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« Reply #525 on: December 20, 2019, 11:40:36 am »

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Washington Post: Trump said he believes Ukraine interfered in 2016 election because 'Putin told me'

cnn.com - Washington(CNN) President Donald Trump once stated explicitly that he believes that it was Ukraine -- not Russia -- that meddled in the 2016 election because Russian President Vladimir Putin "told me…

Pelosi: I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass What McConnell Has to Say About Impeachment

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The House Impeached Trump, and the Stock Market Did Not Crash. Sad!

nymag.com - I understand the president’s dilemma. On one hand, he wants the stock market to hit record highs, so he can brag about it. On the other hand, he wants to feel essential to the stock market’s strength…

How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart

theatlantic.com - Galli: Not too much. I know some will read it very negatively. They’ll consider me partisan, that I’m a closet Democrat—which I’m not, I’m independent. They’re going to say that Trump appoints pro-li…

Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

nytimes.com - By Stuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel Dec. 19, 2019 Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements o…

Intercepted Podcast: McKinsey’s Work for Insurance Companies, ICE, Drug Manufacturers, and Despots

theintercept.com - The powerful global consulting firm McKinsey is facing scrutiny over its work for a wide range of shady governments and companies. This week on Intercepted: Former senior health insurance executive-t…

Impeachment Alone Won’t Stop Trump From Inflicting Lasting Damage on Ukraine

theintercept.com - As the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to impeach Donald Trump for secretly making diplomatic and military support for Ukraine contingent on that country agreeing to subvert its own justi…

Democrats spar over how to combat Trump, a roaring economy and impeachment

washingtonpost.com - Democratic presidential candidates from left, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, (D-Mass.), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I-Vt.…

'Red Lights Flashing': Australia Smashes Heat Record Just a Day After Previous Record Hit

commondreams.org - Calls for immediate and ambitious action to tackle the climate emergency piled up Thursday in response to preliminary analysis from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology that Wednesday smashed the nation…

The Phrase 'White Nationalist' Cut From Measure Designed to Screen for White Nationalists in the Military

theroot.com - A measure in the National Defense Authorization Act designed to allow for better screening of white nationalism in military enlistees has had the word ‘white nationalist’ removed. That, uh, that make…

New Zealand Soldier With Alleged Nazi Ties Arrested

unicornriot.ninja - New Zealand – On December 14, a soldier in the New Zealand Defense Forces (NZDF) was arrested in an investigation believed to be related to his suspected involvement in neo-nazi groups. According to …

Leaked Iranian

theintercept.com - In mid-October, with unrest swirling in Baghdad, a familiar visitor slipped quietly into the Iraqi capital. The city had been under siege for weeks, as protesters marched in the streets, demanding an…

The A to Z of Things Trump Could and Should Have Been Impeached For

theintercept.com - Over the past 12 months, six migrant children aged between 2 and 16 — five from Guatemala and one from El Salvador — have died in federal custody. Over the previous 10 years, not a single migrant chi…

CNN Host Doesn't Object as Top Dem Shocks: ‘Give’ Trump a ‘Fair Trial and Hang Him’

newsbusters.org - Just imagine if this was said about a Democratic President, maybe Barack Obama or Bill Clinton: Talking to Congressman James Clyburn on Thursday, CNN New Day co-host John

Hundreds detained as protests rage across India

news.yahoo.com - Indian police fired tear gas and detained hundreds of people on Thursday as fresh violence broke out and demonstrators defied bans on assembly, amid growing anger at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's al…

Roads melt as temperature hits 49.9C in remote SA ahead of catastrophic fire conditions

abc.net.au - Catastrophic fire conditions have been forecast in South Australia today as the state's stifling heatwave continues into a fourth day — with temperatures hitting almost 50 degrees Celsius in some are…

Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die

zerohedge.com - In the past several years, one of the topics covered in detail on these pages has been the surge in such gimmicks designed to disguise lack of demand and end customer sales, used extensively by US au…

The Decade in Pictures

nytimes.com - The image shows a rebel fighter in Libya thrusting his Kalashnikov straight into the air as a truck-mounted rocket fires toward forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator. It was th…

AI Technologies that are Reshaping Social Infrastructure

hackernoon.com - What fields and applications of AI are receiving the most investment and development? This article will introduce five areas of machine learning that are currently receiving a lot of attention and ho…

Coal isn’t dying. It moved to Asia.

grist.org - In the United States, coal, that supervillain of fossil-fuels, is in a death spiral. But on a global scale, there’s no spiral, just an arrow pointing to Asia. Turns out coal isn’t dying; it’s moving.…

Belgian court convicts Rwandan official for genocide

news.yahoo.com - Brussels (AFP) - A Brussels court found a former Rwandan official guilty of genocide Thursday after hearing of his role in the 1994 massacres in his country. Fabien Neretse, who protested his innocen…

Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading

technologyreview.com - As an experienced cyber first responder, Julian Gutmanis had been called plenty of times before to help companies deal with the fallout from cyberattacks. But when the Australian security consultant …

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret

nytimes.com - The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user. One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark to a near…

Exclusive: Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show

theguardian.com - Canadian police were prepared to shoot Indigenous land defenders blockading construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Notes fro…

Moscow gunman Yevgeny Manyurov 'was firearms enthusiast'

theguardian.com - A man who was shot dead in central Moscow after launching a deadly attack on the offices of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia’s main intelligence agency, has been identified by police as a 3…


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