As a child growing up in Pueblo, Colorado, Jeremy Laintz travelled widely with his father, an aeronautics engineer at Lockheed Martin, who sometimes took his four kids along on business trips. Family vacations included tours of aerospace facilities and, on one occasion, a trip to watch a space-shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral. Laintz’s mother managed a bakery, and Laintz, the youngest child in the family, recalled enjoying a warm home life. He played soccer and football, and spent summers hunting and fishing on a ranch that his family owned in North Dakota. As a teen-ager, though, he slipped into trouble—he was arrested first for driving under the influence, and then, in his late teens, for felony car theft. He spent a year in prison, where he learned to weld, and a few more years in halfway houses. Then, in 2003, he moved to Alaska, where […]
Stephan: Sunday I listened to one of the most disgusting and extraordinary speeches by an American president in the history of the country. I never imagined or expected to hear an American president speaking in his official capacity from a public podium call something "bullshit." What I found even more alarming was the reception this public vomiting evoked. Cheers and screams of support. It sounded like a Nazi gathering. All it lacked was the "Sig Heils." And today, as this report describes 88 percent of Republicans think Trump is God's ordained leader. Four in 10 Americans support him. The sad truth is the problem with American democracy is Americans.
Get ready for 2020, America — according to a new poll, just four in ten voters say they want six more years of President Donald Trump.
A little more than a year and a half out from the 2020 presidential election, Trump still has strong party loyalty, but voters are already hinting that they prefer a change. According to a new poll released by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, 48 percent of voters say they would rather vote for the Democratic nominee over the current sitting president — while a smaller 41 percent say they’d “definitely” or “likely” reelect Trump.
Trump largely has his base backing him — 88 percent of Republican voters approve of his presidency and the majority of Americans express confidence in the economy. But compared to recent presidents who faced reelection, Trump is lagging a little bit behind. Barack Obama earned 45 percent of voters who said they’d back his reelection; George W. Bush held strong with 52 percent at the same point in his presidency. Only Bill Clinton’s prospects were on par: […]
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Vegas Tenold, - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: Over the years, as it has been happening, I have published something like a 100 stories on the growing White Supremacist christofascist terrorist trend. In my opinion, it constitutes the biggest terrorist threat America faces. What discourages me is that when I run these stories few of my readers read them, whereas the story on glyphosates in wine and beer is well into five figures. When I ask people about this they tell me they don't like to read "bad news" or "negative stories." As a result this neo-Nazis trend, as this report lays out, has grown much larger than anyone seems to realize. This is exactly what happened in Germany in the 1930s. When you consider this story in the context of the previous story on the reaction of Republicans to Trump's CPAC speech, I think you should be very concerned.
Note also that this story is in the British press, not an American source. This is how people in other parts of the world now view the U.S..
In the early summer of 2017, US coast guard lieutenant Christopher Hasson had an idea. He had been trying to figure out an effective way of killing billions of people – “almost every last person on Earth” – but found himself coming up against the daunting logistics of such a task.
He suspected “a plague would be most successful”, but didn’t know how to get his hands on enough Spanish flu, botulism or anthrax. His idea, he wrote in a draft email from 2 June of that year, would be to “start with biological attacks followed by attack on food supply”. He acknowledged the plan needed more research.
While horrifying in their ambition, Hasson’s plans, gleaned from email drafts, are scatterbrained and bear the hallmarks of a person still trying to figure things out. His tentative plans, outlined mostly in emails to himself, were thwarted when he was arrested last month on firearms and drugs charges and investigators discovered his inner life as a neo-Nazi and his plans for mass murder – along with a huge cache of weapons and a hit list of prominent Democrats and media figures.
What is clear, however, is […]
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By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength not normally visible to rodents (or people). It’s an extraordinary achievement, one made even more extraordinary with the realization that a similar technique could be used in humans.
