(Zero Hedge) In a repeat of the scramble for safety that preceded the landfall of Hurricane Irma during the 2017 storm season, residents of the Florida panhandle are boarding up homes and fleeing inland as Hurricane Michael, already a Category 1 storm following a rapid intensification over the past 24 hours, barrels toward the northern Gulf of Mexico, where it’s projected to make landfall on Wednesday, possibly as a Category 3 storm.
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The Next Big Geomagnetic Storm Poses An Astronomical Risk To Modern Man
(Zero Hedge) Scientists are concerned about the next significant “space weather” event, which begins at the sun in the center of the solar system. Severe space weather occurs less frequently than traditional weather on Earth but can be more destructive in nature.
New WikiLeaks Release Exposes Corruption In UAE Arms Deal Fueling War On Yemen
(Whitney Webb) The transparency organization WikiLeaks just released a new document that sheds light on the corruption behind a lucrative French/German arms deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), weapons that are currently being used to wage a disastrous and genocidal war against the people of Yemen.
Kavanaugh Vote Delayed One Week As Trump Orders New FBI Investigation
(Zero Hedge) Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination has been stalled on the Senate floor after GOP leadership agreed Friday afternoon to a one-week delay for an FBI investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against the Supreme Court nominee. Earlier in the day, the Judiciary Committee approved Kavanaugh’s advancement by a vote of 11-10 along party lines.
CNN Ratings Collapse, Losing To Nickelodeon And Fox News
(Zero Hedge) Trump’s “fake news” nemesis, CNN, experienced a dramatic collapse in ratings last week compared to 2017.According to AdWeek, CNN viewership tumbled 41% in daytime TV ratings and tumbled 36% in primetime versus the same week last year.
Axios Issues Critical “Clarification” To Rosenstein Resignation Report
(Zero Hedge) Update 5: Jonathan Swan, the Axios reporter who initially broke the news this morning that Rod Rosenstein had “verbally resigned” and subsequently triggered a drop in the Dow that erased billions of dollars in value, has issued an important “clarification” that – as fate would have it – changes the story from a major news-cycle-dominating revelation to a barely noteworthy tidbit.
For Secret Military Program — US Diplomats Involved In Trafficking Of Human Blood And Pathogens
(Dilyana Gaytandzhieva) The US Embassy to Tbilisi transports frozen human blood and pathogens as diplomatic cargo for a secret US military program. Internal documents, implicating US diplomats in the transportation of and experimenting on pathogens under diplomatic cover were leaked to me by Georgian insiders. According to these documents, Pentagon scientists have been deployed to the Republic of Georgia and have been given diplomatic immunity to research deadly diseases and biting insects at the Lugar Center – the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.
Trump Pushing Sessions to Break Up Media Giants? Trump To Investigate Google, Facebook Under New Executive Order: Bloomberg
(Zero Hedge) According to a an early draft of an Executive Order (EO), the White House will instruct federal law enforcement and antitrust agencies to launch investigations into the business practices of Facebook, Google and other social media companies, according toBloomberg which says it has seen the draft.
This Is The “Last Free Generation” Says Julian Assange In Last Pre-Blackout Interview
(Zero Hedge) Prior to being cut off from the internet, phone and most visitors, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave an interview on the future of surveillance and how technological advances are changing humankind.
Deep State Exposed | “Resist Everything”: Socialist Within State Department Exposed In Veritas “Deep State” Sting
(Zero Hedge) James O’Keefe and his undercover investigators have once again exposed extreme left-wing activists pursuing a progressive agenda within a position of power – this time infiltrating the State Department.
Evacuated Solar Observatory Set To Re-Open; Officials Offer Unbelievable Explanation
(Zero Hedge) The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico reopened on Monday after it was shut down September 6 following a mysterious FBI raid, according to the group which manages the facility.
Trump Orders Immediate Release Of All Text Messages, Carter Page FISA Application From Russia Investigation
(Zero Hedge) President Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to release all text messages related to the Russia investigation with no redactions, of former FBI Director James Comey, his deputy Andrew McCabe, now-fired special agent Peter Strzok, former FBI attorney Lisa Page and twice-demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr.
‘Inaccessible’ North Carolina Nuclear Plant Declares ‘Unusual Event’ During ‘Hot Shutdown’
(Zero Hedge) Duke Energy’s Brunswick nuclear plant, about 30 miles south of Wilmington, has declared a state of emergency as the 1,200-acre complex remains cut off by flood waters and and is inaccessible to outside personnel.
Every Cell Phone in America Will Receive a Text Message From Trump on Thursday
(Zero Hedge) The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on September 20th.
NASA Reveals Plan For Permanent Moon Base: “We Want Lots Of Humans In Space”
(Zero Hedge) At a conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston last week, Jim Bridenstine, a top official of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), told reporters that the agency wants “lots of humans in space,”according to Space.com.