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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 18, 2019, 07:27:06 am »
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www.washingtonpost.com - By Toluse Olorunnipa close Toluse Olorunnipa White House reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow October 17, 2019 at 10:34 PM EDT First came the lengthy infomercial touting President Trump’s private…
www.washingtonpost.com - Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn on Oct. 14, days after Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish forces. (Ozan Kose/Afp Via Getty Images) By Joby Warrick and close Joby Warr…
www.cnn.com - Washington (CNN)Retired Adm. William McRaven said Thursday that the US is under attack from President Donald Trump, who he believes is working to "destroy" the country from "within" and "without." "I…
www.nytimes.com - The Justice Department had discussed the possibility of a so-called deferred prosecution agreement with Halkbank, in which it would admit some wrongdoing, perhaps pay a fine, but not face criminal tr…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Toluse Olorunnipa, close Toluse Olorunnipa White House reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow David A. Fahrenthold and close David A. Fahrenthold Reporter covering the Trump family and its busin…
www.theatlantic.com - The timing is either inauspicious or audacious, coming just two days after a federal appeals court revived a case against the president under the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which bars federal …
theintercept.com - The conspiracy to reelect the president by misleading the American people about Joe Biden’s work in Ukraine continues, despite the impeachment inquiry triggered by revelations that Donald Trump and h…
www.mintpressnews.com - The foreign policy elite is in an uproar. They claim we have abandoned our allies, they question how can America be trusted, they say the decision to withdraw from northern Syria was a gift to Russia…
www.businessinsider.com - The trade war has consistently sent markets moving in the past year. And according to a new Vanity Fair report, some traders may have been frontrunning new developments. According to the magazine, so…
nymag.com - Justin Walker, a 37-year-old associate professor of law at the University of Louisville, has an impressive career for a candidate vying for a tenure-track grad school position, having graduated from …
www.rawstory.com - This article was paid for by Raw Story subscribers. Not a subscriber? Try us and go ad-free for $1. Prefer to give a one-time tip? Click here. Vladimir Putin must be smiling – even laughing out loud …
www.theguardian.com - Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by T…
www.treehugger.com - Your focus should be on local growers, rather than those overseas. Grist's advice columnist Eve Andrews was asked an interesting question by a reader: "When I buy local, does it hurt farmers in other…
www.npr.org - An engraving dating from the 19th century depicts passenger pigeons, once one of the most common birds in North America but now extinct because of overhunting and deforestation. We humans love food t…
earth.org - Imagine that the internet is suspended for days; no email, no social media, no online banking, and no streaming services. Climate change could turn this into a reality. Sea-level rise might cause mas…
www.washingtonpost.com - 2°C: Beyond the limit Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors By Steven Mufson Steven M
features.propublica.org - ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. On th…
unicornriot.ninja - Las Vegas, NV – In the near future, automobile manufacturers are expected to begin rolling out autonomous driving vehicles that use Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) lasers to see objects, roads, a…
undark.org - When I was growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, long before we spent our evenings drawn to the soft glow of electronic devices, I would sit down in my grandparents’ backyard on summer nights and watch the …
www.dollarcollapse.com - Generally speaking, if you can afford to buy a decent house you do it. Owning is viewed by most people to be both simpler (no worries about your landlord selling a rental out from under you) and a be…
www.fastcompany.com - As profit-chasing banks abandon low-income and rural neighborhoods, nearly 8% of U.S. households are unbanked, and one in five people live in areas that are insufficiently served by banks, aka “under…
undark.org - Afriend of mine recently said that he found it easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. I thought about this idea a great deal as I was doing research for my book…
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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 17, 2019, 10:25:49 pm »
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 17, 2019, 10:23:45 pm »
October 17, 2019 By Charles Hugh Smith If you don't change the way "money" is created and distributed, you change nothing. Did the thousands of pages of financial regulations passed after the 2008-09 debacle reverse wealth and income inequality? The answer is no, wealth inequality is rising even faster after all the feel-good "reforms." The net result of the "reforms" is the costs of compliance for banks went up substantially, and that regulatory moat simply pushed risky lending outside the banking system.
In other words, the sources of systemic instability and wealth inequality weren't even touched by the "reforms." If the financial system were actually stable, why was the Federal Reserve only able to "normalize" interest rates and its bloated balance sheet for a few months after a decade of "growth"? Why is the Fed reverting to "emergency measures" again after a few brief months of "normalizing"?
If all these "reforms" were worth more than a bucket of spit, why isn't wealth inequality reversing?
Here's the way our "money" system works: banks borrow trillions of dollars into existence and loan it to debt serfs at high rates of interest. Central banks create "money" out of thin air and distribute it to the very top of the wealth-power pyramid: banks, financiers and corporations.
The only way to change this corrupt, exploitive system that generates inequality as its only possible output is to eliminate central banks and fractional reserve banking, and ban the aggregation of "too big to fail" entities: a system of 1,000 small banks is structurally far less vulnerable than five mega-banks that are tightly bound to virtually every risk-on asset in the entire system.
if you don't change the way "money" is created and distributed, you change nothing.
Since we're incapable of changing the sources of financial instability, fragility and inequality (because it would destabilize those benefiting from the status quo), we're doomed to watch our social and political systems decay and implode. True. True. It won't be long now.
Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 17, 2019, 07:56:12 am »
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www.theguardian.com- An estimated 50 nuclear bombs stored at a US airbase in Turkey have become potential bargaining chips in the tense relationship between Washington and Ankara in the wake of the Turkish offensive into…
news.sky.com - Angry commuters have pulled Extinction Rebellion protesters from the top of a Tube as activists disrupted services across London. A Catholic and Anglican priest also climbed onto a train at a differe…
www.washingtonpost.com - European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks at a media conference at E.U. headquarters in Brussels, Oct. 17, 2019. (Frank Augstein/AP) By Michael Birnbaum, close Michael Birnbaum Bru…
www.theguardian.com - The Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam, has again been forced from the legislative chamber because of protests by opposition members after a violent attack on a leader of the nearly five-month-old protest …
nymag.com - The president usually doesn’t respond well to criticism and has plenty of insults to hurl at political allies and enemies alike — a dynamic that has apparently taken off since Trump faced waves of co…
www.nytimes.com - The idea that Mr. Trump should order Mr. Gulen deported was fiercely opposed inside the White House, where officials saw the issue as a matter to be handled by the Justice Department, not a political…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Michael Birnbaum, close Michael Birnbaum Brussels bureau chief covering Europe Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Shane Harris and close Shane Harris Intelligence and national security reporter Email…
fair.org - Janine Jackson interviewed Payday Report’s Mike Elk about the GM strike for the October 11, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: As we record the show on…
fair.org - It’s not hard to figure out that corporate media represent the perspectives and interests of a small elite investor class of the US population, rather than its vast working class majority. Simply com…
nymag.com - Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today, what last night’s debate tells us about the Democr…
www.vanityfair.com - Traders in the Chicago pits have been watching these kinds of wagers with an increasing mixture of shock and awe since the start of the Trump presidency. They are used to rapid fluctuations in the S&…
www.businessinsider.com - Newly uncovered tax documents from President Donald Trump contain several discrepancies that real-estate experts said could point to financial fraud, ProPublica reported on Wednesday. The documents o…
gizmodo.com - Scientists report that they may have found the earliest written record of a solar storm in ancient Assyrian tablets. Recent analyses have found evidence of an extreme solar storm that left energetic …
undark.org - People watch a wildfire in the town of Rafina, near Athens, Greece on July 23, 2018. Extreme weather events are expected to become more common as the climate changes. How do we avoid a future in whic…
www.oftwominds.com - If we want to make real progress, we have to properly diagnose the structural sources of the rot that is spreading quickly into every nook and cranny of the society and culture. It seems my rant yest…
www.theguardian.com - In addition to providing updated guidelines on which images our editors should use to illustrate the climate emergency, we have updated our style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describ…
www.vox.com - A new ProPublica investigation lends credence to a remarkable claim made by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer and fixer, during his congressional testimony earli…
www.jpost.com - Lindsey Graham . (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday played down the crisis in Syria touched off by Turkey's incursion against U.S.-allied Kurdish forc…
www.mintpressnews.com - On September 26, Abbas took on the world’s most important political platform, the United Nations General Assembly, to call for “general elections in Palestine – in the West Bank, including East Jerus…
www.iea.org - A dramatic shift towards bigger and heavier cars has led to a doubling of the share of SUVs over the last decade (Photograph: Shutterstock) This commentary is derived from analysis that will be publi…
nymag.com - LeBron James is not a politician. This feels like a weird thing to have to say, even though, as I’ve argued in the past, maybe someday he should become one. But he’s going to be treated like one from…
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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 17, 2019, 07:55:26 am »
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 16, 2019, 12:08:54 pm »
Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 16, 2019, 08:20:22 am »
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www.washingtonpost.com - By Toluse Olorunnipa, close Toluse Olorunnipa White House reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Chelsea Janes and close Chelsea Janes Reporter covering the 2020 presidential campaign Email EmailBi…
www.washingtonpost.com - Rudolph W. Giuliani has said he does not need to register as a foreign lobbyist. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Carol D. Leonnig, close Carol D. Leonnig National investigative reporter focus…
nymag.com - Two weeks ago, Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign looked seriously unwell — and then, so did Bernie Sanders. As of October 1, the Vermont senator’s support in national polls had been stagnating for month…
nymag.com - You didn’t have to be clairvoyant to think that high-flying candidate Elizabeth Warren might have a bullseye on her back in the fourth round of Democratic presidential candidate debates in Ohio Tuesd…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Paul Kane, close Paul Kane Senior congressional correspondent and columnist Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Karoun Demirjian and close Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on national …
www.counterpunch.org - Turkey’s Syrian venture is rapidly turning sour from President Erdogan’s point of view. The Turkish advance into northeast Syria is moving slowly, but Turkey’s military options are becoming increasin…
www.theguardian.com - The Brexit secretary, Stephen Barclay, has indicated that Boris Johnson will send a letter to the EU seeking an extension if there is no agreement by Saturday. Pressed by the Commons’ Brexit committe…
www.newyorker.com - On September 26th, two weeks before Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested at Dulles International Airport, Parnas was visiting Manhattan. It was during the U.N. General Assembly, and a large Ukrai…
theintercept.com - The Pentagon announced on Monday that the U.S. was pulling all of its troops out of northeastern Syria at President Donald Trump’s direction, completing a withdrawal he had started by Twitter declara…
 www.nytimes.com - Mr. Mulvaney’s role has also come under increased scrutiny. Ms. Hill testified that she and the former national security adviser John R. Bolton believed that Mr. Mulvaney and the ambassador to the Eu…
www.thelondoneconomic.com - However Donald Trump leaves the White House, whether through impeachment, defeat at the polls or (God forbid) after a second term, there will be a reckoning in U.S. politics. For nearly three years n…
theintercept.com - Government whistleblowers are increasingly being charged under laws such as the Espionage Act, but they aren’t spies. They’re ordinary Americans and, like most of us, they carry smartphones that auto…
www.rt.com - “For the last 70 years, the waters that belonged to India and farmers of Haryana were going to Pakistan. Modi will stop it and bring it to your households,” the PM promised during a rally at Charkhi …
www.dcreport.org - The 2017 Trump-Republican tax rewrite has cost home owners $1 trillion, reports noted financial journalist Alan Sloan for ProPublica and Fortune magazine. That massive number is the reduction in home…
www.cnn.com - "NASA concluded that the LR had found a substance mimicking life, but not life," said Levin in his article. "Inexplicably, over the 43 years since Viking, none of NASA's subsequent Mars landers has c…
www.theguardian.com - If Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s belligerent president, were a true patriot with his country’s security and wellbeing at heart, he would resign immediately. He has made an appalling hash of things. …
qz.com - The “Be Water” nature of Hong Kong’s protests—fluid, flexible, and fast-moving—has taken on a new form half way across the world in Catalonia: as a tsunami. After a Spanish court on Monday (Oct. 14) …
climatenewsnetwork.net - Researchers move closer to understanding the invisible dynamics that drive the loss of polar ice shelves – but what it means for global warming is still uncertain. LONDON, October 16, 2019 – Scientis…
www.theguardian.com - The partners of the offshore law firm whose confidential files were exposed in the Panama Papers leak, Mossack Fonseca, have launched defamation action against Netflix over a movie about the scandal …
www.zerohedge.com - London has become the first city in the world to ban environmental alarmist group Extinction Rebellion just one day after reports that they were targeting Blackrock offices in the progressive city. A…
www.npr.org - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement are using Ian MacDonald's data to estimate the amount of oil being spilled at the Taylor Ene…
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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 15, 2019, 08:08:52 am »
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www.nytimes.com - Though quick to yell “triggered,” the Trump-Media Industrial Complex frequently claims that the left is trying to incite violence. In 2017, right-wing media protested a performance of “Julius Caesar”…
www.washingtonpost.com - Russian and Syrian national flags flutter on military vehicles near Manbij, Syria Oct. 15, 2019. (Omar Sanadiki/Reuters) By Kareem Fahim, close Kareem Fahim Istanbul bureau chief covering the Middle …
www.washingtonpost.com - By Seung Min Kim and close Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Karen DeYoung close Karen DeYoung
www.washingtonpost.com - By Karoun Demirjian, close Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on national security Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Shane Harris and close Shane Harris Intelligence and national security…
www.miamiherald.com - A Soviet-born businessman who helped President Donald Trump’s personal attorney dig for dirt in Ukraine on his political opponents also helped raise significant sums of money last year for Ron DeSant…
www.vanityfair.com - Even for diplomats numbed by years of Trump-induced whiplash, the revelation that their boss, Mike Pompeo, had sat quietly while the president trash-talked Marie Yovanovitch came as a nasty shock. Fo…
www.mintpressnews.com - While the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has largely faded from media coverage in the United States, it has continued to attract attention abroad, particularly in the United Kingdom in connection with Epste…
www.theatlantic.com - For once Republicans have forcefully spoken out against Mr. Trump. Graham said our Kurdish allies had been “shamelessly abandoned by the Trump Administration.” Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, t…
theintercept.com - In court and in public, many top Republicans have denied gerrymandering gives them any advantage at all. They’ve captured state legislatures and won an edge in Congress, some have suggested, due to s…
www.politico.com - “The staffer opened the safe, removed a set of documents, and tried to wrest it shut,” Farrow writes. “Later, reporters would discuss the safe like it was the warehouse where they stored the Ark of t…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Shane Harris, close Shane Harris Intelligence and national security reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Greg Miller and close Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Emai…
www.nytimes.com - On election night in 2016, the electoral vote was expected to be 306 for Donald J. Trump and 232 for Mrs. Clinton. In the end, though, it was 304 to 227. Seven electors succeeded in voting for other …
www.nytimes.com - With Turkey making increasing noise in recent months about forcing the Kurdish militia away from its border, the American military made contingency plans to get about five dozen of the highest-priori…
www.nytimes.com - Mr. Trump tried another defense on Monday, via Twitter. Clearly sensitive about the critique that he was abandoning a longtime ally, he wrote that “anyone who wants to assist Syria in protecting the …
theintercept.com - Last week, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it was transferring five parcels of federally owned land along the U.S.-Mexico border to the control of the U.S. Army so that it could be used …
www.voanews.com - MOSCOW - Russian officials say they expect Turkey to start halting soon its cross-border incursion in north-eastern Syria. They say Syria’s Kurds have agreed to shelve their plans for a self-governin…
unicornriot.ninja - Clearbrook, MN – On Indigenous People’s Day 2019, a coalition of climate activists will march to the Enbridge tar sands pipeline terminal located in Clearbrook, Minnesota. The Ginew Collective of ind…
www.theguardian.com - All around the world, from small-town Illinois in the US to Rochdale in England, from Perth, Australia, to Dumka in northern India, a revolution is under way in how governments treat the poor. You ca…
www.reuters.com - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new traci…
www.theguardian.com - Extinction Rebellion climate protesters have promised to continue their mass civil disobedience campaign in London despite a city-wide ban on their demonstrations announced late on Monday night. Hund…
www.intrepidreport.com - Lenin Moreno campaigned on a platform of continuing the progressive policies of his predecessor, Rafeal Correa. Straightaway in office, he betrayed the public trust. Ecuadorian legal scholar Oswaldo …
www.newyorker.com - Anyway. We’re here now. I asked the experts to picture an especially troubled middle school. The grownups are checked out, and an aggressive student named Donald rules the scene. Another student want…
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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 14, 2019, 09:01:56 am »
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fair.org - Right-wing terror is a feature of daily life in present-day America. Ostensibly spontaneous violence incubates in the same ideological ecosystem as organized reactionary political associations. Tribu…
www.cnn.com - Prior to Turkey's offensive last week, as a confidence building measure with the country, the US convinced the Syrian Kurds to dismantle their defensive fortifications along the border and pull their…
www.reuters.com - AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army has begun deploying its troops to northern Syria battlefronts to “confront a Turkish aggression” on Syrian territory, state media said on Sunday. State media did not…
nymag.com - Less than a week after President Trump gave Turkey the green light to attack the U.S.-allied, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria, the conflict in the border region has already…
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…
www.nytimes.com - A spokesman for Mr. Trump’s campaign said he knew nothing about the video. “That video was not produced by the campaign, and we do not condone violence,” said Tim Murtaugh, the spokesman. A DeSantis …
www.nytimes.com - And many Southerners despised Northern liberals for seeming to encourage the ascendance of black people in the South. So, Southern states, beginning with Mississippi, called constitutional convention…
www.cnn.com - Washington(CNN) President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday night to sue top congressional Democrats Rep. Adam Schiff and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amid the House impeachment inquiry into the Pres…
www.nytimes.com - “There’s no requirement in the Constitution that the House do anything specific, in any order, prior to voting to approve articles of impeachment,” said Stephen Vladek, a constitutional law professor…
newrepublic.com - There’s no clear way out of this dynamic and it’s not obvious that it’s fully a problem. We value journalism, in part, because we hope, perhaps naively, that the material journalists put into the wor…
www.stonekettle.com - The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. -- Aristotle The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contem…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Karoun Demirjian Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on national security Email Bio Follow October 14 at 7:58 AM Fiona Hill, the White House’s former top Russia adviser, is expected t…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Pamela Rolfe and James McAuley James McAuley Foreign correspondent focusing on French and European politics and culture Email Bio Follow October 14 at 6:23 AM MADRID — Spain’s Supreme Court senten…
www.theguardian.com - Companies and industries that are not moving towards zero-carbon emissions will be punished by investors and go bankrupt, the governor of the Bank of England has warned. Mark Carney also told the Gua…
www.nytimes.com - Protesters have deplored the officers’ use of pepper spray and tear gas as excessive since the early days of the protests, but last week an 18-year-old high school student was shot in the chest by a …
www.intrepidreport.com - This season could be called the Autumn of Discontent, as people from the Middle East to Latin America and the Caribbean have been rising up against corrupt neoliberal governments. Two of the countrie…
www.intrepidreport.com - Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators during a closed-door session Friday that President Donald Trump pressured the State Department to oust h…
www.oftwominds.com - Technology can't fix what's broken, because what's broken is our entire system.. The ultimate heresy in today's world isn't religious or political: it's refusing to believe that technology can not on…
www.theatlantic.com - When my father was 18 years old, he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home late. That’s never good, but it was particularly bad then, in 1954, the year he crashed his car on the early-morning Mi…
whowhatwhy.org - The Department of Homeland Security has finally added white supremacists to its list of terrorist threats. Kevin McAleenan, the former acting secretary of Homeland Security, told the Brookings Instit…
www.resilience.org - Most of the news surrounding the electricity shutoffs in California—done to avert the ignition of additional wildfires by aging electrical infrastructure—has focused on two things: climate change and…
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« on: October 13, 2019, 07:37:09 am »
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 12, 2019, 02:33:32 pm »
 swag (25,384 posts) Sat Oct 12, 2019, 12:27 AM
California to end its use of 😈 private, 💵🎩 for-profit prisons  Source: Associated Press
by: DON THOMPSON and AMY TAXIN, Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those under contract to the federal government to hold immigrants awaiting deportation hearings, under a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he had signed.
The Democratic governor said the measure helps fulfill a promise he made to end private prison use, which he said contributes to over-incarceration and does “not reflect our values.”
The state’s prison system was already phasing them out, despite having to comply with an inmate population cap imposed by federal judges.
Immigrant advocates have praised the bill authored by Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta, which they said would put an end to almost all immigration detention in California in the next year.
Read more: https://www.koin.com/news/national/california-to-end-its-use-of-private-for-profit-prisons/
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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 12, 2019, 06:21:13 am »
News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.
nymag.com - The role of a defense lawyer is to help the client minimize or avoid legal jeopardy. Generally speaking, you do not want your lawyer himself to be the subject of a criminal investigation. Yet that is…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Liz Sly and Liz Sly Beirut bureau chief, covering Lebanon, Syria and the wider region Email Bio Follow Missy Ryan Missy Ryan Reporter covering the Pentagon, military issues and national security E…
www.washingtonpost.com - Acting homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan listens as President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the White House on July 16. The president announced Friday that McAleenan is leaving t…
www.theguardian.com - In a wooden hut at the back of a hospital, a woman cradled the head of a dead man and dabbed away grime and blood with a sponge. A blanket covered the man’s mutilated lower half. His blood-soaked mil…
www.theatlantic.com - If you ask an Istanbullu where to find plant food or pesticide, you will be directed to a shopping arcade in an underpass beside the Galata Bridge, in the neighborhood of Karaköy, where these items a…
fair.org - Janine Jackson interviewed Free Press’s Craig Aaron about the net neutrality setback for the October 4, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: A federal ap…
fair.org - The Daily Express (10/4/19) defies the reality that Brexit has a great deal to do with Ireland. The deadline for Britain to come up with a deal under which it would exit from the European Union is le…
www.mintpressnews.com - The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other…
www.dailykos.com - Erdogan Iran Isis Kurds Recommended Russia Syria trump Turkey VladimirPutin HassanRouhani Tag History Syria created by Mark Lippman at 10/10/2019 07:03 AM Kurds Syria created by Mark Lippman at 10/10…
www.cnn.com - Executives at the network leaned on him to stay, but to no avail. On Friday afternoon he announced his departure on the air, then exited the building immediately, clearly emotional about saying goodb…
www.vox.com - Hong Kong’s massive anti-government demonstrations began in June, when protesters rallied against an extradition bill that could bring Hong Kong residents into mainland China’s legal system. Since th…
www.mintpressnews.com - SANA’A, YEMEN — Recent political developments have offered a glimmer of hope to some that the end of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen may be near. But a new report by the United Nations Development P…
www.theatlantic.com - Where, in my essay, I emphasized the potential transience of civilization, Wing and colleagues on the Anthropocene Working Group emphasize the eternal mark left on the biosphere, whether our civiliza…
www.theatlantic.com - Read: The simple reason that humans can’t control wildfires That is in part because blackouts—while not as deadly or terrifying as wildfires—are nonetheless expensive in their own right. Outages this…
www.mintpressnews.com - QUITO, ECUADOR — “We don’t have a state! We don’t have any state!” The lady’s voice projects through a loudspeaker amid the crowd. She’s not having it. Nor is the groundswell of hundreds, if not thou…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum Columnist focusing on national politics and foreign policy Email Bio Follow Columnist October 11 at 4:08 PM Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, a pro-Trumper or…
fair.org - This week on CounterSpin: One of the ways corporate media coverage of the now more than three-week-old GM strike is like coverage of every strike is the use, so common as to be invisible, of construc…
unicornriot.ninja - Minneapolis, MN – Large protests are expected today as Donald Trump is due to arrive at the downtown Target Center for a campaign rally promoting his 2020 presidential campaign. Many liberal, leftist…
cassandralegacy.blogspot.com - The Public Interest in Climate Change Reaches and All-Time High. Greta Thunberg Conquers the Memesphere Greta Thunberg is having a phenomenal success as climate messenger. Good targeting, flawless pe…
www.nakedcapitalism.com - This is Naked Capitalism fundraising week. 1633 donors have already invested in our efforts to combat corruption and predatory conduct, particularly in the financial realm. Please join us and partici…
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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 11, 2019, 07:09:17 pm »
I had to be out of the house by 5 every day this week, leaving no time for assemblymen bing a paper. Here's a late Friday edition. News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.
www.washingtonpost.com - By John Hudson , John Hudson National security reporter focusing on the State Department and diplomacy. Email Bio Follow Karoun Demirjian and Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on natio…
www.motherjones.com - The Camp Fire in Paradise, California in 2018.Neal Waters, ZUMA Rather than take the chance that its downed power lines would spark another blaze like last year’s Camp Fire, Pacific Gas and Electric …
nymag.com - The role of a defense lawyer is to help the client minimize or avoid legal jeopardy. Generally speaking, you do not want your lawyer himself to be the subject of a criminal investigation. Yet that is…
nymag.com - A few long years ago, Donald Trump overcame 16 other Republican candidates — and the unified opposition of the GOP Establishment — to win his party’s nomination. He then overcame the most well-funded…
nymag.com - Roughly half an hour into his rally in Minneapolis last night, President Trump was reciting his prepared remarks about the evil political establishment shipping jobs overseas and flooding your commun…
www.vanityfair.com - Donald Trump might not be president were it not for Fox News, the right-wing network that for years gave the blustery game show host a political platform and in 2016 promoted his long-shot candidacy.…
www.motherjones.com - This summer, Ohio’s beleaguered nuclear and coal plants got a major gift in the promise of a big bailout. Now, the fight over that promise has escalated into one of the most dramatic and bizarre show…
www.vanityfair.com - The next morning, after NBC put Ronan on the Today show to discuss our Weinstein reporting, we exchanged texts. “They’re panicked,” he told me. “I was on the phone w [NBC spokesman Mark] Kornblau and…
www.motherjones.com - Booking photos of Lev Parnas, left, and Igor Fruman./AP When the US attorney for the Southern District of New York charged two associates of Rudy Giuliani and two other men on Wednesday with campaign…
www.motherjones.com - As Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump squawk that the president’s quid-pro-quo-ish call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was only prompted by Trump’s heartfelt desire to address “corruption” i…
theintercept.com - They are, however, indictable. A variety of felony criminal statutes plainly implicate Trump’s behavior, and come with lengthy prison sentences — the types of sentences doled out for high crimes, to …
qz.com - There are more people with a billion dollars today than at any other time in history. And there are more people with multiple billions of dollars too. A billion dollars sounds like a lot. But only wh…
theintercept.com - The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found that the FBI may have violated the rights of potentially millions of Americans — including its own agents and informants — by improperly searching th…
www.commondreams.org - In a new study published Thursday by the National Audubon Society, scientists say that saving hundreds of bird species from extinction by the end of this century is entirely possible—but that without…
www.theguardian.com - In a wooden hut at the back of a hospital, a woman cradled the head of a dead man and dabbed away grime and blood with a sponge. A blanket covered the man’s mutilated lower half. His blood-soaked mil…
www.unz.com - Hong Kong is losing to Mainland China. Its poverty rates are high, it suffers from corruption and savage capitalism. It is now the most expensive city on earth. People are frustrated, but paradoxical…
medium.com - Cities begin in the mind — or so thought Elias Canetti.¹ Ancient hunter-gatherers must have pondered the existence of collectives much larger than the ones they actually lived in. Proof, he felt, was…
www.mnn.com - From dirty drinking water and deforestation to plastic pollution and poaching, the environmental impacts of humans on the planet are often devastating. This year's winners and shortlisted finalists i…
www.theguardian.com - The public is providing more than $1m per minute in global farm subsidies, much of which is driving the climate crisis and destruction of wildlife, according to a new report. Just 1% of the $700bn (£…
www.theatlantic.com - Read: The simple reason that humans can’t control wildfires That is in part because blackouts—while not as deadly or terrifying as wildfires—are nonetheless expensive in their own right. Outages this…
www.mnn.com - Right in the middle of a highway is interesting placement for a bicycle lane. In South Korea, there's a solar bike path that shields riders from the sun while at the same time generating power from i…
www.theatlantic.com - Where, in my essay, I emphasized the potential transience of civilization, Wing and colleagues on the Anthropocene Working Group emphasize the eternal mark left on the biosphere, whether our civiliza…
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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 08, 2019, 07:55:23 pm »
Is Jordan Peterson in rehab?
Mike Jones 👍
Mike Jones, Worked in technology for over 30 years.
Answered Sep 21
Based on what I’ve read this morning, he is in some form of rehab to deal with an addiction to clonazepam, which he was prescribed after his wife was diagnosed with cancer.
I wish Peterson the best, and sincerely hope that this experience will cause him to revisit some of his earlier work on how to deal with addiction, which was glib and judgmental.  Well said. Let us hope Mr. (closet fascist apologist) Jordan Peterson gets off his high "pecking order top position justifies WHATEVAH BECAUSE YOU CAN" horse.
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 08, 2019, 02:17:16 pm »
read more: Doomstead Diner Daily 10/7
That Syria move by Trumpy is not going to go as Trumpy and his Wrecking Crew hope (i.e. distract from the Impeachment while strengthening Trump's election chances). Sure, the  Fox News Spin Machine will try to celebrate "our troops coming home".
//
So what happens now? It's a bit complicated but the end result of Turkey's (rather desperate, by the way) bellicose action is that the Kurds will actually gain more terrain, popularity and strength while Turkey's Trump clone legitimacy will be simultaneously severely eroded. Erdogan might even be replaced, but while that may happen within a year, I don't think it will happen during this latest Turkish attempt to engage in the genocide of the Kurds.
What happens within turkey (Kurdistan?) remain s to be seen. But what the Syria/turkey announcement did is push this story off the front pages, and the corporate press eagerly complied. Except for Doc Maddow.
On Sunday night, the AP broke arguably the most important story in Donald Trump’s whistleblower scandal to date, when it reported that Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Rick Perry were abusing their government positions to extort a Ukraine gas company into funneling money into the pockets of their allies. It was poised to dominate Monday’s news cycle and change the course of the impeachment narrative, until… well, Trump did something even worse.
After Donald Trump announced that he was immediately and disastrously pulling all U.S. troops out of northern Syria, Palmer Report said this: “This Syria-Turkey stunt is to distract from last night’s AP bombshell that he and Rudy were trying to extort money out of a Ukrainian gas company. And it’s working – no one is covering this crucial story.”
Sure enough, during the course of the day on Monday, the media (somewhat understandably) allowed the Ukraine gas company story to all but completely get lost in the shuffle. If Trump really did announce this stunt late last night in order to make sure the Ukraine bombshell got flushed out of the news cycle, it sure worked well.
But then came Rachel Maddow. During her Monday evening show, she made a point of covering the Ukraine gas company story. She made it important, and she spelled out how Donald Trump is trying to redefine the word “corruption” so that it loses its meaning, even as he falsely accuses his adversaries of doing precisely what he and his camp are doing. Maddow nailed it. Hopefully, as the dust settles on Tuesday, the rest of the media will decide to make the Ukraine gas scandal important.
We'll see. Anything that has to do with hydrocarbon industry corruption fun and games is generally off limits to the U.S. media. The  fossil fuel Government has some unwritten media coverage "rules" that must be obeyed... This Ukraine bit of 🦖Trump and 🦕Rudy Hydrocarbon Hellspawn corruption provides further evidence that Hydrocarbon LOVE is at the root of at least 90% of the ROT in the U.S. government. They  just cannot let go of those biosphere destroying ☠️ "high energy density" Hydrocarbons. 
Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 08, 2019, 08:25:01 am »
read more: Doomstead Diner Daily 10/7
That Syria move by Trumpy is not going to go as Trumpy and his Wrecking Crew hope (i.e. distract from the Impeachment while strengthening Trump's election chances). Sure, the Fox News Spin Machine will try to celebrate "our troops coming home".
//
So what happens now? It's a bit complicated but the end result of Turkey's (rather desperate, by the way) bellicose action is that the Kurds will actually gain more terrain, popularity and strength while Turkey's Trump clone legitimacy will be simultaneously severely eroded. Erdogan might even be replaced, but while that may happen within a year, I don't think it will happen during this latest Turkish attempt to engage in the genocide of the Kurds.
What happens within turkey (Kurdistan?) remain s to be seen. But what the Syria/turkey announcement did is push this story off the front pages, and the corporate press eagerly complied. Except for Doc Maddow.
On Sunday night, the AP broke arguably the most important story in Donald Trump’s whistleblower scandal to date, when it reported that Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Rick Perry were abusing their government positions to extort a Ukraine gas company into funneling money into the pockets of their allies. It was poised to dominate Monday’s news cycle and change the course of the impeachment narrative, until… well, Trump did something even worse.
After Donald Trump announced that he was immediately and disastrously pulling all U.S. troops out of northern Syria, Palmer Report said this: “This Syria-Turkey stunt is to distract from last night’s AP bombshell that he and Rudy were trying to extort money out of a Ukrainian gas company. And it’s working – no one is covering this crucial story.”
Sure enough, during the course of the day on Monday, the media (somewhat understandably) allowed the Ukraine gas company story to all but completely get lost in the shuffle. If Trump really did announce this stunt late last night in order to make sure the Ukraine bombshell got flushed out of the news cycle, it sure worked well.
But then came Rachel Maddow. During her Monday evening show, she made a point of covering the Ukraine gas company story. She made it important, and she spelled out how Donald Trump is trying to redefine the word “corruption” so that it loses its meaning, even as he falsely accuses his adversaries of doing precisely what he and his camp are doing. Maddow nailed it. Hopefully, as the dust settles on Tuesday, the rest of the media will decide to make the Ukraine gas scandal important.
Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 08, 2019, 08:19:51 am »
News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.
www.commondreams.org - As President Donald Trump was being denounced from all political sides—both domestically and on the international stage—for his decision to rapidly withdraw troops from northeast Syria, reporting on …
www.newsweek.com - Donald Trump got "rolled" by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a National Security Council source with direct knowledge of the discussions told Newsweek. In a scheduled phone call on Sunday aft…
www.washingtonpost.com - A view of Qamishli, the base of the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria. (Alice Martins/For The Washington Post) By Liz Sly , Liz Sly Beirut bureau chief, covering Lebanon, Syria and the wider …
www.vox.com - The war in Syria is about to enter an uncertain phase after the White House announced late Sunday that it was withdrawing from northeastern Syria in advance of Turkey’s military operations across the…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Dan Balz and Dan Balz Chief correspondent covering national politics, the presidency and Congress Email Bio Follow Scott Clement Scott Clement Polling director Email Bio Follow October 8 at 6:00 A…
theintercept.com - “Overnight the administration did confirm, following a phone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, that Turkey will soon attack Kurdish forces in Syria,” Yingst continued. “President Trump has …
splinternews.com - No one, except for the scientists who hopefully get to study his cottage cheese brain, can really say with any certainty what’s going on in Donald Trump’s head. So all we can really go off is what ac…
www.theguardian.com - You can read James Forsyth’s Spectator blog, in which he publishes, apparently more or less in full, a message he got yesterday from a “contact in No 10” setting out Downing Street’s thinking on the …
www.motherjones.com - President Donald Trump greets Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in June at the G20 summit in Japan.Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Donald Trump upended US military policy in the Middle East Sunday…
www.nbcnews.com - WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney for President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that he personally gave Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a file of documents with unproven allegations again…
www.motherjones.com - Democratic Presidential hopeful Julián Castro escorts a group of migrants to the Brownsville Port of Entry Monday morning. He asked port officials to allow the migrants to petition for asylum in the …
qz.com - Why did the busiest person in the world, former president Barack Obama, read an hour a day while in office? Why has the best investor in history, Warren Buffett, invested 80% of his time in reading a…
www.memeorandum.com - New York Times: President Endorses Turkish Military Operation in Syria, Shifting U.S. Policy — WASHINGTON — In a major shift in United States military policy in Syria, the White House said on Sunday …
www.theguardian.com - Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, has said he has moved his government from the capital in Quito to the coastal city of Guayaquil amid violent protests over the end of fuel subsidies. Images from Qu…
qz.com - In a recent update to iOS 13.1, Apple’s iPhone operating system, Apple reportedly removed the Taiwanese flag emoji from its keyboard for users in Hong Kong and Macau, China’s two special administrati…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Dan Balz and Dan Balz Chief correspondent covering national politics, the presidency and Congress Email Bio Follow Scott Clement Scott Clement Polling director Email Bio Follow October 8 at 6:00 A…
www.mintpressnews.com - WASHINGTON – In a leaked military manual on “unconventional warfare” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, the U.S. Army states that major global financial institutions — such as the World Bank, Interna…
www.startribune.com - Tensions between Minneapolis city leaders and President Donald Trump’s campaign escalated Monday when the campaign threatened to sue the city for trying to force it to pay $530,000 for security durin…
www.commondreams.org - For the first time in U.S. history, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid less in taxes last year than people in any other income group, thanks to decades of tax cuts and loopholes benefiting the rich. A…
www.vox.com - President Donald Trump has made his distaste for a government-run single-payer health care system official, signing an executive order decrying Medicare-for-all and promoting private insurance’s role…
www.commondreams.org - The Department of Homeland Security's acting secretary Kevin McAlneenan was shouted offstage Monday at Georgetown University by pro-immigrant demonstrators who said "Trump henchmen" shouldn't be "giv…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Sally Jenkins Sally Jenkins Sports columnist Email Bio Columnist October 7 at 1:10 PM Get off the NBA’s back, all you people who want sports to be the children’s literature of your lost youth. Som…
www.theguardian.com - Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, has said he has moved his government from the capital in Quito to the coastal city of Guayaquil amid violent protests over the end of fuel subsidies. Images from Qu…
nymag.com - When autocratic leaders attack “corruption,” they are usually using it as a pretext to clear out the competition and establish their own racket. President Trump’s campaign to pressure Ukraine to inve…
bigthink.com - Learning how to reliably grow plants in space is necessary if NASA or other space agencies want to launch long-term missions. "Simply packing some multi-vitamins will not be enough to keep astronauts…
grist.org - This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the Amazon burns, North American birds disappear, and scientists anticipate that by 2…
cassandralegacy.blogspot.com - So, what's happening? Let's see if we can learn something from my wrong prediction. First of all, I based my prediction on the data from Google Trends that showed a constant and robust decline of the…
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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 07, 2019, 10:46:40 pm »
RIP Daisy Mae Miller February 18, 2011 – October 6, 2019Agelbert NOTE: So true. That applies to a having a cat friend as well.
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 07, 2019, 05:30:55 pm »
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That Syria move by Trumpy is not going to go as Trumpy and his Wrecking Crew hope ( i.e. distract from the Impeachment while strengthening Trump's election chances). Sure, the Fox News Spin Machine will try to celebrate "our troops coming home". That is, of course, a lie. The troops are emphatically NOT coming home, but most people won't even think of questioning that lie. Those U.S. troops, positioned in the Middle East for future war crimes against Iran, will just stay out of the way while Turkey tries to wipe out the Kurds. Again, nobody in the press will even bring up the issue of real world Pentagon military logistics planning. The "Trump loves peace" trope is useful to the  Trolls polluting Truthdig and other progressive news outlets, who will endlessly argue about how Trump is "against war". It's all BULLSHIT, but that's the way Trumpy, his Wrecking Crew and his enablers operate. Remember when Palloy was hysterically screaming about "WWIII" back when Russia was preventing the U.S. (see: CIA bought and paid for ISIS "terrorists") from overthowing the Syria Government? I said it was all bullshit and Russia was going to be successful in preventing the USA (AND ISRAEL, of course) from taking down Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad. Obama's CIA funded ISIS murderers got their asses handed to them, as I humbly 😉 predicted. So what happens now? It's a bit complicated but the end result of Turkey's (rather desperate, by the way) bellicose action is that the Kurds will actually gain more terrain, popularity and strength while Turkey's Trump clone legitimacy will be simultaneously severely eroded. Erdogan might even be replaced, but while that may happen within a year, I don't think it will happen during this latest Turkish attempt to engage in the genocide of the Kurds. The reason Turkey will fail is that the Kurds in Iraq, though 🙊 U.S. media will never utter a peep about them, because this Turkish (and U. S. betrayal) action is correctly perceived by all Kurds as an existential threat, are now united with the Syrian and Turkish Kurds. The Kurds will ALL physically fight Turkey's troops. The result of this unified Kurdish campaign (with Russia helping them through high tech troop movement surveillance, hand fired missiles and other weapons hardware) will be MORE territory governed by the Kurds in Syria AND Iraq. Yes, the Kurds want their part of Turkey back too, but that is a bridge too far at this time. So, though they won't officially have a country called Kurdistan, which is their ultimate goal, for all practical purposes, they will have one 👍. Russia is doing exactly the same thing the U.S. did during the Cold War. That is, they fund and arm a group with a claim to territory that was taken from them in order to prevent, in the is case, expansion of U.S. influence while simultaneously increasing Russian influence. The difference in technique is that the U.S., in Russia's place, would probably want Kurdistan to be called "South Turkey", right after we dreamed up "North Turkey" (see: Korea and Viet Nam). The Kurds have had a legal, totally justified, gripe against Iraq and Turkish boundaries ever since the Imperialist Powers carved up the Middle East after WWI. The Kurds KNOW that Russia isn't exactly their friend. Russia, however, will support the Kurds if they agree to be a vassal state. The U.S. (and ISRAEL) will never promote the creation of Kurdistan. Israel has only one goal when it comes to their territorial boundaries: MORE from Syria, Jordan AND Iraq. The Kurds know the score. It's realpolitic ALL THE WAY. Here in Trumpland, the neocons (all 100% loyal to the United States of Israel) will go berserk when Turkish troops are defeated by the Kurds. Many of these neocons, like Colin Powell (see: "Get a Grip" message to fellow Republicans on their refusal to admit Trump is engaged in Impeachable High Crimes and Misdemeanors), are Republicans, as you know... I am torn between putting up my "eating popcorn" graphic or that other one. I must admit all these Trumpian actions, faithfully following his 👹 mentor Roy Cohn's 🦍 bellicosity Mens rea Modus operandi, work quite well when you are dealing with a totally corrupted U.S. Judiciary. Unfortunately for him, thank God, that method is doomed to total failure when applied to geopolitics. I think the appropriate graphic here is the other one. 
Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 07, 2019, 06:42:00 am »
News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.
qz.com - America’s unemployment rate is brushing historical lows once again, as the United States’ closely-watched jobs data report revealed on Friday. Hiring continues to steam ahead. Given all that, you’d e…
www.newyorker.com - President Trump and his allies nearly succeeded in consigning the Mueller report to oblivion. William Barr, Trump’s compliant Attorney General, got a jump on the process when he preëmpted the public …
www.theguardian.com - The White House has given the green light to a Turkish offensive into northern Syria, moving US forces out of the area in an abrupt foreign policy change that will in effect abandon Washington’s long…
www.washingtonpost.com - U.S. troops walk past a Turkish military vehicle during a joint patrol in the Syrian village of al-Hashisha along the border on Sept. 8. (Delil Souleiman/Afp Via Getty Images) By Missy Ryan , Missy R…
www.vanityfair.com - On the day that Sony basically scrapped the movie, I got this email from Jeff Shell: Subject: Fwd: It’s Official: Sony Scraps ‘The Interview’ To: Richard Stengel Subject: Fwd: It’s Official: Sony Scr…
nymag.com - President Trump has repeatedly insisted he did nothing wrong when he pressured Ukraine in a phone call to investigate a political rival, an act which prompted a member of the U.S. intelligence commun…
www.commondreams.org - Attorneys representing the intelligence official who filed the formal complaint about President Donald Trump's call with Ukraine's leader confirmed Sunday that they now represent "multiple whistleblo…
theconversation.com - Whether China is a “developing” or a “developed” country for the purposes of the World Trade Organisation matters a lot to the US president. President Donald Trump ignited a new front in the US-China…
crooksandliars.com - For a group of people who are constantly proclaiming that Dear Leader did nothing wrong, they sure are working hard to keep what he did from ever seeing the light of day. Here's Trump booster Jeanine…
www.justsecurity.org - A number of commentators and critics have labeled President Trump an Agent of the Russian Federation. It is often not clear if they mean that he is unwittingly adopting Russian propaganda, knowingly …
www.mnn.com - Do you find yourself aimlessly surfing the internet with no goal in mind, or compulsively checking your phone knowing there really isn’t anything to see? That’s because our brains crave knowledge and…
theconversation.com - Health care is Americans’ number-one priority, based on recent polls, so it’s no wonder it’s been a hot topic in the Democratic primary. Every candidate is offering a plan, ranging from Joe Biden’s A…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Washington Post Staff October 7 at 5:39 AM William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza were recognized for their work that revealed the molecular mechanisms that underlie how cells adapt to …
www.insider.com - Not unlike the movie "Okja," where a company breeds massive pigs to maximize profits, some Chinese farmers are growing larger and larger hogs to keep up with pork shortages. In Nanning, the capital o…
cosmosmagazine.com - A glimpse into the sustainability of global groundwater extraction for rivers, streams and lakes in the next few decades has revealed a worrying picture. The hydrological model, published in the jour…
www.nytimes.com - “It’s a quite a significant development,” Mr. Cagaptay said. Many Syria experts criticized the White House decision and cautioned that American abandonment of its Kurdish allies could widen the eight…
qz.com - Happiness isn’t a country. You don’t get there and stay. It’s a fleeting space, a feeling that comes and goes, so focusing on being happy is just a distraction, according to some psychologists. Bette…
www.counterpunch.org - Photograph Source: Technical Sergeant Adrian Cadiz – Public Domain Iraq is poised at a turning point in its modern history as its people wait to see if the government curfew and close down of the int…
www.zerohedge.com - As the violence in Hong Kong escalates with every passing week, culminating on Friday with what was effectively the passage of martial law when the local government banned the wearing of masks at pub…
www.businessinsider.com - An excerpt from a book by the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower reveals what the firm did that swayed the 2016 elections. Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, is known for leakin…
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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 06, 2019, 09:20:02 am »
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www.motherjones.com - Rudy Giuliani at Fox Business Network studios on September 23, 2019.Roy Rochlin/Getty Images President Donald Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, insist that their bid to pressure Ukraine to investi…
qz.com - Hong Kong’s summer of discontent, which began with protests over a Chinese extradition bill, has turned into a violent autumn. Months of demonstrations prompted the city leader Carrie Lam to use the …
www.vox.com - President Donald Trump unleashed a load of venom on Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) over the course of several hours on Saturday, deeming him a “a pompous ‘ass’” and even calling for him to be impeached on T…
www.motherjones.com - President Donald Trump and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.Johann Groder/APA Picturedesk via ZUMA Press In the wake of the whistleblower complaint at the heart of the biggest threat to h…
www.commondreams.org - During a conference call with House Republicans on Friday, President Donald Trump reportedly blamed Energy Secretary Rick Perry for the July 25 call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky that is a…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Mike DeBonis and Mike DeBonis Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives Email Bio Follow Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email …
www.motherjones.com - Gordon Sondland, center, the American ambassador to the European Union, walks with President Donald Trump.AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais As the extent of President Donald Trump’s campaign to press…
theweeklylist.org - With impeachment looming, Trump started this week by attacking the credibility of House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff and the whistleblower, both of whom he also endangered with his rhetor…
www.vox.com - A second whistleblower is now considering filing a complaint about President Donald Trump’s conduct regarding Ukraine, the New York Times reported Friday. This whistleblower has “more direct informat…
www.salon.com - Watch out, older Americans and people with disabilities! President Trump just announced a plan to give corporate health insurers more control over your health care. His new executive order calls for …
www.businessinsider.com - When Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States, he promised to launch an economic experiment. Ignoring the past few decades of economic liberalization, multilateralism, and openness…
qz.com - As China seeks ever more control over its population, it’s turning to one tool of particular note: people’s faces. On Sept. 27, the nation’s information-technology ministry announced that telecom car…
www.mintpressnews.com - Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire who now sits in jail on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors, has continued to draw media scrutiny in the weeks after his arrest on July 6. Part of the r…
www.mnn.com - It's a common childhood fantasy: What if you dug a hole to the other side of the world, where would you end up? Parents in America are in the habit of telling their kids that they'd end up in China, …
blogs.scientificamerican.com - Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes are rare. Only 7% of the 243 hurricanes observed since accurate satellite measurements began in 1983 have reached that catastrophic intensity. And it is truly exception…
theintercept.com - A chora chora is a resourceful man, a clever man, a man who can get things done. He wears no uniform, but he has an easy way with soldiers. He’s no diplomat, but he knows something about internationa…
www.commondreams.org - President Trump’s Ukraine scandal has resulted in growing support for impeachment—as it should. But as Congress begins to get serious about holding Trump accountable, it must not lose sight of the ki…
qz.com - Dog lovers will find it baffling that cats are the world’s most popular pet. After all, they’re passive-aggressive, emotionally unavailable, and known for their chilly independence—traits that at mos…
www.globalresearch.ca - Russian-Iranian relations were unexpectedly shaken Friday afternoon following reports that the IRGC arrested Russian anti-government journalist Yulia Yuzik on suspicion of spying for “Israel” during …
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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 05, 2019, 05:47:56 am »
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www.nbcnews.com - WASHINGTON — Weeks before the whistleblower's complaint became public, the CIA's top lawyer made what she considered to be a criminal referral to the Justice Department about the whistleblower's alle…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Greg Miller , Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Bio Follow Paul Sonne , Paul Sonne National security reporter focusing on the U.S. military Email Bio Follow Greg Jaffe a…
theintercept.com - Newly released text messages between State Department officials provide the clearest evidence yet that President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not …
www.washingtonpost.com - By Toluse Olorunnipa Toluse Olorunnipa White House reporter Email Bio Follow October 4 at 8:23 PM President Trump conceded Friday that Democrats had enough votes to impeach him, but he suggested that…
www.motherjones.com - On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr. joined his father’s ongoing effort to smear Joe Biden and his son Hunter over the younger Biden’s role as a board member of a Ukrainian energy company. In a tweet, Trum…
www.vox.com - President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Friday night barring immigrants who do not have health insurance and cannot afford to pay medical care costs from getting visas of almost any kind to ente…
qz.com - It’s well known that being bilingual has cognitive benefits: switching between two languages has been compared to mental gymnastics. But now, research suggests that mastering two languages can fundam…
shareblue.com - A woman who suggested people 'eat babies' to save the planet was in fact a conservative plant. A pro-Trump group's attempt to infiltrate a town hall held by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was e…
www.oftwominds.com - Democracy is the coat of paint applied for PR purposes to the Imperial State. If we step back from the histrionics of impeachment and indeed, the past four years of political circus, we have to wonde…
thehill.com - An Iowa teacher has been placed on leave after remarking on Facebook that he did not have his "sniper rifle" for a visit by teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. A spokeswoman for Waterloo Communi…
qz.com - The US Supreme Court today announced that it will hear a Louisiana abortion-rights case. Now, as the 2020 presidential campaign heats up, the court will hear decide its first case on the controversia…
www.thenation.com - Lord Cochrane and Captain de Beranger, collaborators in a stock exchange fraud. (George Cruikshank, 1814) (Wellcome Collection) You will receive occasional promotional offers for programs that suppor…
www.climatecentral.org - In the past six months, Florida has faced record high temperatures, abnormally toxic algal blooms, and the house-flattening winds of Hurricane Michael. California suffered its worst-ever wildfires, p…
www.commondreams.org - The latest installment in a Washington Post series on "hot zones" around the world that are already enduring "extreme climate change" focuses on the federal Russian republic in eastern Siberia called…
www.ecowatch.com - The study, which was commissioned by Turkey's Ministry of Health, found dangerous levels of pesticides and heavy metals in various food and water samples from several provinces in western Turkey. Wat…
www.livescience.com - Giant molecules can be in two places at once, thanks to quantum physics. That's something that scientists have long known is theoretically true based on a few facts: Every particle or group of partic…
www.fastcompany.com - The year is 2050 or 2060, and as climate change progresses, extreme weather is getting worse. If you live in the U.S., you might be tempted to move to another city or state—but where should you go? a…
www.commondreams.org - It was announced this week that two fossil fuel activists face nine charges each in federal court for their actions to stop the controversial Dakota Access pipeline—actions they said they undertook "…
www.kentucky.com - I am an archaeologist and a wilderness survival instructor. Because I study societies that have collapsed, and since I teach basic outdoor skills, people ask me about what to do in a natural disaster…
splinternews.com - On Thursday, Washington Post columnist and CNN analyst Josh Rogin posed an interesting hypothetical and followed it up with three of the dumbest answers imaginable: John McCain? Christopher Hitchens?…
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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 04, 2019, 12:44:40 pm »
Today I posted my answer to the infamous Powell Memo, the crony capitalist road map to U.S. Government by Fascist Oligarchs. I posted it at Daily Kos. I doubt it will get any traction, but I put it out there anyway. I am the eternally hopeful optimist.  Oct 04, 2019 at 02:58:24 PM Our republic is Fascist TOAST if we do not rid American politics of the influence of oligarch money. You can call the following 📢 BRING REAL DEMOCRACY TO AMERICA marching orders memo for the Democratic Party the “Pelosi Memo” if she adopts it. Until she does, I’m labelling it the “Gelbert Memo”. 🧐 🦅 GELBERT MEMO: 1. IMPEACH TRUMP (and Barr, Pompeo, etc.) NOW. Expose the corrupt bastards in the Senate that support Trump Fascism by forcing them to vote to “acquit” 🦀 Trump and his criminal cronies. 2. After we get control of the Senate and the White House, PACK THE SUPREME COURT. Go scorched earth on the right wing crooks there with Congressional Investigations, impeachment inquiries and lawsuits. Drive them into a corner and expose all their corruption and crimes. Tighten up all the campaign finance laws and eliminate corporate personhood. Make bribery illegal again! Get money out of politics PERMANENTLY. Eliminate “limited liability” from corporate law and charters. Severely limit bankruptcy protection for corporations and return personal bankruptcy protection to where it was before the banksters bribed Congress to shaft Americans that fall on hard economic times while greedy corporations stiff creditors with impunity. 3. Imprison everyone previously impeached. Arrest, Try and Convict Giuliani and the rest of Trump’s wrecking crew for crimes committed on orders from Trump. 4. Launch investigations into Fox News, Right Wing Hate Radio, Right wing funded “think” tanks and the Internet Troll farms pushing hate and fascism. 5. MASSIVELY strengthen Social Security and make Medicare for all and free University Eduction the LAW OF THE LAND. Do all the above and the Democratic Party will dominate elections for DECADES! ✨If Pelosi does not have the intestinal fortitude to methodically do the above, GET SOMEONE WHO DOES! OR, let FASCISM DESTROY this country. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/4/1890103/-Frustrated-IRS-whistleblower-Democrats-speak-Treasury-tried-to-interfere-in-Trump-or-Pence-audits#comment_75130701
Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 04, 2019, 07:24:23 am »
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www.washingtonpost.com - President Trump speaks to journalists on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Philip Rucker , Philip Rucker White House Bureau Chief Email Bio Follow…
www.theguardian.com - US diplomats told Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, that a prestigious White House visit to meet Donald Trump was
www.cnn.com - Trump's documentary record differs dramatically from his predecessors. A worrisome thread runs through each conversation. Trump appears laser-focused on his own fortunes to the exclusion of the natio…
www.motherjones.com - The House Intelligence Committee has obtained a series of text messages that went back and forth this summer between the acting ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, and two of Donald Trump’s roving tr…
www.theatlantic.com - The question of whether Trump can serve as a national fiduciary turns more on his narcissistic tendencies than his sociopathic ones, but Trump’s sociopathic characteristics sufficiently intertwine wi…
www.commondreams.org - Ellen Weintraub, the chair of the Federal Election Commission, took to Twitter Thursday afternoon to muse over whether or not President Donald Trump understands that soliciting or accepting foreign a…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Karoun Demirjian , Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on national security Email Bio Follow Rachael Bade , Rachael Bade Congressional reporter Email Bio Follow Josh Dawsey and Josh D…
thehill.com - President TrumpDonald John TrumpSessions says he still supports Trump despite ouster as AG House Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Giuliani consulted with Manafort …
www.commondreams.org - The U.S. and other nuclear powers should rapidly stop nuclear proliferation, researchers at Rutgers University said Wednesday as they released a study showing that a nuclear war between India and Pak…
www.vox.com - A central tenet of Trumpism is never to pass up an opportunity to attack your political foes, but if there’s one situation the president’s children really should stay out of it’s the one unfurling ov…
www.theguardian.com - Wilbur Ross, the Trump administration’s new commerce secretary, presided over a deal with a Russian businessman with ties to Vladimir Putin while serving in his previous role as vice-chairman of the …
www.commondreams.org - As human rights advocates marked the one-year anniversary Wednesday of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S.-based law firm revealed that it filed in July a petition at the International C…
qz.com - If you’re trying to contribute as little as possible to the two global calamities of climate change and the swirling gyres of forever-materials slowly filling our oceans, there’s a useful formula to …
www.vox.com - President Donald Trump is going after French wine and European cheese. But this time, it actually makes some sense. The United States is imposing $7.5 billion in tariffs on imports from the European …
www.mnn.com - By Ted Cannis, Global Director, Electrification, Ford Motor Company As the head of electrification for Ford, the questions I get from family, friends and colleagues about electric vehicles run the ga…
qz.com - In terms of job creation, if nothing else, Donald Trump seems quite similar to his predecessor. In Barack Obama’s last 16 months in office, the number of jobs in the US increased by 2.4%. In the firs…
www.mnn.com - Gifted acrobats, they trampoline from tree to tree, always a step ahead of danger. They've even been known to gather old rattlesnake skins and rub the scent on their fur to create a kind of predator …
reason.com - Music City can continue its crackdown on home music studios thanks to a new ruling from the Davidson County Chancery Court in Tennessee upholding a Nashville law that prohibits home business owners f…
splinternews.com - Who would have guessed that Nickelback would save the day. Less than a day after President Donald Trump tweeted a very dumb Nickelback meme using the band’s music video for their 2005 hit “Photograph…
www.commondreams.org - Though a recent poll suggests the majority of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s “overall performance,” they support his “handling of the economy” more than other issues surveyed. "The prosper…
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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 03, 2019, 05:54:56 am »
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qz.com - Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg—a Nobel Prize nominee—as mentally ill, hysterical and a millennial weirdo after she pleaded with world officials last week to address…
www.commondreams.org - On Wednesday morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, conducted a preemptive autopsy on the presidency* of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. They he…
nymag.com - Vice-President Mike Pence is knee-deep in the Ukraine scandal. He is floating the absurd defense that, while he did participate in Trump’s plan to extort Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, he was …
www.washingtonpost.com - By Greg Miller , Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Bio Follow Greg Jaffe and Greg Jaffe National security reporter Email Bio Follow Ashley Parker Ashley Parker White House …
splinternews.com - The United Automobile Workers union continues to negotiate with General Motors for improved work conditions. More than 48,000 workers have been on strike in the U.S. since Sept. 16 over wages, health…
nymag.com - If one wants to dabble in some extra-judicial behavior in Ukraine, it would make sense to contact former Trump campaign chairman and current FCI Loretto inmate Paul Manafort. One of Manafort’s deputi…
newrepublic.com - The Republican Party is speechless. A week after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of an impeachment investigation, Trump’s usual allies in the administration, in Congress, in…
www.washingtonpost.com - By Damian Paletta Damian Paletta Reporter covering economic policy Email Bio Follow October 2 at 5:34 PM The federal government has dramatically expanded its exposure to risky mortgages, as federal o…
www.propublica.org - Who Wins When a Crucial Agency Is Defunded ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your…
splinternews.com - Even before Texas Rep. Will Hurd announced he wasn’t running for re-election, Gina Ortiz Jones, who had narrowly lost to Hurd in 2018, had thrown her hat back into the ring. Her campaign for one of t…
www.motherjones.com - For more than a century the official narrative of the first presidential impeachment has been butchered and distorted, reduced to a historical curiosity, a showdown between two irresponsible factions…
gizmodo.com - In addition to killing as many as 125 million people, a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would unleash mass starvation around the world due to the ensuing climate impacts, according to a d…
www.theguardian.com - A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists to clean up an island of rubbish in the Pacific ocean that is three times the size of France has successfully picked up plastic from the high-seas …
www.the-trouble.com - For years, political will to address environmental concerns has struggled against public apathy. This apathy has entrenched widespread denial of the most pressing threat to society, the climate crisi…
www.climatechangenews.com - The world’s fourth largest emitter, Russia, has formally adopted the Paris Agreement, drawing an end to months of national tensions on the subject. “The Russian Federation has accepted the Paris Agre…
phys.org - Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem—turns out, it just might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters. That is one of many new findings, re…
www.mnn.com - What a tangled web we weave when we celebrate Halloween. For birds, there may be no greater plague than those fake spider webs strewn willy-nilly outside homes. Those spooky gooky strands
www.theguardian.com - When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 it destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, their inhabitants and their prized possessions – among them a fine library of scrolls that were carbonised by th…
qz.com - Melinda Gates announced that she will be committing $1 billion over the next decade to expanding women’s power and influence in the United States. In an op-ed for Time magazine, the philanthropist an…
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Posted by: Surly1
« on: October 03, 2019, 05:54:22 am »
A Grifter, is somebody who can influence anybody, anywhere, at anytime, into doing whatever they choose to have them do, that will result in the grifter's personal gain. Usually monetary, but really anything that benefits him or her somehow. A Trump  hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms Source: Politico
House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
It’s a previously unreported part of a broader examination by the House Oversight Committee, included in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, into whether Trump broke the law by accepting money from U.S. or foreign governments at his properties.
“Now we’re looking at near raw bribery,”[/size] said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a House Oversight Committee member who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Trump’s hotel in Washington. “That was the risk from day one — foreign governments and others trying to seek favor because we know
This is a story that deserves a whole lot more play than it's getting. there is no news budget left to bring it to the surface. trump sees to that.
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 02, 2019, 04:00:04 pm »
A Grifter, is somebody who can influence anybody, anywhere, at anytime, into doing whatever they choose to have them do, that will result in the grifter's personal gain. Usually monetary, but really anything that benefits him or her somehow. A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms Source: Politico House investigators are looking into an allegation that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them. It’s a previously unreported part of a broader examination by the House Oversight Committee, included in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, into whether Trump broke the law by accepting money from U.S. or foreign governments at his properties. “Now we’re looking at near raw bribery,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a House Oversight Committee member who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Trump’s hotel in Washington. “That was the risk from day one — foreign governments and others trying to seek favor because we know Trump  💵 pays attention to this.... It’s an obvious attempt to curry favor with him.” The investigation began after the committee received information that two entities — a trade association and a foreign government — booked a large quantity of rooms but only used a fraction of them, according to a person familiar with the allegation who isn't authorized to speak for the committee. -snip- Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/02/trump-hotel-empty-rooms-016763Read excellent comments at DU:  https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142375456
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 02, 2019, 03:23:59 pm »
Sanders has heart stent surgery after chest discomfort  Source: Politico Bernie Sanders experienced chest discomfort during a campaign event on Tuesday and had two stents inserted to address a blockage in an artery, his campaign announced. “Sen. Sanders is conversing and in good spirits. He will be resting up over the next few days," senior adviser Jeff Weaver said in a statement. "We are canceling his events and appearances until further notice, and we will continue to provide appropriate updates.” Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/02/sanders-has-heart-stent-surgery-after-chest-discomfort-000164I feared this greatly.  Now the 🐘 Repukians and the pseudo-left Democratic Party Leadership will use this against Senator Sanders to try to destroy his presidential bid.   I'm sure 🦀 Trump and his 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn enablers are all celebrating.
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 02, 2019, 02:42:57 pm »
That's sad about the American Chestnut trees. 
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 02, 2019, 01:41:02 pm »
Donald 🦀 Trump is now talking about having people shot  Bill Palmer | 10:15 pm EDT October 1, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis A few weeks ago Palmer Report joked that, after Rudy Giuliani had screwed up for the umpteenth time, Donald Trump was going to delusionally order his underlings to feed Rudy to the alligators. We were kidding, of course. But now we’re learning that Trump really has been telling his advisers that he wants to feed people to alligators, and he’s apparently dead serious. In a lengthy new expose from the New York Times that’s somehow not from The Onion, it turns out  Donald Trump is telling his advisers that he wants U.S. law enforcement to shoot would-be immigrants in the leg.  He also keeps pushing the idea of building a border trench full of 🐍 snakes and 🐊 alligators. As proof that he’s not merely joking, he made his advisers go as far as studying what this alligator trench would cost.  Again, this is coming from the New York Times, so it’s real. More to the point, the only possible sources for this expose are Donald Trump’s own advisers, which means they’re so concerned about his deteriorating mindset, they’re sounding the alarm by running to the nation’s most respected newspaper and revealing Trump’s most deranged plans.Again, last month we joked about Donald Trump telling his advisers to start feeding people to the alligators, because we thought it was such an absurdly over the top idea – even by Trump standards – it would be seen as pure sarcasm. Now it turns out Trump really is doing precisely that behind the scenes. It’s time for the 25th Amendment. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/alligators-donald-trump-feed-people/21389/Agelbert NOTE:  See below:
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