Things in the news

Science rallies have begun...

Australia, New Zealand kick off global science rallies


"What do we want? Evidence-based science. When do we want it? After peer review."

 

Le Pen & Macron going to the run-offs!
France elections: Macron and Le Pen 'through to run-off' - BBC News

 

Lest we forget: why we need to remember the Frontier Wars

 

It's amazing what we (used in the very general sense) will do justify and rationalize our actions against others. For decades, even centuries, Native Americans were portrayed as ignorant savages. The actions taken against NAs by many of our "great" leaders are conveniently forgotten, or when mentioned, sanitized.

 

I know what you mean. The opinion of that article is nothing like what i was taught at school. We weren't really taught anything about the First Australians (i think that's the new politically correct term) and their culture or lives before the British came.
History is written by the victorious i guess

 

If Peter Dutton has alternative facts about Manus violence, he should release them | Katharine Murphy

 

What a way to go for a musician.....

Atlanta musician dies after collapsing on stage at concert


Apparantly the musicians onstage at the time thought his collapse was part of his performance.

 

A crystal ball look at where America is heading...
Clashes in Caracas over plans to rewrite constitution

It isn't a stretch of the imagination to see Trump trying to rewrite the constitution before he's done...
Trump Blames The Constitution For His Bad First 100 Days In Office

 

Breaking news this hour...
Macron team blasts 'massive hacking attack' after document release

Macron's French presidential campaign emails leaked online

 

Now somebody tell me that Wikileaks isn't in Putin's fucking hip pocket.
I'm pretty much done with them at this point.
If they want to be thought of as an independent source for information they should stop being the Kremlin's lap dog.

 

Re-bottling the genie: would you pay for the news you consume?

 

Link to their fb page

Link to the article

 

Like he needs the money, these people are "All Hat"

 

Nocookies

The radio station I'm listening to at work just said it's 20 dead and 100 injured. But that's probably an exaggeration at this early stage


View: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-40007886

 

Study finds mushrooms are the safest recreational drug

 

While the real thing is safe just about every year up here we get some idiot poisoning themselves because they ate the wrong ones.

 

Nordic prime ministers troll Trump's viral orb photograph

I can't work out how to add the photo without hosting it somewhere but you can click the link up top

 

One Nation refuses to back budget unless ABC funding cut by $600m, reports say

 

NASA Finds Space Rock Worth $10,000 Quadrillion

Asteroid’s gold could crash the world’s economy