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GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — The blue eyes of Pamela Ross, 54, wince and cloud when she thinks back on the years that she spent with her ex-husband, Robert L. Dear Jr. They were together 16 years or so, and married for about a dozen of them.
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The Bleak Future of College Football – The Atlantic
Football can be a force for good.
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HealthA pet dog may protect your child from childhood anxiety, according to research published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (medicalnewstoday.com)
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Hot World, Hot War, and Hot Air Edition
This week, the punditry breaks into three broad topics: the upcoming climate conference in Paris, the war in Syria, and (you knew it was coming) Donald Trump. First, let’s look into the future of our planet and where we’re steering it.
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Roosevelt Democrats: Hillary Clinton’s vision, defined by Eleanor | US news | The Guardian
Much has been made of the Republican obsession with Ronald Reagan. At the presidential debate at his memorial library in September, his name was checked 45 times. For the GOP, Reagan is not just an American hero. He is a verbal tic.
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Auggie & Me by R. J. Palacio – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I read Wonder when I was nine, a little under two years ago, and I still love it. So when I was given a chance to review a companion to the book I was delighted. More than delighted, I was completely ecstatic. Wonder is also written by R. J. Palacio.
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Harraga by Boualem Sansal review – a darkly humorous portrayal of migration | Books | The Guardian
“Harraga” is the Arabic word for a north African migrant who flees to Europe illegally, seeking a better life, and it’s a word that reverberates through this harrowing yet darkly humorous novel by the Algerian author of An Unfinished Business.
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3 dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado – 2 civilians & police officer killed after hours-long standoff. The gunman, who was armed with a rifle, has been arrested. Some staff escaped by hiding in the building’s special ‘safe…
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The Deafening Silence of the Republican Field in the Wake of the Planned Parenthood Shooting – Republican contenders who have had so very much to say against Planned Parenthood were largely mum after Friday’s deadly violence. (thenation.com)
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UN climate conference: Empty shoes replace cancelled Paris march – BBC News
Nearly 150 global leaders are gathering in Paris amid tight security for a critical UN climate meeting. The conference, known as COP21, starts on Monday and will try to craft a long-term deal to limit carbon emissions.
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Top Climate Scientist Calls Obama’s Climate Initiative ‘Pure Bullshit’ : environment
He makes good points. We need to do a lot more to get off fossil fuels. He’s passionate but he misses the reality of the situation and the complex diplomacy at work.
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Lufthansa agrees pay deal with 30,000 ground staff – BBC News
German airline Lufthansa has agreed a pay deal with 30,000 ground staff as it looks to avoid further strikes. The agreement, struck with services sector union Verdi on Saturday, gives a one-off payment of €2,250 (£1,580) and a 2.2% pay rise.
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Chris Christie receives New Hampshire paper’s backing – BBC News
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie has received the endorsement of an influential New Hampshire paper ahead of the Republican primary there. The New Hampshire Union Leader says he is “the one candidate who has the range and type of exp…
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Mt. Zion, Utah. [1696×2544] : EarthPorn
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Mt. Zion, Utah. [1696×2544] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/Dkh2TQNFVe https://t.co/6elAgmmHvg https://t.co/oUx36g23Hf
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Here’s The First Episode Of The Expanse: ‘Dulcinea’
Here’s The First Episode Of The Expanse: ‘Dulcinea’ https://t.co/rUoPCvlIMN
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I can’t imagine a scenario in which Jeb would ever be elected president. Maybe if there was some crazy King Ralphesque incident but, baring that I doubt it will ever happen. And Kasich tax plan has made Ohio the second most successful state next to …
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Chinese authorities boost smog alert level in Beijing – BBC News
The authorities in the Chinese capital, Beijing, have issued their highest smog warning so far this year. The “orange level” alert declared on Sunday is the second highest possible, requiring factories to cut production.
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Iran seeks $30bn of new oil contracts – BBC News
Iran has overhauled the way in which it offers contracts to foreign energy companies in a bid to attract up to $30bn of new investment. The terms of the new oil contracts will be more favourable to foreign investors, who will be allowed a greater st…
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The power of grief. via /r/pics https://t.co/SAJqVcZuyc https://t.co/vxEOVMjJ09 https://t.co/OT6z0ku1cS
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, The power of grief. via /r/pics…
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Activist group slams Japan plan to resume whale hunt – Al Jazeera English
Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd warned Japan against resuming “research” whaling in the Antarctic and called on the Australian government to intervene.
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November 29, 1980: Dorothy Day Dies | The Nation
When Pope Francis spoke to Congress in September of 2015, one of the Americans he mentioned as having been of particular inspiration to whom was Dorothy Day, the activist who died on this day in 1980; her Catholic Worker organization tried to align …
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Torrential downpours lash Greece and Turkey – Al Jazeera English
Many days of heavy rain have left some parts of the eastern Mediterranean underwater. Greece and Turkey have been particularly badly affected, and with the trail of refugees continuing to spill across the region, thousands of vulnerable people have …
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The Paris climate summit is a real test of humanity | Environment | The Guardian
This morning I visited the place de la Republique, in many ways the beating heart of Paris.
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What other books might John McDonnell have thrown at George Osborne? | Books | The Guardian
Apocalypse Mao, it was dubbed. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, was widely mocked last week when, during the spending review debate, he whipped out Chairman Mao’s little red book, quoted the Chinese communist leader, then tossed a copy at the …
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Hopes ‘higher’ for Paris climate summit – BBC News
Nearly 150 global leaders are gathering in Paris on Sunday for a critical UN climate meeting, amid tight security. The conference, known as COP21, will attempt to craft a long-term deal to limit carbon emissions.
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Let It Be: Beatles fans in world record attempt – BBC News
Beatles fans have been gathering in Mexico City to try to establish a new Guinness Record for the highest number of people dressed as the pop group. Organisers counted 294 in the the attempt but discounted many more as they were only allowed to reco…
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China to stake leadership claim on climate change, emissions reduction at Paris UN conf.: Despite pumping as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the next four biggest polluters combined, China will use this week’s UN conference in Paris to st…
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Worried About the Planet? These Condoms Are Your Ticket to Guilt-Free Sex | Mother Jones
Twenty years ago, when the eco-home products company Seventh Generation was in its heyday, co-founder and then-CEO Jeffrey Hollender trademarked the name Rainforest Rubbers, assuming that, as with cleaning and parenting products, people would be int…
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3 New Books to Feed Your Brain | Mother Jones
You’ve just filled your belly to the brim. Turn now to some new tomes that will help fill your mind:
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The Beauty and the Peril of Being a Photojournalist in Afghanistan | Mother Jones
The image made the pages of newspapers around the globe: a young girl in brilliant green, arms outstretched, mouth open in a scream, surrounded by bodies after a suicide bomb tore through a religious ceremony in Kabul in 2011.
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This Composer Wants You To Know Who Syrian Refugees Really Are | Mother Jones
When Suad Bushnaq thinks of Syria, she thinks of the wonderful years she spent studying at one of the Middle East’s top conservatories, attending performances at the Damascus Opera House, and catching jazz gigs in back-alley cafes.
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India ‘set to triple CO2 emissions over the next 15 years’ (bbc.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Pope Francis’s Wacky Prog Rock Album – The Daily Beast
Last year, prior to his much-ballyhooed popemobile tour of America, Pope Francis delivered a fiery speech at the International Drug Enforcement Conference in Rome.
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India ‘set to triple CO2 emissions over the next 15 years’ : environment
India ‘set to triple CO2 emissions over the next 15 years’ https://t.co/L9QOqc31ff https://t.co/SkcEnBcjUM via /r/environment
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India ‘set to triple CO2 emissions over the next 15 years’ – BBC News
India ‘set to triple CO2 emissions over the next 15 years’ https://t.co/L9QOqc31ff https://t.co/SkcEnBcjUM via /r/environment
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Here’s what you need to know about the massive climate summit kicking off in Paris | Grist
In Montana, the Blackfeet tribe have been fighting the oil drilling leases for decades. We looked into our COP21 crystal ball and saw James Inhofe in a snowball fight, a fun field trip to Versailles, and a lot of Camus.
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Australia sealed a 2-0 victory in the three-match series against New Zealand with a three-wicket win in a gripping inaugural day-night Test in Adelaide. Set 187 to win after bowling the Kiwis out in the first session on day three, the hosts were mad…
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The shock of the Nov. 13 attacks in and around Paris refocused attention on debates that have convulsed French society for decades — about the marginalization of the Muslim population, about the tensions between Islam and French Republican ideology,…
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My grandmother has a fridge magnet showing the cost of living for the year she was born (1929). (imgur.com) Currently the average wage in the US is $50,500, and the median wage is $26,695.
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The biggest show on earth | TNS – The News on Sunday
Bernie Sanders could be the miracle America needs https://t.co/uh12eAGpiN https://t.co/vnV3NgZD8B via /r/#politics
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Turkey to deliver body of Russian pilot to Moscow – Al Jazeera English
The body of a Russian pilot who died after his plane was shot down by Turkish jets has been delivered to Turkey over the Syrian border and will be handed over to Russian officials on Sunday. Davutoglu added Turkey received the body on Saturday.
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Bernie Sanders could be the miracle America needs : politics
Nobody is a miracle solution and nobody should have that unreasonable expectation dumped on them. Hey. Just to clarify, the headline and article are saying Sanders winning would be a miracle. It would be, given the amount of money stacked between hi…
Bernie Sanders could be the miracle America needs https://t.co/uh12eAGpiN https://t.co/vnV3NgZD8B via /r/#politics -
Nivea discography – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the discography of American R&B singer Nivea, containing information about her albums, singles and guest appearances.
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Cambodia’s ‘beating heart’ and climate change disaster – Al Jazeera English
Chong Kneas, Cambodia – No celebrations took place this year. For the fourth time since 2010, the Cambodian government cancelled this November’s water festival – a hallowed three-day event marking the change in direction of the river feeding Southea…
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The scientists whose garden unlocked the secret to good health | Science | The Guardian
Juicy is the best word to describe Anne Biklé and David Montgomery’s garden, even in the dying days of autumn.
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The endangered lifeline of Madagascar’s sharks – Al Jazeera English
Nosy Andranambala, Madagascar – It’s 40 years this year since the first Jaws film came out. The Hollywood blockbuster and its sequels traumatised generations of cinema-goers with tales of vengeful predators stalking the shallows, baying for human b…
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3G in Palestine: Too little, too late? – Al Jazeera English
Shortly before US President Barack Obama’s visit to Ramallah in 2013, three Palestinians were talking in a Ramallah cafe about how to convey the suffering of Palestinians to the US leader. Mahir Alawneh, a graphic designer, came up with an idea.
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Turkey to hand back Russia pilot’s body – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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20 killed in Russian air strike on Syria’s Idlib – Al Jazeera English
At least 20 people were killed and scores wounded on Sunday in a suspected Russian air strike on a crowded marketplace in Idlib province, activists said. The early morning attack occurred in the town of Ariha, 15km south of Idlib city.
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Starvation in Yemen: ‘We are hoping just to survive’ – Al Jazeera English
Abdullah al-Osaimi worries every day about how to put food on the table for his wife and four children.
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British police trying to catch a criminal. : gifs
British police trying to catch a criminal. via /r/gifs https://t.co/GALrMaabAl https://t.co/E6pUoGFxub https://t.co/hxsOmBLr5v
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Remix by Non Pratt – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Trouble by Non Pratt was definitely one of my top reads of 2014, and I knew that Remix would easily be one of my favourite reads of 2015. It takes you through a spectrum of feelings as it is light-hearted and touching all in one.
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Seven years after his landmark 2006 report on the costs of ignoring climate change, Lord Stern confessed that he’d been wrong , and had underestimated the size of the task.
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Why dogs are better than cats – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
They love you when everyone else thinks you’re an idiot and never bear a grudge. Domenica More Gordon explains why dogs are so much better than cats
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The right doesn’t see them as terror threats. They see them as “heroes” and “real Americans”. Everytime there’s a shooting, they blame the victim(s) saying “Well this wouldn’t have happened if everyone there had a gun.”. As a former Republican, yes,…
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Pope Francis heads to conflict-wracked CAR after Uganda – BBC News
Pope Francis has embarked on the last leg of his African tour with a visit to the Central African Republic, which has been torn apart by violence between Muslim rebels and Christian militias. There have been concerns about the pope’s safety ahead of…
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Dead Can Dance – Opium – YouTube
The 6th track from “Anastasis”(2012) by Dead Can Dance.All rights reserved by Dead Can Dance.
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Best books of 2015 – part two | Books | The Guardian
From provocative novels, giants real and imagined, and new novels from past masters … authors and critics select their favourite reads of 2015 03.30 EST Last modified on Sunday 29 November 2015 03.
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The world has “come late” to realising the potential devastation of climate change, Prof Tim Flannery says, but the former Australian of the Year believes there is now a global understanding of the need to cut emissions “hard and fast” to avoid cala…
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Tackling Lebanese corruption – one photo at a time – Al Jazeera English
Beirut, Lebanon – Habib Battah, a slight man, whose eyes are usually covered by a cap pulled low over his brow, is one of Lebanon’s most determined investigative journalists, much to the chagrin of many of those who have been the subjects of his rep…
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In 1978, as the world mourned the loss of Elvis Aaron Presley, a velvet-voiced doppelganger arrived on the scene to claim his place in the hearts and minds of America.
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Shipwrecks at risk from fishing ‘bulldozers’ | Science | The Guardian
They are some of the country’s greatest untouched treasures, having lain undisturbed on the seabed, in some cases for centuries. But now these archaeological riches are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate before scientists or historians can get…
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College Football Player Thanks His Coach During Press Conference. Wow. : videos
College Football Player Thanks His Coach During Press Conference. Wow. (youtube.com)
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Life-size gingerbread house unveiled at hotel – BBC News
A 22ft (6.7m) tall gingerbread house has been unveiled at a San Francisco hotel, made out of 8,000 pieces of gingerbread and sweets.Pastry chefs at the Fairmont Hotel spent several weeks making the huge cake and used 1,500lb (68kg) of icing.
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Migrant crisis: do Syrian refugees want to leave Turkey? – BBC News
Leaders from the European Union and Turkey will gather in Brussels on Sunday for a summit on the migration crisis. Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants have travelled through Turkey to Europe in 2015 so the EU will ask Turkey to better patrol …
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Rollerblading down a mine : gifs
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/wqCtM8iX1B https://t.co/zuwfZYfmEe https://t.co/1rbghCIi2f
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/wqCtM8iX1B https://t.co/zuwfZYfmEe https://t.co/1rbghCIi2f
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Sen. Rand Paul Returns $600,000 Of Unspent Operating Costs : politics
Sen. Rand Paul Returns $600,000 Of Unspent Operating Costs https://t.co/ksfBBb5JRe https://t.co/jLhFkpeT38 via /r/#politics
You know, I can’t stand the dude’s ideas, but it’s hard not to respect the guy. At the very least, he has my respect. -
Sen. Rand Paul Returns $600,000 Of Unspent Operating Costs : The Two-Way : NPR
Sen. Rand Paul Returns $600,000 Of Unspent Operating Costs https://t.co/ksfBBb5JRe https://t.co/jLhFkpeT38 via /r/#politics
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Climate change protests across Australia – tens of thousands march | Environment | The Guardian
Climate change rallies rolled on across Australia on Sunday, following well attended protests in Melbourne on Friday and Darwin and Brisbane on Saturday. On Sunday, it was the turn of Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Hobart and Perth.
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Why the Smithsonian almost didn’t exist – BBC News
The world’s largest museum and research organisation is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of its founder. But it was pure luck that the Smithsonian Institution was ever created.
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Grayson said Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, is “unqualified” to be president “because he’s ineligible.” (thehill.com)submitted 6 hours ago by loading…
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Children of U.S. citizens born abroad are naturally U.S. citizens. The U.S. State Department issues an FS-240, “Consular Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States of America”, which serves as proof of natural-born U.S. citizenship.
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Exposed: ‘Full Range of Collusion’ Between Big Oil and TTIP Trade Reps: new documents reveal that EU trade officials gave U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil access to confidential negotiating strategies considered too sensitive to be released to the European…
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Tyson Fury ends Wladimir Klitschko’s heavyweight reign – Al Jazeera English
Tyson Fury of Britain is the new heavyweight world champion after defeating long-reigning Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko in a unanimous decision Saturday night in Dusseldorf.
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Marty, stuck in the couch again. : pics
Marty, stuck in the couch again. via /r/pics https://t.co/D3YfdagPdj https://t.co/zzB5Vg8cBU https://t.co/f1FjJ0PERO
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Marty, stuck in the couch again. via /r/pics https://t.co/D3YfdagPdj https://t.co/zzB5Vg8cBU https://t.co/f1FjJ0PERO
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In the first pages of Donato Carrisi’s new thriller, The Hunter of the Dark, we are introduced to Marcus, an amnesiac who has woken up to discover he’s a priest, and not just your common or garden variety.
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Hong Kong’s ‘pink’ dolphins under threat from airport and Macau bridge | Environment | The Guardian
Conservationists have warned that projects to expand Hong Kong’s airport and build a new bridge to Macau could result in the loss of the city’s beloved “pink” dolphins.
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Following the death of her husband, writer and jazz musician George Melly, from vascular dementia in 2007, Diana Melly realised quickly that she “didn’t have the Latin” for cryptic crosswords and instead threw herself into ballroom dancing to fill t…
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Palestinian killed after alleged stabbing attack – Al Jazeera English
According to Israeli police, the 38-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank ran towards two border police officers with a knife and slightly wounded one before being shot. The latest attack raised the death toll to 102 Palestinians killed since earl…
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How to weigh cuteness via /r/aww https://t.co/VZ55SPWYYq https://t.co/EfREt1mhUA https://t.co/fOd9eN1fDB
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, How to weigh cuteness via /r/aww…
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This loaf took my seat : Catloaf
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Capping Emissions Is Not Enough: An Interview With the Creator of the Kyoto Protocol Carbon Market (truth-out.org)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Amazon Prime Will Reportedly Let Users Access Other Video Services : television
Have they changed it in the past year? When I was a member of Prime they still wanted $1-$2 per episodes of shows I was interested in. No way I’m paying $50 for one show for a year, on top of the prime membership.
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Cutest nose of all via /r/aww https://t.co/M17m50ZtvC https://t.co/hsa6Bw1aJF https://t.co/PMaEc2npoV
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Cutest nose of all via /r/aww…
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British boxer James DeGale beat former champion Lucian Bute on a unanimous decision to retain his IBF super-middleweight title. DeGale, 29, was taken all the way by the Romanian-born Canadian in Quebec.
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: November 27- November 29 · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
We’ve expanded the definition of AVQ&A—our weekly thought-starter—by asking you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, big or sm…
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Old Skyrim habits kicking in… : gaming
Old Skyrim habits kicking in… (gfycat.com) Looks like Trashcan Carla has some new competition.
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I was expecting to see Ego, The Living Planet, when I read the synopsis of tonight’s episode, which involved a living planet taken control by a revived Ronan. Instead, we get Mandala, a newly created living planet thanks to the Cosmic Seed, a planet…
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, November 29. All times are Eastern. The Walking Dead (AMC, 9 p.m.): It’s been a bumpy season of The Walking Dead, as the usual zombie mayhem and people making bad decisions around said zombie mayhem ha…
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Burkina Faso elections get under way – BBC News
Voting is under way in Burkina Faso to elect a new president and parliament after a year of political turmoil. It is the first election since last year’s popular uprising which toppled longstanding president Blaise Compaore.
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US Republicans and the deadly Colorado shooting – Al Jazeera English
As I write this, it’s now been 24 hours since the shooting in Colorado. It’s a major news story. It has dominated the headlines.
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Paris-style attack could ‘easily’ happen here, says UK defence secretary – BBC News
Paris-style attacks could “easily” happen in UK cities such as London, Manchester or Glasgow, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has warned. Mr Fallon stepped up efforts to win MPs’ backing for air strikes against Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria.
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Rosetta and Comet Outbound via NASA https://t.co/LMnBtN77Ru https://t.co/B9X3ClLZWM https://t.co/vmPz8BmS8S
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APOD: 2015 November 28 – Rosetta and Comet Outbound
Explanation: Not a bright comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko now sweeps slowly through planet Earth’s predawn skies near the line-up of planets along the ecliptic.
Rosetta and Comet Outbound via NASA https://t.co/LMnBtN77Ru https://t.co/B9X3ClLZWM https://t.co/vmPz8BmS8S -
COP21: Paris climate deal ‘more likely’ after terror attacks – BBC News
Nearly 150 global leaders are gathering in Paris on Sunday for a critical UN climate meeting, amid tight security. The conference, known as COP21, will attempt to craft a long-term deal to limit carbon emissions.
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Links to Lenin: The past Swiss villagers tried to forget – BBC News
On a crisp autumn day in 1915, 38 ornithologists gathered in the tiny Swiss village of Zimmerwald. Only, they were not actually bird watchers – that was just a cover. These were socialists from all over Europe, meeting to discuss ways to bring peace…
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Burkina Faso set for vote after year of turmoil – Al Jazeera English
Burkina Faso holds elections on Sunday, the first since a popular uprising toppled the West African nation’s longtime leader and launched a turbulent period of transition.
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Donald Trump Falls 12 Percentage Points in One Week : democrats
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Flash hating loaf via /r/Catloaf…
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How to deal with a bully that is much smaller than yourself. – GIF on Imgur
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CNN Rips Benghazi Committee Chair Trey Gowdy For Lying About Their Coverage : democrats
CNN Rips Benghazi Committee Chair Trey Gowdy For Lying About Their Coverage (politicususa.com)submitted 9 minutes ago by loading…
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 72%. (I’m a bot) According to the poll, Trump has the support of 31 percent of Republican voters.
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HARTSEL, Colo. — Robert L. Dear Jr. was a man who lived off the grid. On this lonely, snow-covered patch of land in a hamlet ringed by the Rocky Mountains, his home was a white trailer, with a forest-green four-wheeler by the front door and a modest…
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Dhaka Train Image, Bangladesh – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Now that I live alone, I can do what I want – Poster-size NASA travel ads! Thank you, NASA, for making these amazing images (plus everything else you do). (i.imgur.com)
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This onion looks like an angry bird : mildlyinteresting
Quick!!!! Walk to the meats and throw it at the pork!!!!! Ok… don’t buy that onion.
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Paris, Syria, and Climate Change – The New Yorker
In Syria, the rainy season begins in November and ends in April. Only a third of the country’s farms have irrigation systems; the rest depend on what the season supplies them with, which, even in good years, isn’t all that much.
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I’m sorry. I know you’ve been hoping it wouldn’t happen, ever since your book was shortlisted, but my sad duty is to inform you that this Tuesday, the London-based Literary Review will, indeed, pick you for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
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My daughter’s Christmas list. : funny
My daughter’s Christmas list. (imgur.com) Now I want to get her a cat.
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Eat your heart out, Carly Fiorina. You spread hateful and inflammatory life-or-death invective over a nonexistent video. This is the fruit of that sort of rhetoric. We need to start calling public officials to task for this bullshit.
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I had a customer poop on the floor today. Worth it. via /r/aww https://t.co/cXxoCx5i75 https://t.co/IVfzt1PVN3 https://t.co/A8gmRAkuLT
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Rallies call for climate change action ahead of Paris summit – BBC News
Demonstrations are getting under way worldwide to demand action to stop climate change on the eve of the UN summit in Paris. More than 2,000 events are taking place – with 20,000 people already out in Sydney, Australia – on the eve of the UN climate…
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Prison break: Four unusual ways Indians have escaped jail – BBC News
Indian police officers ferry thousands of criminals to different courts and jails every day. Most of them are kept under tight security, but some still find innovative ways to escape.
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“Madame Costa” · The Returned · TV Review The Returned is opening its eyes · TV Club · The A.V. Club
The camera locks in on a character we’ve presumed dead. Their eyes are closed, they’re not breathing—all onscreen vital signs point to negative. But the camera’s holding on the body, so the filmmakers are building anticipation for something.
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WASHINGTON — Between the chilly temperatures and the pace of the push-ups, there was plenty to complain about after eight lawmakers straggled into the park behind the Longworth House Office Building for their regular 6:30 a.m. workout.
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AMHERST, Mass. — Hundreds of students crammed into Amherst College’s Robert Frost Library for a sit-in against racial injustice that turned into a confessional, as one black or Hispanic student after another rose to talk about feelings of alienation…
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German financial giant Allianz slashes coal investments https://t.co/xli7QePCRo https://t.co/Sqbm1OZFSo via /r/environment
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German financial giant Allianz slashes coal investments
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articleTesla wants to make fully self-driving cars happen way ahead of schedule (uk.businessinsider.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by Onwards & Upwardsloading…
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‘Full range of collusion’ between big oil and TTIP trade reps. New documents underscore ‘the corporate nature of the deal and its devastating consequences for climate change’. (commondreams.org)
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German financial giant Allianz slashes coal investments (powersource.post-gazette.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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More frequent floods, storms, heat waves, and droughts are connected to greater extremes in temperatures and rainfall, according to Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters, a new study from Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank. …
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Brazil links Zika fever to birth defects – BBC News
The Brazilian health ministry has confirmed a link between a mosquito-borne virus from Africa, Zika Fever, and a high incidence of birth defects. The fever, it said, is behind a spike in cases of micro-encephalitis – an inflammation of the brain con…
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Understand where I’m coming from? : Liberal
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Suspect in Planned Parenthood attack said ‘no more baby parts’ after arrest | US news | The Guardian
The man suspected of carrying out a deadly attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic that offers abortion services in Colorado said “no more baby parts” after his arrest, according to authorities.
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Asked my BF to take a photo before the Christmas Ball… – GIF on Imgur
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LA Is a Great Walking City. Really. – The Daily Beast
It was Halloween weekend and downtown Los Angeles was celebrating La Día de los Muertos.
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Let’s start with the blindingly obvious first: There has never been a Doctor Who episode like “Heaven Sent.” It’s a tour de force for writer Steven Moffat, director Rachel Talalay, and star Peter Capaldi, who is by himself for a good 95 percent of t…
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Understand where I’m coming from? (feartrump.com)
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Sins the Pope should pray for… and other trends of the week – BBC News
Indian women protest against a “sexist” religious rule, Kenyans ask the pope for prayers and families across the United States of America celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with ethnically specific jokes and memes. Those stories in BBC Trending’s ro…
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Trumps new campaign logo looks familiar : democrats
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Trumps new campaign logo looks familiar – Imgur
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The twists and turns of naming diseases – BBC News
When a new disease is identified in a group of patients it needs a name so it can be described, researched and treated. But, unlike naming a child, there is no little book of names for diseases. So how do you choose the right name for a new conditio…
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Doctor Who Shows Just How Much Hard Work Goes Into The Doctor’s Easy Victories
Warning: If you haven’t seen tonight’s new episode of Doctor Who, it’s pretty heartbreaking. And kind of grueling. Remember “Midnight,” the scary-weird David Tennant bottle episode? This is sort of Peter Capaldi’s version of that. Goosebumps! Spoile…
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The Deafening Silence of the Republican Field in the Wake of the Planned Parenthood Shooting – One of the most consistent measures of leadership is found in the response to terror, to frightening news, to evidence that mean things are happening in t…
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The Story of the First Black Marine – The Daily Beast
The black-and-white photograph looks like one in sixteen million, yet another portrait of a bright-eyed, fresh-faced, all-American World War II recruit. The uniform is crisp; the tie only slightly askew. The cap is part postman, part policeman—back …
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Can Pope tackle religious divide in Central African Republic? – BBC News
When Pope Francis put the Central African Republic on his itinerary, he gave his Vatican security officers a major challenge. It’s no longer full-blown civil war, but it’s a country divided – on the surface at least – along religious grounds.
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Donald Trump, This WWII Refugee Exhibition Has a Lot To Teach You – The Daily Beast
While the global refugee and migrant crisis has already been grabbing headlines for months, the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris complicated the issue further.
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Wladimir Klitschko v Tyson Fury – in pictures | Sport | The Guardian
Skip to main content Tyson Fury Wladimir Klitschko v Tyson Fury – in pictures Tyson Fury proved all the doubters wrong by beating Wladimir Klitschko over 12 rounds to become the new heavyweight champion of the world Saturday 28 November 2015 22.
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Erasing Woodrow Wilson, Evading History? – The Daily Beast
We need to confront the facts about our racial past as often and honestly as possible and President Wilson’s racism is no exception. For that very reason, renaming the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University is hazardous.
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How Tech Titans Know To Pull The Plug On Projects | TechCrunch
Not every new idea is destined to be great. Sometimes even the most promising concepts end up in the scrap pile. You probably never heard about Google Here, but the project was so big that Alphabet CEO Larry Page himself made the final decision to a…
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Always attack. Always focus on your enemies. And never let up. Never give the mob an opportunity to cool down. “Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep…
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Obama renews call for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting : democrats
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Lindsey Graham: Declare War On The World : democrats
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Lindsey Graham: Declare War On The World – YouTube
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Lindsey Graham: Declare War On The World (youtube.com)submitted 9 minutes ago by loading…
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Obama renews call for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting (msnbc.com)submitted 28 minutes ago by loading…
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Wasn’t that the objective of making the videos? And they’ll continue under the extreme right gets it’s religious nuts under control.
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Obama renews call for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting | MSNBC
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Bernie Forces 2016 Presidential Field to the Left : Liberal
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Bernie Forces 2016 Presidential Field To The Left
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Bollywood’s Biggest Star Defies India’s Violent Bigotry – The Daily Beast
After a well-known rationalist thinker critical of “idol worship” was gunned down in his home last August, and after a mob bludgeoned to death a 50-year-old farmer in October because of rumors he and his family ate beef, a growing number of India’s …
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The GOP Ignores the Bigger Terror Threat—from the Right – The Daily Beast
“I want surveillance of certain mosques,” bellowed Donald Trump to his followers at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama over the weekend.
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Has the Nobel Curse Killed Orhan Pamuk? – The Daily Beast
When Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, he was 54, the second youngest recipient in the history of the award. Since then he has written two novels that have been published in English, The Museum of Innocence in 2009 and now …
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‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ Recap: The Exorcist(s) | Rolling Stone
We open on Ash Williams, bound and gagged. His friend Kelly is possessed by a demon. His friend Pablo believes the evil’s inside him instead. And the Brujo is gonna cut it out of his brain with a kitchen knife. You wanna talk about drama with stakes…
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D.A.R.E. to Keep Kids Off Tech – The Daily Beast
Smartphone addiction among younger users may be a culturally accepted norm in the next few years, as more students have smartphones than ever before, and rules start to relax preventing phone use in the classroom.
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The NRA Is Getting Its Ass Kicked and Here’s the Proof – The Daily Beast
The National Rifle Association is getting its clocked cleaned. I know, you need to see that again. So to repeat, and in laymen terms: The NRA has been losing a lot lately.
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Is Cocaine Legend White Boy Rick Serving Life for Busting Crooked Cops? – The Daily Beast
Richard John Wershe, Jr. is a political prisoner in America. The political component of his ordeal is local, it’s harsh and it’s vindictive. Wershe, who grew up in Detroit, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a non-violent drug crime …
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Things are pretty groovy right now for Ash Vs. Evil Dead. The mythology’s brewing, threads are threading, and characters are proving essential. It’s a good sign when the show’s titular lead can spend the first quarter of an episode gagged and not on…
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Obama renews call for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting : Liberal
Obama renews call for gun control after Planned Parenthood shooting (msnbc.com)submitted 13 minutes ago by loading…
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“We can’t let it become normal,” Mr. Obama said in a statement.
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Regardless of whether this is true or not, you have to wonder what Carly Fiorina’s thinking about right now. She doesn’t give a fuck.
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Why won’t the FBI show me my FBI file –as the law requires? : politics
Why won’t the FBI show me my FBI file –as the law requires? (sharylattkisson.com) The quick answer is that if anything in your file in any way correlates to a crime which has a longer/unlimited statue of limitations (yes…
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The Simpsons Predicted Trump’s Mob – The Daily Beast
Early in “Sideshow Bob Roberts,” an episode of The Simpsons that begins with its murderous title character incarcerated, a Rush Limbaugh clone named Birch Barlow calls his audience to action. Moe the bartender immediately responds with, “All right, …
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Obama says ‘enough is enough’ after latest deadly shooting: “This is not normal. We can’t let it become normal.” (news.yahoo.com) Sadly, it is normal.
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Is World Of Warcraft Even Killable? – The Daily Beast
Ask a junkie about some watered-down drugs, and they will tell you it sucks. But they will still hit it anyway. Thus, some World of Warcraft Players say, is their current predicament.
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I Said ‘Yes’ to the Dress—And Faced My Past – The Daily Beast
I never wanted to get married. Marriage, in my family at least, seems heartbreakingly stupid. So how the hell did I find myself in Bergdorf Goodman’s bridal salon contemplating lace vs. tulle, sleeves vs. strapless? I’m getting married on October 9,…
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Ted Cruz’s Favorite Rabbi – The Daily Beast
Thanks to an a-typical shared interest, Ted Cruz has befriended an extraordinarily well-connected rabbi — a relationship that could pay big dividends as his presidential campaign gains momentum.
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Donald Trump’s alarming skid toward outright fascism
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Texas senator Ted Cruz has become the first Republican presidential candidate to directly address the fatal shooting of three people at Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, calling the attack “horrific”.
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The Colorado Shooting Comes Amidst an ‘Alarming’ Escalation of Anti-Abortion Violence | The Nation
“This is not normal,” President Obama said Saturday of a shooting at a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Colorado Springs that killed three people and wounded nine others.
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The Political Motivations Of The Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect, Revealed | ThinkProgress
Robert Lewis Dear allegedly killed three people and injured 9 others yesterday at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the hours after the shooting little was known about Dear or his motivations. Saturday evening, those moti…
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41 years. $3 billion. Inside the Clinton donor network : Liberal
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41 years. $3 billion. Inside the Clinton donor network. – Washington Post
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THIS past summer, the Group of 7 nations promised “urgent and concrete action” to limit climate change. What actions exactly? Activists hope for answers from the coming United Nations climate conference in Paris, which begins Monday. They should loo…
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/9anfzKptZ4 Stories via @UN_CTED @UN_Women
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Thor’s Helmet Nebula Glows Brightly | Space Wallpaper
About this Image A glowing cloud of gas and dust, known as NGC 2359, takes the shape of Thor’s mythical helmet. The brilliant colors of the giant cloud express without words the makeup of the nebula: blue shows X-ray emission, while pale red and gre…
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Spotlight on green news & views: Climate protesters arrested in Paris; water wars in Detroit
See more snowy photos in johnnygunn’s Wyoming post here.
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“A new low.” – The Deafening Silence of the Republican Field in the Wake of the Planned Parenthood Shooting https://t.co/HOetp6QXDV
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How Education Will Be Smarter, Less Intrusive, And Able To Respond To How You Feel | TechCrunch
Impatience characterizes the technology sector’s approach to education.
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100 Women 2015: Iranian women’s fight for freedom – BBC News
Iran is better known for its religious conservatism than its history of women’s rights. But although it might not be obvious to outsiders, women in Iran enjoy more freedom than many others in the Middle East. As well as having the right to vote, man…
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Welcome to live coverage of the global climate march – a continent-spanning series of rallies which organisers hope will see millions of people join to highlight the need for a worldwide consensus on tackling climate change ahead of the COP21 talks …
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British boxer Tyson Fury shocked Wladimir Klitschko to win their world heavyweight boxing title clash on a unanimous points decision. Underdog Fury, 27, dominated the bout to end the Ukrainian’s reign as WBA, IBF and WBO champion.
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Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black is adding another big name to its lineup of high-profile episode directors, with news coming this week that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner will be helming an episode of the show’s fourth season (presumably haunting …
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The 2016 Bugatti Vision. : pics
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Japan earthquake: Fukushima radiation scans for babies – BBC News
It’s nearly five years since the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster but concerns about possible health problems – especially in children – are still high in many parents’ minds.
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A legacy of fry-ups and red postboxes – BBC News
The Queen has spent the past few days in Malta, where she opened a summit for the leaders of Commonwealth nations. She has soft spot for the place where she lived in the 1950s, when it was a colony. Although Malta is now an independent country the B…
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After the gaffes and flip-flops, Republicans ask: who can stop Trump? | US news | The Guardian
Striding on stage to the triumphant strains of Nessun Dorma, Donald Trump has a surprisingly humble confession to make for someone defying all the laws of political gravity.
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When Tiny Tim met Little Nell: it’s the great Dickens TV mash-up | Books | The Guardian
Is it Little Nell, or Tiny Tim on his crutch, or perhaps Bill Sikes with Bull’s-Eye the dog? Maybe it is Bleak House’s tenacious Inspector Bucket, or Mrs Gamp from Martin Chuzzlewit, with her furled umbrella? None would be exactly an unexpected call…
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Why do republicans have such a large majority in the house if dems have 17 million more registered voters? (self.politics) I assumed since the House is supposed to be representative of population then democrats would own the House.
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Defeat Your Biggest* Enemies With This Bark Fiber Sling – Digg
6 diggs How-To It may not be the easiest thing to aim, but it sure packs a punch.
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Japan under fire over decision to resume whaling | World news | The Guardian
Japan is set to resume whaling early next year, after a break of more than 12 months, in defiance of an international court of justice ruling that it cease the practice.
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This week in the war on workers: Rising federal taxes aren’t the problem for the middle class
Note that the figure includes all federal taxes—the income tax rate faced by these households, meanwhile, is much, much lower. In 2011, for example, the total federal tax rate for the lower-middle fifth of households was 7.
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The most obvious response to climate change should be to transform the way the world generates energy. Living standards have risen 40 times over the last 250 years in the west, driven neither by the small state beloved of conservatives nor the large…
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This is seriously life : funny
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Labor chides $600,000 salary of new part-time windfarm commissioner | Australia news | The Guardian
The government is wasting more than $600,000 on windfarm “conspiracy theories”, Labor said, after a report revealed the salary of the newly appointed wind commissioner, Andrew Dyer.
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Human Knowledge Is the Creation of New Information and Brave New Worlds | Inverse
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Yeah, sure, Michael B. Jordan is up for another Creed movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having weathered all the “Arms Wide Open” jokes and learned the greatest lesson that his slurring, droopy-eyed mentor, Rocky Balboa, could ever possibly teach, Creed star Michael B. Jordan has said that he’d be happy to return for the inevitable seq…
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Suspected Colorado Springs shooter had history of run-ins with neighbors, women
Police have yet to name a motive behind Friday’s Colorado Springs shooting spree at a Planned Parenthood clinic that claimed three lives and wounded nine. But the suspect, Robert L. Dear, 57, had a history of disputes with his neighbors and women. I…
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Turkey PM pledges justice after pro-Kurdish lawyer shot – BBC News
Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has pledged to bring to justice the killers of leading pro-Kurdish lawyer Tahir Elci. Mr Elci was shot dead in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir during a battle between police and unidentified gunmen. Two policemen also…
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NASA’s ‘Chemical Laptop’ could help future rovers find life on alien planets | The Verge
NASA scientists have a new device up their sleeves to help find life on other planets. The rectangular box is being called the “Chemical Laptop,” but it’s really more of a portable, automated chemistry lab that can be built into future NASA rovers.
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Black Pastors To Trump: Our Meeting Is Not An Endorsement : Liberal
Black Pastors To Trump: Our Meeting Is Not An Endorsement (thedailybeast.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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This stealth micro-drone is 67% off for a limited time only / Boing Boing
The Code Black is our top-selling drone of all time—and for good reason. This powerful, palm-size drone is not only insanely fun to fly, but can capture some serious video footage from up above.
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From Trembling Teacher To Seasoned Mentor: How Tim Gunn Made It Work : NPR
Tim Gunn is famous for his catchphrase — “Make it work!” — his snazzy outfits and his calm, can-do attitude. As a mentor to designers on Project Runway, his unflappable demeanor soothes many a stressed-out contestant. But Gunn wasn’t always so self-…
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Ben Carson meets Syrian refugees in Jordan but says none should come to US | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, who last week compared Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs”, met with refugees in Jordan on Saturday. He urged the Obama administration to do more to help – but did not endorse bringing such people to the Uni…
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Make a Fully Functional Hobby Rocket Out of Household Items
If you’re looking for something fun to work on over the weekend, this homemade rocket build is made mostly from household items and is super cheap to put together.
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Labor’s target on climate change is “heroic” and aimed at making a political point rather than helping the environment, the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said.
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Open Channel: What’s Your Favorite Television Opening Credits?
Earlier today, we were discussing the new credits for The Shannara Chronicles, and it got me thinking: what opening credits did I really enjoy watching? I have to say that for me? I never skip past the Stargate SG-1 credits. I love the music, the mo…
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We Still Don’t Know Why the Heck There Are So Many Blue Tarantulas
A very particular shade of blue hair has evolved independently on eight separate occasions and in at least three different ways in tarantulas, a new study finds. And scientists are having a hell of a time figuring out why.
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The Most District: What’s the reddest congressional district in America? Come visit Texas’ 13th!
Of the nation’s 435 congressional districts, no seat backed Mitt Romney by a greater margin than Texas’ 13th. This seat supported 2012’s GOP presidential nominee 80-19; Romney’s second-best seat, the nearby 11th District, voted for him by a similar …
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Kosovo police arrest dozens of opposition members in crackdown – BBC News
Police in Kosovo have arrested a prominent opposition MP and 86 members of his party after he addressed a large anti-government protest. Armed officers clashed with supporters of the main opposition party, who tried to prevent the arrest of their le…
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This amazing video shows every state and county boundary change in America from 1629 to 2000 (dailykos.com)submitted 32 minutes ago by loading…
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About 11:30 a.m. Police cordon off the area around Planned Parenthood, including a nearby shopping center, and tell people to shelter in place. Some people evacuate to Chase Bank and the shopping center.
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The are many measures of how a presidential candidate might respond in a moment of national trauma. To my mind, the standard was set on the night of April 4, 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy learned shortly before he was to speak in Indianapolis’ inner …
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Volcanic Island in the Pacific Turns Two : Image of the Day
Two years ago, a new island, or “nijima,” rose above the water line in the western Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Tokyo. It grew out of the sea just 500 meters from Nishinoshima, another volcanic island.
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Legal Streaming: Build Your Audience Without Getting GG’ed | TechCrunch
Tens of thousands of broadcasters, game developers and fans converged on San Francisco’s Moscone Center during TwitchCon 2015 — Twitch’s inaugural celebration for the video game streaming community.
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If We’re Going To End Factory Farms, We Need To Eat Way Less Meat (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Canyon Lake Ranch was once a playground for Christian day campers, and then was a corporate retreat with water-skiing, barbecues and cowboy shoot-’em-up shows. Hawks now circle above 108 sunbaked acres occupied by copperhead snakes, a few coyotes an…
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Authorities seek information after rescuing baby buried near bike path | US news | The Guardian
Sheriff’s officials asked for the public’s help on Saturday in gaining information about a newborn baby deputies rescued after finding her buried beside a popular Compton bike path.
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Quentin Tarantino Explains Why 70MM Film Is Better Than Digital – Digg
2 diggs Movies Art Fame Even if “The Hateful Eight” turns out to be a bust (unlikely), it will still look great.
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None Of The 14 GOP Presidential Candidates Have Responded To The Planned Parenthood Shooting (Updated) (thinkprogress.org)submitted 4 minutes ago by loading…
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Australia slams Japan’s decision to resume Antarctic whaling | Environment | The Guardian
Japan cannot unilaterally decide to start whaling in Antarctica again against the advice of scientists, says the environment minister, Greg Hunt. Japan is set to ignore an international court of justice ruling that last year prompted Tokyo to cancel…
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Migrant crisis: Clashes as Macedonia erects border fence – BBC News
Macedonia has become the latest country to restrict the flow of migrants entering the country, erecting a fence on its border with Greece. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says 105,000 migrants have passed through Macedonia from Gr…
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Syrian fighters claim several villages near Aleppo – Al Jazeera English
Syrian fighters have seized a town and several villages in Syria’s northern Aleppo province from troops and allied Shia forces amid intense fighting. Nusra Front released drone footage that purports to show Iranian forces fleeing from rebels advanci…
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Maybe We’ll Get That Supergirl / Flash Crossover After All!
Executives for CBS’s Supergirl have said that they’ll never cross the DC heroine over with CW’s The Flash or Arrow, but according to Bleeding Cool, they might be changing their minds.
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Build Your Own Smartphone-Powered Alarm Clock and Speaker
If you use a smartphone as an alarm clock, you probably just have it sitting awkwardly on a bedside table, the power cable dangling off, ready to wake you up not by the tone, but by the awful vibration sounds. If you’d prefer the look of an actual c…
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Physicists: Nobody’s Telling the Truth About That Downed Russian Warplane
Russia and Turkey each have their own version of what happened with that downed jet earlier this week, but science may have the last word. According to two Belgian astrophysicists, neither nation is being entirely truthful.
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She’s back—Liz Cheney weighs congressional run in Wyoming
GOP Wyoming Rep. and “Freedom Caucus” member Cynthia Lummis has said that she won’t be seeking re-election, which leaves a new opening for Liz Cheney to snag the state’s sole congressional seat.
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George Osborne ‘has undermined UK role in climate talks’ | Environment | The Guardian
Britain will enter the Paris climate change talks this week with its credentials as a responsible, low-emission power generator in tatters. That is the stark conclusion of one of the country’s leading energy experts, Professor Stuart Haszeldine of E…
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Twin suicide bomb blast rocks northern Cameroon village – Al Jazeera English
At least seven people, including two attackers, have been killed in a twin suicide bomb attack in northern Cameroon, security sources and an official have said.
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Pope Francis in Africa: Huge crowds for Uganda Mass – BBC News
Pope Francis has celebrated Mass in front of huge crowds in Uganda on the second stage of his three-country Africa tour. The pontiff spoke of the need to create a more just society before attending a rally for young Ugandans.
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2016 Republican Contenders Silent on Planned Parenthood Shooting : politics
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They are silent because they know that many in their base are fine with attacks on Planned Parenthood. They are. It’s all over twitter, one person said the pregnant woman deserved to die. -
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Osceola At The 50-Yard Line : Code Switch : NPR
Seminole patchwork is not well-known outside the state of Florida. The Seams looks at culture through clothing — and within this hand-sewn and folded patchwork is the story of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
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Barbershop: Black Friday, Black Lives Matter And Social ‘Cuffing’ : NPR
The talk in the Barbershop this week is about Black Friday, Black Lives Matter and social “cuffing.” Wesley Lowery, national reporter at The Washington Post, Katie Notopoulos, a senior editor at Buzzfeed, and Jozen Cummings, an editorial associate a…
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As Americans Increasingly Bypass Malls, What’s To Become Of Black Friday? : NPR
Is Black Friday no longer a thing? Bloomberg retail columnist Shelly Banjo talks about Black Friday results and how shopping trends are changing.
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‘Purple Rain’ — As Retold In A Language Without A Word For Purple : NPR
In 1984, Prince was on top of the world, with a No. 1 album and later a No. 1 movie, both named Purple Rain. Little did Prince know then how widely his projects’ influence would spread, or the ways in which they might translate — literally.
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A Day Later, Details Emerge On Planned Parenthood Shooting : NPR
NPR’s Nathan Rott gives the latest rundown on the gunman who shot a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs.
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The Mood In Chicago, A City Seized By Protests Over Police Shootings : NPR
The city of Chicago has been shaken by the release of a video showing a police officer shoot and kill Laquan McDonald. That comes as neighborhoods continue to endure gun violence. Chicago Sun Times columnist Laura Washington and Chicago pastor Corey…
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This new radio wave app visualizes the energy all around us
We already know that the air is full of radio waves beaming across the universe. But knowing radio waves exist and having visual proof are strikingly different—and now a new app called the Architecture of Radio is making the invisible world around a…
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Metallica’s Robert Trujillo On Documentary Focusing On His Hero, Jaco Pastorius : NPR
They called him “the Jimi Hendrix of the bass.” Jaco Pastorius (pronounced “jock-oh”) took an instrument normally confined to the rhythm section and brought it out front. He’s probably best known for his work in the band Weather Report in the 1970s,…
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See the invisible wireless signals around you with this augmented reality app | The Verge
The human eye is remarkable, but it only lets us see a very small sliver of electromagnetic waves. It’s nearly impossible to imagine what our world would look like if we could see beyond the visible spectrum, but a new app called Architecture of Rad…
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Twisted Sister Allow Donald Trump to Use ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ | Rolling Stone
Twisted Sister Allow Donald Trump to Use ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ Song “is about rebellion, speaking your mind and fighting the system.
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Top Climate Scientist Calls Obama’s Climate Initiative ‘Pure Bullshit’ | Motherboard
On Monday, world leaders representing 190 nations (along with tens of thousands of journalists, protesters and conference attendees) will convene in Paris to kick off the 21st annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21).
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Black Friday sales fall 10% from last year | US news | The Guardian
Total sales in the US on Black Friday fell 10% to $10.4bn this year, down from $11.6bn in 2014, according to research firm ShopperTrak. The decline in sales on the traditional busiest shopping day of the year has been blamed on shops opening the day…
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Faith led Garrett Swasey to a career in public service and pastoral care, and duty led him to a Planned Parenthood clinic where he was gunned down in a standoff. The 44-year-old Swasey was the first of three victims to be identified in the shootings…
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Buddy of mine calls me to tell me he just rolled his jeep through a telephone pole. I said pics or it didn’t happen. He sent me this. (imgur.com) Is it still a landline at this point?
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About Salvaged: In this column we republish seminal articles that helped us look at the natural world in a new way. While not necessarily the first time an idea found print, these articles helped bring scientific findings to the general public. The …
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Wladimir Klitschko v Tyson Fury: world heavyweight boxing – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Klitschko v Fury: who wins? Photograph: Lars Baron/Bongarts/Getty Images
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Can world leaders reach climate change deal? – Al Jazeera English
About 40,000 negotiators from nearly 200 countries are descending on the French capital for the UN conference on climate change or COP 21. The decisions they make will have a major impact on how we live our lives and those of future generations.
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New The Force Awakens Feature Teases Out Rey’s Background
A new short featurette for Star Wars: The Force Awakens focuses on Rey, and what actress Daisey Ridley thinks people will be drawn to in her character. The clip shows off a couple of new clips along with it.
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Here’s What Cards Against Humanity Is Doing With The $71,145 They Made On Black Friday | TechCrunch
While a lot of the US was out and about shopping for themselves or others for the holidays, Cards Against Humanity ran their own Black Friday campaign, asking for $5 and in return the buyer would get nothing. And the buyers LIKED it.
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What are your favorite political slogans of all time?
New York Gov. Al Smith got absolutely obliterated in the 1928 presidential election, losing in a massive 58-41 landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover—who would, of course, go on to lose to FDR in a similar tsunami four years later.
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This Video Explains How You’re Doing Your Laundry Wrong
Doing laundry is one of those tasks we do so often we don’t really question how we might be doing it ineffectively. It’s just habit. This video explains some of the most common ways we do laundry wrong. As the video explains, most of the ways we do …
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Police in Macedonia Clash With Refugees | Al Jazeera America
Police in Macedonia fired tear gas and stun grenades at desperate refugees who have been stranded for days at the Greek border and who are demanding passage to western Europe, as soldiers began erecting a metal fence to keep them out.
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Sanders statement on Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting.
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Once upon a time, one of hip-hop’s most outside-the-box creatives dreamt up an idea to elevate rap appreciation by creating a hip-hop Ark of the Covenant.
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Activists worldwide rally ahead of climate summit – Al Jazeera English
Protesters have joined a worldwide wave of marches demanding that leaders craft a pact to avert a climate catastrophe when they gather in Paris for a UN climate summit.
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Putin Calls for Sanctions Against Turkey | Al Jazeera America
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called for sanctions against Turkey, following the downing this week by Turkey of a Russian warplane.
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Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting: civilian victims remain unnamed | US news | The Guardian
Colorado police said on Saturday they did not know if the two civilians who were killed in a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic had been patients at the women’s healthcare provider.
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Donald Trump reframes claim that Muslims cheered 9/11 | US news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday reframed his claim that he saw Muslims in Jersey City cheering the attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on 11 September 2001, by asserting the sentiment was …
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What’s wrong with paying our retail and service workers a living wage now that these jobs have replaced so many manufacturing jobs? We used to do pretty good when more people were making good money. (self.politics)
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This cop forgot his bike lock and improvised : pics
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NSA will stop collecting bulk phone data by the end of the day | The Verge
At 11:59PM ET tonight, the NSA will shut down its systems that collect bulk phone call data from Americans across the US. The move comes as planned, precisely six months after the USA Freedom Act was signed into law.
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So Selena Gomez Wants To Date Zayn Malik Now? | Vanity Fair
Much ink—and many a tear—have been spent this week on the romantic exploits of Selena Gomez. On Monday, the world wondered whether a shaky cell-phone video showing Justin Bieber serenading Gomez at a hotel bar meant the youthful pair were reuniting …
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San Francisco police seek help in mystery of spiked baseball bats | US news | The Guardian
San Francisco police are asking for help leading to the discovery of a mystery individual or individuals responsible for chaining spiked baseball bats to poles throughout the city.
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Boy’s arm reattached following tractor incident | US news | The Guardian
A western Pennsylvania boy has returned home, less than three weeks after doctors reattached his arm after it was severed by a tractor mechanism. Seth Apel told KDKA-TV that “it feels good to be home”.
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IN 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency promising that he would heal our political divisions. Instead, Mr. Obama has been as polarizing as any president in the history of modern polling. The debate over the Syrian refugee crisis illustrates why.
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This week at progressive state blogs: Can Roy Blunt change his spots? MT bedwetters report for duty
This week in progressive state blogs is designed specifically to focus attention on the writing and analysis of people focused on their home turf. Let me know via comments or Kosmail if you have a favorite state- or city-based blog you think I shoul…
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This Interactive Map Shows Where It’s Illegal to Drive with Headphones, a Dog On Your Lap, and More
Driving laws in the United States can vary from state to state, and it’s tough to be sure if it’s legal to, for example, drive with a dog on your lap or with earbuds in (not that either are a good idea,) drive for Uber, or too slowly as well as too …
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This Twitter Fanfic Picks Up The With The Mystery Mobile Gang Years Later
In case you needed a laugh this afternoon, author Susan Jane Bigelow took to Twitter with a short fanfic about the lives of Fred, Velma and Daphne long after they were teenagers.
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New Evidence Suggests Why Snakes Lost Their Legs | Motherboard
One of evolution’s biggest mysteries is why the modern snake has no legs. There are two general hypotheses that have been proposed: one claims snakes descended from terrestrial burrowers, and the other pegs modern snakes as descendants of marine swi…
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UberChopper Brings Desperately Needed Excess To Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | TechCrunch
Today, as you nurse your wounds from Black Friday stampedes outside your local mall, or sit in traffic as you make your lengthy travel back home from the holidays, here’s a reminder that life doesn’t have to be so hard. Forget UberBLACK.
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NSA ends bulk collection of US phone records – Al Jazeera English
The US National Security Agency (NSA) will end the daily monitoring of millions of Americans’ phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, officials have said.
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In the aftermath of a shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic that left three people dead, more details are emerging about the suspected gunman, 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear.
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Jason Chaffetz, Carly Fiorina and the Republican Party owe an apology to Planned Parenthood and the American People for fomenting hatred and inciting violence against the organization. (self.politics)
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BBC Sport – Premier League: How football ‘made in England’ got big in USA
Roger Bennett grew up in Liverpool in the 1980s with posters of Ferris Bueller, The Fridge and Bob Latchford on his bedroom wall. So it is hardly surprising he would find himself in the US in the 1990s, looking for work and trying to find a way to w…
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Laquan McDonald shooting: Burger King manager says he has testified | US news | The Guardian
A Burger King manager who accuses Chicago police of erasing surveillance video in the case of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager shot 16 times last year by a white officer, says he has testified before a federal grand jury investigating the shooting.
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Man loses lawsuit claiming BMW motorcycle gave him an extended erection / Boing Boing
Not known for making the most exciting motorcycles, BMW has triumphed over a lawsuit claiming one of their bikes left a man with a 2 day long erection. This via the Marin Independent Journal: The lawsuit claimed product liability, negligence and neg…
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Japan snubs court ruling to resume ‘research’ whaling – Al Jazeera English
Japanese whalers will head to the Antarctic Ocean early next year, resuming hunting after a year-long pause, officials have said The Ministry of Fisheries announced on Saturday that “research whaling” would once again begin in March under a revised …
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Killing of Kurdish Lawyer Sparks Protest in Turkey | Al Jazeera America
Tahir Elci was shot while he and other lawyers were making a press statement. Two policemen and a journalist were also injured. It wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the attack, and there were conflicting reports about what led to it.
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Even before shooting, Colorado abortion clinics a battleground | MSNBC
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Even before shooting, Colorado abortion clinics a battleground : politics
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More rhetoric that incites violence and terrorism. Rep. Dan Nordberg, who represents Colorado Springs, declared, “A civilized society cannot allow unethical and illegal medical practices such as the harvesting of aborted human organs and babies for … -
Dell-EMC Deal Facing Issues On Multiple Fronts | TechCrunch
When the news broke in early October that Dell was planning on buying EMC for a whopping $67 billion, more than a few jaws dropped (including mine), but in the weeks since, reports have surfaced about multiple problems from tax issues to VMware’s pl…
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TAME IMPALA ‘The Less I Know The Better’ on Vimeo
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Sure, you haven’t even started to recover from the joy and terror of Thanksgiving yet, but it’s already time to look ahead to the winter holiday season — and streaming video services want you to know that they have your back.
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‘Baby Doe’ Case: Girl found dead last summer near Boston buried | US news | The Guardian
The service for Bella was held on Saturday morning at a funeral home in Winthrop, Massachusetts. She was to be buried with her great-grandmother. NECN reported that a small group of people came out to support Bella’s family. The girl’s remains were …
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Check Out This Stunning Illustration Of The Millennium Falcon
She’s the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, and this illustration of the Millennium Falcon absolutely blows us away. Drawn up by Paul Johnson, it’s part of a series of pictures that he’s drawn up of the Star Wars universe.
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Adderall Didn’t Make Me Better at Counter-Strike | Motherboard
I’m looking at the long doors on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s de_dust2 map through the scope of my AUG rifle. The green dot at the center of my scope is floating between the narrow gap between the far set of double doors.
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Hack Makes Car Tweet Its Mileage and More | Motherboard
When someone mentions ‘car hacking’, your mind is likely filed with images of Google’s self-driving cars going on a malware-induced riot, or researchers remotely cutting the ignition to a jeep while casually sitting on their sofas.
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Connecticut Police dashboard camera catches near miss – BBC News
Three people in Connecticut have had a narrow escape after a car careened out of control and smashed into the vehicle next to them. The car was travelling at more than 85mph (137kmph), according to police reports.
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Amazon deforestation leaps 16 percent in 2015 : environment
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How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. There it was, sitting on the mantelpiece, staring at her with hollow eyes and a naked grin. She could not stop staring back. It looked distinctly like the fossilized skull of an extinct baboon.
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In 1970 prolific cookery writer and culture buff Carol Truax compiled the wonderful book Liberace Cooks!: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes For You from His Seven Dining Rooms.
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Matthew Weiner Directing Episode Of Orange Is The New Black | Vanity Fair
Here’s a fun fact that will make you feel horrible about your own social circle: Matthew Weiner and Jenji Kohan are “longtime friends.” That’s right.
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Key Person Insurance Is VCs’ Assurance | TechCrunch
Founders soliciting venture funds quickly get comfortable revealing details about their operations, vision and finances. They may also need to be willing to step on a scale and get a blood draw.
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12 Gifts To Inspire The Next Generation Of Coders | TechCrunch
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Some Details Emerge on Planned Parenthood Shooter | Al Jazeera America
Little is known about the motives of Robert Lewis Dear, 57, police said, and those who know him said he seemed to have few religious or political leanings.
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BBC Sport – Jamie Vardy breaks record for goals in consecutive games
Jamie Vardy broke Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record as he became the first player to score in 11 consecutive Premier League matches. Dutchman Van Nistelrooy achieved the feat for Manchester United across two seasons in 2003.
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Black Pastors To Trump: Our Meeting Is Not An Endorsement : politics
But just yesterday I was being assured by Trumpeters on here that this was proof he had already won the black vote! Trump tells it like it isn’t.
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My son, the mass murderer: ‘What did I miss?’ | Life and style | The Guardian
Terri Roberts was at the theatre where she worked when the call came. It was her husband, Chuck. Terri should come straight away, he said, to their son Charlie’s house. Terri knew instantly, from the tone of Chuck’s voice, that it was serious. She d…
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Germany’s chancellor gave a qualified welcome on Saturday to China’s pledge to tackle rising temperatures ahead of a global climate conference but she called for more ambitious goals to cut greenhouse emissions. (reuters.com)
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Colorado Springs shooting suspect seemed confused, says neighbor | US news | The Guardian
Officials were not immediately able to establish a motive for the deadly shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday. But on Saturday, a picture of the suspected gunman, Robert Lewis Dear, began to emerge.
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Planned Parenthood: Police probe motive of Colorado shooter – BBC News
Police are working to establish the motive of a gunman who left three people dead at a family planning clinic in Colorado Springs on Friday. Two civilians and a police officer died, and nine other people were injured, in the five-hour standoff at th…
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Donald Trump Falls 12 Percentage Points in One Week | Vanity Fair
Though it remains impossible to count out Donald Trump, who still leads the Republican field of presidential hopefuls, an endless barrage of offensive statements may have dented his iron-clad support.
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Hear Sia’s Soaring ‘One Million Bullets’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Sia’s Soaring ‘One Million Bullets’ Singer unveils latest single from ‘This Is Acting’ Nov
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Solving The Persistent Security Threats For The Internet Of Things | TechCrunch
The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the security issues created in its wake have quickly captured the attention of governmental and regional bodies and consumers.
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Here’s The First Episode Of The Expanse: ‘Dulcinea’
The Expanse is set to drop on December 14th on SyFy, but the network has released the pilot episode on a whole bunch of platforms. This is a show that we’re pretty excited for, and this only gets us more excited for December.
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I’m supposed to do a presentation next week about “shifts in economic models,” which has me trying to systematize my thought about what the crisis and aftermath have and haven’t changed my understanding of macroeconomics.
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Are 4 Native Alaskan Men In Jail For A Murder They Didn’t Commit? – The Daily Beast
It was around 2:45 a.m. when the grisly sight came into view. Three friends in Fairbanks, Alaska were heading home from a bar when they discovered a teen lying on the curb, kicked in the head so many times he was unrecognizable.
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Robots Are Learning How to Say ‘No’ to Humans | Motherboard
Science fiction is filled with examples of robots declining the requests of their human companions. “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that,” says the HAL 9000. “It’s against my programming to impersonate a deity,” insists C3PO.
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I’m interested in hearing from liberals that are concerned about Hillary Clinton’s honesty. (self.Liberal) I’m a conservative republican and I’m interested in hearing from liberals that are concerned about Hillary Clinton’s honesty.
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Russia announces Turkey sanctions – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Hate Group Bullies School Out Of Letting Kids Read Book About Transgender People | ThinkProgress
A right-wing anti-LGBT group succeeded this week in scaring a Wisconsin school district out of trying to help its elementary students better understand the experience of a classmate who was assigned male at birth and now identifies as female.
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Thousands rally in UK and Spain against bombing Syria – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of people have protested in London and Madrid against the potential participation of their respective countries in air strikes in Syria, as political momentum mounted to broaden the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (I…
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Looking For A Good Read? Look No Further Than These Award Reading Lists
With the end of the year coming up fast, two awards have started up their annual ‘recommended reading lists’ to look back on the year’s released works. The James Tiptree Jr. award has an open call for recommendations, and you can see what the commun…
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An Up-Close Look at The Exclusive Engine for The Next Airbus
Rolls-Royce Holdings has just released this cool factory photograph of their newest large turbofan aircraft engine, the Trent 7000. It’s the seventh generation of their Trent family, and built exclusively for the upcoming Airbus airliner, the A330ne…
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How Fast Can We Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy System?
Starting later this month, the world’s nations will convene in traumatized Paris to hammer out commitments to slow down global climate change. Any long-term solution will require “decarbonizing” the world energy economy – that is, shifting to power …
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Gillmor Gang: More Gravy | TechCrunch
The Gillmor Gang — Matt Mullenweg, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Tuesday, November 24, 2015. Matt Mullenweg joins the Gang for a deep dive on Calypso’s update of WordPress, complete with social, notifications, and a…
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Tony Hawk’s wild horizontal loop, and a brief history of extreme sports stunts | The Verge
This month, Tony Hawk became the first person to ever skateboard a “horizontal loop” — essentially a tornado of wood that he built smack in the middle of a half-pipe with the help of Sony’s Action Cam brand.
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Anne Hathaway Is Reportedly Pregnant | Vanity Fair
Oh, Anne Hathaway. Our dear, dear Anne Hathaway. What a rollercoaster your personal and professional lives have been; what a long, strange trip we’ve taken together (or mostly you, while we watched).
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BBC Sport – Barcelona 4-0 Real Sociedad
Barcelona boss Luis Enrique is confident his side will not falter after their fine start to the season. Barca have opened up a four-point lead at the top of La Liga and have qualified for the Champions League knockout stages as Group E winners.
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Possible Titles for My Memoir About Being a Hapless Twentysomething – The New Yorker
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Increased CO2 enhances plankton growth, opposite of what was expected : environment
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Increased CO2 enhances plankton growth, opposite of what was expected – ScienceBlog.com
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Congressman Slams Planned Parenthood On Live TV During Active Shooting At Planned Parenthood Clinic (thinkprogress.org)submitted 53 minutes ago by loading…
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Who Turned My Blue State Red? – Why poor areas vote for politicians who want to slash the safety net. (propublica.org)
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The Republican Party is now America’s largest hate group – Led by Donald Trump, the GOP has abandoned its traditional dog whistles in favor of a more overt approach to racism (salon.com)submitted 18 minutes ago by loading…
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For Robert Hinton, 2015 was supposed to be a year of new beginnings. In March, he was released from prison after serving time for a parole violation.
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BBC Sport – Manchester City 3-1 Southampton
Goalkeeper Joe Hart is Manchester City’s latest casualty, having suffered a hamstring strain in midweek. Defenders Vincent Kompany, Pablo Zabaleta and Eliaquim Mangala are all ruled out, but David Silva is included in the squad.
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Mass grave of Yazidis killed by ISIL discovered in Iraq – Al Jazeera English
Authorities in northern Iraq have announced the discovery of a mass grave near the town of Sinjar containing the remains of more than 120 Yazidis.
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Vigils to be held for victims of Planned Parenthood shooting, authorities search for motive
Two vigils will be held Saturday to mourn the victims of a shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Friday that left three people dead and nine injured. One vigil will take place at 11:30 a.m. at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, and…
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Gorf vs. Roadblasters vs. Lunar Lander: A classic arcade throwdown | Ars Technica
CHICAGO—One of the advantages of living in Chicago is the existence of Galloping Ghost. One of the largest vintage arcades in the world, Galloping Ghost boasts a whopping 481 cabinets. A mere $15 gets you all the classic gaming your forearms can han…
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Dad prank is perfect. (i.imgur.com) Wham bam thank you pam.
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Yet another sterling example that our beloved democracy is slowly devolving into an idiocracy. It’s the lowest common determination. Everyone is idiot on some way.
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Why Republican frontrunners get away with harsh anti-Muslim rhetoric | US news | The Guardian
Some leading Republican presidential candidates seem to view Muslims as fair game for increasingly harsh words that they might use with more caution against any other group, for fear of the political cost.
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Trump Drops 12 Points in Poll in Less Than a Week | Al Jazeera America
U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s support among Republicans has dropped 12 points in less than a week, marking the real estate mogul’s biggest decline since he vaulted to the top of the field in July, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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Cheering crowds greet pope’s message of peace in Uganda – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of enthusiastic Ugandans have greeted Pope Francis as he held a mass youth rally and honoured martyred Christians during the second leg of his historic three-nation trip to Africa.
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The California Central Valley is sinking: drought forces farmers to ponder the abyss : environment
The California Central Valley is sinking: drought forces farmers to ponder the abyss (theguardian.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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hafþór júlíus björnsson ‘The Mountain’ World Record Keg Toss – YouTube
Thor ‘The Mountain’ from game of thrones. Europes Strongest Man smashes the world keg toss record. 15kg keg 7.05 meters. Amazing. Coling bryce gets a shock too
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Donors gave a [conservative] super PAC $6 million. Candidates actually got about $140,000. : Liberal
Donors gave a [conservative] super PAC $6 million. Candidates actually got about $140,000. (latimes.com)
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“The presidential candidate who has most harmed American politics this year is Donald Trump, a bully who has prospered by inciting rage. Yet from the narrower perspective of the Republican Party, the most dangerous candidate of the 2016 pack may jus…
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China is crushing the U.S. on renewable energy – According to new data, China’s clean energy investment over the last year outpaced that of the U.S., the U.K., & France combined. (grist.org)
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Planned Parenthood Gunman Gives Up After Colorado Standoff That Left 3 Dead (nbcnews.com)submitted 23 minutes ago by loading…
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Davis Cup final: Belgium v Great BritainVenue: Flanders Expo, Ghent Dates: 27-29 NovemberBBC coverage: Watch on BBC television, the BBC Sport website, Connected TVs, tablets, mobiles and app and listen on Radio 5 live and 5 live sports extra. Full d…
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The Golden State Warriors rained 3s in the desert and pushed their NBA-record start to 17-0.
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Used to be my team. With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there.
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This amazing video shows every state and county boundary change in America from 1629 to 2000
The remarkable video below from EarthDirect is time-lapse animation showing every boundary change in American history for the continental United States and its predecessors: Colonies, states, territories, and even counties are included.
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This Tim Hortons turned an old KFC bucket sign into a giant coffee cup. : mildlyinteresting
This Tim Hortons turned an old KFC bucket sign into a giant coffee cup. (i.imgur.com) Oh, so Tim Hortons is a coffee shop? I always thought it was a grocery store for some reason.
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Susan, why are you petting that pillow? : trippinthroughtime
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Planned Parenthood Gunman Gives Up After Colorado Standoff That Left 3 Dead : Liberal
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Planned Parenthood Gunman Gives Up After Colorado Standoff That Left 3 Dead – NBC News
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The Heartwarming Story Behind R2-KT, And How She Joined Star Wars Canon
There’s a little droid that’s appeared in Star Wars in the last couple of years, R2-KT. She’s an astromech with a special purpose: memorializing a little girl who passed away in 2005. Now, it looks like she’ll appear in bigger things.
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What Wiping Pee on My Face Did for My Acne | Motherboard
On a pretty Saturday in April I woke up luxuriously late, went directly to the bathroom, wiped some fresh urine on my face, and let it sit there to dry. I did a little more research and found that it wasn’t so uncommon, that people used “urine thera…
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Who was Robert Lewis Dear, the 57-year-old suspect in yesterday’s Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, which claimed the lives of one University of Colorado—Colorado Springs police officer and two civilians? According to police records s…
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There’s a Class War in American, and the 99% are being DESTROYED by this asshole. Also, this fool didn’t write this book. He PAID someone to write the Fairy Tale of Capitalism he supposedly supports. Just a Propaganda effort.
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“The presidential candidate who has most harmed American politics this year is Donald Trump, a bully who has prospered by inciting rage. Yet from the narrower perspective of the Republican Party, the most dangerous candidate of the 2016 pack may jus…
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Charles Koch: My body is full of harpoons : democrats
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Charles Koch: My body is full of harpoons – Yahoo Finance
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Garrett Swasey, 44, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs police officer who was shot and killed while responding to a shooting at a Planned Parenthood office, was described by his fellow church members and friends as a cou
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Tennessee’s half-mile-long spider web shows how little we know about our surroundings | The Verge
Last week, residents of North Memphis, Tennessee, woke up to what most people would consider a pretty creepy surprise: a half-mile-long spider web on the grass near their homes. Local news station WMC Action News 5 reported that “millions” of spider…
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Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Leaks Usage Data | Motherboard
Even if an app allows encrypted communication, there are often still ways to find out about the people using it.
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Classic Richard Pryor LPs Released Digitally for First Time | Rolling Stone
Classic Richard Pryor LPs Released Digitally for First Time ‘Wanted: Live in Concert’ among six of the comedian’s Warner Bros.
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Paris Success Could Hinge On Local Commitments – Thousands of cities, states, regions, provinces, businesses, & non-governmental organizations have already started to move aggressively on climate change. (thinkprogress.org)
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Paris — SINCE the attacks two weeks ago, I’ve been avoiding supermarkets — which seem like potential targets — and doing most of my shopping at a minimarket. The cashier there, a young man from Mali, keeps telling me not to be afraid. I’ve been gett…
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Today only: get this 10-ft MFi certified lightning cable for just $15 / Boing Boing
Don’t get handcuffed by Apple’s standard 3-foot Lightning cord (that you’ve most likely already lost), treat yourself to 10 feet of luxurious charging convenience. The Colossal is certified by Apple for its high-end quality, and designed to support …
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Canyon Lake Ranch was once a playground for Christian day campers, and then was a corporate retreat with water-skiing, barbecues and cowboy shoot-’em-up shows. Hawks now circle above 108 sunbaked acres occupied by copperhead snakes, a few coyotes an…
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Carl Sagan said that “extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence.
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Could the Third Amendment be used to fight the surveillance state? | Ars Technica
The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution is just 32 words: “No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
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There’s Been A Recent Uptick In Violence At Planned Parenthood Clinics | ThinkProgress
It isn’t yet clear why 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear opened fire in a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday afternoon, ultimately killing three people and injuring several more. But the shooting feels particularly threatening to repro…
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This was my Thanksgiving for 20 adults and 10 kids : food
Everything looks so delicious!! Great work; Hope you and your family had a wonderful thanksgiving! Beautiful kitchen, I’m jealous! Also, good work on the food.
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‘Dead or Alive Xtreme 3’ Bikini Malfunctions Are Too Hot for America | Motherboard
Dead or Alive is a frenetic fighting game series much like Street Fighter, but it’s also the birthplace of some particularly buxom women, which is why publisher Koei Tecmo also makes Dead or Alive Xtreme, a spinoff that shines a spotlight on its fem…
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Economist’s View: ‘Student Debt in America: Lend With a Smile, Collect With a Fist’ : democrats
This is what Democrats do, we help other Dems Not Get Ripped of By Corporate.
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None Of The 14 GOP Presidential Candidates Have Responded To The Planned Parenthood Shooting – But some candidates tweeted about other topics. (thinkprogress.org) I’m a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddi…
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Colorado papers are reporting police have said the shootings took place at Planned Parenthood. Not a bank, not a Subway, but at Planned Parenthood. So, yeah.
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The text exchange was unspectacular: a friend explaining a video that had been posted by a classmate to his Snapchat feed. Jordana Narin, my 20-year-old research assistant, was half paying attention, sitting in my living room working on a project, t…
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Illustrations of Austin’s Coolest Old Signs – CityLab
It’s practically a Texas tradition at this point: The Hole in the Wall in Austin threatens that it’s being forced to close, so someone swoops in at the 11th hour to save it. Or sometimes the 13th hour: The Hole briefly closed in 2002 but was revived…
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If the people who study the psychology of waiting in line — yes, there is such a thing — have an origin story, it’s this: It was the 1950s, and a high-rise office building in Manhattan had a problem.
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Building the 1″x42″ belt sander – YouTube
Building a 1″x42″ belt sander out of wood, using wheels and bearings from inline roller skates.http://woodgears.ca/strip_sanderPlans here:http://woodgears.ca/strip_sander/plans
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American big business faces the G20 in a fight for $2.1tn in unpaid tax | Business | The Guardian
Less than two months ago, the finance ministers of the G20 gathered for a celebratory dinner in Peru to mark agreement on a “once-in-a-century” package of reforms to combat tax avoidance by multinational corporations that is costing governments up t…
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Top 10 Smart Ways to Organize Your Kitchen
A well-organized kitchen will help you cook as efficiently as possible and waste less food. Here are our top 10 tips for organizing the heart of your home.
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Hollande Meets With Activists Before Climate Talks | Al Jazeera America
French President François Hollande met with environmental groups Saturday, pushing for an ambitious global deal to reduce man-made emissions blamed for global warming with emphasis on helping developing countries adapt to a changing world.
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The Most District: The bluest congressional district in America? New York’s 15th, in the South Bronx
Of the nation’s 435 congressional districts, none favored Barack Obama more than New York’s 15th Congressional District.
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Every successful technology of thought, be it science or philosophy, is a time machine — it peers into the past in order to disassemble the building blocks of how we got to the present, then reassembles them into a sensemaking mechanism for where th…
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Saw this in a bathroom in China : pics
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The Platform Paradox | TechCrunch
I often hear VCs say that they don’t back products, they back platforms. I find that logic backwards and in many ways dangerous for founders. Platforms can provide a durable competitive advantage, and it’s easy to understand why startups would want …
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The Credits For The Shannara Chronicles Show Off How Our World Became Fantastic
When LOST showed up with its 10-second opening credits, we really lost something: minute or so introduction we got to a television show. MTV just released their credits for The Shannara Chronicles and it shows off just how that world transformed.
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“Hour by hour, and week by week, the thing upon the canvas was growing old …No! The thing is impossible.” In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the painter Basil Hallward is dismayed by the catastrophic changes that have wrecked his great por…
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Unrest erupts as Macedonia erects fence on Greek border – Al Jazeera English
Police in Macedonia have fired tear gas at a group of refugees stranded for more than a week at the Greece-Macedonia border, as soldiers began erecting a metal fence to keep them out.
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Alan King’s grey Smad Place secured a dominant victory in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury. More to follow.
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The LHC Is Now Blasting Lead Ions at Each Other at Record-Breaking Energies | Motherboard
On Wednesday, engineers at the Large Hadron Collider finished the week-long process of warming up the chain of particle accelerators destined to deliver the experiment’s latest record-breaking feat: collisions between beams of heavy lead ions at ene…
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Understanding the Human Toll of Wildlife Crime
Wildlife crime isn’t just about animals. Part of our mission here at Wildlife Watch is to highlight the human toll of poaching and trafficking too. Each year, poachers kill around 30,000 elephants just for their tusks: Ivory brings in up to $1,500 p…
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Activists stage Thanksgiving fast to close Guantánamo | US news | The Guardian
Like many Americans on Thursday, more than a dozen peace activists gathered around the dinner table to celebrate Thanksgiving. But there was no turkey at their meal. There were only empty paper plates and a view of the US military detention camp at …
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Kenya arrests two men ‘linked to Iranian spy network’ – Al Jazeera English
Kenya has arrested two men it says are connected to an Iranian intelligence network that was planning an attack inside the country. A Twitter account run by the Kenyan interior ministry said the men were planning a “terror attack” in the capital Na…
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The Global Economy Is A Ponzi Scheme: Black Friday, The Pope & The Paris Climate Talks – In his climate encyclical, Pope warned of “an unethical consumerism bereft of social or ecological awareness.” With the Paris talks just days away, a look at ho…
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As Gay Rights Ally, Bernie Sanders Wasn’t Always in Vanguard (nytimes.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading…
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Paris Climate Talks Avoid Scientists’ Goal of ‘Carbon Budget’ (nytimes.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Batman, a Sleek Shadow Loaf : Catloaf
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COLORADO SPRINGS — The injured man staggered into the grocery store, his face and chest bloodied. Customers stopped and stared. “He lifted his shirt up and he had holes in his chest,” said Miranda Schilter, 17, who had been waiting for a drink at an…
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Pixie Deer, watercolor by Pixie Cold, 29×42, 2015 : Art
ArtworkPixie Deer, watercolor by Pixie Cold, 29×42, 2015 (inkedone.com)submitted 12 minutes ago by loading…
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The Beatles’ ‘Anthology 1’ at 20: Fab Four’s Finest Early Rarities | Rolling Stone
While the Beatles’ first Anthology, released 20 years ago this month, isn’t exactly canonical Fab Four, it’s worth remembering how momentous the compilation seemed at the time.
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Mortar Attack on Un in Mali Kills at Least three | Al Jazeera America
The attack also injured 20 people, four of whom are in serious condition, said Olivier Salgado, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Mali. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in the country’s restless north but insurgents are is suspected.
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Sunset and Statue of Liberty [OC] [3264×2448] : SkyPorn
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Laser shotgun. (imgur.com) Holy shit, is this from the future? Seriously though where can I get one and how does it work? -
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3 Killed, Suspect Captured In Shooting At Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood – BuzzFeed News
A gunman stormed a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, opening fire and killing one police officer and two civilians before he was taken into custody, officials said. Nine others were injured with gunshot wounds, including five office…
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COLORADO – SPECIAL NISSAN LEAF PRICING (self.democrats)submitted just now by RedTurnsBluehttp://insideevs.
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Japan to resume whaling in Antarctic despite court ruling (bbc.com)submitted 14 minutes ago by loading…
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How to be human: how do I tell my spouse I need a psychiatrist? | The Verge
Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column “Ask Leah” ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack’s user researcher, but her views here do not represent her employer…
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The NSA’s bulk metadata collection authority just expired. What now? — The modest change guaranteed by the USA Freedom Act means that the NSA can no longer directly store Americans’ phone data – a victory for Edward Snowden (theguardian.com)
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“Random Darknet Shopper” is back, and it just bought a $35 knockoff polo | Ars Technica
Last we heard from the “Random Darknet Shopper” over six months ago, it was returned to the Swiss art collective that made it after local authorities seized the laptop being used to purchase ecstasy online. Now, the Shopper is back and soon to be on…
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NASA’s New ‘Star Trek’ Tech Is Designed to Detect Alien Life
NASA’s new “chemical laptop” perches on a test rover at the Jet Propulsion Lab’s Mars Yard next to an ordinary laptop. Such a laptop could detect signs of life on other worlds.
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Spot the Awe-Inspiring Andromeda Galaxy in the Autumn Night Sky
In my opinion — and this of course is purely subjective — the most popular object that people like to view through a telescope is the moon. Number two is probably the ringed planet Saturn. As far as third place is concerned, I would say it’s a toss-…
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Ayahuasca’s Medical Power Is Well Known. Now Science Can Back it Up | Motherboard
Gary, a London-based ayahuasca user, believes that ayahuasca can alleviate depression. Before he started taking the South American plant-based brew, he suffered from intense bouts of anxiety and panic attacks.
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Paris attacks weapons ‘made by Zastava Arms in Serbia’ – BBC News
Several weapons used by militants during the Paris attacks were made in Serbia in the late 1980s, the head of a Serbian arms factory has said. Milojko Brzakovic, director of the Zastava Arms factory, said they checked the serial numbers of around ei…
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Oscar Wilde’s mother was a feminist Irish revolutionary poet : books
Oscar Wilde’s mother was a feminist Irish revolutionary poet (historybuff.com)submitted just now by Appollonia1loading…
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Carolyn Bouchard, a diabetic with a slowly healing shoulder fracture, hurried to see her doctor after Matt Bevin was elected governor here this month. Ms. Bouchard, 60, said she was sick of politics and had not bothered voting. But…
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Ginkgo tree becomes a perfect golden carpet : pics
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Japan to resume whaling in Antarctic despite court ruling : environment
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Japan to resume whaling in Antarctic despite court ruling – BBC News
Japan to resume whaling in Antarctic despite court ruling https://t.co/9kCBbXfeyo https://t.co/24Q8cJ17sU via /r/environment
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March for Climate in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Dublin : environment
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March for Climate in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Dublin – Independent Catholic News
March for Climate in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Dublin https://t.co/TOxCfbP4Gl https://t.co/JZWFBfej0e via /r/environment
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My Bengal girl being lazy on the couch. : aww
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The Next Big War Will Be Digital—and We’re Not Ready For It
In the 21st century the familiar form of warfare in which physical damage is meted out against the opponent’s military forces and infrastructure has become only one form of attack.
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King Tutankhamun’s tomb: Evidence grows for hidden chamber – BBC News
Egyptian officials now say they are “90% sure” that there is a hidden chamber in King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The Antiquities Ministry said it had carried out scans to gather more information about the theory.
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December’s Reading group: books from the Caribbean | Books | The Guardian
In the UK, the winter solstice approaches. We’re about to enter the darkest month, the weather’s getting colder and everyone’s already started putting out their Christmas lights, even though it’s far too early.
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Migrant crisis: Clashes as Macedonia erects fence – BBC News
Macedonian soldiers are raising a fence on the country’s southern border with Greece to try to manage the flow of migrants better. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says 105,000 migrants have passed through Macedonia after arriving …
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Gods Of Egypt Director And Studio: “Our Casting Choices Should Have Been More Diverse”
When the trailer for Gods of Egypt came out earlier this month, everyone noticed a couple of things: it’s cast was predominantly Caucasian, which is weird, considering where and when it was set. Now, the studio and director have admitted that they c…
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IS blamed for mass Yazidi grave found near Sinjar, Iraq – BBC News
A booby-trapped mass grave containing the bodies of at least 110 people from the minority Yazidi sect has been found in northern Iraq, officials say.The grave was found close to the town of Sinjar after it was recaptured from the so-called Islamic S…
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Technical Books and Videos from O’Reilly Are Half Off Through Cyber Monday
O’Reilly is one of the biggest sources of tech ebooks and videos. If you or someone you know could use a new book or two on programming, design, and other techie topics, this weekend and Monday are the perfect time to shop.
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A Song For Ella Grey by David Almond – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The novel is written in first person with Claire retelling the story as an ‘ode’ to Ella; Almond writes: ‘I’ll bring my friend into the world for one last night then let her go forever’. From the opening chapter Almond creates a sense of mystery sur…
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Thirty Seasons of “The Real World” – The New Yorker
Much has been written about the landmark MTV reality series, “The Real World,” since its première, in 1992.
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Burkina Faso elections: Why historic vote matters – Al Jazeera English
Voters in Burkina Faso are heading to polls on Sunday, in a closely watched election that could mark the beginning of a new chapter in the country’s political history.
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PsBattle: Charles in chocolate factory : photoshopbattles
Please post any comments or discussion as a reply to this comment. If posting a cutout, please use the new cut-out format.
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How Energy-Drink Companies Prey on Male Insecurities – The New Yorker
The global team of athletes sponsored by Monster Energy, the caffeinated-beverage company, is a roster of super bros.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, How to salmon ladder via /r/gifs…
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Tell Us Your Favorite Technology Achievement of 2015 | TechCrunch
Wowed by Internet delivered by floating balloons? Or a new way to watch TV? Or a way to charge your phone? We are searching far and wide for the best technology achievements of 2015, and we want to hear what you think.
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A shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on Friday afternoon has left three people dead and several others injured. Details remain scarce about the motivations of the shooter, identified as 57-year-old Robert Dear.
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The IAAF has been accused of trying to “muddy the waters” in the ongoing investigation into doping in athletics, by an expert involved in the case. The world governing body defended its conduct after it was implicated in the World Anti-Doping Agency…
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Colorado Springs shooting witness: it’s not right – video | World news | The Guardian
Ozy Licano, a witness to Friday’s shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, says he was waiting in his vehicle for an acquaintance in front of the clinic when a gunman opened fire with a rifle in a shooting that left left three people de…
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Why the Economic Fates of America’s Cities Diverged – The Atlantic
Despite all the attention focused these days on the fortunes of the “1 percent,” debates over inequality still tend to ignore one of its most politically destabilizing and economically destructive forms.
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David Cameron: Commonwealth must fight corruption and extremism – BBC News
Commonwealth countries must lead the fight against extremism, corruption and climate change, David Cameron has said.
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Tyson Fury is threatening to pull out of his world heavyweight title fight against Wladimir Klitschko because the canvas in the ring is too soft, according to his agent. More soon.
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Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Celebrates 100 Years : science
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Celebrates 100 Years (scientific.illustratedprogress.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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Is there a ‘hidden chamber’ in King Tutankhamun’s tomb? – BBC News
Egyptian officials now say they are “90% sure” that there is a hidden chamber in King Tutankhamun’s tomb. The Antiquities Ministry said it had carried out scans to gather more information about the theory.
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Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz on the necessity of loserdom | Books | The Guardian
Charles Schulz, author of the Peanuts comics, had this to say about his creation Lucy in 1985: “She is annoyed that it’s all too easy,” he wrote. “Charlie Brown isn’t much of a challenge.
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Benedict Cumberbatch posing like otters. (imgur.com) BC is a good ole sport for this and I was like Johnny the whole time watching it… Awkwaard
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Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole Trade Beats for ‘Black Friday’ Surprise | Rolling Stone
Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole Trade Beats for ‘Black Friday’ Surprise “Alright” rapper throws support behind Kanye West’s presidential run on his ferocious version of J.
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New York state is setting aside $2 million to combat the spread of zebra mussels, the spiny water flea and other aquatic invasive species that scientists say could wreak havoc on the state’s waterway ecosystems. (nydailynews.com)
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Some say go slow with animals whose DNA has been ‘edited’: The federal government’s approval of a genetically altered, fast-growing salmon Americans can eat is giving new impetus to the menagerie of gene-edited animals already being raised on farms …
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Ted Cruz in July: “I like and respect Bernie Sanders”
Ted Cruz in July: ”I like and respect Bernie Sanders.” https://t.co/E9sdK0u68m https://t.co/SeIl5ULG8x via /r/Liberal
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Ted Cruz in July: ”I like and respect Bernie Sanders.” : Liberal
Ted Cruz in July: ”I like and respect Bernie Sanders.” https://t.co/E9sdK0u68m https://t.co/SeIl5ULG8x via /r/Liberal
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5 Times Bernie Sanders Foresaw The Future : Liberal
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Stewart State Park, Oregon [2992 x 2992] : EarthPorn
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Watch a Range Rover drive over a bridge made entirely of paper | The Verge
Range Rovers, for all their luxury, are still off-roaders at heart. (At least, I think they are — I can’t think of any other explanation for a press photo of the recently announced Evoque Convertible driving through a lake.
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404PageFound Is a Guided Tour of Web Design’s Zombie Hoard | Motherboard
The Internet has a living history. JavaScript and its associated frameworks have made for an increasingly elegant yet boring webscape, but a great many banged-up relics of the early web remain active on the internet. The trick is in finding them. Th…
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Bernie Sanders Takes On Walmart: It’s gotten to the point that the American taxpayers are paying an additional $6 billion in economic support for Walmart’s employees who are in need of welfare and food stamps and other subsidies just to survive. (po…
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Ars Cardboard reviews Dark Moon—a faster Battlestar Galactica board game | Ars Technica
I was the only staffer working at the Noguchi-Masaki lunar mining outpost who knew the truth. Earlier in the night, I noticed Enver Ganon attempting to repair a heating duct, at which point he made a surprising fuss.
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Nico Rosberg out-qualified Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton for the sixth race in a row to seal pole for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. He beat Hamilton by a substantial 0.377 seconds after a qualifying session that see-sawed between the t…
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Rain and ice in central US linked to three deaths in flash flooding | US news | The Guardian
Heavy rain and icy conditions are likely to stick around through most of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in parts of the central US due to a slow-moving, complex weather system that’s being blamed for at least three flash-flooding deaths.
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They didn’t mention that in the title, wonder why?.. That’s a good point. And really, considering there are shootings every day we can’t start demanding formal statements from everybody for all of them. Nobody would get anything done.
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Keeping Go-Go Music Going in a Gentrifying D.C. – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
For almost 40 years, go-go has musically defined the nation’s capital. The beat has provided a proud cultural and musical tradition attracting generations of fans. But in recent years, gentrification has threatened the musical genre’s hold over the …
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This week in science: 21st century space race heats up
It’s not easy to land a rocket vertically on Earth. Just ask SpaceX, the company co-founded by Tesla and Paypal zillionaire Elon Musk, that has tried twice to stick a vertical landing on a floating barge without success.
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Farming Simulator’s $300 Controller Is About as Hardcore as Gaming Gets | Motherboard
I’ve done many challenging things in games recently, from slaying hordes of humanoid rats in Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide, to beating the magic-casting game Magicka 2.
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Saturday’s Best Deals: Black Friday Leftovers, Cheap Gift Ideas, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.
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Despite Ruling, Japan to Resume Whaling in Antarctic Ocean : environment
Despite Ruling, Japan to Resume Whaling in Antarctic Ocean https://t.co/7S0Wt8vstN https://t.co/nn6nupkDYG via /r/environment
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Despite Ruling, Japan to Resume Whaling in Antarctic Ocean
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They Shoot Kangaroos, Don’t They? : environment
They Shoot Kangaroos, Don’t They? https://t.co/kSJbnqJ1h0 https://t.co/8bG1fw7tFl via /r/environment
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My Wrong Turns And Right Thinking In 2015 (One Of Them May Surprise You) | TechCrunch
Good Lord. I have been a TechCrunch columnist for five years now, filing a piece every week, rain or shine or hail or flu, for 260 consecutive weeks. (Well–I might have missed one week when I was in Myanmar.) Can you believe it? Me neither.
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Are Domestic and Wild Salmon Still the Same Species?
The fish market has become the site of an ontological crisis. Detailed labels inform us where each fillet is from or how it was caught or whether it was farmed or wild-caught.
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Paris Climate Talks: The Consequences of Climate Change – Scientific American
What will a world that is a few degrees hotter look like? As negotiators gather in Paris, reporter Adam Levy investigates some of the effects that temperature changes will have on our planet. This article was reproduced with permission and was first…
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That Time My Band Opened for Blur – The New Yorker
Everyone who has been in a rock band has an outlier, that one gig where they glimpsed the rock-and-roll life in another dimension. This perspective shift is common because of the opening act.
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Incredible hockey trick shot! : sports
Incredible hockey trick shot! (gyfbin.com) Love these types of shots. One of my favorites is the Mike Legg goal.
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The Black Hole at the Beginning of Time – Scientific American
In his Allegory of the Cave, Greek philosopher Plato described prisoners who have spent their entire lives chained to the wall of a dark cavern. Behind the prisoners lies a flame, and between the flame and prisoners parade objects that cast shadows …
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Black Lives protesters take on ‘blue code of silence’ – Al Jazeera English
The organisers thought they’d attract a bigger crowd. The police prepared for thousands. But with a chill wind whipping off Lake Michigan, driving the rain into the faces of demonstrators, it was still an impressive turnout.
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National anthems: beating the drums of war? – Al Jazeera English
When George Orwell wrote in 1945 that sport is “war minus the shooting”, it was recognition of the power of sports to arouse nationalistic sentiments.
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[Serious] Psychiatrists/Psychologists of Reddit, what is the most profound or insightful thing you have ever heard from a patient with a mental illness?serious replies only (self.
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Grant Shapps quits amid Tory bullying claims – BBC News
Grant Shapps has quit as international development minister amid allegations of bullying in the Conservative Party, the BBC understands. Claims have engulfed the Tories following the apparent suicide in September of activist Elliot Johnson.
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Auto-dealing congressman draws complaint. A watchdog group has called for the investigation of the actions of an auto-dealing congressman who proposed an amendment that would exempt his industry from a safety requirement. (publicintegrity.org) Can’t…
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Pro-Kurdish lawyer Tahir Elci shot dead in Turkey – BBC News
A prominent pro-Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist has been shot dead in Turkey’s south-eastern city of Diyarbakir.Tahir Elci was killed in a gun battle between police and unidentified gunmen.
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Pro-Kurdish lawyer shot dead in Turkish gun battle – BBC News
A leading pro-Kurdish lawyer has been shot dead in south-eastern Turkey during a gun battle between police and unidentified gunmen. Eyewitnesses said the lawyer, Tahir Elci, was giving a press statement, calling for peace between the Turkish securit…
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5 Times Bernie Sanders Foresaw The Future (dailykos.com)submitted 20 minutes ago by loading…
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Apple is the Most Valuable Brand in 2015 : dataisbeautiful
It’s impressive how strong Marlboro is, despite marketing restrictions in many regions. I haven’t seen Marlboro anywhere in a public space for many years. Third world is a very strong market for cigarette companies. Indonesia is rife with child smok…
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Ted Cruz in July: ”I like and respect Bernie Sanders.” : democrats
Ted Cruz in July: ”I like and respect Bernie Sanders.” (dailykos.com)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading…
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5 Times Bernie Sanders Foresaw The Future : democrats
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5 Times Bernie Sanders Foresaw The Future
5 Times Bernie Sanders Foresaw The Future https://t.co/PsLYt6cl3R https://t.co/THlMlAsCnG via /r/democrats
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What the Tech Companies Want You to Buy–beyond Phones – Scientific American
In my Scientific American column this month I wrote about the ecosystems of the tech world. If you buy all Apple stuff, your phone, tablet and laptop all work together in convenient ways. Same thing if you stick to Google, Microsoft or Amazon.
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On Pandering Claire Vaye Watkins | Tin House “I wrote Battleborn for white men, toward them. If you hold the book to a certain light, you’ll see it as an exercise in self-hazing, a product of working-class madness, the female strain.
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Turkey-Russia jet downing: Erdogan ‘saddened’ over plane – BBC News
Turkey’s president has said he is “saddened” by the downing of a Russian combat jet by Turkish forces on the Syrian border last Tuesday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wished the incident had not happened and hoped it would not happen again.
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Gunman named in Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood attack | US news | The Guardian
The gunman behind the standoff at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood in which three people died and nine were injured has been named as Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old man from North Carolina. Officials speaking off the record gave the suspect’s…
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The American student loan crisis is often seen as a problem of profligacy and predation. Wasteful colleges raise tuition every year, we are told, even as middle-class wages stagnate and unscrupulous for-profit colleges bilk the unwary. The result is…
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Happy Birthday Gamera, Japan’s Friendlier Godzilla | Motherboard
While it’s mocked frequently in the west, the fear of giant monster attacks makes much more sense in Japan. Folklore describes many mysterious titans, while earthquakes and their aftershocks feel similar to how you’d expect the floor to rumble if a …
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The NSA’s bulk metadata collection authority just expired. What now? | US news | The Guardian
The language in the US Justice Department statement is far from inspiring, written in bland legalese, but it still represents an important victory for the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Climate change activists have occupied part of Tate Britain, where they have started to tattoo each other in protest at BP’s sponsorship of the gallery.
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
Skip to main content Photography Twenty photographs of the week The 20 photographs of the week The shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by Turkey, Europe’s refugee crisis, the reaction to a video of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago…
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Fernando Alonso could take a sabbatical from Formula 1 next year, McLaren boss Ron Dennis says. Alonso is contracted until the end of 2017, but McLaren have struggled this season in their first year with engine partner Honda.
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The farmers growing vegetables with LED lights – Al Jazeera English
In thisTechKnow episode we see how a niche group of commercial farmers in the US is growing pesticide-free produce inside industrial warehouses with the help of artificial light. Green Sense Farms runs its vertical farm from a 2,800 square metre war…
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Cloned cows create a new beef over climate change (app.ft.com)submitted 12 minutes ago by loading…
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Queen jokes with Canada’s PM that he ‘made her feel so old’ – BBC News
The Queen has joked that she was made to feel old by the new Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, after he spoke of her historic visits to Canada. Mr Trudeau, who is 43, had earlier toasted the 89-year-old Queen at a banquet for the leaders of C…
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Cloned cows create a new beef over climate change : environment
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Cloned cows create a new beef over climate change — FT
Cloned cows create a new beef over climate change https://t.co/M7EPNQgt1N https://t.co/v36Ukk5gC0 via /r/environment
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mrw my gf says I spend more time with my pc than her – GIF on Imgur
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New Zealand face a battle for a victory to level the series after an eventful second day of the first day-night Test in Adelaide. The Kiwis were reduced to 116-5 at stumps to lead by 94 runs with paceman Josh Hazlewood doing the damage with 3-32 und…
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Exactly a century ago this holiday weekend, more than a dozen men climbed to the top of a mountain outside Atlanta, pulled on white hoods and lit a 16ft, kerosene-soaked wooden cross. It marked the rebirth of Ku Klux Klan, and Stone Mountain became …
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Post Thanksgiving state of play
No one I consulted can explain the Donald Trump phenomenon, which seems to defy typology, so they tend to talk about down-ticket conflicts: Cruz vs. Rubio. Rubio vs. Jeb Bush. Ben Carson vs. his foreign policy homework.
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Erdogan expresses ‘sadness’ over Russian jet shot down – Al Jazeera English
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced “sadness” on Saturday over the downing of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish forces, saying he wished it hadn’t happened.
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Why Fusion Researchers Are Going Small – Scientific American
You can accuse fusion power advocates of being overly optimistic but never of thinking small. Fusion occurs when two elements combine, or “fuse,” together to form a new, third element, converting matter to energy.
Love Everyone Often 11/29/2015
www.nytimes.com GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — The blue eyes of Pamela Ross, 54, wince and cloud when she thinks back on the years that she spent with her ex-husband, Robert L. Dear Jr. They were together 16 years or so, and married for about a dozen of them. tags: Pocket new…
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