| UPDATE 1-Russia tells Google not to advertise "illegal" events after election protests Posted: 11 Aug 2019 06:50 AM PDT ![UPDATE 1-Russia tells Google not to advertise "illegal" events after election protests]( "UPDATE 1-Russia tells Google not to advertise \"illegal\" events after election protests") Russia's state communications watchdog has asked Google to stop advertising "illegal mass events" on its YouTube video platform, it said on Sunday. The watchdog, Roscomnadzor, said some entities had been buying advertising tools from YouTube, such as push notifications, in order to spread information about illegal mass protests, including those aimed at disrupting elections. It said Russia would consider a failure by Google to respond to the request as "interference in its sovereign affairs" and "hostile influence (over) and obstruction of democratic elections in Russia".
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| Police are investigating a social media threat of the 'biggest mass shooting in modern American history' targeting Walmart stores in Missouri Posted: 10 Aug 2019 11:33 AM PDT  The threat was posted this week to Reddit by someone claiming to have two AR-15 semi-automatic weapons and 22 pipe bombs.
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| Dozens arrested at huge opposition rally in Moscow Posted: 10 Aug 2019 11:11 AM PDT  Nearly 50,000 opposition supporters rallied and dozens were arrested in Moscow on Saturday at one of the largest authorised protests since President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012. Demonstrators crowded the central Prospekt Andreya Sakharova street, where city authorities deployed a massive police presence, including officers in riot gear, after giving permission for the rally to go ahead. The White Counter, an NGO that tracks participants in rallies, counted 49,900 people, while Moscow police gave a much lower attendance figure of 20,000.
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| Jeffrey Epstein's death is a perfect storm for conspiracy theories Posted: 10 Aug 2019 09:30 AM PDT  The death Saturday morning of financier Jeffrey Epstein, an accused sex trafficker with connections to some of the most powerful people in the world, represents a perfect storm in the world of conspiracy theories.
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| Canada cable car cord severed in 'likely sabotage' Posted: 11 Aug 2019 09:34 AM PDT  Canadian police are investigating an apparent act of vandalism after a cord carrying cable cars was severed, sending all 30 of them crashing to the ground.The company said the Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, north of Vancouver, was not operating at the time of the incident, and that no guests or staff members were injured.The attraction's manager told Canadian broadcaster CBC that maintenance on the line had been recently carried out "and it was a big, thick, beautiful healthy rope".The firm said the incident took place at around 04.30 local time (11.30 GMT).Police think an individual deliberately slashed the cables in the early hours of Saturday and say technical safety experts are now assessing the line."We believe the cables were cut and this was a deliberate act of vandalism," Squamish RCMP Inspector Kara Triance told CBC. "At this time, it's a crime scene."Inspector Triance said the person responsible placed themselves in "extreme jeopardy" if they had scaled a maintenance pole. She also noted the steel cable coming loose under tension would have been highly dangerous.Police are asking visitors to steer clear of the area – including away from nearby trails. They have also urged any hikers, climbers, or campers who were in the area to get in touch with them."We recognise the potential of what could have been and are thankful that no one was injured," police said in a statement.The Sea to Sky Gondola takes passengers to almost 3,000 feet above sea level, giving views of Howe Sound, a network of fjords situated immediately northwest of Vancouver, and surrounding waterfalls. Each of the gondola cars is able to hold eight passengersAdditional reporting by agencies
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| Kamala Harris: Immigration raids will distort 2020 census Posted: 11 Aug 2019 06:02 AM PDT  'I'm telling you that, given the policies of this administration, that is going to be a flawed census,' Harris said.
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| Tanzanian police say 62 killed when siphoned tanker explodes Posted: 10 Aug 2019 07:30 AM PDT  A damaged tanker truck exploded in eastern Tanzania as people were trying to siphon fuel out of it Saturday, killing at least 62 in one of the worst incidents of its kind in the East African country. Tanzanian state broadcaster TBC, citing police figures, said at least 70 more people were injured during the explosion in the town of Morogoro, located about 120 miles (200 kilometers) from the economic hub of Dar es Salaam. Regional commissioner Steven Kebwe told the local Azam TV that many suffered serious burns.
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| As Pakistan-India tensions flare, a child mistakes a bomb for a toy Posted: 11 Aug 2019 01:57 AM PDT  Deep in the mountains of the Neelum Valley, where a river separates Indian and Pakistani Kashmir, is the small village of Jabri, usually far enough away to avoid being hit by exchanges of fire between the countries' armies. "He found a bomb that looked like a toy and he brought it here," said Ali's uncle, Abdul Qayyum, pointing to their home. Pakistan's military said the device was a cluster bomb, a weapon that releases many smaller bomblets that can kill or wound people over a wider area.
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| Russia missile test blast kills five nuclear agency staff Posted: 10 Aug 2019 03:16 PM PDT  Russia's nuclear agency said Saturday an explosion during missile testing in the Arctic left five workers dead and involved radioactive isotopes after a nearby city recorded a spike in radiation levels. Rosatom said the force of the explosion on Thursday blew several of its staff from a testing platform into the sea. Russia's military did not initially say that the accident involved nuclear equipment, but stressed that radiation levels were normal afterwards.
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| TX Man And His 1993 Ford Mustang GT Reunited After 17 Years Posted: 10 Aug 2019 06:23 PM PDT  Ford and Hennessey Performance teamed up for the restoration.We've all probably had that one car we sold off that we wish we never would have sold, but Wesley Ryan had no choice other than to sell his 1993 Ford Mustang GT for financial reasons after his was diagnosed with cancer. That was 17 years ago. Late last year, his son and daughter had reacquired the car after find it for sale on Craigslist – it was actually his original car and the title was still in his name! Apparently the years were not kind to the car, and it was in need of some repairs, but with this kind of a story, Ford Motor Company and Hennessey Performance teamed up to give this Mustang the ultimate homecoming. Ford donated parts such as a new engine and transmission, while Hennessey put in the hard work of restoring the car, which according to mySA.com would have cost around $200,000 for the 500 to 600 man-hours of labor.The fully restored Mustang was finally reunited with its new owner this past week at Ford's world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan with Ford executive Henry Ford III and Hennessey Performance founder and CEO, John Hennessey, on hand for the unveiling. It was definitely an emotional reunion for Ryan, whose wife and children were by his side when the black cover was removed and the restored Fox body was finally revealed. After nine months of work, the 26-year-old Mustang looked like new!Ryan's family made the initial surprise, and Ford and Hennessey came through on the car's incredible restoration. The whole story definitely shows how emotional cars can make us and how close knit the automotive community really is.We're not crying, you're crying! Source: Hennessey via mySA.com Read More... * 2015 Ford Mustang GT Hennessey Is A Supercharged Powerhouse * Mystery Surrounds Stolen 1991 Ford Mustang GT Barn Find
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| 'Clearly wrong' to think he could get through to Trump on climate change, says Gore Posted: 11 Aug 2019 04:58 AM PDT  ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl sits down with former Vice President Al Gore to talk climate change, the 2020 field and President Donald Trump.
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| A growing number of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are calling Trump a 'white supremacist.' Here’s why Posted: 11 Aug 2019 06:45 AM PDT  After the El Paso shooting, one of the deadliest attacks on Latinos in US history, at least six Democratic candidates called Trump a white supremacist.
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| FBI Arrests Las Vegas Man Allegedly Planning Attack on Synagogue, LGBTQ Community Posted: 10 Aug 2019 01:39 PM PDT  Conor Climo, 23, was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly owning parts of an explosive device
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| Former Billionaire Eike Batista Released From Prison in Brazil Posted: 11 Aug 2019 08:14 AM PDT ![Former Billionaire Eike Batista Released From Prison in Brazil]( "Former Billionaire Eike Batista Released From Prison in Brazil") (Bloomberg) -- Eike Batista, once Brazil's richest man, was released from jail Saturday, as an appeals judge revoked a temporary arrest order that expired on Monday.He had been detained last week as part of the ongoing corruption probe known as Carwash. His detention was ordered amid worries Batista might hinder the investigation into financial markets and privileged information.The appeal justice cut short the arrest, ruling his detention can't be used as a tool to constrain the defense. Batista spent the night at his home, according to the press office of Rio de Janeiro's State penitentiary administration secretary.Batista was already serving a 30-year sentence and under house arrest after being convicted last year of paying $16.6 million to get government contracts. His detention on Thursday included a freeze on 1.6 billion reais ($410 million) held by Batista and two of his sons, federal prosecutors from Rio said in a statement.Brazil's Carwash probe started in 2014 and has resulted in convictions of high-profile politicians and business leaders including former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The investigation raised awareness of endemic corruption and contributed to the election of President Jair Bolsonaro, who campaigned on a law and order platform.Batista's commodities and logistics empire raised his personal fortune to more than $30 billion at the start of the decade, turning him into one of the world's wealthiest people. Those riches evaporated after his group of startups went bust under a mountain of debt and insider-trading investigations.He gained the rare distinction of "negative billionaire" in 2015 when his net worth sank to more than $1 billion in debt.To contact the reporter on this story: Mario Sergio Lima in Brasilia Newsroom at mlima11@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Juan Pablo Spinetto at jspinetto@bloomberg.net, Ian Fisher, Kevin MillerFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Some labor unions split with Biden on 'Medicare for All' Posted: 11 Aug 2019 03:56 AM PDT ![Some labor unions split with Biden on 'Medicare for All']( "Some labor unions split with Biden on 'Medicare for All'") Labor leaders dispute candidates' claims that single-payer will leave their members worse off.
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| The Latest: Israel says suspects in soldier's death arrested Posted: 10 Aug 2019 10:55 AM PDT ![The Latest: Israel says suspects in soldier's death arrested]( "The Latest: Israel says suspects in soldier's death arrested") The Israeli military says it has arrested Palestinians suspected of involvement in the killing of an off-duty Israeli soldier in the West Bank this week. Israel's Channel 13 TV reported that the suspects were two brothers from Hebron. A Hamas spokesman says four Palestinian militants who were killed crossing the Gaza perimeter fence were engaging in "an individual act," stressing that the operation was not planned by Hamas.
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| The 7 Best GPS Apps for Tackling the Outdoors Posted: 11 Aug 2019 01:00 PM PDT |
| Muslim pilgrims converge on Jamarat for ritual stoning of the devil Posted: 11 Aug 2019 03:41 AM PDT  Muslims from around the world hurled pebbles at a giant wall in a symbolic stoning of the devil on Sunday, the start of the riskiest part of the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, where hundreds died in a crush four years ago. The kingdom stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, and organizing the world's largest annual Muslim gathering which retraces the route Prophet Mohammad took 14 centuries ago. Nearly 2-1/2 million pilgrims, mostly from abroad, have arrived for the five-day ritual, a religious duty once in a lifetime for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it.
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| 'I Was Scared to Death': Former Neighbor of Escaped Tennessee Inmate Speaks Out Posted: 10 Aug 2019 07:21 PM PDT  Curtis Ray Watson's lengthy criminal history in Tennessee reveals run-ins with the law that began with a conviction for driving under the influence in 1999.
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| Call waiting: Kashmiris queue for two-minute phone access Posted: 10 Aug 2019 10:46 PM PDT  Outside a guarded government office in Indian Kashmir's main city, an interminable queue forms every day for a near-priceless opportunity: a two-minute phone call to the outside world. Residents of Srinagar and the Kashmir Valley have been starved of phone and internet use for a week as India snuffs out opposition to its military lockdown in the Himalayan region. Only two mobile phones with an outside line are on offer in the deputy commissioner's office, but so desperate are people to contact families in the rest of India and overseas that they come from across Srinagar and beyond to wait in line.
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| The Noisiest Cars That Car and Driver Has Ever Tested Posted: 10 Aug 2019 06:04 AM PDT |
| Bannon Floats Idea of Michelle Obama Run Against Trump Posted: 11 Aug 2019 10:22 AM PDT ![Bannon Floats Idea of Michelle Obama Run Against Trump]( "Bannon Floats Idea of Michelle Obama Run Against Trump") (Bloomberg) -- Democrats eager to oust President Donald Trump in 2020 could pin their hopes on an eleventh-hour bid by former first lady Michelle Obama rather than the roughly two dozen candidates now in the mix, former White House strategist Steve Bannon suggested."I don't see anybody that's on this stage right now that can take President Trump one-on-one," Bannon, a key player in Trump's 2016 victory, said on Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures." Democrats whose No. 1 priority is beating Trump could find their best option with candidates who aren't yet in the race, Bannon said."I'm not so sure his opponent has even declared yet. You've got to watch guys like Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama -- a whole raft of potentials," Bannon said. "There's a number of potential Democratic candidates still out there that could join this race."Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, has already said he won't run for president and reiterated that decision on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday. Hillary Clinton, the 2016 nominee, said in March she has no plans to run again.'Zero Chance'Obama, the wife of former President Barack Obama, also recently said there was "zero chance" she would make a bid for the White House.But that hasn't stopped Democrats from raising her name, or from flirting with the idea of a celebrity candidate from outside the world of politics, from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to TV personality Oprah Winfrey.Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore recently called on Michelle Obama to run as the best hope for Democrats to beat Trump in 2020, saying the popular former first lady would "crush" the president."She is a beloved American, and she would go in there, and she would beat him," Moore said on MSNBC. "She would beat him in the debates, he wouldn't be able to bully her, he wouldn't be able to nickname her."In a hypothetical match-up, 50% of likely U.S. voters would vote for Obama over Trump, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey in November. Winfrey had a 10-point edge over Trump in similar Rasmussen polling in January 2018.Worries About BidenObama, 55, was named the world's most admired woman in a 2019 YouGov survey, ahead of Winfrey and actress actress Angelina Jolie.Fueling the dreams of a Democratic star turn may be concern about the electoral chances of the party's current front-runner, 76-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden.An Aug. 6 Quinnipiac University poll found Biden has the support of 32% of Democrats and independent voters who lean Democratic, followed by Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Kamala Harris of California.Bannon cast doubt on Biden's chances Sunday."If the Democratic Party thinks that Joe Biden is going to be able to go mano-a-mano with Donald Trump in a general election campaign, they've got another thing coming," Bannon said. "He will run the tables on Biden."Any Democrat jumping in the 2020 race now would be behind other candidates who have spent months courting voters in early voting states such as Iowa and South Carolina.But, Bannon said, an eleventh-hour candidate who gains momentum could make a play for support at the Democratic National Convention, to be held July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin."There's going to be ample opportunity to come into this race later in November, December, even when the primaries start," he said. "Maybe a candidate can't win the primary season, but they can take it in to the convention."\--With assistance from Ben Brody.To contact the reporter on this story: Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Washington at jdlouhy1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jon Morgan at jmorgan97@bloomberg.net, Ros Krasny, Mark NiquetteFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Pakistan cuts last remaining transport link to India over Kashmir dispute Posted: 10 Aug 2019 05:52 AM PDT ![Pakistan cuts last remaining transport link to India over Kashmir dispute]( "Pakistan cuts last remaining transport link to India over Kashmir dispute") ISLAMABAD/LAHORE (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Saturday it had canceled a bus linking Lahore with India's capital New Delhi, the last remaining public transport link between the neighbors divided by a dispute over the Kashmir region. Islamabad reacted with fury this week after India revoked the special status for the portion of Kashmir that it controls, calling the action illegal, a claim New Delhi denies. Pakistan has already cut two rail links, suspended bilateral trade and expelled India's ambassador, all part of what it called a diplomatic effort to protest against the decision.
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| El Paso crowd decries racism week after mass shooting Posted: 10 Aug 2019 11:21 AM PDT  More than 100 people marched through the Texas border city of El Paso on Saturday, denouncing racism and calling for stronger gun laws one week after 22 people were killed in a mass shooting that authorities say was carried out by a man targeting Mexicans. Chanting "gun reform now," '' El Paso strong" and "aquí estamos y no nos vamos" — Spanish for "here we are and we are not leaving" — the marchers included Hispanic, white and black people dressed in white to symbolize peace and carrying 22 white wooden crosses to represent the victims of the shooting at an El Paso Walmart. The man charged in with capital murder in the attack, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius told investigators he targeted Mexicans at the store with an AK-47 rifle, an El Paso detective said in an arrest affidavit.
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| The Polish village where no boys have been born for almost a decade Posted: 10 Aug 2019 08:35 AM PDT  It was during a competition for junior firefighters that somebody first noticed something unusual about the small Polish village of Miejsce Odrzanskie. Every single one of the uniformed children showing off their skills was a girl. The reason is as simple as it is surprising. No boys have been born in Miejsce Odrzanskie for almost a decade, while the village's women in the rural backwater of 300 souls have given birth to 12 girls. The boy shortage is so acute that the mayor has offered a cash reward for the first family to produce a son. The world's media have descended on the village in the fields of south-west Poland not far from the Czech border to investigate the phenomenom. "Of course the media attention was a surprise for us, for the residents and the area," Rajmund Frischko, the local mayor who offered the reward—and the father of two daughters—told The Telegraph. "There has been so much talk about us in the media that for a minute there I was considering naming a street after the next boy born here," he said. "He will definitely get a very nice gift. And we will plant an oak and name it after him." "The situation was that the girls were growing up, and the kids were around us, so we didn't pay much attention to it. Until, that is, someone noticed during a competition for volunteer firefighters that the team consisted of just girls," he said. The all-girl young volunteer firefighters team in the village of Miejsce Odrzanskie, Poland, Credit: Kasia Strek/NYTNS / Redux / eyevine The mayor said doctors from across Poland has been calling him with tips on how to encourage the birth of a boy. One retired doctor had told him that the sex of a baby depended on the mother's diet, which must be rich in calcium to guarantee a son. "There is always the tried way of the Polish highlanders: If you want a boy, keep an axe under your marital bed," he joked. "We treat the whole affair as something as a curiosity," said Krystyna Zydziak, the head of the village and the mother of two daughters. "I always say that nature can find ways to balance things. There may be more girls born here but somewhere else in the world more boys are probably being born." Krystyna Zydziak of Miejsce Odrzanskie Credit: Kasia Strek/NYTNS / Redux / eyevine The lack of male births over the past few years compared to the dozen or so female births has fuelled worries about the future of the village. Miejsce Odrzanskie, like many Polish villages, has been fighting a losing battle to retain its population as people leave the fields for Poland's flourishing cities. Without men going into farming, people fear, that struggle could get harder. Ms Zydziak, said that everyone in the village had family living and working elsewhere in the EU. "Some villagers are concerned who will fill the farming jobs in the future," she said. The Facebook page of the local volunteer fire brigade, a centre of community life in the village, has taken to listing all the stories now featuring the village, along with numerous pictures of happy, if somewhat bemused, villagers being interviewed for television cameras. The all-girl young volunteer firefighters team. Credit: Kasia Strek/NYTNS / Redux / eyevine Malwina Kicler, 10, has been a volunteer firefighter for three years. The lack of boys has not stopped her crew from scooping up trophies in major competitions across Poland in the six years since the tram was founded. "Boys are noisy and naughty," she told the New York Times. "At least now we have peace and quiet. You can always meet them somewhere else." The comments below the links to the stories range from the baffled to proud "Go girls!" posts. One joked that perhaps the lack of boys was due to a particularly libidinous postman delivering more than letters to the village's womenfolk. Malwina Kicler, center, and Liliana Kicler, left, of the village of Miejsce Odrzanskie, Poland, Credit: Kasia Strek/NYTNS / Redux / eyevine Scientists have stressed that people should not jump to conclusions as to why so many girls are being born in the village. "You have to go deep into the history and check the birth statistics," said Professor Rafal Ploski, head of the genetics department at Warsaw's Medical University. "They you have to check to see if the girls' parents are not related to each other, even to a very distant extent. Then you have to conduct detailed interviews with the parents and the children, and check the environmental conditions. Only then can a trail appear." Not everyone sees the dearth of boys as a problem. One villager, perhaps making a veiled reference to Poland's war-scarred history said that the string of daughters was a good omen. "They once said that 'when boys are born there will be war, when girls are born there will be peace' so thank God it is as it is," she said.
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| ANALYSIS-Many Sri Lankans want a strongman leader, and that favours Gotabaya Rajapaksa Posted: 10 Aug 2019 10:01 PM PDT ![ANALYSIS-Many Sri Lankans want a strongman leader, and that favours Gotabaya Rajapaksa]( "ANALYSIS-Many Sri Lankans want a strongman leader, and that favours Gotabaya Rajapaksa") Sri Lankans, angered by the government's inability to prevent the Easter Sunday terror attacks that killed more than 250 people, want a strongman back in power who can guarantee their safety and bring back economic growth. Many are rooting for Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who despite fighting allegations of war crimes, is expected to be announced as the presidential candidate of the opposition nationalist Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party, as early as Sunday. The Rajapaksa brothers, Gotabaya and Mahinda, were credited with bringing peace to Sri Lanka in 2009 by defeating the Tamil Tigers in a brutal end to the 26-year-long civil war between the Sinhalese Buddhist majority and minority Tamil groups.
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| Guess who said it: Tucker Carlson or a far-right shooter Posted: 09 Aug 2019 10:00 PM PDT  The Fox New host's nightly diatribes are making the US an ever more terrifying place for immigrants and people of color'Tucker Carlson's rhetoric about non-white people has long been virtually identical to that of white supremacist terrorists in New Zealand and El Paso.' Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIt's not surprising Tucker Carlson doesn't think white supremacy is a threat to the United States. It's easy not to notice a problem when the problem is you. Speaking on his show, Carlson called widespread racism a "hoax" and said: "Just like the Russia hoax, it's a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power." Carlson encouraged viewers not to think about racism, saying that "every minute you're angry about race is a minute you're not thinking about class, which is of course the real divide in this country".If I were Tucker Carlson, I wouldn't want people to think about racism either. If they did, they might start to notice that Carlson's rhetoric about non-white people has long been virtually identical to that of white supremacist terrorists in New Zealand and El Paso. Here, for example, is a passage from Carlson's most recent book, on the topic of why "diversity" makes us weaker:> When confronted or pressed for details, [proponents of diversity] retreat into a familiar platitude, which they repeat like a zen koan: diversity is our strength. But is diversity our strength? The less we have in common, the stronger we are? Is that true of families? Is it true in neighborhoods or businesses? Of course not. Then why is it true of America? Nobody knows. Nobody's even allowed to ask the question.And here is an excerpt from the manifesto issued by the man who killed 51 people in a New Zealand mosque:> Why is diversity said to be our greatest strength? Does anyone even ask why? It is spoken like a mantra and repeated ad infinitum … But no one ever seems to give a reason why. What gives a nation strength? And how does diversity increase that strength? What part of diversity causes this increase in strength? No one can give an answer.Likewise, the El Paso killer spoke of the need to combat Hispanic "invasion" of Texas. (Not realizing, apparently, that "El Paso" has been Hispanic since the 1500s. Next the white nationalists will be complaining about people speaking Spanish in Los Angeles or New Mexico.) The same "invasion" rhetoric comes out of Carlson's mouth on his show, where he spreads phony crime statistics designed to terrify people about immigrant populations.Carlson has made it clear that he thinks having more members of non-white racial groups is bad. In his book he writes:> Thanks to mass immigration, America has experienced greater demographic change in the last few decades than any other country in history has undergone during peacetime. If you grew up in America, suddenly nothing looks the same. Your neighbors are different. So is the landscape and the customs and very often the languages you hear on the street. You may not recognize your own hometown. Human beings aren't wired for that. [W]e are told these changes are entirely good. We must celebrate the fact that a nation that was overwhelmingly European, Christian, and English-speaking fifty years ago has become a place with no ethnic majority, immense religious pluralism, and no universally shared culture or language.Most conservatives don't dare speak overtly about the need to maintain a white "ethnic majority". Carlson is different. He wants to make sure the country "looks the same", meaning that it doesn't have too many brown people in it. After all, "human beings aren't wired for that". It's talking points like these, which directly echo Richard Spencer's call for a white ethno-state, that make Carlson the darling of neo-Nazis. The Daily Stormer has called him "literally our greatest ally" and David Duke has said: "God bless Tucker Carlson."Carlson has developed a dangerous ideological brew that combines economic populism with white nationalism. (A kind of "national socialism", if you will.) Notice that in his original comments, he talks about the need to focus on "class".He comments that "workers of all races" have more in common with each other than they do with the rich, and believes talk of white supremacy is designed to keep them from getting "unauthorized ideas about economics". In fact, on economic issues Carlson often sounds very close to Berne Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, condemning giant predatory companies like Amazon and skewering free-market dogma.Of course, as a leftist, I think Carlson is right about that part, and when he says that workers have more in common with each other than with the boss, he could be quoting a pamphlet from the Wobblies. But that's precisely why his anti-immigrant material is so wrong and toxic.The solution to class inequality is for workers to band together. Yet Carlson speaks of an "invasion" in which poor Hispanics are coming for the jobs of slightly-less-poor whites, who must preserve their "ethnic majority". He says that it's the "elites" who want to divide the working class, then tells people to be scared of their Muslim neighbors. If class is "the real divide in this country" then why is he also claiming that "diversity" is tearing us apart?Carlson may not even notice what he is doing, or realize that he has a "white nationalist" viewpoint. That's, in part, because he accepts the definition of racism as "racial hatred". Instead, we should define it as valuing people of different races differently, and accepting a racial hierarchy of wealth and power as natural. If you care about what happens to white auto workers, but don't care about what happens to Guatemalans or Somalis, that's racism.Carlson thinks about the experience of the white person with an immigrant neighbor, but not about that of the immigrant neighbor. Carlson believes that white supremacy isn't a problem because "The combined membership of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a college football stadium." It's true that outright neo-Nazi groups are fringe. But if racial "hatred" is marginal, acceptance of racial hierarchy is ubiquitous. And the people who believe in that don't need neo-Nazi groups, because they've got Fox News.We should hesitate to directly blame particular killings on the media. After all, an unstable person can pick up bad ideas from anywhere. But when people like Carlson say that diversity is destabilizing the country, and there is an active invasion that will wipe out "our" people's culture, they make armed attacks sound rationally justified. Even on the assumption that violent white supremacy remains marginal for the moment, the more Carlson persuades people of his anti-immigrant talking points, the more people may be tempted to reach for a gun to "solve the problem" themselves.I, too, wish we could focus on economic divides, but we can't so long as Carlson's nightly diatribes are making the United States an ever more terrifying place for immigrants and people of color.
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| Huawei launches first product with own operating system Posted: 10 Aug 2019 05:12 PM PDT  Dongguan (China) (AFP) - Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which has been caught in the crossfires of the Washington-Beijing trade war, on Saturday unveiled a new smart television, the first product to use its own operating system.
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| I was thrilled to be a Boy Scout, then for months I was sexually abused by my scoutmaster Posted: 11 Aug 2019 04:00 AM PDT  As a child, I thought being a Boy Scout made me part of something important. Then an adult I thought I could trust pulled me into something traumatic.
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| 'She should be shot': Ohio man charged after Facebook threat against Ocasio-Cortez Posted: 10 Aug 2019 09:04 AM PDT  "She should be shot," the man had written on Facebook, along with a link to a story about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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| Steve Scalise: Don’t blame Trump for mass shootings Posted: 11 Aug 2019 10:14 AM PDT  "The president's no more responsible for that shooting as your next guest, Bernie Sanders, is for my shooting," the Louisiana congressman said.
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| Hong Kong Police Deny Rumors of Plans for Mass Arrests: SCMP Posted: 09 Aug 2019 06:19 PM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong police dismissed online rumors about plans to arrest protesters en masse this weekend, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday.The rumors started Thursday after speculation that a hard-line officer was being brought out of retirement to help the city cope with protests that have shaken the financial center for weeks, the newspaper said. Online rumors circulated that the police would no longer break up crowds, but arrest them immediately and charge them with rioting, an offense that could carry a maximum prison term of 10 years.Jim Ng Lok-chun, the senior police superintendent in charge of operations on Hong Kong island, said the rumors aren't true and that the "accusation is wrong," according to the paper.To contact the reporter on this story: Lulu Yilun Chen in Hong Kong at ychen447@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Peter Elstrom at pelstrom@bloomberg.net, Linus Chua, James PooleFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Russia honors 'national heroes' killed in mysterious rocket blast Posted: 11 Aug 2019 12:20 PM PDT ![Russia honors 'national heroes' killed in mysterious rocket blast]( "Russia honors 'national heroes' killed in mysterious rocket blast") Russia has bestowed posthumous awards on five nuclear experts and "national heroes" who died in a mysterious explosion at sea during a rocket engine test, authorities said on Sunday. Officials have been drip-feeding information about the blast on a platform in the White Sea off northern Russia that caused a radiation spike in a nearby city. U.S.-based nuclear experts said they suspected the explosion occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Putin last year.
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| Overwhelming support for gun restrictions in the suburbs is good news for Democrats, but real gun reform is unlikely with a GOP Senate Posted: 10 Aug 2019 05:57 AM PDT  In a poll conducted after the El Paso and Dayton shootings, 71% of suburban voters and 64% of Republican women backed banning assault-style weapons.
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| Goldman Sachs economists say fears rise that U.S.-China trade war leading to recession Posted: 11 Aug 2019 12:53 PM PDT  "We expect tariffs targeting the remaining $300bn of US imports from China to go into effect," the bank said in a note sent to clients. U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 1 that he would impose a 10% tariff on a final $300 billion worth of Chinese imports on Sept. 1, prompting China to halt purchases of U.S. agricultural products. China denies that it has manipulated the yuan for competitive gain.
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| South Korean cosmetics firm boss quits over YouTube praising Japan Posted: 11 Aug 2019 02:33 AM PDT  The head of a major South Korean cosmetics firm resigned Sunday after facing heavy backlash for forcing his staff to watch a YouTube video praising Japan during a raging trade war between the two nations. The clip, played at a monthly meeting of some 700 employees of Kolmar Korea last week, slams President Moon Jae-in's response to Japan's trade regulations and praises Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for "not punching Moon in the face". The video also refers to Venezuela's crippling economy, where "women are going into prostitution for mere seven dollars", and adds that South Korea is not far from meeting a similar fate.
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| A best-selling cookbook with 500 Instant Pot recipes is down to $4 on Amazon Posted: 10 Aug 2019 07:33 AM PDT  If you think you love your Instant Pot now, just wait until you get your hands on our favorite Instant Pot cookbook. This fantastic recipe book is packed full of hundreds of delicious dishes that are designed specifically for your multi-use cooker. It's called Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Cookbook: 500 Everyday Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users, and it's down to just $3.99 right now on Amazon for the Kindle version. Remember, Kindle eBooks work on Kindle eReaders or any Android or iOS device thanks to the Kindle app. Get your copy now while it's on sale!Here's more from the product page:> Enjoy these 500 Recipes for Any Budget. > Recipes are listed step by step in a clear and understandable manner. > With this cookbook, you will cook better, tastier and faster meals for yourself and your family.> > In this cookbook, you will discover…> > * Amazing meals the whole family will love.> * Recipes for vegetarians anyone will enjoy.> * Most recipes made for anyone with a busy lifestyle.> * Detailed ingredient lists and precise cooking times so each dish turns out perfect.> * Easy-to-follow instructions on making each dish in an Instant Pot.> * Helpful tips and tricks on how to make each meal one your whole family will request time and time again.> * Plus much more helpful information.> > > Eating is meant to be a shared experience and is a great time for family members to catch up with each other's day. A good meal gets them to the dinner table every time.
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| Police arrest white supremacist for threatening Walmart attack Posted: 11 Aug 2019 12:42 PM PDT  A white supremacist has been arrested after he posted a message on Facebook threatening a shooting at a Walmart in Florida, police have said.Richard Clayton, 26, was arrested after making an online threat on Friday, according to police, just days after a gunman stormed a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people. That suspect, Patrick Crusius, reportedly posted an anti-immigrant screed on the online messaging forum 8chan shortly before the mass shooting. Mr Clayton reportedly wrote on Facebook: "3 more days of probation left then I get my AR-15 back.""Don't go to Walmart next week," the post continued.He was charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily harm, according to Florida officials, who told the Associated Press he was held on $15,000 (£12,461) bond at the Orange County Jail. The Florida Department of Law enforcement said in a statement: "Law enforcement has zero tolerance for threats being made and will utilise the full force of the Joint Terrorism Task Force to ensure the public's safety." The country has been on high alert amid a wave of deadly mass shootings and an apparent rise in domestic terror incidents which FBI Director Christopher Wray attributed to violent white supremacy during a public Senate hearing this summer. A day before Mr Clayton's arrest, a man was charged with "making a terrorist threat in the first degree" after walking into a Missouri Walmart earlier in the week donning full body armour while carrying multiple firearms and over 100 rounds of ammunition. The suspect, 23-year-old Conor Climo from Las Vegas, reportedly possessed bomb-making materials and shared white supremacist and neo-Nazi sentiments with an undercover FBI agent.Another Florida resident was charged with threatening an attack just one day after the Walmart shooting, calling one of the chain stores in the town of Gibsonton and reportedly threatening to "shoot up the store". There have also been a series of false alarms in recent weeks where crowds have mistaken loud noises for mass shootings, including in Times Square, New York.
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| India promises to ease Kashmir curfew as Pakistan accuses New Delhi government of 'ethnic cleansing' Posted: 11 Aug 2019 08:49 AM PDT  Indian security forces said they had eased a week-long curfew and restrictions on movement in Kashmir ahead of a major Muslim festival on Monday. The move came as police denied carrying out a violent crackdown against protesters in the region, despite the emergence of footage showing troops firing into a crowd. Jammu and Kashmir police said on Sunday that "not a single bullet had been fired in the last six days" and called the reports "mischievous and motivated news". They claimed the protests were small and peaceably broken up. Earlier the BBC broadcast footage apparently showing officers firing tear gas and live rounds at a crowd of 10,000 protesters after Friday prayers in the city of Srinagar. The BBC stood by its report, while the New York Times and India Today said its journalists had corroborated the incident. Jammu and Kashmir has been under a media, internet and phone blackout since Narendra Modi's Indian government revoked the Muslim-majority region's special constitutional status on August 5. A curfew enforced by thousands of Indian troops has made movement and reporting in the region difficult. The move has provoked outrage in Pakistan, which has fought two major wars with India over the disputed territory since independence. Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, on Sunday accused the Indian government of pursing "ethnic cleansing" comparable to Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia. Describing the move as "the Hindu Supremacists version of Hitler's Lebensraum", he said it would lead to "the suppression of Muslims in India & eventually lead to targeting of Pakistan". "Attempt is to change demography of Kashmir through ethnic cleansing," he tweeted. "Question is: Will the world watch & appease as they did Hitler at Munich? Dilbag Singh, the Jammu and Kashmir police chief, on Sunday said the curfew had been eased ahead of the Muslims festival of Eid ul-adha today. "Things are absolutely normal, not a single incident has been reported from south Kashmir even," Mr Singh told the Hindustan Times. "We are closely watching the situation," he said. Mr Singh said there were incidents of stone throwing in downtown Srinagar on Saturday, but insisted that any report of violence in the region "is false". The New Delhi government on Sunday said deliveries of food and supplies were active again to Kashmir, and banks and stores were being restocked ahead of Eid.
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| Nigerian, South African Presidents to Meet in October for Talks Posted: 11 Aug 2019 03:04 AM PDT ![Nigerian, South African Presidents to Meet in October for Talks]( "Nigerian, South African Presidents to Meet in October for Talks") (Bloomberg) -- Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will meet with South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa in October for talks on trade and the security of citizens, Nigeria's presidency said.Buhari accepted an invitation to visit the South African leader to discuss "recurrent issues concerning well-being of the Nigerian community in South Africa, and the need to promote trade and investment," Garba Shehu, a Nigerian government spokesman, said in an emailed statement. A specific date wasn't given.Dozens of Nigerian have been killed in South Africa in anti-immigrant attacks, drawing outrage from the Nigerian Parliament in Abuja.A bi-lateral commission will also be inaugurated during the visit tasked with implementing cooperation agreements on energy, transport and security made in 2016 during a state visit to Nigeria by former South African President Jacob Zuma: ShehuNOTE: Nigeria and South Africa vie as the continent's biggest economies, with trade between the two nations doubling to $4.5 billion in 2018 from the previous year, according to Bloomberg estimatesTo contact the reporter on this story: Elisha Bala-Gbogbo in Abuja at ebalagbogbo@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Anthony Osae-Brown at aosaebrown2@bloomberg.net, John Deane, Andrew DavisFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Dayton bar patrons commemorate 1 week since mass shooting Posted: 11 Aug 2019 01:17 PM PDT  People who gathered at the scene of the Dayton mass shooting observed a moment of silence Sunday in tribute to the victims. Nine people were killed in the Aug. 4 attack that injured more than 30 people in the city's historic Oregon District. Investigators say Connor Betts, 24, opened fire with an AR-15 style gun outside the district's businesses.
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| Has your browser been sluggish? It may have been hijacked Posted: 10 Aug 2019 03:00 AM PDT ![Has your browser been sluggish? It may have been hijacked]( "Has your browser been sluggish? It may have been hijacked") Unrelated search results, homepage differences and slower browsing sessions are just a few of the signs that your browser has been hijacked.
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| Scenes from Iowa's rowdy, anti-Trump Wing Ding Posted: 10 Aug 2019 05:47 AM PDT  In a shift, Democrats train their attacks on the president, not each other.
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| CORRECTED-Ukraine searches vessel over fuel delivery to Crimea Posted: 11 Aug 2019 01:23 AM PDT ![CORRECTED-Ukraine searches vessel over fuel delivery to Crimea]( "CORRECTED-Ukraine searches vessel over fuel delivery to Crimea") Ukrainian prosecutors said they had searched a vessel in the Black Sea port of Kherson on Saturday as part of an investigation into a suspected illegal delivery of fuel to the Russian navy in annexed Crimea in 2015. Relations between Kiev and Moscow deteriorated after Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and its backing for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian law stipulates that it is illegal to enter Crimean waters without the permission of the Ukrainian authorities.
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| Documents reveal the FBI kept using the Steele dossier for FISA renewals despite evidence of 'extreme bias' Posted: 10 Aug 2019 06:01 AM PDT  Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett says these documents mean that the FBI knew Christopher Steele was a 'phony' from the beginning.
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| At least 13 dead, 16 missing as Typhoon Lekima slams east China Posted: 10 Aug 2019 12:35 AM PDT  At least 13 people were killed and 16 others missing in a landslide after Typhoon Lekima lashed eastern China, national television reported Saturday. "Torrential rains caused a landslide on a mountain that blocked a river below," it said. More than a million people were evacuated from their homes ahead of the storm, which slammed into eastern China early Saturday, bringing torrential rain and heavy winds that knocked out power and downed thousands of trees, state media reported.
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| UPDATE 4-Norway mosque shooter may have killed family member first -police Posted: 10 Aug 2019 09:08 AM PDT ![UPDATE 4-Norway mosque shooter may have killed family member first -police]( "UPDATE 4-Norway mosque shooter may have killed family member first -police") The man suspected of a shooting at a mosque in Norway may also have killed a relative before launching the attack, police said late on Saturday. "A young woman was found dead at the suspect's address," assistant chief of police Rune Skjold told a news conference, adding that the man was suspected of murder.
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