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« Reply #540 on: December 30, 2019, 07:39:32 am »

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Of Two Minds - The Hour Is Getting Late

oftwominds.com - After 11 years of "the Fed is the market" expansion, the Fed has now reduced its bloated balance sheet by 6.7%. This is normal, right? So here we are in Year 11 of the longest economic expansion/ sto…

Two shot dead at livestreamed Texas church service

bbc.com - A gunman has opened fire in a church in Texas, fatally shooting two people before being killed by an armed member of the congregation. The gunman stood up from a pew at West Freeway Church of Christ …

The Collapse of the Modern Western Empire. What Future for Humankind?

cassandralegacy.blogspot.com - The Collapse of the Modern Western Empire. What Future for Humankind? These notes are not supposed to disparage nor to exalt an entity that has a history that goes back to at least a couple of millen…

New Report Details Unrest Among Trump Officials As Trump Withheld Ukraine Aid

yahoo.com - A new report meticulously details the unrest in President Donald Trump’s administration during the time Trump ordered military aid be withheld from Ukraine until the country carried out investigation…

Fires worsen as every Australian state hits 40C

bbc.com - Scores of fires are burning out of control across Australia amid a heatwave which has seen temperatures exceed 40C (104F) in every state. On Monday, the most dangerous fires were in the state of Vict…

Border Patrol Arrest Reports Are Full of Lies That Can Sabotage Asylum Claims

theintercept.com - On December 29, 2017, the night his daughter was born, Augusto left the hospital and rode his motorcycle to his home in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, to pick up a change of clothes for his wife. On his way b…

How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State

theintercept.com - An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China’s authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens, The Intercept…

Supposedly “risk free” assets are looking awfully risky

qz.com - No one knows what will trigger the next recession. Often, a downturn starts in the financial sector, when the value of an asset class suddenly falls and wise people agree, after the fact, that prices…

Tulsi Gabbard, encouraged by Trump, may seek spoiler role

news.yahoo.com - It is not exactly breaking news that Tulsi Gabbard will not win the Democratic presidential nomination. Since announcing her candidacy in January, the U.S. House member from Hawaii has never polled h…

Psychiatry expert says Trump’s rambling Merry Christmas rant includes three signs of serious mental impairment

rawstory.com - President Donald Trump’s speech in Florida over the weekend provides evidence that he is suffering from cognitive decline, according to a psychiatric expert. Seth Davin Norrholm, an associate profess…

Before Being Hacked, Border Surveillance Firm Lobbied to Downplay Security and Privacy Concerns About Its Technology

theintercept.com - Few people had ever heard of Perceptics, a Tennessee-based subcontractor that sells license plate readers to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, before last month, when news emerged that the company …

The Biggest Business Con of 2019: Fleecing Workers While Bosses Get Rich

commondreams.org - Corporate social responsibility is the second-biggest con of 2019 (Donald Trump remains in first place). Consider Boeing, whose board just fired its CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, in order “to restore confi…

We Followed YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Down The Rabbit Hole

buzzfeednews.com - How many clicks through YouTube’s “Up Next” recommendations does it take to go from an anodyne PBS clip about the 116th United States Congress to an anti-immigrant video from a designated hate organi…

Internet trashes Face the Nation for softball interview with ‘unqualified grifter’ Ivanka Trump

rawstory.com - … then let us make a small request. Like you, we here at Raw Story believe in the power of progressive journalism. Raw Story readers power David Cay Johnston’s DCReport, which we've expanded to keep …

Opinion | 19 good things that happened in 2019

washingtonpost.com - (Washington Post illustration/Images by iStock) By Editorial Board December 17 1. Scientists announced a new thera

An Oncologist’s Take on Refocusing the Battle Against Cancer

undark.org - Depending on who is speaking, the war against cancer that President Nixon declared nearly half a century ago has either been a soaring triumph of innovation and doggedness or a colossal failure, feat…

The environment in 2050: flooded cities, forced migration – and the Amazon turning to savannah

theguardian.com - ‘Good morning. Here is the shipping forecast for midday, 21 June, 2050. Seas will be rough, with violent storms and visibility ranging from poor to very poor for the next 24 hours. The outlook for to…

The Year in Doom 2019

doomsteaddiner.net - From the keyboard of Surly1 Follow us on Twitter @doomstead666 Like us on Facebook Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on December 29, 2019 "Violence is as American as cherry pie." –H. Rap Br…

The most disruptive phase of globalization is just beginning

qz.com - To properly understand globalization, you need to start 200,000 years ago. Richard Baldwin skillfully takes on this daunting task in a new book, starting all the way back with the hunter-gatherers. F…

Australia fires: one firefighter killed as bushfires rip through four states

theguardian.com - One firefighter has died and multiple properties are feared lost after terrifying bushfires driven by extreme weather conditions swept across four Australian states on Monday. The volunteer firefight…

How Liberals Fell In Love With The West Wing | Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org - In the history of prestige tv, few dramas have had quite the cultural staying power of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing. Set during the two terms of fictional Democratic President and Nobel Laureate in E…

Trump’s lawyer and the Venezuelan president: How Giuliani got involved in back-channel talks with Maduro

washingtonpost.com - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with senior military officers in Caracas on May 24, 2018. (Wil Riera/Bloomberg News) By Rosalind S. Helderman,, Tom Hamburger, close Tom Hamburger Investigative re…

Opinion | Trump’s pardon of Gallagher just got even more appalling

washingtonpost.com - Navy Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher celebrates with his wife, Andrea, on July 2 at Naval Base San Diego after being acquitted in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. (…

Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work

portside.org - In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in federal policymaking while halting or disrupting research projects nationwide, marking a transformation of the fede…

Twenty Years Later – How Did Putin Do?

strategic-culture.org - <span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> Twenty years ago a not very well-known Vladimir Putin pub…

Climate Games

peaksurfer.blogspot.com - It took me a minute to recompose myself before continuing with the taping. I was thinking, “Do I confront this head-on and stick up for the science, or do I just shut up and move on?” I decided to zi…

Fifth Straight Year of Central American Drought Helping Drive Migration

blogs.scientificamerican.com - The main harvest of 2019 of the primary food crops of Central America—corn and beans—was completed in September, and for the fifth consecutive year, extreme weather led to a bad harvest. According to…

The Rust Belt Didn’t Have to Happen

theatlantic.com - James Fallows: Democrats should talk about place-based policy Miller’s approach was superficially similar to many of today’s public-private partnerships. The difference is that his program invested i…


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