Blog Heap of Links for the day 10 June 2015

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Wars and Rumors

Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud

Russian media is whipping up fear about a potential nuclear attack by the United States—and it’s all thanks to a prank video featuring confused people in San Diego.

The video at the center of the nuclear fear-mongering features Americans allegedly signing a petition to annihilate Russia. Mark Dice, a conspiracy theorist and activist, produced the video. It shows him approaching passers-by in San Diego, asking them to support a plan by President Obama to nuke Russia in order to keep America the world’s leading superpower. …

8:40pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW

(Jun 8) As Islamic State tightens its grip on Libya, 86 Eritrean Christians have reportedly been kidnapped in the country.

3:51pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW

WW2 - still with us

How a chicken farmer, a pair of princesses, and 27 imaginary spies helped the Allies win World War II.…

7:48pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW

History - less with us

Japan's last ninja: Engineer, 63, who can hear a needle drop in the next room and kill from 20 paces is last in 500-year line of Japanese assassins
• Jinichi Kawakami is 21st head of the Ban clan, a dynasty of secret ninjas
• He began training in ancient art of ninjutsu aged six under Buddhist master
• For concentration, he would stare into a candle until he was 'inside' flame
• For hearing he would practice listening to needle dropping on wood floor
• Says he will let the art die with him because ninjas 'don't fit with modern day'
'We can't try out murder or poisons. Even if we can learn, we can't try it out'

3:48pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW

Untied States

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A bill that would effectively nullify in practice certain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that prevent terminally ill patients from accessing treatments was signed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott today.…

8:23pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW
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Art of

TV

…Created by Michael Hefferon, Reboot: The Guardian Code is based on the original ReBoot created by Gavin Blair, John Grace, Phil Mitchell and Ian Pearson. The YTV series was the first of its kind–a fully CG animated television series. The series told stories of heroic Guardians who battled viruses inside computer systems.

ReBoot: the Guardian Code is an adventure-comedy series about four teens (Austin, Parker, Grey and Tamra) who discover that they’re next-gen Guardians with a mission to save the world, by defending it in cyberspace.…

Enjoyed the original series, ahead of its time. A return was long overdue, but tricky, so this looks like an interesting re-engineering of the premise for today's tech. Hope this makeover will remain true to the original's spirit.
1:56pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW

Wild Oklahoma

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…[Gary] Linderman ran the Ole Miner Pharmacy, the last business in Picher. He was known as the "last man standing" or "Lights out Linderman."

Customers from miles away visited the pharmacy in the once-booming lead- and zinc-mining town about 20 miles southwest of Joplin, Missouri.

Most residents left after the Environmental Protection Agency declared Picher a federal Superfund site in the 1980s. A 2008 tornado devastated those who remained. The town ceased municipal operations in 2009.…

1:50pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW

Policing Ourselves

…Tim Watson read a police alert during his shift on Friday morning which said a child had gone missing from a public library in Milpitas, California. … A short time later, Mr Watson, a father-of-two, noticed a man and teary-eyed boy matching the child's description on his bus and concocted a clever plan to confirm his suspicions and lead the abductor straight to the police.…

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3115183/California-bus-driver-ha...
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3:56pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW
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US Military

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The Oklahoma Honor Flights will take 82 veterans — including six from the Bartlesville area — to Washington, D.C. for a one-day trip to visit the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the Vietnam Wall, the Lincoln Memorial, the Iwo Jima Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery and other sites on Wednesday. The Oklahoma Honor Flights is a hub of the national Honor Flight Network. This will be its 20th flight from Oklahoma and the eighth from Tulsa…

[Also worth watching: Video: Honor Flight Bluegrass Hustle, by Kelli Oakley, YouTube]
2:04pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW

An Oklahoma National Guardsman received the Star of Valor award for his heroic acts in saving a stabbing victim from her attacker and treating her wounds.…

1:52pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Panels political and humorous
7:50pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Fighters for the Islamic State have finally achieved control over Sirte, Moammar Qaddafi’s hometown in Libya. After taking the airport, ISIS fought a protracted series of battles with the Fajr Libya militia before capturing the power plant and other strategic sites, thereby gaining complete control over the town.

In other news, a French woman is suing the government for failing to prevent her 16-year-old son, a convert to Islam, from making hijra to Syria to wage jihad for the Islamic State.…

News headline links and summaries
4:55pm CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1963 the Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.…

Vic starts his headline links, summaries, and thinkological critiques here.
7:39am CDT Wed 2015 Jun 10 :MW