Embattled Issa: I'd advise Clinton if she asked...(not The Onion.)

On the cusp of losing his seat, the icon of partisan rancor is pitching himself to voters as a bipartisan figure.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/darrell-issa-california-house-republicans-campaign-230451?source=Snapzu

Beyond the Pail: NPR Unpacks the History of the Lunch Box

From re-purposed lard pails to bento boxes, the way students carry lunch to school has changed almost as much as the classrooms they learn in.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/31/495218823/beyond-the-pail-npr-unpacks-the-history-of-the-lunch-box?source=Snapzu

The man behind the nation’s most litigious patent troll has spoken

"We never seek personal attacks or personal discomfort toward anyone!"
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/the-man-behind-the-nations-most-litigious-patent-troll-has-spoken/?source=Snapzu

FBI's Comey opposed naming Russians, citing election timing: Source

FBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the U.S. government to name Russia as meddling in the election.
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/31/fbis-comey-opposed-naming-russians-citing-election-timing-source.html?source=Snapzu

Weiner hands laptop over to FBI as Clinton keeps her distance

Hillary Clinton has demanded the FBI provide transparency into its​ renewed​ investigation of her emails — but she hasn’t even bothered to ask her closest aide, Huma Abedin, what was on​ the computer that the FBI seized in its investigation of ​estranged hubby ​Anthony Weiner. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook made the surprising revelation when pressed by tough questioning from Chris Wallace, moderator of “Fox News Sunday.”
Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/10/30/weiner-hands-laptop-over-to-fbi-as-clinton-keeps-her-distance/?source=Snapzu

Help us! Women in Indian mill pen letter describing sexual abuse at work

A letter from six women at a spinning mill in southern India, describing the sexual harassment they face at work and asking for help, exposes the widespread exploitation of women in the multi-billion-dollar textile industry, campaigners said. “He forces himself on us, constantly hugging us and squeezing our breasts,” the women write, describing the behavior of their male supervisor. “Any worker who resists his advances loses part of her salary. We need this job and don’t know who to talk to about the abuse we face everyday. Please help us.”
Read more: http://news.sitibe.com/help-us-women-indian-mill-pen-letter-describing-abuse-work?source=Snapzu

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A guidebook for the underworld

Ancient Egyptians believed that in order to become immortal after death, a spirit must first pass through the underworld — a realm of vast caverns, lakes of fire, and magical gates. Needless to say, one needed to come prepared. But how? Tejal Gala describes an Egyptian "Book of the Dead" -- a customized magic scroll written by the living to promote a smooth passage to the afterlife when they died.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/rti9/the-egyptian-book-of-the-dead-a-guidebook-for-the-underworld?source=Snapzu

James Comey, Hillary Clinton, and the Email Investigation: A Guide for the Perplexed

Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey threw the presidential election campaign into turmoil with a letter to Congress declaring that the Clinton email matter was, perhaps, not entirely done after all. By Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes.
Read more: https://www.lawfareblog.com/james-comey-hillary-clinton-and-email-investigation-guide-perplexed?source=Snapzu

Oklahoma fugitive Michael Vance killed in shootout with police

The week-long manhunt for Oklahoma fugitive Michael Dale Vance Jr. ended Sunday night when he died in a shootout with authorities, FBI Special Agent Terry Weber said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/31/us/oklahoma-fugitive-killed/?source=Snapzu

How a mathematician dissects a coincidence

Can you unknot a twist of fate with logic? Vox's Phil Edwards asked mathematician Joseph Mazur about his book, Fluke, and one of its most incredible stories.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/rti9/how-a-mathematician-dissects-a-coincidence?source=Snapzu

Quartet for the End of Time, The Crystal Liturgy

Simon F. A. Russell
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/quartet-for-the-end-of-time?source=Snapzu

Ex-FBI official: Clintons are a 'crime family'

A former FBI official said Sunday that Bill and Hillary Clinton are part of a “crime family” and argued top officials hindered the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of State. During a radio interview with John Catsimatidis, former assistant FBI director James Kallstrom heaped praise on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before taking aim at the Clintons. “The Clintons, that’s a crime family, basically,” Kallstrom said. “It’s like organized crime. I mean the Clinton Foundation is a cesspool.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/303458-former-fbi-official-clintons-are-a-crime-family?source=Snapzu

Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads

The ads, which appear mostly via the services Outbrain and Taboola, can lead to questionable websites. Now some publishers wonder about the effect on their readers.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/business/media/publishers-rethink-outbrain-taboola-ads.html?source=Snapzu

“Good men are God in the flesh”

“[I]n an era marked by the rise of Lynch Law, across the U.S. American South, restrictions on voter rights, and a turn away from African American rights across the nation, Frederick Douglass traveled widely, and used his podium to argue that any person, notwithstanding physical attributes, class, or caste, could attain virtue…” By Daniel Joslyn.
Read more: https://jhiblog.org/2016/10/17/good-men-are-god-in-the-flesh-frederick-douglass-virtue-philosopher/?source=Snapzu

How the government lost its case against the Oregon occupiers

What happened at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year was no whodunit. By Matt Pearce.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oregon-malheur-legal-defense-20161028-story.html?source=Snapzu

Iraq's new atheism in the shadow of Islamic State

Shaho is 29, a government employee. He hunches over some tea, chain-smoking throughout our three hours together. He is this group's founder, and his natural confidence makes him something of a spokesman, too. Several years ago, stuck between the marauding jihadism of IS and the incompetency of the Iraqi government, he set up this symposium, and named it "Logic". The group is an intellectual refuge for Iraq's atheists and secularists, a people denied any official existence by the country's government, and holders of a death sentence courtesy of the Islamic State group.
Read more: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/10/31/iraqs-new-atheism-in-the-shadow-of-islamic-state?source=Snapzu

A Girl And Her Service Dog Head To The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will hear Fry v. Napoleon Schools on Monday to decide if disabled children prevented from having qualified service animals at school can go directly to federal court.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2016/10/31/499876610/a-girl-and-her-service-dog-head-to-the-supreme-court?source=Snapzu

S Korea: Protestors call for Park resignation

Thousands of South Koreans rallied in Seoul Saturday, demanding the resignation of President Park Geun-hye. Police estimated that around 12,000 demonstrators attended the evening protest, according to the country's semi-official Yonhap news agency. South Korea's president faces scrutiny for allegedly leaking state documents to a friend. On Friday, Park Geun-hye ordered the resignation of 10 of her senior secretaries as political turmoil continued to grip the country.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/29/asia/south-korea-reshuffle/?source=Snapzu

Equality House vandalized with anti-gay graffiti, bullet holes

The Equality House in Topeka, Kansas, which stands directly across the street from the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, has been a symbol of the LGBTQ rights movement since it was first painted Pride flag colors in March of 2013. This week, however, the colorful symbol of equality was subjected to hate when spray-painted slurs and bullet holes were found on the home's exterior.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/equality-house-vandalized-homophobic-slurs-bullet-holes-n674271?source=Snapzu

Donald Trump's companies destroyed or hid documents in defiance of court orders

The Trump strategy was deny, impede and delay, while destroying documents the court had ordered them to hand over.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/2016/11/11/donald-trump-companies-destroyed-emails-documents-515120.html?source=Snapzu

School Segregation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Public schools are increasingly divided by race and class. John Oliver discusses the troubling trend towards school resegregation.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/rti9/school-segregation-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-hbo?source=Snapzu

Melting glaciers in Bolivia could cause catastrophic floods

Bolivia, which holds 20 percent of the world's tropical glaciers has seen its glaciers shrunk by 43% since the mid-1980s. The melting has left behind at least 25 unstable glacial lakes capable of causing sudden and catastrophic outburst floods.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/melting-glaciers-in-bolivia-could-cause-catastrophic-floods/article/478453?source=Snapzu

The Surveillance State Descends on the Dakota Access Pipeline Spirit Camp

For the past six months, at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers, history has been made at one of the largest international gatherings of indigenous people in recent history. Representatives from well over 100 indigenous nations and thousands of people have camped, prayed, and taken action... By the American Civil Liberties Union.
Read more: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/surveillance-state-descends-dakota-access-pipeline-spirit-camp?source=Snapzu

Theresa May lied and lied again to become PM

Theresa May appeals to a stereotype that has a deep grip on the English psyche. Sober and commonsensical, she behaves with the moral seriousness we expect from a vicar’s daughter. She may be a little clunky, but what a relief it is to have a straightforward leader from the heart of the country after the flash, poll-driven phonies of the past.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/30/theresa-may-lie-and-lied-to-become-prime-minister?source=Snapzu

Refugees face lifetime ban from Australia if they come by boat

The Federal Government will soon move to ban refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru from ever coming to Australia, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says. Mr Turnbull said the legislation would send a clear message. "This will send the strongest possible signal to the people smugglers ... It is incredibly important that we send the clearest message," Mr Turnbull told a press conference this morning.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-30/manus-nauru-refugees-asylum-seekers-to-be-banned-turnbull-says/7978228?source=Snapzu

What Happens When the Police Misidentify You as the Dallas Shooter

Mark Hughes took his AR-15 to the Dallas Black Lives Matter protest to make a point about gun rights. The police ended up proving it for him. By Darryl Campbell.
Read more: http://www.gq.com/story/what-happens-when-the-police-misidentify-you-as-the-dallas-shooter?src=longreads?source=Snapzu

The Real Story Of Apollo 17... And Why We Never Went Back To The Moon

On December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 touched down on the Moon. This was not only our final Moon landing, but the last time we left low Earth orbit.
Read more: http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-real-story-of-apollo-17-and-why-we-never-went-ba-1670503448?source=Snapzu

Swimmer Nyad launches ambitious walking initiative

Known for her ocean endurance, swimmer Diana Nyad has taken to dry land for her latest challenge, an initiative to get 1 million people walking.
Read more: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/sd-me-nyad-walk-20161027-story.html?source=Snapzu

Ceta: EU and Canada sign long-delayed free trade deal

The European Union and Canada have signed a long-delayed landmark trade deal, following weeks of uncertainty due to opposition in Belgium. The deal was signed in Brussels by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and top EU officials. The signing ceremony initially planned for Thursday had been cancelled after Belgium's Wallonia region vetoed the agreement.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37814884?source=Snapzu

Kierkegaard’s Rebellion

Kierkegaard is widely considered the most important religious thinker of the modern age. This is because he dramatized with special intensity the conflict between religion and secular reason, between private faith and the public world, and he went so far as to entertain the thought that a genuine reconciliation between them is impossible. By Peter E. Gordon.
Read more: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/11/10/kierkegaards-rebellion/?source=Snapzu

Us v Them: the birth of populism

It’s not about left or right: populism is a style of politics that pits ‘the people’ against ‘the establishment’. Its rise is a warning sign that the status quo is failing. By John B. Judis.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/13/birth-of-populism-donald-trump?source=Snapzu

‘The stuff of nightmares’: US primate research centers investigated for abuses

Animal welfare campaigners have decried incidents of monkeys dying from strangulation, water deprivation, poor handling by staff and attempted escapes. By Oliver Milman.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/28/primate-research-centers-investigation-monkey-abuse-peta?source=Snapzu

Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel

"The Principle Navigations," Richard Hakluyt's great championing of Elizabethan colonial exploration, remains one of the most important collections of English travel writing ever published. As well as the escapades of famed names such as Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, Nandini Das looks at how the book preserves many stories of lesser known figures that surely would have been otherwise lost.
Read more: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/10/26/richard-hakluyt-and-early-english-travel/?source=Snapzu

Jesus's tomb opened for first time in centuries

Preservation experts have opened for the first time in at least two centuries what Christians believe is Jesus's tomb inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Some of the historic work was witnessed by AFP photographer Gali Tibbon who captured images of the site believed to contain the rock upon which Jesus was laid in around 33 AD as it was uncovered as part of ongoing restoration at the site.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/jesuss-tomb-opened-first-time-centuries-192734029.html?source=Snapzu

Pushing That Crosswalk Button May Make You Feel Better, but …

Some buttons, such as the door-close button on an elevator, are mere artifices — placebos that promote an illusion of control but in reality do not work. By Christopher Mele.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/us/placebo-buttons-elevators-crosswalks.html?_r=0?source=Snapzu

The Irrational Downfall of Park Geun-hye

[South Korean] President Park Geun-hye is deep trouble. The stories have been out for a few days now, and even the English-language papers have caught on...
Read more: http://askakorean.blogspot.in/2016/10/the-irrational-downfall-of-park-geun-hye.html?source=Snapzu

Ministers press ahead with controversial internet tap plan

The cabinet is pressing ahead with controversial legislation to give the security service much wider powers to tap phones and internet traffic, despite opposition from the Council of State. The Council of State, which is the government’s most senior advisory body, said that the legislation should not be submitted to parliament in its present form. Currently the security services are only allowed to tap into satellite communications and specific internet connections and ministers argue that they must have wider access to internet traffic to monitor terrorists more effectively.
Read more: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/10/dutch-press-ahead-with-controversial-internet-tapping-plan/?source=Snapzu

The Feds Won’t Buy This $19 Million Stealth Boat—or Let It Be Sold Abroad

With his patents under gag order, Gregory Sancoff is being ghosted by the government. By Caroline Winter. (Oct. 21, 2016)
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-19/the-feds-won-t-buy-this-19-million-stealth-boat-or-let-it-be-sold-abroad?source=Snapzu

Top Senate Democrats demand update on FBI's Clinton email investigation no later than Monday

"This letter is troubling because it is vaguely worded and leaves so many questions unanswered," the senators wrote in a letter.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/senate-democrats-fbi-comey-clinton-email-2016-10?source=Snapzu

U.S. orders family members to leave consulate in Istanbul

The State Department cited fears of attacks by extremist groups in ordering family members of employees to leave the consulate in Turkey.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-orders-family-members-leave-consulate-istanbul-n675151?source=Snapzu

There’s a Global Crisis Looming: By 2030, Four Out of 10 People Won’t Have Access to Water

Experts predict that in just 14 years, the world will face a catastrophic water deficit. By Reynard Loki. (Oct. 18, 2016)
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/environment/theres-global-crisis-looming-2030-four-out-10-people-wont-have-access-water?source=Snapzu

Most Damaging WikiLeaks

The top 100 most damaging WikiLeaks released regarding Hillary Clinton on her corruption, secrets, and scandals. By /u/LegendaryAmerican.
Read more: http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/?source=Snapzu

Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That’s Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria

Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government. By Max Blumenthal.
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/world/inside-shadowy-pr-firm-thats-driving-western-opinion-towards-regime-change-syria?source=Snapzu

Inside the New York Public Library's Last, Secret Apartments

There used to be parties in the apartments on the top floors of New York City's branch libraries. On other nights, when the libraries were closed, the kids who lived there might sit reading alone among the books or roll around on the wooden library carts—if they weren't dusting the shelves or shoveling coal. Their hopscotch courts were on the roof. A cat might sneak down the stairs to investigate the library patrons.
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments?source=Snapzu

The Tiered Burial Grounds Carved into the Hillsides of Hong Kong

Photos of Hong Kong's intriguing cemeteries, where even the gravestones are high-rises.
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-tiered-burial-grounds-carved-into-the-hillsides-of-hong-kong?source=Snapzu

The Photographers of 1870s London Who Documented Their Disappearing City

The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium. In 1875, a group called the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London formed in response to the imminent demise of the 17th-century Oxford Arms. Like many coaching inns, the Arms was facing destruction as the city, coming out of the Industrial Revolution, was in a state of major redevelopment. Photographers documented the inn and other soot-stained alleyways, Gothic façades, and rambling wooden structures in glass plate negatives, printed in carbon to make them last.
Read more: http://hyperallergic.com/299912/the-photographers-of-1870s-london-who-documented-their-disappearing-city/?source=Snapzu

New Rule: The Danger of False Equivalency | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

In his Editorial New Rule, Bill Maher cautions young voters against characterizing the choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as picking between "the lesser of two evils."
Read more: http://snapzu.com/rti9/new-rule-the-danger-of-false-equivalency-real-time-with-bill-maher-hbo?source=Snapzu

Syria’s “Voice of Conscience” Has a Message for the West

Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a fierce critic of an international consensus that has come to see the Syrian conflict in Assad’s terms—as a fight against terrorism. By Murtaza Hussain and Marwan Hisham.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2016/10/26/syria-yassin-al-haj-saleh-interview/?source=Snapzu

Hillary Clinton email probe reopens

Hillary Clinton says she is "confident" a new FBI probe linked to her emails will not change its original finding that she should not be prosecuted. The Democratic presidential candidate called on the FBI director to explain the new inquiry to the American people. James Comey earlier said the FBI was looking into newly found messages. The latest emails came to light during a separate inquiry into top Clinton aide Huma Abedin's estranged husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37805525?source=Snapzu

More than one million children starve as Yemen war rages: U.N. agencies

Around 1.5 million children in Yemen are malnourished and half the population lives in hunger, United Nations aid agencies said on Friday, three days after pictures of an emaciated Yemeni teenager sparked headlines around the world. Yemen's 18-month war has left 370,000 children at risk of severe malnutrition - a condition which needs urgent treatment to prevent a child from dying - the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said at a press briefing in Geneva on Friday.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-crisis-hunger-idUSKCN12S204?source=Snapzu