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http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-ddos-drudge-report-2017-1

>The Drudge Report, the highly trafficked conservative news website, has been knocked offline for extended periods during the past two weeks, succumbing to large distributed denial of service attacks, according to its founder, Matt Drudge.

>And it's a mystery who's behind it.

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So...didn't Obama say that he was going to stop this? It's still going on illegally. Yay.

Just a daily reminder that, the president is a puppet man who's words MEAN nothing, and the news media can't be trusted.

AND...If you don't care that's cool too.

Just hope there never comes a day when YOU need something protested.

http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/12/media-blackout-the-dapl-protests-are-still-going-strong-because-the-pipeline-is-still-being-illegally-built/

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/10/world/europe/ap-eu-norway-massacre.html

>SKIEN, Norway — Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik made a neo-Nazi salute as he walked into a courtroom at a high-security prison where judges on Tuesday began reviewing a ruling that his solitary confinement is inhumane.

>Dressed in a dark suit, the bearded Breivik stared briefly at reporters while making the salute but did not speak.

>The 37-year-old right-wing extremist, who killed 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in 2011, sued the government last year, saying his solitary confinement, frequent strip searches and the fact that he was often handcuffed during the early part of his incarceration violated his human rights.

>The government is appealing against a surprise decision by the Oslo District Court, which sided with Breivik's claims that his isolation in the maximum-security Skien prison breaches the European Convention on Human Rights.

>The ruling said "the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment represents a fundamental value in a democratic society. This applies no matter what — also in the treatment of terrorists and killers." It also ordered the government to pay Breivik's legal costs of 331,000 kroner ($41,000).

>However, it dismissed his claim that his right to respect for private and family life was violated by restrictions on contacts with other right-wing extremists.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/world/what-in-the-world/eu-official-languages.html?action=click&contentCollection=world&module=NextInCollection&region=Footer&pgtype=article&version=column&rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fwhat-in-the-world

>It’s not easy to speak with one voice in 24 languages.

>When what is now the European Union first took root in the 1950s, it included just six nations, and in three of them many people spoke French. It could sidestep national jealousies without trouble by designating most of the member nations’ main languages as official languages.

>But that set a precedent, and as the union has grown much larger, so has the official language roster — not to mention the bill for translation and interpretation, which now runs to about 1 billion euros, or more than $1 billion, a year.

>Defenders of the policy say it preserves diversity and promotes language learning. They contend that it is not to blame for the bloc’s repeated failure to speak as one over issues like migration, the economy and Russia.

>Still, the polyglottery can be a bit of a strain, especially when it comes to tongues like Irish, which only a few Irish citizens use frequently outside the education system. Though Irish has been an official language of the union for a decade, member nations keep postponing the deadline for providing full Irish translation and interpretation services.

>Liadh Ni Riada, an Irish member of the European Parliament, went on what she called a two-week language strike in 2015, speaking only Irish at work, to demonstrate her annoyance at the delays. She has threatened to do it again.

>There is also a push to recognize Luxembourgish, the only national language of a member state that the union has not made official. Yet Luxembourgers also use German and French, and even their laws are all written in French. So the authorities are looking for a way to enhance the language’s status that would not entail a lot of translation and interpretation expense.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/06/tmz-obama-building-wall-around-new-home/

>President Barack Obama will reportedly have a big, beautiful wall around his new home in Washington DC. According to spy photos from TMZ, workers are currently building a brick wall around the rental home where the Obamas plan to live after leaving the White House.

>The home was sold in 2014 for $5,295,000 and has 9 beds and 8.5 bathrooms. It has 8,200 square feet and was built in 1928.

>The Obama family is expected to live in Washington D.C. while youngest daughter Sasha finishes school.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5evyMj7xBU
http://www.viralnova.com/kids-riding-alligators/

An astonishing video has emerged of a young girl riding a fully grown alligator during a kids’ party in the States.

The youngster grips on to the fearsome predator's back and attempts to pose for a photo for her mother but the animal instead carries her away to the laughter of excited children and parents, off camera.

The controversial footage, which was allegedly shot during one of Jim Nesci’s Cold Blooded Creatures' events, which promote ‘conservation through education’, has started to go viral.

The Chicago-based company throws children’s birthday parties with Bubba the alligator described as ‘a living dinosaur’.

The video was shot at one of these educational events, according to Viral Nova.

Bubba was rescued from the Chicago area and is over 8ft long and weighs over 90kg, according to the company’s website.

The short clip, which has attracted almost 30,000 YouTube views, is entitled Katie Rides An Alligator and has been making waves online after re-emerging recently, although it was shot in 2013.

The shocking video begins with the reptile pacing slowly along a mat, seemingly weighed down by the child on its back.

A trainer tells the girl of around seven-years-old to put her thumbs up so that her mother can take a photograph.

But as the creature lies on the ground, the anxious child leaps off it at the first opportunity.

She is coaxed by the adults to sit back on the alligator for the camera.

The youngster poses with her thumbs up but is carried away by the creature as it veers away from the spectator trying to take her photograph.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4094924/What-possibly-wrong-Shocking-video-young-child-riding-8ft-ALLIGATOR-sweeps-internet.html

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http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/01/05/is-gm-telling-truth-about-its-cars-mexican-made-cruze-sedans-found-at-u-s-dealerships.html

Really, I am more interested in the tweets done by President-Elect Trump about increasing taxes for vehicles being imported.

I personally think that by building factories here in the states is a great thing to have.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/06/a-bright-new-star-will-burst-into-the-sky-in-five-years-astronomers-predict/

>A team of astronomers is making a bold forecast: A binary star found in the summer constellation Cygnus the swan will burst into a red nova sometime in 2022.

>When the two stars in the binary system crash into one another, they will create a brick-red beacon so bright that sky gazers will see it with the naked eye, Larry Molnar of Calvin College said Friday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Grapevine, Tex.

>As the constellation Cygnus glides gracefully along the Milky Way every late spring and summer, the cosmic bird’s left wing houses a faint binary star called KIC 9832227. The two stars spinning around one another are merging, on a path to an explosion that will result in a red nova, said Molnar and his colleagues.

>For KIC 9832227, the orbital period is currently just under 11 hours, he said, and “as that period gets shorter, we infer that the separation between the stars is getting smaller. Hence they are spiraling in together.”

>The astronomers first presented this star’s red nova prognostication at the January 2015 American Astronomical Society meeting, but the predictions teemed with unknowns. “The core of this [new] scientific presentation is that we have done two strong tests and that our hypothesis [from 2015] is holding up,” he said. “We have eliminated the alternative interpretations and we have also refined the predicted time to 2022, plus or minus one year.”
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Yahoo Finance has deleted a tweet it sent that included the word Nigger.

here's the link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/yahoo-finance-deletes-trump-tweet-that-included-racist-slur/

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https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/27/headlines/obama_signs_defense_bill_establishing_anti_propaganda_center


>President Obama on Friday signed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, providing nearly $619 billion for war and military spending. The measure passed both houses of Congress with a veto-proof majority and will bring troops a modest pay raise while increasing the number of active-duty soldiers to more than 1.3 million. The NDAA also restricts transfers from the Guantánamo Bay detention center, guaranteeing that Obama will leave office without fulfilling his pledge to close the prison. Meanwhile, press freedom advocates are raising alarm over a little-known bill rolled into the NDAA, which will create a national anti-propaganda center. Under the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act, the State Department will actively work to "recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining United States national security interests."

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http://staugustine.com/florida-news-national-news/2017-01-09/obama-admin-blocks-seismic-surveys-atlantic-ocean

>WASHINGTON | The Obama administration on Friday rejected requests by energy companies to conduct seismic surveys in the Atlantic Ocean to map potential drilling sites for oil and natural gas.

>The Interior Department said it denied six pending applications in part because President Barack Obama has blocked Atlantic drilling under a five-year offshore drilling plan finalized late last year.

>Environmental groups and many East Coast lawmakers oppose the surveys, saying that loud sounds from seismic air guns could hurt marine life.

>The advocacy group Oceana applauded the announcement by Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, saying the Obama administration was “finishing the job in protecting the Atlantic Ocean from offshore drilling activities.”

>Last month, Obama designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic as indefinitely off limits to oil and gas leasing. The Dec. 20 designation was in addition to a five-year drilling plan announced in November that also blocked Atlantic drilling.

>Environmental groups hope the indefinite ban, which relies on an arcane provision in a 1953 law, will be difficult for President-elect Donald Trump or other presidents to reverse. The White House said it’s confident the president’s order will withstand legal challenge and said the language of the statute provides no authority for subsequent presidents to undo so-called permanent withdrawals of oil and gas leases from the Outer Continental Shelf.

>The Atlantic waters placed off limits by Obama’s order are 31 canyons stretching off the coast of New England south to Virginia.

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http://www.yoursubseanews.com/boem+denies+atlantic+seismic+g%26g+permits_139296.html

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>House Republicans this week reinstated a procedural rule created in 1876 that allows lawmakers to cut the pay of individual federal workers down to $1, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

>The Holman Rule allows members of Congress to propose amendments to appropriations bills that target specific government employees or programs in an effort to cut spending.

>Under the rule passed this week in larger rules package, any such amendment that would target an employee or program would have to be passed by a majority of the House and Senate. That makes it unlikely, albeit possible, for lawmakers to reduce a federal worker’s pay.

>Democrats and federal employees who worry about how President-elect Donald Trump could use it blasted the rule.

>“This is part of a very chilling theme that federal workers are seeing right now,” Maureen Gilman, the legislative director for the National Treasury Employees Union, told the Post.

>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters this week that the Holman Rule gives Congress a chance to change how government works, something voters asked for when they voted for Trump.

> “This is a big rule change inside there that allows people to get at places they hadn’t before,” he told reporters.

>The new rule follows requests by the Trump transition team for lists of the names of employees involved in specific programs, such as Energy Department scientists who have worked on climate change.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/312797-house-gop-revive-rule-that-lets-lawmakers-slash-gov-employees

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BOLIVIA ESTÁ PASANDO POR UNO DE SUS PEORES MOMENTOS.

INFORMACIÓN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNnZN2S_tKE

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http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Guyana-internet-users-blacklisted-over-cyber-security-concerns-33118.html

>GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Residents of Guyana who rely on the internet to handle online banking and online payment processing with a number of US banks and payment gateways, may soon be unable to do so after several US-based payment processors have decided to blacklist a number of internet protocol (IP) ranges that are being used by Guyanese to handle online transactions and general internet usage.

>The Guyana Guardian was reliably informed that the IP blocking is occurring because several of the IP addresses that are owned by local telecommunications company GTT were discovered to be (possibly inadvertently) involved in large-scale spamming and other internet security incidents that can compromise the security of a company’s online systems.

>As such, several US companies including PayPal, Bank of America and Google Pay have already implemented an outright ban on several GTT-owned IP ranges, thus making it almost impossible for persons to access any online payment system that is operated by those American companies.

>Several other US, Canadian and UK companies are also expected to automatically add the blacklisted Guyana IP ranges to their cyber-security watch lists.

>While the banning of the Guyanese IP ranges will have a negative impact on hundreds of Guyanese households and businesses whose internet connections are tied to the blacklisted IP ranges, Michael Denny, a former cyber security expert at Microsoft, told the Guyana Guardian that the actions taken by the US companies such as PayPal are generally automatic and are often reversed once certain security elements in relation to the affected IP ranges are addressed and reported.

>He noted that internet users in Guyana are probably being bundled into one set of IP ranges because the internet service provider (GTT) might be experiencing a possible IP address exhaustion crisis.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/business/dealbook/donald-trump-sec-jay-clayton.html

>The Wall Street lawyer Walter J. Clayton does not travel in political circles, nor is he well known in corporate America. He is the insider’s insider — a deal maker.

>As such, his nomination to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission is a strong signal that financial regulation in the Trump administration will emphasize helping companies raise capital in the public markets over tightening regulation. In contrast, the agency’s two chairwomen under President Obama had regulatory or enforcement backgrounds.
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>He had a front-row seat to the financial crisis, advising Barclays Capital in buying the assets of the bankrupt Lehman Brothers in 2008 and Bear Stearns in its fire sale to JPMorgan Chase in 2007. He has advised on mergers and initial public offerings, including the biggest ever, the $25 billion offering by Alibaba Group of China in 2013.
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>Yet Mr. Clayton’s nomination will be sure to fuel criticism that Goldman Sachs could wield too much influence in the Trump administration. Sullivan & Cromwell, where Mr. Clayton is a partner, has been Goldman’s go-to law firm for more than a century. Mr. Clayton advised Goldman Sachs on perhaps its most important deal, the $5 billion investment by Warren E. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway amid the financial crisis. Mr. Clayton’s wife works as a private-wealth adviser at Goldman.

>The S.E.C. nomination follows the appointment of Goldman’s No. 2 executive, Gary D. Cohn, to be the top economic policy adviser to president-elect Donald J. Trump, and the selection of a hedge fund manager who was a former Goldman trader, Steven T. Mnuchin, to be Treasury secretary. Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, is a former Goldman banker. During the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump had repeatedly criticized Goldman Sachs as an emblem of a financial elite.
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