* "Brazilian domestic spies use Tinder to infiltrate protest movements:" https://boingboing.net/2016/11/15/brazilian-domestic-spies-use-t.htmlRead more... )

* "Trump loses audience pushing fringe-right priorities:"

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* A category Hurricane has hit Mexico. My best wishes to all who were in its path ( Read more... )

* The Turkish election is a pretty big deal. The ruling party, the AKP, has lost for the first time in thirteen years. They only got 40.8%, so they need to form a coalition, only the opposition parties are not much interested, so it will be interesting to see what will happen. (The second strongest finisher has 25% and has already said they won' ( Read more... )

* "The Myth of the 'Most Dangerous Job':" http://americawakiewakie.com/post/72678305548/cops-the-myth-of-the-most-dangerous-jobRead more... )

* There has been another terrible plane crash in the South China Sea over the weekend, this time an Indonesian Plane. It sounds like they called for international help searching early. Most of the rest of what I'm hearing appears to be speculation. I simply haven't the emotional cushion to properly follow this one. Apologies ( Read more... )

* "Why are the feds harassing Navajo shepherds?:" http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/12/feds-navajo-shepherdsmining.html?utm_content=opinion&utm_campaign= ( Read more... )

* "Two NYPD cops get killed and 'wartime' police blame the protesters. Have we learned nothing?:" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/21/two-nypd-cops-killed-wartime-police-protestersRead more... )

* They think HIV crossed into the human population in the '20's in Kinshasa. At the time there was large scale population displacement and deforestation and they were using unsterilized needles for inoculations. Likely someone carried it in their blood stream from a remote area, and the health system spread it ( Read more... )

* Remember the man who brought ebola to Nigeria? Someone he infected fled to another city for treatment, exposing another 70 or so people in the process and infecting a Doctor there. The Doctor has died and his wife is sick. Why was there no word of this before? Every one involved hid that they had ebola there from the ebola fighting teams and ( Read more... )