(no subject)

Amid Israeli restrictions on materials, makeshift homes sprout in Gaza

US, Turkey sign deal to arm, train Syria rebels

It’s So Freezing Outside That Owls From the Arctic Have Descended Upon NYC

Germany rejects Greek loan request

Wal-Mart, under pressure, boosts minimum U.S. wage to $9 an hour

A New Orleans jury on Wednesday awarded $14 million to 5 Indian men who were lured to the United States and forced to work under inhumane conditions after Hurricane Katrina

Cable TV is speeding up its shows slightly to show you more ads

Using 'Pseudoscience' to Undermine Same-Sex Parents

Fighting rages in east Ukraine despite bid to revive truce

Lying in the military is common, Army War College study says

In Sierra Leone, quarantines without food threaten Ebola response

The Fall And Rise Of U.S. Inequality, In 2 Graphs

The Skills Gap: America's Young Workers Are Lagging Behind

The Islamic State ‘caliphate’ is in danger of losing its main supply route

Black, queer, feminist, erased from history: Meet the most important legal scholar you’ve likely never heard of

Fighting over Libya’s oil resources is placing the country’s future in jeopardy.

The Rich Benefit the Most From Tax Breaks Designed to Help People Build Wealth

Guy Who Gets Paid to Say Obamacare Doesn’t Work Can’t Find a Single True Fact to Support His Case

The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart

Jeff Jackson, a young Democratic NC State senator is the only senator in the general assembly today due to the snow.

U.S. FDA issues device safety alert following "superbug" outbreak

Manila was known as the ‘Pearl of the Orient.’ Then World War II happened.

UK admits unlawfully monitoring legally privileged communications between lawyers and clients for the past 5 years

'Another year of poor wage growth' in 2014

Make like a squid and transform: Squid can recode their genetic make-up on-the-fly to adjust to their surroundings, study finds

RAF jets scrambled after Russian bombers seen off Cornwall

France Is Getting More Intolerant and Racist, According to Human Rights Report

China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's largest PC maker, said on Thursday it will no longer pre-install software that cybersecurity experts said was malicious and made devices vulnerable to hacking.

How Often People in Various Countries Shower

Extent of stealth fracking in Gulf of Mexico revealed

Germany’s army is so under-equipped that it used broomsticks instead of machine guns

Man sues after police turn off dashcam during arrest

Swiss prosecutors have searched offices of the Geneva subsidiary of HSBC bank in an inquiry into alleged money-laundering.

USDA goes FBI on crooks who sell gross meat and run cons on food stamps

Okay, well, I wasn't gonna post any more links for a few hours

But then I saw today's XKCD, giggled for a full minute, and said "why the heck not?"

****

Large Deposit of Metal Balls Discovered In Atlantic Ocean

White People Aren't Called Terrorists Unless They Liberate Animals, Apparently

Since 9/11, We've Had 4 Wars in the Middle East. They've All Been Disasters.

Libya to U.N. Security Council: Lift Arms Embargo to Fight ISIS

Some signs of tension emerge among Islamic State militants

New York City Could See 6-Foot Sea Rise, Tripling of Heat Waves by 2100

Resistant-malaria 'enormous threat'

Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him With 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy

New York judge proposes bill to overhaul grand jury system

Venezuela arrests opposition mayor accused of coup plot

Postal inspector general begins second review of mail-surveillance program

The Big Bet to Hold Banks Liable for Terrorism

How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last

Controversy in Uruguay Over New Lives of Guantanamo Refugees

Sunlight continues to damage skin hours after exposure

The CIA's Secret Psychological Profiles of Dictators and World Leaders Are Amazing

Putin a threat to Baltic states, Western officials say

Guantánamo torturer led brutal Chicago regime of shackling and confession

Animals tend to evolve toward larger size over time, study finds

Years after blowing the whistle on Countrywide, Michael Winston is bogged down in the courts, and fighting for his life

Syrian Kurdish fighters and rebel forces have advanced into Raqqa province, capturing 19 villages from Islamic State, a monitoring group says.

Myanmar’s Buddhist terrorism problem

Myanmar has asked Beijing for co-operation to help prevent "terrorists" from using Chinese territory to launch cross-border attacks.