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Smart Device Breaks Up Domestic Dispute By Calling the Police
We a€™re gradually learning that smart home devices can be quite valuable for police. Following a recent case in which Amazon handed over data from its Echo device to police investigating a murder, a smart device called the police when a couple was alle ...[Read more]
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Monsanto leaks suggest it tried to kill cancer research about notorious weed killer
Controversial agricultural giant Monsanto attempted to kill research on Roundup weed killer, which is suspected of causing cancer, leaked documents show. The company also reportedly influenced EPA officials to conceal information about the cancer risks. ...[Read more]
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Populists Are on the March in the South: Bernie-Backed Insurgent Randall Woodfin Defeats Birmingham’€™s Incumbent Mayor
But populist challenger Randall Woodfin, a 36-year-old former board of education president endorsed by the Bernie Sanders-backed campaign group Our Revolution, topped Bell in the first round of voting in August. On Tuesday night, Woodfin finished the job ...[Read more]
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Making History: China and Russia are Transforming Enemies into Friends
Russia, China and Iran have in recent years drawn enormous benefit from the declining military and economic power of the United States, further propelled by a general mistrust of Washington's diplomatic and political abilities, both with Obama and now wit ...[Read more]
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Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC
I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a mont ...[Read more]
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The Secret to Progressive Electoral Success?
You build political power by beginning at the bottom. That’s one of the hopeful lessons of the elections on Tuesday that saw progressives, socialists, and other leftists sweep into office at the local and state level all over the country. It was an elec ...[Read more]
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New Investigation Finds U.S. Special Forces Massacred Somali Civilians & Orchestrated a Cover-Up
The Pentagon is on the defensive after a new investigation revealed evidence that U.S. special operations forces massacred civilians in Somalia earlier this year, allegedly firing on unarmed farmers and their families, then planting weapons beside the bod ...[Read more]
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West should boast about its “decisive victories” in Afghanistan, Iraq & Libya, not Syria
Moscow baffled by American and French statements over US-led coalition’s 'decisive role' in defeating Islamic State in Syria. “Our Western partners have been saying in the recent days that it was not Russia but them, the coalition, who defeated Is ...[Read more]
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Putin thanked Trump for CIA tip-off which helped Russia prevent terror attack
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump for help in preventing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. Data provided by the CIA enabled Russian security services to find and detain terrorists The Russian leader expre ...[Read more]
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How Corbyn has inspired young Italians to launch their own Momentum
A new movement has sprung up in Italy called “Potere al Popolo” (Power to the People), taking inspiration from the new left in Europe, in particular Momentum and the transformation of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. Founded last month at a meeting in Rome ...[Read more]
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Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online
In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic papers available for free to anybody in the world. It was ...[Read more]
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