Sunday, January 12th, 2020
Michael Daly, Special Correspondent - Daily Beast
Stephan: Donald Trump, Jr's major claim to fame is that he likes to kill large endangered animals, who are not attacking him, just going about their daily business. He thinks of it as "sport", which tells you his level of consciousness. (There is no sport to killing a lion at a distance with a high powered rifle and a scope; it's not much different than shooting a dairy cow standing in a field, or a dog in your driveway.) And, of course, Trump, Jr. has never served in the military. Like his father, he is a coward.
But this story has an even weirder sicker twist. Look closely at the pictures. Note the White supremacy crusader motif and the cartoon of Hillary Clinton behind bars painted on the extra-large magazine. He is proud of this, and posted the picture, that's how I know it.
If there is a more vulgar, more twisted, more criminal family in public life in America I am not aware of them.
Donald Trump. Jr with his modified AR military rifle with its White Supremacy modifications, and Hillary Clinton behind bars cartoon on the magazine. He’s proud of it, he posted the picture.
The 30-round magazine stenciled with an image of Hillary Clinton behind bars was just more “lock-her-up” nonsense.
But what was deeply offensive on multiple levels about Donald Trump Jr.’s recent Instagram post was the Knights Templar Long Cross painted on his assault rifle.
“…adding a little extra awesome to my AR,” he wrote.
That particular cross is the emblem of the long-ago Crusades to vanquish the Muslims from the Holy Land. Present-day Muslim terrorists seek to justify their attacks with the fiction that they are doing battle with present-day crusaders. Osama bin Laden’s 1998 fatwa was titled “Jews and Crusaders.”
For the son and namesake of our president to post a smiling picture of himself holding a weapon of war bearing that symbol adds credence to the crusader fiction of our enemies. He does this even as thousands of young Americans are heading into […]
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Saturday, January 11th, 2020
Loukia Papadopoulos, - Interesting Engineering
Stephan: It is estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States in 2020 and 609,640 people will die from the disease. Here is a medical breakthrough on cancer that could develop into very good news.
Cancer cells
Credit: spawns/iStock
Israeli firm Alpha Tau Medical has developed a new cancer treatment that attacks tumors while sparing healthy tissue. The treatment is ca lled Alpha DaRT (Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Treatment), according to The Jerusalem Post.
A tolerable treatment
Alpha DaRT uses, for the first time, alpha radiation for solid tumor treatment. But it does so in a way that the body can tolerate it.
Most cancer treatments out there are simply not tolerable. Our bodies were not made to be exposed to them.
Alpha particles have a high capacity to destroy cancer cells without causing side effects on healthy cells. However, they have extremely short path length in tissue, meaning that up to now they could not get across the entire volume of a tumor.
ALPHA DaRT technology uses the radioactive decay of an isotope called radium-224 to power the spread of alpha particles across entire tumors. This makes ALPHA DaRT […]
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Saturday, January 11th, 2020
George Monbiot, Columnist - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: The replacement of industrial chemical materialist agriculture, coupled with the emergence of a food system that ends animal husbandry, as described in this really excellent essay by George Monbiot, is a trend that we can now see emerging. I do think this is the way we are headed. Maintaining cattle and swine operations is not sustainable. More than that, it is the wrong consciousness and will become more so as the recognition of the matrix of consciousness grows.
Illustration: Matt Kenyon
It sounds like a miracle, but no great technological leaps were required. In a commercial lab on the outskirts of Helsinki, I watched scientists turn water into food. Through a porthole in a metal tank, I could see a yellow froth churning. It’s a primordial soup of bacteria, taken from the soil and multiplied in the laboratory, using hydrogen extracted from water as its energy source. When the froth was siphoned through a tangle of pipes and squirted on to heated rollers, it turned into a rich yellow flour.
This flour is not yet licensed for sale. But the scientists, working for a company called Solar Foods, were allowed to give me some while filming our documentary
Apocalypse Cow. I asked them to make me a pancake: I would be the first person on Earth, beyond the lab staff, to […]
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Saturday, January 11th, 2020
Lee Fang, - The Intercept
Stephan: My issues with mainstream media are not liberal bias; that does not exist as I published the other day. But there are other problems: cable news usually only covers the top three stories in any depth, and has almost nothing about the rest of the world. Nor do they properly identify the commentators they put on. They tell you about past jobs, but not current obligations. They do not reveal associations and affiliations that may compromise what a particular commentator has to say. Here is a classic example of what I mean.
TV Commentators with affiliations that compromise what they say.
Since Friday, a loud chorus of voices has appeared in the media to celebrate President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, a move that has sparked renewed tension in the Middle East, a new deployment of U.S. forces, and predictions of increased military spending.
Many of the pundits who appeared on national television or were quoted in major publications to praise the president’s actions have undisclosed ties to the defense industry — the only domestic industry that stands to gain from increased violence.
Jack Keane, a retired Army general, appeared on Fox News and NPR over the last three days to praise Trump for the strike on Suleimani. “The president acted responsibly,” Keane said during an appearance with Fox News host Lou Dobbs. “It should have happened a long time ago.” Keane has worked for military companies, including General Dynamics and Blackwater, and currently serves as a partner at SCP Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in defense contractors.
Van Hipp, chair of the lobbying firm […]
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Saturday, January 11th, 2020
Stephan: There seems to be no grift, no shady deal, indulgence, no criminal emolument scheme Donald J. Trump and his family won't try to work, even as he is president. In fact, I think, it has buoyed their sense of entitlement as they demonstrate ever more blatantly. Trump will be historic, but in the most negative way.
Criminal Trump has almost started a war that has murdered dozens to get everyone focused on something other than his impeachment; he is presently in court over raping New York columnist E. Jean Carroll; he has just paid a $2 million dollar fine levied for his misuse of a nonprofit organization and now this.
And yet, 41.8% of Americans still support him and, in my view, that is the real problem America faces. If you can't see Trump for who and what he is, given this television drama narrative, he lays out for us every day then something else is more important to you than reality.
One of President Donald Trump’s schemes to make money in office does not appear to be going as planned, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.
In October, the Trump Organization was harshly criticized after it announced it would be selling its rights to Trump International Hotel D.C.
The Trump family does not actually own the building, which was formerly the historic Old Post Office building but has a long-term lease with the federal government.
According to The Journal, the Trump Organization has set a January 23 deadline to bid. However, the first family may not profit as much as they were hoping.
“The company was hoping initially to get more than $500 million for the lease rights, people familiar with the matter said. That would represent about $2 million per room key, which hotel brokers and investors say would be a record for Washington by that metric,” the newspaper reported. “Potential buyers have balked at that figure, and brokers have indicated the Trumps are willing to negotiate on price and other terms, said […]
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