This from Americans for Limited Government:

Printus LeBlanc

Last week the Trump administration announced it would impose a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum. Many in the media and were quick to lose their mind as usual. Before judging President Donald Trump’s actions, those criticizing should look at the real world instead of the utopian society they want to live in. In the real-world trade is used as a weapon and it is time the U.S. wake up to that reality.

A 2014 White Paper from U.S. Army Special Operations Command on Unconventional Warfare discusses different methods of warfare being used by various adversaries. With regards to China, it states, "China will use a host of methods, many of which lie out of the realm of conventional warfare. These methods include trade warfare, financial warfare, ecological warfare, psychological warfare, smuggling warfare, media warfare, drug warfare, network warfare, technological warfare, fabrication warfare, resources warfare, economic aid warfare, cultural warfare, and international law warfare.”

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A Satanic statue has been admitted to the rotunda in the capitol building in Springfield Illinois.

Illinois is a spiritually dark place, with a cadre of leftists in almost complete control of the state. Murder in Chicago is so endemic that nobody pays any attemtion. It should come as no surprise that the state government would have no problem honoring the Prince of Darkness in their capitol.

This follows on the heels of Arkansas, where Satanists put a sculpture on the capitol grounds in Little Rock back in August.

Funny; Arkansas gave us Bill Clinton and Illinois gave us Barack Obama. Both have embraced the Devil in more ways than one.

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Anyone who thinks guns don't protect us needs to think again. See here.

A woman in South Carolina blew a hole in the head of an escaped prisoner who invaded her home. According to the AP report, the orange-jumpsuited prisoner had beaten up a guard and escaped. He invaded the woman's home, and the plucky lady did what had to be done.

Thanks God for the Second Amendment. That woman would probably have wound up dying otherwise.

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Jack Kemp

Folks, in the spirit of this discussion about Christianity and Judaism not being truly practiced by people who delude themselves that they are either Christians or Jews, I wish to introduce a specific matter from an American Thinker blog and an exchange I had in the comment section of that blog written by Thomas Lifson himself.
Jack Kemp

Thoms Lifson recently wrote a piece at American Thinker called "16 Democrat presidential contenders have endorsed CAIR"

At least one of those Democrats endorsing CAIR is the billionaire Democrat funder Tom Steyer, a person with one Jewish parent, according to Wikipedia. Author Lifson also included a remark concerning (nominally) Jewish Democrats. My reply in the comment section started with a one sentence quote from Lifson's blog piece which I expanded upon. A few other readers also added other comments in reply to me, a grouping I wish to copy here below.. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/16_democrat_presidential_contenders_have_endorsed_cair_comments.html

JackKemp a day ago
"American Jews continue to support Democrats by a huge margin. They are fools."

Over a decade ago I wrote a piece at American Thinker about Jewish War Veterans protesting a cross on federal property near San Diego. I called it "Proof that there are Stupid Jews" and frankly was pleasantly surprised that Amer. Thinker editors posted it with that title. At the same time, there was a Muslim who shot his way into a synagogue in Seattle, wounding four. But the Jewish War Veterans thought their big problem was a cross on a hill. I later told a recent Russian Immigrant Jewish woman - who lived through much tougher times growing up - a quick summary of this story. The first words out of this woman's mouth were, "They want the Christian police to protect their synagogue and they insult their cross."

I see that not much has changed since the time I wrote that piece. This self defeating stupidity by American Jews cannot go on much longer. Either they will be officially no longer Jews - or they could be officially dead at the hands of mobs. In the old days, a rabbi thought the worst thing a Jew could do was to convert to Christianity. Today we see the worst thing a Jew can do is to convert to believe in secular nihilism and stand for nothing. Adam Gadhan was a member of Al Qaeda - and he was born Adam Pearlman, a Jew in Californi


â—¦Alice Cheshire replied to JackKemp a day ago
This is true of virtually all religious sectors of America. The Pope is basically a communist. All denominations sell out religion for approval by SJW. Get ready for Sharia law or nihilism. One or the other is all that remains.

â—¦canitary replied to Alice Cheshire â€Â¢ 20 hours ago
You right Alice , it is like Christians, many churches went to the deep end of leftism.

kv2109 replied to Alice Cheshire replied to KV 11 hours ago
WRONG, you forgot about The 2nd CIVIL WAR.....AND WE TAKE "NO" PRISONERS

ricpic replied to JackKemp 18 hours ago
About 3/4's of Jews are politically suicidal. Or suicidally stupid if you prefer. I say this as a Jew. I am no longer interested in "explanations" for this phenomenon. It is inexplicable that such a generally bright people is beyond belief stupid and self-destructive politically.

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I own some wooded property in south-central Missouri - what I affectionately call the Ozark Hilton. The OH is a ramshackled shack I built on the property from odds and ends gleaned from back alleys in st. Louis. It is not cut to fit; everything was jury-rigged, like Frankenstein's monster, or like a picture made from multiple jigsaw puzzles. It works, but it's clearly not a Bob Villa project.

At any rate, when I bought this land there were armadillos all over it. Now, armadillos are native to the southwest, but due to the warming of the '90's they had come up to Missouri and stomped around the state. I say stomped because they had no sense of how to move stealthily in the underbrush of our hardwood forests, and they could be quite loud just by walking. (Sadly I see few of them these days; the temperature downturn since the "global warming" of the '90's has seen many of these funny little critters die off.) But that is neither here nor there. What I want to discuss is the mating ritual of the armadillo.

I saw two of them courting once. The male and female "flirt" back and forth with a series of gutteral croaks, and the female flees from the male, who is forced to pursue her. Now, she has every intention of mating with the male, but she's not going to be easy and she is going to make him work for it. So the two little armored creatures croaked back and forth and chased each-other around playfully until the moment was right, at which point they began clacking their shells together like some sort of percussion instrument.
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Recently a discussion erupted among the editors here at The Aviary over the future of Football. Dana Mathewson observed:

"I like this too. Do you suppose the NFL is FINALLY getting the message?"

This over a story about an NFL campaign "My Cleats, My Cause" and the donation of a player to promote U.S. Israeli relations. This led to a discussion about the future of Football and the NFL, and why they keep (maddeningly) promoting the Kaperneching of the League. below is the rest of the thread:

Tim states:

I think they are just slapping a band-aid on their hemorrhaging wound. Or at least this player is. But I think the NFL is still committed to becoming international, and getting a new, non-white, non English speaking fan base. They think it's the wave of the future, but they may well have no future.


Dana Mathewson says:

How much popularity does American football have outside the states, do you think, Tim? Canadian football is an aberration (that's all I can think of to call it), if it even still exists; and the rest of the world dotes on that wimpy, boring, socialistic non-strategic melange called soccer, futebol, or whatever, depending on what s**thole country you are watching it in -- hopefully on TV, not in a stadium where you may end up in a riot for no good reason. It may have been a great sport once, when Pele was an international star, but these days it's similar to wrestling as far as phoniness. It may be that the NFL is throwing mucho buckos down a rathole. Dare we hope?


Jack Kemp states:

There a small American football clubs in countries like Italy but I doubt if it will replace soccer over there or anywhere else in Europe or South America or Asia. It will not have the popularity of baseball (or beisbol) in South and Central America. If you break a collar bone in football, what socialized medicine country knows how or wants to bother treating it?

The NFL games played in Europe are a type of one off entertainment event, like a visit from an American pop singer.

Tim replies:

I agree, Jack. I fear the NFL owners may think (hope) otherwise.

Football is uniquely American and it just doesn't translate well to other countries. Fighting to take ground presupposes 1.property can be owned 2.you have a right to fight for what you have, and try to take what a competitor has away 3.you work as a team but everyone is an individual who matters 4.there are rules to play by but one does not live and die by them 5.officials are not supposed to govern the game but call violations of rules 6.you can come from behind to win, even late in any game 6. there is a strategy in every play, even when it seems chaotic 7. victory comes to those who are bold 8. Victory comes to those who do the best job of executing. These are al American virtues, largely at odds with the socialist mentalities of other countries. Who can imagine the British playing football, or enjoying it? It's individualism meets team effort would not make any sense to them. The same holds true for most of the world.

I think the NFL is wrong to believe they are going to turn football into a world sport. And if they do, will it still be football? The whole concussion thing will see that it is watered down, made into more of a run and throw game and less of a hit and tackle sport. Take the roughness out of football and you suck the Americanism right out of it. Football was at it's most basic a celebration of the rough and read American frontier spirit. It was the last home of the American cowboy. Cow punchers turned to offensive line players, and the trail bosses are Quarter Backs or coaches. The spirit of the old West was kept alive in football. I doubt any Latinos will enthusiastically take to the game.

When the NFL turns to touch football, with women playing in the backfield and whatnot, the game will be lost. You know that is coming soon.

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I've largely ignored the idiotic Climate Assessment that said in ten years we only have eighty years before we have ten more years (or whatever); they've been saying that since 1980 and, much like the live Led Zeppelin album, the song remains the same. This latest assessment is just another warmed-over version of the last forty years of apocalyptic hysteria.

I was going to ignore the act of pseudo-scientific onanism, but then I came across this.

It's not the what that interests me but the who.

According to the Daily Caller:

"The NCA heavily relied on a paper funded by federal taxpayers and a few billionaire friends of big government: Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg and former secretary of the Treasury under President Bush, Hank Paulson.

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That last seems odd; why would a former Treasury Secretary affix his name to something like this?

I need only direct you all to my friend William Been's spectacular explanation of the economic collapse of 2008 "Maters of Audacity and Deceit". In this book (and I have a footnote as a source, I might add) Bill connects the dots, and who is at the center of it? Why none other than Hank Paulson, Bush's Treasury Secretary.

Paulson figured prominently in the lead-up to the crash, and he, along with Tim Geitner, head of the New York Federal Reserve, as well as Ben Bernanke, Fed Chair, took steps to crash the economy. It was Paulson who talked Bush into "suspending capitalism to save it", something guaranteed to wreck the economy. It was Paulson who came up with the bailouts - although they were done in an odd fashion, bailing out some companies and letting others collapse, even when they had buyers. And it was Paulson who insisted the mechanisms in place - bankruptcy protection - not be used. Bill Been shows in his book how this was engineered to stampede the public into "change". Paulson, a former Goldman Sachs bigwig and a nominee that had conservatives very upset when Bush appointed him, is now tied to this idiotic Climate Assessment.

See more on Paulson here.

What with the billionaire progressives Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg also involved, it is clear this document isn't worth the recycled Sears catalogue  that should be gracing backwoods outhouses.

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How to steal elections for fun and profit.

From the Daily Caller:

"As the polls closed on election day last month, six California Republican House candidates, including Representatives Dana Rohrabacher, Steve Knight, and Mimi Walters, were ahead in their respective races. However, as the absentee and provisional ballots rolled in over the intervening weeks, all six lost to their Democratic opponents."

[...]

"Passed as a barely noticed change in the state’s vote by mail procedures in 2016 and signed by then-Governor Jerry Brown, California’s AB 1921 allows voters to give any third party — not just a relative or someone living in the same household, as was previously the law — to collect and turn in anyone else’s completed ballot.

Called "ballot harvesting,” critics say the practice is ripe for fraud. Consider "Lulu,” who was recorded trying to "harvest” what she thought was a Democratic voter’s ballot in Rep. Knight’s district.

It’s a "new service,” said Lulu, for "like, people who are supporting the Democratic party.”

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that 250,000 such ballots were used in Orange County alone, resulting in a Democratic sweep there."

[...]

"Before its passage, a group opposed to the bill wrote: "AB 1921 would allow anybody to walk into an elections office and hand over truckloads of vote by mail envelopes with ballots inside, no questions asked, no verified records kept. It amounts to an open invitation to large-scale vote buying, voter coercion, "granny farming”, and automated forgery. AB 1921 solves no problem that a simple stamp can’t solve.”"

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I have a question; why even bother having a vote at all? If you can simply deliver as many votes as you want by truck, there is no election. This isn't just fraud, it is a direct stealing of power by the Democrats in California.

Sadly, the Republicans let them get away with this.

This is the shape of things to come.

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Jack Kemp

Get a load of this deranged liberal crap. For those of you who don't know, Trevor Noah is a black comedian on cable tv. How much you want to bet that "liberal" (more like fascist) Trevor Noah owns a gun himself or has access to armed hired guards? I'm one hundred percent sure that Adolph Hitler would agree that black people shouldn't have the legal right and permission to own guns. As would the KKK.


From TownHall.com:

The Daily Show's Trevor Noah decided to expand on that this week, claiming that the Second Amendment isn't for black people. I mean, it's just a fact, right (via Fox News):

During the program's "Unplugged" segment, Noah addressed the recent shooting at a mall in Hoover, Ala. that left one dead and two wounded on Thanksgiving night. The person killed by police, 21-year-old black Army veteran Emantic Bradford Jr., who was legally carrying a gun, was mistaken for the shooter and the real shooter could still be at large.

"The question I ask myself is how does this s**t keep happening? Cops are called into a situation, they see a black person, and then immediately they shoot" Noah told his audience. "That's what they did here. They ran in, they shot the guy, and then they were like ˜We got him"
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"At this point, you start to realize that really the Second Amendment is not intended for black people" Noah said. "It's an uncomfortable thing to say, but it's the truth. Like people will be like ˜the right to bear arms." Yes, the right to bear arms if you're not a black man. If you're a black man, you have no business bearing arms at all."

The Daily Show host also cited a recent incident involving a black security guard who was shot and killed after being mistaken for an armed assailant.

"If you're black and you're a man in America, gun rights are not for you" Noah reiterated. "If you're a black person in America, gun rights are not for you. It's as simple as that. In fact, the safest way to sell a black person a gun in America is to say that when you buy a gun you should buy a white person with it and they hold the gun for you.â"

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Now, to say that black people cannot exercise their constitutional rights to own firearms is insane. They're citizens. They're guaranteed rights under the constitution. They can own firearms. And there are a lot of people of color who do. There are a lot of women who do as well. This isn't a white men only activity, which is the easiest and dumbest swipe liberals take regarding gun politics. To suggest certain rights are for some people and not others is the same nonsensical identity politics drivel that has spewed from the Left in the past couple of years. Blacks can't own guns; white people can't make burritos. It's nonsense. White people can sell burritos on a food truck; the story centers on a food truck in Portland that was shut down because come people thought cultural appropriation was going on. That is another idiotic term given to us by the progressive cancers that are infesting this country.

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Paul Driessen

Starbucks Illinois just announced that its 340 stores are going 100% renewable. In fact, not just the Illinois coffee shops, but the future Chicago coffee bean "Roastery” will soon operate entirely with renewable wind energy from the HillTopper wind project 150 miles southwest of Chicago. Or so Starbucks claims.

Anyone who has analyzed wind energy and renewable energy claims from a life-cycle perspective is likely to be highly skeptical. After all, wind turbine towers, bases, generators and transmission lines – as well as the backup power plants or huge backup battery arrays that must accompany wind energy – require thousands of tons of concrete, steel, copper, fiberglass, rare earth metals and multiple other materials. Not one is renewable. And extracting ores, processing and smelting them into usable materials, and turning them into finished products all require fossil fuels. So does transporting wind turbines (and coffee beans).

All of this raises some very interesting questions … about practicality, honesty, virtue-signaling and ethics … that journalists and Starbucks customers might want to ask CEO Kevin Johnson. My article presents a few of those questions.

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Even the ancient Israelites only made a golden calf.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/liberal-lutheran-pastor-to-melt-purity-rings-into-vagina-sculpture-to-take-down-church-teachings-about-sex.html

"On Twitter, Bolz-Weber, founding pastor of Denver’s House for All Sinners and Saints, issued a call for people to send her those rings "for a massive art project.”

"Beginning November 12th, until December 17th, you’ll have the opportunity to send in your purity rings to be melted down and recast into a golden vagina,” she explained on her website. "This sculpture will be unveiled at the 2019 Makers Conference.”

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More hate mail from my brother Brian to the Post-Dispatch:

Dear Tod Robberson,
In the PD editorial of last week entitled "More Trade War Casualties" you undermine your own case with your unrestrained glee and the zeal with which you attack the Trump Administration. It seems that you are celebrating and popping champagne corks at the news that GM will be closing down factories in the USA.

Your newspaper never met a Republican politician you didn't loath, and you used to attack the GOP for the Party orthodoxy in favor of free trade. Now that the titular leader is a protectionist, your paper has become a latter day convert to the Manchester Economic thinking you used to deride. If a Republican says something is white, the Post-Dispatch will say it is black, and contrarianism will rule.

As I said, you would be more convincing in your argument if the tone of the editorial were more sober, and less celebratory. Rooting for a recession is no way to express opposition to a President. Standing on the sidelines and leading cheers for an economic downturn undermines your credibility to discuss these things rationally.

Brian E. Birdnow

Here are my 2c:

Guess Tod Roberson didn't read this https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/china-is-paying-for-most-of-trump-s-trade-war-research-says seems the trade war is being paid for almost exclusively by the Chinese and not the Americans. This is from Bloomberg, not Fox, I might add.

I have another question for Mr. Roberson; did he and the good people at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch support Right to Work in Missouri? IF GM is partially pulling out of the U.S. then it is as much a function of high labor costs, which they seek to alleviate by moving to Mexico and other cheap places. Right to work here and through the country may well have helped keep GM in the States. Strange how the P-D supports labor unions (who funnel millions of dollars to the Democratic Party) and then cheers when companies leave America for cheaper labor. Is that the stench of hypocrisy I smell?

Oh, and in case Mr. Roberson missed it, Obama pushed out the CEO of GM in 2009 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/30auto.html and got one installed who was more, uh, accomodating to his plans. That was why everyone called it "Government Motors" and they began making electric go-carts and other things people do not want. Now they are pulling out of America. Is it any coincidence that a company run by Obamabots is trying to hurt the U.S. economy and by extension Donald Trump's efforts? Anybody?

Well, the Post-Dispatch is too busy trash talking in an effort to kill the recovery.

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Paul Driessen

Almost anyone who follows climate change discussions knows who astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon is, and how passionately devoted he is to sound, honest, reproducible science. Anyone who has not spend time with him or heard him speak has missed a marvelous life experience. But in this essay by Willie’s friend and colleague, emeritus professor Jeffrey Foss, readers will at least learn a little about this energized and entertaining scientist who works so hard to defend humanity against the computer model-driven, anti-fossil-fuel pseudo certainties of Climate Apocalypse.

As Dr. Soon has frequently explained, computerized climate models do not add up to, demonstrate or prove a real theory of climate. The models repeatedly predicted a continuous increase in planetary temperatures, locked to a continuous increase in CO2. But instead, temperature has remained steady over the last two decades, while CO2 climbed even faster than before. And that’s just the tip of the proverbial icebergs ... that are also supposed to prove humans and fossil fuels are warming the planet and melting the Arctic

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Brian sends this to E.J. Dionne

Dear E.J. Dionne, Last week you mentioned, darkly,in your Washington Post commentary that President Trump may be using federal law enforcement to harass and punish his enemies. This is, if true, reprehensible, and, of course must not be allowed to stand.

Still, I don't remember you raising a hue and cry back in 2011-12 when it was revealed that Obama's Justice Department was involved in harassing and tracking the non-profits with the term "Tea Party" in their names, and Lois Lerner's taking the fifth amendment on the subject in her congressional testimony.

While we're on the subject, I don't remember you wagging your finger or shaking your head when the Clintons were caught illegally holding 1100 FBI files, a transgression that has never been explained. Should we chalk your selective outrage up to an anti-Republican bias, or simply Trump Derangement Syndrome? There is something wrong somewhere!


This from Tim to Brian and Dionne:

This is the power of the press in a nutshell; they can lie about things by omission, and know that many Americans won't remember or bother to check. That Obama was doing far worse, and so was Bill clinton in his day, is immaterial to the activists who pretend to be journalists like Mr. Dionne. If he were an honest man he would admit this fact in his column and say it's time we stop this trend in general, but he won't because he has a hidden agenda.

This is precisely why people no longer trust the media, and why they think the media is "fake news" and "the enemy of the American People". The agenda is clear to a lot of ALmericans. Granted, a lot of them don't know it is there, but certainly a sizable portion of us know what the media is trying to pull.

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Columnist Leonard Pitts wrote a column bemoaning the use of tear gas on the invading aliens. Brian Birdnow took umbrage with that and sent Mr. Pitts the following e-mai;"

Dear Leonard Pitts,

Regarding your column entitled, "The Day We Used Tear Gas Against Children", I would like to ask a question, and request a simple response. Do you advocate the repeal of all US citizenship laws, and stand for truly "open borders"? If America is as terrible a country as you repeatedly tell your readers, you should instruct the migrants to go somewhere else, anywhere else, in fact, than the USA. Many of your readers know that you care little for the rule of law, but I would like to hear you say, for the record, that this is the case.

Brian E. Birdnow


Tim sent the following reply to Brian and to Mr. Pitts:

Mr. Pitts also seems ignorant of the fact that Obama used tear gas on alien trespassers on numerous occasions. IF we are so terrible then we would have used live ammunition on them. The fact we only used tear gas to actually enforce our laws (and these so-called "migrants" were storming the border, throwing rocks and debris - try doing that to the local police and see how they respond) shows just how merciful we are. Those women and children are nothing but human shields to promote an invasion of the country, to say "we can walk right in and you can't stop us." Mr. Pitts no doubt knows that, but is too politically pure or is dishonest enough to refuse to admit it.

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Brian Birdnow sends greetings to the editors of the Post-Dispatch:

Speaking for a fairly large group of people I'd like to officially welcome you and the entire Post-Dispatch editorial board to an unnamed club, but one that could be called "Committee On the New Present Danger", that is, a group of citizens who do not trust Russian leaders, and believe that the ex-KGB man and Frank Gorshin-lookalike, Vladimir Putin, means business.

It is funny that you Post-Dispatch people have come to this party so late in the game. I remember, not that long ago, when you all were saying that the big problem in the world was Ronald Reagan, and that the perpetrators of the Gulag were misunderstood, and unappreciated. Now, you are the anti-Russians par excellence! Is it because you suspect that this is a handy cudgel with which to bash your latest Republican hate figure? Well, better late than never, I suppose! I won't question your motives anymore, and I welcome you to the revived "Committee on the New Present Danger".


Best regards,
Brian E. Birdnow

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Paul Driessen

Recent articles have chronicled the ferocity and horror of California’s latest wildfires – and explained how they are in large part due to gross mismanagement of forest and brush land in which overcrowded trees cannot be thinned, some 130 million dead trees cannot be removed, and brush cannot be cut back near homes because it could be "essential wildlife habitat” (until it is consumed in infernos). See here and here, for example.

But there have also been incredible acts of heroism, compassion and charity, as countless people have rushed to battle the flames, aid the victims, identify human remains and rebuild lives. Now, finally, at least the Camp Fire is out, thanks to hard work and timely rains. However, the area’s infrastructure is gone, recovery work will continue for months amid the devastation – and now the rains have unleashed flash floods that are destroying more of the area and putting more lives at risk.

Amid all this, however, comes another uplifting story – this one about an innovative Israeli company whose miraculous technology literally pulls drinking water out of the air. Watergen USA is sending its GEN-350 system and a support emergency vehicle to California. Learn more about it right here.

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