95% of plastic in oceans comes from just ten rivers | Daily Mail Online

95% of plastic in oceans comes from just ten rivers  | Daily Mail Online
"Shocking report reveals that 95% of plastic polluting the world's oceans comes from just TEN rivers including the Ganges and Niger

• Scientists analysed data on plastic from 79 sampling sites along 57 rivers
• Their results showed that 10 rivers account for the majority of plastic 
• Eight of these are in Asia, including the Yangtze and Indus rivers
• Targeting these rivers could halve the amount of plastic waste, experts predict  

Up to 95 per cent of plastic polluting the world's oceans pours in from just ten rivers, according to new research.
The top 10 rivers - eight of which are in Asia - accounted for so much plastic because of the mismanagement of waste.
About five trillion pounds is floating in the sea, and targeting the major sources - such as the Yangtze and the Ganges - could almost halve it, scientists claim..."
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#1 This day 1971-----Three Dog Night "Joy To The World" 1972 (Reelin' In The Years Archives)

Map shows where President Barack Obama dropped his 20,000 bombs | The Independent

Map shows where President Barack Obama dropped his 20,000 bombs | The Independent
"...as the world gears up for a seemingly more violent four years, it is worth reflecting on President Obama's tenure
According to newly released figures, President Obama had already upped the number of bombs on foreign countries.
US forces dropped over 3,000 more bombs in 2016 than 2015, taking the grand total of strikes for the year to at least 26,171.
This map by Statista shows you where they were:

Vast majority of strikes carried out in Iraq and Syria
The figures are likely to be an underestimate, since the only reliable data only comes from a handful of countries, and multiple bombs can be classed as a single “strike” under the Pentagon's definition..."
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Enthusiasm for Censorship Has Deep Roots Among Liberals | The Heritage Foundation

Enthusiasm for Censorship Has Deep Roots Among Liberals | The Heritage Foundation:

"When shouting campus protesters hold signs that read, “We condemn freedom of speech that hurts other people’s feelings,” should conservatives take this seriously?
They should. The call to regulate offensive speech has deep intellectual roots on the Left. In fact, much evidence suggests that such regulation is necessary to bring about many of Left’s political and moral goals. Conservatives can better grasp where this trend is going by turning to some of its more articulate proponents.
Banning offensive speech is necessary to “protect the dignity and self-regard” of minority groups, write Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, professors of law at the University of Alabama and leading advocates for the banning of certain speech they disapprove of and describe as hate speech. "

Scientists Confirm That Uranus Actually Smells Like Farts | The Daily Sheeple

Scientists Confirm That Uranus Actually Smells Like Farts | The Daily Sheeple:
"It’s official: scientists have confirmed the Uranus actually smells like farts. 
...The clouds actually smell like sulfur, think “rotten eggs” giving it that human fart quality thanks to the gas hydrogen sulfide.
...Scientists figured this out using the spectrometer on the Gemini North telescope.
They found that the planet’s clouds are made up mostly of the smelly gas hydrogen sulfide. 
The discovery, reported in Nature Astronomy, should help astronomers better understand the formation not only of Uranus but of the other outer planets.
For one thing, Uranus differs from gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, whose clouds are made up mostly of ammonia ice (and are thus less smelly)..."
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History for April 25

History for April 25 - On-This-Day.com:
Oliver Cromwell 1599 - English military and political leader, Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - Italian inventor (radio telegraph system), Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist
 

Ella Fitzgerald 1918 - Vocalist, known as "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella", Al Pacino 1940 - Actor, Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945 - Musician (Abba)


1792 - The guillotine was first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier.


1915 - During World War I, Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli in Turkey in hopes of attacking the Central Powers from below. The attack was unsuccessful.


1928 - A seeing eye dog was used for the first time.


1953 - Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C. Crick suggested the double helix structure of DNA.


1959 - St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping. The water way connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.


1961 - Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit.


1980 - In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and exploded. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.


1992 - Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.

RTIC Responds To YETI Dropping The NRA | The Daily Caller

RTIC Responds To YETI Dropping The NRA | The Daily Caller:

"YETI Coolers might not want a relationship with the NRA, but there’s no question that its competitor RTIC Coolers is a fan of the Second Amendment.
YETI cut ties with the NRA recently, and RTIC responded over the weekend by posting the text of the Second Amendment on Facebook. The text reads, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”"

The way we were-----YOUNG RASCALS "HOW CAN I BE SURE" 1967

Boob-tube-----Tales of Tomorrow - The Crystal Egg ( H.G. Wells )

The "betaization" of America-----21 Books You Don’t Have to Read | GQ

21 Books You Don’t Have to Read | GQ:
"We've been told all our lives that we can only call ourselves well-read once we've read the Great Books. 
...So we—and a group of un-boring writers—give you permission to strike these books from the canon. Here's what you should read instead.

1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Instead: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford

I actually love Lonesome Dove, but I'm convinced that the cowboy mythos, with its rigid masculine emotional landscape, glorification of guns and destruction, and misogynistic gender roles, is a major factor in the degradation of America. 
Rather than perpetuate this myth, I'd love for everyone, but particularly American men, to read The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford... —Lauren Groff, 'Florida'"
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Carr: Facebook a hotbed of betrayal from get-go | Boston Herald

Carr: Facebook a hotbed of betrayal from get-go | Boston Herald:
"...There’s a saying in Silicon Valley: If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.
So before all of you Facebook users post your next anti-Trump screed and unfriend your neighbor for wearing a MAGA hat, maybe you should read the “Terms of Service” you agreed to when you signed up for the “free” service.
...Isn’t it amazing that in 2012 when Obama’s re-election campaign was “scraping” data, he was hailed as a genius? 
But when Cambridge Analytica did it in 2016, it suddenly became an “Orwellian” scandal.
Because, of course, they were doing it for Donald J. Trump.
Speaking of Trump, I don’t think he’s serious about trust-busting these Politically Correct totalitarians in Silicon Valley.
I wish he were.
These billionaires have a lot more power, and they use it more darkly, than the John D. Rockefellers, Andrew Carnegies and Buck Dukes did.
...I’m trying to be angry about Facebook’s alleged betrayal, but really, who couldn’t see this coming?"
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The DNC’S Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks Poses a Serious Threat to Press Freedom

The DNC’S Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks Poses a Serious Threat to Press Freedom:

"The DNC’s suit, as it pertains to WikiLeaks, poses a grave threat to press freedom. The theory of the suit — that WikiLeaks is liable for damages it caused when it “willfully and intentionally disclosed” the DNC’s communications (paragraph 183) — would mean that any media outlet that publishes misappropriated documents or emails (exactly what media outlets quite often do) could be sued by the entity or person about which they are reporting, or even theoretically prosecuted for it, or that any media outlet releasing an internal campaign memo is guilty of “economic espionage”"

The Politicization of the MCAT | The Weekly Standard

The Politicization of the MCAT | The Weekly Standard:
"...The AAMC occupies a curious place in the world of medicine. 
It forms one-half of the only government-approved accrediting entity for U.S. medical schools, and it is solely in charge of administering both the MCAT and the national standardized medical school application. 
...And in recent years, it has used this leverage to fundamentally alter the way medical schools assess applicants.
Dr. Darrell Kirch, president and CEO of the AAMC, expressed his vision in a candid 2011 speech at the University of California, Davis: "I am a man on a mission. I believe it is critical to our future to transform health care. I'm not talking about tweaking it. I'm not talking about some nuanced improvements here and there. I'm talking about true transformation."
...he praised the White Coats for Black Lives movement, a medical-student organization inspired by Black Lives Matter, for "sparking dialogue rather than division" by "staging on-campus die-ins." White Coats for Black Lives lobbies, among other things, for the creation of "national medical school curricular standards" that would mandate the teaching of "structural racism" and "unconscious racial bias" in medical schools.
...But it is Kirch's reform of the MCAT that raises the most concern.

• ...One MCAT practice question (from a collaboration between the AAMC and online-education nonprofit Khan Academy), for example, asks whether the wage gap between men and women is the result of bigotry, sexism, racism, or biological differences (no other options are provided, and the "correct" answer is sexism). 
• Another asks whether the "lack of minorities such as African Americans or Latinos/Latinas among university faculty members" is due to symbolic racism, institutional racism, hidden racism, or personal bias (the correct answer is institutional racism). 
• Yet another asks test-takers to select from a list of debatable definitions for "the terms 'sex' and 'gender.'"...
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How they spread the lie-----Clarice Feldman - Petula dvorak is a left wing columnist for the...

Clarice Feldman - Petula dvorak is a left wing columnist for the...:
"Petula dvorak is a left wing columnist for the WaPo. 

Today she charged, "sleepy eyes" is a known Nazi anti-semitic slur and Trump's calling F. Chuck that was of a piece with his anti-Semitism.

I've written this to the editors: "My father was an immigrant from a Polish village . All of his family who remained there were wiped out in the Holocaust. I was an attorney for the Department of Justice's OSI which investigated those who cooperated with the Nazis and litigated to get them denaturalized and deported. I have read lots of reports of the events, worked with translators and historians, interviewed many witnesses to the events.. Not once have I come across "sleepy eyes" as a an anti-Semitic slur. while your readers may like to have confirmation of their bias against the president--that he is, among other things, anti-Semitic--the facts do not sustain this. Indeed, a much better case can be made against his predecessor who did so much to aid the Iranian mullahs who call every day for the destruction of Israel and whose inner circle and many of whose long time associates made no real effort to hide this."

Petula is regularly over the line, but this time, I feel compelled to respond to her. 
It's columns like these that explain why you have lost any credibility."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/they-survived-the-holocaust-now-the-world-is-forgetting-what-they-endured/2018/04/23/f1d94500-4704-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.51fc01b1872f

"...Yet over the weekend, President Trump tweeted about “Sleepy eyes Chuck Todd,” the NBC “Meet the Press” host who is Jewish. 
That is one of Trump’s favorite insults for Todd and one of the descriptions that has been hurled at Jews in the past. 
It has been on horrifying “How to Spot a Jew” lists since World War II and all over racist, white nationalist websites. 
Trump has been accused of anti-Semitism before, especially in the wake of Charlottesville. 
Though the president has Jewish grandchildren, he seems to have lots of sympathy for virulent anti-Semites..."

Lunch video-----SAVE THE PLANET! (from hyperbole)

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DNC told to preserve servers after lawsuit against Trump campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks - Washington Times

DNC told to preserve servers after lawsuit against Trump campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks - Washington Times:

"Mr. Buschel told The Washington Times the DNC had an obligation not to destroy the evidence if it was planning to file a lawsuit.
“We sent the preservation and hold letter because we want to know if the DNC ‘cremated the body’ before we could examine and test the [toxicity] of the DNC’s questionable claims. Based on the reports and the lawsuit, the DNC is expecting, without verification, for a jury and America to accept its narrative,” said Mr. Buschel.
The DNC and its attorney did not respond to a request for comment."

REPORT: The Soros-Funded Mass Migration Of Illegals Into America Is Just About To Go Nuclear - DCWhispers.com

REPORT: The Soros-Funded Mass Migration Of Illegals Into America Is Just About To Go Nuclear - DCWhispers.com:
"The open-borders globalists want a confrontation the Establishment Media can then spin into an anti-border security frenzy. 

That confrontation is said to now be imminent. 

ABOVE: Media reports have suggested the movement of thousands of “asylum seekers” toward the U.S. southern border is comprised mostly of women and children.

NOT TRUE.
It is a gathering dominated by young men – very similar to what has been taking place throughout Europe for the last decade as entire nations are being transformed/overrun by people who have no interest in assimilating but rather are there to colonize. 
Crime rates have skyrocketed and social services are at breaking points as “come on in” government policies have proved disastrous to the people paying for them.
The same is being attempted right now in the United States. .."
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