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Trump’s national security adviser chief slams WHO as ‘corrupt’

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon space capsule with NASA astronauts docks with space station

82nd Airborne on standby to deploy to Minnesota ...

Pollak: The riots began with Obama’s embrace of Occupy Wall Street

Minnesota AG’ Don’t ‘rush’ investigation into George Floyd

Coronavirus live updates: As coronavirus infections top 6 million, LA suspends testing as riots rock city

[Minneapolis mayor] Blames ‘white supremacists,’ ‘out-of-state instigators,’ but arrests demonstrate otherwise ...

Minnesota AG Kieth Ellison tweeted support for Antifa in 2018

De Blasio defends NYPD, blames ‘out of town’ demonstrators for continued violence Saturday

Trump postpones the G-7 summit and attempts to add countries to the inviting list

Powell says Fed policies ‘absolutely’ don’t add to inequality ...

U.N. Admits: We’re useless

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Trump exults in rocket launch as chaos unfolds around the country

SpaceX launches two NASA astronauts in space for the first time in historic US mission

As Minneapolis burns, mayor takes heat for response ...

Report: Majority of arrested Minneapolis rioters have Minnesota addresses

European trade chief mulls bid for WTO top job

Coronavirus updates: EU asks U.S. to reconsider WHO exit as India extends lockdown in ‘containment zones’

Cities brace for increasing unrest ... Spiraling out of control ...

Bill Barr: Violence appears planned by far-left groups

De Blasio, Cuomo target June 8 for first phase of New York City reopening

University of Michigan is taking steps to bring students back on campus this fall

Security officers gunned down in Oakland ...

Bernie Kerik: FBI must investigate funding of ANTIFA terrorism

48 Years Ago

Back in 1972 Norman Cousins, editor of the World magazine and former editor of the Saturday Review magazine, was a director of Metalanguage Products, a software company I had founded. He then was also agitating for private industry taking over space exploration. I thought this was a rather ambitious vision ... given all the enormoous costs and technology involved in such an endeavor.

Norman Cousins died in 1990 ... but today, 48 years after his initial vision ... his wish has finally been realized by Elon Musk’s private company, SpaceX.

A dream come true, Norman!

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Fiona Hill clashes with GOP over ‘fictional’ Ukrainian claims

Janet Yellen says, ‘there is good reason to worry’ about the US economy sliding into recession

Israel PM Netanyahu defiant after his indictment ...

Fiona Hill penned a Washington Post op ed against giving Ukraine weapons in 2015

Haley billed as ‘frontrunner’ in 2024 GOP nomination

SpaceX blows the top off of Starship in pressure testing to the max

Iran [Inter]net outages to effectively isolate entire nation ...

Fiona Hill worked with Christopher Steele, author of the Russian ‘dossier’

Inspector General’s report on FBI-Russian probe due out in December

House Dems, Republicans fail to reach agreement on USMCA trade agreement

White House backs full Senate trial ...

Confidence in Trump economy hits highest level ever

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Lindsey Graham decries whistle blower complaint as ‘all hearsay’

Elon Musk outlines SpaceX’s Starship plans, aiming to reach orbit in six months and then fly people

LEAK: White House restricted access to Trump calls with Putin, Saudi crown prince ...

Adam Schiff: Trump is ‘issuing threats’ against the whistle blower

New Democratic polls: Tight race in Nevada, but Biden still strong in South Carolina

Tesla’s Musk says solar panels on cars makes no sense, but that’s not stopping Toyota, Hyundai

OPRAH: Iger for president ...

Susan Rice claims Trump tried to ‘bury’ Ukraine  phone call

More violence grips Hong Kong ahead of China’s National Day

Chinese delegation to travel to U.S. for trade talks in two weeks

Saudi state media say king’s bodyguard shot in ‘dispute’ ...

Nancy Pelosi: ‘Doesn’t matter’ if impeachment costs Democrats the House

Hydrocarbon Irony

I am surprised that so few people have pointed out the irony contained in Elon Musk’s SpaceX company sending one of his electric Tesla cars into orbit around the moon. Has anyone stopped to consider that the hydrocarbons burned to accomplish this piece of self-promotion was likely equivalent to those saved by thousands of his electric cars scooting about here in Earth? What about all the global warming that possibly resulted from this enormous amount of CO2 so produced? As a matter of fact, when is Musk’s SpaceX going to develop an all-electric rocket-ship so that we (and he?) can colonize Mars?

Fat chance!

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‘Liz [Warren] was a diehard conservative’

China’s March trade surplus surges past expectations, Beijing data show

Jobless claims lowest in 50 years ...

Donald Trump: William Barr’s spying claim ‘absolutely true’

To get Trump’s tax returns, Democrats must show they have a good reason

SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy and lands all three rocket boosters for the first time

White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes ...

Candice Owens: ‘Democrats don’t care about black people’

Grand jury indicts former Obama White House Counsel Gregory Craig

Tesla starts offering leases for Model 3

Millions of [Chinese] youth sent to villages in ‘Cultural Revolution’ echo

James Clapper: Barr’s spying comment ‘stunning and scary’

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Deficit-swelling Trump White House plans to use deficit against Democrats

SpaceX launches unmanned capsule to the space station in milestone test for NASA astronauts

For first time in 132 years, L.A. never reached 70 degrees in February

Poll: Only 38% found MichaelCohen’s testimony creditable

Republicans pound abortion ‘infanticide’ issue

Trump says he’s asked China to ‘immediately’ remove all tariffs on US agricultural goods

HHS extends contract to make ‘humanized mice’ out of aborted baby parts ...

Democrats ready to introduce ‘dream act’ — amnesty for millions

Chelsea Manning fights grand jury subpoena linked to Assange

Most global finance chiefs predict ‘no-deal’ Brexit will happen: CNBC survey

Prince Harry ‘will raise baby gender fluid’ ...

Sharpton: Patton was a ‘prop’ that ‘was not allowed to speak’

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White House warns shutdown could carry on after emergency declaration

SpaceX plans to lay off 10% of its workforce

FBI opened  probe into whether Trump [was] working for Russians ...

EU army 'already taking shape' brags German Defense Minister

FBI's blockbuster probe of Trump's loyalty revealed

New home sales tank19 percent to end 2018

Monster snowstorm to blanket more than half of USA ...

Donal Trump fondly recalls firing 'total sleeze' James Comey

U.S. starts withdrawing supplies, but not troops, from Syria

A crunch Brexit vote is coming that could trigger  even more political chaos

Oprah backs Beto in star studded NYC event ...

NYC's Bill DeBlasio vows to wrest wealth from the 'wrong hands' and redistribute

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Trump struggles to paper over split with allies

Trump says trade should be 'tariff free' between G-7 nations

Soros: Everything has gone wrong' 'Living in my own bubble'

Trump: America will no longer be the 'piggy bank that everyone else is robbing'

DNC rule changes anger Sanders 'supporters

Oil prices heading lower this year and even lower in 2019, JP Morgan forecasts

Massive crowds gather to hear Geert Wilders demand Tommy Robinson release ...

Iran army claims Arab world guilty of 'betrayal of  Palestinine'

One special operations soldier killed, four wounded in Somalia

SpaceX planning massive expansion of rocker facilities on Florida's space coast

Iranian official admits for first time to aiding 9/11 terrorists ...

Taliban announces first cease-fire ever with Afghan army

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New York closes in on work around to Trump's new tax law

Palestinians march on border, drones drop tear gas, 16 dead

SpaceX completes sixth successful launch in 2018

Biden attacks 2nd Amendment

Florida shooting survivor Hogg won't accept [Laura] Ingraham's appology over mocking tweet

After 'ugly memo', FACEBOOK fears what leaks next ...

Tesla's 'day of reckoning' is near as plunging stock increases financing risk

Wilbur Ross keeps winning for Trump's economic nationalist agenda

Trump administration reveals Phase One of the border wall

David Hogg goes afterJohn McCain ...

Andrew McCabe denies lying to James Comey about media leaks

Widow of Orlando nightclub attacker is acquitted of charges

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Trump's governing strategy: overpromise, underdeliver

Breaking news: Trump introduces plan to ban all bump stocks

FLASHBACK: Ryan, McConnell lie about funding border wall ...

Missing Iowa family found dead during Mexican vacation

Trump calls on Congress to reinstate line-item veto

Dude who claimed sex with Obama is livid at media's obsession with Stormy Daniels

Saudi Arabia opens airspace to Israel for first time ...

N. Korea has said nothing about a Kim-Trump meeting

Bolton pick underscores Trump's foreign policy confusion

Senate ditches town as three dozen Trump nominees await final vote

Musk takes down TESLA, SPACEX [web] pages ...

Tump signs bloated $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, cites military funding

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House GOP passes stopgap bill to avoid shutdown

Steve Wynn is out as CEO of Wynn Resorts

Goldman [Sachs]: Cryptocurrencies to hit zero ...

Biden: President has some difficulty with precision

Trump calls for a shutdown if Congress doesn't pass border security measures

Elon Musk wants 'a new space race,' says new SpaceX rocket can launch a payload as far as Pluto

Dem flips deep red House seat in Missouri ... ...

Wat: Trade deficit at highest level since '08

Gowdy implies Clinton friend Blumenthal fed information to Steele

Trump wants 'a grand military parade,' and the Pentagon may give it to him

Russians spoof Shiff ... Claim naked pictures of president ...

Deep State exposed: 73% of Republicans believe FBI, DOJ working to 'delegitimize' Trump

Silly Season

What?! Elon Musk uses his new powerful SpaceX rocket to send a Tesla sportscar to Mars ...  see: Quartz Story. Is this a rational use of assets all around? Feels like PR hokum to me.

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Schumer to Trump: Release the Democrat memo

German stocks tumble as coelition talks pass a deadline with no agreement

Students hate [Trump's SOTU] speech -- until they realize it's Obama's

Philadelphia fans celebrate Super Bowl LII --- by trying to burn city to the ground

House Intel members: Release the FISA applications

The number of people using Facebook daily in North America dropped for the first time

SPACEX set to fire roadster into space on back of world's 'most powerful' rocker

Kimmel: Talk show hosts are liberal because it takes a level of intelligence

German spy chief: North Korea uses Berlin Embasy for missile procurement

The future of aviation lies in the Asia-Pacific region, Boeing exec. says

McCain introduces new bill that omits wall funding ...

Cancer 'vaccine' eliminates 97% of mice tumors

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Democrats say 'O! Yes!' to Winfrey

[J.P. Morgan's Jamie] Dimon predicts 4% GNP growth ...

Leaked memo reveals Dems refusing spending votes if no DACA fix

... Ivanka praises [Oprah's] 'empowering' Globes speech ...

Is Trump mentally fit? Don't count on physical to tell you

Wolff admits: Didn't interview any WH Caabinet officials for book ...

Expensive US spy satellite presumed lost after SpaceX mission hoes awry

Tillerson: Trump will either 'fix or cancel' Iran nuclear deal

Trump greeted by mix of cheers and boos at NCAA title game

Roseanne: I'd be better president than Oprah!

FBI blows up theory of 'sonic attacks' against diplomats in Cuba

Hershel Walker: 'Trump getting raw deal. We have to respect him as our president.'

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Top FBI official linked to reporter who broke Trump dossier story

Trump kicks FBI Deputy Director on the way out

SpaceX UFO scare, California freakout

CNN's Smerconish: Trump 'could become most consequential president in the modern era'

How politics screwed Puerto Rico out of billions in disaster aid

Trump brushes off Moore and Gillespie losses: 'Good Republicans will win'

Moviegoing on track for 22-year low ...

Ohio outlaws selective abortion of Down Syndrome babies ...

Bannon puts Jared through the grinder

Germany ends year with five-fold increase in terror investigations

[Venezuela] Economy shrank a MASSIVE 16.5% ...

GOP Rep. Gaetz: Evidence from Andrew McCabe Hillary was going to get 'HQ Special'

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Democrats aim to take out Cruz in 2018

SpaceX pulls off first reused rocket launch ... in triumph for Musk ...

Two Senate Dems will back Gorsuch ...

Child molestation, homicide not enough to keep these two guys off VA payroll

Rand Paul: 75% chance for repeal of Obamacare

Pakistan allows citizen to register as a Jew for first time since 1980s

Venezuela one man rule ... court dissolves legislature ...

Schiff: Did White House seek to launder evidence through Nunes?

Haley: U.S. no longer focused on removing Assad from power

Biden: 9 Republican senators told me they knew opposing Garland was wrong

Congress mulls illegal immigration tax to pay for border wall

Huge section of I-85 in Atlanta collapses after fire

Shades of Cold Fusion

Golamaphobia -- fear of robots

Periodically visionaries appear in the news with proposals that appeal to the public's WOW element ... a public usually composed of those younger people who have not seen it all before ... and who don't bring a healthy skepticism into such dreams. I distinctly remember many years ago how the world was all aflutter about the possibility of unlimited cheap energy from "cold fusion" ... essentially capturing a hydrogen bomb in a bottle. Here we are over 25 years later and this dream is yet to become a reality.

Enter stage left, Elon Musk, the world's latest technical visionary who has just announced his intent to link our brains directly with computers ... or Neuralink as he has dubbed it. This new company would create a helmet that fits over one's head to transmit and receive directly from a computer in order to eliminate the middleman and increase the bandwidth ... see: LA Times Article. Musk's intent to use to Neuralink to defeat robots. Not to be outdone by this loopiness, Musk is also promising space travelers a trip around the moon next year ... and a flight to Mars by 2024 using his company, SpaceX's technology ... see: Daily Caller Article.c

Musk seems to be transfixed with the survival of mankind using the Mars colonization scheme to prevent an Apocalypse ... the subjudigation of humans by robots. If Musk had not already had his share of successes with Tesla and SpaceX, I expect that the authorities would be after him with a net ... shades of cold fusion. But he has had impressive wins and people are therefore reluctant to criticism his visions.

But I am a doubter ... reluctantly ...

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Reuters: Top US spy agency does not back CIA on Russian hacking

Obama Farewell: America still hasn't overcome slavery ...

Google spins off self- driving car business to Waymo

After talking with Trump, Bill Gates likens president-elect to JFK ...

Ivy League [UPenn] students replace Shakespeare's portrait with black feminist poet

More intelligence officials are disputing CIA's claim of Russian hacking

CEO of NYT calls on social media companies to subsidize MSM ...

Records: 37% of Detroit machines COUNTED TOO MANY VOTES ...

Man kicked out of Six Flags for looking like Santa ...

SpaceX pushes back first manned flight until 2018

White House 'deeply disturbed by Aleppo situation

DOE won't provide names of climate change staffers to Trump team