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New study reconciles a dispute about how fast global warming will happen
The Guardian 24 Sep 2018
We’re currently on pace to double the carbon dioxide-equivalent (including other greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere by around mid-century ... Another nail in the contrarian ‘low sensitivity’ coffin ... That makes sense because those studies applied current climate measurements into energy balance models, but since carbon pollution is still rising, the climate still has a large energy imbalance ... Twitter ... As Goodwin concluded, ... .......
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Why Trump, The Christian Right And Republicans Will Do Anything To Seat Kavanaugh
WorldNews.com 24 Sep 2018
They too are attracted to rigid beliefs and absolute power, willing to do almost anything to get their way ... They reason even if they lose both Houses in the midterm elections, Kavanaugh and other like-minded conservatives on the Supreme Court will make a majority ... “GOP Congressman Makes a Misogynistic Joke About Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sexual Assault as His Party Faces Major Crisis,” by Cody Fenwick. September 20, 2018. 2 Dean, John W ... ....
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‘America’s Got Talent’ Finalist Courtney Hadwin May Sign With Simon Cowell’s Record Label
Inquisitr 24 Sep 2018
Fans of NBC’s hit competition series America’s Got Talent were shocked on Wednesday, September 19, when 14-year-old singer Courtney Hadwin was thrown out of the competition, finishing in sixth place ... ....
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Cryptocurrency Daily News Bulletin: September 24, 2018
WorldNews.com 24 Sep 2018
A new research paper titled “The Impact of Tether Grants on Bitcoin,” examines the tether-bitcoin price manipulation theory using a Value-at-Risk (VAR) model to establish conclusively that while there is a positive correlation between USDT grants and bitcoin’s trading volume, this does not lead to any significant bitcoin price movement.– WN.com, Jamie Sarloos....
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards threaten to avenge military parade attack
Yahoo Daily News 24 Sep 2018
By Michael Georgy. DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards vowed on Sunday to exact "deadly and unforgettable" vengeance for an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, including 12 of their comrades, and Tehran accused Gulf Arab states of backing the gunmen ... Soldiers crawled about as gunfire crackled ... He adds ... sanctions were inflicting economic pain on Iran that could lead to a "successful revolution" ... policy. U.S ... ....
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May urged to grasp ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ Canada style deal
Belfast Telegraph 24 Sep 2018
Theresa May has been urged to grasp a “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” Canada style trade deal with the European Union by leading Tory Brexiteers. The call came from Jacob Rees-Mogg at the launch event for a new Brexit blueprint by the free market Institute of Economic Affairs think tank (IEA) ... Mr Rees-Mogg, who leads the powerful Tory backbench European Research Group (ERG), said ... He said ... He later added ... (PA Graphics) ... ....
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One Teenager Killed As Tensions Flare During Protest Against Ortega in Nicaragua
WorldNews.com 24 Sep 2018
Police and paramilitary forces clashed with protesters marching against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Sunday, leaving one dead and several injured, according to Reuters ... However, squads of police prevented the group from continuing, firing tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd ... “This idea that their businesses will be burned is a lie, an invention that they themselves make to justify the closures.”. -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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Indonesian teenager rescued after drifting 49 days at sea
Deseret News 24 Sep 2018
JAKARTA, Indonesia — An Indonesian teenager who survived 49 days adrift at sea after the wooden fish trap he was employed to mind slipped its moorings says he ran out of food within a week and survived on fish and seawater he squeezed from his clothing. Aldi Novel Adilang told The Associated Press on Monday that he turned on a lamp every time he sighted another ship and can't remember how many passed by "unaware of my ordeal." ... ....
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Intel unveils huge and insanely fast 1.5TB Optane 905p SSD
TechRadar 24 Sep 2018
The Intel Optane 905p series of solid state drives (SSDs) is very fast (check out our Intel Optane 905P review to find out just how fast it is), and Intel has just announced a new 1.5TB capacity for the speedy storage ... Choice for form factor ... Via Wccftech ....
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Soros foundation turns to Strasbourg court to get Hungary's NGO law repealed
Reuters 24 Sep 2018
U.S. billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF) said on Monday it would challenge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg Hungarian laws that make it a crime to help asylum-seekers ... ....
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Amnesty International Calls On China To End Detention Of Uighur Muslims In Xinjiang
WorldNews.com 24 Sep 2018
"They are desperate to know what has happened to their loved ones and it is time the Chinese authorities give them answers." ... Amnesty said China was leading a campaign of "systemic repression" after conducting interviews with more than 100 people outside of Xinjiang who say their relatives have faced detention, torture, and more inside the "re-education camps." ... ... Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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Trump's tariffs on $200 bn of Chinese goods kicks in
Yahoo Daily News 24 Sep 2018
Washington, Sep 24 (IANS) The ongoing trade war between the US and China has escalated after American President Donald Trump's administration's new 10 per cent tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods kicked in on Monday, spanning thousands of products, including food seasonings, baseball gloves, network routers and industrial machinery parts ... The US tariffs imposed earlier in the year mostly hit industrial goods ... --IANS. ksk. ....
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Gene editing wipes out mosquitoes in the lab
BBC News 24 Sep 2018
As the modified gene - which confers female infertility - spread, the caged populations crashed. However, previous attempts to use this approach in mosquitoes ran into problems. the insects developed resistance to the genetic modification ... In this way, the scientists were able to sidestep a potential source of resistance ... ....
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14 shot — 1 killed — Saturday in Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times 23 Sep 2018
A man was killed and 12 others were wounded in a series of shootings in Chicago over 24 hours Saturday. The day began with a string of shootings near Garfield Park on the West Side between midnight and 3 a.m., according to Chicago police. A single drive-by shooting wounded three people, including a woman, as they stood outside in the 100 block of North Karlov Avenue ... A 35-year-old man was riding a bicycle just before 10 p.m ... in Lawndale....
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Google at 20: how two 'obnoxious' students changed the internet
The Guardian 24 Sep 2018
Unlike many of Google’s previous acquisitions, where the company bought in technology it couldn’t make itself and threw its corporate weight behind making the resulting product success, YouTube was already a phenomenon, and Google had spent its own resources building a direct competitor, Google Video. But YouTube’s lead was already becoming difficult to compete with....
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