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The Trump whistleblower raised concerns about the 'unusual' way the White House handled records of his call with Ukraine's president

www.businessinsider.com - A US intelligence official who filed a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump has expressed concerns about how the White House handled records of a phone call between Trump and Ukrain…

Trump deflects and defies as Democrats speed up impeachment strategy

www.washingtonpost.com - President Trump takes questions Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. (Jason Szenes/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) By Philip Rucker , Philip Rucker White House Bureau Chief Emai…

Acting director of national intelligence threatened to resign if he couldn’t speak freely before Congress on whistleblower complaint

www.washingtonpost.com - By Greg Miller , Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Bio Follow Shane Harris and Shane Harris Intelligence and national security reporter Email Bio Follow Karoun Demirjian Ka…

Why the House Democratic Caucus Was Able to Move So Rapidly Toward Impeachment

theintercept.com - On Wednesday, September 18, as Democrats prepped for a series of private meetings, it was clear that nerves had been frayed. August had been a challenge for the party’s rank-and-file, as activists an…

Trump Is Panicking

www.theatlantic.com - Chaos is a constant in the Trump administration, but this week there are signs of a far rarer impulse: panic. The indications come in Trump’s demeanor, including the listless speech; a combative, bri…

I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down.

theintercept.com - It’s strange to see my journalism twisted, perverted, and turned into lies and poisonous propaganda by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and their enablers. But that’s what has happened to a news story I …

Brexit: Bercow calls for end to 'toxic culture' after furious response to Johnson performance – live news

www.theguardian.com - Siân Berry, the co-leader of the Green Party, and a member of the London Assembly’s oversight committee condemned Cleverly suggestion that Johnson would ignore any summons over the Arcuri questions. …

"They’re Murdering My Son" Father of Julian Assange Tells of Anguish

www.mintpressnews.com - Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, gave an interview to Strategic Culture Foundation over the weekend. After arriving from his home country of Australia, Shipton is visiting several European stat…

Police Release Body Cam Footage of Ronald Davis’ Killing

unicornriot.ninja - St. Paul, MN – Body camera footage of Saint Paul police’s (SPPD) deadly encounter with Ronald Davis was released on Tuesday, September 24. The video shows Ronald Davis running towards the officer wit…

Opinion | These officials better lawyer up

www.washingtonpost.com - Attorney General William Barr listens as President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in July. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politic…

Public Retirement Funds and Universities Are Financing Empower Texans, a Far-Right Lobbying Group, New Report Reveals

theintercept.com - For about a decade, a far-right political group financed by a handful of evangelical fracking billionaires has pumped millions of dollars into state legislative races across Texas in hopes of advanci…

Of Two Minds - Here's How We Are Silenced by Big Tech

www.oftwominds.com - This is how they silence us: your content has been secretly flagged as being "unsafe," i.e. "guilty of anti-Soviet thoughts;" poof, you're gone. Big Tech claims it isn't silencing skeptics, dissenter…

The Return of the Condottieri? How Military Drones are Changing the World

cassandralegacy.blogspot.com - "Future wars may be more frequent but probably also smaller in scale and less destructive. It is possible that robotic weapons will make the concept of a nation-state obsolete, to be replaced by stru…

Goldman Sachs just released a 34-page analysis of the impact of climate change. And the results are terrifying.

www.businessinsider.com - Goldman Sachs just released a report on the effect of climate change on cities around the world and the results made for grim reading. The bank's Global Markets Institute, led by Amanda Hindlian, war…

Israel Worship Is White Nationalism For Boomers Too Cowardly To Demand Their Own Ethnostate

www.unz.com - The conservative movement’s unwholesome obsession with Israel is not an entirely organic obsession to be sure. There is a whole lot of dark kosher oligarch money lurking behind the neoconservative ca…

IPCC report: Sea levels could be a metre higher by 2100

www.newscientist.com - Aaron Parsons / EyeEm/Getty Images Extreme sea level events that used to happen once a century will occur every year in many parts of the world by the middle of the century because of global warming,…

‘I would like people to panic’ – Top scientist unveils equation showing world in climate emergency

horizon-magazine.eu - ‘Based on sober scientific analysis, we are deeply within a climate emergency state but people are not aware of it,’ he told Horizon on the sidelines of the European Research and Innovation Days even…

Is your tea steeped in plastic?

www.treehugger.com - A new study shows that all-plastic tea bags release billions of particles into hot water. Just when we thought (or hoped?) food manufacturers were moving away from plastic packaging, some tea compani…

Humankind Did Not Live With A High-Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere Until 1965

today.tamu.edu - Analyzing Paleogenic carbonates found in the ancient soil from the Loess Plateau, scientists reconstructed the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels. Humans have never before lived with the high carbon dioxi…

Poll: 51% Of Young Voters Believe Humanity Could Be Wiped Out Within 15 Years

www.climatedepot.com - Over the next 10-15 years, 29% of all voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that the earth will become uninhabitable and humanity will be wiped out. A ScottRasmussen.com national survey found…

Boston Dynamics' Scary Quadruped Robots Are Now Roaming the World Free

www.tomsguide.com - Boston Dynamics has announced that Spot — its quadruped robot — is now available for sale for any company with good ideas. You know, like tweaking that AI brain, adding a poisonous dart launcher and …

How holes in the burning Saudi oil fields narrative could draw the US into a war with Iran

www.intrepidreport.com - Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran are escalating to new heights, drawing the United States into a confrontation with the Islamic Republic after a sophisticated attack targeted Saudi Arabia’s Ara…

Starvation may force nations to war

climatenewsnetwork.net - Unless nations act now to halt the spread of deserts, they may face wars over food shortages and starvation by mid-century, the UN says. DELHI, 26 September, 2019 − A stark warning that the exposure …

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