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Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
The most important witness so far in the investigation of President Trump’s ties to Russia didn’t even qualify for CNN.
While the Washington press corps and the rest of the world was distracted last week by the antics of the Mooch, Spicey, and the Donald, Bill Browder, an American-born British banker, was relegated to the side stage of C-SPAN3. For the Senate Judiciary Committee and the hard-core cable audience, Browder laid out what NPR called “a terrifying and complex picture of Putin’s Russia.”
A week later, Browder’s testimony remains the #1 article on TheAtlantic.com website, and for good reason. It is a gripping story that makes sense of the motive forces behind the collaboration of Trump and Putin in the 2016 election.
While Browder was only summoned to Capitol Hill to talk about the Foreign Agent Registration Act, his testimony about Putin’s government provided something that Washington and the public at large sorely need. Amid a welter of revelations and allegations, Browder provided a coherent narrative of how and why Putin sought Trump’s help.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/gripping-story-behind-case-trump-putin-collusion/
All we have to do now is wait for the shoe to drop
Roger Stone Says Hes In Communication With The White House About The Seth Rich Lawsuit
Reprinted with permission from MediaMatters.
Roger Stone is doing damage control following the filing of a lawsuit alleging a scheme by Fox News and Trump administration officials — including possibly the president himself — to use the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich to absolve the Trump campaign of accusations it coordinated with Russia.
During an appearance on Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory program, Stone said that officials he has spoken to at the White House are calling the lawsuit “bogus” and that he thinks the lawsuit will be dismissed “summarily.”
NPR reported on August 1 on a defamation lawsuit filed by Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler against 21st Century Fox, Fox News, Fox News reporter Malia Zimmerman, and frequent Fox guest Ed Butowsky.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/roger-stone-says-hes-communication-white-house-seth-rich-lawsuit/
This f*cking nixonite is a real piece of work
Dangerous Pollutants In Militarys Open Burns Greater Than Thought, Tests Indicate
Source: National Memo
Reprinted with permission from ProPublica.
The federal government appears to have significantly underestimated the amount of lead, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants that are sent into the air from uncontrolled burning of hazardous waste at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia, according to a draft of a long-awaited report compiled by researchers at the Environmental Protection Agency.
The report details results from air sampling done last September and October at the Radford plant above an open field where piles of waste from the manufacture of weapons explosives are set afire daily. The plumes drift directly towards an elementary school and residents a little more than a mile away, but the Army and regulators have long maintained that the pollution level is safe, based on its computer-modeled estimates.
Now, it turns out, some of those estimates were wrong.
The data shows that five substances were found at levels greater than the EPA’s models had predicted, meaning that previous health-risk analyses completed by regulators for the burns at Radford did not fully take into account the potential exposure of the surrounding population.
Read more: http://www.nationalmemo.com/dangerous-pollutants-militarys-open-burns-greater-thought-tests-indicate/
Where oh where is Scott Pruitt on this issue now that he is in charge.................sitting with the industry telling them "don't worry I got your back"
NAACP issues travel warning for Missouri
Source: Think Progress
People of color and other minorities have been warned not to visit the state of Missouri after Republican Gov. Eric Greitens signed a draconian bill into law that directly threatens minorities, advocates claim.
In a sweeping advisory from June that began gaining traction on a national level last week, members of the NAACP voted to approve the travel warning, which was extended to people of color, women, and the queer community. The NAACP advised those groups that their civil rights may be violated while visiting the state. The organization also advised “extreme caution” to both travelers and minorities currently living in Missouri.
Signed in June, SB43 requires workers claiming discrimination bias by employers to prove that bias was the clear reason for termination — something that is almost impossible to do. Employees are also blocked from suing the individuals responsible for any alleged bias; only businesses themselves can be sued. SB43 additionally removes whistleblower protections for Missouri state employees.
Missouri NAACP President Nimrod Chapel Jr. has since called the measure a “Jim Crow bill” — an intentional nod to racial segregation.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/naacp-warning-minorities-missouri-6f02ca782fcc
Whats next ?
After damaging historic property and wetlands, pipeline CEO is baffled by criticism
Source: Think Progress
Kelcy Warren, Texas billionaire and CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, simply does not understand why people would be opposed to his pipeline projects.
In a letter sent to lawmakers on Monday, Warren said he was “baffled” by allegations that the Rover Pipeline, an Energy Transfer Partners project that would stretch from southwest Pennsylvania to Michigan, had violated federal regulations in constructing the pipeline.
Last week, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) sent a letter to the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC), requesting that the agency investigate “misstatements” made by Energy Transfer Partners during the construction of the Rover Pipeline. Cantwell and Pallone claimed that the company knowingly destroyed a historic house in Ohio near the planned pipeline route, despite assuring regulators that it would avoid damaging the property.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/kelcy-warren-sad-people-dont-like-pipelines-fedd0f04f0cc
What is Kasich and that "gang" of miscreants going to do, look the other way?
We already know what the North Dakota governor did, he liked to see human beings get shot with rubber bullets
EPA panel clears Pruitts climate denial by misquoting scientific integrity policy
Source: Think Progress
A review panel for the EPA’s Scientific Integrity Policy said Tuesday it has cleared Administrator Scott Pruitt for spreading climate misinformation on a television news program earlier this summer.
But reaching exoneration required the panel to cherry-pick an irrelevant part of the agency’s Scientific Integrity Policy, while ignoring the injunction to managers to accurately represent EPA findings to the public.
Here’s what Pruitt — and the scientific integrity panel — got wrong.
Back in March, Pruitt went on CNBC and asserted that CO2 is not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.” This was in direct contradiction to both well-established science, as Politifact noted, and EPA’s own website (at the time), which explained at length why “carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change.”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/epa-panel-clears-pruitts-climate-denial-by-misquoting-scientific-integrity-policy-2d1db8a35c3a
So when applying for a position with this sexual predator, I just wonder what the questions that he asked:
Can you LIE , YES or NO
New York To Hand Over Most Voter Data To Bogus Election Integrity Panel
Source: Talking Points Memo
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published AUGUST 2, 2017 3:22 PM
The New York Board of Elections decided on Tuesday to hand over most of the voter data requested by the Trump administration’s bogus voter fraud commission, the Albany Times Union reported.
The elections board said it would hand over the voter data requested by the commission’s vice chair, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, with the exception of voters’ social security numbers, according to the Times Union.
The board decided to hand over the data despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) statement pledging that New York would not turn over the data. The Board of Elections, not Cuomo, had the authority to make the decision.
At the end of June, Kobach issued a request to states for their voter roll data, as well as information on voter fraud and election security. That request prompted incredible backlash, with several states refusing to comply with the request.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/new-york-comply-election-commission-data
Again, why
South Carolina gubernatorial candidate says shes proud of the Confederacy
Source: Think Progress
During a candidate forum on Tuesday evening, South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Catherine Templeton (R) said she’s “proud of the Confederacy” and vowed the state’s Confederate monuments would be preserved if she’s elected.
At one point during the forum, a man who identified himself as “a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans” told Templeton that “southern heritage is a very important issue to me.”
“I guess you’ve seen all the monuments being took down in Louisiana and all the anti-southern things going on, and I feel anti-southernism is not a conservative value,” he continued. “I’d like to know your opinion on southern heritage and southern defense.”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/catherine-templeton-south-carolina-proud-of-the-confederacy-cf4554bfef24
Maybe this individual should go back into history when the SC delegation to to the Philadelphia Convention voted against the 3/5 rule
That's all this state and country need is another ****ing hypocrite running some government function
The Kid that Didn't Die At Riverfront Stadium
On April 22, 1981, an Ohio teenager named Randy Kobman skipped school to go to Riverfront Stadium to see the Cincinnati Reds play the Atlanta Braves. In the bottom of the 8th inning, Reds slugger George Foster fouled a pitch from Gaylord Perry into the grandstands behind home plate. The ball caromed off the the press box and headed back toward the field. Kobman, sitting in the front row of seats in the stadium’s second deck, moved toward the aisle to make a play for the bouncing ball. He caught it. Then he flipped over the railing.
Thanks to some combination of fate and bench pressing, Kobman saved himself. As he was falling toward the field, Kobman tossed the souvenir ball away, reached back, and grabbed the railing he’d just cartwheeled past with his right arm. His body slammed against the facing of the upper deck, but he never lost his grip. He braced himself against the wall with his legs as his body swung around and held on. It was as clutch a play as Riverfront Stadium, or any stadium, had ever seen.
“I remember it clearly, just seeing the guy hanging up there, way up there,” Ray Knight, the Reds’ third baseman that day, tells me. “The rails at Riverfront were built so that they had an angle in toward the seats, so I saw him hanging up there, but I never knew how he actually grabbed the dang rail, the way it’s built. That was an unbelievable thing.”
The unbelievability of what was witnessed came through in the Atlanta broadcasters’ call. “Oh, my!” Braves TV color commentator Pete Van Wieren said over the crowd’s gasp, as cameras caught the fan swinging from the upper deck.
“He’d be a very dead person, I think,” added Van Wieren’s partner, Braves play-by-play legend Skip Caray, as spectators hauled the hanging fan over to the safe side of the railing.
http://deadspin.com/the-kid-who-didnt-die-at-riverfront-stadium-1796882505
Guess what the owners of the stadiums still have not fixed the problem, but they can shun football player because he will not stand up during the racist national anthem, go figure
Magnetic Tape Storage Break Through Will Make Your Hard Drive Seem Tiny
The amount of data you can squeeze onto a hard drive continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with Seagate announcing a 60TB SSD late last year. But thanks to IBM and Sony, tape might still reign supreme when you need to archive massive amounts of data, as the companies have jointly developed a new kind of tape that can reportedly hold 201-gigabits, or roughly 25GB, per square inch.
That might not seem impressive given you can buy tiny microSD cards that are capable of holding 256GB of movies, photos, and music. But when you fill a cartridge with over a kilometer of this new tape, you can store 330TB of data in less space than a hard drive takes up. Accessing that data is no where near as instantaneous as it is with SSDs or even hard drives, but for companies that need to hold onto years worth of data ‘just in case,’ tape cartridges can be a more affordable long-term solution.
Unlike the platters in computer hard drives that feature ultra-thin layers of various metals to store tiny magnetic charges, tape needs to be able to flex, bend, and be wound onto a spool. As a result, it’s usually covered in a thin layer of iron oxide or chromium particles which are magnetized or de-magnetized by a machine to create individual bits of data—aka the ones and zeroes that make digital communications possible.
http://gizmodo.com/magnetic-tape-data-storage-breakthrough-will-make-your-1797462392
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