Head Of Syrian Military Research And Development Agency Assassinated. Pro-Government Sources Accuse Israel
https://southfront.org/head-of-syrian-military-research-and-development-agency-assasinated-pro-government-sources-accuse-israel/
National Front for Liberation Joins Hayat Tahrir al-Sham In Cracking Down On Supporters Of Deal With Syrian Government
On August 5, the National Front for Liberation (NFL) launched a security operation against the supporters of the reconciliation process in the northern Hama countryside, according to the Syrian news outlet Enab Baladi. The pro-opposition outlet said that 45 civilians have been arrested by the newly formed armed group so far.
The NFL was formed by several large armed groups in northern Syria on August 1. Syrian opposition activists believe that Turkey is the key backer of the new group.
Two days ago, the former branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a similar operation against pro-reconciliation figures in the northern governorate of Idlib. During the operation, more than 14 civilians were arrested by the security forces of the radical group.
Previously, the militants in southern Syria carried out similar operations and even assassinated several members of the local reconciliation committees there. However, these attempts to terrorize the locals failed, and the southern governorates of Daraa and al-Quneitra joined the process eventually.
https://southfront.org/national-front-for-liberation-joins-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-in-cracking-down-on-supporters-of-deal-with-syrian-government/
Imran Khan: Pakistan Needs a Strong New Leader
The words ‘hope’ and ‘Pakistan’ do not often appear together. Pakistan, a sprawling nation of 205 million, is hard to govern, even harder to finance, and seething with tribal or religious violence and discord.
But Pakistan, which for me is one of the most interesting and important nations on earth, is by far the leading nation of the Muslim world and a redoubtable military power. Created in 1947 from former British India as a haven for oppressed Muslims, Pakistan has been ruled ever since by military juntas or by slippery and often corrupt civilian politicians.
After decades of dynastic politics under the Bhutto and Sharif families, there is suddenly hope that newly elected cricket star Imran Khan and his Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) may – just may – tackle Pakistan’s four biggest problems: endemic corruption, military interference, political tribalism, and a half-dead economy.
Former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, appears to be headed for jail over a corruption scandal unless he is allowed to go into exile in London. The exiled former military dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, is hiding out in Dubai awaiting charges of treason.
I spent a good deal of time with Pakistan’s former leaders, Gen. Zia-ul-Haq and his bitter foe, Benazir Bhutto, both of whom were later murdered. Neither Musharraf nor Nawaz measured up to these colorful personalities in political skills, vision, or personality.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/imran-khan-pakistan-needs-a-strong-new-leader/5649648
Multiple Journalists Detained After Assault on Maduro in Venezuela - Reports
The Venezuelan authorities said on Sunday they have detained six suspects over drone explosions at a rally led by the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
On Saturday, a blast occurred during Maduro’s address at a military parade in Caracas. Venezuela’s Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said after the incident that Maduro had survived an assassination attempt with the use of explosive drones. The president was unharmed but seven soldiers were injured in the incident.
According to the Venezuelan National Journalists Union, more than 10 media employees have been detained by local authorities following the failed assassination attempt on Maduro. The watchdog union stressed that among detainees were also foreign journalists representing Argentina and Spain as well as one employee of Agence France Press (AFP), among others.
"11 journalists and media professionals have been illegally detained, some of them were beaten, while others were robbed. We express protest against it and urge to punish those responsible for violation of the right for information," the union wrote on Twitter.
The president himself accused the Venezuelan opposition and Colombia of having a role in the failed assassination attempt, adding that some of the perpetrators were residing in the United States. Both Bogota and Washington denied these accusations, while the Venezuelan group Flannel Soldiers claimed the responsibility for the incident.
However, The Venezuelan officials have not commented on this statement yet.
Meanwhile, local media suggested that the drones might have been released from an apartment, located near the parade site, after it had caught fire caused by an explosion of one of the unmanned aerial vehicles. At the same time, several media outlets reported that the explosion may have been an accident that was caused by a gas cylinder explosion and did not target the president.
Jorge Rodriguez told Sputnik earlier in the day, that the attackers behind the assassination attempt against Maduro had been preparing the operation for at least six months.
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201808061066979150-venezuela-maduro-assassination-attempt-journalists/
THOSE WHO ATTACK THE MESSENGER ARE AFRAID OF THE MESSAGE
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Watch – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ICE Agents ‘Violently’ Committing ‘Human Right Abuses’ Against Illegal Aliens
Socialist Democrat candidate for Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York’s 14th District says agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency have “violently committed human rights abuses.”
During a speech to left-wing activists, Ocasio-Cortez—the candidate whom Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez says is the “future” of the Democratic Party—claims that ICE is “violently” and “repeatedly” abusing criminal illegal aliens.
“I happen to believe that an agency that has repeatedly, systematically, and violently committed human rights abuses cannot be reformed,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “That’s what I believe. Not under this administration, especially. And it’s time that we take that tool away.”
“Not just ICE, but our system of mass incarceration too,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
Abolishing the deportation agency, as Breitbart News reported, would have allowed more than 1.6 million illegal aliens to have gone free throughout the U.S. in the last five years.
Additionally, abolishing ICE five years ago would have freed 1.4 million criminal illegal aliens into American neighborhoods and communities, Breitbart News reported. That is a criminal illegal alien population triple the size of Miami, Florida.
Ocasio-Cortez has become the unofficial leader of the “abolish ICE” effort within the Democratic Party that would end all immigration enforcement at the border and across the United States.
Previously, Ocasio-Cortez has said that left-wing activists should “occupy every airport, we need to occupy every border, we need to occupy every ICE office” in the U.S. until immigration enforcement is ended.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/05/ocasio-cortez-ice-human-rights-abusers/
Like HE does! What a faggot!
Lawsuit: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Approved Monsanto Herbicide Label Changes After Consulting with Company
Featured image: A Monsanto facility in Stonington, Ill., on May 19, 2015. (Darrell Hoemann/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting)
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prepared to make label changes for the herbicide dicamba after it caused widespread crop damage, the agency depended on the herbicide’s maker for guidance, documents produced in a federal lawsuit show.
A review of more than 800 pages of documents from a lawsuit filed against the U.S. EPA in January 2017 highlight the process behind how the agency made the label changes.
The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Family Farm Coalition and the Pesticide Action Network North America in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
The lawsuit alleges the agency unlawfully approved a version of dicamba made by Monsanto. It spent a year in discovery before plaintiffs’ filed a brief in February outlining their argument. Oral arguments are scheduled August 29 in Seattle, Washington.
“Like I said, no surprises,” wrote Reuben Baris, acting chief of the Herbicide Branch of the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs, to Thomas Marvin, a Monsanto lawyer, hours before the new label was announced, according to an email dated October 10 obtained in the lawsuit.
The email came during a week of exchanges between the EPA and agribusiness Monsanto in 2017 about the terms and conditions that Monsanto would have to agree to for the label change.
Monsanto is an intervenor in the case, meaning it joined the case to help defend the registration.
“The EPA approved XtendiMax herbicide after a long and careful review process, including years of analysis and a thorough evaluation of data regarding volatility,” said Charla Lord, a spokeswoman from Monsanto, in an emailed statement. “This lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt by NGOs to take a valuable tool out of the hands of American farmers. We will stand with farmers who need this technology to control weeds and ensure that they have the training and support for an even more successful 2018 season.”
Dicamba is a traditional herbicide that has been used on corn and other crops, and the EPA approved its use for genetically modified soybeans and cotton crops in late 2016.
Monsanto had touted the new dicamba-resistant soybean and cotton seeds as its biggest biotech launch in company history. The company also made its own version of dicamba, touted to be less volatile.
But in 2017, the herbicide damaged more than 3.6 million acres of soybeans and other crops in 25 states, according to expert estimates. Dozens of farmers have sued Monsanto over the damage and loss in crop revenue.
In October, the EPA restricted the use of dicamba, making it a restricted use pesticide and limiting the conditions under which it could be applied.
But while making the changes, the EPA ignored state officials’ recommendations, did not use any new data or analysis to back up its new restrictions and allowed the herbicide’s maker to dictate the label’s terms and conditions, according to documents filed in the suit.
This year, despite the new changes, more than one million acres of soybeans are estimated to have been damaged by dicamba as of July 15, according to Kevin Bradley, a University of Missouri weed scientist.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/lawsuit-u-s-environmental-protection-agency-epa-approved-monsanto-herbicide-label-changes-after-consulting-with-company/5649622
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REBUILDING FAMILY???
Rubio Unveils Paid Family Leave Proposal
Two Congressional Republicans on Thursday introduced a proposal to implement federal paid leave for new parents.
The proposal, to be introduced as the "Economic Security for New Parents Act," is the work of Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Rep. Ann Wagner (R., Mo.). It would work by allowing parents to draw on Social Security, taking funds from their future entitlement to pay for some number of weeks off, and in return retiring the same number of weeks later than they would have otherwise.
Americans are already entitled to up to three months of unpaid family leave, under the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993. But, according to the Pew Research Center, America is the only nation out of 41 advanced countries not to have mandatory paid family leave of some sort. California, Rhode Island, and New Jersey all offer PFL at the state level.
As America continues its baby bust, with fertility below replacement continuously since the mid-2000s, the cost of having kids weighs heavily on the minds of would-be parents. A recent poll published by the New York Times found that the cost of child care is the number one reason why Americans expect to have fewer kids than they would otherwise.
Still, opponents of federal PFL have long-argued that it would be prohibitively expensive to either employers—who would be compelled to pay their employees without labor in return—or to the federal government, which would have to shoulder some or all of the wage-replacement burden. The great appeal of Rubio and Wagner's plan is that it would not increase current total government liabilities, because it would pay parents from a pot of money they are already entitled to access.
"This plan does not grow government," Rubio said Thursday. "We're not creating a new entitlement, we're not creating a new program. We're simply creating an option that allows people to use part of an existing program earlier."
Estimates from Rubio's office show that individual parents would be entitled to a fixed percentage of their income, up to 70 percent, as a bimonthly payment over the amount of leave an individual wants to take. The percentage to which they are entitled declines as their annual income declines, and makes up less of a percentage of income as the amount of time they take increases; couples are allowed to draw on their Social Security individually, however.
What this means, for example, is that in a household of two parents earning $40,000 each per year, Social Security would pay for 77 percent of income replacement for each individual. Further, under the law one parent could transfer his benefits to the other while still working, thus permitting Social Security to pay more than 100 percent of the second parent's income.
The plan has the benefit of having a minimal present economic impact—as Rubio noted in his remarks, it does not impose new mandates on business or introduce new taxes or spending programs. Still, there is some reason to be concerned about a large group of people drawing on Social Security in the present.
Allowing new parents to spend their Social Security entitlements now would add them to the already-large—61 million as of 2017—pool of active beneficiaries. Rubio contended in his remarks that the proposal "doesn't threaten the future of Social Security," it's hard to see how adding more consumers without also increasing the number of workers in the economy wouldn't hasten the program's nearing insolvency.
PFL has had at least one noteworthy ally in the White House: Presidential adviser and daughter Ivanka Trump. She and Rubio took advantage of President Donald Trump's mention of the idea in his State of the Union to begin the discussion which ultimately bore the new bill. Speaking to Axios on Thursday, the younger Trump noted that her father "has called for maternity and paternity and adoptive leave and we're working to make that happen."
She however does not, Axios reported, expect to see much progress on the proposal this congressional session, citing partisan gridlock standing in the way of what she sees as an ultimately bipartisan issue.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/rubio-unveils-paid-family-leave-proposal/
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WE DO NOT CONDONE VIOLENCE, SUBVERSION OR CONTROL OVER OTHERS
PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH
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