http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/17/politics/us-navy-drone-laser-weapon/index.html
The future is now. Fun fact not mentioned in the article: the powerplant on the new carrier class, the Gerald R. Ford-class, was built to power future laser upgrades along with the new electromagnetic catapult.
>In the sometimes hostile waters of the Persian Gulf looms the US Navy's first -- in fact, the world's first -- active laser weapon.
>The LaWS, an acronym for Laser Weapons System, is not science fiction. It is not experimental. It is deployed on board the USS Ponce amphibious transport ship, ready to be fired at targets today and every day by Capt. Christopher Wells and his crew.
>CNN was granted exclusive access to a live-fire test of the laser.
>"It is more precise than a bullet," Wells told CNN. "It's not a niche weapon system like some other weapons that we have throughout the military where it's only good against air contacts, or it's only good against surface targets, or it's only good against, you know, ground-based targets -- in this case this is a very versatile weapon, it can be used against a variety of targets."
>LaWS begins with an advantage no other weapon ever invented comes even close to matching. It moves, by definition, at the speed of light. For comparison, that is 50,000 times the speed of an incoming ICBM.
>"It is throwing massive amounts of photons at an incoming object," said Lt. Cale Hughes, laser weapons system officer. "We don't worry about wind, we don't worry about range, we don't worry about anything else. We're able to engage the targets at the speed of light."
>>158425
>CNN witnessed that speed and power firsthand.
>For the test, the USS Ponce crew launched the target -- a drone aircraft, a weapon in increasing use by Iran, North Korea, >China, Russia and other adversaries.
>Immediately, the weapons team zeroed in. "We don't have to lead a target," Hughes explained. "We're doing that engagement at the speed of light so it really is a point and shoot -- we see it, we focus on it, and we can negate that target."
>In an instant, the drone's wing lit up, heated to a temperature of thousands of degrees, lethally damaging the aircraft and sending it hurtling down to the sea.
>The strike comes silently and invisibly. "It operates in an invisible part of the electromagnetic spectrum so you don't see the beam, it doesn't make any sound, it's completely silent and it's incredibly effective at what it does," said Hughes.
It is remarkably precise, which the Navy says could limit collateral damage in wartime.
>"I can aim that at any particular spot on a target, and disable and destroy as necessary," said Wells. "It reduces collateral damage -- I no longer have to worry about rounds that may go beyond the target and potentially hurt or damage things that I don't want to hurt or damage."
>All the $40 million system needs to operate is a supply of electricity, which is derived from its own small generator, and has a crew of three. No multi-million-dollar missile, no ammunition at all.
>The cost per use? "It's about a dollar a shot," said Hughes.
>Today, the laser is intended primarily to disable or destroy aircraft and small boats. "It's designed with the intent of being able to counter airborne and surface-based threats," said Hughes. "And it's been able to prove itself over the last three years as being incredibly effective at that."
>However, the Navy is developing more powerful, second-generation systems which would bring more significant targets into its crosshairs: missiles.
>>158426
>Those missions remain classified. However, the commander and crew are very much aware of the potential capabilities. When we asked Wells if the current LaWS could shoot down a missile, he said simply "maybe" and smiled.
soon laser drones will be vaporizing dissenters in an instant leaving only ashes of indiscernible origin
Foxconn Technology Group announced at the White House Wednesday its plans to invest $10 billion to build a massive display panel plant in Wisconsin that could employ up to 13,000 workers but would require up to $3 billion in subsidies from state taxpayers.
"This is a great day for American workers and manufacturers and everyone who believes in the concept and the label 'Made in the USA,' " said an ebullient President Donald Trump.
As Republicans in Washington struggle to repeal Obamacare and advance bills on tax cuts and infrastructure, Trump seized on the announcement as a win in a key swing state, saying the deal wouldn't have been done "if I didn't get elected."
The agreement represents a huge opportunity for Wisconsin as well as a significant risk — one that state lawmakers will have to weigh quickly as they consider whether to allow a subsidy package nearly 50 times bigger than any previous one.
The project could reshape the economy of southeastern Wisconsin and involve not just a large factory but a virtual village, with housing, stores and service businesses — spread over at least 1,000 acres, according to Gov. Scott Walker's office and a source familiar with the deal. That acreage, an area totaling more than 1.5 square miles and roughly the size of Shorewood, could potentially could be assembled from parcels that initially weren’t contiguous, the source said.
“America does not have a single LCD plant to produce a complicated system. We are going to change that," Foxconn chairman Terry Gou said at the White House news conference. "It starts today with this investment in Wisconsin."
At 20 million square feet, the factory would be three times the size of the Pentagon, making it one of the largest manufacturing campuses in the nation. It would initially employ 3,000 workers making an average of $53,900 a year.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/07/26/scott-walker-heads-d-c-trump-prepares-wisconsin-foxconn-announcement/512077001/
"Today we’re announcing the single largest economic development project in the history of Wisconsin and one of the largest in the history of this country," said Walker, who called it the largest job creation project in the nation in an undeveloped greenfield. "This is literally number one."
The deal comes as President Donald Trump seeks to fulfill a promise to bring manufacturing jobs that have been lost in recent decades back to the United States.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose district in southeastern Wisconsin would be home to the facility, called the deal a "game changer" and praised President Donald Trump and Walker for working to make it happen.
"This shows actual results — getting it done," Ryan said.
Ryan and Walker were among a Wisconsin contingent at the White House for the announcement.
Republicans and Democrats joined together to praise the prospect of the company coming to Wisconsin, though some Democrats expressed strong reservations about the size of the potential incentive package. Skeptics also cautioned that Foxconn had not fulfilled some of its promises elsewhere.
The Foxconn plant would make liquid crystal display panels used in computer screens, televisions and the dashboards of cars. Walker's office said the deal could result in up to 22,000 jobs that would be indirectly created by suppliers and businesses looking to locate near Foxconn and serve the company and its workers.
The construction alone would lead to 10,000 jobs over each of the next four years.
“We saw tremendous interest among a great number of states (in the Foxconn plant) because it means an incredible amount of good wage job growth and an incredible potential of spinoff economic development,” a White House official said.
Joining Gou, Walker and Vice President Mike Pence at the event was U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose district in southeastern Wisconsin would be home to the facility.
Also attending are Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester), state Senate President Roger Roth (R-Appleton), Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele and Milwaukee Bucks president Peter Feigin.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are also likely to be there.
A follow-up event will be held Thursday at the Milwaukee Art Museum, according to sources.
Gou will be in Milwaukee that day for meetings related to the company’s Wisconsin plans, but may not appear at the art museum announcement, one source said.
No site has been chosen, but areas in Racine and Kenosha counties remain in play, according to the source who described the possibility of Foxconn creating a sprawling village. The source said Foxconn could end up using multiple locations in southeastern Wisconsin, perhaps with a factory in one place and offices and research facilities in another.
Foxconn is huge. In China, its manufacturing base, the company employs some 700,000 people. The firm's revenue last year totaled about $135 billion. That's roughly equivalent to Amazon.com Inc., which ranked 12th on the Fortune 500 list.
The deal was put together in recent months as Walker, Ryan and Trump each met with Gou and other Foxconn officials.
An incentive package that reaches into the billionswould be unlike anything Wisconsin has offered in the past and would require approval from state lawmakers. State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) has said he hopes to get bipartisan support for the package.
Company officials have talked about a massive investment in the United States that would create thousands of jobs. They have visited Wisconsin and other states in recent weeks as they consider their options.
In the past, some Foxconn investments have failed to materialize.
In November 2013, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced that Foxconn planned to invest $30 million in a “high-end technology manufacturing facility” with 500 jobs.
The company has a small research operation in Harrisburg, Pa., but the factory was never built.
Similarly, the Washington Post reported in March that Foxconn has spoken of making major investments in India, Vietnam and Brazil, but with results that have not matched the original announcements.
At $3 billion for 13,000 jobs, the deal would cost $231,000 per job. The subsidies would total more than the combined yearly state funding used to operate the University of Wisconsin System and the state's prison system.
Until now, the largest state subsidy ever awarded to a company in Wisconsin was the $65 million offered by then Gov. Jim Doyle's administration in November 2010 to Mercury Marine, which was considering moving its factory from Fond du Lac to Oklahoma. That deal involved retaining thousands of at risk factory jobs.
Other major awards to companies in the state since 2010 include $62.5 million to Kohl's; $61.7 million to Quad Graphics; $47 million to Oshkosh Corp; and $28 million to Fincantieri Marine Group.
In total those state-only awards add up to $264.2 million — just a fraction of the amount expected to be offered to Foxconn by the state and local governments.
These large subsidy awards by the state often don't get paid out in their entirety because the tax credits offered aren't sent to the company until the business shows it has hired or trained workers, built a plant or purchased equipment. So far, the five companies have earned roughly $143 million of the total credits that they were awarded.
For instance, the $65 million promised to Mercury Marine has resulted in $46 million actually being earned by the company, about 71% of the original offer. The company has until the end of 2021 to earn the rest.
Steve Deller, a professor of agriculture and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said a $3 billion deal over 15 years is likely "too pricey in terms of potential economic benefit back to the state."
Imran Awan, a House staffer at the center of a criminal investigation potentially impacting dozens of Democratic lawmakers, has been arrested on bank fraud and is prevented from leaving the country while the charges are pending.
Awan was arrested at Dulles Airport on Monday evening before boarding a flight to Lahore, Pakistan. His wife, Hina Alvi, has already left the country for Pakistan along with their children. Federal agents do not believe Alvi has any intention of returning to the U.S., according to a court document.
"This is clearly a right-wing media-driven prosecution by a United States Attorney's Office that wants to prosecute people for working while Muslim," Chris Gowen, Awan's attorney, said in an email declaring his client's innocence.
Awan, a longtime IT staffer who worked for more than two dozen House Democrats, has been at the center of a criminal investigation on Capitol Hill for months related to procurement theft. Several of his family members, also IT staffers at the time, were implicated in the ongoing investigation.
Most Democratic lawmakers cut ties with Awan and his family after the criminal investigation came to light in early February. But Awan has continued to be employed by Wasserman Schultz, although it’s unclear what his job duties are given he has been barred from accessing the House IT system for months.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/debbie-wasserman-schultz-aide-arrest-240960
>>161104
Awan brothers can go to hell. DNC will pay for their crimes.
This confirms that Mueller isn't really investigating Trump. He's been going after the DNC and Hillary all along.
Surprised it took this long. Those awan guys are dirty.
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/126932804/
https://archive.is/WjJvA
https://archive.is/WjJvA
>The criminalization of political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw such activism. In the U.S., governors compete with one another over who can implement the most extreme regulations to bar businesses from participating in any boycotts aimed even at Israeli settlements, which the world regards as illegal. On U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so commonplace that the Center for Constitutional Rights refers to it as “the Palestine Exception” to free speech.
>But now, a group of 43 senators — 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats — wants to implement a law that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott against Israel, which was launched in protest of that country’s decades-old occupation of Palestine. The two primary sponsors of the bill are Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Rob Portman of Ohio. Perhaps the most shocking aspect is the punishment: Anyone guilty of violating the prohibitions will face a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison.
>The bill’s co-sponsors include the senior Democrat in Washington, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, his New York colleague Kirsten Gillibrand, and several of the Senate’s more liberal members, such as Ron Wyden of Oregon, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Maria Cantwell of Washington. Illustrating the bipartisanship that AIPAC typically summons, it also includes several of the most right-wing senators such as Ted Cruz of Texas, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Marco Rubio of Florida.
Amazing that anyone can actually support something like this in the first place
Damn jewish overlords running our world.
And there are people who try to claim it is the Jews who are oppressed by society.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/26/trump-clinton-popular-vote-240966
>Roughly half of voters who said they voted for Donald Trump last November, 49 percent, believe Trump won the popular vote, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. That's compared to 40 percent who say Democrat Hillary Clinton won.
>Overall, a majority of voters, 59 percent, believe Clinton won more votes than Trump, but 28 percent believe Trump won more votes.
>Respondents were asked which presidential candidate won the national popular vote and the Electoral College after Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — the vice chair of Trump’s controversial Presidential Advisory Commission on Electoral Integrity — said in a televised interview last week that "we may never know" whether Clinton won the popular vote.
>The president himself asserted in late November that he won the popular and the electoral vote. "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," Trump tweeted.
>A report from the Federal Election Commission, compiled earlier this year from official state election results, credits Clinton with winning nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump out of a total of almost 137 million votes cast.
He did win the popular vote. You have to discount the 5 million illegal/dead votes.
If you did an honest recount without all the (((tricks))) from the democrats you find that Trump won the popular vote by a wide margin.
>>161189
Wonder how they worded the survey, he did win the majority of votes if only referring to electoral votes.
>Liberals think all those illegals in Ca actually count
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/21/ohio-veteran-can-keep-ducks-to-relieve-ptsd-depression.html
The Coshocton Tribune reports the West Lafayette Village Council this week granted Darin Welker a variance to an ordinance prohibiting farm animals in the village, about 80 miles (128 kilometers) east of Columbus.
Welker was convicted in 2014 of a misdemeanor for violating the ban on farm animals. A state appeals court later upheld his conviction and the Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal.
Welker argued his six ducks have been therapeutic. He served in Iraq with the Army and was medically discharged from the Ohio National Guard. His doctor says the ducks have helped.
>>160948
Awesome. I'll celebrate by killing one of my ducks for dinner.
I just love eating animals hahaha fuck YOU.
Good for him. PTSD fucking sucks.
>>160964
Duck is delicious when cooked right.
>>160948
I’m all for helping the guy out with his PTSD but that looks like his _front_ yard and nobody wants that as a neighbor.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ice-chief-lists-worst-sanctuary-cities-chicago-nyc-san-francisco-philadelphia/article/2629466
July 25, 2017
ICE chief lists worst sanctuary cities: Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, Philadelphia
In a broadside on sanctuary cities that harbor criminal illegal immigrants, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement called them "un-American" and cited the worst: Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, and Philadelphia.
"Sanctuary cities, in my opinion, are un-American," said Thomas D. Homan in an interview with Secrets.
By harboring criminal illegal immigrants, the jurisdictions are boosting crime, he said.
"In the last year, I've read all these stories of how the crime rate has exploded in Chicago, and the president's trying to help them. We're stepping up our game in Chicago. Is Chicago doing everything that it can to decrease the criminal activity up there? I say no," Homan said.
"I say no because if you're an illegal alien, and you get arrested in the United States for a crime, and you get booked in Cook County, Chicago, my officers aren't allowed in the jail. They don't accept our detainers. They don't share information with us," he said.
Homan said that in denying to detain criminals, sanctuary cities end up putting them back on the street where they "will re-offend" and prompt ICE agents to take the dangerous step of tracking them down.
"Why would Cook County not want my officers, federal law enforcement officers, to go talk to somebody who is illegally in the United States that committed yet another crime against the citizens of this country? It's ludicrous," he said.
But, said the one-time Border Patrol agent, "They're a sanctuary city, they're proud of it."
cont.
>>160933
He also singled out San Francisco and New York, both victimized by violent criminals.
"San Francisco. How soon they forget," he said in a reference to the July 1, 2015, slaying of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle on city pier 14 by an illegal immigrant.
"Let's talk about New York City, the site of the most horrific terrorist event in this nation's history, and they don't accept our detainers," he said.
"New York City, they're proud of being a sanctuary city," Homan said.
"These jurisdictions, these cities, are choosing to shield people who violated the laws of this country that committed a crime against this country; they're going to shield them. So, what's next? Sanctuary cities for people who don't want to pay their taxes?" he asked.
Homan targeted his words at politicians, noting that police and sheriffs in many sanctuaries want to help ICE.
"The street cops that I talk to want to help. It's the politicians who want to make this a political game. It's not a political game. This is a matter of public safety and life and death we shouldn't be playing politics with this," he said.
FIN
So when will Trump cut federal funding to these cities? It needs to happen.
>>160939
>So when will Trump cut federal funding to these cities? It needs to happen.
Implying the "independent" and "non-political" court system won't prevent him from doing that because it's "racist"....
Florida police arrested a 25-year-old woman who they say was impregnated by a young boy in 2014.
Marissa Mowry, of Port Richey, Florida, and the boy were at a Hillsborough County residence in January 2014 when they had sexual intercourse that resulted in Mowry's pregnancy, according to officials with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
At the time, Mowry was 22 years old and the boy was 11 years old.
Mowry gave birth to his child in October 2014.
Officials said Mowry and victim continued with their sexual relationship multiple times while the victim was between the ages of 11 and 14 years old.
http://www.wcpo.com/news/national/woman-25-got-pregnant-with-11-year-olds-child
>>153097
Shouldn't his balls drop by around 13?
>>153104
boys can produce sperm as young as 7. usually not in anywhere near enough quantities to get a girl pregnant though.
good job kid.
When dogs get lonely, they sometimes keep themselves busy by wreaking havoc around the house, and that doesn’t really sit well with their owners. That’s why one German radio host, who also happens to be a dog owner, came up with the idea for a 24/7 program designed to relax canine listeners and make them feel like they are not alone.
When 30-year old Stephan “Stocki” Stock, a radio moderator at RadioTon, in Germany’s Baden-Württemberg region, announced the creation of a program aimed at dogs, everyone thought it was just a clever April Fools prank. Only it wasn’t. For the past three and a half months, “Hallo Hasso” has been pumping out music for lonely pooches both on the radio and online.
Stocki says he was inspired to create the special program by his pet dog, Layla, who would sometimes get so bored when left alone that she would keep herself busy by making a big mess and destroying things around the house. He and his colleagues at RadioTon started researching what kind of music usually appeals to dogs, and learned that it should have as little drum and electric guitar as possible, and should be very slow. They realized that stuff that doesn’t usually make mainstream radio playlists, like classic music, old hippie songs and even obscure YouTube clips fit the profile perfectly, so they compiled several playlists for broadcast on Hallo Hasso.
“It’s not about keeping dogs quiet,” Stocky said about Hallo Hasso. “It’s more about the dog feeling he’s not alone.” He adds that Layla is not as restless since listening to Hallo Hasso, and has become relatively quiet, even letting him take a nap to the soothing sound of the radio.
http://www.odditycentral.com/animals/german-radio-station-creates-special-program-for-lonely-canines.html
However, dog experts don’t believe that Hallo Hasso works as intended. Siegfried Schemp, a dog trainer in Schwaigern, said that the radio program is a poor distraction for dogs and recommends training and educating canines to behave when they are alone.
Hallo Hasso is only available in Baden-Württemberg, via radio, but if you’d like to see if it can calm your four-legged pet, the program can also be accessed online, here. Just press the “play” arrow at the top of the page and let the music work its magic. If this doesn’t work, there’s always Dog TV.
http://radioplayer.radioton.de/index.html?site=HalloHasso
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/will-dogtv-turn-your-pooch-into-a-couch-pet-ato/?nwltr=GMADF_featuredstories_hed0
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, appointed Friday as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist who saw patients for 30 years in private practice.
>Unlike any OB/GYN I know, Fitzgerald treated men as well as women. That's because besides being board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, she is a fellow in "anti-aging medicine."
>It says so right in her bio on the website for the Georgia Department of Public Health, where she served as commissioner for seven years before moving to the CDC. (The Health and Human Services press release in which HHS Secretary Tom Price, a fellow Georgia physician, announced her CDC appointment doesn't include that tidbit).
>Another reporter pointed out Monday that the link to Fitzgerald's bio on the Georgia Department of Public Health's website now directs to the "Commissioner's Message," still featuring her. But if you look for the commissioner's bio, you get that of her successor, Dr. J. Patrick O'Neal. However, you can still find a story on the public health department's website about her 2011 swearing-in that mentions she is a fellow in anti-aging medicine. And you can still see a reference to it in Sen. Johnny Isakson's press release about her appointment.
>“I’m shocked,” Dr. Steven Goldstein, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the New York University School of Medicine and treasurer of the International Menopause Society, said after I told him that Fitzgerald’s biography identifies her as an anti-aging medicine fellow.
>Goldstein described so-called anti-aging treatments as "snake oil" that "plays on people's worst fears about their mortality."
>“If she [Fitzgerald] was one of these people who was marketing anti-aging medicine, that’s scary," he said.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ritarubin/2017/07/09/new-cdc-head-fitzgerald-peddled-controversial-anti-aging-medicine-before-leaving-private-practice/2/#fc1fc33313fa
>Turns out that she was, which is pretty surprising for someone tapped to lead a federal agency that takes pride in its "culture of scientific integrity."
>A CDC spokeswoman declined to provide a comment about Fitzgerald's anti-aging medicine practice. But thanks to the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine,” I was able to learn a little more about it. The Wayback Machine had captured the website for Fitzgerald's Carrollton, Ga., gynecology practice as it appeared on Aug. 23, 2010, about a year before she became Georgia's public health commissioner.
>“In addition to seeing traditional gynecologic patients, we see both men and women for hormonal, nutritional and other anti-aging concerns,” the homepage states.
>Among her credentials listed on the website: board certification in "Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine" by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. However, the American Board of Medical Specialties, made up of the specialty boards that certify physicians, doesn’t recognize the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), which promotes the use of "intravenous nutritional therapy," "bioidentical hormone replacement therapy" (BHRT) and "pellet therapy," in which tiny pellets that contain hormones are placed under the skin.
>A 2011 document on the A4M website notes that, thanks to the aging of the population, "the opportunities in the anti-aging market are vast, with the global market estimated to be worth $292 billion by 2015."
>You might be familiar with the highest-profile proselytizer of what has come to be called the "anti-aging medicine movement": actress Suzanne Somers, best-known for her role in the sitcom Three's Company, which debuted 40 years ago. Besides the Thighmaster, Somers attributes her youthful looks to BHRT. Bioidentical hormones typically are compounded, or formulated, by a pharmacist for individual patients, contributing to their cachet of being more "natural" than mass-produced hormone medications.
>The Food and Drug Administration, which, like the CDC, is part of HHS, warns against assuming that bio-identical hormones are any better than hormones manufactured by a drug company. "The FDA does not have evidence that 'bioidentical hormones' are safer or more effective than other hormone products," according to the agency's website. "FDA believes that the benefits and risks are likely to be the same."
>But compounded hormones in creams, injections and pellets are, for some strange reason, considered to be dietary supplements, for the most part exempt from FDA regulation. So they don't have to carry the boxed warning about an increased risk for heart attack, stroke, invasive breast cancer and blood clots that the FDA requires for medications containing estrogen or estrogen plus progestin, prescribed for short-term use to relieve menopausal symptoms, not turn back the hands of time.
>"Not only is evidence lacking to support superiority claims of compounded bioidentical hormones over conventional menopausal hormone therapy, but these claims also pose the additional risks of variable purity and potency and lack efficacy and safety data," according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the professional organization for OB/GYNs such as Fitzgerald.
>I asked a couple of women's health advocates what they thought about having an anti-aging medicine doctor lead the CDC.
“I’m so disappointed that the first female OB/GYN picked to head the CDC is someone who embraces the unproven and anti-scientific claims of the so-called anti-aging movement,” Cindy Pearson, executive director of the National Women’s Health Network, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., told me.
>“The public needs someone who supports public health recommendations that are based on science,” Pearson said, “not someone who tries to scare her patients by talking about ‘the hormone-depleted state of menopause’ and recommending unproven and potentially dangerous bio-identical hormones.”
>Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Center for Health Research, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., noted that some skeptics have questioned Fitzgerald’s qualifications to head the CDC because she doesn't have a background in scientific research.
>“Her pitch as a physician suggests that, in addition to not being a researcher, she was providing treatments to patients that were not based on credible science,” Zuckerman told me after looking at the archived website for Fitzgerald's former medical practice. “If a patient wants to try such treatments, and a doctor wants to prescribe them—preferably giving informed consent that the benefits are unproven—that’s up to them.
>“But putting that doctor in charge of the CDC, a crucial public health agency, doesn’t make sense.”
UPDATE
A4M contacted Forbes after publication of this article to dispute the characterization of treatments it promotes as "controversial." "In its 25-year history, A4M has never been the subject of any adverse legal ruling, nor ever been the target of any regulatory procedure or penalty," the organization said in a prepared statement.
In the united states mens sperm count is dropping compared to those of other nations
Source : http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/health/sperm-counts-declining-study/index.html
>is this cause of femminisim ;)
>>161031
Globalists are trying to depopulate the world
>>161041
right, and the answer is to get rid of EPA, spray our vegetables with chemicals known to cause development defects, and spew more greenhouse gasses.
that'll do the trick.
thanks for saving us, trump!
>Source CNN
Yeah, this seems credible. That news organization has stepped on every fake news rake in the backyard, smacking themselves in the face.
Men are doing just fine.
Last Wednesday, July 19, was something of a busy news day. There was word North Korea was making preparations for yet another provocative missile test. The Supreme Court, in its latest ruling in the controversial travel ban case, said that people from the six largely Muslim countries covered by the immigration enforcement action could enter the U.S. if they had a grandparent here, refusing to overturn a ruling that grandparents qualified as “bona fide relatives.” And then, late in the day, President Donald Trump gave a remarkable interview to The New York Times, one that, among other things, laid into Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
rest of news.....
http://allways-news.info/news/amid-the-blaring-headlines-routine-reports-of-hate-fueled-violence?uid=512
>>161006
I don't get why so few people are willing to "counter-harrass" these people.
>http://nypost.com/2017/07/25/roomba-maker-wants-to-sell-your-homes-floor-plan/
The maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum, iRobot, wants to start selling mapped floor plans of customers’ homes to Google, Amazon and Apple, the company said Tuesday.
The privacy-invading plan will help other smart home devices operate more efficiently using movement data collected by the circular cleaning gadget, CEO Colin Angle told Reuters.
“There’s an entire ecosystem of things and services that the smart home can deliver once you have a rich map of the home that the user has allowed to be shared,” Angle said.
The home layout data will likely include info on the location of everything from lamps to home security cameras and thermostats, according to the firm.
Looks like another IoT failure!
>>160969
What are the odds most people who buy that don't live in identical houses?
I didn't even know Roombas could be connected to the internet.
Looks like it's time to free the software, again. Where's libreroomba?
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
Faith-based pregnancy centers in Hawaii are challenging a new state law in federal court, claiming it forces them to promote abortion.
>Under Senate Bill 501, limited-service pregnancy centers must display the following written statement in clear viewing areas of the clinic:
>>“Hawaii has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services, including, but not limited to, all FDA-approved methods of contraception and pregnancy-related services for eligible women
>>To apply online for medical insurance coverage, that will cover the full range of family planning and prenatal services, go to mybenefits.hawaii.gov.
>>Only ultrasounds performed by qualified healthcare professionals and read by licensed clinicians should be considered medically accurate.”
>Supporters of the bill say it is intended to protect women by providing them fair and complete information on pregnancy options.
>But opponents argue the law forces abortion promotion.
>A lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of two faith-based pregnancy centers on Oahu asks the U.S. District Court to deem the measure unconstitutional.
>“For years, the abortion lobby has preyed on women and girls to generate profits,” ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot said. “Now pro-abortion politicians are trying to restrict women’s options by requiring pregnancy care center employees, under threat of severe fines, to refer women to the abortion industry.”
>Calvary Chapel Pearl Harbor’s “A Place for Women” pregnancy care center and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates are behind the lawsuit.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/35872560/pro-life-centers-file-suit-against-new-hawaii-law-says-it-forces-abortion-promotion
HI-State-Senate bill 501:
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2017/bills/SB501_CD1_.htm
>"Freedom of speech also means the freedom to not express views that would violate one’s conscience. Yet, under this law, Hawaii is forcing pro-life centers and physicians to provide free advertising for the abortion industry against their conscience," ADF Legal Counsel Elissa Graves said.
>The bill was approved by the state Legislature on May 4, and became law on Wednesday.
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http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/judge-stop-forcing-pregnancy-centers-to-promote-abortion/
>>160295
The word abortion is never mentioned, they have nothing to stand on. Also, abortion isn't illegal, despite the best efforts of some.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-discussed-trump-campaign-related-matters-with-russian-ambassador-us-intelligence-intercepts-show/2017/07/21/3e704692-6e44-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&pushid=5972860e5ae0f93800000008
>Russia’s ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.
>Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts of two conversations with Sessions — then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump — were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor the communications of senior Russian officials both in the United States and in Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.
>One U.S. official said that Sessions — who testified that he has no recollection of an April encounter — has provided “misleading” statements that are “contradicted by other evidence.” A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had “substantive” discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.
>Sessions has said repeatedly that he never discussed campaign-related issues with Russian officials and that it was only in his capacity as a U.S. senator that he met with Kislyak.
>“I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign,” Sessions said in March when he announced that he would recuse himself from matters relating to the FBI probe of Russian interference in the election and any connections to the Trump campaign.
>>159719
Washington Poooooooost wowowowowowowowiwiiwiwiwowow
Russisaaaaaaaaghhhhhh
>>159719
>It didn't happen! t. sessions and trump
>WaPo releases further evidence 6 hours later
>e-e-rm well it happened but just forget about it okay?
Rinse and repeat.
MUH RUSSIA