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Ambitious project will involve a massive floating barrier that aims to collect up to five tonnes of plastics every month
A team of scientists and engineers will on Saturday begin an ambitious cleanup of plastics in the Pacific Ocean targeting a stretch of water three times the size of France known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
A 600m-long floating barrier will be launched off the coast of San Francisco and, powered by currents, waves and wind, will aim to collect five tonnes of plastic debris each month.
The marine apparatus known as System 001 is the brainchild of the Dutch inventor Boyan Slat who founded The Ocean Cleanup at the age of 18 in 2013.
Along with 70 staff he has spent the last five years testing 273 models and six different prototypes as part of the $20m (£15.5m) Netherlands-based project before arriving at the current design – nicknamed “Wilson” in reference to the famous volleyball from the film Castaway.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/08/scientists-get-ready-to-begin-great-pacific-garbage-patch-cleanup
Stolen Memos Case Prompts Call For Kavanaugh's Impeachment
Cody Fenwick
September 8, 2018 4:06 am / 0 Comments / Congress, Law, Supreme Court, Top News
Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
In a tightly argued and powerful article for Slate, a Democrat who was one of the victims of a document theft related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time in the White House argued Friday that the judge should be impeached.
Kavanaugh, Lisa Graves argued, repeatedly lied to Congress under oath about his involvement with the stolen materials.
She noted that just receiving the documents, which she says were taken by GOP Senate aide Manuel Miranda isn’t an impeachable offense. Graves said that Miranda stole the “confidential memos, letters, and talking points,” some of which she personally wrote, which were part of the Democrats’ private communications about blocking President George W. Bush’s controversial judicial nominees. Some of this material was passed on to Kavanaugh, though he says he wasn’t aware that the documents were stolen.
This, Graves said, is implausible. Kavanaugh almost certainly would have known this material was not supposed to be in his possession. But things get even worse for the Supreme Court Nominee.
Graves argued that even after the theft was revealed, Kavanaugh has still claimed, under oath, that he had nothing to do with the stolen documents. She wrote:
http://www.nationalmemo.com/stolen-memos-case-prompts-call-for-kavanaughs-impeachment/
If were to go into a court room and LIE, and I was caught LYING that is PERJURY, PERJURY is still PERJURY, this asshole sitting on the bench would charge me with PERJURY, if I were to LIE in his court, he his a fucking hypocrite, and Leahy, and Harris has shown that he is a LIAR, and the republicans are willfully withholding or tried to withhold this information that he fucking LIED in 2004, 2006 and now 2019..................................
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GOP might have even fewer women in Congress next year thanks to Trump
Dan Desai Martin 07 Sep 2018
Trump’s odious nature and personal brand of racism, sexism, and xenophobia has encouraged thousands of women to run for office around the country. However, Trump and Republicans have little reason to celebrate.
“The number of Republican women in the House is actually poised to decline,” says NBC News, noting that Democrats would be primarily responsible for the vast majority of women in Congress, including most of the 30 and 40 new women are on track to enter Congress next year.
Even with a decline in the number of Republican women in Congress, NBC News says more than 100 women could be in Congress in 2019, which would be a new record.
NBC notes that the number of women running is “clearly a backlash to President Donald Trump’s election.”
Yeah, no kidding. Earlier this year, Republican operatives were actively advising Republican women not to run in 2018 because of Trump.
http://www.americanindependent.com/gop-might-have-even-fewer-women-in-congress-next-year-thanks-to-trump/
It is going to be the "Year of the Woman" this coming November..........................
GOP bails on pledge not to use stolen emails to attack opponents
By Eric Boehlert - September 7, 2018
Republicans refuse to rule out help from Russians.
Republicans blew up long-running negotiations with Democrats this week, after both sides worked quietly for months to come to a bipartisan agreement not to use hacked or stolen information in the upcoming campaign season.
In a proposal that had been on the table, both parties agreed not to help any hacking efforts and not to search out hacked or stolen materials, and they also agreed to report any contacts with foreign operatives to law enforcement.
The GOP’s decision to abruptly end talks “only fed the complaint by Democrats that Republican lawmakers have resisted bridging partisan divisions in the two years since Russia began its brazen attack on the American political system,” the New York Times reported.
https://shareblue.com/republicans-midterms-stolen-emails/
MSNBC's Ari Melber calls BS on Kavanaugh's stonewalling on Mueller: 'He's too smart to play that dum
'Birther king' Jerome Corsi will not testify before grand jury Friday despite Mueller subpoena: repo
BRAD REED
07 SEP 2018 AT 08:27 ET
Jerome Corsi, the conspiracy theorist best known for falsely claiming that former President Barack Obama forged his birth certificate, will not be appearing before a grand jury on Friday, despite being subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Buzzfeed News’ Zoe Tillman reports that Corsi’s attorney now says his client will not testify in front of the grand jury, even though he claimed earlier in the week that Corsi would comply with the subpoena.
“Earlier this week, Corsi’s lawyer told us he was trying to set up a separate sit-down with Mueller’s office, which could make a grand jury appearance unnecessary,” Tillman reports. “But his lawyer isn’t commenting now on what happened.”
Corsi’s attorney, David Gray, told New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman that Corsi would be asked “about his discussions with Mr. Stone, who appeared to publicly predict in 2016 that WikiLeaks planned to publish material damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/birther-king-jerome-corsi-will-not-testify-grand-jury-friday-despite-mueller-subpoena-report/
Well next stop a visit from a US Marshall...........................
Sen. Harris asks Kavanaugh if he discussed the Mueller investigation with law firm tied to Trump
Senator Harris just found and showed that this "guy" this federalist "guy" basically committed perjury and tide him up in knots, and that he warned him about his answer...........................that he tried to dodge, she knows the answer and I think that we the public demand to know who he spoke too..................and as for Mike Lee from Utah...............
Can anyone find the exchange that Kamala Harris had with this federalist 'guy" about him
speaking to some people at the law firm concerning the Mueller investigation........................I have tried, and can not find it.................it is in my opinion really important, she knows something and she got him to lie again.........................Thanks
McConnell recesses Senate amid Kavanaugh hearings
Source: The Hill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recessed the Senate on Thursday after Republicans warned that Democrats could try to use arcane procedure to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing.
McConnell asked that the Senate be recessed “subject to the call of the chair”—meaning they will come back into session later Thursday, if only to formally adjourn for the day.
McConnell didn’t give any guidance when he made the move about why he was making the request or when the Senate would come back into session.
“I ask that the Senate stand in recess subject to the call of the chairman,” McConnell said from the Senate floor.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/405417-mcconnell-recesses-senate-amid-kavanaugh-hearings
Mets' Todd Frazier admits using rubber ball to fool umpire over catch
Third baseman used ball he found in stands to claim catch
‘Sometimes you’ve got to act out a little bit’
After an awful first-half of the season, the New York Mets have had a respectable few months, topped off by a series win at the Los Angeles Dodgers this week. Although it turns out of those wins may have been helped along by underhand methods.
During the Mets’ Monday win over the Dodgers, Todd Frazier took a spectacular catch, diving into the stands to snag a foul ball and keeping hold of it despite tumbling over the barrier. However, the ball Frazier emerged with wasn’t the ball that had been hit by the Dodgers’ Alex Verdugo – it was a rubber ball that he had grabbed after losing hold of the original one.
Some Dodgers fans noticed the deception and tried to get the third base umpire’s attention, so Frazier decided it was time to escape the scene of the crime.
“I was trying to get out of there as quick as possible,” Frazier said on Wednesday. “I saw someone pointing at the right ball and I was like, ‘All right, I’m just going to have to play this off.’ I got in the dugout and was telling people I was flabbergasted that I even got away with it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/06/new-york-mets-todd-frazier-rubber-ball-catch-umpire-la-dodgers
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