Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is: How to tell the difference between ISIS and Muslims:
Obama will award Senator Barbara Milkulski with Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Money for bridge to nowhere spent on road to nowhere:
The name "Bridge to Nowhere" still rankles in Ketchikan 10 years after congressional opponents of earmarks used it to attack federal money for the bridge to nearby Gravina Island and the city's airport.
But some of that money was still spent building a road to nowhere. [...]
The 3.2-mile road was built at a cost of $28 million by Kiewit Pacific Co. of Anchorage. It features wide shoulders and sweeping curves to handle the large volume of traffic the road was expected to see one day.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Sex in space would require a lot of belts.
Anonymous, the hackitivist group, warns ISIS/Daesh to “Expect us”:
"Make no mistake: Anonymous is at war with Daesh," the enigmatic hacker group wrote on Twitter over the weekend, using an alternative name for ISIS. [...]
The group uploaded videos in multiple languages, including English and Italian, in which it vowed to "neutralize" the perpetrators of Friday's attacks.
French decision on allowing protests at Paris climate talks coming this week:
On Tuesday morning, Paris time, representatives of a coalition of 130 environmental groups met with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to argue that the rallies should be allowed to take place alongside the upcoming UN climate summit—and to hear the government's security concerns. The climate negotiations "cannot take place without the participation or without the mobilizations of civil society in France," read a statement released yesterday by Coalition Climat 21, an umbrella group of activists.
But even after the meeting this morning, there remains plenty of doubt about which events will be canceled and which will be permitted to take place. Paris remains under a state of emergency, and French President Francois Hollande has said parliament should extend that state of emergency for another three months.
New Canadian Prime Minister essentially kills Northern Gateway pipeline:
Environmental and First Nations groups are celebrating recently elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin “Hair Model” Trudeau’s decision to ban crude oil tankers from British Columbia’s northern coast.
The moratorium will stop progress on the $7 billion Northern Gateway pipeline, an unpopular project approved by former PM Stephen Harper last year. It would have moved diluted bitumen — a particularly nasty form of crude oil — from the tar sands of Alberta to the west coast of B.C. for shipment east to China.
Nat' Geo's 4-hour "Saints and Strangers" still misses the real Thanksgiving:
Among other things, Skyhawk takes issue with the producers’ failure to consult in depth with the Wampanoag Tribe. The Wampanoag gathered with the pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving feast and today operate Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum built near the point where the Mayflower hit land in 1620.
“The American Indian people have grown weary of being optimistic about the subject matter or story to be rehashed in ‘Saints & Strangers,’” Skyhawk said. “Unfortunately for them, 523 years of historically mitigated fabrication will not now magically produce any semblance of the truth. The opportunistic exploitation by the Nat Geo Channel, in release of their version of that history, coinciding with the again-fabricated theory of Thanksgiving Day, smells a little overdone.”
Iran will boost oil production as soon as sanctions are lifted:
Iran won’t negotiate with OPEC or seek the group’s permission before boosting oil exports by a planned 500,000 barrels a day once sanctions are removed from the nation’s economy.
The Persian Gulf state is unconcerned about the impact this additional supply may have on crude prices, which already reflect the expected increase in Iranian shipments, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said Tuesday at a news conference in Tehran.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: The Great Refugee Freak-Out comes to America; Republicans now “yadda yadda” the Constitution as just so much “PC”; Carson’s got a plagiarism problem; microplastics are now officially in everything. Is high tech surveillance gear used to fight terrorism, or street crime? Or might they be the same thing?
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