6 January - My Yahoo! - 2 of 2

Zelo Street

• Dan Wootton Private Jet Snipe BACKFIRES

• Mail Maya Jama Smear RUMBLED

• Lewis Goodall - Next Pawn In Tory BBC War

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Politics : NPR

• Trump Says He'll Target Iran's Cultural Sites. That's Illegal

  The Hague Convention, signed by the U.S., requires "refraining from any act of hostility" against

• What The Trump Administration Has Said About The Soleimani Killing

  Trump administration officials are asking the public to trust them about the need to kill a top Iranian

• Democratic Presidential Candidates Criticize Trump For Ordering Soleimani

  Following the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, leading Democratic presidential candidates

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Joey King shows off bruise after Patricia Arquette hit her with a Golden

  Actress Joey King claimed her The Act co-star Patricia Arquette accidentally hit her in the head with an

• Cristiano Ronaldo’s retro iPod shuffle catches fans’ attention ahead of

  The football star arrived at the stadium this afternoon ahead of Juventus’ game with Cagliari with a

• TV mix-up has Russian ice hockey fans celebrating despite losing

  Two state TV channels showed Russia-Canada world junior hockey championships finals at the same time &ndash

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Dublin City Councillors vote against attending RIC event

  Dublin City Councillors have voted not to participate in an upcoming RIC and Dublin Metropolitan Police

• Gardaí recover €30k and make three arrests after armed robbery in Meath

  Gardaí have arrested three men after an armed robbery in Co. Meath today.

• Search underway after man attempts to bundle woman into boot of car in

  A major search is underway for a man who attempted to bundle a woman in her 60s into the boot of a car near

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memeorandum

• IRS Personal Income-Tax Audits Drop to Lowest Level in Decades (Richard

  Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal : IRS Personal Income-Tax Audits Drop to Lowest Level in Decades

• 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg says he doesn't regret backing Iraq

  Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times : 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg says he doesn't regret

• Murkowski: Decision on impeachment witnesses should wait until after start

  Jordain Carney / The Hill : Murkowski: Decision on impeachment witnesses should wait until after start

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The Hayride

• US Military Mistakenly Sends Letter Announcing Iraq Withdrawal

  April Fools came early for our friends in Iraq yesterday as the Defense Department mistakenly sent a letter

• Trench Warfare Among Louisiana’s House GOP Mars Speaker Race

  …with respect to the race for Speaker of the House between Sherman Mack and Clay Schexnayder. And

• VIDEO: What Ricky Gervais Did To The Golden Globe Awards Last Night Was

  IF you haven’t seen the video of the opening monologue at last night’s Golden Globe Awards and

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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

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Times of India

• 30 injured as masked thugs go on rampage inside JNU

• 'If Iranian general can be droned for terrorism, why not a Pakistani

• Violence in JNU: Top developments

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

• India summons Pak diplomat over attack

• 'Free Kashmir' poster in Mumbai kicks up storm

• No tukde-tukde gang in JNU in our time: S Jaishankar

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Magashule denies ANC leaders snubbed SACP commemoration

  ANC secretary general Ace Magashule has brushed off concerns that top ANC leaders had not attended the SACP

• News24.com | Trump's Middle Eastern aggression, state capture in

  In its yearly statement commemorating the death of Joe Slovo, SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande slammed

• News24.com | Four children die after eating toxic substance at Eastern Cape

  Four children in the Eastern Cape have died after consuming a toxic substance at a dumping site in NU30

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | ANALYSIS: With the US and Iran on the brink of war, the

  The Trump administration has little option but to return to the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran, though

• News24.com | Mcebo Dlamini: Media continues to benefit the ruling class

  So the true battle here is the battle around which narratives become dominant and which narratives are

• News24.com | Mandy Wiener | 2020: The year of prosecutions? You betcha!

  There is only so much the executive can do to assure citizens and prospective investors that there is

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Zimbabwe vice-president's wife, accused of trying to kill

  The wife of Zimbabwe's vice president was granted bail on Monday after three weeks in jail on charges

• News24.com | Top EU diplomat warns of 'imminent' Libya escalation

  The European Union's top diplomat on Monday warned that more intense fighting could be about to break

• News24.com | Somali jihadists kill 3 Americans in attack on Kenya military

  Jihadists from Somalia's Al-Shabaab group on Sunday stormed a military base used by US forces in Kenya&

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Firefighters tackle blaze at London nightclub which hosted Madonna and

  Around 60 firefighters are tackling a blaze at a nightclub in London.

• British teenager found guilty of lying over Cyprus gang-rape ‘terrified’ of

  The 19-year-old will be sentenced on Tuesday.

• Two arrested after dog tied to rock rescued from river in UK

  The dog is recovering in the care of vets.

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WebMD Health

• What Are the Early Warning Signs of Vaping Illness?

  Many people have been hospitalized, and some have died from vaping illness. But how do you know if you have

• Opioid Use By Teens a Red Flag for Other Dangers

  In a national survey of U.S. high school students, 14% said they had ever "misused" a

• AI Beat Humans in Spotting Breast Tumors

  Researchers at Google and several universities are working on an artificial intelligence (AI) model aimed

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WhoWhatWhy

• Australian PM Defends His Response to Deadly Fires

  Reading Time: 2 minutes Atlantic Current Could Falter Before 2100 ; Why Cheese Is as Addictive as Cocaine

• Ignoring Warning Signs: Officials Approve Vulnerable Voting Machines

  Reading Time: 8 minutes While more states move toward hand-marked paper ballots, others will keep using

• Twitter, Trump, and Me: A Confession

  Reading Time: 5 minutes My Twitter overload left me feeling a little unhinged. The post Twitter, Trump,

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Science Blog

• Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland

  The mysterious disappearance of Greenland’s Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been down

• Illegal hunting and bushmeat trade threatens biodiversity and wildlife of

  Hunting wild animals has been practised by humans for millions of years; however, the extraction of

• Astronomers find wandering massive black holes in dwarf galaxies

  Astronomers seeking to learn about the mechanisms that formed massive black holes in the early history of

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Raw Story

• Republicans slapped by ex-judge for claiming to be ‘strict constructionists

  On Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s “All In,” former Judge Nancy Gertner blaster

• Psychiatrist explains Trump’s admiration for dictators: ‘It comes from the

  The fragile psychological state of President Donald Trump and his supporters was explained by a prominent

• ‘The Republican Party is going to own this’: Former GOP chair tells his

  Former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele warned his own party that they should be careful about

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• The epic life of the spiny red rock lobster

  Sam Fraser-Baxter heads to the Wairarapa for one of New Zealand’s longest-running marine surveys – counting

• NZ striving to create inclusive digital identity environment

  Aotearoa New Zealand has a golden opportunity, now at the start of a new decade, to demonstrate a truly

• Aussie bushfire smoke reaches NZ – update 2nd Jan 2020

  A thick river of smoke has been flowing across the Tasman Sea for over a month, tracked in detail by

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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

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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

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The Slog

• THE DICE OF LIFE: high technology & the other side of “hate crime”

  An occasional series about crap games I’ve just been taking an exhaustive look at how to use, update

• At the End of the Day

  Crossed wireless media do not lead to Progress I haven’t posted until now today, because I’ve

• ANDREW BAILEY: the strangely slow and involved past of the new Bank of

  On both sides of the Pond, bankers are busy looking after their own. The Slog casts his rod […]

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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

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Top Documentary Films

• League of Denial

  As the long-serving center for the

• Treeline: A Story Written in Rings

  Throughout history, as entire

• Poverty in the USA

  For far too many, the American Dream

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Universe Today

• This is the Core of the Milky Way, Seen in Infrared, Revealing Features

  The world’s largest airborne telescope, SOFIA, has peered into the core of the Milky Way and captured

• The Moon’s Magnetosphere Used to be Twice as Strong as the Earth’s

  A new MIT-led study has shown how the Moon once had a more powerful magnetic field than Earth and why it

• The Surprising Possibility That There are Still Active Volcanoes on Venus

  According to new research by a team from the LPI, it appears likely that Venus could indeed have active

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Can courts proceed with a whistleblower suit after the DOJ seeks dismissal?

  Bloomberg Law reports on an upcoming legal battle over the denial of Department of Justice request to

• Is the identity of the Ukraine scandal whistleblower protected by law?   

  Just before the holiday, the American Bar Association published a statement on its “Legal Fact Check&

• How many whistleblowers helped the feds uncover fraud this year? Reports

  It may be the end of the year for the rest of the world, but the fiscal year ended in October. As we wait

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Andy Worthington

• My US Visit to Call for the Closure of Guantánamo on the 18th Anniversary

  Announcing my imminent visit to the US - for the tenth year running in January - to call for the closure of

• As $738 Billion Defense Bill Is Passed, Guantánamo Prisoners Are Ignored by

  My report about the passage of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which, sadly, maintains

• 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

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