Autumn Equinox happens at 9:45 PM tonight.

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September 22, 2018

By Sebastian Kettley

The Autumn Equinox (click here) marks the first day of astronomical autumn in the northern hemisphere and the start of spring in the south.

In the UK, the equinox will start just before 3am on Sunday morning, September 23.

The equinox will start when the Sun positions itself directly over the Earth’s equator – an event which only occurs twice throughout the year.

Astrologers who have studied the celestial movements of the planets and the stars believe this could have a significant impact on your horoscope in the days to come....

Israel has a right to defend itself and guess what Trump said...

September 20, 2018
By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli military delegation (click here) held a number of high-level meetings with Russian officials in Moscow on Thursday in an effort to defuse tensions over the downing of a Russian plane off the coast of Syria during an Israeli airstrike earlier in the week.

The Israeli officials, led by air force chief Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin, showed their Russian counterparts the Israel Defense Forces’ initial investigation of the incident, which the army said showed Syria, not Israel, to be responsible for the downing of the Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft and its 15 crew members....

...Donald Trump said "...it was sad...." Sad. Israeli jets were in Syria on a mission to end the transfer of serious weapons to Hezbollah (this defense posture with Hezbollah and Syria's assistance within it's territory is not new) and Trump addresses the Russian jet as being "very sad." Trump is incompetent. 

What is a Russian jet doing in the proximity of Israeli jets and then a Syrian missile is in the air intended for an Israeli jet. I guarantee you Syria didn't know the Israeli jets were there until the explosion of munitions intended for Hezbollah on a Syrian military base. Yet in no time there is a Russia jet in the air and a Syrian missile at the same time. There is a lot in questions here.

No one wants Israel to become aggressive at the borders to Syria, but, that has to be set aside if Syria, Iran and Hezbollah are in cooperation over munitions and military hardware. This is the reason there needs to be a summit and an end demanded to any hostilities. When incidents like this occur the details have to be sorted out. It would be better, especially if deaths are occurring if there simply was a clear understanding the fighting and dying in Syria will end.

What if the Russian jet fired on an Israeli jet? What if the Syrian missile destroyed or brought down an Israeli jet? The entire situation would be different and there would be war chants instead of meetings about friendly fire. This is not acceptable. Syria is unstable, it's defenses are questionably sufficient and the mischief with Syria and Iran is something even Russia cannot control. I doubt Russia knew about the Hezbollah shipment, yet it's jet was air bound for Israeli jets. None of this is acceptable and Trump is very sad. 

The United Nations desperately needs to summit and bring about a plan to end the fighting and dying and recover Syria to a state of stability and peace for the people. Iran cannot continue to escalate the hostilities in the region, including with the Houthis. 

September 18, 2018

11:05 p.m.

President Donald Trump (click here) is expressing concern about a Russian plane that was shot down over Syria.

Trump, appearing at a White House news conference with the president of Poland on Tuesday, called it a "very sad thing" and said it was "not a good situation."

But the president also said that the United States has done a "tremendous job" battling the Islamic State group in Syria. He went on to suggest that the nation's mission there was "very close to being finished."

The Russian plane was believed to be shot down by the Syrian regime's anti-aircraft fire....

I might add Iran denies any supply of missiles to the Houthis. This is from "Sputnik," a Russian media outlet.

...Responding to the collection of claims on Sunday, (click here) IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said that it was ridiculous to suggest that Iran could send any weapons, and particularly advanced ones such as missiles, to a country that's been subjected to a Saudi coalition blockade for nearly three years....

Ending a dangerous regime such as Daesh is not an excuse for a greater war. This needs a summit. The end of these conflicts are not the least in sight.

...As for the real source of the weapons, the senior officer said that Yemen has a sufficient stockpile of its own missiles, which the Houthi rebels have successfully "overhauled."...

Any so called proof presented by the USA has to be received in speculation of tampering as was evident from the Iraqi invasion under George W. Bush. The parties involved in these conflicts have to end their hostilities and conditions for the people have to improve with disarmament of any groups that cannot bring about a secure sovereign state.

How serious is sexual assault? Some women need service dogs to help with the emotional damage.

September 22, 2018
by Adelina Lancianese

Leigh Michel with Lizzy, her service dog, attracts more attention than the average shopper while shopping for groceries.

Guiding her cart down an aisle (click here) of a Virginia grocery store, Leigh Michel attracts more attention than the average shopper.

"Do you know where the dog food is?" one man asks her. This kind of attention makes her uneasy.

"No, I don't," Michel answers. "Sorry."

The man assumes Michel would know the answer because her service dog, an English black Labrador named Lizzy, is walking at her side.

He's not the only shopper watching Michel and Lizzy.

Some skirt around them in the bread aisle ("Oh she won't bite," Michel assures one woman) and others ignore the boundaries of typical service dog decorum near the condiments.

"Is she friendly?" another man asks, reaching out to pet Lizzy and launching into a story about his mother's service chihuahua.

Michel indulges him briefly, tells him to have a good day, and moves on.

"Without [Lizzy], I wouldn't even be talking to the cashier," Michel says as she approaches the checkout.

"So I guess she's actually kind of my trainer, getting me to talk to people."...

North Carolina is a disaster area.

The death count is inching higher every day as the flooding continues. The University of North Carolina, the Wilmington Campus has been closed until further notice.

Duke Energy always denies any pollution before the truth comes out and they are ONCE AGAIN creating health problems in North Carolina.

September 21, 2018
By Stephanie Ebbs

Duke Energy (click here) says a dam at a power plant in Wilmington, North Carolina has been breached, raising concerns that water contaminated with byproducts of burning coal could flow into the Cape Fear River.

Duke says ponds that store solid byproducts of burning coal that can contaminate waterways with substances like mercury and arsenic, known as coal ash, are submerged but they believe stable and not releasing ash into the river.

But a spokeswoman also said they cannot rule out that coal ash was released and will continue to monitor the situation....

'Fahrenheit 11/9' - David Hogg, Michael Moore - The Critics are raving about this film.

The White House of Cards.

There is nothing but liars in the Trump White House. It never stops. I might note that Rove was the same way when he had to appear before a grand jury. He testified somewhere in the neighborhood of seven times in order to prevent a perjury charge. They can't be trusted. Either they are assaulting women or seeking greed through the power of the USA or lying to hide it. Enough of the GOP, their supposed decent reputation as a party never existed, except through their rhetoric and big spending ads. The Republican Party cannot be trusted.

KT McFarland, (click here) a top official on President Donald Trump's transition team, said in an email last December that they should reassure Russia, which she said had just "thrown the U.S.A. election" to Trump....

Her husband is an investment banker. She has been highly critical of President Obama while his administration was engaged in developing the "Iran Deal." They don't care about the country, they care about their own agenda of wealth and power. Republicans aren't trustworthy in any way, especially with the national debt of the USA.

September 22, 2018

By John Bowden

Foreign policy expert and former Sen. Joseph Lieberman said McFarland is "one of our country's most experienced, informed and wise foreign policy and national security experts."

Former top White House official K.T. McFarland (click here) has reportedly revised her statement to the special counsel's office about her knowledge of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's Russian contacts.

McFarland made the revision after her reported testimony to Robert Mueller's investigators —stating that she never talked to Flynn about his discussions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions — was contradicted by Flynn's guilty plea last year, The Washington Post reports.

“On that call, Flynn and [McFarland] discussed the U.S. sanctions, including the potential impact of those sanctions on the incoming administration’s foreign policy goals,” read a line in Flynn's plea agreement....

...McFarland's nomination to be ambassador to Singapore was derailed late last year over similar issues after Democrats and some Republicans raised concerns about contradictions between Flynn's guilty plea and her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who sits on the panel, at the time called the apparent contradiction between McFarland's testimony and Flynn's plea "alarming."

"Recent developments suggest that Ms. McFarland gave false testimony to the

United States Senate on a matter as significant as communications between the Russian government and the Trump transition team,” he said in a statement in December....

No surprise here. More proof the GOP does not care about women.

While Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich engaged in an extramarital affair, same with Bob Livingston and Dennis Hastert was indicted on charges of illegally structuring $1.7 million payments to cover up sexual misconduct with a former student. The GOP is more offensive to women in one way or another than any party in history. And now, in the White House, is the Commander and Chief of sexual impropriety, pedophilia and adultery. When is this going to end?

September 22, 2018
By Heidi Przybyla

Washington - A press adviser (click here) helping lead the Senate Judiciary Committee’s response to a sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has stepped down amid evidence he was fired from a previous political job in part because of a sexual harassment allegation against him.

Garrett Ventry, 29, who served as a communications aide to the committee chaired by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, had been helping coordinate the majority party's messaging in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago at a high school party. In a response to NBC News, Ventry denied any past "allegations of misconduct."

After NBC News raised questions about Ventry's employment history and the sexual harassment allegation against him, Judiciary Committee Spokesman Taylor Foy replied in a statement: "While (Ventry) strongly denies allegations of wrongdoing, he decided to resign to avoid causing any distraction from the work of the committee."...