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News for Today (2/12/17)

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Sidney Blumenthal taken in by Fred Trump campaign ads that appear to be fake

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France’s Bumbling Search for a Candidate to Stop Le Pen.

Here is the thing, it currently seems that Emmanuel Macron is now the front runner to stop Le Penn. Here is a quote from Wikipedia about this young man.

Macron is married to Brigitte Trogneux, who is 24 years his senior, and was his former teacher in La Providence high school, Amiens. The pair first met when he was a student in her class, aged 15, but were only officially a couple once he was 18 years of age.

His parents initially attempted to split the couple by sending him away to Paris to finish the final year of his schooling, as they felt his youth made this relationship inappropriate, but the couple stayed together after he graduated, and were married in 2007.

The couple lives with Trogneux’s three children from her previous marriage.

I don’t know how it is in France, but in America his now wife would be considered guilty of statutory rape.

Iran and Russia Are Apparently Fighting Each Other in Syria

Military Pilot Retention Too Low

Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness
CIA files reveal how US used psychics to spy on Iran

Prof. Michael McConnell: ‘A flawed restraining of a flawed order’

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A Truth So Glaring Even Vox Can See It

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Everything sucked about the first game this guy did except for the story. But the story was so good I slogged most of the way through it anyway. If the Game play is a little more bearable and the story is half as good, I am sure I will play this one all the way through.

News for Today (2/7/17)

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The media botched this Trump story last week — and that’s bad for everyone. Even when they admit that they get things wrong, it is still Trumps fault for not being chummy enough with them.

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The Reign of the Kaibil. This story would make for a good movie.

Grounded: Nearly two-thirds of US Navy’s strike fighters can’t fly

Executive Power Run Amok. I think this article is hypocritical on a number of different levels. That said, this is how reasonable people would criticize Trump if they were all not going insane.

Comcast Gives Employees Time Off to Protest Trump Travel Ban

Astronomers spot a strange, supersonic space cloud screeching through our galaxy

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The Dangers of Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons. A bunch of thugs who like to turn woman into sex slaves makes for more salacious (and thus better selling) press. But it is things like this that tend to fade into the background that will rack up the real body count one day.

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News for Today (2/6/17)

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People Are Canceling Tesla Orders Because Elon Musk Is Advising Trump. Time to short the stock. Oh, wait. How many people did you say canceled their orders? And you made a headline out of that?

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This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew About the Roots of Western Civilization

Belarus Prepares for Hybrid War as ‘Europe’s Last Dictator’ Knocks Russia

The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs. My sympathy is dented by the fact that millennials are most likely to support policies that make their problems worse (i.e. restrictions on house building and the like). Also, as a group, they are awful picky about the types of jobs that they will do. This plays in to their lower incomes although it is not the only factor (another not often noted contributors is that rich people have few to no kids so millennials are more likely to be a from poor broken homes then previous generations).

Britain has changed since 1998. Back then, it only took workers about three years to save enough money for a down-payment on a house. Now it takes 20 years, on average, according to the Resolution Foundation, which published a landmark report on income, housing, and inequality in Britain last week. . One thing about being part of the EU is that it allowed lots of people from other countries to buy house in the UK (and London in particular). Of course, the UK is also famously restrictive on allowing new construction so you can’t blame it all on the Russian Plutocrats and American Movies Stars.

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Gangsters and ‘slaves’: The people cleaning up Fukushima. Remember things like this when you here about how low crime Japan is. It is true. The Gangsters are so above board they have their own offices and you can contact them to do business for you.

Japan readies package for Trump to help create 700,000 U.S. jobs. It is obvious that Japan knows how to deal with Gangsters.

Studies Link Some Stomach Drugs to Possible Alzheimer’s Disease and Kidney Problems

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Federal Court Basically Says It’s Okay To Copyright Parts Of Our Laws. This has always irritated me immensely because most of the laws that effect me professionally are Copyrighted and you have to spend big bucks to get copies of them. Of course, it is my employer that has to pay, but it still bugs me.

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Hobbyist made video that I am re-purposing to be a morality play about February. Not really all that good but it seems to fit.

News for Today (2/5/17)

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

News for Today (2/4/17)

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Boston Globe forced to issue embarrassing correction after spreading fake news story about Trump and the media

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Radiation Levels Are Soaring Inside the Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant

A young woman’s suicide has sparked a backlash against the country’s labor conditions. But death by overwork is so common there’s even a word for it: karoshi.

Mystery radiation ‘clouds’ may pose risk to air travellers

The Left Underestimates Trump’s Economic Plan

Report: Congressional analysts worry SpaceX engines are prone to cracks

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News for Today (2/2/17)

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Oh, Okay: Man Who Claimed Mother Died In Iraq Due To Travel Ban Lied

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In the wake of purges ordered by President Erdogan following last summer’s coup attempt, a number of Turkish NATO officers have applied for asylum in Germany. The issue is a highly sensitive one — also for Chancellor Merkel, who is visiting Turkey today.

Researchers break data transfer efficiency record

Why the sound of noisy eating fills some people with rage

Making America’s ICBMs Great Again

North Dakota wants hired pipeline protesters to pay state income taxes

Trump Files With FEC For 2020 Election Bid, Outmaneuvers Nonprofit Organizations. If true (and I am not confident of the source) this demonstrates the problem with campaign finance laws.

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Immigration, Obamacare, Unintended Consequences

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Two links for today. First one is for Dad because we were talking about it.

And the youtube is for me because I think it is fascinating stuff.

News for Today (2/1/17)

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Whither Melania Trump? 12 days without a public sighting

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How Samsung is leveraging VR to manage pain. The smart VR companies go where the real money is.

California’s New Bar Exam Format And ABA’s Proposed 75% Bar Passage Requirement Will Adversely Impact Diversity, Women, And Access To The Legal Profession

Senator Wyden Must Resign

Why Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch

An unexplained ‘void’ appears to be pushing the Milky Way through the Universe at 2 million km/h

Americans Are Eating So Much Bacon That Reserves Are at a 50-Year Low. The truly important stories are never given enough press.

France election 2017: As Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen surge in polls, Francois Fillon ‘faces elimination’ – everything you need to know

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China’s Nuclear Power Capacity Set to Overtake U.S. Within Decade. If I lived on the west cost, this is a story I would follow with interest. I may be paranoid, but I don’t know that I trust them to build these kinds of plants safely.

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News for Today (1/31/17)

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The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement. What bothers me about this article is that it conflates conservative law enforcement groups with the clan and then complains that the FBI is too concerned about their civil liberties. I think you are going to see it referenced as gospel in a lot of places though.

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Hill staffers secretly worked on Trump’s immigration order. No doubt the left has gone crazy over the order. But one thing to few on the right acknowledged is that this order was never about making something that would work. Rather, they wanted something that would make people go crazy.

Russia Unleashes Artillery in Eastern Ukraine

This Is How You Should Read French Election Polls

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I have read experts tell me the exploding bullets were a myth and did not really work.

News for Today (1/30/17)

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BMA warns against using ‘expectant mothers’ for pregnant women as it ‘may offend intersex men’

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Poll Shows Only 33 Percent Oppose Trump’s Temporary Ban on Immigrants From Terrorist Havens

What Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration Does—and Doesn’t Do. If you are not tired of reading about this already.

Physicists have found a metal that conducts electricity but not heat

Greece has three weeks to deal with ‘potentially disastrous’ debt

Things Just Got Serious in Europe’s War on Cash

Chicago police detained more than 7,000 people at secret interrogation center: report. Old news but worth remembering when people are screaming end of the world about current political actions.

Yemen Raid: US Loses 1 SEAL & 1 MV-22 Osprey; 4 Injured

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FAMAS to Equip New 84,000 Man National Guard, Stay in Service Until 2028. This is posted mostly because of my own curiosity. I have not heard a lot about France standing up a new National Guard. I wounder what the rational is?

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