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Government employees step up defiance of Trump

Devin Henry
The Hill
Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:07 UTC
Donald Trump
Government employees are growing increasingly willing to criticize or defy the White House and President Trump's top appointees.

A handful of current and former career staffers in the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have openly shredded their superiors within the last several weeks, continuing a trend that has developed throughout the government over the course of Trump's tenure in the Oval Office.

The growing opposition in the executive branch comes as the White House's legislative agenda has stalled in Congress and Trump turns to his Cabinet agencies to change course in several policy areas. It also is emanating from career staffers or political holdovers whose resistance to Trump has, at times, been rooted in deep opposition to the president's agenda.

"From our point of view, it's kind of obvious," said Jeff Ruch, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), when asked about staffers' growing pushback.

"You have Donald Trump, who ran and said he would drain the swamp, meaning them."
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Smoking

Britain investigates British American Tobacco on suspicion of corruption

Josie Cox
Independent, UK
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:14 UTC
British American Tobacco
© Getty Images
The Serious Fraud Office has launched an investigation into suspicions of corruption at British American Tobacco and its subsidiaries.

The maker of cigarette brands including Dunhill and Lucky Strike said in a statement that it intends to cooperate with the investigation. It did not provide any further details.

Last year, the tobacco giant said that it had appointed an external law firm to conduct a full investigation into historical allegations of misconduct in Africa. At the time it also said that it was liaising with the SFO.

Earlier this year, BAT announced that it had created a board sub-committee to monitor matters relating to that investigation. It also said it had started a project in 2016 to review and strengthen its compliance procedures.
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Camcorder

Woman hits and bites her dog on Toronto subway; passengers intervene

Jessica Finn
Daily Mail
Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:02 UTC
woman bites dog
© Roxy Huang/YouTube
A woman in Toronto was caught on camera abusing her dog on a subway.

In the three minute long video posted by Roxy Huang to YouTube, the woman is seen repeatedly striking and even biting her dog. She says to the frightened pup 'stop it now you hear me' while she keeps hitting it.

The whimpering dog tries to escape her several times, but the woman keeps yanking it back by its leash.

The woman is also fidgety throughout the ordeal, the videographer suggests she may be on drugs.


Comment: She certainly appears to be under the influence of something. Nevertheless, abuse is abuse.


A fellow subway rider reprimands her, saying: 'You gotta stop hitting your dog.'
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To protect and serve: School cop arrested with thousand of images of graphic child porn

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 15:09 UTC
Jeffrey Warren Clark
Jeffrey Warren Clark
Jeffrey Warren Clark, a Humble police officer, was working as a school resource officer for the Independent Schools District, but wanted to transfer to Harris County Precinct 4. So he applied for a job with Harris Co. and was given a pre-employment interview where it was discovered he might be a pedophile.

Effectively chasing down the lead they uncovered given during the interview, Harris County police got a search warrant for Clark's home and gathered evidence consisting of several electronic devices. Those devices were searched and revealed Clark to be in possession of "several thousand images of graphic child pornography and child exploitation" according to one source.

According to Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman:
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Smoking

Smuggled tobacco, smartphones and drugs putting prisoners at risk, says new UK report

Chris Humphreys
Swindon Advertiser
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:13 UTC
wiltshire prison
© Anthony Devlin/PA wire
Smuggled tobacco is being traded for 12 times its normal value on the wings of Wiltshire's only prison.

Prisoners at HMP Erlestoke are paying as much as £150 for a 30 gram bag worth £12 after a smoking ban imposed last year drove the supply underground.

The illicit trade is fuelling a culture of debt and bullying, leading to prisoners being assaulted and even families being threatened to cover what their loved ones owe.

The revelation is just one of a number of concerns raised by the prison's Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) in its annual report.

Board members found that drugs, including the former legal high Spice, are still being brought into the prison.

Spice can result in serious and unpredictable side effects. The IMB described how ambulances have been called on a number of occasions with prisoners being hospitalised.
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Monkey Wrench

Government waste: NYC spends $2 million on public park restroom

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 15:03 UTC
park bathroom
In a bizarre case of government failure, taxpayers in New York City footed the bill for a brand new bathroom in their public park that cost a whopping $2 MILLION - and it took over 7 YEARS to construct - seriously.

While both the price and the construction time might make you think that this bathroom was an elaborate building with ornate features and state-of-the-art technology, it is actually nothing more than a 400-square-foot public restroom.

"I was expecting gold-plated fixtures! It's just a toilet, a couple of urinals, a couple of sinks-2 million dollars?!" Journalist John Stossel remarked when visiting the bathroom in a segment for ReasonTV.

Even more incredulous was the response from New York City's Parks Commissioner, Mitchell Silver, who told Stossel that the price for the bathroom in question was cheap compared to current estimates, which now stand at around $3 million.
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Dig

Child miners aged four living a hell on earth so you can drive an electric car

Barbara Jones
The Daily Mail
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 14:44 UTC
Eight-year-old Dorsen in Congo
Eight-year-old Dorsen is pictured cowering beneath the raised hand of an overseer who warns him not to spill a rock
Picking through a mountain of huge rocks with his tiny bare hands, the exhausted little boy makes a pitiful sight.

His name is Dorsen and he is one of an army of children, some just four years old, working in the vast polluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where toxic red dust burns their eyes, and they run the risk of skin disease and a deadly lung condition. Here, for a wage of just 8p a day, the children are made to check the rocks for the tell-tale chocolate-brown streaks of cobalt - the prized ingredient essential for the batteries that power electric cars.

And it's feared that thousands more children could be about to be dragged into this hellish daily existence - after the historic pledge made by Britain to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2040 and switch to electric vehicles.
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Map

The coming end of the Nation-State?

Doug Casey
International Man
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:31 UTC
Map of Europe if seperatists win
There have been a fair number of references to the subject of "phyles" in Casey Research publications over the years. This essay will discuss the topic in detail. Especially how phyles are likely to replace the nation-state, one of mankind's worst inventions.

Now might be a good time to discuss the subject. We'll have an almost unremitting stream of bad news, on multiple fronts, for years to come. So it might be good to keep a hopeful prospect in mind.

Let's start by looking at where we've been. I trust you'll excuse my skating over all of human political history in a few paragraphs, but my object is to provide a framework for where we're going, rather than an anthropological monograph.

Mankind has, so far, gone through three main stages of political organization since Day One, say 200,000 years ago, when anatomically modern men started appearing. We can call them Tribes, Kingdoms, and Nation-States.

Karl Marx had a lot of things wrong, especially his moral philosophy. But one of the acute observations he made was that the means of production are perhaps the most important determinant of how a society is structured. Based on that, so far in history, only two really important things have happened: the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Everything else is just a footnote.

Let's see how these things relate.
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Bomb

FBI probes homemade bomb attack on Minnesota mosque


RT
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 14:41 UTC
mosque debris
© MAS-Minnesota - Muslim American Society of Minnesota / Facebook
The FBI believes that an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) caused the blast that rocked the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. While the explosion caused some damage, no one was killed in the attack that occurred during Saturday morning prayers.

The explosion from the homemade bomb happened at the Imam's office around 5:05am, immediately after the morning prayer had begun. Dozens of people were inside Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center when the blast went off.

"Someone threw an explosive device and started a fire in the office of the Imam and President of the mosque," the Muslim American Society of Minnesota said in a statement. "The attendees put out the fire."

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Dominoes

Is US on the verge of a nervous breakdown or civil war?

Roger L. Simon
PJ Media
Sat, 05 Aug 2017 14:12 UTC
Michael Savage
Michael Savage
On Friday, Michael Savage -- conservative talk show host and Berkeley Ph.D. in nutritional ethnomedicine -- referenced Nathaniel West's classic 1939 novel about the burning of Los Angeles, The Day of the Locust, to describe what will occur in the USA should Trump be brought down by his assorted "Globalist" enemies.
People will "resort to mob violence" when they "are finally aware of the fact that they've been tricked by their society, and that no matter how hard they work as middle class people" they are denied."That is what's going to happen in this country," Savage said. "You have not yet seen mob violence in this country. You've seen some mob violence instigated by George Soros' mobs. ... But you haven't seen the thing I'm telling you is coming in this country. You haven't seen the 'Day of the Locust' yet."
"Deplorables" gone wild and burning down our cities? Civil war?

Comment: Is America one step from civil war? What happens if the "radical liberals" clash with the "angry deplorables"? It ain't gonna be pretty!

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