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« Reply #255 on: August 31, 2019, 07:55:39 am »

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

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

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

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Hong Kong protesters take to streets despite police ban

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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

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

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

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Film Official Secrets Is Tip of Mammoth Iceberg

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

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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

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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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