My main thought reading this is why does anyone in this day and age still think it is a good idea to store nukes in Turkey? Seems like the US can destroy all the likely (and unlikely) targets just fine without them. Belated Realization: The Old World Order Is in Shambles

Average users believe a lot of wrong things: Undercover agents in Washington D.C. monitored the site, filled with images of child rape, and were able to deanonymize the Bitcoin transactions, something that average users often believe is impossible.

Kinda funny if you have a sick sense of humor: Riot police blast firefighters with water cannons during Paris protests

Possible Brexit deal is all in the news. Events are moving to fast for anyone to give any useful information but for what it is worth here is two non-US based perspectives. What’s new in this Brexit deal? and Brexit: madder and madder

Reading this story makes me think that the US has resorted to spaming countries it does not like and calling it cyber attacks to make it seem like a bigger deal. U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran in wake of Saudi oil attack: officials

California is not the only crazy State: Cuomo orders utility to pump imaginary natural gas

On purely principled grounds, I support this. But this is the same crowd that believes in forced vaccination. This was a common theme at Thursday night’s CNN town hall focused on gay and transgender issues, sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign. Host Anderson Cooper, for example, called laws criminalizing HIV nondisclosure “antiquated” and based on “old science.” Presidential contender Pete Buttigieg agreed, saying, “It’s not fair and it needs to change.” And both on the CNN stage and in her new LGBT issues platform, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed decriminalizing HIV transmission as well.Sen. Cory Booker has also signed on to this radicalism, explicitly agreeing that laws requiring disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners are “archaic” and have “no scientific basis,” calling for their complete repeal.

On a different, but related note: Rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) continue to rise, with combined cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia hitting a record high in 2018.

Video at the link: Brilliant Midnight Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Northeast China

Nobody is ready for third world service: Massive California power outage triggers chaos in science labs

The important thing is to keep panicking: Some corals ‘killed’ by climate change are now returning to life

FYI: Tens of thousands of troops were deployed on rescue missions across Japan on Sunday after a powerful typhoon caused widespread flooding and landslides, leaving at least 26 people dead and 15 missing.

The wages of being PC is that nobody can figure out what to do about a situation like this: Mickaël Harpon, who stabbed three police officers and a woman civil servant to death before he was killed at Paris police headquarters on October 3rd, was a radical Islamist with a top secret security clearance and access to all computers in the police prefecture’s directorate of intelligence, known as the DRPP.

Just a reminder of how little they know: According to the authority, the importance of the finding is that it will change everything scholars know about the urbanization process in the Land of Israel.

People who talk the most about pollution being a serious problem are the least likely to know where most of it comes from. This study surprises only the blind. Researchers from Canada and South Africa studied waste washed up on the beaches of Inaccessible Island, an island in the heart of the southern Atlantic Ocean, on a series of trips that began in 1984. Nearly three-quarters of the trash they sifted through originated in Asia, produced by China. The research challenges long assumptions that plastic debris at sea primarily originates on land.

This is what hysteria gets you: President Trump is gaining among independent voters in head-to-head matchups with the Democratic presidential front-runners, according to a new IBD-TIPP poll.

They wanted a power company that was more careful about fires. Not sure if they realized this would be the result: In the Bay Area, portions of Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma counties could suffer power shutoffs.

It is the same logic that causes smaller companies to endlessly strive to be suppliers of Wall-Mart even though everyone knows how Wall-Mart treats their suppliers: There was this consistently weird disconnect in the comments from American business leaders, as they kept saying their Chinese competitors were overtly or secretly state-subsided, or would complain about corruption . . . but no one wanted to stop putting more resources there.

Coming soon to a State near you: A “zombie” disease which makes deer become emaciated and more aggressive may sound like the opening to a horror film. But experts have warned the deadly disease has already affected 24 US states – and could spread to humans next. We all know what experts are worth. On the other paw, Lyme disease was a rare thing when I was young.

Sanctions having an effect on Venezuela: Sending oil to Cuba to free up storage space makes sense from an operational point of view, said Piñón, because it allows Venezuela to preserve its output capacity and keeps wells pumping.“Whenever you have to shut down an oil well you have problems, because it is extremely hard to get it going again, given that you will lose the original pressure of the reservoir,” Piñón said.