Post Overview
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Current Event
8 years ago+26 26 0Florida Senate Candidate Drank Goat Blood
A Senate candidate in Florida (Augustus Sol Invictus,) is coming under fire for participating in pagan rituals involving the slaughter of a goat and the drinking of its blood, according to local news reports.
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8 years ago+30 30 0Air France executives attacked as carrier cuts 2,900 jobs
Air France’s long-running spat with workers over cost cuts erupted into violence as protesters stormed a meeting where managers were presenting plans for 2,900 jobs cuts, causing executives to flee with their clothes in tatters.
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Analysis
8 years ago+9 10 1 x 1TPP trade deal: seven things you need to know
The US, Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim economies, representing some 40 per cent of the global economy, were nearing an agreement on Monday on what would be the biggest trade deal signed anywhere in two decades. Here are seven things worth knowing
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8 years ago+27 27 0Xi at the Waldorf: New “National Realities”
The Chinese President’s trip that confirmed the degree to which China is trying to reorder the world around its politics, tastes, and sensitivities.
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8 years ago+27 27 0Not in my backyard: China's Xi Jinping pushes for women's rights on world stage but represses them back at home
President proclaims the importance of gender equality on the world stage, yet sends to jail those who seek the same at home
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8 years ago+25 25 0In pictures: Coffee houses of India
Stuart Freedman's journey into India through the Indian Coffee Houses, a national network of worker-owned cafes which can be found in cities throughout the country.
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Review
8 years agoReview+26 26 0How the largest polluters' climate pledges scored - NRDC
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Current Event
8 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Doctors Without Borders Staff Killed, Hospital Partially Destroyed in Kunduz
It is with deep sadness that we confirm so far the death of nine MSF staff members during the bombing last night of MSF’s hospital in Kunduz. Latest casualty figures report 37 people seriously wounded, of whom 19 are MSF staff. Some of the most criti ...
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8 years ago+38 38 0 x 2Project Apollo Archive on Flickr.
All those old Apollo photographs are now on Flickr and looking good!
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Current Event
8 years ago+40 40 0 x 1Elon Musk and SolarCity unveil the ‘World’s most efficient’ solar panel
On Friday in New York City's Times Square, SolarCity, the nation’s largest installer of residential solar panels, and company chairman Elon Musk introduced what they claim is the world’s most efficient rooftop solar panel, achieving a peak effic ...
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Analysis
8 years ago+25 25 0The End of the Internet Dream?
Twenty years ago I attended my first Def Con. I believed in a free, open, reliable, interoperable Internet: a place where anyone can say anything, and anyone who wants to hear it can listen and respond. I believed in the Hacker Ethic: that informatio ...
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Video/Audio
8 years ago+27 27 0Electron microscope slow-motion video of vinyl LP
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Analysis
8 years agoAnalysis+26 26 0Chinese Colonel’s hard-line views seep into the mainstream
One cloudless morning last month, Col. Liu Mingfu watched on his home television as tanks, troop carriers and ballistic missiles rolled past a waving President Xi Jinping in Tiananmen Square. The Communist Party was putting on a military parade, bill ...
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Expression
8 years ago+34 34 0 x 1Peering inside Pompeii's victims: CT Scans reveal unprecedented detail
Archaeologists have spent the past year carefully restoring and scanning the preserved bodies of 86 Romans who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted in Pompeii in 79AD.
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Current Event
8 years ago+6 6 0After braving death to reach Europe, this is the final test refugees must pass to win asylum
In order to be granted asylum as refugees, they have to convince border agencies they are fleeing serious danger or persecution. There is also a growing suspicion that the few documents refugees do provide are forged—and most don’t have any papers an ...
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8 years agoAnalysis+25 25 0Who is fighting whom in Syria
The Syrian civil war, now in its fifth year, involves multiple countries with overlapping and at times conflicting agendas. Competing visions of how to manage the conflict, which has led to a major global refugee crisis as well as the rise of the Isl ...
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8 years ago+20 20 017 images depicting China National Day.
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Analysis
8 years ago+26 26 0These charts show how $50 crude cripples oil-addicted Norway
A 60 percent drop in oil prices has hit Norway right in the jugular. Growth has come to a virtual halt in a nation that has counted on petroleum for almost a quarter of its output. Its reliance on crude has increased since 2000, with the number of oi ...
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Current Event
8 years ago+25 25 0China to lose earliest manufacturing gauge as Flash PMI ends
It’s the second change this year for the China indicator, after HSBC Holdings Plc ended its sponsorship and Caixin, a Chinese business magazine, took over. Laura Davis, a Singapore-based spokeswoman for Markit, declined to comment on why the advance ...
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Analysis
8 years agoAnalysis+22 22 0Trouble looms for developing countries as commodity revenues collapse
Slumping commodity prices pose aserious challenge to economic and political stability indeveloping economies across Latin America, Africa, the MiddleEast and Asia.