Tuesday, December 17, 2019

17 December - iGoogle Portal - Tab 6 - MSM


  • In a scathing letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump says everything skeptics have been thinking about the impeachment hoax  The President...
  • California, Texas, Florida, New York and Georgia reported the most identity theft cases to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2018, according to most recent available data. Of...

    • Here was a release last night from State Representative Blake Miguez, a Republican from Erath who’s going to play an important role in the House of Representatives over the next...

      Lifehacker



  • There were a lot of trendy diets in 2019, including a few even I hadn’t heard of before I started researching this list. Google published the ten most-googled diets, and we’re here...
  • Elevation Shelf | $19 | Amazon | Use the promo code KINJASHELFRead more...

    • Google Photos has received several big updates recently, but now the app has a full-on messaging service that you can use to swap photos and carry on conversations between your contacts...

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  • This year has been marked by encouraging and long overdue progress toward eradicating the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider...
  • The growing focus on agroecology in recent years represents a tremendous victory for peasant, Indigenous and family farmers who have been developing this ecological approach to...

    • On a cool October evening, as PAN friends gathered in Northern California to celebrate our 35th Anniversary, I left for Rome, where I joined hundreds of civil society movement leaders...

      USATODAY - News Top Stories



  • Biggest celeb breakups    

  • What happens next

    7 days ago
  • Impeachment explained    

  • Best of 2019

    13 days ago

    • The 25 best TV shows    

  • President sends six-page letter to House speaker Nancy Pelosi condemning inquiry as ‘unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power’Help us cover the critical issues...
  • Exclusive: shadow Brexit secretary calls for end to party infighting and return to being a ‘broad church’Keir Starmer has set out his pitch for the Labour leadership with a call...

    • As prelude to day of action, power to thousands of homes deliberately cut by workers Police fired teargas and charged at demonstrators in central Paris as hundreds of thousands of...

  • For much of the last decade, oppressive regimes like Iran have made ample noise about wanting to cut themselves off from the internet. Much like Russia, Iran isn't keen on this whole...
  • Last chance to get 25% off CIA: Collect It Allwith the code HOLIDAY2019 » This is it — today is the last day of our sale on CIA: Collect It All, our card game based on a real CIA training...

    • Ken Armstrong of ProPublica and Christian Sheckler of the South Bend Tribune have uncovered more pseudoscience cops rely on to put people behind bars. It's called SCAN, and it's the...

      BBC News - Home



  • In a BBC interview, the Supreme Court judge responds to the president's call for top US court to stop impeachment.
  • Pope Francis lifts the secrecy rule that critics said protected some abusers from investigation.

    • Investigations in Ukraine led by the president's lawyer have become central to the impeachment probe.



      memeorandum




  • Graham Moomaw / Virginia Mercury: Northam proposes ending vehicle safety inspections, raising gas tax  —  Gov. Ralph Northam wants to end state-mandated vehicle safety inspections...
  • Andrea Mitchell / MSNBC: Fmr. FBI, CIA Director Webster ‘shocked’ to hear Trump call FBI ‘scum.’  —  Judge Bill Webster, the only person ever to serve as head of both the...

    • Leo Shane III / Military Times: Half of active-duty service members are unhappy with Trump, new Military Times poll shows … President Donald Trump received a loud ovation when he...


  • Just another, oh, $1.675bn to go to defend systems, it is estimated US lawmakers have formally earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars for an election security overhaul.…...
  • FTC gives out a wrist slap, lets it continue doing the exact same thing If you were one of the millions of people that signed up with Unrollme to cut down on the emails from outfits you once...

    • 'I'm not dead!' insists doomed OS. It will be soon Microsoft unloaded some festive cheer on the last remaining Windows Phone user by apparently extending the life of the doomed platform...


      BBC News - Technology




  • Several mobile phone providers offer handsets that cannot easily be transferred to a new network.
  • Russia's state media reports that the matter was resolved after Twitch removed pirated recordings.

    • Individuals and companies are fighting back against those who steal packages from outside homes.


  • Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
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  • In Nigeria, journalists are under attack. Some, like Jones Aribi, are facing bogus charges of terrorism. Demand that these attacks on the free press be brought to an end...
  • Hundreds of fish species are at risk of extinction due to the excessive damming of Cambodia's Mekong River. This is not only disrupting the ecosystem, but the livelihood of fishermen...

    • Target: Mr Maneesh Gobin,Minister of Agro Industry and Food Security, Mauritius., The Mauritian flying fox, also known as Greater Mascarene flying fox or Mauritian fruit bat is...


  • The gut microbiota produce hundreds of molecules that are present at high concentrations in the host circulation. Unraveling the contribution of each molecule to host biology remains...

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  • It has been five decades since the US government closed the lid on its infamous UFO research project. Carried out by the US Air Force between 1952 and...
  • The tuxedo-wearing infant was recently 'elected' to serve as honorary Mayor of Whitehall, Texas. In one of the most bizarre inauguration ceremonies in...

    • Valkenswaard residents have been hearing loud ominous trumpet sounds seemingly coming from the sky. The unnerving phenomenon was recorded on the eveni...


      Network Front | The Guardian




  • Exclusive: shadow Brexit secretary calls for end to party infighting and return to being a ‘broad church’Keir Starmer has set out his pitch for the Labour leadership with a call...
  • As prelude to day of action, power to thousands of homes deliberately cut by workers Police fired teargas and charged at demonstrators in central Paris as hundreds of thousands of...

    • Letter is a thinly veiled attempt to redirect back impeachment inquiry’s findings he abused power and obstructed CongressTrump impeachment – live newsDonald Trump has accused...


  • Former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver Leland Melvin sat down to chat about the sci-fi thriller "Ad Astra," the psychological effects of space travel and the future of human space...
  • NASA plans to purchase even more satellite data about Earth after a pilot program in this field went well, according to a media report.

    • During summer in Mars' southern hemisphere, proton auroras occur nearly every day.


  • An official reception has been hosted on behalf of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in honor of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky...
  • President Donald Trump accused Democrats of pursuing an “illegal, partisan attempted coup” and declaring war on American democracy

    • Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have discussed various pressing international issues during a phone call


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  • Some see worrisome signs for the international trading system that grew up after World War II, following a week that saw an update to NAFTA, a preliminary U.S.-China deal and a big step...
  • Nearly 3 million people in the region have contracted the virus this year — a record high.

    • Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently fired the city's police superintendent. Now, residents will get to have a say about who should lead the country's second-largest police department...



      Ireland: BreakingNews.ie





  • The shooting took place just before 9pm this evening when a man was approached by a lone gunman and shot a number of times.
  • Niamh O’Flynn, aged 24, of Sunberry, Blarney, Co Cork, pleaded guilty today to eight counts of theft from shops.

    • A man waiting for a bus at Cork’s main bus station was approached by a stranger who engaged him in conversation before robbing him of €270 on threat of sticking a knife in him...



      Science@NASA Headline News





  • Portal origin URL: NASA’s SDO Sees New Kind of Magnetic Explosion on SunPortal origin nid: 456771Published: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of...
  • Portal origin URL: NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone DiscoveryPortal origin nid: 456702Published: Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 13:26Featured (stick to top...

    • Portal origin URL: X Marks the Spot: NASA Selects Site for Asteroid Sample CollectionPortal origin nid: 456699Published: Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 12:56Featured (stick...



      How to of the Day





  • Becoming ambidextrous has all kinds of advantages, especially for writing. If you injure your dominant hand, for example, you can easily switch to your other hand when you need to...
  • You've probably seen videos of Christmas lights that are synchronized to music. One of the most-watched YouTube videos of all time — PSY's "Gangnam Style" — has even made it into...

    • REDIRECT Create Your Own Pokémon



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  • Dear LobeLog Reader: This is to let you know that, after more than 12 years of continuous operation, LobeLog.com will be placed in internet aspic, and our work will continue at ResponsibleStatecraft.org...
  • By Robert E. Hunter  French President Emanuel Macron has said, “What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO.” He attributes much of that to his belief that “European...

    • By Daniel Brumberg The widespread protests caused by the Iranian government’s decision on November 15 to raise the price of gasoline by a whopping 50 percent have generated...



  • Ahead of the last Democratic presidential debate of the year this Thursday, seven candidates appeared Saturday at the historic Democratic Presidential Forum on Public Education...
  • Burma's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has asked the U.N. International Court of Justice to drop the genocide case against Myanmar, formerly Burma. Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize winner...

    • Protests continue to erupt across India against a new anti-Muslim law that gives immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan a path to citizenship — unless they are Muslim...



  • The 77-year-old former vice president released an upbeat medical report Tuesday.
  • Nearly 3 million people in the region have contracted the virus this year — a record high.

    • "I'm as confident as I can be in the results that this is a very big candidate for something associated with the massacre," a senior researcher at the Oklahoma Archeological Survey...



  • People with depression are twice as likely to be using pot as those who aren't depressed, researchers reported in the current issue of the journal Addiction...
  • Patients with influenza A were about 70% less likely to also be infected with rhinovirus, a source of the common cold, than patients infected with other virus types...

    • More people are turning to blue light glasses to block the light from digital screens. But do they really work?

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