Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General recently filed a $40 million suit against Donald Trump’s ‘University’ alleging fraud.
The Attorney General says that the billionaire defrauded thousands with pipe dreams of get-rich-quick schemes. The Donald Trump “University” mislead over 5,000 “students” into thinking that they would have special “hand-picked” professors who would give them the special knowledge to make millions in real estate, according to the New York Daily News.
The workshops promised instructors hand-picked by Trump who, in reality, were not, Schneiderman says that Trump’s “University” was nothing more than a series of workshops. The instructors, Trump promised, were all selected by the Donald himself, for their special skills in imparting the millionaire secrets. But Schneiderman says there was no such selection process and no real criteria set for these instructors.
“Trading on his celebrity status, Mr. Trump personally appeared in advertisements making false promises to convince people to spend tens of thousands of dollars they couldn’t afford for lessons they never got. No one, no matter how rich or famous they are, has a right to scam hardworking New Yorkers. Anyone who does should expect to be held accountable.”
The workshops were promoted through an ad campaign that spanned the United states. But the workshops instead misled consumers by promising instructors hand-picked by Trump who, in reality, were not.
Schneiderman also alleges that “dozens and dozens” of complaints were filed, and that Trump ignored demands from the state Department of Education that he stop referring to the workshops as a “University,” as far back as 2005.
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We remember how often we heard the phrase, "We do not negotiate with terrorists." But now sending them sophisticated weapons is a good idea? What hypocrisy. These people with Cannibalism tendency are little more than savages, dressed up like human beings. I don't believe there is any doubt that the America CIA has? played a role in destabilizing the regime of Bashar Assad, but can you say that his crimes sank to the depths we are seeing from the so-called "liberators" in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood? I doubt it. Insanity
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Mercury pollution from power plants in China and India is making its way into fish in waters near Hawaii, according to new research.
In a study published Aug. 25 in the journal Nature Geoscience, University of Michigan researchers say that mercury produced by the coal-burning power plants in these northern Pacific countries travels thousands of miles through the air before rainfall deposits it on the ocean floor near Hawaii.
From there, it's passed on to humans who consume contaminated Pacific Ocean fish, such as tuna and swordfish.
"The implications are that if we're going to effectively reduce the mercury concentrations in open-ocean fish, we're going to have to reduce global emissions of mercury, including emissions from places like China and India," said lead author Joel Blum, an environmental scientist at UM. "Cleaning up our own shorelines is not going to be enough. This is a global atmospheric problem."
The toxic form of mercury that is found in the tissues of these fish is called methylmercury. When consumed, it can damage the heart as well as the central nervous system and immune system. Pregnant women are often cautioned against consuming fish because mercury is especially harmful to fetuses and young children.
In this study, the researchers sought to build on earlier studies that showed that fish that feed at deeper depths are more likely to have high levels of mercury contamination. They tested tissue samples of nine species that live in a region called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, which is near Hawaii, and feed at various depths.
"We found that predatory fish that feed at deeper depths in the open ocean, like opah and swordfish, have higher mercury concentrations than those that feed in waters near the surface, like mahi-mahi and yellowfin tuna," said Brian Popp, a professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa."We knew this was true, but we didn't know why."
They previously believed that in the open ocean, methylmercury forms at the surface layer. That was the most likely place for the process of methylation, through which microbes convert inorganic mercury into its toxic organic form. But the results of this study showed that sunlight destroys most methylation at the surface layer, through a process called photochemical degradation, so they had to look deeper.
They found that up to 80 percent of methylmercury is produced at depths of about 165 to 2,000 feet. There, methylation is most likely spurred by bacteria that cling to pieces of organic matter as they sink.
"The fish eat the bacteria, and then other fish, and they get more and more mercury," Dr. David Agus explained to CBS This Morning.
In separate studies, researchers have predicted that mercury levels at depths of 660 to 3,300 feet will possibly double by 2050. Coupled with this latest research, scientists caution that fish supplies will be more contaminated.
"The implication is that predictions for increased mercury in deeper water will result in higher levels in fish," said Blum.
It's tough to know how much mercury you're getting when you buy fish, because levels are not listed on packaging. The Environmental Protection Agency recommends limiting consumption of fish that are known to have higher levels of contamination.
"What's really astonishing about those [EPA] guidelines is that you can have 50 servings of salmon or 100 servings of trout for one serving of swordfish and get the same mercury," said Agus. Stores are starting to test the levels themselves, he added, to keep consumers informed.
"This study also showed us that as we build more and more cities especially in China and India, mercury levels will continue to go up," Agus explained. "So we need to push for international controls of mercury in these plants and ways that we can actually degrade the mercury so it doesn't cause a problem to all of us."
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WASHINGTON — President Obama awarded U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter the Medal of Honor on Monday for his heroics in a 2009 battle where he and 53 American troops fought back against some 300 Taliban fighters in a valley of the Afghanistan mountains.
Carter became the second soldier to be awarded the highest military commendation for his courageous action in the battle.
Earlier this year, Obama awarded Clinton Romesha, a former Army staff sergeant, the Medal of Honor for leading the defense of the plywood-and-concrete outpost known as Combat Outpost Keating. Eight U.S. soldiers would die in the fight for the outpost.
In honoring Carter and Romesha, it is the first time that two living recipients have received Medals of Honor for their gallantry in the same battle since Vietnam. Carter also became the fifth living U.S. servicemember of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to receive the honor.
"The outpost was being slammed from every direction," Obama said in the afternoon ceremony at the White House. "Machine gun fire, rocket-propelled grenades, mortar, sniper fire, it was chaos. The blizzard of bullets and steel into which Ty ran not once or twice, or even a few times, but perhaps 10 times. In doing so, he displayed the essence of true heroism."
Carter ran low and fast across an American outpost while overwhelming numbers of Taliban fighters closed in. He sprinted over ground where he could see bullets piercing the dust in front of him, gambling on getting ahead of the shooters' ability to target him.
Carter ran a gauntlet of heavy machine gun and sniper fire — carrying ammo, recovering a field radio, cradling a wounded comrade in his arms — sometimes zigzagging to dodge exploding rocket-propelled grenades or mortar rounds.
When he wasn't moving through enemy fire in the battle in 2009, Carter and another soldier made their stand in an all-but-shredded armored vehicle — a last defensive bastion in a far corner of the fort. Surrounded by dead Americans and running low on ammunition, they shot and killed enemy fighters breaching the walls.
"When good men are dying all around you, you have to decide what your last moments are going to be like," Carter told USA TODAY. "Are you going to die behind something, or are you going to die standing and firing? Are you going to die pushing forward or falling back?"
Obama also thanked Carter for speaking out about his battles with post-traumatic stress, and noted that Carter had urged him to remember another soldier, Ed Faulkner Jr., who fought alongside him that day. Faulker died in September 2010 after a fatal overdose of methadone and Xanax.
"Let me say it as clearly as I can to any of our troops and veterans who are struggling," Obama said. "Look at this man, look at this soldier, look at this warrior. He is as tough as they come and if he can find the courage and strength to not only seek help, but also speak about it … than so can you."
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Relatives of an Ohio couple who died at a nursing home 11 hours apart on the same day said their love story's ending reflects their devotion over 65 years of marriage.
Harold and Ruth Knapke died in their shared room on Aug. 11, days before their 66th anniversary, The Dayton Daily News reported.
Their daughters said they believe their father willed himself to stay by his wife's side despite failing health until they could take the next step in their journey together. He went first — his children saw it as his "final act of love" — and she followed.
"We believe he wanted to accompany her out of this life and into the next one, and he did," daughter Margaret Knapke said.
The couple had known each other as children and began their courtship as pen pals while Harold, known as "Doc," served in the Army during World War II. Ruth would later joke: "I let him chase me until I caught him!"
Her husband became a teacher, coach and athletic director at Fort Recovery Schools, the newspaper said. They raised six children while looking after each other with a devotion that didn't seem to diminish.
A photo taken this summer shows him lying in a bed, arm stretched through a guardrail to hold her hand, as she leans in to press the top of her head to his. When she was ailing, he blessed her each night with holy water, daughter Pat Simon said.
The Knapkes had a joint funeral Mass, with granddaughters carrying Ruth's casket and grandsons carrying Harold's casket. The cemetery procession stopped at the farm house where the couple had lived, and the current owners surprised the family by flying a flag at half-staff to honor the longtime loves.
"It is really just a love story," said Carol Romie, another daughter. "They were so committed and loyal and dedicated, they weren't going to go anywhere without the other one."
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After months of reluctance, the Obama administration now seems all but certain to retaliate against Syria for use of chemical weapons. And so it must if its suspicions are confirmed. But calibrating the right response — one that deters further use of chemicals without drawing the U.S. into Syria's multisided civil war — will require great precision, both militarily and politically.
This won't be easy. Syrian President Bashar Assad is a stubborn man of immense cruelty. But doing nothing isn't an option. That approach has already failed.
After drawing a "red line" last year, President Obama chose to look the other way when Assad's regime was accused of previous, smaller chemical attacks. It is reasonable to assume that Assad launched the latest assault last week because he concluded that Obama's threat was hollow.
Ignoring this incident, which killed hundreds, including sleeping children, would invite worse.
It would demolish U.S. credibility, not just in Syria but also in Iran, which continues to pursue nuclear weapons despite repeated U.S. warnings. Nearly a century of international effort to curtail use of chemicals would also be undercut.
Even so, reacting in a way that sucks the U.S. into yet another Muslim civil war is no less hazardous.
The Pentagon says it sees no viable successor regime should Assad fall. The rebellion is divided among violent Islamist radicals and more democratic elements that fight each other as much as they do Assad's forces.
The conventional wisdom is that no faction will control the country, which instead will be violently split — exactly the kind of situation that the U.S. cannot win but one that congressional hawks and allies, including France, would like to engage.
All signs suggest that the administration is zeroed in on the dilemma. This is not George W. Bush trumping up a war in Iraq to take away non-existent weapons of mass destruction, or Lyndon Johnson fabricating an attack on U.S. forces to draw support for escalation in Vietnam.
The Obama administration, wary of war, is gathering allies, weighing options and ratcheting up forces while seeking confirmation that chemicals were used and that Assad used them. It needn't rush.
If and when an attack comes, it must be forceful enough to convince Assad that use of chemical weapons will weaken him, not help him. And it must be justified explicitly as retaliation for violation of international treaties on use of chemical weapons — not as an attempt to dictate the outcome of the civil war.
A missile attack appears the likeliest and smartest option. It could be used to weaken Syria's air power, to destroy units that used the chemical weapons, to strike the weapons themselves, or to attack other targets.
Fortunately, virtually no one favors use of ground forces, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. It's not hard to imagine unintended consequences — such as a retaliatory strike by Iran or its terrorist client, Hezbollah — that would send things spinning out of control.
That's reason for caution. It is reason for precision. But it is not reason for inaction. At this point, retaliation can't be avoided without unacceptable consequences — assuming suspicions are confirmed.
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HARRISONBURG, Va. — The battle over immigration policy in Congress moved briefly to the Shenandoah Valley on Monday as a Chicago Democrat rallied for a path to citizenship in the home district of a key Republican who opposes "amnesty."
U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., spoke in the shady and crowded Court Square of downtown Harrisonburg to argue for immigration legislation that ends the threat of deportation for the 11 million who are in the country without permission.
"Hundreds of thousands of husbands and wives have been separated because of our government," Gutierrez said to a diverse crowd that included many families with children. He said the U.S. is approaching 2 million deportations in the last five years. "I want you to think about them. Families have been destroyed."
The event, set up by the left-leaning non-profit group Virginia Organizing, was in the heart of the district of Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Goodlatte controls which immigration bills get a vote.
Although he mentioned Goodlatte by name only once — to say that he was not going to say "bad things" about his Republican colleague — Gutierrez blamed the GOP for dismissing the bipartisan compromise that passed the Senate and instead working on bills that are largely Republican-only.
"Everywhere in America people are reaching across the aisle . . . not for a Republican solution or a Democratic solution, but an American solution," Gutierrez said. "The only place people are refusing to compromise and sit down at the table . . . is in the House of Representatives."
Gutierrez invited Goodlatte to attend the rally, but he declined because of a scheduling conflict. Gutierrez said before the Harrisonburg event began that he was on the road to showcase his belief that immigration legislation that includes a path to citizenship has supporters in even the most conservative corners of the country. Some of his events have included joint appearances with Republicans, including Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
Gutierrez said his foray into Goodlatte's district should not be considered antagonistic to the committee chairman. Goodlatte offered no criticism of Gutierrez for appearing there.
Delmis Aceituno, 34, of Harrisonburg, held a sign urging Goodlatte to "support immigration reform now."
"I need documents," she said. "I need a better job. I need to take care of my kids."
Goodlatte's district is about 4% Hispanic, according to the Census Bureau.
"This is a friendly city," said Maria Péna of Harrisonburg, who helped organize the invitation for Gutierrez. "We're always open to issues that touch on human rights and civil rights."
Goodlatte is one of the Republicans working on legislation to give some young people a chance at legal status, but it has not been introduced yet. His committee so far has focused on border security, employment verification, improving the legal immigration system and providing for guest workers.
Earlier on Monday, Gutierrez attended a similar event in Chantilly, Va., in the district of another Republican lawmaker, Rep. Frank Wolf.
Gutierrez uses campaign funds — not money from his official House office budget — to attend immigration events outside of his Chicago district, according to spokesman Douglas Rivlin.
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A Nigerian drug dealer, Osuji Kelly Prince, who escaped from a detention facility in Malaysia on August 12, may have fled to Thailand, media reports from Malaysia said, yesterday.
The 25-year-old Prince was assisted by a 52-year-old corporal to escape from Jinjang Detention Centre, where he was held for drugs possession.
Federal Narcotics Crime Investigation Department chief, Noor Rashid Ibrahim, said he obtained the information through their intelligence network.
“He had it planned all along and we are working with Thai police to trace him and have him deported to Malaysia,” he said.
Prince was arrested by Malaysian authorities on August 1 with 9 kilogrammes of methamphetamine (called syabu in Malaysia). The drugs were believed to be worth about N439 million (RM9 million).
The 52-year-old corporal, who had pending disciplinary issues related to his work prior to the case, has been charged in court for aiding Prince’s escape.
It would be reminded that according to Malaysian laws, drug trafficking/dealing is punished by the death penalty. The latest example is the Nigerian student, Ugonna Philip Nwankwo, who was sentenced to death by the Malaysian Shah Alam High Court on July 25, 2013. VANGUARD
HOW DID THIS GUY PULL THIS OFF? WOW.
This is nti ike of the highest order being practiced by some Igbo boys, you are told you will be killed if caught and you still go ahead ..is this still greed or just madness?
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YOSEMITE VILLAGE, Calif. – Though a massive fire rages a few miles away, all is peaceful in bucolic Yosemite Village, where park rangers remain optimistic about the coming holiday weekend's tourism assault.
"We are minimally impacted here, with all visitors services and campgrounds open to the public," says Kari Cobb, park ranger and spokesperson for Yosemite National Park.
"Visitors who are planning to come shouldn't cancel their (Labor Day) weekend plans. They may have to modify them, if they were planning to go to Hetch Hetchy (reservoir) or if they were planning to take Highway 120,'' she adds, noting that both recently closed due to the encroaching Rim Fire that has burned more than 250 square miles.
Cobb says "less than 3% of Yosemite National Park is impacted by this fire, adding that in the past 24 hours the fire has been "moving northeast and is largely in wilderness areas with no lodging."
"It's 20 miles away from the valley floor," she says. "The winds are pushing the smoke (north) toward Lake Tahoe."
Thousands of firefighters working on the ground and from the air made progress Monday battling the massive, stubborn wildfire that was still growing on the western edge of the park and prompted San Francisco officials to take steps to protect the city's water supply.
The fire has burned an area estimated at more than 251 square miles, state fire officials said Monday evening. They said they had established 20% containment, up from 15% when the day began.
At least 23 structures have been destroyed and 4,500 are threatened, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. More than 3,750 firefighters were battling the blaze, aided by 15 helicopters and 460 fire engines.
Almost all park areas are open, said Scott Gediman, a park ranger.
"We've got clear blue skies here in Yosemite Valley," he said. "The park is busy. I was just out walking around, and there are plenty of people here."
In San Francisco, utility officials monitored the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, inside the park, for clarity and used a gravity-operated pipeline system to move water to reservoirs closer to San Francisco. The Hetch Hetchy supplies water to 2.6 million people in the Bay area, 150 miles to the west.
"We're taking advantage that the water we're receiving is still of good quality," said Harlan Kelly Jr., general manager of the city's Public Utilities Commission. "We're bringing down as much water as possible and replenishing all of the local reservoirs."
At the same time, utility officials gave assurances that they have a six-month supply of water in reservoirs near the Bay area.
Fire officials said the fire has "extreme" growth potential and is in extremely rugged terrain.
Smoke continues to be an issue, and visibility within the fire's perimeter is less than a mile, according to InciWeb, the federal fire information site. The blaze has burned 23 structures. Mandatory evacuations were ordered for residents in some areas in the path of the fire while other towns, including Tuolumne and Mi-Wuk Village, were under advisory evacuations.
Larry Brown lives in Sonora, Calif., more than 10 miles from the fire. "It's about a half-mile visibility here because of the smoke. Everything smells like smoke. When I open the car door, it smells inside," he said.
Brown is a ham radio operator with the Tuolumne County Amateur Radio Electronics Society which is manning phone lines at the Sonora community information line for those affected by the fire.
He and others have been impressed "as always," he says, with the work of the firefighters. He says people who live in the Sierra realize that fire is a natural part of the landscape.
"This is part of the ecosystem," he says. "We do burn in here every so often. There are plants and things within the canyons that are reliant on the fire to open their seeds, that have adapted to that environment."
Despite the steps taken as a precaution to move water closer to the city, San Francisco's water supply is safe, said Charles Sheehan, a spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
The reservoir supplies water to 2.6 million people in the San Francisco Bay area, sending approximately 260 million gallons of waterevery day.
"There's no change to water quality," Sheehan said. "We have instruments monitoring the water constantly." The turbidity, a measure of particles in the water, is 0.2, which is normal, he said. If the turbidity were to reach 5.0, the utility would switch to suppliers of water from other nearby reservoirs that it has emergency contracts with.
Also a concern is the power generated by the reservoir's dam, used for some municipal buildings in the city, including San Francisco International Airport and San Francisco General Hospital.
The system has three powerhouses, two of which were taken offline Saturday because of fire damage, Sheehan said. Twelve to 14 miles of power transmission line were also taken out of operation. "There's been some damage, we don't know how much," Sheehan said.
Even if the powerhouses were all shut down, there would be no loss of power in San Francisco. The city's electrical infrastructure is linked to the main electrical grid, and it would simply purchase power to supplement the lost transmissions. Since the fire began Aug. 19, the city has purchased about $600,000 in supplemental power, the Public Utilities Commission website said.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency for San Francisco because of the possible threat to the city's water and electrical infrastructure.
A 91-year-old family camp owned by the city of Berkeley near the town of Groveland, Calif. was destroyed over the weekend, said Mathai Chakko, a Berkeley spokesman.
Berkeley Tuolumne family camp was founded in 1922. Each year, about 1,000 families spend a week at the city-owned camp. "We had 4,364 people in the camp this summer," Chakko said.
Berkeley doesn't know how bad things are at the camp. "The damage is pretty extensive, but it's still not safe enough to send someone in there to assess," Chakko said.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge on Monday declared same-sex marriage legal, ordering the clerk of the state's most populous county to join two other counties in issuing licenses for gay and lesbian couples.
State District Judge Alan Malott ruled New Mexico's constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The Bernalillo County clerk's office in Albuquerque planned to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
The decision came after a judge in Santa Fe directed the county clerk there to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Friday. But Malott's ruling was seen as more sweeping because he directly declared that gay marriage was legal.
Laura Schauer Ives, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, called it "monumental" and said the group didn't expect such a broad decision by Malott. The judge had been asked only to order that the state recognize, on her death certificate, a dying woman's marriage Friday in Santa Fe to her longtime partner.
But after a short hearing in which neither the counties nor the state objected to the request, Malott also ruled on the broader lawsuit by that couple and five others seeking marriage licenses.
"We were stunned and amazed," Ives said.
However, it's uncertain whether clerks in the state's 30 other counties, who were not defendants in the lawsuit, will use the judge's ruling as a signal that they can issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Assistant Attorney General Scott Fuqua said the decision wasn't binding on clerks outside Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties.
Malott's order came during a hearing seeking an order for the state to recognize the marriage of Jen Roper, who has cancer, to Angelique Neuman.
The couple wed at a Santa Fe hospital after a state district judge in a separate case ordered the Santa Fe County clerk to issue same-sex licenses. The clerk of Dona Ana County in southern New Mexico decided on his own last week to recognize gay and lesbian marriages.
"It's been a long, long fight," Neuman said. "I'm glad things went our way."
The couple last week joined the lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of five other lesbian couples.
One of those couples, Tanya Struble and Therese Councilor of Jemez Springs, said they plan to get their marriage license first thing Tuesday. But they were unsure whether they would be married immediately or wait for a ceremony that can be attended by family and friends.
"We've never done this," Struble said in an interview after the court hearing.
Struble said she was pleasantly surprised by the broader ruling in the case.
"I thought maybe it would be partially good, but it was 99.9 percent awesome," she said.
Christine Butler of Albuquerque, who opposes gay marriage and attended the hearing, said the judge's ruling violates her rights.
"I don't want to bring my children or go to places and see same-sex couples showing a lot of affection. … That's against God's law," Butler said.
Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver said she had 1,000 licenses printed in case Malott ordered her to issue licenses for same-sex marriages. Her office spent the day preparing for what is expected to be a flood of applicants Tuesday.
On Monday morning, couples were lined up in Santa Fe waiting for the clerk's office to open. More than 100 licenses had been issued by the end of the day, bringing to 157 the number of same-sex marriage licenses issued since Friday.
Dona Ana County Clerk Lynn Ellins began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples last Wednesday. He said 137 couples from around the state and from neighboring Texas got licenses last week, and more were in the works Monday.
A group of Republican legislators is planning to file a lawsuit to stop clerks from issuing licenses to same-sex couples.
One of those lawmakers, Sen. William Sharer of Farmington, said it is up to the state's Legislature, with the consent of the governor, to make laws — not its county clerks or district judges.
"It is inexplicable how a district court just today discovered a new definition of marriage in our laws, when our marriage law has not been changed in over a century," Sharer said.
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