Nigeria reopens some polling stations after election glitches
• http://www.theguardian.com, David SmithElectoral commission says 300 of the country's 150,000 polling stations accepting ballots on second day of voting in presidential election
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Designers Compete to Create Global Cryptocurrency Brand
• https://bitcoinmagazine.com, by JACOB DONNELLYMany people know the symbol of Bitcoin. Many people might know the symbol of Litecoin. Even fewer know the symbol of a Dogecoin. There are hundreds of cryptocurrencies that have been developed, but what's the symbol for "cryptocurrency?"
Designers Compete to Create Global Cryptocurrency Brand
• https://bitcoinmagazine.com, by JACOB DONNELLYMany people know the symbol of Bitcoin. Many people might know the symbol of Litecoin. Even fewer know the symbol of a Dogecoin. There are hundreds of cryptocurrencies that have been developed, but what's the symbol for "cryptocurrency?"
Japan's Biggest Challenge Since 1945
• LewRockwell.Com - Eric MargrolisWorld War II has never really ended for Japan. Sixty-eight years after the battleship USS Missouri sailed into Tokyo Bay to receive the surrender of the Japanese Empire, Japan still behaves like a meek, defeated nation rather than one of the world
The trials of Russell Crowe: pranked by Jacko, goaded by paparazzi, threatened by al-Qaida
• GuardianHe is famously combative when it comes to the press and the public. But is Russell Crowe more sinned against than sinning? As he happily promotes his directorial debut The Water Diviner, he sets the record straight
Yemen's Houthis Advance Despite Continued Saudi-Led Strikes
• Antiwar.comYemen's Houthi forces, which control the capital city of Sanaa and most of the nation's west coast, are continuing to make major gains across the nation's south and east, in spite of a Saudi war against them.
China is using an operation called 'Skynet' to track down fugitive corrupt officials
• http://www.businessinsider.com, KEIRA LU HUANG'No escape' for China's corrupt cadres, as the country's authorities widen scope of global manhunt to target accomplices and financing.
Costa Rica has run on completely renewable energy all year
• http://www.businessinsider.com, JUSTINE ALFORDCosta Rica deserves a huge round of applause, and perhaps even a high five, for managing to produce all of its electricity from renewables for 75 days straight.
US Declassifies Document Revealing Israel's Nuclear Program
• http://www.israelnationalnews.com, By Ari YasharObama revenge for Netanyahu's Congress talk? 1987 report on Israel's top secret nuclear program released in unprecedented move.
Low Oil Prices: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Headed?
• Council on Foreign RelationsHoward K. Gruenspecht, deputy administrator at the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Edward L. Morse, global head of commodities research at Citibank, and Katherine B. Spector, head of commodities research at CIBC World Markets, join Bloomberg
Twitter's Periscope App Lets You Livestream Your World
• http://www.wired.comOn Monday morning, I watched the Today Show. Not on TV, though, and not standing and screaming alongside middle-aged Texans in the vicious cold outside the show's Rockefeller Center digs.
Father-Son Team Resurrects a Strange, Forgotten Concept Car
• http://www.wired.comWhen car designer Preston Tucker first imagined the Torpedo, back in the 1940s, it seemed to belong in some fanciful future: butterfly-style doors, fuel injection, an airplane-like engine, and pivoting headlights that turn to light the curved road ah
Solar-assisted, volcanic-composite sailing yacht navigating world's toughest waters
• http://www.gizmag.comCarbon fiber has established itself as a wonder material in vehicle construction, with its mix of low weight and high strength being prized for many of the world's most advanced vehicles of land, sea and air.
Kenyan Bishops warned about sterilization of girls through vaccines
• The Real Agenda NewsVatican Radio last week charged that United Nations organizations promoting population control are using vaccines to surreptitiously sterilize women in Third World countries.
Supreme court clears way for release of secret Prince Charles letters
• The GuardianThe UK supreme court has cleared the way for the publication of secret letters written by Prince Charles to British government ministers, declaring that an attempt by the state to keep them concealed was unlawful.
Saudi Arabia Leads Attack in Yemen
• http://www.usnews.comThe proxy battle in Yemen has now descended into all out war, with Saudi Arabia leading a 10-member coalition in targeted air strikes against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels that have successfully broken apart the pro-U.S. government there.
"Coconut Oil and Cannabis Capsule " A Medical Miracle?
• http://www.thealternativedaily.comHumans have cultivated and used the flowering tops of the female cannabis plant, known colloquially as marijuana, since history was recorded. Archaeologists in Central Asia even found over 2 pounds of cannabis in a 2,700 year-old grave of a shaman.
The Deadly Global War for Sand
• Wired.ComSand of various kinds is an essential ingredient in detergents, cosmetics, toothpaste, solar panels, silicon chips, and especially buildings; every concrete structure is basically tons of sand glued together with cement.
US startup aims to create world's fastest production car with LM2 Streamliner
• http://www.gizmag.comLyons Motor Car is not a carmaker with which many people will be familiar, having only been founded in 2011 and not having ever released a car.
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France
• NY TimesA senior French official involved in the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the lack of communication from the pilots during the plane's descent was disturbing, and that the possibility that their silence was delibera
False flags & cyber wars...
• http://rt.comFalse flags & cyber wars: New Snowden leaks reveal Canada spy agency's 'deception toolbox'
Secret Nazi Hideout Discovered Deep in Argentine Jungle
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Russia TodayIt might not be Hitler's famous Wolfsschanze, but researchers are equally excited to study an apparent Nazi lair hidden in the Argentinian jungle.
Investigating the Alps Plane Crash Will Be a Punishing Task
• Wired.comGermanwings Flight 9525 crashed in mountainous terrain so rugged and remote that authorities must be flown in by helicopter, which will make recovering the bodies and determining what went wrong a slow, punishing task indeed.
Investigating the Alps Plane Crash Will Be a Punishing Task
• http://www.wired.comGermanwings Flight 9525 crashed in mountainous terrain so rugged and remote that authorities must be flown in by helicopter, which will make recovering the bodies and determining what went wrong a slow, punishing task indeed.
Ukraine riot police enter central Kiev amid rumours of attack on square
• The GuardianOpposition leader Vitali Klitschko calls on women and children to leave Independence square
11 American Behaviors That Are Considered Rude Around the World
• http://mentalfloss.comJust because you've mastered the art of not looking like an uncultured, uncouth slob in your country doesn't mean those skills translate to the rest of the world.
Invisible army: the story of a Russian soldier sent to fight in Ukraine
• The GuardianMoscow denies its soldiers are crossing the border but 20-year-old conscript Dorji Batomunkuev, who was seriously injured near Donetsk, tells a different story. He talks to Elena Kostyuchenko of Novaya Gazeta
Cameron vows 'no third term' as PM, will remain in politics
• Russia Today"I'm not saying all prime ministers necessarily definitely go bad, or even go bad at the same rate, but I feel I've got more to bring to this job, the job is half done, the economy's turned round, the deficit is half down and I want to finish the j
Russia's return to Nicaragua worrying many in Central America
• mcclatchydc.comRussia is rekindling its once-strong ties to Nicaragua, possibly including providing the Central American nation with jet fighters, stoking unease as far away as the Andes in South America.
The making of Angela Merkel(unusual politician)...
• https://www.youtube.com, solti hoodThe making of Angela Merkel(unusual politician) a German enigma with Andrew Marr BBC documentary
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