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On Friday, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) publicly announced via Twitter that he supported the decriminalization of marijuana, but in doing so, made a startling claim: that he believed in allowing states to decide what was best for themselves.
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If you want to catch a glimpse of the horrific, dystopian implications of socialized medicine, you need not skim through a science fiction novel. Simply look overseas to Europe, where yet another sick child has been sentenced to death by a U.K. death panel. First Charlie Gard and now this.
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Now that California has legalized marijuana for recreational use, the potheads now want Amsterdam-style pot lounges in several cities, stretching the new law to its limits.
According to the L.A. Times, the city of West Hollywood, long known for pushing the social boundaries, is looking to allow marijuana lounges as seen in Amsterdam.
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After news broke Thursday afternoon that the FBI Inspector General was recommending the Justice Department file criminal charges against the Bureau’s fired deputy director, Andrew McCabe, NBC Nightly News completely ignored the major development. On Friday, NBC’s Today show wasn’t much better, only managing nine seconds of coverage to the story, just a single sentence.
At the top of the morning show’s 7:30 a.m. ET half hour, during a news brief hyping the release of some of former FBI Director’s James Comey’s salacious memos about private conversations with President Trump, co-host Hoda Kotb barely added this line about the legal trouble for Comey’s one-time deputy: “This as federal prosecutors weigh whether or not to prosecute disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for misleading investigators.”
To put things in perspective, the show devoted over five times that amount coverage, 50 seconds, to a fan learning Beyonce’s dance moves.
At least the Today show covered the story, even if viewers could blink and miss it. CBS This Morning skipped it all together. Only a couple seconds in the broadcast’s Eye Opener video montage at the top of the program acknowledged the criminal referral. Thursday’s CBS Evening News only gave a paltry 42 seconds to topic, which apparently the network thought was plenty.
On Friday, ABC’s Good Morning America provided the most time to McCabe’s legal jeopardy, a whopping 49 seconds. After co-host Robin Roberts asked Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas about the criminal referral, fellow co-host George Stephanopoulos sought comment from legal analyst Dan Abrams, who warned: “I think that’s a dangerous situation for Andrew McCabe….You know, Andrew McCabe needs to be concerned.”
If it were really such a “dangerous situation” then why did the supposed news program think it only warranted 49 seconds?
That 49 seconds was only slightly less than the mere 1 minute 2 seconds ABC’s World News Tonight offered to the story on Thursday evening.
The networks have not wanted to touch the McCabe story because it harms their narrative of slamming the President over the Russia investigation. Even when they have begrudgingly acknowledged the FBI official’s downfall, it has been the bare minimum amount coverage, with a emphasis on downplaying the news or even suggesting that McCabe is a victim.
Here is a transcript of GMA’s total coverage of McCabe on April 20:
7:04 AM ET [7:04:27 – 7:04:52, 25 sec]
(…)
ROBIN ROBERTS: And Pierre, Comey’s former deputy director is now facing the potential of criminal charges?
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Ex-FBI Director Facing Potential Charges McCabe’s Case Referred to Federal Prosecutors]
PIERRE THOMAS: That’s right, Robin, the Justice Department’s Inspector General is asking the U.S. Attorney’s office here in D.C. to decide whether Andrew McCabe, who was recently fired, should be prosecuted for misleading investigators. McCabe has denied those allegations, but now faces the prospect of a possible criminal investigation by the very agency he once led.
(…)7:08 AM ET [7:08:17 – 7:08:41, 24 sec]
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Meantime, the referral of Andrew McCabe to the Justice Department, prosecutors?
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: McCabe’s Case Referred to Federal Prosecutors; Could Ex-Deputy FBI Director be Indicted?]
DAN ABRAMS: Yeah, I think that’s a dangerous situation for Andrew McCabe. This is a separate office. This is the Department of Justice handing it off to a U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., which in theory investigates this independently. They’re gonna look at it, determine do they think that the misleading to the level of a crime. You know, Andrew McCabe needs to be concerned.
(…)
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The knotty pine club.
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There’s a revolutionary new way to walk through the forest. V-e-r-y slowly.
Take a few steps. That’s far enough. Now sit down and talk it over with the person next to you, for a long time.
It’s a New Age thing in Sonoma County. Walking very slowly through the forest — while thinking about walking very slowly through the forest — is a full-blown movement. It could be a paradigm. The people who do this call it “forest bathing.” It doesn’t involve actual bathing, the kind with water. It’s figurative bathing. You soak in the wonders of the forest. Take your time, a whole lot of it. And bring a cushion.
About a dozen of us forest bathers were sitting on the ground the other morning at Quarryhill Botanical Garden, in Glen Ellen (Sonoma County), to find out what it was all about. We had taken an hour to meander from the parking area 50 yards down a manicured garden trail overlooking a vineyard. The idea was to look closely at absolutely everything. Examine all twigs. Inspect all leaves. If you see an ant, stop and take it in. Get up close and personal with your ant.[…]
Such sentiments are quite at home coming from Clifford, 63, of Santa Rosa. The longtime Zen meditation student worked as a traditional Sierra hiking guide and a mental health counselor before getting into the forest bathing trade about six years ago, adapting it from a similar Japanese practice.
Clifford has turned his slow walks into a cottage industry. He leads $50 forest bathing treks for newbies. He teaches $3,400 forest bathing workshops for wannabe leaders. He lectures and writes. From Sonoma County, the spiritual home of forest bathing, he flies around the world in jets to tell people they’re moving too fast.
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Effingham County in Illinois is now a sanctuary city for gun owners, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The county’s board voted in favor of preventing county employees from enforcing any Illinois state law that may “unconstitutionally restrict the Second Amendment.”
The resolution — which also opposes state legislation vetoed by Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) that would have required more registration for gun shops — was adopted by an 8-1 vote.
Leaders said that the verbiage “unconstitutionally restrict the Second Amendment” is open to interpretation, which makes the resolution more symbolic than anything else.
Effingham County state’s attorney Bryan Kibler said that the resolution will not override decision-making at the sheriff’s office, according to the outlet.
Kibler added, “If you can be a ‘sanctuary county’ for undocumented immigrants, why can’t you be one for firearms?”
Effingham County’s Sheriff Dave Mahon said that if the state passed a law that did not coincide with preserving the Second Amendment, he would seek the legal advice of the Effingham County state’s attorney as well as the Illinois Sheriff’s Association before proceeding on any action.
Jim Niemann, Effingham County Board chairman, said that he didn’t believe that gun laws in Chicago worked, and he didn’t want the same thing to happen in his community.
“I don’t want Chicago gun laws here, because they don’t seem to be working there,” he explained.
Kibler also told Fox News on Thursday that the leaders felt it was paramount to allow county residents to express their concern about the permanency of Second Amendment rights.
“So we thought … why don’t we just make this a sanctuary county like they would for undocumented immigrants?” he rhetorically asked. “So we did flip the script on it.”
Kibler told Fox News that the board has received much support in contrast to any pushback.
USA Today reported that the board members as a whole felt it necessary that they “take a stand” in defending Second Amendment rights as well as against gun control measures in the Illinois Legislature.
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A 19-year-old from Liverpool was reportedly found guilty of sending a “grossly offensive message” when she posted rap lyrics on her Instagram account. Prosecutors reportedly increased the teenager’s sentence “as it was a hate crime.”
The Liverpool Echo reported Chelsea Russell posted the song lyrics as a tribute to a 13-year-old who was hit by a car. The lyrics by Snap Dogg (not to be confused with Snoop Dogg) that got Russell charged with sending a grossly offensive message were “kill a snitch n**** and rob a rich n****.”
According to the BBC, Russell’s post was anonymously sent to the Merseyside Police. It was then handed over the hate crime unit, which is led by police constable Dominique Walker. As the Liverpool Echo noted, Walker’s brother was famously the victim of a hate crime.
Walker reportedly said, “As a black woman I found the words offensive and upsetting. The words are offensive to both black and white people.”
Walker deemed the word so offensive, she allegedly told Russell’s defense not to reference the word in court.
Russell’s defense argued that the word is used by rappers all the time and that the word is not the full word ending in -er, but rather ending in -a.
Walker claimed that regardless of context and spelling, the word is always offensive.
District Judge Jack McGarva reportedly told the court, “There is no place in civil society for language like that. Everyone with an Instagram account could view this content. The lyrics also encourage killing and robbing, so are grossly offensive.”
The Liverpool Echo said Russell was found guilty of “sending a grossly offensive message by means of a public electronic communications network.”
According to reports by the Liverpool Echo and the BBC, Russell’s sentence involves eight weeks of community service, eight weeks of curfew, wearing an ankle monitor, and paying 500 pounds ($701) toward in costs and a 85 pounds ($119) victim surcharge.
As the BBC reported, the original fine was increased to give Russell community order as prosecutors determined “it was a hate crime.”
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Plans are underway to launch a global network of 500 satellites that will stream “live and unfiltered video” of virtually everywhere on Earth in high definition.
The estimated $1 billion project is backed by Microsoft CEO and billionaire Bill Gates, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, aerospace monolith Airbus, and Greg Wyler, founder and executive chairman of OneWeb.
The amount the companies are investing was not disclosed, according to various published reports and an announcement about the project.
The massive “Big Brother” surveillance system is the brainchild of the startup EarthNow. The company’s motto is “Our Earth in real time, all the time.”
“EarthNow is ambitious and unprecedented, but our objective is simple; we want to connect you visually with Earth in real time,” said Russell Hannigan, EarthNow founder and CEO.
“We believe the ability to see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered will help all of us better appreciate and ultimately care for our one and only home.”
According to the announcement, “Each satellite is equipped with an unprecedented amount of onboard processing power, including more CPU cores than all other commercial satellites combined.”
Wyler said: “We created the world’s first low-cost, high-performance satellites for mass-production to bridge the digital divide. These very same satellite features will enable EarthNow to help humanity understand and manage its impact on Earth.”
According to the investors, the system will be used for a range of noble causes, among them:
“Catching illegal fishing in the act, watching hurricanes and typhoons as they evolve, detecting forest fires the moment they start, watching volcanoes the instant they start to erupt, assisting the media in telling stories from around the world, tracking large whales as they migrate, helping ‘smart cities’ become more efficient, providing on-demand data about crop health, and observing conflict zones around the world.”
“Initially, EarthNow will offer commercial video and intelligent vision services to a range of government and enterprise customers,” the company stated.
Once the satellites are up and running, the public will also have access to “compelling” live Earth video” through applications that are instantly accessible from a smartphone or tablet.
“We are excited by the prospect of giving everyone a stunningly-beautiful real-time window on your world from space. With EarthNow, we will all become virtual astronauts,” Hannigan said.
EarthNow is not disclosing its timetable for the project, according to its website.
“We are not disclosing our deployment schedule at this time, as the current phase of work is focused on the overall system design and associated project plan,” the website stated.
EarthNow’s website indicates that it plans to hire a “chief privacy officer” to address privacy concerns. The privacy officer will ensure the company meets privacy laws in various jurisdictions.
“We will work closely with governments and the public at large to address privacy concerns, while providing visual Earth coverage for the benefit of humanity and our planet,” its website stated.
The website also claims the imaging system will not allow the tracking of individuals.
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On Thursday, legislators in the Tennessee House voted for an action that was a ringing statement in the face of pro-abortion forces: creating a monument for babies murdered by abortions.
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The National Football League is just getting around to putting out its 2018 season schedule but continues to be mired […]
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