Month: April 2015

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Your Crazy Uncle Bubba

90 Miles From Tyranny

Vision Times – by Iris Lu

Chinese students usually face high pressure at school, especially before the college entrance exam or gaokao.

The three-year period for Chinese high school students is a cruel battle, full of tests, scores, and ranking. Many students stress out during this long-term struggle, and some even commit suicide as they can see no other way out.   Continue reading “Terrifying Photos of a Chinese High School: Is This a School or a Jail?”

CNS News – by Patrick Goodenough

More than five years after President Obama and other leaders agreed on a 2020 goal of raising $100 billion each year from public and private sources to help developing countries deal with climate change, the United Nations wants to see action.

Ahead of Earth Day on Wednesday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pointing to a meeting next month in New York where he says he will be looking for clear indications from governments and investors as to how the ambitious goal will be reached.   Continue reading “UN Chief Wants Action on $100 Billion Climate Fund”

ABC News – by David Rising

Hedy Bohm had just turned 16 when the Nazis packed her and her parents onto a cattle car in May 1944 and sent them from Hungary to the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland.

After three days and nights in darkness, crammed into the standing-room-only car with babies wailing, the doors were flung open. “An inferno,” is how she remembers the scene she saw.

“The soldiers yelling at us, guns and rifles pointed at us,” she recalled. “Big dogs barking at us held back on their leashes by the soldiers.”   Continue reading “SS ‘Accountant of Auschwitz’ Going on Trial in Germany”

Huffington Post – by Ryan Grim

Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, now touring as The Dead. He’s just finished a Dead show in Washington, D.C. and gets a pop quiz from the Huffington Post.

Where does 420 come from?

He pauses and thinks, hands on his side. “I don’t know the real origin. I know myths and rumors,” he says. “I’m really confused about the first time I heard it. It was like a police code for smoking in progress or something. What’s the real story?”   Continue reading “420 Meaning: The True Story Of How April 20 Became ‘Weed Day’”

Sipsey Street Irregulars

“No, Ted Cruz, the 2nd Amendment doesn’t protect your right to rebellion.”

America’s standing army in 1787 wasn’t exactly intimidating. By contrast, America’s standing army in 2015 is, and I’m sure Ted Cruz would agree, not to be messed with. An AR-15 doesn’t hold a candle to your local police force; starting beef with the full firepower of the American military with nothing more sophisticated than a semi-auto is like bringing a ham sandwich to a gun fight. If citizens really did rise up and revolt with the guns currently available, they would lose and lose badly.

Continue reading “This would come as a distinct surprise to the Founders. Collectivist trots out the old “resistance is futile” Borgian meme.”

RT

When a computer security expert from Denver tweeted some amusing remarks about hacking the onboard systems of his United Airlines flight, he didn’t know FBI agents would be waiting at his destination. Later, he was refused boarding to another flight.

Watch out what you tweet – or face the consequences! Chris Roberts, of One World Labs in Denver, has learnt that sharing knowledge in Twitter about how transport security systems operate is a bad idea.   Continue reading “US computer expert ‘grounded’ after playful plane security tweets”

Mail.com

2:35 p.m. (1235 GMT; 8:35 a.m. EDT)

British Prime Minister David Cameron has paused from campaigning for the general election to lash out at the traffickers behind the tragedy in the Mediterranean. “It is a very dark day for Europe, he said. “It really is horrific the scenes that we have all witnessed on our television screens, the loss of life.

“We should put the blame squarely with the criminal human traffickers who are the ones managing, promoting and selling this trade, this trade in human life.” Cameron said he believes in a comprehensive approach that deals with the instability in the countries involved.   Continue reading “The Latest: Cameron slams traffickers for loss of life”

Mail.com

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Six people have been arrested in two states in connection with a terrorism investigation in Minnesota, where authorities have been tracking youths who have traveled or tried to travel to Syria to fight with militants, including the Islamic State group, authorities said.

Ben Petok, a spokesman for the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, said the arrests were made Sunday in Minneapolis and San Diego and that there is no threat to public safety. He provided no information about charges.   Continue reading “Authorities: Terrorism probe yields 6 arrests in 2 states”