Blog Heap of Links for the day 18 April 2016

At least 20 people were injured by an explosion on a bus in Jerusalem, police said Monday.
The head of police in Jerusalem announced on Monday evening that the bus explosion in the capital earlier in the day was caused by a bomb. He said there was no doubt that the incident was a terrorist attack.…

Hamas says its smuggling and terror tunnel network is twice as large as the Viet Cong’s was at the height of the Vietnam War. Here’s what Israel is doing to stop it.…

A terror-trial following the fatal 2015 Copenhagen shootings at a free speech event and a synagogue has witnessed a shocking outburst by the defendant as he called the judge a “Nazi”.…

About 350,000 California voters may have accidentally registered for the American Independent Party, thinking it was the designation for independent voters…

The first accomplishment of California’s pioneering $15 minimum wage law is killing the revival of America’s clothing industry.…

A year after President Obama launched his Task Force on New Americans the administration is injecting it with a $19 million infusion so it can achieve its key initiative of registering new voters that will likely support Democrats in the upcoming election.…

…Microsoft is back at it again… making a robot that guesses what's in pictures. I have taken the liberty of putting some of the more frequent faces on the Kube through the new Microsoft robot and screenshotting the results. It was rather humorous…

Climate change is an urgent topic of discussion among politicians, journalists and celebrities...but what do scientists say about climate change? Does the data validate those who say humans are causing the earth to catastrophically warm? Richard Lindzen, an MIT atmospheric physicist and one of the world's leading climatologists, summarizes the science behind climate change.

… volcanic activity all over the planet is rising. 38 volcanoes are erupting at the moment, and it seems like we hear about another new eruption almost every day now.

But let us hope that Yellowstone does not erupt any time soon.…

A series of powerful earthquakes which struck Asia and South America in the past week could be followed by a 'mega' quake in the near future, a scientist has claimed.…

…And like Socialism, with absolutely no evidence that it actually works, your government will keep doubling down on the failed ideals of green energy. With your money!…

…Darien, who goes by "Deej," recently conquered his own personal villain: a brain tumor. Deej spent three weeks in Alfred I. duPont Hospital last summer. While he was there, he thought about his heroes — the real life ones back home at the Mount Holly Police Department.… couldn't engage in any rigorous physical activities, so he made his local police officers beaded key chains… the department got to show their appreciation by naming Deej an honorary police officer and superhero.… Wearing an Avengers t-shirt and cape, Deej was sworn in at a superhero-themed pizza party in the Mount Holly police station.…

…RC has had loyal fans throughout its more than 100-year history. Its roots go deep in the south, where drinking one with a Moon Pie is a blue-collar tradition that’s still popular today.… RC also has a presence internationally, in countries such as Estonia, Thailand, and Iceland. It’s currently one of the top-selling soda brands in the Philippines. But the number of RC drinkers could have been much, much higher.…

In late antiquity, the religion split the Mediterranean world in two. Now it is remaking the Continent.… “all European history has been a great emigration toward the North.” … European unity began with the concept… of a Christendom in “inevitable opposition” to Islam… Europe must now find some other way to dynamically incorporate the world of Islam without diluting its devotion to the rule-of-law-based system that arose in Europe’s north…

…discovery of one of the largest Roman Villas ever found in the UK.… Roman property, similar in size and structure to the great Roman villa at Chedworth.… the remains – some of the most important to be found in decades - have now been re-buried, as Historic England cannot afford to fully excavate and preserve such an extensive site.…

Chris Hemsworth has a daddy dilemma.… … 32-year-old actor gushes about his young daughter, India Rose, and her envy of her younger twin brothers… "She was like ‘I really want one.’ I was like, ‘A penis?’ She was like, ‘I want a penis!’" …

In Austin, Texas "Fight for 15" protesters advocating for a $15 minimum wage swarmed a Taco Bell flooded to talk to workers about their cause. Instead of receiving support, the workers told them to leave.…

The eight Supreme Court justices appeared evenly split during Monday's oral arguments in the case over President Obama's 2014 policy to not deport an estimated four million immigrants illegally living in the U.S.

That is likely a bad sign for the administration because a 4-4 split in U.S. v. Texas would mean that lower court rulings halting the policy would stand.…

Amazing Rescues During Huge Houston Flood

…Syria peace talks near collapse as opposition declares pause…
…Unusual quake cluster worries Japan.…
…Oil prices slide after freeze deal failure…

…Tax Day: The Long, Sordid Tale Of The American Income Tax…
…The Tragic History of RC Cola…
…College Cancels Debate Between Conservative And Liberal BECAUSE CONSERVATIVE WAS PARTICIPATING…

…Ecuador’s president expects ‘considerable’ rise in quake death toll…
…Israeli military uncovers first Hamas tunnel into Israel since 2014 war.…
…Ethiopia attack: 200 people dead, 100 children missing. Ethiopia army seeks to rescue Gambella's abducted children.…
…45% of Americans pay no federal income tax.…

…Donald Trump Warns RNC: Straighten up or It’s Going to be a Rough July…
…Bombing survivor to make racing return at Boston Marathon…
…Ecologist Deploys Robotic Killing Machine to Terminate Feral Cats…

…Hillary's token Muslim Brotherhood BFF to be deposed…
…Socialism and the Time Machine…
…Bacon good, government agencies bad…

…On this day in 1988 the United States launched Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. This action followed a US ship striking a mine when the Iranians secretly mined the Persian Gulf. …

…“I am a constitutionalist and under the Constitution, marriage is a question for the states. That has been the case from the very beginning of this country- that it’s been up to the states. And so if someone wants to change the marriage laws, I don’t think it should be five unelected lawyers down in Washington dictating that.…"

…Trump sells the myth of American success instead of the real thing. …the New York values Trump represents are the very worst kind. He exemplifies the seamy side of New York City - the Ponzi schemers and the Brooklyn Bridge sellers, the gangster traders like Bernie Madoff and the celebrity gangsters like John Gotti — not the hard work and sacrifice that built New York and America.… No one who has lived under dictatorship takes human values lightly, especially those like justice and liberty… Every day I have reason to thank Ronald Reagan and the generations of Americans who sacrificed and fought for the freedom of those of us trapped behind the Iron Curtain.… Unfocused anger makes people vulnerable to political snake-oil salesmen touting simple solutions and utopian outcomes. It opens the door to the aggressively uninformed authoritarianism of Trump as well as to Bernie Sanders and his siren song of socialism.…

…Now here’s an obvious theory: Getting fucked at the convention is precisely what Trump wants.…