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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/10
« Reply #510 on: December 10, 2019, 06:26:59 am »

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Democrats expected to unveil articles of impeachment against Trump, focusing on abuse of power, obstruction of Congress

washingtonpost.com - Rep. Douglas A. Collins (R-Ga.) reacts during the House Judiciary Committee hearing, with Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to his right, as the committee considers likely articles of impeachment agai…

DOJ report finds Russia probe was justified, not biased against Trump

nbcnews.com - WASHINGTON — The FBI mishandled parts of its application to monitor a Trump campaign aide as it was probing possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, but the overall investigation was justi…

France braces for further strikes over pension changes

theguardian.com - French unions are staging a second round of mass street demonstrations as the country entered its sixth day of a nationwide strike and transport standstill over proposed plans to change the pensions …

NZ PM: Questions 'must be asked' about eruption

bbc.com - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said there are questions which "must be asked" after the volcanic eruption on White Island. Five people are dead and eight are missing on the island - th…

The Government Has Taken At Least 1,100 Children From Their Parents Since Family Separations Officially Ended

theintercept.com - “You can’t imagine the pain,” Dennis said. “If you’re not a dad, you don’t know what it’s like.” I reached Dennis by phone in a small town in the Copán Department of Honduras, where he lives with his…

Here’s More Evidence the War in Afghanistan Was a $2 Trillion Mistake

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UPS Joins Media Chorus In Thanking Police For Murder of Frank Ordonez

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Newsweek Journo Quits After Editors Kills Report On Syria Chemical Attack Scandal

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Cops: Argument Over Impeachment Turned Violent

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U.S. Lobbyists Seek Brexit Deal That Raises Drug Prices, Shreds Consumer Safeguards

theintercept.com - Departing the EU could mean that British consumers would no longer be protected by broad EU-wide regulations on chemicals, food, and cosmetics, among other products. Several international corporate g…

Opinion | The massive triumph of the rich, illustrated by stunning new data

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For Sama: A Beautiful Yet Deceptive Documentary That Betrays Reality in Syria

mintpressnews.com - The documentary movie “For Sama” has won a host of awards in Europe and North America. Its producers and protagonists, Syrians Waad Kateab and her husband Dr. Hamza Kateab plus English film-maker Edw…

Of Two Minds - The Taxonomy of Collapse

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Why a computer will never be truly conscious

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Sydney gets tough new water rules amid bushfires

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Donald Trump Is the Mad-King President Our Founders Feared Most

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Sydney's air 11 times worse than 'hazardous' levels as Australia's bushfires rage

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US President wants to roll back 25 years of water saving toilets and showers

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Ice baths and deep breaths: How ‘rewilding’ myself left me feeling superhuman

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Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul

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Putin, Zelensky meet in Paris push to end Ukraine war

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Establishment media’s mass deception

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Mainstream Media Disregarding Poll Findings Showing Bernie Sanders' Progress

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Kamala Harris’ Next Act: Destroying Stephen Miller

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A Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow

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Re: The times, they are tragic 😟
« Reply #511 on: December 10, 2019, 06:32:18 am »

The times, they are tragic 😟

Dec 9, 2019

Today is the day that you can officially say the United States has become a Banana Republic. When the president says and is supported by his lackeys like Jordan, Meadows and Rand Paul, that it is OK to knowingly break a federal law by exposing a whistleblower. Then I believe it is impossible for those people to say they support the Constitution. We are a nation of laws. The whistleblower complaint has been verified under oath by multiple people and is no longer open to questioning the facts. It is deeply disturbing the drafter dodger president continues to slander and demean long serving ambassadors and Purple Heart awarded soldiers with no push back from veterans. Inexcusable!

Two of the president’s closest supporters have been proven to lie. Three people have now testified that they told Pompeo that the lady ambassador was being forced out, and he still said with a straight face he did not know about it. The “acting secretary of state,” Ruday Giuliani, has been revealed to have been paid more than $500,000 by a Ukrainian company for advice. He said that is OK, but not OK for Biden’s son? Beyond belief!


Hypocrisy is just part of the skill-set. Speaking of that "Libertarian™" sock-puppet, Rand Paul, that most beloved by the late and unlamented Golden Oxen, you should be aware of the following:

Rand Paul moves to ban collection of congressional phone records after Nunes was caught calling Giuliani associates

By Matthew Chapman December 9, 2019
On Monday, Politico reported that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is pushing to change congressional rules to prohibit subpoenas from committee chairmen from seeking the phone records of members of Congress, as well as those of journalists.

This comes directly after a subpoena served to AT&T revealed that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) had been covertly communicating with indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, as well as right-wing reporter John Solomon, who was responsible for disputed reports attacking former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and former Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.

“Nobody should get your phone records,” said Paul in conversation with reporters. “This is a big deal, this is a huge deal.” He then warned that those reporters should be pushing back against House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), or they could be next.

Schiff has denied GOP accusations that the Intelligence Committee subpoenaed phone records for Nunes or Solomon, asserting that they were simply discovered during a narrower investigation into the phone records of Parnas specifically.

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The times, they are tragic 😟

Dec 9, 2019

Today is the day that you can officially say the United States has become a Banana Republic. When the president says and is supported by his lackeys like Jordan, Meadows and Rand Paul, that it is OK to knowingly break a federal law by exposing a whistleblower. Then I believe it is impossible for those people to say they support the Constitution. We are a nation of laws. The whistleblower complaint has been verified under oath by multiple people and is no longer open to questioning the facts. It is deeply disturbing the drafter dodger president continues to slander and demean long serving ambassadors and Purple Heart awarded soldiers with no push back from veterans. Inexcusable!

Two of the president’s closest supporters have been proven to lie. Three people have now testified that they told Pompeo that the lady ambassador was being forced out, and he still said with a straight face he did not know about it. The “acting secretary of state,” Ruday Giuliani, has been revealed to have been paid more than $500,000 by a Ukrainian company for advice. He said that is OK, but not OK for Biden’s son? Beyond belief!


Hypocrisy is just part of the skill-set. Speaking of that "Libertarian™" sock-puppet, Rand Paul, that most beloved by the late and unlamented Golden Oxen, you should be aware of the following:


By Matthew Chapman December 9, 2019
On Monday, Politico reported that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is pushing to change congressional rules to prohibit subpoenas from committee chairmen from seeking the phone records of members of Congress, as well as those of journalists.

This comes directly after a subpoena served to AT&T revealed that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) had been covertly communicating with indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, as well as right-wing reporter John Solomon, who was responsible for disputed reports attacking former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and former Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.

“Nobody should get your phone records,” said Paul in conversation with reporters. “This is a big deal, this is a huge deal.” He then warned that those reporters should be pushing back against House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), or they could be next.

Schiff has denied GOP accusations that the Intelligence Committee subpoenaed phone records for Nunes or Solomon, asserting that they were simply discovered during a narrower investigation into the phone records of Parnas specifically.

You know, these fascists have a track record of carefully studying how they got caught doing their skullduggery and taking steps to take that enforcement tool away from government. Back in the 1970's after the Church Committe uncovered much of the despicably illegal skullduggery of the CIA, the reputation and career of every politician with integrity on the Church committee was methodically destroyed. Also, steps were taken before that to make sure the process taken by the House to impeach Nixon would be severely hampered in the future (as long as the POTUS was a Republican, of course). That's where that "You cannot prosecute a sitting POTUS" bullshit came from. That's why the impeachment of Clinton NEVER alluded to "crime" per se. That's why Graham talked all that ya-yada-ya during the Clinton Impeachment about Impeachment "not being about breaking the Law". As you said, hypocrisy is an integral part of the skillset of these lying, doubletalking, fascist BASTARDS.

So, it is par for the Orwellian course for Senator Rand Paul, an inveterate crook and liar, to engage in the old fascist whack-a-mole of the lawful tools that can be used to prosecute crooks like him, Nunes, Guiliani and Trump (etc. long Trump Administration list, but you get the idea).

Right after WWII, the German fascist industrialists, who had run the cartels to build up NAZI Germany under Hitler, joined with their pals in the USA and South America (the rest of western Europe came a decade or so later into the "New Capitalist" fascist fold) to make sure they were NOT unprofitably "penalized" by the U.S. Court System for their MANY War Crimes during WWII. They KEPT their patents and strengthened the cartelization of industry, the exact opposite of what the history books say happened to Germany after WWII. They did all this through whack-a-mole (by 🎩😈 rich, influential fascist sympathisers in the USA) of inconvenient laws AND making sure the "right" people were running the chemical and oil indistries in the USA. A HUGE debt Germany had was "forgiven" by the USA while countries like Haiti, that never killed off millions of people and who's only "crime" was to fight a European power for their independence, continued to be forced to pay a debt to France (for over a CENTURY!) that should never have been imposed.

It's an old story. Orwell had their number.

The brave fellow, James Stewart Martin, who wrote the book explaining, among other things, how the fascist modus operandi works, described their total dedication to fascism with a metaphor. The metaphor applies TOTALLY to our NOW hollowed out Government Institutions. Hollowed out structures collapse without warning.

This quote from the book, "All Honorable Men", pretty much sums up WHY these SCUM enjoy such a corrosive influence on human society:

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Termites are able organizers, and thoroughly attached to their way of life. The area they occupy is small in relation to the house (just the heavy underpinnings). They object vigorously to outside interference from the people who live in the other parts of the house. They object especially to structural changes, which they are bound to consider unwarranted.

They have two good reasons for objecting to changes. In the first place exposure to light and air kills them. In the second place any movement of the underpinnings ruins the whole structure of tunnels and channels which their enterprise has built within the framework of the house.

We hated to disturb them. They looked busy and enterprising. They seemed to want nothing more than a comfortable existence in accordance with their way of life.

We cleared the termites out to save the house, but I think I know how they looked at the whole matter. At the end of the Second World War I spent two and a half years in Germany dealing with some people who must think pretty much the same way. http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/geopolitics/key-historical-events-that-you-may-have-never-heard-of/msg12774/#msg12774

Did Boston Pro-Trump racist Libertarian stamp collecting greedball Golden Oxen really kick the bucket, or did your "late and unlamented" phraseology refer to a permanent departure by GO from the Doomstead Diner forum? ???
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Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains 🦀 Trump
« Reply #513 on: December 10, 2019, 07:57:08 pm »
The Guardian

The American sportswriter and author Rick Reilly, holding his book about Donald Trump, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Tue 10 Dec 2019

SNIPPET:

“His lies were hilarious until he becomes the most powerful man in the world. Then it got scary. I don’t know what his plan is for my kids and grandkids. I don’t know who’s going to pay off this giant debt he’s created to give his fat-cat buddies a tax cut. Look what he did [last] week in London. He pissed off two of our best allies. It’s terrifying.” 😱

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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/11
« Reply #514 on: December 11, 2019, 06:00:34 am »

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Opinion | The inspector general report just blew up Trump’s lies. So Barr is rushing to the rescue.

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The ‘Russia Hoax’ Is a Hoax

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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/12
« Reply #515 on: December 12, 2019, 06:22:27 am »

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Senate Republicans look to hold short impeachment trial despite Trump’s desire for an aggressive defense

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Wasteful spending and half-baked ideas: U.S. officials reveal how massive rebuilding projects in Afghanistan backfired

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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/13
« Reply #517 on: December 13, 2019, 07:21:15 am »

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EU leaders prepare for Brexit after Johnson win

msn.com - European leaders will charge EU negotiator Michel Barnier on Friday with negotiating a close trade deal with Britain, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's apparent election win set the stage for Brex…

House Judiciary Committee abruptly adjourns after marathon debate, will vote on articles of impeachment Friday morning

washingtonpost.com - By Rachael Bade, close Rachael Bade Congressional reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow John Wagner, close John Wagner National reporter leading The Post's breaking political news team Email Email…

What Jolly Good Fun It All Is ❧ Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org - Boris Johnson seems to find all of this tremendously fun, and that actually tells you a lot. It is easy, when politics will have no real material consequences for you or any of your friends, to see i…

Economist Dean Baker: Systemic Change Needed to Fight Big Pharma Price Gouging

mintpressnews.com - Imagine there was a miracle drug that prevented HIV infections, but a huge corporation held back its release in order to squeeze billions out of the sick, dying and suffering. It is evil on the scale…

Meet the Tucson 12: Under Trump, Protesters Are Being Hit With Felony Riot Charges

theintercept.com - The Tucson 12 — so named by their supporters — now face the charge of felony riot, a statute that hasn’t been used by Arizona prosecutors in years and, until Donald Trump’s presidency, had been rarel…

Trump called for Seoul evacuation at height of North Korea tensions, new book says

theguardian.com - Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the presiden…

In New Documentary, Animal Rights Activists Prosecuted as Terrorists

theintercept.com - Still: Courtesy of Virgil Films “You see the train coming, but it hits you anyway,” said animal rights activist Josh Harper. “They just went down the list and it was ‘guilty as charged,’ ‘guilty as c…

Jersey City shooters driven by anti-Semitism, officals say

news.yahoo.com - Jersey City (United States) (AFP) - A shooting at a kosher deli in a New York suburb was fueled by "anti-Semitism" and a hatred of police, authorities said Thursday, the latest in a rash of attacks a…

Chlorine’s Unique Fingerprints: The April 7, 2018 Douma Incident Through A Chemistry Lens - bellingcat

bellingcat.com - The leak of an internal e-mail from an OPCW employee using the pseudonym “Alex” has stirred a controversy over the integrity of the OPCW Fact Finding Mission (FFM) into the April 7, 2018 chemical att…

Australia is facing its hottest day on record as heatwave baking Perth travels east

abc.net.au - Australia could experience its hottest day on record next week as a hot air mass building in Western Australia makes its way east. Perth is enduring an unprecedented heatwave for December, with the c…

The dangers of depicting Greta Thunberg as a prophet

theconversation.com - She came from obscurity and ignited a global movement. Beginning with a small but persistent act of protest outside the Swedish parliament, she inspired millions to join her. Her fiery speech to the …

How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

theintercept.com - In response to questions for this article, Noah Ullman, a spokesperson for Keep America Beautiful, wrote in an email that “KAB is not against bottle bills. We believe all options to address recycling…

Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism

jacobinmag.com - Thankfully, a growing chorus of voices is making it clear that criticism of Israel cannot be equated with antisemitism — including a significant and ever-growing number of Jews and Jewish organizatio…

Report: Trump’s Ukraine Extortion Scheme Was Financed by Russians

nymag.com - President Trump is facing impeachment primarily for abusing his power for political gain, extorting a foreign country to discredit his political rivals. The secondary aspect of the plot is that the t…

Why we need to hear from those in the margins of society 

onourradar.org - In a former life, I worked as an investigative reporter for a mainstream channel. It was exhilarating and important work but, as an undercover reporter, I often found myself isolated from the communi…


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So, the Fascists ☠️ won in "jolly old England", eh?     

Well, it looks like that movie we all watched several decades ago (made from the "fictional" dystopia that Orwell portrayed in his book "1984") was quite prophetic. The year in the title was 36 years early, but there is no need to quibble over details.

Here's the trailer from the 2008 remake:

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Orwell's 1984 (1956) The best one

 

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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/14
« Reply #519 on: December 14, 2019, 06:42:28 am »

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House set for historic floor vote next week after committee approves two articles of impeachment against Trump

washingtonpost.com - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) speaks briefly to the media after the panel voted on articles of impeachment against President Trump on Friday. (Astrid Riecken/For The Wash…

Analysis | McConnell indicates he’ll let Trump’s lawyers dictate Trump’s impeachment trial

washingtonpost.com - By Aaron Blake close Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow December 13, 2019 at 12:42 PM EST As soon as the House votes to impeach President Trump…

Fact-based impeachment can’t penetrate the pro-Trump Web

washingtonpost.com - President Trump accused Democrats of “trivializing” the impeachment process. His efforts to undermine the case against him have been aided by the crowdsourced nature of social media, where many Ameri…

Washington Post's Afghanistan Story Reveals Core Folly of American Defense Strategy

rollingstone.com - The Washington Post this week released a blockbuster expose called “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War.” After a lengthy legal battle, the Post got hold of documents compiled by SIGA…

Matt Bevin Is Still Wreaking Havoc on His Way Out the Door

nymag.com - Matt Bevin reluctantly conceded the Kentucky governor’s race to Democrat Andy Beshear, but he’s not done wreaking havoc on the voters who rejected him. Before he formally left office, he pardoned hun…

Kentucky governor's 428 pardons include murderer

bbc.com - Former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin issued 428 pardons in his final days in office, a list that includes multiple violent offenders. The Republican pardoned a convicted child rapist as well as a conv…

EU prepares for Brexit hardball after Johnson win

bbc.com - "Friday the 13th really has lived up to its hype," an EU diplomat texted me this morning. The same diplomat who mournfully noted as soon as the first exit polls were published: "This means bye-bye to…

US axes tariffs on Chinese goods in trade war thaw

au.news.yahoo.com - The United States and China announced a major thaw in their trade war Friday, including immediate cuts to punishing import tariffs, but a lack of detail in the partial deal left markets cautious. "We…

The 10 Most Stoned Moments of the 2020 Presidential Campaign

rollingstone.com - With Donald Trump on one side and a field huge enough for a seventies ensemble comedy on the other – Michael Bloomberg is the record 29th entrant in the Democratic primary – the 2020 election is alre…

How the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Attempting to Buy the Youth Climate Movement

theintercept.com - The same day that 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg gave a stirring speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September, in which she criticized delegates for “stealing my dream…

Of Two Minds - The "Trade Deal": A Pathetic Parody, Credibility Squandered

oftwominds.com - Anyone who thinks this bogus "deal" has resolved any of the issues or uncertainties deserves to be fired immediately. Here's a late-night TV parody of a trade deal: The agreement won't be signed by b…

Icebreaker Pt 7: ICE Case Management Handbook Based on Federal Law Enforcement “System of Systems”

unicornriot.ninja - United States – Unicorn Riot obtained confidential Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy manuals in 2017. Icebreaker Part 7 covers ICE’s “Case Management Handbook” which was in effect betwee…

In Climate Fraud Suit, Exxon Mobil Earns Win Over New York State

undark.org - On Tuesday, a New York state judge dismissed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil alleging that the company had misled investors about the potential effects of climate change regulation on its business. The…

The 100 Memes That Defined The 2010s

buzzfeednews.com - This decade, memes became something not just for a handful of internet nerds who lurked on message boards; memes are now for everyone. The online culture of this decade hasn’t just changed the words …

US-China trade deal: 3 fundamental issues remain unresolved

theconversation.com - The U.S. and China have reportedly reached a so-called phase one deal in their ongoing trade war. While few details have been disclosed, the agreement principally seems to involve the U.S. calling of…

This was a stunning victory for the bullshit-industrial complex | Marina Hyde

theguardian.com - Well. A new dawn has shat, has it not? Shortly after 7am, Boris Johnson slipped into the costume Dominic Cummings has been sewing for him out of the skins of missing statesmen. “I am humbled that you…

Brazil's Amazon deforestation this year nearly size of Puerto Rico, says agency

theguardian.com - Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published. Destruction of the world…

Trump wants criticism of Israel equated with anti-Semitism

intrepidreport.com - Trump wants anti-Semitism redefined. An executive order perhaps already signed is all about stifling legitimate criticism of Israel. It’s about wanting the Jewish state absolved of occupation, coloni…

A Major but Little-Known Supporter of Climate Denial: Freight Railroads

theatlantic.com - Since 2017, ACCCE has lobbied in support of President Donald Trump’s plan to bail out coal plants. It has also celebrated Trump’s repeal of the Clean Power Plan, which would have dramatically cut U.S…

‘We are the vaccine against unilateralism’: Non-Aligned Movement gathers in Venezuela to resist dictatorship of dollar

thegrayzone.com - Late in the evening on July 19, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif stepped out of a plane and met his Venezuelan counterpart, Jorge Arreaza, on the tarmac outside Caracas with an enthusiastic embra…

How a Right-Wing Troll Managed to Manipulate the Mainstream Media

rollingstone.com - There’s a folksy saying that grandparents of all stripes like to dispense: If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, then you shouldn’t be surprised when it starts quacking. Another, perhaps less…

Aesop: The Frogs Ask for a King

voxpopulisphere.com - Once upon a time, the Frogs were discontented because they had no one to rule over them: so they sent a deputation to Jupiter to ask him to give them a King. Jupiter, despising the folly of their req…

Opinion - Why Did A Saudi Pilot Kill U.S. Sailors While Three Others Filmed It?

informationclearinghouse.info - He explained: “I’m not against you for just being American, I don’t hate you because [of] your freedoms, I hate you because every day you [are] supporting, funding and committing crimes not only agai…


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Re: Doomstead Diner Daily
« Reply #520 on: December 14, 2019, 12:07:21 pm »
Yes, the bullshit-industrial complex has scored significant victories this past week. Excuse me a moment.


The future is bright , for Tardigrades (and other extremophiles).
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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/15
« Reply #521 on: December 15, 2019, 06:02:32 am »

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Senators Have a Choice: Convict Trump or Crown Him

dcreport.org - The two articles of impeachment, which have drawn criticism as either too much or too little, strike me as cleverly drafted to put Senate Republicans in a most uncomfortable box. The second article, …

‘The grand finale’: Inside Trump’s push to rack up political victories as impeachment looms

washingtonpost.com - President Trump speaks during a meeting with Paraguay’s president, Mario Abdo Benítez, in the Oval Office on Friday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Ashley Parker and close Ashley Parker Whit…

Trump Is Trying to Pick His Opponent Just Like Nixon Did

gen.medium.com - As the House begins to move its two articles of impeachment against President Trump, there’s been much chatter about how President Trump’s dire political situation parallels President Nixon’s Waterga…

Lies, Newsweek and Control of the Media Narrative: First-Hand Account

tareqhaddad.com - A mafia runs editors. Freedom of the press is dead. Journalists and ordinary people must stand up. Until several days ago, I was a journalist at Newsweek. I decided to hand my resignation in because,…

Supreme Court to Rule on Release of Trump’s Financial Records

nytimes.com - That the subpoena in the Nixon case came from a federal court rather than a state grand jury made no difference, Mr. Vance wrote. “The states’ strong interests in operating a fair and just criminal j…

What Kind of House Democrat Would Switch Parties? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com - “Jeff stabbed us in the back, certainly,” said a seething Michael Suleiman, the Atlantic County chairman. “It’s disgusting. It’s a disgrace. Good riddance.” He added, “Maybe he’ll be the new ambassad…

The Wax and Wane of J Street’s Influence Over U.S.-Israel Policy

theintercept.com - Jeremy Ben-Ami has a story he tells about why he started the liberal, pro-Israel group J Street a decade ago. It begins in 1882, when his great-grandparents fled persecution in Russia and emigrated t…

Media Silent as Nobel Prize Winning OPCW Found “Fixing” its Own Findings on Syria

mintpressnews.com - Douma, Syria, April 2018. Dozens of people die in a suspected chemical weapons attack in the eastern suburb of the capital Damascus. The United States and many European countries immediately identify…

Jim Bakker Threatens 'An Explosion' If Trump Impeached

crooksandliars.com - Jim Bakker was in fine fettle over the inevitability of a Trump impeachment Friday, showing his ignorance and his devotion to God Trump on his Friday show, according to Right Wing Watch. In his ignor…

Too Big to Fail: the Epstein Investigation - MintPress News

mintpressnews.com - While the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has largely faded from media coverage in the United States, it has continued to attract attention abroad, particularly in the United Kingdom in connection with Epste…

We Have to Take the Roses Seriously: Talking to Nathan J. Robinson

blog.lareviewofbooks.org - How might socialists prioritize personal freedom? How might they reimagine ordinary working life beyond both Amazon warehouses and familiar communist models? When I want to ask such questions, I pose…

Ravenous for Meat, China Faces a Climate Quandary

undark.org - At the center of the table in a modest, high-rise apartment in the teeming city of Shenzhen, China, a simmering pot of soup stock was surrounded by large platters featuring mushrooms, different kinds…

A judge ordered up to 234,000 people to be tossed from the registered voter list in a swing state

washingtonpost.com - (iStock) By Marisa Iati close Marisa Iati General Assignment reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow December 14, 2019 at 7:44 PM EST A Wisconsin judge ordered the state to take as many as 234,000 p…

Turkey renews military pledge to Libya as threat of Mediterranean war grows

theguardian.com - The threat of a military clash in the Mediterranean has drawn nearer following talks in which Turkey has underlined its willingness to send troops to Libya to defend the country’s UN-recognised gover…

Corbyn 'sorry' over Labour's heavy election defeat

bbc.com - Jeremy Corbyn has apologised to Labour supporters over his party's heavy defeat in the general election. Writing in the Sunday Mirror and the Observer, he acknowledged the party's failings in the pol…

5-Year-Old Sells Hot Cocoa, Cookies to Pay Off Over 100 Classmates’ Lunch Debt

themindunleashed.com - (TMU) — A five-year-old student in San Diego is using hot cocoa and fresh cookies to give an elementary lesson in human kindness for the holidays by helping to clear the negative lunch balances of 12…

Alaska’s Coastal Communities Face a Growing Climate Threat

scientificamerican.com - Climate change is threatening dozens of Alaskan towns and villages, according to a new study, and local officials said the findings are another sign that additional funds and research are needed to h…

Gold and Jewels Found on Minoan Island Devoted to the Color Purple

livescience.com - A storehouse of ancient treasures, including precious jewels and gold beads, has been uncovered by archaeologists on an island near Crete devoted to making a precious purple dye from sea snails thous…

Former Israeli Spy Details Motive Behind Epstein’s Sexual Blackmail Operation

themindunleashed.com - (MPN) — In recent weeks, renewed attention has been brought to the allegations that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking and sexual blackmail operation was run on behalf of Israeli…

South Korea is not Willing to Pay 5 Times More for Stationing American Troops | New Eastern Outlook

journal-neo.org - The present relationship between Seoul and Washington is plagued with problems, and recently the amount of money South Korea spends on U.S. military forces stationed in its territory has become the m…

The election in the media: against evasion and lies, good journalism is all we have | Alan Rusbridger

theguardian.com - In his first 1,000 days in office Donald Trump made 13,435 false or misleading claims, according to the good folk at the Washington Post who painstakingly monitor the president’s habit of bending the…

New Film Dark Waters Shines Light on Chemical Pollution History in Ohio River Valley

desmogblog.com - Dark Waters, the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia — a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is cur…

The Earth needs multiple methods for removing CO2 from the air to avert worst of climate change

theconversation.com - Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in human history, and nine of the warmest years have occurred since 2005. Even with the progress made in introducing alt…

Argentina Wants a Fracking Boom. The US Offers a Cautionary Tale | naked capitalism

nakedcapitalism.com - By Nick Cunningham, an independent journalist covering the oil and gas industry, climate change and international politics. He has been featured in Oilprice.com, The Fuse, YaleE360 and NACLA. Origina…

What winter solstice rituals tell us about indigenous people

theconversation.com - On the day of winter solstice, many Native American communities will hold religious ceremonies or community events. The winter solstice is the day of the year when the Northern Hemisphere has the few…


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A Prophetic Glimpse into America's Future
« Reply #522 on: December 15, 2019, 01:54:16 pm »
Agelbert NOTE: This abandoned sculpture is a visual prophetic metaphor of what Trump and Republicans ARE NOW DOING to the USA. >:(

SNIPPET:

He’s tried to have his name removed from all his abandoned buildings here, but it’s still there if you look hard enough.”

One such place is the grounds of the Taj, where an elephant has the Trump name emblazoned below its feet. This flashy monument was created by sculptor Michael MacLeod, who was never paid for his work. Rose believes the elephant, which remained at the site when he visited in 2016 because it was too heavy to move, is a great metaphor for Trump’s own legacy in Atlantic City: “Making a lot of noise and stomping his weight around, but ultimately only leaving a trail of destruction.”


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Mon 8 Apr 2019 01.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 27 Jun 2019 06.36 EDT


When Trump won the election, photographer Brian Rose made straight for the gambling town – to show the reality behind his billionaire boasts. The broken city he captured speaks volumes about today’s America

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Doomstead Diner Daily 12/16
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U.N. climate talks end with hard feelings, few results and new doubts about global unity

washingtonpost.com - Chilean Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt, who chaired the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP25, attends the closing session in Madrid on Sunday. Marathon climate talks ended wit…

UN climate talks a 'lost opportunity', says Guterres

news.yahoo.com - Madrid (AFP) - A major climate summit wrapped up in Madrid Sunday with a compromise deal that left little to show, prompting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to lament a "lost opportunity" to ac…

‘He is planning to rig the impeachment trial’: McConnell vows ‘total coordination’ with Trump on Senate process

intrepidreport.com - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News Thursday night that while he has “no choice” but to hold a trial if the House votes to impeach President Donald Trump, that does not mean the proc…

Schumer calls for testimony from Mulvaney, Bolton in proposal to GOP on parameters for Trump impeachment trial

washingtonpost.com - By Seung Min Kim, close Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Karoun Demirjian and close Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on national security Email Email…

Nadler calls for Trump's removal in committee's 658-page report on articles of impeachment

foxnews.com - Rep. Mike Johnson on House preparing historic floor vote on Trump impeachment. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote that President Trump is a threat to the Consti…

Of Two Minds - A "Market" That Needs $1 Trillion in Panic-Money-Printing by the Fed to Stave Off Implosion Is Not a Market

oftwominds.com - It was all fun and games enriching the super-wealthy but now the karmic cost of the Fed's manipulation and propaganda is about to come due. A "market" that needs $1 trillion in panic-money-printing b…

Newsbud Exclusive- Israel’s Mossad Replaces CIA as Handler of Libyan Strongman Khalifa Haftar

newsbud.com - A recent revelation, albeit quietly by choice, has been trickling under the popular western-dominated news radar. This under-reported, to the point of outright censored, exposé, has to do with Israel…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine's Man in the Middle | DCReport.org

dcreport.org - The closest Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to complaining about his country being dragged into a scandal and impeachment hearings in the United States was when he said his people were “…

Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint

cnn.com - Helsinki, Finland (CNN) – On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear a lecture on a subject that is far from a staple in most community college curriculums. Standing in f…

Ivanka Trump Caught Faking Propaganda Interview At Forum

politicususa.com - Ivanka Trump appeared at the Doha Forum, and instead of being interviewed by a journalist, she faked an interview with a State Department PR person. Smith also tweeted some of the softballs tossed at…

Australia 'mega blaze' spreads ahead of heatwave

bbc.com - Authorities in Australia have issued fresh warnings about a "mega blaze" after it spread beyond containment lines and razed 20 houses near Sydney. The fire, burning over about 400,000 hectares, has m…

They built a Chinese boomtown. It left them dying of lung disease with nowhere to turn.

washingtonpost.com - By Gerry Shih close Gerry Shih China Correspondent Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow December 15, 2019 at 3:43 PM EST LEIYANG, China — Ill and defeated, Xu Chunlin approached the railing, the limits of…

Greece says it's 'reached limit' as arrivals of refugees show no sign of slowing

theguardian.com - Sometimes en masse, sometimes alone they keep on arriving: in rickety boats carrying men, women and children looking for a freedom they hope Europe will offer. Despite winter’s limited daylight and w…

Stop Believing in Free Shipping

theatlantic.com - Free shipping is enticing, says Ravi Dhar, the director of Yale’s Center for Customer Insights, because shoppers irrationally hate to pay for certain services—even those that they value immensely, su…

A cinema, a pool, a bar: inside the post-apocalyptic underground future

theguardian.com - Tucked away among cornfields in the midwestern United States, a military-grade chainlink fence surrounds a verdant berm on an otherwise empty plot of land. It is guarded by a camouflaged lookout with…

Protests erupt across India over citizenship law

bbc.com - Protests over a controversial new law on migrants are raging across several Indian cities, prompting police to clash with demonstrators. The new law entitles non-Muslim migrants from three Muslim-maj…

Military Investigating Possible White Power Hand Signal at Army-Navy Game

nymag.com - On Saturday, at the 120th annual Army-Navy football game, cadets from the United States Military Academy and midshipmen from the Naval Academy flashed a white power hand signal at least five times du…

John Atcheson: The Influence of Liars and the Failure of Corporate Media

voxpopulisphere.com - Why does the “big lie” work? For one thing, there’s big money it. If Democrats say one thing, and Republicans say another, and it’s obvious one of them is intentionally lying, what is the “big story?…

Opinion - Former Spy Details Israel’s Main Motive Behind Epstein’s Sexual Blackmail Operation

informationclearinghouse.info - In addition, MintPress also asked Ben-Menashe if he was aware of Ghislaine Maxwell being directly involved with her father’s intelligence-related activities prior to his death in 1991. Ben-Menashe no…

Scientists call for more trees, fewer cows, to restore climate

treehugger.com - First we have to declare 'peak livestock', then eat less beef and more beans. TreeHugger Melissa has written that if we all swapped beans for beef, then we could meet emission goals. I have written t…

Deforestation is leading to more infectious diseases in humans

nationalgeographic.com - In 1997, clouds of smoke hung over the rainforests of Indonesia as an area roughly the size of Pennsylvania was burned to make way for agriculture, the fires exacerbated by drought. Smothered in haze…

The ultimate non-stick coating

brighterworld.mcmaster.ca - A team of researchers at McMaster University has developed a self-cleaning surface that can repel all forms of bacteria, preventing the transfer of antibiotic-resistant superbugs and other dangerous …

If you want to stay successful, learn to think like Leonardo da Vinci

medium.com - Some of history’s greatest contributions have come from polymaths. Aristotle practically invented half a dozen fields of study across philosophy. Galileo was as much a physicist as he was an engineer…


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Star Member RKP5637 (57,068 posts)   Response to brooklynite Mon Dec 16, 2019, 11:05 AM

2. Yet another day in "UC" United Corporatism, formerly known as "US" United States.

One day to be known as "UD" United Dystopia! The fallen Rome of the 21st Century.

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Congress to permanently repeal 3 major health taxes in year-end spending deal
Source: Politico

Congress is expected to permanently repeal three major health industry taxes that were supposed to help pay for Obamacare in a final year-end spending agreement, in a big win for the health care industry.

Lawmakers have agreed to ax the Cadillac tax on pricey employer plans, a 2.3 percent tax on medical devices and a health insurance fee, four individuals familiar with the talks confirmed to POLITICO on Monday.

Congressional leaders struggled over the weekend to wrap up the remaining disputes over what would be included in the nearly $1.4 trillion fiscal 2020 spending text and which policy bills would ride to enactment along with the appropriations measures. While leaders are still racing to finalize a deal, top appropriators are said to be on track to release the text of the final fiscal 2020 funding bills by midday, setting up passage in both the House and Senate this week.

The repeal of the three taxes represents an expensive windfall victory for the health care industry 
, which lobbied intensely against all three taxes since they were first mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/16/congress-repeal-major-health-care-taxes-spending-deal-086138

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