From Jenna Orkin 
 
Ammon Bundy Admits Defeat, Calls On Remaining Oregon Occupiers To "Stand Down, Go Home"
Germany Has Repatriated Over 366 Tonnes Of Gold From New York And Paris
How Do You Know When Your Society Is In The Midst Of Collapse?
Showdown Imminent: FBI Sets Up Checkpoints Around Oregon Refuge
FBI Arrests Oregon Militia Leader, Six Others; One Shot Dead
France's Highways Descend Into "Chaos & Lawlessness"
A Japanese news agency is reporting that North Korea may be readying a long-range missile launch

U.S. Shootings Since 1963 Have Killed More Americans Than All Wars Ever 

The U.S. Is Driving Less And Yet Building Ever More Highways 
Google Achieves AI ‘Breakthrough’ by Beating Go Champion  
Pesticides in Paradise: Hawaii’s Spike in Birth Defects Puts Focus on GM Crops: 
More Babies Are Being Born with Organs Outside Their Bodies, and Experts Have No Idea Why 
 
 
And... 
Someone Stole A Ton Of Very Valuable Bull Semen 

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Active Shooter Reported At San Diego Naval Medical Center

Denmark Passes Law To Seize Valuables, Cash From Refugees 

Federal Conspiracy Law: A Brief Overview,  

Scientists teaching computers to recognize sarcasm

A second town with high lead levels in water: When will it stop?
Mutant mosquitoes to be deployed to stop Zika outbreak in Brazil
Strong 6.1 quake hits Mediterranean between Morocco and Spain
Indonesian birds on the brink as forests plunderedFrance's Highways Descend Into "Chaos & Lawlessness" 

"ISIS Has Enjoyed Turkish Money For Oil For A Very, Very Long Time": Israeli Defense Minister

$681 Million In Mystery Money Found In Malaysia PM's Bank Account Was "Personal Donation" From Saudis

"Zombie Ships" - Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests

Google is donating 25,000 Chromebooks to refugees arriving in Europe

6 Cleveland cops just got fired over a chase that ended with officers shooting at an unarmed couple 137 times

From Jenna Orkin 

 

"Gangs" Of "All-Male" Moroccan Migrant Children “Take Over” Stockholm Train Station; Steal, Grope, Beat Women

20 Dead, 200 Hospitalized After Reports US Lab "Leaks" Deadly Virus In Ukraine

Chinese Rush To Buy Foreign Assets As Mammoth $1 Trillion In Capital Flees Country

China Warns "Social Stability Threatened" As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs

Texas Economy Collapses - Dallas Fed Survey Crashes To 6-Year Lows As "D" Word Is Uttered

WalMart Store Closures Leave Elderly Villagers With No Grocery Stores, Pharmacies

Sprint Fires 2500: 8% Of Its Entire Workforce 

ISIS Releases New Video Featuring Paris Attackers, Group Planning "Large Scale" Assault On Europe 

An extreme drought is wreaking havoc in Thailand

Massive snowstorms don't disprove global warming — in fact, quite the opposite

This stunning chart shows how 37 banks combined into just 4 over 20 years 

Greeks To Be Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize For Role In Refugee Crisis 

And for taking their IMF medicine.

 

 

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Scientists have proposed a ‘mirror universe’ where time might move backwards

 

And...

These Dudes Built An Igloo During The Blizzard And Listed It On Airbnb

Meet The World's First Gay Mormon Superhero 

From Jenna Orkin

 

2015 Was the Hottest Year on Record, by a Stunning Margin ...

Here Come The Blackouts: Largest Ever Muni Restructuring Falls Apart As Puerto Rico's Power Authority Balks At $9 Billion Deal
Norway's Biggest Bank Demands Cash Ban

Young people who question Government or media may be extremists, officials tell parents

Drug to Cure Fear

This wouldn't have a military application by any chance, would it?

ObamaTrade Will Cost 448,000 American Jobs, New Study Finds 

Austria To Refugees: Learn To Speak German Or Get No Money 

A giant lake in Bolivia has completely disappeared 

Former Haitian coup leader: 'We are ready for war'

China uses these yak patrol teams to enforce claims over its disputed western borders 

Here's why a once-hostile Arab country is suddenly talking about opening up ties with Israel 

19 jaw-dropping photos of military police training for riots 

Magnitude-6.8 earthquake hits Alaska 

A Scary New Superbug Gene Has Reached at Least 19 Countries 

 

And... 

Eight men have been charged with knocking off Tutankhamun's beard then trying to glue it back on 

From Jenna Orkin

 

America's lead poisoning problem isn't just in Flint. It’s everywhere

"Snowzilla" Slams 85 Million Americans: Photos From The Snow-Covered East Coast

Calais On Lockdown After 100s Of Migrants Storm UK-Bound Ferry

Anyone Using New York City Roads After 2:30pm Will Be Arrested

Fruit, Vegetable Prices Soar In Canada: "If You Insist On Eating Tomatoes, You're Going To Pay For It"

Mitch McConnell Moves To Grant The President Unlimited War Powers With No Expiration Date

REPORT: Michael Bloomberg is seriously thinking about running for president

ISIS has destroyed key oil infrastructure in Libya

TRUMP: If I'm president, 'Christianity will have power' in the US

BONNER: The entire recovery is one giant myth

DEA Hired A TSA Informant To Help Take Cash From People's Luggage

It also promised the agent a cut of the profits.

Saudi Arabia and China signed a memorandum of understanding to build a high energy nuclear reactor that would use gas for cooling.

Nigeria: Minister alleges $9 billion stolen from economy

Clinton Email Shows that Oil and Gold Were Behind Regime Change In Libya

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

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"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

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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

 

Bonus... 

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