From Jenna Orkin

Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science

Stephen Hawking and leading doctors to take Jeremy Hunt to court over 'back-door privatisation' of NHS

Desperate Alaskans Turn To Government For Food, Healthcare As Recession Deepens

These Are The 6 Traders Who Were Just Arrested For Manipulating The Gold Market

Corrupt Baltimore Cops Admit Planting Guns, Using GPS-Locators To Rob Drug Dealers

The Return Of Sumptuary Laws? Dutch Cops To 'Undress' Youths Wearing "Clothes Deemed Too Expensive For Them"

Japan's Renesas is in talks to buy U.S. chipmaker Maxim for $20 billion

Floods in Paris are so bad that its equivalent of Liberty Island is underwater

House Intel Committee Republicans vote to release secret memo in a move that the DOJ said would be 'extraordinarily reckless'


And...
There’s a secret code passengers can give to airport security if they’re hiding an engagement ring from their partner

How long before we find an explosive in an engagement ring?

From Jenna Orkin

Flu widespread and deadly, claiming the lives of 37 children

Delivering drugs directly to the brain via tiny needle

Hackers Are Using Malware To "Jackpot" US ATMs, Forcing Them To Dispense All Cash

Hackers Create "Perfect Virus" - Put Oil Companies On Edge

John Kerry In Secret Communications With Palestine For "Alternative Initiative" Circumventing Trump

FBI Releases Docs Claiming RT Founder Beat Himself To Death In His Hotel Room

White House Is Planning To Nationalize 5G Network: Report

Japanese Police Launch Probe Of Biggest Cryptocurrency Heist In History

Bomb Threats Target 25 Moscow Buildings, Force Evacuations Of Parliament, Stock Exchange

Fitness Tracking App Accidentally Reveals Secret US Military Bases, CIA "Black" Sites

From Jenna Orkin

Monkeys Cloned in World First

Biggest Washington DC Lobbyist Is Now Google

Ex-Montana House Majority Leader Gets 18 Years for Drug Trafficking

East China Sea: Worst Tanker Oil Spill in Decades

ICE Is About to Start Tracking License Plates Across the U.S.

"The Honest Poor"? - 1 In 5 Of America's Homeless Live In NYC Or LA

Russian Parliament Set To Make The CryptoRuble Legal Tender

The Flu Is Far Worse Than We're Being Told

CNN Turkey Fake News Goes Viral: 'American Sniper' Star Killed In Syria, Pentagon Forced To Deny

Forget the West — blockchain will have the biggest impact in emerging markets

Companies like Amazon and Starbucks want to kill cash — and it could be a huge blow to the most vulnerable Americans

From Jenna Orkin

Only Trump can restore America's ability to win a nuclear war - The Hill(!)

Brut nature's video. - Central Africa

Engineered for Dystopia
Engineering is full of authoritarians who, predictably, take all the wrong lessons from pop culture

Death Panels Next? FDA Approves A.I. Model That Predicts Your Chance Of 'Sudden Expiration'

Toronto Billionaire Couple Were Murdered In A "Targeted Double Homicide"

California Considers $1,000 Fine For Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

Google Launches Cybersecurity Firm

Feds Charge Democrat Florida Mayor With Money Laundering, Taking Bribes From "Bunch Of Russians"

USAF Begins Massive GPS Blackouts In The Western US During Largest Ever Air War Drill

Bombshell report details worries of a 'shadow' newsroom and alleged spying at the Los Angeles Times

Chelsea Manning attended a party hosted by far-right conservatives to 'gather intel' on the alt-right

From Jenna Orkin

Scientists Hate the NIH’s New Rules for Experimenting on Humans

Museum of Natural History urged to cut ties with 'anti-science propagandist' Rebekah MercerMore than 100 scientists have urged the museum to sever its ties with Mercer, one of Donald Trump’s top donors

Anti-science tech wizard.

Air Force One Fridge Replacement To Cost $24 Million, Store 3,000 Meals

Is This The World's Most Critical Pipeline? (Azerbaijan)

The Other Way To Steal Crypto: Armed Robbers Storm Ontario-Based Bitcoin Firm

Anti-Trump FBI Official Identified As Leaker To WSJ, WaPo Reporter   

 

At Davos, economists and execs say the strategies that led major corporations to world domination in the past won't work anymore

 

Thousands of people in Kenya are getting free money for 12 years in an experiment that could redefine social welfare around the world

 

$400 million of cryptocurrency disappeared on a Japanese exchange — and no one knows what happened

And...
The world's first 'smog vacuum cleaner' can suck up air pollution and turn it into jewelry

From Jenna Orkin

No Representation Without Taxation video.

Billionaires Earned Enough Money in 2017 to End Extreme Poverty Seven Times Over, Report Says

The Doomsday Clock is now just 2 minutes to ‘midnight,’ the symbolic hour of the apocalypse

Record rain across soggy France keeps Seine rising

Melinda Gates battles to promote contraception in Burkina Faso

Hundreds of children sickened, dead in Papua health crisis

Facebook admits social media threat to democracy

Speech analysis software predicts psychosis
Lock 'em up.

Rupert Murdoch: Facebook has become 'inherently unreliable'

A New Record High - Venezuela's Inflation Climbs Above 7,000%

US stealth bombers in Guam appear to be readying for a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea

An Iranian protester who removed her head scarf in public and waved it like a flag hasn't been seen in weeks

The newest way to beat lines at the airport involves quickly scanning your eyes or fingerprints — here's how it works
Leave your troubles behind and come this way.

A Kroger-Alibaba deal could thwart Amazon's Whole Foods ambitions

From Jenna Orkin

The Post and the Pentagon Papers
Informative opposing take by James DiEugenio

Russian Submarine Seen Engulfed In Flames, Russian Navy Calls It An "Exercise"
It's Official: 2017 Was Mexico's Most-Murderous Year Ever

WW3 Preparations? Amidst Drought, North Korean Officials Raid Homes And Farms To Feed Army

Estonia To Issue 'How To Prepare For War' Leaflets To 1.3 Million Citizens

Patients Are "Dying In Corridors" Of Britain's Socialised Health System

Futures A Sea Of Green As Dollar Bloodbath Accelerates

Researchers recorded a thought making its way through the brain in real time — see what it looks like

Saddam Hussein wrote a romantic novel you can actually buy on Amazon

Mattress Firm responds to the wild conspiracy theory about its business that people are going crazy over

26 eco-friendly alternatives for things you use every day

Apple is going after a project Google abandoned — easy access to your complete medical records

Dozens of Britain's most powerful men accused of attending exclusive gala where women were allegedly groped and harassed

Toys R Us is closing more than 180 stores — here's the full list

From Jenna Orkin

Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

MDMA For PTSD Therapy Enters Final Round of Trials, Could Be Approved In U.S. and Canada By 2021

Trump Fires Latest Shot In Trade Wars - Imposes 30% Tariff On Solar-Panel Imports

Canadian Billionaire Couple Was Murdered, Private Investigators Say

Billionaires Stuck: Davos Disrupted By Massive Snowfall, Avalanche Alerts

40,000 Indians Flee As Fighting Erupts On Pakistan Border

Anti-Snake Venom Opossums

U.S. On Track To Unseat Saudi Arabia As No.2 Oil Producer In the World

 

German City Bans All New Refugees As Violent Crime Spikes

One Killed, Multiple Wounded At Kentucky High School Shooting; Suspect Apprehended

A major coastal city is set to run out of water — and 'Day Zero' is approaching faster than anyone predicted

We toured the largest aircraft carrier in the world — which can house more than 75 aircraft but doesn't have urinals

Trump's potentially trillion-dollar infrastructure plan has reportedly leaked — here's what it says

Alaskans evacuate after 7.9 magnitude earthquake prompts widespread tsunami alert

From Jenna Orkin

An Oil Slick Off the Coast of China Has Tripled in Size

Saudi Arabia's lawyer says families of 9/11 victims have no evidence in suit against kingdom

And they're citing as evidence the 9/11 Commission Report which even its authors claim is flawed.  Maybe they mean the part where it says they wouldn't look into the source for funding.

Fed Up With Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own

200 Million Investors May Have Lost Everything In Largest Ponzi Scheme In China's History

Turkey Slams 'Allies' For Sending "Planeloads Of Arms" To Terrorists Ahead Of Emergency UN Session

15 Year Old Hacker Impersonated CIA Director And Other High Ranking Officials In Massive Data Breach

Central Banks: From Coordination To Competition

Google has conquered American classrooms — now Microsoft is striking back with cheap PCs and a Minecraft upgrade

Israeli-Arab lawmakers were forcibly removed after protesting Mike Pence's big speech to Israel's parliament

NYPD cops reportedly furious over being given fewer 'get out of jail free' cards to hand out to friends

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Malala are joining forces to get 100,000 underprivileged girls into school

Amazon's grocery store of the future opens today: no cashiers, no registers, and no lines

From Jenna Orkin

Last three years hottest on record: UN

Fake medicines flourish in Africa despite killing thousands

How a tropical pathogen came to reside in the Pacific Northwest

Booby-trapped messaging apps used for spying: researchers

NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve

Google Has An Actual Secret Speech Police

Only one road in the world leads from Russia to North Korea — and you can take a trip down it on Google Maps

Merkel, Macron to deepen Franco-German cooperation, strengthen EU

Homeschooling could be the smartest way to teach kids in the 21st century — here are 5 reasons why

Your burger habit could be threatened by weather chaos — but gene editing could help us save cows and avoid ‘mass famine’

From Jenna Orkin

From Senator Tom Cotton to Constituents Who Disagreed with him post.

Military Deployed As Jamaica Officials Declare State Of Emergency

Pay for Some New York Private School Chiefs Nears $1 Million

Alarming Rise In The Number Of Gun-Store Burgalaries Across America

Venezuelan Rebel Cop Oscar Perez Massacred By The Government After He Surrendered

NSA "Sincerely Regrets" Deleting All Bush-Era Surveillance Data It Was Ordered To Preserve

Facebook is asking users to pick which news outlets are 'trustworthy' — and will demote the losers in your feed

A mom in Florida is caring for 1,250 children of illegal immigrants in case their parents are deported

Twitter found more than 50,000 Russia-linked accounts that actively shared election-related material — and Trump interacted with them hundreds of times

Hong Kong is so expensive that architects are building 100-square-foot ‘tube homes’ made from concrete water pipes

Government shutdown predicted to increase weapons costs for the Pentagon

From Jenna Orkin

Area 51 flights? Top-secret government airline seeks flight attendant

TV crew tried to sneak fake explosive device through Newark Airport security, feds say

How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms

Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Dies In Helicopter Crash

Sweden Is Preparing For A "Civil War": PM Wants To Deploy Army In No-Go Zones

"We Must Avoid Day Zero" - Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From Running Out Of Water

Newsweek Confirms Manhattan DA Raided Its Offices, Searched Its Servers

Oliver Stone's "Ukraine On Fire" Documentary Released In The West

The Incredible Shrinking Population: By 2080, Italians Will Be A Minority In Their Own Nation

"Explosive", "Shocking" And "Alarming" FISA Memo Set To Rock DC, "End Mueller Investigation"

Amazon just dropped a major hint about where it wants its new headquarters to be

From Jenna Orkin

The Rover Pipeline spills again, in the same spot where it spilled 2 million gallons last year

How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan

"He Slipped Up": The One Thing Bannon Told Congress Yesterday That Could Haunt Trump

This Is How Drug Lords Make Billions Smuggling Gold To Miami

California's Homeless Problem Revealed In One "Incredible" Video

FBI Investigating Millions Of "Mishandled" Dollars Funneled From Australian Govt To Clinton Foundation

Over The Next Year, Germany Will Hit A Scary Demographic Milestone

Amazon Unveils 20 City Finalists For HQ2, Expects To Create 50,000 Jobs In Winning City

Turkey deploys tanks, says will act against US-backed forces in Syria as US backpedals

The best female poker player in the world has joined the largest hedge fund in the world

'Entire aisles are empty': Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages

From Jenna Orkin

Grand jury indicts Maryland executive in Uranium One deal ... - The Hill

DHS Is Planning To Arrest Sanctuary City Leaders

Skynet Now: Pentagon Deploys Terrorist-Hunting Artificial Intelligence

Ex-CIA Officer Suspected Of Helping China Assassinate US Informants Arrested At JFK

Norway Desperately Needs Large Oil Discoveries

Frack, baby, frack.  Or risk turning into another shithole country.

US Industrial Production Surges In December To Record High

7 of 10 on the US National Park Service advisory board resign, saying Trump ignored them

'Economic blackmail': Zara, Qantas, Marriott and Delta Air Lines reverse position on Taiwan for fear of angering China

Also see:  China sails its aircraft carrier past Taiwan in marked increase of hostilities

New poll finds British people would vote to scrap Brexit in a second referendum

A 'broke, homeless' passenger was turned away from two flights because he was wearing 10 layers of clothing to avoid paying the luggage fee

Scientists spent a month exploring the Gulf of Mexico's deep sea habitats — and the images they brought back are astonishing

North and South Korea to march under a unified flag at the Winter Olympics

From Jenna Orkin

New California declares "independence" from rest of state

Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American and Russian, Part 1

As Petro-Yuan Looms, Bundesbank Adds Renminbi To Currency Reserves

As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption Charges

5 Reasons Why Egypt And Sudan Might Be About To Go To War

Is Facebook 'Championing' Blasphemy Laws Across Europe?

China Downgrades US Credit Rating From A- To BBB+, Warns US Insolvency Would "Detonate Next Crisis"

Dow Opens Above 26,000 After Fastest 1000-Point Surge In History

The US Is Developing Two New Nuclear Weapons

Putin Pals Panic Over US "Corrupt Oligarchs" List, Begin Liquidating Assets

A leading Kosovo Serb politician was shot dead outside his office and Serbia says it's an act of terrorism

Fugitive cop who attacked buildings in Venezuela's capital from a helicopter last year reportedly killed in police raid

Britain is using this puzzle to recruit aspiring female spies — try it out
...and never doubt that your freedom is in good hands.

Top North Korea expert makes the case for the US bombing Kim Jong Un's personal toilet

Jared Kushner reportedly was warned that his close friend Wendi Deng Murdoch may be a Chinese spy

Steve Bannon has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in Mueller's Russia investigation