| FBI Agent Peter Strzok Fired Over Anti-Trump Text Messages Posted: 13 Aug 2018 02:15 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, who was taken off special counsel
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| FBI fires Peter Strzok after discovery of anti-Trump texts, lawyer says Posted: 13 Aug 2018 10:32 AM PDT  The FBI has fired agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the agency's investigation into Russian election meddling before he was discovered sending anti-Donald Trump text messages, his lawyer has said. In a statement, Mr Strzok's lawyer, Aitan Goelman, said that the firing had been ordered by FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich on Friday - despite the director of the office in charge of employee discipline deciding that Mr Strzok should face a demotion and a 60-day suspension.
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| Got 15 Minutes? See Porsche 911 Prototypes Going Hard At The ‘Ring Posted: 13 Aug 2018 07:53 AM PDT ![Got 15 Minutes? See Porsche 911 Prototypes Going Hard At The 'Ring]( "Got 15 Minutes? See Porsche 911 Prototypes Going Hard At The 'Ring") There are two variants on the track together in this long clip.
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| Malaysia's Mahathir to visit China end of week Posted: 13 Aug 2018 06:39 AM PDT  Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will visit China on a five-day trip starting from this Friday, China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Mahathir said last month the "unfairness" of contracts for Beijing-backed projects were a key issue he would raise during his visit to China. Mahathir, who came to power in May following a stunning election defeat for then prime minister Najib Razak, is reviewing major projects signed by the former government, saying many of them do not make financial sense for Malaysia.
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| AMG GT 4-Door Coupe Looks Fast Standing Still In Walkaround Video Posted: 13 Aug 2018 04:02 AM PDT  It's the range-topping GT 63 S version.
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| Turkish lira hammered again as crisis spills into Asian markets Posted: 13 Aug 2018 01:18 AM PDT  Asian markets tumbled and the Turkish lira dived almost eight percent Monday on fears that the economic crisis gripping Turkey could spill over into the global economy. With investors already on edge over the China-US trade war, the lira's collapse sparked a sell-off in Europe and New York at the end of last week, with safe haven assets including the Japanese yen and Swiss franc rallying. The lira dived to a record low of 7.2362 to the dollar at one point overnight before recovering slightly after the country's finance minister said Ankara was planning to roll out an "action plan" on Monday in response to the crisis.
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| Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Alaska's oil-producing North Slope Posted: 12 Aug 2018 08:42 PM PDT ![Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Alaska's oil-producing North Slope]( "Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Alaska's oil-producing North Slope") A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck on Sunday near the native Alaskan village of Kaktovik and part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge where the Trump administration plans to allow oil drilling, but no injuries or damage were reported. The temblor, which occurred just before 7 a.m. (1500 GMT), was the most powerful on record to hit Alaska's oil-producing North Slope, said Paul Huang, a seismologist and deputy director of the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska. No tsunami alert was generated, though ground motion was felt as far away as Fairbanks, Alaska, nearly 400 miles (644 km) to the south.
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| California wildfires: Cooler temperatures allow for progress fighting forest blaze Posted: 12 Aug 2018 07:30 PM PDT  Cooler temperatures have aided firefighters as they begin to turn the tables on a large wildfire that has torn across Southern California. The Holy Fire was 41 per cent contained by Sunday afternoon after burning over 35.5 square miles of dry timber and brush at Cleveland National Forest, around 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles. "The weather out here in California seems to be cooling down today and over the next couple days, and that should hopefully help firefighters get even more containment," said Lynne Tolmachoff, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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| Turkey says has action plan to ease market concerns; lira firms from record low Posted: 12 Aug 2018 05:33 PM PDT  In an interview with Hurriyet newspaper published online, Albayrak described the lira's weakness as "an attack," echoing President Tayyip Erdogan - who is his father-in-law - and said the action plan was ready. "From Monday morning onwards our institutions will take the necessary steps and will share the announcements with the market," Albayrak said, without giving details on what the steps would be. Albayrak also said a plan has been prepared for banks and the real economy sector, including small to mid-sized businesses which are most affected by the foreign exchange fluctuations.
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| A new protest is organizing to get Alex Jones booted off of Twitter Posted: 12 Aug 2018 03:04 PM PDT  Alex Jones is still on Twitter, despite the fact that he repeatedly violated the platform's rules of conduct. But this is 2018, and Twitter users are ready to protest. Before we go any further, let's be clear about some terminology: Jones supporters would have you believe that his recent removal from other platforms is an act of censorship and a violation of First Amendment rights. That's simply untrue. SEE ALSO: How the dominoes in Alex Jones' social media empire all fell at once The First Amendment's free speech protections apply to all citizens, including the people behind the social media companies that gave him the boot. If these private interests decided they didn't want Jones peddling his conspiracy theories on their platforms, that's their right. Jones is free to say whatever he wants, but there are no guarantees on where he can say it. Facebook decided, after lots of pressure, that Jones maintaining a presence on the platform was worse for business than his forced removal. So now he's gone. Twitter made the opposite determination. Jones broke the platform's rules. CNN even proved it. But the company has made its stance clear: Evidence or not, Jones won't be punished for his past behavior. The hypocrisy is hard to miss when all of this came just a few days after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared his thoughts on Jones being removed from other platforms. Truth is we've been terrible at explaining our decisions in the past. We're fixing that. We're going to hold Jones to the same standard we hold to every account, not taking one-off actions to make us feel good in the short term, and adding fuel to new conspiracy theories. — jack (@jack) August 8, 2018 (Note: The above tweets are part of a larger thread.) Here's the thing about Twitter, though: Just like Facebook, it's a business. Also like Facebook, ad dollars are a big part of what helps the company stay afloat. Promoted tweets, hashtags, and accounts are moneymakers. The other thing about Twitter that's important here: Users have control over what they see when they look at their timeline. If an undesirable account appears in your feed, you can mute or block it and that's that. This safety feature works regardless of whether the account being blocked/muted is paying to promote a tweet or not. Right now, a protest action is taking shape that encourages users to block Twitter's advertisers en masse, using a block list. It's a simple concept: If lots of users publicly and loudly block the interests that pay for the audience reach Twitter provides, those interests might apply the pressure needed to get Jones removed from the platform. The protest is being spearheaded by Shannon Coulter, an activist who founded a similar action called GrabYourWallet, which puts pressure on companies for carrying Trump-related products. Though it should be noted that Coulter credits the idea to her friend (also the founder of MeetingPlanner.io and AmericaPossible.com) Jeff Reifman. Coulter laid out how this GrabYourWallet-adjacent protest against Twitter's lack of action would work in a Sunday thread. Good morning! To encourage Twitter to drop Alex Jones, I just blocked the Twitter accounts of every Fortune 500 company w/ a Twitter presence. Ready to mass block Twitter's most lucrative advertisers with me? There are three quick & easy ways. Instructions are in this thread. — Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 12, 2018 The thread runs through a number of different options. There's a blocking tool that Coulter created, accessible right here. The advantage to using the tool is you don't have to do anything beyond adding it to your profile. If Twitter does boot Jones, all the companies listed will be unblocked automatically. For those that would rather avoid authorizing Twitter account access, there's also this handy Google Doc. It's the same list of companies, but you need to block them manually — a process that would obviously take some time. "Even if you only blocked the top 25 to 50 , that would have impact," Coulter wrote. The third option is for those that don't mind getting a little more technical. Twitter allows users to import block lists via .CSV files. You'll need to grab this Google Doc containing the Twitter IDs for all the to-be-blocked companies, but the process is fairly simple. Then go to "Settings & Privacy" in your Twitter account. Select "Blocked Accounts" on left. Select "Advanced Options" & "Import a List." Select "Attach a File to Upload" then choose the CSV file. When Twitter drops Jones, you'll have to manually unblock the companies one by one. — Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 12, 2018 Coulter adds that you should be willing to unblock the affected companies if Twitter does relent on its stance of protecting Jones. Blocking these accounts until Twitter drops Alex Jones means you'll no longer see either these companies' timeline Tweets or promoted Tweets. You'll still see their promoted hashtags, but that's not something most companies do very often. — Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 12, 2018 A few notes: not all Fortune 500 companies actually have a Twitter presence but every one that does is on this list. We also added several larger companies that are not in the Fortune 500 but that have run large Twitter ad campaigns in the recent past like Samsung & HR Block. — Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 12, 2018 The whole effort is happening under its very own hashtag: #BlockParty500. It's still early — Coulter only laid out the idea in full, action plan and all, on Sunday. But there's already a lot of activity at that hashtag, and Coulter herself has provided one update so far (as of this writing) on how it's spreading. Adding on to the original thread to say that we're now up to 5,380 people participating in the mass block of Fortune 500 companies on Twitter. That means for the last hour, we've continued to add about 40 new subscriptions per minute! How I love watching you all flex! ?????? — Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 12, 2018 These types of protests have proven themselves to be effective in recent times, so give it a shot if you're furious at the double-standard Twitter apparently applied to protect Jones. WATCH: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No. It's an inflatable Trump baby flying around London
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| Wife Of Sutherland Springs Church Shooter Breaks Silence: I Love Him 'No Matter What' Posted: 12 Aug 2018 02:13 PM PDT  The wife of the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooter has revealed new
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