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« Reply #585 on: January 28, 2020, 07:23:07 am »

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Genocide Scholar Warns That the Groundwork for Genocide in the US Has Been Laid

mintpressnews.com - Writer, scholar and activist Brynn Tannehill came out to say that the United States, particularly under the Trump administration, is already several steps down the path towards committing genocide ag…

Coronavirus: Hong Kong cuts border crossings with mainland China – live updates

theguardian.com - The Chinese embassy in Copenhagen is demanding that one of Denmark’s biggest newspapers apologise for a cartoon on the outbreak of a deadly virus, which it considers an insult to China, the Associate…

Of Two Minds - Is the Market Grossly Underestimating the Potential Impact of the Coronavirus Epidemic?

oftwominds.com - The potential for a consequential disruption in China's supply chains appears to be vastly under-appreciated. Despite the current drop in stocks (less than 1.5% as this is written), there's a tremend…

John Bolton’s Revelation Still Won’t Be Enough

nymag.com - At 8:36 p.m. on Monday night, President Trump’s lawyers finally said John Bolton’s name. The pronouncement came the day after the New York Times reported that the former national security adviser acc…

GOP Leaders, Trump’s Defense Team Grasp at Weak Defenses After Bolton Leak

nymag.com - In the wake of a report on Sunday revealing that John Bolton’s account of the Ukraine scandal directly undermines the argument of the president’s legal team, GOP leaders spent the second day of the i…

Opinion | Don’t Be Confused by Trump’s Defense. What He Is Accused of Are Crimes.

nytimes.com - Common-law crimes aren’t as common as they once were because they generally have been replaced by statutes, especially at the federal level. The Supreme Court long ago observed that Congress has neve…

Opinion | Why ‘too much delay’ is such a bogus argument against bringing in John Bolton

washingtonpost.com - John Bolton, then the national security adviser, in Washington in July. (Patrick Semansky/AP) By Harry Litman close Harry Litman Contributing columnist focused on legal issues Bio BioFollow Follow Co…

Israel's Auschwitz Commemoration: A Kidnapping of Jewish history

mintpressnews.com - As world leaders gathered in Jerusalem to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, Zochrot, an Israeli NGO that works to raise awareness among Israeli Jews of t…

Yemen: Saudis Claim 'Tactical Withdrawal" After Houthis Retake Nihm Province

mintpressnews.com - MARIB, YEMEN — The Saudi-led Coalition escalated its military operations in Yemen over the weekend, targeting Nihm, Jawf, Marib and Bayda with a barrage of indiscriminate airstrikes that left tens of…

Washington Post Newsroom Revolts After Reporter Suspended For Kobe Bryant Tweets

vanityfair.com - As the collective grief crested on Twitter following TMZ’s shocking scoop that Kobe Bryant had been killed in a helicopter crash, Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez had a different idea. She sha…

Opinion | The Post’s misguided suspension of Felicia Sonmez over Kobe Bryant tweets

washingtonpost.com - The Washington Post building. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post ) By Erik Wemple close Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email EmailBi…

I thought Bernie's Iowa numbers seemed unrealistically high. Then I saw his rallies | Art Cullen

theguardian.com - Three political rallies in a small north-west Iowa town over the weekend convinced me that the polls showing Bernie Sanders leading among likely caucus-goers have it about right. Some 400 people pack…

The Truth & the Irony: Consortium News and The Continuing Tale of Chrystia Freeland’s Grandfather and His and Her Nazi Scheme for Ukraine Today | naked capitalism

nakedcapitalism.com - Yves here. Hopefully readers who understand Canada’s libel and defamation laws can pipe up. Presumably most of you already know about Consortium News’ libel suit. From its site : Consortium News has …

The Metamemetic Insurrection

adbusters.org - As is now obvious to all, we are living through an era-defining ideological clash. We must decide whether to allow a regressive alt-right, ethno-religious, me-first, make-my-country-great-again ideol…

Kim ordered aunt poisoned: North Korean defector - CNN

cnn.com - The fate of Kim Kyong Hui has been the subject of intense speculation since she disappeared from public view in September 2013, a few months before her husband's death. South Korea's national intelli…

Opinion | You Are Now Remotely Controlled

nytimes.com - Even Ford, the birthplace of the 20th-century mass production economy, is on the trail of the surveillance dividend, proposing to meet the challenge of slumping car sales by reimagining Ford vehicles…

The Rise of Smart Camera Networks, and Why We Should Ban Them

theintercept.com - Using a feature called Video Synopsis, BriefCam overlays footage of events happening at different times as if they are appearing simultaneously. For example, if several people walked past a camera at…

These are the climate tipping points we simply can't cross

wired.co.uk - Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images In 2009, scientists from the Stockholm Resilience Centre identified nine key environmental red lines that could be catastrophic for life on Ear…

Data storage could soon be 8 percent of the world's energy use.

treehugger.com - There is a real footprint to all those baby pictures and Netflix binges. If we TreeHuggers really practice what we preach, we may have to return our site to how it looked in 2004, when the stories we…

The Long, Strange Voyage of Ancient Texts

undark.org - While covering technology for The New York Times in the early 2000s, I became obsessed with what I considered an enormous question: As online resources become the main tool for gathering information,…

How CEOs, experts and philosophers see the world's biggest risks differently

theconversation.com - We live in a world threatened by numerous existential risks that no country or organization can resolve alone, such as climate change, extreme weather and the coronavirus. But in order to adequately …

Leaked Bolton book threatens to upend Senate impeachment trial

washingtonpost.com - “I think it’s increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) By Erica Werner, cl…

Bolton book roils Washington as onetime allies turn on Trump’s former national security adviser

washingtonpost.com - Former national security adviser John Bolton. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) By Karen DeYoung and close Karen DeYoung Associate editor and senior national security correspondent Email EmailBio BioFollow Fo…

Asia faces steep economic price as it moves to curb links with China over virus fears

washingtonpost.com - Hotel workers wearing protective masks exercise in the lobby during a staff briefing about how to implement new regulations concerning the current situation in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province…

This is what a blue state looks like: Rapid change roils Virginia Republicans

washingtonpost.com - Activists call for Virginia’s adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment as the legislature convenes Jan. 8 in Richmond. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) By Gregory S. Schneider close Gregory S. Schneider Report…

War on dissent by the US and West threatens speech, media and academic freedoms

intrepidreport.com - Censorship is the new normal in America and the West, wanting the message controlled, targeting what conflicts with it for elimination, notably on major geopolitical issues. Digital democracy is the …

Blue Acceleration: Our Dash for Ocean Resources Mirrors What We’ve Already Done to the Land | naked capitalism

nakedcapitalism.com - By Robert Blasiak, Research Fellow in Ocean Management, Stockholm University. Originally published at The Conversation Humans are leaving a heavy footprint on the Earth, but when did we become the ma…

SARS-like disease could become a pandemic

intrepidreport.com - Do you remember SARS? Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was so contagious; a SARS-afflicted man on an Air China flight in 2003 infected 20 passengers sitting at a distance away from him and tw…

Opinion | Mitch McConnell’s Complicity Has Deep Roots

nytimes.com - The antifederalists looked to impeachment as a prime example of everything that was wrong with the Senate. Despite the expectations of the Constitutional Convention, the antifederalists did not think…

Marking 10 years of corporate personhood and limitless money flowing into political campaigns

intrepidreport.com - “Essentially, five Justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to allow themselves to change the law.”—Former US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stev…


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