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Government forces liberated the villages of Ma'alaqah and Um Lawqas as well as some nearby hills in the northern part of the ISIS-held pocket.
On July 24, the SAA-led force continued its advance aiming to capture the town of Tasil and the nearby villages of Saudah, Ain Thakar and Adawan. The general goal of the effort is to shorten the frontline against ISIS. This will allow the SAA to focus their main efforts on more fortified areas located in the central and southern parts of the pocket.
Screenshots of emails sent to the would-be actors were posted on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Tour manager Andy Washington was among those who posted the call, which asked for candidates to "fill space" outside Number 10 as Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meets the Tory leader.
Actors received an email by casting agency Extra People, which read: "This is NOT a film or TV production."
The letter criticized the president and Sen. Cory Gardner (R., Colo.) following Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, and said Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who passed atomic bomb secrets to Moscow, were executed for "far less."
Comment: And that right there is the definition of insanity.
The letter, written by Suzanne Gagnon of Lakewood, was in response to the paper's editorial last week, which gave tepid praise of Gardner. The editorial argued the Republican senator "deserves credit" for taking a tough stance against Russia and sponsoring legislation to add Russia to the state sponsor of terror list.
"Sen. Cory Gardner is insipid, at best," Gagnon wrote in her letter to the editor published Saturday. "His words are always carefully chosen and, if challenged, their intent open to 'spinning' to his own advantage. No surprise here he didn't call President Donald Trump out by name.
"The legislation he has proposed is weak, not tough; it's simply more wordsmithing," she said. "Gardner is certainly not the only politician I take issue with, but I don't see the Denver Post championing anyone else like you champion Gardner."
When it comes to understanding human behavior, it has become increasingly acceptable to denigrate biology and evolution as sexist, and to dismiss the scientific method more generally. Consider some of the papers that have been published in academic journals lately, claiming that science consists of "male insecurity," that women care about the way they look because of the patriarchy and that a commitment to empiricism and objectivity leads women to be "devalued and marginalized."
As well, an online Coursera lecture on "Science and Philosophy" from the University of Edinburgh equated evolutionary biology with creationism, claiming that both are based in faith. The course claimed that evolution is no better than "fairy tales" and questioned whether we should teach it in schools without a disclaimer that it isn't scientific.
The company said it was recalling 15-ounce cases of it's Taco Bell Salsa Con Queso Mild Cheese Dip that had "best when used by" dates ranging from Oct. 31, 2018, to Jan. 23, 2019.
"Consumers are warned not to use the product even if it does not look or smell spoiled," the company said in a press release.
Comment: Is this seemingly dramatic rise in food contamination merely due to the abomination that is mass food production or is something else happening?
- US: McDonald's salads contaminated with fecal matter poisons 163 people in 10 states
- Death toll from listeria outbreak in South Africa reaches 172, more than doubling previous numbers
- Mysterious Bacterial Outbreak in Europe
- Hundreds of frozen food products recalled after listeria outbreak kills two
- New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection
- New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection
Richard Heffron III, 39, of Bath, Maine, was convicted last year for violating a protection order arising from abuse. He did so by posting messages on his Facebook page about his former girlfriend that he was forbidden by state law to contact. In fact, at the time when the threatening rants were posted, the female victim was no longer his Facebook friend and has blocked him from her page.
In Maine, just like in many other states in the US, a person may seek court protection to help stop domestic violence. A restraining order allows the protected person to ask for police intervention if the individual it targets tries to come near or communicate with them.
The remarkable income stagnation for so many reveals that the economy has been failing to generate income for people over many years despite record levels of people in work.
In 2003, households on the lower half of incomes typically earnt £14,900.
In 2016/17 that figure had fallen to £14,800, the research shows.
Both figures are adjusted for inflation and housing costs.
There are over eight million low and middle income households, just under half of which have children.
Comment: A number of factors will be at play in the economic and probable societal collapse of the UK; from the failed privatisation of public services, the 2008 banking collapse, over a decade of outsourcing of jobs abroad, illegal (and expensive) wars, a preference for financial speculation over production, government imposed 'austerity'- the list goes on. But one of the main drivers contributing to the decline is that, like a number of other Western countries, but particularly the UK and US, the establishment is powerful and made up of greedy and deluded character disturbed individuals. And what we see are the fruits of their labour:
- "Slow burn": Low pay and record debt signal apocalypse for Britain's retailers as economic downturn continues
- Cost of Privatization in UK: Rail, water & utilities hit households financially - study
- Dickensian: The lie that poverty is a moral failing is back
- Despite "shiny new buildings" children in Northern England face poverty, bad schools and a lack of opportunities
- City of London think tank predicts "imminent" US stock market crash of up to 50%
- UK economic collapse accelerating: 28% increase in shops going bust, biggest slump since 2009, food and fuel prices rise
- UK retailers requesting rent reductions, shutting stores and laying off staff as economy tanks
- UK government to raid 90 year old charity fund to pay off 0.6% of national debt as economy continues to burn
Agents arrested the first MS-13 gang member on Friday near the South Texas border town of Hidalgo. The Weslaco Station agents learned of the migrant's gang affiliation during a biometric background investigation at the station.
Cohen and Blumenthal arrived in Gaza on August 15, 2014, during a brief ceasefire in Israel's savage air and land assault on the besieged territory. Visitors to this site will recall Cohen's powerful posts and photographs at the time, and in 2015 Blumenthal published an indispensable book,The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza.
"Killing Gaza" is a strong addition to their previous work. In the background are scenes of mass destruction, like a Mediterranean version of Berlin in 1945. But the heart of the film are interviews with more than 30 individual Gazans, shown in all their humanity, who are given a chance to speak for themselves in ways that you will never encounter in the U.S. mainstream. The two reporters ranged across the open air prison territory, listening to witnesses and survivors at a half dozen different locations. Then Cohen was able to return several times over a two-year period, following up with the subjects, until Israel stopped him from coming.
The San Francisco-based social network said it was tightening access to its application programming interfaces (APIs) that allows developers to make automated Twitter posts.
"We're committed to providing access to our platform to developers whose products and services make Twitter a better place," said Twitter senior product management director Rob Johnson.
"However, recognizing the challenges facing Twitter and the public -- from spam and malicious automation to surveillance and invasions of privacy -- we're taking additional steps to ensure that our developer platform works in service of the overall health of conversation on Twitter."















Comment: It's amazing how the wholesale adoption of ideology can make one completely lose one's mind. When science and the ideology are at odds, an intelligent person would investigate and reconsider the ideology based on the new information. Only the ideologically possessed would have the audacity to throw away the science in favor of a position with no basis in reality.
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