22 December - My Yahoo! - 2 of 2

Zelo Street

• Tom Newton Dunn - Third Strike, You’re Out

  
  

• Dan Hodges - Parasite Yourself

  
  

• Top Six - December 22

Politics : NPR

• Sunday Politics

  Going into the first week after impeachment, it's hard to tell what the political fallout will be.

• Rep. Kim Schrier On Calling For Stephen Miller's Firing

  Rep. Kim Schrier is among the 25 Democratic representatives who signed a letter asking President Trump to

• Scathing Report Puts Secret FISA Court Into The Spotlight. Will Congress

  Critics inside and outside officialdom are calling for, at very least, the FBI to validate its practices in

Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• The best Christmas Eve traditions from across the globe

  We take inspiration from countries that celebrate it properly.

• Thousands gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the winter solstice

  One man was seen drinking mead from an animal horn while druids danced and sang.

• Dog undergoes lifesaving operations after swallowing 34 Christmas

  Marley the labrador ate the gingerbread biscuits being made by its owner.

Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Two arrested as gardaí seize €70,000 worth of drugs in Kildare

  Two men have been arrested following a drug seizure in Kildare.

• Gardaí 'concerned' for woman, 29, missing from Dublin

  Rachael Dervin, 29, was last seen on James Street, Dublin 8 on Saturday.

• Gardaí investigate after shots fired at Galway house

  A house in Co. Galway has been damaged after shots were fired early this morning.

memeorandum

• Exclusive: John Bolton hits Trump for bluffing on North Korea nukes

  Jonathan Swan / Axios : Exclusive: John Bolton hits Trump for bluffing on North Korea nukes  

• How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants (Max Rivlin

  Max Rivlin-Nadler / The Intercept : How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants   &

• If Trump's Impeached, Then Why Can't a Senate Trial Start Now

  Noah Feldman / Bloomberg : If Trump's Impeached, Then Why Can't a Senate Trial Start Now?  

The Hayride

• Latest 2020 Polling Shows President Trump Beating All Major Democrats

  A new poll from USA Today and Suffolk University is alarming liberals as it shows President Donald Trump

• Evangelical Leaders Rebuke ‘Christianity Today’ Pro-Impeachment Article

  Following the publishing of a pro-impeachment opinion piece in Christianity Today, the son of its late

• REVERSE THE CURSE: A Title Could Heal the 2011 Disaster in New Orleans

  The 2019 national title game is in the Big Easy again. And the Tigers are hoping to reverse the curse from

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Ongoing CCPA analysis of Ontario education funding

  CCPA's Ontario office is closely following ongoing changes to education funding in the province. The

• Planning for a Build-Out of Affordable Rental Housing in Metro Vancouver

  To fully address Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis, an ambitious build-out program of 10,000 new units

• Crude Lessons

  Crude Lessons: Fossil Fuel Industry Influence on Environmental Education in Saskatchewan  finds that  it is

Times of India

• 2 days after Yogi Adityanath's warning, UP seals assets of ‘rioters’

• Over 1,000 academicians, scholars issue joint statement supporting

• CAA stir: Hospitals list 11 dead in UP protests, cops count 6, say they

India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India

• In show of unity, Gehlot, Pilot lead march

• Congress slams Kerala governor for defending CAA

• Diaspora, Bengali protesters add to anti-CAA chorus

News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Police will have 'zero tolerance approach' to gender

  Police will have a zero-tolerance approach to gender-based violence this festive season, police minister

• News24.com | Christmas collection started for Zimbabweans after N1 bus fire

  A collection has been started for the victims of a bus fire that broke out when the vehicle was travelling

• News24.com | Police swoop in on Cape Town's wanted criminals

  Fifteen people wanted for murder, nine for rape and 16 for assault were caught by police in areas including

News24 Voices

• News24.com | OPINION | Initiation: We should not allow modernity to dictate

  What has changed is that the commodification of this culture became organised through government structures

• News24.com | Serjeant at the Bar: Brave judgment in Qwelane case seeks to

  In short, to ban all speech that could be construed as intending to be hurtful to another person merely

• News24.com | Opinion | Jacob Zuma: a perpetrator of one of the most serious

  Taking into account the devastating consequences of state capture makes former president Jacob Zuma a

News24 Africa

• News24.com | France's Macron says colonialism was 'grave mistake

  French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said "colonialism was a grave mistake," and called

• News24.com | Belgian court jails Rwandan for 25 years for genocide

  A Belgian court has sentenced a former Rwandan official convicted of genocide for his part in his country&#

• News24.com | Job cuts in UN mission in DRC upset local workers

  Politicians in DRC have long pressed the UN to cut its huge mission in the country, but now that a drawdown

World: BreakingNews.ie

• Home Office doubles the number of fast-track science fellowship visas

  The move would allow the UK to remain at the ‘forefront of innovation’ according to Home

• Labour leadership race heats up as party in-fighting continues

  David Lammy’s article in the Observer was seen as a pitch to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader.

• Egypt frees ex-general arrested after challenging president

  Sami Annan was taken into custody in January last year after declaring his intention to run in the

TASS

• No plans to force China into arms control talks - Russian top diplomat

  According to Sergey Lavrov, Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Donald Trump of the United discussed

• Attempts to spread Russophobia began before 2014 - Lavrov

  It began long before the February 2014 events and everything that followed, Russian Foreign Minister said

• Turkey cannot handle another wave of Syrian refugees, president says

  Al Jazeera reported, citing United Nations observers, that more than 18,000 people had left the Idlib

WebMD Health

• Pot Use Appears to Change Structure of Your Heart: Study

  People who regularly use marijuana tend to have a larger left ventricle, which is the main pumping chamber

• Growing Obesity Rates May Contribute to Climate Change

  The amount of carbon dioxide -- a greenhouse gas -- produced by a species is determined by its average

• New Autism-Screening Guide Seeks Earlier Diagnosis

  The new guidelines reinforce the importance of routinely screening 18- and 24-month-olds for the condition,

WhoWhatWhy

• Boris Johnson, Brexit and the UK Election — What the US Thinks

  Reading Time: 3 minutes British voters handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a huge mandate. Is his victory

• Trump Is the Founding Fathers’ Toughest Test

  Reading Time: 4 minutes The impeachment of President Donald Trump is about much more than the fate of a

• FISA Advocates Worry Spying on Americans May Become More Difficult

  Reading Time: < 1 minute Whenever the curtain is pulled back on how the FISA process works, as it was

Science Blog

• Southern California approves new clean-air plan

  Southern California, as far as air basins go, ranks among the worst, if it is not in fact ranked the worst,

• Why Your First Battle With Flu Matters Most

  How successfully a person can fend off the flu depends not only on the virus’ notorious ability to change

• How We Transport Water in Our Bodies Inspires New Water Filtration Method

  A multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists has discovered a new method for water filtration that

Raw Story

• Trump still says Obama spied on his campaign — even after extensive

  President Donald Trump ranted Sunday about being spied on during his 2016 campaign, an unsubstantiated

• It was ‘out of love for Jesus’ we support Trump’s impeachment

  Mark Galli’s editorial for Christianity Today in support of impeachment became the most shocking news of

• Trump’s ‘toxic narcissism’ goes against ‘human logic and psychology

  President Donald Trump has a tendency to either make up stories or lie about stories or conversations he

Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• What’s in the NIWA freezer?

  Just past the locks, alarms and big heavy doors is a rather macabre sight. To see it, you first need to

• NZ eco-innovation finalists announced

  Insulation made from clothing off-cuts, mushroom-derived construction material, a robotic farming system

• Reassessment of benzyl alkonium chlorides

  Submissions on our proposed updates to the benzyl alkonium chloride (BAC) approvals are now open.

The Science of Doom

• Opinions and Perspectives – 9 – Pattern Effects

  The IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) from 2013 shows the range of results that climate models produce for

• Opinions and Perspectives – 8 – Pattern Effects Primer

  For people with maths, physics and chemistry (and biology) backgrounds non-linear processes are familiar

• Opinions and Perspectives – 7 – Global Temperature Change from Doubling CO2

  How much will global temperature rise if we double CO2 from pre-industrial levels? Based on current

Seeing the Forest

• Wut?

  For no particular reason, a bagpipe version of Eight Miles High by Rufus Harley. Inspired by John Coltrane

• “Power Is Going To Cede Nothing Without A Struggle”

• Show Up

  REMOVE TRUMP Join us: We are rising up for Trump’s removal. ​ Trump’s crimes against our

The Slog.

• At the End of the Day

  Here comes a perverted version of Christmas, Shopping madness, and sick-making BBC correctness ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

• EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE THE MURKY WORLD OF DOMINIC CUMMINGS, WHITEHALL COUPS

  Are Britain’s feeble remains of democracy still safe? Are the Sedwill technocrats really back in

• At the End of the Day

  As September 1939 moseyed gently along to December and then the New Year of 1940, the British War Ministry

Things I grab, motley collection

• New York just set a dangerous precedent on algorithms, experts warn

  It was supposed to be groundbreaking. When New York City’s task force to develop policy on algorithm

• the second wave of algorithmic accountability

  Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists

• AI today and tomorrow is mostly about curve fitting, not intelligence

  As much as I look into what’s being done with deep learning, I see they’re all stuck there on the level of

Top Documentary Films

• Anatomy of a Bribe

  Working in conjunction with Wikileaks

• LSD is Back

  Many people associate LSD with the

• Into the Unknown

  In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope

Universe Today

• Black Holes Were Already Feasting Just 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang

  Using the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers observed gas clouds

• Starliner Launches But it Can’t Reach the Station

  Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule launched successfully, but a mishap prevented it from docking with

• Astronomers Discovered a New Kind of Explosion That the Sun Can Do

  Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a team of scientists have discovered a new type of

Whistleblower Protection Blog

• When your medical bill amounts to fraud

  By Elisabeth Rosenthal, M.D., editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News. Reprinted with permission from KHN

• Public servants, questionable pork and a reading list

  A round up of recent news begins with a link to a new piece in The Hill by the founders of the NWC. They

• Do I Have A Good Case For The IRS Whistleblower Program?

  A guest post from Dean Zerbe, senior policy analyst for the National Whistleblower Center and former tax

Andy Worthington

• Radio: I Discuss Boris Johnson’s Alarming Election Victory – and Guantánamo

  Here's a link to, and description of my most recent radio interview - about Boris Johnson's

• Horribly Repressive: The Truth About Donald Trump’s Guantánamo

  My discussion of a recent ABC News article highlighting, via attorney Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, repressive

• Boris Johnson’s Election Victory: A Truly Depressing Day for Britain, But

  My post-mortem on Thursday's depressing General Election, which delivered a majority for the Tories