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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/31
« Reply #540 on: December 31, 2019, 08:56:20 am »



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Protesters chanting ‘Death to America’ break into U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad

washingtonpost.com - Iraqis gather outside the main gate of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday to protest U.S. airstrikes against militia fighters. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters) By Mustafa Salim and Liz Sly close Liz Sl…

Ghosn flies to Lebanon, blasts 'rigged' Japanese justice

news.yahoo.com - Beirut (AFP) - Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, who was awaiting trial in Japan on financial misconduct charges, confirmed Tuesday he had flown to Lebanon, the latest stunning twist in a rollercoast…

Shocking new Ukraine revelations could make McConnell’s impeachment scheme even riskier for GOP

rawstory.com - Shocking new revelations about President Donald Trump’s pressure scheme against Ukraine show why additional witness testimony is needed in the impeachment trial — and could prove costly to Republican…

Australia bushfires: towns devastated and lives lost as blazes turn the sky red

theguardian.com - Australia’s bushfire crisis has claimed at least two more lives, authorities confirmed on Tuesday, as dozens of fires tore through several towns on the east coast and forced thousands of people to ta…

Darkness at noon: Australia's bushfire day of terror

theguardian.com - Daybreak never came to Mallacoota. By dawn on Tuesday the orange bushfire glow had disappeared from the horizon, replaced by a black shadow of smoke and ash that made early morning in the Victorian s…

Australia to send in military as fires rage

bbc.com - Australian military aircraft and vessels will be deployed to help emergency services in the fire-ravaged states of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria. Thousands of people fled to beaches in the south…

Ivanka Trump Is a Senior Adviser to the President. She Should Be Asked Tough Questions.

theintercept.com - “Face the Nation” has been on air since 1954 and is considered to be one of the most prestigious and high-profile interview shows on American television. Yet Brennan’s interview with Ivanka — which w…

Ivanka Trump’s interview on Face the Nation could have aired on Fox News

vox.com - Ivanka Trump did a rare non-Fox News interview with CBS for Sunday’s edition of Face the Nation. But given the way it obscured key facts, host Margaret Brennan’s approach to interviewing the presiden…

The decade we finally woke up to climate change

nationalgeographic.com - This decade, many people around the world woke up to a grim reality: Climate change is here, it’s happening now, and it could very easily get much, much worse. These 10 years were punctuated by a ser…

Opinion | Explosive new revelations just weakened Trump’s impeachment defenses

washingtonpost.com - (Evan Vucci/AP) By Greg Sargent Opinion writer December 30, 2019 at 9:58 AM EST If Mitch McConnell is going to pull off his scheme to turn President Trump’s impeachment trial into a quick and painles…

Trump Runs the Country Just Like He Ran His Failed Businesses | DCReport.org

dcreport.org - “How do you impeach a president who has created the greatest Economy in the history of our Country?” Donald Trump tweeted in September. Trump has repeatedly claimed big economic benefits from his pre…

Accelerating Climate Change is Transforming Iceland’s Ecosystem

unicornriot.ninja - Reykjavik, Iceland – Unicorn Riot went to Iceland to take an in-depth look at the consequences of human-caused climate change. There we spoke with Dr. Halldór Björnsson, leader of the atmospheric & c…

Opinion | Our lopsided prosperity

washingtonpost.com - By Robert J. Samuelson Robert J. Samuelson Columnist focusing on economics Bio Columnist December 29 It was the year of inequality. The economic debate took a dramatic turn in 2019. To be sure, much …

Initial U.S.-China trade deal has major hole: Beijing’s massive business subsidies

washingtonpost.com - President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Susan Walsh/AP) By David J…

The ocean plastic we see is 'the tip of the iceberg'. Where's the other 99%?

theguardian.com - Every year, 8m tons of plastic enters the ocean. Images of common household waste swirling in vast garbage patches in the open sea, or tangled up with whales and seabirds, have turned plastic polluti…

My Existential Dread of 2020

nymag.com - After an unusually long period of anxious anticipation (on my part, at least), the year 2020 arrives this week bearing many fearful possibilities balanced mostly by the hope of narrowly evading them.…

Entire West Virginia Correctional Officer Class Fired After Nazi Salute Photo

nymag.com - On Monday, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice fired close to 30 correctional officer trainees who posed in a Nazi salute for a class photo, following a state report into the photograph, which recomme…

William Barr Embodies the Conservative Surrender to Trump

nymag.com - Ever since his stern and angry speech at the University of Notre Dame in October, it’s been apparent that Attorney General William Barr is not simply a pliant spear-carrier for the man who lifted him…

What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019

newyorker.com - “U.S.A. is the slice of a continent,” John Dos Passos wrote, in his novel “The 42nd Parallel,” from 1930. “U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bou…

Bolivia’s free territory of Chapare has ousted the coup regime and is bracing for a bloody re-invasion

thegrayzone.com - Cochabamba, Bolivia — Known as Bolivia’s Chapare region, the Tropico of Cochabamba is a sanctuary for elected President Evo Morales’ most dedicated base of support. Since the November 10 coup, it has…

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…

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…

Protip: Do Not Make It Easy For The Cops By Hiding Your Meth Stash Inside A Box Labeled "Dope"

thesmokinggun.com - A Louisiana woman is behind bars on a felony drug possession charge after police discovered her methamphetamine stash in a small plastic container that was helpfully labeled “Dope.” Cops responded Sa…

This Was the Decade We Knew We Were Right

blogs.scientificamerican.com - It rains in the Amazon because the trees want it to. There is plenty of moisture in the oceans that surround the continent, but there is also a hidden reservoir on the land feeding an invisible river…

Different Acronyms, Same Disaster: Bond Ratings Are Once Again For Sale - DollarCollapse.com

dollarcollapse.com - Of all the amazing scenes in The Big Short, a film about the genesis of the Great Recession, arguably the most shocking is the meeting between a couple of hedge fund managers trying to understand the…

The Demagogue’s Cocktail of Victimhood and Strength

theatlantic.com - Editor’s Note: This article is part of our “Democracy Undone” series about the erosion of liberal democracy around the world. WARSAW—For the European demagogue, victimhood and strength go hand in han…


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