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Elon Musk hints at sabotage after small fire disrupts operations at Fremont, California plant


RT
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 03:44 UTC
Tesla cars
© Mike Blake / Reuters
Tesla Model 3s and X's are shown charging in an underground parking lot next to a Tesla store in San Diego,California, U.S., May 30, 2018.
A fire that has briefly disrupted operations at a Tesla plant in Fremont, California, has prompted the car-maker's CEO Elon Musk to send a cryptic message, asking staff to be vigilant, in light of "another strange incident."

The internal email from Musk, first reported by CNBC, revealed that a "small" fire broke out at a car body production line in the factory late Sunday, halting operations "for several hours." Calling the blaze "a strange incident that was hard to explain," Musk then appeared to suggest that the mishap might have been the result of malicious intent.

"Could just be a random event, but as [Intel co-founder] Andy Grove said, "Only the paranoid survive," the electric car manufacturer's CEO noted, before urging employees to "be on the alert for anything that's not in the best interests of our company."

In a tone highlighting the gravity of the matter, Musk asks workers to contact him directly if they don't get any feedback otherwise. The fire resulted in no injuries; nor did it inflict substantial damage on equipment and nobody was present on the premises, Musk wrote, as cited in the report.

Comment: Tesla seems to be having to put out quite a few fires of one kind or another:

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Dominoes

Escalating trade war between US and China brings markets down

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:10 UTC
stock markets


Bulletin headline summary from RanSquawk
  • DAX and FTSE at 1 month lows in sour risk tone as Trump issues USD 200bln tariff threat
  • Tariff threats send the DXY to YTD high
  • Looking ahead, highlights include, the Technical committee meeting between OPEC and non-OPEC members, ECB's Lane and Fed's Bullard
The headline news that dominate markets today are not that different from yesterday, especially since it is really just one: the escalating trade war between the US and China. Only unlike yesterday, when futures were modestly lower and levitated higher all day, with the Nasdaq closing in the green and the S&P barely lower, today's tripling down by the Trump administration, which has now threatened to re-double down and set 10% tariffs on up to $200BN in Chinese imports has finally spooked US equity futures and global markets, with the Dow futures down 340 points this morning, and global markets a sea of red, while safe havens such as the dollar and US Treasurys are sharply bid.

Comment: See also: Global markets tumble in response to escalating trade war between US and China

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Bad Guys

Global markets tumble in response to escalating trade war between US and China


RT
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:50 UTC
shipping containers
© Brian Snyder / Reuters
Global stocks crashed on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump threatened another 10-percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese imports in response to Beijing's retaliation for the previous package of levies imposed by the US.

China vowed to protect its interests, countering any US tariffs imposed on its goods with a mirror response.

"This practice of extreme pressure and blackmail" will be met with other comprehensive quantitative and qualitative measures, the country's Commerce Ministry warned.

"The United States has initiated a trade war that violates market laws and is not in accordance with current global development trends," it added.
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Hammer

Video debunks CNN report about Islamic Jihad in Gaza

Robert Inlakesh
21st Century Wire
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:42 UTC
CNN released a video on the 17th of June (2018) in which they "investigated" Palestinian tunnels in Gaza. Ian Lee, spoke to members of the Palestinian resistance organization known as 'Islamic Jihad.

This CNN report is a prime example of why most people have no understanding of the situation in Gaza. Here is a takedown of CNN's Israeli 'Hasbara' (Propaganda). Watch:


Comment: CNN, as a prime example of the presstitute media, makes its best to perpetuate the illusion that Palestinians somehow deserve the Israeli missiles and sniper fire - or at least that both sides are equally guilty, when they are clearly not. There is nothing balanced nor fair about this conflict.

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Info

Glimpse inside shelter for migrant children reveals they're nothing like Obama's cages

AC
Investment Watch Blog
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:39 UTC
Trump Obama
© Win McNamee/Nicholas Kamm/Agence France-Press/Getty
The Democrat Party and their allies in the media have been attempting to blame President Trump and his administration for the poor living conditions of children who've been smuggled or who've illegally entered our country.

Even the liberal Politifact "fact-checker" defended President Trump when he went on the offense against Democrats after liberals attacked the Trump administration's policy on child migrants. Trump said the Democrats were sharing a photo of detained children from 2014 during President Barack Obama's presidency.

"Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama's term showing children from the Border in steel cages," Trump tweeted May 29. "They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires. Dems must agree to Wall and new Border Protection for good of country... Bipartisan Bill!"
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Arrow Down

State Rep. who was 'tough on crime' gets DWI after begging to be let go


Free Thought Project
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:39 UTC
Monica Christina Youngblood
Body camera footage has been released that shows tough-on-crime, pro-law enforcement Republican state Rep. Monica Youngblood, 41, who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, crying and pleading with an officer at a DWI checkpoint during her arrest-which subsequently resulted in a review by the state attorney general of the politician using her position in an attempt to get out of arrest.

State Attorney General Balderas launched the probe after the state Democratic Party accused Youngblood of using her political position to get out of her arrest.

"Rep. Youngblood was elected to use her position to help her constituents, not put them in harms way and then attempt to get out of an arrest by citing her legislative actions," Democrat Marg Elliston, who referred Youngblood for investigation, said in a statement.
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Question

Signing ceremony for Macedonia's name change goes ahead despite rejection by Greek parliament


Independent
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:19 UTC
Macedonian flags fly in front of the government building in Skopje
© Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters
Macedonian flags fly in front of the government building in Skopje
Greece and Macedonia have signed a historic deal agreeing to the latter country changing its name after decades of dispute.

Macedonia, which sits to the north of Greece, will become known as North Macedonia under the new agreement, which was today signed by Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and Macedonian prime minister Zoran Zaev.

The name dispute between the two countries has existed since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. Greece has previously argued that Macedonia's name suggests it has a claim over the Greek province which is also called Macedonia.

While nationalists on both sides have attempted to thwart any kind of agreement in the past, Macedonia is believed to have become open to the change recently in order to push through the country's membership of Nato and the EU.

Mr Tsipras called the agreement an "appointment with history", while Mr Zaev said the two countries can now call themselves "partners and allies".

Comment: One wonders who is pushing for Macedonia to join the disintegrating EU and the liability that is NATO:

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Wine n Glass

Major N.I.H. drinking health study shut down: Tainted by funding appeals to the alcohol industry

Roni Caryn Rabin
The New York Times
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
booze
© Edu Bayer for The New York Times


An investigation at the National Institutes of Health concluded that the $100 million trial had been tainted by funding appeals to the alcohol industry.

The extensive government trial was intended to settle an age-old question about alcohol and diet: Does a daily cocktail or beer really protect against heart attacks and stroke?

To find out, the National Institutes of Health gave scientists $100 million to fund a global study comparing people who drink with those who don't. Its conclusions could have enshrined alcohol as part of a healthy diet.

As it turned out, much of the money for the study came from the alcohol industry. Earlier this year, The New York Times reported that officials at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the N.I.H., had solicited that funding from alcohol manufacturers, a violation of federal policy.

Comment: Well bravo to the N.I.H. for calling out conflict of interest before the study was actually completed. Had the study proceeded, it would have been just another industry-funded PR campaign masquerading as objective science. If more agencies would be this discerning, the current state of nutritional science would not be in the sorry state it currently is in.

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Pistol

BLM agents shoot at innocent couple because ATV broke down near restricted area

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 06:46 UTC
BLM ATV shooting
Pedro and Denise Mejia feel lucky to be alive after they were nearly murdered when their all-terrain vehicle broke down and they said they were confronted by federal officers from the Bureau of Land Management who opened fire with on them with no warning.

The couple was exploring the deserts of Joshua Tree National Park when their ATV got a flat tire. They said that because they did not have a spare, they were traveling much slower than they would if they had four properly inflated tires. At around 11:00 p.m. on June 10, they came face to face with federal agents whom the Mejias said immediately opened fire on them. In a hail of bullets, Denise was struck in the head and hand before BLM agents ceased fire. Predictably, police are telling a different story.

A press release issued by the Riverside County Sheriff's Office, who is investigating the shooting, claimed that the Mejias were in a restricted area and failed to heed BLM officer commands to stop:
(A) Bureau of Land Management officer attempted to stop an off-road vehicle and an officer involved shooting occurred.
Incredulously, a detective with the department who is investigating the officer-involved shooting actually blamed the nearly murdered victims for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. RSO Investigator Armado Muñoz reportedly told KMIR News:
Muñoz says armed officers patrol the federal lands and it's important before you go off roading to know where you're going, "Before you go out and use those vehicles to make sure that you are driving them in a place where it's allowed ... sometimes people go out and assume that it's okay so we just encourage you to do some homework."
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Beaker

Man claiming to be Bill Clinton's son requests paternity test

Kyle Olson
The American Mirror
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Danney Williams
Danney Williams still wants to have a relationship with the man he calls his "dad."

This Father's Day, Williams, who says Bill Clinton is his father, is backing calls for Clinton to undergo a paternity test to prove - or disprove - his assertion.


Comment:
bill clinton


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