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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-13/india-to-summon-u-s-ambassador-on-plan-to-sell-jets-to-pakistan

>India will summon the U.S. ambassador to convey its “displeasure” at the planned sale of F-16 fighter jets to neighbor Pakistan.

>The U.S. State Department notified Congress on Friday that it had approved the sale of eight Block 52 Lockheed Martin fighters valued at $699 million, government aides said. The jets will be used to support Pakistan counterterrorism operations against militants, they said.

>“We disagree with their rationale that such arms transfers help to combat terrorism,” Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said on Twitter. “The record of the last many years in this regard speaks for itself.”

>U.S. Congress has 30 days to approve the sale, which will be announced publicly on Saturday. The planes are powered by Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229 engines and pilots will use the Boeing Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System.

>India and Pakistan have fought four wars and are home to the world’s fastest-growing nuclear arsenals and the most militarized border. India was the second-largest buyer of U.S. arms in 2014 and is vying to become one of the first countries to import armed Predator Avenger drones from the U.S., a move that would allow it to remotely drop a bomb on any square inch of Pakistan.

>Pakistan previously bought 18 Block 52 F-16s as part of a $5.1 billion arms package that included electronics and weapons upgrades for 46 existing Pakistan F-16s.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/98054-India-summons-US-envoy-over-sale-of-F-16-to-Pakistan

http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-proposed-sale-of-f-16s-to-pakistan-likely-to-face-resistance-1277006

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All it is is Clinton & cronies destroying a server with an OC rap song in the background. It's funnier than the kids mocking Trump ad though.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/hillary-unhinged-vicious-cruz-ad-hits-media-nerve/

http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/hillary-unhinged-vicious-cruz-ad-hits-media-nerve/#ooid=J3bWJ2MDE6__Quncr-55E4h0WxUa_ztj

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-grayson-reid-senate-20160212-story.html
>Sen. Harry Reid calls on Alan Grayson to quit Senate race

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/us/politics/harry-reid-says-alan-grayson-should-drop-senate-bid.html
>Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, on Friday called for Representative Alan Grayson to drop his bid for the Senate, saying Mr. Grayson’s actions as a hedge fund manager “aren’t just disgraceful to the Democratic Party; they disgrace the halls of Congress.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/12/reid-to-grayson-get-out/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/12/sen-harry-reid-calls-on-grayson-to-drop-out-senate-race.html

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http://www.techtimes.com/articles/133448/20160213/air-pollution-is-fourth-leading-cause-of-death-worlwide-polluted-air-claims-5-5-million-lives-per-year.htm

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> A crowd gathered at Gobbler's Knob early this morning, awaiting the emergence of the groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil. After a tap of a cane on Phil's tree-trunk cage, his door was opened, and the animal emerged.

> He was held aloft to cheers and applause. Phil did not respond, other than to blink. Placed on top of the trunk, he attempted to flee before his actions were closely analyzed.

> Interpreting Phil's behavior, the Groundhog Club emcee proclaimed, "There is no shadow to be cast! An early spring is my forecast!"

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/02/465253970/groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil-did-not-see-his-shadow

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Millionaires living in states that expanded Medicaid are benefiting from government-sponsored health insurance, and taxpayers are footing the bill for it.

In states that expanded Medicaid, people with high net worths and low monthly incomes qualify for Medicaid because of loosened eligibility requirements implemented under Obamacare. And in rural states like Iowa, Americans whom many would consider wealthy are taking advantage of this “loophole” and enrolling in coverage paid for by taxpayers.

Jesse Patton, an insurance broker living in Iowa, has had clients with net worths ranging from $2 million to $5 million, which often stem from farmland or assets from divorce settlements. And those clients, he said, are enrolled in Medicaid in expansion states like Iowa.

“It was designed to help the lower-income population,” Patton told the Daily Signal of Medicaid. “But without the asset test, there are folks that have the financial means and assets there that are good at figuring out how to work the system and capture a benefit they’re entitled to.”Sign Up

Under the Affordable Care Act, states that opted to expand Medicaid did away with an asset test, which was previously used to determine eligibility in regular Medicaid. To qualify for the program, the government considered a combination of income and net worth.

Now, under the law, eligibility in states that did and did not expand Medicaid is linked solely to modified adjusted gross income, keeping it in line with the tax code.

“This was a move to standardize as much as possible, so you’re bringing in more people, but you’re not complicating the system to where you can’t figure it out,” Joy Wilson, director of health and human services policy at the National Conference of State Legislatures, told the Daily Signal.

http://www.nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/revealed-millionaires-are-qualifying-medicaid-under-15181

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LOBBYISTS!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-allowing-donations-from-federal-lobbyists-and-pacs/2016/02/12/22b1c38c-d196-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

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>James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, told lawmakers Tuesday that governments across the globe are likely to employ the Internet of Things as a spy tool, which will add to global instability already being caused by infectious disease, hunger, climate change, and artificial intelligence.
>"Smart devices incorporated into the electric grid, vehicles—including autonomous vehicles—and household appliances are improving efficiency, energy conservation, and convenience. However, security industry analysts have demonstrated that many of these new systems can threaten data privacy, data integrity, or continuity of services. In the future, intelligence services might use the loT for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials," Clapper said

Surprise, Surprise! The IoT is being used to collect more information at the price of convinces. Who would've guessed! Is privacy even worth fighter for, it's impossible to win. Just like Peter Sunde said 'I Have Given Up'

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/us-intelligence-chief-says-iot-climate-change-add-to-global-instability/

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/facebook-and-the-new-colonialism/462393/

I hate Facebook as much as the next guy, but comparing its development initiatives to that of an imperial power? Maybe I could give that some credence if it, y'know, had an army or a navy.

Facebook is a great boogeyman in many respects, upon which all sorts of causes routinely heave criticism, but the analysis in this article is slipshod. Search for the examples of how Super Mario World and even Wikipedia are colonialist. The former is just ridiculous; the latter shows post-colonial critics seeing an enemy in what should be a friend. All of Wikipedia is user-generated and freely available; the fact that proportionally fewer articles are geo-tagged to Africa is a reflection not of institutional bias against developing countries, but of the user base itself.

Any thoughts on this development initiative of Facebook's and, I guess, the continued viability of post-colonial discourse in an age when even Wikipedia is seen as patronizing?

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35524440

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> For the travelling executive in need of intimacy or the long-distance couple seeking to let off steam, relief will be found in hi-tech goo. With a few judicious squirts of a bio-gel containing billions of nanobots and a wi-fi connection, mutual orgasm is reached via a layer of shape-shifting ectoplasm.

> Of course, the partners at each end of the gel-based romp will only be with each other as the result of a DNA analysis which helpfully narrowed down their choice of a compatible mate to a dozen-strong shortlist. The lucky winner was then selected with the help of a holographic date and a virtual reality snog.

> It might sound like the product of an over-excited Silicon Valley brainstorm, or the terrifyingly unerotic plot of the latest Hollywood dystopia, but this is how human love may well look by the middle of the century, according to organisers of a blue skies technology festival to take place in London later this year.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/sex-of-the-future-a-brave-new-world-of-hi-tech-goo-and-virtual-reality-a6865881.html

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Doesn't Cruz know Jeb Bush already tried this?! Well, here's the ad:

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

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/politics/ted-cruz-donald-trump-2016-attack-ad/index.html

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http://news.yahoo.com/rabid-bats-kill-12-children-peru-141425919.html
>Lima (AFP) - At least 12 indigenous children in Peru have died from rabies after being bitten by blood-sucking bats, which locals at first blamed on witchcraft, health officials said.

>The children aged between eight and 15 died between September and February in two indigenous communities in the Amazon region of Loreto, regional health official Hermann Silva said.
"From the symptoms and medical reports it was determined that the 12 children from the Achuar ethnic group died from an outbreak of wild rabies," Silva told AFP.

>"The victims were bitten by blood-sucking bats, animals that drink blood, in the Yankuntich and Uncun communities in the jungle" 1,100 kilometers (684 miles) north of the capital Lima.

>She said indigenous local authorities told health workers that "the community thought the children's deaths were due to witchcraft, and that was why they didn't report the outbreak in time." The latest death of a child from rabies was reported on Wednesday. Two other patients, a boy of nine and a woman aged 22, were recovering from the illness.

>Peru's health minister Anibal Velasquez said on television that the government had declared a health emergency to get medical aid to the region quickly. Silva said vaccination teams had been sent urgently to the remote region.

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>Harry Potter is back for another round of magic, struggles with the darkness and parents.
>This time, Harry's the dad, struggling with his own son.
>The eighth installment of the Harry Potter series, the two-part play, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," will be published as a book this summer, author J.K Rowling announced on her Pottermore website Wednesday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/10/entertainment/harry-potter-part-8-publish-summer-feat/index.html

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>A woman who just turned 18 was sentenced to 2 years of prison in Québec, on Tuesday, for inciting young girls to prostitute themselves.

lazy translation summary: A runaway girl who had turned to prosititution ended up setting up her own porn / prosititution ring by picking up girls from the youth center she used to stay at. Despite being a minor at the time, judge decided to give her an adult sentence.

http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2015/02/10/elle-incitait-des-mineures-a-se-prostituer

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/quebec/2015/02/10/004-proxenete-peine-melina-beaudoin-jeunes-prostituees.shtml