On Tuesday, the president took a trip to southern California, where he surveyed eight different prototypes for a border wall meant to go up in between the U.S. and Mexico. He has long pushed for such a structure, but hardly without opposition, and hes failed to secure the funding hes requested for it.

Although Republicans have a simple majority in both houses of Congress, there are enough Democrats in the Senate to ensure that the GOP cant push through plans to fund the wall without running into a roadblock.

At one point during the budget showdown earlier this year that culminated in the government shutting down not just once, but twice, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was reported to have offered to support funding for the wall if the president would go along with instituting protections for undocumented immigrants brought here as children. The president didnt bite, and Senators eventually managed to strike a deal to re-open the government, removing the urgency behind Schumers actions and giving him the opportunity to withdraw his offer.

That doesnt mean, however, that the president has proven to be deterred in his efforts to see a wall go up.

After his visit to the wall prototypes in California this Tuesday, he took to Twitter with a statement about the issue, writing:

Along with the statement was a short video montage chronicling the presidents visit.

Check it out below.

While in California, the president railed against the jurisdictions that have become known as sanctuary cities, where local authorities bar local police officers from turning into federal immigration law enforcement personnel. Jurisdictions fitting that description pepper California; one  Oakland  was involved in a high profile recent incident involving federal immigration law enforcement.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf got word of an impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in her city and chose to warn her constituents. In the aftermath of that warning and the subsequent operation, federal officials including U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed that Schaafs warning had allowed as many as 800 criminal undocumented immigrants to escape authorities.

That number was disputed by the now former regional spokesperson for ICE covering the area, James Schwab, who resigned in the face of the misleading facts that he says are being pushed.

Even though its outrage is questionable considering Schwabs testimony, the Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against the state of California over its refusal to turn its police officers into extensions of ICE. As Reuters describes it:

Considering the Trump administrations past lack of success when it comes to issues related to the border wall, its hardly a given that theyre going to come out on top here. The president claimed Mexico was going to pay for the wall, and we all know how that turned out.

President Trump Lands In California Immediately Starts Acting Like A Giant Ass VIDEO


Obamas event in Las Vegas was held at the UNLV womens basketball pavilion which holds up to around 2,500

The crowd was so small he had to partition it off to make the event look larger than it was

Is the Blue-Wave only a puddle?

It looked like only 1,000 to 1,500 at max for the event

The event wasnt even full with special guests J Balvin, Salt-N-Pepa and a couple DJs

Obama Cant Even Fill Small Las Vegas Pavilion Partition Added to Make Crowd Size Look Larger Ho


A Spanish-made film advertisement aired in June 2018 is now serving as a jolting wake-up call, offering a frightening peek into humanitys future if it continues its irresponsible practices concerning the indiscriminate use of plastics.

In a description from the website Adsoftheworld.com, the advertisement, entitled Plastic Fish, was created by Barcelona-based advertising company, Piece of Cake for the NGO, Espacio CREA, to Explain the extreme situation of our oceans because of pollution caused by plastics.

The 46-second long video begins with a showcase of what seem to be mouth-watering gourmet dishes being prepared and served. The viewer immediately realizes that the feast contains plastic rubbish in place of what is expected to be the fresh ingredients. The clip then transitions to a single piece of plastic floating underneath the ocean surface with a warning that, By 2050, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish,and an appeal to the viewer that for a sustainable world, we all have much to do.

Data from a World Economic Forum report in June 2018 show that the worlds oceans are infested with plastic, with 8 million tons of it dumped into our waters every year. Numbers also show that 90% of the plastic polluting our oceans come from only 10 rivers systems: Eight from Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa  the Nile and the Niger.

At the recently concluded G7 summit of world economic leaders held in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada,Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the European Union endorsed a G7 ocean plastics charter calling on member countries to reduce the use of plastics and, where alternatives are not available, find ways to include more recycled materials in the plastics they do use.

The United States and Japan declined to sign the agreement.

Chilling Spanish-Made TV AD Warns of Our Oceans Future


Earlier this week, the New York Times published a 14,000-word investigation that detailed the Trump familys financial history. They uncovered calculated schemes to avoid paying taxes, which in all certainty amounts to criminal fraud.

As you might expect, this report by the Times put Trump in a total rage and hes been even more defensive than usual since Tuesday as you have probably noticed on his Twitter page.

But regardless of his defense, he cant deny what the was printed in the New York Times  the man has no proof of his innocence because hes refused to come forward with his tax returns, and after this bombshell, you can be sure he never will unless its subpoenaed by the court.

Interestingly enough, that might happen sooner than we think, as just today  in an effort to thwart Trumps motion to dismiss the lawsuits against his family and their foundation  the New York Attorney Generals office filed new documents alleging that the family used their foundation during Trumps campaign.

According to the filings:

For more than a decade, the Foundation operated in persistent violation of state and federal law governing charities. The Board abdicated its fiduciary duties entirely, leaving the Foundation to operate without any oversight, and permitted Mr. Trump to use the Foundations assets to satisfy his and his for-profit companies legal obligations, to promote Trump hotels, to purchase personal items, and, in 2016  at the direction of Mr. Trump and his presidential campaign- to promote Mr. Trumps candidacy for political office.

The Trumps knew exactly what they were doing was wrong, but they did it regardless.

Mr. Trump was aware of the limitations on political activity by not-for-profits: he signed documents under the penalty of perjury attesting that Foundation assets would not be used for the benefit of any Foundation officer or director or for political purposes, and he even campaigned for the repeal of one prohibition on using charitable assets to intervene in a political campaign.

Its interesting to note that Trump and his cronies have in the past suggested that a sitting president cannot be indicted because of the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution, but the NY Attorney Generals office claims that there is no precedent for such a claim.

Heres to hoping that the New York AGs office will test that claim, and do so very soon!

New York AGs Office Just Doubled Down On TrumpTax Fraud Lawsuit


The President said Brenda Snipes is a disgrace and called for her to be fired Wednesday in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller:

TheDC asked the president specifically if he considers this behavior illegal and what Snipes future in her role as an election official should be.

He pointed to Snipes past alleged election illegality, which included destroying ballots and opening ballots illegally.

You look at her past, shes a disaster, Trump said, Even with me. I won Florida and, you remember? That area, Broward, didnt come in, Trump said of Broward County, Fla. and Snipes. You can only put in so many votes, although she may change that system.

When asked about how to prevent a repeat situation in the 2020 presidential election, Trump bluntly said Snipes needed to go, along with her cronies.

First thing you do is fire her and her cronies. You get em out, Trump said, recalling his own election night in 2016. Remember how long it took to get Florida? But I had, fortunately, enough votes, and they were sitting there waiting. They said, Broward County is not reporting. This went on for hours.

Trump continued, The panhandle was so devastating to Crooked Hillary  that thing came in, then all of a sudden Broward came in. And I won by, you know, I won by a lot of votes. I call it four Yankee stadiums.

President Trump Calls For Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes to be Fired


SEOUL, South Korea (AP)  North Korea said Friday that its still willing to sit for talks with the United States at any time, (in) any format, a remarkably restrained and diplomatic response, from a nation noted for its proud belligerence, to U.S. President Donald Trumps abrupt cancellation of a summit with the Norths autocratic leader, Kim Jong Un.

The statement by Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, a longtime nuclear negotiator and senior diplomat, which said the North is willing to give the U.S. time and opportunities to reconsider talks that had been set for June 12 in Singapore, could be driven by a need to use the summit to ease crushing international sanctions, or by a determination that a summit with the mercurial Trump is the best opportunity the North will ever have to elevate itself, and its nuclear program, to equality with its archrival. One analyst marveled that the North Korean response was close to an apology letter.

Regardless of the motivation, Kim Kye Gwans statement is the latest whiplash development in efforts to diplomatically address what might be the worlds most dangerous standoff. Focus will now swing back to how Trump will respond to the Norths seemingly conciliatory gesture.

The stakes are high. A scrapping of diplomacy could see a return to the torrent of weapons tests  and the fears of war they created  that North Korea unleashed last year as it sought to put the finishing touches on a nuclear-armed missile program meant to target the entire U.S. mainland. Since January, Kim has taken a radically softer approach to foreign affairs, sending his sister to the Olympics in South Korea, meeting with his South Korean counterpart on their shared border and exploding parts of his nuclear testing site Thursday in an apparent sign of good faith. The Singapore summit would have been the culmination of this outreach.

Earlier comments by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, seen as a driving force behind the summit and just returned to Seoul from a meeting with Trump in Washington, suggested that the South, a top U.S. ally and host to 28,500 U.S. troops, was blindsided by Trumps statement. Moon said he was perplexed at Trumps announcement that he was canceling the summit because of what the U.S. president said was North Koreas tremendous anger and open hostility. Moon urged direct talks between Trump and Kim to get things back on track.

Many observers had expected a belligerent North Korean response to Trumps cancellation, but the comments by Kim, the Norths vice foreign minister, seemed, at times, almost meek, and in stark contrast to the bellicose declarations last year of the Norths willingness to pursue nuclear war.

Kim said Pyongyangs objective and resolve to do our best for the sake of peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and all humankind remain unchanged. Kim said the cancellation of the talks shows how grave the status of historically deep-rooted hostile North Korea-U.S. relations is and how urgently a summit should be realized to improve ties.

As far as the historic (North Korea)-U.S. summit is concerned, we have inwardly highly appreciated President Trump for having made the bold decision, which any other U.S. presidents dared not, and made efforts for such a crucial event as the summit, Kim said. His sudden and unilateral announcement to cancel the summit is something unexpected to us and we cannot but feel great regret for it.

Kim speculated that Trump may have lacked the will for the summit or he might not have felt confident, but that the North has exerted sincere efforts for talks that would mark a meaningful starting point for peace and security in the region and the world.

Kim Dong-yub, a North Korea expert at Seouls Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said the North Korean response was notably courteous, reserved and diplomatically refined, which he said shows that Pyongyang is eager to talk with Washington and believes that the United States needs more time to prepare for the summit.

Trumps cancellation of the summit came amid mounting skepticism about the Norths sincerity after the countrys earlier threats to scrap the Kim-Trump summit. That may have been aimed at bolstering its negotiating position, rather than killing the meeting.

They wanted to face the United States in a more confident position. Obama or (Bill) Clinton could have accepted (these kinds of North Korean statements). But its Trump. Hes decided not to enter talks while being pushed (by North Korea) like this, said Choi Kang, vice president of Seouls Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

Koh Yu-hwan, a professor at Seouls Dongguk University, said Kims statement was close to an apology letter.

The North might have also sensed an opening in Trumps seemingly mixed messages.

I really believe Kim Jong Un wants to do whats right, the U.S. president said at one point. Trump also said from the White House that a maximum pressure campaign of economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation would continue against North Korea  with which the U.S. is technically still at war  but he added that it was possible the summit could still take place at some point.

In his statement to the North, Trump said: If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write.

It was unclear whether Trump was engaged in what he saw as a negotiating ploy or if his moves were a manifestation of mounting internal concerns over ensuring a successful outcome for the summit.

While the statement may keep the possibility of a summit alive, there were also hints in North Koreas response to Trump that Pyongyang was willing to walk away.

Kim said the United States is at fault for what Trump described as North Koreas hostility, saying that Pyongyang was responding to excessive U.S. comments pressuring the country to unilaterally discard its nuclear weapons ahead of the summit. Trumps move to cancel the summit has forced the North to rethink whether the efforts we have so far put in and the new path we have taken is the right choice.

North Korea Still Open To Talks With US At Any Time In Any Format


WASHINGTON  President Donald Trump escalated his messy clash with former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Tuesday, referring to the longtime colleague, who had been the top African-American in his White House, as that dog!

The pressure on Manigault Newman increased, as the Trump presidential campaign filed arbitration action against her, alleging a breach of a confidentiality agreement. A campaign official said the action was filed with the American Arbitration Association.

Trump tweeted a barrage of insults Tuesday morning as Manigault Newman continued promoting her White House tell-all and releasing secret audio recordings. Her book paints a damning picture of Trump, including her claim that he used racial slurs on the set of his reality show The Apprentice.

When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didnt work out, Trump said. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog! John Kelly is White House chief of staff.

While Trump trades in insults on a near daily basis, deeming Manigault Newman a dog was a stunning move in a row that touched on several sensitive issues in Trumps White House, including a lack of racial diversity among senior officials, security concerns  Manigault Newman taped her firing in the White House Situation Room  and extraordinary measures such as non-disclosure agreements to keep ex-employees quiet.

Trump has also pushed back against Manigault Newmans claim that she had heard an audiotape of him using the N-word. He tweeted that he had received a call from the producer of The Apprentice assuring him there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa.

Trump insisted, I dont have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. He said Manigault Newman had called him a true Champion of Civil Rights until she was fired.

Manigault Newman, the former White House liaison to black voters, writes in her new memoir that shed heard such tapes existed. She said Sunday that she had listened to one after the book closed.

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On CBS Tuesday, Manigault Newman released another audio recording that she said showed campaign workers discussing an alleged recording of Trump using the racial slur. The White House and the campaign did not immediately respond to questions.

One of the people allegedly featured on the tape is Katrina Pierson, an adviser to Trumps re-election campaign who served as a spokeswoman for his 2016 campaign. Pierson has said she never heard Trump use this type of language and said on Fox that the only person she heard talking about a tape was Manigault Newman.

Asked if the book can be backed up by email or recordings, Manigault Newman said on CBS that every quote in the book can be verified, corroborated and its well documented, suggesting she may have more information to release.

The dispute has been building for days as Manigault Newman promotes her memoir Unhinged, which comes out officially Tuesday.

In a series of interviews, Manigault Newman has also revealed two audio recordings from her time at the White House, including portions of a recording of her firing by Kelly, which she says occurred in the high-security Situation Room, and a phone call with Trump after she was fired.

Manigault Newman says she has more recordings. Asked on MSNBCs Hardball if special counsel Robert Mueller  investigating possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia  would be interested in any of them, she said, If his office calls again, anything they want, Ill share.

Trump officials and a number of outside critics denounced the recordings as a serious breach of ethics and security  and White House aides worried about what else Manigault Newman may have captured in the West Wing.

The tape recording appears to show Trump expressing surprise about her firing, saying nobody even told me about it. But Manigault Newman said he probably instructed General Kelly to do it.

On Twitter, Trump declared Monday that she had been fired for the last time, a reference to her appearances on his reality TV show. He said Kelly had called her a loser & nothing but problems, but he himself had tried to save her job  because he liked her public comments about him.

I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me  until she got fired! Trump tweeted.

Responding on NBC, Manigault Newman said, I think its sad that with all the things thats going on in the country that he would take time out to insult me and to insult my intelligence.

She added, This is his pattern with African-Americans.

First lady Melania Trump, meanwhile, is disappointed that Manigault Newman is lashing out and retaliating in such a self-serving way, especially after all the opportunities given to her by the President, said White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.

Manigault Newmans exit does highlight the lack of diversity among Trumps top aides. She was the highest-ranking African-American on the White House staff. She said on NBC that in her absence theyre making decisions about us without us.

Trumps battle with Omarosa underscores the racial tensions that have defined his presidency. He notably blamed both sides for violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, a year ago and has questioned the intelligence of other prominent black figures including California Rep. Maxine Waters, basketball star LeBron James and TV journalist Don Lemon. He also has targeted black NFL players for kneeling in social protest during the national anthem.

Manigault Newman also alleges that Trump allies tried to buy her silence after she left the White House, offering her $15,000 a month to accept a senior position on his 2020 re-election campaign along with a stringent nondisclosure agreement.

The offer raises fresh question about the ways that White House aides are being offered safe landing spots after they leave. For example, Trumps former personal aide John McEntee, who was removed from his job in April, went to the campaign.

It was not clear exactly what he was referring to. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday on ABC that there are confidentiality agreements in the West Wing. And Trumps campaign said that in the 2016 race she signed the exact same NDA that everyone else on the campaign signed, which is still enforceable.

Meanwhile, Trumps attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said on Fox and Friends Monday that Manigault Newman may have broken the law by recording private conversations inside the White House.

Shes certainly violating national security regulations, which I think have the force of law, Giuliani said.

But experts in national security and clearance law said that, while she seriously violated rules  and would likely be barred from ever being granted a security clearance  she probably didnt break any law unless the conversations she recorded were classified.

In the recording with Kelly, which Manigault Newman quotes extensively in her new book, Kelly can be heard saying that he wants to talk with her about leaving the White House.

Its come to my attention over the last few months that theres been some pretty, in my opinion, significant integrity issues related to you, Kelly is heard saying, before adding that if she makes it a friendly departure then she can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation.

Manigault Newman said she viewed the conversation as a threat and defended her decision to covertly record it and other White House conversations, saying otherwise no one would believe her.

Trump lashes out at Omarosa calls her that dog


David Davis has warned of the dire consequences for Conservatives at the next general election if the government continues with its Chequers plan.

In a letter to Conservative MPs, the former Brexit Secretary said that Theresa Mays plan would deliver none of the benefits of Brexit.

He added that the Chequers deal would make it very obvious" to voters at the next general election that the government had broken promises from the 2017 Conservative manifesto.

Mr Davis repeated his call for the Cabinet to ditch the Chequers plan, which envisages a free trade area for goods based on a "common rulebook", and go for a looser free trade agreement like the Ceta deal between the EU and Canada.

In his letter, obtained by The Sun, Mr Davis said that the EU was likely either to reject the Chequers proposals at next week's crunch summit in Brussels, or to demand "further significant concessions".

But he said a "Canada-plus-plus-plus" deal was "within our grasp with political will and imagination".

And he told fellow MPs: "If we stay on our current trajectory, we will go into the next election with the Government having delivered none of the benefits of Brexit, with the country reduced to being a rule-taker from Brussels, and having failed to deliver on a number of promises in the manifesto and in the Lancaster House speech.

"This will not be a technicality, it will be very obvious to the electorate.

"The electoral consequences could be dire.

"So it is in both the party's interest, and crucially the national interest, that we reset our negotiating strategy immediately and deliver a Brexit that meets the demands of the referendum and the interests of the British people."

He cautioned Mrs May against using "preposterous threats" that a refusal by Tory MPs to back Chequers could result in Brexit being lost altogether or watered down in order to get it through Parliament on the back of Labour votes.

Mr Davis's letter came after the Prime Minister was warned that she faces a Commons rebellion of at least 40 Conservative MPs if she returns from Brussels with a deal based on her Chequers plan, leaving the UK "half in, half out" of the EU.

Former Brexit minister Steve Baker told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that as many as 80 Tories are ready to oppose the plan agreed by Cabinet at Mrs May's country residence in July, adding: "The whips would be doing incredibly well if they were to halve the numbers.

"My estimate is that there are at least 40 colleagues who are not going to accept a half-in, half-out Chequers deal or indeed a backstop that leaves us in the internal market and the customs union, come what may."

Meanwhile, Mrs May told her Cabinet that Britain will not accept an EU withdrawal deal without a "precise" political declaration setting out how its requirements on trade and security will be delivered.

Despite optimistic comments from senior EU figures about the prospect of progress at the October 17-18 European Council summit, the PM made clear that agreement has not yet been reached on key issues including the Irish border.

Mrs May told the regular weekly Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street that talks to finalise a withdrawal deal were continuing "on an intensive basis".

Her official spokesman said: "She made clear that we can't agreed to a withdrawal agreement without a precise future framework which delivers the future trade and security partnership which the Government wants.

"The PM said the UK would continue working hard in the talks on Brexit and the message from EU leaders is that they want to reach a deal."

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(Natural News) The regulatory effects of established Chinese herbal formulas as well as time-honored practices such as acupuncture and moxibustion were recently reviewed by a team from the Bureau of National Health Insurance of Taiwan. In it, researchers found that holistic treatments based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) were effective in reducing symptoms of pediatric asthma. The authors concluded that a TCM program could lower exacerbations and hospitalization frequency for children with asthma by reducing the vagal tone in asthmatic patients.

These results further emphasize the importance of using TCM for various conditions. Asthma, a condition that affects millions of children globally, is typically treated with daily medications and a quick-relief inhaler. The concept that conventional medicine uses is that asthma can be properly managed so that patients can live a relatively normal life. This differs from Eastern medicine which believes in treating diseases at their core  illnesses are symptomatic of an underlying imbalance. TCM, in particular, applies this philosophy and treatment programs usually involve not only the intake of various herbs and teas but the application of other practices such as tai chi. A full dietary plan can also be discussed with ones TCM practitioner.

Researchers of the new study were curious to discover if TCM could be an effective alternative to traditional asthma treatments. As part of the study, they studied around 60 children (with an average age of six) from Taiwan between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2010. Children who participated in a comprehensive TCM program during the time period were less likely to visit the hospital for an asthma attack and had fewer breathing problems.

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Their findings establish TCM as a scientifically validated healing practice for the reduction of asthma symptoms.

A 2016 review of 29 studies concluded that herbal medicines combined with pharmacotherapy improved asthma outcomes greater than typical medicine alone. The herbs used within these studies included licorice root, crow-dipper, angelica, and astragali. Across all boards, asthmatic patients who used these herbs had improved lung function and were less likely to check themselves into a hospital or health clinic for a severe asthma attack.

In conjunction with herbal remedies, TCM healers may prescribe acupoint herbal patching (ACP) to ease breathing patterns. ACP uses specific Chinese herbs that are hot in nature. These plants are then ground into powder and mixed with ginger extract to form small pellets which are then pressed into specific acupoints. TCM healers have said that ACP is an unusually effective treatment for asthma as it stimulates and regulates specific meridians in the body that make the body cold.

A study testing the efficacy of ACP for asthma proved this. Another 2016 analysis of the TCM practice concluded that ACP reduced asthmatic symptoms by 69 percent. Furthermore, no adverse effects were noted among the patients.

All in all, TCM programs for asthma would involve the ingestion of specific herbs and regular ACP sessions. The effects of the program are cumulative; those with severe conditions should not expect results within a few days. As with any other TCM treatment program, these healing practices take time. That said, their effects are usually longer lasting than conventional medicine.

There are four pillars that govern the TCM practice. These influence how your treatment program will be made. Understanding these concepts will help you better understand why you are being told to eat a certain food or go through a specific treatment.

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Alex Jones breaks down news that Kanye West is leaving politics after disagreements with the president and Candace Owens.

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It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our new biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.

Digging through Facebook or Twitter to figure out a friends birthday isnt something youd normally think twice about. Even if you arent especially close, its a fairly normal thing. But in Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You this everyday activity takes on a more sinister tone. The game asks you to find information not for yourself, but for a fictional foreign government. The context suddenly changes this innocuous act into a much more challenging and uncomfortable situation depending on your feelings about surveillance, privacy, and security.

Orwell is structured sort of like a visual novel, but the entire experience plays out through the interface of a fictional research / surveillance program called Orwell. The game consists of five episodes, which were released over the course of five weeks starting in late October 2016. The game tasks you with using Orwell to help solve the mysterious bombing of a public plaza in a fictional country called The Nation. At the same time, you attempt to prevent further attacks by trawling publicly available websites and documents for clues to who might be involved.

The Orwell program is something of a best-case scenario ethically for how a powerful surveillance program might work since there are a lot of rules dictating not only how it can be used, but also who can use it. You play as a brand-new researcher overseen by an adviser. The researchers job is to comb through the sources Orwell presents to find information that might be relevant to the case and add those bits of data to profiles on subjects of interest in the case.

You find these datachunks (as the game calls them) on different websites. You might come across someones birthday from the games fictional social network, their home address off their medical records, or their feelings about the government based on a post on their blog. While Orwell is able to access all kinds of data, it only presents you with new sources when it deems it relevant. For instance, you dont automatically have access to someones medical records even if theyre a suspect. But if you happen to find their medical identification number, then you are able to access that information. What datachunks you can add to profiles are highlighted by Orwell, but its up to you as the researcher to decide if that data is relevant, or if its false and something to ignore.

The advisers job is to interpret the data you add to the profiles and make decisions for what to do based on that, as well as advise the researcher on certain leads to follow. Initially, this setup between researcher and adviser seems designed to make it feel like you, as the researcher, have no real agency over the choices made by the adviser. It seems like a mindless job where youre merely moving data from one place to another. Its a bit like youre on a train shoveling coal into the engine, while the adviser is driving.

But as things progress, it becomes apparent that you actually have a lot more control than even the adviser since theyre only able to make decisions based on what data you provide them. So while certain pieces of information, like where the subject lives, are obviously pertinent, others are a judgment call. What happens when you find a 10-year-old blog post where the subject is cursing out the government? Is that reflective of their feelings today? Or maybe they were just blowing off steam on a site they never expected anyone to read? Including it is going to make them seem potentially more suspicious, even though much of their current behavior doesnt reflect that outburst.

These decisions became so uncomfortable that I frequently considered stopping. This act of systematically digging through personal information to find bits of seemingly circumstantial evidence felt like a huge invasion of privacy for no real gain. I couldnt help but think of the online vigilante witch hunt for the Boston bomber (in part because the bombing in the game happens in a city called Bonton) and how that only led to innocent people getting accused.

It feels a bit counter-intuitive to express how unpleasant something was as a selling point, but its rare for a game to put you in such a morally compromising position. On top of that, Orwell, similar to games like Papers, Please, puts you in a position where there isnt a good or right answer to the choices youre presented with. Each decision offers a trade-off, both in terms of repercussions in the game and how youre able to rationalize your choice outside of. By the end of the game, the decisions I made didnt reflect my feelings or the outcome I wanted. But Im okay with how the story wrapped up, despite that the last choice still didnt feel wrong  or that might just be the compromise I made with myself so I can sleep at night.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You was created by Osmotic Studios. You can get it on for $9.99 (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux). It takes about four or five hours to finish.

Orwell Keeping an Eye on You is a morally challenging game about surveillance


These days, theres nothing truly surprising about the dirt that has been dredged up on Mr. Trump. Authors are starting to line up to tell the truth including former FBI director James Comey whose new book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership was recently published. This past fall, author Michael Wolff wrote Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, detailing what the Trump transition was like behind the scenes.

Now, Pulitzer prize winner, author Michael DAntonio, who wrote the 2016 book The Truth About Trump, spoke out on CNN about the lies and deceit that have come from Trump. DAntonio talked about the lies Trump has been telling his entire life. There are credible reports that Trump has even used the aliases of John Miller and John Barron to deceive reporters.

During the segment, Anderson Cooper said:

This is just kind of bizarre that he would have done this. It shows the extent to which he wanted to be seen as being incredibly rich and getting his name in the paper and bragging about women he had been with.

Cooper went on to say:

Cooper gave his own analysis of it, saying:

Its interesting, though, because a lot of the lies he told in the past, and even nowadays, they require you to be an idiot. Theyre sort of based on the idea that the person listening is just dumb and doesnt put the pieces together.

Oh yes. This is Donald, really going back to his school days when he was a boy, he insisted to others that he had hit home runs he had never hit in ball games. He left the New York Military Academy declaring himself the greatest baseball player in New York state. And it went on and on and on. He was named the ladies man at a school that had no young women at it.

Check out the clip here:

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Over the past few days the shape of what many in Europe and the United States call a new Cold War has begun to emerge  with threats and nuclear weapons that resemble the old one, punctuated by new dynamics, in part because of the rise of a rich, expanding and Nationalist China.

The change was evident as President Donald Trump explained his decision to abandon a 31-year-old arms-control treaty with Russia  hinting he was ready to plunge into a new arms race with both Moscow and Beijing, and as the Justice Department filed charges, for the third time this year, against Russians accused of interfering in U.S. elections.

Past attempts to embarrass President Vladimir Putin into changing his behaviour, in both the nuclear and cyber-conflict arenas, have failed. During the Obama administration, the exposure of Russias violations of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2014 did nothing to alter Moscows arms buildup. Nor did the decision to name Putin as the man behind the 2016 attack on the Democratic National Committee and the widespread use of social media to widen fissures in U.S. politics. There is little evidence that the indictment of the Internet Research Agency and members of Putins military intelligence have deterred the Russians.

But in both cases China is also lurking in the background, a powerful force in a way it never was in the first Cold War, which began just as Mao declared the creation of the Peoples Republic. And while China appears to be the reason for Trumps decision to pull out of the missile treaty with Russia, it is causing new anxieties in a Europe already mistrustful of Trumps America First foreign and trade policies.

Trump argued correctly that the arms treaty, signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, left China free to build up its own nuclear and conventional missiles of all ranges. (China was never part of the negotiations, and never a signatory to the treaty.) And perhaps as part of his effort to deflect discussion of whether Russia succeeded in manipulating the 2016 election, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have accused China of meddling, too  seeking to shape American public opinion more through investment, trade and theft of intellectual property than covert cyber-manipulation.

The Trump administration identifies both Russia and China as revisionist powers and strategic competitors of the United States. But when it comes to countering their nuclear advances and their increasingly innovative use of cyber-conflict to outmanoeuvre their adversaries, Trumps long-term strategy remains a mystery  beyond promises to match every military buildup, and strike back hard.

Whether it was real or a negotiating ploy, Trumps declaration Saturday that he was ready, if necessary, to plunge the world back into a 1950s-style arms race is bound to cause yet another rift between Washington and its European allies  exactly the kind of fracture inside NATO that Putin has tried to create.

And in cybersecurity, Trump has veered from denying Russian activity to authorizing the newly created U.S. Cyber Command more latitude to conduct pre-emptive strikes without presidential authorization. That raises fears of escalation with no clear reason to believe that the United States, its sprawling networks still vulnerable, would come out on top.

The Europeans do not deny that Russia has violated the INF treaty, which Kevin Ryan, an expert on Russian arms at the Belfer Center at Harvard, noted recently was negotiated at a time that was equally, if not more, contentious. At the time, hundreds of thousands of Europeans demonstrated against the deployment of U.S. Pershing II intermediate-range missiles on their soil as a counterbalance to Soviet SS-20s. That deployment led to the INF treaty Trump now wants to dump.

Most European leaders  especially the Germans  believe other weapons systems deter the Russians, including air- and ground-launched missiles. For them, Trumps decision to abandon one of the few remaining treaties controlling nuclear weapons fits a narrative of America First at the expense of existing, long-term alliances, like NATO  and is the latest in a series of abandoned agreements, from the Paris accord on climate to the Iranian nuclear deal.

In this case, they see few advantages from leaving the treaty. Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister, called the move a gift to Russia that exposes Europe to a growing nuclear threat, because as the United States enters an arms race, Russia can quickly deploy new weapons in numbers.

The German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, called the decision regrettable, noting that it poses difficult questions for us and for Europe since it is the Europeans who are in range of the Russian missiles, not the United States.

Gorbachev, unsurprisingly, decried the Trump decision as reckless, asking: Do they really not understand in Washington what this can lead to?

Moreover, the Europeans believe Trumps strategy  praising Putin when the two appear together as they did in Helsinki, then letting his aides step up pressure  is, if anything, emboldening the Russian leader. They were stunned to see Russia send a hit squad to Britain to try to kill a former Russian intelligence officer, Sergei V. Skripal, despite having exchanged him in a spy-swap years before. And Russia continues to freely meddle in European politics, most recently trying to block the accession of Macedonia to both NATO and the European Union.

But the European reaction has been disorganized. While NATO countries have put more troops in Baltic nations and Poland, and are preparing a huge military exercise in the North Atlantic, there is no agreed-on strategy over what red lines should be set to respond to Russian activity. Nowhere is that clearer than in the realm of cyberwarfare, where Europeans are spending more money on collective defense, but NATO has no offensive capability and no agreement about what kind of interference by the Russians calls for a response.

For his part, Putin has calibrated his actions with care. He denies that the Russian deployment of what the West calls an SSC-8 missile violates the treaty. And he has accused the United States  long before Trump was elected  of violating the treaty itself, arguing that anti-missile batteries it has placed in Europe could be used to fire other missiles that violate the ban on weapons that can reach 300 to 3,500 miles.

If the breach with Russia opens, it will most likely rekindle the Europeans fear that their territory would be the battlefield for the superpowers.

I am deeply worried, Wolfgang Ischinger, the former German ambassador to the United States, said on Sunday. He urged Washington instead to try to expand the treaty, by bringing in China. No way European allies like Germany could live through another I.N.F. deployment, he wrote on Twitter, a la 1980s: that road is closed.

Trump himself seemed to open up that possibility on Saturday. If they get smart and if others get smart and they say, Lets not develop these horrible nuclear weapons, I would be extremely happy with that. But as long as somebody is violating that agreement, were not going to be the only one to adhere to it, he said.

But missile treaties are not like NAFTA, the trade agreement Trump criticised and then renegotiated with Mexico and Canada.

Putin has little incentive to negotiate a new INF treaty; his intermediate-range missiles fit a strategy of disruption. The Chinese have even less incentive to join any talks: Most of their missiles, nuclear and non-nuclear, fall within the range of weapons prohibited by the treaty. They would be giving up one of their primary tools for keeping the United States at a distance in the Pacific. And the Americans, the Chinese point out, have missiles of the same range at sea and on aircraft, which are permitted by the treaty.

Trumps strategy is even harder to discern in the cyberattacks. While the Justice Department has indicted Russians working for the Internet Research Agency, officers of the intelligence organisation formerly known as the GRU, and now an accountant charged with aiding influence campaigns with millions of dollars, none is known to be in custody. (The United States will not describe the whereabouts of the accountant.)

The newly elevated U.S. Cyber Command has put together a team to counter election interference, but said little about its tactics. Fighting disinformation is especially hard: Cyber-command officials say they are far more comfortable turning off Iranian centrifuges or sabotaging North Korean missiles than they are waging counter-information wars.

While Trump can build missiles to match the Chinese or Russian arsenals, there is no simple way to match Russian or Chinese influence operations.

For the Trump administration, it is like the early 1950s all over again, said one of the presidents top advisers, as a new threat emerged and Washington argued over how, or if, to counter it. But this time Washington does not seem to be consulting its allies.

Trump could revive the Cold War but China has the power to change the dynamics of it


Josey Jewell earned his nickname, The Outlaw, over four seasons and 49 games leading Iowas defense from his middle linebacker spot.

But keeping Jewells rugged reputation in the NFL required a shift of perspective when the Broncos picked him No. 106 overall (fourth round) in Aprils draft. Jewell thrived as the lone inside linebacker in the Hawkeyes 4-3 scheme. Now, hes playing alongside either Brandon Marshall or Todd Davis with a pair of rangy linebackers on the edges in Denvers 3-4.

Early on in OTAs, Jewell said, it was a bit of a learning curve.

The Broncos removed Jewells training wheels, quickly, as a knee injury to Marshall advanced the rookies role in base-and-nickel packages through three games. Jewells defensive snap count progressed from seven (Seattle) to 14 (Oakland) to 38 (Baltimore). Hes totaled eight tackles, including one for loss. Kickin it with Kiz: Will Broncos coach Vance Joseph get taken to school by K.C.s Andy Reid in Monday-night mismatch? Around the NFC: Bears rebounding nicely from opening-night collapse Count Broncos star linebacker Von Miller among those who have caught Rocktober fever

A lot of learning lessons for me, especially, coming in early like that and playing on the defense, Jewell said. A lot of things that you realize after a week, you look at the film, think about it, watch it by yourself and you understand what you did wrong. You try to improve yourself every day.

Getting these early ones, I think you try and critique yourself even harder. Because if theyre going to put you in, you better be able to go out there and fit.

Back in the Broncos locker room, Jewell does his best not to revel in the early playing time, no matter how dream-fulfilling it might be, as he enters the first of what he hopes are many Monday Night Football appearances as an NFL linebacker.

I havent really thought about that yet and Im trying not to think about it, Jewell said. Im going to try and live in the moment and understand what I need to do week-to-week and day-to-day.

Inside the game Broncos rookie Josey Jewell adapts to new NFL defensive scheme


The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is offering up to 50,000 to three resilience advisors who will prepare for, and respond to, and recover from civil emergencies.

The jobs are advertised as nine-month temporary roles but could be made permanent.

The advert reads: The posts would suit those who are keen to understand how government works and to be part of new and developing areas of resilience policy.

Daily Star Online revealed last month how police chiefs had drawn up emergency plans for a no-deal Brexit.

Brexit Special agents recruited to deal with CIVIL EMERGENCIES


Was the assassination of JFK by Lee Harvey Oswald still getting as much media coverage three weeks after his death as it did that first week after Nov. 22, 1963? Not as I recall.

Yet, three weeks after his murder, Jamal Khashoggi, who was not a U.S. citizen, was not killed by an American, and died not on U.S. soil but in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, consumes our elite press.

The top two stories in Mondays Washington Post were about the Khashoggi affair. A third, inside, carried the headline, Trump, who prizes strength, may look weak in hesitance to punish Saudis.

On Sunday, the Post put three Khashoggi stories on Page 1. The Posts lead editorial bashed Trump for his equivocal stance on the killing.

Two of the four columns on the op-ed page demanded that the Saudis rid themselves of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the prime suspect in ordering the execution.

Page 1 of the Outlook section offered an analysis titled, The Saudis knew they could get away with it. We always let them.

Page 1 of the Metro section featured a story about the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia that began thus:

Corey A. Stewarts impulse to use provocative and evidence-free slurs reached new heights Friday when the Republican nominee for Senate disparaged slain Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi...

Stewart appears to be moving in lockstep with extremist Republicans and conservative commentators engaging in a whisper campaign to smear Khashoggi and insulate Trump from global rebuke.

This was presented as a news story.

Inside the Business section of Sundays Post was a major story, More CEOs quietly withdraw from Saudi conference. Featured was a photo of JP Morgans Jamie Dimon, who had canceled his appearance.

On the top half of the front page of the Sunday New York Times were three stories about Khashoggi, as were the two top stories on Monday.

The Times lead editorial Monday called for a U.N. investigation, a cutoff in U.S. arms sales to Riyadh, and a signal to the royal house that we regard their crown prince as toxic.

Why is our prestige press consumed by the murder of a Saudi dissident not one in a thousand Americans had ever heard of?

Answer: Khashoggi had become a contributing columnist to the Post. He was a journalist, an untouchable. The Post and U.S. media are going to teach the House of Saud a lesson: You dont mess with the American press!

Moreover, the pre-planned murder implicating the crown prince, with 15 Saudi security agents and an autopsy expert with a bone saw lying in wait at the consulate to kill Khashoggi, carve him up, and flee back to Riyadh the same day, is a terrific story.

Still, what ought not be overlooked here is the political agenda of our establishment media in driving this story as hard as they have for the last three weeks.

Our Beltway elite can smell the blood in the water. They sense that Khashoggis murder can be used to discredit the Trump presidency, expose the amorality of his foreign policy and sever his ties to patriotic elements of his Middle American constituency.

First, there are those close personal ties between Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, son of the King, and Jared Kushner, son-in-law of the president of the United States.

Second, there are the past commercial connections between builder Donald Trump, who sold a floor of a Trump building and a yacht to the Saudis when he was in financial straits.

Third, there is the strategic connection. The first foreign trip of the Trump presidency was, at Kushners urging, to Riyadh to meet the king, and the president has sought to tighten U.S. ties to the Saudis ever since.

Fourth, Trump has celebrated U.S. sales arms to the Saudis as a job-building benefit to America and a way to keep the Saudis as strategic partners in a Mideast coalition against Iran.

Fifth, the leaders of the two wings of Trumps party in the Senate, anti-interventionist Rand Paul and interventionist Lindsey Graham, are already demanding sanctions on Riyadh and an ostracizing of the prince.

As story after story comes out of Riyadh about what happened in that consulate on Oct. 2, each less convincing than the last, the coalition of forces, here and abroad, pressing for sanctions on Saudi Arabia and dumping the prince, grows.

The time may be right for President Trump to cease leading from behind, to step out front, and to say that, while he withheld judgment to give the Saudis every benefit of the doubt, he now believes that the weight of the evidence points conclusively to a plot to kill Jamal Khashoggi.

Hence, he is terminating U.S. military aid for the war in Yemen that Crown Prince Mohammed has been conducting for three years. Win-win.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of Nixons White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.

Time For Trump to Call the Saudis Out


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Lovely US First Lady Melania Trump met with schoolchildren and played bowls today in England while President Trump took part in a press conference with Theresa May.

This video is great!

 The kids cheering her is the best part!

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When we told our parents we wanted to open a restaurant here, they tried everything to persuade us not to, says Shaun McCarron, who runs front of house in the newly opened Little Chartroom.

Along with wife and head chef Roberta Hall (the couple were married just a week and a half before opening), McCarron went for it against all opposition, and the duo opened their restaurant on Leith Walk, which leads down to Edinburghs dockland area. It was the location that was most problematic.

Theres little to do to skirting around the location. Known as the shit end of town, Leith Walk is neither the beautiful Old Town with its tiny, wonky stone staircases and sloping cobbled streets, nor the wonderfully planned wide streets of James Craigs New Town. The shipping port of Leith wasnt even part of Edinburgh until 1920, but was incorporated as it grew (although some still consider it to be separate entity).

And as these places always are, its described as the up and coming area, where rents are cheaper for businesses and the bonus is theres plenty of people living there already.

Finally, the long-promised trams are due to arrive in the area. The plan to connect the airport to Leith was abandoned years ago after overspending reached a mere 400m (how?). For years, locals and businesses endured the annoyance and disruption of roads being pulled up and cables being laid underneath.The infrastructure is now there, and soon, so will be the trams.

Aside from the location, the restaurant has not come without its problems. Ceilings have been lowered and walls brought in after serious issues were found after taking on the lease, but Hall and McCarron still made it work.

Inside, its cosy (made more so after the construction work). It seats only 18, with four of those at the bar. These stools overlook the area that doubles up as half bar and half kitchen (the back worktop is the bar with fridges below and the front forms the kitchen preparation area), where diners awkwardly (my awkwardness, not theirs) watch the chefs plate up starters and desserts.

But from this viewpoint, were able to watch the cogs turning in this little machine. And its silent. Each member of the tiny team (we count six?) almost glides, never bumping in to one another, as if theyve worked here years, not the mere 10 weeks its been open. Each seems to know exactly their colleagues next moves.

McCarron later tells us that the two chefs in front of us (doing starters and puddings) have only been there for a couple of weeks. But they seem part of the furniture, each filing in where needs be (washing up and all, which I can only just see from my perch).

The main kitchen seems to be much the same; little is said loudly, bar the call of check on from Roberta.

But shes probably more used to a larger kitchen, considering her previous post: three years at Tom Kitchins restaurant, The Kitchin (even further into Leith, about a 10-minute drive down Leith Walk, up and coming etc), before helping to open the French restaurant, Castle Terrace (you guessed it, right in front of the citys castle) where she became head chef. She also spent a year working at the Burj in Dubai (complete change of scenery).

And as the restaurant and kitchen are small but perfectly formed, so must the menu be. Not only can they not store a huge array of ingredients, Im sure, but where would they all be cooked? Starters, mains and desserts have a trio of choice each. Its refreshingly small.

We watch the starters prepared in front of us: tiny strips of cured sea trout are laid across a thin layer of the same fish thats flaked in a small shallow bowl (with tweezers) and topped with tiny pieces of cucumber and a few spots of avruga caviar (which does not contain fish roe). As delicate as it is, its an incredible flavour; pretty much as fresh as it comes.

I have the heirloom tomatoes dish. Its made up of six different varieties, two of which are tiny and cured, and a large dark tomato thats wonderfully tender, accompanied by wedges of yellow ones and long slithers of bright red specimens. Tiny dollops of feta are circled around dish but the real beauty of this is that its sweetened with a watermelon and white vinegar jus (that Im specifically given a spoon to be able to scoop up the dregs with, and Im glad I saved some bread for).

From the three mains, we go for the hake dish and the bavette of beef. Mine, the beef, is succulent, tender and almost creamy; served with gnocchi (nicely crisped), a whole load of shredded beef thats hidden under the bavette (making the dish way bigger than you think it is), a little wilted spinach and a whole loads of girolles. Its enormous and seriously worth its value. But the hake, well, I have food envy. The hefty chunk has its well-cooked skin on, and is flaky and delicate while the accompanying shellfish bisque is rich and robust. The chargrilled vegetables  fennel and cauliflower  retain their shape and match the boldness of the bisque while teeny tiny (I imagine the tweezers came out again) cubes of orange give it a zesty punch of freshness. Its a memorable dish, and I didnt even order it.

The standard doesnt drop for the desserts either. The carrot cake choice is a long slither of moist fingers stacked atop each other, sandwiched and topped with cream and a little portion of carrot ice cream. It sounds like its straight out of Hestons kitchen, but it has a welcome hint of savouryness, and is the best carrot cake Ive ever had, says my partner.

It was before Id even sat down that Id chosen my dessert, thanks to that multi-use kitchen counter. When we walked in, I spied a beautifully formed circular chocolate pudding, topped with crushed pistachios and a little ball of tart cherry ice cream. I was sold.

The level of food that comes from such a tiny kitchen and team is beyond impressive, as is the way its created. Halls experience and flair shines through tremendously, but without fuss and pomp; its a place to visit again and again. Lets hope the trams do get there sooner rather than later, as its worth going straight there from the airport.

The Little Chartroom restaurant review Edinburgh From small things come great plates


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Now that the October Pixel event has wrapped up, weve seen all the new flagship phones coming out from Google, Apple, and Samsung this year. The much-leaked Google Pixel 3 still had some surprises, like Google spam call screening transcription and improved AI photo capabilities on top of an already great camera. Some of the new features Google introduced today are completely exclusive to the Pixel line, while others are features weve seen before on other phones.

Take for example, Top Shot, a new Pixel 3 feature that uses AI to automatically pick out the best frame from the moment a photo was taken. Apples Live Photos does a similar thing, saving the moments a photo is taken and letting you manually choose which frame you want to keep. The iPhones photo burst mode does this as well when you hold down the shutter to take multiple photos, but the AI will choose what it thinks is the best photo for you.

The Pixel 3 and 3 XL also got the added advantage of another camera in the front, introducing a new feature called Group Selfie Cam. Manually zooming out with the wide-angle lens will let you capture 184 percent more of the scene than the iPhone XS, as Google claimed during its presentation.

Numbers-wise, Samsung wins at battery life capacity and the lowest starting price of $719 for the Galaxy S9. It also gets brownie points in my book for keeping the headphone jack. If you want to take a look at all the specs across the board, take a look at the chart below and make your own judgements.

If youre thinking of buying a Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL, Googles including six months of YouTube Music Premium and unlimited Google Photos storage with your purchase. Heres how to trade in your old Pixel phone if you want to upgrade, and some different options for preordering. The phone ships October 18th, so get your preorders in by then.

How the Google Pixel 3 stacks up against the iPhone XS and Galaxy S9


Harlequins co-captain James Horwill has called on his teams fans to make Premiership leaders Saracens visit to the Stoop tomorrow night as uncomfortable as possible.

Horwill hopes plenty of fans will come to the Stoop following the afternoon match between Northampton and Leicester over the road at Twickenham, which is in aid of his former Australia team-mate Rob Horne.

Quins secured a vital win at Gloucester last weekend after three straight defeats but know they must up their game against Saracens, who have enjoyed a perfect start to the season, with five bonus-point wins.

Its a huge game for us, its a proper derby and it means a lot to us and the fans, said Horwill. We need to give them something to cheer about.

Its a huge challenge  Saracens are the best team in the league, playing some class rugby  and what we did last weekend is not going to be enough, we need to step up again.

The fans are always behind us  and we want to make the Stoop as uncomfortable as possible for anyone that comes there. Its a massive game, and its a night game which should be a bit different and create a great atmosphere.

Horwill enjoyed a successful return from injury last week (he had been out since April) but knows Harlequins  who sit fourth, heading up a group of four teams on 13 points  must continue to improve their defence and discipline, their major focus under new head of rugby Paul Gustard.

It was an important win for us, said Horwill. The reward equalled the effort we put in, which is very pleasing. Now we need to capitalise on it. Its vital we tighten up and keep improving.

Harlequins co-captain James Horwill urges fans to make a racket and unsettle Saracens


A new billboard in Calvert County Maryland is turning a lot of heads.

The sign warns Democrats about their plans to overthrow the 2016 election.

For some odd reason local liberals are taking offense to the sign.

 They believe it is a threat.

The local owner has agreed to change the sign.

Maryland Billboard Warns Liberals Better Get Your Guns If You Try to Impeach Trump


President Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to highlight research indicating that Google is artificially boosting leftist news reports that are overwhelmingly negative about his Presidency.

Trump described the findings as very serious and vowed to take action.

The original report from PJ Medias Paula Bolyard suggests that of the first 100 results provided by Google for Trump news, almost all were from left-leaning outlets.

Google has maintained that all outlets are treated fairly, but nevertheless, conservative sites have reported reduced search traffic and, in the case of Google-owned YouTube, content creators have been banned and demonetized. Bolyard writes.

Bolyard found only five stories by conservative news sites turned up on Googles search results. Three of those were from the Wall Street Journal and two from Fox News.

Bolyard also noted that CNN stories mostly populated the search results, after she conducted the experiment on multiple different computers owned by and registered to different people.

A cursory search shows this to be accurate:

While not scientific, the results suggest a pattern of bias against right-leaning content, she writes.

The top 10 sites that had the most results show that only one is right-leaning: 1. CNN (21), 2. Washington Post (11), 3. NBC (11), 4. CNBC (8), T5. The Atlantic (5), T5. Politico (5), T5. New York Times (5), 8. Vox (4), T9. CBS (3) and T9. Wall Street Journal (3).

Its not the only research that indicates Googles algorithm works with a left wing bias.

A study by search engine optimization company Can I Rank found exactly the same outcome.

The research found that search results are 40% more likely to contain pages with a Left or Far Left slant than they are pages from the right.

In addition, 16% of political keywords such as gun control, abortion, TPP, and Black Lives Matter contained zero right-leaning pages on the first page of results.

In addition to the obvious hypocrisy of a supposedly neutral information source favoring certain political leanings, research from psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein has found that negative search results can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by up to 43.4 percent.

In this sense, Google is enabling election manipulation.

The findings are hardly surprising given that Google is one of the leaders of the big tech move to censor conservative content on the internet.

Conservative employees within Google has leaked information suggesting that the company is dominated by a far-left doctrine. Those who speak up in opposition to it are risking their careers.

The company is facing a class-action lawsuit from former employees who have charged that it discriminates on the basis of political viewpoint, race, and gender.

Trump Slams Rigged Negative Google Searches


Charles Kushner, White House senior adviser Jared Kushners father, is trying to take the fall for the familys calamitous investment in 666 Fifth Avenue to shift blame from his son, according to a CNN report Tuesday morning.

I pushed Jared to do the deal, Charles Kushner told CNN, adding that the deal was bad timing and bad judgment.

Kushner Companies paid $1.8 billion in 2007 for the skyscraper, a bet that backfired when a crashing market left the property saddled with $1.2 billion in debt. Attempts to recruit foreign investors to salvage the purchase have come back to haunt Jared Kushner, when stories of his meetings linked to the Chinese government leaked while he was working as a foreign affairs liaison on his father-in-laws transition team.

In the interview with CNN, Charles Kushner alluded to a deal in the works currently to recruit above-the-board investors and mitigate the financial burdens. His attempt to take the blame for his son points to the criticism surrounding the younger Kushner over what some see as a failure to properly divest from his business interests while working in a senior capacity in the Trump administration.

Charles Kushner On 666 Fifth Avenue I Pushed Jared To Do The Deal


Paul Casey plans to tee off like it is his last Ryder Cup when Europe lock horns with the United States in Paris from tomorrow.

Ten years after his third and last Ryder Cup appearance, Casey is back in the fold as one of Thomas Bjorns four wildcard picks having climbed his way back to No21 in the world.

At 41, I dont know how many opportunities Im going to get to play another European-based Ryder Cup, said Casey, who lives in Arizona. I dont want this to be my last European Ryder Cup but theres a chance that it is.

Ryder Cups in the past have gone so quickly and I just want to make sure I remember this. So, I just want to make sure that I pay attention to it and enjoy it, deliver points, play my heart out but enjoy it at the same time.

The US are bidding for a first win on European soil in 25 years, with rival captains Jim Furyk and Thomas Bjorn set to announce their line-ups for tomorrow mornings fourballs at the opening ceremony at 4pm at Le Golf National today.

Whether Casey plays in the opening session remains to be seen but the Englishman teed off with fellow veteran Sergio Garcia and rookies Tyrrell Hatton and Alex Noren in the final quartet out on the course this morning.

For a one-time stalwart of the European side, Caseys return has been a long time coming. In 2010, he was overlooked by Colin Montgomerie, despite being a sensible wildcard pick in many peoples eyes.

His form in 2012 and 2014 was not good enough to make the team, while two years ago he was not eligible after opting not to rejoin the European Tour, a situation he addressed in a bid to make the team in Paris.

Despite a decades absence, Casey insisted he did not have a point to prove. He said: Im just here to play the golf Im capable of and see what that produces.

I felt I could and I would [return to the Ryder Cup], it was just a matter of when. When youre playing bad golf, you can never see how to play good golf again but you just get on with it. You just deal with it. I just worked through it.

Bjorn has earmarked Casey as a role model for the rookies in the team, while the player himself admits he did not realise how much he had missed being part of the event until he joined up with his team-mates.

Asked what he missed the most, Casey (left) said: The team part, the team element. The vibes in the team room. You know, we hang out a lot on Tour around the world when were playing but its not the same.

I miss putting on the clothes in the morning. I miss that first tee. But I think the most is missing the team, how close you get with these guys.

Ryder Cup 2018 Paul Casey to aposplay heart outapos as he gears up for swansong


Ben Youngs: Well go for the throat against All Blacks

England have an attacking, aggressive gameplan as they bid to suffocate New Zealands free-flowing game in the first meeting of the two teams for four years at Twickenham on Saturday.

Scrum-half Ben Youngs said England hoped to make the world champions feel claustrophobic and that hoping to contain them would be ruinous.

We looked at some of the bits from the Rugby Championship where we felt the defences arent as aggressive or creating as much pressure as we would like, Youngs said. A lot of what we do is create that claustrophobic feeling.

One thing about the All Blacks is that you are going to have to score tries. I dont like the word containing because it implies we will go out there and see what they have got. That is one thing we definitely dont want to do because we know what they are capable of.

It is about going out there and really taking the game to them, whether that is without the ball and cutting down their time and space, or with the ball, trying to go through phases.

Eddie Jones last night opted, where possible, to stick with the players who won the opening game of their autumn international series, as he shaved his squad from 35 to 25.

Tom Curry is out with an ankle injury and has been replaced by Sam Underhill, while Courtney Lawes and Manu Tuilagi are in contention after injury. Brad Shields, after a performance of promise against the Springboks, will feature but faces a battle to retain his starting spot. Lawes or Maro Itoje could move to blindside to beef up England, while defence coach Steve Borthwick says Underhill, Zach Mercer and Mark Wilson are options at openside.

Shields, the former Hurricanes captain and New Zealand Under-20 who until last year harboured hopes of playing for the All Blacks, knows Saturdays opposition better than most and will be a central figure whether he starts or not. When returning to Wellington one last time before moving to Wasps, he stayed with Beauden Barrett and hid an England training top from the tour of South Africa in his drawer as a prank.

Shieldss bat is straighter this week, especially when asked about what must be a peculiar occasion. His view is that until his selection is confirmed, the idea of facing the Haka and sledges from his old mates is not worth considering.  Instead, he has been passing on intelligence on the All Blacks, with his view being that England need a lung-busting 80-minute performance to ensure they are not outlasted by the visitors.

Brads knowledge is really important, said Youngs. He can tell us what the guys he has played with dont particularly like and the traits they have in their game. We dont just want to contain the All Blacks, we want to throw our gameplan at them.

Youngs took particular note of Shieldss observation that Barrett is New Zealands most regular ball-carrier. Overall, though, Shieldss message to England is that there is no magic formula to New Zealands excellence.

Thats it: its rugby played very well, said Shields. If you do the basics very well, which they do, if you can make the most of your opportunities, then you will come away with a lot of wins.

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The metaphorical revolving door at the front of the Trump White House is coming back to haunt the president. Last year, Omarosa Manigault-Newman left a communications position at the White House in a storm of controversy, with competing accounts of her time in the White House and her exit. Now, she has a new book ready to share with the world in which she lays out her own contentious take on the Trump administration.

In the book  called Unhinged: An Insiders Account of the Trump White House and out August 14  Omarosa, as shes often known, writes that she felt there was clear evidence of the presidents mental decline while she was on the inside.

Speaking of a presidential sit down with NBCs Lester Holt in 2017, she explained:

In that interview, Trump tore his administrations then-young defense for firing FBI Director James Comey to shreds. Ahead of that interview, the White House claimed that Trump fired Comey because of a recommendation to do so from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein thanks to the directors alleged mishandling of the Clinton email investigation. Comey attracted controversy for circumventing precedent both in declaring Clinton innocent in mid-2016 and in publicly revealing the email probe to be re-opened shortly before the election. Clinton herself has blamed that latter action in part for her loss.

While speaking to Holt, Trump said that he was planning on firing Comey no matter what anyone else recommended because of the weight of the Russia investigation, which he led at the time. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has since taken that over, and the presidents own former campaign manager Paul Manafort is currently on trial in Virginia and facing a second trial later this year in Washington, D.C.

In other words, any Trump efforts to stop the Russia investigation have certainly failed.

Omarosa thinks that the presidents persistence with his own gibberish evidences a declining mental state, which is a serious accusation to make about the health of a man who controls the United States nuclear arsenal.

Continuing on about the interview with Holt, she said:

She explained that then-White House communications director Hope Hicks had gone over the talking point that hed fired Comey because of a recommendation a dozen times. Even still, Trump did not hesitate to offer his alternative reasoning for the dismissal.

Trump has behaved in that manner time and time again outside of the confines of that interview. He routinely veers wildly off script and attracts, at times, wide criticism of the sort that followed his recent denial of evidence of Russian interference in U.S. elections while in Finland. In the face of past accusations of a questionable mental state from author Michael Wolff, Trump asserted himself a stable genius  but we all see what he does.

Omarosa Releases New Book About Trumps Mental Wellness Donald Is Freaking


I don't know the book acquisition budget of the public library in the town of St. Michaels, a quaint little tourist trap on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I hope it's large enough to buy several copies of Ryan T. Anderson's new book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. Given the strange new world they've been cast into, the patrons will find it useful.Last week, a U.S. District judge named George L. Russell III declared that the local high school in St. Michaels is violating the rights of a student named Max Brennan, who was born a girl but has decided he is a boy. (Like the parties to the case, judge, defendant, and plaintiff, we'll refer to Max as a boy, for courtesy's sake.) When Max told school authorities about his decision, they did what they could to accommodate him, calling him by his new name and referring to him with masculine pronouns. On Max's behalf, they even subjected school staff to a professional development workshop on the subject of transgender students.

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Now a NFL cheerleader is protesting the National Anthem.

A San Francisco 49ers cheerleader took a knee Thursday night prior to a game with the Oakland Raiders, which is likely the first known example of a cheerleader partaking in the protest.

The cheerleader was not identified, and the team has yet to comment on the matter.

The take-a-knee protest famously started with the 49ers when then-quarterback Colin Kaepernick dropped in protest of the American flag.

That said, only about three players are still protesting, which makes the cheerleaders sudden devotion to the cause a little strange.

Not to mention that, unlike players who are typically locked into expensive, multi-year contracts, cheerleaders are fairly easy to sack.

Kaepernicks protest backfired spectacularly for the NFL; YouTube and social media were flooded with videos by long-term fans burning their team jerseys, and NFL ratings have been in free-fall ever since.

NFL ratings are facing yet another brutal blitz this fall  and few pundits are betting that they wont get sacked, reported the New York Post. With ratings having plunged 8 percent in 2016 and nearly 10 percent last year, experts say this seasons ratings could fall even faster as the league continues to grapple with a slew of ugly controversies that have turned off viewers.

Photo NFL Cheerleader Takes a Knee During National Anthem


Like an opening act at a rock festival, Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, warmed up the Catholics at the World Meeting of Families pastoral congress with his folksy charm.

He had landed in Dublin hours earlier at midnight and was running on only one hour of sleep.

A jovial crowd, enjoying the first full day of the congress and its carnival atmosphere, loved it when he joked that he might doze off during his speech.

From the laughs it was easy to understand why this cleric has been tipped as a future pope.

Riffing on the view of the festivals weekend headliner Francis, that modern society had become a throwaway culture, Cardinal Chito lamented how the rise of modern consumerism and disposable fashions and products have threatened the value of the people and the planet.

Even if your car worked well, artificial obsolescence made you feel that your car was no use, he said.

Sometimes, because of the influence of the throwaway culture, we dont even notice that we gauge people according to their market value, he said.

Other things deemed to be useless, according to the pope, in our utilitarian culture were the unborn child, the elderly, people with so-called disabilities, he said to several hundred people gathered in Hall Two at the RDS.

Next door, in Hall Four, consumerism and Catholicism sat comfortably beside each other with dozens of religious orders and retailers peddling services and products.

There were even little foetus models on one stall, as captured by a Reuters photographer.

Oliver Brady had shifted quite a number of Pope Francis dolls, imported from Spain, at his Pope Doll Shop.

Defending the 35 price tag on the doll, he said: It is licensed, it is limited edition and the quality is actually very good.

Car maker Skoda has used the popes visit, and his use of four of its cars in Dublin and Knock this weekend, to put a specially commissioned stained glass windowed Skoda Karoq on display.

It wouldnt pass the NCT with that, said Skoda PR man Cathal Kealey, standing next to the vehicle with 87kg of stained glass and 25m of lead wrapped around the windows.

Artist Evan Connon said the stained glass depicted 17 couples to celebrate the family. The images included a same-sex couple.

We wanted to show the modern car to a modern family in a modern Ireland,  said Kealey.

It is a model Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh would quickly have disposed of. His exclusive view of family, according to his keynote address yesterday, was a faithful and exclusive union between a married man and a woman as a cherished space for the bearing and upbringing of children.

Family man Diarmuid Hegarty and his wife Catherine, up from Cork with their six children (aged three to 13), were enjoying the many events for children on offer at the congress.

Hegarty, only a baby the last time Ireland had a papal visit, felt the church was right to resist change that has taken place since then for the benefit of a la carte members or social Catholics; it might lead to a better, more pure church, he argued.

If people want to be part of a club, they have to sign up to the rules, he said.

Papal visit Potential future pope employs folksy charm amid Catholicism and consumerism


British MEP Janice Atkinson warns that the UN Compact on Migration would lead to Europe being flooded with 59 million new migrants within the next 6 years.

The document is not legally binding, but governments will be under pressure to follow its dictates. Numerous countries, including the United States and Hungary, have said they will refuse to sign the pact.

If you think youre in control of your borders, think again, said Atkinson, adding, This compact backs the EU and the UNs aim to flood our nations with 59 million migrants by 2025.... just 6 years.

Atkinson went on to explain the source of the new pact; A 2000 declaration that concluded Europes ethnic population was in decline and therefore needed replacing.

This has been disproven by youth unemployment in some European countries being 50% or higher, as well as many new migrants being unemployable, with only around 13% employed on average according to Atkinson.

The MEP savaged British Prime Minister Theresa May for promising to take back control of British borders via Brexit and yet planning to sign the UN migration pact next month.

Remember  the UN and the globalists want to flood our continent with 59 million migrants by 2025, Atkinson emphasized, adding that the UN document states mass immigration is inevitable, desirable and necessary.

Warning that the plan would lead to European countries having their culture and identity crushed, Atkinson also pointed out that the pact could lead to hate speech laws that make it illegal to use the term illegal migrants, replacing it instead with irregular migrants.

It will be illegal not to use their prescribed language, warned Atkinson, adding that European citizens could say goodbye to your democracy and your way of life, unless they demand their leaders refuse to sign the document.

The MEPs concern about language policing is shared by Dutch MEP Marcel de Graaff, who said that the pact would grease the skids for laws that would criminalize criticism of mass immigration as hate speech.

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

MEP Warns UN Pact Will Flood Europe With 59 Million Migrants by 2025


This is after the liberal media repeated the word impeachment 222 times in one day this week!

President Trumps approval rating is currently at 46% on Rasmussen Reports.

Media darling Barack Obama had an approval rating of 44% on August 26, 2010.

And a majority of Americans believe the Manafort and Cohen verdicts will not result in criminal charges against Trump.

And this is while 90% of network media coverage has been negative of President Trump.

And this is while the media ran a impeachment cheers for the past several days of reporting.

DESPITE MEDIA HELL WEEK President Trumps Approval Number Still 2 Points Ahead of Obama at Same Poi


Melania Trump continues to dazzle the American public with her impeccable style, grace, intellect and beauty.

Not only is Melania Trump the only First Lady to speak five languages fluently, she is also the only First Lady to hold down a major career as a top fashion model.

This week Melania Trump revealed the 2018 White House decorations.

 The photos and video were stunning.

The media ripped Melania Trump for her Christmas decor this week.

 They are not used to seeing such elegance in the White House.

The hula hoops and dunked basketballs are but a memory.

And grace is back in the White House.

Liberal Media Stunned by Melania Trumps Impeccable Style Following Prior Years of Trailer Park Chic


The normal wait at a California state run DMV is several hours.

Ah  the joys of Socialism!

In California, long lines are a fact of life at Department of Motor Vehicles offices across the state, but for California lawmakers and their legislative staffers, theres an alternative.

KCRA has learned of a DMV office that is not open to the public.

Its located inside the Legislative Office Building on N Street, adjacent to the state Capitol.

The office, inside Room 121, has no markings on the door and was locked when KCRA visited it on Thursday, but after knocking, a worker confirmed it was a DMV office and said its set up to handle customer complaints that escalate to the legislative branch.

However, having a private office for legislators and their Capitol staff is a source of frustration for Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno. His request for an official DMV audit was denied when three Democrats  Senators Ricardo Lara, of Los Angeles; Ben Allen, of Santa Monica; and Jim Beall, of San Jose  abstained from voting.

California Lawmakers Set Up Secret DMV Office So They Dont Have to Wait in the Heat for Hours to Re


Brett Kavanaugh faced another blow to his hopes of being confirmed as a US Supreme Court judge when it was revealed today that he was quizzed by police over a bloody bar fight he was involved in while a student at Yale University.

The embattled nominee, now 53, was accused of throwing ice at a man in a bar during a brawl following a UB40 concert in September 1985.

The fight allegedly broke out because Mr Kavanaugh and his friends mistook the man for the Birmingham bands lead singer Ali Campbell and he asked them to stop staring at him.

The report came as the FBI were investigating allegations by three women of sexual misconduct by Mr Kavanaugh at parties he attended when he was a student.

The US Senate has delayed a make-or-break vote to decide whether to confirm him as the newest member of Americas highest court until the probe is completed.

According to a police report obtained by the New York Times, Mr Kavanaugh was blamed for starting the fight at Demerys bar in New Haven, Connecticut.

The victim, Dom Cozzolino, claimed he was hit in the ear by a glass thrown by one of Mr Kavanaughs college friends. He was treated in hospital for the injury.

The report said Mr Kavanaugh and four other men were questioned by police over the incident but he was not arrested.

One of the men drinking with Mr Kavanbaug was fellow Yale undergraduate Charles Chad Ludington, who issued a statement yesterday claiming his old friend lied about the extent of his drinking in college.

He told the New York Times that the victim took exception to the group looking at him while trying to work out if he was the UB40 star.

He said Mr Kavanaugh swore and then threw his beer at the guy.

The guy swung at Brett, added Mr Ludington, now an associate professor at North Carolina State University. He said one of the group, Chris Dudley, took his beer and smashed it into the head of the guy, who by now had Brett in an embrace.

I dont know what Brett was doing in the melee, but there was blood, there was glass, there was beer and there was some shouting, and the police showed up, he added.

The police report said Mr Dudley denied the accusations and Mr Kavanaugh didnt want to say if he threw the ice or not.

Democrats desperately attack Judge Kavanaugh for throwing ice during college. What motivated New York Times reporter to write this ridiculous story? Throwing ice 33 years ago, or her opinion of Judge Kavanaugh in July? she tweeted, pointing to a past comment on Twitter by the reporter that was critical of President Trumps Supreme Court pick.

After claims in the US media yesterday that suggested the White House wanted to restrict the FBI inquiries into Mr Kavanaugh, Mr Trump said today that he wants a very comprehensive investigation to be carried out into the sex abuse claims.

But he said that he didnt want it turned into a witch hunt and added: Id like it to go quickly.

Among the people already questioned by agents was Mr Kavanaughs close friend Mark Judge, who was reportedly in the bedroom at the time of one of the alleged assaults at a house party in 1982.

Republican senators have said the FBI must wrap up its inquiries by the end of the week and they plan to hold the delayed confirmation vote on Friday or Saturday.

Brett Kavanaugh quizzed by police over involvement in bloody bar fight during student days at Yale