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“p-” word?
p- =male-thingie?
That is what the interviewer is, along with a fool and hopefully soon to be unemployed.
That’s just silly.
Paki
A grown woman talking “p” word for Paki-stani is such a special snowflake she can melt in hell.
In Britain saying Paki brings down the same amount of hell as you would receive if you used the n word in public.
p o o
Breitbart – Mother of Benghazi Victim: ‘Hillary Is a Liar,’ ‘I Would Like To See Hillary In Stripes’
On Tuesday’s “Risk & Reward with Deirdre Bolton” on the Fox Business Network, Patricia Smith, whose son, Sean Smith, was killed in the Benghazi terrorist attack stated, “Hillary is a liar.” And “I would like to see Hillary in stripes.”
Smith said, “Hillary is a liar.” And “It is definitely not time to move on. It has not been dealt with. All they said, all they reported, I imagine, I haven’t seen the report yet, but, all the reporting is what Hillary told them. And I say she lied to them.”
She added, “I would like to see Hillary in stripes. I think she ought to be made to acknowledge what she did, and she has not. So far all she has done is lied, and people are believing her. I know different, because I talked to my son, and he told me what was happen[ing.] She is not acknowledging that. She didn’t know nothing. In fact, she promised to get back to me and tell me what happened. But all I got out of her, and her group of State Department people is that I am not a part of the immediate family, so they don’t have to tell me anything.”
Smith concluded, “Hillary, I’m waiting for what you promised me. All I heard was you getting on TV, calling me a liar. That’s not true, Hillary. I am not the liar. You are the liar.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/06/28/mother-of-benghazi-victim-hillary-is-a-liar-i-would-like-to-see-hillary-in-stripes/
TRAVEL WARNING: Britons told Turkey terror threat is ‘HIGH’ after deadly Istanbul bombings (express, June 29, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/684344/Turkey-travel-warning-UK-terror-threat-remains-high-deadly-suicide-Istanbul-bombings
“BRITONS planning on travelling to Turkey have been warned of a “high” threat of terrorism after chilling suicide bombings killed at least 36 people at an Istanbul airport…”
Muslim halal butchers DESTROYED by petrol bomb as race hate crimes boom after Brexit vote (express, June 29, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/684357/Muslim-halal-butchers-destroyed-petrol-bomb-race-hate-crimes-Brexit-EU-vote
“A MUSLIM halal butchers has been torched by thugs who hurled a petrol bomb into the shop just days after Britain voted to leave the EU…”
Who did the bombing? Moslems or Brits?
Trump calls for the US to bring back WATERBOARDING in wake of the Istanbul terror attacks (express, June 29, 2016)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/684343/Donald-Trump-US-America-Waterboarding-Istanbul-Terror-Attacks-Suicide-Ataturk-Airport
“DONALD Trump has reiterated his calls for America to reinstate waterboarding as an interrogation technique.
The presumptive Republican nominee said the US needs to use the controversial technique, along with other harsh methods, in the battle against Islamic State fanatics following yesterday’s terror attacks in Istanbul.
When asked if he thinks the US should bring back waterboarding, the brazen billionaire told a rally crowd in Ohio: “You have to fight fire with fire.”…”
Gunmen kill 4 policemen in Pakistan’s Quetta city (bigstory/ap, June 29, 2016)
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c6da6d8b63b648339928d78bf638a44a/gunmen-kill-4-policemen-pakistans-quetta-city
“A police spokesman says gunmen in twin attacks minutes apart have shot and killed four policemen in southwestern Pakistan before escaping…”
Gunmen Kill 8 Security Forces in Pakistan’s Quetta (abcnews, June 29, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gunmen-kill-policemen-pakistans-quetta-city-40209031
Winter is coming. Or, well, it might be. And no, this isn’t an article about that Game of Thrones finale. This is real life.
What’s happened is that the sun has “gone blank” for the second time this month. But don’t worry, it’s not about to burn out or anything. “Going blank” is a fancy way of saying that the sun doesn’t have any sunspots on it. It’s perfectly normal — but it does have implications for the future. Including, possibly, the weather over the next several years.
http://uproxx.com/life/solar-minimum-ice-age/
The sun is a periodic star, its output varies on a semi regular basis. The lower level of sunspot activity means that it is putting out less heat so we are going through a perfectly normal cooling cycle. There are predictions of what is called a mini ice age. This doesn’t mean glaciers forming and covering the Northern lands but does mean lower temps for the world, it was a mini ice age that froze the Vikings out of Greenland and Iceland, and during this time period the canals of Holland froze solid every winter. For that matter the Thames would freeze solid enough that people would take bricks out onto the ice build barbaquee pits and roast Oxen on the river for a party.
That means that shortwave reception won’t be so hot. Not that there’s much to listen there anymore. All the SW stations we used to listen to during the Cold War like the BBC are gone from North America. Even Radio Australia will be exiting. I guess everyone’s gone to the internet.
Changes in technology force us to change our ways. According to some engineers and scientists we are real close to scientific break throughs that will change how we do just about everything.
Top court green-lights surveillance of Japan’s Muslims
Legal challenge to police profiling of North Asian country’s Islamic population dismissed by Supreme Court.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/top-court-green-lights-surveillance-japan-muslims-160629040956466.html
Profiling shouldn’t be too tough in Japan.
As long as they aren’t Japanese converts.
I hope not. Japanese tend to go into things with outsized, even exaggerated, enthusiasm.
ASDF plane took evasive action after Chinese fighter’s threatening move: ex-commander
Kyodo
Jun 29, 2016
A Chinese fighter aircraft made a threatening move as if to attack an Air Self-Defense Force airplane over the East China Sea, prompting the Japanese plane to take evasive action, according to an article written by a former Japanese commander and published Tuesday on an online news site.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/29/national/asdf-plane-took-evasive-action-after-chinese-fighters-threatening-move-ex-commander/
China is pushing hard, they want to control the entire orient. The Chinese pressure and American weakness has forced all of the nations in that region to rearm and to start working on military alliances to try and provide a counterbalance to China.
poor little Japan, et al.
The Japanese are ready to activate a lot of ships and probably fighter planes. China should take a real hard look at history and leave them alone, every time China fights Japan it is a disaster for China.
Interesting datapoint:
SEOUL, June 28 (UPI) — North Korea may be under heavy sanctions, but Pyongyang appears to be making every effort to engage foreign dignitaries visiting the country.
State-controlled KCNA reported Tuesday top North Korean officials met with Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdes Mesa to discuss matters in a “friendly atmosphere.”
Valdes Mesa was traveling to North Korea on Tuesday as a special envoy of Cuban President Raul Castro, Yonhap reported.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/06/28/North-Korean-officials-meet-with-Cuban-vice-president/7031467163991/?spt=sec&or=tn
France’s Marine Le Pen on Brexit: ‘This Is the Beginning of the End of the European Union’
“The European Union is objectively a total failure”
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front, was one of the few European politicians to celebrate Britain’s decision to exit the European Union. In an interview with TIME’s Vivienne Walt, she explains how she plans to use the Brexit example to pull France out of the E.U.—and why she is so sure she will succeed.
http://time.com/4386695/brexit-france-q-and-a-marine-le-pen-national-front/
If the 9/11/01 attack hadn’t occured the EU would have gone bankrupt in late 01 or early 02 and would have fallen apart before it did so much damage to Europe.
hree coordinated Islamic State bomb attacks on Yemeni government forces killed 38 people in the southern port city of Mukalla on Monday, medics and security sources said.
They said 24 other people were wounded in the bombings, which occurred just as soldiers were about to break their day-long fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attack via their online news agency, Amaq.
The first explosion occurred as an attacker detonated his suicide vest at a checkpoint on Mukalla’s western approaches.
A second blast came from a bomb-laden car at the military intelligence headquarters, and the last was an improvised explosive device which went off as soldiers were about to begin their evening meal.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN0ZD292
At least 12 people were killed and 32 wounded when a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives attacked a mosque in Abu Ghraib, about 15 miles west of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast on June 27, the first in or around Baghdad since the government declared victory over Islamic State militants in Fallujah, further west, which was seen as a launchpad for such attacks.
http://www.rferl.org/content/twelve-killed-suicide-bombing-mosque-abu-ghraib-near-baghdad-islamic-state/27824606.html
Members of the nomadic Orang Rimba tribe in Indonesia have been attacked and their possessions burned as part of an eviction from a palm oil plantation on their ancestral land.
The Orang Rimba are a nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe who have been dependent on and managed their forest home in Sumatra for generations. Although a national park was created to protect local wildlife and – unprecedented in Indonesia – the tribe, the Indonesian government has signed over most of their ancestral lands to palm oil, timber and other plantation companies.
As a result many Orang Rimba are forced to live in plantations, collecting palm oil seeds and hunting wild boar. For collecting the seeds, the tribe have been accused of theft by the company operating in the area, even though the oil palm is on Orang Rimba ancestral land and the tribe do not regard such foraging as theft
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11340
Danes with foreign spouses to be hit by new restriction
As a result of the Danish government’s response to a recent European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling, it will now be more difficult for Danes to bring foreign spouses and other family members into the country.
http://www.thelocal.dk/20160629/denmark-makes-it-harder-for-foreign-spouses-to-come
Austria’s Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz, has warned that the refugee crisis could break the European Union apart, and described EU migration policy as a “dramatic failure”
“If someone tries to come illegally to Europe, they must be stopped at the EU’s external border and returned to their transit country or country of origin – otherwise we are indirectly supporting people smugglers and even more people will drown.”
http://www.thelocal.at/20160629/kurz-says-eu-migration-policy-a-dramatic-failure
Russian defense minister sacks Baltic Fleet command
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has sacked the commander of the Baltic Fleet and his chief of staff for “dereliction of duty” and “distortion of the real state of things”, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
Shoigu cited “serious drawbacks” in the military training and everyday activities of the fleet’s units and “a lack of proper care for the personnel”.
http://www.oann.com/russian-defense-minister-sacks-baltic-fleet-command-media/
Russian frigate maneuvers to interfere with U.S. carrier operations off Syria
By J.E. Dyer June 29, 2016
The U.S. and Russia are telling different stories about this incident. But the U.S. Navy’s story is credible, and the Navy has no reason to lie.
Whereas Russia does have a reason to do what was described to the Defense News reporter whose story is carried in Navy Times on Tuesday.
The encounter reportedly occurred on 17 Jun in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. USS Harry S Truman (CVN-75) was conducting flight operations, sending war planes over Syria. Truman is on the way home from the Persian Gulf, and has been flying over Syria for months – but not through the air space along the Syrian coast, where Russian military aircraft are using bases, and going to and from their missions in the Syrian war zone. Instead, prior to Truman‘s arrival in the Med for the home-bound transit, the carrier’s air wing had been approaching Syria from the east.
The public hasn’t been told what specific objections the Russians may have made to this excursion by Truman and her air wing. The excursion will be short-lived, to be sure. Truman, which was in port Souda Bay, Crete from 20 to 28 June, is headed home to Norfolk, and her relief, USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN-69), is passing through the Med to the Gulf.
But the confrontation in EASTMED on the 17th is one in a series of indicators that Russia intends to make it harder for Obama to keep doing stupid sh**, along the line of confrontation between Russia and whatever Obama represents now (the empty shell of NATO?), in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/06/29/russian-frigate-maneuvers-interfere-u-s-carrier-operations-off-syria/
Below is the video of the incident from the Russias side
Obama has set things up for a direct confrontation between the US and Russia, there is no need for the confrontation since the national interest of both nations are very close. The problem is that Obama’s interest is to allow the fundamentalist Moslems take over the Middle East which isn’t in the best interest of either Russia or the US. Here he is causing problems by attacking Assad who is or at least was doing nothing to hurt the US or our allies when Obama attacked him. Since he is an ally of Russia they are defending him.
Welcome to the foreign policy of the left.
Interesting small world.
I’ve been poking around farr-farr rright-wing Israeli websites to understand The Turk’s detente – or attempted detente – with Russia and Israel. Imagine my surprise to find “Jennifer” tossing ideas around with the moderator of the best of those sites!
She doesn’t get it right, then tacks in another direction and another until it clicks. Fascinating.
Something is up but we don’t know what, we will probably learn what is going on before the end of the year. Hope it is good news for Israel and the US.
There are so many pieces it makes my head spin.
A frantic Turk reaching out – won’t get anywhere unless they’re all pulled together from the top:
Russia- Israel- Cyprus- Egypt-
Yes, even MB-hating Sisi is about to kiss and make-up with the Turk.
Will The Kurd be sacrificed?! Again?!
Belgium: No access to EU market for UK without freedom of movement – Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that the UK will lose access to the EU’s single market if it doesn’t accept EU rules on the freedom of movement, during a press conference following a European Council emergency meeting on Brexit in Brussels, Wednesday.
“Access to the internal market will only be possible on the basis of, and with respect to, the four freedoms,” she said, in reference to the free movement of people, goods, services and capital.
Belgium: Hollande says UK must accept EU conditions for market access
French President Francois Hollande said the UK must accept several preconditions if it is to access the single market following any exit from the European Union, during a press conference held in Brussels on Wednesday.
SOT, Francois Hollande, French President (French): “If the UK wants to access the internal market, which is a privilege of being a member of the EU, which is a major advantage which the EU offers. If the UK outside of the EU wants to be like Norway and have access to the internal market, then it must also respect the four freedoms: freedom of movement for goods, for services, for capital, and the freedom of movement of people. You can’t have three freedoms and not the fourth.”
SOT, Francois Hollande, French President (French): “Clarity is about leaving it to the British government – I mean the government which will be formed when a new Conservative leader is chosen – it will be for this British government to formally notify the European Union of the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU as soon as possible. It means that immediately after this government is formed, it will have to file the application, the notification, which will trigger the opening of the negotiations under the terms of the [Lisbon] treaty which last up to two years. Clarity means that no discussions, no negotiations can take place before this notification.”
They want REVENGE.
Given the current world situation they won’t last long enough to get much revenge, Merkel and the other leftists have created the mess that has doomed the EU.
She’s got The Turk sitting on her porch!
Anti Brexit voters march in favour of a referendum re-run
All she needs is a black mustache and SS guards.
Germany: Diplomatic cars set on fire in Berlin
Two cars belonging to the Georgian and French embassies, respectively, were set alight in an alleged politically motivated arson attack, in Berlin in the early hours of Wednesday. There were no injuries reported.
The Mercedes-Vito belonging to the Georgian embassy was set on fire on Gartenstrasse in the city centre. Whereas in the south of the city, a Renault Megane belonging to a French diplomat parked on Martin-Luther-Strasse, was also set alight.
The police are to are investigating whether there is a connection between these two attacks.
ISIS 2 Years Later: From ‘JV Team’ to International Killers (abcnews, June 29, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-years-jv-team-international-killers/story?id=40214844
“The deadly attack in the Istanbul airport late Tuesday, suspected to be the work of the ISIS, comes as the terror group today marks the two year anniversary of the declaration of its Islamic “caliphate,” or kingdom.
In that time the group has gone from obscurity, mocked by President Obama as a terrorist “jayvee team,” to the world’s most brutal terror network, responsible not only for thousands of deaths in the Middle East, but linked to hundreds of others in dozens of terror plots in the West…”
IS Repels Advance by US-Backed Syria Rebels Near Iraq Border (abcnews, June 29, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-backed-syria-rebels-capture-held-base-iraq-40211262
“Islamic State militants on Wednesday pushed back U.S.-trained Syrian rebels from the outskirts of a town on the Iraqi border, dealing a setback to a budding offensive that aims to sever the militants’ transit link between the two countries, a rebel spokesman said.
The Islamic State-linked Aamaq news agency said IS militants repelled the New Syrian Army from an air base which the rebels had briefly captured earlier in the day. IS said it seized 15 hostages and ammunition, and was still advancing against the rebels.
Earlier Wednesday, the Pentagon-trained force entered the Hamdan air base — northwest of the border town of Boukamal — following intense clashes, rebel spokesman Mozahem al-Saloum said.
He said airborne fighters were dropped from coalition helicopters on Boukamal’s southern edge, helping the fighters advance. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on local activists, confirmed the account…”
Kosovo Hands 13-Year Prison Sentence to Man Plotting Attacks (abcnews, June 29, 2016)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kosovo-hands-13-year-prison-sentence-man-plotting-40218417
“A Kosovo court has sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for preparing terrorist attacks.
The Pristina Basic Court on Wednesday said that the ethnic Serb man, identified only by his initials S.B., was plotting a terrorist attack in December 2014. Police found 23 explosive devices weighing 12 kilograms (26 pounds) that he had transported from Belgrade, Serbia.
The Serb was arrested at a quarter near the U.S. embassy. He claims he didn’t intend to use the explosives but wanted to sell them.
A Serb minority lives in Kosovo that in 2008 declared independence from Serbia.
Kosovo, with a predominantly Muslim population, is on high alert of terrorist attacks. About 70 citizens are believed to be part of Islamic terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq.”
Starnes: Why did White House bully Anti-Muslim Preacher?
ISIS calls for more attacks during Ramadan
Gay men attacked over photo posted by U.S. embassy (cbsnews, June 29, 2016)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ivory-coast-gay-men-assaulted-us-embassy-photo-them-signing-orlando-massacre/?
“Gay men in Ivory Coast say they’ve been assaulted and forced to flee their homes after the U.S. Embassy published a photo of them signing a condolence book for victims of this month’s killings at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida…”
Rising asylum claims to lift Swiss budget deficit in 2017 (reuters, June 29, 2016)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-swiss-budget-idUKKCN0ZF1VI
“The Swiss government is expecting the federal budget deficit to rise to around 600 million Swiss francs (453 million pounds) next year due to the costs of rising numbers of asylum seekers…”
Focusing on Brexit creates much too narrow a basis for understanding the winds of change sweeping through the Western world
There has been a lot of commentary about the British decision to leave the European Union and its implications for Donald Trump and the American presidential race.
Trump was at his golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, the day after the vote. He was enthusiastic about Brexit and claimed it was a model for the American choice. He suggested the British hostility to bureaucracy in Brussels paralleled the American hostility to bureaucracy in Washington. He felt the concerns about massive immigration and Syrian refugees were the same in both countries. He drew a direct comparison between the British desire to be independent again and the American desire to put America first in foreign relations. And of course, he did the entire press conference wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Hillary Clinton took the opposite approach. Despite the defeat of the British establishment and its “Remain” campaign, she was committed to stability and risk avoidance. She emphasized the dangers of Brexit whereas Trump had emphasized the opportunities.
Yet focusing on Brexit creates much too narrow a basis for understanding the winds of change sweeping through the Western world.
The first harbinger of change this year was May 23, the day of the Austrian presidential elections.
Read more at: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0616/gingrich063016.php3
As I keep saying, look for the patterns, political trends create patterns as much as individuals do, learn to read the pattern. The left tries to create patterns, the modern US style conservatives try to ready the political pattern.
That should be read, not ready.
SYRIA – IDLIB – June 29 2016 –
IS conflict: Iraq air strikes ‘target militant convoy’ (BBC, June 29, 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36660869
“A convoy carrying suspected Islamic State militants has been destroyed in air strikes near the Iraqi city of Falluja, the defence ministry says.
An Iraqi security source told the BBC the jihadists had been attempting to flee an offensive by government forces, who recently recaptured Falluja.
They were bombed by Iraqi air force planes as they headed for IS territory near the border with Syria, he added.
Photos purportedly of the scene showed about a dozen burned-out vehicles…”
Amnesty, HRW want Saudi suspended from UN rights council
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on the United Nations General Assembly to suspend Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council until Riyadh puts an end to its military aggression against Yemen.
“Saudi Arabia has amassed an appalling record of violations in Yemen while a Human Rights Council member,” said Philippe Bolopion, the deputy director for global advocacy at Human Rights Watch.
“UN member countries should stand with Yemeni civilians and suspend Saudi Arabia immediately,” Bolopion added.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/29/472804/Yemen-Saudi-Arabia-UN-rights-council-Amnesty-International-Human-Rights-Watch
Iran’s PressTV.
Still, I’d be impressed if PressTV’s owners suspended Human Rights Watch, Amnesty Internat’l and Doctors Without Borders. While they’re at it, they might as well hang NGO paymaster George Soros
poofrom the nearest crane.Recordings: Houthi leaders planned general’s killing
Brigadier-General Hameed al-Qushaibi was captured by Houthis in July 2014 and later killed.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/160629141317469.html
A car bomb killed at least 10 people on June 29 in a Syrian town near the Turkish border held by U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces, a monitoring group said.
Another nine people were wounded in the attack in Tal Abyad, which was captured from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and allied Arab groups in June last year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The alliance was formalized in October 2015 into the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which then seized swathes of northern and northeastern Syria from ISIL with U.S. support.
An SDF official said the car bomb was detonated outside offices of the local administration on the town’s main street. He said nine people were killed.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/car-bomb-kills-10-in-kurdish-held-syria-town.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101070&NewsCatID=352
Spain and France KILL OFF Nicola Sturgeon’s hopes of joining the EU in brutal humiliation
NICOLA STURGEON’s bid to keep Scotland in the EU ended in humiliation today after European leaders told the Scottish First Minister they will not cut her a special deal.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/684593/Brexit-Nicola-Sturgeon-keep-Scotland-in-EU-France-Spain
Jean-Claude Juncker offered a sharp defense of his record during the Brexit campaign, rejecting calls for him to resign in the wake of a vote that could rob the European Union of one of its largest members and nearly one-fifth of its economy.
Asked by POLITICO after Wednesday’s European summit for his response to critics, including the Czech foreign minister, who say the Commission president should step down, Juncker said he saw no reason to do so.
“You think many people believe what it says in POLITICO. That is clearly not the case,” Juncker responded.
http://www.politico.eu/article/jean-claude-juncker-i-dont-care-about-bad-press-and-im-not-quitting/
Islamophobia? Japan’s Top Court Approves Surveillance of Muslims (sputniknews, June 29, 2016)
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160629/1042190982/japan-mass-surveillance-muslims.html
“The Supreme Court of Japan has upheld the government’s right to continue the mass surveillance of Muslim residents, places of worship, halal restaurants, and other institutions related to the practice of Islam.
The decision came from a second court appeal in a case of Japanese Muslims who argued that the broad monitoring is unconstitutional, invades their privacy, and infringes on their freedom of religion.
“They made us terrorist suspects,” Mohamed Fujita, one of the plaintiffs in the case, told Al Jazeera. “We never did anything wrong — on the contrary.”
Police files leaked in 2010 revealed the mass surveillance operation, and the 17 plaintiffs were awarded $880,000 for violation of their privacy. This did not, however, end the spying program, which was deemed “necessary and inevitable.”…”
At the North America Leader’s Summit President Obama will be joining the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and the President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto in laying out a historic continental goal of 50 percent clean power generation by 2025. Meeting the goal will involve clean energy development and deployment (including renewable, nuclear, and carbon capture and storage technologies), clean energy innovation (through the Mission Innovation initiative), and improved energy efficiency. To support the goal of 50 percent clean power generation, the three countries plan a range of initiatives, including cutting power waste by aligning ten appliance efficiency standards or test procedures by 2019, 5,000 megawatts of cross-border transmission projects to facilitate deployment of clean power, a joint study of the opportunities and impacts of adding more renewables to the electric grid on a continental basis, and the greening of government operations to 100 percent clean energy by 2025.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/06/29/economic-benefits-50-percent-target-clean-energy-generation-2025
And now for something completely different:
When hundreds of physicists gathered this week in La Thuile, an old mining town in the heart of the Italian alps, one short and simple question hung in the cool, crisp air: is it real?
The source of their fascination, and no little excitement, was light. Not the sunlight that made the snow glint on the mountains in the Aosta valley, but light inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) across the border near Geneva. The machine had detected more photons than expected as it smashed particles beneath the quiet Swiss countryside. The brief flashes of light might be the first glimpse of the next big discovery.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/18/excitement-grows-over-large-hadron-colliders-possible-new-particle-lhc
Too early to tell if Mississauga blast was deliberate, investigators say
Police investigating an explosion in Mississauga that killed one woman and forced dozens out of their homes say they are trying to determine whether notes found at the scene are connected to the blast.
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/too-early-to-tell-if-mississauga-blast-was-deliberate-investigators-say-1.2966227
Best wait to clean up – keep out the eager bulldozers.
THE HAGUE: The Dutch House of Representatives has rejected by majority a motion by opposition leader Geert Wilders for a referendum on the country’s European Union (EU) membership.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/Dutch-parliament-rejects-motion-for-EU-referendum/articleshow/52967824.cms
It won’t be long before they hold a referendum/
Now, I would very much like to know whether the term ‘robots’ is meant to refer to machines, or, like in Rick and Morty, to humans who blindly follow orders.
UN Report Claims Terrorists “Actively Seeking” to Build Deadly Army of Intelligent Killer Robots
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/06/un-report-claims-terrorists-actively-seeking-to-build-deadly-army-of-intelligent-killer-robots.html
Walking it back? There are ways UK can reverse Brexit results – Kerry
Politicians across the Atlantic are also not shying away from voicing their opinions on the Brexit vote. The US secretary of state even went so far as to say there are ways to reverse the result.
Kerry and Obama ignore the people all the time.
On their way to pasture, please hurry-
The FTSE 100 has surged through the level it closed at last Thursday, recovering all of the ground it had lost in the wake of the Brexit vote.
The FTSE 100 share index closed up 3.6% at 6,360.1 after a flurry of last-minute trading.
At the close of trade on Thursday last week, before the referendum vote, the FTSE 100 ended the day at 6,338.10.
The pound also strengthened against the dollar and euro.
Analysts said the sharp recovery in the FTSE 100 was unexpected.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36660133
Putin and Erdogan will meet after 7 months of tensions
https://www.armedpolitics.com/2562/putin-erdogan-will-meet-7-months-tensions/
US to Admit 30k More Refugees Over 2 Years
Not necessarily, this is Obama doing things on his own which means Congress or the next President or both can reverse the decision.
John Kerry’s evil twin?
Too much horseback riding at The Club?
North Korea offficially more classical liberal than former PM PE Trudeau, who intentionally did not include property rights in our constitution.
North Korea recognizes private ownership of land
An unofficial market economy is giving rise to a moneyed class in the country.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/06/28/North-Korea-recognizes-private-ownership-of-land/8011467131729/
Secret cabal of Gaddafi loyalists rescued Americans trapped during Benghazi terror attacks despite Obama’s role in deposing Libyan dictator, damning report claims
Libyans loyal to Colonel Gaddafi saved American lives in Benghazi
Intelligence failures led to the fatal attack on the US consulate in 2012
A 800-page report has criticized the lack of military response on the day
The $7million report did not find any evidence against Hillary Clinton
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3665525/Secret-cabal-Gaddafi-loyalists-rescued-Americans-trapped-Benghazi-terror-attacks-despite-Obama-s-efforts-depose-Libyan-dictator-damning-report-claims.html
THE EU has unveiled plans to morph the continent’s countries into one giant superstate just days after Britain voted to leave the EU, it is claimed.
Foreign ministers from France and Germany presented the radical proposals to do away with individual member states’ armies, criminal law systems and central banks, The Sun reports.
The blueprint suggests the 27 states in the bloc would also lose what is left of their powers to control their own borders, including the procedure for admitting and relocating refugees, according to reports by Polish media.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/britain-dodges-european-union-superstate-bullet-with-plans-revealed-days-after-brexit-vote/news-story/76973491f4063530d83d0e4780c8cb9b