Saturday, November 18, 2017
Twitter finally goes after white supremacists
Wingnut troll 'Baked Alaska' throws a fit after being banned from Twitter
As Twitter moved to unverify racists, the social media platform took it a step further with Tim “Baked Alaska”
Gionet. He quickly became a top-trending Twitter topic on Wednesday—and
it had nothing to do with the delicious dessert that bares the same
name. Nazis Are Throwing Tantrums Over Losing Twitter Verification And It Is Glorious
Twitter Nazis are the most delicate of all the snowflakes.
'Christian' wingnut who pushed ‘natural marriage’ resigns after same-sex tryst at Ohio office
A 'christian' “family values” wingnut has stepped down from his post in Ohio’s state House over
revelations that he engaged in “inappropriate conduct” with another man.
Friday, November 17, 2017
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Today in History
| 375 | Enraged by the insolence of barbarian envoys, Valentinian, the Emperor of the West, dies of apoplexy in Pannonia in Central Europe. | |
| 1558 | Queen Elizabeth ascends to the throne of England. | |
| 1558 | The Church of England is re-established. | |
| 1636 | Henrique Dias, Brazilian general, wins a decisive battle against the Dutch in Brazil. | |
| 1796 | Napoleon Bonaparte defeats an Italian army near the Alpine River, Italy. | |
| 1800 | The Sixth Congress (2nd session) convenes for the first time in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1842 | A grim abolitionist meeting is held in Marlboro Chapel, Boston, after the imprisonment of a mulatto named George Latimer, one of the first fugitive slaves to be apprehended in Massachusetts. | |
| 1862 | Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign. | |
| 1869 | The Suez Canal is formally opened. | |
| 1877 | Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia. | |
| 1885 | The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades Bulgaria. | |
| 1903 | Vladimir Lenin’s efforts to impose his own radical views on the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits the party into two factions, the Bolsheviks, who support Lenin, and the Mensheviks. | |
| 1913 | The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. | |
| 1918 | Influenza deaths reported in the United States have far exceeded World War I casualties. | |
| 1918 | German troops evacuate Brussels. | |
| 1931 | Charles Lindbergh inaugurates Pan Am service from Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat American Clipper. | |
| 1941 | German Luftwaffe general and World War I fighter-ace Ernst Udet commits suicide. The Nazi government tells the public that he died in a flying accident. | |
| 1951 | Britain reports development of the world’s first nuclear-powered heating system. | |
| 1965 | The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the Ia Drang Valley, almost wiping them out. | |
| 1967 | The American Surveyor 6 makes a six-second flight on the moon, the first lift-off on the lunar surface. | |
| 1970 | The Soviet unmanned Luna 17 touches down on the moon. | |
| 1980 | WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station. | |
| 1986 | Renault President Georges Besse is shot to death by leftists of the Direct Action Group in Paris. | |
| 1989 | A student demonstration in Prague is put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29. | |
| 1993 | The US House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement. | |
| 1993 | Gen. Sani Abacha leads a military coup in Nigeria that overthrows the government of Ernest Shonekan. | |
| 2000 | Controversial President of Peru Alberto Fujimori is removed from office. |
New ancient Egyptian mummy discovered wearing golden mask
A new and potentially habitable alien planet is hurtling toward Earth
These cities may be at risk of drowning due to global warming
Carfentanil
"A dose as small as a grain of sand can kill you"
From The Guardian:Developed in the 1970s as a tranquilizer for large animals such as elephants and bears, the synthetic opioid has also been studied as a potential chemical weapon by countries including the US, China and Israel. It is thought to have been deployed with disastrous effects when Russian special forces attempted to rescue hundreds of hostages from a Moscow theatre in 2002.
But it only burst into public view last year after officials across North America began to warn that it was being cut with heroin and other illicit drugs, leaving a rash of overdoses and deaths in its wake. “An amount as small as a grain of sand can kill you,” Dr Karen Grimsrud, Alberta’s chief medical officer, told reporters after traces of carfentanil were found in the bodies of two men who had overdosed. “Carfentanil is about 100 times more toxic than fentanyl and about 10,000 times more toxic than morphine.”..
The remarks came after Canadian police – protected by hazmat suits and oxygen containers – seized one kilogram of carfentanil hidden inside cartridges labelled as printer ink and which had been shipped to Vancouver from China.
Given the purity of the substance seized, police estimated that the package could contain as many as 50m lethal doses – enough to wipe out the entire population of the country.
Equifax sells your salary history
From NBC News:
The Equifax credit reporting agency, with the aid of thousands of human resource departments around the country, has assembled what may be the most powerful and thorough private database of Americans’ personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records covering more than one-third of U.S. adults.That was from an article published in 2013. Assume that the situation might have changed by now? Nope. CNN writes "Why Equifax will continue to profit by selling your personal information":
Some of the information in the little-known database, created through an Equifax-owned company called The Work Number, is sold to debt collectors, financial service companies and other entities...
But salary information is also for sale by Equifax through The Work Number. Its database is so detailed that it contains week-by-week paystub information dating back years for many individuals, as well as other kinds of human resources-related information, such as health care provider, whether someone has dental insurance and if they’ve ever filed an unemployment claim...
How does Equifax obtain this sensitive and secret information? With the willing aid of thousands of U.S. businesses, including many of the Fortune 500. Government agencies -- representing 85 percent of the federal civilian population, including workers at the Department of Defense, according to Equifax -- and schools also work with The Work Number..
"But it's not in the interest of lenders to stop sharing information with the credit rating agencies, Horn said. It could hurt the accuracy of the credit reports they buy back."
Technology, not trade, is invading nearly all US jobs
The use of digital tools has increased, often dramatically, in 517 of 545 occupations since 2002, with a striking uptick in many lower-skilled occupations, according to a study released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. (Study: //brook.gs/2mn6g9z)
The report underscores the growing need for workers of all types to gain digital skills and explains why many employers say they struggle to fill jobs, including many that in the past required few digital skills. There is anxiety about automation displacing workers and in many cases, new digital tools allow one worker to do work previously done by several.
Those 545 occupations reflect 90 percent of all jobs in the economy. The report found that jobs with greater digital content tend to pay more and are increasingly concentrated in traditional high-tech centers like Silicon Valley, Seattle and Austin, Texas.
Harvey Weinstein sued by actress, who claims he raped her in 2016
'Christians' love pedophilia
The Satanic organization took advantage of the child sex allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore — and support for Moore from local pastors — to herald Tuesday that "christians love pedophilia.”
Wingnut megacult founder Bob Coy accused of molesting 4-year-old
A former Las Vegas strip club manager who went
on to found one of the largest megacults in Florida, has been
accused of molesting a Florida girl for years — beginning when she was
4-years-old
Thursday, November 16, 2017
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Today in History
| 1798 | British seamen board the U.S. frigate Baltimore and impress a number of crewmen as alleged deserters, a practice that will contribute to the War of 1812. | |
| 1813 | The British announce a blockade of Long Island Sound, leaving only the New England coast open to shipping. | |
| 1821 | Trader William Becknell reaches Santa Fe, N.M., on the route that will become known as the Santa Fe Trail. | |
| 1846 | General Zachary Taylor takes Saltillo, Mexico. | |
| 1864 | Union General William T. Sherman departs Atlanta and begins his “March to the Sea.” | |
| 1892 | King Behanzin of Dahomey (now Benin), leads soldiers against the French. | |
| 1902 | A cartoon appears in the Washington Star, prompting the Teddy Bear Craze, after President Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a captive bear tied up for him to shoot during a hunting trip to Mississippi. | |
| 1907 | The Indian and Oklahoma territories are unified to make Oklahoma, which becomes the 46th state. | |
| 1913 | Swann’s Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust’s 7-part novel Remembrance of Things Past, is published. | |
| 1920 | Metered mail is born in Stamford, Connecticut with the first Pitney Bowes postage meter. | |
| 1945 | Eighty-eight German scientists, holding Nazi secrets, arrive in the United States. | |
| 1948 | President Harry S Truman rejects four-power talks on Berlin until the blockade is removed. | |
| 1953 | The United States joins in the condemnation of Israel for its raid on Jordan. | |
| 1955 | The Big Four talks, taking place in Geneva on German reunification, end in failure. | |
| 1960 | After the integration of two all-white schools, 2,000 whites riot in the streets of New Orleans. | |
| 1965 | In the last day of the fighting at Landing Zone X-Ray, regiments of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division repulse NVA forces in the Ia Drang Valley. | |
| 1967 | U.S. planes hit Haiphong shipyard in North Vietnam for the first time. | |
| 1979 | American Airlines is fined $500,000 for improper DC-10 maintenance. | |
| 1982 | The space shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight. | |
| 1989 | A Salvadoran Army death squad kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University. | |
| 1992 | Eric Lawes, while using a metal detector to search for a friend’s lost hammer near Hoxne, Suffolk, England, discovers the Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold ever found in Britain, and the largest collection of 4th and 5th century coins found anywhere within the bounds of the former Roman Empire. | |
| 1997 | Pro-democracy Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng is released from prison after 18 years, for health reasons. |
Cyclist who gave Dumbass Trump the finger is showered with money
More than 3,000 donations — from $5 to $250 — have rolled in since November 6, when the GoFundMe campaign was set up on behalf of Juli Briskman.
San Andreas fault hit by earthquake swarm
The earthquake occurred near the San Andreas Fault at a depth of about four miles. No injuries or damage were reported, and as of Monday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey reported a low likelihood of causalities and damage.?The structures in this area are highly resistant to earthquake shaking, according to the USGS, but some vulnerable structures exist.?The quake was felt as a weak or light earthquake as far as San Francisco, but moderate shakes were reported by the USGS in areas with a very low population.
Antarctica once had a forest
Stores Are Already Playing Xmas Music and It's Not Okay
The early arrival of holiday tunes is making us all anxious, according to one psychologist
Loneliness could kill you
As a society, we value individual achievement and extol self-reliance.
The Threshold For High Blood Pressure Has Changed
New guidelines could triple the number of young guys diagnosed with hypertension
Eating Too Fast Is Making You Fat and Hurting Your Heart
A new study indicates the importance of eating slowly, for both your health and your waistline
Florida student commits suicide at school
Texas judge scolds jury for punishing rapist
The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct
publicly reprimanded Dallas Judge Teresa Hawthorne for scolding jurors
and intervening in a criminal case involving her nephew.
At the Texas Capitol, victims of sexual harassment must fend for themselves
A capitol staffer, she had been at a large party celebrating the end of a legislative session a few years ago and was on her way out when a male lawmaker she had never spoken to reached for her.
“You can’t leave yet,” the staffer remembers the lawmaker telling her as he held her hand tightly. She thought he was going to bring her hand to his mouth and kiss it. Instead, he licked it and refused to let go.
Orlando nightclub gunman had secret sex life
U.S. hate crimes rise for second straight year
The number of hate crimes committed in the United States rose
in 2016 for the second consecutive year, with African-Americans, Jews
and Muslims targeted in many of the incidents, the FBI said on Monday in
an annual report.…
Oklahoma City LGBTQ advocacy center 'won't be intimidated'
According to NBC News, the suspected anti-LGBTQ vandalism at the offices of Freedom Oklahoma are neither a first for gay and trans advocates in the state, nor are they the first time the group has experienced threatening behavior.
Troy Stevenson, Freedom Oklahoma’s executive director, said he received death threats after his group’s work on a case in Hitchcock, Oklahoma, where a gay couple’s house was burned down and their family was ran out of town.
KKK ‘Grand Dragon’ under investigation after threatening fellow students
In late October, students at the University of North Florida discovered that one of their classmates is a Ku Klux Klan leader.
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