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BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, rob weekend riders
Marine Le Pen Is In A Much Deeper Hole Than Trump Ever Was
The county at the centre of a Chinese debt crisis
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‘They call us bigoted and undereducated’
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The Ugly Unethical Underside of Silicon Valley
NYU grad student goes undercover in Chinese iPhone factory and it ain’t pretty
UK weather: Snow and storms to strike Britain with low temperatures lasting for weeks
How a Handwritten Note Gave Erdogan an Uncheckable Election Win
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria. Should be in the news because most people don’t realize how messed up our copyright laws are. Don’t get me wrong, I think the purposed class action settlement was seriously flawed. But the root of the problem is the changes in copyright law brought about by Disney.
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An Urgent Plea to the International Community to Protect Mosul and its Residents. I feel for the dude as supposedly he really is in the city. But this demonstrates the problems with feeling and not thinking. If you think instead of feel, there is nothing worthwhile about this post, particularly as he was crying all along for ISIS to be driven out of Mosul. Regardless of their morals, the Iraqi Army has only three choices. They can leave ISIS alone and not bother them, they can starve them out (the safest way, but every civilian trapped with them will starve along with them), or they can come into where they are fortified and blast them out. None of those options is a good option for the people in the city. They lose no mater which one gets chosen.
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Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job
Many College Football Players Lack Vitamin D: Study
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Expect to resume in the near future.
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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
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A Comparative Guide to Russia’s Use of Force: Measure Twice, Invade Once
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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.
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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?
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Why Is Asia Returning to Coal?
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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
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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.
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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.
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Old school urban warfare tactics. I don’t thing modern guys could move as fast. Too burden down with equipment.
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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.
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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.