Tourists are funding an Asian elephant camp where baby animals are hit and scraped by sharp metal hooks, chained up and forced by fear of punishment to perform tricks, an investigation has found.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/elephant-babies-thailand-camp-maesa-nursery-animal-cruelty-a9181811.html
Australia PM vows to outlaw climate activism
https://news.yahoo.com/australia-pm-vows-outlaw-apocalyptic-climate-activism-052906939.html
Mueller notes show that Trump wanted stolen Democratic emails possessed by WikiLeaks
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/468689-mueller-notes-show-that-trump-wanted-stolen-clinton-emails-possessed
Trump’s advisors thought UFC would be more “his base” than the World Series. They thought wrong.
https://twitter.com/RTaub_/status/1190810659220574208
The fact that he’s being booed at this event, says two things: 1) his rallies are truly filled with imported “actors” 2) we have a president that is not just unpopular, but disrespected at unprecedented levels of public protest. And @GOP ..crickets
Commissioned military can't boo the president: Article 88 of the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice says "Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct."
Trump being booed at UFC 244 event a surprise, says political scientist: "This should be his crowd" | Though some cheered upon the president's arrival into Madison Square Garden for UFC 244—who entered alongside his two sons, some high-ranking Republicans, UFC President Dana White and a handful of Secret Service agents—boos dominated from the sell-out crowd, according to videos shared on social media.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-booed-ufc-244-dana-white-masvidal-diaz-1469429
Trump Attends UFC Championship in NYC Only to Be Met With Loud Boos at Second Sporting Event This Week
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-attends-ufc-championship-in-nyc-only-to-be-met-with-loud-boos-at-second-sporting-event-this-week
Judge Blocks Trump’s Plan to Bar Immigrants Who Can’t Pay for Health Care
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/us/trump-immigration-health-care-visas.html
https://apnews.com/59f973d6d02c46378ada739d129ab5f8
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-healthcare/u-s-judge-blocks-trump-proclamation-requiring-health-insurance-for-prospective-immigrants-idUSKBN1XC0K8
Brussels, April 22, 203 volunteers, 120,000 cigarette butts collected. Throw your cigarette butts on the floor, at the foot of the tree or in the gutter, a gesture that seems so innocuous and yet… every second, 137,000 cigarette butts are thrown on the ground in the world. The butt contains plastic, 4000 chemical substances, is not biodegradable and can pollute 500 litres of water. It is the first waste that we find in our environment. Smokers; you can make a change by getting a pocket ashtray or throwing your butt in the trashcan. The Earth is not an ashtray.
https://megaphone.upworthy.com/p/cigarette-butts-cleanup
"One person has died and eight people have been hospitalized due to salmonella linked to ground beef, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) said in a statement Friday afternoon." | The statement said that the CDC, the United States Department of Agriculture, and state-level public health and regulatory officials are looking into the outbreak of Salmonella Dublin in six states. Salmonella Dublin is a strain of bacteria often found in cattle, but can also infect humans and cause bloodstream infections. As of Friday, there have been ten reported cases of the infection linked to ground beef: eight people have gone to the hospital and one person has died. There was one case in Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa, two in California and Kansas, and three in Colorado. One person died in California.
https://time.com/5716929/salmonella-outbreak-ground-beef/
US white supremacist Greg Johnson arrested in Norway | Norwegian police have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist as he was scheduled to address a far-right conference in Oslo. Norway’s domestic security agency said expulsion was pending under immigration law.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-white-supremacist-arrested-in-norway/a-51094229|
Trump vows 'no more' federal aid to California as devastating wildfires continue to burn
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-california-wildfires-twitter-gavin-newsom-federal-aid-latest-a9183216.html
Court Blocks Trump’s Plan to Ease Bird Protections on Oil Lands
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/climate/trump-sage-grouse.html
These Allegations of Child Abuse Against Customs and Border Protection Go On for Tens of Thousands of Pages
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nqq3/these-allegations-of-child-abuse-against-cbp-go-on-for-tens-of-thousands-of-pages
Trump Aides Considered Asking Twitter for 15-Minute Delay on His Tweets: NYT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-aides-considered-asking-twitter-for-15-minute-delay-on-his-account-nyt
Trump reportedly dislikes tweeting in front of other people because he has to wear glasses to see his iPhone screen
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-dislikes-tweeting-publicly-reading-glasses-2019-11
Leaked email reveals a Boeing executive tried to convince a congressman to avoid discussing another troubled plane during the 737 Max hearing
https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-congressman-avoid-kc-46-737-max-hearing-2019-10
‘You can cut through any wall’: Trump admits his ‘world-class’ Mexico border barrier could be breached after all.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-border-wall-mexico-smugglers-cut-power-tools-a9182926.html
Michael Cohen Told If He Stuck To Russia Story, Trump 'Loves You,' Says Mueller Memo
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-mueller-michael-cohen-donald-trump-russia_n_5dbe1584e4b0d8b441cfdbce
We now know that Russia specifically targeted Virginia elections in 2016 | Va. — Russian hackers with the Kremlin’s military intelligence unit targeted Virginia’s election infrastructure in 2016 – a cyber operation now confirmed by current and former state election officials. The Russian effort searched for vulnerabilities within Virginia’s online election infrastructure, authorities familiar with the matter said. The specific Russian actions targeting Virginia have not been previously reported. Analysts within the Department of Homeland Security eventually traced the suspicious activity to the GRU, the Russian military spy agency. The attempts to break into Virginia’s election systems did not change any votes, steal any personal information, or affect any voting during the presidential election, the officials stressed. Yet Richmond first received notice of the Russian reconnaissance only after hackers looked for weaknesses within the state’s election websites. Federal investigators disseminated a critical cyber bulletin known as a FLASH alert only days after malicious actors broke into Illinois’s voter database in the summer of 2016. The alert detailed how the Illinois Board of Elections reported an unusual surge in online traffic – traffic later traced back to Russia. After an FBI investigation of the suspicious surge, authorities discovered hackers accessed and reviewed confidential Illinois voter data. The finding marked an alarming and unprecedented Russian incursion into an the American voting system. In an interview Monday, Virginia Elections Commissioner Christopher E. Piper confirmed the Illinois incident led Virginia to exert greater scrutiny of its election systems in Richmond. Only after the FBI identified specific IP addresses involved in the Illinois attack did Virginia officials realize the same malicious actors tried to access Virginia voting systems. But there was one key difference – the surreptitious Russian intelligence effort failed to compromise critical Virginia voting data.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-elections-targeted-by-russia/65-0119894f-99e7-4abc-8aff-1aae97033a2d
Progressives could have had Al Gore but they screwed around with purity politics and came back 19 years later with the Green New Deal written in crayon.
https://twitter.com/maxbingman1/status/1190859054639386625?s=21
Microsoft Japan’s experiment with a 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity by 40%.
https://soranews24.com/2019/11/03/microsoft-japans-experiment-with-3-day-weekend-boosts-worker-productivity-by-40-percent/
Coca-Cola Named The World’s Most Polluting Brand … Again
https://therising.co/2019/11/02/coca-cola-named-the-worlds-most-polluting-brand-again/
Former President Barack Obama was publicly drawing comparisons between the former Texas congressman and himself, while former Obama aides were privately encouraging young operatives to move to O’Rourke’s hometown, El Paso, to get in early on the campaign. The media would soon encamp on the sidewalks there. Rival candidates feared O’Rourke would swamp them with his donor list, after raising more than $80 million in his near-miss Senate campaign against Ted Cruz. Dan Pfeiffer, the former Obama communications director, said in an op-ed for Crooked Media at the time that he had “never seen a Senate candidate — including Obama in 2004 — inspire the sort of enthusiasm that Beto did in his race.” And when O’Rourke announced his candidacy in March, spinning through crowds in southeastern Iowa, then driving east to New Hampshire, it appeared he might in the presidential race, as well. | While other candidates were assembling campaign staffs and volunteer armies in early nominating states, O’Rourke lacked the infrastructure necessary to organize his own supporters. Lawmakers and major Democratic donors could not get calls returned. When the campaign’s skeletal staff promised to reach out, it sometimes forgot. The signs of disorder were startling. He announced his candidacy before hiring a campaign manager. Two senior officials who had worked on O’Rourke’s Senate run and on Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, Becky Bond and Zack Malitz, abruptly left. On the eve of his campaign announcement, O’Rourke was forced to personally apologize to at least one prominent Iowa Democrat for his lack of organization, according to a source familiar with the conversation. O’Rourke’s initial handling of the media was just as clumsy. He alienated reporters by refusing to provide basic information about his schedule — including, for many outlets, the location of his campaign’s first public event. He later acknowledged he needed to do a “better job” reaching a national audience. But at first, he believed he didn’t have to — that based on the success of his Senate campaign’s social media effort, he could largely bypass the traditional press, two people familiar with the campaign said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/02/beto-orourke-campaign-064385
An Alabama mayor was arrested for allegedly slapping one of his employees in the face. Michael McMillan, mayor of Spanish Fort, Alabama, was charged with third-degree harassment, AL.com reports. McMillan reportedly turned himself in to the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Corrections Center after his lawyer let him know he had an outstanding warrant for the alleged assault. He posted $500 bail shortly after being booked.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwymx/an-alabama-mayor-was-arrested-for-slapping-a-female-staffer-in-the-face
Trump has migrated from watching Fox News on AF1 to watching the conservative One America News Network.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191028748818116608
There’s so much going on in this brief passage. Flynn volunteering he can obtain the emails. Saying his “intelligence sources” can do it, whatever that means. Insisting the IC couldn’t attribute the hack to Russia. Does he really believe this stuff? Or does Gates call it right?
https://twitter.com/shaneharris/status/1190989468318261253
It’s crazy and frightening that Flynn was the National Security Advisor
Despite videos of a booing crowd, Trump compared the UFC fight he attended to one of his rallies
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-compared-ufc-fight-to-one-of-his-rallies-2019-11
Nov. 12, 2018 - Trump’s Misleading Claims About California’s Fire ‘Mismanagement’ | The statement suggests that California’s forest-management problems are at fault. But the majority of California’s forests are federally held. Of the state’s 33 million acres of forest, federal agencies, including the Forest Service and the Interior Department, own and manage 57 percent. Forty percent are owned by families, Native American tribes or companies, including industrial timber companies; just 3 percent are owned and managed by state and local agencies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/politics/fact-check-trump-california-fire-tweet.html
It's not even just forest management problems. It's power company corruption. The power lines going down and sparking wildfires are about 100 years old. They're not being maintained by PG&E because those lines are too far out of the way, and it would cost them a lot of money to repair them. Forget that PG&E is a multi-billion dollar company, because, "We have to pay our shareholders and board members!"
Two weeks after founder/CEO says he's stepping down: Federal law-enforcement officials are investigating Under Armour’s accounting practices in a probe examining whether the sportswear maker shifted sales from quarter to quarter to appear healthier
https://www.wsj.com/articles/under-armour-is-subject-of-federal-accounting-probe-11572819835
One person who makes a number of appearances in these #MuellerMemos @BuzzFeedNews and I obtained via #FOIA is Sean Hannity. Three days before the 2016 election, Paul Manafort emailed Kushner saying he felt good about "our prospects Tuesday " and that he briefed Gates and Hannity
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1191117690854764544
None of those Medicare For All plans are going to see the light of day. They are fighting over something that will not pass.
Trump repeatedly urged reporters today to reveal the name of the whistleblower. He said, "You'd be doing a public service if you did."
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1191055113609269250
You have to admire the CNN staff's willingness to defy their boss. Ten days ago, Jeff Zucker said the network's approach was not to take sides but to remain "pro-truth.” Today in a quiet uprising against that principle, the producers decided to book Kellyanne Conway on @CNNSotu.
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1191047217282506753
This is a confidential proposal sent to Steve Bannon (starts on page 199) by Barbara Ledeen in June 2015 about recovering HRC's emails. Proposal cites Dark Web work by DARPA/DOD. This is 1 week after State proposed releasing HRC emails to me every month https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/mueller-report-secret-memos-1 …
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1191124997261053953
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/mueller-report-secret-memos-1
I will say again. Neither #whistleblower nor legal team had any contact with Congressman Schiff. Nor did the Congressman or any congressional person play any role in crafting or submitting complaint. Complete red herring.
https://twitter.com/MarkSZaidEsq/status/1190740728508493824
In A Remote Arctic Outpost, Norway Keeps Watch On Russia's Military Buildup Using A Military Surveillance Radar System - "Apparently it's annoying the Russians a lot," says Capt. Sigurd Harsheim. "I think part of the irritation is that it's American built."
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/03/775155057/in-a-remote-arctic-outpost-norway-keeps-watch-on-russias-military-buildup
India air pollution at 'unbearable levels', Delhi chief minister says | Schools have been closed, more than 30 flights diverted and construction work halted as the city sits in a thick blanket of smog. An Indian health ministry official said the city's pollution monitors did not have enough digits
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50280390
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The Milwaukee Bucks broadcast plays a really weird montage of fans eating in reverse
https://streamable.com/xwmuz
The Philadelphia 76ers (5-0) defeat the Portland Trail Blazers (3-3), 129-128, courtesy of Furkan Kormaz's game-winning three.
Furkan Korkmaz hits the 3 with 0.4 seconds remaining
https://streamable.com/opb88
Sixers go on to win despite being down 21 at a point, shooting 15 less free throws, and Portland shooting 54% from 3 (Sixers at 31%)
Warriors starters last night vs Hornets: Ky Bowman, Jordan Poole, Glenn Robinson, Eric Paschall, Willie Cauley-Stein. Combined salary of starters is $7M. Undrafted rookie, rookie, minimum contract, rookie, minimum contract
That was an exciting game (Golden State/Charlotte) until the turnover. It’s great watching games like these when you know there’s nothing to lose. I can finally watch live games because tickets will be cheaper lmao
Marc Gasol prays for patience after Ilyasova flops on him for the second time tonight
https://streamable.com/yzaik
A mother tweets about her 21 year old autistic son asking his first ever question: “Would someone like me?” Joe Ingles responds and invites them to a Jazz game.
https://www.twitter.com/dsmom58/status/1189640501122740224
https://www.twitter.com/Joeingles7/status/1190357034572533760
Giannis to a Make a Wish kid before the Raptors game: "We're gonna win the game today for you"
https://streamable.com/zy3af
Giannis Antetokounmpo drops 36 points, 15 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 blocks to lead Bucks to a 115-105 win over Raptors
The Sixers are out rebounding their opponents by an average of 12 boards per game. The next closest team is the Nets with 7
Through 6 games, D Rose is averaging 21/6 on 56% FG AND 89% FT off the bench for the Pistons.
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