Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday.
AP
Too quiet
Family and colleagues mourned Sunday the deaths of the first woman to lead Massachusetts’ university system and her husband,a retired MIT professor, after the couple were found Friday in their Florida home overcome by carbon monoxide from a car they had purchased for its modern safety features, family members said .. accidentally left running in the garage
Boston.com
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
WKRN
The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
Three dead, 2 crossbows, 0 suspects
Hotel staff discovered the bodies in a room alongside two crossbows, the German news agency DPA reported. …
BBC
“There was no evidence to suggest that another person was involved in the deaths.”
Although it is little remembered now, the OSS developed a crossbow called Big Joe for covert assassinations.
Why you’re bigger than a giant floating airfield
Sen. Chris Murphy calls for probe into Giuliani efforts in Ukraine
“What’s he worried about?” Giuliani told NBC News in a text message in response to Murphy’s call for an investigation
Chicken in the Gulf
Iran’s probably think it’s in their interest to try pull US forces back to the Middle East by engaging in asymmetric provocation. It is something Trump will resist. But some damn fool thing can always happen. History shows that once escalation occurs it becomes unpredictable.
The semi-official ISNA news agency quoted hardliner Ayatollah Tabatabai-Nejad in the city of Isfahan as saying: “Their billion(-dollar) fleet can be destroyed with one missile.
Reuters
“If they attempt any move, they will … (face) dozens of missiles because at that time (government) officials won’t be in charge to act cautiously, but instead things will be in the hands of our beloved leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei),” he said.
‘SANCTIONS HAVE NO EFFECT!’
Separately, Yadollah Javani, the elite Revolutionary Guards’ deputy head for political affairs, said: “No talks will be held with the Americans, and the Americans will not dare take military action against us.”
The sharpening edge
As the world continues through a conflict that has yet to receive history’s name the fight — between whom and whom — continually intensifies. The culture wars have become vicious, uncompromising. The antipathy is open. A new stage may be starting.
Singapore outlaws fake news, allows govt to block, remove it
By blocking certain users social media assumed the responsibility of publishers. This may destroy them.
The law bans falsehoods that are prejudicial to Singapore or likely to influence elections and requires service providers to remove such content or allows the government to block it. Offenders could face a jail term of up to 10 years and hefty fines.
Restaurants to offer penance at meals
Selling indulgences to Gaia. A future historian might write: “Indulgences became increasingly popular in the 21st century as a reward for signaling virtue, hugging rough trees, and going on pilgrimage to environmental summits; for putting on processions and marches; associations demanded that their meetings be rewarded with indulgences.
Good deeds included tax donations of money for a good cause, and money thus raised was used for many righteous causes, like building abortion clinics and sanctuary cities.”
Dining out isn’t the most eco-friendly activity, thanks to the carbon footprint of food brought in and the waste inherent in running a restaurant. Now, an effort by California restaurants wants diners to help fight climate change – by paying more.
Guardian
Concerned eateries can join the Restore California Renewable Restaurant Program and add an optional 1% surcharge to diners’ checks. The money will go towards a public fund to help farmers reduce carbon in their food production practices.
Iran revisited
The Iran nuclear deals seems to have represented a fundamental strategic choice which the Obama administration made and which Trump has now rejected without either really explaining why.
The lack of public debate is reflected in the non-ratification of Obama’s Iranian nuclear deal and the lack of Congressional consensus behind Trump’s actions toward Iran.
Maybe this is because both the Dems and Republicans don’t want to draw attention to the withdrawal from Iraq or entering Iraq in the first place, which seems to have destabilized the Arabs and given Iran and Turkey their big chance.
Tehran is virtually certain that Trump will not — indeed politically cannot — return to the Middle East in force and that the Arabs are presently too scattered to oppose them. At the same time Iran must see Israel benefiting from the same Arab weakness.
This, plus the growing realization that by using hybrid warfare Trump need not return to MENA is probably driving a sense of urgency among the Ayatollahs, who must move now lest the tides turn against them.
In this context the Iran nuclear deal, which was supported by Europe and Obama, can be seen as a strategic attempt to buy off Tehran, thereby forestalling more refugees, a course of action deemed more realistic and cheaper than trying to stop them.
Sending the pallets of cash was seen as more economical than gearing up to stop the Army of the Guardians.
Not a good indicator
And yet you hear less about China and Iran than Russia. That’s not to say Russia isn’t a factor but what a strange sense of proportionality the media have.
NPR
Together, the U.S. and China make up half the world’s military spending, expending as much as the rest of the world combined. In fact, the “significant increases in spending” by the two countries drove total global military spending up 2.6% from 2017, researchers said.
“The spending boom is driven, above all, by the contest between America and China for primacy in Asia,” writes The Economist in summarizing the report. America’s increase “reflected the Trump administration’s embrace of what it calls ‘great power competition’ with Russia and China — requiring fancier, pricier weapons — in place of the inconclusive guerrilla wars it had fought since 2001.
Columbiner Subculture
“The phenomenon is feeding on itself,” said Peter Langman, a psychologist who is the author of “Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters” and who runs the website SchoolShooters.info. “It’s gaining momentum, and the more there are, the more there will be.”
Had They Bet On Nuclear, Not Renewables, Germany & California Would Already Have 100% Clean Power
Had California and Germany invested $680 billion into new nuclear power plants instead of renewables like solar and wind farms, the two would already be generating 100% or more of their electricity from clean (low-emissions) energy sources, according to a new analysis by Environmental Progress.
Iran threat inflated say sources
It sounds like ‘when’ not ‘if’. The reality of the Iranian threat means whoever the US backs in the Islamic civil war that they will be backing a “bad guy”. The only escape from this dilemma is to make both Iran and KSA irrelevant but the Greens through their policies will ensure they both remain vital.
“It’s not that the administration is mischaracterizing the intelligence, so much as overreacting to it,” said one U.S. government official briefed on it. …
The source added that the administration’s steps are a way to tell the Iranian government that the U.S. will hold them responsible for their surrogates’ actions.
A third U.S. government official close to the situation described the administration’s response this way: “It is meant to send a clear message and remove any ambiguity from a tense situation. We’re demonstrating the overwhelming capability we can bring to the region.” …“I would characterize the current situation as shaping operations on both sides to tilt the field in preparation for a possible coming conflict,” continued the second source, who is also a U.S. government official. “The risk is a low-level proxy unit miscalculating and escalating things. We’re sending a message with this reaction to the intelligence, even though the threat might not be as imminent as portrayed.”
Daily Beast
Kamala Harris Wants to Be Your Online Censor-in-Chief
We will hold social media platforms responsible for the hate infiltrating their platforms, because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy. And if you profit off of hate—if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyberwarfare, if you don’t police your platforms—we are going to hold you accountable as a community.
What we don’t like to hear is hate speech. We will punish you severely for hate speech. We will punish you for what we don’t like to hear. And by the way this is called “preserving our democratic way of life “.
It’s Time for Jews to Realize They’re No Longer Welcome in American Universities
Something took over. An intellectual generation scornful of “thoughts and prayers ” were wholly defenseless against a hostile meme. Like the proud Martians in the War of Worlds they proved vulnerable to a virus against which humble men had been inoculated.
Top EU official: ‘A mistake’ to have not interfered with Brexit
“The second mistake I made was to listen too carefully to the British government. Cameron. Because the then prime minister asked me not to interfere, not to intervene in the referendum campaign,”
James Comey is in trouble and he knows it
Barr has made plain that he intends to examine carefully how and why Comey, as FBI director, decided that the bureau should investigate two presidential campaigns and if, in so doing, any rules or laws were broken.
In light of this, the fired former FBI director apparently has decided that photos of him on Twitter standing amid tall trees and in the middle of empty country roads, acting all metaphysical, is no longer a sufficient strategy.
Social media takes sides
The increasing willingness of Twitter and Factbook to censor critics of the left was inevitable. It was unrealistic to think they would provide a platform for views their bigs disagreed with. The only practical response is to develop alternative channels. The segmentation of the Internet has been on for some time. This is the latest chapter.