Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering the United States to slash its diplomatic staff in Russia, remarks likely to rekindle criticism of Trump’s kid-gloves handling of Putin.

Breaking nearly two weeks of silence on Putin’s July 30 order cutting U.S. embassy and consulate staff by nearly two thirds, Trump said: “I’m very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll.”

Trump said “there’s no real reason for them to go back” and “we’re going to save a lot of money,” in response to Putin’s Cold War-style move, differing from the reactions of other presidents in similar circumstances in the past.   Continue reading “Trump thanks Putin for slashing U.S. diplomatic staff”

Miami Herald – by Steve Bousquet

TALLAHASSEE – A high-ranking Florida Highway Patrol official wants every trooper under his command to write at least two more tickets an hour, an order a key legislator says is against state law.

“The patrol wants to see two citations each hour,” Maj. Mark Welch wrote in an e-mail to the troopers in an eight-county region based in Tallahassee that includes nearly 100 miles of Interstate 10. “This is not a quota; it is what we are asking you to do to support this important initiative.”
Continue reading “Highway Patrol tells troopers to write 2 tickets an hour, but ‘this is not a quota’”

Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) – If North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States then China should stay neutral, but if the United States attacks first and tries to overthrow North Korea’s government China will stop them, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Friday.

President Donald Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric toward North Korea and its leader on Thursday, warning Pyongyang against attacking Guam or U.S. allies after it disclosed plans to fire missiles over Japan to land near the U.S. Pacific territory.   Continue reading “Chinese paper says China should stay neutral if North Korea attacks first”

What is 5G

WHAT IS 5G?

5G refers to the “5th generation” wireless technology.  Its intended purpose is to provide faster and higher capacity data transmissions to carry the massive amount of data that will be generated from the Internet of Things (IoT) and for faster video streaming. That said, no one is yet clear about how 5G will be achieved, so at present, it is being used more as a marketing term than a reality.

What is clear is that 5g will include the higher Millimeter Wave frequencies never before used for public Internet and communications technology. These waves do not travel easily through buildings so will require millions of new cell towers. The wireless telecom industry is aggressively seeking to outfit nearly every lamppost and utility post around the country with a wireless “small cell” antenna potentially beaming hazardous radiation next to, or into our homes, 24/7.
Continue reading “What are 5G and the Internet of Things?”

AOL

After months of stores dropping her line, a mass viral movement called #GrabYourWallet that encouraged people to boycott her line and a rather horrific report on the conditions at a Chinese factory where her line is manufactured, Ivanka Trump’s eponymous label has chosen to open up a stand-alone store in the most predictable place possible.

No, it’s not at the visitor’s entrance of the White House. It’s in Trump Tower.

On Wednesday, Politico reporter Annie Karni tweeted out a picture of a currently-under-construction Ivanka Trump stand-alone shop in Trump Tower, with an announcement that it would be opening this fall.   Continue reading “Ivanka Trump is opening a stand-alone store in NYC this fall”

Natural Society – by Mike Barrett

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently and quietly approved Monsanto’s new genetic engineering technology, known as RNAi. [1]

The insecticide DvSnf7 dsRNA is not sprayed on crops. Instead, instructions for manufacturing it in the DNA of the crop itself must be encoded in crops. The plants’ self-made DvSnf7 dsRNA disrupts a crucial gene in western corn rootworms – a major threat to corn – and kills the pests.   Continue reading “In Case You Missed It: EPA Quietly Approved Monsanto’s RNAi Genetic Engineering Technology”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

As the global energy paradigm is undergoing the next great transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, a new report shows that fossil fuels continue to be propped up by governments with staggering amounts of subsidies.

A study published in the World Development journal, by researchers from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), found that fossil fuel subsidies amounted to $5.3 trillion dollars in 2015, rising from $4.9 trillion in 2013. This amounts to 6.5 percent of global GDP.   Continue reading “Damning Study Shows Govts Rob Taxpayers $5 Trillion a Year to Keep Fossil Fuel Industry Going”

Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins

After years of threatening to carry out a nuclear attack on the United States, North Korea is finally closer than it has ever been to fulfilling its notorious threat—according to politicians and mainstream media outlets across the country. But according to one geopolitical analyst, Americans should be more concerned about the possibility of a false flag attack.

In a report for Asia Times, analyst Pepe Escobar noted that the same people who are now saying that North Korea has created a miniaturized nuclear warhead capable of fitting its recently tested ICBM are the people who sold the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.   Continue reading “Top Geopolitical Expert Issues Dire Warning: ‘Beware of False Flag’ Blamed on North Korea”

Activist Post – by Catherine Frompovich

Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Blue Care Network of Michigan publishes online a shameless and bold report of how much cash they reward physicians for performing certain tests, and which apparently acts as an incentive to over-prescribe, thus inflating the costs of U.S. healthcare, which should be illegal.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield published the 2016 Performance Recognition Program, a 28-page report indicating how medical insurance companies actually increase the costs of healthcare!   Continue reading “The Unknown Reasons Doctors Push Vaccines”

The Steampunk Workshop – by Jake Von Slatt

In a few short months The Steampunk Workshop will celebrate it’s 10th birthday! I can barely believe that it’s been ten whole years since this whole “steampunk” thing blew up on the internets. It’s been a lot of fun for me, but I also feel like we’re approaching the end of an era. So, I have decide to glue a gear on it and declare this Jake von Slatt’s Last Steampunk Project!

Now, that is not to say that I will never do another project in a steampunk style; but this is the last project I plan to do where I take something and attempt to steampunkify(TM) it. So perhaps I should say this is my last steampunk mod.   Continue reading “The Steampunk Roadster”

Fox 31 Denver

DENVER — Police responded to an explosion at East 28th Avenue and Dahlia Street in Denver Thursday afternoon.

A Denver police spokesperson said there was an explosion in the intersection. It was apparently caused by homemade fireworks in a trash can.  No injuries were reported.  Continue reading “Homemade fireworks in a trash can explode at 28th and Dahlia in Denver”

Daily Mail

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’ and pledged to ramp up government efforts to combat the epidemic.

‘The opioid crisis is an emergency. And I am saying officially right now: It is an emergency, it’s a national emergency.

‘We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis,’ Trump told reporters during a brief question-and-answer session ahead of a security briefing Thursday at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.   Continue reading “Trump declares opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’”

Secure Arkansas

Secure Arkansas mentioned in our last article that we would be writing an alert very soon about Amazon and their illegal collection of the UNconstitutional internet state sales tax, so here is a brief introduction followed by our thoughts and plenty of documentation (as always).    Continue reading “Amazon Took Over Collecting Illegal Sales Tax for the States”

The Daily Caller – by Tim Pearce

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke proposed opening and expanding hunting and fishing access on 10 national wildlife refuges Wednesday, according to a Department of the Interior (DOI) press release.

The refuges are located across eight states: Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will take comments on the proposal for 30 days, ending Sept. 8.   Continue reading “Interior Secretary Opens More Federal Lands To Hunting And Fishing”