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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Slams President Enrique Peña Nieto For Meeting Trump

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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Slams President Enrique Peña Nieto For Meeting Trump

“If he’s gone soft on Trump, it will hurt him greatly. He will even be considered like a traitor.”

08/31/2016 10:14 am ET | Updated 3 hours ago

Igor Bobic Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Wednesday harshly criticized current President Enrique Peña Nieto for inviting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to meet with him south of the border, just hours before he is due to give a widely anticipated speech on immigration in Arizona.
“He is not welcome to Mexico,” Fox said in an interview on CNN. “By 130 million people, we don’t like him, we don’t want him. We reject his message.”
Trump tweeted Tuesday that he had accepted an invitation to meet Peña Nieto in private. An invitation had also been extended to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, but the former secretary of state’s campaign said she was looking forward to speaking with him at the “appropriate time.”
Trump has spent more than a year railing against Mexico and its leaders, promising the country would pay for the construction of a wall on the border it shares with the U.S., as well as fear-mongering about “rapists” and drug dealers that are coming across it.
The surprise meeting abroad with a foreign leader will be Trump’s first as a presidential nominee, and is not without risks to his candidacy. Mitt Romney’s trip to Israel during the 2012 presidential campaign, for example, did not go over well. Peña Nieto’s approval rating fell to a record low earlier this year amid several corruption scandals. He, too, may seize on the meeting as an opportunity to bolster his image with Mexicans.
In his interview on CNN, Fox warned Peña Nieto would be viewed like “a traitor” if he does not stand up to the GOP nominee.
“Trump is using Mexico, using President Peña to boost his sinking poll numbers,” Fox said. “I think the President Peña is taking an enormous political risk by hosting Trump. If he’s gone soft on Trump, it will hurt him greatly. He will even be considered like a traitor because we don’t accept to be offended like we just heard, and it should not happen. He comes here with a smile on his face. I think this is a big mistake on part of President Peña.”
“It’s a very opportunistic move and I hope U.S. public opinion, U.S. citizens can see this and finally, and finally see what is behind Trump, this false prophet that is just cheating everybody,” he added. “It’s a desperate move and I don’t see how it can work at all.”
Earlier this year, Fox railed against Trump in an expletive-laden outburst, promising that Mexico would “never pay for that fucking wall.” He later apologized, and even invited Trump “to come to Mexico and to learn about the real Mexico.”
Trump noted so helpfully in a tweet Wednesday morning.

Fox tweeted his own recollection in response:

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

How has the Technological Singularity overcome the dominant Paradigm on Earth?

I realized most people do not have a background going back to 1966 in College in computer programming and studying how digital computers operate and contemplating how this all affects mankind in various different ways.

So, I thought maybe I could simplify this somehow to help people better understand the problems we face now as a human race.

The single biggest threat I presently see is to democracy itself.

The easiest solution might be to go back to paper ballots to keep democracies honest worldwide. This might be the solution by going back to paper ballots everywhere even though many modern places might be upset with doing this.

However, at present the problem is so extreme now that democracy itself will be gone soon (or at least any public confidence at all in democracies actually being the will of the people anywhere.

But, back to trying to answer the question: "How has the Technological Singularity overcome the dominant paradigm (since World War II)?

The best example I can presently think of is motorized flight.

How many years did it take for flight to become a weapon?

Some might say it was a weapon from the first moment a plane took off that wasn't a glider.

Some would say it didn't really get going until world War I.

Some would say it didn't really get going until the firebombing and nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

But anyway you look at it it became a weapon.

LIkewise, when did digital computers become a weapon?

Some might say it became a weapon of war as a code breaker during World war II where they broke the German codes which speeded up the Allies (the U.S. and Europe and Russia) winning world war II.

So, it could be said that digital computers were weapons from the beginning.

When did those weapons get turned upon the people of earth?

It was a slow process of computerized land lines that were tapped in the U.S. which then spread to the whole world which spread to all cell phones on earth which are also tapped now by the NSA and all larger governments on earth.

So, all communications on earth are recorded now in case they are ever needed including what I write here and anyone who reads what I write worldwide.

So, communication in all forms is a digital computer weapon both now, on into the future literally forever as long as long as any records (from any time) are kept that people can refer back to thereby potentially punishing people's descendants 1000s of years into the future for literally anything they did or said now all the way back as long as any recordings of anything have been kept.

So, how did the Technological Singularity subvert the dominant paradigm?

By recording everything anyone does or says anywhere from wherever that started on into the future.

And taking this information and doing "What Millions of things with it?" now and on into the future.

This is how everyone's lives, fortunes, personal habits, things they could be blackmailed for into perpetuity could exist. So, literally anyone could theoretically be blackmailed into doing almost anything any time because literally the most honest person on earth has things he doesn't want the world to know about.

So, this is how the Technological Singularity has subverted the Dominant Paradigm since World War II.

And this is only ONE example of the literally thousands of ways the present Technological Singularity has overcome the dominant paradigm and threatens the existence of the human race and the existence of Earth itself.

And presently this is manifesting as the undermining of all Democratic nations on earth through the Internet by Hackers of various countries. And the problem is thousands of times worse now by Supercomputers with hundreds and thousands of hackers programming the programs that can do what they do millions of times faster and more insidiously efficient than they could ever do alone.

So, basically the complete Internet and everything connected to it is obsolete.

And everyone with the technical knowledge like I do knows this.

But, since literally trillions of dollars are involved at present no one is going to say anything but private individuals who care about the human race not going extinct like me.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Wildfire prompts evacuations of 200 homes in California

As you are heading east on Interstate 10 Beaumont and Banning are where the Semi Arrid lands of Los Angeles, San Bernadino and Riverside start to turn into the hotter more desert regions nearer to Palm Springs where temperatures in the 120s are not that unusual this time of year. Whereas in Los Angeles 110 or 115 might be the highest temperature you will see all year. But, Palm Springs might have temperatures over 100 from June through September or even October some years and on one day or another you might see 120, 125 or even up to 127 degrees on a really hot year one day. So, Beaumont and Banning are where the weather starts to change toward being more hot and desert like Palm Springs can be. But, also Palm Springs can also be 70s or 80s even in December, January or February during winter which is why so many people go there to play golf and relax during winters there. I have experienced over 120 degrees in Palm Springs as well as have been caught in sand storms there too. You really don't want to get caught out in one because it could take the skin off your face if you don't have a car to get into or a house or building to get into. So, don't walk into sand storms thinking you will be okay. Because you can get sand everywhere, into your eyes, throat, ears and deep into your clothing as well as burning off your skin that is exposed in the high winds. It can be like getting sand blasted. I was once at age 6 in a sand storm in death valley where it completely took the paint off the car I was riding in right down to the metal. Imagine what it could do to you?

Wildfire prompts evacuations of 200 homes in California

Wildfire prompts evacuations of 200 homes in California

Updated 11:50 pm, Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Photo: Terry Pierson, AP

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A water dropping helicopter heads back to get more water as a wildfire burns near homes in the brush in Beaumont, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. (Terry Pierson/The Press-Enterprise via AP)

BANNING, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that tore through brush east of Los Angeles forced 700 people from their homes for several hours Tuesday and destroyed a small building, officials said.
The fast-moving fire prompted the evacuations as it raced through 1.5 square miles of drought-dry hills near Banning, the Riverside County Fire Department said.
It was 10 percent contained by nightfall, and the evacuations, most of which were from a mobile home park, were canceled.

Two people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries.
An assisted living center with 10 seniors had to be evacuated as flames came within about 300 yards.
"We have some in wheelchairs, some in walkers, and some get along pretty well on their own," Richard Feenstra, owner of Cherry Valley Lodge, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "It took about 30 minutes to get everybody out of the building and across the street."
The blaze erupted shortly before 12:30 p.m. in the unincorporated Cherry Valley area and has thrown up a line of 25-foot-high flames. Winds gusting to about 20 mph and tinder-dry fuel are helping propel the blaze.
More than 300 firefighters and more than a dozen aircraft are battling the flames.
Officials did not give a cause, but said they were seeking witnesses to the activities of children near the gate to a nature park where the fire started.

Fast-moving Bogart fire in Riverside County spreads to 500 acres; more than 700 residents evacuated

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Fast-moving Bogart fire in Riverside County spreads to 500 acres; more than 700 residents evacuated

A fast-moving vegetation fire north of Beaumont spread to 500 acres Tuesday afternoon, displacing 700 people …

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Fast-moving Bogart fire in Riverside County spreads to 1,000 acres; hundreds of residents evacuated

Matt Hamilton and Shane Newell

A fast-moving vegetation fire north of Beaumont spread to 1,000 acres Tuesday afternoon, displacing hundreds of residents from rural communities in Riverside County, authorities said.
The Bogart fire was reported at 12:25 p.m. near Winesap Avenue and International Park Road in Cherry Valley, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.
The blaze spread in bone-dry vegetation in the hills west of the Morongo Reservation and destroyed at least one building, fire officials said.
The fire was 10% contained as of 8:25 p.m.
About 700 residents from approximately 200 homes were evacuated, including the Highland Springs Village mobile home park and Banning Bench, a rural plateau northwest of Banning, fire officials said.
An evacuation center was opened at the Albert A. Chatigny Senior Community Center in Beaumont.
More than 320 firefighters have been assigned to combat the blaze. They are being assisted by five helicopters, two bulldozers and nine air tankers.
One firefighter suffered a non-life-threatening injury and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Cherry Valley, where the blaze ignited, is located off the 10 Freeway and has a population of more than 6,300, census records show.
This story will be updated.
matt.hamilton@latimes.com
Twitter: @MattHjourno
shane.newell@latimes.com
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U.S., Ireland defend Apple against European Union’s $14.5B tax bill

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U.S., Ireland defend Apple against European Union’s $14.5B tax bill

The White House and the Irish government are pushing back at the European Commission's Tuesday order for Apple to pay Ireland 13 billion euros, or about $14.5 billion, in unpaid tax revenue. The commission's ruling, which said …

Apple must pay up to $14.5 billion in back taxes to Ireland due to illegal tax benefits, EU rules

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BRUSSELS — Apple will have to pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in back taxes, plus interest, to Ireland after the European Union found Tuesday that it received illegal tax benefits over 11 years.
The ruling is the latest — and biggest — salvo in the EU executive Commission’s battle to have multinationals pay their fair share in the region.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that a three-year investigation found Ireland granted such lavish tax breaks to Apple that the multinational’s effective corporate tax rate on its European profits dropped from 1 percent in 2003 to a mere 0.0005 percent in 2014.
That last tax rate meant that for each million euros in profits, Apple paid just 50 euros in taxes, Vestager told a news conference.

“Member states cannot give tax benefits to selected companies—this is illegal under EU state aid rules,” Vestager said.
“Ireland must now recover the unpaid taxes in Ireland from Apple for the years 2003 to 2014 of up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion), plus interest,” the Commission said in a statement.

Apple will have to pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in back taxes, plus interest, to Ireland after the European Union found Tuesday that it received illegal tax benefits over 11 years.
(MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS)

The Irish government denied granting favorable fiscal treatment to the maker of the iPhone and other consumer electronics products, computer software and online services. “Ireland’s position remains that the full amount of tax was paid in this case and no state aid was provided,” the Irish statement said. “Ireland does not do deals with taxpayers.”
The Irish finance minister, Michael Noonan, said he would seek approval from the Irish Cabinet to appeal the EU Commission’s ruling to European courts.

“It is important that we send a strong message that Ireland remains an attractive and stable location of choice for long-term substantive investment,” Noonan said. “Apple has been in Ireland since the 1980s and employs thousands of people in Cork.”
There was no immediate reaction from Apple, headquartered in Cupertino, California. A statement from the U.S. government was expected later Tuesday.
In a white paper made public last week, the U.S. Treasury Department accused the European Union of using a different set of criteria to judge cases involving American companies, calling the potential penalties “deeply troubling.”

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