Saturday, December 29, 2018

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  The Hayride



  • QAnon has published a lot of information over the past few years exposing the Deep State. It compiled some highlights of the meltdown of the Left, Trump victories, and Christmas parodies...

  • CHERNOFF: If You Don’t Like The Oil Industry, Don’t Drive A Car

    2 days ago
  • To those who complain about Texas’ oil and natural gas industries: do your duty and boycott them by not driving a car. Every year you use that car, you are responsible for emitting...

  • Studies find millennials are worse off than their parents, represent ‘downward mobility’

    2 days ago

    • Several financial reports and comparisons indicate that millennials are worse off than their parents and are experiencing what economists describe as “downward mobility.”...

      Lifehacker



  • With the advent of affordable monitor risers, it’s never been easier to become a part-time or full-time standing desk user, but it’s important not to skimp on the anti-fatigue...

  • Clean Your Holiday Decorations Before You Pack Them Up

    7 hours ago
  • Before you pack up all those holiday decorations do future-you a favor: clean them.Read more...

  • How to Watch Every Ending of 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'

    8 hours ago

    • This morning Netflix launched Bandersnatch, a stand-alone episode of the popular ‘Black Mirror’ series.Read more...

    Pesticide Action Network



  • Momentum is building in support of farming models that are regenerative instead of extractive, that build healthy soil, crop diversity — and thriving communities. Learn more...

  • On pesticides, food democracy & hope

    11 days ago
  • I’m feeling unexpectedly hopeful as 2018 winds down. Though the national political landscape remains tumultuous, we’re seeing some powerful, energizing trends in the world...

  • Status quo Farm Bill nears finish line

    12 days ago

    • After months of negotiations, the 2018 Farm Bill was just passed by Congress. While still flawed, the final bill is in stark contrast to the widely criticized original House version...

      USATODAY - News Top Stories



  • Once considered a rising GOP star, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona abandoned his bid for a second term after numerous clashes with President Donald Trump.        ...

  • A 16-year-old from Kansas on track to graduate from high school and Harvard in same month

    4 hours ago
  • Braxton Moral, 16, is set to graduate from Ulysses High School in Kansas as well as Harvard University in May.      

  • Trump moves to freeze pay for federal workers amid government shutdown

    8 hours ago

    • If Trump's decision is allowed to stand, the pay freeze would affect about 2.1 million federal employees. The military would not be affected.        ...

      World news | The Guardian



  • Prime minister Sheikh Hasina vies to extend decade-long rule amid accusations of repressionPolls have opened in Bangladesh’s first contested election in a decade after a campaign...

  • Swiss national arrested in connection with murders in Morocco

    8 hours ago
  • Man held is also ‘suspected of involvement in recruiting Moroccan nationals to carry out terror plots’A Swiss national has been arrested in connection with the killing of two...

  • Paris police fire tear gas as gilets jaunes protests turn violent

    4 hours ago

    • Hundreds call for resignation of President Macron, with some throwing projectilesPolice fired tear gas at gilets jaunes (yellow vests) demonstrators in Paris on Saturday but the...

      Techdirt.



  • Five Years Ago This week in 2013, the feds were begrudgingly loosening the reins on some secrecy in minimal ways, releasing a redacted version of their secret interpretation of the...

  • County Pays $90,000 Settlement To Man After Seizing $80,000 Judgment From Him Using 24 Deputies And An Armored Vehicle

    a day ago
  • When all you have is a war hammer, everything looks like a war. That's how Wisconsin law enforcement viewed the task it was given: collection of an $80,000 civil judgment from a resident...

  • Students Make A Video Depicting A School Shooting; Sheriff Decides Everyone Needs To Have Their Rights Violated

    a day ago

    • Heightened sensitivities and a law enforcement track record of overreaction has prompted a New York Sheriff's Office into actions that will probably result in at least one civil...

      Fark.com RSS



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  • Remember those schools that gave poor students cheese sandwiches when they couldn't afford lunch? This story isn't like that [Cool]

    24 minutes ago
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  • Doubletree employees who evicted a man from hotel for calling his mom while black have been evicted from their jobs [Followup]

    an hour ago

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      BBC News - Home



  • PM Sheikh Hasina is seeking a third successive term while her main rival is in prison for corruption.

  • Cape Town race row erupts after 'black visitors cleared from beach'

    15 hours ago
  • Demonstrators allege black beachgoers were asked to leave the area by private security guards.

  • US-China trade: Trump touts progress in talks for deal

    10 hours ago

    • China and the US have imposed billions of dollars in tit-for-tat tariffs throughout 2018.

      memeorandum



  • Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost: Taxpayers Dish Out $54,000 For Mar-a-Lago Party Tents For New Year's Eve  —  The public eats the costs of a bash at Trump's Florida resort while federal...

  • Potential 2020 candidates confront the need for campaign cash, and fewer sources of it (Matt Viser/Washington Post)

    2 hours ago
  • Matt Viser / Washington Post: Potential 2020 candidates confront the need for campaign cash, and fewer sources of it  —  A sprawling field of potential Democratic presidential...

  • GAO: IRS Had 4,487 Guns; 5,062,006 Rounds of Ammunition (Terence P. Jeffrey/CNSNews)

    3 hours ago

    • Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews: GAO: IRS Had 4,487 Guns; 5,062,006 Rounds of Ammunition  —  (CNSNews.com) - The Internal Revenue Service had in its weapons inventory 4,487 guns...

      The Register



  • The best of readers' tech trouble one-liners On Call Over the months, On Call and Who, Me? – El Reg's weekly columns of tech support cock-ups – stack up quite a few submissions that...

  • Microsoft's 2018, part 2: Azure data centres heat up and Windows 10? It burns! It burns!

    2 days ago
  • Remains of the year laid bare as we flay July to December Where were we? Ah yes... it was the summer of GitHub committers' discontent – as many looked on in horror as Redmond swallowed...

  • It's the end of 2018, and this is your year in security

    3 days ago

    • From fried chips to stuffed elections, a look back at the year that was The 2018 calendar year saw an interesting mix of both technical and strategic questions, as engineers were met...

      BBC News - Technology



  • From fake porn to Facebook scandals, security alerts to Google protests - 2018 was a busy year.

  • Google and Facebook put ads in child sex abuse discovery apps

    a day ago
  • Google and Facebook's ad networks placed promotions for major brands before apps were banned.

  • Security firm hijacks high-profile Twitter accounts

    2 days ago

    • Louis Theroux, Eamonn Holmes and others' accounts were targeted to highlight a Twitter vulnerability.

      Further



  • Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer

  • Holy Infant So Tender and Mild

    5 days ago
  • Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer

  • The Invidious Theft of What Was His: Wrestling While Black

    6 days ago

    • Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer

    ForceChange



  • Two dogs were thrown out a moving car into busy oncoming traffic. The people responsible have not been found. Demand justice for these poor creatures.

  • End the Destruction of Livelihoods via Plantation Development

    8 hours ago
  • Tree plantations supply the world with about 1/3 of its supply of round wood, but at the cost of the livelihoods of local communities they displace. Demand that Uruguay cease the proliferation...

  • Secure Long-Delayed Justice for Lynching Victims

    8 hours ago

    • Lynching: this one word stirs countless powerful images of hate, division, and terror personified. Demand Congress complete a duty a century-plus in the making by giving these hate...

      News24 Top Stories



  • The City of Tshwane has cancelled its annual New Year's Eve cross-over celebration "after the appointed service provider pulled out at the 11th hour".

  • News24.com | Giraffe kicks man to death at gaming lodge

    9 hours ago
  • A giraffe, whose kick can decapitate a lion, has killed a farm worker outside Bela-Bela in Limpopo.

  • News24.com | 'ANC leaders in heaven must know about SA's failings' - Cosatu's Ntshalintshali

    10 hours ago

    • Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali has taken a veiled swipe at the governing ANC over state capture, stubborn unemployment and a broken healthcare system...

      Science: Current Issue




  • News at a glance

    10 days ago

  • Hints of young planets puzzle theorists

    10 days ago


    •   Unexplained Mysteries



  • A popular YouTube content creator from Pakistan was killed after a ghost scare prank went horribly wrong. The incident, which saw Rana Zuhair of the L...

  • New Horizons set for epic flyby of Ultima Thule

    21 hours ago
  • Following on from its historic flyby of Pluto in 2015, the probe will reach its next destination on New Year's Day. With a mass approximately 10,000 t...

  • 7-year-old dials 911 to complain about his pants

    2 days ago

    • The youngster called up the police on Christmas Day because he didn't like the snow pants he'd received. Most people will have received a present they...

      American Water Intelligence Project Tracker




  • Perris II Desalter

    9 days ago

  • Eyre Peninsula desal plant

    9 days ago


    •   Network Front | The Guardian



  • Tough tests are forced on state schools as data reveals benefit to independent sectorTory education reforms are giving private school pupils a huge additional advantage in the hunt...

  • Cross-party move to stop the clock on hard Brexit

    11 hours ago
  • Ministers and senior MPs in talks to extend 29 March deadline if May’s deal failsSenior Tory and Labour MPs are planning to force the government to delay Brexit by several months...

  • Bangladesh election: polls open after campaign marred by violence

    28 minutes ago

    • Prime minister Sheikh Hasina vies to extend decade-long rule amid accusations of repressionPolls have opened in Bangladesh’s first contested election in a decade after a campaign...

      SPACE.com



  • NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is about the make the most distant planetary flyby in the history of spaceflight, and you can follow the action live.

  • Launch of New US Spy Satellite Delayed to Early 2019

    15 hours ago
  • The launch of an much-delayed U.S. spy satellite has been delayed again, this time to no earlier than Jan. 6, according to the United Launch Alliance.

  • Space Oddity: 10 Bizarre Things Earthlings Launched into Space in 2018

    15 hours ago

    • This past year, engineers launched many oddities into space, including a Tesla Roadster, a gold-plated canopic jar and a cosmic disco ball.

      Trend.Az - All news



  • UK trade minister Liam Fox has estimated the chance of his country staying in the European Union at 50 percent if the prime minister’s Brexit plan fails to clear the parliament...

  • Iran rejects rumors of smuggling goods through its checkpoints

    34 minutes ago
  • The head of the Iran Customs Mehdi Mirashrafi rejected the rumors of smuggling goods through Iran's customs

  • Colombia considers Alat FEZ as hub for exporting its goods to Central Asia: charge d'affaires

    38 minutes ago

    • Colombia can use Alat Free Economic Zone (FEZ) in Baku, Azerbaijan as a hub for exporting its goods to Central Asia

      Science This Week in Science TOC RSS Feed




  • Helium escaping from hot gas giants

    10 days ago

  • Breaking through the nitrogen ceiling

    10 days ago



      CBC | Top Stories News



  • Professionals without children may get the short end of the stick when it comes to work-life balance policies, new research from York University's School of Human Resource Management...

  • Pro-pipeline rally draws 1,000 attendees in Alberta town of about 6,600

    2 hours ago
  • Speakers at another pro-pipeline rally in Alberta continued their attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday, saying if leaders in Ottawa don't hear their message now...

  • Trump tries to deflect blame for migrant children's deaths

    2 hours ago

    • U.S. President Donald Trump sought to deflect blame for the deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody by claiming they were "very sick" when they arrived, even though immigration...

      All Things Considered : NPR



  • The son of country music legends Johnny Cash and June Carter has compiled a book of Southern recipes handed down in his family through the years.

  • The Migrant Journey Inspired Alejandro Escovedo's New Album

    6 hours ago
  • NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with musician Alejandro Escovedo about his latest album, The Crossing. It was inspired by the struggles migrants face crossing the southern border...

  • Nice Things In 2018 With NPR Politics Podcast Co-Host Asma Khalid

    6 hours ago

    • NPR's Michel Martin asks Asma Khalid what gave her joy in 2018. Her answer: "The Modist," a women's fashion retailer focused on modest clothing.

      Ireland: BreakingNews.ie



  • More than 400 drivers have been caught speeding every day since Christmas day.

  • Mother and child injured in burglary at Co Meath home

    7 hours ago
  • An investigation is underway after a mother and child were injured in a burglary at their home in County Meath.

  • Tonight's Lotto numbers are in...

    7 hours ago

    • Have you checked your numbers yet?

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News



  • The Jason Momoa vehicle could potentially be 2018’s biggest grosser for Warner Bros.

  • China to mark Year of the Pig with Peppa Pig movie

    an hour ago
  • BEIJING: China is set to mark the Year of the Pig with a film starring Peppa Pig, the popular British cartoon character that fell foul with its censors earlier this year. A government...

  • China probe readies to land on dark side of the moon: Report

    an hour ago

    • SHANGHAI: A Chinese space probe is moving into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first time, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday (Dec 30), a mission...

      Science@NASA Headline News



  • This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled...

  • Space Views of Penguin ‘Poo’ Yield Insights

    11 days ago
  • Using satellite observations of Antarctica to search for penguin guano (poo) may not sound like the most exciting research, but it’s providing scientists with unique insights...

  • Estimating Carbon Flux with Quantum Computing

    13 days ago

    • This blog post originated in the 2017 Science Mission Directorate Technology Highlights Report (33 MB PDF). Technology Development A NASA-funded team has been exploring...

      How to of the Day



  • For some people, the gym is expensive or inconvenient. Others don’t like working out in front of a crowd. No matter your reason for not wanting to go to the gym, there are plenty of exercises...

  • How to Kiss Someone Who Has Never Been Kissed

    13 hours ago
  • A first kiss between two people is always a big deal. You may feel even more pressure to get it right if it’s your partner’s first kiss ever. Luckily, there are things you can do to...

  • How to Make Fruit Salad

    21 hours ago

    • Fruit salad is a classic potluck contribution for a reason. It's easy to mix together a variety of fruits that will make a refreshing, flavorful side or dessert. For a fast fruit salad...

      LobeLog



  • by James M. Dorsey A disagreement between major Indonesian religious leaders and the government on how to respond to China’s crackdown on Turkic Muslims raises questions about...

  • Bahrain: Drop Charges in Rights Defender’s Case

    14 hours ago
  • by Human Rights Watch The following statement was issued on December 18, 2018 by 57 rights groups, including Human Rights Watch: We the undersigned call on Bahrain to release Nabeel...

  • Stepped Up U.S. Military Posture in the Gulf Threatens Indian Hopes for Iran’s Chabahar Port

    a day ago

    • by James M. Dorsey The arrival of the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier group in the Gulf to deter Iran from further testing ballistic missiles is likely to dampen Indian hopes that...

      Democracy Now!



  • "The War at Home," a landmark documentary about antiwar protests in the 1960s and '70s in Madison, Wisconsin, has just been re-released nationwide. We speak with co-director Glenn...

  • Bring the Troops Home & Stop the Bombing: Medea Benjamin on U.S. Withdrawal from Syria & Afghanistan

    2 days ago
  • As President Donald Trump makes a surprise visit to Iraq this week and defends his plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria and about half the nearly 7,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan...

  • A Path to Freedom? Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal Wins Chance to Reargue Appeal in 1981 Police Killing

    2 days ago

    • Former Black Panther and award-winning journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner but has always maintained his...

      News : NPR



  • The sighting is a glimmer of hope for a species that has seen a hard few years: 19 right whales died in 2017 and 2018, and not a single North American right whale calf was seen last season...

  • Trump Blames Democrats For Deaths of Migrant Kids As DHS Secretary Visits Border

    7 hours ago
  • Kirstjen Nielsen's visit comes as her department is under scrutiny for the recent deaths of two Guatemalan migrant children in U.S. custody.

  • Trump Says 'Big Progress' Is Being Made On Trade Deal

    10 hours ago

    • President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone Saturday. The U.S. has said it will raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, if a deal is not reached...

    WebMD Health



  • As he looks forward to a new TV series, actor and author Taye Diggs talks about his family, health struggles, aging, and being a dad.

  • Lin-Manuel Miranda Gets the Job Done

    a day ago
  • Like Alexander Hamilton, his famous Broadway theater role, Lin-Manuel Miranda pushes forward with relentless speed and bottomless good cheer, juggling multiple projects and...

  • Could a Little Drinking Help Those With Heart Failure?

    a day ago

    • Heart failure patients who drank in moderation -- a drink a day for women, two for men -- had an average survival that was a year longer than nondrinkers, the researchers found...
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