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• Turkey arrests two ethnic-Uighurs suspected of helping nightclub attacker

  14-01-2017 23:51
  
  Turkish authorities have arrested two ethnic-Uighur Chinese nationals for suspected links to the deadly mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of New Year's Day.The Middle East Eye names the two suspects as Omar Asim and Abuliezi Abuduhamiti, both Chinese citizens. They are accused of being part of an armed terrorist organization and being accomplices in 39 counts of murder, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.A witness in the city of Konya reported seeing Asim with the
  
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• How German authorities allowed well-known terror suspect Anis Amri to attack Berlin

  14-01-2017 23:40
  
  Berlin Christmas Market Attack Raises Questions About Security Failures
  As more details emerge about last month's Berlin Christmas market attack, German authorities are struggling to explain why they failed to prevent the attack despite knowing full well that Anis Amri was a ticking time bomb."The attack was carried out by a man whom security officials across Germany were very well aware of," North Rhine-Westphalia's Interior Minister Ralf Jäger acknowledged at a January 5 meeting of the st
  
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• Abbas warns Palestinians may reverse recognition of Israel if Trump moves US embassy to Jerusalem

  14-01-2017 23:35
  
  Palestinians may reverse their recognition of Israel if Donald Trump moves America's Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said, adding that the move "would destroy the two-state solution.""I wrote to president [-elect Donald] Trump to ask him not to do it. Not only would this move deprive the United States of all legitimacy in playing a role in conflict resolution, it would also destroy the two-state solution," Abbas said in an interview to Le Figaro newspaper,
  
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• German media, citing no evidence, cries 'Russia's influence in EU has significantly increased'

  14-01-2017 23:24
  
  Russia has allegedly "influenced" public opinion in Europe for years with the intent to undermine the "close alliance" of the EU and the US, German foreign intelligence and domestic security services said in a confidential report seen by Der Spiegel.Russia has tried to escalate various social conflicts in European countries, as well as to undermine the close relations between Europe and the US by carrying out propaganda and disinformation campaigns alongside hacking attacks, according to a repor
  
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• No need for US interference: China and Vietnam pledge to settle differences over South China Sea claims

  14-01-2017 23:04
  
  China and Vietnam have promised to settle their differences regarding territorial claims in the South China Sea and to safeguard peace in the region, the two countries said in a joint communique.Then statement came after Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Saturday.The communique, released by China's Xinhua news agency after the talks, described the discussions of bilateral relations by the top officials as "candid."
  
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• War-weary Kurds seek independence 'as a result of the peace process'

  14-01-2017 22:53
  
  The issue of creating an independent Iraqi Kurdistan will be actively discussed after the end of the Mosul operation, Ali Avni of the Kurdistan Democratic Party told Sputnik Turkey.In an interview with Sputnik Turkey, Ali Avni of the Kurdistan Democratic Party said that the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan will be actively discussed by its leaders and Baghdad after the wrap-up of the Mosul operation.On Thursday, the US Department of Defense said that Iraqi forces were in control of 70 to 80 perce
  
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• How To Stop Cooperating With The Ruling Elite’s Control System

  14-01-2017 22:47
  
  It can be a very difficult line to negotiate ...
  
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• Plant sense: Perceiving the world without eyes, ears or brains

  14-01-2017 22:17
  
  Plants perceive the world without eyes, ears or brains. Understanding how can teach us a lot about them, and potentially a lot about us as wellPlants, according to Jack C Schultz, "are just very slow animals".This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, and has spent four decades investigating the interactions between plants and insects. He knows his stuff.Instead, he is making a point about c
  
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• Government workers enter Damascus water-source area to restore supply after deal with rebels, Update: Syrian negotiator killed

  14-01-2017 22:01
  
  The Syrian capital's crippling water shortage will soon come to an end after rebels allowed engineers to enter a damaged pumping station, according to a regional governor. More than 5 million people have faced dire conditions amid the shortage.The governor of Damascus Countryside Province, Alaa Ibrahim, told reporters on Friday that the engineers have entered the facilities at Ain al-Fijah in the Wadi Barada area after a deal has been reached for the army to take control of the area."We have hal
  
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• Venezuela foils 'right-wing coup plot': Arrests more opposition politicians

  14-01-2017 21:57
  
  Venezuelan authorities arrested Thursday two opposition politicians and a general after allegedly plotting to destabilize the country.Those arrested include the municipal councillors Jorge Luis Gonzalez Villasmil from Zulia state and Romer Angel Rubio Flores from Bolivar, along with the former general Raul Baduel. Both the councilors are from the right-wing party, Primero Justicia."A destabilizing terrorist plan against our homeland by members of the extreme right-wing has been unveiled," Interi
  
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• Clapper: Possible Russia could plant child porn on US computers - and, wait for it - Russia hacked the DNC

  14-01-2017 21:53
  
  Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate committee hearing that he wouldn't be surprised if Russian hackers put child pornography on US computers. The spy chief made his comments during a hearing into Russian cyber attacks during the US election, where he also said he was confident that Russia hacked DNC emails.Comment: And why, exactly, would Russia waste time, personnel and money planting child porn on computers when everyone who indulges in this sicko pastime is perfectly
  
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• 'Golden Showers': Repeat of 1924 Zinoviev letters that damaged UK Labour party?

  14-01-2017 21:49
  
  Just when you thought 'Fake News' had nowhere else to go, up pops BuzzFeed to take it to a whole new level. The site's publication of an unverified, error-filled dossier on Donald Trump and his alleged links to Russia, marks a new journalistic low.It shows us just how desperate those who want to sabotage better relations between the US and Russia have become.The document - as BuzzFeed itself acknowledges - was prepared for "political opponents" of Trump and handed over to the FBI by serial warmo
  
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• It's been 24 years since the US had a President who does NOT do illegal drugs. Trump changes this trend

  14-01-2017 21:35
  
  Trump's sober approach to alcohol and drugs contrasts with that of his last three predecessors.If the neo-liberal, Hillary Clinton cabal needed anymore reason to hate Donald Trump, here are three...no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes.On January 20th, Donald Trump will be the first US president in 24 years to have never used any form of illegal drugs.Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton have all admitted (and some taken pride) in using illegal drugs, from cocaine to marijuana.Not only h
  
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• Is too much screen time harming the wellbeing of teens?

  14-01-2017 21:35
  
  Parents should worry less about the amount of time their children spend using smartphones, computers and playing video games because screen time is actually beneficial, the University of Oxford has concluded.The rise in technology in the past decade has led to fears that teenagers could be damaging their social skills and mental health by spending increasing amounts of time online or immersed in a virtual world.Yet when researchers at Oxford University quizzed 120,000 15-year-olds about their we
  
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• Facebook's WhatsApp denies leaving backdoor to snoop on communications

  14-01-2017 21:31
  
  The developer WhatsApp, a popular communications tool that touts end-to-end encryption as one of its prime features, has denied deliberately leaving a backdoor for the government to snoop on users' communications.End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a feature that prevents middlemen from eavesdropping on communications including the company transmitting the messages. Demand for the feature skyrocketed after Edward Snowden revealed to the public that the US and its allies were conducting mass electron
  
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• Passenger plane struck in mid-air by lightning bolt over Moscow in the middle of winter

  14-01-2017 21:21
  
  This is the terrifying moment a packed passenger plane is struck in mid-air by a bolt of lightning.The Boeing 747 had left Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport as rain lashed down from ominous grey skies just before nightfall on January 2.Moments into the ascent for the two hour 20 minutes flight to Sochi, a powerful bolt of lightning ripped down from the sky - striking the plane's carriage.Storm chaser Julia Musina said: 'It's pretty scary to see this from the ground. The people on the plane
  
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• Fake News or Premature Leak? : False reports of Russian Ambassador assassinated in Yemen

  14-01-2017 21:20
  
  Reports began circulating hours ago in British media, such as the UK Express and Sun, that armed gunman had stormed the Russian embassy in Yemen, killing the Russian ambassador.Barq news agency from the KSA had claimed that ambassador Vladimir Dedushkin, ambassador to Yemen since 2013, was shot in Sanaa, Yemen. This story was then carried by several British media outlets.The reports went viral on social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, a popular method that mainstream media out
  
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• Paul Craig Roberts - Is Trump already finished?

  14-01-2017 21:15
  
  It did not take long before we knew there was no hope of change from President Obama. But at least he went into his inauguration with an unprecedented number of Americans on the Mall showing their support for the President of Change. Hope was abundant.But with Trump, we are already losing faith, if not yet with him, at least with his choice of those who comprise his government even before Trump is inaugurated.Trump's choice for Secretary of State not only sounds like the neoconservatives in decl
  
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• How can we miss a Lame-duck President who won't go away?

  14-01-2017 20:56
  
  Most former presidents return to where they came from and fade into the background, re-emerging in the capital mostly for ceremonial occasions. If they've served two full terms, the norm is to express relief, at least publicly, at the lifting of the office's great burdens after eight long years.George Washington put it this way in his 1796 Farewell Address: "Not unconscious in the outset of the inferiority of my qualifications . . . every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and
  
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• Black Lady Liberty to feature on US$100 commemorative gold coin

  14-01-2017 20:48
  
  The United States Mint is celebrating its 225th anniversary in a very special way. On April 6, the first in a series of commemorative $100 24-Karat gold Lady Liberty coins will be issued, featuring Lady Liberty as an African American woman.
  On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin, and United States Mint Principal Deputy Director Rhett Jeppson unveiled designs for the 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin in the historic Department of th
  
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• Physicists able to 'squeeze' light to cool microscopic drum below quantum limit

  14-01-2017 20:45
  
  Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature lower than previously thought possible, below the so-called "quantum limit."The new NIST theory and experiments, described in the Jan. 12, 2017, issue of Nature, showed that a microscopic mechanical drum -- a vibrating aluminum membrane -- could be cooled to less than one-fifth of a single quantum, or packet of energy, lower than ordinarily predicted by quantum physics. The ne
  
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• Viruses found in genome important for our brain

  14-01-2017 20:20
  
  Over millions of years retroviruses have been incorporated into our human DNA, where they today make up almost 10 per cent of the total genome. A research group has now discovered a mechanism through which these retroviruses may have an impact on gene expression. This means that they may have played a significant role in the development of the human brain as well as in various neurological diseases.Retroviruses are a special group of viruses including some which are dangerous, such as HIV, while
  
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• Dovekie seabird from the Arctic turns up in Bermuda

  14-01-2017 20:17
  
  You thought the recent weather was cold by Bermuda's standards? This little auk probably thought so too.The dovekie, right, which is related to puffins and breeds in Iceland and Greenland, was found at Ferry Point Park by a group of American students on a field trip.According to birder Andrew Dobson, it is the first dovekie found on the island in almost 50 years, and was brought here by strong winds.Temperatures on Monday had fallen to a near-record low of 53F (12C), with winds gusting at 37 kno
  
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• New expedition to probe Mariana trench's deepest secrets

  14-01-2017 20:07
  
  The Mariana Trench "is a little crazy," Jian Lin says. The scythe-shaped cleft in the western Pacific sea floor, 2550 kilometers long, plunges nearly 11 kilometers, deeper than any other place in the oceans. But what wows Lin, a marine geophysicist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, is the zany topography. The trench marks a subduction zone, where one slab of crust slides beneath another. But whereas many other subducting plates slope gradually downward, in the Mariana
  
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• Journalists create a 'safe space' to discuss how to cover the Trump presidency

  14-01-2017 20:06
  
  After the president-elect's first press conference since the election this week, it appears the mainstream media is in need of a 'safe space'. As The Hill reports, so-called journalists from the Huffington Post, Slate, CNN, and Univision will gather days before Donald Trump's inauguration to publicly discuss "how the news media can and should proceed to cover" the president-elect.After this happened...
  Slate will host the event next Wednesday, called "Not the New Normal." CNN's Brian Stelter wil
  
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• Amazon seeking permission to run experimental wireless technology tests in rural Washington

  14-01-2017 19:56
  
  Amazon is preparing to test experimental wireless communications technology, including mobile devices and fixed-base stations, in rural Washington and Seattle, the company disclosed in government filings this week.The filings do not specify what the tests would be for, but they hint at a new type of technology or wireless service, noting that the project would involve prototypes designed to support "innovative communications capabilities and functionalities."Even more intriguing is that Amazon l
  
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• Hand over your password!: U.S. Border agents interrogating Muslim Americans, demanding social media information, access to phones

  14-01-2017 19:52
  
  Customs and Border Protection agents have been invasively questioning Muslim-Americans at U.S. border crossings about their political and religious beliefs, asking for their social media information, and demanding passwords to open mobile phones, according to a set of complaints filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).In one case, a 23-year old American citizen alleges that he was choked by a CBP agent after declining to hand over his phone for inspection while crossing the bor
  
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• Rex Tillerson confirmation hearing: 5 key climate takeaways and how Fake News perceives his answers (PS: hold your nose!)

  14-01-2017 19:50
  
  Secretary of state nominee and former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 11. Tillerson is already under fire for making the seemingly false claim that Exxon has not lobbied against sanctions on Russia and other nations that would affect Exxon's business dealings, but here are five other climate change-related takeaways that reporters should keep in mind in their coverage of the hearing and Tillerson nomination going forward.1. Tillerso
  
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• Yet again a Western MSM failure: China did NOT threaten the US with war in South China Sea

  14-01-2017 19:47
  
  Western media misrepresents discussion of Rex Tillerson's Senate confirmation hearing in English language Chinese government website Global Times as threat by China to go to war with US over South China Sea.An editorial in The Global Times - an English language website owned and run by The People's Daily, which is the official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party - is being widely reported around the world as a threat to go to war with the US over the South China Sea. Examples of the way
  
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• Israeli court's conviction of Israeli soldier killing injured Palestinian youth temporarily fends off ICC

  14-01-2017 19:45
  
  The documented case of the Israeli soldier shooting and killing an injured Palestinian youth in March 2016 in Hebron could have provided the perfect case for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch a war crimes investigation. The Hague-based ICC is authorized to look into violations of international humanitarian law in areas under its mandate. The Palestinian occupied territories became part of its jurisdiction on April 1, 2015, after Palestine was accepted as a full member of the court
  
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• 'Bad day' leads woman to smash SUV into T-Mobile store, erratic behavior (VIDEO)

  14-01-2017 19:43
  
  Police were called to a T-mobile outlet in Palm Springs, Florida on Friday after reports that an SUV had smashed through the front window of the store and the driver had begun assaulting staff members.
  
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• Indian 14yo signs government contract to make anti-landmine drones

  14-01-2017 19:30
  
  A 14-year-old Indian boy has signed a deal to commercially produce anti-landmine drones. The child prodigy, who has already developed a prototype, says the idea came to him after learning in the media about the high army casualties caused by land mines.The zealous inventor, Harshwardhan Zala, is a tenth-grader from Gujarat state in western India.
  
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• Terrorists and torturers: The suffering of Syrian women under the "moderate rebels" of East Aleppo

  14-01-2017 19:27
  
  The western media always tries to discriminate FSA from ISIS, calling the first "moderates" as if they were any different than "ISIS" in terms of degrading secular Syria into a theocratic state, using all forms of barbarism and atrocities.The video below is of a woman who survived life in FSA-controlled eastern neighborhood of Aleppo, telling her personal story, after her neighborhood was liberated by the Syrian Arab Army. It should convince its viewers that FSA "jihadists" are the same, and eve
  
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• Hyperpartisan Sites And Facebook Pages Are Publishing False Stories And Conspiracy Theories About Angela Merkel - BuzzFeed News

  14-01-2017 19:19 via buzzfeed.com
  
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  Hyperpartisan Sites And Facebook Pages Are Publishing False Stories And Conspiracy Theories About Angela Merkel
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  Top-performing Merkel stories in both English and German are dominated by a string of highly critical, and often misleading, articles and headlines from websites that consistently publish fake news and conspiracy theories. Alberto Nardelli. BuzzFeed ...and more »
  
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• The anti-Trump Steele dossier and its astonishing lack of credibility, or the Hitler Diaries Mark II

  14-01-2017 19:15
  
  The mainstream media's extreme enthusiasm for the Hitler Diaries shows their rush to embrace any forgery if it is big and astonishing enough. For the Guardian to lead with such an obvious forgery as the Trump "commercial intelligence reports" is the final evidence of the demise of that newspaper's journalistic values.We are now told that the reports were written by Mr Christopher Steele, an ex-MI6 man, for Orbis Business Intelligence. Here are a short list of six impossible things we are asked t
  
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• Donald Trump and Russia and China: The Art of the Deal

  14-01-2017 19:14
  
  Donald Trump has given an interview to the Wall Street Journal, which provides an insight to his outlook on foreign policy.Donald Trump is first and foremost a businessman. Strikingly the man he has picked for Secretary of State - Rex Tillerson - is also a businessman. Moreover Trump's business background is the wheeler dealer business environment of the US property market, in which he has thrived. His outlook on foreign policy follows this pattern. It is ruthlessly pragmatic, America-centric, c
  
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• Propaganda alert: Assad linked to Syrian chemical attacks for first time

  14-01-2017 18:42
  
  International investigators have said for the first time that they suspect President Bashar al-Assad and his brother are responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, according to a document seen by Reuters.A joint inquiry for the United Nations and global watchdog the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had previously identified only military units and did not name any commanders or officials.Now a list has been produced of individuals whom the inve
  
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• Dangerously unsafe Indian Point nuclear plant will finally close

  14-01-2017 18:33
  
  Intensely controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant will completely cease operations by 2021, but the move to shutter operations on the facility — located just 25 miles north of New York City — has itself stirred contention.Legal and environmental battles have raged for years over Indian Point, which supplies nearly one-third of the energy generation for the metropolis and has — in recent times, at least, officially — one of the best track records of any nuclear plan
  
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• Rape victim jailed for a month to ensure she would testify against her attacker

  14-01-2017 18:24
  
  A Houston woman has been traumatized by the District Attorney's office, following her report of being raped by a serial rapist. According to Click2Houston, "Jenny, who is in her 20s, was the star witness in the rape trial of Keith Hendricks after he violently raped and choked her. Hendricks was eventually sentenced to two life sentences for raping women."But during the trial, Jenny broke down while testifying against Hendricks. Fearing that her star witness would not return to testify, prosecuto
  
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• Lockheed CEO promises cheaper F-35 & thousands of jobs after meeting with Trump

  14-01-2017 18:21
  
  A deal for a lower-priced F-35 program could be near, as Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson projected "thousands and thousands of jobs" and cheaper costs after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump."I certainly share his views that we need to get the best capability to our men and women in uniform, and we have to get it at the lowest possible price," Hewson told reporters in Trump Tower after the Friday meeting.Lockheed wouldn't be the first major corporation to fold under the barrage of Tr
  
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• Bikers for Trump ready to stand up to protesters

  14-01-2017 18:19
  
  A motorcycle group led by a South Carolina chainsaw artist will ride into the nation's capital on Inauguration Day in support of the 45th President of the United States.Bikers for Trump, a group of motorcycle enthusiasts, will likely be toeing the line with protesters, who are also expected to be at the event."The bikers are certainly used to being outnumbered and we are prepared to form a wall of meat," Chris Cox, the founder of the organization, told the FOX Business Network.However, Cox said
  
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• The Trump presidency in an era of American destabilization

  14-01-2017 18:16
  
  It is clear that Americans were able to avoid the worst-case scenario of a Hillary Clinton presidency. However, the 2016 elections provided the country with the Presidency of Donald Trump. While the surprise was not unwelcome considering the other option, Trump supporters are now being faced with some difficult questions as he nears actually taking office.Trump was always the wild card, running roughshod over the Republican candidates and eviscerating Clinton (if not in the debates, then at leas
  
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• America's spies 'warned Israel not to share intelligence with Trump'

  14-01-2017 18:04
  
  US spies warned their Israeli counterparts that Russia may have "levers of pressure" over Donald Trump and told them to be careful about sharing intelligence with the White House in case it was passed on to the Kremlin, according to Israeli media reports.The American intelligence officials reportedly told the Israelis not to share sensitive information with Mr Trump's aides until the incoming president's relationship with Russia had been fully investigated.The claim was made in the Israeli newsp
  
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• iSee: Researchers develop mental health surveillance app for depressed college students

  14-01-2017 18:03
  
  Predictive technology is exploding across the virtual landscape. The arrival of Big Data initiatives by government, as well as a massive industry of data brokers is not only putting privacy at risk, but is offering those with access to the information unprecedented ways to micromanage our lives.Most people now seem resigned to the surveillance of our communications devices, which have become so intertwined with modern efficiency, economics and knowledge that there are real tradeoffs when choosin
  
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• Many UFOs Approaching Japanese Cargo Craft Docking At Space Station

  14-01-2017 18:00
  
  I was watching the official NASA Youtube channel trying to catch a UFO near the space station, when I found this video taken Dec 13, 2016. In it I see the Japanese cargo ship arriving at the International Space Station ...
  
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• Turkish MPs approve two constitutional amendments to enhance president's powers

  14-01-2017 17:59
  
  Turkey's Parliament has approved two constitutional amendments giving more powers to the president, who will now be able to sponsor new legislation and appoint the cabinet, local media report. The changes come at the expense of MPs' rights to oversee the government.MPs adopted three more items from the 18-article amendment bill during a heated vote on Thursday and early Friday, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The package of amendments to the country's constitution is meant to advance Pre
  
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• ALIEN SOLDIER spotted stalking Curiosity Rover on Mars

  14-01-2017 17:57
  
  This statue was found by Paranormal Crucible of Youtube this week, and its a bipedal species that has on a uniform. The alien is wearing a suit and carrying some weapon of sorts ...
  
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• Barbara Loe Fisher: End pharma liability shield endangering public health & human rights

  14-01-2017 17:52
  
  Health freedom and the civil liberties of Americans are at risk with yet another CDC-proposed public health law, paired with an expanding global vaccine market.Another sign that autonomy and civil liberties are being threatened in America is the recently proposed change to public health law published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)1 that allows federal officials to use police power to apprehend, isolate and involuntarily quarantine travelers simply suspected of being at risk for ge
  
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• Trump open to ending sanctions on Russia & 'One China' policy

  14-01-2017 17:49
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has expressed openness to lifting sanctions against Russia under certain conditions, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. When asked about the 'One China' policy, he said, "everything is under negotiation."In the hour-long interview on Friday, Trump said he is willing to keep the sanctions that the Obama administration recently imposed on Russia "at least for a period of time."Trump stated, however, that he would consider lifting the restrictions, depending
  
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• Ex-President of Czech Republic: Citizens want to trade with Russia and reject the Euro

  14-01-2017 17:49
  
  Citizens of the Czech Republic remain opposed to joining the euro area, and want anti-Russian sanctions to be lifted, the country's former President Vaclav Klaus told Sputnik.Sanctions against Russia haven't achieved anything and should be lifted, former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus told Sputnik."I think it would be rational to abolish them, nothing has been achieved by these sanctions, and the Czech Republic, I think, is not a fanatical supporter of these sanctions," Klaus said.
  
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