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Analysts examine the liberal media's relentless beating up on Trump

Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella
News Busters
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 07:51 UTC
Trashing Trump
The broadcast network evening newscasts remain as hostile as ever towards President Trump and his agenda, although the networks appear to be easing up on their obsessive wall-to-wall coverage of the administration.

Since Inauguration Day (January 20), Media Research Center analysts have reviewed every mention of President Trump and top administration officials on ABC's World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, including weekends. As of August 31, coverage of the administration has totaled nearly 74 hours (4,418 minutes) of airtime, or about 39 percent of all evening news coverage.

For comparison purposes, coverage of the Obama administration in all of 2015 and 2016 totaled 59 hours (3,544 minutes), or roughly 10 percent of the available broadcast airtime. In other words, Trump has already received more coverage in his first 224 days in office than Obama received in his final two years as President.

Comment: Reminds one of this: Jeremy Scahill rips into CNN: 'If Fareed Zakaria could have sex with Trump's missile strike, he would'

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Light Saber

U.S. Marine recalls how he came to reject war after 9/11

Brad Hoff
The Canary
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
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The fires which began with the 9/11 attacks were never extinguished. They continue to burn fiercely from Afghanistan to Iraq to Syria to Yemen to North Africa, as the region and its regimes came unglued in the wake of George W. Bush's 'war on terror'.

The 15th anniversary of 9/11 was marked in America with the usual sombre memorials and directives to 'never forget'.

But this definitive 9/11 slogan always takes me back to the overwhelming tide of pro-war fervour that swept the US and stifled any deeper reflection or debate in the years after 11 September 2001. Sadly, I was part of that fervour - and this too I will never forget.

The militarism of my youth

I joined the US Marine Corps as an idealistic 18-year-old in 2000, with a firm resolve - as I enthusiastically told my military recruiter shortly before leaving for boot camp - to "fight evil in the world". This resolve was rooted more deeply in my veins after the 9/11 attacks. As a relatively new marine, I had temporarily worked at the Pentagon while attached to a headquarters computer programming unit in the two months just prior to that tragic day, and was fortunate not to be there when it was attacked.
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Magnify

WADA clears 95 of 96 Russian athletes implicated in McLaren report due to "insufficient evidence"


RT
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:19 UTC
Richard McLaren
© Peter Power / ReutersRichard McLaren
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has closed its investigation in regard to 95 of the 96 Russian athletes implicated in its McLaren Report as there 'simply may not be sufficient evidence required to sanction', it has told RT.

In an official email response to a request made by RT received on Wednesday, WADA stated, "For many of the athletes identified, the only evidence available is what Professor McLaren could unveil.


Comment: And the only evidence McLaren had was what he created out of thin air. So essentially, there was no evidence of a "state-sponsored doping program" in Russia. It was a politicized witch hunt from the beginning by McLaren, who was used by elites in the West to demonize Russia


Explaining why sanctions could not conclusively be brought against many of the individual athletes identified in the Report, WADA said that there "simply may not be sufficient evidence required to sanction (the athletes), with potential ADRVs (Anti-Doping Rule Violations).

"To date, WADA has received 96 IF (International Federations) case decisions; of which, one case will proceed.

Comment: Previously:

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Monkey Wrench

Millions in Florida swelter through power outages after Irma triggers one of the largest blackouts in US history

Gary Fineout and Joe Reedy
Miami Herald
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:10 UTC
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© David Goldman APSandra Pagan, left, escapes the heat inside her home with her dog Goldo and nephew Misael Fernandez after Hurricane Irma flooded their neighborhood leaving them without power and impassable with their cars in Fort Myers, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. "It's unbearable," said Pagan who rode out the storm in the home with her family. "We can't sleep at all. It's so hot."
In a state built on air conditioning, millions of Florida residents now want to know: When will the power come back on?

Hurricane Irma's march across Florida and the Southeast triggered one of the bigger blackouts in U.S. history, plunging as many as 13 million people into the dark as the storm dragged down power lines and blew out transformers. Gone were the climate-controlled bubbles people relied on in Florida's sweltering heat and humidity.

Those who evacuated are returning to homes without electricity. They could face days or even weeks with little to ease the late-summer stickiness.

By Wednesday afternoon, state emergency management officials estimate that one third - or 6.4 million - residents remained without power in the Sunshine state.

"Power, power, power," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said recently. "The biggest thing we've got to do for people is get their power back."
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Briefcase

Houston homeowners flooded by storm water releases during Harvey filing lawsuits for 'unlawful government takings'

Bryan Sims
Reuters
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 06:17 UTC
Houston floods
© REUTERS/Mike BlakeWater bubbles up from a sewer cover in an affluent neighborhood in the aftermath of tropical storm Harvey on the west side of Houston, Texas, U.S., September 7, 2017
Owners of homes flooded during Hurricane Harvey are claiming billions of dollars in damages by federal and state water releases from storm-swollen reservoirs, using a legal tack pursued without success in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.

Several lawsuits filed in federal and state courts in Texas claim properties were taken for public use without compensation. The lawsuits name the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a state agency responsible for water releases. The potential damages could run as high as $3 billion, according to attorneys involved.

"No one expects your government is going to deliberately do something that is going to flood your home," said Rhonda Pearce, 56. Her west Houston home was damaged by flooding from reservoir dam releases and she is considering legal action, she said.
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Bullseye

Poor people waste money on luxury items

Blaine Landis
Association for Psychological Science
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:47 UTC
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The types of goods and services that low-income individuals buy may depend, at least in part, on their personality traits, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

"Our findings suggest that extraverts compensate for having low income by spending more on items and experiences that reflect higher status," says researcher Blaine Landis of University College London, first author on the research. "In other words, individuals' spending patterns may reflect personality differences in how they respond to having low income."


Comment: In other words, one remains poor by spending irresponsibly.


Landis and UCL colleague Joe Gladstone were interested in understanding how personality differences might play a role in the experiences of those living on a low income.

"Past research tends to treat the experience of low income and relative deprivation as a condition that affects everyone equally, and we wanted to explore whether this was indeed the case," explains Landis.

Studies investigating so-called "compensatory consumption" indicate that people purchase items or services as a means of compensating for self-perceived shortcomings. Landis and Gladstone hypothesized that the more individuals are focused on their relative social and economic status, the more likely they will be to purchase goods and services intended to boost their status.
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Pistol

1 dead and 3 injured in high school shooting near Spokane, Washington


RT
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:36 UTC
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© Frank Duenzl / Global Look Press
One person has been killed, and three injured in a shooting at the Freeman High School in Rockford, south of Spokane, in the US state of Washington. Ambulances and medical helicopters were called to the scene and area schools were put on lockdown.

"There is one victim, that's a student, that is deceased," Spokane Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer told reporters.

Initial reports spoke of up to six victims, which was later revised to four.

The suspect is in custody, the Spokane Spokesman-Review reports.
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Biohazard

Hurricanes overwhelm sewage systems leaving cities swimming in their own waste

Jennifer A. Dlouhy & Ari Natter
BloombergBloomberg
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:25 UTC
Ft. Meyers Florida
© Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesSubmerged residences in Fort Myers, Florida.
Hurricane Harvey took aim at one of the nation's most industrial regions, releasing a stream of toxic pollutants from chemical plants, refineries and Superfund sites in Texas. But when its bigger sister Irma slammed into Florida, environmental alarms rang over a different kind of discharge: raw sewage.

Millions of gallons of poorly treated wastewater and raw sewage flowed into the bays, canals and city streets of Florida from facilities serving some of the nation's fastest-growing counties. More than 9 million gallons of releases tied to Irma have been reported as of late Tuesday as inundated plants were submerged, forced to bypass treatment or lost power.

Such overflows, which can spread disease-causing pathogens, are happening more often, as population shifts and increasingly strong storms strain the capacity of plants and decades-old infrastructure. The Environmental Protection Agency estimated last year that $271 billion is needed to maintain and improve the nation's wastewater pipes, treatment plants and associated infrastructure.
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Butterfly

Polish woman declares life ambition: sleep with 100k men

Steve Nolan
Daily Mail
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:23 UTC
Ania Lisewska
© Ania LisewskaAnia Lisewska is probably never going to become the first female president.
A Polish woman has reportedly vowed to travel to every city across the world in a bizarre quest to sleep with 100,000 men.

Ania Lisewska from Warsaw embarked on the unusual mission in her home city last month and has so far added 284 notches to her bedpost, according to the Huffington Post.

But while the 21-year-old's long term boyfriend is more forgiving than most - he hasn't dumped her after all - he's understandably 'not thrilled' by the idea.

Miss Lisewska said that he has 'had to come to terms with it'.
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Sheriff

'All lives splatter': Sheriff's Department forced to issue an apology over distasteful Facebook post

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:16 UTC
Sheriff meme
The Chelan County Sheriff's Office issued an apology this week after they say an employee 'accidentally' made a post of a meme to their Chelan County Emergency Management Facebook page depicting protesters getting mowed down by a car.

The tasteless post wrote, "I don't wish harm on anyone...but protesters don't belong in the road!" with an illustration below that said "All lives splatter ... nobody cares about your protest." It comes only weeks after Alex Fields drove into a crowd in Charlottesville, killing Heather Heyer.

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