Webpagedigest 10/13&14/2016

10/13&14/2016

CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia - NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-prepping-possible-cyber-strike-against-russia-n666636

Audit: USDA paid millions in federal aid to dead farmers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/audit-usda-paid-millions-in-federal-aid-to-dead-farmers-172308601.html

CEO sold millions in Wells Fargo stock before fraud revelations - CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wells-fargo-ceo-john-stumpf-sold-millions-in-company-stock-before-bank-fraud-revelations/

or

http://tinyurl.com/jx53hxf

More Than 1 Million to Lose Obamacare Plans as Insurers Quit - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-14/more-than-1-million-in-obamacare-to-lose-plans-as-insurers-quit

or

http://tinyurl.com/hmvrdjq

The New $5 Note | Modern Money

'The reverse of the new $5 will highlight the historic events that occurred at the Lincoln Memorial and will include images of Marian Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. The front of the new $5 will retain President Lincoln’s portrait.'
https://modernmoney.treasury.gov/new-bills/5-bill

Barrow voters support name change to 'Utqiagvik' - Alaska Dispatch News
http://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2016/10/13/barrow-voters-support-name-change-to-utqiagvik/

or

http://tinyurl.com/j4lgkte

Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature - The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/13/13267978/bob-dylan-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature

Gentle Pit Bull Living on the Streets Gets a Second Chance at Life
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gentle-pit-bull-living-streets-171500347.html

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Stunning images from the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stunning-images-2016-national-geographic-155614269.html

Spewing vomit majestically - Imgur

(humor/gif)
http://m.imgur.com/wi1gKk1?r

Webpagedigest 10/12/2016

10/12/2016

Putin orders Russian officials' relatives studying abroad to return home, reports claim | Fox News

'Russia is ordering all of its officials to fly home any relatives living abroad amid rising tensions over the prospect of a new world war, it’s been claimed.'
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/12/putin-orders-russian-officials-relatives-studying-abroad-to-return-home-reports-claim.html

US and South Korea 'join forces for drills' aimed at taking out North Korea's Kim Jong-un | The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-us-south-drills-taking-out-kim-jong-un-a7357476.html

More than 1,300 old people go missing in China every day: report - CNN.com

'More than 1,300 elderly people go missing in China every day...'
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/12/asia/china-elderly-missing/index.html

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Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad | Sophie Elmhirst | Business | The Guardian

(long read)

'How did a substance that falls from the air, springs from the earth and comes out of your tap become a hyperactive multibillion-dollar business?'

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/06/liquid-assets-how--business-bottled-water-went-mad

Mossberg: Why does Siri seem so dumb? - The Verge

(Opinion)
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/12/13251068/walt-mossberg-apple-siri-is-dumb

We cannot change society without changing our own behavior. If we want change, we have to change. - Imgur

(toon)
http://m.imgur.com/idWlAdF

Webpagedigest 10/11/2016

10/11/2016

South Korea's Park urges preparations for mass North defections
https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-koreas-park-urges-preparations-mass-north-defections-075001785.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/hoz5qgh

5 Corporations Now Dominate Our Privatized Intelligence Industry | The Nation

'This unaccountable oligarchy of spies controls the information that guides our military and civilian leaders.'

https://www.thenation.com/article/five-corporations-now-dominate-our-privatized-intelligence-industry/

They've exposed your information to hackers, the government and now Yahoo is making it harder to leave 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_YAHOO_BREACH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULt

or

http://tinyurl.com/gshezr3

Tyson Foods Invests in Veggie Burgers That 'Bleed'

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/11/13239640/largest-us-meat-processor-beyond-meat-vegetarian-alternative

or

http://tinyurl.com/hnkz6ep

The Galaxy Note 7 is dead - The Verge

'Samsung ends production after issuing worldwide recall'
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/11/13202608/samsung-galaxy-note-7-discontinued

Nobody wants to host the Olympic Games
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/11/news/olympic-games-cost-rome-2024/index.html

UK government finally concedes cannabis has a medicinal effect | The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cannabis-legality-uk-government-finally-admits-marijuana-has-a-medicinal-effect-a7355941.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/gso2h5v

Legal pot could upend years of drug smuggling in Arizona
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b200e0c9a8ef42ce8cb8d2fe6423eb42/legal-pot-could-upend-years-drug-smuggling-arizona

or

http://tinyurl.com/j3agzst

Webpagedigest 10/09&10/2016

Webpagedigest 10/08/2016

10/08/2016

Next Big Future: Russia suspending and withdrawing from US nuclear agreements including reduction of weapons grade plutonium
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/10/russia-suspending-and-withdrawing-from.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/advancednano+(nextbigfuture)&m=1

or

http://tinyurl.com/zaf4ufv

What Clinton and Trump might discuss at the second Presidential debate | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/expect-second-presidential-debate/

Clinton-Trump debate shaping up as nasty

'Donald Trump, under fire for lewd comments he made in 2005 about groping women, offered a perfunctory apology and then promised to drag the second presidential debate scheduled for Sunday night into the gutter.'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/after-trumps-terrible-friday-get-ready-for-a-nasty-second-debate-072900038.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/zlu5vms

Hurricane Matthew economic damage nears $6 billion
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/10/08/hurricane-matthew-economic-damage-cost-6-billion/91783304/

or

http://tinyurl.com/ho2abo3

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The awesome fury of a tornado
http://m.imgur.com/jaIa2X1?r

Webpagedigest 10/07/2016

10/07/2016

Russia considers military bases in Vietnam and Cuba: agencies | Reuters
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1270PN

Hurricane Matthew: More Than a Million Without Power in Florida - NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-matthew/hurricane-matthew-weakened-category-3-threatens-southeast-n661621

or

http://tinyurl.com/jmlkf3n

Barely half of illegal border crossers from Mexico caught - LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-border-cross-20161006-snap-story.html

Rolling Stones to release first new album in over a decade - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/06/entertainment/rolling-stones-new-album/index.html

Kite surfer nails jump during hurricane 

(gif)

http://jalopnik.com/dumb-hurricane-matthew-kitesurfer-gets-exactly-what-he-1787511299?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=fridayAM

or

http://tinyurl.com/hjgrq7b

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I almost choked myself to death - Imgur

(humor/gif)
http://m.imgur.com/8J4HPvi?r

Webpagedigest 10/06/2016

10/06/2016

BBC - Future - 'We’re growing brains outside of the body'
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161004-were-developing-brains-outside-of-the-body

Shanghai Tower in China has world's fastest elevator - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/05/asia/worlds-fastest-tower/index.html

Walmart's newest salvo against Amazon
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/wal-marts-next-move-against-050559595.html

Paedophile caught with 137,000 indecent pictures of children spared jail so he can start family
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/paedophile-caught-137-000-indecent-083106459.html

Football coach fired after making kid run laps for bullying teammate | WNCN
http://wncn.com/2016/10/06/football-coach-fired-after-making-kid-run-laps-for-allegedly-bullying-teammate/

9-week-old baby's hair delights strangers
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/this-9-week-old-baby-has-more-hair-than-most-193750299.html

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The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century Agriculture
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/big-food-photo-essay.html

Why It’s So Hard to Get Solar in Florida (That’d Be the Sunshine State) | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/florida-sunshine-state-hard-get-solar-energy/