[FOX] The House and Senate intelligence committees are expanding their investigation into the so-called "unmasking" controversy, Fox News has learned, to examine whether other candidates or lawmakers beyond President Trump’s associates were affected. At least one of these gentlemen need to find the unemployment line, possibly both.
Until now, the investigation focused on how the identities and communications of Trump transition members were collected by U.S. intelligence agencies and then revealed to, and disseminated among, high-ranking members of the Obama administration.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now plans to audit files from the National Security Agency and White House to determine whether identities and conversations of presidential candidates -- or members of Congress -- also were swept up during NSA surveillance of foreign leaders. He also plans to review whether Obama’s National Security Council and White House counsel collected and distributed the intelligence for reasons unrelated to foreign intelligence.
"We will be performing an accounting of all unmasking for political purposes focused on the previous White House administration," a member of the committee told Fox News. "This is now a full-blown investigation."
Staffers on the Senate committee told Fox News they also have expanded their investigation into whether presidential candidates were unmasked and information was misused -- and what role former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, among others, played following reports that she requested Trump-affiliated names be unmasked.
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Provide the requested information to Congress or face immediate de-funding and employment terminations (starting at the top). You have 10 days. Your fok'n choice.
A man arrested for driving under the influence early Monday after an accident, had his mug shot taken while he was wearing a t-shirt that said "Hold my beer and watch this."
Connecticut State Police said around 1:20 a.m., troopers were called to a one car accident on Wilson Road in Putnam. Troopers said the car was traveling east on Wilson Road when it struck a stone wall.
Police said the vehicle was unregistered, uninsured and the registration plates on the car belonged to a different vehicle.
Harrison Wootton, 25, of Woodstock, was charged with operating an unregistered motor vehicle, failure to have insurance, misuse of plates, failure to drive in the proper lane and operating under the influence of alcohol/drugs.
[RT] A police officer in Columbus, Ohio, who was nearly indicted for a past fatal shooting has been placed on indefinite non-patrol duty after he was caught on video kicking a handcuffed man in the head as he lay on the ground.
On Saturday, officers with the Columbus Police Department nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Demarko Anderson for alleged drug and weapons crimes. Police said while officers were responding to a report of shots fired, Anderson attempted to get away from them, according to WSYX. Anderson was eventually apprehended and handcuffed.
Laying on his stomach on a sidewalk, Anderson, a black man, was approached by Officer Zachary Rosen, a white man who forcefully stomped on the suspect's head. The action was caught on video by a nearby resident, who posted the footage to YouTube.
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Why don't I feel sorry for the man who got his head stomped ?
Is it lack of empathy on my part? Is it because I was raised in a desert community in Death Valley between Yuma and El Centro with only buzzards to play with?
The Cop was just doing his job, and seemed like a good Cop to me. Besides who are we to judge? Selling drugs and attempting to escape...seems like he was encouraging a little "hard love" there, from Sergeant O'Flaherty.
You should be a little more understanding about what a Cop's job really means on a day to day basis. Society pays them real money to do these things so decent citizens don't have to do it ourselves. How else is your mother going to get to work?
[RT] A man has jumped to his death from an Ohio courthouse balcony just before standing trial for triple murder and the rape of a 10-year-old girl.
Robert Seman Jnr faced the death penalty if he was found guilty of the rape and murder of 10-year-old Corinne Gump and the murder of her grandparents Judy and William Schmidt, whose home he allegedly set on fire in March 2015.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the 48-year-old plunged to his death after flinging himself from the fourth floor courthouse balcony ‐ just as he was about to enter the courtroom.
CCTV footage of the macabre incident released by Mahoning County Sheriff’s office shows Seman being escorted by coppers along a county courthouse corridor in Youngstown, Ohio.
Seman, dressed in a white shirt and khaki pants, was not wearing handcuffs at the time of the incident and managed to hurl himself over the balcony as cops belatedly scrambled to stop him.
Mahoning County Sheriff Jerry Greene told WKBN that the lack of handcuffs was standard procedure, "Due to the fact that the courts do not want individuals on trial to be seen with restraining devices on, or per se, in jug."
Seman’s attorney said the apparent suicide was completely unexpected as his client maintained his innocence.
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Initiative in police officers is to be applauded.
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Seman faced the death penalty or suicide? Justice was delivered either way. It should be put on his tombstone, if he even gets one, "He saved the taxpayers a lot of money."
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For as long as "experts" have pontificated about business, a staple of such advice has been the warning to avoid taking short term gain at the expense of long term harm. The NFL's modus operandi for the last several years has flown soundly in the face of such a warning, and the move to Vegas is no different.
Sure, they'll get a nice shiny stadium and some coin out of it.
The long term bill will be waiting for them, and the the meter will be running the entire time.
A cult of clean eating is a "ticking timebomb" that could leave young people with weak bones, the National Osteoporosis Society has warned.
Research by the charity shows that four in ten of those aged between 18 and 24 have tried such regimes, which are now coming under attack for cutting out major food groups, such as dairy.
The diets have become increasingly fashionable, and are associated with a number of celebrities, who have boasted how they have cut out gluten, dairy, grains and refined sugars.
But the charity said many of those following the trends had no idea that cutting out major food groups could jeopardise their long-term health, with bones still developing in early adulthood. On the bright side, given my diet, my bones will probably look just fine if mankind survives long enough to dig them up in a few million years.
The craze has been associated with a number of celebrities - many of whom have now moved to disassociate themselves from such habits - as well as on social media.
Earlier this year London sisters Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley moved to distance themselves from "clean eating", saying their emphasis was on eating foods without additives, not on restriction.
But the charity’s survey of more than 2000 adults found 70 per cent of those aged between 18 and 35 are or have been on a diet, with those aged between 18 and 24 most likely to have tried "clean eating".
Dairy - a major source of calcium, which protects the bones - was one of the key food groups targeted.
In total more than 20 per cent of those such age had cut or severely restricted intake of milk or cheese.
This group were far more likely than older adults to be getting their information about health and diets from blogs, vlogs and other social media.
Experts said the trends were putting the generation at significant risk of developing osteoporosis - a condition that causes bones to become fragile and break easily - in later life.
Professor Susan Lanham-New, Clinical Advisor to the National Osteoporosis Society and Professor of Nutrition at the University of Surrey, says: "Diet in early adulthood is so important because by the time we get into our late twenties it is too late to reverse the damage caused by poor diet and nutrient deficiencies and the opportunity to build strong bones has passed."
Half of all women and one in five men develop osteoporosis after the age of 50. Broken bones, also known as fractures, caused by osteoporosis can be very painful and slow to recover from.
A poor diet for those in their teens and early twenties now could see a significant rise in the numbers of people suffering fractures and the complications associated with them in the future.
Professor Lanham-New said: "Without urgent action being taken to encourage young adults to incorporate all food groups into their diets and avoid particular ’clean eating’ regimes, we are facing a future where broken bones will become just the ’norm’.
"We know that osteoporosis is a painful and debilitating condition and young adults have just one chance to build strong bones and reduce their risk of developing severe problems in later life."
The charity is urging parents and grandparents to talk to young people about the risks from their diet.
The campaign, called ’A Message to My Younger Self’ is being led by wellbeing and beauty expert Liz Earle, who said she feared the pressures on her own daughters from social media.
She said: "When I was growing up, my meals weren’t photographed and shared on social media. The pressure young women are under to match what their idols on Instagram are eating is really high."
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It would seem like a solution looking for a problem. Today, so many foods are supplemented with calcium. It's doubtful calcium deficiency is a problem unless there is some underlying pathology. I'd think calcium deficiency would show up as metabolic deficiencies, hypertension, nerve transmission problems, muscle spasms, bruising, fatigue, and heart irregularities before it showed up as calcium loss in the bones.
p.s. Grom Jr. homeroom teacher, who is also their science teacher, lectures them on the benefits of vegetarianism - when she isn't talking global warming. As a result, kids have a new sport - eating meat in the classroom during lessons.
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Maybe they should just bring in a live goat, tear it to shreds, make a bonfire out of the chairs and desks, cook it over the bonfire (optional), and eat it right there. That would also have a side-effect of ending the global warming lectures.
[AlAhram] A fleet of North Korean cargo ships is heading home to the port of Nampo, the majority of it fully laden, after China ordered its trading companies to return coal from the isolated country, shipping data shows.
Following repeated missile tests that drew international criticism, China banned all imports of North Korean coal on Feb. 26, cutting off the country's most important export product.
To curb coal traffic between the two countries, China's customs department issued an official order on April 7 telling trading companies to return their North Korean coal cargoes, said three trading sources with direct knowledge of the order.
U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and Chinese President Xi Jinping were discussing North Korea at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on April 7.
Shipping data on Thomson Rooters Eikon, a financial information and analytics platform, shows a dozen cargo ships on their way to North Korea's main west coast port of Nampo, almost all carrying cargoes from China.
Chinese authorities did not respond to requests for official comment.
The Trump administration has been pressuring China to do more to rein in North Korea, which sends the vast majority of its exports to its giant neighbour across the Yellow Sea.
To make up for the shortfall from North Korea, China has ramped up imports from the United States in an unexpected boon for U.S. President Donald Trump, who has declared he wants to revive his country's struggling coal sector.
Eikon data shows no U.S. coking coal was exported to China between late 2014 and 2016, but shipments soared to over 400,000 tonnes by late February.
This trend was exacerbated after cyclone Debbie knocked out supplies from the world's top coking coal region in the Australia's state of Queensland, forcing Chinese steel makers to buy even more U.S. cargoes.
The other big coking coal supplier that has ramped up exports to China since the ban on North Korean cargoes is Russia.
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A signal that China is sick of Puddy's shit too and is willing to at least work a little bit with the US. Pretty big slap in the face and the pocket book for the NORKS.
[Daily Caller] John Bolton told Fox News’ Shannon Bream Tuesday that the only "way to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is to end North Korea."
"I don’t think there is any point in negotiating with the North Koreans," the former U.N. ambassador stated. "They aren’t going to voluntarily give up their nuclear weapons program, they’re not going to voluntarily give up their ballistic missile program."
"I think there is only one alternative here, and that’s to put enough pressure on them to have the regime collapse," he continued. "The way to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is to end North Korea, I think, through reunification of the peninsula."
"That’s something we should be talking to the Chinese about," Bolton added. "It will be hard for the Chinese to accept, but they’re the ones who have said for many years they don’t want a nuclear North Korea. "
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The key, of course, is China. Momar had no equivalent patrone. If China says jump NK will ask how high.
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Pretty much sums it up. Having said that, make the Chinese understand they are solely responsible for NK actions and will bear retaliation as well. Start cutting off the China banks from western transactions and see how fast they say jump.
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Pudgy is saying to himself, Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein gave up their nukes and look what happened to them. Pudgy is not going to give up his nukes.
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There is not a lot of love lost between Korea and China. It is an Asian junior / senior relationship, a cultural thing that is largely unknown in the west. North Korea has been making noises that they are co-equals with China, which is a real slap at China. China would prefer South Korea to reign in the North Koreans, something I think will not happen in the next few millennia.
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JQC, without revisiting the issue Saddam was thought NOT to have given up his WMD program. Momar's problem was that Hillary was SoS. Hopefully that won't happen again.
All that said a paranoid Pudgy probably does see it your way.
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And the rest of them noticed how Qaddafi ended up - or, rather, down.
Pudgy doesn't have the same situation to deal with. He would just proclaim victory and continue to submit his population and end up in the same place, either way.
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I think Pudgy is on a one-way street: personal cessation. He cannot back down without losing face and self-respect, ergo, position. He might make a run for it. But who would take him? He is Hyman Roth cubed, and no one would believe the "retired [Head-of-State] on a pension" line. And outside NK he would be exposed to wet teams from any number of governments.
No, I'd say his goose is just about home-fried. I have to assume POTUS and Xi talked in those terms and about deconfliction. So the question now, really, is: how are Koreans going to reunite their peninsula? I have no idea. Carrier strike groups do have mission capabilities other than strikes.
And finally, a general observation: whereas previously (since, say, 1950) POTUSs have tolerated festering sores around the globe that have killed millions and cost trillions -- and employed thousands of goatee-scratching, drunken and lascivious pundit morons -- this POTUS, finally, appears willing to heal the sores so they are no more and also return the goatee-scratchers to the bottom of their cups and the solace of their sheets, where they came from and belong.
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From Ace of Spades HQ from Notorious MWR's twitter feed:
"I've said it before and I'll say it again: Kim Jong Un is a frigging Millennial. Think about that for a minute.
Picture Shrieking Yale Girl from a couple years ago, the one who had the profane hissy fit over Halloween costumes.
Now take her mentality - privileged, entitled, demanding respect while offering none in return - and give her a bad hair cut missiles.
That is Kim Jong Un."
He is a Millennial both literally (he was born in 1984) and mentally, with the added "bonus" that he doesn't just have unearned privilege, he legitimately has NEVER had anyone call him on his shit in any lasting way.
Kim Jong Un is what you get if the Mizzou students of the world take over the reins of power.
[FINANCE.YAHOO] North Korean state media on Tuesday warned of a nuclear attack on the United States at any sign of U.S. aggression as a U.S. Navy strike group steamed towards the western Pacific.
U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , who has urged China to do more to rein in its impoverished neighbour, said in a Tweet North Korea was "looking for trouble" and the United States would "solve the problem" with or without China's help.
Tension has escalated sharply on the Korean peninsula with talk of military action by the United States gaining traction following its strikes last week against Syria and amid concerns the reclusive North may soon conduct a sixth nuclear test.
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I can't seem to find salted popcorn here in Chongqing, China, may have to settle with sugar coated.
President Trump suggested on Tuesday that he could sweeten the terms of a trade agreement with China if Beijing assists in solving the North Korea "problem" -- but that the United States is prepared to move forward in the western Pacific without Chinese help.
"I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!" Trump tweeted early Tuesday, three days after hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
"North Korea is looking for trouble," Trump wrote. "If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! U.S.A." The Art of the Deal
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The Art of the Deal. Former POTUS was artless and gave away our shirts in screwed up one-sided deals. He tried to make geldings out of us. That is just not our way. That is one reason Hildabeest lost if she needs to find a reason.
The prime minister has one. So does the culture minister. Even the previously clean-shaven ministers of economy and foreign affairs recently began sporting theirs.
Neatly-trimmed mustaches, similar to that worn by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have become increasingly popular among government ministers from his Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party, or AKP, ahead of a crucial referendum Sunday on expanding the president's powers.
Some analysts say that's no fluke in a country where facial hair has a history of political significance, and where ministers' loyalty to Erdogan is being closely scrutinized following a failed coup attempt last year.
"These days, when Turkey is fighting terror organizations — and in the aftermath of the coup — the mustaches provide a strong and stern image," said Mesut Sen, professor of Turkish studies at Istanbul's Marmara University.
Historically, men in Turkey have worn mustaches not only to assert their manhood but express their political leanings. Traditionally, nationalists wear their mustaches long and downward-pointing — like the crescent moon on the Turkish flag — while leftists tend to grow theirs bushy and Stalin-esque.
[Dhaka Tribune] The project aims to develop a biometric system that could potentially trigger remineralisation and regrowth of dental tissues.
Bangladeshi scientist Dr Azam Ali has been awarded an explorer grant by the New Zealand government for his groundbreaking project on re-growing dental tissues.
The researcher’s "No drill, no fill" is one of 11 groundbreaking projects on health issues that have won $1.65 million in explorer grants from the Health Research Council, reports the New Zealand Herald.
Each explorer grant is worth $150,000 and provides seed support for cutting edge research at an early stage for up to 24 months.
According to the report, the project aims to develop a biometric system that could potentially trigger remineralisation and regrowth of dental tissues.
Dr Ali’s team will combine biomaterials like collagen with bioceramics, consisting largely of calcium phosphate.
The researcher told the New Zealand Herald: "We are planning to develop biomaterials which will be very, very compatible with dental tissue and offer a biological function.
"The biomaterials will mimic the cells and regenerate and produce new dental tissue."
Welcoming the study, New Zealand Health Minister Jonathan Coleman said: "Developing a technique to regrow teeth, for example, is an extraordinary concept and offers huge potential for people suffering from dental health problems.
"The government supports research that leads to improved health outcomes and more effective delivery of healthcare for New Zealanders."
Ali obtained his Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry from Jahangirnagar University in 1988 and 1991 respectively. In 2000, he obtained a PhD degree in Polymer Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology from the Universiti Sains, Malaysia.
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Worth a read. Chappell is far more insightful and honest than I thought. Chappell argues for the of "The Value of the Examined Life" as a counter to what is lost by shutting down conversation with PC nonsense.
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So the man is thoughtful, doesn't take the easy out or kowtow to current SJW tastes. He will be dismissed by the usual suspects as "acting white," "being an Uncle Tom" and will join Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson in the "sellout" and "race traitor" categories. I salute you, Mr. Chapelle!
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FOX] The House and Senate intelligence committees are expanding their investigation into the so-called "unmasking" controversy, Fox News has learned, to examine whether other candidates or lawmakers beyond President Trump’s associates were affected.
A man arrested for driving under the influence early Monday after an accident, had his mug shot taken while he was wearing a t-shirt that said "Hold my beer and watch this."
A cult of clean eating is a "ticking timebomb" that could leave young people with weak bones, the National Osteoporosis Society has warned. 
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