CAROLINA NATURALLY: Jan 3, 2018

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

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Today in History

1521		Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
1777		General George Washington defeats the British led by British General Lord Charles Cornwallis, at Princeton, New Jersey.
1861		Delaware rejects a proposal that it join the South in seceding from the Union.
1903		The Bulgarian government renounces the Treaty of Commerce tying it to the Austro-Hungarian empire.
1910		The Social Democratic Congress in Germany demands universal suffrage.
1912		Plans are announced for a new $150,000 Brooklyn stadium for the Trolley Dodgers baseball team.
1916		Three armored Japanese cruisers are ordered to guard the Suez Canal.
1920		The last of the U.S. troops depart France.
1921		Italy halts the issuing of passports to those emigrating to the United States.
1924		King Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus is uncovered near Luxor, Egypt.
1930		The second conference on Germany’s war reparations begins at The Hague, in the Netherlands.
1931		Hundreds of farmers storm a small town in depression-plagued Arkansas demanding food.
1933		The Japanese take Shuangyashan, China, killing 500 Chinese.
1946		President Harry S. Truman calls on Americans to spur Congress to act on the on-going labor crisis.
1958		The British create the West Indies Federation with Lord Hailes as governor general.
1959		Alaska is admitted into the Union as the 49th and largest state.
1959		Fidel Castro takes command of the Cuban army.
1961		The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1966		Cambodia warns the United Nations of retaliation unless the United States and South Vietnam end intrusions.
1977		Apple Computers incorporates.
1978		North Vietnamese troops reportedly occupy 400 square miles in Cambodia. North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops were using Laos and Cambodia as staging areas for attacks against allied forces.
1985		President Ronald Reagan condemns a rash of arson attacks on abortion clinics.
1990		Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to US forces.
1993		George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1994		More than 7 million people receive South African citizenship that had previously been denied under Apartheid policies.
1996		The first mobile flip phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale.
1999		The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
2000		The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published after a 50-year run, following the death of the strip’s creator, Charles Schultz.

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Can Tiny Houses Halt the Expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline?

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In Iceland, an example of what happens if you actually elect women

Iceland is not waiting for the gender pay gap to fix itself.

Starting January 1, 2018, it is now illegal for employers to pay women less than men. In Iceland, both public and private employers with 25 employees or more will need obtain government certification of equal pay policies. Organizations that fail to obtain the certification will face fines.

In Iceland, an example of what happens if you actually elect women

Orwell used wartime rationing to argue for global justice

‘You could use a bit-o-weed’

‘You could use a bit-o-weed’: The internet mocks Laura Ingraham for freaking out over ‘potheads’ on CNN

Fox 'News' hack Laura Ingraham freaked out over a CNN reporter lighting a bong New Year’s Eve for a pot smoker — and other social media users dunked on her.

Fox 'News' mourns the so-called death of ‘investigative journalism’ after such reports brought down network bigwigs

Former neo-Nazi offers parents advice for how to stop their kids from becoming white supremacists

Former neo-Nazi offers parents advice for how to stop their kids from becoming white supremacists

Tony McAleer, a former neo-Nazi who for years worked as an organizer for the White Aryan Resistance, has written a column in Israeli paper Haaretz in which he offers advice to parents who fear that their own children might become white supremacists.

Teachers mock disabled student in voicemail after forgetting to hang up phone

‘They crushed my spirit’

Mosque pays off debts of man who spray painted hateful messages on their building in 2016

Joel Osteen protege says heaven is paved with gold — but he has a problem with ‘people who pimp the cult’

Joel Osteen protege says heaven is paved with gold — but he has a problem with ‘people who pimp the cult’

A pastor who has served under prosperity gospel preacher Joel Osteen insists there is nothing wrong with becoming wealthy thanks to the 'christian' cult.

A woman brutally raped with a ‘broken tree branch’ has died two years later

A woman brutally raped with a ‘broken tree branch’ has died two years later — and she never left the hospital

A Russian woman who was viciously raped two years ago by a man who victimized three other women in the same week has died. Anna Barmina passed away at the age of 33, this after a sexual assault so brutal that she suffered a heart attack, went into a coma and never left the hospital.