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Dr. Pieczenik Says Counter Revolution Taking Place Inside White House to Silence Alt-Right

Dr. Steve Pieczenik, the consummate intelligence insider, made a bold claim on the Alex Jones show today, suggesting the National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Jared Kushner were behind a counter revolution to silence the alt-right. He cited the outing of General Flynn, the demotion of Stephen Bannon, Gorka and others, as evidence that something was happening inside the White House to silence the movement that got [...]

10 things to do today: Catch the final day of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair, see Mary Poppins at Dubai Opera, and more

Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for May 2, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. Ellen Fortini rounds up 10 things to do today in the UAE.Want to see your event listed here? Email us with the details and contact information at [email protected] DhabiFitness event Register to attend TrainYas, presented [...]

The International Conference for Project Cost Control and Risk Management hosted by AACE International and SELEM DMCC has been Inaugurated

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 01 May 2017The AACE International Conference and Exhibition 2017 under the theme protecting capital investment through project cost control and risk management was inaugurated today and attended by 40 distinguished speakers and 500 delegates from across the region and different countries. The conference promotes the best practices in the field of cost and risk management.An exhibition was organized in conjunction with the international [...]

Asian nations pulled into China’s orbit as Trump puts America first | Reuters

By Martin Petty and Manuel Mogato | MANILA MANILA Across Asia, more and more countries are being pulled into Beijing's orbit, with the timid stance adopted by Southeast Asian nations on the South China Sea at a weekend summit a clear sign this fundamental geostrategic shift is gathering momentum.U.S. President Donald Trump's flurry of calls at the weekend to the leaders of the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore [...]

Stephen Hawking issues familiar warning to China against AI

(Image: Hawking.org) It's a pet obsession that both physicist Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur Elon Musk -- two people credited with pushing the boundaries of technology and science in pioneering ways -- have in common: Rampaging intelligence, borne within machines, could end the human race if utilized dangerously. "I believe there is no real difference between what can be achieved by a biological brain and what can be [...]

Pope Francis, in Egypt, Delivers a Blunt Message on Violence and Religion

At Al Azhar, he embraced the mosque’s Grand Imam, Ahmad al-Tayeb, who urged the West not to hold an entire religion “accountable for the crimes of any small group of followers.” Continue reading the main story Pope Francis then turned to matters of state, seeking to encourage progress on human rights from his host, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Mr. Sisi ousted the Muslim Brotherhood in a military [...]

Pope Francis Begins Cairo Visit, Bearing Message of Peace

‘Demagogic’ populism does not help cause of peace.The pope invoked Egypt’s “glorious history” as an ancient cradle of civilization to argue on Friday that the delivery of a more peaceful future required a new civility that appreciated differences, resisted the violent path of close-minded absolutism and condemned extremists who camouflage terror in religious language. Continue reading the main story “An education in respectful openness and sincere dialogue [...]

Investors, South Korean tech suppliers brush off North Korea threat | Reuters

By Jennifer Ablan and Stephen Nellis | NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO Growing tensions with North Korea should worry global electronics firms such as Apple Inc as they source key parts from South Korea, but investors are brushing off such concerns and snapping up shares in key exporters, heartened by robust earnings and big investment plans.U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday in an interview with [...]

Balancing Act for Pope in Egypt: Outreach to Muslims, and Speaking Out for Christians

Egypt is still suffering from coordinated Palm Sunday bombings of two Christian churches that killed more than 40 people, nearly killed the head of the Coptic Church and prompted President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to declare a three-month state of emergency. Continue reading the main story Francis will lend his support to the roughly 250,000 Roman Catholics in Egypt and insist on the protection of minority rights, including [...]

Explosions Rock Damascus Airport; Syria Blames Israel

Yoav Galant, the Israeli construction minister, also declined to confirm the strikes but told Channel 10, “Our enemies must know: We will know to use our power to protect our interests by ourselves.” Continue reading the main story Large explosions were heard miles from the airport that serves Damascus, the Syrian capital, and the glow of flames could be seen in the distance, according to residents in [...]

Revolutionary method reveals impact of short circuits on battery safety

Thermal image showing thermal runaway of an 18650 cell with an implanted internal short circuiting device. Credit: Donal Finegan (UCL, NASA and NREL) How lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries behave under short-circuit conditions can now be examined using a new approach developed by a UCL-led team to help improve reliability and safety. The use of high energy density Li-ion batteries is ubiquitous – from powering portable electronics to providing [...]

Hillary Clinton Explains Our ‘North Korea, South Korea, China’ Policy

Authored by Gaius Publius via Down With Tyranny blog, "We don't want a unified Korean peninsula ... We [also] don't want the North Koreans to cause more trouble than the system can absorb." —Hillary Clinton, 2013, speech to Goldman Sachs Our policy toward North Korea is not what most people think it is. We don't want the North Koreans to go away. In fact, we like them [...]

U.S. Supreme Court may limit where companies can be sued | Reuters

By Andrew Chung | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared poised to clamp down on where corporations can be sued, a potential setback for plaintiffs' lawyers who strive to bring cases in courts and locales they consider friendly. The nine justices in two separate cases heard appeals of lower court rulings allowing out-of-state injury lawsuits against drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co(BMY.N) and BNSF Railway [...]

Free rides offered by Alphabet’s Waymo autonomous cars

Waymo CEO John Krafcik at the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan in January Alphabet's self-driving car unit Waymo is offering free rides to residents in Arizona as part of its testing of autonomous vehicles. The former Google car division, which has been rebranded as Waymo, announced in a blog post late Monday it was taking applications to be part of its "early rider" [...]

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Syrian Government Workers After Sarin Attack

Photo Steven Mnuchin, left, the secretary of the Treasury, announced sanctions on Monday in response to a chemical weapons attack in Syria. “The United States is sending a strong message with this action that we will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons by any actor,” he said. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on 271 employees of [...]

Georgia special election: one local penny for every $10 in national cash

The Congressional Leadership Fund’s ad blitz has been particularly scathing, with one spot panning Ossoff for his college glee club stylings and dressing up as Star Wars’ Han Solo. The super PAC is funded in large part by GOP megadonors such as billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam Adelson; Houston Texans owner Robert McNair and fossil fuel giants Chevron and Devon Energy. So far, [...]

My Kind of Place: Lower Manhattan, New York City

Why Lower Manhattan?The bottom tip of Manhattan island was where New York began – with Dutch fur trappers finding it a handy harbour and trading site. Today, the trading is done on the New York Stock Exchange and in the giant office towers that compete for skyline space.But among the gleaming glass are remnants of a past that goes back much further than it does elsewhere in [...]

U.S. Raid Killed a ‘Close Associate’ of Islamic State Leader, Military Says

Photo A woman laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the Reina nightclub in Istanbul in January. On April 6, United States Special Operations forces carried out a ground raid in Syria that killed Abdurakhmon Uzbeki, an ISIS militant who had helped plot the attack on the nightclub. Credit Ozan Kose/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — United States Special Operations forces carried out a [...]

Fed reshuffle to put focus on bank stress tests

While Republican lawmakers in Congress gear up for a drive to cut regulation on the financial sector, bankers and lobbyists have their eyes on another institution in the US capital — the Federal Reserve.On Wednesday Daniel Tarullo, the Fed governor who has been supervising US banks, leaves the institution after eight years during which he assumed a hardline reputation overseeing the rebuilding of US finance from the shattered [...]

Apple looks long-term with development of GPUs

Imagination Technologies lost more than half its market value in a single day this week when the chip designer revealed that Apple, its largest customer, was developing its own version of the graphical processing units in which the UK-based group has specialised.Apple’s initiative to make a GPU, however, should not have come as such as surprise to investors. It follows several months of intensive recruitment by the [...]

Chinese wary about U.S. missile system because capabilities unknown-experts

By Greg Torode and Michael Martina | HONG KONG/BEIJING HONG KONG/BEIJING China is steadfastly opposed to the deployment of advanced U.S. anti-missile radars in South Korea because it does not know whether the defences, intended for North Korean missiles, are capable of tracking and countering Beijing's own nuclear programme, experts say.Beijing's resistance to the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) anti-missile system put up south of Seoul [...]

Welcome To Londonistan: 423 New Mosques; 500 Closed Churches

Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute, British multiculturalists are feeding Islamic fundamentalism. Muslims do not need to become the majority in the UK; they just need gradually to Islamize the most important cities. The change is already taking place. British personalities keep opening the door to introducing Islamic sharia law. One of the leading British judges, Sir James Munby, said that Christianity no longer influences [...]

One Cup Of This Coffee Can Cause Irregular Heartbeat: Other Dangerous Caffeinated Products That Can Potentially Kill You

Based on lab tests conducted in Switzerland, Black Insomnia could be the strongest coffee in the world. It contains 702 milligrams of caffeine per 12-ounce cup, which is far higher when compared to the same amount of Starbucks' dark roast coffee, which contains only 195 milligrams of coffee . Mary Sweeney, from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who conducts study on the effects of caffeine, said that Black [...]

Mosul Strike Excluded, Anti-ISIS Coalition Tallies 229 Civilian Deaths

Photo Iraqis bathed in a sulfur pond not far from the southern outskirts of Mosul on Saturday. Iraqi forces are pushing to take western Mosul from the Islamic State. Credit Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — Facing mounting pressure over civilian casualties in American airstrikes, the United States-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria said on Saturday that it was likely that [...]