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Global stocks plunge after China hints it could unleash a 'powerful' trade war weapon | Markets Insider

www.businessinsider.com - World markets slumped on Wednesday as traders braced for further escalation in the US-China trade war. State-aligned Chinese newspapers warned the Asian nation is prepared to cut off America's supply…

Of Two Minds - Lesson of the S-Curve: Doing More of What's Failed Will Fail Spectacularly

www.oftwominds.com - That nothing is truly "free" will be another lesson of the S-Curve. I often refer to the S-Curve because Nature so often tracks this curve of ignition, rapid expansion, stagnation and decline. One le…

Bannon described Trump Organization as 'criminal enterprise', Michael Wolff book claims

www.theguardian.com - The former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described the Trump Organization as a criminal entity and predicted that investigations into the president’s finances will lead to his political downfa…

The crush of children at Arizona’s border shows a U.S. immigration system on the brink

www.washingtonpost.com - Migrant children look through the border wall in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico, in early May. Yuma County, Ariz., is on the other side. (Ash Ponders for The Washington Post) YUMA, Ariz. — Central Ame…

Turkey Signals Delay in Russia Missile Order Opposed by U.S.

finance.yahoo.com - (Bloomberg) -- Turkey’s most senior military official said there could be a delay in the delivery of a Russian missile-defense system that threatens to exacerbate tensions between Ankara and the Trum…

North Korea Calls John Bolton a “Defective Human Product”

news.vice.com - North Korea came out swinging Monday morning, declaring U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton “ignorant,” "a warmonger" and “a defective human product.” The fiery comments, made by an unnamed sp…

How Impeachment Proceedings Would Strengthen Congress’s Investigatory Powers

www.justsecurity.org - According to published reports, Speaker Nancy Pelosi doubts there is any practical value to opening a formal impeachment inquiry regarding President Trump. She told one group that “she was unsure tha…

Andre Vltchek: It Is Indifference of the Israelis That Is Killing People

www.mintpressnews.com - In the past, whenever I went to (or more precisely, ‘through’) Israel, it was for some antagonistic purpose: to write about the brutal suppression of the intifada in Gaza or Hebron, to comment on the…

Unanswered questions on the San Francisco police raid of a journalist’s home

freedom.press - San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott finally apologized late last week for his police department’s outrageous raid of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody’s home. The case drew national attention for …

Is it time to talk about Donald Trump’s draft dodging?

www.washingtonpost.com - President Trump aboard the USS Wasp in Yokosuka, Japan, on Tuesday. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 28 at 2:…

US may suspend Turkish pilots from F-35 training program over S-400 deal

www.rt.com - The US is “seriously considering suspending training for Turkish pilots on advanced F-35 fighter jets,” two anonymous sources told Reuters on Tuesday, without elaborating if the decision was already …

Everything to Know About Measles

www.thecut.com - Despite having been declared eliminated from the United States in 2000 thanks to widespread immunization, measles cases still occur across the world today. In the past year alone, numerous public hea…

New York’s Orthodox Jewish community is battling measles outbreaks. Vaccine deniers are to blame.

www.vox.com - Anti-vaccine advocates have swayed parents in New York to refuse immunizations for their kids, sparking two of the largest measles outbreaks in the state’s recent history, according to local health o…

Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

www.theguardian.com - Give us this day our daily foam expander. It may sound odd, but in America, your loaf of bread can contain ingredients with industrial applications – additives that also appear in things like yoga ma…

Family of Man Who Died of Dehydration in David Clarke's Jail Awarded $6.75 Million

splinternews.com - The family of Terrill Thomas, a mentally ill man who died of “profound dehydration” in a jail run by former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke have been awarded $6.75 million in a settlement, acco…

Water Safety Risks May Grow as Cities Shrink

undark.org - Water quality factors that can deteriorate with increased water age include levels of disinfection byproducts, corrosion, microbial growth (including pathogens), and nitrate. Each of these factors ca…

No, That Baby Dinosaur Didn't Crawl. But It Did Walk on 4 Legs As an Infant.

www.livescience.com - Just like a human, a Jurassic-period dinosaur used all four limbs to get around as an infant. But later, it switched to two legs. The quadrupedal to bipedal switch made by this sauropodomorph — a typ…

Moderate Democrats’ Delusions of ‘Prudence’ Will Kill Us All

nymag.com - Earlier this month, the weather report for the Arctic Circle was partly cloudy with a high of 84 degrees. Earlier this year, a United Nations report found that “potentially devastating temperature ri…

How to help get rid of ticks on your property

www.treehugger.com - Biting bugs suck, so to speak – they are a nuisance and carry diseases. Deer ticks, in particular, are vexing. They put the ick in tick. They bring us Lyme disease, the bacterial infection anaplasmos…

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