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News for Today (2/20/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Nothing for today.
In The News
New Evidence Suggests We Could Be Wrong About Why People Are Left- or Right-Handed
Germany’s Energy Mistakes Are Hurting Its Neighbors Too
Sixth Circuit Reverses IRS, Tax Court: ‘Citizens Can’t Comply With Tax Laws They Can’t See’z
Not In The News But Should Be
A Comparative Guide to Russia’s Use of Force: Measure Twice, Invade Once
Entertainment of the Day
News for Today (2/19/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Trump cites (fake) attack in Sweden. This weeks bogus story is another flat out lie about what Trump said. If you look at the linked story, it is at least honest enough to quote Trump. Nowhere in the quote does Trump say that a terrorist attack happened in Sweden. I think part of the problem is that newspaper reporters are so much in their bubble that longstanding talking points from conservatives about high rape rates driven by emigrants in Sweden has never entered their ears.
In The News
Releasing water at Oroville Dam a lingering problem
China bans all coal imports from North Korea amid growing tensions
Le Pen Lures French Farmers Angered by Worst Crisis in Decades
From bad to worse’: Greece hurtles towards a final reckoning
Hawaii Dem Argues Doctors Should be Able to Prescribe Housing to Cure Homelessness
Who wants more coal company pollution in water streams?
Not In The News But Should Be
Why Is Asia Returning to Coal?
Entertainment of the Day
News for Today (2/18/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Nothing for today.
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Report: Photos appear to show cartel members readying for war in post-‘El Chapo’ power struggle So many of them carry radios. I wonder how hard it is to take advantage of that? Or what kind of power they have that they are not worrying about government forces taking advantage of that.
Murder rates in 50 American cities
Vitamin D ‘proved to cut risk of colds and flu’
Storm to dump heavy rain and snow on U.S. West
Pharma industry shuns Trump push for radical shift at FDA
Not In The News But Should Be
Entertainment of the Day
News for Today (2/14/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
The Empire Strikes Back. This is the type of historical stuff being put on on conservative media. The part that makes this article bogus is all the blame on the “Deep State.” But nobody stuck a gun to Trump’s head and made him accept Flynn’s resignation. Nobody who wants to make Flynn out to be martyr seems to be paying attention to his own words where he says…..
Unfortunately, because of the fast pace of events, I inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. I have sincerely apologized to the President and the Vice President, and they have accepted my apology.
I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out what this means.
In The News
For the First Time, Wind on the Plains Supplied More Than Half Region’s Power
The Disruptive Career of Michael Flynn, Trump’s National-Security Adviser. Old, but a useful reminder of the man’s reputation.
Conflict Over Trump Forces Out an Opinion Editor at The Wall Street Journal
Xiao’s eight female bodyguards, in this case, offered no meaningful protection.
Not In The News But Should Be
Entertainment of the Day
Old school urban warfare tactics. I don’t thing modern guys could move as fast. Too burden down with equipment.
News for Today (2/12/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Sidney Blumenthal taken in by Fred Trump campaign ads that appear to be fake
In The News
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’
Not In The News But Should Be
A Truth So Glaring Even Vox Can See It
Entertainment of the Day
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 (2/5/17)
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.
News for Today (2/1/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Whither Melania Trump? 12 days without a public sighting
In The News
How Samsung is leveraging VR to manage pain. The smart VR companies go where the real money is.
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.
Not In The News But Should Be
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.
Entertainment of the Day
News for Today (1/29/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Two posts for today that are slightly related. WaPo’s Glenn Kessler explains difference between Obama & Trump bans, accidentally indicts MSM and Most claims about Trump’s visa Executive Order are false or misleading.
My own thoughts on this deal: I think the executive order was poorly conceived and done to make headlines and not accomplish anything. Most (All?) of the attacks on US soil came from countries not affected by this ban. That said, the media and politicians who stood by as it became US policy that you could put US citizens on “No fly lists” with no oversight and no notification do not exactly have the moral authority to proclaim the second coming of Hitler because Trump wants to ban people from coming into this country from war zones.
In The News
Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms
‘You can’t live in a museum’: the battle for Greenland’s uranium
Retired Army Dogs Meant for Veterans Given to Company that Tried to Sell Them to Foreign Countries. The article focuses on the tear jerker side of things. I wish the corruption angle had been more thoroughly explored.
Electoral college reform (fifty states with equal population) Never going to happen. But it is an interesting thought experiment.
Not In The News But Should Be
Entertainment of the Day
Jason Statham proving that he can play more then a hard man (in this clip, he is petty criminal but spends most of the moive trying not to get hurt by the big bad criminal lord or ripped off by the Irish Travelers that he starts out by trying to buy a caravan from…..
And this is the bad guy that Turkish (i.e. Jason) is so afraid of…
News for Today (1/28/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
Nothing for today
In The News
Iron Workers pension cuts approved; retirees to get smaller checks
China’s Army of Global Homebuyers Is Suddenly Short on Cash
Norovirus tears across US; stomach bug causing widespread misery
Not In The News But Should Be
Obama’s administration made the “Muslim ban” possible and the media won’t tell you
Entertainment of the Day
When I was working a lot of overtime for snow removal it always seemed like this song would come on late at night as I was driving home. Helped me stay awake but it did not do a lot for my mood.