cares — but without...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Thursday after three instances of him in blackface resurfaced in less than 24 hours, but left open the possibility that more footage could come to light. “I am wary of being definitive about this, because the recent pictures that came out, I had not remembered,” Trudeau said, according to CNBC. Trudeau’s comments come after a video resurfaced on Thursday that showed Trudeau in dark makeup, raising his hands in the air and making faces while wearing a white T-shirt and jeans ripped at the knees. SNIP When asked if there were other similar instances...

A “Pastafarian” pastor on Tuesday gave an opening prayer on behalf of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster before a local government meeting in Alaska while wearing a colander on his head. Barrett Fletcher, the pastor, noted the duties performed by the members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in his message, adding a few of them "seem to feel they can't do the work without being overseen by a higher authority.” "So, I'm called to invoke the power of the true inebriated creator of the universe, the drunken tolerator (sic) of the all lesser and more recent gods,...

Yang: Climate Change May Require Elimination of Car Ownership Imagines 'constant roving fleet of electric cars' as alternative Graham Piro - SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 2:05 PM Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said the United States may have to eliminate private car ownership to combat climate change during MSNBC's climate forum at Georgetown University Thursday morning. He told MSNBC host Ali Velshi that "we might not own our own cars" by 2050 to wean the United States economy off of fossil fuels, describing private car ownership as "really inefficient and bad for the environment." Privately owned cars would be replaced by...

The surprising ‘belwhal’ DNA reveals beluga-narwhal hybrid by Philip Robinson This article is from Creation 41(4):19, October 2019 Three unusual-looking whales were caught in Greenland by Inuit hunters in the late 1980s—unlike any the Inuit had ever seen. Each was an even grey colour, with flippers like those of belugas, and tails like those of narwhals. One of their skulls was preserved; a DNA study has now identified it as a first-generation hybrid between a male beluga and a female narwhal—a ‘belwhal’. One of their skulls was preserved; a DNA study has now identified it as a first-generation hybrid between...

In 2014, Zahra Billoo, the radical executive-director of CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area chapter, tweeted that she “struggles with Memorial Day each year.” “If one dies in an unjust war in which we illegally invaded and occupied a sovereign nation, should that person be honored?” – @DawudWalid — Zahra Billoo (@ZahraBilloo) May 23, 2014 Billoo also retweeted radical comments from CAIR official Dawud Walid from Michigan and radical Islamist poet Remi Kanazi.

A federal judge ordered a temporary injunction Thursday against California’s first-in-the-nation law requiring candidates to disclose their tax returns for a spot on the presidential primary ballot, an early victory for President Trump but a decision that will undoubtedly be appealed by state officials. U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr. said he would issue a final ruling in the coming days but took the unusual step of issuing the tentative order from the bench. He said there would be “irreparable harm without temporary relief” for Trump and other candidates from the law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in July. Morrison...

Conversations about income inequality and pay equity have been elevated in recent years so much so that Democrats seeking the presidency have made the issues planks in their political platforms. But another chasm that is as yawning as ever, but doesn’t get nearly as much attention, is the health equity gap. According to a recent study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, African Americans specifically are at greater risk for the seven deadly diseases, which include diabetes, asthma, stroke and high blood pressure. The disparity is no more apparent than around heart disease,...

STATEMENTS & RELEASESText of a Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism  NATIONAL SECURITY & DEFENSE    Issued on: September 19, 2019   On September 23, 2001, by Executive Order 13224, the President declared a national emergency with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:00 P.M.) – The Russian Armed Forces have allegedly given the Syrian military the green light to use their S-300 system against Israeli warplanes that enter their airspace, the Russian aviation publication Avia.Pro reported. “Against the background of how Israel was repeatedly seen striking at Syria despite the previously reached agreements between Russia and Israel, a source told Avia.pro that the Syrian military received permission to use its air defense systems in case of the slightest threat from Israel, provided that the Syrian side bears responsibility for such actions,” Avia.Pro said. Despite completing the installation of their S-300...

Introducing: “Simjacker” a new SIM card flaw, discovered being actively exploited in the wild, which allows attackers to hijack any phone just by sending it an SMS message. Security Now's Steve Gibson has all the details. Watch the full episode of Security Now: https://twit.tv/sn/732 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Steve Gibson

The Orwellian dystopia found in 1984 is our future if the trendline continues. And a startling pathway to that future is beginning to congeal before us. George Orwell presciently wrote “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” This was accomplished in the novel through a device called the Memory Hole. Protagonist Winston Smith’s job, along with innumerable other workers, was to search the news archives for any stories, phrases or even people who did not line up with the current official worldview and history as dictated by Big Brother. If he found an instance,...

The Fall of Democratic Power Player Ed Buck Arrested California Dem donor propped up causes and candidates for years Joe Schoffstall - SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 5:00 AM Ed Buck used to mingle with prominent Democrats while simultaneously filling their campaign coffers with generous contributions. All of it came crashing down after two men died in his West Hollywood apartment over the course of two years and, most recently, a third overdosed but survived, leading to Buck's arrest. Buck was taken into custody Tuesday after he shot up his third victim with two substantial doses of methamphetamine, causing an overdose, in...

It's been six months since the heckling stopped. Six months since the last White House press briefing.... The media loved Donald Trump for decades—when he was an accessible real estate mogul and author, when he was a reality TV star, and whenever they needed a pithy quote about anything. But from the day he announced his run for the presidency as a Republican they’ve smeared him, heckled him and tried to ruin him. Trump has tried dealing with the national media in various ways, including returning their heckles from the stages of his massive rallies. They just go on distorting...

A federal court ruling over a ban on women going topless in public has essentially made it legal for women to go topless in public in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma, according to a local TV station. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is over those six states, struck down the topless ban in Ft. Collins, Colo. after two women sued the city for the right to go topless in public. Since Ft. Collins is not appealing the decision (the next step would be the Supreme Court), that means topless bans in those six states are...

Otay Mesa Border Wall Site San Diego, California September 18, 2019 3:11 P.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, why don’t you start, Kevin? And this has been a very exciting project, as you know. It’s — for many years, people have wanted the proper wall and we have a wall that — the likes of which, very few places have ever seen. And I want to thank all of the people. General Semonite from the Army Corps of Engineers — we’re working very closely with them. I want to thank Kevin and all of your staff — ACTING SECRETARY MCALEENAN: Thank...

Washington state's attorney general sued President Donald Trump on Thursday over his plan to shift more than $3.6 billion in military construction funding to help build a border wall. In Washington state, Trump's plan would divert $89 million from a pier project at a submarine base west of Seattle. State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Trump and other administration officials, saying it was a "misuse of his presidential emergency powers to accomplish an ideological political goal." The cuts stemmed from a Feb. 15 declaration by Trump that a national emergency exists at the...