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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/07/benghazi-guards-turned-on-us-diplomats-in-2012-attack-sources-say.html

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http://phys.org/news/2016-10-samsung-galaxy.html

Anyone else suspect Apple CEO of contaminating Samsung's battery supply?
It wouldn't be hard, and it's not as if the guy has any morals, ethics or humanity.
If I was the Samsung CEO, I'd be looking into this.
What a hoot it'd be!

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http://tucson.com/news/science/environment/santa-cruz-river-could-flow-again-through-downtown-tucson/article_1aac5f08-445f-544a-bb26-5612858a43da.html

>The long-dead Santa Cruz River could flow again within two years.

>Tucson Water, which had opposed the idea for years, unveiled a blueprint last week for putting heavily treated wastewater in the river through downtown Tucson. Officials call the plan “Agua Dulce,” Spanish for sweet water.

>The idea would be to pump the effluent uphill from a sewage treatment plant northwest of the city via an existing pipeline south to 29th Street. From there, effluent would run downhill through the city’s core; the Santa Cruz flows south to north. Officials don’t know yet know how far downstream the water would run.

>Similar plans have been proposed and discarded many times before, but the fact that the city’s water utility is pushing it for the first time could give it legs — particularly at a time when downtown is finally thriving.

>One of Tucson Water’s goals is to restore a stretch of the rich, natural riparian habitat that lined the river throughout much of the Tucson area until the mid-20th century. The utility also seeks to make the river a natural treasure that could generate tourism and economic development.

>On a less glamorous front, it wants better control of some of the city’s effluent, which now runs downriver far from the city out of two sewage plants.

>“This plan was 100 percent inspired by thoughts of Tucson and recasting a vision of what the Santa Cruz River through downtown should be in the future,” Tucson Water Director Tim Thomure said in an interview shortly after introducing the idea to a city water advisory committee Wednesday.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBaOCtgwsh8

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SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Sunday the United States' collapse is "historical destiny," pointing to what it calls the "most sordid" presidential election debate and a rise in gun violence in the States.

Pyongyang made the hostile remarks in a white paper, just a couple of days before the crucial U.S. election that pits Democratic Party standard-bearer Hillary Clinton against her Republican rival Donald Trump.

"In history, there is no path forward when there are confrontations or wars," the white paper read.

"(History) has proved that when people, society and even politics decay, the country would fail," it added.

Touching on the set of the election debates between Clinton and Trump, the communist state said that they were the "dirtiest" debate, in its typical mockery of the U.S., which it has constantly cited as its national security threat.

In the white paper, Pyongyang also denounced Washington's policy refocus on the Asia-Pacific and its stance of "strategic patience" towards Pyongyang, arguing that America's foreign policy strategy is not working at all.

"The Obama administration's various external policy strategies have suffered bitter blows, and are leading the world's strategic landscape, which has already been menacing to itself, into a situation that is more unfavorable to the U.S.," it said.

The policy document also claimed that during Obama's presidential term since 2009, the U.S. has become the world's "greatest anti-human rights, criminal" state.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2016/11/06/0401000000AEN20161106000700315.html

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/10/15/it-will-be-a-bloodbath-inside-the-kansas-militia-plot-to-ignite-a-religious-war/?tid=pm_pop_b&utm_term=.d1529b4fa1ca

>The “Crusaders” knew they wanted to kill Muslims — and with luck, use the “bloodbath” to ignite a religious war — but for months they couldn’t settle on a plan.

>The easiest way would be to grab guns, go to the predominantly Somali-Muslim apartment complex they’d been surveilling and start kicking in doors, court documents said. They would spare no one, not even babies.

>In the end, they decided to set off bombs similar to the one Timothy McVeigh used in 1995 to kill 168 people in Oklahoma City. They planned to strike after the Nov. 8 election, investigators said.

>Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright and Patrick Eugene Stein face federal charges of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow up an apartment complex, a mosque and Muslim immigrants from Somalia, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

>Federal court documents reveal how the trio’s hatred and Islamophobia coalesced into a plan for domestic terrorism.

>It was ultimately undone by an FBI confidential informant and Allen’s girlfriend, who showed authorities Allen’s supply room after he allegedly hit her during a fight.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/10/18/world/europe/ap-eu-unesco.html

>PARIS — UNESCO's executive board on Tuesday approved a resolution that Israel says denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem — and that has angered Israel's government and many Jews around the world.

>The resolution is not expected to have concrete impact on Jerusalem itself, but it aggravated diplomatic tensions around the city and within UNESCO, which is also facing a dispute between Japan and China that threatens funding.

>It's the latest of several measures at UNESCO over decades that Israelis see as evidence of ingrained anti-Israel bias within the United Nations, where Israel and its allies are far outnumbered by Arab countries and their supporters. Israel's concern has mounted since UNESCO states admitted Palestine as a member in 2011.

>The resolution, titled "Occupied Palestine," lays out rules about the preservation of holy sites in Jerusalem, and uses only the Islamic name for a hilltop compound sacred to both Jews and Muslims. The site includes the Western Wall, a remnant of the biblical temple and the holiest site where Jews can pray.

>Jews refer to the hilltop compound in Jerusalem's Old City as the Temple Mount. Muslims refer to it as al-Haram al-Sharif, Arabic for the Noble Sanctuary, and it includes the Al-Aqsa mosque and the golden Dome of the Rock. It is the holiest site in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
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>Israel suspended its cooperation with UNESCO over the resolution last week, though it is not clear what programs the suspension will affect. Israel had already suspended its funding to UNESCO when Palestinian membership was approved, along with the United States, which used to provide 22 percent of the agency's budget.
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What is the consensus about gary johnson?

better than killary and trumpernator?

https://www.johnsonweld.com/

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Laura Silsby, a convicted child abductor who was caught stealing children in Haiti, has a very interesting connection with the Clintons. The connection has been exposed thanks to some very good investigative work at Reddit.

http://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2016/11/03/wikileaks-exposes-convicted-child-abductor-connection-clintons

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here's the link from the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-opera-akhnaten-protest-20161106-story.html

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http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0795-picture-of-the-17-year-old-girl-at-the-centre-of-beheading-case/

>Love rivals 'argued over the Olena Matsneva, leading to her boyfriend killing and severing the head of his competitor'.

>The headless body of Artyom Shustov was found in a park in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East. Later Matsneva's boyfriend, 16 year old Nikita Rasskazov, a teenage kickboxer, confessed to the killing and was detained, said law enforcement sources.

>Police subsequently recovered Shustov's head from the Silinka River. Now more details have emerged, with witnesses revealing a furious row over the girl at the park minutes before the beheading.

>It is believed that Olena had spent time with Shustov at a party, said a report in local newspaper DVnovosti, citing police and other sources.

>She had posted a picture of them together on her social media, and also a picture of his tattooed chest.

>Shustov claimed that Olena 'stared pestering him at the party, and he was drunk and could not resist'. Rasskazov then pulled out a knife and stabbed his rival.

>Shustov ran away but the 16 year old followed him, stabbing him in the back, it was reported. The pair fell on the ground and began to fight, with the younger teenager inflecting more knife wounds.

>With Shustov badly wounded but evidently still alive, Rasskazov 'started to cut off his head with the knife'. He 'took the severed head by the hair, put it in a garbage bag, and then into a backpack. 'He dragged the body to another part of the park and put Artyom's student papers on his chest.'

>Then he went home, hid his bloodstained clothes in his wardrobe, took a shower and went to bed, it was reported.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37875697

>A commercial diver may have discovered a lost US nuclear bomb off the coast of Canada.

>Sean Smyrichinsky was diving for sea cucumbers near British Columbia when he discovered a large metal device that looked a bit like a flying saucer.

>The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) believes it could be a "lost nuke" from a US B-36 bomber that crashed in the area in 1950.

>The government does not believe the bomb contains nuclear material.

>It is sending naval ships out to the site, near the Haida Gwaii archipelago, to verify the find.

>Mr Smyrichinsky says he came upon the device while diving off the coast of Pitt Island near Haida Gwaii in early October, which is near the Alaskan border with British Columbia. It was "bigger than a king-size bed", perfectly flat on top with a rounded bottom and had a hole in the centre just "like a bagel," he told the BBC.

>"I found something really weird, I think it's a UFO," he joked with his fellow divers once he came to shore. The area is remote, and Mr Smyrichinsky says he had to wait a few days before he could go into town and find somebody who might know what it is.

>One of his friends, an "old-timer" from the area, had an idea: "Maybe you found that nuke they lost here in the 50s!"
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Twitter's been down for about an hour.

Also checked http://downdetector.com/status/twitter/map/

and saw this comment:

Down in Tampa @0110 AM on Monday Nov 7th. #DNCLeaks2 Podesta brothers & Madeline Mccann was the last thing I accessed...Crazy coincidence that has my mind racing.

Strange, because that's the last thing I saw too...

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>Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri called Wikileaks' documents on the US presidential candidate "probably a fake" despite the fact that they haven't been released yet.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201611061047124666-clinton-wikileaks-fake/

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-delaware-pumpkin-flinging-contest-explosion-20161106-story.html

>A 39-year-old woman suffered critical injuries Sunday after an apparatus used to launch pumpkins into the air exploded at a large outdoor competition, Delaware State Police said.

>A 56-year-old man was also hurt with non-life threatening injuries. Both had been struck by debris from the explosion.

>The incident occurred at the Punkin Chunkin Contest in Bridgeville, which is about 30 miles south of Dover. The competition involves dozens of contestants launching pumpkins from homemade contraptions, many of which are air-powered with long cannons and hauled on the back of trucks.

>Spectator Daivd Aronson, 52, of Falls Church, Virginia, said he was about 25 yards behind the cannon when it exploded. He said it had just fired a pumpkin when a piece blew off the launcher that was the size of a car door.

>"It arcs down on this woman who is running away as it hits her," he said.

>Aronson said the woman appeared motionless as people gathered around her. A short time later, the competition's announcer asked the crowd to pray as she was flown to a hospital. The announcer then said the contest was over, Aronson said.

>Aronson said organizers tried to take precautions by using nets and placing spectators 25 yards away from the pumpkin launchers.

>Master Cpl. Jeffrey Hale of the Delaware State Police said the woman and man who were injured were not among the crowd of spectators but among the launchers. He said they were observing the event but declined to elaborate. Hale said the incident remains under investigation.