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New study reconciles a dispute about how fast global warming will happen
The Guardian 24 Sep 2018
We’re currently on pace to double the carbon dioxide-equivalent (including other greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere by around mid-century. Since the late 1800s scientists have been trying to answer the question, how much global warming will that cause? ... It would also mean our for meeting the 2°C Paris target is about twice as large than if the mainstream consensus is right ... Another nail in the contrarian ‘low sensitivity’ coffin ... .......
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Why Trump, The Christian Right And Republicans Will Do Anything To Seat Kavanaugh
WorldNews.com 24 Sep 2018
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingI wouldn’t go so far as to agree with what Thomas Paine said when he described religions as institutions designed to monopolize power and profit, even terrorizing and enslaving their own members ... They too are attracted to rigid beliefs and absolute power, willing to do almost anything to get their way ... They believe he’s the final, divinely appointed justice who’ll at last overturn Roe v ... 99....
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‘America’s Got Talent’ Finalist Courtney Hadwin May Sign With Simon Cowell’s Record Label
Inquisitr 24 Sep 2018
Fans of NBC’s hit competition series America’s Got Talent were shocked on Wednesday, September 19, when 14-year-old singer Courtney Hadwin was thrown out of the competition, finishing in sixth place ... ....
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Cryptocurrency Daily News Bulletin: September 24, 2018
WorldNews.com 24 Sep 2018
General NewsArgentina ... the Coincapital STOXX Blockchain Patents Innovation Index Fund (LDGR) and the Coincapital STOXX B.R.AI.N ... The Winklevoss twins are looking into growing their New York-based Gemini cryptocurrency exchange across the Atlantic to the UK.U.S. Representative Tom Emmer announced a trio of blockchain-focused bills which he intends to introduce them into Congress in the coming weeks....
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards threaten to avenge military parade attack
Yahoo Daily News 24 Sep 2018
By Michael Georgy. DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards vowed on Sunday to exact "deadly and unforgettable" vengeance for an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, including 12 of their comrades, and Tehran accused Gulf Arab states of backing the gunmen ... Soldiers crawled about as gunfire crackled. Women and children fled for their lives ... "We are Muslims, they are kafirs (non-believers)," the man says. He adds ... ....
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May urged to grasp ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ Canada style deal
Belfast Telegraph 24 Sep 2018
Theresa May has been urged to grasp a “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” Canada style trade deal with the European Union by leading Tory Brexiteers. The call came from Jacob Rees-Mogg at the launch event for a new Brexit blueprint by the free market Institute of Economic Affairs think tank (IEA) ... Mr Rees-Mogg, who leads the powerful Tory backbench European Research Group (ERG), said ... He said ... He later added ... (PA Graphics) ... ....
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Trump's tariffs on $200 bn of Chinese goods kicks in
Yahoo Daily News 24 Sep 2018
Washington, Sep 24 (IANS) The ongoing trade war between the US and China has escalated after American President Donald Trump's administration's new 10 per cent tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods kicked in on Monday, spanning thousands of products, including food seasonings, baseball gloves, network routers and industrial machinery parts ... The US tariffs imposed earlier in the year mostly hit industrial goods ... --IANS. ksk. ....
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Soros foundation turns to Strasbourg court to get Hungary's NGO law repealed
Reuters 24 Sep 2018
U.S. billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF) said on Monday it would challenge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg Hungarian laws that make it a crime to help asylum-seekers ... ....
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14 shot — 1 killed — Saturday in Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times 23 Sep 2018
A man was killed and 12 others were wounded in a series of shootings in Chicago over 24 hours Saturday. The day began with a string of shootings near Garfield Park on the West Side between midnight and 3 a.m., according to Chicago police. A single drive-by shooting wounded three people, including a woman, as they stood outside in the 100 block of North Karlov Avenue ... A 35-year-old man was riding a bicycle just before 10 p.m ... in Lawndale....
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Google at 20: how two 'obnoxious' students changed the internet
The Guardian 24 Sep 2018
In the summer of 1995, a second-year grad student called Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students. Larry Page, an engineering graduate from the University of Michigan, was one of those being shown around the Palo Alto, California campus. “I thought he was pretty obnoxious,” Larry Page said of the encounter. “He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too.” ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Twitter....
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One Teenager Killed As Tensions Flare During Protest Against Ortega in Nicaragua
WorldNews.com 24 Sep 2018
Police and paramilitary forces clashed with protesters marching against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Sunday, leaving one dead and several injured, according to Reuters. The demonstrators were calling for the release of people who have been detained for months since protests began earlier this year in April ... However, squads of police prevented the group from continuing, firing tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd....
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Researchers discover gene that protects against dementia
Deccan Chronicle 24 Sep 2018
Washington. A previously unknown genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and dementia has been uncovered, providing insights into how these conditions, and other diseases of aging, might one day be treated and prevented ... ... The paper also shows that in mice, injections of humanin delay cognitive decline associated with aging, proposing a possible therapeutic role for humanin-related drugs ... ....
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Hong Kong bans pro-independence party
The Times of India 24 Sep 2018
HONG KONG. Hong Kong banned a political party which promotes independence on Monday, a first since the city was handed back to China by Britain 21 years ago as Beijing ups pressure on any challenges to its sovereignty. Semi-autonomous Hong Kong enjoys freedoms unseen on the mainland including freedom of expression but the space for political dissent is shrinking in the face of an increasingly assertive China under President Xi Jinping....
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US tells Iran to 'look in the mirror' after Ahvaz attack
BBC News 23 Sep 2018
An anti-government Arab group - Ahvaz National Resistance - and the Islamic State (IS) group both claimed responsibility for the killings. And Mr Rouhani said the "bully" US, along with Gulf states it backed, had enabled the attack ... "He's got the Iranian people... "He can blame us all he wants. The thing he's got to do is look in the mirror.". Mr Rouhani will face Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly this week ... He added ... Related Topics. ....
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Indonesian teenager rescued after drifting 49 days at sea
Deseret News 24 Sep 2018
JAKARTA, Indonesia — An Indonesian teenager who survived 49 days adrift at sea after the wooden fish trap he was employed to mind slipped its moorings says he ran out of food within a week and survived on fish and seawater he squeezed from his clothing. Aldi Novel Adilang told The Associated Press on Monday that he turned on a lamp every time he sighted another ship and can't remember how many passed by "unaware of my ordeal." ... ....
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