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3/22/2018 4:14:54 PM

PUBLISHED: 8:54 PM 21 MAR 2018

WikiLeaks Documents Show Facebook Colluded With Clinton Campaign

Clinton emails released by WikiLeaks expose how badly Facebook wanted Hillary Clinton to win the election.
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Clinton camp busted for deep connection to top brass at Facebook during election.


Recently resurfaced documents show top Facebook officials colluded with former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s campaign during the 2016 presidential election, according to WikiLeaks.

Following reports that Facebook suspended the data firm with ties to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, emails from the Clinton campaign show Facebookdesperately wanted her to win.

In an email dated Jan. 2, 2016, Clinton campaign manager John Podesta and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, made it clear how badly they wanted Clinton to win.

“Wishing you a happy new year,” Podesta wrote. “2015 was challenging, but we ended in a good place thanks to your help and support. Look forward to working with you to help elect the first woman president of the United States.”

That’s a disturbing email.

Clinton’s campaign was thanking the chief operations officer of Facebook for their “help and support.”

Sandberg’s response reaffirms the collusion in the exposed WikiLeaks docs.

“I am thrilled at the progress Hillary is making,” Sandberg wrote. “Onward to a new year and hopefully health and happiness for you and your family.”

In another explosive exchange, Sandberg made it crystal clear in a June email who she wanted to win.

“And I still want HRC to win badly,” Steinberg wrote. “I am still here to help as I can. She came over and was magical with my kids.”

So top brass at Facebook wanted Clinton to win the election and said they would help the campaign defeat Trump.

Sandberg even said Clinton came over and played with her children.

Imagine how the liberal media and democrats would react if those same emails from Sandberg were sent to the Trump campaign during the election.

As previously reported, Facebook suspended Strategic Communication Laboratories and Cambridge Analytica for collecting data on potential voters.

The data companies were collecting data on Facebook in the exact same way the Obama campaign was in 2008 and 2012, but they were suspended because they were associated with Trump.

More importantly, the mainstream media and democrats have completely lost the narrative and have been exposed as hypocrites.

Sandberg and Facebook made it very clear they not only wanted Clinton to win the election, but implied that they were willing to wield their power to help her.

That’s called collusion, but it backfired as the American people elected Trump to the White House.


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3/22/2018 4:36:07 PM


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Six months after Maria, the hardest hit city in Puerto Rico is still being ignored


This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Jose Morales Menendez had some great times fishing along the beautiful southeast coast of Puerto Rico. He recalls fishing from 1 a.m. to 10 a.m., watching the lights of giant freight ships pass by his little boat. Now, mostly blind since 2005, the 75-year-old depends on others for many day-to-day things. But still, life was okay before Hurricane Maria made landfall six months ago. Now?

“Life after Maria has been really sad,” he says, sitting in the front room of his small house yards from the beach in the Playa el Negro section of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. The house, which he shares with his wife Irma, was flooded during the storm after it made landfall very near their neighborhood with sustained winds of 155 mph. “The little bit that we had was taken back.”

Yabucoa, a town of about 35,000 on the southeastern corner of Puerto Rico, was devastated by Hurricane Maria. The winds destroyed concrete homes that had withstood prior hurricanes, according to USA Today, leaving it the hardest hit city on an island wracked with devastation. Officials estimate that roughly 1,500 homes were destroyed, along with 95 percent of all municipal infrastructure. With the six-month anniversary of the storm on Tuesday, just 35 percent of the town is energized. The town is providing water to its citizens by using 25 generators to power pumps, and significant damage can be seen throughout town, including piles of debris near city hall.

The mayor is working out of a small temporary office in the center of town. Mariel Rivera, his spokesperson, explained that the sheer volume of devastation has made recovery painfully slow. She shared a spreadsheet tracking what the dozens of electrical crews from places like New Jersey, Vermont, and Florida are doing in the city, including the neighborhoods where they’re working. She credited the mayor for pushing to get as much work done in the town as has been done, slow as it is, and says the state government has largely ignored the city. Comparing it to New Orleans after Katrina, or places in Texas and Florida after Harvey and Irma, respectively, Rivera slammed Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló for neglecting her community.

“The governors of those states went first to the worst areas,” she says. “Yabucoa was a town that received a direct hit from Maria and to this day the governor has not stepped foot in Yabucoa.”

(A spokesperson for the governor did not respond to a request for comment.)

Darlene Rivera, the administrator for the municipal cemetery, says Yabucoa is “still in crisis,” and not getting the help it needs. Rivera says her mother, a cardiac patient and diabetic, died of a heart attack after Maria because she didn’t have regular access to medical care and couldn’t properly store her diabetes medication without refrigeration.

Rivera says that there have been 150 deaths registered with the cemetery in the six months since Maria passed through. In the first 10 weeks of 2018, Rivera says she recorded 40 more deaths than she did over the same period of time in 2017. Rivera can’t definitively say if the increased rate of death is linked to Maria, but “there seems to be a correlation.”

Official accountings of Maria-related deaths have been widely questioned. The island’s government recently partnered with George Washington University to conduct a new count.

The two city workers tell me about one of their coworkers who went missing after the storm. Mayra Cortéz Merced, 59, worked in the city’s property records office. After Maria, they say, Cortéz couldn’t get consistent treatment from a doctor or access to her psychiatric medications. Her neighbors say they saw her leave her house on January 31st. “She just disappeared,” Rivera, the mayor’s spokesperson, says. “When you are a mental health patient these things can get the best of you.”

A few miles from the center of town, out toward Lucia Beach along Highway 901, Luis Saul Sustache mans the bar at a roadside chinchorro called La Rumba. With a round face that makes him look much younger than his 34 years, Saul points to the new-ish looking wood that makes up roughly half the patio and explains that the bar was nearly destroyed during Maria, but was repaired quickly and reopened 10 days after the winds died down. Most of the business the bar sees is from the scores of contractors from the mainland working in the area, but even so times are tough.

“Sometimes it feels like it’s easier to just close down the business,” he says, before walking away to pack five bottles of cold water into a plastic bag for another customer.

Further down the road, at a long-term stay hotel called Lucia Beach Villas, Ana Celia Lazú reports that the property suffered some damage in the storm but that the owners have been able to finance repairs with revenue from stateside contractors who are staying as guests. Some smaller out buildings around the property, though, have been been abandoned. One, a two story house just south of the hotel, suffered heavy damage and was vacated by its owner days after the storm. Right in front of the hotel stood a beachfront chinchorro that was completely destroyed.

Jose Morales Menendez’s house sits about a mile or two down from Lucia Beach. After the storm, FEMA gave him and his wife Irma $8,000 to help with repairs, but they say it’s not nearly enough. Irma says she has a hard time sleeping, worried that the waves will again rise up and pull her out to sea, or that an earthquake will shake the home and end it all.

Still, though, she’s thankful.

“We have many blessings,” she says. Her husband shared a similar sentiment, saying that despite everything, his family and neighbors have provided help, support, and love.

“I thank my lord for the beings who have come to help,” he says.

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3/22/2018 5:57:32 PM

U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN NIGER HAD WRONG EQUIPMENT AND WERE NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE, REPORT SAYS

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The team of U.S. soldiers targeted last year by a deadly Islamic State militant group (ISIS) ambush in Niger did not have the proper equipment for their mission and were deployed without the proper authorization, according to a new report.

Citing Pentagon officials speaking under the condition of anonymity, The New York Times reported Monday on the findings of a preliminary Defense Department investigation into a surprise attack that killed four U.S. and five Nigerien troops and injured two more U.S. and eight Nigeriens on October 4, 2017, near the Nigerien village of Tongo Tongo, located by the Western African state's border with Mali.

The inquiry reportedly turned up major flaws in the operation, ones that may have contributed to the deaths of the U.S. servicemen.

A still image from the ISIS video "Assault of the Brave Against the Army of the Americans" shows U.S. Special Forces attempting to flee an ambush from up to 50 ISIS-affiliated fighters near the border village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, October 4, 2017. SOCIAL MEDIA

The U.S. troops of Operational Detachment-Alpha Team 3212 were originally instructed to conduct a routine patrol before being reassigned to hunt a notorious jihadi by a junior officer, according to two unnamed Defense Department officials cited in the article. Such an order should have been only been approved after being sent up the ranks all the way to U.S. African Command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany.

The junior officer was filling in for his superior who was on paternity leave at the time and holding an equal rank to Team 3212 Captain Michael Perozeni, the report indicated.

The two officials maintained that neither AFRICOM nor the relevant Special Operations Command authorities in Germany or Chad knew of the change of plans, which would have required extensive approval from higher-ups. Switching a daytime reconnaissance mission to an overnight kill-or-capture for an individual such as ISIS-linked militant Doundou Chefou would require additional medical evacuation support and other assistance. The team would have their movements tracked by via communications channels and GPS.

Perozeni reportedly warned that his team was ill-equipped and working on insufficient intelligence, but ultimately followed orders.

After stopping for water on the way back from Chefou's camp, 12 Green Berets of Team 3212 and 30 of their Nigerien allies came under fire from up to 50 jihadis linked to ISIS in the Greater Sahara. Perozeni and radio operator Sergeant First Class Brent Bartels were reportedly shot and wounded early on in the attack, but survived. Staff Sergeant Bryan Black, Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Johnson, Sergeant La David Johnson and Staff Sergeant Dustin Wright were killed.

This image taken on on March 17, 2018, in Menaka, Mali, shows a M14 automatic rifle (TOP) and a M240-SLR (FRONT) machine gun which were recovered during an operation conducted by militants of the Azawad National Liberation Movement and said to have belonged to four U.S. soldiers killed during an ambush in the Tongo Tongo area in West Niger on October 4, 2017.STRINGER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Footage of the attack was captured by helmet cameras worn by the troops and was later incorporated into a propaganda video released last month by ISIS, which had not claimed responsibility for the attack until January. The ambush and release of the grisly ISIS video have prompted a national debate over the U.S. role in Niger and Africa in general, especially after news broke of a second firefight between U.S. personnel and ISIS-aligned fighters in December.

The Pentagon delayed the initial January release date of its findings into the October 4 incident near Tongo Tongo. One official cited in The Times article said Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would review them before being made public. Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly said he expected answers to his own questions by Monday and was awaiting Dunford's advice on the results of the investigation.


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3/23/2018 12:15:06 AM
Attention

World sees rapid upsurge in extreme weather says report

Haiti floods

A Category Four hurricane which slammed into the Dominican Republic and Haiti in 2016 triggered major floods
A world addled by climate change has seen a four-fold increase in major flooding events since 1980, and a doubling of significant storms, droughts and heat waves, Europe's national science academies jointly reported Wednesday.

In Europe, where precise data reaches back decades, the number of severe floods has jumped five fold since 1995, according to the report, which updates a 2013 assessment.

"There has been, and continues to be, a significant increase in the frequency of extreme weather events," said Michael Norton, environmental programme director for the European Academies' Science Advisory Council.

"They underline the importance of avoiding greenhouse gases, which are fundamentally responsible for driving these changes," he told AFP.


For impacts that cannot be avoided, he added, "this makes climate proofing all the more urgent."

In Europe, efforts to shore up defences against river flooding have proven effective: despite an increase in frequency of such events, economic loses on the continent have remained static.

"Rather than just coping with disasters after they strike, we need to shift to proactive management of all drivers of risks," commented Munich Climate Insurance Initiative director Soenke Kreft, who did not contribute to the report.

In the United States, however, the damage wrought by storms doubled, on average, from $10 billion in 1980 to $20 billion in 2015, adjusted for inflation, according to the report, based in part on data from insurance giant Munich Re's NatCatSERVICE.

The update also assessed new findings on possible changes in the Gulf Stream, powerful ocean currents running between the Arctic region and the Caribbean that warm the air in northwestern Europe and the US eastern seaboard.

Climate 'hotspots'

The weakening of the Gulf Stream "is now a credible hypothesis," said Norton.

"Some of the underlying drivers of extreme weather which were speculative four years ago are looking less speculative."

The prospect of the Gulf Stream-also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)-slowing, or even shutting down entirely, "must be taken as a serious possibility," he added.


Scientists have estimated that winters in Britain and much of western Europe would be several degrees Celsius colder under such a scenario.

The study also examined recent disruptions of the polar Jet Stream, a band of west-to-east winds that circulate at bullet-train speed some 10 kilometres above Earth's surface at the upper boundary of the troposphere.

Recent research has linked severe winters in North America and Europe, as well some extreme summer weather, to Jet Stream fluctuations possibly driven by global warming in the Arctic, where temperatures have risen twice as fast as for the planet as a whole.


"The linkage between climate change and individual weather events-such as the 'Beast from the East'-in inherently uncertain," commented Phil Williamson, a climate researcher at the University of East Anglia.

But the new report "is fully consistent with global trends," he added. "For example, there have been roughly ten times more warm record-breaking temperatures than cold one in the last 150 years."


A 2016 study in Climatic Change forecast that, by mid-century, pockets of southern Europe will face at least one severe climate hazard every year of the scale now occurring only once every 100 years.

By 2100, according to these predictions, Europe's entire Mediterranean seaboard will be confronted annually with extreme droughts, coastal floods or heatwaves.

And a few "hotspots" will be hit every year by two or more such formerly once-in-hundred-years hazards, which also include wildfires, river floods and windstorms.

Journal reference: Climatic Change

Comment: For more information on extreme weather from around the world, check out our Earth Changes Summaries. The latest video: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - February 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read
Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.



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3/23/2018 12:32:27 AM

U.S. Military Working To Deploy Robot Ground Vehicles For Urban Combat By 2020

MARCH 20, 2018


“Every year, more and more of the world’s population moves into cities. The number of megacities is growing exponentially. Both of these global patterns and their inevitable consequences for military operations are well documented. Yet we still do not have units that are even remotely prepared to operate in megacities. If we want to find success on the urban battlefields the US Army will inevitably find itself fighting on in the future, that needs to change.” — John Spencer, West Point scholar and former Ranger Instructor

The change referred to above by John Spencer appears to be rushing in upon us. There has been increasing urgency coming from the military in recent years about how to field troops in the unconventional terrain of where they expect future warfare to take place.

Last year The Intercept released a shocking video of how the Pentagon views this time of transition; it perfectly puts into context the announcement that follows:

Following the trend of ever-increasing complexity — whether it be due to social chaos in economically collapsed cities, or tightly controlled high-tech smart cities — the U.S. military is ramping-up its development of autonomous and semi-autonomous ground vehicles that they believe will offer more flexibility in congested urban terrain.

Mind you, this has been a trend long in the making, as Activist Post reported back in 2011 about a project called MUSIC that was part of the Future Combat Systems architecture that was later “canceled.”

Army slide showing the elements of the (later canceled) Future Combat System

Yet, now in 2018 we see many of the components of that system coming together and readying for deployment as the U.S. Army is making new announcements for its plan to modernize their war machines. Some of this is set to be showcased at the AUSA conference in Huntsville, Ala. March 26th-28, according to Breaking Defense “where the Army will formally unveil the org chart for its new Futures Command, to which the CFTs will belong, along with other Army entities as yet unspecified.”

After 20 years of cancelled programs, the Army now wants prototypes of all-new robotic and “optionally manned” combat vehicles by 2019 so soldiers can begin field-testing them in 2020. Compared to current vehicles, they’ll be lighter, smaller and optimized for urban combat, said Brig. Gen. David Lesperance, head of the armor school at Fort Benning, Ga. and the hand-picked head of the service’s Cross-Functional Team on future ground vehicles.

…Gen. Milley promised the Army would seek “radical,” ten-fold improvements in technology on a tight timeline. Lesperance’s proposal would definitely deliver on that promise — if it works.



As I’ve mentioned many times before (and as decades of canceled initiatives prove), the military is always scheming for ways to extract more money from its citizens by promising the latest in high-tech security. It is up to each of us to remain fearless and not give in to the continuous threat propaganda that ultimately funds their war systems. By remaining vigilant about these plans and spreading the word, we can help thwart the very worst of these developments.

H/T: Technocracy.News

Nicholas West writes for Activist Post.

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