Belgian foie gras farmer blames activists for deaths of 500 ducks…
November 12, 2019
The activists, from a group called Animal Resistance, entered the farm on Saturday and glued themselves to the cages before police arrived. In a statement filmed beside the duck cages, they said the ducks were struggling to breathe and were living under stress and hurting each other... The farm in Bekegem is due to be shut down by 2023, but the protesters said the closure date was not early enough.
Trump opens door to DACA ‘deal’ if Supreme Court rules his way in landmark case…
November 12, 2019
Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from “angels.” Some are very tough, hardened criminals. President Obama said he had no legal right to sign order, but would anyway. If Supreme Court remedies with overturn, a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2019
Study: Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks…
November 12, 2019
The researchers found that for care centers that experienced a breach, it took an additional 2.7 minutes for suspected heart attack patients to receive an electrocardiogram. “Breach remediation efforts were associated with deterioration in timeliness of care and patient outcomes,” the authors found. “Remediation activity may introduce changes that delay, complicate or disrupt health IT and patient care processes.”
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But what isn’t yet known is how Wannacry affected mortality rates among heart attack and stroke patients whose ambulances were diverted to other hospitals because of IT system outages related to the malware. Or how many hospitals and practices experienced delays in getting test results back needed to make critical healthcare decisions...Adidas plans to close high-tech “robot” factories in Germany and the US as they shift their manufacturing to Asia because they say it would be “more economic and flexible”…
November 12, 2019
Inside the alleged ‘cult’ that has been quietly operating in NY for decades…
November 12, 2019
A new group sprang up in the 1980s in New York under the name Odyssey Study Group and has been operating here quietly ever since — still led by the washed-up actress, now 84, who reigns from a $8.5 million apartment at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel that was mostly paid for by devotees, according to public records...
Greece, China Sign 16 Belt And Road Deals in sectors including agriculture, energy, ports, and tourism aimed at increasing Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in the European Union…
November 12, 2019
Beijing is planning on significantly boosting Chinese investment in Greece, which could lay the groundwork for a new superhighway of trade between Europe and China...
Greece is in a unique situation at the moment. One of their features is that they have 3 masters and are loyal to all 3 of them. China, Europe and the US. Europe is the financial boss, US is the military boss, and China is now their big investor boss.
WATCH: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Greece for a three-day state visit to consolidate traditional friendship and strengthen cooperation between the two countries #China #Greece @busrep pic.twitter.com/pk6GsxIfbG
— BRI TV+ (@BeltRoadTV) November 11, 2019
We’re about to find out what Project Odin really is…
November 12, 2019
Project Odin closed beta testing underway. Some issues with posting still, but it is so fast. Pre-august clearnet fast.
— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) November 12, 2019
Elijah Cummings Widow to run for his seat in Congress
November 12, 2019
"We fought alongside of each other for a very long time, and now I'm looking to continue to fight. He would want me to continue to fight and so that's what I'm going to do," Rockeymoore Cummings, chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, said in a video interview with The Baltimore Sun published Monday evening.
Something Very Strange Seems To Be Synchronizing Distant Galaxies as if they are connected by a vast unseen force…
November 12, 2019
Lee and his colleagues studied 445 galaxies within 400 million light years of Earth, and noticed that many of the ones rotating in a direction toward Earth had neighbors that were moving toward Earth, while those that were rotating in the opposite direction had neighbors moving away from Earth. “The observed coherence must have some relationship with large-scale structures, because it is impossible that the galaxies separated by six megaparsecs [roughly 20 million light years] directly interact with each other,” Lee said.
University of Miami professor left Bolivia after the press (falsely, she says) called her a U.S. agent…
November 12, 2019
The article, citing no evidence, linked Hummel to demonstrations against the impeached former president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff (Hummel has also lived and conducted research in Brazil). The article alleged she was now organizing protests in Bolivia, citing a Facebook post of Hummel's in which she described a protest in a La Paz neighborhood. Hummel said she had not organized any protests in either Bolivia or Brazil, for many reasons.
Supreme Court will allow Sandy Hook families to move forward in suit against gunmaker Remington…
November 12, 2019
The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will not hear a closely watched case against gunmaker Remington... The court's action will allow the family members of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre to move forward with their lawsuit.
DACA heads to Supreme Court and all eyes are on Chief Justice John Roberts…
November 12, 2019
We'll be updating this post throughout the day.
Stingray-inspired spacecraft aims to explore dark side of Venus. The spacecraft would circumnavigate Venus every four to six days, with solar panels charging every two to three days on the side of planet illuminated by the sun…
November 12, 2019
Researchers have reported a significant breakthrough in producing hydrogen and clean drinking water from seawater, one of the most abundant resources on earth. The device, composed of inexpensive non-noble metal nitrides, manages to avoid many of the obstacles that have limited earlier attempts…
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November 12, 2019
Farage’s “Big Ask” May Save Brexit As Johnson Concedes…
November 12, 2019
Farage is hated in British political circles more than Jeremy Corbyn. He has cost them elections, prestige, power and most importantly, their air of legitimacy. So Johnson could never give Nigel what he and millions of Brexit voters wanted... And that he is using Brexit cynically to maintain it... Brexit is now up to the British people to deliver. Farage’s “Big Ask” of them hasn’t let him down yet...
Sky Event: A meteor lit up the sky over St. Louis…
November 12, 2019
I was watching an @EarthCam camera from St. Louis, Missouri about 30 minutes ago and saw a #meteor! pic.twitter.com/PVAvIGlALF
— David Vergel (@DavidVergel97) November 12, 2019
Spanish king and queen arrive in Cuba for first royal visit…
November 12, 2019
The trip has sparked criticism from right-wing politicians in Spain and inspired critical opinion pieces in conservative-leaning newspapers over a trip seen as a step forward for normal relations between Spain and its former colony, a single-party communist state that cracks down harshly on dissent.
Communist Evo Morales Fleas Bolivia after being granted political asylum by Mexico…
November 12, 2019
Mexico’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, told reporters: “We will immediately proceed to inform Bolivia’s foreign ministry that under international law, it should offer safe conduct [to Morales].”
Trump Has Fired, Demoted, or Suspended over 8,000 Veterans Affairs Employees Since Taking Office according to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie….
November 12, 2019
“The standard is if you don’t live up to your oath if you don’t live up to the standards that our veterans expect, that you will be asked to leave,” Wilkie told reporters in a press conference on Friday. “This is a transformational moment in our history.”