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  WIRED

• San Francisco Passes a Law to Rein In Shared Electric Scooters 10 hours ago

  It's not the only discombobulated city struggling to divide precious space.
  

• Inside the Unnerving CCleaner Supply Chain Attack 12 hours ago

  CCleaner owner Avast is sharing more details on the malware attackers used to infect legitimate software updates with malware.
  

• How Southwest Pilots Could Have Landed Safely With a Blown Engine 12 hours ago

  One person died on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 after an engine failed and blew a hole in the cabin at 31,000 feet.
  

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  NYT > Home Page

• Europe Edition: North Korea, Emmanuel Macron, Malta: Your Wednesday Briefing 6 hours ago

  Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
  

• Mike Pompeo, C.I.A. Director, Is Said to Meet With Kim Jong-un in North Korea 7 hours ago

  The president alluded to the mission on Tuesday when he said that the United States was in direct talks with North Korea at “extremely high levels.”...
  

• Sanctions Flap Erupts Into Open Conflict Between Haley and White House 7 hours ago

  A top White House official said Nikki Haley experienced “momentary confusion” by announcing new sanctions on Russia. “I don’t get confused,” she replied...
  

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  India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti

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  Something wrong with our society: J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti 12 minutes ago

  Referring to the shocking abduction, gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in January, the Chief Minister said: "How can someone do such a cruel thing to a small girl...
  
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  Tamil Nadu governor apologises to woman journalist for pat on cheek, she's 'not convinced' 25 minutes ago

  
  
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  Gagan Shakti 2018: All you need to know about India's biggest military exercise 29 minutes ago

  In a massive show of strength, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is conducting 'Gagan Shakti 2018', the biggest ever war combat game exercise on the Pakistan and China border. Here’s all...
  

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  BBC News - UK

• Windrush: Amber Rudd should consider position, says Diane Abbott 20 minutes ago

  Labour says the home secretary must "take responsibility" for mistakes made by her department.
  

• De La Rue abandons passport appeal 2 hours ago

  The firm gives up its efforts to challenge government decision over new UK passport manufacture.
  

• Alex Skeel: Domestic abuse survivor was 'days from death' 12 hours ago

  Alex Skeel was stabbed, beaten, kept isolated and denied food by Jordan Worth who has been jailed.
  

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  National Geographic News

• Diamonds From Outer Space Formed Inside a Long-Lost Planet 18 hours ago

  A gem-studded meteorite that fell in Sudan offers clues about the protoplanets that likely existed in our solar system's violent past.
  

• Ancient Chronicles Show Modern Demise of Snub-Nosed Monkeys a day ago

  China’s 2,000-year-old enthusiasm for keeping meticulous records is providing scientists with an unusual resource to track the dwindling primate numbers...
  

• Why We Created This First-of-Its-Kind Digital Field Journal a day ago

  The new community platform is designed to empower the next generation of global explorers.
  

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  Reuters: World News

• Trump's CIA chief in secret meeting with North Korean leader: U.S. officials 4 hours ago

  WASHINGTON/PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State nominee and CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a secret visit to North Korea over the Easter weekend and met with North Korean...
  

• South Korea says discussing peace deal with North Korea ahead of summit 12 minutes ago

  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Wednesday it is considering how to change a decades-old armistice with North Korea into a peace agreement, as U.S. officials confirmed an unprecedented...
  

• Syria chemical weapons visit postponed after gunfire: sources 18 minutes ago

  THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A visit by international chemical weapons inspectors to the location of a suspected poison gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma has been delayed after gunfire...
  

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SPACE.com

• NASA Scientists Traverse Antarctica to Prep for New Climate Satellite (Video) a day ago

  Two NASA scientists recently returned from a two week, 470-mile (760 kilometers) expedition in one of the most barren landscapes on Earth.
  

• SpaceX Will Build Its Next-Gen Mars Rocket in Los Angeles a day ago

  SpaceX will build its "BFR" spaceship at a new facility in the Port of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced yesterday (April 16).
  

• Meet OmegA: Orbital ATK Unveils Name, Upper Stage Pick for Next-Gen Rocket a day ago

  Orbital ATK's next rocket will be its biggest one yet, and the company has picked a fitting name for new booster: OmegA.
  

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  CBC | Canada News

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  Quebec City mosque shooting victim hailed as hero for trying to disarm gunman 2 hours ago
• Azzeddine Soufiane, one of the men who died in the Quebec City mosque shooting, was described as "heroic" and "courageous" by his friends who survived the attack...
  

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  Eyes on Trade

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  New Trump Administration Trade Report Sticks to the Status Quo 7 days ago

  The Trump administration’s recently released 2018 National Trade Estimate Report could become classic reading for political science students studying the “deep state”...
  
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  On Announcement of Revisions to U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement 21 days ago

  Statement of Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the administration announced revisions to the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement...
  
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  Public Citizen Report: ‘Follow the Money: Did Administration Officials’ Financial Entanglements With China Delay Trump’s Promised Tough-on-China Trade Policy?’ a month ago

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the administration is poised to announce long-awaited action on a China trade investigation launched last summer, Public Citizen released a report revealing...
  

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• The Greatest Spiritual Event of Our Time According to Rudolph Steiner 2 days ago

  Paul Levy, Guest Waking Times Almost a hundred years ago, as if peering into a crystal ball and predicting the future, spiritual teacher and clairvoyant Rudolf Steiner[1] prophesied...
  

• The ‘Muscle of the Soul’ may be Triggering Your Fear and Anxiety 2 days ago

  Brett Wilbanks and Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times The psoas major muscle (pronounced “so-as”) is often referred to as the deepest core, or as yoga therapist and film-maker...
  

• Can We Afford To Wait? 2 days ago

  By Gabriel Melchizedek Sananda, Guest writer, Enlightened Consciousnes This embodiment results in the synthesis of the greater being that we truly are WITH the Divine Presence...
  

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: Nut lovers rejoice: Your favorite snack protects your heart 3 hours ago

  Nuts are widely considered beneficial to the heart. A new study dives deeper into the specifics and finds out exactly what nuts can do for our tickers...
  

• Medical News Today: Female pattern baldness: Treatment and genetics 3 hours ago

  While most women lose between 50 and 100 strands of hair per day, this hair is usually quickly replaced by new growth. When bald patches or thinning occurs, however, it may be a sign of...
  

• Medical News Today: Ketamine nasal spray could fight depression fast 3 hours ago

  Could a fast-acting new drug curb serious depression symptoms, including suicidal thoughts? A recent study says 'yes,' but questions of safety arise.
  

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  Desdemona Despair

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  Doctors battle drug-resistant typhoid outbreak in Pakistan – “Antibiotic resistance is a threat to all of modern medicine. And the scary part is, we’re out of options.” 18 hours ago

  By Emily Baumgaertner13 April 2018(The New York Times) – The first known epidemic of extensively drug-resistant typhoid is spreading through Pakistan, infecting at least 850...
  
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  What gave the U.S. West its soggiest winter-type atmosphere on record? 3 days ago

  By Bob Henson  9 April 2018(Weather Underground) – If you love atmospheric extremes, but you hate to see people in harm’s way, you couldn’t ask for a more pleasing event than...
  
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  Can we make green roofs more biodiverse? 3 days ago

  By Leslie Nemo13 April 2018(CityLab) – Every time Kelly Ksiazek-Mikenas scrambled onto a new green roof, it was hard to tell exactly where she was. The city below was definitely...
  

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  The Daily Sheeple

• Trump’s Border Wall Will Be An Ecological DISASTER 13 hours ago

  There are many reasons why Americans object to president Donald Trump's proposition of building a wall on the Mexican border with the United States.  Many cite funding and the...
  

• New Viruses And Superbugs Found In House Mice Droppings In New York 15 hours ago

  House mice are abundant in New York City. From ground level low rent studios to upper-class penthouses, they infiltrate every corner of the city. And now, a new study has confirmed...
  

• Woman Partially Sucked Out Of Southwest Jet After Violent Depressurization From Engine Explosion 17 hours ago

  A woman was partially sucked out of a Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines flight after a piece of the jet's engine flew into and broke a window, according to the father of a passenger, who...
  

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  Exceptional Delaware 2017

• Odyssey Charter “Denies” A Parent’s Opt Out Letter Two Months Later 3 days ago

  Last week, a parent of a student at Odyssey Charter School received a response to an opt out letter she sent the school back in February.  The letter said they were unable to offer any...
  

• Breaking News: Donna Johnson Resigns From Delaware State Board of Education 5 days ago

  Donna Johnson has been the Executive Director of the Delaware State Board of Education for the past nine years.  Very soon, she will be exiting that post to begin a new position in Washington...
  

• Senator Sokola Makes My Day With Proposed Education Funding Transparency Bill 5 days ago

  As part of the Every Student Succeeds Act, all schools are required to provide more transparency with how they spend money.  Delaware Senator Sokola seeks to codify this with legislation...
  

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  Have You Heard

• The Data Boyz: What *Counts* in Education Research? 15 days ago

  TweetAs the latest episode of Have You Heard explores, the issue of what *counts* in education research is the subject of a heated debate. We invite economist Jesse Rothstein into...
  

• 55 Strong: Lessons from the West Virginia Teachers Strike a month ago

  TweetIn our latest episode, Have You Heard talks to teachers in West Virginia (lots of them!) about the nine-day walkout that shuttered schools across the state – and what they think...
  

• Am I Next? School Shootings and Student Protests 2 months ago

  TweetStudent strikes and walkouts have led to real political change in the past. Can they force politicians to finally do something about gun violence today? We talk to historian...
  

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  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger

• New tech and old loyalties mash up a historic contest 6 days ago

  April 13, 2018 New tech and old loyalties mash up a historic contest by Ross Tapsell http://www.newmandala.org/new-tech-old-loyalties-mash-historic-contest/ What does a 92-year-old...
  

• Book Review: Thinking without a Banister 6 days ago

  April 13, 2018 The Philosopher in Dark Times THINKING WITHOUT A BANISTER Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975 By Hannah Arendt Edited by Jerome Kohn 569 pp. Schocken Books. $40. What...
  

• Taking a Break from April 13-18, 2018 6 days ago

  April 12, 2018 Taking a break from blogging   I am taking a break from April 13-18. I shall be away from Phnom Penh to see the beautiful countryside and meet the folks who are the backbone...
  

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: Nut lovers rejoice: Your favorite snack protects your heart 3 hours ago

  Nuts are widely considered beneficial to the heart. A new study dives deeper into the specifics and finds out exactly what nuts can do for our tickers...
  

• Medical News Today: Female pattern baldness: Treatment and genetics 3 hours ago

  While most women lose between 50 and 100 strands of hair per day, this hair is usually quickly replaced by new growth. When bald patches or thinning occurs, however, it may be a sign of...
  

• Medical News Today: Ketamine nasal spray could fight depression fast 3 hours ago

  Could a fast-acting new drug curb serious depression symptoms, including suicidal thoughts? A recent study says 'yes,' but questions of safety arise.
  

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  Dublinmick's Breaking News

• Russia And China Declare All Out War on US Petrodollar — Prepare for Ex 9 months ago

  Source: The Free Thought Project The formation of a BRICS gold marketplace, which could bypass the U.S. Petrodollar in bilateral trade, continues to take shape as Russia’s largest...
  

• Bezmenov- West Capitulated to Communist Subversion 9 months ago

  Communism is the Protocols of Zion in action. This excerpt from a crucial 1985 interview with KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov throws our predicament into stark relief. Essentially...
  

• Lawyer Investigating Sandy Hook Shooting Found Dead 9 months ago

  A lawyer who was investigating the Sandy Hook shooting was found dead in his overturned car. Police ruled Gugsa Abraham (Abe) Dabela’s death as a suicide despite a gunshot wound...
  

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  Fast Company

• Facebook announces how it will comply with the EU’s strict new data laws 4 hours ago

  The company has published a blog post outlining the steps it will take to comply with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on May 25. The company...
  
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  The Yes Loitering Project Asks Kids Of Color To Rethink Public Space 4 hours ago

  On a weekday afternoon last spring after school, a group of teenagers in the Bronx performed an experiment: They walked around a single block and documented all the signs saying that...
  

• Uber whistleblower will announce bill to end forced arbitration for workplace abuses 4 hours ago

  Forced arbitration is a means for employers to force employees to settle their disputes behind closed doors by a neutral third party. It also commonly forbids employees from taking...
  

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  Climatism

• Here is Why the Left is Officially Insane a day ago

  Originally posted on Green Jihad: It finally built up from the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States to now to demonstrate how insane the Left truly is. All of the...
  

• WIND Power Collapses Send Power Prices Into Orbit in Wind ‘Powered’ South Australia a day ago

  Originally posted on STOP THESE THINGS: Wind power outfits often claim that their particular operation ‘powers’ 30,000 homes; RE zealots even claim that South Australians...
  

• Can Humans Melt the Antarctic Icecap? 2 days ago

  Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Can we puny humans produce enough energy to melt the huge icecap? Some math helps. Antarctic ice on October 6, 2015 Guest essay by Julius...
  

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  Chicago Boyz

• American Alpha Male Test 9 hours ago

  (inspired by Are You an Alpha or a Beta Male? Take Our 20-Question Quiz and Find Out and the Bill of Rights) 1. If you are religiously observant, have you ever held a leadership position...
  

• Nationalism and Schroeder 14 hours ago

  Trump’s inaugural argued: “We all bleed the same red blood of patriots.” It wasn’t an original thought or even expression, but spoke to our nationalism – our pride in others’...
  

• Paying Higher Taxes Can be Very Profitable 19 hours ago

  (originally posted in 2010) Chevy Chase, MD, is an affluent suburb of Washington DC. Median household income is over $200K, and a significant percentage of households have incomes...
  

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  Centinel2012

• Kudlow Delivers Bad News to GOPe, Sasse and Donohue: TPP Talk was a “Thought, Not a Policy”… 12 hours ago

  Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on April 17, 2018 by sundance Too funny.  The one constant in an ever-changing financial universe has been Donald Trump’s three-decade-long...
  

• Stunning – An Official End To The Korean War Planned for Next Week… 14 hours ago

  Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on April 17, 2018 by sundance There was a possibility widely discussed and debated a year ago, where President Trump’s geopolitical...
  

• Robert Mueller Office Warns “Many Stories About our Investigation Have Been Inaccurate”… 14 hours ago

  Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on April 17, 2018 by sundance An interesting release from the spokesperson for Robert Mueller comes against the backdrop of the renewed...
  

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  CanadaFreePress.Com

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  The Media's War on the First Amendment 5 hours ago

  The media took a brief break from its campaign against the Sinclair Media Group to go after the National Enquirer. The two don’t have anything in common except the perception of being...
  
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  Hannity: The fake news media have a new target 7 hours ago

  I’m not surprised the media decided to go after me: it’s predictable and pathetic
  
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  SAF Sues Illinois Agency Over Day Care Operators' Gun Rights 8 hours ago

  BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on behalf of two Prairie State residents, alleging...
  

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  The BRAD BLOG

• 'Corrupt Intent': 'BradCast' 4/17/2018 9 hours ago

  On today's BradCast: It's Tax Day! Donald Trump is trying to celebrate his massive tax cut for the rich, but not many are dumb enough to actually believe him. Not with White House staffers...
  

• 'Green News Report' - April 17, 2018 16 hours ago

  IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Federal watchdogs find EPA violated the law on behalf of embattled Administrator Scott Pruitt; Senate confirms coal industry lobbyist for deputy EPA chief...
  

• Trump's Unlawful, Unauthorized, Impeachable, Evidence-Free 'Mission Accomplished' in Syria: 'BradCast' 4/16/2018 a day ago

  On today's BradCast: Bill Maher quipped Friday night that the U.S. attack, with France and Britain, on Syria was code-named "Operation Desert Stormy", an attempt by Donald Trump...
  

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  Below 2C

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  The Environment and the Economy (KinderMorgan) DO NOT Go Together 3 days ago

  Opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline will continue to dominate climate politics until at least the October 2019 federal election. The latest twist involves the use of taxpayer...
  
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  Alberta’s Tar Sands Expansion Is Killing Canada’s National Climate Goals 8 days ago

  In a recent National Observer article, Barry Saxifrage points out the obvious: Alberta’s Tar Sands expansion is killing Canada’s national climate goals. Carbon pollution...
  
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  Massive Gap Between Canada’s Emissions Projections And Paris Targets 11 days ago

  Canada and the other signatories to the Paris Accord have committed to keeping the warming of the planet below 2 degrees Celsius. But now, close to two years after the signing, that...
  

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  bluebird of bitterness

• Deep in the heart of taxes 21 hours ago

  
  
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  Why friends don’t let friends farm drunk 2 days ago

  
  

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  Groups call for equal nuclear protections for Americans 14 hours ago

  Beyond Nuclear, Greenpeace Canada, and The Alliance to Halt Fermi 3, are calling for US citizens to receive the same protections against nuclear disaster as their neighbors in Canada...
  

• Sample comments you can use to write your own for submission to NRC in opposition to Holtec's CISF in s.e. NM 7 days ago

  See Beyond Nuclear's Centralized Storage website section, for sample comments (prepared by Beyond Nuclear, and other groups, such as Nuclear Watch New Mexico) you can use to prepare...
  
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  Groups call for Oyster Creek reactor to be "autopsied" after closure 8 days ago

  The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2015 identified the need to "harvest" components for examination from closed reactors. Since then, nothing has happened. At a meeting tonight...
  

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BlackListed News

• The Next Oil Boom Is About To Happen Here a day ago

  It’s one of the most unbelievable energy stories of the year.  A Chinese oil company was sitting on what might be a major oil discovery - a 182-million-barrel probable reserve...
  

• Pink Floyd Frontman Stops Concert To Explain False Flag Chemical Attack in Syria a day ago

  During a solo concert this week in Barcelona, Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters took a moment to address the audience about the recent bombing of Syria. Waters said he was approached...
  

• Russian watchdog goes nuclear in attempts to enforce Telegram ban a day ago

  Russia’s telecommunications watchdog is banning millions of IP addresses in an attempt to enforce a court-ordered block of messenger app Telegram. Its own website has been brought...
  

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  Research Digest

• Does it matter whether your therapist is similar to you? 3 hours ago

  It seems intuitive that it might be easier to relate to a therapist with a similar background, but the study did not back this up. By Emma Young
  

• The public find articles about education more convincing when they contain extraneous neuroscience a day ago

  There's no question this new research addresses an important issue. There is a lot of hype about educational neuroscience. By Christian Jarrett
  

• First ever neuroimaging study of people in the midst of Transcendental Meditation 2 days ago

  By Christian Jarrett It is possible to pay attention effortlessly, your mind “pulled by the inherent nature of the object…
  

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  re: The Auditors

• Update: KPMG: The Indictments 9 days ago

  Update April 8, 2018: What’s happening now? No word from SEC on sanctions against KPMG or any other professionals, including the head of the KPMG audit practice who was also fired...
  

• Another Update on the Case of FDIC v PricewaterhouseCoopers re: Colonial Bank 10 days ago

  On February 28 the US Justice Department fined Deloitte & Touche LLP $149.5 million for alleged fraud against the government related to its role as the independent outside auditor...
  

• Speaking Engagements/Conferences 16 days ago

  I added . link to the details for the May 2 fraud conference in New York, where I will be a panelist with Carson Block of Muddy Waters Research. Also on the agenda Bethany McLean interviews...
  

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  Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

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  How a Frozen Pizza Brand Became Norway’s Unofficial National Dish 11 hours ago

  The Nordic countries are often name-checked for their progressive politics, an enviable education system, and for exceptional Eurovision skills. But one of their great culinary...
  
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  The Rise and Fall of the Hormel Girls, Who Sold America on SPAM 12 hours ago

  In 1945, the war that wracked the world was finally over. American women who had served as military translators, typists and, even pilots suddenly found themselves out of a job. At...
  
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  Istanbul Closes the Books on its Public Scribes 12 hours ago

  On a side street near Istanbul's Çağlayan Courthouse, an electric sign reading “Petition Writer” points to the open door of 67-year-old Hayrettin Talih's tiny, one-room...
  

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  Accidental Deliberations

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  Tuesday Night Cat Blogging 11 hours ago

  Cuddling cats.
  

• Tuesday Morning Links 19 hours ago

  This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Paul Krugman writes that a transition to a clean energy economy is well within reach - as long as politicians don't put the interests of oil money...
  

• Monday Morning Links 2 days ago

  Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Tom Parkin discusses the Libs' identity politics - and how they endanger people's substantive interests both in what the Libs fail to...
  

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