Some things that I read about today:
- The UN has said that Israel must withdraw all of its settlements from the West Bank or face the International Criminal Court.
- A former RIAA executive, responsible for their litigation heavy policies is now #2 at the US Copyright Office.
- The sabre rattling between Syria and Israel is getting intense.
- Mother Jones has debunked some of the NRA’s favorite gun “facts”.
- The NRA of 2013 is having an argument with the NRA of 1999.
- The Alberta Tories apparently took a whole lot of illegal donations.
- Scientific American has a great map showing global water risks (flood and drought)
- British Banks are in trouble again.
- A US anti-voter fraud activist has been arrested for voter fraud.
- The US Cancer death rate is down 20% since 1991.
- An architecture student has designed a drone proof city.
- Rush Limbaugh says Cubans, unlike Mexicans, are hard workers.
- A Missouri high school has instituted mandatory hair-follicle drug testing.
- We may soon be able to create detailed maps of distant exoplanets.
- Chances are that no one will ask secretary of defense nominee Chuch Hegel about that orphanage in Vietnam.