July 18, 2018

To "all" of the citizens of Ohio, did you just see and hear your representative on Ari Melber

his name is Bill Johnson........................he is an embarrassment and he supports a traitor.....................by the name of drumpf.

He supports a lying sack of shit, and when exposed to the twenty-one times that drumpf has thrown the intelligence agency under the bus, when it comes to election interference on and by a foreign power called Russia, your fucking representative, who is speaking for you, the question need's to be asked do you support a "guy" that supports a traitor .....................by the name of Donald that is a Russian asset "cult45 trump"...................


Your representative is an embarrassment to be inside the Congress, and as for him for once being in the military person it was an embarrassment for him to speak and defend a traitor ................

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20181106T12&msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections

July 18, 2018

Sinking land, poisoned water: the dark side of California's mega farms

The floor of the Central Valley is slumping, and there is arsenic in the tap water. Now it seems the two problems are connected

Isabel Solorio can see the water treatment plant from her garden across the street. Built to filter out the arsenic in drinking water, it hasn’t been active since 2007 – it shut down six months after opening when the California town of Lanare went into debt trying to keep up with maintenance costs.

“It’s cruel to be living in a state that’s so powerful, so rich, but we can’t count on clean water,” said Solorio, 51, sipping from a bottle amid her flowers and cactus collection.

Towns across the Central Valley region of California have had tap water arsenic levels above the federal limit for almost two decades, levels that research suggests can raise the risk of a variety of cancers and lower IQ in children. During the same period, locals and scientists have noticed another odd phenomenon: the valley is sinking, at rates as fast as 25cm a year. Now it seems that the two problems are connected.

The 50,000 sq km of the Central Valley play an essential role in American life: some 250 crops grow here, about one-quarter of the nation’s food supply. Agriculture on this scale requires an enormous amount of water, especially as water-hungry crops like almonds have gained popularity. And since the area’s river and rainfall levels fluctuate widely even month to month, farmers say they have no choice but to drill wells and draw aggressively on aquifers.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/18/california-central-valley-sinking-arsenic-water-farming-agriculture

July 18, 2018

How disgraced anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield was embraced by Trump's America

Twenty years after his discredited paper linked autism to the MMR jab, the doctor – who was struck off the medical register in the UK – has become a leading light in the US and frighteningly influential worldwide

There cannot be many doctors as thoroughly discredited and ostracised as Andrew Wakefield has been in the UK who are subsequently seen smiling at the inauguration ball of a US president and later discovered to be dating the Australian model Elle Macpherson.

But there he is. Wakefield was all but drummed out of Britain. The gastroenterologist lost his job, had his scientific paper linking the MMR vaccine and autism retracted by medical journal the Lancet and, in 2010, was struck off the medical register. He disappeared to the US and it was assumed he had gone to ground, having lost all credibility. He was a spent force, even though his name was often in the air as the anti-MMR views he seeded around the world led to many parents shunning the vaccine and outbreaks of measles wherever anyone had heard Wakefield’s creed.

It was known he was in Texas with those who shared his views on vaccines and conspiracy. But he was not a public figure. Until Donald Trump was elected US president of the United States.

Under an anti-establishment presidency, the anti-vaccine crusader, whose views appear to have become all the more entrenched by his drubbing at the hands of eminent scientists around the world, is back in the limelight and his new visibility could give his arguments even more currency. At one of President Trump’s inaugural balls in January last year, he was quoted as contemplating the overthrow of the (pro-vaccine) US medical establishment in words that brought to mind Trump himself. “What we need now is a huge shakeup at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – a huge shakeup. We need that to change dramatically.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/18/how-disgraced-anti-vaxxer-andrew-wakefield-was-embraced-by-trumps-america


To all of anti-vaccine people out there ..................without vaccines it becomes a national security issue, and if you don't think so, think about the service personnel and there families going overseas..........................

And has for this "doctor" did he get all of his shots before he came over here........................or was the water just clean enough were he didn't have to worry..................

July 18, 2018

Going on a bear hunt: the animal activists signing up to 'shoot' grizzlies

Activist group Shoot’em with a Camera seeks to infiltrate a bear hunt by acquiring licenses they don’t intend to use

Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist, and a group of wildlife activists are some of the unexpected entrants in a lottery to hunt up to 22 grizzly bears near Yellowstone national park.

Their goal is to infiltrate Wyoming state’s first grizzly bear hunt in 44 years by acquiring licenses they have no intention of using.

“We just thought it was a really proactive and specific way to get our voices heard,” Judy Hofflund, one of the organizers of the lottery protest, told the Guardian. “We wanted to protect the grizzlies and we would agree to pay for a tag, do everything legally, and shoot them with a camera and not with a gun.”

In June 2017, the US government delisted grizzly bears as an endangered species despite the pleas of conservationists. This allowed Wyoming, Montana and Idaho to plan limited bear hunts.

And in May, Wyoming’s Game and Fish commission voted 7-0 in favor of a grizzly bear hunt.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/18/wyoming-yellowstone-save-grizzly-bears-shootem-with-a-camera

July 18, 2018

Native American leaders tell Senate to act to protect their voting rights

Congress could help restore the Voting Rights Act to protect voters on Indian County.

KIRA LERNER JUL 18, 2018, 11:16 AM

WASHINGTON, D.C. — During a Senate roundtable Tuesday on “Voting Rights, Access, and Barriers in Indian Country,” North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) turned to the tribal leaders and voting advocates and asked a question they were all thinking.

“Why should we have to sue every year in North Dakota to get voting rights for Native people?” she asked.

Throughout the morning, witnesses explained to the Senate Indian Affairs and Rules committees how barriers to the ballot persist in Indian Country, almost 100 years after Native Americans were granted the right to vote and more than 50 years after Congress signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to protect the civil rights of the country’s marginalized populations.

As ThinkProgress recently reported, voters in Indian Country have faced renewed barriers to the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the VRA in 2013. In states with large Native American populations, elected officials have cut voting hours and opportunities, refused to add voting locations on reservations, eliminated language assistance services, and fought to keep Native voters in majority-white gerrymandered districts where they’d never get political representation.

https://thinkprogress.org/native-american-leaders-tell-senate-to-act-to-protect-voting-rights-f87495fcda13/

July 18, 2018

Here's what accused Russian spy Maria Butina told ThinkProgress in 2016

"I’m sorry to disappoint you, but there is no international conspiracy at work..."

JOSH ISRAEL JUL 18, 2018, 12:20 PM

Maria Butina, the founder of the Russian equivalent of the National Rifle Association and a key ally of Vladimir Putin’s central bank deputy governor Alexander Torshin, was indicted on Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and for failure to registered as a foreign agent. According to the Department of Justice’s application for criminal complaint, Butina worked to “arrange introductions to U.S. persons having influence in American politics, including an organization promoting gun rights” and to “infiltrate those groups” to advance the Russian Federation’s agenda.

Nearly two years ago, ThinkProgress first reported on Butina and her group’s mysterious connections with the National Rifle Association and the 2016 elections. Experts at the time suggested that her connections with the Trump campaign and the gun-rights movement could be cover for a larger effort to undermine American sanctions against Russia. Among the connections noted were that Butina had somehow been able to ask Trump a question about trade with Russia at a Las Vegas campaign event and that her organization had helped pay to bring Trump surrogate and then-Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke to Moscow.

The arrangement caught the attention of federal prosecutors and Senate Democrats investigating the Putin regime’s meddling in the 2016 elections. The alleged ties were widely dismissed and mocked by conservatives.

At the time, ThinkProgress reached out to Butina to ask her about her organization. In a November 17, 2016 email, we posed some questions:

https://thinkprogress.org/heres-what-accused-russian-spy-maria-butina-told-thinkprogress-in-2016-75cd890b1e2e/


And lets not forget what Mnuchin did yesterday with the 503( c) ............................and the IRS, there is a link in my opinion.

July 18, 2018

Take a close look at Jill-Wine-Banks Brooch at about the 13:51 mark

Trump in big red letters and it has the Russian Hammer and Sickle...................


Only Jill -Wine-Banks........she does not like the traitor in the white house.....and I fully agree with her and this panel........................................

July 18, 2018

President Donald Trump Changes One Word. What About The Rest?

And if you look at Jill-Wine-Banks, red brooch says Trump and then it it has the Hammer and Sickle for Russia.................

only Jill-Wine-Banks ........................

July 18, 2018

Randy Rainbow Parody

July 18, 2018

Your a puppet.....................