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    • A Republican Plutocrat Tries To Buy The Democratic Nomination ❧ Current Affairs

    currentaffairs.org - The idea of Michael Bloomberg becoming the Democratic presidential nominee should be too absurd to even consider seriously. For one thing, he is a conservative who openly believes that the poor shoul…

    WATCH: Wearing Masks, White Supremacists Marched Through Washington DC Yesterday

    mavenroundtable.io - Covering up their faces and with police protection, White Supremacists marched throughout Washington DC yesterday yelling "RECLAIM AMERICA”. Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI, recently told Congr…

    America's dark history of organized anti-Semitism re-emerges in today's far-right groups

    theconversation.com - Hours after Robert Bowers allegedly walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people, investigators told the media that Bowers appeared to have acted alone and fit what experts call the “lone …

    The Wuhan coronavirus has killed more than 800 people and infected more than 37,000. Here's everything we know about the outbreak.

    businessinsider.com - "Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed the emergence of a previously unknown pathogen, which has escalated into an unprecedented outbreak," the WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…

    Of Two Minds - Controlling the Narrative Is Not the Same as Controlling the Virus

    oftwominds.com - Are these claims even remotely plausible for a highly contagious virus that spreads easily between humans while carriers show no symptoms? It's clear that the narrative about the coronavirus is being…

    Trump Proposes Massive Cuts to Safety Net Once Again

    nymag.com - On Monday, President Trump will reveal his budget proposal for the federal government in 2021, a document that ultimately reads more like a wish list than a final plan, due to significant back-and-fo…

    'Most devastating plague of locusts' in recent history could come within weeks, U.N. warns

    nbcnews.com - GAROWE, Somalia — At a glance, the desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa in the worst outbreak some places have …

    dcreport.org - It took three years but a leading U.S. regulator finally got tough with probably the most lawless large U.S. financial institution. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, an arm of the Treasu…

    Prime Minister Of Iceland Calls For Prioritizing “Well-Being” Of Citizens Over GDP

    collective-evolution.com - Prime Minister of Iceland Katrin Jakobsdottir is now urging governments to prioritize sustainability and family time over obsessing about economic growth — as most developed nations seem to do. Scott…

    ‘Parasite’ makes Oscars history as the first foreign-language film to win best picture

    washingtonpost.com - South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” won four Oscars, including best picture and best director. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) By Paul Farhi close Paul Farhi Media reporter Email EmailBio BioFoll…

    Venezuela’s Capital Is Booming. Is This the End of the Revolution?

    nytimes.com - The drastic economic liberalization has been accompanied by political repression designed to snuff out the last vestiges of organized opposition to Mr. Maduro’s rule. This new model has led some Vene…

    Russian politician offers to fly political party to Florida to celebrate Trump's acquittal

    thehill.com - The leader of Russia’s pro-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, congratulated President TrumpDonald John Trump Biden says Buttigieg is 'not a Barack Obama' on NH campaign trail…

    Permafrost Is Thawing So Fast, It’s Gouging Holes in the Arctic

    wired.com - It’s perhaps the best known and more worrisome of climate feedback loops: As the planet warms, permafrost—landscapes of frozen soil and rock—begins to thaw. And when it does, microbes consume organic…

    Energy secretary announces coal research initiative

    thehill.com - Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette on Friday announced a $64 million dollar initiative to fund research and development for coal, giving an assist to an industry that appears to be on the decline. Brou…

    Denver Police Cash In on Houseless Encampment Clean-Ups

    unicornriot.ninja - Denver, CO – For nearly eight years Denver police officers, public works employees, park rangers, and occasionally inmates have been carrying out and enforcing the Unauthorized Camping Ordinance (cam…

    Amazon Pays 1.2% Tax Rate On Last Year’s Profits

    mavenroundtable.io - That amounts to a 1.2% tax rate for the tech giant. However, the company asserts that it has paid billions in taxes. The 1.2% is more than the 0% paid in taxes for the $11 billion in profit made duri…

    We did the math to calculate how many hours it takes America's top CEOs to make what their workers earn in one year

    businessinsider.com - CEOs make a lot more than the workers they oversee. We took a look at just how big that gap is at some of America's biggest corporations. One of the provisions of the post-financial-crisis Dodd-Frank…

    Fires and floods: maps of Europe predict scale of climate catastrophe

    theguardian.com - A series of detailed maps have laid bare the scale of possible forest fires, floods, droughts and deluges that Europe could face by the end of the century without urgent action to adapt to and confro…

    New global biodiversity study provides unified map of life on land and in the ocean

    phys.org - New research led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and partner organizations yielded the first comprehensive global biodiversity map documenting the distribution of life both on land and in the ocean. The…

    Justice Department Drops Antitrust Probe Against Automakers That Sided With California on Emissions

    nytimes.com - In the months after California struck the deal with the automakers, the administration and Justice Department pushed an unusual series of legal and policy moves against California and the auto compan…

    Norway becomes first industrialised nation to submit updated UN climate action plan

    businessgreen.com - The race is on to submit officially updated climate action plans to the UN ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn, after Norway became the first industrialised nation to tab…

    Ocean Currents Are Speeding Up, Driven by Faster Winds

    scientificamerican.com - All over the world, the oceans are changing in profound ways. They’re storing up more heat as the world warms. Marine ecosystems are shifting in response to climate change. Sea levels are rising as t…

    Hotter heat waves are wiping out bumblebees, study finds | CBC News

    cbc.ca - Many bumblebee species have vanished from places where they were once common. Now a new Canadian-led study finds that hotter temperatures during heat waves are to blame, and uses it to predict which …

    Argentina’s Financial Meltdown

    prepareforchange.net - The Argentine Crisis: Could It Hit Here? In December 2001, the Argentinian government defaulted on $155 billion in public debt. Since then, this once-wealthy country has gone through five presidents …

    Chile is preparing to rewrite its constitution. Why are people still protesting?

    washingtonpost.com - Demonstrators clash with security forces during a protest against the government of Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on Wednesday in Valparaiso. (Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters) By Rachelle Krygier Februa…

    Opinion | Apps are selling your location data. The U.S. government is buying.

    washingtonpost.com - (Stephen Lam/For The Washington Post) By Editorial Board February 9, 2020 at 2:10 PM EST AMERICANS HAVE lately been learning that the apps they use to check whether they need an umbrella, or follow t…

    Philippines moves to strip biggest media group of its franchise

    theguardian.com - Government lawyers in the Philippines have moved to strip the nation’s biggest media group of its franchise in what campaigners say is another attack on press freedom under the presidency of Rodrigo …

    Jordan Peterson’s year of ‘absolute hell’: Professor forced to retreat from public life because of addiction

    nationalpost.com - Jordan Peterson is recovering from a severe addiction to benzodiazepine tranquilizers and was recently near death in an induced coma, his daughter Mikhaila said. He is being treated at a clinic in Ru…


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