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San Francisco will get environmental violation notice due to trash from homeless, Trump says

Ivan Pentchoukov
The Epoch Times
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:28 UTC

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A man carrying blueprints passes a homeless encampment in downtown San Francisco, Calif., on June, 27, 2016.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will issue a violation notice within a week to San Francisco due to the city's homelessness crisis, President Donald Trump said on Sept. 18.

"It's a terrible situation. That's in Los Angeles and in San Francisco," the president said aboard Air Force One returning from a visit to California. "And we're going to be giving San Francisco — they're in total violation — we're going to be giving them a notice very soon."

"EPA is going to be putting out a notice," he added. "They're in serious violation."

"They have to clean it up. We can't have our cities going to hell."

Not a free speech platform: Facebook proclaims it's a 'publisher' and can censor whomever it wants, walking into legal trap

RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:42 UTC

Facebook has invoked its free speech right as a publisher, insisting its ability to smear users as extremists is protected, but its legal immunity thus far has rested on a law which protects platforms, not publishers. Which is it?

Facebook has declared it has the right, as a publisher, to exercise its own free speech and bar conservative political performance artist Laura Loomer from its platform. Even calling her a dangerous extremist is allowed under the First Amendment, because it's merely an opinion, Facebook claims in its motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Loomer.

But Facebook has always defined itself as a tech company providing a platform for users' speech in the past, a definition that has come to appear increasingly ridiculous in the era of widespread politically-motivated censorship. Now, the not-so-neutral content platform has redefined itself as a publisher equipped with a whole new set of rights, but bereft of the protections that have kept it safe from legal repercussions in the past.

Canada manhunt: Murdered couple prompt questions that killers' suicides leave unanswered

Conor Duffy
ABC
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:05 UTC

From the warmth of a small home in North Carolina, to a stretch of Canadian wilderness as vast as the Australian outback, all the way to Sydney.

Grief at the senseless murders of Sydney man Lucas Fowler, his American girlfriend Chynna Deese and Canadian Leonard Dyck stretches across the globe.

Today any hope of knowing why Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky took the lives of three people also died, at Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) headquarters.

Comment: See also: Mystery of young couple found murdered on side of road in Canada deepens

Russiagate's last stand? #Resistance works itself up over whistleblower complaint on Trump's alleged 'favor to foreign leader'

RT
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:34 UTC

Just when you thought the Russiagate horse was well and truly dead, count on House Intelligence chair Adam Schiff to whip it back into life with another saucy tale of collusion, conspiracy and cover-up.

President Donald Trump's alleged "collusion" with Russia to swing the 2016 election has largely been absent from the news of late. After the Mueller Report cleared the president of wrongdoing, and after the damp squib that was Special Counsel Mueller's testimony before Congress in July, the story finally exited the news cycle.

Here comes Congressman Schiff (D-California), determined to breathe new life into the old tale once more. After two years of claiming that "ample evidence of collusion"... "undoubtedly"... "exists in plain sight," the California Democrat unveiled the latest piece of evidence on Thursday, or rather didn't.

Schiff seized upon a whistleblower complaint brought to the acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire last month. The complaint - if the Washington Post's sources are correct - alleges that President Trump "promised" a favor to an unspecified "foreign leader." The complaint was deemed serious by Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, but withheld from Congress.

What does Israel want? Palestine's land but not its people

Raja Shehadeh
The New York Times
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC

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Palestinian demonstrators protesting against Jewish settlements, in the West Bank on September 13, 2019.

Mr. Netanyahu only confirmed an unspoken truth. And yet something has changed.

Last week, ahead of the parliamentary elections in Israel this Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that if re-elected, he would annex up to one-third of the occupied West Bank.

His announcement prompted widespread international condemnation. But for most Palestinians such declarations mean nothing. We've heard many statements of support over the years, and nothing ever changes. Cynicism is widespread; by now, many of us would prefer straight talk. As Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz, wrote recently, referring to Mr. Netanyahu's plan: "Let him turn the reality in this territory into a political reality, without hiding it any longer. The time has come for truth."

Israel already is reaping all the benefits of annexation in the West Bank, and without having to bear any responsibility for the welfare of the Palestinians living here.

Melanie Phillips, pro-sanity journalist, on David Gelernter's rejection of Darwinist doctrine

David Klinghoffer
Evolution News
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:36 UTC

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Melanie Phillips is the prominent British journalist whose memoir, Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity, captures the essence of her stance. It's this: she is pro-sanity. So it is terrific to see her turning her attention to Yale computer scientist David Gelernter and his apostasy from Darwinism:

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USAF warning to 'stormers': Area 51's secrets will be protected

RT
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:24 UTC

Chief of Staff General David Goldfein has ominously insisted that the Air Force is taking the viral 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All Of Us' event "very seriously" as the US has "secrets [that] deserve to be protected."

"All joking aside, we're taking it very seriously," Goldfein told reporters during the Air Force Association's annual Air, Space, and Cyber Conference. "Our nation has secrets, and those secrets deserve to be protected. 'The people' deserve to have our nation's secrets protected."

Goldfein's comments will likely fan the flames of conspiracy theories already raging online, particularly in the wake of an explosive admission by a US Navy official that videos show encounters between US Navy aircraft and UFOs are real.

Over two million indicated they were taking part in the "Storm Area 51" event planned to take place on Friday.

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German detective to reveal new evidence on MH17 crash only if JIT agrees information to be made public

Tim Korso
Sputnik
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:28 UTC

© Associated Press / Mstyslan Chernov
MH17 flight recovery team members erect a No Trespassing sign in an area of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane crash in the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine

The private detective, who conducted his own separate investigation into the MH17 disaster, has repeatedly stated to have new ground-breaking evidence, but has refused to present it to the Joint Investigation Team unless it agrees to make it public.

German private detective Joseph Resch has announced that he is ready to disclose evidence relating to the crash of Flight MH17 that he has gathered - if the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), Netherlands, and Malaysia confirm their participation in the procedure in written form by 18 October. He also demanded that global media outlets and interested states be granted access to the information he reveals.

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Hundreds join student's climate-change pledge: No kids until Canada takes action

CBC
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:34 UTC

An 18-year-old McGill University student pledges to not have children until she is sure the Canadian government is taking serious steps to battle climate change.

And hundreds more are following in her footsteps.

"Our government isn't doing enough," Emma Lim said on CBC Montreal's Daybreak Tuesday. The steps provincial and federal lawmakers are taking are "nowhere near the action needed," she said.

The young climate activist decided to take action of her own — launching a climate-change movement dubbed, "#No Future, No Children," that is quickly gathering steam.

Her campaign, which invites all Canadians to participate, officially kicked off Monday on Parliament Hill.

30 civilians killed in 'accidental' airstrike in Afghanistan, 20 killed in Taliban car bombing - 140 wounded overall

RFE/RL
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:24 UTC

Damaged vehicles are seen at the site of a car bombing in Qalat, capital of Zabul Province, on September 19.

At least 50 people have been killed in an air strike and a car bombing in Afghanistan, as U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad prepares to brief U.S. lawmakers on his peace talks with the Taliban.

The September 19 incidents come after the collapse of negotiations between Washington and the militants and just days ahead of a presidential election.

Officials said at least 30 civilians were killed and 40 wounded in an air strike conducted by the Afghan security forces, backed by U.S. air support, in eastern Afghanistan, while at least 20 people were killed and almost 100 wounded in a car bombing in the war-wracked country's south.

The air strike was aimed at destroying a hideout used by Islamic State militants, but it accidentally targeted farmers near a field, three government officials said.

Sohrab Qaderi, a provincial council member in eastern Nangarhar Province, said a drone strike killed 30 workers in a pine-nut field and at least 40 others were injured.

Comment: None of this would be happening if the U.S. hadn't invaded Afghanistan. The war has been going on for 18 years. It's past time the U.S. gave up and went home.

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Society's Child

San Francisco will get environmental violation notice due to trash from homeless, Trump says

Not a free speech platform: Facebook proclaims it's a 'publisher' and can censor whomever it wants, walking into legal trap

Canada manhunt: Murdered couple prompt questions that killers' suicides leave unanswered

Russiagate's last stand? #Resistance works itself up over whistleblower complaint on Trump's alleged 'favor to foreign leader'

What does Israel want? Palestine's land but not its people

Melanie Phillips, pro-sanity journalist, on David Gelernter's rejection of Darwinist doctrine

USAF warning to 'stormers': Area 51's secrets will be protected

German detective to reveal new evidence on MH17 crash only if JIT agrees information to be made public

Hundreds join student's climate-change pledge: No kids until Canada takes action

30 civilians killed in 'accidental' airstrike in Afghanistan, 20 killed in Taliban car bombing - 140 wounded overall

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