09/15/2019 – News Views

Prescription pain pills are seen dumped out on a table at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind. Airmen who take prescription pills that are not their own or are taken after the time allotted could find themselves facing severe discipline. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Tech. Sgt. Mark R. W. Orders-Woempner)

News

Big Pharma Purdue files for bankruptcy

A follow-up to a current News Views article: After shifting millions of dollars to a Swiss bank account, Purdue Pharmacy files for bankruptcy. OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter…

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09/15/2019

News / Updates

Democratic candidates call for Bret Kavanaugh’s impeachment

The poster child of ENTITLEMENT. After allegations that Kavanaugh engaged in other acts of sexual misconduct and the FBI and Senate chose to ignore them, Democratic hopefuls have called for…

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09/15/2019

Ric Ocasek, Lead Singer of The Cars, Dead at 75

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andrew H Walker/Shutterstock (9629341bj) Ric Ocasek Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Show, Cleveland, USA - 14 Apr 2018

Celebrity Death Watch / Entertainment / Music

Ric Ocasek, Lead Singer of The Cars, Dead at 75

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ric Ocasek, lead singer of the rock band The Cars, died Sunday in New York at age 75. Police said they received a call…

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United Auto Workers to strike against General Motors

The General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant Wednesday, August 29, 2012 in Kansas City, Kansas. (Photo by Susan McSpadden for Chevrolet)

Economy / News

United Auto Workers to strike against General Motors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqM7vBJ2yy0 The United Auto Workers union plans to strike against General Motors following the two sides not reaching a tentative deal before a Saturday night deadline.The strike, depending on its length,…

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Music

Google Celebrates Late, Great Blues Legend B.B. King on 94th Birthday

Never ever forget the great ones who came before you.

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Economy / News

Trump authorizes release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

After this weekend's drone attack on Saudi oil plants, crude prices jump 12 percent. Brent crude traded at $70.98 per barrel on oil futures markets Sunday, an 18 percent surge…

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09/15/2019

Pakistan’s PM invokes possibility of nuclear war

Protestors shout slogans and march on a street after Friday prayers in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. A strict curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir in effect for a fifth day was eased Friday to allow residents to pray at mosques, officials said, but some protests still broke out in the disputed region despite thousands of security forces in the streets as tensions remained high with neighboring Pakistan. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Asia / News

Pakistan’s PM invokes possibility of nuclear war

Article 370 from India's constitution was nixed by India's Hindu nationalist president, Ram Nath Kovind, on August 5, 2019. It enshrined autonomy of the formerly princely state of Jammu and Kashmir with limited India control of the region.

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09/15/2019

Politics

Trump says his DOJ should ‘rescue’ Brett Kavanaugh

President Donald Trump called on his Justice Department Sunday to "rescue" Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after The New York Times published an excerpt of a new book detailing sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh that he has previously denied.

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News / World

Iran dismisses U.S. claim it was behind Saudi oil strikes, says ready for war

Iran rejected accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that risk disrupting world energy supplies and warned on Sunday that U.S. bases and aircraft carriers in the region were in range of its missiles.

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News / Newscasts

Liz Cheney: ‘The world is safer under Trump.’

F. Chuck Todd gave Liz Cheney a platform on Meet the Press this morning to spew her 'inherited from her father,' rhetoric. According to Cheney, the world is a much…

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09/15/2019

Entertainment / TV

Watchmen

https://youtu.be/-33JCGEGzwU Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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09/15/2019

News

FBI/Senators ignored allegations of Kavanaugh Sexual Misconduct

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh listens during his U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, September 4, 2018. Joshua Roberts/Reuters A former college classmate of…

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