But, hey the UK has much to be proud about also. Such as becoming the first country to spark an investigation by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, over possible violations of human-rights due to the Tories' vicious cuts.
IBT: Nearly 90% Of Those Killed By US Drones Were Not Intended Targets During Five-Month Span: Report. Like the American public would care, even if the media bothered to report this shit...
“Anyone caught in the vicinity is guilty by association,” the source told the Intercept. If “a drone strike kills more than one person, there is no guarantee that those persons deserved their fate … so it’s a phenomenal gamble.”New York Times: For Offenders Who Can’t Pay, It’s a Pint of Blood or Jail Time. No, literally...
So, the US apparently destroyed evidence at that hospital it bombed in Kunduz, Afghanistan. By accident, of course...
Oh yeah, in case you didn't know, the FBI & NSA apparently have a habit of using 'Mohammed Raghead' as a placeholder for Muslim targets of surveillance. Classy.
New York Times: What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts.
Whadda shame, Jim Webb is dropping his (highly quixotic) bid for the Democratic nomination in the US. Meanwhile, the candidate in second place for the Republican nomination, Spongebrain Ben Carson, takes his campaign so seriously, that he is suspending it for two weeks to concentrate on selling his book...
American Social Democrat Bernie Sanders to give speech on Democratic Socialism, despite apparently not understanding the term himself. You. Are. Not. Helping. Bernie. They're confused enough already.
Because the current greedhead leaders of the UK are completely and totally fucking insane... BBC: Xi Jinping to seal Hinkley Point nuclear power deal in UK. In the name of, no, don't tell me...'energy security', right ? Oh, and rate-payers are guaranteed to pay double the current rate of electricity into the bargain... So glad UK voters didn't elect a bunch of commies and socialists in the last election...
Vox: Senate Democrats want to increase the smoking age to 21. That would save lives. Uh, yeah, why not 42, or 84, or any other arbitrary number ? Really think the idiotic restriction on people who in every other respect are considered adult, drinking prior to 21 has worked out that well ? And why not prevent people from driving till their thirties, from owning a gun till they are in their forties ? Raise the age of consent to 25 say ? Why is a country that routinely tries children as adults in court, so insistent on telling actual adults what they can and can't do prior to a certain age ?
Daily Mail: Flossing your teeth can be a waste of time - and do more HARM than good, leading dental expert claims.
Deutsche Welle: Dutch website gains enough signatures for EU-Ukraine referendum. A satirical website that is, threatening the ill-considered 'association agreement' between the EU & Ukraine.
Bloomberg: Insurrection Erupts at the Democratic National Committee. DWS will get Hillary elected one way or another, and Hill's backer's on Wall Street will be sure to reward both. The Democratic Party is just a rented vessel, whatever voters may think. And with the GOP possibly slipping from its grasp, Wall Street is not giving the Dems their party back any time soon.
Daily Express: RHUBARB can save your life: Ingredient in plant kills half of cancer cells in 48 hours.
Vox: The case against otters: necrophiliac, serial-killing fur monsters of the sea. Nice...
Telegraph: Feral pig caught eating cannabis refuses to give up his stash
Washington Post: Ebola virus can linger in semen of survivors for 9 months, study shows. Uh, good to know.
Der Spiegel: World Cup Scandal: Germany Appears to Have Bought Right to Host 2006 Tournament. Huh.
Guardian: Number of London's 'working poor' surges 70% in 10 years.
Well, nothing could possibly go wrong with this...New Scientist: Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs for the first time.
Guardian: Submissions to Theresa May’s child sex abuse inquiry accidentally deleted. Whoops...How'd that happen ?
Daily Beast: Syria Rebels Plan Suicide Attacks on Russians. Freedom-fighters and all that.
The Homs Liberation Movement—a division of the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army—seems ready to use tactics associated with ISIS. “We will conduct martyrdom operations carried out by dissident officers,” al-Hourani said, using a euphemism for suicide attacks.
Though this may not be all that surprising. The Movement is an Islamist faction known to be a close military ally of the official al Qaeda franchise in Syria known as Jabhat al-Nusra.Speaking of said conflict, the US & Russia are coordinating their presence in the air on some level, one would hope ?...
Independent: Babies born in the summer grow up to be taller and healthier, Cambridge University study finds.
Daily Mail: Thousands of religious prisoners in China had their livers, kidneys and corneas ripped out while they were ALIVE to sell to 'transplant tourists', claims new film.
(A heavily annotated version of) Mein Kampf finally returning to sale in Deutschland.
The Sheriff in Florida angry that the federal government is recalling one of his military-surplus armored personnel-carriers. Claims that his officers will have to go on 'suicide-missions' and 'people will die' as a result.
Washington Post: Sleep study on modern-day hunter-gatherers dispels notion that we’re wired to need 8 hours a day.
Independent: Bookmakers 'refusing to take bets from successful gamblers'.
BBC: Old yeasts used by brewers to unearth the beers of yesteryear.
The lawmaker in Missouri pushing for a memorial to aborted fetuses... to be paid for by Planned Parenthood...
That newly unearthed multimillion-dollar foto of Billy the Kid...
...Well, and friends...
'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed finally got that meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama*, having recently finished a world-tour that took him to Qatar, to Mecca, and to Sudan to
meet with possible war-criminal Omar al-Bashir. Then promptly announced that he is moving to Qatar for study... Hopefully the end of a sorry saga that saw a fourteen-year-old manipulated for political purposes.**
That HR-Manager from New York who sued her own twelve-year-old nephew over an apparently wrist-breaking hug...lost, you may be happy to hear. Or not, whadda I know ?
Time: Here’s Proof That the First Modern Humans Were Chinese.
Fusion: Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA.
The Scotsman: Americans find Glasgow accent ‘Britain’s sexiest’. To each his own, I guess.
So, there's a plan to put a monument to Martin Luther King at Stone Mountain in Georgia, and apparently...it isn't just the neo-confederates who object...
The Times: Billions are laundered in British banks (link may run into paywall).
And finally, you've probably heard that nudity is out at Playboy.***
Well, sometimes, less is more, no ?
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* Though the White House kept the meeting brief, and seemed to downplay the affair. Wonder why that might be ?
** We'll leave out by whom and to what ends perhaps...
*** Well, full nudity...in the print edition...in the United States that is.
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