+- +-

+-User
Welcome, Guest.
Please login or register.
 
 
 

Login with your social network

Forgot your password?

+-Stats ezBlock
Members
Total Members: 48
Latest: watcher
New This Month: 0
New This Week: 0
New Today: 0
Stats
Total Posts: 16867
Total Topics: 271
Most Online Today: 121
Most Online Ever: 1208
(March 28, 2024, 07:28:27 am)
Users Online
Members: 0
Guests: 97
Total: 97
« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 23 24 [25] 26 27 ... 52

Author Topic: Doomstead Diner  (Read 55602 times)

0 Members and 5 Guests are viewing this topic.

Surly1

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 916
Doomstead Diner Daily 10/13
« Reply #360 on: October 13, 2019, 07:37:09 am »


News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.


Can Extinction Rebellion Build a U.S. Climate Movement Big Enough to Save the Earth?

theintercept.com - A crowd of about 200 black-clad members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion gathered Monday morning at the southern end of New York City’s financial district. Some held banners painted…


U.S. forces say Turkey was deliberately ‘bracketing’ American troops with artillery fire in Syria

www.washingtonpost.com - This picture taken Saturday near the Syrian border town of Kobane shows a U.S. observation post where the Pentagon said U.S. troops came under Turkish artillery fire on Friday. (Ozan Kose/Afp Via Get…


Kurdish politician among nine civilians shot dead by pro-Turkey forces in Syria

www.theguardian.com - Turkish-backed proxies leading a ground offensive on Kurdish-held border towns in north-eastern Syria have killed nine civilians including a female politician, a human rights monitor has claimed. The…


Trump’s envoy to testify that ‘no quid pro quo’ came from Trump

www.washingtonpost.com - By Aaron C. Davis and Aaron C. Davis Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow John Hudson John Hudson National security reporter focusing on the State Department and diplomacy. Email Bio Follow Octobe…


PG&E Spent Billions on Lobbyists and PR Instead of Upgrades

theintercept.com - Power shutoffs affecting more than 1 million residents, scheduled by PG&E this week throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, have sparked a massive backlash, with many community…


The Impeachment Loophole No One's Talking About | Washingtonian (DC)

www.washingtonian.com - A nugget of political arithmetic is suddenly everywhere: “Two-thirds majority.” This is the share of votes required to convict President Trump in an impeachment trial in the United States Senate. Tha…


How two Soviet-born emigres made it into elite Trump circles — and the center of the impeachment storm

www.washingtonpost.com - By Rosalind S. Helderman , Rosalind S. Helderman Reporter focusing on political enterprise stories and investigations Email Bio Follow Josh Dawsey , Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Emai…


Opinion | U.S. foreign policy is for sale. Who else is buying?

www.washingtonpost.com - By Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum Columnist focusing on national politics and foreign policy Email Bio Follow Columnist October 11 Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, a pro-Trumper or a never-Tr…


Ex-Deutsche Bank exec says bank may have ‘destroyed’ copies of Trump’s tax returns

www.rawstory.com - A former Deutsche Bank executive suggested that the financial firm may have “destroyed” physical copies of President Trump’s tax returns after the bank told a court that it no longer had them. Trump …


The Cipollone Letter: Trouble in the White House Counsel’s Office

www.lawfareblog.com - White House Counsel Pat Cipollone’s letter to the House leadership, declaring that the president will not cooperate in any impeachment inquiry, is an extraordinary document in more than one respect. …


Opinion |

www.nytimes.com - Now that’s all changed. As The New York Times reported, after Trump recalled the U.S. ambassador, Lutsenko gloated to the head of AntAC that he had “eliminated your roof,” using Russian mafia slang f…


BFP Exclusive: Syria- Secret US-NATO Training & Support Camp to Oust Current Syrian President

www.newsbud.com - I have been closely following the situation and events in Syria as they unfold. In doing so I totally bypass what’s being misreported by the US mainstream media-Washington Post, New York Times, and t…


Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie: the cognitive segregation of America

bigthink.com - I don't even know where to begin with this one. You've probably heard of Cambridge Analytica. Maybe you know they're a company that did some nefarious things involving facebook and the 2016 US presid…


Haiti and the failed promise of US aid

www.theguardian.com - When Bill and Hillary Clinton travelled to the Caribbean nation of Haiti as newlyweds in 1975, they were enchanted. Bill had recently lost a race for Congress back home in Arkansas, but by the time t…


Billions face food, water shortages over next 30 years as nature fails

www.nationalgeographic.com - A huge automated irrigation machine moves slowly over a potato plantation on reclaimed desert land in Egypt. A new model shows which areas of the world will be hit hardest by the changes to nature th…


We’re About to Become People Fighting Desperately Fighting For Survival on a Dying Planet, and It’s Not Going to Be Pretty

eand.co - You’d be forgiven, these days, for feeling a sense of near perpetual anxiety about a future melting away like an Antarctic glacier. Your anxiety is trying to prepare you for something. It’s going to …


The mystery of the missing Leonardo: where is Da Vinci’s $450m Jesus?

www.theguardian.com - Will it or won’t it appear? This is the question being asked across the art world about the Salvator Mundi - the first Leonardo to be discovered for more than a century - as the Louvre prepares for i…


Google Is Funding Climate Change Denialism

earther.gizmodo.com - Despite all it’s evidently performative public-facing climate change initiatives, Google is forking over “substantial” contributions to denier organizations and events. A report from the Guardian pub…


International Rebellion - Extinction Rebellion

rebellion.earth - Something is happening. You know it is, you can feel it. You are called on to be part of it. Because time is running out. We’re almost at the point of no return. The governments are doing nothing. Bu…


World’s Biggest Pork Producer Warns of Bacon Shortage

www.bloomberg.com - It’s scary news for bacon fans: The U.S. could see tight supplies, or even some shortages of pork bellies along with ham next year as the spread of a pig-killing disease in China ripples through the …


Trump Country Begs for Clean Water | DCReport.org

www.dcreport.org - A rural water district in a northern Nebraska county that voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election had to resort to setting up a gofundme account when a flood wiped out running water to half…


Army deployed in Ecuador as protests descend into violence

www.theguardian.com - President Lenín Moreno ordered the army on to the streets of Ecuador’s capital Quito after a week and a half of protests over fuel prices devolved into violent incidents, with masked protesters attac…


Those Foreign Business Ties? The Trump Sons Have Plenty Too

www.nytimes.com - Both sons have operated and promoted the Trump family business overseas during their father’s presidency, even as he retains ownership. And while the Trump and Biden father-son relationships differ i…


An 8-year-old girl climbed an 18-foot replica of Donald Trump's 'un-climbable' border wall in seconds

www.independent.co.uk - An 18-foot replica of Donald Trump's border wall has been scaled in a matter of seconds by novice climbers, an eight-year-old girl, and a man who returned for another attempt while juggling with one …


The 10 countries with the most endangered species in the world

energyskeptic.com - I don’t know whether to go to these countries to see these beautiful creatures before they’re extinct, or to spend my money on countries like Costa Rica and Tanzania that have set aside a quarter or …


18 killed, dozens injured as Typhoon Hagibis batters Japan | Japan News

www.aljazeera.com - At least 18 people have been killed and more than a dozen missing after the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in decades paralysed the capital, Tokyo, and surrounding areas, causing rivers to overfl…


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.
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 23 24 [25] 26 27 ... 52
« previous next »
 

+-Recent Topics
Future Earth by AGelbert
March 30, 2022, 12:39:42 pm
Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF by AGelbert
March 29, 2022, 08:20:56 pm
The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth by AGelbert
March 28, 2022, 01:12:42 pm
Electric Vehicles by AGelbert
March 27, 2022, 02:27:28 pm
Heat Pumps by AGelbert
March 26, 2022, 03:54:43 pm
Defending Wildlife by AGelbert
March 25, 2022, 02:04:23 pm
The Koch Brothers Exposed! by AGelbert
March 25, 2022, 01:26:11 pm
Corruption in Government by AGelbert
March 25, 2022, 12:46:08 pm
Books and Audio Books that may interest you 🧐 by AGelbert
March 24, 2022, 04:28:56 pm
COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic by AGelbert
March 23, 2022, 12:14:36 pm