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Poland's parliament on Wednesday approved new legislation that gives the government control of state radio and television stations in a move that has raised EU concern.

Following a heated debate, the lower chamber voted 232-152 with 34 abstentions to adopt amendments to the media law that were proposed by the ruling conservative Law and Justice party.

If it takes effect, the legislation would give the Treasury Minister the authority to appoint heads of the state-run radio and TV, would limit the number of members in the supervisory boards and the boards of managers and would terminate the terms of the current management, appointed by the previous establishment.

The Law and Justice argues that under current leadership state radio and TV fail to fulfill their role of uniting and educating the nation and serve as means of propaganda for the previous ruling team, now in the opposition.

Opponents say that the new legislation would threaten media independence and freedom of expression, by putting them under direct government control.

The amendments need approval from the Senate and the president, who are also controlled by the ruling party and are expected to grant their consent.

Deputy head of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans wrote to Poland's foreign and justice ministers on Wednesday to express concern for Poland's media freedom and to seek assurance that the new legislation respects EU principles concerning the rights of the media.

Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said late Wednesday he has not yet received "any such letter."

The fast pace and the nature of the reforms undertaken by the government since it took power last month have led to large street protests in Warsaw and some other Polish cities and have alarmed some EU leaders.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3379354/Polands-lawmakers-approve-new-law-state-media-control.html

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-china-insight-idUSKBN0UE01Z20151231

>>Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to former employees of the company.

>>The program took advantage of a previously undetected flaw in Microsoft’s own web pages to direct Hotmail and other free Microsoft email services to secretly forward copies of all of a recipient’s incoming mail to an account controlled by the attacker.

>>After a vigorous internal debate in 2011 that reached Microsoft’s top security official, Scott Charney, and its then-general counsel and now president, Brad Smith, the company decided not to alert the users clearly that anything was amiss, the former employees said.

>>One of the reasons Microsoft executives gave internally in 2011 for not issuing explicit warnings was their fear of angering the Chinese government, two people familiar with the discussions said.

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http://www.babypod.net/en/babypods/#

Spanish company makes a "music tampon" to help unborn babies listen to music

Apparently it helps development

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http://gizmodo.com/las-gas-leak-disaster-is-a-bigger-problem-than-you-real-1750035270

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12071857/Infrared-camera-reveals-huge-methane-gas-leak-wreaking-havoc-in-Los-Angeles.html

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Bad judgement leads to bad politics and bad hairsyles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-effect-on-muslim-migrant-debate-reverberates-in-heartland/2015/12/29/0fd05b4a-a818-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/crowdfunded-star-trek-movie-draws-851474?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR+Breaking+News_now_2015-12-30+06%3A34%3A00_HLewis&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_breakingnews

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/opinion/the-importance-of-retaking-ramadi.html?_r=0

Iraqi Government ground and US Coalition air forces delivered the most crushing defeat to the IS Group to date. As the provincial capital of Anbar the city is highly symbolic for the Iraqi nation, and as the third largest city formerly under the control of the "caliphate" the impact on IS is two fold. First, the IS group will be losing tax income, manpower, a staging area to threaten Baghdad, and the perception of being blessed by their death god. Second, the loss of the city will significantly restrict the group's ability to hide its equipment, infrastructure, and personnel from bombardment.

If the victory is also an indication that the Iraqi Army is back on its feet then it would seem that IS is not long for this world, or at least Iraq.

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> Enter Trump, who has the temerity to point out that the party establishment says one thing but does another. He launched his campaign by calling the GOP’s bluff on immigration: If the 11 million people here without documents are really “illegal,” as the party loudly proclaims, then send them home. Other candidates were put in the position of having to explain why, after claiming that President Obama was somehow “soft” on immigration, their position on allowing the undocumented to stay is basically the same.

> Also, the party has long sought to capitalize on fear of terrorism by haranguing the president for not using the exact phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” (as if semantics could bring peace to Syria). So when, after the attack in San Bernardino, Calif. , Trump called for banning Muslims from entering the country, much of the Republican base was receptive. Other candidates had to backpedal and remind voters that George W. Bush made clear his “war on terror” was not a war against Islam.

> Trump has given voice to the ugliness and anger that the party spent years encouraging and exploiting. He let the cat out of the bag, and it’s hungry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-donald-trump-is-destroying-the-republican-party/2015/12/28/747668f6-ad9e-11e5-9ab0-884d1cc4b33e_story.html

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http://www.people.com/article/bill-cosby-arrest-warrant-alleged-sexual-assault-2004

>An arrest warrant has been issued for entertainer Bill Cosby for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple employee Andrea Constand at his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania mansion in January 2004, Montgomery County District Attorney-Elect Kevin Steele said at a Wednesday press conference.

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The influx of EU migrants can lead to pay reductions of nearly two per cent in some industries including catering, hotels and elderly care, the research showed.

Campaigners last night seized on the document as official confirmation that EU migration is undermining the living standards of the UK’s least paid workers.

Lord Green of Deddington, the chairman of the pressure group Migration Watch, said: “For many years the immigration lobby have claimed that there is no evidence that immigration has any significant effect on the wages of British workers.

“This new research by the Bank of England blows their claims out of the water. It has found a significant negative impact on those in the lower skilled services sector in which six million UK born are working. This amounts to nearly a quarter of all British workers.”

Ukip MEP and migration spokesman Steven Woolfe said: “We must start to discuss and fully understand the impact, directly and indirectly, that mass migration has on our economy and jobs sector.

“Net migration at over 300,000 per year is preventing wages rising in line with inflation for native, British workers.

“This level of migration is compressing the low skilled jobs sector which is bloated to bursting point.”

The Bank of England report, entitled “The Impact of Immigration on Occupational Wages”, was written by Oxford academic Stephen Nickell, who is a member of the Office for Budget Responsibility, and Bank of England economist Jumana Saleheen.

They argued that the impact on wages was “small” in terms of the overall UK economy but was also “statistically significant”.

“The biggest effect is in the semi/unskilled services sector, where a 10 percentage point rise in the proportion of immigrants is associated with a two per cent reduction in pay,” the authors wrote.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/628640/Bank-of-England-migration-down-wages

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-cow-dung-patties-are-selling-like-hot-cakes-online-in-india/

So Indians had to outsource shitting everywhere to cows

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/28/uk-floods-costs-financial-ruin

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They caught the fucker! They finally caught the little spoiled piece of shit muther fucker!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-affluenza-teen-detained-mexico-cnn-032035321.html

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35192184?OCID=twitterasia

>People honestly believe that having no internet is better than breaking the net neutrality morale code.

Net neutrality is internet communism in my opinion.

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So national geographic spent years and millions of dollars to film a giant squid, building a submarine and travelling hundreds of metres below the depths - only to have one to swim to the shores a couple years later, healthy and able to swim back to sea.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/giant-squid-visits-harbor-in-japan-151228.htm?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=DNewsSocial

Holy shit, I bet nat geo is super pissed right now.