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In the race to slow global warming, science has been exploring ways to manipulate the climate, but until recently the conversations have been confined to laboratories.
While the growing field of geoengineering offers promise, it also comes with all kinds of potential pitfalls, and that’s what experts and policy-makers are discussing at a conference in Berlin this week. Continue reading “Geoengineering aims to slow global warming by manipulating climate, but risks are unknown”
Kansas City Star – by Jonathan Shorman, Hunter Woodall
TOPEKA – In a revelation that shocked lawmakers, the companies running the state’s foster care system said Tuesday that more than 70 foster children are missing in Kansas.
Lawmakers also were furious that Phyllis Gilmore, secretary of the Kansas Department for Children and Families, appeared unaware that three sisters have been missing from a northeast Kansas foster home since Aug. 26.
Continue reading “Lawmakers shocked to learn 70-plus children missing from Kansas’ foster care system”
In mid-September, the guarantor states of the Syrian ceasefire regime (Iran, Russia and Turkey) in Astana signed an agreement on creating the forth de-escalation zone including Idlib and some parts of Aleppo, Latakia and Hama Governorates. Continue reading “Exclusive: Turkey colludes with Jabhat al-Nusra”
Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas
LAS VEGAS (INTELLIHUB) — The proof is in the pudding or so they say.
The following timeline documents real and actual events which occurred on the night of Oct. 1, 2017, and the early morning of Oct. 2, and how they all unfolded contradicting the official narrative that only one shooter, a 64-year-old man by the name of Stephen Paddock, shot and killed 58 people during the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival. Continue reading “Las Vegas shooting: An in-depth analysis”
An American grandmother sentenced to a year in jail after photographing an anti-drone protest outside a military base in Hancock, New York, is appealing her conviction for violating a restraining order.
Mary Anne Grady Flores, 58, is set to appear in the New York State Court of Appeals Wednesday, hoping to get her one-year jail term overturned.
“I had been arrested twice at the Hancock Air [Force] Base, where there are drone assassinations happening on a daily basis,” Flores told RT. Those arrests were in 2011 and 2012. Continue reading “Granny protesting US drones fights jail sentence”
Thousands more people were being evacuated as some of the worst wildfires in California’s history swept through wine country, leaving a trail of smoldering destruction and a death toll of at least 23.
Firefighters were locked in a fight with the wind-whipped blazes, but heading into a fourth day of the struggle they appeared no closer to containing them. In fact, the fires that have burned since Sunday in Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Mendocino and Yuba counties are now threatening the towns of Sonoma, Napa, Calistoga and Fairfield. Continue reading “More Flee California Wine Country As Deadly Wildfires Spread”
A new optical illusion is sweeping the web – and it’s just like *that* dress all over again.
Facebook user Nicole Coulthard discovered a screenshot of a sneaker, but no one can decide on what colour it is.
There are two groups of people who think they have the correct answer – some think that the shoe is pink and white, while the other group say it’s grey and aqua. Continue reading “Are these sneakers pink and white, or blue and grey?”
But when the government does this it’s ok? They have already turned on lap top cameras and possibly phone cameras “in the name of home land security”
Two people said they are upset after discovering a hidden camera pointed at the bed in a room they rented from the popular site Airbnb.
“My wife and I are distressed by this situation. I hope more victims will come forward,” Derek Starnes told ABC News affiliate WFTS-TV of Tampa, Florida, after he said he found a camera hidden in the smoke detector of a room he rented through Airbnb on Longboat Key, just south of Tampa Bay. Continue reading “Couple finds hidden camera in Florida Airbnb”
Four men were riding on a train together in the same compartment – a Russian, a Cuban, an American and a Khazar.
The Russian took a bottle of vodka out of his carry-on-luggage, poured some of it into a glass, drank it, and said, “In USSR, we have the best vodka in the world – nowhere in the world you can find vodka as good as the vodka we make in Russia. And we have so much of it that we can just throw it away…” Saying that, he opened a window in the train compartment and threw the entire bottle of vodka out of the window.
Continue reading “Four Men on a Train”
An illegal immigrant accused of beheading his mother in March may have the charges against him dropped, a local television station reported.
Oliver Mauricio Funes-Machado, 18, has been accused of beheading his 35-year-old mother at their home in North Carolina on March 6.
WNCN reported a judge is expected to sign an order that will drop the first degree murder charges against him after he ruled he’s not mentally competent to stand trial. Continue reading “Illegal immigrant accused of beheading mother to have charges dropped, report says”
China sent a guided-missile frigate, two fighter jets and a helicopter to warn off the USS ‘Chafee’ near disputed islands in the South China Sea, accusing the US of damaging the country’s sovereignty and security interests in the region.
Beijing condemned the mission of the guided-missile destroyer USS ‘Chafee,’ which on Tuesday sailed within 16 nautical miles of the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, within the framework of a so-called “freedom of navigation”operation. Continue reading “Beijing sends frigate & jets to warn off US destroyer near disputed South China Sea islands”
A maintenance worker said Wednesday he told hotel dispatchers to call police and report a gunman had opened fire with a rifle inside Mandalay Bay before the shooter began firing from his high-rise suite into a crowd at a nearby musical performance.
The revised timeline has renewed questions about whether better communication might have allowed police to respond more quickly and take out the gunman before he committed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Continue reading “Hotel worker warned of shooter before Las Vegas massacre”
Imagine that. A drunk lawyer, thinking the rules don’t apply to her, getting killed by the pigs they protect.
A 22-year-old woman who was shot and killed by police after crashing into an officer with her car was an aspiring lawyer, her relatives have said.
Cariann Hithon had been celebrating her birthday when she crashed her black BMW into three vehicles in Miami. Continue reading “22-year-old woman shot dead by police after hitting officer with car was aspiring lawyer”
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Archive: TWFTT 10-11-17
Huffington Post – by Caroline Bologna
Following a unanimous vote by its board of directors, Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday that the organization would be allowing girls to join its Cub Scout program. BSA will also be developing a scouting program for older girls to enable them to reach its highest rank of Eagle Scout.
“The historic decision comes after years of receiving requests from families and girls,” stated a press release from the BSA. “The organization evaluated the results of numerous research efforts, gaining input from current members and leaders, as well as parents and girls who’ve never been involved in Scouting ― to understand how to offer families an important additional choice in meeting the character development needs of all their children.”
Continue reading “Boy Scouts Of America Announces Plans To Let Girls Join”