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Re: Doomstead Diner Daily
« Reply #255 on: August 26, 2019, 05:01:43 pm »
Monmouth National Poll - August 26

Bernie Sanders: 20% 
Elizabeth Warren: 20%
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Joe Biden: 19%
Kamala Harris: 8%
No one else above 5%
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Doomstead Diner Daily 8/27
« Reply #256 on: August 27, 2019, 06:48:51 am »

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‘It’s an Attempt to Impose a White Nationalist Vision of What America Is’

fair.org - Janine Jackson interviewed author Sasha Abramsky about Trump’s new attack on immigrants for the August 23, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: It’s long…


Sixty-eight minutes in Biarritz: A glimpse into Trump’s unorthodox mind

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Trump Went to the Mat for Putin at the G-7 Summit

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Near the airport, ample parking: Why Trump says his Florida golf club should host the next G-7

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France’s Macron accuses Brazil’s Bolsonaro of ‘incredibly disrespectful’ comments about his wife

www.washingtonpost.com - In this photograph taken on June 28, 2019, France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attend a meeting on the digital economy at the G-20 Summit in Osaka. (Jacques W…


The US-China trade war has escalated dramatically in recent weeks. Here’s a timeline of everything that’s happened so far.

www.businessinsider.com - May 5, 2019: After apparent progress in talks, the US accuses China of reneging on past trade commitments. Trump threatens to raise tariff rates and place duties on another $300 billion worth of Chin…


Erdogan Takes Case to Putin With Turkey Cornered Again in Syria

www.bloomberg.com - Smoke billows during reported air strikes in northern Syria’s Idlib province on Aug. 19. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking a reprieve from Vladimir Putin as Russian-backed Syrian forc…


Indonesia picks site for new capital as Jakarta sinks

www.cnn.com - Floating houses on Mahakam river in Samarinda, near the site of the new capital.


Addicted to Fines: Small Towns Are Dangerously Dependent

www.governing.com - Flashing police lights are a common sight all along Interstate 75 in rural south Georgia. On one recent afternoon in Turner County, sheriff’s deputies pulled over a vehicle heading northbound and ano…


This Week in Doom August 26, 2019: The Lyin’ King

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Harvard psychiatrist alleges Trump may have psychiatric disorders

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Why the CIA doesn't spy on the UAE - Reuters

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Comes the Official Story: Investigators scrutinizing video outside Epstein’s cell find some footage unusable, according to people familiar with the inquiry

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Amazon rainforest fires: Brazil to reject $20m pledged by G7

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The New Trail of Tears: How climate change is forcing the relocation of species, including our own

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Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried, plant-based "chicken"

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World’s largest permafrost river dries to a record low

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Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm

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Where there are more fires than the Amazon

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2019 to be ‘worst-ever year’ for wildfires in Siberia and ‘only rain can now extinguish flames’

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Death and destruction: this is David Koch's sad legacy | Alex Kotch

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David Koch’s Most Important Legacy Is the Election of Donald Trump

theintercept.com - David Koch, the fossil fuel industry billionaire who passed away on August 23 at the age of 79, spent the second half of his life building a political power structure alongside his brother Charles th…

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Doomstead Diner Daily 8/28
« Reply #257 on: August 28, 2019, 08:13:20 am »

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‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall. He wants it black. And he wants it by Election Day.

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Purdue Pharma in talks over multibillion-dollar deal to settle more than 2,000 opioid lawsuits

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Boris Johnson moves to suspend Parliament ahead of Brexit deadline

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Brexit: Speaker John Bercow calls parliamentary suspension 'constitutional outrage' – live

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Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest

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As Puerto Rico Braces For Storm, DHS, FEMA To Move $271 Million To Border Operations

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The Proud Boys’ Real Target

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'A nuclear option': Hong Kong and the threat of the emergency law

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Opinion | Trump is lying to farmers’ faces, and they’re finally getting angry about it

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Corporate Media Take the Trump Line on Trade

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New York Times eliminates its public editor

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Brazil Says It Will Reject $22 Million in Amazon Aid Pledged at G7

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MASSIVE GLACIER COLLAPSE Caught on Camera! (Ilulissat, Greenland)

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10 Things To Do Before a Hurricane Hits

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Steve Schwarzman, a Top Financier of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, Is a Driving Force Behind Amazon Deforestation

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Trump Campaign: ‘Remind AOC and Democrats That This Is Our Country, Not Theirs’

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Conservatives Want a ‘Republic’ to Protect Privileges

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One Campus. Seven Professors Facing Harassment Accusations. Few Consequences. — ProPublica

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The Extortion Economy: How Insurance Companies Are Fueling a Rise in Ransomware Attacks — ProPublica

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143 Refugees Arrested as Greek Police Begin Exarcheia Raids

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Hat Tip to 🌟 Surly!
« Reply #258 on: August 28, 2019, 05:08:27 pm »
Surly,
I just watched that video you posted about. WOW! 👀 Thanks for bringing attention to it.


MASSIVE GLACIER COLLAPSE Caught on Camera! (Ilulissat, Greenland)
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Icebergs breaking from the Ilulissat Glacier are often up to 3,000 feet in height (1 km) and thus too tall to float down the fjord and lie stuck on the bottom of its shallower areas, sometimes for years, until they are broken up by the force of the glacier and icebergs further up the fjord.
Ilulissat Icefjord drains 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and produces around 10% of all Greenland icebergs. Some 35 billion tonnes of icebergs calve off and pass out of the fjord every year. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsh...)

The glacier calving event has been filmed by Bo Baake.
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Doomstead Diner Daily 8/29
« Reply #259 on: August 29, 2019, 06:20:22 am »

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Strengthening Hurricane Dorian is a growing threat to Florida Labor Day weekend

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Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border

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Immigrants in US Military Face New Citizenship Rule for Kids

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The Trump Secrets Hiding Inside Deutsche Bank

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When Ilhan Omar Is Accused of Anti-Semitism, It’s News. When a Republican Smears Muslims, There’s Silence.

theintercept.com - Rep. Ilhan Omar participates in a panel discussion during the Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy Conference and Presidential Forum at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C., on July 2…


Recent Israeli Attacks "Significantly Weakened" Syria's Air-Defense Systems

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With Hong Kong in turmoil, questions grow over leader’s refusal to offer concessions to protesters

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Chinese troop movement into Hong Kong prompts unease

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Amazon's indigenous warriors take on invading loggers and ranchers

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Why Libertarianism Will Kill Us All | Current Affairs

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Have You Worked for One of the Top Remote Call Centers? We'd Like to Hear From You — ProPublica

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What are Russian special operations forces doing in Idlib? | Syria

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US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must

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A Northwest Passage Journey Finds Little Ice and Big Changes

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How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World

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Unwanted emails dump 28,397 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every day

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The US is drowning in natural gas, yet they keep drilling and fracking

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The winter was dry, the spring will likely be dry – here's why

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Los Angeles has lined up record-cheap solar power. But there's a problem

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E.P.A. to Roll Back Regulations on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas

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Will Your Job Be Replaced by Robots?

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« Reply #260 on: August 29, 2019, 12:51:13 pm »
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My perception of Libertarianism's pernicious effect on human civilization is somewhat less nuanced.

Libertarianism IS Killing ☠️ Us All.



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Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border - Strengthening Hurricane Dorian is a growing threat to Florida Labor Day weekend

Considering the above, it will be interesting to see how Trumpy 🦀 all of a sudden wants FEMA disaster relief funds made available to keep all those Republican Trumpers in Florida happy after Hurricane Dorian cleans their Global Warming Denier clock.

And let us not forget Bankruptcty King's 🦀 Mar a Lago GIANT emoluments sucking sponge. Any Hurricane "damages" will be computed using Trump's famous math. The only difference now is that it won't be through accounting fraud for the purpose of dodging taxes, but simply through accounting fraud to get you Trumpers (and the rest of we-the-taxpayers) to pay FOUR or FIVE times the actual cost of the repairs, PLUS cover any increase in Hurricane insurance premiums for the next DECADE or so.

Don't worry about the one your god (i.e. 😈) chose, Trumpers; our "money miracle working" dear leader will find a way to make more PERSONAL profits (off the taxpayer dime ) out of YOUR MISERY, you stupid "My God is a good God" pseudo-Christian IDIOTS.


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Quote of the day (and CENTURY)
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its all fraud. 100%. Fake money, fake markets, fake fed, fake government, fake justice department, fake news, and most of all, fake people.  Welcome to hell, enjoy your stay.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-29/why-market-just-refuses-sell-one-bank-explains

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Trumpo's despicable "let them eat cake" moment.
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One of the most despicable and insensitive things I have witnessed in 60 years of watching the American political scene was when that colossal orange POS was throwing rolls of glorified napkins at Puerto Rican citizens fighting biblical level floods from Hurricane Maria. It was Trumpo's "let them eat cake" moment.

It would ironic indeed if this weekend's hurricane mowed down that gaudy, overpriced, golden toilet in Palm Beach that he calls "Mar-a-Lago".

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NYT Steers Dems Away From the Obvious Formula for Defeating Trump

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Hurricane Dorian Totally Misses Puerto Rico and is Heading Straight for Mar-a-Lago

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Democracy activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Andy Chan are arrested in Hong Kong

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Spread of measles to at-risk Pacific Islands 'inevitable' after major New Zealand outbreak

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Trump seriously considering blocking $250M in military aid to Ukraine

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Trump's Trade Mayhem Hurts the Working Class

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Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament: The British ruling class declares war on democratic rights

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Queen Elizabeth to be evacuated in case of Brexit unrest: media - Reuters

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How Dark Money From Overseas Flows Into Boris Johnson's Government

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After Backlash, Boris Johnson Promises to Speed Up Brexit Talks With Brussels

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Sick Migrants Undergoing Lifesaving Care Can Now Be Deported

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Was the FBI Leaking to Rudy Giuliani?

www.vanityfair.com - The Republican chattersphere has been eagerly anticipating the conclusion of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s inquiry into alleged surveillance abuses by the Justice Department and the FBI, altho…


The Amazon, Siberia, Indonesia: A World of Fire

www.nytimes.com - And though the Amazon is widely described as the world’s lungs, a reference to the forest’s ability to produce oxygen while storing carbon dioxide, forests like those in Siberia are as important to t…


NASA Images Capture Worst Siberian Wildfires in 10,000 Years

www.sciencealert.com - Every year, Siberia is struck by wildfires that destroy great swathes of boreal forest. But climate change has caused wildfire activity in Siberia to increase radically over the past few decades. The…


Leaked Draft of UN Climate Report: Warming Oceans ‘Poised to Unleash Misery’

nymag.com - The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is considered the gold standard of assessing the scientific consensus on global warming; if there is an overarching criticism of IPCC rep…


The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton Relationship

www.mintpressnews.com - On August 10th, and for several days after, speculation swirled after it was announced that Jeffrey Epstein had been found dead in his cell. His cause of death has officially been ruled suicide by ha…


Amazon Is Looking More and More Like a Nation-State

www.vice.com - Most politicians don’t understand how to confront Amazon’s market power. The most recent example is in France, where last month a decision was made to levy a 3 percent tax on Big Tech firms with glob…


The Man Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore

www.theatlantic.com - On December 19 of last year, Admiral Michael Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met James Mattis for lunch at the Pentagon. Mattis was a day away from resigning as Donald Trump…


How Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce Killed an Anti-Pollution Bill of Rights

theintercept.com - Earlier this summer, environmental activists in Ohio were alarmed by the passage of a mysterious state budget amendment that would close a new avenue for residents to sue polluters. The provision inv…


China expels Wall Street Journal reporter over coverage of Xi’s family

www.washingtonpost.com - Chinese President Xi Jinping claps while addressing the media in Beijing on Oct. 25, 2017. (Ng Han Guan/AP) By Gerry Shih Gerry Shih China Correspondent Email Bio Follow August 30 at 4:32 AM BEIJING …


Babies, Chiropractors, and the Curse of Wishful Thinking

undark.org - Chiropractors in the U.S. are currently free to treat babies, though critics are calling for improved regulation. In a video posted on Facebook in August of 2018, an Australian chiropractor hangs a t…


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US spies say Trump's G7 performance suggests he's either a 'Russian asset' or a 'useful idiot' for Putin

www.businessinsider.com - "It's hard to see the bar anymore since it's been pushed so far down the last few years, but President Trump's behavior over the weekend was a new low." That was the assessment an FBI agent who works…


Trump may have revealed US military secrets by tweeting a photo to taunt Iran

www.businessinsider.com - President Donald Trump looks to have shared a photograph of an intelligence briefing that could have exposed US military secrets to the world while taunting Iran over Twitter. Iran on Thursday suffer…


Potentially disastrous Hurricane Dorian strengthens to Category 4 as it targets Florida and Southeast U.S.

www.washingtonpost.com - By Jason Samenow , Jason Samenow Editor and writer covering weather and climate Email Bio Follow Matthew Cappucci and Matthew Cappucci Meteorologist, Capital Weather Gang Email Bio Follow Andrew Free…


Brexit: thousands expected to join protests against prorogation

www.theguardian.com - Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are expected to take to the streets across Britain on Saturday to protest against Boris Johnson’s move to suspend parliament. Organisers are backing the use of …


'Absolute chaos for months': Shoppers here 'facing empty shelves within days of no-deal Brexit'

www.independent.ie - General manager Aidan Flynn appealed for haulage firms to take immediate steps to improve supply chains as the UK hurtles towards crashing out of the EU with no deal. “Ireland’s retail shops have no …


Death Toll From DR Congo Ebola Outbreak Climbs Over 2,000

www.thedailybeast.com - Over 2,000 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to new government figures. It's the second worst outbreak of the disease on record—the largest was t…


Hong Kong protesters take to streets despite police ban

www.theguardian.com - Thousands of demonstrators have defied a police ban, taking to the streets of Hong Kong to mark the anniversary of a decision by Beijing to limit democratic reforms in the semi-autonomous Chinese ter…


ACTION ALERT: NYT Presents Murder of a Palestinian Boy as ‘National Trauma’—for Jewish Israelis

fair.org - The New York Times (8/27/19) takes up the complaint of “some Israelis” that an HBO series “unfairly focuses on the killing of a Palestinian teen by Jews when Palestinian terrorism is more common.” HB…


Suspected Assassin In The Berlin Killing Used Fake Identity Documents

www.bellingcat.com - Last Friday, 23 August 2019, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian citizen living in Germany, was assassinated in downtown Berlin while having lunch on the way to a mosque for Friday prayer. Khangoshvil…


****-stache Bolton sidelined from Afghanistan policy as his standing with Trump falters

www.washingtonpost.com - By John Hudson and John Hudson National security reporter focusing on the State Department and diplomacy. Email Bio Follow Josh Dawsey Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow A…


Larry Fink, Joe Biden’s Wall Street Ally, is Deeply Invested in Amazon Cattle Ranching, a Force Behind Deforestation

theintercept.com - About a third of that beef is exported by JBS, the spectacularly corrupt Brazilian meat-packing conglomerate BlackRock is heavily invested in. But even as Fink publicly urged business leaders to cons…


Fredo Jr. Headlined a Rally in Kentucky and It Was a Total Disaster

www.theroot.com - Donald Trump Jr. headlined a rally in Kentucky and he could’ve given the exact same speech in his bathroom and it would’ve been better attended. The rally on Thursday afternoon for Kentucky Gov. Matt…


Film Official Secrets Is Tip of Mammoth Iceberg

fair.org - Two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley is known for being in period pieces such as Pride and Prejudice, so her playing the lead in the new film Official Secrets, released in the US on Friday, August …


He Spent Years Infiltrating White Supremacist Groups. Here’s What He Has to Say About What’s Going on Now. — ProPublica

www.propublica.org - ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Late …


Brace for food wars: science writer issues warning to world

www.enca.com - ROME - The world must act now to avoid conflict over food, land and water spreading from hot spots such as Syria to power centres like London and New York, according to a top science writer. Julian C…


Minimum wage doesn't cover the rent anywhere in the U.S.

www.cbsnews.com - A minimum-wage worker would have to put in lots of overtime to be able to afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country. And downsizing to a one-bedroom pad barely helps. Even with s…


Amazon Forests Vanish at Breakneck Speed. It’s Not Just in Brazil.

www.nytimes.com - The opening of China’s beef market to Bolivian exporters is thought to be driving some of the forest loss this year as ranchers seek pastures for expanding herds. After trying to play down fires in t…


Instead of school supplies, this year I’m shopping for a bulletproof backpack | Judi Zirin

www.theguardian.com - I have always loved the end of summer’s lazy promise of infinite possibility, the late August back to school buzz of limitless potential. Instead of shopping for school supplies and first day of scho…


California's disappearing sea snails carry a grim climate warning

www.nationalgeographic.com - Many people have never eaten—or even heard of—red abalone, a species of sea snail that lives suctioned onto boulders and feeds on the lush kelp forests of Northern California. Abalone is a much-sough…


Scientists discover evidence for past high-level sea rise

phys.org - An international team of scientists, studying evidence preserved in speleothems in a coastal cave, illustrate that more than three million years ago—a time in which the Earth was two to three degrees…


The Peopling of the Americas: Evidence for Multiple Models - Dead Things

blogs.discovermagazine.com - A new review of evidence for the peopling of the Americas suggests both coastal and interior routes, such as through this Alaskan landscape, were possible. (Credit: Ben A. Potter) Exactly how and whe…


Trump Hits Lebanon Bank with Sanctions His Go-to Econo-Battering Ram

www.mintpressnews.com - BEIRUT — Economic sanctions are not only a very important topic in present international relations but have also come to pepper daily news headlines. Sanctions have become an increasingly prevalent m…


Do the Brazil Amazon fires justify environmental interventionism? | Lawrence Douglas

www.theguardian.com - The horrific destruction of the Amazon rainforest under Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, raises a pressing question for the world community: do the prerogatives of sovereignty entitle a …


Christian radio host: ‘Educated women’ make for horrible wives and mothers

deadstate.org - GOP Rep. Sean Duffy announced he’s resigning from Congress because his wife, Fox News commentator Rachel Campos-Duffy is pregnant with their ninth child — a child who will likely have to undergo hear…


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‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Dorian barrels toward Southeast U.S. with a forecast path perilously close to Florida

www.washingtonpost.com - By Jason Samenow Jason Samenow Editor and writer covering weather and climate Email Bio Follow August 31 at 11:31 PM With peak winds of 150 mph, Hurricane Dorian is as imposing and threatening as eve…


5 Dead, 21 Injured in West Texas Shooting Spree

www.thedailybeast.com - Five people were killed and at least 21 were wounded—including three police officers and a 17-month-old child shot in the face—when a man armed with a rifle carried out a terrifying rampage in west T…


From Bodmin to Berlin, crowds vent their fury at Boris Johnson’s ‘coup’

www.theguardian.com - In Cambridge’s Market Square, a crowd of families, young people and silver-haired academics listened as Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Masque of Anarchy was read out. Many joined in, from memory, making …


Brexit: Gove refuses to rule out ignoring any law passed to stop no deal

www.theguardian.com - Michael Gove has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility that the government could ignore any law passed by parliament to stop a no-deal Brexit and insisted there would be no food shortages if…


Boris Johnson’s Parliamentary Runaround

www.newyorker.com - Back on April 11th, Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, said that he had a message for his “British friends”: “Please, do not waste this time.” The European Union had just given the U…


Hong Kong: thousands of protesters face off against police at airport

www.theguardian.com - Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have descended on Hong Kong’s international airport, blocking roads and filling a bus terminus, in the latest wave of political unrest to hit the city. Less t…


Hong Kong is burning, five years to the day Beijing dashed its hopes of democracy

qz.com - Even though police banned a rally and a march to mark Aug. 31, 2014—the day that set Hong Kong on the path to the Umbrella Movement—Hong Kongers still took to the streets, facing water cannons and te…


New tariffs on shoes, televisions, diapers and other Chinese-made products take effect Sunday

www.washingtonpost.com - Jennifer Lee, whose family owns Footprint shoe story in San Francisco, points to wall of athletic shoes, many of which are made in China and will be subject to new U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods start…


Sacklers could hold on to most of personal fortune in proposed Purdue settlement

www.washingtonpost.com - By Lenny Bernstein , Lenny Bernstein Reporter covering health and medicine Email Bio Follow Aaron C. Davis , Aaron C. Davis Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow Christopher Rowland and Christopher…


Matan Kahana: Will Ultra-Right Candidates Upset Netayahu Re-Election?

www.mintpressnews.com - OCCUPIED LYDD, PALESTINE — Matan Kahana — a retired IDF colonel, fighter pilot, and former soldier in Israel’s notorious murder squad, Sayeret Matkal — is now running for a seat in the Knesset with N…


Opinion | Trump’s pardon offer may have violated federal bribery laws

www.washingtonpost.com - President Trump, with Vice President Pence, at the White House on Thursday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Randall D. Eliason Randall D. Eliason Bio Follow August 30 at 6:40 PM This week, Pr…


White Tears Attempt to Drown Out the True History of Louisiana Plantation: 'Very Racist. If You're White, Don't Go'

www.theroot.com - In today’s edition of white people whitepeopling, I’d like to introduce you to the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, La., where visitors are encouraged to partake in a guided tour of “the only plantatio…


In the Rural American South, an Inequity of Diseases

undark.org - On a muggy day in October 2009, Catherine Flowers stepped down the stairs behind a mobile home in Lowndes County, Alabama to find a pit filled with raw sewage. Mosquitoes and flies buzzed around, and…


What is a king tide?

www.treehugger.com - This tidal phenomena is making waves, so to speak, as Hurricane Dorian approaches. Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that, "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." To…


Last-Minute Hurricane Prep Round-Up - The Organic Prepper

www.theorganicprepper.com - If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Hurricanes are not always completely predictable and sometimes we end up being surprised when the storm dramatically…


Global wildlife populations have fallen 60% in just 40 years

energyskeptic.com - Below is a summary of the World Wildlife Fund report. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer and “Crunch!…


The Mysterious Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’

www.nytimes.com - Now some subset of these products is causing a serious lung disease that even cigarettes, while lethal in the long run, don’t cause in young people. Lobbyists and company officials in both industries…


Right's massive free-speech hypocrisy: Bret Stephens and Mo Brooks are the tip of the iceberg

www.salon.com - Last week’s embarrassing "bedbug" saga, in which a harmless joke finally drove New York Times columnist Bret Stephens off Twitter, is a perfect example of the incredibly thin skin possessed by most o…


Why Humans are Unfit to Live on This Planet

cassandralegacy.blogspot.com - Let it be known that you are lofty as the heavens! Let it be known that you are broad as the earth! Let it be known that you destroy the rebel lands! Let it be known that you roar at the foreign land…


Amazon fires could accelerate global warming and cause lasting harm to a cradle of biodiversity

www.washingtonpost.com - By Andrew Freedman Andrew Freedman Editor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. Email Bio Follow August 22 Huge tracts of the Amazon, which serves as the lungs of …


Tourism in the US has drastically declined since Trump was elected

www.businessinsider.com - America's share of international tourism has dropped 16% in March, compared to the same month in 2016, according to Foursquare data released Wednesday. The decline began in October 2016, the month be…


Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted

www.theguardian.com - Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster t…


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Historic Hurricane Dorian unleashing ‘catastrophic’ blow in northern Bahamas. Hurricane warnings posted for Florida’s east coast.

www.washingtonpost.com - By Andrew Freedman and Andrew Freedman Editor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. Email Bio Follow Jason Samenow Jason Samenow Editor and writer covering weather…


Hurricane Dorian has smashed all sorts of intensity records in the Atlantic Ocean

www.washingtonpost.com - By Ian Livingston Ian Livingston Email Bio Follow September 1 at 8:39 PM Hurricane Dorian is taking extreme to the next level. With sustained winds of 185 mph Sunday afternoon and evening, the Catego…


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Brexit: Corbyn says he wants general election once legislation blocking no-deal gets passed – live news

www.theguardian.com - Corbyn says there were leave voters and remain voters at the weekend protests. People are alarmed at the prospect of a no-deal Brexit. He says there were many reasons for people voting leave. But no …


Hong Kong students boycott classes as Chinese media warns 'end is coming'

www.theguardian.com - Thousands of students in Hong Kong have boycotted the first day of the new term in a fresh wave of protests, after a tense weekend of violent clashes between police and demonstrators. On Monday, univ…


New research shows vast majority of Hong Kong protesters support more radical tactics

theconversation.com - Three months on, there’s still no end in sight for the Hong Kong protest movement. What started as a demonstration against a bill to amend the city’s extradition laws has now morphed into a broader m…


Opinion | Remembering the legacy of Labor Day

www.washingtonpost.com - By E.J. Dionne Jr. E.J. Dionne Jr. Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist September 1 at 6:24 PM It was known as the Treaty of Detroit, but it did not end a shooting war. In …


Why Has the (Western) Notion of Progress Been Sanitized of Slavery, Colonization, and Exploitation?

eand.co - I grew up in a strange way. A strange little boy, fragile and sickly, in a land that abjured him. Now, you might say: so what? What does that have to with the Western story of progress, and how it’s …


Texas loosens firearm laws hours after the state's latest mass shooting left five dead

www.cnn.com - Kris Brown, president of gun violence prevention advocacy group Brady, criticized the bill going into effect September 1. "Many states took the opportunity in the last two years to learn lessons from…


How Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce Killed an Anti-Pollution Bill of Rights

theintercept.com - Earlier this summer, environmental activists in Ohio were alarmed by the passage of a mysterious state budget amendment that would close a new avenue for residents to sue polluters. The provision inv…


How White Nationalists Have Been Inspired by the Genocide of Muslims in Bosnia

theintercept.com - On a spring day in 2017, a monument was raised in the Bosnian town of Višegrad, in memory of a terrible mass murder that had occurred there two decades earlier. In a somber ceremony attended by local…


Trump’s lost summer: Aides claim victory, but others see incompetence and intolerance

www.washingtonpost.com - President Trump walks to Marine One to depart from the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 9. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Philip Rucker and Philip Rucker White House Bureau Chief Email …


Experts Brace For An Apocalyptic Future As Earth’s Forests Burn To The Ground - Cerebral Overload

cerebraloverload.com - Authored by Michael Snyder via End of the American Dream blog A world without forests would be an apocalyptic wasteland, and right now we are losing our forests at an astounding rate. As you read thi…


Global wildlife populations have fallen 60% in just 40 years

energyskeptic.com - Below is a summary of the World Wildlife Fund report. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer and “Crunch!…


Cascading Consequences of the Loss of Arctic Sea Ice

kevinhester.live - “Losing the remaining Arctic sea ice and its ability to reflect incoming solar energy back to space would be equivalent to adding one trillion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere, on top of the 2.4 trillio…


How clean is your hospital room? To reduce the spread of infections, it could probably be cleaner

theconversation.com - Imagine you need to go into hospital. First, you are likely to be seen in the emergency department, and then moved to a ward room for further treatment and recovery. Unknown to you, the last patient …


The fight against climate change is an anti-colonialist struggle

www.greanvillepost.com - With this month’s burning of the Amazon as a result of the actions of the fascist Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, the first world has gotten a glimpse of the horrors that the world’s poor and ind…


The Great Barrier Reef outlook is 'very poor'. We have one last chance to save it

theconversation.com - It’s official. The outlook for the Great Barrier Reef has been downgraded from “poor” to “very poor” by the Australian government’s own experts. That’s the conclusion of the latest five-yearly report…


'Sociopathic Disregard for Our Future': Trump EPA Set to Gut Restrictions on Planet-Warming Methane Emissions

www.commondreams.org - Amid dire scientific warnings that the international community must act immediately to slash greenhouse gas emissions, President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly set to ta…


Bank of China approved $140 billion of credit for Silk Road projects

www.rt.com - Over the past few years, it has continuously invested in economies along the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (jointly known as the BRI), according to the bank. It has …


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