RT

Russian Defense Ministry representatives have arrived in the North Korean capital. It is the second visit by Russian officials in two weeks, and comes as Washington claims it is ready for direct talks with Pyongyang, while still staging war games in the turbulent region.

The delegation is headed by Deputy Director of the Russian National Defense Command Center Viktor Kalganov, and has been on assignment in North Korea since Tuesday. The officials are to remain in Pyongyang for the rest of the week.   Continue reading “Russian military delegation arrives in N. Korea, scouting any chance for dialogue”

Mail.com

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest on Gov. Mark Dayton’s appointment of a replacement for Minnesota Sen. Al Franken (all times local): 11:50 a.m. Minnesota Sen. Al Franken says Tina Smith will be an “excellent” U.S. senator in his place.

But Franken still isn’t setting a date when he’ll step down. Franken aid last week that he would depart “in coming weeks” after he was accused by several women of improper conduct. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday appointed Smith, his lieutenant governor, to fill fellow Democrat Franken’s seat until a special election next November.  Continue reading “The Latest: Franken praises Smith; still no date to leave”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of carrying out a bomb attack in New York City’s subway system was influenced by the sermons and writings of a radical Muslim preacher, Bangladeshi officials said Wednesday in the hours before the man was expected to have his first court appearance in the U.S.

Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant living in Brooklyn, had asked his wife in Bangladesh to read the writings and listen to the sermons of Moulana Jasimuddin Rahmani, the currently imprisoned leader of a banned group called Ansarullah Bangla Team, said Monirul Islam, a top official of Bangladesh’s counterterrorism department.  Continue reading “Would-be suicide bomber in New York City faces court hearing”

Sputnik

Yale Law School students have requested a US court to permit a class-action lawsuit on behalf of US Air Force veterans who responded to the catastrophic 1966 hydrogen bomb accident in the Mediterranean Sea, but who have been denied disability benefits.

The 1966 accident occurred when a USAF B-52 carrying four hydrogen bombs collided with a USAF KC-135 tanker aircraft during a mid-flight refueling exercise. The refueling nozzle hit the fuselage and caused a major explosion seen by another B-52 pilot a mile away. All four airmen on the FC-135 were killed along with three of the four airmen on board the B-52.
Continue reading “‘Absolutely Ignored’: US Veterans Who Cleaned Up H-Bomb Accident Seek Benefits”

Shanghaiist – by Alex Linder

On Saturday evening, a fire broke out inside a two-story building in Beijing’s southern Daxing District, leaving 19 people dead in a tragedy that is becoming all too familiar on the outskirts of China’s booming mega-cities.

Of the 19 killed, 17 were migrants who had come to Beijing from other parts of the country for work. The blue-collar workers lived in unsafe, cramped conditions on the second floor of a rundown building just inside the capital’s Sixth Ring Road that was a fire hazard waiting to happen.   Continue reading “After fire kills 19 in Beijing shanty town, migrant workers flee ahead of forced demolitions”

“We are going to have a war on terror which you can never win, and so you can always keep taking people’s liberties away. The media is going to convince everybody that the war on terror is real. The ultimate goal is to get everybody in the world chipped with an RFID chip, and have all money be on the chips, and if anyone wants to protest what we do, we turn off the chip.”

Nicholas Rockefeller to producer Aaron Russo – eleven months before the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

Beijing, China – Revealing the extreme direness of the situation on the Korean Peninsula, a state-run Chinese media outlet based in a province bordering North Korea and Russia — the Jilin Daily — published a “common sense” guide for surviving a nuclear war, according to Reuters.

Although the full-page article of guidelines doesn’t specifically mention North Korea, the warning was clearly a result of the increasing tensions between a nuclear-armed DPRK, and the United States.   Continue reading “Time to Pay Attention: China Now Building Refugee Camps, Prepping for Nuclear War”

Inside Syria Media Center’ sources report on personnel changes and on the renewal of ISIS leadership. Senior officials in hiding are trying to optimize the management of their structure and continue to carry out illegal subversive activities in a number of Western countries.   Continue reading “ISIS Management Structure Inside: Fatally Wounded ISIS Try to Reallocate Resources and Reappoint its Killers”

Oil & Gas Journal – by Nick Snow

US Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) has introduced a pair of bills designed to facilitate US exports of LNG. H.R. 4605 would let exporters begin shipments after completing the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s review process instead of requiring them to wait for US Department of Energy approval, Johnson said. H.R. 4606 would codify DOE’s efforts to begin exports of small volumes of LNG to Caribbean and Central and South American countries.   Continue reading “US House bills introduced aimed at easing LNG exports”

AL.com – by Conner Sheets

Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today’s U.S. Senate election after all.

At 1:36 p.m. Monday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued an order directing Alabama election officials to preserve all digital ballot images created at polling places across the state today.   Continue reading “In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all”

Omnisense

Being completely blindsided by malicious US targeting programs lead to myself researching the science of mind control. This has lead me on a path of researching whistleblowers, perusing the internet for this information, searching social media for testimonies and many other modalities of obtaining knowledge. This quest for truth has lead me to a possibility that cell phone towers have been very likely double rigged as directed energy weapons.   Continue reading “Cell Phone Towers Rigged as Mind Influencing Directed Energy Weapons”

Judicial Watch

The sexual harassment scandals involving prominent Hollywood figures, media personalities and politicians has brought heightened awareness to the issue, but one public college appears to be taking things too far. At Tennessee State University in Nashville, “whistling in a suggestive manner” may qualify as sexual harassment and can get students expelled or employees fired. Those caught making “suggestive or insulting sounds” or making “suggestive or obscene gestures” also face similar consequences as well as students or staff who joke about sex on campus.   Continue reading “Public University: Whistling May Qualify as Sexual Harassment”

The Daily Caller – by Ryan Pickrell

The Taiwan issue is front and center as Taipei and Beijing spar over a Chinese diplomat’s threats.

The day an American warship makes a port call in Taiwan will be the day the Chinese military launches an all-out assault against the island, a Chinese diplomat in the U.S. warned Friday. The senior official’s “words have sent a warning to Taiwan and drew a clear red line,” China’s nationalist tabloid Global Times asserted Monday.  Continue reading “Chinese Diplomat: China Will Open Fire On Taiwan If A US Warship Ever Docks There”

The Guardian

The Democrat Doug Jones has beaten his Donald Trump-backed Republican rival Roy Moore in the diehard Republican state of Alabama, setting off a political earthquake that shook Washington.

His victory in a special election for a US Senate seat – by a margin of 49.9 to 48.4 with 100% of precincts reporting – is a major personal blow to the president and his efforts to pass tax reform on Capitol Hill.   Continue reading “Alabama election: Democrats defeat Roy Moore”

Washington Free Beacon – by Adam Kredo

A wealthy ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has placed a bounty on the heads of two former U.S. military and intelligence officials as part of what U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon is an effort by the Turkish government to threaten and intimidate Americans who they believe are working to undermine Erdogan.

A bounty of three million Turkish lira, or nearly $800,000, was placed on the heads of former Pentagon official Michael Rubin and former top CIA official Graham Fuller for what Erdogan’s allies claim is their role in a 2016 failed coup that nearly toppled Erdogan’s ruling government.  Continue reading “Turkey Places Bounty on Two Former U.S. Government Officials”

Daily Star – by Rachel O’Donoghue

Yitu Technology has made an AI algorithm that can connect to millions of surveillance cameras and instantly recognise people.

The company – based in Shanghai, China – developed Dragonfly Eye to scan through millions of photographs that have been logged in the country’s national database.

This means it has a collection of 1.8 billion photos on file, including visitors to the country and those taken at ports and airports.   Continue reading “‘Minority Report’ Artificial Intelligence machine can identify 2 BILLION people in seconds”

CBS SF Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who became the city’s first Asian-American mayor when he was named to serve out the remainder of Gavin Newsom’s term in Jan. 2011, died suddenly early Tuesday morning, city officials said.

He was 65.

In accordance with the City Charter, Board of Supervisors President London Breed became Acting Mayor of San Francisco, effectively immediately. Breed becomes San Francisco’s first female African American mayor in any capacity.   Continue reading “San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee Dead At 65”