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News for Today (12/15/16)
Bogus News Story Of The Day.
“The Russians hacked the election” stories are starting to drive me insane. They are everywhere and stupid beyond belief so there is no point in linking to one particular one. Instead, I will link to somebody trying to be sane (And she was an Obama voter).
In The News
EgyptAir crash: Explosives found on victims, say investigators
South China Sea Artificial Islands Have Weapons Installed: Report
Did Obamacare Really Insure 20 Million?
Netanyahu and Sisi Building Strong Security Ties
Iran starts nuclear program after US ‘violation’ of deal
One boy dead, another recovering after being trapped in snowbank
Not In The News But Should Be
So Who Gets to Pay for Italy’s Banking Crisis?
Entertainment of the Day
Today’s Entertainment comes from the CIA. This use to be classified (Warning, link downloads a PDF). Background on this file here
News for Today (12/14/16)
Bogus News Story Of The Day.
The Daily 202: Ayn Rand-acolyte Donald Trump stacks his cabinet with fellow objectivists.
In The News
Trump names Elon Musk, Uber CEO to advisory team
The Futuristic Utensils Designed to Help You Eat Bugs
Tillerson’s record at Exxon shows a tough pragmatist
Not In The News But Should Be
Demonetisation for behavioural change
Entertainment of the Day
News for Today (12/13/16)
Bogus News Story Of The Day.
Bipartisan Electors Ask James Clapper: Release Facts on Outside Interference in U.S. Election. People have such a hard time resisting obvious lies. In this case the lie is the word “bipartisan” (to be fair, I think there is one nominal Republican in the bunch but that would not make it “bipartisan” if the shoe were on the other foot).
In The News
One Weight-Loss Approach Fits All? No, Not Even Close
Found: A Lost City in Greece. Nothing that noteworthy. Just a reminder of how little they know about even the areas that have been study to death.
Records: Too many votes in 37% of Detroit’s precincts. I have been beating this one to death. But the rumour mill has been constantly pointing towards fraud in this city long before it became somewhat “Official”. It will be interesting to see where the “Audits” go.
Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women
Not In The News But Should Be
Exclusive: Top U.S. spy agency has not embraced CIA assessment on Russia hacking – sources For all the fuss about the CIA saying the Russians waged cyber warfare to help get Trump elected, you have to read far and wide to figure out what the CIA thinks they actually did.
Entertainment of the Day
https://youtu.be/D97OxHZzBeQ
News for Today (12/12/16)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Methane surge needs ‘urgent attention’. What makes this story bogus is the allegation that the sudden surge over the last few years in methane emissions comes from agriculture sources. They don’t even try to pinpoint those sources or explain why it suddenly spiked.
Why do they pick on agriculture as opposed to fracking or other sources that could produce a more plausible sudden upsurge? I have read in other sources that this is because fracking or pipeline bursts should be locatable. Since they can’t locate any obvious culprits, they blame agriculture solely on the ground that it is impossible to prove that agriculture did not cause the sudden increase in the last few years.
In The News
Europeans Debate Nuclear Self-Defense after Trump Win
As U.S. Shale Seeps Into Biggest Oil Market, Saudis Hone Defense
All These Spy Planes Over Tunisia — Where Are They Coming From?
Not In The News But Should Be
Mosul Dam collapse ‘will be worse than a nuclear bomb’ . This Dam was in the news when people thought that ISIS might blow it up. But the real problem is the dam itself. And if the descriptions of the problems with it are accurate, it can’t really be fixed. My personal bet on how it fails involves heavy rains that political pressure requires them to be held back (this does happen on occasion even in this part of the world).
Entertainment of the Day
I don’t have anything for today.
News for Today (12/11/16)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
I don’t have anything.
In The News
Half of Detroit votes may be ineligible for recount
Italy Gets a New Prime Minister, But Not Yet a New Government, Let Alone a New Banking System
Chetty et al and the metamorphosis of the earnings curve
Venezuela seizes Christmas toys to distribute to poor
Shackles and Dollars. In my view, this is a debate that goes back to founding of this country. Southern leaders have always believed that slavery was crucial to the wealth of the entire country and that northern wealth was built on the backs of the south via tariffs and other political tricks. It was felt that if the south withheld cotton the entire industrial world would come to its knees and Europe would be compelled to intervene on the side of the south to bring the cotton back to market. In my opinion, history in the form of the civil war has already empirically demonstrated who was right. And it was the not the people who think that slavery was crucial to America’s wealth.
The economics of Theodor Herzl and his Zionist vision
Not In The News But Should Be
The Man Who Invented the World’s Most Important Number
Entertainment of the Day
News for Today (12/10/16)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish. “Wow” says I, “How did they pull that off?” To be fair, the answer is in the article but I still think the article is bogus.
In The News
US Army Orders Advanced Night Vision Optics from DRS Technologies
A Decade Into the Drug War, Mexico Is Still Burning
Not In The News But Should Be
Don’t have anything for this category today.
Entertainment of the Day
If you made a corny book category, this would win the best opening and best first chapter of any corny book currently written. Sadly, the rest of the book is not quite as good (although the author has gotten better with practice I have been told). Still, if you have to find out how the rest of this corny story goes, you can download the book for free from here.
News for Today (12/9/16)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Fake news: fake boos. The blog post is not bogus, but the false story it is highlighting is. But they took it down when they got found out so I have to link to the blog post.
In The News
DNA From 17th Century Mummy Of A Child From Lithuania May Rewrite History Of Smallpox
Giuliani pulls name from contention for secretary of state
Geert Wilders is convicted of saying unpopular things
Poland after a Year of Populist Rule
Barack Obama, Donald Trump Forge an Unlikely Rapport
Not In The News But Should Be
Desperate Chicago School System Looks to Shield Debt from Potential Bankruptcy
Entertainment of the Day
One of the better free movies on youtube.
https://youtu.be/uasbhm4GCeU
News for Today (12/8/16)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Algorithms Can Help Stomp Out Fake News
In The News
Poll: Trump now viewed more favorably than unfavorably, 50/43
U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993
French National Assembly approves bill outlawing some pro-life websites
France Returns to Its Conservative Roots
Not In The News But Should Be
Faithful Electors: If Every State Split Electoral College Votes, No One Would Be President-Elect
Entertainment of the Day
Same song, but played live…
News for Today (12/7/16)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Don’t have nothing for this today.
In The News
Light therapy could break down Alzheimer’s brain deposits
Pentangle Blew $125 Billion (a Year). Another perspective here.
The Death Strip at the Turkish-Syrian Border
Not In The News But Should Be
Divesting the Trump commercial holdings how about Congressional insider trading?
Entertainment of the Day
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Pre-Alpha Footage Here is hoping that it don’t suck. Not very good odds of that but at least they made it heavy and not arcadey. Still to early to tell what it is really going to be like though.