If you want your flight to take off on time, maybe give Wizz Air a miss.

A Press Association analysis of the busiest airlines operating from UK airports revealed that the Hungarian carrier has the poorest punctuality record with flights departing on average 23 minutes late in 2017.

Norwegian came in second for tardiness with an average delay time of 22 minutes, followed by Vueling Airlines, Thomas Cook Airline and BMI Regional.

At the other end of the spectrum, Scandinavian Airlines was the most punctual carrier, with flights taking off on average just seven minutes behind schedule.

This was closely followed by Aer Lingus, Air France, Alitalia and Delta Airlines.

The study of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) data covered 44 airlines with a minimum of 2,000 scheduled flights from UK airports in 2017.

Passengers may be disappointed to discover that delays are a common part of the aviation experience, with the average delay across all flights coming in at 15 minutes.

A spokesperson for Wizz Air cited poor winter weather as one explanation for the delays.

A number of issues specific to the UK, including airport infrastructure, airspace congestion and slot restrictions contribute to a significantly worse on-time performance of our UK routes compared to the rest of our network, they told The Guardian.

Wizz Airs efforts to reduce future delays include basing eight aircraft in the UK.

Norwegian cited European air traffic control strikes and poor weather as factors for its low ranking.

We do everything possible to ensure that flights operate to allow passengers to reach their destination as soon as possible, said a Norwegian spokesperson.

Norwegian is committed to keep improving punctuality, and where factors are within our direct control we have introduced new measures to continue delivering a smooth, efficient experience for our passengers.

The CAA said it published information on carriers performance to allow people to make informed choices about which airlines to fly with.

Wizz Air least punctual airline operating from UK airports in 2017


A huge cow that is more than six feet tall and weighs more than a car has become an internet sensation.

The giant black-and-white Holstein Friesian steer, who lives on a farm in Western Australia, has won fame on social media for his immense proportions.

At seven-years-old, Knickers is almost twice the size of the rest of the herd for whom takes charge of as a "coach" and too big to be processed at an abattoir.

And predictably Twitter is in awe after photos surfaced of the 6 feet 4 inch animal from Myalup - who weighs a staggering 1.4 tonnes.

US model Chrissy Teigen tweeted: "Damn that is one huge cow. this is why I buy internet on flights. I almost saw that 6 hours after you guys did."

Christening him with a new name, fashion bloggers Tom and Lorenzo said: "BOW DOWN TO GODZILLACOW."

Others were quick to share their thoughts on the monstrous animal, whose massive size has helped to save his life:

Knickers the cow The best tweets and reaction to enormous animal


It only gets more politically perilous to be U.S. President Donald Trump. Last week, he faced his former lawyer Michael Cohen pleading guilty to an array of serious crimes  and implicating him in the process. Now, Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti is joining in on the chorus of calls to follow that development wherever it may lead  including to a possible Trump impeachment.

Talk of impeaching Trump has intensified since Cohen pleaded guilty to crimes including two campaign finance law violations. The lawyer  at Trumps direction, he explained to a court  secretly peddled hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money to try and tilt the 2016 elections in his boss favor. Some of that hush money  $130,000 of it, to be exact  went to Avenattis star client, Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with the man who is now president some years ago.

Trump originally claimed to have no knowledge of the payment to Daniels whatsoever. Then, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Fox News Sean Hannity that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the hush money  and now, Cohen has asserted in a court of law that he was acting at Trumps direction in having sent out the hush money in the first place.

What legal consequences the president could face for that remain to be seen. He hasnt been formally charged with anything  yet. Special Counsel for the Russia investigation Robert Mueller is continuing his investigation; a referral from his office helped drive the separate federal investigation into Cohen that culminated in his recent guilty plea.

Whether Mueller will indict the president for any crimes remains to be seen  its up in the air whether or not he can even do that.

Democrats, though, are on track to take back the U.S. House in the midterm elections later this year. FiveThirtyEight currently estimates a 5 in 7  or 72.7 percent  chance that come 2019, the Democrats will lead the lower chamber of Congress.

With a majority status in the body responsible for drawing up and passing articles of impeachment, roadblocks to impeachment would be out of the Democrats way in the case of the evidence against the president continuing to mount.

When it comes to the U.S. Senate, where the president would actually be tried in the case of the House passing articles of impeachment, Democrats have a bit tougher of a road to a majority come 2019 in the Cook Political Reports estimation. The analysts behind the site rate three currently Republican held seats as toss-ups  and one (Ted Cruzs) as only leaning and not likely Republican  but five currently Democrat held seats are rated as toss-ups.

Democrats have to hold onto all of those and pick up at least a couple more to become the majority party in the upper Congressional chamber  although with generic Congressional ballot polling registering Democrats with an about 8 percent lead at present, the odds are in the lefts favor.

In the meantime, Avenatti and those who think like him are continuing their messaging.

Michael Avenatti Tweets Push For Impeaching Trump That Has Donald Wetting Himself


Pictures have always fascinated humans ever since the art of photography was invented early in the 1800s. The process by which an image is captured through the camera lens is nothing short of magical, with the power of light imprinting a moment in time on a piece of paper, forever freezing the subjects essence for eternity. In the years that photography has progressed, millions and millions of images of people, places and objects have been archived, some of them mysterious and unexplainable.

The following pages contain these mysterious images that continue to defy explanation.

Just like a mirage in the dessert, people have dismissed these mysterious pictures being the product of imagination. Experts suggest that the power of the human brain is undeniable, being able to suggest and associate the things our eyes witness with fears hidden deeply within our minds. But are these photos really just our eyes and minds playing tricks on us?

Check out the photos and find out if they are merely tricks or are they undeniably real.

Mysterious Images That Continue To Defy Explanation


The Trump administration earned international criticism earlier this year, thanks to the imposition of steep tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. The president has stood firm, tweeting as recently as Sunday about how great the tariffs supposedly are  but South Carolina manufacturing workers would disagree.

In the face of the now increased cost of doing business in steel and aluminum  among other products  with China, Element Electronics is shutting down operations at its plant in Fairfield County, South Carolina.

The company specifically blamed the Trump administrations tariffs in a letter to the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce, writing:

They hope to be able to re-open in three to six months, and in the meantime they will be maintaining a staff of eight individuals. However, the company asserted that they cannot predict this with any certainty at this time.

The closure will leave 126 people jobless in an area that has already seen a number of its major employers leave. Element, ahead of the layoffs, ended up one of the largest employers in the county after the areas last textile mill and even its Walmart closed.

In addition to the aforementioned closures, Fairfield County just recently faced the abandonment of lengthy plans for two nuclear reactors in Jenkinsville. That left 5,000 construction workers job-less and erased the opportunity of any future jobs in the area stemming from the nuclear reactors.

The Element plant closure is hardly the only consequence of the Trump administrations tariffs. Other American companies dealing in steel, aluminum, and related products with other countries have had their operations threatened too. BMW, for instance, recently notified Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross that as many as 45,000 jobs in South Carolina alone could be in jeopardy because of the trade wars.

Whether Ross will actually pay attention to the companys concern is uncertain. He was just recently on Fox defending the Trump administrations tariffs as carefully thought through  and hes now facing allegations of having swindled associates out of some $120 million.

Meanwhile, American agricultural interests continue to feel the weight of the tariffs and retaliatory tariffs too. China recently cancelled all of their standing orders for specialty food grade soybeans from North Dakota, dealing farmers a loss of over $1 million.

The president, though, insists that everything is getting along just fine.

As recently as Sunday, he wrote on Twitter:

Tariffs are working big time. Every country on earth wants to take wealth out of the U.S., always to our detriment. I say, as they come,Tax them. If they dont want to be taxed, let them make or build the product in the U.S. In either event, it means jobs and great wealth.

As the new developments in South Carolina make clear, no, tariffs dont mean jobs and great wealth.

JUST IN Major Television Manufacturer Closes Plant Because Of Trump Tariffs DETAILS


As thousands of migrants march toward the United States southern border, the left is still pushing the narrative that the caravan either doesnt exist or that it poses no threat.

The David Knight Show Invasion USA Begins As Border Tension Escalates Left Pushes For All Out Gend


A Christian Yazidi teenager who was enslaved by the Islamic State has moved back to Iraq after she met her captor on the streets of an area near Stuttgart, Germany where he had registered as a refugee.

Ashwaq Talo said she was walking home in February when she encountered Abu Humam, a former ISIS guard who had previously purchased her for $100.

I froze when I looked at his face carefully, Talo told Bas News, a Kurdish agency. It was Abu Humam, with the same scary beard and ugly face.

The teenager said Humam immediately made threats, telling her, I am Abu Humam and you were with me for a while in Mosul. And I know where you live, with whom you live, and what you are doing.

Talo reported Humam to the authorities, but German police said there was no grounds for arrest because the former ISIS man had registered as a refugee.

The teenager decided to leave Germany after the encounter and moved back to Kurdistan to live with her father.

I will never go back, she vowed.

The fallout from Germanys decision to accept over a million migrants, mostly from the Middle East, since 2015 continue to reverberate.

While Chancellor Angela Merkels approval rating has plunged to an all time low, partly thanks to her open border policy, many on the left have expressed their glee over the situation.

Last month, a write for Huffington Post Germany said, it would actually be best to just replace the German people with foreigners in order to stop the rise of populism.

At the height of the wave of migrants flooding into Germany in 2015, the Green Partys Stefanie von Berg said in a speech before the Bundestag that Germans will be a minority in their own cities within 30 years and that this is a good thing.

As we document in the video below, Germans who complain about negative consequences of the migrant wave are being punished by authorities, while scientists have even debated adding drugs to the water supply to make Germans more accepting of foreigners.

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Yazidi Teenager Meets ISIS Captor Who Enslaved Her Hes Now a Refugee in Germany


Last Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein referred a mysterious letter about Kavanaugh to the FBI after holding onto it for months.

She started a firestorm by holding onto this letter about Kavanaugh then releasing it at the 11th hour in a me too ambush in an effort to delay Kavanaughs confirmation.

Via FOX News Congress reporter Chad Pergram: From colleague Connor Marley. Feinstein on Ford. Says Ford is a woman that has been, I think, profoundly impacted, on this..I cant say that everything is truthful. I dont know

Feinstein to Fox on Ford when asked if the accusation will impact how mbrs would vote on Kavanaugh: I know she did not want to go public. Thats why I made the letter. That was taken out of my control

Feinstein then says if Christine Ford doesnt show up Monday to the hearing its up to the Republicans what happens next.

Chuck Grassley said on the Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday morning that Christine Ford has not confirmed her appearance at next Mondays hearing and that she has ignored repeated efforts by his staff to make contact with her in the last 36 hours.

The Senate Judiciary Chairman even threatened to cancel Mondays hearing.

Feinstein on Christine Ford Sexual Assault Allegations Against Kavanaugh I Cant Say That Everythin


THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PULLS OUT OF PLANNED JUNE 12TH SUMMIT IN SINGAPORE

President Trump thanked the North Koreans for releasing the US hostages.

President Trump: Some day I look very forward to meeting you. In the meantime, I want to thank you for the release of the hostages who are now home with their families.

This is the hateful insanity coming from the American left today.

Crazy Nancy Pelosi Kim Jong Un Had a Giggle Fit When Trump Called Off Summit VIDEO


## Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Russia offers plan to remove Iranian forces from
Syria, Netanyahu says

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his assistance to the United
States and Israel in reducing Iran's presence in Syria in return for easing
anti-Iranian sanctions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the
Knesset behind closed doors. Based on deductions, Putin suggested this to US
President Donald Trump when they briefly met in Paris during the events
marking the 100th anniversary of the World War I Armistice, Nezavisimaya
Gazeta writes. Although Russias Foreign Ministry has not confirmed that this
discussion was held at this level, this does not mean that the Russian leader
had not put forward these ideas, the paper says. Experts say that Moscow has
some leverage over Iran in Syria, though minor at best. The Israeli prime
minister stressed that this was an unofficial offer and that the Jewish state
has not worked out its stance on this issue.

"Israel believes that Russia has leverage over Iran, but they understand that
this is limited rather than complete leverage," Israeli political scientist
and Head of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, a public diplomacy project, Ariel
Bulstein told the paper. The idea that Russia as a country, which de facto
controls all of what is happening in Syria, should bear responsibility for
this, and namely stop all of Irans attempts towards turning Syria into a
foothold for an attack against Israel, is an Israeli position, he noted.
"Touching on a possible bargain, I believe this is not a reasonable approach
as sanctions against Iran are related to Irans appetite in the nuclear
weapons sphere rather than Syria. The goal of the restrictions in this case is
to bring the Iranian leadership to its senses and make it abandon operations
in purchasing military-grade atoms."

Russian experts believe that at talks with its Western partners, Moscow
somehow keeps mentioning the Iranian factor. "Russia may even say that the
containment of Iran is somehow in effect," expert at the Russian Council for
International Affairs Anton Mardasov said.

Meanwhile, objectively, Russia is unable to contain Iran, but can only jockey
for its influence with Tehran and paint this as containment, he noted. It was
important for Russia to make an offer to the US and Israel in order to show
that it is an important diplomatic mediator. "On the one hand, this boosts its
standing as a mediator," Mardasov noted. "On the other hand, this is
bargaining. For example, Russia can say: we'll contain Iran, but you Americans
should leave Al-Tanf. We will contain Iranian ambitions, and you should settle
the situation along the eastern Euphrates."

## Kommersant: Eastern Europe confirms TurkStream pipelines route

Russian energy giant Gazprom has decided on the gas supplies route via the
TurkStream pipeline, which will run through Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and
Slovakia, and is already participating in the procedure of reserving new
pipelines in these countries, Kommersant writes. Gazprom plans to launch
supplies to Bulgaria and Serbia via TurkStream in 2020, and to Hungary in
2021, and this will make it possible to abandon transit via Ukraine starting
from 2022.

This is actually the South Stream route, which the European Union froze in
2014 under American pressure. The systems expansion will be valued at $1.63
bln. Now it is difficult to pick a bone with this project since Gazproms
approach is fully compliant with EU legislation, the paper says. But this is
unlikely to shield the project from political punches.

Market sources told Kommersant that the Kremlin remembered the letdown of the
South Streams cancellation and sought to delay the moment of announcing the
real route in order to reduce the risk of foreign pressure on transit
countries. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not exclude restrictions
against TurkStream saying that the US "throws around these measures and no one
is protected from pressure."

The fact that Gazprom took part in the open season, a procedure of reserving
future pipelines, means that the Russian company "is fully compliant with EU
demands and the Third Energy Package rules, and given this it would be very
difficult to pick a bone with expanding TurkStream," analyst Maria Belova from
Vygon Consulting said. Gazprom is not seeking to attract attention to these
projects until the open season ends, she noted.

"There will be certainly political pressure, especially from the US, which has
suggested over the past months to impose sanctions on all Russian export
pipelines," the analyst said. Meanwhile, it is impossible to stay silent on
the project anymore given that the pipeline will be officially launched in a
year.

## Izvestia: Interpol Inequality - EU, US meddling cost Russian general the
election

Major General of the Russian Interior Ministry Alexander Prokopchuk, who had
been widely expected to win the election to the presidency of the global
police organization Interpol, lost to South Korean candidate Kim Jong Yang.
Izvestia writes that Western media outlets, which had stepped up their
Russophobia amid fears that a Kremlin proxy would win a key post in the
organization, interpreted the news as "a blow to Moscow." Russia pointed to
the unprecedented pressure on the voting process and the political bias of the
decision, but took it rather calmly.

The general tone of the narrative was that Moscow would definitely use the
system of red notices (placing persons on an international wanted list) for a
witch-hunt against its political opponents, the paper writes. Ukraine and
Lithuania had threatened to withdraw from Interpol if Prokopchuk had won.
British MPs also called for pulling out of Interpol in protest against the
Russians potential presidency. Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
even suggested that democratic countries could create a parallel organization
if Prokopchuk emerged victorious. Four US senators, including Marc Rubio, who
had authored numerous resolutions with initiatives to punish Russia, China,
Iran and Cuba, sent a letter to US President Donald Trump and Interpols
General Assembly demanding to prevent the Russian generals election to this
post, noting that this would be "akin to putting a fox in charge of the
henhouse."

The unprecedented pressure from many politicians, and even the threats by some
states to leave Interpol, indicated that politics trumps Interpols primary
goals, Alexei Chepa, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma (Russias lower house
of parliament) Foreign Affairs Committee, told the paper. "Our candidate is a
top-notch professional. Time will only tell who has lost or has gained from
this."

"Russia would not have gained anything if Prokopchuk had clinched the position
because Interpols central administration consists of Americans and Britons
and it would easily block the chiefs decisions," professor at the Lomonosov
Moscow State University and PhD in political science Andrei Manoilo said.

It is noteworthy that Interpols president is a ceremonial post. The functions
of its Secretary General, who is in charge of the organizations daily
operations, are more important. A German, Jurgen Stock, now holds this
position.

## Vedomosti: UK-owned DIY retail subsidiary leaving Russian market

British retailer Kingfisher DIY and home improvement tools and supplies, which
owns Castorama network of hypermarkets, has announced that it is leaving
Russia, Spain and Portugal, Vedomosti writes. "This will allow us to apply our
strategy with more focus and efficiency in our main markets," Chief Executive
of Kingfisher Veronique Laury said.

Castorama, which has been operating in Russia since 2006, is the fourth
largest DIY retailer after Frances Leroy Merlin, Russian company Petrovich
and Germanys Obi, according to Infoline.

The retailers accrued losses since the beginning of its work in Russia will
exceed 12 bln rubles ($183 mln) by the end of 2018, and most losses were
recorded in 2014-2018, Director General at Infoline analytics Mikhail
Burmistrov said.

Castoramas work in Russia was plagued by red tape and was not flexible enough
and this prevented the company from adapting to the ruble devaluation and
keeping profitability amid mounting competition, Burmistrov explained. The
company was very late with launching online sales and was slow in upgrading
its hypermarkets, which became outdated, Burmistrov said.

Now, Castorama has 18 hypermarkets with the total area of 225,000 square
meters and also two stores in shopping malls, and the total real estate is
valued as at least 24 bln rubles ($366 mln). Leroy Merlin is seen as a
potential buyer of Castoramas business, but Russias anti-monopoly
restrictions could foil its plans, a member of Maxidom board of directors
Maria Evnevich told the paper.

## Izvestia: Russias Fan ID system may be used at UEFA Euro 2020

Russias Fan ID is most likely to be used at the 2020 UEFA European Football
Championship, which will be held across the entire continent in 12 cities in
12 European countries, Izvestia writes. Russian know-how proved its efficiency
at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the 2017 Confederations Cup and the
2018 World Cup, which was recognized as the best in history by the FIFA
Council. The Union of European Football Associations believes that the Fan ID
experience will be useful for both football fans and organizers.

According to Izvestia, a decision on the need to introduce a compulsory Fan ID
for buying tickets for the Euro 2020 games may be made at the UEFA Congress on
February 7, 2019 in Rome.

Head of the Russia-2018 Organizing Committee and the Euro 2020 organizing
structure Alexei Sorokin confirmed that UEFA is interested in using Fan IDs.
"After the 2018 World Cup everyone understood that this is not just an
artificial restriction for security reasons. Fan IDs offer great advantages
for fans," he said, noting that the card may facilitate free travel and visa-
free travel to any country and also be used for payment and discounts on
visiting museums and restaurants.

Russia is ready to share its experience of working with Fan IDs with other
organizing countries of Euro-2020, Sorokin said. Besides St. Petersburg, the
Euro 2020 matches will be held in Amsterdam, Baku, Bilbao, Bucharest,
Budapest, Glasgow, Dublin, Copenhagen, Munich, London and Rome.

During the 2018 FIFA World Cup more than 1.6 mln Fan IDs were issued,
including for high-ranking officials and celebrities.

"Not a single major incident occurred during the 2018 World Cup, thanks to the
Fan IDs. You should agree that in the modern world it is important to
understand who and for what purposes is at a stadium," Sorokin stressed.

Fan IDs may be also introduced during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, French
Ambassador to Russia Sylvie Bermann told the paper.

_TASS is not responsible for the material quoted in the press review_

Press review Netanyahu reveals Putins Iran offer and Gazprom maps out TurkStream route


New York Socialist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once blamed ride-sharing giant Uber for leading a yellow cab driver to suicide. Her campaign then took $4,000 worth of Uber rides.

But Ocasio-Cortez, who rose to prominence after defeating top Democrat Joe Crowley in the partys U.S. House primary in June, is no fan of Uber, if you read her statements on social media.

She frequently criticized the ride-hailing company for what she sees as underpaying its drivers, decrying their pay as exploitation if they dont get at least $15 an hour, the so-called living wage.

Ocasio-Cortez Sides With Cab Drivers While Campaign Uses Uber Report


(Natural News) Now, you can add protection from diarrhea and E. coli to the growing list of reasons why mothers should breastfeed their babies. In a study published in the Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism, authors revealed that a mothers milk prevents the growth of pathogenic Escherichia coli and boost immunity.

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame Australia and the University of Western Australia mixed E. coli with human milk and bovine milk (or cows milk). They incubated these in a shaker for six hours and evaluated the mixed suspension using cell culture and the Kjeldahl methods.

Of the results, the researchers concluded that human milk inhibited the growth of harmful E. coli. Minimal changes in the non-protein nitrogen indicated that there was minimal degradation of immune proteins, they added. [Human milk] may protect the infant by inhibition of the growth of pathogenic E. coli. (Related: Breastmilk: The gift that keeps on giving... Babies who were exclusively breastfed have less than half the risk of eczema as teenagers than those that were not.)

While some mothers have no problems with their breast milk supply, others arent that lucky: It takes time for their milk to flow freely. For some mothers, they cant even produce milk for one reason or another.

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In a disastrous interview with CNNs Jake Tapper Sunday, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel compared himself to a president, while touting his amazing leadership.

When Tapper pressed Israel how the Broward County Sheriffs Office could have responded to the shooting differently, the embattled law enforcement officer responded with:

Ive exercised my due diligence, Ive led this county proudly as I always have, he said. We have restricted that deputy as we look in to it. You know, deputies make mistakes, police officers make mistakes, we all make mistakes, but its not the responsibility of the general or the president, if you have a deserter. You look into this. Were looking into this aggressively, and well take care of it and justice will be served. Are you really not taking any responsibility for the multiple red flags that were brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriffs Office about this shooter before the incident? Tapper asked. Jake, I can only take responsibility for what I knew about. I exercised my due diligence. Ive given amazing leadership to this agency Israel started. Yes, Jake. Theres a lot of things weve done throughout thisthis isyou dont measure a persons leadership by a deputy not going into these deputies received the training they needed Israel said.

As The Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft reported, CNN says three Broward County Sheriffs Deputies waited outside the school during the shooting.

When Coral Springs police officers arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 in the midst of the school shooting crisis, many officers were surprised to find not only that Broward County Sheriffs Deputy Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer, had not entered the building, but that three other Broward County Sheriffs deputies were also outside the school and had not entered, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. The deputies had their pistols drawn and were behind their vehicles, the sources said, and not one of them had gone into the school.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is currently investigating why Peterson failed to act during the shooting.

On Friday, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior Brandon Huff told WSVN that Broward Sheriff resource officer, Scot Peterson, hid behind a staircase while pointing his gun at nothing as gunman Nikolas Cruz shot dead 17 people.

In Disastrous Interview Broward County Sheriff Compares Himself to a President Touts His Amazing


U.S. President Donald Trump paraded into office promising to bring jobs that had been transferred out of the country back into the United States. Now, as a direct result of his administrations policies, a new stream of jobs out of the country is beginning.

Earlier this year, enraged at the amount of Chinese goods being sold in the United States, the Trump administration slapped a 25 percent import tax on imported steel and a 10 percent one on imported aluminum. The White House targeted other countries all around the world, too, including some close allies like Canada and Mexico.

The problem is that a number of companies with operations in the United States had grown to rely on imported goods that have now been slapped with tariffs. Three billion dollars worth of Chinese steel and aluminum has been affected, as have $34 billion worth of Chinese technology goods.

In the face of the subsequent price hikes, an Illinois manufacturer is moving its last remaining U.S. manufacturing operations to Mexico, the Chicago Tribune reports. On October 12, both Stack-On Products plants will close, leaving more than 150 people without work. The company has persisted in Illinois for some four decades.

The original decision came when tariffs were first announced. The parent companys human resources director Al Fletcher made clear that the move is a direct result of Trumps tariffs, explaining:

Thats darkly ironic considering just how many times Trump has touted his plans to bring jobs like those to be lost in Illinois back into the United States.

For instance, on January of this year, Trump wrote on Twitter:

Trumps promises and assertions just dont translate to reality, though.

Even in the case of that specific tweet, Trumps lying. No Chrysler operations were moving out of Mexico and into the United States at the time of his tweet. The company was simply bolstering their already in-place operations in the United States.

In the time since, Trump has made it more difficult for such bolstering to take place. BMW, which employs tens of thousands of people in the United States, has expressed concern about the future of those jobs in the face of Trumps tariffs and the global retaliatory tariffs.

Whirlpool CEO Marc Bitzer exclaimed recently that global steel prices have reached unexplainable levels. On a smaller scale, American workers are suffering outside of the Stack-On situation too. Missouris Mid-Continent Nail Corporation is on the brink of extinction because of the tariffs, with hundreds of American workers out of the job.

Trumps trade policies are not enacting an economic utopia, and yet, hes continuing on with them anyway.

Two Major US Factories Announce Abrupt Closure Blame Trump Tariffs For Lost Jobs


President Trump argued Monday night that media coverage of mail bomber Cesar Sayoc was biased when compared with how news outlets treated James T. Hodgkinsons shooting of Republicans practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game last year. According to the president, Sayocs admiration of Trump was heavily emphasized, whereas the coverage of Hodgkinson barely focused on his loyalty to Bernie Sanders. Some media outlets were quick to dismiss Trumps assertion, but he raises an interesting question: Do the data show any validity to the presidents concerns?

On June 14, 2017 Hodgkinson opened fire on a GOP baseball practice, wounding several people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. The identity of the shooter and the fact that he volunteered for Sanders presidential campaign was known within hours. Early headlines, including at CNN, clearly pointed out the connection.

However, coverage quickly dropped the association with Sanders, with a Politico article three weeks later referring to the shooter merely as James Hodgkinson of Illinois.

In contrast, one of the most striking elements of coverage of last weeks mail bombing campaign was how blame was almost immediately assigned to Trump. Long before even the most basic information was known about the suspect, media personalities and their guests had largely pinned responsibility on the president. As Philippe Reines later put it on MSNBC, We didnt know the name of the bomber but we know who to blame.

The timeline below overlays coverage of the first nine days of coverage after both events, showing the percentage of daily English language online news coverage of the event that mentioned Sanders or Trump, as monitored by the GDELT Project.

In blue is the 2017 shooting. Day 0 represents the date it took place, June 14. The shooters affiliation with Sen. Sanders reached a peak of 31 percent of coverage the following day, then rapidly dissipated as the media largely dropped mentions of Hodgkinsons political affiliation.

In contrast, in orange is last weeks mail bombing campaign, with Day 0 being Oct. 22, when the first bomb (sent to George Soros) was discovered. By Oct. 25, the day before any information was known about the bombers identity, nearly 70 percent of coverage of the bombs mentioned Trump. By Sunday, nearly 80 percent of coverage associated the bomber with Trump.

In the end, while the president wasnt entirely correct in claiming that the media didnt associate the 2017 shooting with Sanders, his concerns about a media double standard are borne out. When a Sanders supporter and campaign volunteer opened fire on GOP members, the media quickly stopped mentioning the connection. Yet days before anything was known about last weeks bomber, the media had settled on Trump as the cause. Instead of reflexively dismissing any questions about bias, a bit of self-reflection on how the media covers the presidency in our increasingly divided world might be more productive.

Data Show Trump Is Right About Mail Bomber Coverage


Netflix has been banned from competing in the Cannes Film Festival, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. Theirry Fremaux, the head of Cannes, told THR last week the ban is because Netflix refuses to release its films in theaters, choosing instead to debut them on its streaming service and, in some rare cases, do day-and-date releases so the film can be seen both online and off. In the case of Bong Joon-hos Okja and Noah Baumbachs The Meyerowitz Stories  films that were entered into last years Cannes to widespread protest from French filmmakers  Netflix was unable to secure last-minute permits for one-week theatrical releases due to French media regulations.

Last year, when we selected these two films, I thought I could convince Netflix to release them in cinemas. I was presumptuous, they refused, Fremaux told THR. The Netflix people loved the red carpet and would like to be present with other films. But they understand that the intransigence of their own model is now the opposite of ours. Starting with this years Cannes, which takes place in May, films screened in competition will need to have a French theatrical release. Netflix is still allowed to show films at Cannes, Fremaux added, but its films will not be eligible for the prestigious Palme dOr.

Netflix banned from competing at Cannes Film Festival


CHONGQING, China, Aug. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The first Smart China Expo
(SCE) will be held in Chongqing on August 23, attracting 436 distinguished
attendees from home and abroad from different circles. Among them, there will
be 23 academicians of the country's leading two academies, 125 senior
management of well-known domestic enterprises, and 142 guests from 28
countries and regions.

Highlighting science and technology, participation and interactivity, the SCE
will feature a comprehensive exhibition, an exhibition of large enterprises,
an innovation exhibition, a special theme exhibition and a smart experience
square where visitors can try latest smart life technologies and products. The
total exhibition area will reach 186,000 square meters.

Many countries and regions such as the United Kingdom, Singapore and the
Netherlands, have confirmed their participation for the event so far. As the
guest of honor, Singapore and South Korea will jointly hold high-end summits,
releases of partner and promotion activities.

The event has attracted participation of state government agencies and local
governments such as the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Civil
Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Administration of
Cultural Heritage, Hong Kong, Macao, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Guangxi and Sichuan.
Meanwhile, leading global companies like Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Google,
Huawei, Alibaba and Tencent will also attend the event.

During the exhibition, Chongqing will hold several high-end forums and
conferences with state government agencies, associations and research
institutes, which include two keynote conferences on digital economy and smart
life innovation with international sister cities. There will also be a forum
to help establish corporate partnership on digital economy between Chongqing
and Singapore and other high-end forums on intelligent manufacturing,
semiconductor industry, 5G and future networks, industrial internet,
intelligent era information security, artificial intelligence and intelligent
super-calculation. Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei will also hold seven professional
summits on cloud computing and other topics.

In addition, the event will feature five competitions including the i-VISTA
autonomous driving challenge, the international drone racing grand prix, the
global "Internet +" innovation and entrepreneurship competition, the Chongqing
open data innovation application contest as well as collection and release of
black technologies. The organizer will also set up a press release center to
publish the results of the conference in real time, and offer intelligent
conference services such as face recognition and intelligent navigation to
attract more viewers to participate in and experience the SCE.

The SCE will release a report on the country's intelligent development, a
report on growth of China's big data industry as well as an action plan for
Chongqing to seek innovation-driven growth led by big data and smart
technologies.

To organize a green and minimal-waste event, the exhibition has taken a light-
volume and recycling design philosophy by using environmentally friendly and
recyclable materials.

First Smart China Expo to be Held in Chongqing


Barack, the narcissist, even signed his bracket this year.

But Obamas curse is too strong

The Curse Lives On Obama Picks UVA to Reach NCAA Finals Instead They Are First 1 Seed to Lose t


Trumps presidential administration has become a revolving door of criminals, swamp monsters, and inept appointees who resign or are fired faster than the news can report them. Yet another top cabinet member resigned on Thursday.

Scott Pruitts appointment to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was controversial from the start since he had publicly stated that he was vehemently opposed to the creation of an EPA at all. Like many of Trumps cabinet officials, he seemed to be the worst possible choices. His resignation was considered by most to be just a matter of time and surprising since it took as long as it did to get him out.

Pruitts questionable personal spending has also made him a target for scrutiny and outrage. Government employees in his department were paid with taxpayer dollars to scout Chik-Fil-A franchises and other businesses and jobs for Pruitts wife, tasked with finding his favorite expensive lotion and used mattresses from Trumps hotels, and ordered to put Pruitts hotel room charges on their personal credit cards (without reimbursement).

Recently, Pruitt was approached by a concerned American citizen who asked him to resign before his scandals took him down and he could continue to implement policy changes that destroy the environment.

The current deputy administrator of the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will take over for Pruitt. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for the American people, considering Trumps record of appointees and staff members who have been in and out very quickly from the current presidential administration, no one who works for Trump should feel any sense of job security.

Trump Gets Weird Tweets Thursday Afternoon Message To America Hes Unraveling


A St. Clair Democrat leader told a crowd to vote early, vote often, whatever you can get away with during a rally in Caseyville this past weekend.

J. B. Pritzker, hes going to win. Hes going to win big, says the announcer. But he wont win if we dont get out and vote. We need the early vote. Like I say, we can play East St. Louis, vote early, vote often. Whatever you can get away with. I shouldnt say that, but I really dont care.

The remark prompted outbursts of laughter from some in the crowd.

The video was posted by the Illinois Republican Party.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.

Dem Leader Tells Crowd Vote early and often whatever you can get away with


Hanukkah is one of the most joyous occasions in the Jewish calendar, during which time Jews all over the world celebrate the eight-day festival of lights.

Also known as Chanukkah, it's a time to enjoy food and time with family.

But what is the story behind the Jewish holiday and why is it celebrated and observed? Here's everything you need to know:

The date for Hanukkah changes every year, with the Jewish calendar being lunisolar. It does however always fall between late November and December, four days before the new moon. The Hebrew calendar date is 25 Kislev.

This year it will begin on the evening of Sunday December 2 and conclude on Monday December 10.

Hanukkah commemorates the victory of a Jewish rebel army, the Maccabees, over the Seleucids (an ancient Hellenistic empire that ruled much of the Middle East) in 165 BCE and the subsequent re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem that had been desecrated.

Dr Maria Diemling, Reader in Jewish-Christian Relations, based at Canterbury Christ Church University told the Standard:  The historical context is the struggle between tradition and assimilation, a recurrent theme in Jewish history.

According to Jewish tradition, it celebrates a miracle: inside the Temple, the Maccabees found enough consecrated oil to light the eternal flame in the Temple for a single day but miraculously the oil lasted for eight days, long enough to produce new oil.

This is the reason why Hanukkah is celebrated over eight days.

Mainly observed at home with the family, it involves lighting candles on the Hanukkiah' (or 'Hanukkah menorah') which is a special nine-branched candleholder. The ninth candle is the servant who is used to light the other eight candles.

Celebrations also include eating food fried in oil  referring to the oil of the miracle  playing games and giving little gifts to children.

Dr Diemling added: Children often make candleholders in Jewish settings (nursery, schools) and take them home. The lit Hanukkiah is often placed close to a window to announce the miracle of Hanukkah to the outside world.

The candles on the menorah will be lit each day in order (one candle on the first day, two on the second and so on), and the family will sing traditional songs, eat and spin the dreidel.

A driedel, Dr Diemling explained, is a four-sided spinning top that has different Hebrew letters on each side, forming the first letters of the Hebrew sentence for A great miracle happened there. Players play for money or sweets and lose or gain depending on which letter turns up when they spin the dreidel. Inviting others for the candle-lighting and food is also common.

Dr Diemling explained: Food is always an important part of Jewish holidays and celebrations! Traditionally, food fried in oil (referencing the oil miracle) is eaten. These depend on the ethnic origin of the family but common are latkes' (potato pancakes) served with applesauce and sour cream and doughnuts (sufganyot) filled with jam, dulce de leche etc.

The tradition is to eat food fried in oil but in different Jewish cultures different foods are being eaten: Italian Jewish families, for example, prepare dishes like fried chicken (marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, nutmeg and garlic, then covered in flour and egg before frying), mashed potato pancakes (unlike the latkes mentioned before covered in breadcrumbs), olive oil fried aubergines and honey-soaked dough fritters.

Children were traditionally gifted money (gelt in Yiddish) and now chocolate coins are traditionally given.

It has become quite common to give presents on each of the eight days. Some Jewish parents feel that they dont want to their children to miss out compared to children who celebrate Christmas, particularly in countries like the UK or US where there is such a long general build-up towards Christmas and where presents play such an important role, Dr Diemling said.

Many Jewish families give to charity on Hanukkah and also encourage their children to give some of their Hanukkah money to charity.

Hanukkah is a post-biblical holiday, Dr Diemling explained. It was therefore traditionally for centuries a relatively minor Jewish holiday but I would say that it is now commonly observed by Jewish families in the UK, including many secular Jewish families.

Hanukkah 2018 Everything you need to know about the Jewish Festival of Lights


The attempt to paint Democrats as an angry, left-wing mob  at least when President Trump is doing the painting -- is deeply disingenuous. Donald Trump has done more to promote violence against his fellow Americans than any president or presidential candidate in modern U.S. history. While running for office in 2015 and 2016, he urged supporters to knock the crap out of protesters, with the promise that he would pay the legal fees. It was Trump who suggested that the Second Amendment people could do something to a President Hillary Clinton if she ever got to make a Supreme Court appointment. As president, he told police officers, Dont be too nice to suspects, while speaking approvingly of banging arrestees heads on squad car doors.

Trumps pugnacious example has trickled down through his party. Last year, Republicans helped elect to the House Montanas Greg Gianforte, sticking with him after he physically assaulted a journalist. Trump recently endorsed Gianforte for re-election by saying, He is a fighter. The Republican gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania recently released a video in which he growls at the incumbent Democrat, I'm going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes.

So Democrats are understandably irked to see Trump, of all people, call them an angry mob. But that raises another troubling question: Why are some prominent Democrats making it so easy for their critics to pin that label on them?

Ever since the early days of the Trump presidency, Republicans have been trying to link Democratic politicians with fringe Antifa and anarchist elements who engage in violent tactics, no matter how far they have to stretch. The hopelessly nerdy Atlanta-area congressional candidate Jon Ossoff was thwarted in his 2017 special election campaign partly by ads claiming he was in league with rioters.

Some of same riot footage was used in a June 2018 video by the RNC to paint Democratic Party leaders as unhinged, juxtaposed with clips of Sen. Bernie Sanders touting how his policy ideas have gone from radical to mainstream, and of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wishing for uprisings (leaving unsaid that she was reacting to the Trump administration policy of separating child refugees from their parents at the border).

Of course, the RNCs effort to define the Democrats as mob instigators was greatly aided by Rep. Maxine Waters exhortation in June (at a rally opposing the child separation policy) to confront Trump Cabinet members in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station.  You get out and you create a crowd. You push back on them. Tell them theyre not welcome anymore, anywhere! Some people have taken her up on the suggestionmost recently, a handful of Antifa and Democratic socialist activists who chased Sen. Ted Cruz out of a restaurant.

Disrupting the lives of people in power is a tactic out of the playbook of legendary leftist organizer Saul Alinsky. In his book Rules for Radicals, he counseled activists to go outside of the experience of the enemy to cause confusion, fear, and retreat. Once, to pressure Chicago officials to follow through on commitments made to a low-income neighborhood, Alinsky threatened to occupy all the bathroom stalls in OHare Airport. Before he could follow through, the city contacted local activists and reassured them all commitments would be met.

But Waters and others seeking to follow in Alinskys footsteps are not absorbing all his lessons. One of Alinskys rules is that the threat is often more effective than the tactic itself. Alinskys bathroom ploy was a means to an end, not disruption for disruptions sake.

Moreover, the point of disruption is to cause confusion, fear and retreat so your opponents will feel pressure to make concessions. But when Cruz is chased out of a restaurant, Republicans are not disoriented -- they giddily use the footage in their own ads to paint the left as unhinged. If theres one thing the Machiavellian Alinsky would never do, its cling to a tactic that isnt working.

Democratic leaders cant control what fringe elements do, and they cant regulate how Republican ad makers splice footage.  But they can avoid giving Republican quotes ready-made for splicing, such as when former Attorney General Eric Holder says, When they go low, we kick them, and when Hillary Clinton asserts, You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. Those comments made it into a new RNC video, calling the Democratic left, yes, an unhinged mob.

Neither Holder nor Clinton was actually calling for violence.  In fact, Holder followed up his comment with, When I say we kick them, I dont mean we do anything inappropriate, we dont do anything illegal. Clinton similarly caveated that we don't want to model bad behavior or cross the line into lying.

But if they felt the need to add those caveats, what exactly were they trying to convey in the first place? Holder said he only meant that we have to be tough and we have to fight ... for the ideals of the Democratic Party. Clinton was a bit more specific, urging Democrats to drive a message about what's really at stake with the presidency of someone who admires dictators, who clearly [has] authoritarian tendencies. Both proposals could have been made without also saying Democrats should be uncivil and kick Republicans, giving Republicans easy fodder with which to whip up their own base.

Republicans are not squeamish about quoting Democrats out of context. For example, the Unhinged Mob RNC video quotes Sen. Cory Booker telling an audience to get up in the face of some congresspeople. But he wasnt echoing Rep. Waters and egging people on to confront Republicans in restaurants and vent rage. The video cuts out Bookers directive to go to the Hill and tell congresspeople about common sense solutions to reduce homelessness.

Neither Holder nor Clinton was proposing anything all that novel. Its not hard to find Democrats who offer blistering criticisms of Trump, as well as of the Republican Partys conservative agenda. The only ones going easy on Trump are the candidates running for Congress in districts Trump carried, and few Democrats are grousing about it. I didnt hear any complaining when Alabamas Doug Jones and western Pennsylvanias Conor Lamb poached Republican seats in special elections without laying into Trump. Considering that most data suggest Democrats are on the verge of claiming the House, Im not hearing much second-guessing about how Democrats are running in red districts today.

Regardless, Holder may have been compelled to strike an uncivil note because he is eyeing a 2020 presidential run. Michael Avenatti has made hay among pugnacious elements in the Democratic rank-and-file by repeatedly declaring that when they go low, we hit harder. Holder had reason to appropriate Avenattis line. Hes viewed skeptically by some on the left for not prosecuting Wall Street bankers back when he was running the Justice Department. Attracting Republican ire may help Holder bolster his standing with progressives.

But if Democrats are going to say something provocative, it should have real, practical value. Loose talk about kicking and incivility doesnt serve any purpose except rile up Republicans a few weeks before Election Day. Thats not fighting hard. Thats fighting dumb.

A Democratic Kick in Their Own Shins


A researcher at the University of Californias Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology has found evidence that taller people are more prone to getting cancer due to their larger number of cells. In his paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Leonard Nunney describes his study, involving comparing height with cancer risk and factoring in the total number of cells in the body.

Prior research has suggested that taller people might be more prone to getting cancera finding that has also been seen in other animals such as dogs. In this new effort, Nunney and assistants at UoC gathered statistics on known cancer risks while factoring in height. They used data from studies that gathered such information in Norway, Korea, Austria and Sweden. He and his team then built models to factor in the total number of cells in a persons body.

Nunney reports that he found a 13 percent increase in cancer risk for women for each 10 cm of increased height. For men, the number was 11 percent. He reports further that 23 types of cancers were included in the study and that increased height was a risk factor in 18 of them. One type of cancer that did not show any risk associated with height was cervical cancer, which, Nunney notes, has been associated with HPV infections. Skin cancer, on the other hand, showed the highest risk increase. Nunney suggests this could be due to an increase in growth hormones that can cause an increase in cell division rates, leading to the kinds of larger mutations seen in skin cancers.

Taller People More Likely to Get Certain Cancers Simply Because of Having More Cells Study


Comey proved once again he has no self-awareness.

On Monday, President Trump unleashed on AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions and dragged Comey in the process.

TRUMP: Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......

TRUMP: ....The Democrats, none of whom voted for Jeff Sessions, must love him now. Same thing with Lyin James Comey. The Dems all hated him, wanted him out, thought he was disgusting  UNTIL I FIRED HIM! Immediately he became a wonderful man, a saint like figure in fact. Really sick!

Comey has no self awarenessin his tweet, hes actually describing himself, McCabe, Brennan, Strzok, Clapper and other Deep State criminals who were once in charge.

Comey: To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable. C. D. Larson

Crooked Comey Responds to President Trumps Attack in Cryptic Tweet


Far left George Soros related Think Progress reported over the weekend about former President Obamas event in Anaheim, California

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA  Former President Obama made his first campaign stop of the midterm elections in Orange County, California Saturday to stump for seven Democratic House candidates running in districts currently held by Republicans but that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.

About 750 people attended the event at Anaheim Convention Center, where Obama delivered a short speech centered on unity and the politics of hope. And, after a story about getting kicked out of Disneyland when he was caught smoking in the Magic Kingdom after a concert as a teenager, Obama issued an impassioned critique of Trump and the state of American democracy and encouraged the crowd to back the candidates he came to support.

The Thrill Is Gone Only 750 Turn Out to See Former President Obama in Far-Left California


How Gillum Can Repeat His Staggering Primary Win in November

On Tuesday night, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum won Floridas Democratic gubernatorial primary in an upset, startling the political establishment and earning immediate comparisons to upstart congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.


Sixty-eight percent of people in a recent survey from the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard and the Harris Poll believe Trump needs to do and say more on violence against women. Forty-eight percent of GOP voters believe Trump needs to do more on this issue.

Sixty percent of people surveyed said they would support tougher legislation to combat violence against women in the U.S.

The CAPS-Harris Poll asked respondents about various hot-button issues, including sexual violence and the Me Too movement, gun control, Americans relationship with Russia, and Trumps social media habits. The poll, published on Feb. 22, surveyed 2,148 registered voters from around the country.

The president has come in for sharp criticism over how his administration handled the recent allegations of domestic violence against former White House staff secretary Rob Porter. Trump, along with other members of his administration, continued to defend Porter even after he resigned from his position earlier this month following reports that he physically, verbally and emotionally abused both of his ex-wives.

Meanwhile, 13 months into his presidency, Trump still has not nominated a director for the Office on Violence Against Women, an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice.

The CAPS-Harris poll also found that a majority of voters have a favorable impression of the Me Too movement, with 55 percent approving of the movement and 45 percent not approving. Fifty-seven percent of female respondents said they have a favorable impression of the movement.

The Me Too movement took the internet and world by storm last fall when actress Alyssa Milano asked her Twitter followers to share stories of sexual harassment and assault using the hashtag #MeToo. The movement was originally created by the youth organizer Tarana Burke in 2007. Over the past six months, dozens of powerful men, including Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Matt Lauer, have been called to account for allegations of sexual harassment and assault.

Trump himself has been accused of sexual misconduct  ranging from sexual harassment to assault and rape  by 21 women. Hes denied all allegations against him, tweeting in December that the accusations are fake news. In October, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested that all of Trumps accusers are lying.

In a December poll, half of American voters said they believed Trump should resign over the multiple sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Majority Of Voters Want Trump To Do More To Combat Violence Against Women


The Trump administration is working on a second summit between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Theres still a little bit of work to do left to make sure that the conditions are right and that the two leaders are put in the position where we could make substantial progress, Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News. Im hoping Ill be back in Pyongyang before too long to make some more progress. And if thats the case, Im very hopeful that Chairman Kim and President Trump will get a chance to meet in the near future as well.

Last month, Secretary Pompeo canceled what would have been his fourth trip to Pyongyang, citing insufficient progress by North Korea in dismantling its nuclear weapons program. This week, the State Department revealed Kim had agreed to the denuclearization of North Korea, to be completed by January 2021.

Trump-Kim Jong Un Meeting in Works Pompeo


Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes is now publicly recommending to count ballots that have already been independently verified as illegal votes.

Why hasnt Brenda Snipes been removed from her position by the feds??

Martin Vassolo of the Miami Herald reported that Brenda Snipes is publicly recommending to the canvassing board to accept a mixed batch of provisional ballots which includes at least 20 illegal votes.

Via Martin Vassolo of the Miami Herald:

Brenda Snipes says she recommends the canvassing board ACCEPT the mixed batch of 205 provisional ballots, including at least 20 illegal votes. Attorney for Bill Nelson says he has invited one voter whose ballot was deemed illegal because signature mismatch. Canvassing board discussing It seems unfair to be to disenfranchise 205 voters at the expense of a small number, Snipes says. And if thats being unfair to anyone, I dont think its a large enormous gg number to effect the difference between who comes out of the recount as victor. Broward canvassing board instructs staff to transmit current results (99.997%) to the State. It is our understanding that the batch of 205 provisionals will be included in those results. Republican attorneys assumed to challenge that.

Carlos Lopez-Cantera, Lieutenant Governor of Florida ripped Brenda Snipes for her latest illegal stunt.

CARLOS LOPEZ-CANTERA: Let this sink in. Brenda Snipes is now publicly recommending to count what have been independently verified as ILLEGAL VOTES! This is madness.

Brenda Snipes must be removed as Broward County elections supervisor and prosecuted.

Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes Publicly Recommending to Count ILLEGAL VOTES


(Natural News) Turns out, you can live without food  to some extent. This was the case presented by researchers in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, where they stated that intermittent fasting (they called it SER, short for intermittent severe energy reduction) could be a useful way to reduce energy intake; thereby, controlling an individuals body weight. The team came to this discovery after studying the effects of a 24-hour SER in a persons appetite, metabolism, and energy intake.

The concept of SER  or intermittent fasting, for that matter  isnt a new or novel idea: People have done it for health, spiritual, or even cosmetic reasons since the beginning of time, and historical figures from Hippocrates to Benjamin Franklin were proponents of it.

However, a lot has changed in modern times: For instance, how processed food, added sugars, and trans fats are now ubiquitous  leading to an uptick in obesity cases around the world.

This rise carries disastrous consequences. Obesity not only raises the likelihood of developing chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), it also represents a significant economic burden. Thus, researchers are now looking for ways to mitigate the ever-increasing rates of obesity.

For this study, researchers from the School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Science at Loughborough University in the U.K. looked at how weight-loss strategies can be successfully used for the long term. For the most part, traditional calorie-restricting diets have some degree of success. However, sticking to it is a different story: Most people claim persistent hunger as one of their challenges in adhering to weight-loss plans. Studying the effects of a 24-hour SER, according to researchers, can shed light on how the body regulates appetite and energy intake, which can help with long-term weight management regimens.

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Eighteen men and women participated in the study. On the first day, they were randomly assigned to either have a standardized diet, which had 100 percent of the daily energy requirement, or an energy-restricted diet, with only 25 percent of the required intake. The second day had participants eat a standardized breakfast and an ad libitum lunch, with researchers studying their appetite regulation and resting metabolism all throughout. Finally, their ad libitum energy intake was measured on the third day at breakfast and by weighed food records.

Based on the results, the participants displayed increased subjective appetite and energy intake during SER; however, appetite hormones did not respond in a manner indicating extreme hunger. Therefore, an acute period of SER may assist with energy-balance management in lean men and women, the researchers concluded. Future studies should aim to examine the chronic effects of intermittent SER on appetite regulation.

Despite popular belief, intermittent fasting isnt a diet, since there isnt a list of food items that you can or cannot eat. Rather, its an eating pattern where a person cycles between periods of eating and fasting.

The most common forms of intermittent fasting usually involve a 16- or a 24-hour fast twice a week. Some popular methods include:

While everyone may be eager to jump on the bandwagon and try out intermittent fasting, it may not be for everyone. People who are underweight or have previous eating disorders are discouraged from doing so. In particular, if you have a medical condition such as diabetes or those who take medications are advised to consult with their healthcare provider before going on a fast.

Intermittent fasting leads to improved energy levels


Professor Karim Brohi,a trauma surgeon at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, is also director of the capitals major trauma network, set up in 2010 in response to the July 7 terror attacks in 2005. It has led to a 20 per cent reduction in the capitals mortality rate from major trauma.Last year the network - which established four key hospitals as major trauma centres - was vital in saving many victims of the Westminster, London Bridge and Finsbury Park terror attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire.

Expert obstetrician who delivered the first set of quadruplets at St Georges in 13 years, and creator of app that allows pregnant women with hypertension to avoid hospital stays.

The emergency medicine consultant and the A&E sister at Guys and St Thomas hospitals gave up their Christmas to join a Department for International Development and UK Med expedition to help Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh.

Paediatrician who goes beyond the call of duty in helping gang victims and abandoned children who arrive in hospital with nothing but the clothes they are wearing.

Surgeon who saves the lives of knife and gun crime victims - then visits schools urging teenagers to put down their weapons.

Pioneering robotic surgeon investigating new techniques to spare men with prostate cancer the potentially debilitating effects of surgery.

Performs hugely complex life-saving surgery on the tiniest of babies, and spends his holidays taking NHS teams to Nepal to operate on the worlds poorest with no access to Western medicines.

Research into the causes of diabetes found that thousands of patients may have been misdiagnosed because of misconceptions about the role of ethnicity.

Leading light in the St Georges 24/7 thrombectomy team that is saving patients from the potentially devastating impacts of stroke.

Paediatrician charged with championing new ideas and sharing best practice across the London NHS.

Skilled clinician who has found his forte on social media - uses Twitter to entertain and inform his audience about the complex (and often unsung) worlds of anaesthesia and trauma.

Case managed her mother Tessa Jowells battle with brain cancer while campaigning for - and securing - a step change in public awareness and Government funding for an hitherto underfunded disease.

Succeeding in turning round the oil tanker in getting Londons biggest NHS hospital trust back on an even keel after years of financial meltdown and (at times) poor clinical care.

Pioneering research will revolutionise the standard of care for prostate cancer, with use of MRI scans allowing many men to avoid painful biopsies.

Devised Londons Air Ambulance/London Ambulance Service/Barts Health project that puts physicians on the front line, treating patients at home or work and preventing hundreds of admissions to A&E.

Consultant midwife at Barts Health who trains and mentors midwives in Uganda.

The former refugee from Iran and Goldman Sachs executive is CEO and founder of the app that provides virtual consultation with doctors and health professionals via video

The Junior doctor and melanoma patient raised a fortune for cancer research - and whose posthumous diary was both a moving memoir and a unique insight for medics treating cancer patients.

The Progress 1000 Londons most influential people 2018 - Social pillars Health


When Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France in May 2017, he was portrayed as a reformer who was going to change everything in France and beyond.

Fourteen months later, illusions are gone. The reforms carried out have been essentially cosmetic and failed to slow Frances sclerotic decline. Economic growth is close to zero: 0.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2018. Unemployment, at around 8.9%, remains high. French public spending as a percent of GDP is, at 56.4%, still the highest in Europe. The country is still frequently paralyzed by public transportation strikes. No-go zones continue to spread, and Macron himself recently admitted his helplessness by asking for a general mobilization of the population. Riots are frequent; large-scale public events lead to looting and arson. The night after the French teams victory at the soccer World Cup, hundreds of thugs mingling with the crowds broke windows, vandalized banks and ATMs, destroyed street signs and torched cars.

As most economic activity in France stops in July and August, Macron might have thought he could enjoy a summer break. He could not.

On July 19, the daily Le Monde published a video from May 1 showing a man in a police helmet brutally assaulting two people in the center of Paris. A description accompanying the video explained that the violent man was Alexandre Benalla, in charge of the head of states security.

Benalla was, in fact, Macrons personal bodyguard. He protected Macron at all times, including during private trips to a ski resort or on the beach. Documents were made public showing that Benalla claimed to be deputy chief of staff of the President; however, on any official list of staff members, his name never appeared. Benalla also obtained secret security clearance without apparent justification, and although he did not pass the exam to become a gendarme, he magically received the title of lieutenant-colonel of the Gendarmerie  the same title as Arnaud Beltrame, a hero with more than two decades of exemplary service, crowned by exchanging himself for a woman held hostage by an Islamic terrorist who then slit Beltrames throat.

Benalla enjoyed all sorts of perks, from a chauffeur-driven car to a 2,000-square-foot apartment in a sumptuous state-owned building. He also was not prosecuted for a recent hit-and-run.

Macrons political opponents, left and right, asked for a parliamentary commission of inquiry. The Minister of the Interior said he was aware of the May 1 assault but added that he only learned Benallas name by reading it in the newspapers. The Paris police chief spoke of unhealthy friendships but refused to give any details. The secretary-general of the main police officers union (SGP Police FO) spoke upabout the presence in the presidents entourage of shady security guards acting beyond any legal control and clashing with members of the official protection services.

Macron remained silent for six days. Then, at a private meeting with parliamentarians and ministers from his party, he said that he takes responsibility for the Benalla affair. At the same time, he blasted the media, saying We have a press that is no longer pursuing the truth... What I see is media power that wants to become judicial power.

It seemed he was hoping to intimidate critics and impose silence. He did not succeed.

The anger of his opponents only intensified. They called Macrons reaction to the scandal insulting and inappropriate. They insisted that many details looked strange, and that a thorough investigation was indispensable. A rival politician spoke of the scandal as rising to the level of Watergate.

But the Justice Department in France is not independent of the government; no judge will seek to know more. No thorough and deep investigation will take place. The French media are largely subsidized by the government and no more independent of it than the Justice Department is. Even the media that are not funded by the state self-censor what they report, because they are supported by businesses that depend on government contracts. No French journalist will try to discover a thing.

As the French Constitution does not provide for impeachment, French Presidents enjoy almost complete immunity.

Macron knows that his predecessors were able to stay in power despite their many scandals. Charles de Gaulle created a highly questionable militia that existed for thirty years: the SAC (Civic Action Service). Francois Mitterrand dissolved the SAC after several of its members were involved in a bloody killing near Marseilles. Mitterand then created a counter-intelligence unit  based at the Elysee [Presidential] Palace  in charge of intimidating those who might reveal the existence of his hidden second family. In 2005, nine years after Mitterrands death, members of the unit were tried in court for illegal wiretapping during Mitterrand presidency. Only in 2011, four years after his second term was completed, was Jacques Chirac given a lenient two-year suspended prison sentence for having diverted public funds and abused public trust during his presidency.

The columnist Ivan Rifoul, in a recent book, described Macrons victory as a masquerade organized by socialists in decline, EU apparatchiks, supporters of the Islamization of Europe, and crony capitalists.

Macron will remain president. He will nevertheless be a diminished president. Macron pretended to embody an exemplary Republic; he will not be able to do that anymore.

While Macron had previously been able to marginalize his political opponents, those days seem to be over. His opponents have already been criticizing the absence of results of his economic policy  slight income tax cuts but many new regulations, and small changes in a very rigid labor code  as well as his weak response to the rise of burglaries, car- jackings, rapes and social unrest.

Now all Macrons decisions will be treated with suspicion and scrutinized without mercy. He has already postponed a reform of the constitution that was supposed to strengthen presidential power (namely, his own). Other projects he began  such as mass civil-servant layoffs and early-retirement buyouts and unemployment insurance reform  will likely be abandoned. His approval rates are falling.

The deterioration of France rolls on.

A violent fight recently broke out between the residents of Calais and illegal migrants living in a vast slum encampment  home to approximately 6,000 migrants  that reporters call the Calais Jungle. The government has promised many times to take care of the situation, but has not solved the problem. Meanwhile, Calais, with 75,000 inhabitants, is a ravaged city: home prices have collapsed, shops and restaurants have closed their doors, and people are moving away.

In May, some members of parliament published a report on the situation in the Paris suburb of Seine Saint Denis. According to the report, 20% of the areas population consists of people similar to those living in the Calais Jungle; hundreds of businesses are on the verge of bankruptcy and the police are too frightened to do effective work.

The same situation exists in other parts of the country. Riots recently erupted between Muslim gangs in Nice, on the French Riviera, as well as near Porte de La Chapelle, inside Paris.

The demographic changes in Frances population that began several decades ago are not easing. A few months ago, the economist Charles Gave used statistical data to demonstrate that if nothing changes, the non-Muslim population of France could be a minority in 40 years. He added: What happened to Spain or Asia Minor in the 10th and 11th centuries will happen to Europe in the 21st century, that is a certainty.

Polls show that if a presidential election were held now, no other French politiciancould replace Macron, even though Macron won only 23.8% of votes in the first round of the 2017 election. The majority of those who voted for him in the second round seemed to be voting more against his opponent than for Macron. He neverhad popular support.

As for the rest of the continent, Macron is one of the main defenders of a multicultural, post-national, post-democratic and post-Christian Europe. A growing number of Europeans see that trend as leading to the destruction of their own civilization and have been voting for leaders who resist it.

Politicians who support the same vision of Europe as Macron have, in recent months, been eliminated from the political scene or reduced to faltering positions. Italys Matteo Renzi was badly defeated in the 2018 elections. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, once described as the most powerful leader in Europe, now survives in office only because she agreed to measures aimed at limiting further immigration to Germany.

Macron may not fall as abruptly as Renzi, but his position at the moment looks as precarious as Merkels.

Leaders embodying resistance to post-national multiculturalism, on the other hand, have been gaining ground. Hungarian President Viktor Orban wonreelection in April and is currently serving his third consecutive term. He had campaigned for defending Europes Judeo-Christian roots, for national sovereignty, and against Muslim immigration. Austrias new Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, has a program similar to Orbans. The Polish and Czech governments also hold positions similar to those of Kurz and Orban. Matteo Salvini, leader of The League (an anti-mass-migration party), is now Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister of Italy.

Macron recently revealed what he thinks of populists such as Orban, Kurz and Salvini: a leprosy all across Europe, and called on Europeans to fight them.

Failed Policies Scandals Migrant Violence Sink Macron


To compensate for his current lack of career, Kaepernick has been more and more involved in radical alt-left groups, the most recent of which is a group known as Assatas Daughters, named after Black Liberation Army member and cop-killer Assata Shakur.

This Sunday, Kaepernick announced that he raised $20k in cash for the radical group through pledges with always-stoned comedian Hannibal Buress and actress Yara Shahidi, who would both be donating $10k to the group.

The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback announced that comedian Hannibal Buress and actress Yara Shahidi would both donate $10,000 to Assatas Daughters, which says it carries on the tradition of radical liberatory activism encompassed by Assata Shakur.

The pledges were linked to a previous donation made by Mr. Kaepernick, who announced in April he would give $25,000 to the Chicago-based group as part of his campaign to give $1 million to organizations working in oppressed communities.

Ms. Shahidi, star of the ABC-TV comedy Black-ish and the spin-off Grown-ish, thanked Mr. Kaepernick for giving her the idea.

I decided to donate to Assatas Daughters, which is an amazing organization based out of Chicago, said Ms. Shahidi in a video posted on Mr. Kaepernicks Twitter feed. And I just have to say thank you to Colin for such an amazing idea, but also in engaging all of us and helping to contribute to our world. [...]

A direct action advocacy group, Assatas Daughters drew its name from Assata Shakur, formerly Joanne Chesimard, a Black Liberation Army member convicted in the 1977 shooting death of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster.

After escaping from prison in 1979, she fled to Cuba and was granted asylum. The FBI has placed her on its most wanted terrorists list.

Trooper Foerster was killed in a shootout with three BLA activists on the New Jersey Turnpike that resulted in the death of BLA activist Zayd Shakur and bullet wounds to Assata Shakur and state trooper James Harper.

A third activist, Sundiata Acoli, was found guilty of firing the shots that killed the officer, while Assata Shakur was convicted as an accomplice. Both were found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Shakur, who has argued that the jury was racist and that her trial was unfair, has since become a popular figure on the left and at universities, where her autobiography has been assigned on course reading lists.

The Officer Down Memorial Page described the Black Liberation Army as a violent, radical group that attempted to fight for independence from the United States government in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The BLA was responsible for the murders of more than 10 police officers around the country, said the ODMP website. They were also responsible for violent attacks around the country that left many police officers wounded.

Former QB Colin Kaepernick Raises 20K For Group Named After Convicted Cop Killer


President Barack Obama saved the world from certain economic disaster when he took office. The mega banks gambled and lost big. If Obama had not taken office, we would have gone through a crushing Great Depression with 25 percent unemployment. He left the healthiest U.S. economy in decades, but then Donald Trump came to office.

The current POTUS recently claimed that the U.S. had the lowest unemployment rates in years, which is true. He has ridden the Obama wave of good fortune.

Generally speaking, that means employers should start to raise salaries to entice employees to come work for them. Unfortunately, that is not happening. Plus, there is one big downside to that low unemployment.

The rate of inflation has just shot up faster than it has in the past six years, according to the Department of Labors most recent report. High inflation can be caused by supply and demand.

The fewer goods available, the more suppliers can charge for their product. That should hold true for the supply and demand of human beings. The fewer the people, higher their wages should be, but there has been no evidence of that. under Donald Trump.

In fact, over the past year average wages did not increase at all. Real average hourly earnings fell 0.1 percent. Of course, there are exceptions. Ivanka Trump and her husband Justin Kushner earned $82 million last year.

What is inflation, anyway?

If a person needed $1.000 to buy something when Franklin Roosevelt became president in 1933, it cost $7,129 when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, according to the Department of Labor.

It cost  $11,444 when Bill Clinton took office in 1993, $14,100 when George W. Bush took office in 2001, and $16,972 when Barack Obama took office in 2009.

That same item cost $19,272 when Donald Trump took office in 2017, and $19,967 today.

The way to reduce inflation is to slow down the economy by spending less. In other words, reduce the supply of money people have to spend.

Another way to slow down inflation is to increase interest rates on home loans, cars, and credit cards.  That is not a pleasant alternative. At this time, the Federal Reserve is not planning to raise the interest rate.

Republicans have implemented the trickle down economics in their so-called tax cut bill. Unfortunately, the highest earners g0t the money, and it did not trickle down.

The consumer price index rose from 0.2 percent between April 2017 and today. It only rose 2.8 percent all of last year. That is the highest inflation rate since February 2102.

Gas prices spiked 1.7 percent in May. In April, those prices went up a full 3 percent.

Trump Economy Fails Report Shows Inflation Has Skyrocketed Hourly Wages Stagnated