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Radiation Levels Are Soaring Inside the Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant
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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https://youtu.be/RG5UuIHVvBI
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Oh, Okay: Man Who Claimed Mother Died In Iraq Due To Travel Ban Lied
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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.
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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.
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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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…
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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
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Obama’s administration made the “Muslim ban” possible and the media won’t tell you
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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.
A viral Washington Post story about State Department resignations is very misleading. Main thing about this story is the Washington Post is getting so bad they are embarrassing other liberals.
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Fake Headline: Mutiny at Foggy Bottom: State Department management resigns en masse. If past is any guide, by the time you read this the news stories about how “the entire leadership team of the department of state is gone” will have been moderated. But just in case it has not here is the REAL NEWS:.
Edit: If you want reasonably sane description of what happened, this is your best bet.
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Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
Meet the leader of a billionaires’ club determined to stop Trump from destroying the world
What’s Causing Chicago’s Homicide Spike?
Youngest in class twice as likely to take ADHD medication
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