You will notice I am not covering the terrorist incident in Manchester. As is my policy, routine terrorism does not deserve publicity or notice, which only gives them what they want. The best way to defeat terrorism is to ignore them, and remove any attention incentive. Refuse to give them your fear, and they will gain nothing from these deplorable acts.
Admittedly, this is my luxury. But the purpose of this blog is to ascertain TRUTH among all the noise of biased reporting. However, the major news outlets are reporting what they know at this point, in all its ugliness. We are all just rubberneckers driving past this incident in the road of life. It is best we drive on, and allow the authorities to do what they do best.
In other news...
NPR:
The Office of Government Ethics has rejected a White House attempt to block the agency's compilation of federal ethics rules waivers granted to officials hired into the Trump administration from corporations and lobbying firms.Time to roll out a new award. I call it the Nixon Award:
The White House action, a letter to OGE Director Walter M. Shaub Jr. from Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, was first reported by The New York Times. The newspaper had earlier published a detailed account of lobbyists turned appointees who were granted waivers and now oversee regulations they previously had lobbied against.
With an ethics waiver, a federal official is free to act on matters that normally would trigger concerns about conflicts of interest or other ethical problems. Federal regulations say the waivers generally should be made public on request. The Obama administration routinely posted waivers online. The Trump administration has issued an unknown number and released none.
(hat tip to Memesuper for the pic)
Rant off.
NPR:
A diplomatic dispute deepened when Turkey summoned the American ambassador in Ankara to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Monday, to protest "the aggressive and unprofessional actions taken" by American security personnel against Turkish security officers.With friends like Turkey, we don't need enemies.
It stems from a violent confrontation that broke out in front of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., on May 17 — the same day Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was visiting President Trump at the White House. Video appears to show Erdogan's security forces pushing past D.C.'s Metropolitan Police officers and violently breaking up a group of protesters, knocking down some and repeatedly kicking them in the head. Around a dozen people were injured.
D.C.'s police chief called it "a brutal attack on peaceful protesters."
But now Turkey is requesting that "US authorities conduct a full investigation of this diplomatic incident and provide the necessary explanation."
Seriously, Turkey could be a problem with their new dictatorship. Watch them closely.
Finally...
The Telegraph:
The history of human evolution has been rewritten after scientists discovered that Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa.
Currently, most experts believe that our human lineage split from apes around seven million years ago in central Africa, where hominids remained for the next five million years before venturing further afield.
But two fossils of an ape-like creature which had human-like teeth have been found in Bulgaria and Greece, dating to 7.2 million years ago.
The discovery of the creature, named Graecopithecus freybergi, and nicknameded ‘El Graeco' by scientists, proves our ancestors were already starting to evolve in Europe 200,000 years before the earliest African hominid.By the way, this is not "settled science". If anything, it is proof that science, much like mankind, evolves.
An international team of researchers say the findings entirely change the beginning of human history and place the last common ancestor of both chimpanzees and humans - the so-called Missing Link - in the Mediterranean region.
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