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On Thursday, Rep. Sam Johnson, a Republican from Texas and chair of the Ways and Means Committee, introduced legislation to significantly cut Social Security.
The bill introduced by Johnson, who is also the chair of the Social Security subcommittee, slashes benefits, adds means testing, and would raise the retirement age from 67 to 69. Continue reading “GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security”
Hollywood Reporter – by Rebecca Ford
The Sundance Film Festival will open with a follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore’s two-time Academy Award-winning documentary about the world’s climate crisis.
From Participant Media, and directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, the sequel follows Gore as he continues his decades-long fight to build a more sustainable future for the planet. Continue reading “‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Sequel to Debut at Sundance Opening Night”
Guns America – by Jordan Michaels
Yoga mats. Ferns. Air diffusors. Small decorative waterfalls.
These are the items one expects a yoga instructor to keep in her bedroom. A Taurus .38 Special is less expected, but, it turns out, more necessary. Continue reading “Gun-Wielding Yoga Instructor Kills Two of Four Home Invaders”
Marketing Land – by Tim Peterson
Math is hard, even for Facebook. And it’s getting harder to trust Facebook’s math, even as the social network fine-tunes its calculations.
For the third time since September, Facebook is disclosing new measurement errors. The two new errors affected the reaction counts Facebook reports on Pages’ Live videos, as well as the engagement figures Facebook reports for off-Facebook links; the latter link engagement metrics were recently used in investigations by BuzzFeed and The New York Times into fake news articles’ performance on Facebook. Continue reading “Facebook discloses new measurement errors, continues to hone its math”
The McCollum memo, also known as the Eight Action Memo was a memorandum, dated October 7, 1940 (more than a year before the Pearl Harbor attack), sent by Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum, who “provided the president with intelligence reports on [Japan]… [and oversaw] every intercepted and decoded Japanese military and diplomatic report destined for the White House”[1][unreliable source?] in his capacity as director of the Office of Naval Intelligence‘s Far East Asia section. It was sent to Navy Captains Dudley Knox, who agreed with the actions described within the memo, and Walter Stratton Anderson. Continue reading “McCollum memo”
The player is back up and running now, not sure what happened.
Megyn Kelly talked about the “de-legitimization” of the media” in an interview with NPR’s Terry Gross broadcasted Wednesday.
“I think it’s dangerous,” Kelly said. “People need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is — whether it’s Barack Obama or President Donald Trump — and we’re in a dangerous phase right now, where too many millions of Americans aren’t listening at all to what the press tells them.” Continue reading “Megyn Kelly: “Too Many Americans Aren’t Listening At All To What The Press Tells Them,” “Dangerous””
Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish
Georgia is demanding answers after an unsuccessful attempted breach of the server housing the state’s voter registration database was connected to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson penned Thursday, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp explained a failed bid to penetrate the firewall guarding state computer systems on November 15 ‘was linked to an IP address associated with DHS,’ the Wall Street Journal reports. Continue reading “As Feds Blame Russia, GA Secretary of State Just Accused DHS of Hacking its Election Systems”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Florida Department of Health said on Friday that the Miami Beach area was no longer considered an active Zika transmission zone.
The CDC said there had been no new cases of local Zika virus transmission identified in South Miami Beach for more than 45 days, suggesting that the risk of infection was no longer greater than in the rest of Miami-Dade County. Continue reading “Health agencies say Miami Beach no longer Zika transmission zone”
In what is being touted as further diversification of the president-elect administration, Donald Trump is expected to name Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) to lead the Interior Department, according to reports. McMorris Rodgers gets the nod ahead of Sarah Palin and Harold Hamm. Continue reading “Trump Shuns Palin, Picks McMorris Rodgers For Interior Secretary”
Donald Trump has offered Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn a key economic post, which would add to the administration another veteran of the powerful firm he bashed during his campaign, sources close to Cohn told NBC News.
Cohn, Goldman’s 56-year-old president and chief operating officer, has been offered the directorship of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy, the sources said. It is unclear if Cohn will accept the post, but he reportedly had discussions late last month about leaving Goldman.
Continue reading “Trump just offered yet another Goldman veteran a spot in his administration”
These days, you need permission from the government to do just about anything, including feeding yourself or others. Continue reading “Regulation Nation: Where Independence Is Illegal without a Permit”
Statesman Journal – by Tracy Loew
For the first time, seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected on the West Coast of the United States.
Cesium-134, the so-called fingerprint of Fukushima, was measured in seawater samples taken from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach in Oregon, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are reporting. Continue reading “Fukushima radiation has reached U.S. shores”
WEB Notes: The stock market has surged to new records highs. Why? Did the companies that make up the index suddenly become more valuable? Nope. Did they suddenly figure out a way to slash their budgets or make cheaper products? Nope. This is all based on emotion, or straight out and out manipulation of the market itself. Nothing has changed and I want to remind everyone on election night when the votes started to swing to trump the market dropped over 900 points. It would not only recover a few days later, but jump another 1000 points. This documents in of itself the power that is exerted over the stock markets. It is appearing more and more that trump’s administration will be blamed for the collapse that we have been anticipating for sometime now. We will have more to say on this subject in the near future.
Continue reading “Optimism On Economy, Stocks Surges Since Trump Election: CNBC Survey”
In a speech at MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday, President Obama focused on his eight-year effort to protect the homeland, fight terrorism, and strengthen U.S. allies.
He said he wanted to “talk about the foundation that we will leave for the next administration.
Continue reading “Obama Reminds Troops They Have The Right To ‘Protest Against Authority’ And ‘Criticize Our President’”
Journalist Brian Williams has become the latest person to slam ‘fake news,’ claiming it influenced the US election. But there’s some irony in his apparent defense of quality journalism, as he was let go from his NBC gig last year for… reporting fake news.
“Fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience,” Williams said on MSNBC on Wednesday night. Continue reading “Disgraced ex-NBC ‘fake news’ journalist Brian Williams on crusade against false reporting”
Atlanta Police Sergeant Trevor King, 48, of Rex, Georgia, was charged by a federal grand jury with violating the rights of a man by using excessive force against him on Oct. 13, 2014.
The indictment was announced today by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney John Horn of the Northern District of Georgia. Continue reading “Atlanta Police Sergeant Charged with Using Excessive Force”