Eco Watch – by Olivia Rosane

Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reversed a decision made last week to reauthorize the use of deadly cyanide traps used to kill wild animals that threaten agriculture, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

The traps, officially called M-44s but nicknamed “cyanide bombs,” are spring-loaded devices that kill their targets with a discharge of sodium cyanide, according to The Guardian. They are used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services to kill animals like foxes and coyotes that farmers and ranchers consider pests. But critics say that they cause long-term pollution and harm more than their intended targets, even killing pets and injuring humans, HuffPost explained. Continue reading “EPA Reverses Approval of Deadly ‘Cyanide Bombs’ After Public Outcry”

AOL

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police arrested at least 13 people and seized metal poles, bear spray and other weapons Saturday as hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon.

Authorities closed bridges and streets to try to keep the rival groups apart. The city’s mayor said the situation was “potentially dangerous and volatile,” and President Donald Trump tweeted “Portland is being watched very closely.”  Continue reading “Arrests and shields, metal poles seized at Portland protests”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

At about 4:10 p.m. on 8 August, 2019 Dmitriy Andreychenco parked in the parking lot of the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Springfield, Missouri. He took an tactical ballistic vest out of the car, put it on, and slung a AR type rifle. He walked into the store. He was open carrying and testing his Second Amendment rights, as confirmed by his wife and his sister. He had his phone in his hand and was recording himself as he pushed a cart through the store. He never pointed the firearm at anyone or made any verbal or written threat. The Walmart manager stated he heard an employee say that Dmitriy was coming into the store with the vest and the rifle. He observed Dmitriy walking in the store aisles. He told an employee to pull the fire alarm in order to get people to evacuate the store. Continue reading “Missouri Walmart Open Carrier 1st Degree Terrorist Threat Rejected by Prosecutor”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update: 7PM EST – At least four people were arrested during Saturday’s protest and counter-protest, according to Lt. Tina Jones of the Portland Police Bureau, while one person was taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries according to NBC News.

And while we’re not sure if this is the person, or if the cop did it as described in the tweet below – at least one Antifa appears to have had their head cracked.  Continue reading “Violence Breaks Out Between Antifa And Proud Boys Despite Heavy Police Presence; Bus Attacked, Chased”

Times of Israel

NEW YORK — “The New York State Thruway is closed. Isn’t that far out?!”

So says the 22-year-old Arlo Guthrie in one of the more humorous moments in the motion picture “Woodstock,” the essential document of the culture-shifting concert/event celebrating its 50th anniversary. Bad traffic is not normally a point of pride, but in this case it is understandable.  Continue reading “America’s iconic Woodstock festival was more Jewish than you’d think”

C-Net – by Leslie Katz

A new clothing line lets you camouflage yourself as a car to mess with surveillance cameras. The garments in the Adversarial Fashion collection are covered with license plate images that trigger automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, to inject junk data into systems used to monitor and track civilians.  Continue reading “Antisurveillance clothes foil cameras by making you look like a car”

Nuclear Diner – by Cheryl Rofer

On the morning of Thursday, August 8, something exploded at the Nenoksa Naval Base in Russia, not far from the city of Severodvinsk. This article is a good summary of what we knew by Friday. Since then, the Russian government has said that a radioactive source was involved in the explosion, along with liquid rocket fuel. Reports have gone back and forth on whether radiation detectors in Severodvinsk detected anything. Five more people have been reported dead. Sarov/VNIIEF, one of the Russian nuclear weapons laboratories, has released a statement, which some folks are rushing to translate.  Continue reading “Speculations on the Nenoksa Explosion”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) responded to a serial criminal’s attack on police officers Wednesday by calling for more gun control.

Breitbart News reported that the gunman was 36-year-old Maurice Hill.  Continue reading “Philadelphia Mayor Pushes Gun Control After Serial Criminal Shoots Officers”

The Hill

A Fox News poll released Thursday showed President Trump losing head-to-head matchups against four of the top Democratic presidential primary contenders.

The poll found Trump with 39 percent support among registered voters in head-to-head matchups against Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). The poll found Sanders beating Trump with 48 percent, Warren winning over Trump with 45 percent and Harris winning with 46 percent support.  Continue reading “Fox News poll shows Trump losing to Biden, Warren, Sanders and Harris”

Fox News

New York City‘s chief medical examiner has ruled that disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide by hanging in his prison cell last week.

In a brief statement Friday, Dr. Barbara Sampson said her ruling came following a “careful review of all investigative information, including complete autopsy findings.”  Continue reading “New York medical examiner: Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a suicide by hanging”

Yahoo News

Peter Fonda, whose counterculture classic Easy Rider helped usher in the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s that paved the way for filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino, has died after suffering respiratory failure due to lung cancer. Fonda, the son of screen legend Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda and father of actress Bridget Fonda, was 79.  Continue reading “‘Easy Rider’ Peter Fonda dead at 79: ‘Please raise a glass to freedom’”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) is reconvening his committee a week before the rest of Congress in order to work on gun control.

He also plans to hold a hearing on a possible “assault weapons” ban.  Continue reading “Jerry Nadler Ends Recess Early to Pursue Gun Control”

Daily Mail

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s system is back online after crashing on Friday evening and causing massive delays at airports across the country.

‘The affected systems are coming back online and travelers are being processed,’ the CBP said in a tweet at 6.37pm ET.  Continue reading “US Customs system goes DOWN and causes massive delays and long lines at airports”

HM Media

SAN FRANCISCO — In a partial victory for President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court decided Friday to remove a nationwide injunction against a new rule that would deny asylum to the vast majority of immigrants at the southern border.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar, a San Francisco-based Obama appointee, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the 10-day-old rule. It made migrants ineligible for asylum if they passed through another country en route to the U.S. and failed to apply for protection in that country.

Continue reading “Appeals court removes nationwide injunction against Trump’s latest plan to limit asylum”

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