Another week of human history sans noticeable improvement:
Israel: Hamas desperation mounts with repeated failures (Article) (When will someone sneak them a nuke to play with?)
The climate: Audit of global warming data disqualifies it? (Report)
Government: The FCC is effectively nationalizing new 5G communication infrastructure? (Report) (Is it lawful?)
Science: Cuisine of farmers 8,000 years ago varied, sophisticated (Report) (And served with ceramic plates and jars?)
The Stock Market: Ron Paul predicts a 50% drop in value (Article) (Probably right – And real estate too)
Somalia: Update (Article) (A sort of government, looking for a country)
The culture: Antifa intimidation politics on display (Report)
Healthcare: Why have deductibles risen 12 times faster than wages since 2008? (Article) (Somebody has to pay for Obamacare)
Government: The GOP Congress and President hike spending again (Report) (On borrowed money)
Trade Wars: Trump’s “free trade” stance is a joke per the terms of the new Canada-Mexico-U.S. pact (Article)
The culture: Selling censorship – for your own good … (Report)
Orthodox Church Geopolitics: Constantinople Patriarch meddles between Moscow and Ukraine (Article)
War Science: Researching insects and growing crops for use as weapons (Report)
Science: Visual signs may exclude raptors from airports (Report) (Birds can read signs?)
Technology: A Belgian Air Force mechanic servicing a fighter jet accidentally shot up a neighboring aircraft (Report)
Syria: Russia wants Europeans to fund reconstruction for Assad; U.S. wants Assad gone (Article)
China: Update (Article)
Corruption: Nuclear boondoggle shut down by Trump antagonizes both parties? (Report)
Technology: China catching up in warplanes (Report)
The economy: 40% of Americans nearing retirement will face poverty? (Report)
The culture: Antifa Democrats vandalized a New York Republican club’s building (Article)
Chicago: Only 2,346 people have been shot so far this year (Report)
A naked woman was arrested at a Titusville gas station (FL) (Report)
It was that sort of week …
EDITORIAL: U.S. Politics: Are Assassins Waiting In The Wings?
Americans now yawn at carjackings and road rage and remain unsurprised at mass shootings of innocents; should we not expect political assassinations? The degree of heavily publicized, raw hatred pumped out by media, politicians and celebrities against President Trump and now against Justice Kavanaugh paints, in today’s atmosphere, prominent targets upon their backs while long range sniper rifles and improvised bombs are widely available.
President Kennedy’s murky November, 1963 assassination remains, if dimly, in the public consciousness and the degree of protection lavished upon his successors far exceeds that which can be made available to say, Supreme Court Justices or Congressfolk. Extending that outwards toward governors, mayors and perhaps CEOs seems likely to propose a growing list of opportunities for our evidently plentiful supply of nutcases, Muslim fanatics and opportunists; will it not draw too the attention of shadowy intelligence and political operatives? In some places, it has done so already. And in today’s U.S. the ground seems now prepared.
We are unsure exactly how Justice Scalia died; we hope that Justice Kavanaugh will be very, very careful
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