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Doomstead Diner Daily 9/11
« Reply #270 on: September 11, 2019, 05:36:36 am »

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John Bolton’s turbulent tenure comes to a Trumpian end

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John Bolton Tried His Best to Draw the U.S. Into a War. Luckily, He Failed.

theintercept.com - President Donald Trump parted ways with his hawkish national security advisor John Bolton on Tuesday, ending a 17-month tenure that included additional troop deployments to the Middle East, saw the U…


Pence family boondoggle in Ireland cost U.S. taxpayers $600,000 for the limos alone: report

www.alternet.org - Vice President Mike Pence went to Poland to stand in for Donald Trump, who decided to stay behind in the U.S. for a weekend of monitoring Hurricane Dorian from his golf cart. Pence met with Polish Pr…


Trump skeptical of using foreign spies to collect intel on hostile countries, sources say

www.cnn.com - Trump's skeptical view on foreign informants undermines one of the most essential ways that American intelligence agencies gather information about US adversaries, including analysis of their capabil…


Scottish judges rule Boris Johnson's prorogation unlawful

www.theguardian.com - Scottish appeal court judges have declared that Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament in the run-up to the October Brexit deadline is unlawful. The three judges, chaired by Lord Carloway, Sc…


Former FEMA Official Accused of Taking Bribes in Hurricane Maria Recovery

www.nytimes.com - As the work dragged on, competitors said they noticed that FEMA seemed to push Cobra onto PREPA, and Ms. Tribble was seen publicly socializing with Mr. Ellison in San Juan in a manner that suggested …


Trump Job Approval

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‘Yemen Was Called the Forgotten War, but Activists Are Refusing to Forget’

fair.org - Janine Jackson interviewed the Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Hassan El-Tayyab about US war crimes in Yemen for the September 6, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited tr…


‘Under the Trump Administration, the [NLRB] Appointees Have Been Extremists’

fair.org - Janine Jackson interviewed Cornell’s Kate Bronfenbrenner about Trump’s anti-labor Labor Board for the September 6, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: T…


Sean Hannity’s Hillary Clinton obsession, by the numbers

www.mediamatters.org - Fox News host Sean Hannity called his show “the stop-Hillary express” during the 2016 presidential campaign because of its relentless focus on defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But more t…


From Flying Spiders to Global Warming, a Hymn for a Windswept Planet

undark.org - How easy it is to imagine weather as a force wholly imposed upon us. We shake our fists at rain on the day of an outing, at snow entombing our cars. The causes of that rain or snow are complex, invol…


No Regrets? NYC Mayor and Presidential Candidate Bill de Blasio Gets Real About Eric Garner, the NYPD, and Policing

www.theroot.com - New York City Mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Bill de Blasio has no regrets over how he handled the legal proceedings of Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who killed Eric Garner. During his interview wi…


Water is a growing source of global conflict. Here’s what we need to do

www.weforum.org - The most intensive drought ever recorded in Syria lasted from 2006 to 2011. Water scarcity hit households, businesses and infrastructure, while in the countryside crops failed, livestock died, and en…


A Comprehensive List of Resources for Going Off-Grid and Self-Sustaining

leftprep.blogspot.com - I've been trying to find an all-encompassing and comprehensive list of resources and information for those interested in going off-grid and becoming self-sustaining to the largest degree possible. Be…


Silicon Valley’s final frontier for mobile payments — ‘the neoliberal takeover of the human body’

www.marketwatch.com - Aram Sinnreich recently went grocery shopping at a Whole Foods Market in his hometown of Washington, D.C., and realized he had left his wallet at home. He had no cards and no cash, but he had no reas…


Bolivian forest fires destroy two million hectares

www.bbc.com - Bolivian wildfires have destroyed two million hectares (almost five million acres) of forest and grassland since August, according to officials. Almost half of the losses are in "protected" areas, kn…


5 charts show how your household drives up global greenhouse gas emissions

theconversation.com - As the public conversation about climate change gets increasingly serious, many Americans may be wondering: How do my individual choices affect climate change? Household consumption – food, housing, …


60 Percent Of Americans Believe A Recession Is Coming – But Consumers Continue To Pile Up Debt At A Frightening Pace

theeconomiccollapseblog.com - We haven’t seen survey results like this since just before the last recession. Right now, 60 percent of Americans believe that a recession is “very or somewhat likely in the next year”, and the reaso…


Is Corporate Media Tricking the Public with Reports that the Stock Market Is Setting New Highs?

wallstreetonparade.com - By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 9, 2019 ~ On January 26, 2018 the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new record high of 26,616.71. Despite setting new highs multiple times thereafter, the …


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