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https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1055664081544339458
Plane Disappears From Radar Off Coast of South Carolina, Coast Guard Responding
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Coast Guard is responding to an apparent downed aircraft Thursday 110 miles east of Charleston.
The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC) notified Coast Guard 7th District watchstanders of a civilian aircraft emergency at 11:33 a.m. The Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center received a report from the aircraft of an in-flight emergency, lost contact on radar and notified the AFRCC. more here…
https://breaking911.com/developing-plane-disappears-from-radar-off-coast-of-south-carolina/
George today
Tesla to compete against Uber, Lyft, says Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he plans to launch a self-driving ride-sharing service that will compete with industry leaders Uber and Lyft.
“We absolutely see the future as kind of a shared electric autonomy,” Musk said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday. “The advantage that Tesla will have is that we’ll have millions of cars in the field with full autonomy capability and no one else will have that. So I think that will end up putting us in the strongest competitive position long-term.”
Musk said that his vision also infuses Airbnb’s model of being able to share your car for the company’s ride-hailing service, in addition to using the Tesla fleet. The proposal appeared dependent on the widespread introduction of Tesla’s fully autonomous vehicles.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on “Mornings with Maria” Thursday that he saw a ride-sharing service similar to that described by Musk as the future of transportation.
“You’re going to have autonomous cars, autonomous vans, that take you from your home in San Francisco and drop you off to wherever you want to go … in Los Angeles … for, I don’t know, 25 bucks, 50 bucks,” Ellison said.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/tesla-to-compete-against-uber-lyft-says-elon-musk
Wells Fargo suspends executives as investigations roll on
Scandals and executive turmoil continue to dominate the country’s third-largest bank.
Wells Fargo announced this week that it has put two key executives on leave as investigations roll on into the bank’s retail sales practices.
Hope Hardison, the bank’s chief administrative officer, and David Julian, its chief auditor, were both placed on a leave of absence and were removed from the bank’s operating committee, the company said Wednesday.
While the San Francisco-based bank wouldn’t elaborate on the reason for the abrupt moves, it continues to cope with the 2016 fallout of millions of fake accounts created by its bankers over the years to meet sales targets.
Earlier this week, the bank settled with the New York attorney general’s office for $65 million over allegations it misled investors about its sales practices.
However, that number is small in comparison to other penalties that have hit the bank over the last year. In August, the U.S. Attorney’s office in California fined the bank $2.09 billion for allegedly mispresenting loan quality for mortgages it made and sold leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/wells-fargo-suspends-executives-as-investigations-roll-on
Coast Guard searching for missing plane off South Carolina coast
https://twitter.com/DonnaShalala/status/1055526189580849152
this biatch ticks me off… donna
More than a dozen children injured after knife attack in China
More than a dozen children have been injured after a woman with a knife launched an attack at a kindergarten in China.
Chinese police reported that 14 children were attacked at the school in Chongqing, a city in the country's southwest.
Police said the attacker was a 39-year-old woman who they identified only by her surname, Liu.
She has since been arrested.
https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-a-dozen-children-injured-after-knife-attack-in-china-11535813
Rare type of MOSS could be 'better than cannabis at relieving pain' because it contains a substance similar to THC
A rare type of moss could be more effective than medicinal cannabis for treating pain, according to new research.
Swiss researchers have been investigating the medicinal properties of the liverwort plant Redula Perrottetii.
The plant, which only grows in Japan, New Zealand and Costa Rica, contains a substance similar to THC found in the illegal narcotic.
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) can be used in the medical field to deal with certain types of pain, muscle cramps, dizziness and loss of appetite.
Tests by scientists at the University of Bern show perrottetinene has a stronger anti-inflammatory effect in the brain than THC and is less psychoactive.
Cannabis is illegal in the UK for recreational purposes.
But specialist doctors in England, Wales and Scotland will be able to prescribe it medicinally on a case-by-case basis as of next month.
The landmark reform came after two heartbreaking and high profile cases of medicinal cannabis helping children suffering from severe epilepsy.
The team of researchers, led by Professor Jürg Gertsch, then biochemically and pharmacologically compared THC and perrottetinene.
Using animal models, the team was able to demonstrate that perrottetinene reaches the brain very easily.
The tests also found the compound has a stronger anti-inflammatory effect in the brain than THC.
Researchers found perrottetinene was less psychoactive than THC, but said more studies were necessary to look at chronic and inflammatory pain.
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, said cannabis is rarely used medically because it can have a strong psychoactive effect.
Professor Gertsch began investigating the pharmacological effects of perrottetinene after discovering liverworts were being sold as legal highs online.
Andrea Chicca, a member of scientific staff in Dr Gertsch’s group, said there is the potential for developing the therapeutic use of perrottetinene or similar substances.
He added: 'This natural substance has a weaker psychoactive effect and, at the same time, is capable of inhibiting inflammatory processes in the brain.'
The Home Secretary insisted the dramatic change in policy on medicinal cannabis change was not the first step towards the broader legalisation of cannabis.
Cannabis was previously considered Schedule 1. Drugs in this class are thought to have no medicinal value and therefore cannot be legally possessed or prescribed.
Schedule 2 drugs, such as ketamine, are those that can be prescribed and supplied by doctors and pharmacists.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6312905/Rare-moss-effective-medicinal-cannabis.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
At Least 1,400 Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Detroit Area, Says Report
At Least 1,400 Noncitizens, Who Registered To Vote In The Detroit Metropolitan Area, Were Removed From The Voter Rolls Since 2011, According To A New Report That Also Reveals Concerns Over Voter Duplications And Registrants With Implausible Dates Of Birth, Some Dating Back To The 1800s.
In Motor Voter Mayhem, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) details how Michigan’s noncitizens became registered to vote through DMV transactions and other means as required by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). More commonly known as “motor voter,” the legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Motor Voter allows anyone who applies for a state driver’s license the opportunity to register to vote.
In the Detroit area, at least 1,444 registered voters were noncitizens. From this total, 822 noncitizens resided in Detroit proper, a figure which PILF called “among the highest” they ever saw from a single jurisdiction nationwide.
“Motor Voter is failing Motor City,” said PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams in a statement Monday. “Like this Foundation has seen in other jurisdictions, Motor Voter is inviting noncitizens onto voter rolls.”
https://truepundit.com/at-least-1400-noncitizens-registered-to-vote-in-detroit-area-says-report/
from earlier
https://saraacarter.com/fbi-withheld-exculpatory-information-from-secret-court-on-papadopoulos/
APPLE REPORTEDLY BLOCKS PROGRAM USED TO BREAK IPHONE PASSWORDS
A program developed to force open iPhones, GrayKey, has been rendered useless by Apple’s Sept. 17 iOS12 update, according to a Wednesday report from Forbes.
GreyKey developer GrayShift can no longer break the passwords of iPhone users running iOS12 and up, sources familiar with the program told Forbes. Technology experts and law enforcement officials told Forbes that Apple phones are secure from government intrusion and that it is currently unclear how they achieved this success.
Forensic tech provider Elcomsoft CEO Vladimir Katalov, who has repeatedly cracked Apple’s security, told Forbes he is stumped by the security integrated into iOS12.
Katalov said he has “no idea,” wherein Apple’s operating system the hack-breaking security change is located.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/25/apple-blocks-pasword-program/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=atdailycaller
UPDATE: There is no threat at Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office, multiple law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation tell @NBCNews. There is no connection to other pipe bomb packages.
GM wants Trump administration to back national electric vehicle program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Friday it wants the Trump administration to back a nationwide program to boost the sale of zero emission vehicles like electric cars, even as the government has proposed ending California’s ability to require more clean vehicles.
GM says a nationwide program modeled on California’s effort could result in 7 million electric vehicles, or EVs, on U.S. roads by 2030. The largest U.S. automaker said the requirements would not apply if “battery cost or infrastructure targets are not practicable within the time frame.”
GM product chief Mark Reuss told reporters that governments and industries in Asia and Europe “are working together to enact policies now to hasten the shift to an all-electric future. It’s very simple: America has the opportunity to lead in the technologies of the future.”
A national mandate also would create jobs and reduce fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and “make EVs more affordable,” Reuss added.
GM has said it plans to offer 20 EVs by 2023 globally.
The Trump administration in August proposed reversing Obama administration fuel rules and freezing standards at 2020 model year levels through 2026….
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-emissions/gm-wants-trump-administration-to-back-national-electric-vehicle-program-idUSKCN1N00AR?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter
Kennedy: Avenatti has no future in politics
With all the horrible news about pipe bombs and possible assasination attempts, it's the kind of moment, in a nonstop series of ongoing moments, that makes us ask what kind of political beast have we manufactured in this laboratory of democracy?
President Trump is not the mad scientist, if anything he is the creature, but are we ready for the bride of Frankenstein when this adminstration is done?
People like Michael Avenatti have completely miscalculated the president's success and are only reacting to his effects. Avenatti sees chaos, attention and ascension, and feels if he does a really bad impression of the man he's obsessed with, maybe someday he'll land, by dumb luck, in the same position. He won't, because Democrats hate him.
Avenatti rose to fame as the bigger who-a in the Stormy Daniels duo, but he's also the guy who trotted out the cringingly uncredible Julie Swetnick as a gang rape-shrieking character assassin in the Kavanaugh chronicles.
When this woman, with super creep's help, plopped a hot pile of allegations in the midst of Justice Kavanaugh's troubles, it was obvious if the allegations were true his life was over. But what if they're false? That's what Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley is banking on by referring Avenatti and Swetnick to the FBI & DOJ for lying, that this pungent pair cooked up this disgusting ruse in some opportunistic oven hoping to tank Brett but it had the opposite effect, didn't it.
Avenatti responded to the Grassley referral with this statement:
"This is clearly political. And fortunately for us, Senator Grassley isn't too smart – or should I say bright. This was a major mistake on his part. He just cracked open the door and I'm going to drive a Mack truck through it."
What does that even mean? And this is a guy who's going to run for president? He just lost a major battle in the Stormy defamation case, and a different judge ruled he owes another lawyer almost 5 million dollars, and that's in addition to the 1.2 million in personal tax liens.
So he's unethical, blustery, bad at math, unstable, irresponsible and willing to stop at nothing to prove a point, even if continuing on the path to hell destroys everyone around him.
In an era of pipe bombs the last thing we need is another bomb thrower whose claim to fame is being an attention seeking, garden variety sociopath.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/kennedy-avenatti-has-no-future-in-politics
i'll fuck off on ur face with this all night