Category Archives: Just strange

San Joaquin Valley is Still Sinking : Image of the Day – Inconvenient truths will lead trump to cut more from NASA budget.

Since the 1920s, excessive pumping of groundwater at thousands of wells has caused land to subside, or sink, by as much as 8.5 meters (28 feet) in sections of California’s San Joaquin Valley. This subsidence is exacerbated during droughts, when farmers rely heavily on groundwater to sustain one of the most productive agricultural regions in the United States.Subsidence is a serious and challenging concern for California’s water managers, putting state and federal aqueducts, levees, bridges and roads at risk of damage. Already, long-term land subsidence has damaged thousands of public and private groundwater wells throughout the San Joaquin Valley. Furthermore, the subsidence can permanently reduce the storage capacity of underground aquifers, threatening future water supplies. It’s also expensive. While there is no comprehensive estimate of damage costs associated with subsidence, state and federal water agencies have spent an estimated $100 million on related repairs since the 1960s.

Source: San Joaquin Valley is Still Sinking : Image of the Day

Jewish Cemetery In Rochester Vandalized: Gothamist

As for President Trump, he and his advisors spent the last couple of days cautioning everyone not to jump to conclusions and to focus on what’s important. Trump told a meeting of state attorneys general that bomb threats against JCCs nationwide might have been done in order to “make others look bad,” a statement which baffled the Pennsylvania state attorney general. Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci tweeted a reminder that some Democratic activists engaged in “bird dogging” during the 2016 election, a tactic that’s generally understood to mean aggressive questioning of elected officials, as proof that…maybe liberals are behind this? Typical of a coward who’s “just raising questions,” Scaramucci later tweeted that he just didn’t want anyone to overreact and of course he Loves The Jews.

Source: Jewish Cemetery In Rochester Vandalized: Gothamist

Police ‘told me to leave’ Rinkeby: US journalist Tim Pool – The Local – Not a journalist but a fake news producer!

Describing himself as a “conflict and crisis journalist”, Pool has been reporting in Sweden since last week. His visit included a trip to Malmö partially funded by Paul Joseph Watson, editor of conspiracy theory website Infowars, who promised to pay for a trip to the city for any journalist who claimed it was safe.

Source: Police ‘told me to leave’ Rinkeby: US journalist Tim Pool – The Local

Sessions spoke twice with Russian ambassador during Trump’s presidential campaign, Justice officials say – The Washington Post – hate is love, love is hate. Lying is being true.

The attorney general did not disclose the encounters during his confirmation hearing.

Source: Sessions spoke twice with Russian ambassador during Trump’s presidential campaign, Justice officials say – The Washington Post

“I did not have communications with the Russians,” Sessions said at his January confirmation hearing, when asked what he would do if he learned of evidence anyone in the campaign had communicated with the Russian government during the 2016 race. A spokeswoman for Sessions said there was “absolutely nothing misleading” about the answer and said he met with the Russian envoy as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee rather than as a top foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.

This Interview With Shirtless Alex Jones Will Ruin Your Day: Gothamist “Putin wannabe pose – next Trump on a horse and no shirt – my eyes, my eyes! My brain is melting!”

Alex Jones—a red-faced screaming sack of flesh who thinks the Obama administration faked the Sandy Hook massacre so they could take away Americans’ guns and now has the ear of the President of the United States—was the subject of a sprawling profile in German news magazine Der Spiegel today. At some point, the reporter had lunch with Jones, who was dressed like this:

Source: This Interview With Shirtless Alex Jones Will Ruin Your Day: Gothamist

ADL demands Trump advisor disavow ‘anti-Semitic hate groups’ | +972 Magazine

Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka has had a rough two weeks. It began with LobeLog’s report that he wore the medal of Vitezi Rend, an anti-Semitic Hungarian organization that collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, at an inaugural ball.

Source: ADL demands Trump advisor disavow ‘anti-Semitic hate groups’ | +972 Magazine

Multiple news outlets denied access to White House press briefing | US news | The Guardian

Outlets seeking to gain entry whose requests were denied included the Guardian, the New York Times, Politico, CNN, BuzzFeed, the BBC, the Daily Mail and others. Conservative publications such as Breitbart News, the One America News Network and the Washington Times were allowed into the meeting, as well as TV networks CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC. The Associated Press and Time were invited but boycotted the briefing.

Source: Multiple news outlets denied access to White House press briefing | US news | The Guardian

Donald #LoserTrump badmouths Sweden, Germany and Paris in one go – The Local

US president Donald Trump intensified his verbal attacks on Sweden, France and Germany on Friday, painting swaths of Europe as a jihadist-infested hellscape.Firing up victory-drunk conservatives at a rally outside Washington, Trump trashed long-time allies as he sought to justify his own controversial crackdown on immigrants.”Take a look at what’s happening in Sweden. Take a look at what’s happening in Germany. Take a look at what’s happened in France. Take a look at Nice and Paris,” he said.

Source: Donald Trump badmouths Sweden, Germany and Paris in one go – The Local

‘Demonic activity was palpable’ at Trump’s rally, pastor says – The Washington Post

I heard two ladies off to my left chanting, not yelling or screaming but chanting, “T-R … U-M-P; that’s how you spell — bigotry!” They repeated the rhyme over and over. Two ladies in front of them began seething and screaming in their face while shaking their Trump signs at them. Another couple standing behind them started screaming at them as well. One of the chanting ladies had her eight-year-old daughter on her back; the other had a severely disabled child in a wheelchair in front of her. As they continued chanting, the people around them became violently enraged. One angry man grabbed the lady’s arm — that’s when I went into action. I barged through the crowd and yelled at them to back off. My heart wasn’t racing; I just instinctively became a protector. I didn’t actually want a Trump sign, but one of the volunteers had shoved it into my hands as I walked through the door earlier; “Make America Great Again!” That sign probably saved someone from getting hurt. I held the sign close to my chest as I positioned myself between the chanting protesters and the angry mob. My 11-year-old daughter was clinging to my arm, sobbing in fear. The two angry, screaming ladies looked at me, both of them raised their middle finger at me in my face and repeatedly yelled, “F*#% YOU!” Repeatedly. I calmly responded, “No thank you, I’m happily married.” Their faces and their voices were filled with demonic anger. I have been in places and experiences before where demonic activity was palpable. The power of the Holy Spirit of God was protecting me in those moments and was once again protecting me and my daughter in this moment. I raised my voice and calmly said, “These ladies have the right to do what they are doing and they are harming no one; this is America and they a right to express themselves in this way. They are harming no one.” A couple of other people around me stepped in and supported me in protecting them as a barrier, as well. My daughter was shaking in fear as she clung to me. The one man behind the protesters shoved himself forward, grabbed the lady by the arm and screamed with multiple expletives, “I’m going to take you out! This is my president and nobody has the right to disrespect him and nobody has the right to keep me from hearing him!”“I’m trying to separate how I actually feel about this man and his campaignisms,” Tooley wrote. “I know why people voted for him; I know why people voted against his opponent. But, at the end of the day, what I felt from his leadership in this experience was actually horrifying. There was palpable fear in the room. There was thick anger and vengeance. He was counting on it. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that it would not have taken very much for him to have called this group of people into some kind of riotous reaction.”

Source: ‘Demonic activity was palpable’ at Trump’s rally, pastor says – The Washington Post