Новости за 13.12.2017

For months, Democrats have stayed quiet about what, if anything, they were doing in Alabama to help Doug Jones in the state’s special Senate election. They’d insist they were helping, but they wouldn’t say how. 

The New York Dolls! From 1973.

This is off the first album. I can’t believe this goes all the way back to when I was in my sophomore year in high school.  First time I ever heard this band, I think it was 1974 or 1975. I was working as a janitor at a school and one of the fellow janitors pulled up and he had the second album blasting away, and I thought, “Jesus Christ, if that isn’t the loudest, noisiest damn music I ever heard!” It was just pure, raucous noise!

I heard it again in... Читать дальше...

Here’s my favorite joke from a week in Israel. What’s the difference between secular, liberal Jews and Donald Trump? Trump has Jewish grandchildren. From a distance, the politics of Israel look even more hopelessly fractured than our own. With 14 parties, including secular Jews, ultra orthodox and Arabs, vying for 120 seats in the Knesset,...

France's foreign minister has accused Iran of trying to create an "axis" of military and political influence stretching from Tehran through Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea.

Trier (dpa) - Mit seinem langen weißen Haar und dem noch längeren weißen Bart zieht Michael Thielen in Trier viele Blicke auf sich. Denn der 66-Jährige sieht dem wohl berühmtesten Sohn der Stadt so überaus ähnlich. «Ich mag es, wenn man mich mit Karl Marx verwechselt», sagte Thielen. Er ist schon seit längerem als Darsteller des am 5. Mai 1818 in Trier geborenen Marx unterwegs - auch offiziell. Im Jahr 2018 aber wird er besonders häufig im Einsatz sein - zum 200. Geburtstag des Philosophen, der einer der geistigen Väter des Kommunismus war. Читать дальше...

Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte says he would rather be honest than pretend he believes his team are realistic contenders for the Premier League title.

As the killing of the deposed Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh broadens the political fracturing in Yemen and the humanitarian crisis worsens, experts warn the war-torn country could soon become a hotbed for jihadists affiliated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State terrorist groups. The unrest in Yemen has been ongoing since 2015 between the supporters of the internationally recognized government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Houthi rebels. With a Saudi-led Arab coalition backing President Hadi... Читать дальше...

A top Russian official said on December 12 that most of the phone calls conveying fake bomb threats that prompted evacuations recently in dozens of Russian cities came from Syria.

Colorado 0 1 1—2Washington 1 1 3—5First Period_1, Washington, Vrana 9 (Bowey, Kuznetsov), 5:25. Penalties_Carlson, WSH, (tripping), 20:00. Second Period_2, Colorado, C.Wilson 3 (Nieto, Barberio), 4:13. 3, Washington, Carlson 3, 17:42. Penalties_Carlson, WSH, (delay of game), 8:39; Kuznetsov, WSH, (slashing), 18:52. Third Period_4, Washington, Connolly 6 (Bowey, Kuznetsov), 5:15. 5, Washington, Niskanen 2 (Burakovsky, Kuznetsov), 16:19. 6, Colorado, Jost 2 (Rantanen, Soderberg), 18:57. 7, Washington... Читать дальше...

The Pirates cruised to an 84-61 win over St. Peter's prior to their game at in-state rival Rutgers.

On the other side, Robert Rosario's lawyer argued that the sex act between his client and a woman accusing him of rape was consensual.

Los Angeles 0 0 1—1New Jersey 2 2 1—5First Period_1, New Jersey, Zajac 3 (Coleman, Gibbons), 13:44. 2, New Jersey, Hall 12 (Bratt, Butcher), 16:14 (pp). Penalties_Wood, NJ, (interference), 6:11; Moore, NJ, (tripping), 8:46; Kopitar, LA, (slashing), 9:14; Mitchell, LA, (tripping), 15:28. Second Period_3, New Jersey, Hall 13, 15:42. 4, New Jersey, Boyle 7 (Hayes, Noesen), 17:04. Penalties_None. Third Period_5, Los Angeles, Mitchell 2 (MacDermid, Martinez), 12:04. 6, New Jersey, Gibbons 13, 19:49 (sh). Читать дальше...

This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com

December 14, 2017

It’s been two weeks since the ATB, or Articulated Tanker Barge, Jake Shearer separated from its 10,000 ton tanker load of Alaska-bound crude oil off Hecate Strait along British Columbia’s mid-coast region.

Less than a nautical mile from disaster, the stormy weather very nearly dashing the barge onto Gosling Rocks, where the result would surely have been the long-predicted Exxon Valdez-like ruination... Читать дальше...

White House attorney Ty Cobb says that on Tuesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced he's finished the interviews he requested with about two dozen current and former White House witnesses as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election.

All Russian diplomatic personnel have left Yemen and Moscow has temporarily suspended its diplomatic presence in the country because of the deteriorating security situation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on December 12.

Arsenal News HQ brings you the latest Arsenal news, match analysis, transfer news, injury news, team news and rumours from trusted media outlets around the World. Arsene Wenger faced the media ahead of our London derby clash with West Ham at the London Stadium on Wednesday night. Among several issues addressed, Wenger gave the latest on new contract talks for Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil ahead of the January transfer window. Wenger had this to say on Ozil’s reported new contract offer: “Negotiations... Читать дальше...

The cutter-happy reliever is taking his talents to Coors Field.

The Rockies have a deal with reliever Bryan Shaw, according to a tweet from Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports. Buster Olney of ESPN tweets that the deal is for three years, with Shaw earning “something in the range of” $9 million per year.

Shaw has long been one of the most durable relief arms in baseball, appearing in at least 70 games in each season since 2013, all with the Indians. Over those 5 seasons, Shaw has combined to pitch in 378 games with a solid 3.11 ERA... Читать дальше...

There’s only one American journalist who truly merits a Pulitzer Prize this year: Glenn Greenwald. He’s been on the biggest story of the year from day one. No, I don’t mean Russiagate, the main stage for the media’s preening self-advertisements of its heroic “resistance,” like “Democracy dies in Darkness.” In fact, the narrative holding that Donald Trump colluded with Russia is the chief piece of evidence that Greenwald has used to nail the year’s real top story—how the American press became a woozy facsimile of Pravda. Читать дальше...

Emmalee Smith pumped in 16 points to pace the 2-0 Hornets, who topped Milton 57-25 on Tuesday night.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday offered to begin talks with North Korea without preconditions, while pointing to China to ramp up pressures against Pyongyang, including a complete oil embargo amid heightened tensions in the Korea peninsula. "We're ready to talk anytime North Korea would like to talk. And we're ready to have the first meeting without precondition," said Tillerson at the Atlantic Council-Korea Foundation Forum on Tuesday, while adding there has to be "a period of quiet" for talks to begin... Читать дальше...

Ice fishing begins, at least in places around Chicago fishing, for this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; but perch remain the top story.

A potential deal is far from happening, but talks have started about the 2017 All-Star.

Iran's southeastern province of Kerman was hit by at least two strong quakes on December 12 and 13, injuring at least 18 people and damaging around 20 buildings, state media reported.