News for Today (2/5/17)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

The Three Most Believed Fake News Stories of the Election (Tested by Stanford) Favored Hillary. For what it is worth and it is not worth much.

In The News

Not ‘Lone Wolves’ After All: How ISIS Guides World’s Terror Plots From Afar. I remember when only extreme right wing people said things that the New York Times is now saying.

The FBI Is Building A National Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees. I am glad Trump is in power. That means it is respectable to worry about such things. Before, he would be someone who was trying to protect pedophiles.

Berkeley and Hitler. Milo having become the conservatives great white hope sickens me. Still, it a country that pretends to be ruled by law, everyone should be against the type of things they are doing to keep him from speaking.

Scientists Now Know Exactly How Lead Got Into Flint’s Water. Treating drinking water is like making sausage. The more you know about it, the less you want to drink it.

Russian tech exec sues Buzzfeed for publishing unverified Trump dossier.

Saudi Failures Spurred Al Qaeda in Yemen to Sharpen Its Battle Tactics

Deadly new wheat disease threatens Europe’s crops

How One Family Found Out Their Home Was Infested With Rattlesnakes

Venezuela Is So Broke It Can’t Even Export Oil

Not In The News But Should Be

Delaying kindergarten enrollment for one year shows significant mental health benefits for children, according to a recent study. Shout it from the roof tops. Granted, these sort of studies tend to be dubious. But this is so much common sense it is hard to see how it cannot be true.

Entertainment of the Day

In the days before CGI, it took 17 thousands Russian soldiers to to make scenes like this. A reasonable historical account of what this clip is trying to depict is here.

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