(Natural News) Suffering stressful events may compromise the bodys perception of new threats or danger, a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has revealed.

The study carried out by a team of researchers at the New York University challenges a long-held notion that stress keeps the body on high alert. The researchers have noted that while predicting potential threats in the environment is crucial for survival, it remains equally important to prime the body into a flexible state where stress responses can be effectively controlled when new sources of threat are available.

The research team conducted a series of tests that focused on Pavlovian threat-conditioning in order to examine the participants flexibility in responding to stressful conditions. The experts instructed the participants to view images on a computer screen. The experts then used a mild, electric wrist-shock that accompanied a certain image that served as the threat cue. On the other hand, some images did not accompany any shock and served as the safe cue.

Half of the study participants were placed in an experimental set-up designed to replicate a stressful condition. During the procedure, the participants in the stress group placed their arm in an ice-water bath for a few minutes. The procedure was intended to increase the respondents two stress hormones alpha-amylase and cortisol. All the participants eventually went through the same stress test. The scientists then recorded the participants physiological arousal responses to evaluate how they anticipated the outcome of each cue.

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When youre under stress and ramped up, youre not paying enough attention to whats going on around. Youre just not changing or updating your response. You could argue that the kinds of stress were encountering in day-to-day life, psychological stresses, are more distracting. This is all honing in on the idea that when youre under chronic stress or other stress, you just arent adapting as well. Exposure to social media and things...you could argue that you have access to changes of the world more frequently, so stress could change your ability to integrate changes of information and things going on around you, Dr. Riao has told the Daily Mail online.

During the first day of testing, the research team observed a complete switch between the participants stress cues. According to their results, the respondents earlier threatening cue no longer predicted shock during the experiment. However, the formerly safe cue did stimulate shock among the participants, the scientists noticed.

The second day of testing also showed that participants in the stress group were less likely than the controls to change their responses to threats. According to the research team, the formerly safe visuals have already been perceived as shock-delivering images among the stress group. The findings demonstrate that stress has significantly impaired the stress groups capacity to be flexible in responding to non-threats, the scientists have stated.

The research team also noted a marked reduction in a physiological response to threat among patients who have been stressed. According to the scientists, participants in the stress group exhibited learning deficit and a reduced attention signal. This indicates that experiencing stressful conditions may impair learning, the scientists have reported.

Stress does not always increase perceptions of danger in the environment, as is often assumed. In fact, our study shows that when we are under stress, we pay less attention to changes in the environment, potentially putting us at increased risk for ignoring new sources of threat. As a result, stress can reduce the flexibility of our responses to threats by impairing how well we track and update predictions of potentially dangerous circumstances, lead author Dr. Candace Raio has stated in a Futurity article.

Stress slows your reaction to danger new study finds increasing vulnerability


Nikki Haley will be leaving the UN as Ambassador and it may save the lives of millions if we can avoid the wars she pushed with false flags.

But the top candidate to replace her is even worse  Dina Habib Powell  the darling of the globalists & never-Trumpers like Max Boot.

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These days, Mr. Trump does not seem to be falling in line with what other world leaders are doing or trying to do what is in the best interest of our country or for our relations with the rest of the world. Trump made a visit to Paris, France, on Saturday, which included meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. However, he declined to join the other world leaders for a World War I memorial at a U.S. cemetery because of the rain.

On Monday, it was reported that 50 nations and over 150 tech companies pledged to do more to fight criminal activity on the internet including interference in elections and hate speech. However, the U.S., Russia, and China were not among the 50 that were part of the pledge.

According to The Associated Press:

The document is supported by EU countries, Japan, and Canada, and is also being supported by tech giants including Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. At the front of the initiative is French President Emmanuel Macron. The Associated Press reported:

Speaking at the Internet Governance Forum organized at the Paris-based U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, Macron said its urgent to better regulate the internet. The French leader also said that Facebook had accepted to let a team of French officials observe the way it monitors and removes hate speech content.

Macron spoke about the initiative, saying that the goal is:

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also spoke at another summit focusing on new technologies in Paris city hall. He said:

Corrupt Trump and Putin cannot pledge to fight election interference when they are knee-deep in the crimes themselves. As most Americans know by now, last May, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to oversee the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. There is plenty of evidence pointing to the fact that the Trump campaign and Russian officials were in communication before the election. There is also strong speculation that more indictments are going to come in the near future.

In addition, lets not forget that Mr. Trump is guilty of his own cyberbullying on a daily basis it seems. It is clear that Trump has been the largest bully of the press, and even referred to them as the true enemy of the people, which has escalated into a hostile and dangerous climate for reporters these days.

Mr. Trump slings insults on a daily basis, and people saw the irony when First Lady Melania started a anti-cyberbullying campaign of her own, and now the fact that the U.S. wont sign on to a pledge to fight cyber crime kind of makes Melanias campaign null and void. The so-called president of the United States is as corrupt as they come.

50 Nations Reach Cyber Crime Agreement Trump Putin Refuse To Sign


(Natural News) If youre waiting for someone to save you from the tidal wave of corporate censorship, government authoritarianism and deranged left-wing violence, youre following a mirage. No one is coming to save you. If you want to live as a free person in a free world, youre going to have to demand it, fight for it and secure it.

Tech giants, for example, absolutely will not stop their censorship unless they are forced to stop.

Tyrannical government will never shrink its own size and power unless it is forced to shrink.

There are no saviors running for office.

There are no angels running tech companies.

And God is not going to intervene and stop evil people from destroying our world.

No one is coming to save us.

Were going to have to fight this (metaphorical) battle ourselves. Its time we all owned up to this reality and started taking action to protect our basic human rights in the face of unrestrained tyranny. Destroying the tech giants censorship stranglehold on humanity is now a matter of self-defense.

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For years, I have been warning people about facial recognition in retail stores, but this story might convince you to avoid retail stores altogether.

A recent article in Biometric Update. com (BU) reveals that retail stores have a master plan to convince Americans to accept facial biometrics.

BU interviewed four facial biometric company CEOs and what they revealed is frightening.

The article starts off innocuously enough by telling us that U.S. retail biometrics is used primarily in loss-prevention but things quickly take a turn for the worse.

BUs interview with FaceFirst CEO Peter Tripp is especially disconcerting, as he reveals how retailers plan to use a facial recognition opt-in environment.

There is another step though that exists which has more to do with consumer loyalty, and consumer experience, that is not quite as expensive an endeavor, and I think there are lots of folks looking at ways of doing that in a friendly opt-in environment, where privacy is not the cornerstone issue, Tripp said.

If any of this sounds familiar [its] because they are doing the exact same thing with digital drivers licenses.

Biometric companies are trying to convince Americans to accept digital drivers license by tying them to loyalty rewards programs.  Last year the Lincoln Motor Company installed complimentary TSA PreCheck biometric scanners in all their new vehicles so customers can get through airport and sport stadium check-in lines quicker.

 According to a recent ZDNet article a new partnership between SureID a biometric fingerprinting company and Robbie.AI a facial recognition company could create a national biometric database.

Adding facial recognition from Robbie.AI gives the two firms the building blocks of a nationwide biometric database that could be used in a number of settings, from retail authentication and employment verification to more speculative applications like driver-identification for keyless self-driving cars or even user recognition in future robotic platforms. As technology emerges and companies adopt more sophisticated forms of security, it will be crucial for safety and security to authenticate the real identity of technicians and consumers, says Ned Hayes, General Manager at SureID.

BUs article reveals how retailers plan to identify every customer.

Whoo.ai CEO Arturo Falck said,  Once companies are using this type of technology for crime prevention purposes, theres no reason why they should not be using it for upselling their customers.

SensibleVision CEO George Brostoff sees customer loyalty rewards as a logical next step in the U.S. And Goode Intelligence Founder Alan Goode, sees a huge potential for biometric customer loyalty programs.  Goode also thinks retail facial recognition should be used for age verification in self-check out systems.

A company called BiteKiosk wants restaurants to use their self-service facial recognition kiosks to increase profits and offers customers food discounts as an incentive to use them.

Falck said, loyalty rewards could be used to convince the public that facial recognition is not that bad.

Goode admits that facial recognition is really about creating a national biometric database.

Oddly or perhaps by design their is no mention of retailers creating facial recognition watchlists.

So what is their master plan?

Tripp revealed that retailers are planning on a gradual expansion of facial recognition.

The BU article goes on to say that retailers have been slowly installing facial recognition in back-of-house deployments which builds familiarity not only with retailers but with the staff as well.

The article ends on a disturbing quote, the infrastructure in this case is peoples perspective. That can change quickly.

Our perspectives had better change or corporate America will buy everyones identity using rewards programs and the ability to skip check-in lines.

National Facial Recognition Database To Use Loyalty Rewards To Identify American Shoppers


The political war being waged against President Trump is both despicable and effective. Despicable because the basis of the animus  alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 election  has no basis in fact, and effective because it is perpetrated by the U.S. legal and intelligence community who, in the minds of most Americans, are seen as defenders of the United States.

The indictments by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein of Russian intelligence officers allegedly involved in the 2016 presidential election was rather transparently meant to undercut Trump and his summit with Vladimir Putin. Instead it looks like payback to the administration for having the temerity to question the intelligence communitys assessment that Russia interfered in the election.

The indictments gave lie to the assertion that the Justice Department and the intelligence community are not political. These indictments were meant for domestic political consumption. Their purpose was to arm the presidents political enemies with the on-going charge of Russian involvement in his election and to undercut his presidency.

The central campaign in this political war has been to pit Trump against the intelligence community. Needless to say, many within the various agencies, including the CIA, FBI and NSA, are devoted public servants with the best interest of the country at heart and who do their jobs honestly and effectively. But many are also committed leftists in whom progressivism, anti-Americanism, multiculturalism, and moral relativism are deeply embedded.

Witness that this is the same intelligence community that had been led, under President Obama, by CIA chief John Brennan -- who admitted in a polygraph test that in 1980, at a dangerous point in the Cold War, he voted for Communist Party candidate Gus Hall for president. That the Communist Party USA was loyal to the Soviet Union should be lost on no one. That Brennan would have been allowed to run the Central Intelligence Agency is itself nothing short of amazing. Such was the lack of moral and intellectual seriousness exercised by Congress during the Obama administration. That he should call President Trumps press conference with Putin nothing short of treasonous is the act of an intelligence operative who wishes to bring down a government.

Both Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are hard-core leftists who, although they lacked any credible evidence, lent credibility to this notion of Russian collusion  and hence gave credence to the Mueller investigation. It appears that their purpose was to signal to Washingtons ruling class that the intelligence community was going to resist the transformation of American politics that the election of Donald Trump had ushered in. Even stranger, that ruling class is now the protectorate of the US intelligence community. The testimony and actions of the FBIs Peter Strzok bear this out.

For the record, let us state that Russia meddles in the affairs of the United States and has done so for the past century. It is what a great nation would do to influence world events to its liking. Russian intelligence services are masters at manipulations great and small. When called upon they can do everything from foment domestic insurrections to sponsor terrorism while ensuring plausible deniability. Hacking into the DNC servers is not quite so challenging.

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union annually spent billions in an attempt to demoralize the United States and undermine the West. Its method was to engage in sophisticated disinformation campaigns and deception operations around the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the cultural conflicts of the 60s and 70s, and the campaign for nuclear disarmament, to name but a few. During that time, Soviet intelligence had agents of influence in Washington and around the U.S. In this effort, the Soviets had thousands of university professors, left-wing intellectuals and journalists who were useful idiots in the anti-Americanism that pervaded Washingtons political discourse, and the universities that educated Americas children. The world we live in today and many who lead this country on the political left have been shaped by this anti-Americanism. Such is world politics.

As I have written previously, it was not in the interest of Russia to help elect a candidate like Donald Trump, who had pledged to rebuild the American military, build a national missile defense, and guarantee total energy independence. Each is antithetical to the strategic and economic interests of Russia. If Trump gets just one of these three things right, and he is likely to get all three, it will have dramatic negative ramifications for Russias position in the world. Trumps bold announcement recently about a Space Force capable of ensuring American security against Russia and China is further evidence of that.

If Hillary Clinton had won, Russia would have had to deal with a liberal interventionist who had demonstrated little strategic comprehension of world affairs. This is the same Hillary Clinton whose behavior as secretary of state was a daily exercise in collusion and general malfeasance. In that role, Clinton, with her unsecured server, laid bare the inner workings of the Obama State Department to the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and every other enemy intelligence service. She also saw no problem in using her office as a fundraising arm of the Clinton Global Initiative, allowing her husband to collect speaking fees from countries doing business before her, including Russia. All things considered, the Russians know well how to manage crooked politicians. A Hillary presidency would have been a dream come true.

As it stands, the Russians are being charged with hacking into computer systems and manipulating various internet sites and social media to somehow give Donald Trump the advantage. The purpose of Russias interference is perhaps exactly how it has played out: the creation of a useful narrative that can be exploited in the press and the U.S. intelligence community to undermine the president and somehow foster the despicable meme that he and his family are traitors. The unfortunate part is that the intelligence community took the bait. Given the political leanings of Brennan and Clapper, it is not surprising.

This political war is far from over. Thankfully, Donald Trump is not giving an inch to his political enemies. Unfortunately, despite their lack of success, his enemies are not giving in either.

The Trouble With Brennan Clappers Political War vs Trump


Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes joins the Alex Jones Show to discuss the lefts fear of black Americans waking up to the terrible policies of the Democrats.

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It is unclear if Lisa Page will appear.

The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former FBI lawyer Lisa Page to appear for a private interview on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the subpoena. Page exchanged text messages critical of Donald Trump with FBI agent Peter Strzok, who will testify publicly before the panel on Thursday. Page and Strzok both worked on the FBI investigation into Hillary Clintons emails and later special counsel Robert Muellers Russia investigation. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the subpoena isnt public.

 It is unclear if Page will appear. Her lawyer, Amy Jeffress, said in a statement that they are still waiting to work out a reasonable date for the interview. Jeffress said they are also still waiting on documents from the FBI to prepare. We asked the committee staff to explain the scope of the investigation and provide sufficient notice that would allow her to prepare, which are normal conditions for congressional committees, but these committees have not followed the normal process, Jeffress said.

Lisa Page resigned from her position as an FBI lawyer on May 4th.

FBIs chief of counterintelligence, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were caught exchanging anti-Trump text messages over the summer of 2017.

Lisa Page subsequently left the Special Counsel investigation in September of 2017.

In what is believed to be the most damning text exchange between the FBI lovebirds was a discussion about an insurance policy to keep Trump out of office.

I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andys office...that theres no way [Trump] gets elected...but Im afraid we cant take that risk, Strzok text messaged to Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 exchange, referring to Andrew McCabe.

Its like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before youre 40, Strzok added.

In another very damning exchange between the FBI lovebirds, Peter Strzok told a very worried Lisa Page well stop Trump from becoming president.

Strzok is set to publicly testify this Thursday in a joint hearing to the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees.

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The Department of Justice on Wednesday said it would look into allegations of misuse of government resources to advance personal interests after James OKeefes Project Veritas released a second video this week exposing deep state federal employees pursuing socialist agendas while on the clock at their government jobs.

In the latest undercover video, DOJ paralegal and Democratic Socialists of America member, Allison Hrabar, reveals that there is a lot of talk about how we can, like, resist from the inside. She discusses a fellow DSA member working from within the Department of Agriculture who is slowing down the process by which people are eliminated from the food stamp program.

PV Journalist: ...she mailed it to you in like physical snail mail like post office and then you like got it. Thats like awesome.

Schubel: Yeah. Its kind of like the Nixon, deep throat type of thing.

We have a member who works for the people who distribute food stamps, and they can, like, take that away, and theyre slowing what they do... What theyre doing means that people are going to be able to stay on food stamps for another month or two, which is, like, really important, Hrabar said.

Hrabar also appears to use her DOJ work computer to research DSA political targets  including looking up the license plate of a lobbyist in order to organize a protest outside his home.

In another portion of the video, Jessica Schubel  former Chief of Staff for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under teh Obama administration says that there is like, a little resistance movement within the government. Schubel also states that she received confidential information from a friend at the Department of Heath and Human Services.

In response to the Veritas videos, a DOJ spokesperson said: These allegations are deeply concerning. Department policy prohibits misuse of government resources to advance personal interests. We are looking into this immediately and have referred this matter to the Inspector General as well.

DOJ to Investigate After Veritas Video Exposes Resistance in Agencies


Right wing comedian Tim Young isnt being paid for his appearances on Fox 5 DC, so he decided to make the most of his time and spent an entire segment making gifs of himself to use on Twitter.

During the interview, Young managed to get material for eight separate gifs.

Hey listen, you know I dont get paid to be here right? Young asked the host, Jim Lokay, at the start of the interview.

Im aware. We pay you in coffee, Lokay responded.

Watch, this is what were going to do tonight. Im going to get free gifs out of this. Watch hold on, Tim said, looking at the camera and pointing at his head. Im going to use that on my Twitter.

The fun continued throughout the six minute long interview.

Im tired of typical political commentary and want to have fun with it, Young told The Gateway Pundit. I always see gifs used on twitter.... so I thought why not make them while Im on TV this time?

Lokay, had no idea about Youngs plan for using the segment to his social media advantage.

Jim, the host had no idea that I was going to do it... and you  could see that he thought it was hilarious when i started with it in the clip.  Afterwards he shook his head and laughed more, Young said.

You can catch Tim Young on The Final 5 on Fox DC on Friday evenings.

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The long-awaited Android app for Fortnite could be released as early as this week by its developers Epic Games, but there's a couple of catches.

The first is that the release of the popular game  described by its developers as a cross between Minecraft and Left 4 Dead  may coincide with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9. A deal between Samsung and Epic Games means the game could be exclusively available on the premium device for a 30-day period.

This means that only people willing and able to shell out around 1,000 on the Samsung smartphone will actually be able to play Fortnite on Android.

Samsung is expected to release the Note 9 at an event on Friday, 10 August, though there has been no official word about the deal from either Epic Games or Samsung. Instead, rumours that Fortnite will be pre-installed with the phone have come from reports in blogs 9to5Google and XDA Developers.

The second catch is that the app will not be available through the Google Play Store, after Epic Games complained about the "disproportionate" cut that Google takes for enabling downloads through its online app store.

Google takes a 30 per cent cut of sales made through Google Play, which is the main platform through which Android users download apps to their smartphones and tablets.

Tim Sweeney, the chief executive of Epic Games, said in a statement shared with The Verge that his firm wants a "direct relationship with our customers on all platforms where that's possible."

He added: "The great thing about the internet and the digital revolution is that this is possible, now that physical storefronts and middlemen distributors are no longer required."

Android is the last major platform yet to support Fortnite, with players already able to download the game for PC, Mac, Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and iPhones and iPads through Apple's official app store.

Apple also takes a 30 per cent cut of sales through the App Store, however the Cupertino company has much tighter controls over installing apps and software through unofficial platforms.

Fortnite for Android devices will therefore only be available for download through the Epic Games website, and only in September. Its lack of availability has attracted cyber criminals, who have sought to capitalise on the game's popularity through fake links to Android versions of Fortnite.

Videos on YouTube also purport to explain how to download Fortnite for Android, leading to fake versions that contain malware.

Lukas Stefanko, a malware researcher for computer security firm ESET, told The Independent in June: "There are dozens of YouTube videos with millions of views leading users to fake ad-generating revenue."

Mr Stefanko added that anyone who downloads these versions risk infecting their devices with ransomware, banking malware and surveillance software that allows hackers to spy on people through their smartphone and tablet cameras.

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The media gets it wrong more times than not. But perhaps their biggest miss was predicting that the economy couldnt grow under President Donald Trump.

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A major NHS report has found that one in eight young people in England, aged between five and 19, suffer with a mental health disorder.

The survey, which looked at data from more than 9,000 children living in England and registered with a GP, found an increase in conditions such as anxiety, depression and OCD in children over the past decade.

A worrying one in 18 children aged two to four years now has at least one mental health condition, while 17-19-year-old girls have been identified as a high risk group, with one in four suffering with disorder and 46.8% of children in this age category attempting self-harm or suicide.

The emotional wellbeing of children is just as important as their physical health, and while having a conversation with your child about mental issues can be challenging, it can be the important first step in helping them to find the support they need.

Sarah Kendrick, head of service from childrens mental health charity Place2Be, reveals the dos and donts for talking to a young people you think may be struggling to cope.

Its never too early or too late to start thinking about your childs mental health  but do make sure you choose your language carefully, says Kendrick. From a young age, children can start to understand difficult feelings and worries. Referring to characters in story books or on TV can be a helpful way to get them thinking about different emotions and how to cope with them.

Its important to be honest with your children and answer their questions, but be careful not to bombard them, warns Kendrick.

She suggests answering simply and in a way that addresses their personal anxieties. Check what it is they want to know, so youre focusing on what theyre asking you.

Do... wait for the right moment

If you become aware of a problem, it can be tempting to rush in and insist on a chat straight away  but sometimes, waiting until things calm down can be the best approach.

Finding a way not to put pressure on them, such as in the car or over a quiet activity, can help the conversation feel like less of an interrogation, says Kendrick, which is especially helpful for teenagers.

Dont... pretend to have all the answers

Rather than jumping straight to suggesting solutions, try to think with your child about what might be helpful, and come up with the answers together, Kendrick advises. This will help empower your child and give them a sense of having some control over their situation.

Its really challenging when we all lead such busy lives, but getting rid of distractions will let your child know that you have time for them. Committing to this regularly will remind your child that they can come to you if theyre struggling with something.

Dont... tell them to just get over it

If your child tells you something is bothering them, take it seriously, Kendrick stresses. What can seem small to us as adults can feel enormous for a child. Whats more, it will keep the future lines of communication open when other challenges come up.

As parents, we are constant role models, says Kendrick. Its important to think about your own behaviour and how you deal with emotions, such as anger and frustration, in front of your children  as this will influence how they behave and cope themselves.

Dont forget that its natural for everyone to get upset or angry sometimes, and parenting can be a very stressful experience.

Anyone can be affected by poor mental health, including children and young people. We wouldnt feel embarrassed or ashamed if our child had asthma  the same goes for mental health issues.

Do... ask for help

If you talk to your child and youre still concerned, Kendrick says the best thing you can do is talk to someone  either someone at your childs school, or your GP can recommend local organisations who can offer support.

If at first you dont succeed, says Kendrick, dont give up. It may feel difficult, particularly if your young person doesnt seem to want to open up, but they will appreciate the effort and in the long run, will remember that they can come to you to talk when the time is right for them.

One in eight children have mental health disorders how should we talk to kids about emotional well


If this latest revelation from the New York Times doesnt drive President Trump to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, or convince Congress to impeach him, then we cant imagine what would.

In a shocking report citing a bevy of anonymous DOJ officials, the NYT recounted on Friday an aborted mutiny attempt organized by Rosenstein, who allegedly tried to organize members of Trumps cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment to oust Trump from office. In an attempt to persuade the clearly reluctant members of Trumps cabinet, Rosenstein suggested that he or other officials should secretly tape Trump to expose the chaos he said was engulfing the West Wing. According to NYT, the sources were either briefed on Rosensteins plans, or learned about it from the files of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired after being disgraced by an inspector general investigation. ABC News, which also reported the story, cited sources familiar with McCabes files. A grand jury is also weighing whether to press charges against McCabe for allegedly misleading the inspector general.

Mr. Rosenstein made the remarks about secretly recording Mr. Trump and about the 25th Amendment in meetings and conversations with other Justice Department and F.B.I. officials. Several people described the episodes, insisting on anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The people were briefed either on the events themselves or on memos written by F.B.I. officials, including Andrew G. McCabe, then the acting bureau director, that documented Mr. Rosensteins actions and comments. None of Mr. Rosensteins proposals apparently came to fruition. It is not clear how determined he was about seeing them through, though he did tell Mr. McCabe that he might be able to persuade Attorney General Jeff Sessions and John F. Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security and now the White House chief of staff, to mount an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment.

According to the NYT, this all happened during the spring of 2017, shortly after Trump cited a letter that Rosenstein had penned criticizing former FBI Director James Comeys handling of the Clinton probe as justification to fire Comey. Rosenstein reportedly felt he had been used by the president as an excuse to fire Comey. Rosenstein soon began telling colleagues that he would ultimately be vindicated for his role in Comeys firing. Around the same time, he began to express his displeasure with Trumps handling of the hiring process for Comeys replacement.

The presidents reliance on his memo caught Mr. Rosenstein by surprise, and he became angry at Mr. Trump, according to people who spoke to Mr. Rosenstein at the time. He grew concerned that his reputation had suffered harm and wondered whether Mr. Trump had motives beyond Mr. Comeys treatment of Mrs. Clinton for ousting him, the people said. A determined Mr. Rosenstein began telling associates that he would ultimately be vindicated for his role in the matter. One week after the firing, Mr. Rosenstein met with Mr. McCabe and at least four other senior Justice Department officials, in part to explain his role in the situation. During their discussion, Mr. Rosenstein expressed frustration at how Mr. Trump had conducted the search for a new F.B.I. director, saying the president was failing to take the candidate interviews seriously. A handful of politicians and law enforcement officials, including Mr. McCabe, were under consideration.

Rosenstein also tried to recruit some of his would-be co-conspirators to surreptitiously record Trump in the Oval Office.

However, although Rosenstein appeared conflicted, regretful and emotional during what can only be described as a coup attempt against a sitting president, even the paper admit that his conduct in attempting to solicit the illicit wiretapping of a sitting president was extremely reckless and unwarranted, and that, if uncovered, it could be used as grounds to fire Rosenstein.

If not him, then Mr. McCabe or other F.B.I. officials interviewing with Mr. Trump for the job could perhaps wear a wire or otherwise record the president, Mr. Rosenstein offered. White House officials never checked his phone when he arrived for meetings there, Mr. Rosenstein added, implying it would be easy to secretly record Mr. Trump. The suggestion itself was remarkable. While informants or undercover agents regularly use concealed listening devices to surreptitiously gather evidence for federal investigators, they are typically targeting drug kingpins and Mafia bosses in criminal investigations, not a president viewed as ineffectively conducting his duties. In the end, the idea went nowhere, the officials said. But they called Mr. Rosensteins comments an example of how erratically he was behaving while he was taking part in the interviews for a replacement F.B.I. director, considering the appointment of a special counsel and otherwise running the day-to-day operations of the more than 100,000 people at the Justice Department.

The Times and ABC reported that Rosenstein told McCabe that he believed Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly would go along with the plan. Another source said they believed Rosenstein was being sarcastic when he  made the comment about recording Trump

Rosenstein has decried the story as factually incorrect and said that based on my personal dealings with the president, that there isnt any basis to invoke the 25th amendment. This, of course, is tantamount to a deep state insider admitting that there is no factual basis to impeach Trump.

A lawyer representing McCabe told CNN and the Times that his client had documented his conversations in Rosenstein in a series of memos, which he later turned over to Mueller more than a year ago. However, a set of those memos was left at the FBI when McCabe departed.

McCabes lawyer, Michael Bromwich, said in a statement to CNN that his client drafted memos to memorialize significant discussions he had with high level officials and preserved them so he would have an accurate, contemporaneous record of those discussions. When he was interviewed by the special counsel more than a year ago, he gave all of his memos  classified and unclassified  to the special counsels office. A set of those memos remained at the FBI at the time of his departure in late January 2018. He has no knowledge of how any member of the media obtained those memos, Bromwich added.

The Washington Post reported that FBI lawyer Lisa Page (the former lover of disgraced FBI special agent Peter Strzok) was also at the meeting where wiretapping was discussed. WaPo also said that McCabe had pushed for the DOJ to open an investigation into the president, to which Rosenstein replied, what do you want to do Andy, wire the president?

While Rosenstein and Trump clearly never saw eye to eye, the level of resentment that Rosenstein harbored toward the president was not previously known. Unsurprisingly, the story has already fired up speculation  that Rosenstein may have been the anonymous administration official who penned a critical op-ed that was published earlier this month in the New York Times. Underscoring the seriousness of these allegations, CNN reported that the McCabe memos that were described to ABC and the Times have been turned over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Rosentein has been working as a public servant since clerking for a federal judge after graduating from Harvard Law School, according to the Times, which also notes that Rosenstein also considered appointing James Cole, a former Deputy AG, as special counsel. Cole, the Times noted, was a lawyer and longtime confidant for close Clinton associate Sydney Blumenthal.

The story is bound to revive suspicions about the FBIs role in trying to stifle the Trump presidency, an d further erode the bureaus already damaged credibility. As Arthur Schwartz put it, enough is enough:

And if you still had any lingering doubts that the deep state doesnt exist...well...

Video Rosenstein Proposed Secretly Recording Trump Invoking 25th Amendment


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Michale Graves, formerly of The Misfits, joins Alex Jones and Owen Shroyer to discuss the massive deception by MSM on the American people as they deny Jim Acosta put his hands on a White House intern as well as denying the possible danger looming as the migrant caravan approaches our southern border.

Michale Graves The Left Is Trying To Usher 1000 Years Of Darkness Into America


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It is well-known that Mr. Trump has had affairs with many women and most likely, several that havent come to the publics attention yet. Most recently, Trumps scandalous affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels was brought into the open along with the fact that he likely directed his personal attorney Michael Cohen to pay her $130,000 in hush money to stay quiet about it.

Now, it has been reported that former National Enquirer editor Barry Levine is penning a book about Donald Trumps love life, and may even lift the lid on the controversial relationship between American Media owner David Pecker and the president.

A source says that the book will look into Trump and his women, although other insiders tell us that it could be more wide-ranging, even looking at the formerly cozy relationship between the Enquirers owner, David Pecker, and Trump. That said, its unclear exactly what Levines contract with the Enquirer would allow him to reveal about Pecker.

Pecker has been at the center of the investigation into hush money payouts to Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal. Both women claim to have had affairs with Mr. Trump while he was married to First Lady Melania Trump. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal back in June:

Levine seems to have a sort of patent on political exposes, and was part of a team that uncovered vice presidential candidate John Edwards love child in 2010. Levine told New York Magazine:

During the interview, he also said:

The Enquirer has been accused of using its financial muscle to buy up the stories of women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump and then burying them. Karen McDougal, who claims to have had an affair with Trump while he was married to his wife Melania, alleges she was the subject of a so-called catch and kill operation to silence her, whereby the magazine bought the exclusive rights to her story but then did not publish it.

Pecker was also an old friend of Trumps who had been a guest at the presidents Mar-a-Lago resort before, and once published a magazine called Trump Style.

In August though, Pecker accepted immunity in Mullers investigation, which led to speculation that he may be willing to provide details on whether Trump was involved in paying his accusers hush money.

If Mr. Trump did indeed break the law in regards to hush money payments, Peckers testimony could provide evidence of that because he was involved in the transactions.

Trumps Numerous Sexual Affairs Put On Front Street In New Book Its Gross


Responding to a New York Times op-ed written by an alleged saboteur within the White House, President Trump Tweeted out Treason? and called it a gutless editorial.

We have somebody in what I call the failing New York Times talking about how hes part of the resistance within the Trump administration, POTUS told the media during a meeting with county sheriffs from around the nation.

Mocking the media and joking about being re-elected in 2020, Trump said, Someday when Im not president, which hopefully will be in about six-and-a-half years from now, The New York Times and CNN and all of these phony media outlets will be out of business ... because therell be nothing to write.

Trump also took the opportunity to remind the media of all the positive economic news they could cover instead of hit pieces written by unnamed sources.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also responded to the piece on Twitter, saying, This coward should do the right thing and resign.

The article, released on Wednesday, was penned by an anonymous writer claiming to be a senior official in the Trump administration who is part of a quiet resistance in the White House.

The failing NYT admitted the authors gender, writing, he and others are working to frustrate the presidents misguided impulses.

Treason President Trump Slams Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Gutless Editorial


A socialist bookshop ransacked by fascists. The home of Jacob Rees-Mogg daubed with offensive graffiti. The now routine threats of death and rape on social media. The well-documented rise in antisemitic and Islamophobic attacks. Mosques and Jewish graveyards desecrated. Talk of betrayal and treason over Brexit. The fevered speculation about Tommy Robinson, the continuing terrorist plots hatched by Islamists and British nationalists; the EDL, mistrust of mainstream media, attacks on journalists, at least in America, as well as the assassination of Jo Cox MP during the EU referendum campaign, a moment that should have been a turning point, but turned out not to be.

Ive even had it myself, taking a call only last week from someone who sounded like they were trembling with rage about Tommy Robinson, Brexit, uncontrolled immigration and the mainstream media, full of conspiracy theories about black people conspiring to kill him. I did my best to allay his fears and talk reason, and explain the difference between patriotism and nationalism. He thinks the press is covering up more child abuse rings, even though papers such as The Times broke the stories. I tried to deflect him, but what was most disturbing was how the familiar soundbites of the Trumpists and the Farageists and alt right YouTube stars came right back at me, as in an echo chamber.

This young man had got through to me, a supposed member of the media elite, and I couldnt just dismiss him, Gordon Brown-style, as just some ignorant, bigoted racist. He wanted to know why his community had been so damaged by globalisation, and thats a perfectly good question. He blamed immigration, which too many do.

That was where the argument has long since been lost, with consequences we will have to live with for a long time. He also employed the whataboutery techniques in argument, which is now the way of Twitter  play the man, not the ball. So if you say immigration can be good for public services or economic growth, you get a line about it being OK for the rich, and so on. Its just like when Alastair Campbell, say, challenges Aaron Banks on Twitter about the EU Leave campaign: Banks just hits back with stuff about Blair and the Iraq war. It is an attack style of debate familiar to students of the press  personal assassination, not argument, like the openly gay ex-Olympic fencer High Court judge who voted the wrong way on Article 50. The editors of the Mail, Murdoch and Express titles have much to answer for.

So now I ask you as much as my caller asked me: what is happening to our poor old country?

For people to feel enraged enough about what is happening to them and their communities, they need the worst of propaganda and the worst of leadership. Step forward our tabloid press, all happy to furnish any quantity of scare stories about Muslims and gypsies, about terror arriving with child refugees, about scroungers and paedophiles, about hypocritical media luvvies, about crooked EU bureaucrats and British politicians, about capitalists only out to fleece you, about celebrities who are too fat or too thin, too rich or too poor, too grand or too common  anything, anything, anything at all, to give their readers something to hate. They are far more effective hate preachers than Abu Hamza was.

Their reach is immensely larger nowadays, thanks to the internet, and they are now joined by an increasing number of bogus news sites. All of these websites, old and new, give the impression that no one  not the BBC, the churches, the courts, MPs, the civil service, celebs, Meghan Markles dad, Ed Milibands dead dad (who supposedly hated Britain), Gary Lineker, your GP or the lollipop man  can be trusted or respected.

It is one thing to hold power to account; quite another to provoke hysterical paranoia. Now, though, like so much else, the phenomenon is instant and globalised, funded and transmitted across borders. And stupid: the leader of Ukip, Gerard Batten, veers from the nasty (his views on Islam) to the clownish when he calls for a boycott of Walkers crisps, so incensed is he at Lineker, who you may remember does telly ads for them sometimes. But he has a stronger voice than before because no one edits his barmy copy.

Social media, even now only a decade old, is the great incubator for the propagandists of today  a paradise where anyone can become their very own proprietor, editor and journalist with the aid of a smartphone and Twitter account (and not just Donald Trump). These thousands of keyboard warriors feed on the tabloids and the alternative facts news sites by sharing their lies; and they, in turn, pick up and amplify Twitterstorms, and pour their bile into the comments sections of news websites (please see the DM Reporter Twitter feed for some alarming examples of the type).

Once upon a time this kind of scale of amplification of bar-room prejudice was impossible, not because the nutty ideas werent around  from the inchoate Jewish international conspiracy to theories of racial superiority they have a long, inglorious history  but because the technology for it didnt exist. If you were unlucky enough, you might find a bunch of neo-fascists or revolutionary socialists trying to sell their overpriced, underpowered newspapers on a street corner or outside a football match on a wet Saturday afternoon. Or you might get a leaflet through the door of an evening calling for compulsory mass repatriation or for capitalism to be smashed, while all you want to do is watch Corrie. But that was about it. They, far left and right alike, tried, with limited success, to infiltrate the mainstream, but they were beaten back. They were tiny; they had little access to broadcast media, nor the press.

We know that the internet has changed everything, and not the least of it is to spread both leftist and rightist propaganda, but most of all the nutcase stuff. We now live in a world where Abu Hamza says hes a fan of Donald Trump; and David Dukes, of the Ku Klux Klan, praises Jeremy Corbyn. I am not claiming equivalence between the two, except insofar as they both endanger rational debate and proper liberal democratic values. Which they do.

Usually I resist the temptation to take a few fragmentary pieces of evidence, stitch them together and create some kind of unifying narrative. Joining the dots isnt always the answer. Ive lived long enough, too, to recall episodes of violent political action in the past. National Front marches in the 1970s; counter-demos and the death of the activist Blair Peach in Southall in 1979; the anarchist Angry Brigade who sent letter bombs to cabinet ministers; the violence of the miners strike and the Wapping dispute; race riots in the 1950s and 1980s; the poll tax riots in 1990. Peer further back in British history and youll find the Peterloo massacre, the Suffragettes, a naval mutiny, Mosleys blackshirts and the Cable Street riot, a civil war and much else, and thats aside from Ireland. British political life has always been a rougher game that wed like to think.

Yet there is a new thing going on here, and its this. What we have now isnt the occasional set piece demo or riot, or epochal change, but a generalised increase in low-level violence  violence of language and gestures usually, but sometimes more, and now much more routine than once it was. Its sad.

I really never thought Id feel sorry for Jacob Rees-Mogg, the fabulously wealthy eccentric Conservative MP who, in their eccentric way, many in his party would like to make prime minister. I fancy he doesnt need my sympathy. Yet the images of the vandalism at his home in Somerset were upsetting. True, there was no violence against the person (the Rees-Moggs  all eight of them, or maybe more were on a break in New York while Somersets finest were daubing scum on their Land Rover Discovery and leaving condoms around the place, presumably a protest against Mr Rees-Moggs views on abortion). Shut up and die was scrawled on the garage, along with the puzzling slogan politics = death.

Momentarily the incident put me in mind of the time Alan Partridge found that someone (scum, sub-human scum)  had graffitied his Rover 800 with the slogan COCK PISS PARTRIDGE so that he found himself basically driving around in an obscene publication. Alan  quite smart, this  altered the graffiti to read COOK, PASS, BABTRIDGE, so maybe the Rees-Moggs could make the Land Rover read STUNNING, pending the respray.

But of course this is no laughing matter, any more than the thugs who turned over the socialist bookshop wearing Trump masks  a hardly coincidental message. It is ugly violence, and you only need to ask how you would feel if some did that to you. Where will it all end?

It wont, most likely, as it is becoming the new normal, even when Brexit is over. In fact, especially when Brexit is over, because the likely economic disruption it will cause  house prices crashing, a large increase in joblessness, generally less money around  will provoke an orgy of blame-throwing, and someone will have to take the role of scapegoat because, after all, we cant admit it was our own fault.

We know from the Sky News FOI request from local councils that many are making contingency pas for civil disturbances and theyre right to do so. We will have more such low level attacks: on media offices, on MPs and their property; on big companies that dont pay their tax; on government buildings, on party offices, on mosques and temples, on synagogues and churches and, indeed, on socialist bookshops.

This will be the new level of background noise to British politics. It does not mean were heading for Prime Minister Tommy Robinson, or even Ukip and its current extremist leadership. It is not like the last days of the Weimar Republic or the Romanovs, or something. In the 1970s there were books written asking if Britain had become ungovernable, thanks to a combination of union and corporate power, and the rise of Trotskyist and neo-Nazi extremism. That didnt come to pass, and nor will it now.

But we will find ourselves getting acclimatised to what they once in Northern Ireland called an acceptable level of violence, about which little can practically be done and which we will just have to get used to, along with the occasional terror attack and political assassination. As Donald Trump himself might say: Sad.

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(Natural News) It has come to our attention here at Natural News that Google is now marching in lockstep with the authoritarian Chinese government and its communist agenda of total censorship and population control.

According to new reports, Google is right now in the process of developing a completely redesigned search engine platform for China that meets all of the totalitarian regimes communist guidelines for permissible content.

Chinese dictator-for-life Xi Jinping reportedly partnered up with Google to design a brand new platform controlling everything that Chinas 1.3 billion citizens are allowed to see online. In other words, only government-approved content will be allowed to show up on Googles new and improved search engine in China.

Meanwhile, Google is now actively censoring conservative content here in the United States, as well as manipulating search results to favor Democratic political candidates like Hillary Clinton.

We can only imagine what such a search engine might look like: Looking for information about Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and its Buddhist population? writes David Unsworth for PanAm Post.

Tibet has always been part of China, the Dalai Lama is a fraud and a counter-revolutionary, and Buddhists are not good Communists. Want to find out about Chinas mass concentration camps for political prisoners? They dont exist. The Tiananmen Square massacre? It didnt happen, he adds about the types of politically-correct content thats sure to show up on Google China Edition.

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Revisionist history will be rampant on Chinas Google, in other words, and the general population will be none the wiser because thats what will be presented to them as fact. And its exactly what Google and other tech platforms here in the States are doing in the name of combating fake news and Russian propaganda.

To many leftists, this online book burning by Google is a necessary step to preserve democracy. But American patriots will immediately recognize Googles censorship agenda as an evil plot to abolish freedom of speech all around the world  not to mention the U.S. Constitution itself.

Censoring people like Alex Jones, whom the establishment claims is spreading wild conspiracy theories and hate speech, represents the first step in a total information takeover by Big Tech. Its an unabashedly pro-communist agenda thats now in plain view for the entire world to see.

Liberals are, of course, cheering it all on because the current target happens to be conservatives. But what these useful idiots on the left fail to realize is that their day will eventually come, too. All free speech will one day be abolished if multinational corporations like Google arent stopped.

Google is led and staffed by the far-left, says Unsworth. Peruse their campaign contributions ... which go almost entirely to the Democratic Party. Take a look at the way they inject far left-wing bias into search results.

Google isnt even being honest about what the corrupt left is doing to other people on the left, perhaps most notably Hillary Clintons theft of the Democratic nomination for president from who should have been the rightful recipient, Bernie Sanders.

When it comes to our democracy ... its very foundation is freedom of speech, concludes Unsworth. Freedom of speech is under attack from our nations own big tech. And that should be a major cause of concern for us all.

More news on the lefts continued attempts to eliminate freedom of speech in America with the help of Big Tech, is available at LiberalMob.com.

Also, be sure to check out REAL.video for uncensored truth videos that you wont find at Google-owned YouTube.

Same tech giants that refuse to display Alex Jones content are thrilled to help the communist Chines


Westminster Bridge killer Khalid Masood was a controlling and arrogant person who believed he was "a genius", an inquest heard.

In a psychological profile, Dr Brock Chisholm told the Old Bailey how Masood had believed he was extraordinary since he was a child.

Masood killed four pedestrians on the bridge in March last year, before fatally stabbing PC Keith Palmer.

Dr Chisholm told the inquest on Tuesday: Masood believed he was more intelligent than other people.

"He enjoyed dominating people and viewed himself as special in the eyes of God. Indeed, like a genius.

"He believed he was extraordinary and believed this since he was a child.

"When this was threatened he behaved in a way that masked that. When he didn't get into grammar school he blamed his mother for this."

He added: "Masood appeared unable to form meaningful and long-term relationships, this is likely because he had impaired ability to empathise to understanding the emotions of others and act accordingly."

Gareth Patterson QC, asking questions on behalf of the families of the four victims who died on the bridge, told the witness a copy of Masood's CV was found in the car the killer was driving to carry out his plan.

Dr Chisholm said there were a number of reasons to have done this - to avoid the wrong person being framed, or to seek recognition for his achievements.

He also suggested Masood may have been in two minds over whether or not to go through with the rampage, and was looking to his qualifications for a possible way out.

Dr Chisholm agreed with Mr Patterson that there was nothing to suggest the killer was insane at the time of the attack, nor that he had been radicalised by others - although he had adopted an extremist version of Islam.

Westminster Bridge killer Khalid Masood aposbelieved he was a geniusapos


President Trump, First Lady Melania and 12-year-old Barron Trump were sitting at a table with about a dozen children coloring when Acosta began shouting out questions to Trump about DACA.

Mr. President what about the DACA kids? Should they worry about whats going to happen to them, sir? Acosta shouted.

The president replied to Acosta, The Democrats have clearly let them down.

VIDEO of Acosta screaming at President Trump via Daily Caller reporter Benny Johnson:

Acosta was referring to Trumps scorched earth tweetstorm on Easter Sunday. Trump responded to the caravan of illegal aliens marching through Mexico to the US border by saying, NO MORE DACA DEAL!

Parscale tweeted: Maybe its time for Jim Acosta to get a suspension for breaking protocol. He continues to embarrass himself and CNN. Pull his credentials for each incident.

Brad Parscale then responded to Think Progress founder and Editor Judd Legum who accused him of calling for a reporter to be suspended for asking a question.

And of course James Woods couldnt resist, calling Acosta a Democrat Whore:

CNNs Jim Acosta Gets SAVAGED For Yelling At Trump While He Was Coloring With Children at White Hous


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Two men have been awarded 7,500 and 5,000 in compensation at Naas Circuit Court for injuries they claimed they sustained in a crash.

Their evidence was contradicted by a taxi driver involved in the incident, whose account was supported by a member of the Garda. An insurance company doctor told the court he could not find any real reason for the injuries complained of.

Judge James ODonoghue, sitting in Naas Circuit Court, said he believed a crash had occurred.

He accepted the insurance company doctors characterisation of both men as fairly strong, he awarded them compensation, which he said was at the lower end of the scale, plus their costs.

The case was taken by Patrick Carthy (30), an unemployed man of Robertstown, Co Kildare, and his friend Tyrone Bowers (29), an apprentice electrician.

The court heard that on September 19th, 2015, they had been drinking in a pub and called a taxi at 10.30pm. Mr Carthy asked the driver to divert to his house on the way to change his footwear and collect ID for a nightclub.

Mr Carthy said in evidence he indicated several times to the taxi driver where to turn.

He just braked and then all of a sudden, there was a bang from behind, a big bang from what I can remember, said Mr Carthy. When we crashed, I hit my head off the window and I felt a pain up my back.

Mr Carthy said he got out of the taxi and vomited while Mr Bowers said he urinated on himself.

Both men went to K Doc, an out of hours medical service, and subsequently went to their GPs. Both complained of soft tissue injuries and pains and underwent physiotherary.

The court heard the driver of the other car could not be found and neither Mr Carty nor Mr Bowers contacted gardai at the crash or immediately after it.

The taxi driver, Michael Nolan, said that when he stopped his vehicle, he felt a tip or a jolt at the rear which he described as medium in strength.

Neither Mr Carthy nor Mr Bowers complained of any injury at the time, he said. He said he rang his taxi company to send out a replacement car but both men left the scene before it arrived and had refused to pay him.

Mr Bowers said he took a photograph of the car that allegedly crashed into the taxi. The image showed the front of a vehicle badly damaged, with its bumper hanging off.

Shown the photograph, Mr Nolan said: It definitely wasnt like that . . . the car was completely intact.

He also said there was no damage to his vehicle from the incident.

Garda John OSullivan from Naas Garda station went to the scene of the crash. Shown the photograph by Judge ODonoghue, he said: Thats certainly not what I seen on the night. . . the bumper was still intact, the headlights were still intact. There were no fluids on the road. I cant explain where that photo came from.

Mr Bowers said he took the photograph on his phone at 11.53pm on the night of the incident. He gave it to his solicitor about two weeks ago but not the Garda. I didnt think the gardai would need that, he said.

The photograph was given to the defence for the first time in court.

The court was told Dr Michael Glynn had examined both claimants on behalf of FBD Insurance and the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland.

He effectively found that you were not co-operating, Philip Fennell BL for FBD put it to Mr Carthy. You were actively resisting that examination. Mr Glynn felt that you werent co-operating and exaggerating.

Mr Carthy disagreed. I co-operated with him as much as I could, he said.

In the case of Mr Bowers, Mr Fennell said that Dr Glynn could not find any real reason for the injuries complained of. He believed the pain to be psychosomatic.

Counsel for the two, Tom Clarke BL, said both men had been to their GPs and Mr Bowers had been to K Doc nine times for treatment.

Making his ruling, Judge ODonoghue said While I have to take cognisance of what Mr Glynn says, I am disinclined to agree exaggeration.

Mr Nolan was exonerated of any blame, he ruled. There was a conflict of evidence as to the severity of the damage in the incident. I am inclined to give the benefit of doubt to both plaintiffs, he said.

He awarded Mr Bowers 7,500 and to Mr Carthy, of whom he noted Dr Glynn was pretty scathing of, 5,000.

It is understood that an appeal is being considered.

Men ruled by doctor to be exaggerating injuries awarded damages


Thousands of girls and women are sharing how Little Mix have helped their body confidence after the band released a teaser for their new single Strip.

The song is a body confidence anthem calling on women to strip back their makeup and insecurities, because youre sexiest when [youre] confident. The video features a whole host of body image campaigners and the band have posed for a nude photoshoot to promote the single, with insults such as fat and ugly written on their skin.

Shelby Pearson, 20 from Wales, is among the fans whove shared a #StripWithLittleMix post to support the band. She told HuffPost UK that Perrie, Jade, Jesy and Leigh-Anne have helped her body confidence because they are just four completely normal girls.

Regardless of their fame, theyre so easy to relate to, she said. Theyve taught me to be carefree and happy and no matter what youre going through, itll get better.

Little Mixs Strip Encourages Fans To Share Their Own Body Confidence Photos


County Commissioner Jesus Chuy Garcia decided Monday not to join the crowded race to succeed Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a surprise move with potential to boost the mayoral campaign of County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and create an opening for Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza.

Four years ago, Garcia forced Emanuel into Chicagos first-ever mayoral runoff even though he got a late start, was out-spent by a four-to-one margin and Preckwinkle refused to endorse Garcia, her County Board floor leader.

This time, Garcia firmly believed he could capitalize on his strong showing in the March primary as the anointed Democratic congressional nominee who carried all of the candidates he endorsed.

That included Aaron Ortiz, a 26-year-old political newcomer who defeated State Rep. Dan Burke (D-Chicago) in a race dominated by Edward Burkes property tax reduction work for Trump International Hotel and Tower.

But on Monday, Garcia gathered his kitchen cabinet together to tell them that he had opted out, in spite of the Draft Chuy movement launched by retiring U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Chicago).

Money just might be a driving force.

In 2015, nearly all of the $6 million he raised came from progressive unions: the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 1.

This time, SEIU Local 1 was firmly in Preckwinkles corner. And the CTU was non-committal and expected to remain so, at least for the time being.

Without SEIU or CTU, where would his money have come from? said a source familiar with Garcias decision-making.

He would have been forced to forge a brown-white coalition with the business community. His old friendspeople who have been with him since the `70s and `80s  were not comfortable with that.

Garcias decision to take his seat in Congress does not mean that he and Preckwinkle have mended fences.

In fact, Garcia has not yet forgiven Preckwinkle for withholding her support in the 2015 mayoral race and for taking sides against virtually all of the candidates Garcia endorsed and helped carry to victory in March.

But, even if there is no detente, Garcias decision to take a pass is widely viewed as a potential boon to Preckwinkle.

Toni and Chuy would have been progressive vs. progressive. It would have been challenging to distinguish their records. Without Chuy, she now has the potential to create that elusive coalition of African-Americans and Latinos, said political operative Victor Reyes, who has spoken to five of the top-tier mayoral candidates, but is leaning toward Preckwinkle.

Prior to Garcias decision to take a pass, Reyes did a ward-by-ward analysis of a run-off between Preckwinkle and Garcia that concluded that Preckwinkle would have won with 54 percent of the vote.

The analysis concluded that Preckwinkle would capture all eighteen of the citys majority black wards and come out of that 50,000 votes ahead of Garcia, who would win all of the majority Hispanic wards as well as the 19th, 38th, 40th, 41st and 45th.

In order to overcome that 50,000-vote differential, Garcia would have to perform somewhere in the 60 percent range in all of the lakefront wards, Reyes said.

He would have to do Rahm-like numbers on the lakefront to beat her. And if you look at Preckwinkles numbers against Fioretti, she killed him in the lakefront wards, Reyes said.

In spite of his history as a loyal supporter of the late Mayor Harold Washington, Garcias 2015 mayoral campaign did not manage to resurrect the black-Hispanic coalition that culminated in Washingtons election as Chicagos first African-American mayor.

In fact, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.), a former Emanuel critic who endorsed the mayor over Garcia, argued then that Garcias attempt to resurrect that multi-racial coalition had cheapened Washingtons legacy.

In calling out Garcia, Rush tiptoed around the historic tension between blacks and Hispanics that has forced the two groups to compete against each other for jobs and contracts while immigration reform has leapfrogged over the issue of economic fairness.

Still, Reyes believes theres a chance to put the band back together.

Chuy is gonna look at what he thinks is best for the Latino community, not looking for revenge, he said.

Another Democratic operative, who asked to remain anonymous, argued that Mendoza stands to benefit most from Garcias exit.

Although Mendoza needs to wait until she is safely re-elected next month to launch her mayoral campaign, she shares Garcias appeal to younger voters who backed Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.

Preckwinkle will and does have problems there....This opens the door for Susana, who is young, to step in, the operative said.

Without Garcia, Gery Chico remains the only Hispanic candidate in the crowded field. In 2011, Chico nearly forced Emanuel into a runoff with support from Gutierrez.

On Monday, Chico had only praise for both Garcia and Gutierrez, apparently holding out hope of winning over both men.

Theres never been a more important time to be a member of Congress, especially when it comes to protecting immigrants, Chico said.

I know theres gonna be a seamless transition between Chuy Garcia and Congressman Gutierrez, who also worked tirelessly over the years paving the way for immigration reform.

Garcias exit a boon to Preckwinkleand an opening for Mendoza


Tropical Storm Michael has now officially become a hurricane, the US National Hurricane Centre said.

The storm off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula has rapidly strengthened and is expected to strike the Gulf Coast in the Florida Panhandle with potential winds of 100mph.

Florida Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in 26 counties as the hurricane approaches the state.

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The death toll in Northern California has risen to 42, as firefighters continue to battle the so-called Camp Fire, while the state-wide death toll has reached 44.  Hundreds of people also remain unaccounted for, many in the town of Paradise, which was almost completely destroyed four days ago.  Victims have been found in burned-out cars, in the smouldering ruins of their homes, and next to their vehicles, apparently overcome by smoke and flames before they could escape.

In some cases, all that remains is charred fragments of bone and investigators have been using wire baskets to sift and sort them.  As the search for victims continues, friends and relatives of the missing have been calling hospitals, police, shelters and the coroners office in the hope of learning what became of their loved ones. Paradise was a popular retirement community and about a quarter of the population was over 65. Tad Teays awaited word on his 90-year-old dementia-stricken mother while Darlina Duarte was desperate for information about her half-brother, a diabetic who was largely housebound because he had lost his legs.

Barbara Hall tried in vain to find out whether her aunt and the womans husband, who are in their 80s and 90s, made it out alive from their retirement community. Did they make it in their car? Did they get away? Did their car go over the edge of a mountain somewhere? I just dont know, Hall said, adding that the couple had only a landline and calls were not going through to it. The blaze is one of numerous fires currently burning in California.

In Malibu, firefighters appear to be gaining ground against a roughly 143 square mile blaze that has destroyed at least 370 structures, with hundreds more feared lost. Some of the thousands of people forced from their homes by the blaze were allowed to return overnight, and authorities reopened US 101, a major highway through the fire zone in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Malibu celebrities and mobile-home dwellers in nearby mountains were slowly learning whether their homes had been spared or reduced to ash. In Northern California, fire crews still fighting the blaze that obliterated Paradise contended with wind gusts of up to 40mph overnight. The fire had grown to 177 square miles and was 25% contained, authorities said. Winds were expected to weaken on Monday night.

California Wildfires Death Toll Rises To 44


Federal Election Commission records show that CrowdStrike, an FBI contractor and private cyber security firm, received a $98,849.84 check from the Democratic National Committee the day after slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered.

Rich, 27, worked as the voter expansion data director at the DNC for two years. Rich had been working for the DNC at a time when emails from the organization were provided to WikiLeaks for publication.

The series of emails revealed that high-ranking DNC officials and the Clinton team sabotaged Sanders candidacy, used racist, anti-gay and sexist slurs when referring to constituents. The emails, indicating the party was manipulating the primary race in favor of Clinton, led to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultzs resignation as DNC chair.

Seth Rich had just accepted a job with Hillary Clintons presidential campaign before he was killed near his apartment in an affluent Washington, D.C. neighborhood.

In the summer of 2016, in the heat of a highly contentious presidential campaign, Rich was fatally shot twice in the back, and his wallet, credit cards, watch and phone were left in his possession. Still, the Metropolitan Police Department has described his murder as a botched robbery.

Private investigators, however, have previously claimed Rich was the source WikiLeaks used to obtain thousands of DNC emails released on the eve of the partys presidential nominating convention last July.

Less than a month after Rich was murdered, attorney Shawn Lucas, 38, was found dead in his bathroom on Aug. 2nd, 2016.

The next day, CrowdStrike received a check for $113,645.77 from the DNC.

Lucas delivered a lawsuit to DNC headquarters for a local court in early July 2016. The suit alleged the Democratic Party committed fraud by rigging their primary election in favor of Hillary Clinton.

The source of the checks is the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

According to Heavy, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, D.C., said in November 2016 that Lucas Aug. 2 death was accidental and was caused by the combined adverse effects of fentanyl [a synthetic opioid pain medication], cyclobenzaprine [a muscle relaxant], and mitragynine [better known as kraton].

CrowdStrikes computer software customers include Congress, the White House, the State Department, Democratic National Committee, SONY, and Google.

Following WikiLeaks publication of DNC and Clinton campaign emails, DNC officials refused to avail the DNC server to the FBI for forensic examination, which would determine when the server was breached or whether the server was actually hacked.

The Obama Justice Dept. never took custody of the server  no subpoena, no search warrant. Former FBI Director James Comey said last year that the DNC had denied the bureaus requests to examine the breached server.

CrowdStrike was the only one to access the DNCs computer systems.

Google, which gave millions of dollars to the Clinton campaign and was under fire during the election for manipulating and suppressing negative search results for Clinton, is one of CrowdStrikes primary investors.

Rich and Lucas are among 33 people associated with the Clintons who have died mysterious and often violent deaths.

UPDATE: America First Media first reported on the DNCs conspicuous payments to CrowdStrike in September.

UPDATE FEC Records Show DNC Issued Checks to CrowdStrike Day After Murder of Seth Rich Shawn Lucas


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British Steel is to cut 400 jobs, including roles in the UK, in order to secure a sustainable future, just two years after the company began trading.

The firm was created in 2016 by the sale of Tata Steels Long Products Europe business to Greybull Capital, a deal that saved 4,400 UK jobs.

The cuts will affect managerial, professional and administrative roles at its operations throughout the UK, Ireland, France and the Netherlands.

The company operates manufacturing plants in Scunthorpe, Skinningrove and Teesside, and carries out research and development in Rotherham.

British Steels finance chief said the recent weakening of the pound and the euro had implications for the group because the raw materials it uses are all traded in US dollars.

Roland Junck, the companys executive chairman, said: Following our launch and early growth as a new company, its important our business continues to evolve. Its imperative we enhance our products and services and become more competitive so we can increase our foothold in the market.

However, the pace of change we need in this challenging industry requires further and continued investment along with more agile and efficient operations.

To help us achieve this, we have to make difficult decisions and our plans unfortunately include the proposed reduction of 400 roles across our global workforce.

Mr Junck added: Were sad to be making this announcement, particularly for our colleagues who could be affected. The skill and dedication of our employees has helped us come a long way in a short period of time.

However, its vital our transformation continues so we can build a sustainable future for the whole business, nearly 5,000 employees and many more people in the supply chain. Were confident these proposals will help achieve this.

A spokesperson for the National Trade Union Steel Coordinating Committee said the announcement will come as a body blow to the workforce who have already made huge sacrifices to make the business sustainable.

The spokesperson added: We recognise these are challenging times for UK steelmakers, and its high time the government stepped up and delivered for us by supporting investment in strategic steel assets.

However it is particularly disappointing the company has chosen to cut jobs so soon after celebrating a second successful year and first quarter profits of 21m.

The company must now comply with its European and UK consultation obligations and present the detail behind the proposals to employee representatives. Throughout the consultation process the trade unions will challenge every job reduction and seek to mitigate the impact of the companys proposals on our members.

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Leftists marched in Washington Thursday protesting the nomination of Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh.

Demonstrators carried signs with slogans that read, Unfit to serve, Kava Nope, and Our Courts Our Lives, with others in support of Kavanaugh sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford, stating, We Believe Survivors, and Sexual Violence is a Crime.

Left-wing comedian Amy Schumer, niece of NY Sen. Chuck Schumer, was arrested at the protest after reportedly telling officers she wanted to be arrested, in addition to lefty darling Emily Ratajkowski.

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood appeared to threaten senators in a tweet telling them to Vote No on #Kavanaugh Or else were coming for you:

Radio host Dana Loesch asked the abortion giant to clarify their remarks, so as not to prompt another violent reaction from a radical leftist.

Like doxxing republican senators? Or like how Paul was attacked in his yard? Or Cruz ambushed in a restaurant? Or McConnell at the airport? Ill omit the baseball field. You should clarify this. The left interprets everything to mean violence except when they say it, Loesch wrote on Twitter.

Watch Deranged Leftists Protest Kavanaugh As Planned Parenthood Threatens Senators


For nearly 40 years, the gender gap in voting has been the subject of continued speculation. How much does it matter? Would it be wide enough to put Democrats in office? Now, with President Trump ascendant, the question becomes still more urgent.

What Happens If Gender Gap Becomes a Gender Chasm


Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Friday joined renewed calls to pass legislation in Congress to protect special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation now that President Trump has appointed Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general.

Collins said in a statement that she is concerned about Whitakers past comments about the probe. He has advocated limits on the Russia investigation.

Collins Calls For Bill To Protect Mueller


Donald Trump has been highly criticizing people for protesting police violence. Yet, this Tennessee shooting just proves that he has been wrong all along.

DeKalb County, Tennessee deputies tried to pull over Michael Dial last April, because he was driving on a suspended licence. Instead of waiting, the suspect drove away in a 40-plus-year-old pickup truck pulling a fully loaded trailer.  Nevertheless, the police followed him on a very low-speed chase.

They told investigators the speeds topped out at 50 mph, according to The Guardian:

Deputies at first used a Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT) to slow Dials pickup. That involved nudging his vehicle to turn it sideways. That was when Sheriff Oddie Shoupe radioed the officers and told them to stop that maneuver, and just shoot the driver.

The deputy had nudged Dial from the road when Deputy Adam West came up in his own personal vehicle and fired three shots into the pickup as it rolled down into a ditch.

Dial died from a gunshot wound to the head.

The Sheriff Shoupe arrived on the scene, obviously upset that he had missed the action.

Shoupe did not realize that he was being captured on tape by another deputys body camera at the time. He said:

Dials widow, Robyn Dial, sued the sheriff for allegedly using excessive force against her unarmed husband. The lawsuit filing read:

The filing also called Shoupes decision proof of malicious and sadistic mindset. The city of Sparta and the two officers who fired on the unarmed man were also named as defendants.

In June, the county district attorney declared the shooting justified. That was when Mrs. Dial went forward with the suit.

Excited Cop Caught On Cam Shouting I LOVE THIS SHT After Executing Suspect


Turkey Is Turning Into the Next Pakistan

The U.S. should make clear to ersatz alliesA that betrayal has consequences.


The Green Party has welcomed the European Parliaments approval of a ban on a range of single-use plastics.

Items such as straws and cotton buds are to be banned from the EU from 2021, under draft plans approved on Wednesday by the European Parliament.

A wide range of plastic items which have existing alternatives, including cutlery, plates, drinks stirrers, balloon sticks and polystyrene fast food containers, will be banned from the EU in order to tackle marine pollution.

Members of the European Parliament backed the proposals by 571 to 53 and will now enter into negotiations with the Commission and member states to make it binding legislation.

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan TD welcomed the news, but criticised the Government lack of action on the issue.

Its just a pity that Fine Gael are still dragging their heels and blocking the same sensible legislation here at home. We could be leaders on this, instead it looks like well be playing catch-up once again, he said.

We have a Bill that would put us ahead of the curve on this, but the Government continues to use delay tactics. They need to issue the money message that would allow us to move forward with our Waste Reduction Bill.

Mairead McGuinness Fine Gael MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament said: The new law is aimed at reducing waste from single-use plastic products, which is polluting oceans and clogging landfills. Our oceans are swimming in plastic waste, much of it originating in Europe but shipped outside the EU.

A member of the Parliaments environment and public health committee, Ms McGuinness cautioned that plastic products could not be eliminated overnight.

Speaking from Strasbourg, she said, We need to turn concern into action and already industry is responding to the recycling challenge and work is underway on more sustainable alternatives.

However, its important to note that plastic plays a vital role in our society, particularly for hygiene purposes in healthcare and hospitals. Where there are alternatives available, efforts must be made to encourage consumers and producers to opt for the more sustainable options.

Fine Gaels Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune said that the ban would help significantly in the fight again plastic.

There is a responsibility on us as users of plastic to ensure we use it responsibly and there is also a focus on producers to ensure that plastic is easier to reuse and recycle.

The next step in this process is negotiating a final position with the European Council and I hope to see talks progress in a positive way.

MEPs also supported a target to cut use of plastic food containers where there are currently no alternatives by 25 per cent by 2025.

There are also measures to ensure 90 per cent of plastic drinks bottles are collected separately and recycled by 2025, and to cut down on cigarette filters containing plastic.

With fishing gear making up more than a quarter of the waste found on Europes beaches, the plans will require member states to collect 50 per cent of lost and abandoned gear each year and recycle at least 15 per cent by 2025.There are more than 150 million tonnes of plastic in the oceans, entangling wildlife, polluting beaches and being eaten by creatures such as sea turtles.  Additional reporting from PA

MEPs vote to ban single-use plastics such as straws and cotton buds


The Special Counselor is sex obsessed. You cant impeach a president over his private sex life. Having affairs isnt a crime. The American people dont care. The prosecutor is over-reaching. The American people elected our president based on his politics, not his personal life. They dont care about his sex life. This is Sexual McCarthyism. The special prosecutor is a sex pervert. He is jealous of the president. This is a political and sexual witch-hunt.

Yes, these charges all apply to Robert Mueller. But Ive heard all of this before. Every charge above came direct from the liberal playbook defending President Bill Clinton from the Ken Starr investigation. I was there. Im a witness. Every liberal friend and colleague I knew back in 1998 used these exact words. They all called Ken Starr a sex pervert and branded his investigation of Bill Clinton a sexual witch-hunt based on partisan politics.

But it wasnt just average everyday liberals who cried sex pervert. It was liberal celebrities and high-profile Democrat politicians too. I know. I was a regular guest on Bill Mahers Politically Incorrect on ABC TV back in the late 1990s. I debated about the Bill Clinton-Ken Starr investigation nonstop. Liberal celebs called Ken Starr a sex pervert. They said he had no right to politicize our presidents sex life and make it into an impeachable crime.

But wait, it gets better. The Village Voice was New York Citys famous newspaper for the liberal gay community. Their headline in 1998 about the Ken Starr investigation was Sexual McCarthyism. So, liberals in 1998 compared an investigation into a presidents sex life by a special prosecutor, to the Senator McCarthy witch-hunt of the 1950s.

Now lets compare Bill Clintons sex scandal with President Trumps. Clintons scandal was the peoples business. It was worthy of an investigation. Clinton had sex while being paid by taxpayers, while in the White House. Clinton had sex with a White House intern, in the oval office. Then he lied about it under oath. He did commit crimes. Clintons sex with an intern would today be called sexual assault. The liberal feminist #metoo movement would demand impeachment. Ken Starrs investigation was certainly warranted.

Today Robert Mueller has turned an investigation of Russian Collusion that never happened into a sexual witch-hunt. This truly is Sexual McCarthyism. Mueller has even destroyed attorney-client privilege with a raid on Trumps lawyers office, home and hotel suite to investigate possible affairs with Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, and Trumps Access Hollywood videotape. My math says his investigation is about sex, sex and sex. This is now a Triple X investigation.

Unlike Clinton, all three incidents happened to a private citizen Trump, before he was president. The sex was consensual. None of this involves the American people. It may be Melanias business, but its not yours or mine, or Robert Muellers.

Yes, in a few rare instances attorney-client privilege has been broken in the history of America. Maybe for a mob lawyer protecting a mass murderer...or a lawyer hiding evidence on behalf of a billionaire drug trafficker...or a terrorism case.

But never before in American legal history has a lawyer been raided by the federal government on the basis of sex affairs, minor FEC infractions, or a videotape of a private citizen bragging to a TV host about sex with beautiful women.

This is absurd. This is CHILLING. This is Soviet Gulag tactics. This is criminal. Im talking about Robert Mueller.

The system is rigged. If this attack on attorney-client privilege stands, none of us can trust our attorney ever again. If the government can raid my lawyer over minor infractions and read my confidential privileged conversations with my lawyer, and try to pressure my lawyer to turn against me (for any reason) then America is lost. The Judicial System is gone. We are all finished. If politics and sex can be used as weapons by a Special Counselor, and the ACLU and Bar Association say nothing, we are a Banana Republic. Stalin would be proud.

We can all debate whether the Bill Clinton investigation was justified. Whether Ken Starr over-reached. But today, there is no debate. Muellers investigation is a travesty. If liberals called Ken Starr a sex pervert what dopes that make Mueller? He is over-reaching. The American people wont stand for this. Muellers approval ratings are plunging. For good reason...

This truly is Sexual McCarthyism.

Wayne Allyn Root is the host of WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show on Newsmax TV, nightly at 8 PM ET, found on DirecTV channel 349, Dish TV channel 216, or at http://www.newsmaxtv.com/Shows/The-Wayne-Allyn-Root-Show He is also a nationally syndicated radio host of WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show found at http://usaradio.com/wayne-allyn-root/

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)  Florida counties have reached the deadline for submitting the results of their election recounts.

A federal judge earlier rejected a request to give counties more time beyond the 3 p.m. Thursday deadline to finish their recounts. Palm Beach Countys election supervisor had warned that the county would not be able to complete the recount on time.

The election will be certified Tuesday.

The states 67 counties were required to do machine recounts of more than 8 million ballots cast in the contentious midterms. The U.S. Senate and governors races were among the three within the vote margin to trigger a machine recount.

Several lawsuits have been filed by Democrats and Republicans in the wake of the close election.

Florida Counties Hit Deadline For Submitting Recount Results