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ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICIALS FROM Pennsylvania can’t explain why residents of one city thought part of their town smelled like cat urine last year.
The New Castle News reports that a Department of Environmental Protection report into the issue was inconclusive.
“It’s been a year since a noxious, cat urine-like odor (sic) assaulted the nostrils of New Castle residents,” the newspaper recalls.
The department says it’s likely that some kind of waste containing mesityl oxide mixed with some kind of sulfur compound to create the smell.
However, air samples and testing of substances at the city’s sewage treatment plant didn’t turn up a source of the substances.
Mesityl oxide is used in paint removers, as a solvent and in insect repellents.
New Castle is located about 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
The city first contacted Pennsylvania environmental officials about the smell in October 2014.
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Anyone else has déjà vu to Germany in 1933?
That’s it, pissy little liberal. Continue to throw your toys out of the pram.
You are a weird guy…
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: I find it strange how radical Islam has been growing and spreading from country to country over the past 10 years… Expelling and butchering minorities across the region and even other Muslims who aren’t Muslim enough. Over those years not once have I heard anyone say “oh it’s just like Germany in 1933″ when in actually it is identical to Germany in 1940.
Yet along comes Trump and says “if you haven’t done your paperwork, you will be deported”. He says those deported will have to re-apply through official channels. Australia has a policy that if you don’t do your paperwork it’s a straight lifetime ban from the country. Yet no one compares Australia to Nazi Germany. The hypocrisy is astonishing to me.
And now for some good news:
Trump Pledges To Withdraw U.S. Support For ISIS .
President-elect Donald Trump has declared that on his watch the United States will stop supporting ISIS and militant opposition groups in Syria.
Instead the U.S. will work with Russia and the Syrian government to defeat ISIS and the terrorist organizations attempting to overthrow Assad’s government.
Trump stated that while he “did not like [Mr Assad] at all”, he respects Syria’s sovereignty and believes the U.S. has no place providing assistance to Islamic terrorists attempting to overthrow a foreign government.
“I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria. My attitude was you’re fighting Syria, Syria is fighting Isis, and you have to get rid of Isis,” he said on Friday.
The president-elect believes shoring up Assad’s Syrian government is the best way to stop the Islamic extremism that has flourished in the chaos of the civil war and threatened Western countries.
“Russia is now totally aligned with Syria, and now you have Iran, which is becoming powerful, because of us, is aligned with Syria… Now we’re backing rebels against Syria, and we have no idea who those people are,” he told the Wall Street Journal, referring to the hardline Islamic terrorists that make up the opposition ranks. If the U.S. continues to attack Assad, “We end up fighting Russia,” he added.
To date the U.S. has supported rebels in Syria both logistically and financially, along with allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar – two states revealed to be supporting ISIS by WikiLeaks emails sent by Hillary Clinton to John Podesta.
Trump believes that rather than playing a risky game using Islamic militants as proxy soldiers in order to overthrow a foreign regime, the United States should instead focus on ridding the world of ISIS.
http://yournewswire.com/trump-withdraw-support-isis/
@Pat O’Dwyer: Trump Explains The Syria Conflict
We can only hope he can keep his word. He wants the US to stop supporting ISIS/ Al Qaeda etc.
Short video.
On February 10, 2016, Trump gave an interview on ‘CBS This Morning’ and nailed the question he was asked regarding the Syrian Conflict.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jyElI-pc08
Larrissa. Yes i remember the keyboard warriors posting stuff on Facebook and Twitter in 1933 about the Fuhrer. And we just didnt listen.
Larissa you’re not the first to mention Germany and 1933 and every time I see a comment that suggests it I have to laugh, it’s the equivalent of Helen Lovejoy screaming “won’t somebody think of the children”. There is never going to be another Hitler, there are too many safeguards in place to let that happen. Australia turfs illegal immigrants out every day and yet no is calling them racist or suggesting they are 1916′s equivalent to 1933′s Germany. Grow up ffs.
Oh don’t worry Larissa, you’re not the only one who’s drawing parallels between Trump and Hitler. Funnily enough all of those doing so are progressives who are protesting the democratic vote and hosting cry-ins.
There is never going to Hitler? Yeah sure.
Maybe we should just see how all this pans out before getting our underwear in a twist eh? Trump will be president and whether you like it or not (I don’t) that’s the democratic system that exists. I think we can be pretty certain that he’ll face considered opposition to much of his campaign positions. He’s even softening on some of them since the vote.
@Anna Bee:
“There is never going to be another Hitler, there are too many safeguards in place to let that happen.”
I’d be interested to hear what these safeguards are? Will they for example prevent Marine Le Pen becoming the French President next year?
@Tony, opposition from whom? The republicans have the house and the senate
@Brendan Hill: strictly speaking Islam is the new Nazism..the spread of a far right ,anti Semitic anti freedom ideology. The left sold out to it so that and the labeling of voters as xenophobes made the PC side fail in the U.S. just as per brexit.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: No but then I wasn’t in Germany in 1933, what was it like?
Putin took crimnea . Wheres the safeguards there
@Alan Flood: Crimea voted to rejoin Russia, a number of independent polls since put support for this action consistently over the high 80%. Funny how the world has no problem supporting countries that vote to leave the confederation…
Yes Larissa but it’s been pretty obvious that many republicans have disagrees with him along the way
I would be more worried about erdogan in turkey than I would be about trump. If anyone has the ability to be the new hitler it’s that guy. That said I’m no
Fan of trump or America foreign policy this past 70 years or so .
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Americans love their democracy freedom (or at least the illusion of it.), and any attempt by Trump to get shot of the Senate and Congress and become a dictator would be seen as a direct attack on the liberties and freedoms of Americans, there would be an uprising, and a violent one at that considering how many Americans are armed. I would be far more worried about LePen in France becoming the next dictator than Trump.
@Mick Johnson: Excellent point. I am working on a definition of the segment of society who fit the category you describe. The only explanation is that their outward expression of concern for the peoples well being is nothing but a device to gain control. They want to destroy our society out of envy and anything that does that is welcome to them. They include Leffties, greenies, liberals (of a particular type), Communists, and do-gooders. I doubt if any actually work for a living, but I know a few who do some work. They are strongly attracted to careers in the sheltered media.
Reince Priebus, sounds like a store in Diagon Alley
Or a larger version of a particular Toyota.
These AFP articles are ridiculously biased. They’ve learned nothing. No wonder there’s people who think it’s the end of he world.
@Awkward Seal: Well, to be fair, Bannon is a fascist and anti-Semite, and they were decorous enough not to even mention that.
“Decorous” love it Petr …..
For fans of Trump , Bannons racist , woman hating views will be welcomed . Here is one of thousands of examples
“Now, you may be asking what I would have women replace the Pill with, since it’s obviously so awful. Condoms? Vasectomies? The answer is: nothing. We need the kids if we’re to breed enough to keep the Muslim invaders at bay.”
For anyone who is not a racist or woman hater this is bad news
Jimmy,
It’s a bit late to be complaining now. The exploitative free market ideology you espouse has failed tens of millions of Americans and created the conditions for the rise of the demagogue Trump. Take a look in the mirror.
Yeah Jimmy it’s all your fault.
Oh he’s not on his own jane…………..
Ha ha ….. Billy Mooney
As if your brand of jack booted thug is any better than Trumps brand of jack booted thug.
If a Paul Murphy type character was elected – I would be equally concerned .
Grotesque all
@Jimmy jones: Paul Murphy is elected and the jack booted thugs have always come from your side of the political spectrum. Le Pen in France is another rising star of the right that has your neoliberal ideology to thank for the lift in their political fortunes. In contrast the Left have Jeremy Corbyn who is about as far removed from a jack booted stromtrooper as it’s possible to get.
Actually Wally I would say it’s because of your political persuasion that this is happening. The hard left that calls everyone a racist if they don’t agree with open border policy, you’re a misogynist if you don’t agree with abortion and if you’ve any religious faith…..well you’re just an idiot and god forbid you’d go out and do a days work for a wage or worse still actually work hard at your business and create employment. That sort of rhetoric has turned moderates to the right. Maybe take a look in your own mirror.
Eh, not really Jane. He left understands that the mass movements of people are a symptom of the problem, not the cause. The refugee and migrant crisis is the result of the capitalist system with exploits the majority to enrich the few. At its most extreme it initiates war and conquest to allow further profiteering in the recent cases of Iraq and Libya for example.
People are basically the same irrespective of where they come from. We all want to provide a decent and safe home for our families, food on the table, healthcare and education for our children and to have a decent job. If people can obtain these basics then the vast majority are satisfied and will never leave their home place. It is the brute exploitation of the capitalist system and the violence and misery that it drives which sends people searching desperately across the globe for safety and a better life.
And we also understand that the vast majority will work when there is decent jobs available as clearly shown in the data. People don’t want to be on welfare and the miserable constrained life that that involves. And the recession and unemployment of the last decade was as a result of the establishment Right’s decision to bailout the endemically corrupt and delinquents finance sector with trillions of the public’s money.
The crushing of the working class to further enrich the already obscenely wealthy and powerful elite is what’s fuelling the rise of Trump and Le Pena and the descent of Poland and Hungary etc into far right extremism.
Maybe have a look in the history books to see where this leads jane.
@Jimmy jones: Why have our Irish left politicians stopped opposing TPP, Trump promised to end it. So Richard Boyd Barrett , Ruth Copinger and Co have that in common with Trump at least.
Bannon of Breibart has the crucial and influential role.
@Micheal OLainn: And he’s a dangerous headbanger.
Says who? People on the opposite spectrum of his politics? They are hardly going to sing his praises in fairness.
Shane I’d consider myself slightly right of centre in political terms, I think this man is scary.
@Micheal OLainn: He runs one of the most hate filled dispicable sites out there – the hate spewed on his online pages are a disgrace to humanity.
Breitbart brings headlines like “Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movements Human Shield” look up Gabby Giffords of you don’t get it. More headlines here http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/17/breitbart-news-worst-headlines/212467
Breitbart executive? Can there be any doubt now about his intentions? This crazy publication would make Joseph Goebbels proud, overtly racist, paranoid and frankly dangerous. They simply make articles up to suit their white supremacist agenda. Fearful times…
@Phil Magee: they are unapologetic ally far right and not in the way lots of folks/outlets branded as far right arent, however they were one of the only (the only?) source of the true events from the Paris attacks and the savagery, however uncomfortable, of that night. Mainstream media has a lot to answer for and clearly after brexit, Trump the masses are waking up
@Seán Domhnall O’Sullivan: It is possible that some of what they report is true, but many of their articles are kkk fantasy. Just because most of the mainstream media have biased agendas doesn’t mean this rag and it’s lies ok. Anyway, who says they were a true source of the events in Paris?
@Phil Magee: mainstream media has in the main been trying to down play the events, the risk of terror particularly in Europe, enabling inappropriate or false analogy and false security. Issue I have is where the media and politicians conspire to downplay Islamic terror links. He may be right wing but I find Paul Joseph Watson refreshing.
@Seán Domhnall O’Sullivan: You failed to answer my question, who says that just because other media sources are wrong that this one isn’t also wrong?
There goes the “draining the swamp” malarkey .
Ok……
Hands up who else had to Google Rorschach Test?
Have you ever seen Watchmen?
Breidbart isn’t ‘white nationalist’. Poor journalism like this led to Trump’s win.
Think of it like this. Paddy power bookmakers paid out over one million Euros on a Clinton win two weeks before election day. They admit media commentary helps assess betting odds. She lost. Pat Swords (A Dublin engineer) dragged Ireland and the UK through the Compliance Committee of the UNECE and won there. Yet he was never allowed on any Irish media outlet, because editors don’t approve. I took a recent Judicial review case in the Irish High Court on a wind farm planning issue. It made the papers but when I finally won it got no mention in the papers. In fact no local paper like the Anglo Celt would publish it. This builds up frustration among consumers and voters who include a touch of revenge in their verdict at the news stalls or polling booth.
I believe neither Irish or British mainstream Broadcast or Print media is capable of change. They have to be let wither away. About 15 years ago, there was an upsurge in new local newspapers in Ireland at County level, it all fizzled out, perhaps it was just a little to soon on the scene. We now have (if reports are correct|), the appointment as the Trump government’s chief strategist, Steven Bannon who ran the on line newspaper Breithbart News, It is described on Wikipedia as “committed to the destruction of the old media guard”. I hope a new revolution is the media does not swing to the left or right, but sticks to its proper purpose, to investigate, criticize, praise and report. Until that happens, a pillar of our freedom is missing. The vitriolic bile pumped out by Irish National Broadcaster RTE on hearing of Trump’s victory is evidence of a sheltered media, paid for by force through the licence fee will be harder to break. Not impossible but it will take a little longer. George Orwell predicted in his book “1984″ “there will be nothing in the newspapers only sport”
You alright there Don Quixote?
I always said the political spectrum is a circle, not a straight bar. right and left meet at 12 O’ Clock. The politics which is being rejected in by voters Britain, America and Europe right now is a very strange animal indeed. It is a kind of loose coalition which has within it Resurrected Communists, Socialists, some do gooders, Eco Nuts ( a species of extreme Eco environmentalists ) , Greens, large corporate interests, globalists, celebrity state advisers, There does not appear to be any religious among them, they are not into pop culture, not that much into drug abuse They are actually quite boring. They hold the media firmly in their grasp and hold a lot of influence with government. Friends of the Earth receive 400,000 euros from Irish State and EU every year. They are pro EU. All are warmers, Very strange grouping,
@Val Martin: Excellent analysis! Well done
Negan: Little pig, little pig, let me in
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