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hangar where trump spoke today in melbourne florida has been repairing russian jets since 2014

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/money/2015/02/14/russia-sending-jets-melbourne-maintenance/23374919/

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>At a different time, in another country, it was effectively a death sentence.
>Being branded an "enemy of the people" by the likes of Stalin or Mao brought at best suspicion and stigma, at worst hard labour or death.
>Now the chilling phrase - which is at least as old as Emperor Nero, who was called "hostis publicus", enemy of the public, by the Senate in AD 68 - is making something of a comeback.
>In November, the UK Daily Mail used its entire front page to brand three judges enemies of the people after they made a ruling on the Brexit process.
>Now the US president, Donald Trump, has deployed the epithet against mainstream US media outlets that he sees as hostile.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39015559

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Customs agents have seen all sorts of things come through travelers' baggage. And what they seized from two women at Washington Dulles International Airport last month may take the cake.

On January 29, two women arrived from Mongolia. Customs and Border Protection officers sent them for a routine agriculture examination. What was found inside might turn your stomach.

The women had a combined 42 pounds of horse meat concealed inside juice boxes. That includes 13 pounds of horse genitals that one of the women claimed were for medicinal purposes.

Horse meat is prohibited from entering the country unless the traveler has an official government horse meat certification from the country of origination. The concern is bringing foot and mouth disease into the United States and introducing it to livestock here.

“Customs and Border Protection takes no pleasure in seizing and destroying travelers’ food products,” said Wayne Biondi, CBP Port Director for the Area Port of Washington Dulles. “We’re in the business of protecting America’s agriculture industries, like the livestock industry, from the potential introduction of animal diseases posed by these unpermitted food products.”

All of the meat was incinerated.

“Safeguarding America’s agriculture industries, and by extension our nation’s economy, remains an enforcement priority for Customs and Border Protection. It is a mission that we take very seriously,” said Casey Owen Durst, CBP’s Field Operations Director in Baltimore, the agency’s operational commander in the mid-Atlantic region.

CBP agriculture specialists inspect more than 1 million people coming into the U.S. every day.

http://www.abc2news.com/news/state/13-pounds-of-horse-genitals-concealed-in-womans-luggage-claimed-it-was-for-medicinal-purposes

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Fuck me it's hot in Australia right now
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/bushfires-blackouts-and-five-capitals-above-30c-is-this-peak-suffer-season/news-story/a805c12584c42f3f273180152a9e096a
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/sydney-weather-biggest-burst-of-summer-to-have-records-teetering-20170207-gu7sdq.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2017/feb/10/australia-weather-heat-power-outage-blackout-fire-danger-nsw-live
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/sydney-heatwave-power-supplies-hospitals-in-firing-line-of-extreme-weather/news-story/ba973d7d24ff2e17427d765e2619532b

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The US House voted 235-180 on Thursday in favor of striking down an Obama-era rule intended to keep guns out of the hands of the severely mentally ill.

https://www.ssa.gov/regulations/NPRM--Implementation%20of%20the%20NICS%20Improvement%20Amendments%20Act%20of%202007%20(NIAA).PDF

>The rule would require the Social Security Administration to forward information about certain beneficiaries with mental health disorders to the FBI’s background check system. Beneficiaries affected would be those suffering with mental illnesses so severe that they require a representative to manage their finances for them.

>The rule, originally slated to go into effect in December, is estimated to affect 75,000 beneficiaries. Those impacted could appeal through the courts to purchase a firearm, but not before their names were sent to the FBI, The Hill reports.

>The National Rifle Association, gun advocates, and civil rights advocates, including the ACLU, argued that the rule would strip Second Amendment rights from beneficiaries without due process. Supporters, meanwhile, said the rule would help keep guns out of the hands of those with severe mental illnesses.

>"The House charged ahead with an extreme, hastily written, one-sided measure that would make the American people less safe," Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.) told The Hill. Rep. Esty represents Newtown, Connecticut, where a man with mental health issues tragically massacred 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

>However, The Guardian notes that the National Council on Disability, a nonpartisan government agency, wrote in a letter last year that: “There is, simply put, no nexus between the inability to manage money and the ability to safely and responsibly own, possess, or use a firearm.”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/house-pulls-back-rule-to-keep-guns-from-severely-mentally-ill/

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>GIVEN the long history of making racial slurs about the efforts of some workers, any study casting black and Hispanic men as lazier than whites and Asians is sure to court controversy. A provocative new working paper by economists Daniel Hamermesh, Katie Genadek and Michael Burda sticks a tentative toe into these murky waters. They suggest that America’s well-documented racial wage gap is overstated by 10% because minorities, especially men, spend larger portions of their workdays not actually working. After rejecting a number of plausible explanations for why this might be, the authors finally attribute the discrepancy to unexplained “cultural differences”.

>Acutely aware of the sensitivity of these findings, the professors delayed publication until after the presidential election. “I knew full well that Trump and his minions would use it as a propaganda piece,” says Mr Hamermesh, a colorful and respected labor economist. The paper may yet be seized on by those who are keen to root out “political correctness” and are perennially unhappy with current anti-discrimination laws.

https://archive.fo/lGkcl

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>A blind man from Louisiana wants the fast-food giant to come up with another solution for those who physically can't drive through a drive-thru.
>Scott Magee, who is blind, filed a lawsuit in May alleging that only offering service to customers in cars at drive-thru windows when the interior of the store is closed is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. A federal judge in Chicago ruled Wednesday that despite McDonald's attempts to have the case dismissed, Magee can go forward with the suit, which seeks class-action status.
>"Most Americans have the experience of driving through a drive-thru and ordering for themselves," said Roberto Luis Costales, the New Orleans-based lawyer representing Magee in the case. "That's an experience Mr. Magee doesn't have."
>Many McDonald's locations operate only as drive-thrus late at night as a security measure. The suit says that cuts off service to disabled customers, like Magee, who don't drive.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-mcdonalds-blind-man-drive-thru-lawsuit-0217-biz-20170216-story.html

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http://in.reuters.com/article/us-southsudan-famine-idINKBN15Z0OE

>Parts of war-ravaged South Sudan are suffering famine, a government official said on Monday, adding nearly half the country's population would lack reliable access to affordable food by July.

>South Sudan has been mired in civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir fired his deputy. Since then the conflict has increasingly split the country along ethnic lines, leading the United Nations to warn of a potential genocide.

>The fighting has prevented many farmers from harvesting their crops, and hyperinflation, which reached more than 800 percent last year, has put the price of imported food beyond the reach of many.

>Parts of the country have also been hit by drought.

>“In greater Unity (state), some counties are classified in famine or ... risk of famine,” Isaiah Chol Aruai, chairman of South Sudan’s National Bureau of Statistics, told a news conference in Juba.

>Aruai said some 4.9 million people were expected to become "food insecure" between February and April, with that number rising to 5.5 million by July.

>"Famine has become a tragic reality in parts of South Sudan and our worst fears have been realized," Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) South Sudan representative, Serge Tissot, said at the news conference.

>The United Nations defines famine as when at least 20 percent of households in an area face extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 percent, and two or more people per 10,000 are dying per day.
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http://ktul.com/news/local/catoosa-restaurant-fires-12-workers-for-not-showing-up-on-day-without-immigrants

A dozen workers at a Catoosa restaurant are without a job after getting fired for skipping work as a show of support for “A Day Without Immigrants.”
The restaurant workers are all Hispanic and say it was important to them to participate in the national protest.
But they didn’t think it would cost them their jobs.
“They feel like they’ve been unfairly terminated," said a friend, translating for the employees.
The group worked at I Don’t Care Bar and Grill in Catoosa. They talked to us after they were fired for not showing up to work. They asked us not to show their faces or give their names.
“(They’ve) been working there for almost two years since the restaurant opened," said the friend.
The group willingly chose to stay home with others across the country, supporting “A Day Without Immigrants.”
“(They’re) upset they stood for something they felt was necessary so the community would stand together, and they got terminated for that," said the friend.
The six are part of a group of 12 kitchen staff let go.
The owner fired them by text message.
A message to one of the employees reads: "You and your family are fired. I hope you enjoyed your day off, and you can enjoy many more. Love you.”

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia has deployed a new cruise missile despite complaints by U.S. officials that it violates an arms control treaty banning ground-based U.S. and Russian intermediate-range missiles, a senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday.

>Russia had secretly deployed the ground-launched SSC-8 cruise missile that Moscow has been developing and testing for several years, despite U.S. complaints that it violated sections of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, the official said, confirming a story first reported by the New York Times.

>“We know that this is an old issue. The Russians have been building and testing these things in violation of the INF treaty going back to the Obama administration,” the official told Reuters, asking to remain anonymous to speak freely.

>"The issue now is the things are deployed and it’s an even greater violation of the INF treaty,” the official added.
The Russian Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the Times story.

>The U.S. State Department concluded in a July 2014 arms control report that "the Russian Federation is in violation of its obligations under the INF Treaty not to possess, produce, or flight-test a ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM) with a range capability of 500 km to 5,500 km (310 miles to 3,420 miles), or to possess or produce launchers of such missiles."

>Russia accused Washington of conducting "megaphone diplomacy" after the accusation was repeated by the State Department in 2015. Moscow also denied it had violated the INF treaty, which helped end the Cold War between the two countries.

>The previous U.S. administration of President Barack Obama had protested in an attempt to persuade Moscow to correct the violation while the missile was still in the testing phase, the Trump administration official said.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/u-s--believes-russia-deployed-new-missile-in-treaty-violation---nyt/42960748

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Some comments from the DEA on Hemp and CBD

"Russ Baer, spokesperson for the DEA, has stated that he cannot comment on a petition that he has seen but he has made it clear that the DEA stand by their ruling. He says that every single aspect of marijuana, including hemp, is considered a controlled substance. This includes every compound, derivative, salt or preparation of any substance made from any part of a cannabis plant. He claims that, until the DEA receives conclusive scientific proof of the plant’s medicinal benefits from a DEA registrant or person given authority by the DEA to research marijuana, it will remain a Schedule I substance and so will all its derivatives."

http://www.occnewspaper.com/cbd-oil-lawsuit-to-reverse-dea-ruling/

And as for hemp, specifically: The Farm Bill did not remove industrial hemp from the list of controlled substances.. As Baer stated Friday: “DEA has consistently opined that marijuana and its constituent parts or derivatives, including, including CBD and hemp, are Schedule I controlled substances – so these determinations are deeply rooted in the CSA and not new.”

http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/01/13/hemp-dea-extracts-marijuana-cbd-judicial-review/71387/

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https://www.rt.com/usa/318606-laser-guided-missile-rifle/

>American military personnel can already shoot grenades out of a launcher which attaches to a rifle, but the stakes are being upped by Raytheon, which has developed a tiny laser-guided missile that can hit targets nearly 7,000 feet away.

>The new weapon, dubbed the Pike, is only 17 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. At 1.7 pounds, it weighs more than an average grenade, but manages to boast three times the power and is capable of taking out two people located behind a wall, according to Defense Tech.

>"Pike uses a digital, semi-active laser seeker to engage both fixed and slow-moving, mid-range targets," said J. R. Smith, Raytheon's Advanced Land Warfare Systems director, in a statement. "This new guided munition can provide the warfighter with precision, extended-range capability never before seen in a hand-held weapon on the battlefield."

>During two recent tests in Texas, the Pike munitions traveled more than 2,300 yards (2.1 km) and successfully landed in the target area, Raytheon announced Monday. As noted by the Washington Post, the average grenade travels some 150 yards (0.1 km). Additionally, the company said the Pike is “nearly smokeless” as it travels through the air, making it much more difficult for enemies to detect as it zooms towards them.

>One of the Pike’s key features is its semi-active laser seeker, which helps it find and stay on its course. According to Smith, the missile can detect laser heat off of its intended target, and the launcher does not even need to have his or her laser settled on a target before firing the weapon,

>“You don’t even have to start by lasing,” he told Military.com. “You can launch it, just as long as you get the laser on it before it hits its apogee and starts coming down. For a long shot like that, you could probably lase 15 seconds after launch.”

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http://www.abnewswire.com/pressreleases/charlotte-humans-for-positive-progress-announces-notmypresidentsday-rally_100020.html

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A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday upheld an Obama-era rule designed to avoid conflicts of interests when brokers give retirement advice, in a possible setback for President Donald Trump's efforts to scale back government regulation.

>The stinging 81-page ruling comes just days after Trump ordered the Labor Department to review the "fiduciary" rule - a move widely interpreted as an effort to delay or kill the regulation.

>The decision by Chief Judge Barbara Lynn for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas is a stunning defeat for the business and financial services industry groups that had sought to overturn it.

>And while it is not expected to stop the Labor Department from delaying the rule's April 10 compliance deadline while it conducts the review, some legal experts say it could make it more difficult for the Labor Department to find a way to justify scrapping or significantly altering the rule.

>This marks the second time now a federal district court has upheld the fiduciary rule. A third court, meanwhile, rejected an effort to stay the rule's implementation.

>“Three courts have now carefully considered the full range of industry attacks on the DOL’s best interest fiduciary rule, and they have firmly rejected all of them," said Stephen Hall, the legal director of Better Markets, a non-profit group that supports the rule.

>"The decision issued today is definitive and sends a message that ought to put a stake through the heart of industry’s efforts to destroy this common-sense rule."

>The Labor Department's "fiduciary" rule requires brokers to put their clients' best interests first when advising them about individual retirement accounts or 401(k) retirement plans.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-labor-fiduciary-idUSKBN15N2HF

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http://nypost.com/2017/02/17/illegal-immigrants-would-rather-be-arrested-in-canada-than-stay-in-us/