Author Topic: Doomstead Diner (Read 55967 times)

Surly1 · « **Reply #120 on:** June 23, 2019, 07:10:33 am »

News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.

Trump Has Unexpectedly Postponed The Nationwide ICE Raids Targeting Immigrant Families

www.memeorandum.com - Kayla Epstein / Washington Post: Trump says he will hold off on planned ICE raids for now — After the defending his plan to deport undocumented immigrants on Saturday, President Trump hours later twe…

Ahead of ICE raids, Illinois governor bans private immigrant detention centers from state

thinkprogress.org - With mass raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned for Sunday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) signed a bill Friday that will make his state the first in the country to ban p…

US launched cyber attack on Iranian rockets and missiles – reports

www.theguardian.com - The US military launched a cyber-attack on Iranian weapons systems on Thursday, according to sources, as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional strike in response to Ir…

‘It Hurt. And It Was Against My Will’: Trump Accuser Stands By Her Story

www.memeorandum.com - Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast: Marianne Williamson, Longtime Wacko, Is Now a Dangerous Wacko — For decades, Williamson said that medicines don't cure disease but positive thinking does. Now she's …

Major newspapers largely leave new report of sexual assault by Trump off their front pages

www.memeorandum.com - Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: Goodbye, Chrome: Google's web browser has become spy software — Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our brow…

Veteran Navy Officer Exposes Flaws In US Version Of Iran Oil Tanker Narrative

popularresistance.org - Above Photo: From Mintpressnews.com According to Dr Gwynne Dyer who has served as a Reserve Naval Officer in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve, US Naval Reserve, and British Royal Navy Reserve for a t…

Dakota Access Pipeline Spills at South Dakota Pump Station

unicornriot.ninja - UPDATE (May 22, 2017): Since the initial news of its April 4 spill in South Dakota, reports have emerged that the Dakota Access Pipeline spilled twice in North Dakota on March 3 and March 5 of this y…

Supreme Court’s liberals and conservatives clash again over retaining precedent

www.washingtonpost.com - By Robert Barnes Robert Barnes Reporter covering the U.S. Supreme Court Email Bio Follow June 21 at 6:21 PM The Supreme Court’s liberal and conservative members clashed again Friday on respecting the…

Who Gets to Own the West?

www.nytimes.com - Some of the new owners have been welcomed. The cable magnate, John Malone, for instance, has been praised by the Nature Conservancy for his family’s conservation efforts, and other buyers have helped…

The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps

www.newyorker.com - Like many arguments, the fight over the term “concentration camp” is mostly an argument about something entirely different. It is not about terminology. Almost refreshingly, it is not an argument abo…

A firsthand report of ‘inhumane conditions’ at a migrant children's detention facility

www.memeorandum.com - Kayla Epstein / Washington Post: Trump says he will hold off on planned ICE raids for now — After the defending his plan to deport undocumented immigrants on Saturday, President Trump hours later twe…

Greenland’s ice: A trip back in time to see the future of climate change

bigthink.com - JON GERTNER: It's hard for us here to imagine what the Greenland ice sheet is like. This is thousands of miles from the United States, as well as from Europe. It's a country that few people ever visi…

Hack of U.S. Border Surveillance Contractor Is Way Bigger Than the Government Lets On

gizmodo.com - Even as Homeland Security officials have attempted to downplay the impact of a security intrusion that reached deep into the network of a federal surveillance contractor, secret documents, handbooks,…

Flushed Goldfish Grew to Be Kitten-Size in Niagara River

www.livescience.com - A monstrously huge goldfish was recently captured in the Niagara River in New York. The goldfish was presumably a discarded house pet that may have been illegally released or survived a traumatic flu…

Fukushima’s Three Nuclear Meltdowns Are “Under Control”: That’s a Lie

dissidentvoice.org - The implementation of the safe decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is a unique complex case and expected to span several decades: the IAEA Review Team considers that it wil…

'I'm scared for my daughter': Life in India's first city that's almost out of water

edition.cnn.com - Some residents get their rationed quota of water daily, while others get it once a week. People are having to wash utensils in the same dirty water, saving a few bottles of clean water to cook food. …

Will humans understand AI-generated art?

aeon.co - Assuming that the emergence of consciousness in artificial minds is possible, those minds will feel the urge to create art. But will we be able to understand it? To answer this question, we need to c…

State By State, The War On Cannabis Is Ending

popularresistance.org - Dozens of new state laws are expanding legal cannabis use — and expunging the records of users caught up in the system. Judging by its first six months, 2019 has been a banner year for marijuana poli…

Inside hate groups on Facebook, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia

www.revealnews.org - By Will Carless and Michael Corey Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting June 14, 2019 Thanks for your interest in republishing this story. As a nonprofit newsroom, we want to share our w…

Subscribe to the Email Newsletter

Editor's note

The Doomstead Diner is a hub for discussion and information pertaining to the ongoing Economic Collapse of the Industrial Economy. The Diner is the result of many years of discussion and debate on many other forums. At Doomstead Diner, our goal is to collate much of the information we can to assist in planning for the world to come.

Renewable Revolution

User

Stats ezBlock