DO NOT GO TO WORK: Urgent warning as wild weather swamps Sydney

‘Prepare to leave’: Flood evacuation orders as Sydney slammed by wettest weekend since 1998

Evacuation warnings have been issued by the SES as emergency services beg people to stay off the road and work from home.

The Bureau of Meteorology says severe weather conditions are forecast again today with heavy rains, strong winds and damaging surf possible along NSW's entire coast with the system forecast to move down to Victoria.

Less than two months after communities were told to leave their homes to escape raging bushfires, those same locals are now packing bags to flee rising flood waters.

The Conjola community, on NSW’s south coast, has been told to evacuate while dozens of towns sitting in low-lying areas are advised to watch emergency service alerts.

Torrential rain could also create potentially deadly flash floods in Sydney, Illawarra and the Central Tablelands, the bureau warned.

Waterlogged parts of NSW are suffering their worst floods in years with heavy rains and damaging winds forecast to again lash the state.

Communities along the Hawkesbury and Georges rivers have been ordered to evacuate ahead of surging floodwaters forecast to peak at their highest level in decades.

The weather has caused major disruptions to Sydney’s public transport networks, while parched dams have swollen to their highest levels in years.

Follow our live blog for weather updates throughout the day.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/prepare-to-leave-flood-evacuation-orders-as-sydney-slammed-by-wettest-weekend-since-1998/live-coverage/85b499f8d2fca24c895aa233a3e2b841

Gary Sinise Wins Congressional Medal of Honor Society Award for Work with Veterans

Actor Gary Sinise was honored Thursday by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society for his work supporting America’s wounded warriors.

During a ceremony at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, he was awarded the Patriot Award, the highest honor given out by the organization, according to KABC.

In 2004, Sinise formed the Lt. Dan Band, which plays for active-duty troops and veteran. In 2011, he established the Gary Sinise Foundation, which has adapted 70 smart homes for veterans who suffered crippling wounds in the service of their nation.

Sinise’s role as Lt. Dan in the movie “Forrest Gump” was a pivotal moment in his life, he said in an interview with the USO.

“[W]hen you see the story of Lt. Dan, that’s a hopeful story for our … wounded veterans, because he’s a wounded combat veteran and he is also able to be successful in life,” Sinise said. “He’s married at the end and he’s standing up on new legs. You never thought you’d see him out of the wheelchair.”

“I could not have foreseen that the Lt. Dan character would be a character that has a life of its own beyond the movie,” he said. “I think part of that is because, when I started working with the USO and visiting our hospitals and meeting this entire new generation of amputees, the character and its relation to me became sort of a conversation piece with our wounded in the hospitals. It’s been a blessing and a benefit to be able to have this association with wounded in our military community.”

Sinise said that the aftermath of Sept. 11 also changed him, according to Time.

“Quite frankly, if we hadn’t been attacked on Sept. 11, and we didn’t deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan, and our people didn’t start getting hurt and killed, I don’t know what I’d be doing right now,” he said. “After we were attacked and [I saw] those images of what happened that day, and then our troops were deployed and getting hurt and killed, something clicked in me, and I just wanted to do something.”

Sinise’s activities span the country.

Last month, retired Army Maj. Jeremy Haynes and his family moved into a new smart home in Virginia that has doorways made to accommodate the wheelchair he needs because he was left paralyzed after being shot in Afghanistan.

Sinise and his foundation helped build the house, according to WJLA.

“The house that stands before us is a small symbol of that gratitude and a deep respect from a grateful nation,” Sinise said in a recording that welcomed Haynes to his new home.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/02/gary-sinise-wins-congressional-medal-of.html

School Cop Arrested for Sexually Assaulting at Least 7 Children He Was Supposed to Protect

River Falls, WI — While most parents of school children in the United States will take comfort in knowing a police officer is at their child’s school, all too often, school cops are caught committing the vilest of offenses. Videos surface almost monthly of cops beating and abusing students for no reason, which is bad enough. But when they aren’t beating students, school cops are often times caught sexually abusing them. Case in point: a school resource officer in Wisconsin was arrested this week on multiple charges for sexually assaulting at least 7 students.

Cottage Grove police officer Adam Pelton, 40, was charged Monday with three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and four counts of fourth-degree sexual conduct, all felonies. Perkins is accused of groping seven female children and attempting to solicit nude photos from one of them on multiple occasions.

According to authorities, the assaults took place from Sept. 1, 2018, until Oct. 4, 2019. No more occurred after October because Pelton was put on paid leave in the wake of the investigation into his string of sexual assaults.

According to the criminal complaint, as reported by the Star Tribune:

Reports by several students of “inappropriate sexual contact” initiated by Pelton prompted authorities to ask the Apple Valley Police Department to investigate. Students alleged that Pelton repeatedly initiated hugs from them during which he would touch their buttocks over their clothing.

Most of these interactions occurred in Pelton’s private school office, which lacked video surveillance. However, video was located that showed Pelton initiating hugs with female students in the halls.

Several students also reported that Pelton would often call or refer to them as “beautiful” and “sweetheart.” One of them disclosed that he told her that if he were her age, he would date her. She also said Pelton sent her Snapchat messages over summer break. In one of the messages, he made lunch plans with her.

Pelton’s victims ranged in age from 13-17. Because he was in a position of authority, the girls were scared to report Pelton, with some of them thinking they couldn’t report him.

“We aren’t going to say anything, I mean, he’s a police officer,” read the complaint.

To be clear, this touching wasn’t sporadic. It was frequent and sexual in nature. These girls reported Pelton’s sexual assaults would happen “four to five days a week” over several months.

Another student reported that Pelton repeatedly asked her to send nude photos of herself, but she never sent them. Pelton reportedly admitted to requesting the nude photos from one of the children at school but claimed the repeated requests were “a joke.”

Pelton has been in law enforcement since 2009. However, he was only at Park High School from 2018 to 2019, during which sex assaults were reported the entire time. Before this post, Pelton was at Cottage Grove Middle School starting in January 2017—meaning there could be victims there as well.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/school-cop-charged-7-children-assault/

Top Democrat Strategist James Carville On 2020 Elections: ‘We’re Losing Our Damn Minds’, People ‘Don’t Want To Hear This S**t’

James Carville, a former top adviser to President Clinton, laid out a scathing critique of his party, arguing that it drifted way too far to the left and was on the way to failure as a result of pushing extreme policy ideas.

“We just had an election in 2018. We did great. We talked about everything we needed to talk about and we won,” he said in a Vox interview published on Friday. “And now it’s like we’re losing our damn minds. Someone’s got to step their game up here.”

Carville added that he considered himself a “liberal” rather than a centrist — but Democrats went too far even for him.

“They’ve tacked off the damn radar screen,” he said when asked if the party moved too far left.

His comments came just after another interview in which he said he was “scared to death” after Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., netted a large portion of the vote in Iowa’s caucuses.

According to Carville, both Sanders and Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., were pushing “stupid” ideas about higher education.

“Democrats talking about free college tuition or debt forgiveness. I’m not here to debate the idea. What I can tell you is that people all over this country worked their way through school, sent their kids to school, paid off student loans. They don’t want to hear this s–t. And you saw Warren confronted by an angry voter over this. It’s just not a winning message,” he said.

https://truepundit.com/top-democrat-strategist-james-carville-on-2020-elections-were-losing-our-damn-minds-people-dont-want-to-hear-this-st/

West understands that global problems cannot be resolved without Russia - Lavrov

He stressed that Russia’s foreign policy is determined by the president

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. All of Russia’s partners, including those who have imposed anti-Russian sanctions, admit that global problems are hard or even impossible to resolve without Russia and all stand for dialogue with Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily.

When asked whether it is right to say that there is the so-called Lavrov school in the present-day diplomacy, the Russian top diplomat said he would refrain from personifying diplomacy of today. He stressed that Russia’s foreign policy is determined by the president. "Indeed, the goals and the modality of our foreign policy are determined by the course set by the head of state. This course that is committed to paper in all editions of Russia’s foreign policy concept since 2000 has made it possible to us to develop principally new qualities on the international arena, to restore our status as a great power," Lavrov stressed.

"I would call things by their true names, the status of a key player on key global problems, the status of a country without which global problems are difficult, if not impossible, to resolve. And it is recognized by all out partners, including the Western nations which keep on saying that the tough course towards Moscow should be continued," he said.

He said that Russia’s present-day foreign policy continued the traditions set by outstanding diplomats Alexander Gorchakov, Andrei Gromyko, Yevgeny Primakov. "The most important achievement of present-day diplomats is that, tasked by the president, we continue to work not to let break down this tradition, to strengthen it in all possible ways," he added.

https://tass.com/politics/1118167

>>8084461

was wondering the same Australia has been slammed by weather warfare since they denied climate change

Israeli Expansionism Top Threat to Jordan’s Stability

Trump’s “peace plan” would confront Amman with an influx of Palestinian refugees, who would follow refugee influxes from post-2003 Iraq and post-2011 Syria, writes Giorgio Cafiero.

The Trump administration’s agenda vis-à-vis Israel/Palestine has left Jordan in a difficult position. With less room to maneuver as the White House pushes for a “solution” to this conflict that meets the maximalist demands of Israel’s government without securing any rights of Palestinians, officials in Amman see U.S. and Israeli policies as long-term drivers of instability in the Hashemite Kingdom.

Many Arab states have become less insistent that normalization of relations with Israel can only take place if/when a sovereign Palestinian state is established based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. But Jordan — despite being at peace with Israel — remains firmly committed to this stance.

Thus, while determined to maintain Amman’s close relationship with Washington, the Jordanian leadership was also keen to respond quickly to the unveiled “peace plan” last month following the White House ceremony that featured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

On Jan. 28, The Jordan Times published a statement from Jordan’s chief diplomat, stressing that “the national interests of Jordan and its established and unwavering positions and principles toward the Palestinian issue governs the way the government deals with all proposals and initiatives aimed at resolving the conflict.”

Amman’s foreign minister cautioned against “the dangerous consequences of unilateral Israeli measures, such as the annexation of Palestinian lands, the building and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian lands, and encroachments on the Holy Sites in Jerusalem, that aim at imposing new realities on the ground.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/07/israeli-expansionism-top-threat-to-jordans-stability/

Al Jazeera host calls Israel most successful project in 120 years; drama ensues

Faisal al-Qassem’s Arabic tweet garners critical responses, but huge majority responding to poll on his Twitter feed then seem to agree; IDF spokesmen and Netanyahu hail him

A firebrand Arab television host called Israel the most successful project of the 20th and 21st centuries in an Arabic tweet on Saturday, stirring up intense debate about the Jewish state on social media.

“For most Arabs, if they want to curse you, they will describe you as a ‘Zionist,’ even though they know that the most successful project in the current and last century is the Zionist project,” tweeted Faisal al-Qassem, the host of Al Jazeera’s The Opposite Direction, a well-known debate show.

“All of the Arabs’ projects, especially that of Arab nationalism, failed. So… before you use the term ‘Zionist’ as a curse, you must first come somewhat closer to what Zionism has accomplished and then we will talk,” he also said.

Qassem has frequently criticized many Arab regimes on his show and Twitter account, which has 5.5 million followers, for their anti-democratic policies. He also courted controversy in 2018 when he hosted Arabic-language IDF spokesman Avichai Adraee on his program.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/al-jazeera-host-calls-israel-the-most-successful-project-of-past-120-years/

>>8084580

Scare was Hawaii, sub nuke

Personal info of 6m. Israelis leaked after Likud uploads voter info

The leaked information includes names, identification numbers, phone numbers and addresses.

The personal information of 6,453,254 Israelis was leaked after the Likud Party uploaded the entire Israeli national voter registry to an application, according to Haaretz.

The leaked information includes names, identification numbers, phone numbers and addresses.

Political parties in Israel receive the information of Israeli voters before the elections and have to protect their privacy and cannot copy, erase or transfer the registry.

The voter registry was uploaded to the Elector application which the Likud Party uses on election day. A breach in the application allows for the leaking of the voter registry which can then be downloaded on a computer, according to Haaretz.

The last leak of this size happened in 2006, when an employee at the Interior Ministry stole the population registry and published it illegally.

An anonymous source told Haaretz about the security flaw through which any person could access the entire registry without even needing to use sophisticated tools. Haaretz published exact instructions on how to do access the voter registry.

Privacy activists warned about using the application even before the leak and Haaretz passed the report on to the National Cyber Directorate.

Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Likud supporters to download the application in order to help draft more supporters and voters. The company that developed the application told Haaretz that this was "a specific incident that was taken care of immediately and afterwards security was strengthened substantially."

According to TheMarker, the Elector application allows parties to create databases in a way that breaks the Protection of Privacy Law because it calls on users to provide private information of possible party voters that isn't included in the voter registry. It is unclear how much and what type of information was leaked from the Likud database and Haaretz restrained from investigating the matter too deeply in order to avoid breaking the law.

"Like Ecuador, India and other third world countries, Israel has joined the club of dubious countries that the database of their citizens was leaked to the internet," said Ron Bar Zik, a senior programmer at Verizon media to Israeli business daily Calcalist. Bar Zik found the breach and reported on it to the National Cyber Directorate.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Personal-info-of-6m-Israelis-leaked-after-Likud-uploads-voter-info-617048

Glyphosate and Roundup Proven to Disrupt Gut Microbiome by Inhibiting Shikimate Pathway

Fatty liver disease and death of liver tissue were also confirmed in rats fed regulatory permitted and thus presumed safe doses of the weedkiller

The primary mechanism of how glyphosate herbicides kill plants is by inhibiting an enzyme called EPSPS, which is part of a biochemical pathway known as the shikimate pathway. The shikimate pathway is responsible for the synthesis of certain aromatic amino acids that are vital for the production of proteins, the building blocks of life. Thus when the synthesis of the aromatic amino acids is blocked by glyphosate inhibition of EPSPS, the plant dies.

Humans and animals do not have the shikimate pathway, so industry and regulators have claimed that glyphosate is nontoxic to humans.[1] However, some strains of gut bacteria do have the shikimate pathway, leading to much debate about whether Roundup and glyphosate could affect the gut microbiome (bacterial populations). Imbalances in gut bacteria have been found to be linked with many diseases, including cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and depression.

As many species of gut bacteria do have the shikimate pathway, scientists have hypothesised that glyphosate herbicides could inhibit the EPSPS enzyme of the shikimate pathway in these organisms, leading to imbalance in the microbiome, with potentially negative health consequences. Some have proposed that if glyphosate herbicides do disrupt the gut microbiome, EPSPS inhibition will be the primary mechanism through which this occurs.

However, proof that glyphosate herbicides can inhibit the EPSPS enzyme and the shikimate pathway in gut bacteria has been lacking. But a new study has proven beyond doubt that this does indeed happen.

The study in rats by an international team of scientists based in London, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, led by Dr Michael Antoniou of King’s College London and posted on the pre-peer-review site BioRxiv, has found that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate cause a dramatic increase in the levels of two substances, shikimic acid and 3-dehydroshikimic acid, in the gut, which are a direct indication that the EPSPS enzyme of the shikimic acid pathway has been severely inhibited.

In addition, the researchers found that both Roundup and glyphosate affected the microbiome at all dose levels tested, causing shifts in bacterial populations.

Levels tested were previously assumed to have no adverse effect

For the study, female rats (12 per group) were fed a daily dose of either glyphosate or a Roundup formulation approved in Europe, called MON 52276. Glyphosate and Roundup were administered via drinking water to give a glyphosate daily intake of 0.5 mg, 50 mg and 175 mg/kg body weight per day (mg/kg bw/day), which respectively represent the EU acceptable daily intake (ADI), the EU no-observed adverse effect level (NOAEL), and the US NOAEL.

The study found certain adverse effects at all doses tested, disproving regulators’ assumptions that these levels have no adverse effect.

Some previous studies have also reported changes in the gut microbiome of laboratory animals exposed to glyphosate and/or Roundup. However, as they did not use the more in-depth molecular profiling techniques (multi-omics) used in the latest investigation, they failed to observe the inhibition of the shikimate pathway.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-roundup-proven-disrupt-gut-microbiome-inhibiting-shikimate-pathway/5697512

PRAY FOR EACH OTHER

>>8084700

yeah but we all knew about it and were asking Q.

Q was way more Q and A with us then