Friday, November 15, 2019

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  • About 35 million Americans still have holiday credit card debt left over from last year, according to WalletHub’s 2019 Holiday Shopping Survey. The personal finance site projects...
  • Recent autumns have been just okay for speckled trout, with little fits and starts of good action that fade out and force anglers to find new schools of fish. But so far, that hasn’t...

    • The stock market hit a new record Wednesday, the 20th time in 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday. Hit New Stock Market record again yesterday, the 20th time this year, with...

  • I’m glad that more than zero of you joined me for the one hand deadlift last week. Weird but cool, right? We’ve got another one handed lift this week, and this one goes overhead, which...
  • Wine magazines will spend pages upon pages explaining which bottles to bring to Thanksgiving: a viognier to pair with the turkey, a pinot noir to accentuate cranberry sauce. Beer...

    • There are many advantages to having cocktail experts for friends. Besides being excellent hosts, they often (quite generously) provide me with inspiration and recipes for this...

  • For well over a decade, PAN has worked with partner groups in our key states to test the air for pesticide drift using a device called the Drift Catcher. We launched the latest round of...
  • Last month, the government of Thailand announced plans to ban the pesticides paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos by December 1. The news was not taken well by U.S. officials, who...

    • As PAN North America celebrates our 35th anniversary, Executive Director Kristin Schafer recently had a conversation with PAN Asia Pacific Executive Director Sarojeni V. Rengam...

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  • President tweets attacks against the ousted US ambassador to Ukraine as she testifies to the House impeachment inquiry – follow liveIn this defining moment for America, support...
  • Stone found guilty of obstruction of justice and making false statements over what he told Congress relating to emails hacked from DemocratsRoger Stone, a self-described “dirty...

    • Document to reiterate radical 2017 commitment to ‘sector-wide collective bargaining’Labour’s manifesto will reaffirm plans for the most dramatic shift in conditions...

  • The list of convicted cops the California Attorney General tried to keep secret has just been made searchable by the Sacramento Bee. It contains hundreds of current and former police...
  • When is it defamatory to call people "racist douchebags?" Well, let's start with the "douchebag" part. This is always a statement of opinion and never actionable. Calling someone...

    • Whether you're part of a tech startup, project, or event, a .TECH domain will give your brand the positioning it needs to stand out online. Globally influential brands, like Consumer...

  • The president criticised the former US envoy to Ukraine in the middle of her impeachment testimony.
  • Hong Kong's Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng was surrounded by protesters in London.

    • The Italian canal city's main square, waterbuses and schools are closed as the water rises again.



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    'Anti-vax' is what critics of critics use as a defensive term. Shoot the Messenger - don't rebut arguments, complain about qualifications. It sure is strange that oversight is a bad word - just as it is for any other form of whistleblowing ( oops : conspiracy theory ) The CDC lists bad effects from vaccinations. There is a program to compensate victims for lifelong irreversible bodily damage.  Use of dozens of compulsory injections on children is unprecedented. It cannot be known to be a good idea - just because of lack of experience if for no other reason.

  • Beth Mole / Ars Technica: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the single leading source of anti-vax ads on Facebook  —  Researchers dig into Facebook's ad library.  —  Just two organizations...
  • Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune: Texas parole board recommends Greg Abbott delay Rodney Reed execution  —  The board's recommendation goes to Gov. Greg Abbott, who can...

    • Washington Post: Trump appeals to Supreme Court again, this time to block House committee's subpoena seeking his financial records  —  For the second day in a row, President...


  • Illinois man gets more than a year in the slammer for $550K DDoS scheme A US court has sentenced the operator of a massive DDoS service to 13 months in prison.…...
  • Meanwhile, his co-defendant has troubles getting into land of the free The US State Department has until 1 December to get its paperwork in order and show how it wishes to proceed in...

    • Though not much detail on said list, except security and privacy Some 14 years after it was founded and with no external funding taken in during that time, 1Password has finally succumbed...


  • Labour promises to give every home in the UK full-fibre internet if it wins the general election.
  • Fortnite and streamer Ewok also win, while Yu Suzuki is given the lifetime achievement award.

    • Exploring the gaps in the political advertising databases provided by the tech giants.


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  • A female college student was allegedly strangled to death after reporting her roommate's boyfriend for sexual assault. This is a horrific example of a sexual assault victim seemingly...
  • Cargo ships emit huge quantities of harmful gases, kill marine life, and create incredible underwater noise. Speed limits for these ships can decrease these harmful effects by enormous...

    • Black bears have become a prime target for poachers due to the high value of their gallbladders on the black market. This means that they are often killed by poachers. Support a plan...


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  • The surviving members of a family in Nyanga, Zimbabwe claim to have been tormented by malevolent spirits. This fascinating yet unsettling story, which...
  • Newly released documents have shed light on why the alleged former Area 51 worker was raided last year. Widely attributed with bringing the secretive...

    • Meet Narwhal, an adorable rescue dog from Missouri who happens to have a very unusual appendage. At ten weeks old, Narwhal the 'unicorn puppy' would s...


  • Marie Yovanovitch, the third witness in public impeachment hearings, testified while president tweeted against herFollow the latest impeachment hearing updates liveAn American...
  • Stone found guilty of obstruction of justice and making false statements over what he told Congress relating to emails hacked from DemocratsRoger Stone, a self-described “dirty...

    • For Corbyn the proposal would create a ‘treasured institution’, but Johnson calls it ‘crazed’Latest election news - live updatesThe prime minister attacked Labour’s...


  • Neptune's two innermost moons are locked in an unusual "dance of avoidance," according to researchers.
  • China just tested out its brand-new facility for simulating Mars landings, marking a big step in the nation's planned march to the Red Planet.

    • It's going to be a poor year for one of the most famous meteor showers, the Leonids.


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  • A US Border Patrol agent has shot a Russian national in the state of Arizona when the latter was allegedly trying to cross the border
  • At least two people were injured and scores of houses and churches were damaged after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits off central and eastern Indonesia early on Thursday...

    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would not let the Iranian regime to build nuclear weapons
    • Think he knows Iran was a co-sponsor of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty ? It's a cinch he has not paid attention to nuclear disarmament conferences in Tehran
    • "Israel is not a signatory to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), and joined all other nuclear possessing states in boycotting its negotiation in the UN General Assembly."  Nuclear Disarmament Israel
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  • The State Department's inspector general released a report concluding that Trump officials demoted a national security expert over her Iranian roots and the perception that she...
  • The Ohio Republican fiercely defended President Trump, arguing that he has the right to involve his personal lawyer in diplomacy. Rudy Giuliani has become a key figure in the impeachment...

    • The latest go-to place for visiting movie and TV locations: Northern Ireland, where Game of Thrones characters plundered and pillaged. The series ended, but it's revitalizing the...



  • Tom Carey was reported missing today.
  • Sinn Féin's deputy Dail leader Pearse Doherty has hit out at the "vindictive" arrest and extradition of alleged IRA bomber John Downey in connection with the murder of two soliders...

    • Thousands of runners who have entered a lottery to enter next year’s KBC Dublin City Marathon face an anxious wait to see if they have secured a place for the event...



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  • This blog post originated in the 2018 Science Mission Directorate Science and Technology Report. PROJECT High-Performance In Situ Dust Analyzer (Hyperdust) KEY POINTS Hyperdust’s...
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  • First of all, tell them to take deep breaths. This tells there body to calm down. And seeing someone you care about struggle with stress can be difficult. If you think a friend or loved...
  • Every so often, a refrigerator needs to be cleaned from the inside out. The shelves have to be washed down from milk spills, and food must be tossed out if it has outlived its shelf life...

    • Certain meals call for a loaf of fresh bread, but you don't always have time to wait hours on end for it to rise. When you need hearty, fresh bread in under an hour, making this quick recipe...



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  • By Edward Hunt As Turkey continues its devastating military assault on Rojava, the Kurdish-led region of northeastern Syria, officials in Washington are facing a critical...
  • By International Crisis Group What’s new? In Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, a gold boom is attracting the attention of diverse armed groups. Security forces are struggling to control...

    • By Samuel Ramani and Theodore Karasik Russian foreign policy had a Great October. Last month, Russia brokered a safe zone agreement with Turkey in northern Syria, watched its President...



  • The Supreme Court considers Friday whether to take up the case of Rodney Reed, an African-American death row prisoner in Texas who is scheduled to be executed in less than a week for...
  • The first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice, co-moderated by Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and former EPA official Mustafa Santiago Ali, was held last Friday...

    • On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from three lawsuits demanding the Trump administration preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The Obama-era...



  • Hoda Muthana, a 25-year-old who was a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham when she traveled to Syria, is currently imprisoned at a detention camp in northern Syria with...
  • The plan follows a ruling by a state court last month that said North Carolina Republicans, who control the legislature, had unfairly disadvantaged Democrats...

    • To pack a healthier punch into staple foods like flour, researchers borrowed technology from the pharmaceutical industry.



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  • More and more states are trying to enact some type of ban on e-cigarettes -- but are meeting resistance.
  • Apple said it's removed 181 vaping-related apps from its mobile App Store worldwide -- a mix of stores, social networks, news and games.

    • Infants and toddlers are eating a lot of added sugars every day from foods like yogurt, snacks and fruit drinks.

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  • The Niskanen Center, a nonpartisan think tank and advocacy organization that works to promote an open society, is seeking an entry-level Policy Analyst to join our growing climate...
  • The SWAP Act will 1) fund a payroll tax reduction by taxing GHG pollution; 2) spur significant reductions in GHG emissions; 3) and offer a market alternative to the expansion of federal...
    • The finding that the tax burden is disproportionately higher for lower income families is at odds with common perceptions that the United States has a progressive tax system. And...
  • As flashpoint issues go, the Export-Import Bank is an unlikely candidate. And yet, here we are. Called Ex-Im for short, the agency provides financial assistance to United States...
  • The U.S. may be on the verge of a North American trade deal, but there are bigger problems with trade that Congress should fix, says Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow...
    • Violent and property crime rates have decreased over the past 25 years, so it’s telling that instances of robbery or burglary against one sort of business seem to be on the rise —...
  • Nursery-age children come out with the darnedest things - just wait until one asks Johnson about his own ‘five or six’ kidsWhat a mesmerising clip is the one of Boris Johnson making...
  • The president’s abuse of power looks as bad as Watergate, but so far he’s enjoyed the privilege of the age: impunityDonald Trump has spat out so many insults and broken so many taboos...
    • The sector shows the classic symptoms of market failure – ultra-fast, full-fibre broadband should be available to allThere is no doubt that the UK’s digital infrastructure...

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  • The 33-year-old man who allegedly sprayed graffiti on the cenotaph at Old City Hall said in a Facebook post he did it to protest the firing of Don Cherry...
  • Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, was found guilty Friday of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails...
    • A 19-year-old woman who threw a chair off a downtown Toronto high-rise balcony has pleaded guilty to mischief endangering life.
  • A 2016 article in Astronomy Now reported: “Scientists found radioactive iron-60 in sediment and crust samples taken from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The iron-60...
  • H/T Climate Change Dispatch A similar flood in 1966 gives the lie to the latest alarmist claims. In any case, everyone knows Venice has been sinking for centuries. – – – Venice...
    • Well, this is fun. Need we say more? Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune’s two innermost moons are unprecedented, according...
  • Some things in the narrative do not add up. Are there other forces at play in the drama between lawyers and Delhi Police?

  • Google revealed that it had turned on an experiment to improve resource usage for the stable version which had been in the beta mode for around five months. ...
  • Facebook revealed the numbers in a report, in which it also provided data related to content moderation on its Instagram app.  
    • The Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services in the US is launching an inquiry into 'Project Nightingale'.
  • TMC-2 provides images (0.4μm to 0.85μm) at 5m spatial resolution & stereo triplets (fore, nadir and aft views) from a 100 km orbit for preparing Digital Elevation Model (DEM)...
  • Addressing a press conference in Panaji, Sawant also said, that the theme for this year`s edition of the science festival would be 'climate'.  The science festival dedicated to...
    • It was recently published in the American Chemical Society journal that Candida albicans, a commonly found microbe, can turn deadly when it colonises on devices such as catheters...
  • House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday President Donald Trump already has admitted to bribery in the Ukraine scandal at the heart of a Democratic-led inquiry...
  • A delegation of officials from the United States will travel to India next week to give final touches to the India-US trade deal. Sources told ANI that the trade talks have been very...
    • Authorities in California said on Thursday they were responding to an active shooter situation at a high school in Santa Clarita, a city north of Los Angeles, and local media said there...
  • The blast took place in Bairagai Patti village of Kushinagar district on November 11 (Monday) afternoon. The explosion was strong enough to rip apart doors and windows in the mosque...
  • As many as 206 candidates are in fray for the first phase of state elections, scheduled on November 30.
    • A day after Supreme Court dismissed review petitions challenging its verdict in the Rafale case on December 14, 2018, BJP on Friday staged a protest outside the AICC office demanding...

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  • Novartis on Friday won U.S. approval for its experimental sickle cell disease drug, making it the first of several proposed new therapies designed to offer lasting relief for patients...
  • Lebanese protesters who have been demanding radical reform reacted with anger Friday to the reported designation of a new prime minister they regard as emblematic of a failed political...
    • An Oklahoma judge on Friday said Johnson & Johnson only needs to pay US$465 million of the US$572 million he previously concluded it owed the state for fueling the opioid epidemic...

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  • China on Friday threatened "counter-measures" against Sweden if the country's culture minister awards a Swedish PEN rights prize as planned to detained Chinese-Swedish book publisher...
  • U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday rejected any suggestion of bias in a Pentagon decision to award Microsoft Corp an up to US$10 billion cloud computing contract, after Amazon.com...
    • The Asian Tour event in smog-hit northern India was shortened to 54 holes Friday amid the severe weather conditions, as Thailand's Itthipat Buranatanyarat took a two-shot lead after...

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  • Novartis on Friday won U.S. approval for its experimental sickle cell disease drug, making it the first of several proposed new therapies designed to offer lasting relief for patients...
  • Lebanese protesters who have been demanding radical reform reacted with anger Friday to the reported designation of a new prime minister they regard as emblematic of a failed political...
    • An Oklahoma judge on Friday said Johnson & Johnson only needs to pay US$465 million of the US$572 million he previously concluded it owed the state for fueling the opioid epidemic...

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    Over several articles, the comment thread at JoNova reveals thought that a 'perfect storm' of heightened fire risk follows recurring policy changes then followed by decades of 'storing fuel in an inflammable storage' ( i.e. 'carbon sequestration' open to atmosphere ) and closed roads ( no escape )
  • A welcome drop of temperatures and fresh southerly winds will ease the smoke haze and bushfire risks for Sydney and much of NSW over the weekend before another bout of heat from the Red...
  • Desperate farmers are doing their own controlled burns to protect property, prompting the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers to draft a bill to give them more control over protecting...
    • There couldn't have been a clearer signal that changes are afoot at Australia's number-two airline than the events of this week.


  • External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the relationship with Pakistan remains "difficult" because it openly practices terrorism against India, and if Islamabad is serious...
  • Sabarimala is not a place for activism and the LDF government would not support those who make announcements about entering the hill shrine for the sake of publicity, Kerala Devaswom...
  • The government said that it would not release the Consumer Expenditure Survey results of 2017-18 because of "data quality issues". The govt junked a media report citing a fall in consumption...

    • Senior India cricketers Rohit Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravichandran Ashwin got a first feel of playing with the pink ball under lights during a day-end net session at the Holkar...

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  • President Trump campaigned in Louisiana for the first time since the House began public hearings in his impeachment inquiry.


  • Labour leader announces free internet plan in Lancaster, while Boris Johnson launches battle bus in OldhamSign up for Andrew Sparrow’s election briefing, sent to your inboxHow...
  • BBC to broadcast ‘no holds barred’ interview with royal on Saturday nightPrince Andrew has agreed to speak publicly for the first time about his friendship with the paedophile...

    • Environment Agency posts 147 warnings in England and Wales after heavy downpoursAlmost 150 flood warnings remain in place across Britain after more heavy rain fell overnight.While...


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  • The former ambassador to Ukraine told impeachment investigators that the transcript of President Trump's Ukraine call left her “shocked” and “devastated.” While she...
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  • Most of this week’s news came via Microsoft’s X019 event on Thursday. We saw our first real Age of Empires IV trailer, a new Obsidian game, a new Wasteland 3 trailer, and a...
  • Buying a processor for a gaming rig isn’t as hard as it used to be. Now that AMD’s Ryzen and Intel’s 9th-gen Core CPUs come with more performance and cores than ever before, it’s...

    • In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray review AMD’s monstrous Ryzen 9 3950X, which we dubbed “an epic end-zone...