From Jenna Orkin

 

Attention Finally Turns To Saudi Arabia's "Secret" US Treasury Holdings
This Is What The Death Of A Nation Looks Like: Venezuela Prepares For 720% Hyperinflation

The Planet’s Fisheries Are In Even Worse Shape Than We Thought

Not The Onion: Lamb Chop Weight Enforcers Want Warrantless Access to Australians’ Metadata

Neurosurgeon Claims Successful Head Transplant on Monkey

DARPA: Bridging the Bio-Electronic Divide

Rise of the Robots Will Eliminate More Than 5 Million Jobs

Governor Knew About Flint Water Poisoning for Nearly A Year, Tried To Shift Blame 

Schlumberger's Terrifying Moment Of Truth About The US Energy Sector 

Pentagon Chief Says "Boots On The Ground" Part Of "Accelerated" Strategy For ISIS Fight 

Global leaders are undergoing this intense refugee simulation at Davos

Researchers have achieved the next breakthrough in quantum physics 

China is trying to conquer 'The Impossible Trinity': an economic puzzle no-one has ever solved

The Hidden Environmental Cost Of Almost Everything You Do Online

 

 And...

 Water acts so strangely in space astronauts can use it as a ping pong ball

From Jenna Orkin

"Most Of Us Ended Up At Office Depot": Thousands Of Angry Students "Flood" Government With Demands For Debt Relief

Venezuela Hits "Point of No Return" - 2016 Bankruptcy Is "Difficult To Avoid" According To Barclays

Stephen Hawking Warns Humanity: Leave Earth Before The Ruling Class Destroys It

Schlumberger Fires 10,000 As It Announces A $10 Billion Stock Buyback

Bank Of Russia Calls "Emergency" Meeting To Address Ruble Rout

Russian Ruble Crashes To Record Lows In "Panic": "Some Investors Are Selling At Any Price" 

The Pentagon has no idea where $800 million in aid money went

A regional chief of the EPA has resigned in response to the Flint water crisis

Oil services giant Schlumberger is buying $10 billion of itself

NASA scientists take to Reddit to issue a dire warning 

A vanished lake in Bolivia is ‘a picture of the future' 

A Christian, A Muslim, and A Jew Go Canvassing For Bernie Sanders 

Zika virus: El Salvador tells women not to get pregnant until 2018  

DARPA: Bridging the Bio-Electronic Divide 

Neurosurgeon Claims Successful Head Transplant on Monkey

Not The Onion: Lamb Chop Weight Enforcers Want Warrantless Access to Australians’ Metadata 

The Planet’s Fisheries Are In Even Worse Shape Than We Thought 

 

And...

Woody Guthrie Despised His Landlord—Donald Trump's Racist Father

From Jenna Orkin

 

The Story You Aren't Being Told About Iran Capturing Two American Vessels 

Saudis Line Up Chinese Energy Deals As Competition For Asian Market Heats Up 

Tying It All Together: Rifle Lost During "Fast And Furious" Found In El Chapo's Hideout
War On Cash Escalates: China Readies Digital Currency, IMF Says "Extremely Beneficial"

Britons 'proud of colonialism and Empire' - poll

Top Chinese university hacked by IS infiltrator: Reports
Cleaning Oil Spills

Magnetize it; both oil and magnet may be reused.
The "Historic" Winter Blizard Was Just Upgraded To A "Potentially Epic Winter Blockbuster"

ISIS Cuts Fighters' Pay By 50%, Cites "Exceptional Circumstances" 

4 Dead, 2 Dozen Injured After Suicide Bomber Strikes Russian Embassy In Afghanistan, ISIS Reportedly Claim Responsibility 

A major US city closed almost all of its schools after teachers started protesting deplorable school conditions 

The cold weather sweeping Britain could reduce your phone battery life

Climate change gets 'em where they live.  

 

From Jenna Orkin

Caught On Tape: 1,000 Dutch Villagers Storm Town Hall In Anti-Migrant Melee

Patchwork ploughing: Australian farmer creates huge geometric artwork to fight soil erosion

Washington Unveils Investigation Into "Russian Meddling" In The EU

And You Thought QE Was Over: The Fed Will Monetize Half Of This Year's U.S. Treasury Issuance

Hedge Fund Which Predicted The Subprime Crisis Expects Massive Yuan Devaluation In 2016

China Wades Into Mid-East Melodrama As Xi Makes First Presidential Trip To Saudi Arabia, Iran 

Dutch Politician: Male Refugees Are "Testosterone Bombs," Must Be Locked Up To Save Women From "Sexual Jihad"

Top 1% Have More Than Everyone Else"

A 'blizzard for the ages' could hit the Northeast this weekend

Macy's just announced the end of department stores as we know them 

Black Lives Matter protesters blocked off the Bay Bridge for 30 minutes during rush hour

ISIS has freed 270 of the 400 people it kidnapped from Syria's Deir al-Zor

Two-thirds of Americans can't afford a $500 emergency

The world’s oceans are warming much faster than we thought

The scary-simple way hackers cut electricity to 700,000 homes

 

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North Korea is claiming it invented a 'hangover-free' alcohol

From Jenna Orkin

"Countdown To The End": EU Officials Say Europe Is "Going Down The Drain"

What Could Go Wrong? China Builds A Floating Nuclear Power Plant
The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding
China's Housing Is Recovering, Just Ignore The 10 Billion Square Feet Of Vacant Housing
Mission Accomplished? The U.S. Spent Half A Billion On Mining In Afghanistan With "Limited Progress"

Tenge Crashes As Low Oil Prices Take Dramatic Toll On Kazakh Economy 

China's Top Stock Regulator Gives Up On "Immature" Market, Hands In Resgination 

Francois Hollande Admits Socialist Policies Failed, Declares "Economic State Of Emergency" 

Saudi Arabia Is Buying Up American Farmland To Export Agricultural Products Back Home 

Foreign Central Banks Furiously Dump US Treasuries: Record $47 Billion Sold In First Two Weeks Of 2016 

This stunning map shows the flow of traffic across the globe using the anonymous network Tor

Humans Need Not Apply

Women are going to lose out the most when robots take over the world's workforce 

The World's Richest 62 People Have As Much Wealth As The Poorest 3.5 Billion

 

Bonus

4 cosmic phenomena that travel faster than the speed of light

From Jenna Orkin
 
Wells Fargo's Problem Emerges: $17 Billion In Junk Energy Exposure
Exclusive: Dallas Fed Quietly Suspends Energy Mark-To-Market On Default Contagion Fears
SHERIFF OF WALL STREET: We're no longer able to bring certain insider trading cases
The US prisoner swap with Iran shows that the landmark nuclear deal 'wasn't a nuclear deal at all'
Bombshell Oxfam report reveals just 62 people control same wealth as half world's population

First flower born in space shows there is 'other life' out there 

Russia to vote on anti-gay bill that would jail people for kissing 
Europe's Foul Plan on 'Clean' Diesel 
With Soylent Sales Up 300 Percent, Its Founders Have Eyes on Europe
As Mike would say, "Google, 'Soylent green is people!'"
Wal-Mart to Shut Hundreds of Stores, Affecting 16,000 Jobs 
 
From the, "Et tu, Brute?" Department
The "Putin Is Isolated" Meme Officially Dies As Japan Calls For Closer Ties With Russia
"China Banks Seem To Be Doing Whatever They Can To Avoid Paying Anyone In Dollars"
Taiwan's Tsai Vows Economic Fix While Keeping Peace With China 
A New Dawn for Taiwan and China
 

Pro-China Party Falls As Taiwan Elects First Female President In "Historic" Landslide Election

Iran Sanctions Lifted As Nuclear Deal Implemented, US Hostages Freed

Lottery Money Not Helping Schools

It’s The Beginning Of The End For Meat Raised With Antibiotics

Welsh village suffers 81 consecutive days of rain

Oregon Fire Chief Resigns After He Says He Secretly Followed Men From Armory and Uncovered Shocking Truth About Their Identities ... 

Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms 

The 2 most dangerous numbers in the universe are threatening the end of physics 

100-mile corridor of snow to engulf UK as temperatures set to drop to -10C 

English shoppers steal £26.7m worth of plastic bags since October 

Animal frozen 30 years ago revived by scientists

Gun Deaths Now Outpace Motor Vehicle Deaths in 21 States 

 

 

 

From Jenna Orkin


This Is The Cartoon Germany Hands Out To Sexually Frustrated Refugees
How Switzerland Hopes To Prevent Refugee Sex Attacks: With This Cartoon
German Town Bans Refugees From Pools
Chipotle To Close All Stores Next Month For Meeting On How Not To Poison People
Norway Pushes Panic Button: "We're In A Crisis Now, We Can't Deny That"
More Smoking Guns - Will Hillary's Next Stop Be The White House Or The Big House?
US Freight Volumes Fall For First Time In 3 Years As Baltic Dry Crashes Under 400
WalMart To Fire 16,000 As It Closes 269 Stores Globally 
World's Largest Miner Books Massive $7.2 Billion Writedown On US Shale "Assets" 
Americans' 'misery index' is at its lowest point since the 1950s
At least 20 killed in a hotel after gunfire, explosions erupt in Burkina Faso's capital 
5 countries dump more plastic into the oceans than the rest of the world combined
There are 30 million slaves in the world — and half of them are children
Chicago police are taking major steps toward greater transparency
A matchstick-size implant that could be the answer to America's serious overdose problem is about to get approved
These 11 laws are what keep space from becoming the wild west
There’s an apocalyptic scenario forming with infections – here are 2 ways people are planning to fight back 

From Jenna Orkin

European Gun Sales Soar On Refugee Fears As "Racist Vikings" Prowl Finland's Streets 

The US Government Has An Internet Killswitch - And It's None Of Your Business 

Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops

Private water companies make over £1bn from 'unnecessarily high prices'

"It's All The Fed's Fault" Santelli Rages, They "Will Certainly Turn Us Into Japan" 

Baltic sea index hits all-time low as shipping crisis deepens 

Could China's Housing Bubble Bring Down The Global Economy? 

How to Talk to Your Kids About Donald Trump

Emails Prove Hillary Knew Libyan Rebels Were Conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Supported Them Anyway 

Explosions, Gunfire Rock Indonesia Capital: 4 Dead (1 Cop); 14 Gunmen, Suicide Bombers Involved (ISIS Suspected) 

UN: 396,000 people under siege in Syria have no access to food aid

U.S. Intelligence Director’s Personal E-Mail, Phone Hacked  

Taiwan Bans GMOs in Schools, Mandates Strict Label Laws  

$1 Trillion Erased from Stocks So Far in 2016  

From Jenna Orkin

The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’

TSA To Stop Accepting Driver's Licenses From 9 U.S. States

Flooded householders near fracking zones face insurance double-whammy

Seven refugees 'thrown overboard' off coast of Italy fleeing Somalia

Canadians Panic As Food Prices Soar On Collapsing Currency 

US Vaporizes "Millions" In Cash, Kills 7 Civilians In "Unusual" Strike On ISIS "Bank" 

GE To Cut 6,500 European Jobs 

In Finland an anti-immigrant group called the 'Soldiers of Odin' are patrolling the streets and worrying authorities 

First GM human embryos 'could be created in Britain within weeks'

FDA approves company's genetically engineered potato

12-year-old girl shot dead by police during eviction

Residents fear for health in car-clogged Albanian capital
Al Jazeera America To Shut Down

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Boy wearing diaper found driving Power Wheels on busy highway
Marijuana Cleverly Disguised As Carrots Seized By Border PatrolThe comedian who became president of Guatemala