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Florida Man Caught Stealing Tractor Gets Tased

LiveLeak.com 

A Washington County man with a stolen tractor had a fateful encounter with a deputy, a taser and the asphalt on Douglas Ferry Road. The Washington County Sheriff's Office released dashcam footage of a traffic stop involving 28-year-old Charles Nicholas McNeil at about noon on Friday, deputies wrote in a news release. The deputy pulled McNeil over after watching the tractor leave the roadway several times, deputies wrote.

Capitalism is self-annihilating, not self-perpetuating

Boing Boing 

Umair Haque (previously) is on fire: If the Point of Capitalism is to Escape Capitalism, Then What’s the Point of Capitalism? "You can see it in stark, comic terms. What are Bezos and Musk doing? Trying to flee to Mars. What’s Gates doing? Recommending you books to read, and trying to save the world with charity. LOL — how ironic. These are different forms of freedom from capitalism. Maybe on Mars, we can build a better world. Maybe through ideas and philanthropy, we can solve the problems that corporations can’t. Читать дальше...

Coventry 0-1 Portsmouth

Portsmouth News: Pompey 

Ronan Curtis extended Pompey’s lead at the top of the League One table to three points with a stunning effort to settle the Blues’ trip to Coventry.



Sports Briefs

MercuryNews.com 

Willow Glen girls volleyball wins three matches last week

May 11, 1999: Astros blast Bucs 19-8 and set team records for runs, doubles

Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) 

Runs had historically been hard to come by in the Astrodome, but on May 11, 1999 — in the building’s last season — the Astros proved an exception to the rule, blasting the Pirates 19-8 in front of 18,450. The Dome had opened as the modernistic “eighth wonder of the world,”1 but its design made the games played there seem to be part of the Deadball Era, when runs were at a premium, extra-base hits were infrequent, and “it [took] three players to make a run.”2 With their new $250 million downtown park (built by Halliburton Corporation... Читать дальше...

May 11, 1999: Astros Spank Bucs While Setting Team-Record For Runs and Doubles

Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) 

Runs had historically been hard to come by in the Astrodome, but on May 11, 1999 – in the building’s last season – the Astros proved an exception to the rule, blasting the Pirates 19-8 in front of 18,450. The Dome had opened as the modernistic “eighth wonder of the world,”1 but its design made the games played there seem to be part of the Deadball Era, when runs were at a premium, extra-base hits were infrequent, and “it [took] three players to make a run.”2 With their new $250 million downtown park (built by Halliburton Corporation... Читать дальше...

Razing of German forest set to proceed after tree houses removed

Europe Online Magazine 

Aachen, Germany (dpa) - German police have cleared the final remaining tree houses built by activists to forestall the felling of trees and start of coal mining in a western German forest.The owner of Hambach Forest, energy company RWE, is now preparing to clear the area to allow for further coal extraction - something it has long had permission to do."We will not tolerate people... forcing their way in and re-occupying the forest," an RWE spokesman said Tuesday, adding that the forest was now protected by a trench... Читать дальше...

Trump touts new trade deal with Canada and Mexico

CBSNews.com 

President Trump was in Philadelphia on Thursday touting the new U.S. trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. Mr. Trump claims that the NAFTA replacement, known as the USMCA, will bring more auto industry jobs to the U.S. while giving dairy farmers more access to Canadian buyers. Heather Long, economics correspondent at the Washington Post, joined CBSN to discuss the details of the new deal.





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