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Sunday, October 29, 2017
The Block: Elyse Knowles Josh Barker win thanks to Dave Hughes
Friday, September 15, 2017
CHILLING announcement on the London Underground after the Parsons Green terror attack
- Homemade explosive detonates in confirmed terror incident
- “Fireball” erupts in London train carriage at Parsons Green
- ISIS claims responsibility for attack
- Panic causes a stampede and multiple casualties
- 29 people taken to hospital with burns and other injuries
- Police deny suspect has been identified..
MORE: London Underground terror attack: Train bomb at Parsons Green tube station | Perth Now
Sunday, September 3, 2017
#F1 Story of the race – Daniel Ricciardo shows why he deserves a winning car in 2018
Shock: The fact that it’s taken 13 races for us to get a back-to-back winner in 2017. Lewis Hamilton claimed the Spa-Monza double to take the lead of the championship but the fact it took that long highlights what a good championship we’ve been treated to this season so far. Power dictated the last two races but the pendulum is expected to swing back towards Ferrari’s garage as the F1 circus ventures to Asia and the streets of Singapore… Game on.
Shocker: Max Verstappen’s run of in-race issues continued at Monza. The Dutchman started from the back end of the grid after an engine penalty and looked primed for a charge through the field, but that lasted all of three laps before he tangled with Felipe Massa.
That left him with a damaged front right tyre and another compromised race.Move of the race: Daniel Ricciardo is something else, isn’t he? Early in the race he repeated his brilliant pass on then-Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel in 2014 on Sergio Perez’s Force India on the run down to the Roggia chicane, cutting one way and then the other with aplomb to sneak up the inside.
But his best move came during his brilliant charge through the field later. Having taken on the super-soft tyre, Ricciardo suddenly looked like a contender for the podium, and closed up on Kimi Raikkonen.
The move itself wasn’t quite as spectacular as his pass on Perez, but involved the Australian braking so, so late and passing the Ferrari on the inside. Someone get that man into a competitive car.
Source: Story of the race – Daniel Ricciardo shows why he deserves a winning car in 2018
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Dick Smith warns violent revolution if Australia’s immigration intake is not scaled back
Thirty years after the classic “Grim Reaper” AIDS ad first aired on TV, the businessman is launching his own version — featuring the original voice actor — warning of “famine, disaster, war and collapse”, urging politicians to end the “Ponzi scheme” before it’s too late.
“Our growth-addicted economic system will see our children living in a world of 11 billion people, consuming and polluting more than our finite planet can withstand,” the ad says. “It’s a path to either more and more inequality, or famine, disaster, war and collapse. Are we that stupid?”
Since the early 2000s, Australia’s annual net migration intake has tripled from its long-term average to 210,000 people. Mr Smith wants immigration to return to a more sustainable 70,000 a year, a call echoed by a growing number of commentators.
“It’s still very generous, but it means we would stabilise the population under 30 million people,” Mr Smith told news.com.au. “I have absolutely no doubt we’re going down the same track as America, which has over 30 million people on a minimum wage of $7.10 per hour, less than half ours. The prime reason is too many people trying to share the finite.”
Australia’s population has surged 21.5 per cent since 2003, compared with the OECD average of 8.5 per cent, but Australia’s GDP per capita change has just barely outpaced the OECD — 16 per cent versus 15 per cent.
Mr Smith said it would only get “worse and worse”…
Source: Dick Smith anti-immigration ad: Stop the Ponzi scheme or face revolt
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Monday, August 7, 2017
North Korea vows to ‘make the US pay dearly’ as sanctions tighten
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted new sanctions Saturday in response to Pyongyang’s long-range ballistic missile tests on July 4 and July 28.
The measures aim to make it harder for North Korea to make money across the globe. They target North Korea’s primary exports — including coal, iron and seafood — and attempt to cut off its additional revenue streams by targeting some of its banks and joint ventures with foreign companies.
Speaking at the ASEAN Regional Forum on Monday, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho blamed the US for the current situation on the Korean Peninsula and said Pyongyang’s “possession of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles is a legitimate option for self-defence in the face of a clear and real nuclear threat posed by the US,” according to a statement released by North Korea.
“We will, under no circumstances, put the nukes and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table,” Ri said, adding Pyongyang would “teach the US a severe lesson” if it used military force against North Korea…
Source: North Korea vows to ‘make the US pay dearly’ as sanctions tighten – CNN
Thursday, June 29, 2017
US ‘Clean Coal’ Experiment Abandoned After 11 Years + $7.5 Billion. Oxymoronic
The coal industry suffered a major blow on Wednesday when the utility giant Southern Company abandoned work on its troubled Mississippi “clean coal” facility amid skyrocketing costs.
The Kemper County Energy Facility, conceived under President George W. Bush, promised to turn coal into cleaner-burning gas and provide a model for the future of coal. But after 11 years and $7.5 billion, the plant failed to produce commercially viable technology.
Last week, Mississippi utility regulators offered Southern Company an ultimatum. The firm could continue experimenting with gasification, and risk losing $3.4 billion as the power board rejects a hike to the rate paid by the 187,000 customers who get power from Kemper. Or it could convert the plant to natural gas. The Atlanta-based utility, which began burning gas in 2014 to generate power amid delays on its coal conversion technology, chose the latter.
“We believe this decision is in the best interests of our employees, customers, investors and all other stakeholders,” Southern Company CEO Thomas Fanning said in a statement.
The move is an ominous bellwether for a heavily polluting industry that collapsed over the last decade as natural gas, made cheap by new drilling techniques, devoured coal’s share of the electricity market. President Donald Trump has promised to bring coal roaring back, vowing it will be “beautiful, clean coal” ― a feat already attempted by Bush and President Barack Obama…
Source: America’s Flagship ‘Clean Coal’ Experiment Abandoned After 11 Years And $7.5 Billion
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Monday, June 12, 2017
Senate Democrats join with Rand Paul to oppose Saudi arms sale
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Monday he was supporting a resolution offered by Paul and Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Al Franken of Minnesota to block the sale of $510 million of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia.
Paul and Murphy are expected to force a vote on their resolution — which is possible under Senate rules for arms sales — as early as Tuesday, according to Senate aides.
“I will support Senator Murphy’s resolution of disapproval,” Schumer said in a statement. “The human rights and humanitarian concerns have been well documented and are important: of equal concern to me is that the Saudi government continues to aid and abet terrorism via its relationship with Wahhabism and the funding of schools that spread extremist propaganda throughout the world.”
MORE: Senate Democrats join with Rand Paul to oppose Saudi arms sale – CNNPolitics.com
Sunday, June 4, 2017
ISIS claims LONDON atrocity as video shows terrorists stalking pubs looking for revellers to kill in deadly rampage
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the depraved attack in London Bridge as chilling video shows three jihadis calmly strolling past a pub while in the midst of the van and knife rampage that killed seven and critically injured The twisted killers are seen calmly walking through Borough Market moments before they launched a stabbing attack on pubgoers while shouting “this is for Allah”, having already driven a van into crowds…
Friday, May 19, 2017
‘…president who is obviously emotionally unstable, seems to have cognitive issues …’
‘…President who is obviously emotionally unstable, seems to have cognitive issues and is doing a very good imitation of being an agent of a hostile foreign power.’
On Wednesday, Paul Ryan held a press conference just after the revelation that Donald Trump had pushed James Comey to kill the investigation into Michael Flynn — you know, the guy Trump appointed as national security adviser even though his team knew that Flynn’s highly suspicious foreign ties were under investigation.
Faced with questions about the Flynn scandal and the Comey firing, Ryan waved them away: “I don’t worry about things that are outside my control.”
This might sound like a reasonable philosophy — unless you realize that Ryan is speaker of the House of Representatives, a legislative body with the power to issue subpoenas, compel testimony and, yes, impeach the president. In fact, under the Constitution, Ryan and his congressional colleagues are effectively the only check on a rogue chief executive.
It has become painfully clear, however, that Republicans have no intention of exercising any real oversight over a president who is obviously emotionally unstable, seems to have cognitive issues and is doing a very good imitation of being an agent of a hostile foreign power.
They may make a few gestures toward accountability in the face of bad poll numbers, but there is not a hint that any important figures in the party care enough about the Constitution or the national interest to take a stand.
And the big question we should be asking is how that happened. At this point we know who and what Trump is, and have a pretty good idea of what he has been doing. If we had two patriotic parties in the country, impeachment proceedings would already be underway. But we don’t. What’s the matter with Republicans?
Obviously I can’t offer a full theory here, but there’s a lot we do know about the larger picture.
First, Republicans are professional politicians. Yes, so are most Democrats. But the parties are not the same.
The Democratic Party is a coalition of interest groups, with some shared views but also a lot of conflicts, and politicians get ahead through their success in striking compromises and finding acceptable solutions.
The G.O.P., by contrast, is one branch of a monolithic structure, movement conservatism, with a rigid ideology — tax cuts for the rich above all else. Other branches of the structure include a captive media that parrots the party line every step of the way. Compare the coverage of recent political developments on Fox News with almost everywhere else; we’re talking North Korea levels of alternative reality.
And this monolithic structure — lavishly supported by a small number of very, very wealthy families — rewards, indeed insists on, absolute fealty. Furthermore, the structure has been in place for a long time: It has been 36 years since Reagan was elected, 22 years since the Gingrich takeover of Congress. What this means is that nearly all Republicans in today’s Congress are apparatchiks, political creatures with no higher principle beyond party loyalty.
The fact that the G.O.P. is a party of apparatchiks was one crucial factor in last year’s election. Why did Marine Le Pen, often portrayed as the French equivalent of Trump, lose by a huge margin? Because France’s conservatives were only willing to go so far; they simply would not support a candidate whose motives and qualifications they distrusted. Republicans, however, went all in behind Trump, knowing full well that he was totally unqualified, strongly suspecting that he was corrupt and even speculating that he might be in Russian pay, simply because there was an “R” after his name on the ballot.
And even now, with the Trump/Flynn/Comey story getting worse by the hour, there has been no significant breaking of ranks. If you’re waiting to find the modern version of Howard Baker, the Republican senator who asked “What did the president know, and when did he know it?” you’re wasting your time. Men like that left the G.O.P. a long time ago.
Does this mean that Trump will be able to hold on despite his multiple scandals and abuses of power? Actually, yes, he might. The answer probably hinges on the next few special elections: Republicans won’t turn on Trump unless he has become such a political liability that he must be dumped.
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Thursday, April 6, 2017
How to Get Windows 10’s Creators Update Now
Use Microsoft’s Update Assistant
Download the Update Assistant tool from Microsoft’s website and run it to get started. You’ll be told your PC is not running the latest version of Windows 10.
This dialog is a little unclear if you’re not familiar with Windows 10’s build numbers. If you’re using the Anniversary Update, you’ll be told your PC is running “version 14393”. The tool will offer to upgrade you to version 15063, which is the final stable version of the Creators Update…
MORE: How to Get Windows 10’s Creators Update Now
Monday, March 13, 2017
Turkey bans Dutch ambassador as diplomatic crisis escalates
Turkey has suspended high-level political contacts with the Netherlands and threatened to re-evaluate a key deal to halt the flow of migrants to Europe in a dramatic escalation of its diplomatic row with EU member states.
Numan Kurtulmuş, a deputy prime minister and chief government spokesman, said on Monday that the Dutch ambassador, who is on leave, would not be allowed to return in response to a ban on Turkish ministers speaking at rallies in the Netherlands.
Turkey would also close its airspace to Dutch diplomats, Kursulmuş said, adding: “There is a crisis and a very deep one. We didn’t create this crisis or bring to this stage … Those creating this crisis are responsible for fixing it.”
The spokesman’s remarks came hours after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan defied pleas from Brussels to tone down his rhetoric, repeating accusations of European “nazism” and warning that his ministers would take their treatment by the Dutch to the European court of human rights.
Source: Turkey bans Dutch ambassador as diplomatic crisis escalates | World news | The Guardian
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