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Is spirituality
causing you more frustration
than fulfillment?
Spirituality is a term I use
loosely. Many (or at least I
did) associate spirituality
with images of dedicated
gurus living off of sunshine
and plants, stretching their
perfectly sculpted yoga
bodies into even more
perfect asanas, and
meditating in the forest for
weeks and months at a time
in the pursuit of
enlightenment and wisdom to
save humanity.
The best investment is the
one that saves your life.
House Bill 668 is called the
Shield Act. Without passage
of the Shield Act millions
of Americans will remain at
risk in the event of an EMP
attack. What is an EMP
attack? A nuclear warhead
detonated at high altitude
produces gamma rays that
damage electrical
infrastructure on the
ground...
EMP could be used to disrupt
or destroy an enemy’s
nuclear arsenal. Realizing
this potential, the Soviet
Union and the United States
both developed super-EMP
bombs.
Congress needed to stop
President Obama’s nuclear
deal with Iran. The most
important reason — Iran can
threaten the existence of
the United States by making
an electromagnetic pulse
(EMP) attack using a single
nuclear weapon.
It may obtain one,
relatively easily, by
cheating in the use of the
nuclear infrastructure
permitted them under the
agreement.
Oh, hey, by the way, there
was a mass shooting at a
church in Tennessee
yesterday morning. ..
Perhaps I’m giving you
details you already know.
Maybe you read about this
story on page 14 of the
newspaper. I’m not
exaggerating, either. The
New York Times put this mass
shooting on page 14. The
front page was dominated by
athletes kneeling
In April, PJ Media warned of
an imminent threat to the
U.S. from North Korea – an
electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
attack from an orbiting
satellite. We reported that
North Korea already has two
satellites orbiting the U.S.
and that a nuclear weapon
detonated over the U.S. from
one could devastate our
country, resulting in the
deaths of tens of millions
from the loss of critical
infrastructure.
Just hours before Apple is
expected to roll out the new
version of its desktop and
notebook operating system,
macOS High Sierra, a
security researcher dropped
a zero-day...
Wardle has shown that the
vulnerability allows an
attacker to grab and steal
every password in plain-text
using an unsigned app
downloaded from the
internet, without needing
that password.
The government told The
Associated Press last year
that more than 20 states
were targeted by hackers
believed to be Russian
agents before the 2016
elections. But for many
states, the calls Friday
from the Department of
Homeland Security were the
first official confirmation
of whether their states were
on the list.
Florida Power & Light
Company
(FPL) today announced that
service has been restored to
essentially all of its 4.4
million customers who were
impacted by Hurricane Irma
10 days after the massive
storm exited its service
territory. And now, with
limited work left to clean
up in the hardest-hit areas,
FPL is releasing the
majority of its utility and
contract workers who
responded from across the
country and
Canada.
How is it that some frogs
are able to flush toxins
through their bodies that
poison would-be predators
without causing any harm to
themselves? Scientists have
pinpointed the mechanism
that enables some types of
frog to dodge the danger,
identifying a very subtle
genetic mutation that could
inform the development of
new drugs to treat pain and
even nicotine addiction.
Congress, virtually at the
last minute and unnoted by
the press, finally passed
the Critical Infrastructure
Protection Act (CIPA) —
arguably the single most
important piece of
legislation approved by
Congress in 2016 — by
inserting it into the
National Defense
Authorization Act.
Scholars have estimated
that, prior to the
‘discovery’ of the Americas
by Europeans, the
pre-contact era population
could have been as high as
100 million, you can read
more about that here. The
people that roamed these
lands comprised of extremely
intelligent beings full of
knowledge and teachings that
were, unfortunately
forgotten by most, but
carried on by a few. It’s
these teachings that can
play a big part in guiding
us back to a human
experience where all life
can thrive. Yes, it is
possible, our potential as a
human race is greater than
we know.
There are a number of
startups working on Elon
Musk's Hyperloop, a
tube-based travel concept
that moves pods at the speed
of sound, but none are
gathering quite the momentum
of Hyperloop One. The
company has today announced
US$85 million in new
funding, as it looks to move
forward with the development
of routes around the world.
Iran reportedly claimed to
have successfully tested a
new medium-range missile on
Saturday in defiance of
warnings from President
Trump who said he is ready
to scrap a landmark nuclear
deal over the issue.
Iraqi Kurds voted Monday in
a landmark referendum on
supporting independence, a
move billed by the Kurdish
leadership as an exercise in
self-determination but
viewed as a hostile act by
Iraq's central government.
Neighboring Turkey even
threatened a military
response.
It was 5-0 at the US Army's
White Sands Missile Range in
New Mexico as a Lockheed
Martin prototype laser
weapon system shot down five
unmanned drones with a 100
percent success rate. The
August test of the Advanced
Test High Energy Asset
(ATHENA) system against five
Outlaw drones was designed
to demonstrate how the
system's advanced beam
control technology and an
solid-state fiber laser
could decisively destroy
unmanned aerial threats.
“Meditating is a means
for you to move beyond your
analytical mind so that you
can access your subconscious
mind. That’s crucial, since
the subconscious is where
all your bad habits and
behaviors that you want to
change reside.” ~ Dr. Joe
Dispenza
Talks to update the
North American Free
Trade Agreement looked
set to intensify on
Saturday as U.S.
negotiators prepared for
the first time to unveil
their demands on some of
the Trump
administration’s most
challenging issues.
Teams from the United
States, Mexico and
Canada kicked off the
third of seven planned
rounds of discussions in
Ottawa amid warnings
from trade experts that
time was quickly running
out to seal a deal by
the end of the year as
planned.
Nancy Pelosi says GOP
only "misleading" Americans
on health care reform, but
Americans remind her of the
facts of history.
In the fight to reform
health care, House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) is doing
everything in her power to
discredit Republicans and
the Trump administration.
But Americans recently
called her out for
discrediting herself.
A new and unnumbered active
region is now rotating into
the earth-facing solar disk.
It is new active region that
only started to develop
about 24 hours ago based on
STEREO Ahead EUVI footage.
very low levels. Solar
activity is likely to be low
with a slight chance for an
M-class flare on days one,
two, and three (26 Sep, 27
Sep, 28 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on day one (26 Sep),
quiet to minor storm levels
on day two (27 Sep) and
active to major storm levels
on day three (28 Sep).
Major manufacturers in the
United States have set
ambitious goals around cheap
renewable energy, but they
are struggling to access the
clean energy they want
because of state policies
that limit procurement,
according to a new report
from David Gardiner and
Associates.
Republican Senators Thom
Tillis, James Lankford and
Orrin Hatch unveiled their
latest immigration reform
effort, a first step toward
fixing the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) program which the
Trump administration
recently announced it was
rescinding
Electrophotonic analysis in
medicine is something that’s
been gaining more attention
from scientists and
researchers from all over
the world. It’s one case -of
many -that demonstrates how
humanity is continually
moving toward a scientific
understanding of what is
considered Ancient Eastern
Mysticism.
We see similarities between
science and mysticism quite
often these days, especially
when it comes to quantum
physics and neuroscience.
The top securities regulator
in the United States said
Wednesday night that its
computer system had been
hacked last year, giving the
attackers private
information that could have
been exploited for trading.
The disclosure, coming on
the heels of a data breach
at Equifax, the major
consumer credit reporting
firm, is likely to intensify
concerns over potential
computer vulnerabilities
lurking among pillars of the
American financial system.
The discovery of a
sleep-like state in
jellyfish further enhances
the mystery of when animals
evolved to need sleep
The mystery of why we need
to sleep has perplexed
scientists for decades, and
evidence of sleep-like
behavior has been seen in
virtually every animal on
the planet.
A growing trend in our
protest-fevered country is
the practice of
demonstrators blocking
traffic and preventing
drivers from getting to
work, parents from picking
up their kids, a husband
driving his pregnant wife to
the hospital — any number of
inconveniences from the
mundane to the deadly
serious.
As you might imagine, if
protesters are just blocking
your vehicle’s path — and
nothing else — the options
at your disposal aren’t
many...
An Electromagnetic Pulse
(EMP) is an instantaneous
burst of high power energy
caused by man-made sources
such as electromagnetic
weapons or a high-altitude
nuclear burst, and occurs as
a radiated field that
couples on to electrical
lines, telecommunication
lines, and other metallic
paths into a facility. In an
EMP event, every piece of
unprotected equipment that
relies on integrated
circuits for operation could
be immediately disabled or
destroyed. The modern day
reliance on electronic
devices in all phases of
life presents an
ever-increasing risk of
catastrophic interruption of
critical business, control
and life support systems.
EMP protection has become an
essential element for all
businesses and services that
require electronic equipment
and communication for
day-to-day operations.
We cannot learn to live
with a nuclear-armed North
Korea because it is a pistol
aimed at our heads by the
North’s dictator Kim
Jong-un, China’s dictator Xi
Jinping and Russia’s
dictator Vladimir Putin,
that sooner or later will go
off.
The latest evidence North
Korea’s nuclear missile
program is being helped by
Russia and China is their
successful H-bomb test on
Sept. 2.
A U.S. trade panel has
ruled that low-cost solar
panels imported from China
and other countries have
caused serious injury to
American manufacturers,
raising the possibility of
the Trump administration
imposing tariffs that could
double the price of solar
panels from aboard.
Friday’s vote by the
International Trade
Commission was unanimous.
The trade commission has
until mid-November to
recommend a remedy to
President Donald Trump, with
a final decision on tariffs
expected in January.
U.S. Air Force B-1B
Lancer bombers escorted by
fighter jets flew in
international airspace over
waters east of North Korea
on Saturday in a show of
force the Pentagon said
demonstrated the range of
military options available
to President Donald Trump.
"This is the farthest
north of the Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ) any U.S. fighter
or bomber aircraft have
flown off North Korea's
coast in the 21st century,..
Tonight – at sunset – here’s
a natural phenomenon you
might never have imagined.
That is, the sun actually
sets faster around the time
of an equinox. The fastest
sunsets (and sunrises) occur
at or near the equinoxes.
And the slowest sunsets (and
sunrises) occur at or near
the solstices. This is true
whether you live in the
Northern or
Southern Hemisphere.
...the return and
integration of the feminine
into our lives is not just
about rebalancing, but also
requires purifying and
healing the feminine
energies within us and in
our world. We need to
recognise that our feminine
energy has a wounded or
shadow side that must be
acknowledged and brought
into the light if we are to
navigate our personal
evolution with discernment.
Sharks swimming deep in the
ocean, geckos climbing up
trees and wind turbines
towering over West Texas
don't have a lot in common.
At least, not yet.
"At the time, I had been
working on gecko-inspired
microfibrillar adhesives and
had developed techniques to
fabricate large-scale
adhesive sheets," Aksak
said. "To our surprise, we
noticed that sharks use
structures of similar
dimensions and geometry to
the synthetic sheets we
produce and decided to carry
out some preliminary
testing.
Bacteria could be
inhibiting the efficacy of
traditional cancer
treatments
The researchers subsequently
discovered that a bacteria
had contaminated the skin
cells and, just before
throwing it all in the bin,
they decided to take closer
look.
2017’s September equinox
arrives on the 22nd. Happy
autumn (or spring)!
The September equinox
arrives on September 22,
2017 at 20:02 UTC. Although
the equinox happens at the
same moment worldwide, your
clock times will depend on
your time zone.
A few weeks ago we shared
with readers a lawsuit filed
in Connecticut against
Nestle Waters North America,
Inc. alleging that the water
they marketed as Poland
'Natural Spring Water' was
actually just bottled
groundwater…the same water
that runs through the taps
of many American
households.
An MIT professor has
studied the worst mass
extinction events in Earth's
history, and calculated that
we may be well on the way to
triggering a sixth by the
end of the century
In the history of life on
Earth, there have been five
mass extinction events, with
the most extreme example,
the Permian extinction,
wiping out some 95 percent
of all marine life. Now, an
MIT professor has analyzed
the changes that took place
in the carbon cycle leading
up to these five main events
– as well as dozens of
smaller ones – and found
that the end of this century
could mark the tipping point
for a sixth mass extinction
event.
California Attorney General
Xavier Becerra plans to
announce Wednesday that the
state will sue the Trump
administration over one of
President Trump’s paramount
campaign promises—the border
wall.
This is an in-depth article
on the cycles of climate
change. The intent for this
extensive essay is to
provide those that are ready
with a deeper, science-based
analysis on the issue.
There is overwhelming
evidence that global warming
has happened. The question
addressed in this article
is, in 2017 (after 58 peer
reviewed papers were
published in the first six
months of the year clearly
indicating that we’re no
longer in a global warming
cycle...
The key to lean, it is
increasingly being found, is
to turn white fat into beige
or brown
White fat is the substance
that accumulates around our
guts and other body areas to
make us look more lumpy than
lean by storing excess
calories. Beige and brown
fat, on the other hand,
contains more mitochondria
than its white cousin, which
allows it to burn calories
such as sugar and other
lipids to create heat.
Having more darker fat, the
thinking goes, helps the
body become a more active
calorie-burning furnace,
which can help keep it lean.
Samantha Power, a U.S.
ambassador to the United
Nations under former
President Barack Obama, put
in more than 260 unmasking
requests regarding
intelligence reports last
year — and submitted others
just days before President
Donald Trump was
inaugurated.
Hackers have been hiding
inside Equifax’s computer
network since March — far
longer than previously
thought, a report says.
A confidential note sent
to Equifax customers this
week described how cyber
thieves infiltrated the
company’s servers more than
four months before its
security team stumbled upon
the now-infamous data
breach.
The entire country—but
especially the capital—has
all the ingredients for
seismic catastrophe
Each year, Mexico City
commemorates the anniversary
of its devastating 1985
tremblor by holding a series
of evacuation tests. This
annual rite both honors the
10,000 people who lost their
lives in that disaster and
prepares the city’s current
residents for the next
natural disaster. But
yesterday, soon after
business had resumed,
central Mexico was rocked by
a real—and
deadly—7.1-magnitude
earthquake.
Astronomers have
discovered a brand new type
of celestial object: an
active binary asteroid,
meaning it's made of two
rocks orbiting each other
while leaving a trail of gas
like a comet
The Federal Reserve is
expected Wednesday to
announce it will start
unwinding the easy money
policies that it has pursued
since the financial crisis.
Many investors are taking
the expected Fed action as a
vote of confidence that the
economy can grow without
persistent support. They add
that the Fed has signaled
its intentions clearly
enough that a disorderly
debt-market decline similar
to the 2013 “taper tantrum”
appears unlikely.
One
out of five college students
believe that violence is a
justifiable response to free
speech, and just over half
of the students consider it
acceptable to shout down
speakers with whom they
disagree, according to the
frightening results of a new
study by the Brookings
Institution.
North Korean dictator Kim
Jong Un lashed out at
President Donald Trump late
Thursday, calling him
"deranged" and saying he
will "pay dearly" for
threatening to destroy
Pyongyang in his speech to
the United Nations on
Tuesday.
very low levels. Solar
activity is expected to be
very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on day one (22 Sep) and
likely to be low with a
slight chance for an M-class
flare on days two and three
(23 Sep, 24 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on day one (22 Sep),
quiet to unsettled levels on
day two (23 Sep) and quiet
to active levels on day
three (24 Sep).
The image that “off-grid”
solar conjures of small
cabins or individual solar
home systems is outdated in
today’s world. Yes, it’s
true, off-grid storage
applications do include
remote homes and even remote
communities in some of
world’s developing regions,
but off-grid solar makes
possible a wide range of
applications from
residential to commercial,
and continues on a path of
rapid growth.
The world’s first
legally-binding treaty
prohibiting nuclear weapons
opened for signature today
at United Nations
Headquarters in New York at
a ceremony at which speakers
from international
organizations, governments
and civil society hailed
this milestone in achieving
a world free of such
arsenals as well as the work
that remains to be done.
Massachusetts electricity
consumers, who already pay
some of the highest rates in
the nation, can expect to
dig deeper into their
pockets in coming years to
foot the bill for upgrades
to the regional power grid.
Utilities are
increasingly seeking rate
increases to offset
investments to modernize
aging gas and electric
distribution systems.
Much of this to do with
increased imports and a many
year struggle with low cost
modules...Couple this with
the fact that many overseas
countries are willing to pay
a premium for the same
modules that the US is
expecting to pay the same
price or less than previous
years..To put all the blame
on a deflated price, Chinese
dumping, whatever, is now
irrelevant...Suffice it to
say that we only have one
major US manufacture..
“A solar-panel tax imperils
what our country needs most:
well-paying jobs that can’t
be exported or automated,”
Most of the
drugs currently being
developed to combat
antimicrobial resistance are
only modifications of
existing antibiotics which
are just short-term
solutions.
As it stands,
there are very few treatment
options for infections that
are resistant to antibiotics
which is why WHO says it is
“posing the greatest threat
to health.”
Amazon can't just sell
books, it has to alter how
people feel about them. Via
Yahoo, we saw the London
Telegraph reported that
"Amazon has been monitoring
and deleting reviews after
Hillary Clinton's new book
was greeted with a torrent
of criticism on the day it
was released."
In the last Syrian province
largely under Islamic State
control, U.S.-backed forces
are on a collision course
with the Syrian and Russian
militaries as both sides
scramble to strengthen their
hands ahead of postwar
negotiations.
Exoplanet WASP-12b has the
unique capability to trap 94
percent of the visible
starlight falling into its
atmosphere. The result is a
world as black as fresh
asphalt.
A
Christian numerologist
claims that the world will
end next Saturday when a
planet will, supposedly,
collide with Earth.
According to Christian
numerologist David Meade,
verses in Luke 21:25 to 26
are the sign that recent
events, such as the recent
solar eclipse and Hurricane
Harvey, are signs of the
apocalypse.
“Here’s what I
told him: I said, ‘Mr.
President, you’re much
better off if you can
sometimes step left and you
can sometimes step right. If
you have to step in just one
direction you’re boxed! He
gets that. Oh, it’s gonna
work out. And it’ll make us
[Democrats] more productive,
too.”
Sea level has been rising
over the past century, and
the rate has increased in
recent decades. In 2016,
global sea level was 3.2
inches (82 mm) above the
1993 average—the highest
annual average in the
satellite record
(1993-present).
Temperatures measured on
land and at sea for more
than a century show that
Earth's globally averaged
surface temperature is
rising. Since 1970, global
surface temperature rose at
an average rate of about
0.17°C (around 0.3°
Fahrenheit) per decade—more
than twice as fast as the
0.07°C per decade increase
observed for the entire
period of recorded
observations (1880-2015).
Brushing aside objections by
ExxonMobil, New York's
highest court has opened the
door for state officials to
demand that the oil giant's
outside auditor immediately
turn over records as part of
a fraud investigation into
the company's positions on
climate change.
President Mahmoud Abbas’
Fatah movement on Sunday
welcomed a pledge by its
Hamas rivals to accept key
conditions for ending a
decade-old Palestinian
political and territorial
split, but said it wants to
see vows implemented before
making the next move.
What should have been second
nature to the party of
Ronald Reagan has sputtered
because Ryan put too much
emphasis on process over
principle — the
"monumentally flawed budget
estimates" of the
Congressional Budget Office,
Forbes wrote.
A CIA whistleblower, Kevin
Shipp, has emerged from the
wolves den to expose the
deep state and the shadow
government which he calls
two entirely separate
entities.
What was ”a breech of
professional ethics” was
HRC, a woman who was the
wife of a governor, the wife
of a POTUS for 8 years, a
senator for NYS and the SoS
NOT TO MENTION A
LAWYER…acting like a
bewildered little child when
she claimed she just didn’t
know what was classified and
what wasn’t under oath.
A top commander of Iran’s
Islamic Revolution Guards
Corps (IRGC) claims that the
country possesses the
“father of all bombs” which
overshadows the most
powerful non-nuclear
ordnance of the US.
In 1983, Soviet lieutenant
colonel Stanislav Petrov
kept his cool and reported a
U.S. missile strike as a
false alarm, preventing a
massive counterstrike
Hurricane Maria grew into
a Category 3 storm on Monday
as it barreled toward a
potentially devastating
collision with islands in
the eastern Caribbean.
Forecasters warned it was
likely to grow even
stronger.
The storm was on a path
that would take it near many
of the islands already
wrecked by Hurricane Irma
and then on toward Puerto
Rico and the Dominican
Republic.
The United States needs to
move “with a great deal of
urgency” in response to
North Korea’s increasingly
aggressive nuclear missile
buildup, national security
adviser H.R. McMaster said
Sunday.
“to confirm that cyber
had no role” in the Aug. 21
incident that killed ten
U.S. soldiers.
“We have no indications
or reason to believe that
there was a malicious cyber
attack that had an effect on
either [USS] Fitzgerald or
McCain, but we’ve assembled
a team … to go out on the
ground and look for and
assess any anomalous
activity that may exist
onboard John S. McCain,”
Tighe said at an event
hosted by the Center for
Strategic and International
Studies in Washington, D.C.
Judicial Watch reports
that these emails reveal
Clinton Foundation friends
recieving favors from the
Department of State.
“The emails show ‘what
happened’ was that Hillary
Clinton and Huma Abedin
obviously violated laws
about the handling of
classified information,”
Judicial Watch President Tom
Fitton said in the release
on Thursday.
Scientists have long
predicted that North
Atlantic Ocean circulation
will slow down in the future
in response to climate
change, but new research
that was published this
spring in the journal
Nature Climate Change
suggests that the slowdown
may already be occurring.
President Donald Trump
deserves at least some of
the credit for the stock
market rising to record
highs, according to 77
percent of respondents to
this quarter's CNBC Global
CFO Council poll released on
Monday.
very low levels. Solar
activity is expected to be
very low on days one, two,
and three (19 Sep, 20 Sep,
21 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on days one
and two (19 Sep, 20 Sep) and
quiet to unsettled levels on
day three (21 Sep).
Attorney General Jeff
Sessions is floating the
idea of putting the entire
National Security Council
staff through a lie detector
test to ferret out
leakers...
Solar developers are
suspending construction as
the looming threat of U.S.
import tariffs has driven up
prices and spurred hoarding,
crimping panel supplies.
“We’ve had roughly $500
million worth of work that
we’ve had to put on hold,”
said Scott Canada, who
oversees renewable energy
projects for McCarthy
Building Cos. of St. Louis.
“The supply of panels has
just evaporated as everybody
is grabbing what they can.”
Rising sea levels
exacerbated Sandy’s storm
surge, for example, a direct
link between global warming
and storm damage. And
abnormally high sea surface
temperatures in the Atlantic
probably intensified the
storm. But pinning all of
Sandy’s fury—its hybrid
nature, the scale of its
winds, its unusual track—on
global warming is premature,
says Shepherd, the current
president of the American
Meteorological Society.
CNN reported Wednesday
that multiple sources
confirmed to them Susan Rice
admitted to a congressional
committee why she ‘unmasked’
several Trump officials.
They say the former Obama
national security adviser
told members of Congress
that she did so to ascertain
the reason why the crown
prince of the United Arab
Emirates was in New York.
Stanford University
researchers may have found a
way for perovskites to
compete with silicon in the
solar panel market
As far as elements go,
silicon is second only to
oxygen when it comes to
abundance on Earth. For this
and its properties as a
semiconductor it has long
been the backbone of
electronics. The material is
in everything from computer
chips to radios. It’s the
namesake, after all, of the
modern tech industry’s hub
in California, Silicon
Valley.
ormer President Barack Obama
was known for going on
lavish vacations, and now
taxpayers know the updated
cost of his family’s various
trips and travels.
As Hurricane Jose ambles
northward in the Atlantic
far off the East Coast,
Hurricane Maria was upgraded
to a full-blown hurricane
from a tropical storm Sunday
afternoon as it takes aim at
Caribbean islands already
devastated less than two
weeks ago by Hurricane Irma.
President Donald Trump and
U.S. Ambassador to the UN
Nikki Haley spoke today at a
UN special forum called
“Reforming the United
Nations, Security, and
Development” to kick off a
week of meetings. In his
remarks, Trump urged the UN
to reform, make results its
top focus, and reduce its
bureaucracy.
By nearly any measure, these
are boom times for the U.S.
solar industry. One of the
country’s fastest growing
high-tech industries, solar
created 51,000 new jobs in
2016, or roughly one in
every 50 U.S. jobs created
last year. Solar’s
contribution to the U.S.
energy portfolio has ramped
up accordingly, representing
the top source of new U.S.
electricity generation in
2016. The industry now
employs 260,000 Americans,
including 38,000 workers who
manufacture racking systems,
inverters, trackers,
mounting products and more.
A
judge’s decision to acquit
an officer of murder in the
death of a black suspect
came down to two major
questions: Did the officer
plant a gun, and did his
outburst about killing the
man seconds before the
shooting signal
premeditation?
If you’ve tried to lose
weight over and over again,
without success, it may not
entirely be your fault. Your
body is hard-wired to keep
you from losing weight, a
top expert says.
“When we try to
lose fat, our body gets
alarmed and tries to protect
it,” Dr. Sylvia Tara, Ph.D.,
tells Newsmax Health.
Veterans may deal with
difficulties when returning
home. The problems facing
disabled vets can complicate
their transitioning process,
but these men and women have
many resources to turn to
that offer assistance and
even financial help.
Aside from some climate
change deniers, there seems
to be widespread
acknowledgment that the
earth faces an environmental
crisis, and that it is
manmade. Many impacts of
human consumption are
harmful to the planet, and
as more countries
industrialize and pursue the
growth older developed
economies have enjoyed, we
risk collectively poisoning
the planet for future
generations, and other
species. Globally, there is
an understanding that
endless growth in people,
and the material things they
need or want, would exceed
the carrying capacity of our
planet. Rather than growth
at all costs, our goal must
be sustainability if we, and
our planet, are to thrive.
The congressional
relations aide, Marc Short,
told reporters September 12
that he is not asking
Democrats for any
concessions — such
as funding for a border wall
or passage of the RAISE
Act — as they draft an
expensive new amnesty for
many younger illegals,
including the 800,000
illegals who are covered by
former President Barack
Obama’s DACA amnesty since
2012.
“We’re interested in
getting border security and
the president has made the
commitment to the American
people that a barrier is
important to that security,”
Short said
If there was ever evidence
that Facebook wants to take
YouTube down, it’s with the
report that the company has
offered the music industry a
boatload of money for music
licenses so that its users
can use popular music on
their videos without legal
repercussions. Ever since
Facebook video launched in
2015, the social network has
been gunning for YouTube and
has become surprisingly
competitive in short time,
but this could be the issue
that finally puts some
separation between the two.
A framed photograph of
the president that has
always hung on the wall in
the lobby of every federal
building is still missing
nine months after Donald
Trump's inauguration, The
Washington Post reported on
Tuesday.
Previous presidents have
had their pictures hanging
on the wall several months
after entering the White
House, but federal employees
and visitors are puzzled
that Trump's photo is still
missing, with empty hooks
remaining in the walls after
workers took down official
portraits of President
Barack Obama and Vice
President Joe Biden when
they left office on Jan. 20.
The Turkey point and St.
Lucie plants were spared a
direct hit from the Category
3 hurricane as it hit the
west coast of Florida on
September 10 before heading
north. Irma had been
Category 5 strength when it
approached the Caribbean
islands.
Reactors at Florida
Power and Light Co.'s
nuclear power plants sustained
no damage while Category 3
Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc
in the state Sunday, but
still aren't fully active.
"The operations of the
nuclear components were not
damaged," FPL vice president
and chief communications
officer Rob Gould
said Monday.
In the book, Clinton also
explains why she believes
she lost — and her name is
nowhere near the top of the
list. Instead, Clinton
spreads the blame in dozens
of directions. Here is a
running list of things
Clinton has blamed her loss
on:
How you experience and enjoy
your life — whether it
becomes fulfilling —
depends, of course, on the
choices you make. How often
do you find yourself trying
to figure out what’s the
best choice to make? But
what if, at one level — that
of the ego — choice is
merely a complex illusion of
conditioning? And beyond
that, what if there’s a way
of aligning with your soul
that then delivers the best
choices possible?
New energy science and
technological breakthroughs
could cut the cost of wind
energy in half by
2030—making it fully
competitive with the fuel
cost of natural gas.
This new finding is
outlined in a report by the
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL) that
examines the future of wind
power plants—backed by the
supercomputing power of the
U.S. Department of Energy’s
(DOE) national laboratories.
As of 7 p.m. EDT,
more than 7.1 million
customers are without power
across
Florida and in
parts of
Alabama,
Georgia, and
South Carolina
as a result of Hurricane Irma.
As the storm moved through
the region, companies were
able to address more than
1.25 million outages, thanks
largely to recent
investments in energy grid
technology and automation.
Irma was downgraded to a
tropical storm earlier
today.
"This is likely to be one
of the largest and most
complex power restoration
efforts in
U.S. history,"
Nearly four weeks after it
was released, we are still
marveling at how the U.S.
Department of Energy’s much
anticipated grid generation
report could seemingly make
everyone happy and angry at
the same time...
Is it going out on a limb to
say this part is saying
“renewables should not get
special treatment above
other sources?” The DOE
report went on to point out
that variable resources
require baseload generation
as a frequency smoothing
backup while the wind isn’t
blowing or the sun isn’t
shining.
It’s amazing that Hillary
Clinton got so close to
becoming president, after
intentionally using a
private email server and
potentially destroying
evidence in the
investigation.
ENSO-neutral
conditions were apparent in
the weekly fluctuation of
Niño-3.4 SST index values
between -0.1°C and -0.6°C .
While temperature anomalies
were variable at the
surface, they became
increasingly negative in the
sub-surface ocean, due to
the shoaling of the
thermocline across the
east-central and eastern
Pacific
Leaked U.S. government
surveillance images
exclusively obtained by
Breitbart Texas show armed
Mexican cartel smugglers
crossing the U.S.-Mexico
border and entering into
Arizona. Border Patrol
officially confirmed the
images’ authenticity in an
exclusive interview.
Breitbart Texas agreed to
redact portions of the
images so that the exact
locations of the secret law
enforcement border cameras
would not be revealed. The
images were taken within the
past mont
NASA has confirmed that the
Cassini spacecraft
successfully completed its
final flyby of the moon
Titan and is now on course
for its fatal encounter with
Saturn on Friday. After 13
years orbiting the giant
ringed planet and exploring
its moons, the unmanned,
nuclear-powered probe will
be incinerated at 7:55 am
EDT (4:55 am PDT) on
September 15 in a planned
maneuver that will see it
plunge into Saturn's upper
atmosphere.
Each time politicians agree
to raise the debt, it means
that your share of the debt
grows, but even more
importantly, it means the
next generation — including
your children and
grandchildren — will be on
the hook for billions or
trillions more.
North
Korea fired a missile that
flew over Japan’s northern
Hokkaido far out into the
Pacific Ocean on Friday,
South Korean and Japanese
officials said, further
ratcheting up tensions after
Pyongyang’s recent test of
its most powerful nuclear
bomb.
The
missile flew over Japan and
landed in the Pacific about
2,000 km (1,240 miles) east
of Hokkaido, Japanese Chief
Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide
Suga told reporters.
A North
Korean state agency
threatened on Thursday to
use nuclear weapons to
“sink” Japan and reduce the
United States to “ashes and
darkness” for supporting a
U.N. Security Council
resolution and sanctions
over its latest nuclear
test.
The
Korea Asia-Pacific Peace
Committee, which handles the
North’s external ties and
propaganda, also called for
the breakup of the Security
Council, which it called “a
tool of evil” made up of
“money-bribed” countries
that move at the order of
the United States.
The cost of generating
electricity from offshore
wind farms fell sharply in
the U.K. to below the price
the next nuclear reactors
will charge, making the form
of clean energy one of the
cheapest ways to supply the
grid.
Heat escaping through
openings in sea ice
influences sea and
atmospheric temperatures and
wind patterns around the
globe – even rainfall around
the tropics, says new study.
Solar activity has been at
very low levels for the past
24 hours. Solar
activity is expected to be
very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on day one (15 Sep) and
expected to be very low on
days two and three (16 Sep,
17 Sep). Geophysical
Activity Forecast: The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to major storm levels on day
one (15 Sep), unsettled to
active levels on day two (16
Sep) and quiet to active
levels on day three (17
Sep). Protons greater than
10 Mev have a chance of
crossing threshold on day
one (15 Sep) and have a
slight chance of crossing
threshold on day two (16
Sep).
The
Russian Navy on Thursday
fired seven cruise missiles
at Islamic state targets in
the suburbs of Syria’s Deir
al-Zor, the Russian Defence
Ministry said in a statement
on Thursday.
It said
the missiles were fired from
two submarines in the
eastern Mediterranean from a
distance of 500-670
kilometers (727 miles).
Preoperative chemotherapy —
also known as neoadjuvant
chemotherapy — is a standard
treatment protocol given
before surgery in the hope
it will shrink tumors to the
point that follow-up surgery
will not be as invasive (an
example is where a
lumpectomy can be used,
instead of a full
mastectomy). But a new study
in the journal Science
Translational Medicine
has found that this practice
may actually add fuel to the
fire and promote the spread
of cancer to other regions
of the body, thereby
significantly increasing the
risk of dying from the
disease.
Over the summer, 415
minutes of broadcast time
was spent covering the
investigation into whether
the Trump campaign colluded
with Russia — and 94 percent
of that was negative.
Coverage of repealing and
replacing Obamacare and
Trump's response to the
deadly Charlottesville riots
last month was each 97
percent negative.
Trump and members of his
administration have
repeatedly bashed the media
for its negative spin on
nearly everything the White
House says and does.
Former National Security
Advisor Susan Rice has
admitted to unmasking
members of the Trump
campaign following the 2016
election. Rice made the
revelations before the House
Intelligence Committee. She
justified the intrusion on
their privacy by citing a
meeting between Trump team
members and the Sheikh
Mohammed bin Zayed
al-Nahyan, crown prince of
the United Arab Emirates.
Sometimes the solutions
to life's challenges are
right in front of us, yet go
unrecognized. Those
beautiful tree-lined
streets, the colored
foliage, and the fall — they
can all conspire against
your water quality if not
properly addressed.
Organic debris (i.e.,
leaf litter), especially as
it gathers on streets, will
spike stormwater with
nutrients. The excess
phosphorus and nitrogen load
into watersheds can be a
major problem for
municipalities, as these
nutrients cause
eutrophication and harmful
algal blooms (HABs). HABs
deprive water of oxygen,
essentially suffocating
aquatic life, while also
producing toxic
cyanobacteria dangerous to
humans.
Every major American
national security victory
began with a theory for
success. Those theories were
used to build strategies,
which were then executed
through operations and
tactics. Success always
begins with a theory, and
you cannot achieve success
in national security without
first starting with a
theory.
Once you get your brain on
the track of having enough,
rather than lacking, you
will continue to have these
types of thoughts, and
naturally, by default, will
start feeling grateful for
everything that you have
rather than upset for
everything you don’t. It may
be a bit of a trick, but if
it leaves you feeling happy
and abundant, then who
cares?
Too little UV light, and
life might not ever start.
Too much, in the form
dramatic UV flares from
stars, and the atmospheres
of orbiting planets might
undergo damage.
Each record contained
details on voters, including
names, addresses, dates of
birth, their ethnic
identity, whether an
individual is married, and
the individual's voting
preferences.
A cache of voter records on
over a half-million
Americans has been found
online.
People may be
ingesting between 3,000 and
4,000 microparticles of
plastic from tap water every
year, said a study Wednesday
based on samples from 14
countries.
While the health
risks are unknown, the
researchers pointed to
previous findings that
plastic particles can
absorb, and release,
potentially harmful
chemicals and bacteria.
The world is steeped in
poverty with precious little
achieved in the way of real
humanitarian advancement.
While there are a number of
technologies that could have
changed the world and helped
humanity create a living
utopia, the brilliant
inventors of these
technologies were given a
hard time by the ‘big boys’
of the establishment when
they attempted to bring
their game-changing
innovations to the world at
large. Some were even
murdered for their efforts —
all for profit and
control.
NBC began walking back the
“potential bombshell” almost
immediately, issuing a
correction the same day
noting that the word
“donation” didn’t actually
appear in the notes, but
quoting one source who said
the word “donor” was in the
notes.
Former White House Chief
Strategist Steve Bannon does
not need lectures on race
relations from “limousine
liberals” and the media
elites who hang out in
largely homogenous crowds
and whose
oh-so-progressive-and-forward-looking
organizations and outlets do
not have the effortless
diversity as Breitbart News’
masthead.
A study published late last
week from two Stanford
researchers has caused
shockwaves around the world.
The duo reportedly developed
a neural network that could
detect the sexual
orientation of a person just
by studying a single facial
image. The startling degree
of accuracy achieved by the
algorithm has been
questioned by some and
accused as dangerous by
others.
Milestones for Cassini’s
final week at Saturn.
Today’s distant flyby of the
large moon Titan will slow
down the spacecraft enough
so that – on Friday –
Cassini will make its final
plunge into Saturn’s
atmosphere.
he
New York Post reports that
the city's Communist mayor
named Ford Foundation
President Darren Walker and
Department of Cultural
Affairs commissioner Tom
Finkelpearl as co-chairs of
the diverse panel, which is
made up of 18 artists,
historians and other
professionals.
Australian researchers
studying glacial caves in
Antarctica say they are so
warm they could support
plant and animal life.
This hypothesis comes
after researchers have
explored caves that could be
as warm as 25 degrees
Celsius or about 77 degrees
Fahrenheit and found DNA
that leads them to believe
there could be living within
the glaciers.
The Justice Department
notified members of Congress
on Friday that it is closing
its two-year investigation
into whether the IRS
improperly targeted tea
party and other conservative
groups.
There will be no charges
against former IRS official
Lois Lerner or anyone else
at the agency, the Justice
Department said in a letter.
The FBI said this week they
have initiated an
investigation into the
actions of a Salt Lake City
police detective who
arrested a Utah nurse on
July 26 after she refused to
break the law at his
command.
Back in 2015, a team of
scientists made a battery
breakthrough by using salty
water as an electrolyte to
offer a potentially safer
and greener alternative to
commercial lithium-ion
batteries, but its voltage
left something to be
desired. The same team has
now powered up its design to
a point where it could be
used in household
appliances, without the risk
of fire and explosion that
can accompany conventional
alternatives.
Is your digital assistant
taking orders behind your
back? Scientists from
China's Zheijiang University
have proved it’s possible,
publishing new research that
demonstrates how Siri,
Alexa, and other
voice-activated programs can
be controlled using
inaudible ultrasound
commands. This provides a
new method of attack for
hackers targeting devices
like phones, tablets, and
even cars. But don’t get too
worried — the technique has
a number of key limitations
that means it’s unlikely to
cause chaos.
Hurricane Irma knocked out
power to more than 5 million
homes and businesses in
Florida on Sunday,
threatening millions more as
it crept up the state’s west
coast, and full restoration
of service could take weeks,
local electric utilities
said.
Irma
hit Florida on Sunday
morning as a dangerous
Category 4 storm, the second
highest level on the
five-step Saffir-Simpson
scale, but by afternoon as
it barreled up the west
coast, it weakened to a
Category 2 with maximum
sustained winds of 110 miles
per hour (177 kph).
A leftist "artist" group
called INDECLINE hung clowns
dressed in KKK garb from a
tree in a Richmond,
Virginia, park early
Thursday morning in protest
of white nationalism. But
black leaders in the city
were not amused
The Irish investment fund
that helped open a floodgate
of European cash for Bernard
Madoff’s bogus securities
firm in the early 1990s
agreed to pay $687 million
to victims of the fraud to
resolve a trustee’s lawsuit
-- the biggest settlement in
the case in six years.
Finalists for the 2018 Miss
America Pageant were asked a
number of questions during
the question and answer
segment on Sunday that
centered on President Donald
Trump’s policies and
statements, including
whether or not he is guilty
of collusion with Russia.
Oil
prices dropped on Monday on
concerns that Hurricane
Irma’s pounding of heavily
populated areas of Florida
could dent oil demand in the
world’s top oil-consuming
nation.
Losses
were capped by weekend talks
between Saudi Arabia’s
energy minister and
counterparts over a possible
extension to a pact to cut
global oil supplies beyond
next March.
Grateful Today, I am
grateful for my family's
safety. I'm grateful for
such great friends who
opened up their home without
hesitation, and treated us
like family. I'm grateful
for the opportunity to bond
together as friends and
family through a scary and
dangerous situation. I'm
grateful for the perspective
that it gave us all.
The
storm-stricken Caribbean
took on the feel of a
sprawling disaster zone
Sunday, with Cuban first
responders using inflatable
rafts to navigate flooded
streets as panicked families
sent up social-media pleas
in search of loved ones on
hard-hit islands farther
east.
The planet is likely to
warm by 2.5˚C, failing to
achieve the targets outlined
in the Paris Agreement.
That’s according to DNV
GL, which says this is
despite energy demand
plateauing by 2030 as a
result of efficiency
improvements and reduced
fossil fuel generation.
Prosecutors have given Imran
Awan a copy of the hard
drive of a House laptop that
Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz tried to keep law
enforcement from looking at,
court filings show,
suggesting prosecutors
intend to bring charges
related to the underlying
cybersecurity and theft
probe.
The hard-drive copy was
included in discovery even
though the Florida Democrat
has said the laptop contains
House information on it and
is a government-paid work
computer, and even though
Imran was fired and banned
from the House network
because of suspected
cybersecurity violations.
X8 event observed.
Solar activity is
expected to be very low with
a chance for a C-class
flares and a slight chance
for an M-class flare on day
one (12 Sep) and expected to
be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on day two (13 Sep) and
expected to be very low on
day three (14 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (12
Sep), unsettled to major
storm levels on day two (13
Sep) and unsettled to minor
storm levels on day three
(14 Sep). Protons are
expected to cross threshold
on day one (12 Sep), are
expected to cross threshold
on day two (13 Sep) and are
likely to cross threshold on
day three (14 Sep).
Two years before the
airliner attacks, the Saudi
Embassy paid for two Saudi
nationals, living undercover
in the US as students, to
fly from Phoenix to
Washington “in a dry run for
the 9/11 attacks,” alleges
the amended complaint filed
on behalf of the families of
some 1,400 victims who died
in the terrorist attacks 16
years ago.
The court filing provides
details that paint “a
pattern of both financial
and operational support” for
the 9/11 conspiracy from
official Saudi sources,
lawyers for the plaintiffs
say.
That’s not just a problem
for the groups that will be
burdened when the “hate
group” label is slapped on
them; it’s also a problem
for the rest of us. The
broader the definition, the
more Americans will be swept
up under that label, and the
less sustainable it will be.
If media and other
institutions use the label,
they will discredit
themselves with conservative
readers and donors. Worse
still, those readers and
donors will be unable to
reliably discern the actual
hate groups that still
exist.
The U.S. nonprofit sector is
filled with entities that
occupy, and often, own
commercial buildings, with
ideal roof and parking space
for solar power. With the
U.S. government phasing out
cash grants, while extending
tax credits for renewable
energy projects, it is
unlikely that many of these
buildings will ever see a
solar system on their roof,
or in their parking lot.
Lydan was clear that the
looming potential solar
tariffs would be a death
knoll for the solar industry
should the International
Trade Commission in the U.S.
rule in favor of the
plaintiffs Suniva and
SolarWorld.
“I'm nervous,” he said,
recalling a time when he
worked in a raw material
industry.
Cleveland police said two
armed men wearing bandanas
over their faces walked into
an Edgewater Taco Bell early
Wednesday morning and
ordered three workers to the
ground at gunpoint,
Cleveland.com reports.
The suspected robbers
then walked over to the cash
register.
According to authorities,
three other employees in the
store, each armed with a
gun, opened fire.
Dozens of personnel from
the Environmental Protection
Agency worked to secure some
of the nation's most
contaminated toxic waste
sites as Hurricane Irma bore
down on Florida. The agency
said its employees evacuated
personnel, secured equipment
and safeguarded hazardous
materials in anticipation of
storm surges and heavy
rains.
The Associated Press
surveyed six of the 54
Superfund sites in Florida
before Irma's arrival, all
around Miami in low-lying,
flood-prone areas.
There is a growing need for
grid-scale storage
technology to mitigate the
intermittency of renewables
and enable the transition
towards a decarbonized
energy system. Hydrogen as
an energy carrier could
offer a climate-friendly
solution to this. It can be
produced from renewable
sources, is able to be
stored for long periods of
time, and has applications
across the energy supply
chain; offering a potential
replacement for fossil fuels
within the transport and
heat sectors.
The
United Nations Security
Council unanimously stepped
up sanctions against North
Korea on Monday over the
country’s sixth and most
powerful nuclear test
conducted on Sept. 3,
imposing a ban on the
country’s textile exports
and capping imports of crude
oil.
The remains of a
powerful Viking — long
thought to be a man — was in
fact a real-life Xena
Warrior Princess, a study
released Friday reveals.
The lady war
boss was buried in the
mid-10th century along with
deadly weapons and two
horses, leading
archaeologists and
historians to assume she was
a man, according to the
findings published in the
American Journal of Physical
Anthropology.
In case you missed it: The
credit rating giant admitted
hackers had targeted the
company in the past few
months, stealing records on
as many as 143 million
consumers. The company went
into disaster management
mode (albeit with a six-week
head start) and flubbed the
incident response. Not only
did the company botch the
roll out of the support
site, it also threw
potential victims into
legalistic chaos with nobody
knowing for sure for hours
whether or not the site was
automatically opting out
customers from a future
class action suit.
Dashboard launched in 2009
but until now hasn't had a
mobile version, making it
difficult to use. The
current page, designed for
the desktop, is shown above
on the left and contains a
lot of small text and links
with no obvious way to
download data that Google
has collected.
This is the second strongest
solar flare of solar cycle
24. Sunspot region 2673 was
also responsible for the
strongest solar flare of
this solar cycle: X9.3 on 6
September! What an amazing
sunspot region! You shall be
missed!
Colorado's largest
electrical utility said
Tuesday it is considering
shutting down two coal-fired
generating units a decade
earlier than planned and
replacing them with power
from a mix of wind, solar
and natural gas.
Xcel Energy said the plan
calls for closing two older
units at the Comanche
Generating Station in Pueblo
— one in 2022 and one in
2025. A third, newer unit
would keep operating.
A new report by the Smart
Electric Power Alliance
indicated 31 utilities, or
43 percent of the utilities
surveyed for the study,
added energy storage to the
grid in the last year.
All told, 207 MW of
energy storage was deployed
last year in 829 systems.
Utilities have now installed
a total of 622 MW of energy
storage in total.
The researchers focused
on “680,000 water quality
and monitoring violations”
documented by the U.S. EPA
through the Safe Drinking
Water Information System, a
database of public water
system information reported
to the federal government by
the states.
“The violations included
two types: health-based
violations and
monitoring/reporting
violations. Health-based
violations are instances
when water was found to be
contaminated or not properly
treated for contaminants.
The story refers to these
violations as water quality
violations,” according to
the report.
Servers and data stored by
dozens of Fortune 100
companies are at risk,
including airlines, banks
and financial institutions,
and social media sites.
A critical security
vulnerability in open-source
server software enables
hackers to easily take
control of an affected
server -- putting sensitive
corporate data at risk.
In the time period
spanning 2001-2002 to
2012-2013, 30 percent
more Americans engaged
in high-risk drinking
Increases in alcohol
use, high-risk drinking
and alcohol use disorder
(AUD) (or alcohol
dependence) were
greatest among women,
older adults,
racial/ethnic minorities
and people with lower
educational level and
family income
The number of people
diagnosed with
alcoholism increased by
49 percent during the
study period and is
estimated to affect
nearly 13 percent of
Americans
Alcohol-related problems
cost an estimated $250
billion a year in the
U.S.
Police officers in
Cleveland are
frustrated by the NFL
anti-national anthem
protests, which they regard
as a show of disrespect
against police and the
United States
as a whole, and have taken
to launching their own
anti-anti-national anthem
campaign.
Equifax, one of the largest
credit rating and reporting
firm in the US, has become
the latest company to reveal
a data breach...
The Atlanta,
Georgia-headquartered
company said that hackers
had between mid-May through
July exploited a
vulnerability on its website
to access certain files.
The data includes names,
social security numbers,
birth dates, home addresses,
and in some cases, driving
license information.
Powerful Hurricane Irma cut
a swathe of deadly
destruction as it roared
through the Caribbean,
claiming at least nine lives
and turning the tropical
islands of St Martin and
Barbuda into mountains of
rubble.
One of the most powerful
Atlantic storms on record,
the rare Category Five
hurricane churned westward
off the northern coast of
Puerto Rico early Thursday
on a potential collision
course with south Florida
where at-risk areas were
evacuated.
Heat naturally flows from
hot things to cold things,
and since there are few
places colder than the
vacuum of space, that's a
great place to try to beam
excess heat. Over the last
few years a Stanford team
has been developing a
roof-mounted system that can
cool a building by doing
just that, and the latest
test of the technology has
managed to use solar
panel-like devices to cool
water without requiring any
other energy source.
The latest issue of the U.S.
Energy Information's (EIA)
"Electric Power Monthly,"
with data through June 30,
reveals that renewable
energy sources (i.e.,
biomass, geothermal,
hydropower, solar —
including small-scale PV —
and wind) remain in a
statistical dead heat with
nuclear power vis-à-vis
their respective shares of
US electrical generation,
with each providing roughly
20 percent of the total.
The White House
says President
Donald Trump
has chosen as the nation's top
mine safety official the
former CEO of a coal company
that repeatedly clashed with
federal regulators when the
Obama administration tried
to boost industry-wide
enforcement following the
deadliest
U.S. mine
disaster in four decades.
Throughout South Florida,
officials readied evacuation
orders and people raided
store shelves, buying up
water and other hurricane
supplies. Long lines formed
at gas stations and people
pulled shutters out of
storage and put up plywood
to protect their homes and
businesses.
"If evolution is real, why
aren't we still evolving?"
That's one of the main
arguments against evolution
that you might hear people
sling around. Evolution is
an extremely gradual process
that's all but invisible to
the casual observer, but if
you know where to look, the
evidence shows that it is
still happening. We've seen
it in the rise of
antibiotic-resistant
bacteria and in how
generations of fish and
lizards respond to changing
environments. And now a
genetic study has found
evidence of natural
selection at work in the
genomes of over 200,000
people.
S.C. Gov. Henry
McMaster demanded,
again, that
Santee Cooper
-- whose board he controls --
give him a report said to
raise red flags about the
now abandoned construction
of two nuclear reactors in
Fairfield County.
"Failure to do so will
constitute malfeasance," the
governor said -- alluding to
his control over who sits on
the state-owned utility's
board.
Donald Trump's
U.N. ambassador says the
president "has grounds" to
declare that Iran is not
complying with the 2015
nuclear deal, stoking doubts
about whether Trump intends
tokeep an
international agreement and
core legacy achievement for
former President Barack
Obama.
Nikki Haley,
speaking Tuesday in
Washington, said she did not
know what Trump plans to do
next month when he is due to
certify to Congress whether
Tehran is complying with the
agreement. But she appeared
to lay the groundwork for
Trump to declare that Iran
is in violation of the deal.
Ten years to the day after
Israeli warplanes bombed a
nuclear reactor in the
desert of eastern Syria, the
Jewish state on Wednesday
night reportedly targeted
another Syrian site, this
time a facility in Hama
province believed to be
linked to the Assad regime’s
chemical and biological
weapons programs.
Ah! Life is good. Just
luxuriating poolside in a
tropical setting at a four
star resort while sipping on
an endless supply of mai
tais while munching on
ceviche. All that is
required is to listen to a
five hour pitch. Not for
time share condos. Instead
this pitch is made to
journalists about how and
why the Electoral College
can be bypassed.
This revelation about how
an obviously well-funded
group called the Institute
for Research on Presidential
Elections is providing
vacations for journalists
comes to us...
The lawsuit against South
Carolina Electric & Gas and
its parent company SCANA
asks a judge to freeze all
the money received from a
settlement with Toshiba, the
parent company of the
project's main contractor,
Westinghouse, which went
bankrupt in March.
The suit also asks to
freeze the utility's profits
and dividends.
At least two other
lawsuits have already been
filed over the failed
plants.
The first M-class solar
flare was an M2.4 (R1-minor)
solar flare that peaked at
05:02 UTC. About four hours
later sunspot region 2673
treated us with an impulsive
M1.4 (R1-minor) solar flare
which peaked at 09:54 UTC
and this event was quickly
followed by an impulsive
M7.3 (R2-moderate) solar
flare which peaked at 10:15
UTC. Icing on the cake was
sunspot region 2673's third
X-class (R3-strong) solar
flare. An X1.39 solar flare
erupted which peaked at
14:36 UTC.
Mercedes-Benz is
putting the finishing
touches on a hybrid fuel
cell version of the GLC
ahead of its debut in
Frankfurt. We don't know
many details about the car
yet, but Mercedes has pulled
back the curtain on the
development process leading
up to its launch.
The F-Cell
will take a unique
approach to hydrogen
power.
North Korea on Sunday
claimed a "perfect success"
for its most powerful
nuclear test so far, a
further step in the
development of weapons
capable of striking anywhere
in the United States.
President Donald Trump said
the latest provocation
reinforces the danger facing
America and that "talk of
appeasement" is pointless.
The next test could trigger
the volcanic eruption of
Mount Paektu...
A mountain in North Korea
believed to have served as
the site of five of the
rogue regime’s nuclear tests
— including Sunday’s
supposed hydrogen bomb
explosion — is at risk of
collapsing and leaking
radiation into the region, a
Chinese scientist said
Monday.
Raising the One-Sun
Conversion Efficiency of
III–V/Si Solar Cells to
32.8% for Two Junctions and
35.9% for Three Junctions,”
appears in the new issue of
Nature Energy. Solar cells
made solely from materials
in Groups III and V of the
Periodic Table have shown
high efficiencies, but are
more expensive.
The Salt Lake City police
detective who forcibly
arrested a nurse for
refusing to break the law
has been fired from his
part-time job as an
ambulance driver, the
Associated Press reported.
"However well-intentioned,
President Obama’s DACA
program was a clear abuse of
executive authority, an
attempt to create law out of
thin air,” Ryan said in a
statement. “Just as the
courts have already struck
down similar Obama policy,
this was never a viable
long-term solution to this
challenge.”
Hurricane Irma grew into a
dangerous Category 5 storm,
the most powerful seen in
the Atlantic in over a
decade, and roared toward
islands in the northeast
Caribbean Tuesday on a path
that could eventually take
it to the United States.
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez “sold
his office for a lifestyle
he couldn’t afford” by
accepting luxury trips and
other favors from a wealthy
doctor seeking political
influence, a government
prosecutor told jurors
Wednesday during opening
statements of the Democrat’s
corruption trial.
Russian President
Vladimir Putin again
rejected U.S. calls for new
sanctions against North
Korea after its sixth and
most powerful nuclear test,
echoing China's resistance
to more punitive measures to
pressure Pyongyang into
abandoning its atomic and
missile programs.
The Russian leader
criticized sanctions as
"useless and ineffective,"
instead urging the
international community to
offer security guarantees to
North Korea.
Solar activity has
been at high levels for the
past 24 hours. The
largest solar event of the
period was a X1
event Solar
activity is expected to be
moderate with a chance for
X-class flares on days one,
two, and three (08 Sep, 09
Sep, 10 Sep).
Geophysical Activity
Forecast: The geomagnetic
field is expected to be at
active to severe storm
levels on days one and two
(08 Sep, 09 Sep) and active
to minor storm levels on day
three (10 Sep). Protons are
expected to cross threshold
on days one and two (08 Sep,
09 Sep) and are expected to
cross threshold on day three
(10 Sep).
The nuclear power plant
near
Richland began
supplying the regional power
grid Saturday afternoon
after being shut down for
nearly 13 days.
Energy Northwest'sColumbia
Generating Station
was shut down by operators
Aug. 20
when an air removal valve in
the plant's turbine building
closed, causing a loss of
vacuum pressure in the
system that turns steam back
into water for reuse at the
plant.
The Royal Navy has showed
off its latest missile in
the first successful test of
the Sea Ceptor air defence
system. Britain's Defence
Minister Harriett Baldwin
announced that the live-fire
test of the supersonic
missile, which is designed
to intercept and destroy
enemy missiles at three
times the speed of sound and
will be a key system for
protecting Britain's nuclear
deterrent and aircraft
carriers, took place off the
coast of Scotland ...
Representatives of
Facebook told congressional
investigators Wednesday that
the social network has
discovered that it sold ads
during the U.S. presidential
campaign to a shadowy
Russian company seeking to
target voters, according to
several people familiar with
the company’s findings.
Facebook officials
reported that they traced
the ad sales, totaling
$100,000, to a Russian
“troll farm” with a history
of pushing pro-Kremlin
propaganda, these people
said.
Is the long -- and so far
futile -- effort to move the
3.55 million pounds of
nuclear waste off the beach
at the
San Onofre Nuclear
Generating Station
(SONGS) on the verge of
finally making some
progress?
Or is an out-of-court
settlement announced last
week just more of the same?
Utilities and partners in
south Texas were closer to
the end than the beginning
when it comes to fully
restoring power in the
devastating, deadly wake of
Hurricane Harvey. Yet they
all admitted there’s a long
way to go.
The new week dawned with
most of the affected areas
more than halfway there.
Some areas, such as Aransas
Pass and Rockport, still
have days to go, while
Corpus Christi and Houston’s
biggest utilities are almost
fully restored.
The “power of positivity” is
no joke. Studies are
emerging every single year
in multiple fields of
science, and have been for
decades. The science of
consciousness, also known as
“non-material science” is
now more popular than ever.
Despite all of the empirical
evidence that’s emerged, in
the form of an UN-countable
amount of reviewed studies,
professionals in the field,
although well aware, are
still reluctant to discuss
this type of thing openly.
But not all of them.
A CME has just hit Earth's
magnetic field (Sept.7th at
~2300 UT). This is the
debris from Wednesday's
decade-class X9 solar flare.
It arrived earlier than
expected, confirming that
the storm cloud is both fast
and potent. A severe
G4-class geomagnetic storm
is in progress as our
planet's magnetic field
reverberates from the
impact.
Exposure to microwave
EMFs, like cellphones,
causes massive
mitochondrial
dysfunction due to
damage done by free
radicals from
peroxynitrite that also
cause single and double
stranded breaks in your
DNA
Excessive free radicals
triggered by
low-frequency microwave
exposure from cellphones
and Wi-Fi networks have
been linked to chronic
diseases such as cardiac
arrhythmias, anxiety,
depression, autism,
Alzheimer’s and
infertility
Excessive calcium
signaling produced by
EMF exposures also has
important roles in
producing
pathophysiological
effects of EMFs
including each of the
effects listed above
Strategies that may help
reduce the harmful
effects of EMFs include
optimizing your
magnesium level, certain
Nrf2-boosting foods,
exercise, calorie
restriction and
strategies that boost
nitric oxide signaling
(which acts, in turn, by
raising Nrf2)
This is all possible due to
the sun releasing a huge
cloud of superheated plasma
known as a coronal mass
ejection (CME) from an
M-class solar flare, on
September 4th. The CME is
expected to affect Earth
overnight tonight,
triggering strong
geomagnetic storms. In
addition to the CME, the sun
released two powerful solar
flares this morning
(September 6th),
“A professor at the
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Zilber
School of Public Health
found levels of a naturally
occurring cyanobacteria at
levels 10 times beyond the
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s
standards for recreational
waters” in Milwaukee’s
Juneau Park Lagoon
n a statement after his
agencies and attorney
general announced the
decision, President Donald
Trump blamed former
President Barack Obama for
creating the program through
executive authority and
urged Congress to come up
with a solution.
President Donald Trump has
given military orders for
U.S. forces to shoot down
and destroy any missile
launched from North Korea
and moving toward the
continental United States,
Hawaii, and Guam.
President Donald Trump went
around his own party
Wednesday, siding with
Democrats on a deal to fund
the government and raise
federal borrowing limits for
three months — all to help
speed cash to hurricane
survivors.
Cuellar also indicated it
would be difficult to pass
the Dream Act, given
everything else Congress has
to do before the end of the
end of the year, with
limited time to do it.
They have not even started
the process of shutting
down…
We all remember what
happened with Fukushima, and
we definitely do not want to
see a repeat on U.S. soil.
The Fukushima nuclear
disaster changed millions of
minds about the safety of
nuclear power, and as a
member of Congress I will do
all that I can to encourage
the development of our solar
power, wind power and
geothermal power
capabilities.
It is a tough moment for
U.S. relations with Mexico
as the two sides disagree
about the merits of a border
wall. But when it comes to
water, the two nations still
enjoy a functional
relationship.
“The river rises on the
Continental Divide in Rocky
Mountain National Park, and
snakes 1,450 miles before
finally draining into the
Gulf of California on the
Mexican side of the border —
although most of the time
there's barely a trickle
left by the time the river
reaches its delta,” the
report said.
This partnership is part of
a wider global program run
by Vestas, the world’s
biggest wind-turbine maker.
It’s seeking to add energy
storage to its wind farms
and is working with a number
of other battery makers on
about 10 projects in total.
“Pipe repairs are definitely
the cheapest option for
expanding water supplies if
you are losing water to
leaks,” said Bonney Casey.
“We should be investing in
infrastructure maintenance
ahead of new gold plated
systems where possible.”
The wait is over...As most
of you probably already
suspected, the eruption was
very broad and the plasma
cloud indeed has an
earth-directed
component...While the solar
flare was strong, we doubt
it's coronal mass ejection
is going to cause a truly
large (G4 or G5) geomagnetic
storm due to the reasons
stated above. We suspect
that moderate G2 geomagnetic
storm conditions will be
possible on 8 September with
a chance of isolated periods
with strong G3 storm
conditions.
For well over half a
century, scientists have
been working to harness the
cell-destroying power of
viruses in the battle
against cancer. The latest
addition to this arsenal
comes from an unlikely
source, the relatively new
Zika virus, which could
offer a new way to fight
deadly brain cancers.
Amazon is also affecting the
broader economy, as the
competition and lower prices
it typically offers are
helping to subdue inflation
and preventing the Fed from
achieving its 2% inflation
target.
The most
recent reminder of Amazon’s
influence came last week
when Whole Foods slashed
prices on certain items. The
move shook investor
confidence in food retailers
and suppliers alike.
Evidence has been
uncovered linking volcanic
eruptions to one of the most
rapid periods of global
warming in Earth's history
We're currently breaking
climate record after climate
record, and it appears that
we might be on track to
topple a record that's held
strong for about 56 million
years. The Palaeocene-Eocene
Thermal Maximum (PETM) was
the most rapid and extreme
example of global warming
since the dinosaurs were
wiped out, and a new study
has found evidence that
intense volcanic eruptions
were to blame, pumping
mind-boggling amounts of
carbon into the oceans and
atmosphere.
The Arizona community of
Dilkon has recently gained
national attention as its
residents united to stop a
Sundance that was planned to
take place from August 15th
to the 21st. Historically,
sundances are not a
traditional Navajo ceremony;
however, through intertribal
marriages the sundance was
introduced and adopted by
some Navajo families.
Twenty years ago, the
problem with rooftop solar
was that customers needed a
large collection of lead
acid batteries to store
their daytime energy and use
this energy at night. But
simple net metering rules
made it possible for the
electric grid to function as
a 100 percent efficient
storage device.
Unfortunately, utilities are
doing everything they can to
eliminate net metering so
they can maximize their
profits. So the compelling
need for battery storage
linked with rooftop solar
has re-emerged.
Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) have
puzzled astronomers ever
since they were first
detected about 10 years ago.
Coming in from all corners
of space, these strong but
extremely short-lived
signals can't be explained
by any known celestial
object, and now the mystery
has deepened even further.
Normally, FRBs fire off once
and aren't heard from again,
but one outlier has been
particularly chatty over the
years. That repeating FRB
has kicked into hyperdrive
this week, pulsing an
unprecedented 15 times in
the space of a few hours
Hundreds of people in
California evacuated from
their homes this weekend to
escape a monster inferno
being described as the
largest in Los Angeles’
history.
California Gov. Jerry Brown
declared a state of
emergency Sunday, the Los
Angeles Times reported.
Brown's declaration, which
allows for state and federal
assistance to be provided to
Los Angeles County quickly,
came after Los Angeles Mayor
Eric Garcetti issued a
similar declaration
In December 2016, there were
22,299,000 people employed
by federal, state and local
governments in the United
States. By August, that had
dropped to 22,298,000—a
decline of 1,000.
Ethanol - good to fuel
your car, and now
potentially kill tumors
Scientists have known for
some time that ethanol can
kill cancer cells, but
several limitations held it
back from becoming a broadly
used treatment. A team at
Duke University has recently
developed a new type of
ethanol solution that can be
injected directly into a
variety of tumors to
potentially offer a new,
safe, and cheap form of
cancer treatment.
A four-story office building
powered by a combination of
thermal and PV solar and
wind energy in South
Australia has cut its
connection to the
electricity grid in what its
owners claim to be a world
first.
It is incredibly sad that
Mr. Peltier is still having
to deal with being in prison
for a sentence that has in
the decades since his
conviction have otherwise
been changed. He deserves to
spend the rest of his life
at home. He has done enough
and given that Chelsea
Manning has been released,
that should be a big red
flag as to the injustice Mr.
Peltier is still having to
endure. Get well as soon as
you can. Our hearts are
still praying.
According to longevity
expert Dr. Gary Small, our
need for intimacy and
socialization is
hardwired into our
brain. This makes the
quantity and quality of your
social connections crucial
to your ability to enjoy a
long life.
In 2015, a video showing a
semi-automatic handgun being
fired from a custom-built
drone went viral, raising
concerns for authorities,
including the FAA. The
development of such a DIY
device was only a matter of
time, as was the
commercialization of the
technology. Now
Florida-based startup Duke
Robotics has unveiled the
TIKAD, a custom-built
multirotor that can carry
and fire various military
weapons, including
semi-automatic rifles and
grenade launchers.
"The time has come to
exhaust all diplomatic means
to end this crisis," Haley
said. "Only the strongest
sanctions will enable us to
solve this problem through
diplomacy."
Areas affected by Hurricane
Harvey and its aftermath
reported less than 65,000
customers were without power
at 12 pm CDT Sunday, the
lowest level since the storm
made landfall August 25.
Flooding continued to hamper
power restoration efforts,
however.
M5 event observed.
Solar activity is expected
to be moderate with a chance
for X-class flares on days
one, two, and three (05 Sep,
06 Sep, 07 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(05 Sep) and quiet levels on
days two and three (06 Sep,
07 Sep). Protons have a
slight chance of crossing
threshold on days one, two,
and three (05 Sep, 06 Sep,
07 Sep).
According to a spokesperson,
Zinke believes an area in
Montana near Yellowstone
National Park is "too
precious to mine," The
Associated Press reported.
So he's supporting a
withdrawal of future gold
mining claims on federal
land in that area, which is
known as Paradise Valley.
"General John Kelly is doing
a great job as Chief of
Staff. I could not be
happier or more impressed —
and this Administration
continues to get things done
at a record clip. Many big
decisions to be made over
the coming days and weeks.
AMERICA FIRST!" the
president said in a tweet.
The University of Illinois
has eliminated a "war chant"
song at athletic games,
according to news reports.
The school's Chief Illiniwek
mascot was retired in 2007.
But the song, which features
a stereotypical drum sound,
continued to be performed at
some games up until
Thursday, when a group was
told to playing it, The
Champagne News-Gazette
reported.
Alex Wubbels, the Utah
hospital nurse who was
forcibly arrested for
disobeying unconstitutional
police orders, spoke to
CNN’s “New Day” anchor
Alisyn Camerota on Monday
and told her side of the
story that shook the nation.
Wubbels was arrested in
July after she refused to
provide blood samples of an
unconscious motor vehicle
accident victim to a Salt
Lake City police officer.
Our nation has not seen
comprehensive tax reform in
31 years. That will change
this year.
Our plan for tax reform
is centered on shared goals
of a simpler, fairer, and
lower-rate tax system. This
will help raise GDP, boost
wages, and make life better
for people.
More than 75,000 people
have signed a White House
petition that would declare
billionaire Democratic donor
George Soros a terrorist.
Anyone can create a
petition on the White House
website, and those with at
least 100,000 signatures in
30 days require an official
response from the executive
branch.
"While many known asteroids
have passed by closer to
Earth than Florence . . .
all of those were estimated
to be smaller," Paul Chodas,
manager of NASA's Center for
Near-Earth Object Studies in
Pasadena, California,
told
spaceflightinsider.com.
According to an Associated
Press report, 15 of the
individuals facing formal
charges are Turkish security
officials, who were seen
roughing up protesters in
various videos posted after
the skirmish. U.S. officials
announced their intent to
file charges stemming from
the incident in June.
Alleging that SCE&G
unfairly charged customers
up to
$1 billion for a
failed nuclear expansion
project, a lawsuit filed
Monday in
Fairfield County
seeks to recover money for
virtually all of the
company's ratepayers in the
Columbia and
Charleston areas.
The suit says SCE&G and
its parent corporation,
SCANA, misled state utility
regulators and power company
customers by failing to tell
them about the severity of
troubles that ultimately
caused the companies to
abandon the twin-reactor
effor
The loss of frozen ground in
Arctic regions is a striking
result of climate change.
And it is also a cause of
more warming to come.
The Arctic is warming about
twice as fast as other parts
of the planet, and even here
in sub-Arctic Alaska the
rate of warming is high. Sea
ice and wildlife habitat are
disappearing; higher sea
levels threaten coastal
native villages.
A price war has
raged in U.S. supermarket
aisles for well over a year,
bloodying retailers big and
small. On Monday, Amazon.com
Inc. plans to toss a smart
bomb into the fray.
The online
giant’s move to slash prices
on everything from organic
baby kale to fair-trade
bananas on the same day its
$13.7 billion acquisition of
Whole Foods Market Inc.
closes showed the
“high-velocity decision
making” Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos claims as his
hallmark, and sent shares of
Kroger Co., Costco Wholesale
Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores
Inc. reeling Thursday.
The new cosmic blasts may
help researchers finally
figure out what’s producing
the energy in space
Researchers from
Breakthrough Listen, a
project focused on the
search for signs of
intelligent life, recently
detected a group of 15 Fast
Radio Bursts (FRBs)
emanating from a dwarf
galaxy 3 billion light years
from Earth, reports Leah
Crane at New Scientist.
Police have arrested 13
people in connection to
violence following this
weekend’s protest in
Berkeley. In the melee,
several people—mainly
peaceful, right-wing
protesters—became targets of
violence from black-clad
members of the left-wing
extremist movement Antifa.
It is a commonly
held misconception that the
brain is beyond repair. Even
the medical establishment
has asserted that once we
kill brain cells, they are
gone forever. The fact is,
the brain can repair itself,
and as science is now
proving, there is real
benefit to simple practices
that can help keep our
brains sharp and elastic
throughout our lifetime.
Britain
and Japan discussed the
possibility of adopting a
new U.N. Security Council
resolution over North Korea,
a British government source
said on Thursday, after
North Korea fired a missile
over Japan this week.
The
15-member U.N. Security
Council on Tuesday condemned
the firing of an
intermediate range ballistic
missile over Japan as
“outrageous” and demanded
that North Korea halt its
weapons program, but the
U.S.-drafted statement did
not threaten new sanctions.
The proportion of
electricity generated by
coal fell to a 135-year low
in the United Kingdom.
Aurora Research reported
coal represented just two
percent of total power
generated in July, which was
a 50 percent decline since
the previous summer, the
Independent reported. Coal
generation was nine percent
of the total power mix last
year, and 23 percent in
2015.
As FBI director last year,
James Comey began writing
drafts of a statement
exonerating Hillary Clinton,
even before all witnesses in
the investigation —
including Clinton herself —
had been interviewed.
Those craftily manipulating
and controlling our society
are caring less and less
about whether or not we buy
into their carefully
cultivated 5-sense, 3
dimensional false reality,
played out in the world
theatre of illusion. They
are caring less and less
about the fact that in this
theatre of illusion,
we the audience, increasing
in numbers, are detecting
the gaps in the
falling-apart scenery that
was once believed to be
real, as the brick wall
behind it is further
exposed; that there’s more
and more of us in the
audience detecting the
strings attached to the
stage puppets, such as the
puppeteered politicians, and
many of us can now see their
strings being pulled by
puppet masters who are no
longer hidden in the
shadows…
The U.S. Department of
Energy’s Office of Fossil
Energy announced a $50
million funding opportunity
to design, construct, and
operate two large-scale
pilots for transformational
coal technologies that
improve coal-powered
systems’ performance,
efficiency, emission
reduction and electricity
cost.
Hillary Clinton’s case isn’t
interesting enough to the
public to justify releasing
the FBI’s files on her, the
bureau said this week in
rejecting an open-records
request by a lawyer seeking
to have the former secretary
of state punished for
perjury.
On August 29, the U.S. Court
of Appeals rejected the
lawsuit filed by Gary
Johnson and Jill Stein
against the Commission on
Presidential Debates.
Johnson v Commission on
Presidential Debates,
16-7107. The 11-page
decision is written by Judge
Janice Rogers Brown, who has
been hostile to minor
parties and independents
throughout her whole career,
which began on the
California Supreme Court and
then extended to the U.S.
Court of Appeals, D.C.
Circuit. She wrote that the
plaintiffs lack standing
An analysis of Exxon’s
research and public
statements shows a sharp
contrast between what the
oil giant knew about climate
change and what it told the
public.
Thousands of resources have
arrived from across the
country to help AEP Texas
with restoration efforts
following this historic
weather event. Crews from
Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri
and other states have
arrived and are working on
restoring power to those
impacted by Hurricane
Harvey.
With floodwaters still
rising and damage estimates
piling up, analysts expect
just a modest dent in the
U.S. economy from Hurricane
Harvey this quarter, with
reconstruction efforts
likely to be substantial
enough to boost growth later
this year.
The Federal Bureau of
Investigation denied a
request for information
about Hillary Clinton and
gave what some might
consider to be a ridiculous
excuse for the declination.
The FBI says there is not
enough public interest to
merit releasing the
information.
Electric utility crews,
including those at public
power utilities, have been
at the ready over the last
few days to help with the
disaster unfolding in
Houston, but so far, the
situation in the biggest
city in Texas looks more
like a matter of saving
lives than of getting power
restored. Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott said Monday that he
had activated the entire
Texas National Guard of
12,000 to help with the
severe flooding caused by
Hurricane Harvey.
Corn and wheat are both at
risk, according to a new
study that calculates the
impact on agriculture for
each degree Celsius that
global temperatures rise.
How can we comprehend the
distances to the stars? This
post explains light-years in
terms of a scale of miles
and kilometers....
20th century astronomer
Robert Burnham Jr. – author
of Burnham’s Celestial
Handbook – devised an
ingenious way to portray the
distance of one light-year
and ultimately of expressing
the distance scale of the
universe, in understandable
terms.
He did this by relating the
light-year to the
Astronomical Unit – the
Earth-sun distance.
People concerned about
their water footprint often
make an effort to turn the
faucet off quickly, take
shorter showers, and cut
back on watering the lawn.
While these efforts are
important, they ignore one
of the biggest water-use
culprits found in virtually
every household: food and
beverages.
Hurricane Harvey’s path
of destruction has left
hundreds of thousands of
Texans without power, and
the state’s utilities are
facing days, or even weeks,
before the floodwaters
recede and they can begin to
repair the damage.
As of Monday afternoon,
about 290,000 customers were
without power in the
southeastern parts of Texas,
as the hurricane that ripped
into the coast on Saturday
lingered on as a
rain-dumping tropical storm
for its third day. The
outage numbers are bit lower
than the 300,000-plus
without power as of Sunday
afternoon, but just barely,
according to Department of
Energy storm updates.
North Korea’s state
media says leader Kim
Jong Un has called for
more ballistic missile
launches into the
Pacific a day after it
flew a missile designed
to carry a nuclear
payload over Japan.
North Korea’s
state media says
leader Kim Jong Un
has called for more
ballistic missile
launches into the
Pacific a day after
it flew a missile
designed to carry a
nuclear payload over
Japan.
Larry Kudlow, the former
economist in the Reagan
administration who also
advised Republican Donald
Trump’s presidential
campaign, said Trump is not
a white supremacist and
business leaders still
support the president’s
economic agenda.
For most of the year,
there’s been an oft-repeated
refrain among
China-watchers. Whispered in
private meetings with
clients or loudly spoken by
confident brokers, it goes
something like this: “Don’t
worry about the economy or
markets in 2017 -- Beijing
won’t let anything bad
happen ahead of the
Communist Party Congress.”
Much less clear is what
happens after the
gathering,...
The Z
machine at Sandia
National
Laboratories creates
tremendous bursts of
energy using less
power than it would
take to light 100
homes for a few
minutes
There is
lightning being made in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
But unlike the kind that
shoots between sky and
earth, this lightning
takes place inside the Z
machine at Sandia
National Laboratories.
The lightning made
inside this miracle of
engineering carries more
than 1,000 times the
electricity of a regular
bolt, and is 20,000
times faster...
A giant array of solar
panels near the famed
sandstone buttes of Monument
Valley has begun producing
electricity for the Navajo
Nation at a time when the
tribe is bracing for the
loss of hundreds of jobs
from the impending closure
of a nearby coal-fired power
plant.
After a citizens' group
branded San Onofre a
"beachfront nuclear waste
dump" -- and sued
Southern California Edison
and the
California Coastal
Commission
for failing to consider another
home for it -- the warring
parties struck an agreement
Monday to take specific
steps toward removing
nuclear waste from the
region.
Activists hope the deal
will also kick-start
discussions to solve the
nuclear waste dilemma
nationwide, while others say
it accomplishes little.
Nine states in the
northeast United States have
announced a plan to cut
power plant emissions by 30
percent from 2020 to 2030.
The plan is a result of
negotiations between the
states in the Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative,
which includes Connecticut,
Delaware, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New York, Rhode
Island, and Vermont, the
Boston Globe reported.
Ever since the
reintroduction of the
Mexican gray wolf into
the wild in 1998,
ranchers in wolf country
have been dealing with a
predator their ancestors
worked to eliminate.
And the wolves very
nearly were eliminated.
The wild wolves that now
roam the
Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forest are the
descendants of only
seven remaining Mexican
wolves left when a
recovery effort for the
species was launched in
the mid-1970s after the
passage of the
Endangered Species Act.
Now, nearly 20 years
later, ranchers in wolf
country are still coming
to terms with how to
handle an another
predator in a business
that includes many
variables that affect
the bottom line and are
outside ranchers’
control.
C1 event observed.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a slight chance
for an M-class flare on days
one, two, and three (01 Sep,
02 Sep, 03 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to minor storm levels on day
one (01 Sep), quiet to
active levels on day two (02
Sep) and quiet to unsettled
levels on day three (03
Sep).
Trump’s policies
on LGBT people, immigration,
racism and tax reform were
ultimately “scams,”
according to Scarborough.
“The only
policies that I have any
evidence, and we have any
evidence, in knowing that he
actually gives a damn
about,” he said, “it’s all,
‘China is ripping us off,’
in the ’80s it was, ‘Japan
is ripping us off,’ ‘the
Saudis are ripping us off’ —
he really does believe
that.”
In the weeks before SCANA
abandoned its plan to finish
two nuclear reactors that
have cost S.C. customers
$1.7 billion so far,
the utility and its
associates showered Gov.
Henry McMaster with
tens of thousands of dollars
in campaign contributions.
Costs have dropped and
infrastructures expanded
much faster than even the
most optimistic models had
assumed. A new study by the
Mercator Research Institute
on Global Commons and
Climate Change (MCC) shows
that in 2050, the percentage
of photovoltaics in the
global power supply could be
three times higher than
previously projected.
President Trump and his
allies have clamored for
months that Senate Democrats
are stonewalling top-level
appointees -- but the
president indicated Tuesday
that hundreds of vacancies
might just go unfilled.
The
president cast the decision
as part of an effort to
shrink the government. On a
similar track, Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson a day
earlier told Congress that
most of his agency's special
envoy positions -- including
dozens from the Obama
administration -- will be
eliminated and their
responsibilities reassigned.
Ecstasy doesn’t sound
like something you do in a
doctor’s office. But the
Food and Drug Administration
wants that to change. The
FDA just approved the
substance, more clinically
known as MDMA, as a
‘breakthrough’ drug—and will
work to move it through
clinical trials as
efficiently as possible.
American Indian tribes
hoping to persuade a federal
judge to turn off the Dakota
Access oil pipeline maintain
in last-minute court filings
that the project's developer
has overstated the potential
impacts of a shutdown.
Truman was once quoted
as saying, "I never give
them hell. I just tell the
truth and they think it's
hell."
Washington Post
fact-checkers had
that very day
proclaimed that they had
documented 1,000 false or
misleading statements from
the mouth (or the Twitter
account) of the president.
The president, they insist,
has trouble with the truth.
To those of us who voted
for Trump, this sounds wrong
from the start.
Trump was referring to a
mine from Corsa Coal Corp.
that is projected to open in
2018. The reference to
"clean coal" was somewhat
unclear in this context,
because clean coal refers to
attempts to recapture carbon
released when coal is burnt
or to otherwise reduce coal
pollution during the
combustion process. It's not
something that happens
during the mining stage.
Weekly US coal production
totaled an estimated 16.7
million st in the week ended
August 26, down 1.7% from
the prior week but up 9.6%
from the year-ago week,
Energy Information
Administration data showed
Thursday.
It was the
third highest weekly
estimate this year, just
below last week's
year-to-date high of 17.02
million st.
A former IT aide suspected
of stealing equipment and
data from Congress still has
an active, secret email
account on the House
computer system, even though
he has been banned from the
congressional network
because of a criminal
investigation into the
alleged cybersecurity
violations, The Daily Caller
News Foundation
Investigative Group has
learned.
Wells Fargo & Co. said
employees created two-thirds
more bogus accounts than
initially thought, a sign
the bank is still struggling
to move past a scandal that
sparked record fines and
congressional investigations
On Inauguration Day,
leftwing protesters took to
the streets of the nation’s
Capital. They burned cars,
shattered store fronts,
blocked off checkpoints
leading to the Capitol
grounds, pelted police
officers with rocks, and
harassed law-abiding
Americans trying to watch
our 45th President take his
oath of office.
Grid operators and
traders thought they were
totally prepped for the
historic U.S. solar eclipse.
There was just this one
thing they didn’t completely
factor in: “irregular
human-behavior patterns.”
That’s the technical
definition, from the folks
who manage the electricity
network at the Southwest
Power Pool, for the conduct
of millions of Americans who
were outdoors ogling the
moon shadowing the sun
instead of cranking up the
A/C in homes and offices.
But the dropout crisis is
just the tip of an iceberg.
What it doesn’t count are
all the kids who are in
school but being disengaged
from it, who don’t enjoy it,
who don’t get any real
benefit from it.
And the reason is not that
we’re not spending enough
money.
Bears Ears is one of three
national monuments Zinke
wants altered after review
ordered by Trump; tribes
plan to sue
The 1.35 million–acre Bears
Ears National Monument could
be reduced to about 160,000
acres, according to
one report about
Interior’s final review of
national monuments,
commissioned by President
Donald Trump. The tribes
that lobbied for the
designation, made by
President Barack Obama
before he left office last
January, have vowed to sue.
The power sector is
constantly evolving, but
rarely -- if ever -- has it
experienced the rapid pace
of change it faces today.
The interaction between
technological, economic and
political forces is
catalyzing what could become
the most dramatic
transformation of
electricity in the past
century.
In a new research brief,
we identify and expand upon
four primary trends shaping
and directing this
transformation globally.
Klondex Mines working with
Western Shoshones to
preserve sacred sites and
ancient landscape
The sacred sites—prayer
circles, shrines, ancient
camping grounds and
more—form the heart of a
cultural landscape
encompassing tens of
thousands of acres in the
rolling hills of northern
Nevada. Archaeologists have
dated artifacts indicating
that the Western Shoshone
and other tribes have camped
and held ceremonies in the
region for at least 14,000
years. Medicine man Reggie
Sope, of the Shoshone-Paiute
Tribes, saw even earlier
connections. “We arose
there,” he said.
150 people were treated for
stinging eyes, irritated
throats and vomiting
Beachgoers were enjoying a
leisurely, sunny Sunday on
the UK’s East Sussex coast
when a mysterious, chemical
mist settled over the area.
As Elle Hunt reports for the
Guardian, beaches
across the coast were
evacuated, and some 150
people were treated for
stinging eyes, irritated
throats and vomiting. The
haze has largely dissipated,
but authorities still aren’t
sure what it was or where it
came from.
There’s nothing like a warm
shower when we want to relax
or even warm up on a cold
winter day. The idea of
subjecting ourselves to cold
showers can actually seem
crazy at times given how
luxurious it has become to
enjoy hot showers. But the
truth is a cold shower can
provide a lot of benefits
that you may want to
consider.
The group currently hosts
anti-police workshops called
“Our Enemies in Blue.” The
group draws inspiration from
convicted murderers and
calls for violence against
the police, theft of goods,
and armed insurrection.
A
mob of self-proclaimed
“anti-hate protesters” were
filmed violently attacking
peaceful anti-Marxist,
pro-Trump rally-goers at
Berkeley with fists, sticks
and urine.
German
authorities have banned the
most influential internet
website of Antifa – the
country's militant left --
in the wake of violence that
occured last month outside
the G20 summit in Hamburg.
In an
unprecedented move against
violent left-wing extremism,
Germany’s Interior Ministry
informed the owners of the
left-wing site about the
crackdown Friday, the Local
reported.
She confronts colonialism
from the perspective of
indigenous nationhood, but
goes beyond arguing for
changes in politics, writing
in a way that enacts changes
in our thinking about
politics. Simpson
articulates indigenous
nationhood as “a radical and
complete overturning of the
nation-state’s political
formations.”
Aging brings a decline in
mental and physical fitness,
but a new study shows an
easy, fun way to reverse the
signs of aging in the brain
— dancing. Researchers
examined two different
fitness routines and found
that while both had an
anti-aging effect on the
brains of the elderly,
dancing had the most
profound effect.
A District of Columbia
Superior Court judge on
Thursday approved a
government warrant seeking
data from an anti-Trump
website related to
Inauguration Day protests,
but he added protections to
safeguard “innocent users.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel
stood up to rowdy protestors
who tried to drown out her
campaign speech with
deafening jeers and whistles
in the eastern town of
Quedlinburg on Saturday,
telling them that their
angry shouts would not solve
Germany’s problems...
“Some believe the problems
in Germany can be fixed by
screaming - but I don’t
think so and the majority of
the people here don’t think
so either,” said Merkel, who
is seeking a fourth term in
office and is the heavy
favorite to win the Sept. 24
election.
The study clearly showed
that economics — not
renewable energy sources
like wind and solar — is
responsible for killing
coal. The proliferation of
natural-gas fired power
plants, another dirty fossil
fuel, was the biggest driver
for change. Fracked-gas is
cheaper than coal, so old
coal-burning plants can’t
compete.
The bipartisan Secure Fence
Act of 2006 — supported by
then-Sens. Hillary Clinton,
Barack Obama, Joe Biden and
others — mandated the
construction of hundreds of
additional miles of secure
fencing and infrastructure
investments. Yuma sector was
one of the first areas to
receive infrastructure
investments.
A letter from EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt
released Monday said he will
seek to revise the 2015
guidelines mandating
increased treatment for
wastewater from steam
electric power-generating
plants.
Electric utilities have
been vocal about their
opposition to the stricter
standards.
“There was a little girl
who had been in class with
the little boy all last
year,” England explained to
the Times. “They’re in
different classes now, but
she saw him on the
playground yesterday and
called him by his name. The
little girl was told ‘You
can’t do that, his name is
this name,’ and ‘You need to
call him a ‘her.'”
After the little girl
misgendered her school mate,
she reportedly was called to
the principal’s office for
discussion.
“Ice, by itself, is only
capable of flowing at
velocities of no more than
tens of meters per year.
That means the ice is being
helped along. It’s sliding
on water or mud or both.”..
… on Earth’s driest, coldest
continent, where surface
water rarely exists, flowing
liquid water below the ice
appears to play a pivotal
role in determining the fate
of Antarctic ice streams.
June 3,
2016- A coronal hole in the
surface of the sun appears
as a dark region near the
top of the sphere. These
holes are not visible to the
human eye. The image shows
wavelengths of light in the
extreme ultraviolet band.
The move from chasing down
our food to growing our own
grub left an indelible mark
on our biology. One change
resulting from the switch to
softer foods was we didn't
need to spend so much energy
chewing. Studying hundreds
of pre-industrial era human
skulls, new research has
singled out the foodstuff
with the biggest impact on
our skull shape: cheese.
Can you really have an out
of body experience on
command? Absolutely. While
this is something that will
take some time to practice
and get good at, there are
many methods to having out
of body experiences or
spiritual experiences on
command using only your
consciousness and physical
body.
There is also a purpose to
these experiences; they
aren’t simply to trip out
(although if you wish to do
that it’s up to you). These
experiences can help you
dissolve fears, move past
trauma, expand your
consciousness and much more.
I personally don’t feel
inspired to do anything
other than explore and
expand myself when I engage
in experiences like this.
As most in the energy
industry knew, the answer is
incredibly nuanced. The
187-page report, released
today, details the many
reasons impacting the
retirement of coal plants —
the fact that they are old,
in need of upgrades,
costlier to run than natural
gas plants, and not running
at full capacity — are just
some of them.
More than 1,000 people have
died from the mudslide and
flood that hit Sierra
Leone's capital nearly two
weeks ago, a local leader
and a minister said Sunday
during services honoring the
disaster's victims.
Florida’s largest
freshwater lake is thick
with toxic algae, fueling
concerns that it will spread
to other water bodies and
sparking a debate over
whether decisions by water
managers helped encourage
the growth of this bloom.
Scientists confirmed this
month that the bloom is
toxic.
Andre Taggart, a black
U.S. Marine who said he
votes Democrat, told the
Daily Caller on Wednesday
that he was angered by
Wasserman Schultz’s claims
that the investigation into
Awan by U.S. authorities is
a result of bigotry.
Taggart is a key witness
in the FBI investigation
into the Awans. According to
the Daily Caller,
Taggart rented
Awan’s Northern Virginia
home. The Marine revealed he
discovered the smashed hard
drives Awan had left behind
when he attempted to flee
the U.S. for Pakistan.
A startup called Energy and
Environmental Sustainability
is taking cactus waste from
the Milpa Alta neighborhood
of the capital and turning
it into biogas.
Two North Korean shipments
to a Syrian government
agency responsible for the
country's chemical weapons
program were intercepted in
the past six months,
according to a confidential
United Nations report on
North Korea sanctions
violations.
Oil and gas companies on the
Texas Gulf Coast were
dealing Monday with the
impact of Tropical Storm
Harvey, which was unleashing
torrential rains and
flooding in the Houston area
after making landfall
Saturday near Corpus
Christi.
Roughly 2.2
million b/d of Texas
refining capacity remained
down, as were major ports in
Corpus Christi and Houston.
The Kepler Space Telescope
is not only a dab hand at
finding exoplanets, it's
also revealing the secrets
of the Seven Sisters. Also
known as the Pleiades, this
open star cluster made up of
middle-aged Type B stars is
visible to the naked eye,
but has proved difficult to
study. Now Kepler's
instruments, combined with
algorithms devised by a team
of scientists from the
Stellar Astrophysics Centre
at Aarhus University led by
Dr Tim White, are shedding
new light on the variability
of the companions of
Artemis.
First, President Reagan
had a similar period during
his first term when his
approval rating fell to 35%
— even lower than President
Trump’s. Reagan bounced
back, carried 49 states in a
landslide reelection, and
went on to oversee an
economic boom and change
world history by pushing the
Soviet Union into collapse.
So, history tells us that
presidential approval
ratings at this point in
time are not indicative of a
president’s future success.
Second, in addition to
failing to contextualize
President Trump’s approval
ratings in history, the
elite media is ignoring the
present. Look, for example,
at the radically different
way it has treated President
Trump and President Emmanuel
Macron of France.
Qatar restores full
diplomatic relations with
Iran, ignoring demands of
Arab nations trying to
isolate Doha.
Qatar restored full
diplomatic relations
with Iran early on
Thursday and promised to
send its ambassador back
to Tehran — a move
counter to the demands
of Arab nations trying
to isolate Doha as part
of a regional dispute.
In announcing its
decision, Qatar made no
mention of the
diplomatic crisis
roiling Gulf Arab
nations since June, when
Doha found its land, sea
and air routes cut off
by the four Arab states.
The
storm known as “Harvey”
claimed the lives of five
people in the Houston area
according to local news
reports. This raised the
total number killed from the
Hurricane Harvey storm to
six. A Texas woman became
“Harvey’s” second victim
after massive flood waters
washed her away from her
stalled car.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares and a
slight chance for an M-class
flare on days one, two, and
three (29 Aug, 30 Aug, 31
Aug). The geomagnetic
field is expected to be
at quiet to unsettled levels
on day one (29 Aug), quiet
to active levels on day
two (30 Aug) and active to
minor storm levels on day
three (31 Aug).
The Podesta Group,
co-founded by former
chairman of Hillary
Clinton’s campaign John
Podesta, was one of six
lobbying firms who worked on
Manafort’s campaign between
2012 to 2014 to get the
Ukraine into the European
Union, NBC News reported.
There will be key times on
the path where you’re
presented with vital
opportunities
for accelerated evolutionary
growth. They are windows of
possibility where your soul
is wanting to grow and
expand into a new level of
conscious existence. So the
Universe conspires to
present a cauldron of
alchemical change, where
you’re tested emotionally,
physically and mentally to
your threshold and beyond.
It’s a bit like a new
flower, working to
breakthrough tough surface
layers. By those pathfinders
who’ve endured them, they’ve
become known as
‘initiations’. They are the
most earth-shattering,
bone-shaking you will
encounter. So it pays to
know something of what they
are about. It can help you
make sense of what’s going
on…
According to a
comprehensive study by the
Northwest Indian Fisheries
Commission, wild salmon
populations continue to
decline because of culverts,
which block fish migration;
shoreline modifications,
which affect nearshore
habitat; impervious road
surfaces, which result in
more polluted stormwater
runoff; loss of forestland
cover that provides
nutrients and shade for
streams; and an increase in
the number of wells, which
use water needed to recharge
aquifers and streams.
Social Justice Warriors
advocate in a campus
newsletter that U.S.
veterans should be "banned"
from attending four-year
colleges and universities.
The University of
Colorado-Colorado Springs
approved of someone posting
a flyer on the school’s
campus that says veterans
should be “banned” from
four-year colleges and
universities.
Anyone relying on the CIA
for tech support got a nasty
surprise this morning, as
documents published by
Wikileaks revealed a secret
project to siphon out data
through its technical
liaison service, dating back
to 2009.
Arpaio admitted to
inadvertently disobeying the
court order but said his
behavior did not meet a
criminal standard. He said
the prosecution was a
politically motivated
attempt by the Obama
administration to undermine
his re-election bid.
President Donald Trump has
issued guidance to the
Pentagon on transgender
policies. Trump has asked
the military to stop
admitting transgender
individuals, but gives the
secretaries of defense and
homeland security some
leeway.
The report said initial
jobless claims inched up to
234,000, an increase of
2,000 from the previous
week's unrevised level of
232,000. Economists had
expected jobless claims to
rise to 238,000.
The modest increase came
after initial jobless claims
fell to their lowest level
in nearly six months in the
previous week.
A
decade ago, we wouldn’t have
given a thought to the loss
of solar power. But, as
Elizabeth Shogren reports in
this issue, the growth in
solar has been so dramatic
that it is now something we
fight over regularly. Total
solar installations for
homes and businesses in the
U.S. are expected to hit 2
million next year, and in
Nevada, rooftop solar grew
eightfold between 2014 and
2016
Minnesota water regulators
are taking on a corporation
for allegedly violating its
water quality promises...
“According to 2007
agreement between the state
and the company, the company
must provide clean drinking
water to Cottage Grove,
Oakdale, Woodbury and St.
Paul Park if water exceeds
any safe level established
by the state Department of
Health,” the report said.
The state reminded the
company of this agreement
after 3M said it would not
pay for water service for
ratepayers in areas
contaminated with
perfluorinated compounds
(PFCs).
A security researcher has
found that the popular
weather app sends private
location data without the
user's explicit permission
to a firm designed to
monetize user locations.
A new technology capable of
fooling a GPS system into
believing it's somewhere
it's not is being considered
as the prime culprit in a
number of cases involving
misguided ships, and
collisions with U.S
.warships.
Whether you’re a male or a
female, odds are that you’ve
applied deodorant, shampoo,
or other personal care
products to your body. The
irony is that many of these
products aren’t actually
helping you “care” for your
body, but rather harming you
instead. For example, if
your deodorant contains
parabens, parfum, or any
other cancer-causing
ingredient, then you’re hurting your
body, not caring for it.
The memo emphasized the
important role forest
bioenergy serves in
maintaining Arizona's
forests, woodlands, and
watersheds while creating
energy for the grid. “Our
history is riddled with
examples of the devastating
economic, cultural, and
ecological impact of Arizona
wildfires,” it stated. “In
addition, state watersheds,
including streams, lakes and
reservoirs are at risk of
contamination from hazardous
runoff coming from the
burned areas. Maintaining
healthy forests and
woodlands through
on-the-ground restoration
activities reduces the risk
and severity of these
wildfires.”
A Barbie doll and a meat
grinder each packed with
explosives were the weapons
of choice of the terror cell
behind a foiled plot to blow
up an Australian airliner, a
Lebanese official said
Monday.
The bombs didn't make it
aboard the intended flight
because the piece of luggage
they were hidden in was
about 15 pounds over the
airline's limit.
A federal jury in Las Vegas
did not return any guilty
verdicts Tuesday against
four men accused of taking
up arms against federal
agents during the Bundy
Ranch standoff in 2014.
Jurors dealt government
prosecutors a stinging
defeat in the case when,
after four days of
deliberations, they returned
not-guilty verdicts on the
most serious charges and
deadlocked on a handful of
others.
“The California State Water
Resources Control Board has
released draft water
regulations for growing
marijuana in attempt to
reign in the environmental
damage that pot farms have
caused and prepare for a new
wave of legal cannabis
grows,” Cal Coast News
reported.
The future is arriving—a few
tons at a time—at Suncor
Energy Inc.’s North
Steepbank oil sands mine in
Alberta, Canada.
Human-operated excavators
scrape away the top layers
of soil to get to the
hydrocarbon-rich tar sand
beneath in much the same way
they always have. But now
they’re dumping that dirt
into driverless trucks that
use GPS systems and lasers
to find their way through
the massive mine.
"When you are going
through the Strait of
Malacca, you can't tell me
that a Navy destroyer
doesn't have a full
navigation team going with
full lookouts on every wing
and extra people on radar,"
Jeff Stutzman, an
ex-information warfare
specialist in the Navy who
works at Wapack Labs, told
McClatchy.
"There's something more
than just human error going
on because there would have
been a lot of humans to be
checks and balances."
Members of the
establishment media reacted
in horror after President
Donald Trump criticized them
again during a rally in
Phoenix in the wake of the
violent Charlottesville
protests...
“Who will Donald Trump blame
when a journalist gets
severely injured or worse by
someone acting in his name?”
wrote Tom Namako of
Buzzfeed.
“The settlement terms of the
Perry litigation corroborate
what years of testing and
field collection studies
have shown: that flushable
wipes are not causing
municipal clogs or increased
maintenance,” said Dave
Rousse, president of INDA.
“To date, despite
sensational headlines, there
is no evidence from any
wastewater agency proving
that flushable wipes are
causing clogs or maintenance
issues.”
How energy markets absorbed
gigawatts of solar lost to
the eclipse—and why it
wasn’t a big deal.
The solar eclipse that
crossed the United States on
Monday may have cast its
shadow over large swaths of
solar PV from California to
South Carolina. But with an
effect that’s even more
predictable than the
weather, grid operators
across the country were able
to manage their way through
multi-gigawatt dips in solar
generation without any
worries about keeping the
grid itself stable.
The poll found 81 percent
of Republicans surveyed
approved of Trump in June;
75 percent did so in August;
19 percent disapproved in
June, while 25 percent did
so in August.
But polled about the
GOP-majority Congress, 68
percent said they approved
in June but just 54 percent
did so in August, while 32
percent disapproved of
Congress in June and 46
percent gave a thumbs-down
this month.
Phil’s story has gained a
lot of attention from UFO
researchers, and that’s
because his story never
changed, and has been
corroborated by other people
as well. It also aligns with
a lot of other information
that has been leaked on this
subject.
Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin,
the three-star commander of
the fleet in Japan, will be
made to step down on
Wednesday in connection with
the crashes, sources have
revealed.
High-tech fabric
intended for gloves and
other military clothing
contains silver nanowires
that could be heated to keep
soldiers warm, while a
hydrogel layer would absorb
sweat
Despite many warnings about
the possibility of permanent
eye damage—and, in one case,
the advice of a presidential
aide—a lot of people ended
up looking at the sun during
Monday's eclipse without the
recommended solar filter...
University of Waterloo
optometry professor Ralph
Chou tells NPR that symptoms
won't be apparent for at
least 12 hours
Relieving oneself in open
fields is common practice in
many parts of India, but the
government is trying to
change that...
According to Kshitiz Gaur
of the Times of India,
the 24-year-old woman
claimed that her husband
refused to install a toilet
or bathroom in their home.
As a result, she was forced
to relieve herself in open
fields at night, which she
said “undermined her
dignity.” The couple was
married in 2011 and the wife
filed for divorce in 2015 at
a family court in Bhilwara,
a city in the Indian state
of Rajasthan.
Urinating and
defecating in the open
is common practice in
some rural parts of
India...
The Fed has outlined plans
to slowly begin shrinking
its $4.2 trillion holdings
of mortgage and Treasury
securities this fall and to
raise rates one more time
this year after that. Policy
decisions beyond December
are clouded by the
succession question, and
that uncertainty could
increasingly weigh on
markets, especially because
President Donald Trump has
indicated he is considering
a wide range of potential
candidates.
Microsoft researchers have
hit a milestone 25 years in
the making. The company's
conversational speech
recognition system has
finally reached an error
rate of only 5.1 percent,
putting it on par with the
accuracy of professional
human transcribers for the
first time ever.
“The idea of trying to
create crimes just because
we disagree with [President
Trump] politically, and
target him, really endangers
democracy. [It] reminds me
of what the head of the KGB
said to Stalin: ‘Show me the
man, and I will find you the
crime,'” Dershowitz said on
a radio talk show.
For Netanyahu and
other Israeli officials
the chief concern was
never the black clad
death cult which filmed
itself beheading
Americans and burning
people alive.
“Let the Sunni evil
prevail,” they say.
Israel is threatening
to escalate military
action in Syria against
perceived Iranian
interests. This week
Netanyahu declared, “we
will act when necessary
according to our red
lines” while hinting he
prefers ISIS presence in
Syria as opposed to Iran
aligned fighters at his
border...
Oil
inched up on Tuesday, lifted
by expectations of another
crude stockpile drawdown in
the United States but price
gains were limited amid the
reopening of Libya's largest
oil field.
Prices,
however, pared gains in post
settlement trade and Brent
crude turned negative as the
market was disappointed by
industry data from the
American Petroleum Institute
showing a crude stockpile
decline largely in line with
expectations and a surprise
build in gasoline
inventories
Just after the brief
moment of glory, the Hunley,
which had just become the
world’s first successful
combat submarine,
mysteriously sank.
Its demise has
baffled scores of
researchers and Civil
War buffs for more than
a century. Now, one
maverick scientist is
making the bold claim
that she has cracked the
case. After three years
of sleuthing, Rachel
Lance, a U.S. Navy
biomedical engineer who
holds a PhD from Duke
University’s Pratt
School of Engineering in
North Carolina,
concludes that the blast
from the sub’s own
torpedo sent blast waves
through its iron hull
and caused instant death
for the eight men
inside.
Pakistan has rejected U.S.
criticism of its efforts to
fight terrorism, saying it
should not be made a
scapegoat for the failure of
the U.S. military to win the
war in Afghanistan.
U.S.
President Donald Trump
unveiled his policy for
Afghanistan on Monday,
stepping up the military
campaign against Taliban
insurgents and singling out
Pakistan for harboring them.
One hundred small
streams in the Midwest were
tested for pesticides during
the 2013 growing season and
found to contain, on
average, 52 pesticides per
stream
More than 180 pesticides
and their by-products were
detected in small streams
throughout 11 Midwestern
states, some at
concentrations likely to
harm aquatic insects,
according to a new study by
the U.S. Geological Survey.
The $700 million prize
for Wednesday’s drawing is
the second largest lottery
jackpot in the game’s
history, according to the
newspaper.
But two years ago, the
odds of becoming an instant
millionaire were 1 in about
175 million, the Post said.
The odds now have increased
to roughly 1 in 292 million.
The largest solar event of
the period was a C3 event
observed. Solar
activity is likely to be low
with a slight chance for an
M-class flare on days one,
two, and three (25 Aug, 26
Aug, 27 Aug). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(25 Aug) and quiet levels on
days two and three (26 Aug,
27 Aug).
Russian nuclear-capable
strategic bombers have flown
a rare mission around the
Korean Peninsula at the same
time as the United States
and South Korea conduct
joint military exercises
that have infuriated
Pyongyang.
Most of the lithium used to
make the lithium-ion
batteries that power modern
electronics comes from
Australia and Chile. But
Stanford scientists say
there are large deposits in
sources right here in
America: supervolcanoes ...
Commercial fishermen from
throughout the South Fork
last week pored over
nautical charts showing the
broad swaths of ocean south
of Long Island being
considered for future wind
energy development by New
York State—and saw a lot of
the area where they harvest
a living.
The number of major floods
in natural rivers across
Europe and North America has
not increased overall during
the past 80 years, a recent
study has concluded. Instead
researchers found that the
occurrence of major flooding
in North America and Europe
often varies with North
Atlantic Ocean temperature
patterns.
If you were lucky enough to
be in the solar eclipse's
path of totality this week,
you might have seen a few
minutes of darkness in the
middle of the day. But
that's nothing compared to
65 million years ago, when
the sun may have disappeared
for a year and a half. The
huge asteroid that crashed
into Earth back then may
have wiped out the
dinosaurs, but the force of
the impact alone wasn't the
problem. New simulations
show that particles thrown
into the atmosphere would
have blocked sunlight for up
to 18 months, disrupting the
photosynthesis of plants and
cascading into one of the
worst mass extinction events
the world has ever seen.
Sixteen years after a
controversial biodegradation
plan allowed 1,000
truckloads of orange peels
to be unloaded onto a
barren, deforested area of
Costa Rican land, a team of
Princeton researchers has
discovered unexpectedly
positive results. The area
that was covered with orange
waste is now a lush,
overgrown forest with richer
soil and more tree species
than the adjacent land that
was untreated.
Bayer recently started the
clock for the European Union
to approve its
$65bn takeover of Monsanto.
..
If approved, the merger
would be an extremely risky
consolidation of corporate
power, not to mention a
serious threat to food
supplies and farmers around
the world. It is essential
that regulators properly
investigate it and take
decisive action before it’s
too late. Campaigns that
mobilize ordinary citizens
to challenge the merger will
be a big part of encouraging
regulators to face up to
these mega corporations in
the coming months.
Thousands of Atlantic salmon
escaped from a fish farm pen
off the coast of Washington
late last week, threatening
native Pacific salmon and
causing officials to enlist
the help of citizen fishers
in an effort to catch them.
Like most salmon farms,
Cooke Aquaculture Inc.
raises its stock in
large netted pens positioned
in ocean waters. Last
Saturday, one of its nets
holding more than 300,000
Atlantic salmon in the
waters off Washington's
Cypress Island was damaged.
It collapsed Sunday, reports
Lisa Johnson of CBC News,
releasing thousands
of salmon into the Salish
Sea between Washington and
Canada's Vancouver
Island. Initial estimates
suggest 4,000 to 5,000
creatures escaped, but officials say
the true number could be
"much higher,"Johnson
reports.
The chief of
naval operations has ordered
an “pause” on global fleet
operations in the wake of a
string of destructive
collisions.
The USS John S.
McCain, an Arleigh
Burke-class guided-missile
destroyer, was involved in a
collision with the Alnic MC,
an oil tanker more than
three times the size of the
American warship. Five
sailors were injured with
ten others reported missing
after the huge merchant
vessel punched a hole in the
side of the destroyer early
Monday morning.
While there is no end in
sight to off-shoring by
Japanese companies, signs
are emerging that surging
wages in China are
encouraging at least some of
them to bring jobs,
factories and businesses
back home.
Drought-stricken areas
anxiously await the arrival
of rain. Full recovery of
the ecosystem, however, can
extend long past the first
rain drops on thirsty
ground.
According to a study
published August 10 in
Nature, the length of
drought recovery depends on
several factors, including
the region of the world and
the post-drought weather
conditions. The authors,
including William Anderegg
of the University of Utah,
warn that more frequent
droughts in the future may
not allow time for
ecosystems to fully recover
before the next drought
hits.
Water made headlines over
the past year, with the
major contamination
discovery in Flint, MI,
droughts and then flooding
in California, and questions
about infrastructure. These
headlines highlight how
vital water is to the U.S.
economy and the American
people, as well as the
challenges the industry
faces. What’s not in these
headline stories, though, is
how the industry views its
future.
Microsoft has decided
Windows Insiders don't need
to know about the bugs it's
aware of....
But until now, Microsoft
has published a list of
known issues in these
builds, which explains to
Insiders specific problems,
what they affect, their
impact, and any workarounds.
But from now on,
Microsoft won't be providing
this information as it
focuses on stabilizing the
Fall Creators Update for
general release.