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  • Putin's Yacht

    Putin's Yacht ‘Graceful’ Abruptly Leaves Germany Amid Sanctions Warnings Over Ukraine
  • UAE successfully launches Mars probe aboard Japanese H-IIA rocket

    07/20/2020 7:57:37 AM PDT · by shove_it · 21 replies
    The United Arab Emirates has succeeded with the initial stage of its first ever Mars mission, thanks to the launch of an H-IIA rocket built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on Sunday. The rocket carried the Al Amal (Hope) Probe for the UAE, a Mars orbiter that is set to arrive at the red planet by February 2021, and spend a Martian year (687 days) on orbit around Mars collecting data about its atmosphere. This is the first of three separate planned missions to Mars that are scheduled to take place during July, including a...
  • Some businesses pledge to keep out customers who cover their faces

    05/28/2020 7:12:57 AM PDT · by shove_it · 39 replies
    LMTonline ^ | 28 May 2020
    For 64 days, Kevin Smith had shut down the Liberty Tree Tavern to comply with government orders. Now he was cleaning and disinfecting and removing stools to cut seating by three-quarters as he prepared to reopen the bar. Plexiglass screens had gone up at the supermarket checkout. His neighbors in Elgin, Texas, were still wearing masks outside, even after it was no longer mandated by the county. He did not think such a response was necessary, he said, and he wanted to push back. "Sorry, no mask allowed," read the poster taped to the front door of his bar Friday....
  • Meet The Woman Challenging Nancy Pelosi Who May Just Take Her Seat

    Running and beating Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California may seem like an impossible task, a David versus Goliath mission. But the GOP sports a 34 year old entrepreneur that has the right stuff for the job. DeAnna Lorraine was born and raised in California and went to Cal State at Chico, where she studied marketing and organizational communications. For the last ten years she has owned her own personal counseling firm and has had a thorough private sector education in the free market and the challenges facing small businesses everywhere. Her particular job has also given her a...
  • IDP Chair Resignation

    02/13/2020 9:11:22 AM PST · by shove_it
    Iowa Starting Line ^ | Twitter Video
    This is a video of the Iowa Democrat Party chair Troy Price resigning and trying to answer questions about problems with the caucus ...
  • How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So Quickly

    10/29/2019 9:04:40 AM PDT · by shove_it · 35 replies
    The Daily Beast ^ | Updated 10.28.19 3:46AM ET | David Axe
    New technology includes a smaller and much faster DNA-reader that troops can haul into combat aboard their helicopters and use while the smoke from combat is still clearing... ... Baghdadi’s head reportedly remained intact following the blast. Using a biometric facial-recognition scanner, the Americans “immediately identified” Baghdadi, Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported...
  • Sacred Duty: A Soldier’s Tour at Arlington National Cemetery

    05/24/2019 2:06:54 PM PDT · by shove_it · 20 replies
    IMPRIMIS ^ | 30Apr 2019 | TOM COTTON,
    The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 9, 2019, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. Every headstone at Arlington tells a story. These are tales of heroes, I thought, as I placed the toe of my combat boot against the white marble. I pulled a miniature American flag out of my assault pack and pushed it three inches into the ground at my heel. I stepped aside to inspect it, making sure it met the standard that we had briefed to our troops: “vertical and perpendicular to...
  • Pope Francis donates $500,000 to support migrants at US-Mexico border

    04/30/2019 2:22:44 PM PDT · by shove_it · 51 replies
    GOPUSA ^ | 30Apr 2019
    Vatican City, Apr 29 (ANI) – Pope Francis recently donated USD 500,000 to help migrants in Mexico who are attempting to enter the United States, reinforcing the pontiff’s stance of welcoming migrants rather than stigmatizing them. The funds will reportedly be distributed among 27 projects, undertaken by 16 Mexican dioceses and religious congregations, that made the call for assistance to provide food, lodging, and other necessities to the migrants, reports Sputnik. “In recent months, thousands of migrants have arrived in Mexico, having travelled more than 4,000 kilometers on foot and with makeshift vehicles from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala....
  • Human diet causing 'catastrophic' damage to planet: study

    01/17/2019 11:58:48 AM PST · by shove_it · 38 replies
    News Corp Australia Network via YAHOO ^ | 16 Jan 2019 | Marlowe HOOD
    The landmark health study in The Lancet calls on people to double their consumption of vegetables, fruits and nuts ... "To have any chance of feeding 10 billion people in 2050 within planetary boundaries" -- the limits on Earth's capacity to absorb human activity -- "we must adopt a healthy diet, slash food waste, and invest in technologies that reduce environmental impacts," said co-author Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact Research. - Where's the beef? - "It is doable but it will take nothing less than global agricultural revolution," he told AFP. The cornerstone of...
  • Earth’s magnetic pole is on the move, fast. And we don’t know why

    01/12/2019 9:17:53 AM PST · by shove_it · 66 replies
    News Corp Australia Network ^ | 12 Jan 2019 | Jamie Seidel
    Earth’s magnetic field is what allows us to exist. It deflects harmful radiation. It keeps our water and atmosphere in place. But now it’s acting up — and nobody knows why. Planet Earth is alive. Deep beneath its skin, its life blood — rivers of molten iron — pulse around its core. And this mobile iron is what generates the magnetic field that causes auroras — and keeps us alive. But, according to the science journal Nature, something strange is going on deep down below. It’s causing the magnetic North Pole to ‘skitter’ away from Canada, towards Siberia. “The magnetic...
  • Tomb of the Unknowns Guards Begin Use of Custom M17 Pistols

    10/18/2018 9:20:50 AM PDT · by shove_it · 49 replies
    SoldierSystemsDaily ^ | 13 Oct 2018
    Yesterday, Tomb Guards from the US Army’s 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) were presented with 4 ceremonial M17 pistols at Arlington National Cemetery. These works of art were created by SIG SAUER specifically for use by the Guards. This ceremony marks the first use of the M17, which will accompany the Sentinels of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers as they stand guard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The unique distinguishing features for the M17 Tomb of the Unknown Pistols include: • Pistol Names: each of the four pistols bears...
  • 7 3D-Printing Stocks to Buy As the Space Keeps Growing

    08/10/2018 1:31:17 PM PDT · by shove_it · 8 replies
    YAHOO ^ | 10 Aug 2018 | Tom Taulli
    About five years ago or so, 3D-printing stocks were red-hot. But the good times quickly fizzled. However, lately there have been signs of life, as a variety of the operators in the industry have experienced rejuvenated growth rates. And, more importantly, the long-term trends look quite favorable for the 3D-printing space. According to IDC, the spending in the market — on a global basis — is expected to hit about $12 billion this year. And by 2021, the forecast is for the market to reach $20 billion. Much of the growth will come from physical printers and materials, but there...
  • Flying trains for real? (truncated)

    07/11/2018 6:28:27 AM PDT · by shove_it · 18 replies
    FinancialExpress ^ | 11 Jul 2018
    "Link & Fly" is Akka Technologies’s new flagship aircraft design, with wings that come off to hasten turnover at airports and make boarding easier and closer to passengers’ homes. It sounds like something Q, the tech guy in James Bond movies, would create: A plane that lands on a runway, shrugs its wings off, turns into a train and rolls on to rails to drop you off at your local station. That’s what a French entrepreneur, who’s made millions by connecting engineers with industrial groups, is pitching to Boeing Co. and others. “Link & Fly” is Akka Technologies’s new...
  • Obama’s Surprising New Foes

    06/04/2018 6:33:46 AM PDT · by shove_it · 39 replies
    TheWeeklyStandard ^ | 1 Jun 2018 | Obama’s Surprising New Foes
    In Barack Obama’s adopted hometown, of all places, his $375 million Obama Presidential Center is running into growing headwinds from a few gutsy souls. Ironically, the winds aren’t gusting from the usual direction—Republicans and others the left often labels racist Obama-haters. Rather, it’s blowing from the very people who have long lionized Obama: white Chicago lakefront progressives, University of Chicago professors, environmentalists, African-American activists, and a community organization of the kind that once employed Obama as an organizer. On May 14, a preservationist group called Protect Our Parks filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, seeking a court...
  • Arlington Cemetery, nearly full, may become more exclusive

    05/28/2018 5:40:09 PM PDT · by shove_it · 37 replies
    NYT, WRAL ^ | 28 May 2018 | DAVE PHILIPPS and DAMON WINTER, New York Times
    The solemn ritual of a burial with military honors is repeated dozens of times a day, in foul weather or fair, at Arlington National Cemetery, honoring service members from privates to presidents. But in order to preserve the tradition of burial at the nation’s foremost military cemetery for future generations, the Army, which runs Arlington, says it may have to deny it to nearly all veterans who are living today. 10 Arlington is running out of room. Already the final resting place for more than 420,000 veterans and their relatives, the cemetery has been adding about 7,000 each year. At...
  • Vacant for decades, Detroit's train station may get new life

    05/27/2018 6:39:01 PM PDT · by shove_it · 42 replies
    AP ^ | 27 May 2018 | COREY WILLIAMS
    The 105-year-old building that once handled all of Detroit's passenger rail traffic closed in 1988 due to a decline in ridership and took on a new life in the subsequent years as a must-see destination for urban explorers, the homeless and scavengers, who picked it clean of anything valuable. After years of failed short-lived plans to repurpose the dated 500,000-square-foot, 18-story building, its future may be crystalizing: The Ford Motor Co. is moving into the surrounding neighborhood of Corktown and — according to Ford board member Edsel B. Ford II — is in talks to buy the old station...
  • The Mexican Border-Crossing App That Suddenly Disappeared

    01/26/2018 9:45:30 AM PST · by shove_it · 14 replies
    Motherboard ^ | 25 Jan 2018 | Brian Anderson
    On Monday, while a stopgap spending measure was being approved in the Senate as part of a new February deadline for immigration reform, a curious teaser video appeared online. “What if there was a smarter way that gave people the power to freely enter and reenter the United States with just a few taps of their smartphone?” a narrator asked. What if? The slick 72-second spot had largely slipped under the radar, with a mere 59 views at the time it was abruptly taken offline Wednesday evening. That’s something of an irony, considering it’s for a mobile app we’re told...
  • America Slips in the Eyes of the World

    01/23/2018 9:25:14 AM PST · by shove_it · 73 replies
    USNEWS ^ | 23 Jan 2018 | Kevin Drew
    The mood on the international conference call at the beginning of this month was somber as Ian Bremmer, president of the political risk consulting firm Eurasia Group, prepared to list off top global dangers in the coming year. Bremmer began with a show-stopping line: "If we had to pick one year for a big unexpected crisis — the geopolitical equivalent of the 2008 financial meltdown — it feels like 2018." The reasons are many, Bremmer cited, but the most prominent causes for global insecurity stem from U.S. President Donald Trump's move away from global leadership, and China's eagerness to fill...
  • Google Suspends Fact Check Project, Crediting TheDCNF Investigation With Decision

    01/20/2018 9:01:47 AM PST · by shove_it · 12 replies
    DailyCaller via /Drudge ^ | 19 Jan 2018 | Eric Lieberman
    Google says it is discontinuing its fact-check feature because it proved to be too faulty for public use, directly attributing the decision to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The company has no date set for when it will return, if ever. “We launched the reviewed claims feature at the end of last year as an experiment with the aim of helping people quickly learn more about news publications,” a spokeswoman for Google told TheDCNF, while also adding that TheDCNF was the catalyst for the recent move. “We said previously that we encountered challenges in our systems that...
  • Pipeline Builders Try New Growth Strategy: Bigger Pipes

    01/17/2018 11:29:54 AM PST · by shove_it · 12 replies
    morningstar.com ^ | 17 Jan 2018 | Christopher M. Matthews and Lynn Cook
    Some of North America's biggest new pipeline projects are already in the ground. As environmentalists and local activists make it extraordinarily difficult to build new oil and gas lines, energy companies are working around the opposition by supersizing old pipes that already crisscross parts of the continent. Executives at some of the biggest pipeline operators in the U.S. and Canada, including Enbridge Inc. and Kinder Morgan Inc., say they pivoted to the strategy as plans for new pipelines came under attack. For decades, new pipeline projects rarely drew attention, much less ire. "We used to just show up with a...