The state’s wind power sector hardly existed when Perry took his oath of office, but Texas became the nation’s leader in wind energy generation during his tenure — and he helped steer that boom.

Environmentalists and others question Perry's qualifications to lead the massive federal agency, particularly because he called for its elimination during his first unsuccessful presidential bid five years ago.

When Gov. Rick Perry leaves office next month, he’ll wrap up a three-decade stretch in state elective office that concluded with his being the longest-serving governor in Texas history.

Established by Congress in 2000, NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science.

Former Gov. Rick Perry is President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Energy Department, according to an announcement Wednesday that confirmed earlier reports. 

President-elect Donald Trump picked Rick Perry to head the Energy Department on Wednesday, seeking to put the former Texas governor in control of an agency whose name he forgot during a presidential debate even as he vowed to abolish it.

Donald Trump intends to nominate former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be secretary of energy, the president-elect’s transition team announced Wednesday morning.

Perry said later in the debate he meant to say Energy, but the gaffe became known as Perry's "oops" moment.

A source in Texas passed The Huffington Post Perry’s transcripts from his years at Texas A&M University.

Perry stuck with the plan

Wood, who was soon jetting off to become FERC chairman in the summer of 2001

Texas was in the midst of overhauling its electricity system to create a deregulated market

Wood, who has known Perry for more than two decades

the FBI openly resisting the CIA's assessment

and as we learned today, the FBI openly resisting the CIA’s assessment.

At the end of his three minutes, Brzezinski’s military assistant called back to tell him it was a false alarm — someone had left a training tape running. Brzezinski went back to bed. He never woke his wife, by the way. He decided that if it was a Soviet nuclear attack, it was better to let her die in her sleep.

Meanwhile, Stevens, Smith, and oneDiplomatic Security Agentretreated tothe safe haven ofVilla C, a dedicated area within the Villa that was reinforced with a metal barred-door

At the same time, Clinton was broadcasting Stevens whereabouts and she refused to provide the extra protection Stevens was so desperately requesting.

1 Hillary Email SHOWED Terrorists How to Kill Amb. Chris Stevens

In an email released Monday regarding Hillary’s Benghazi investigation, there was one specific message that detailed the exact location of Ambassador Chris Stevens. Because this email was sent through the unsecured server, it is highly probable that terrorists intercepted the message.

In the classic 1956 book When Prophecy Fails, psychologist Leon Festinger and his co-authors described what happened to a UFO cult when the mother ship failed to arrive at the appointed time.

Schimel referred to the findings as "millions of trees dying at once."

When you actually do the math, coal kills somewhere on the order of 4,000 times more people per unit of energy produced than nuclear power.

for each person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die from coal

California has 1,400 dams

75 percent of California’s available water is in the northern third of the state (north of Sacramento), while 80 percent of the urban and agricultural water demands are in the southern two-thirds of the state

parts of Northern California receive 100 inches or more of precipitation per year

Why make freshwater when we could collect the water that falls from the sky? Even on the driest year in recorded history in 2013, it still rained 3.6 inches in Los Angeles. An inch of rainfall in L.A. generates 3.8 billion gallons of runoff, so you’re talking about more than 12 billion gallons of water that could be captured, but that flows within hours down our concrete streets and into the ocean. There’s enough rainwater to be harvested to produce 30-50% of the entire city’s water needs.

Poll: 55% of Americans bothered by Russian election hacking

Poll: Only 29% of Americans Believe Russian Hacking Impacted 2016 Election

Although there have been several estimates over the years, the number that helped fuel the congressional response -- 50,000 victims a year -- was an unscientific estimate by a CIA analyst who relied mainly on clippings from foreign newspapers, according to government sources who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the agency's methods. Former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales told Congress last year that a much lower estimate in 2004 -- 14,500 to 17,500 a year -- might also have been overstated.

the CIA, a particularly secretive and politically driven organization, may be making that claim, the FBI is not convinced.

The key was that for some participants the Chicken Balsamic Wrap was listed as more expensive, and for others the Roasted Chicken Wrap cost more. Results showed that when participants were asked to pick the healthiest option, they were much more likely to choose the more expensive chicken wrap – regardless of which one it was.

Lay theories are the common-sense explanations people use to understand the world around them, whether they are true or not.

A general ignorance of internet communities and how they have evolved over time is what permits the narrative of the “well-dressed fascist” to propagate, while eliding names like NRx, Men’s Rights Advocates, and even Gamergate from the discussion.

Capitalist class war divides people along identitarian lines in order to conquer them, but it finds equal use in unifying groups along other identitarian lines as well.

He said the violence resulted from "a macabre" plan promoted by U.S. President Barack Obama to extract massive quantities of 100-bolivar notes from the country and stockpile them abroad.

Volexity believes a group it refers to as The Dukes (also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear) is responsible for post-election attack activity

The other, which the firm had named Fancy Bear, broke into the network in late April and targeted the opposition research files. It was this breach that set off the alarm. The hackers stole two files, Henry said. And they had access to the computers of the entire research staff — an average of about several dozen on any given day.

One group, which CrowdStrike had dubbed Cozy Bear, had gained access last summer and was monitoring the DNC’s email and chat communications, Alperovitch said.

DNC leaders were tipped to the hack in late April. Chief executive Amy Dacey got a call from her operations chief saying that their information technology team had noticed some unusual network activity.

The firm identified two separate hacker groups, both working for the Russian government, that had infiltrated the network, said Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike co-founder and chief technology officer. The firm had analyzed other breaches by both groups over the past two years.

"We do believe that the malware we were provided is definitely used by groups operating out of Russia," said Heilman, who is a VP of Mandiant Consulting for cybersecurity firm FireEye. "We were able to look at that malware and say, yes, this malware has been used by groups ... the ones we have publicly stated have ties to Russia."

As of  mid-Aug. 2008 the DNC had a staff of more than 260 people

both the DNC and later Podesta emails were from a disgruntled insider with "legal access" to the emails.

DNC emails, as released by Wikileaks, were leaked not hacked

Over the longer term, it’s likely that personal or sensitive data will continue to be hacked and released, and often for political purposes. This in turn raises a set of questions that we should all consider, related to all the traditional questions of openness and accountability. Weaponized transparency of private data of people in democratic institutions by unaccountable entities is destructive to our political norms, and to an open, discursive politics.

Murray told the Daily Mail that he met with an intermediary in a wooded area near American University in Washington, D.C., who was handing off the documents on behalf of someone with “legal access” to both the DNC and Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonTrump mocks media as he recounts Election Day win Who will check Facebook's 'fact checkers?' The Electoral College has time to save the Republican Party MORE campaign chairman John Podesta emails. 

“Our source is not the Russian government,” said Assange, later claiming WikiLeaks did not receive its material from any state actor, Russia or otherwise. 

The various ways in which usually anonymous spokespeople for U.S. intelligence agencies are equivocating – saying things like “our best guess” or “our opinion” or “our estimate” etc. – shows that the emails alleged to have been “hacked” cannot be traced across the network.

The evidence that should be there is absent; otherwise, it would surely be brought forward, since this could be done without any danger to sources and methods. Thus, we conclude that the emails were leaked by an insider – as was the case with Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. Such an insider could be anyone in a government department or agency with access to NSA databases, or perhaps someone within the DNC.

Last summer, cyber investigators plowing through the thousands of leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee uncovered a clue.A user named “Феликс Эдмундович” modified one of the documents using settings in the Russian language. Translated, his name was Felix Edmundovich, a pseudonym referring to Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, the chief of the Soviet Union’s first secret-police organization, the Cheka.

This is a prospect that has long worried Richard Clarke, the former White House cyber czar under President George W. Bush. “It’s highly likely that any war that began as a cyberwar,” Clarke told me last year, “would ultimately end up being a conventional war, where the United States was engaged with bombers and missiles.”

“Earlier this week, I met separately with (Director) FBI James Comey and DNI Jim Clapper, and there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election,” CIA Director John Brennan said in a message to the agency’s workforce, according to U.S. officials who have seen the message.

Comey’s support for the CIA’s conclusion — and officials say that he never changed his position — suggests that the leaders of the three agencies are in agreement on Russian intentions, contrary to suggestions by some lawmakers that the FBI disagreed with the CIA.

On its own, the leak neither impeaches the veracity of the report nor does it prove it.

There Have Been Over 200 School Shooting Incidents Since The Sandy Hook Massacre

47% of Americans pay no taxes

In the last few decades, the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet has been melting at a slower rate than it did for 95% of the last 9,000 years according to scientists publishing in the journal Science.

The Greenland Ice Sheet Is Now At Nearly Its Highest Extent In The Last 7,500 Years

And, of course, there are the more than 31,000 American scientists (to date) who have signed a petition challenging the climate change narrative and 9,029 of them hold PhDs in their respective fields. But hey, Al Gore and his cronies have also ignored that inconvenient truth, as well.

the timing coinciding with the pedophile bust is suspicious. What if, rather than being an outcome of Clinton’s defeat, the recent news from Norway are late-breaking indicators of what may have caused her defeat?

Disturbing though it may be, people in positions of power have been increasingly linked to pedophilia in recent years. From the ongoing Catholic priest sex abuse scandals to similar criminality among British lawmakers, it appears power and authority attract troubled individuals, at least to some degree.

At least 20 people have been arrested in Norway on pedophile charges, officials say, adding that the suspects include lawyers, economists and even a primary schoolteacher. Reports claim the case also involves politicians and a police officer.

politicianMale (45)HordalandCharged with assault over the net and trafficking.

NRK (an abbreviation of the Norwegian: Norsk rikskringkasting AS, generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway. NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and three national radio channels on DVB-T, cable, satellite, IPTV, FM and DAB. It also runs several digital radio stations. All NRK radio stations can be heard on the website, NRK.no, which also offers an extensive TV service. NRK is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union.[3]

Nearly every police district in Norway is now involved in the sweeping investigation into online networks of men who’ve been caught planning or engaging in sexual assaults on children. A man in his 60s in western Finnmark County is the latest to be arrested, while an alleged 23-year-old ringleader has been ordered held in full isolation.

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Sputnik has contacted ABC, the New York Times and Washington Post for comment, and at time of publishing has not received a response from ABC or The Washington Post. A spokesperson The New York Times said the title published "several hundred" wire stories daily online, and these stories are removed as a matter of course after a few weeks.

In late November 2016, Norwegian police made public the arrests of a number of individuals involved in an international pedophile ring, including law enforcement officials, politicians and businesspeople. Major Western media outlets quickly published stories on the arrests – but they have since been removed.

With pedophilia accusations surrounding James Alefantis’ Comet Pizza — and subsequently Pizzagate — it begs the question as to why a seemingly innocuous story about the Norwegian pedophile network was pulled from the internet by more than one major news outlet at around the same time. And why legacy news organizations like the New York Times are working furiously to cast doubt on any mention of pedophile rings involving high-level officials.

Incidentally, both the Washington Post and ABC News also deleted their Associated Press reports on the Norwegian pedophile network, which has caused even more speculation as to why several legacy news organizations removed it. ABC News had the story until December, after which it simply disappeared.

The question that savvy internet denizens are asking is: Why? Why did the New York Times remove a brief, yet factual story about a pedophile network?

Page No Longer Available This news-agency article is no longer available on nytimes.com.

Page No Longer Available This news-agency article is no longer available on nytimes.com.

According to the senior editor of standards at The New York Times, some AP wire stories are only live on their site for 24 hours. They basically have a running feed of AP stories on the site that editors rarely pay attention to and are cycled out without being archived.

Guys, you need to understand one thing: Norway is the number 2 foreign donor to the Clinton Foundation The number 1 foreign donor is Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia does not give a flying fuck about HIV vaccines in Africa. Huma Abedin lived in Saudi Arabia until college, two years before meeting (seducing?) Hillary Clinton. Her family lives in an office shared with a Muslim terrorist organization in London. And a pizza shop. Let that sink in.

Internet sleuths discovered that an AP article that detailed the Norwegian scandal had been previously published by the New York Times, before they suddenly and inexplicably deleted it from their website.

The scandal bears a strikingly similar resemblance to Pizzagate, which implicates Hillary Clinton and members of her campaign team.

The New York Times has been caught censoring a story about a Norway pedophile ring that implicates top politicians in the country. 

The New York Times has been caught censoring a story about a Norway pedophile ring that implicates top politicians in the country.

Pinpointing exactly how often guns are used to settle road-rage disputes, however, is a difficult proposition. The National Highway Traffic Safety Foundation does not keep road-rage-specific statistics in its database of fatal traffic accidents, and if it did, altercations like the one that killed Lomax would not be counted, as his death did not occur in a crash.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.23 per 100,000 U.S. citizens);[2] 11,208 homicides (3.5 per 100,000);[3] 21,175 suicides;[4] 505 deaths due to accidental/negligent discharge of a firearm; and 281 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined intent",[4] included in a total of 33,636 deaths due to "Injury by firearms",[4] or 10.6 deaths per 100,000 people.[4] Of the 2,596,993 total deaths in the US in 2013, 1.3% were related to firearms.[1][5]

The incident happened around 11:15 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot outside the food court area on the south side of the shopping center. Witnesses say the suspect fired several shots then drove off in a red Ford Mustang. Police initially believed no one was injured but a victim later showed up with a gunshot wound at Baptist Memorial Hospital. The 21-year-old victim is listed in non-critical condition.

The incident started about 6:05 p.m. at the Walmart at 2425 E 2nd St., Shaw said. There was apparently a dispute over a parking spot. The homicide happened in the driveway leaving the Walmart going to East Second Street. Several agencies responded and the westbound lane East Second Street will remain closed until late Thanksgiving night for the investigation. One person died, Shaw said.

Cottman, 21, of Atlantic City, was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Hamilton Mall outside Macy’s department store about 1 a.m. Friday morning. His brother, Shadi Cottman, 26, of Clayton, was wounded in the leg, said acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Diane Ruberton.

Several hours later in New Jersey, two brothers, ages 20 and 26, were outside a Black Friday sale at the Macy’s in New Jersey’s Hamilton Mall around 1 a.m. on Friday when someone opened fire on them, killing one and wounding the other. The unnamed 20-year-old was shot to death in the Macy’s parking lot, while his brother is in stable condition at a nearby hospital after being shot in the leg, the Press of Atlantic City reported. Police have yet to release the victims’ names, or any information on the shooter’s motives.

The 21-year-old allegedly fired multiple shots, one of which struck another woman who was near the scene. She was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries.Juarez then fled the scene and attempted to evade police, but a helicopter followed him for about 15 miles before he was stopped and arrested. 

A Good Samaritan who tried to break up a domestic violence incident outside a shopping center has been shot dead during Black Friday madness, in the latest incident of shoppers turning violent across the country during the record-breaking sales day.The unidentified man was killed when a gunman opened fire on fire while sat in his car in the parking lot of a Walmart in San Antonio, Texas, about 4pm local time.Telles Juarez, 21, allegedly was grabbing a woman by the hair and punching her inside his car, when the Good Samaritan shouted from his car to let the woman go.

Green party candidate Jill Stein explains why she is calling for a recount of votes in three states, in a Facebook video posted on Thursday. Stein says the goal is not to overthrow Donald Trump, but to establish a voting system that is secure and trustworthy.

Jill Stein's bid to seek a vote recount in three key Rust Belt states is gaining steam as pressure builds among liberals to challenge the presidential election results.The Stein campaign said it needed to raise over $2 million by Friday to pay for recounts -- a goal it quickly met. The fundrasing goal was then upped to $4.5 million, which it also met. The current goal is $7 million.

An attack on Monday at Ohio State University was being investigated as a possible act of terrorism after a student, an 18-year-old Somali refugee, injured eleven people, first with a car and then with a butcher's knife. The suspect "intentionally" drove drove over a curb, striking multiple pedestrians, before emerging with a knife and stabbing several people. 

He was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident of the United States, officials said.

Somali-born Artan was living in the US as a legal permanent resident, unnamed officials told AP news agency.

“He turned in 19 voters to the registrar [of] folks that were deceased,” said a source with HarrisonburgVOTES, who wished to remain anonymous to avoid connecting the accused student with any campus organizations.

Republicans in the state House of Delegates, who in recent years have supported tighter voter ID laws, held a conference call with reporters to call attention to the investigation.

The proposals come after people working with third-party groups in Alexandria and Harrisonburg submitted allegedly fraudulent voter applications using false identities, including some applications that used names of dead people. Both cases involved employees of third-party groups. Charges have been filed in the Alexandria case. The other is under investigation. In an email, Cole said the Alexandria and Harrisonburg cases “brought the issue to light.” “There have been concerns and complaints about third-party registration groups before, including the failure to properly complete forms and the failure to turn in forms,” Cole said. “This can cause people to think they have registered to vote when they may not be.” In 2012, a Republican operative was arrested for allegedly dumping completed voter registration applications in a trash bin behind a Harrisonburg store, but the charges were dropped.

A day after an NYPD officer died from injuries sustained while responding to a Brooklyn fire, a pair of fearless cops rushed into another burning building Thursday to save an elderly man and a baby girl, sources said. The hero cops were then rushed to a hospital after they complained of difficulty breathing.

Her path to joining the NYPD began on September 11. As both a Muslim and a native New Yorker, she knew she needed to get involved. She sought to show people that the terrible acts of that day contradicted the teachings of Islam. And so she became a police officer. Because she wanted to demonstrate her faith through service.

The mother-of-five received a medal for her bravery.

the number of illegal immigrants peaked around 12 million in 2007 and has gradually declined to closer to 11 million.

According to recent reports, a Muslim-owned arts and crafts store in Dearborn, Michigan has started forcing female Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves while on the lock.

Enter Khilaf Krafts, located in Dearborn, Michigan, my hometown. Since the Christian majority on the Supreme Court thought it was apropos to allow family business owners the right to enforce their religious views upon their employees, the Muslim-family-owned business, Khilaf Krafts, has followed their lead by forcing their female employees (even Christian ones) to wear hijabs (the traditional Muslim head piece) while working at their place of business.

A company named Khilaf Krafts, a Muslim-owned art and craft store in Michigan, is forcing their female employees to wear a Muslim hijab, therefore forcing their religion on their employees. This isn’t your typical piece of uniform, its a garment related directly to the religion of Islam.