Monday, January 23, 2017

In the news, Saturday, December 31, 2016


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DEC 30      INDEX      JAN 01
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from Alex Jones (INFOWARS.COM)
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WASHINGTON POST STIRS FEAR AFTER FALSE REPORT OF POWER GRID HACK BY RUSSIA
The Washington Post reported Friday that the U.S. power grid had been hacked by the same Russian actors accused of breaching the DNC – the only problem, the grid wasn’t hacked.

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from Asia Times Online

Obama strikes at Russia to get at Trump

China to ban ivory trade by end of 2017
Xi Jinping delivers on a vow to close the world's biggest legal market for elephant tusks, used by traffickers to launder their poached products

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from BBC News (UK)

How was Russian mystic Rasputin murdered?
Grigory Rasputin, a mystic peasant who captivated the Russian imperial court, met his death at the hands of aristocratic enemies 100 years ago.


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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

Rogue One and the Moral Costs of War
Rogue One tells the story of how the Rebel Alliance got the plans to the first Death Star, setting up the iconic events of the original 1977 Star Wars film. In some ways, this is the best Star Wars movie since Empire Strikes Back. The story is strong and the characters compelling. In sharp contrast to the last four Star Wars movies, there are few notable plot holes. The awfulness of war is driven home by the fact that the heroic rebels in Rogue One are almost entirely ordinary people, with relatively ordinary abilities, rather than members of a Force-capable elite. Would-be revolutionaries in any galaxy would do well to consider why the regime they seek to establish would be any better than the old.

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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Lords revolt over plans for ‘free-market’ universities
Labour and Lib Dems unite to halt bill that would make it easier for new profit-making colleges to become universities

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from Indian Country Today Media Network

FSU Mascots Chief Osceola and Horse Renegade Eat Dirt at Orange Bowl
Was the Native Appropriation at Seminoles game too much for the horse?

DAPL, Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice: The Watershed That Was 2016
From the Dakota Access Pipeline to the Bears Ears National Monument, 2016 marked a turning point

A Look Back: ICMN’s Biggest History Stories of 2016
From presidents to the Modoc War and debunking the Bering Strait Theory

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from New York Times

Trump Promises a Revelation on Hacking
President-elect Donald J. Trump, expressing lingering skepticism about intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the election, said on Saturday evening that he knew “things that other people don’t know” about the hacking, and that the information would be revealed “on Tuesday or Wednesday.”

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International

from Yahoo News

William Christopher Dies: Father Mulcahy Actor On ‘M.A.S.H.’ Was 84
William Christopher, the actor best known as Father Mulcahy on the classic sitcom M.A.S.H., died today following a battle with lung cancer. He was 84, and died in his Pasadena home according to his son, John, who made the news public.

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