Saturday, February 23, 2019

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Politics : NPR

Big Pharma Heads To Capitol Hill

  • The heads of the largest pharmaceutical companies will defend their pricing before the Senate next week

Trump Administration Moves To Overhaul Family Planning Program

  • The Trump administration has issued a new rule that dramatically changes the nation's federal family

Week In Politics: Mueller, 2020 Democrats, Emergency Declaration

  • We recap the week's biggest political news: a possible end of the Mueller investigation, the president&

Blogging for a Healthy Gulf

Costs and Truth Stretching in the "One Lake" DEIS

  • Last summer the Rankin Hinds Pearl River Flood Control and Drainage District published its Draft

What is the Dirty Water Rule, and Why Does it Matter?

  • The following is a blog written by Emily N. Donahoe, Legal Intern, from George Washington University Law

A holiday gift from Washington: Good news for the Florida coast

  •   A bit of bipartisanship snuck into the holiday season, and thousands of acres of dunes, seagrass beds

Discover: BreakingNews.ie

WATCH: Ireland's (smallest) biggest fan meets his rugby heroes

  • Six-year-old rugby superfan, Emmet O'Neill, from Monaghan, had the trip of a lifetime yesterday as he

Peta faces backlash after criticising Steve Irwin on his birthday

  • ‘Steve Irwin’s actions were not on target with his supposed message of protecting wildlife

Film fans unimpressed at rumoured Bond title ‘Shatterhand’

  • Daniel Craig will return for the 25th 007 film, but many social media users hope its name will change.

memeorandum

Paul Manafort a 'hardened' and 'bold' criminal, Mueller

  • Rachel Weiner / Washington Post : Paul Manafort a ‘hardened’ and ‘bold&rsquo

Soldiers unleash tear gas amid tension on Venezuela's border

  • Associated Press : Soldiers unleash tear gas amid tension on Venezuela's border   — 

Pentagon sending 1,000 more troops to the Mexican border (Paul Sonne

  • Paul Sonne / Washington Post : Pentagon sending 1,000 more troops to the Mexican border   —&

The Hayride

Vince Liuzza Announces Run For House District 89

  • The race for Louisiana House District 89 is filling up fast with real estate broker Vince Liuzza entering

Analysis shows red light programs in Texas don’t prevent accidents

  • Economists Justin Gallagher at Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management, and Paul J

Louisiana House members rank 32nd most frugal on spending votes

  • Compared to other states, the U.S. House delegation from Louisiana ranked 32nd lowest in spending based on

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

Boots Riley in Winnipeg May 11

  • Founder of the political Hip-Hop group  The Coup , Boots Riley is a musician, rapper, writer and activist

CCPA-BC welcomes Emira Mears as new Associate Director

  • This week the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – BC Office is pleased to welcome Emira Mears to our

Study explores media coverage of pipeline controversies

  • Supporters of fossil fuel infrastructure projects position themselves as friends of working people, framing
  • ( That's not hard to find. From the left column We Owe Civilization to Fossil Fuels. Or we could note the truckers' convoy to Ottawa in protest of government policies. I could hear the horns from my apartment.  )

Times of India

Pakistan army begins preparations for conflict, tells hospitals to be ready

Would hate giving two points to Pakistan in World Cup: Sachin Tendulkar

China's opposition to mentioning of terrorism delayed UNSC statement on

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

J&K administration orders rationing of fuel, cites shortage of stocks due

  • "The divisional administration in Kashmir has stated that rationing of fuel in the division has been

Bringing electronic gadgets will lead to registration cancellation in HS

Number of fighter jets needed by Air Force changes from time to time

News24 Top Stories

News24.com | ANC North West's rival structures agree to work as one

  • The ANC North West's provincial executive committee and provincial task team have agreed to work as a

News24.com | ANC's Duarte says rape complaint laid against high-ranking

  • ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte says a rape complaint has been sent to the office of the

Channel24.co.za | Veteran jazz musician Dorothy Masuka (83) dies

  • Veteran jazz musician Dorothy Masuka has reportedly died. She was 83.

News24 Voices

News24.com | What Shepherd Bushiri's followers teach us about the '

  • Prosperity gospel believers are not captive victims of so-called cult leaders. In fact, they move

News24.com | Breaking some bones: The plans for SA's reformation

  • If President Cyril Ramaphosa is going to reform the state and economy, he is going to have to make painful

News24.com | A Budget for tough times with an eye on the election

  • Tito Mboweni soft-landed the necessary debate about the role of SOEs in the economy. With elections coming

News24 Africa

News24.com | WATCH: Counting starts in Nigeria's delayed poll, after

  • Nigerian officials began counting votes in its delayed election after gunfire and explosions started voting

News24.com | WATCH: After a week's delay Nigerians finally go to the

  • But just hours before the polls opened Geidam city in Yobe state was attacked by suspected Islamic

News24.com | Polls open in Nigerian election

  • Nigerians began voting for a new president after a week-long delay that has raised political tempers

Jon Rappoport's Blog

5G: Harmful effects of a new technology

  • by Jon Rappoport February 21, 2019 (To join our email list, click here.) * See “5G Radiation Dangers

The first cave painter and freedom from mind control

  • by Jon Rappoport February 20, 2019 (To join our email list, click here.) Note: Consider this an opening to

How I assembled The Matrix Revealed: the key symbol

  • by Jon Rappoport February 17, 2019 The key was handed to me by a colleague and friend. In 1987, when I was

World: BreakingNews.ie

Iceland to keep hunting whales for another five years

  • Iceland's whaling industry will be allowed to keep hunting whales for at least another five years

French yellow vest protesters seek momentum on 15th week

  • Yellow vest protesters took to the streets across France on Saturday for a 15th straight weekend of

Several people buried by avalanche in Austria

  • Several people have been buried by an avalanche in Austria near its border with Germany, it was reported.

Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

Security alert in Tyrone declared 'elaborate hoax' by PSNI

  • The security alert in Tyrone has ended and has been declared 'an elaborate hoax'.

Cork councillor calls for removal of waste management from urban centres

  • Councillor Ted Tynan is calling for waste management facilities to be moved away from urban areas.
  • ( Any bets management is having a terrible time already without imposing unrealistic restrictions ?)

Place in hell for those who call for border poll without a plan, says

  • SDLP leader Colum Eastwood was speaking during an address at the Fianna Fail national conference in Dublin.

U.S. NRC Blog

NRC Continues to Respond to Irma

  • Update (Sept. 12, 2017 4:15 p.m. EST): Late Monday afternoon, Hurricane Irma had diminished to the point

Update: The NRC Readies for Hurricane Irma

  • UPDATE (9/10/2017 – 10 a.m. EST): The NRC activated the Region II Incident Response Center in Atlanta

An Open Forum Now Available

  • The NRC welcomes comments on the topics we’re blogging about. But we realize there are other topics you

Times of India

Bengaluru: 150 cars gutted in fire near venue of Aero India show; display

Congress/BJP trade charges on PM Modi shooting for film at Corbett 3 hours

Pulwama attack: Centre to move 100 companies of paramilitary forces to

Science News - Times of India

Eating walnuts may lower depression risk: Study

  • Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the US found that depression scores

Fast radio burst linked to alien source discovered

  • The repeating FRB was one of a total of 13 bursts detected over a period of just three weeks during the

Study predicts 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Himalayas

Space.com RSS malfunction Here's what I picked up on an alternate reader - but I have deleted this unproductive feed from this report

Space.com
Get the latest space exploration, innovation and astronomy news. Space.com celebrates humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier.
February 23, 2019, 8:48 AM
Here are our picks for the most amazing space photos of the week.
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February 23, 2019, 7:43 AM
A place on the far side of the moon and a Neptunian moon get new names, Earth's "crown" is larger than previously thought and a Japanese mission spots streaks across Venus. These are just some of the top stories this week from Space.com.
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February 23, 2019, 5:26 AM
On Feb. 23, 1990, NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft left the solar system! See how it happened here in our On This Day in Space video series.
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February 23, 2019, 5:21 AM
Nick Hague and Christina Koch are a little busy: In just three weeks, the NASA astronauts and their Russian counterpart will climb into a Soyuz capsule, blast off from a launch pad in Kazakhstan and make their way to the International Space Station for a six-month stay.
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February 23, 2019, 5:19 AM
Astronauts may struggle in solving problems and thinking creatively during long space missions, a preliminary study of an analog environment suggests. The results may be useful when humans run missions to Mars.
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February 23, 2019, 5:19 AM
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that just launched an Israeli moon lander will make some more history soon, if all goes according to plan.
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February 23, 2019, 5:13 AM
Once again, it is time to seek out what has often been called the most difficult of the five brightest naked-eye planets to see: Mercury.
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February 22, 2019, 6:02 PM
NASA and SpaceX have cleared the first Crew Dragon spacecraft for an uncrewed test flight on March 2.
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February 22, 2019, 5:30 PM
Roscosmos has inked a deal with the U.S. space tourism company Space Adventures to fly two paying passengers to the International Space Station in 2021.
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February 22, 2019, 3:35 PM
NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars went into safe mode last weekend after an error booting up on Feb. 15, but the rover is communicating normally and should be able to resume science operations soon, according to a statement from the agency.
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February 22, 2019, 2:20 PM
The best-ever photos of Ultima Thule have made it down to Earth, and they heighten the intrigue about the frigid and faraway world.
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February 22, 2019, 1:05 PM
Israel's newly launched Beresheet lunar lander has established communications with its handlers and deployed its legs, mission team members said.
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February 22, 2019, 11:03 AM
Kaylon 1's dark secret is revealed as "The Orville" takes the action up a notch with part 1 of a new episode "Identity."
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February 22, 2019, 10:44 AM
In its first flight with a test passenger on board, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity flew into the Mojave sunrise this morning (Feb. 22) and soared to an altitude of 55.87 miles (89.9 kilometers), just two months after its first flight to space.
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February 22, 2019, 10:07 AM
We know now what NASA science gear will fly on the first private moon landers, which could launch as early as this year.
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February 22, 2019, 9:48 AM
A new view from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reveals ancient trenches and valleys on the Red Planet, which seem to indicate that the planet once had liquid water flowing on its surface.
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February 22, 2019, 8:38 AM
An Israeli moon lander just took to the skies, but we'll all have to wait nearly two months for its historic touchdown try.
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February 22, 2019, 7:22 AM
NASA and SpaceX are meeting today (Feb. 22) to review plans to launch the first Crew Dragon spaceship built for astronauts on March 2. Here's how to follow their meeting.
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February 22, 2019, 5:34 AM
The entire Kelpien race undergoes a significant physiological change in this week's episode of 'Star Trek: Discovery.'
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February 22, 2019, 5:31 AM
Young stars can hide, but Hubble's good at seeking them out. The famed space telescope spotted the "smoking gun" of a newborn star about 1,000 light-years away from Earth.
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February 22, 2019, 5:29 AM
Are those really baby frogs swimming out from the sun? A NASA spacecraft spotted jets shaped like tadpoles in regions of intense solar magnetic activity.
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February 22, 2019, 5:02 AM
NASA and SpaceX will hold a press conference today, Feb. 22, to discuss the latest launch date for SpaceX's first Crew Dragon test flight, Demo-1. Here's how to watch it live.
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February 21, 2019, 7:53 PM
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Israel's Beresheet robotic lunar lander and two satellites into space Feb. 21, 2019 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Then it landed. See the photos here.
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February 21, 2019, 7:43 PM
A used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched an Israeli moon lander along with an Indonesian communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida tonight (Feb. 21).
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February 21, 2019, 7:41 PM
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully nabbed bits of the 3,000-foot-wide (900 meters) asteroid Ryugu today (Feb. 21), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency officials announced.
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February 21, 2019, 2:03 PM
Last summer, scientists announced the discovery of a dozen new moons orbiting Jupiter. But now comes the hard part: naming them.
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February 21, 2019, 1:12 PM
As Blue Origin prepares to start flying people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, the company's founder says the altitude the vehicle can reach will put it at an advantage over Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.
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February 21, 2019, 1:09 PM
An experimental Air Force small satellite intended to test space situational awareness technologies will be a secondary payload on the upcoming Falcon 9 launch of a commercial communications satellite and lunar lander.
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February 21, 2019, 12:44 PM
The asteroid or comet that smacked into Earth 66 million years ago might not be the only culprit behind the dinosaurs' demise.
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February 21, 2019, 12:35 PM
When Israel's first moon mission launches into space today (Feb. 21), a tiny memento of the country's first astronaut will fly along with the spacecraft.
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TASS

Venezuela severs diplomatic ties with Colombia - Maduro

  • The Venezuelan leader announced this during the rally of his supporters

Nikitina becomes first Russian skeleton racer to win World Cup

  • Alexander Tretyakov became the first to achieve it in the 2008/00 season

Truck with humanitarian aid could not make it into Venezuela - Globe TV

  • The channel explained that the truck was not allowed to pass the border, and returned back to the Brazilian

WebMD Health

More Severe Flu Strain Starts to Spread Widely

  • At the start of the flu season, the main strain was influenza A H1N1, but now a more severe strain

Study: Heavy Smoking May Damage Vision

  • In a small new study, people who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day showed significant changes in their

Opioid OD Deaths Quadruple, Centered in 8 States

  • Researchers also found that the death rate from opioids has increased the fastest in the District of

WhoWhatWhy

Monopolistic Internet Market Causing America to Fall Behind

  • Smart Cities wired for super-fast internet are being built in other parts of the world. Will the US compete

Getting Paid to Register Voters Is Now Illegal in Arizona

  • American Democracy Is on the Supreme Court Docket ; UN Report Underscores Crisis in Biodiversity ; and

What’s the Cost of Turning History and Racial Politics into Entertainment?

  • Spoiler Alert! This podcast features a detailed discussion of the story portrayed in the film Green Book

Science Blog

Advances in Understanding and Addressing Underage Drinking

  • Combating underage drinking is a major public health priority, as alcohol use by young people increases the

A River of Stars

  • A dynasty of diamonds in the sky, You stretch beyond the hemispheres of sight Scattering stardust like

Domestic transport energy 1975-2015: What the data suggest

  • When shopping for a motor vehicle, what is one of the first considerations we ask dealer salespeople about

Raw Story

Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric Trump may be major focus of Michael Cohen

  • Appearing on MSNBNC on Saturday afternoon, former longtime Donald Trump confidant Omarosa Manigault

Here are tawdry financial crimes theories contained in Robert Mueller’s

  • Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become

Trump rambles about ‘ENERGY on the Right’ that the ‘fake news’ won’t report

  • President Donald Trump finally got down to business on Saturday afternoon, launching another one of his

Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

Mixed results for sea lion breeding season

  • A count of rāpoka/New Zealand Sea Lion pups born in the subantarctic islands this breeding season has shown

Wind, rain and falling temperatures this weekend

  • Despite Tropical Cyclone Oma remaining in the Coral Sea, MetService are monitoring the potential for severe

Fruit fly detections in Auckland - Expert Q&A

  • Two different species of exotic fruit flies have been found in Auckland in the past week . Both pose a risk

The Science of Doom

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

Opinions and Perspectives – 6 – Climate Models, Consensus Myths and Fudge

  • In Opinions and Perspectives – 5 – Climate Models and Consensus Myths we looked at (and I critiqued) a

Opinions and Perspectives – 5 – Climate Models and Consensus Myths

  • In the last article – Opinions and Perspectives – 4 – Climate Models and Contrarian Myths – we

Searchlight

Cambridge dons revolt over ‘racist’ fellow’s role

  • More than 200 academics have signed a letter accusing a controversial scholar of “racist pseudoscience

Unite against Tommy Robinson’s hate march

  • Stand Up To Racism calls upon anti-fascists to oppose Tommy Robinson’s and Gerard Batten’s ‘Brexit crisis’

Holocaust denial industry loses one of its chief proponents

  • A long planned trip to the UK by one of the world’s leading Holocaust deniers ended in chaos. And the very

Seeing the Forest

The Carbon Clock

  • “The MCC Carbon Clock shows how much CO2 can be released into the atmosphere to limit global warming

Short Video Explains Green New Deal

  • Description: What if taking on climate change could create a better economy and millions of jobs? Check out

Means Testing Sucks

  • In a democracy government should be for everyone equally. If we’re going to have a program just give

The Slog.

EXPLOSIVE: May “has asked EU to prep Article 50 extension”

  • The Express ran this piece this morning. The dear old Ex isn’t the most reliable of sources, so I

SURVEILLANCE STATE UPDATE: Google, EDF, Macron, and the Gilets Jaunes

  •   In a period of just nine days during February, a US search engine with links to the NSA has been caught

Restoring trust, and delivering on it.

  •   I CAN HARDLY BEAR TO WATCH FOR THE NEXT ATTEMPT OF THE POLITICAL CLASS TO GET IT EVEN HALF RIGHT

Socio-Economics History Blog

Deception & the Third Temple – Tom Horn, Steve Quayle & Stan Deyo

  • The Official Hagmann Report Published on Feb 20, 2019 Steve Quayle and Tom Horn join us to discuss recently

Saudis Build ‘Unholy Alliance’ to Isolate Iran

  • RT America Published on Feb 22, 2019 China and Saudi Arabia have agreed to expand cooperation. Former

Sweden Has Become for Jihadists ‘What Argentina Was for Nazis’: MP Slams

  • Sweden Has Become for Jihadists ‘What Argentina Was for Nazis’: MP Slams Govt Over ISIS Inaction by https:/

Things I grab, motley collection

Apple’s Biggest Problem? My Mom – The New York Times

  • “The phone I have does just about everything I need,” she said when I called her to ask why she hadn’t

This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task –

  • Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or

UK power stations’ electricity output lowest since 1994 | Environment | The

  • The output of British power stations fell this year to levels last seen almost a quarter of a century ago,

This Can't Be Happening!

6700-Name Petition Delivered to Philly DA Krasner Calling for Fair Appeal

  • The organization Roots Action has delivered a petition signed by 6700 people from Philadelphia

Could Sanders 2.0 Win It All, Getting the Democratic Nomination and

  • Listening to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ videoed announcement of his candidacy for the Democratic Party’s 2020

Greylock Mountain

  • Stop, stop! I shouted. Someone in my waking dream was shining a light on me. I shuffled downstairs to make

Top Documentary Films

The Truth is Where?

Universe Today

War Is Boring

Washington's Blog


Whistleblower Protection Blog


 Andy Worthington

Nikita Woolfe and I Discuss ‘Concrete Soldiers UK’, the Housing Crisis and 

What Happened to the Prisoners the US Abandoned at Bagram, Once Known as

‘Concrete Soldiers UK’: Screening of the Housing Documentary I Narrate at

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