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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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