“Hundreds of DoD-affiliated individuals” were recently identified as suspects in child pornography cases, according to an investigation by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
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US denies German-Iranian father visa needed to attend son′s funeral | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 05.07.2019 – because he was Iranian, he can’t come to bury his son on a 3-day visa – gross and foul racism!
The US consulate accused a German-Iranian father of using his late son’s funeral as an excuse to migrate to the US. Seyed Shahram Iranbomy was denied the visa he needed to attend. He’s lived in Germany for 40 years.
Biggest ever seaweed bloom stretches from Gulf of Mexico to Africa
Thousands of kilometers of the pungent, slimy algae has built up over the past decade, partly due to climate change. Mexico has spent millions removing the seaweed from its beaches.
Facebook ads funded by ‘dark money’ are the right’s weapon for 2020

The right and conservative media are using the untraceable ads to push a rightwing agenda and get Donald Trump re-elected
In the weeks leading up to a tightly contested 2018 midterm election in Virginia, a Facebook page called “Wacky Wexton Not” ran an ad that pictured Democratic congressional candidate Jennifer Wexton next to Nazi troops. Another labeled her an “evil socialist”. Yet another referenced Nazi uniforms, stating, “Wexton and her modern day brown shirts. They Are Evil. They Hate America. They Hate You.”
You can still have a huge impact by spending very little.
Julián Castro on reparations for slavery
If elected president, 2020 Democratic contender Julián Castro said he would create a commission to explore the possibility of reparations for slavery.
During a stop Sunday at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Castro did not commit to paying reparations but said it should be part of a topic of conversation for a commission or task force that could explore that and other issues surrounding the nation’s history with slavery.
“I’ve long believed the country should consider reparations because of the atrocity of slavery,” said Castro, a former San Antonio mayor who was President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. “I also believe that we’re never going to fully heal as a country from the racial divide until we’ve addressed the tremendous wrong that was done with slavery.”
Former Obama cabinet official and current Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro crushed rival Bernie Sanders‘ argument against “writing a check” for reparations, noting that Sanders’ solution to a host of other issues is to do just that.
On Sunday morning’s edition of CNN’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper asked Castro for his reaction to a clip of Sanders responding to a question about support for slavery reparations by asking what his rivals mean by reparations.
Castro noted that he has promised a “task force” to explore reparations, but zeroed in on a different Sanders remark on reparations. In a recent appearance on The View, Sanders said that “our job is to address the crises facing the American people and our communities, and I think there are better ways to do that than just writing out a check.”
“To my mind, that may or may not be the best way to address it,” Castro said. “However, it’s interesting to me that when it comes to Medicare for all, health care, you know, the response there has been we need to write a big check, that when it comes to tuition-free or debt-free college, the answer has been we need to write a big check.”
“So if the issue is compensating descendants of slaves, I don’t think the argument about writing a big check ought to be the argument you make if you’re making the argument that a big check needs to be written for a whole bunch of other stuff,” Castro continued. “If, under the Constitution, we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property.”
Planting 1 trillion trees could stop climate change, argues study
Not so true – think about it. If 1 trillion palm oil trees were planted, new diseases would develop to deal with the imbalance. If current industrialized areas were simply allowed to return to nature that would enable 1 trillion trees to plant themselves, it would help. Man deciding to plant trees liked by humans will more than likely make things worse. Forests depend on natural diversity, not man-made interventions. Planting a massive number of trees is the most effective way to combat global warming, scientists have said. Reforesting an area the size of the United States could capture two-thirds of manmade carbon emissions.
Emmy-Winning NYC News Reporter Says She Was ‘Pushed Aside Because I Am a 61-Year-Old Woman’
NY1’s Roma Torre has been working in television for 30 years, a career that’s earned her two Emmys, one just this year, but Torre says she’s currently being forced out of her job due to age and appearance.
Source: Emmy-Winning NYC News Reporter Says She Was ‘Pushed Aside Because I Am a 61-Year-Old Woman’
Former chiropractor ordered to pay $100K related to anti-vaccine posts

Dena Churchill, a former Halifax-based chiropractor, has been ordered to pay her regulator $100,000 as part of a settlement agreement on charges of professional misconduct related to her sharing anti-vaccination views online.
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY – Jane Fonda
Here’s what I believe is the best way forward: Regardless of where we come from and what our color is or how we worship, every family wants the best for themselves and their children. But today, certain politicians and their greedy lobbyists are putting all our families at risk. They rig the rules to enrich themselves and avoid paying their fair share of taxes, while they defund our schools and threaten seniors with cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Then they turn around and point the finger for our hard times at people of color and new immigrants . . . even tearing families apart and losing children. When we reject their scapegoating and come together across racial differences we can make this a nation we’re proud to leave all of our children . . . Whether we are Democrat or Republican, white, black or brown from down the street or across the globe. We need to recognize our linked fate across race and class in order to sweep away the politicians’ dog-whistling on behalf of rule and for the rich.
Source: HAPPY 4TH OF JULY – Jane Fonda
Jessica Cisneros on Challenging an Incumbent Democrat: ‘There’s a Lot He Has Never Had to Justify’
Ms. Cisneros, a 26-year-old immigration lawyer, is running against a Texas lawmaker who has taken donations from immigrant detention centers. If she wins, she would be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
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