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Defenders of President Donald Trump are inundating Twitter with caustic attacks on former President Barack Obama over the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – three years and six months before Obama took office.

The posts appear to be responses to criticism of Trump’s visit to Texas on Tuesday in the wake of devastating flooding in Houston following Tropical Storm Harvey. Many claim that Obama was golfing when Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans in August 2005, killing 1,245 people across the Gulf Coast.

>fontaineaux @Lynchburged
>What was your response when Katrina hit and Obama was playing golf? At least Trump is prepared unlike your hero, Obama.

>— Joshua Goldsteen (@ GoldsteenJoshua) August 26, 2017
>u guys are so quick to criticize Trump. Where was Obama when Hurricane Katrina hit… o yeah, he was playing golf for 3 days!! … SAD!!

> Jorge @ JorgePo40586036
>Replying to @ CNNPolitics
>We have a better leader this time to tackle events of this magnitude. Obama was playing golf during Katrina

>Drain the Sewer @ USAPatriotSC
>Replying to @ Yellatk and 4 others
>When Katrina hit Obama played golf, Killery was not interested. Trump went and physically helped hand out >food & water. You're a fool. #MAGA

>Aaron Craig @ ACraig2031
>Everyone can agree that @ realDonaldTrump is responding to Hurricane #Harvey far better than Obama handled Hurricane Katrina. #HoustonFlood

Obama was first elected president in November 2008 and took office in January 2009. He won a second term in 2012 and stepped down in January when Trump took office. President George W. Bush, who was in office during Hurricane Katrina, faced widespread criticism for the federal response to the disaster.

Obama, who at the time was a U.S. senator from Illinois, met with Katrina evacuees in Houston.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article170265837.html

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Deleted link on The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/concern-over-bio-lab-caught-in-texas-storm_us_59a68bd1e4b05fa16286be5f

The Texas Biomedical Research Institute announced preliminary approval for a new and expanded “level 4” laboratory, built to the industry’s tightest safety precautions to study the world’s most lethal infectious diseases.

The level 4 lab allows scientists to work with infectious diseases for which there is no known cure, such as Ebola, Marburg and Lassa fever.

Source:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Texas-Biomed-plans-new-lab-to-study-lethal-11236346.php

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Google is likely silencing criticisms of its conduct — and quasi-monopolistic status — by purchasing influence across political non-profits and think tanks, according to a Wednesday-published report in The New York Times.

Part of Google’s political influence is its funding of political think tanks and non-profits — aside from direct lobbying of politicians — presumably to shape messaging beneficial to its interests. Criticism of the company’s operations from think tank and non-profit beneficiaries of Google’s donation is presumably silenced.

Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is the second-largest company in the world. Its market capitalization as of this article's publication is $647.8 billion. It handles over 81% of the world's internet searches and is the world's largest operator of internet advertising.

Barry Lynn, formerly director of the New America Foundation's (NAF) Open Markets program, was terminated by NAF after expressing support for the levying of a $2.7 billion fine against Google via European antitrust regulators.

Google is one of the NAF’s benefactors, having donated millions of dollars to the left-wing and Democrat-aligned think tank. The NAF has received more than $21 million from Google, Alphabet Inc.’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt, and Schmidt’s family foundation.

The NAF is headed by left-wing Clinton loyalist Anne Marie-Slaughter, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. She was a senior State Department policy strategist between 2009 and 2011, under Hillary Clinton’s secretaryship.

Lynn is launching a new non-profit — its website entitled “Citizens Against Monopoly.” It accuses Google of censoring criticisms of its business conduct:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/20454/nyt-google-buys-non-profits-silence-criticism-robert-kraychik#

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-google-new-america.html

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“The Coast Guard is working very closely with our federal, state and local partners to make sure we do this as safely and quickly as possible,” said Capt. Tony Hahn, incident commander and captain of the port in Corpus Christi. “We are continuing port assessments and collecting data on damage, debris and pollution in order to regain full operation of the affected ports.

The port of Galveston and Houston will remain closed Wednesday.

“All Port Houston facilities will remain closed on Wednesday, August 30th due to the weather impact across Houston. We will be continuing to monitor weather conditions to determine when operations can safely resume. At this point no indications from the U.S. Coast Guard on when the Houston Ship Channel will reopen for vessel transits. Updates will be provided as more information is available,” Port Houston said in an update Tuesday.

http://gcaptain.com/coast-guard-updates-on-conditions-at-texas-ports-impacted-by-harvey/

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On Tuesday, August 29, a group of officers and generals of the Polish Armed Forces arrived in Ukraine, headed by the chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Leszek Surovsky. This was announced by the head of the National Academy of the Army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Pavel Tkachuk on his Facebook page.

"Being in the Lviv region, Lieutenant-General Leszek Surovsky will get acquainted with the specifics of the activities of the National Academy of the Land Forces, the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security, I believe that this will be an effective and fruitful continuation of the military-political dialogue between our countries," Tkachuk wrote.

http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/3881418-v-ukraynu-pryekhala-delehatsyia-polskykh-voennykh

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Hezbollah and Iranian fighters have widely infiltrated Syria and taken up arms in support of Bashar al-Assad's regime, and were ferried into the country using Iran's commercial airline in violation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

http://www.trunews.com/article/report-obama-admin-hid-intel-to-push-iran-nuke-deal

According to a new report by The Washington Free Beacon, Iran has been illegally using its commercial airline, Iran Air, to ferry fighters into Syria, where they have taken up arms in defense of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The ferrying efforts, which violate the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal, was hidden by the Obama administration. The report states:

>Photographs provided to Congress show Iran using Iran Air to ferry these soldiers between 2016 and 2017, in part when the Obama administration removed sanctions on Iran Air and promoted multi-billion dollars sales between the carrier and aircraft manufacturer Boeing, which is seeking to provide Iran Air with a fleet of new planes that many suspect will be used to carry terrorist fighters and weapons into regional hotspots. This behavior violates international laws governing the nuclear deal and has now led lawmakers and others to accuse the Obama administration of downplaying Iran's illicit activity in order to promote the nuclear deal and ensure Tehran receives a new commercial fleet. Multiple senior Obama administration officials, including former secretary of state John Kerry, traveled the globe to promote trade with Iranian companies, including Iran Air, at the same time Iran was found to be ferrying militants into Syria. Lawmakers and others suspect the Obama administration either hid or downplayed this information in order to preserve the nuclear deal.

The report further states a group of Republican congressmen, led by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), is demanding the Treasury Department fully investigate the matter.

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http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/08/28/stabbing-joshua-witt-neo-nazi-steak-shake/

The man who alleged that he was assaulted by a mysterious generic black man last week has been found to have fabricated the story in the typical "To Kill a Mockingbird"/Emmett Till style.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-korea-north-korea-heavy-bombs-border-38th-parallel-pyongyang-japan-hokkaido-moon-jae-in-a7917496.html


South Korea's military has dropped eight heavy bombs near its border with the North in a show of what local media called "overwhelming force" following Pyongyang's latest missile test.

President Moon Jae-in ordered the strike, by four F-15K fighter-bombers, at a firing range in the country's east to "display a strong capability to punish" North Korea if it were to attack.


(((NYTimes))) still not reporting the incident

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/08/28/harvey-deals-blow-houston-key-gear-u-s-economic-engine/609798001/

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The principal of a Little Rock elementary school over the weekend canceled Monday's scheduled visit to the campus by U.S. Rep. French Hill after learning that some parents and others planned to protest the Republican lawmaker in front of the school.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/aug/29/principal-reinvites-rep-hill-20170829/

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According to the NNSA press release, two B61-12 gravity bombs (without a nuclear warhead) were dropped from F-15 fighter jets on August 8 at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, and were designed to test the "non-nuclear functions and the aircraft’s capability to deliver the weapon." These tests are part of a series over the next three years to qualify the B61-12 for service. As we noted at the time, the first qualification flight test occurred in March.

“The B61-12 life extension program is progressing on schedule to meet national security requirements,” said Phil Calbos, acting NNSA deputy administrator for Defense Programs. “These realistic flight qualification tests validate the design of the B61-12 when it comes to system performance.”

According to the editor-in-chief of National Defense magazine, Igor Korotchenko, the second test of the nuclear bomb could indicate that Washington is speeding up its rearmament program. "The fact of the test of this modification of the nuclear bomb indicates that the US continues an accelerated rearmament program of its tactical nuclear arsenal in Europe, as well as that both Washington and Brussels are considering the scenario of a limited nuclear war in Europe,"

https://nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/b61-12-continues-meet-qualification-test-schedule

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A new Quinnipiac University Poll found that by a 49%-40% margin the American people believe that the country would be better off with Hillary Clinton as president.

At first pass, the numbers look like the 2016 election with only white people, non-college educated whites, and Republicans thinking that they would be worse off under Trump, but a look at the age breakdown shows that all age groups think that the country would be better off under Hillary Clinton. By a small margin, Independents also believe that the country would be better off under Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote by 3 million votes, so the finding that more people in the country think that the US would be better off if she had won is unexpected, but the trouble for Trump is that the idea that his election was a mistake is setting in with voters. Trump squeaked by on election day because the Russians and his campaign were able to manipulate the media coverage to take attention away from Trump and thrust it onto imaginary Clinton scandals.

Since Trump has taken office, the American people have realized that Trump and Clinton were not equally bad choices as Republicans and the Russians wanted voters to believe. The country is waking up and realizing that Trump’s election was a terrible mistake that they will seek to correct first by taking out the GOP Congressional majority, and then getting rid of Trump in 2020.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/23/trump-reeling-american-people-hillary-clinton.html

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A 33-year-old Great Falls woman reportedly called 9-1-1 to say that, in her experience, methamphetamine should not be inducing the effects the methamphetamine she had just ingested was currently inducing.

"I do meth three times a day every day and have never had this reaction before," Margery Ann Dayrider told the police officer who arrived at her home, according to court documents.

Dayrider reportedly called 9-1-1 on Aug. 25 to report medical issues from injecting meth. When officers arrived at her home, Dayrider said she had injected her self at 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. that day, according to charging documents. She also produced some meth from inside her bra and handed it over to police, who later tested the crystals and confirmed they were, in fact, methamphetamine.

Dayrider was charged with criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a felony. If convicted she could be sentenced to five years in state prison and fined $5,000.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/crime/2017/08/28/woman-allegedly-reports-bad-meth-police/609315001

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By 2050, Africa population suppose double wetin e be now, but for one country wey dem dey born pickin pass, e be like say dem population go grow times three.

Dat country na Nigér.

For Nigér, women fit born average of 7.6 pickins - and for village area wey be Zinder, some dey born pass dis number.

No be for mouth; any village wey you enter - pickins dey everywhere.

Some of dis pickins sef get pickin - for Niger, half of di girls don marry before dem reach 15 years.

As country economy dey grow and dia people dey make money, di number of pickins dey usually reduce, but Nigér na one of di world poorest countries.

Dr Hassane Atamo, wey be head of the government family planning division say "for Nigér, we get national characteristic wey be say na to born pickin, and pickin na sign of person wey get money plus power.

"One major problem be say as people dey born plenty pickin, e dey hard to take care of dem and send dem go school."
Men too, dey the matter

For di other side of town, men dey cross-leg for ground under tree; dem come to dey talk something wey concern dem - dem dey call dis one 'husband school.'

As dem dey talk health, education matter and farming, na so di men dey talk breastfeeding plus family planning.

All dis one na part of di same programme - wey dem dey call Project Sawki. All dis one na to reduce as women dey die wen dem dey born, plus stop the number of pickins wey dey die before dem reach five years.

Education dey very important to help reduce as people dey born pickin, so di project na also to make people no too dey born plenty.

Mudaha Musa, 27 tell BBC say im bin feel say e suppose get five or six pickin wey dey enough for am. Dat one go add two or three pickins to di one wey im don already get.

"True-true, problem no dey to born plenty pickin, but as we don start dis husband school, we don dey see as things dey change," na wetin Mr Musa talk.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41027926

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Idiot sets grass fire with propane torch, California is dry as shit.

Tweaker white trash is too lazy to mow weeds, have goats eat them dpwn, plow field, or pull by hand.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7355716-181/propane-torch-for-weed-burning

A little flavor piece and something to push the Pidgin English poster back to his original board.