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Russian power plants to sell excess capacity to bitcoin miners


RT
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:13 UTC
Power lines
© Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
Companies operating power plants in Russia have started leasing generators with excess capacity to cryptocurrency miners, Vedomosti daily reports.

According to the newspaper, the offer is a boost for crypto miners, as electricity bills consume a significant portion of their profits.

Russia's largest energy company EvroSibEnergo has reportedly received dozens of requests.

The company owns several plants in Siberia, in the Urals, as well as in the European part of the country, which has shut down.

"There are over 70 manufacturing facilities with ready-made infrastructure, including quick access to electrical grids and substations, provided with cheap electric power," said the company representative, as quoted by the daily.

He also said the company is currently in talks with dozens of miners, but no contracts have been signed yet.
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Flood damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey may equal that of Katrina

Kevin Drawbaugh
Yahoo News
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
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© REUTERS/Richard Carson (Reuters)Interstate highway 45 is submerged from the effects of Hurricane Harvey seen during widespread flooding in Houston, Texas, U.S. August 27, 2017.
Flood damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey may equal that from 2005's Hurricane Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, said an insurance research group on Sunday.

As heavy rain pounded Houston and Texas's coastal counties, the Insurance Information Institute said it was still too soon to make precise estimates of the damage to homes and businesses.

"It could be a flood loss like Katrina because of the amount of water that's coming in ... not as much wind as it will be water," said institute spokeswoman Loretta Worters.

Hurricane Katrina resulted in more than $15 billion in flood insurance losses in Louisiana and Mississippi that were paid by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a federal program that is the only source of flood insurance for most Americans.

The NFIP is already deeply in debt and likely will have to be bailed out again by U.S. taxpayers, as it was after Katrina, to cover the bill for flood damage claims from Harvey.
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Court of public opinion turns against Charles and Camilla as Diana tributes flood the media on 20th anniversary of her death

Tom Sykes
The Daily Beast
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
Prince Charles Camilla
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August is always a dangerous time to be Prince Charles.

Summer 2017 is proving to be particularly gruesome in the court of public opinion for the prince and his consort, as the annual wave of Diana-related stories to mark the anniversary of her death on August 31, 1997, have been given added impetus by the fact that this year marks the 20th anniversary of her demise.

As Diana news, Diana tapes and Diana tributes have flooded the media once again, Charles (the husband who told his wife: "I refuse to be the only Prince of Wales never to have a mistress,") and Camilla (the temptress who pursued an affair that helped destroy Diana's marriage) have come in for a particularly forceful annual hiding.

A new poll shows the British in unforgiving mood, with just 20% surveyed by the Daily Express now thinking that Camilla should be Queen.
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Black Sea: 11 crew members rescued as cargo ship splits in two


RT
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:30 UTC
cargo ship
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Turkish rescue boats evacuated the 11 crew members of a dry cargo ship which broke in two in the Black Sea while on anchor off Istanbul's Kilyos coast.

The 114-meter ship, built in 1975, was en route to the Tuzla dockyard in Istanbul for repairs when the incident happened, local media reported. The vessel began to buckle and broke into two pieces on Sunday.

Half of the freighter was towed ashore while the other section was left to sink.
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Amazon slashes Whole Foods prices as much as 43%

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:21 UTC
Whole Foods and Amazon
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Following up on last week's story that sent grocer - and Wal-mart - stocks tumbling, when Amazon annonced it would cut Whole Foods prices as soon as Monday, Bloomberg reports that according to channel checks, "Amazon spent its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market" by as much as 43%.

Some early examples observed at the Whole Foods store on 57th Street in Manhattan:
  • organic fuji apples were marked down to $1.99 a pound from $3.49 a pound;
  • organic avocados went to $1.99 each from $2.79;
  • organic rotisserie chicken fell to $9.99 each from $13.99;
  • banana prices were slashed to 49 cents per pound from 79 cents.
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Another car bomb attack kills 12 people, injures 24 in Baghdad


Sputnik
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:43 UTC
Iraq security forces
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A car explosion hit a market in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital, leaving at least 12 people dead and 24 injured, media reported on Monday.

The blast occurred at the Jamila market in Baghdad's district of Sadr City, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing a source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

Many nearby shops and stalls were reportedly destroyed by the explosion. Iraqi security forces cordoned off the area near the site.

No terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.
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Bull attacks animal rights activists who invaded bullring in Carcassonne, France (VIDEO)


RT
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:54 UTC
gored bull in bullfight
© Jon Nazca / ReutersThe bullfight continued after the incident.

Anti-bullfighting protesters who invaded a ring in France on Sunday found themselves under attack by the animal they were trying to protect. Video shows the activists being chased by the bovine, which then flings one of them into the air.

They were demonstrating against the "novillada," an event where novice bullfighters fight younger bulls, reported AFP, citing L'express. The pair can be seen at around the 07:15 mark of the video jumping over the barrier of the arena, in Carcassonne, southern France.

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Beer production industry returns to Syria with opening of $16mn brewery


RT
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:29 UTC
Syria beer production
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Syria's beer production industry is being resurrected with the opening of a $16 million brewery which plans to produce an impressive 15 million litres the product each year.

The Aradoz Beer Factory opened in Syria's north west coastal city of Safita and is the work of two Syrian expats living in the Czech Republic. It represents the first mass-produced domestic beer since the civil war halted production of the country's only two brands.

"The factory's machines are imported from Czech Republic. The machines were put together by Czech experts," factory director Basel Abbas said.
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German nurse suspected of murdering over 80 intensive care patients


Sputnik
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:32 UTC
German hospital
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German nurse, Niels Hoegel, is suspected of slaying over 80 patients in his care with lethal doses of medication.

In February 2015, Hoegel was jailed on charges of killing two patients. Meanwhile, the convict himself claimed that he had killed over 80 patients in the intensive care units of hospitals in the cities of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg by giving them a lethal dose of medication. After the revelations, the police launched an investigation.

"The horrific deeds of Niels H. go beyond any imagination," Johann Kuehme, the head of Oldenburg police told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper after presenting the results of the investigation.

The murderer confessed that he would bring patients to the brink of death before attempting to revive them in order to look like a savior in front of his colleagues.
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Opinion: The left is alienating its allies by shutting down free speech

Debra W. Soh
CBC
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:52 UTC
So-called progressives celebrated last week after Ryerson cancelled an event featuring controversial speakers

Ryerson University
© FacebookRyerson cited safety concerns as the official reason for shutting the event down.
Earlier this month, in an ironic but somehow all too predictable turn of events, Ryerson University announced that it would be cancelling its event called "The Stifling of Free Speech on University Campuses."

The event was to be held last Tuesday and panel members included Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto professor who opposes Bill C-16's mandate for gender-neutral pronouns, Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioural scientist at Concordia University, Oren Amitay, a clinical psychologist and Ryerson University sessional lecturer and Faith Goldy, formerly of Canada's Rebel Media.
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