News 2014.03.16
World
- Fred Phelps has apparently been excommunicated from the WBC and is near death.
- After China abstains from a Russian veto at the UN (Sino-Soviet split reunion!), протесты начнутся в Москве.
- A federal judge in Tennessee grants a preliminary injunction against the state's same-sex marriage ban in certain cases, further remarking that, "proscriptions against same-sex marriage will soon become a footnote in the annals of American history."
- They might just have discovered themselves some Gravitational Waves.
- How Quebec intends to sell its "Charter of Values": anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
- McConnelling.
- How the truth is made at Russia Today.
- How science deniers use false equivalency to pretend there’s a debate
- Canadian doctor: Richard Burr, do not fuck with me.
- Color us shocked, shocked! A solid majority of IR experts (even those who advocate realpolitik) say that Republicans are full of shit on military policy.
- Veterans Today: The missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was hijacked, has been discovered on the ground, and is slated to be used in a U.S. false-flag terror attack... in Ukraine.
- The Right Stuff reveals the feminist plot to use Bitcoin, the IT community, and the Libertarian community as part of their evil rent-seeking agenda.
- Texan weather station warns of a weather phenomenon, called a "haboob." Islamophobes lose their shit.
- In response to the UN's recent Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the North Korean state news agency KCNA released a report detailing why they believe the US is the "worst human rights abuser in the world". Highlights include criticizing the NSA's overreach and accusing the US of having "trampled down [...] freedom of religious belief".
- Brian Lilley of the Sun News Network: I want more Global warming because I hate winter!