Year: 2017

The Guardian

US scientists are set to send aerosol injections 20km up into the earth’s stratosphere in the world’s biggest solar geoengineering programme to date, to study the potential of a future tech-fix for global warming.

The $20m (£16m) Harvard University project will launch within weeks and aims to establish whether the technology can safely simulate the atmospheric cooling effects of a volcanic eruption, if a last ditch bid to halt climate change is one day needed.   Continue reading “US scientists launch world’s biggest solar geoengineering study”

Sputnik

Any further airstrikes on Syrian territory will be met with deadly force and retaliation strikes deep within Israeli soil, they said.

According to the message, delivered via Russian mediators, attacks on Syrian military objects will be met with Scud missiles launched at Israeli military (IDF) bases. If Israel attacks civilian infrastructure, Syrian missiles will be fired at Israel’s Haifa port and petrochemical plant. The missiles will be launched without any prior notice, the statement said.   Continue reading “We Mean Business: Syria Will Fire Scuds at Israel in Response to Airstrikes”

Fox News

Fifteen people were shot and one person was killed at a Cincinnati nightclub early Sunday morning, officials said.

Cincinnati police originally said there were “at least a couple of shooters” who opened fire inside of Cameo nightclub, but later said only one shooter was responsible for the deadly assault.

Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate says in a tweet there was only one reported shooter but police are still investigating.    Continue reading “Cincinnati nightclub shooting: At least 1 dead, 15 people shot at venue”

Reuters

A Louisiana jury convicted a deputy marshal of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter on Friday in the killing of a 6-year-old boy during a volley of gunfire after chasing his father’s car in 2015.

Derrick Stafford, 33, was found guilty by 10-2 jury vote in a Marksville, Louisiana, courtroom, more than a year after he and another deputy opened fire on Chris Few’s Kia SUV after a two-mile pursuit. Few’s son, Jeremy Mardis, 6, who was inside the vehicle, was shot and killed and Few was wounded.   Continue reading “Louisiana deputy marshal convicted of manslaughter in boy’s death”

Fox 10 – by Danielle Miller

PHOENIX (KSAZ) – A local school district is taking steps to protect students who are undocumented.

According to a letter sent to the student’s parents, officials with the the Phoenix Elementary School District #1 will not allow immigration officers on school grounds, without a warrant.   Continue reading “Local school district taking steps to protect undocumented students”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: This article explains the dramatic rise in Medicaid supported births, but does not explain why. We learn more from KHN.org which states, “All pregnant women with incomes below 133 percent of the federal poverty level, just below $15,300 for an individual, are eligible for Medicaid, and many states provide coverage to women earning well above that amount.”
Continue reading “As Poverty Level Rises Nearly 50% Of Babies Born On Medicaid, 8% Rise In Just Two Years”

Breitbart

Gabriel Sherman writes that White House chief strategist and former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon has privately expressed concern that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) betrays the populist voters who put Donald Trump in the White House.

From New York Magazine:   Continue reading “Report: Steve Bannon Says American Health Care Act ‘Written by the Insurance Industry’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

On a day when all eyes are on Washington and the healthcare vote, President Trump just won an important victory as a Virginia judge refused to block his revised travel ban against six predominantly Muslim countries (even though, as Bloomberg reports, the directive remains on hold because of court orders in two other states).   Continue reading “Virginia Judge Refuses To Block Revised Travel Ban”

9 & 10 News

“The next thing I know, I was down on the ground.”

A longtime business owner is speaking publicly. He was sent to the hospital Friday after a scuffle with state police.

Eighty-three-year-old Larry Sevenski says on St. Patrick’s Day troopers were parked across from his restaurant.   Continue reading “Antrim County Business Owner Sent To Hospital After Scuffle With State Police”

Sputnik

As armed militants descended upon Bundy Ranch in Nevada to support a rancher during his standoff with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 2014, undercover FBI agents posed as documentary filmmakers to collect statements from the militia.

“What I was looking for was just a show of support … it seems as if when there are armed people around a situation, then the authorities have to be a little more civil, have to treat you like a person,” Scott Drexler, one of the defendants, said in his video statement. “If nobody is facing any kind of consequences for their actions, they can just do whatever they want.”

Continue reading “‘America Reloaded’: FBI Posed as Film Crew to Access Bundy Ranch Militia”

ABC News

Republican leadership has decided to pull their Obamacare replacement bill at the last minute at the request of President Donald Trump — capping a rocky series of weeks since the controversial measure was introduced and an order from the president for legislators to put their cards on the table today.

Sources tell ABC that Trump called Speaker of the House Speaker Paul Ryan at 3 p.m. to tell him to pull the bill. The next steps were not immediately clear.   Continue reading “Ryan pulls GOP health care bill following call from Trump”

DC Caller – by Jonah Bennett

More than 60 congregations in Washington, D.C., are banding together to fight President Donald Trump’s plan to deport illegal immigrants.

Foundry United Methodist Church pastor Ginger Gaines-Cirelli announced the creation of the DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network Tuesday, which has the goal of stemming the tide of deportations by providing physical sanctuary to illegals and educating them on their rights, Washington City Paper reports.   Continue reading “More Than 60 DC Congregations Join Network To Fight Deportation Of Illegals”