THE LAST HURDLE BEFORE THE TPP GETS APPROVAL FOR THE FINAL RESOLUTION IS HELD BACK 24 HOURS AS DRUG PATENTS, DAIRY TARIFFS, AND MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY THE LAST ISSUES BEFORE FINALIZATION CAN OCCUR FROM THE 12 MEMBERS OF THE USA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, CHILE, MALAYSIA, NEW ZEALAND, PERU, SINGAPORE, VIETNAM, BRUNIE, AND MEXICO

12 member countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact have been struggling to reach an agreement. US delegates proposed extending negotiations by 24 hours and Japan accepted.
Japanese Economic Revitalization Minister Akira Amari told reporters that he discussed the extension with US trade representative Michael Froman.
Amari said he told Froman that Japan would accept the US proposal on two conditions.
He said that US first must make a final resolution on drug patents and other contentious issues, and this must be the last extension, insisting that Japan will not accept any further delays because of its own political schedule.
Amari told reporters that other member countries would also accept the US proposal.
Unsettled issues include tariffs on dairy products and the patent protection period for drugs developed using biotechnology.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20151004_09.html

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL AFTER GETTING DICKED AROUND BY THE EPA, DEMOCRATS, AND TERRORIST LIKE ATTTACKS FROM GREENPEACE AND AFTER INVESTING $7 BILLION WITH NO ASSURRANCE OF STRIKING IT RICH WITH OIL IS READY TO PULL THE PLUG FROM ALASKA–AS OIL EXPLORATION IS NO SURE THING WITH LITTLE RESULTS TO SHOW FOR AFTER 3 YEARS–WHILST THE PRICE OF OIL PER BARREL HAS NOT HELPED OFFSET THE COST ON INVESTMENT RETURNS–BACK TO THE FUTURE IT IS FOR ALASKA

Oil company Royal Dutch Shell is pulling out of exploration in Arctic waters off Alaska for the foreseeable future and could take a hit of up to $4.1 billion after failing to find enough oil.

The unsuccessful drilling campaign is Shell’s second major setback in the area after it interrupted exploration there for three years in 2012 when an enormous drilling rig broke free and grounded.

The company, which has spent about $7 billion on exploration in the Arctic, said its decision to withdraw reflects the project’s high costs and the unpredictable federal regulatory environment in the area.

“Shell has found indications of oil and gas in the Burger J well but these are not sufficient to warrant further exploration in the Burger prospect,” it said in a statement on Monday.

Environmental campaigners, who tried to interrupt Shell’s drilling plans by blocking an icebreaker vessel as they dangled from a bridge, welcomed the news.

“They had a budget of billions, we had a movement of millions. For three years we faced them down, and the people won,” said Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven.

Environmentalists have criticised Shell’s drilling plans in the Arctic, which is home to sensitive populations of whales, walrus and polar bears.

http://www.france24.com/en/20150928-usa-shell-halts-alaska-oil-drilling-disappointing-results

THE ILLEGALS INVADING BRITAIN THROUGH THE EURO TUNNEL FROM FRANCE–AS ONE MUSLIM GETS CAUGHT HIDING BEHIND THE TOP OF A WINDSHIELD TORRY–AS THE ISLAND OF BRIT BRACES FOR MORE OF THE SAME FROM 200 MIGRANTS TRYING TO DO THE CALAIS CROSSING–SEEMS LIKE THE MIDDLEAST IS NOT EVEN SAFE FOR MUSLIMS TO LIVE IN AND MUST SEEK REFUGE FROM THE WESTERN COUNTRIES THEY SO DESPISE

A migrant trying to get into Britain was caught at Folkestone hiding in a lorry after joining a 200-strong invasion of Eurotunnel's Calais terminal

This was the moment on Saturday when one would-be migrant to Britain was caught.

After joining an invasion of more than 200 “highly organised” migrants of the Eurotunnel terminal in Calais he managed to hide in a lorry bound for the UK.

But on arrival at Folkestone the man was spotted by police officers anticipating attempts by migrants to enter the country.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11909597/Exclusive-The-moment-a-migrant-was-caught-trying-to-get-into-Britain-after-tunnel-invasion.html

THE DEMOCRAT FOR POTUS 2016 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON DISPLAYS NOT ONLY HER RUDENESS BUT HER UNTRUSTWORTHINESS, IMMORAL, IN CLAIMING TO BECOME THE NEXT POTUS–AS SECRET SERVICE AGENTS CALL ASSIGNMENTS OF THE LADY AS A DUTY CALLED PUNISHMENT–BUT THEN THIS IS A TYPICAL DEMOCRAT CHARACTERISTICS

However, Hillary is exposed as being the complete opposite of her husband and daughter, and instead is reportedly very rude and acted nasty toward a number of agents.

'Hillary was very rude to agents, and she didn't appear to like law enforcement or the military,' former Secret Service agent Lloyd Bulman recalled to Kessler. 

'She wouldn't go over and meet military people or police officers, as most protectees do. 

'She was just really rude to almost everybody. She'd act like she didn't want you around, like you were beneath her.'

On another occasion, a member of the uniformed Secret Service once cheerfully greeted Mrs Clinton by saying 'Good morning, ma'am.' 

F— off,' is how she replied, according to Kessler's book.

Kessler explained in the book that when Mrs Clinton is in public, she smiles and acts graciously. 

'As soon as the cameras are gone, her angry personality, nastiness, and imperiousness become evident,' he wrote.

'Hillary Clinton can make Richard Nixon look like Mahatma Gandhi.'

His book also revealed how Mrs Clinton allegedly didn't like the attire military aides wore. 

'Hillary didn't like the military aides wearing their uniforms around the White House,' one former agent recounted to Kessler. 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3258858/Secret-Service-agents-view-Hillary-worst-duty-assignment-consider-assigned-form-punishment.html

THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO LEGACY IN AFGHANISTAN AFTER BUGGING OUT WITH THE PRESCRIBED FOREIGN POLICY OF WEAK IN THE KNEES FOREIGN POLICY APPROACH HAS DONE A SURGICAL AIR STRIKE ON A TALIBAN HELD HOSPITAL AT THE TIME KILLING CIVILIANS AND TALIBANS IN THE PROCESS–AS SPECIAL FORCES WERE ENGAGING THE ENEMY TALIBAN FROM THE PROVINCE OF KUNDUZ

U.S. officials have launched an investigation after 12 local staff members of Doctors Without Borders and at least seven patients, three of them children, were killed after an explosion near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz that may have been caused by a nearby airstrike.

In a statement, the international charity said the "sustained bombing" took place Saturday at 2:10 a.m local time. Afghan forces backed by U.S. airstrikes have been fighting to dislodge Taliban insurgents who overran Kunduz on Monday.

At least 37 other people were seriously injured--19 staff members and 18 patients and caretakers, the organization said. Dozens were missing, raising concerns the death toll could rise.

A senior defense official told Fox News on Saturday that the Taliban have been in control of the area around the hospital since Monday, guarding the building and drawing U.S. special operations forces into a firefight in the area. U.S. forces called in the airstrike because they were under fire and needed cover, the official said.

Taliban fighters were among those being treated at the hospital, a defense official told Fox News.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/10/03/3-doctors-without-borders-members-killed-in-us-airstrikes-in-afghanistan/

S KOREANS ARE GETTING KILLED IN THE PHILIPPINES AS 10 DEATHS OF KOREANS HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTED IN 2015 THUS FAR–AS IT SEEMS ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES OR REVENGE CRIME FROM ACQUAINTANCES MAY BE THE CAUSE

Another Korean couple have been murdered in the Philippines.
This brings to 10 the number of Koreans murdered in the nation this year, Yonhap news agency said Friday.

The latest victims, a man in his 50s and his wife in her 40s, were killed either Thursday night or Friday morning. The man was discovered with gunshot wounds inside a house in the Calabarzon region, on the outskirts of Manila. The woman was found dead outside the house.

Police reportedly did not find any trace of a break-in and thought the culprit might be among the victims' acquaintances.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/10/120_187857.html

TO GAIN THE POLITICAL TRACTION FOR THE 2016 POTUS–THE DEMOCRATS FROM HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON WILL GIVE MORE SPECIAL RIGHTS TO A FEW–AS SAME SEX RIGHTS AND ALL SEX CONDUCTS ARE JUST NOT PART OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACCORD FROM THE DEMOCRATS

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday delivered the strongest speech in support of gay rights in the 2016 presidential race on Saturday, promising that ending discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender people would be a central pillar of her administration.

“I see the injustices and the dangers that you and your families still face,” she told hundreds of gay activists at the annual meeting of the Human Rights Campaign. “I’m running for president to stand up for the fundamental rights of LGBT Americans.”

She added: “That’s a promise from one HRC to another.”

The statement marked a remarkable evolution for Clinton, who opposed same-sex marriage for more than two decades in public life as first lady, senator and presidential candidate. As recently as this year, Clinton said that while she personally supported gay marriage, the issue was best left for states to decide—a position held by most of the Republican presidential field.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3344320/posts

THE RUSSIANS WITH BASHAR AL ASSAD OF SYRIA CONSENT DOES ITS PRACTICE BOMBING OF IS TARGETS WITH 60 FLIGHTS OVER SYRIA DESTROYING 50 TARGETS AS THE IS GOES ON THE RUN–AS SU-34, SU-24M USING KAB-500 AND BETA-500 BOMBS AND UAV TO MONITOR THE AIR STRIKES

The Russian Air Force has conducted more than 60 flights and bombed over 50 Islamic State targets in three days, according to Russia’s top armed forces official. He added the strikes have significantly reduced the terrorists’ combat capabilities.

“The airstrikes were being conducted night and day from the Khmeimim airbase and throughout the whole of Syria. In three days we managed to undermine the terrorists’ material-technical base and significantly reduce their combat potential,” Lieutenant General Andrey Kartapolov, head of the Main Operation Directorate of the General Staff of Russia’s armed forces, told reporters on Saturday.

He added that according to Russian intelligence the militants are fleeing the area that was in their control.

“There is panic and defection among them. About 600 mercenaries have left their positions and are trying to reach Europe,” he said.

Washington has notified the Russian Defense Ministry that there were only militants in the areas of Russia’s military operation against IS in Syria, he added.  "The Americans informed us during contacts that there was no one except terrorists in this region," he said.

“Over the past 24 hours, Sukhoi Su-34 and Su-24M fighter jets have performed 20 sorties and hit nine Islamic State installations,” Igor Konashenkov, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, reported.

https://www.rt.com/news/317505-air-force-terrorists-raqqa/

HURRICANE JOAQUIN OVER THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE MAY HAVE TAKEN A CARGO SHIP WITH 33 SOULS FROM THE EL FARO

The US Coast Guard said it was searching for a cargo ship with 33 people on board on Friday night after it went missing during Hurricane Joaquin.

The Coast Guard said the 735-foot ship named El Faro had taken on water and was listing at 15 degrees near Crooked Island, in the Bahamas.

The crew included 31 Americans and two from Poland.

The El Faro

Hurricane Joaquin pictured from the International Space Station (ISS)  Photo: NASA

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11909023/Hurricane-Joaquin-cargo-ship-with-33-crew-on-board-missing-near-the-eye-of-the-storm.html

ARE YOU CRAZY ENOUGH TO DO THE IPHONE PINCH–WITH MANY ARE, UPLOADING THE EVENT WITH THE #EXTREMEPHONEPINCHING

A STRANGE online trend called “extreme phone pinching” is taking social media networks by storm and costing people thousands.

The challenge involves people putting their precious iPhones at risk by pinching the corner and dangling them over the most dangerous drop they can find.

The bizarre event is recorded and then uploaded with the hashtag #extremephonepinching.

The Mirror reports that the craze was started by an indie pop band called Twenty One Pilots.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/bizarre-internet-challenge-called-extreme-phone-pinching-goes-viral-on-social-media/story-fnjwnhzf-1227553956503

THE USS RONALD REAGAN ON PORT IN JAPAN PREFECTURE YOKOSUKA NAVAL PORT–AS A CEREMONY TO WELCOME THE AIRCRAFT THIS OCTOBER REVEALS THE US SHIFT BACK TO ASIA - REPLACING THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON WHO’S SLATED FOR A LONG OVERHAUL

The American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan docked at its new home in Japan's Yokosuka naval port Thursday just as Tokyo tries to deepen defense ties with the US under new security laws that expand the role of Japan's military.
The warship received a warm welcome from Japanese officials because of its role in disaster relief following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northern Japan.
At a ceremony, US Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said the vessel's arrival and its welcome are "visible symbols of our shared commitment to one another and regional stability."
"Together we provide the most critical pillar of international security, one that only maritime services can deliver," he said.
Outside the port, however, a small group of citizens protested the aircraft carrier's deployment as a move to step up Japan's military cooperation with the US.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has pushed to enhance the role of Japan's military in national defense and in global peacekeeping. It passed new laws during a chaotic parliamentary session last month that allow the country's troops to also defend their allies, mainly the US, overseas.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Nuclear-powered-carrier-USS-Ronald-Reagan-arrives-in-Japan/articleshow/49180897.cms

ROBOT TAXI IS ABOUT TO HIT JAPAN–AS THE PREFECTURE OF KANAGAWA SOUTH OF TOKYO WILL EXPERIMENT THE AUTO DRIVING CAR–THE TEST WILL BE LIMITED TO 2 MILES

From the country where hotels are operated by robots and androids serve as clerks at department stores comes the latest unmanned project: the robot cab.

Japan’s cabinet office, Kanagawa prefecture and Robot Taxi Inc. on Thursday said they will start experimenting with unmanned taxi service beginning in 2016. The service will be offered for approximately 50 people in Kanagawa prefecture, just south of Tokyo, with the auto-driving car carrying them from their homes to local grocery stores.

According to the project organizers, the cabs will drive a distance of about three kilometers (two miles), and part of the course will be on major avenues in the city. Crew members will be aboard the car during the experiment in case there is a need to avoid accidents.

Robot Taxi Inc., a joint venture between mobile Internet company DeNA Co. and vehicle technology developer ZMP Inc., is aiming to commercialize its driverless transportation service by 2020. The company says it will seek to offer unmanned cabs to users including travelers from overseas and locals in areas where buses and trains are not available.

Shinjiro Koizumi, son of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and a vice minister in the current government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, appeared at an event Thursday afternoon to promote the driverless-taxi effort. “There are a lot of people who say it’s impossible, but I think this will happen faster than people expect,” he said.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/01/robocab-driverless-taxi-experiment-to-start-in-japan/

THE USA BLUE ANGEL FLYING SQUADRAN DEMONSTRATES ITS AERIAL ACROBAT

 

 

https://www.blueangels.navy.mil/aircraft/

S KOREA (ROK) BLACK EAGLES SQUADRAN DEMONSTRATES ITS AERIAL ACROBAT

 

http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/news_photo.htm?lang=e&No=24636&current_page=1

THE ONLY MEANS FOR S KOREA (ROK) TO SURVIVE AGAINST ITS NEIGHBORS OF COMMUNISTS IS TO BE ABLE TO DEFEND ITSELF–AND HOW WOULD A COUNTRY GO ABOUT DOING THAT–FOLLOW THE USA METHOD OF PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH–AND THE RESULT HAS BEEN PROSPERITY–AND S KOREA CONTINUES ITS PROTECTION WITH INCREASES IN MILITARY SPENDING FOR ITS PROTECTION–AS S KOREA BUDGET GROWS (1173WON TO $1) 2009 $24.326 BILLION TO 2015 $31.932 BILLION TO A PROJECTED 2016 $33,210 BILLION

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/graphic/1001000000.html?cid=GYH20150911001300315

THE FAILURES IN SYRIA AS THE RUSSIANS TAKES OVER THE SYRIAN CONFLICT TO PROTECT THE BASHAR AL ASSAD MOVES FORWARD–WHILST THE POTUS BHO DRAWS THE HEAD FAKE WITH GUNS KILL FROM OREGON WITH THE LONGEST RECITATION WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR –WHILST HIS FOREIGN POLICY HAS KILLED EVEN GREATER PEOPLES–AS THE PUTIN DOES THE LEFTIST PLAYBOOK AND THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO CHAOS KEEPS QUIET WITH NO RESPOND DUE TO HIS WEAK IN THE KNEES POLICY–AND JOHN KERRY (D-MA) SECRETARY OF STATE GETS BLIND SIDED AS WELL SINCE HIS TOO PREOCCUPIED WITH GIVING AWAY THE MOTHER O BOMB TO IRAN WITH THE BHO TIE THE YELLOW RIBBON BLESSING–SINCE THE BHO HAS ALSO WRAPPED THE YELLOW RIBBON OF SURRENDER THE USA NUCLEAR ADVANTAGE TO THE PUTIN BENDING OVER IN THE PROCESS

Russia’s dramatic entry Wednesday into the Syrian war put the United States on the back foot once again and left Washington struggling to regain the military and diplomatic initiative.
As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in New York trying to coordinate with his Kremlin opposite number Sergei Lavrov, a Russian officer contacted the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

His message was simple: Russian jets are about to launch air strikes in Syria, please stay out of their way.
Kerry quickly protested to Lavrov that this was not in the spirit of Moscow’s promise to agree a “de-confliction” mechanism to ensure Russian flights do not interfere with U.S.-led operations.
But the strikes were already underway, potentially altering the balance of power in Syria back in favor of Bashar Assad’s regime, and Washington was looking at a fait accompli.
Lavrov’s next move was to promise to bring a motion before the U.N. Security Council to coordinate “all forces standing up against Islamic State and other terrorist structures.”
This would be a plain victory for Assad, who invited the Russians to join his battle to cling on to power, and a defeat for the United States, which has demanded he step down.
The attacks came despite President Barack Obama sitting down with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Monday at the United Nations for 90 minutes of what both camps called “business-like” talks.
One week ago, Kerry -- despite being in frequent contact with Lavrov -- told reporters that Russia’s deployment of war planes was consistent with their only defending their own base.
And just hours before the strikes began he appeared on CNN to say that Russia’s involvement could be an “opportunity” to persuade them to apply pressure on Assad to moderate his behavior.
After the strikes Kerry addressed the U.N. Security Council, but even here his message was mixed.
He said the United States would welcome the Russian action if it reflected a “genuine commitment” towards destroying the IS group and not the moderate opposition rebels threatening Assad.
Even as he spoke, a U.S. defense official in Washington briefed journalists that: “We have not seen any strikes against ISIL, what we have seen is strikes against Syrian opposition.”
Defense Secretary Ash Carter was cautious, saying: “It does appear they were in areas where there were probably not ISIL forces.”
The U.S. administration’s domestic critics, such as hawkish Sen. John McCain, leapt on the apparent confusion.
“This administration has confused our friends, encouraged our enemies, mistaken an excess of caution for prudence and replaced the risks of action with the perils of inaction,” he said.
“Into the wreckage, into the wreckage of this administration’s Middle East policy has now stepped Vladimir Putin.”
Frustration is also mounting among Washington’s allies in the Middle East, who support moves to defeat the Islamic State group, but also want to see Assad kicked out of office.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20151001000501

THE SAME OLD STORY FROM THE AGENDA DRIVEN LEFTIST THE GUN DID IT–YET THE RESULT OF BANNING GUNS KILLED 10 PEOPLE IN OREGON AS THE GUN FREE CAMPUS ONLY ALLOWS KILLERS WITH GUNS AND THE LAW ABIDING PEOPLE ARE LEFT FOR THE SLAUGHTER–THE TRUE AGENDA OF THE DEMOCRAT LEFTIST POTUS BHO CHAOS IS LEAVE PEOPLE TO BE TARGET OF KILLERS WITH GUNS–AS THE WEST COAST OREGON DEMOCRAT STATE FINDS OUT–THUS THE 2ND AMENDMENT PROTECTS THE FREE PEOPLE AND WITHOUT IT KILLERS WITH GUNS WHO WILL NEVER FOLLOW THE LAWS GETS OFF BY KILLING THE INNOCENT–AS THE UK IMMIGRANT DOES THE DIRTY DEED

A gunman singled out Christians, telling them they would see God in “one second,” during a rampage at an Oregon college Thursday that left at least nine innocent people dead and several more wounded, survivors and authorities said.

“[He started] asking people one by one what their religion was. ‘Are you a Christian?’ he would ask them, and if you’re a Christian, stand up. And they would stand up and he said, ‘Good, because you’re a Christian, you are going to see God in just about one second.’ And then he shot and killed them,” Stacy Boylen, whose daughter was wounded at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., told CNN.

A Twitter user named @bodhilooney, who said her grandmother was at the scene of the carnage, tweeted that if victims said they were Christian, “then they were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs.”

Gunman Chris Harper-Mercer’s disdain for religion was evident in an online profile, in which he became a member of a “doesn’t like organized religion” group on an Internet dating site.

Kort­ney Moore, 18, said she saw the teacher of her Writing 115 class get shot in the head at the college’s Snyder Hall before the gunman started asking people to state their religion and opening fire, the city’s News-Review newspaper reported.

Harper-Mercer, 26, was killed in a shootout with police outside one of the classrooms, said Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin.

“There was an exchange of gunfire,” he said. “The shooter threat was neutralized.”

Although police put the death toll at 10 — including Harper-Mercer — with seven people injured, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum had said 13 people died.

http://nypost.com/2015/10/01/oregon-gunman-singled-out-christians-during-rampage/

II AMENDMENT: http://www.cato.org/pubs/constitution/amendments_en.html

SINCE CUBA IS NO LONGER BEING HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD OF HUMANITY AS ITS DEALING WITH OPPRESSION MEANT MORE SANCTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FROM THE US AS A COMMUNIST COUNTRY–YET THE DEMOCRAT LEFTIST POTUS BHO CHAOS HAS NORMALIZED RELATIONS AND WHAT DO WE GET AS AMERICANS FROM CUBA IN RETURN–NOTHING BUT MORE MISDEEDS–AS CUBA INCREASES ITS REPRESSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ANOTHER LEGACY OF THE POTUS BHO CHAOS WHO LIVES IN A CORNUCOPIA SHELL

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Jose Diaz-Balart, host of “The Rundown,” said since President Barack Obama opened up diplomatic relations, Cuba is violating human rights with political prisoners and described it as a “increase of repression.”

Responding to Raul Castro’s call to end the U.S. embargo on Cuba during his first speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, Diaz-Balart said, “You know, the embargo, if you look at how it was codified into law, it’s pretty basic and simple on how the embargo would be lifted. How all of the blockades that exist between the United States being able to fully have economic relations and support for the Cuban government. It’s pretty simple how that would go away. If there is a call for free and fair elections, if political prisoners are released, if unions are allowed to organize and people can move freely within the country. If those three things happen in Cuba, then the embargo would cease to exist. So it’s almost as if people are speaking in New York on different planets, because it’s pretty simple. You call for democratic elections,  you have a release of political prisoners, and have unions and the embargo’s over.”

Host Chuck Todd asked, “Ever since the United States cut this deal and opened up diplomatic relations with Cuba, tell me what’s happened to political prisoners in Cuba.”

Diaz-Balart replied, “Well, the increase of repression has been clear. A young man, El Sexto, who is an artist, currently in a prison in Cuba, no charges against him. He’s on a hunger strike, very close to death, and that is because, in an art exhibit, he brought out an art exhibit that had two apparently paper mache pigs. One said Fidel and one said Raul. And for that art exhibit, he’s close to death. Over the weekend, 70 people were arrested in Cuba. That includes Ladies of White and dissidents. The three dissidents that tried to approach the pope are still unaccounted for in prison. A lot of questions by Raul Castro, but what is going to cause a change in that government that’s been in power since January 1st of 1959?”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/09/29/msnbcs-diaz-balart-since-obama-renewed-relations-cuba-has-increased-repression/

ONCE AGAIN WITHOUT A DOUBT THE PLANNED LEGACY OF THE POTUS BHO COMES TO FRUITION AS HIS LEGACY TO GIVE AFGHAN BACK TO THE AFGHANS WHICH IS IN LEFTIST TERMS TALIBANS GETS CLOSER IN FULFILLMENT AS KUNDUZ A MAJOR CITY OF AFGHANISTAN IS READY FOR THE TAKING–ONLY 1.4 YEARS LEFT AND NOT MUCH MORE TIME TO MARCH TO THE CHAOS TUNE IN WHAT IS A FAILURE IN NORMAL EVERYDAY STANDARDS FOR AMERICA YET IS A CHECK MARK OF ACCOMPLISHMENT AND AN AGENDA WELL PLANNED FOR THE POTUS BHO CHAOS

Taliban insurgents seized control of key facilities across a major city in northern Afghanistan on Monday, driving back stunned security forces in a multi-pronged attack that also sent Afghan officials and U.N. personnel fleeing for safety.

The fall of Kunduz would be a huge blow to the Western-backed government in Kabul and give Taliban insurgents a critical base of operations beyond their traditional strongholds in Afghanistan’s south.

For the moment, Afghan officials acknowledged, much of the city was in Taliban hands, and Afghan authorities were left struggling over how to turn the tide.

Kunduz has “collapsed” into Taliban control, Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told the Associated Press.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/taliban-overruns-half-of-northern-afghan-city/2015/09/28/53798568-65df-11e5-bdb6-6861f4521205_story.html

LATEST GOP POLL ON THE LAST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 2015 HAS BEN CARSON AND DONALD TRUMP NECK TO NECK WITH 20% AND 21% OF PRIMARY VOTERS WITH MARCO RUBIO (R-FL) AND CARLY FIORINA AT 11% AS IT SEEMS THE POTUS FOR 2016 FIELD IS STARTING TO NARROW

Donald Trump and Ben Carson are running neck and neck atop the 2016 Republican presidential field, according to a new national poll.

The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday morning found 21 percent support from Republican primary voters for Trump and 20 percent for Carson.

Carson's support has doubled since July, when he attracted !0 percent in a similar poll.

Carson said Sunday that the poll “reflects what we’ve been seeing out on the road, just tremendous crowds but enormous enthusiasm.”

“And I think it says a lot for the American people, because it means that they’re not necessarily listening to the pundits, that they’re starting to think for themselves,” he added on ABC’s “This Week.” “And that, I think, is what it’s going to take to get us off of this inexorable track toward destruction that we’re on.”

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina are tied for third place in the new poll, with 11 percent each.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush nabbed 7 percent. He is followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 6 percent and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with 5 percent. No other GOP candidate had more than 3 percent support, NBC News said.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/255078-poll-trump-carson-neck-and-neck-atop-gop-field

SO AFTER 10 YEARS OF POOP RESEARCH TO MAKE ENERGY OUT OF ELEPHANT POOP THE TOILET PLUG WAS YANKED BY THE NEW DENVER ZOO PRESIDENT SHANNON BLOCK–AS $4 MILLION OF CONSTRUCTION NOT COUNTING RESEARCH EFFORTS TO PUSH HARD THE BLOCKAGE TO CREATE ENERGY PELLETS OF POOP HAS FINALLY MAY LOOK LIKE COME TO ITS END AS ANOTHER ENTITY IS LOOKED FOR TO TAKE OVER THE CRAPPY PROJECT

his is a story that Billy, Dolly and the rest of the elephants at the Denver Zoo will probably never forget: how they almost, but not quite, became not just animals on exhibit, but also sources of renewable energy.

A decade or so ago, zoo leaders had an innovative idea. As part of their quest to become “the greenest zoo in the country” and a zero-waste facility by 2025, they would develop a technique to transform elephant dung and other waste at the zoo such as paper plates and dirty diapers into fuel pellets that would generate electricity through a process called gasification.

The power would help light and heat the 10-acre elephant exhibit and warm pools in which the animals wade and swim in the winter. The zoo estimated it would reduce what it sends to landfills by 90%.

The state and the city said yes. The Environmental Protection Agency was interested, as was the National Renewable Energy Lab. Permits were obtained. All was a go. The gasification plant would be built on the zoo grounds in the heart of Denver’s City Park.

The zoo showed off the potential of its pooh by powering a blender to make margaritas and, later, a motorized rickshaw that went on a promotional tour to zoos across the West. There was even a nice irony: This green electricity would be powering an elephant exhibit sponsored by a major consumer of fossil fuels, Toyota.

“Everyone was on board,” said Tiffany Barnhart, a spokeswoman for the zoo. “Everyone loved it.”

Nearly everyone.

As the years passed and plans proceeded, a small but persistent group of neighborhood activists began raising questions and applying pressure to the City Council. Would the plant disrupt peaceful City Park? Would it really meet air quality regulations? The zoo said of course it would — it would have to. The city’s largest newspaper stood up for the project this month.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-elephant-dung-story.html