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Presenting The 2019 “Griftie” Awards ❧ Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org - In response to a series of extraordinary grifts—from Elizabeth Holmes’s botched blood startup to fake heiress Anna Delvey’s skipped hotel bills to Anthony Enrique Gignac (who pretended and may actual…

In Iraq, the U.S. Gets Hit Where It Hurts

thesmokinggun.com - DECEMBER 31--There has been another casualty in the War on Christmas™. An Ohio woman is behind bars after allegedly repeatedly punching a female victim who made the mistake of wishing the assailant a…

Of Two Minds - Grab-Bag Resolutions 2020

oftwominds.com - A grab-bag of resolutions from the occasionally-controlled chaos of life. Since "We are what we repeatedly do" (attributed to Aristotle), i.e. we are what we do every day, resolutions have little con…

2019: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics

nytimes.com - home page world U.S. politics Election 2020 New York business tech science climate sports obituaries the upshot Español 中文网 today's paper corrections

A Honduran Asylum-Seeker Was Brutally Murdered After Being Deported — From Mexico

theintercept.com - Leti, 20, had always been optimistic. Even after the death threats against the family began — when her little sister refused the advances of a local gangster — she was still cracking jokes about her …

Analysis | Trump keeps throwing around the word ‘treason’ — which may not be a great idea

washingtonpost.com - By Aaron Blake close Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow May 15, 2018 at 1:07 PM EDT For a guy who spends a lot of time denying and raising the …

A White House adviser is flip-flopping on whether China gave him information on Joe Biden's son after Trump asked Beijing to investigate the Bidens

businessinsider.com - An informal White House adviser on China is giving conflicting accounts to media organizations over whether China gave him information about former Vice President Joe Biden's son's activities in Chin…

The Amazon Lost 24,000 Square Miles of Land This Decade

undark.org - This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade. Much like Oxford English Dictionary’s “Word of the Year” competition, the internationa…

This Was the Decade Climate Scientists Stopped Being Polite

earther.gizmodo.com - Scientific warnings about the risks of unchecked global warming have reached a crescendo in the past couple of years, with urgent messages from researchers on social media, in congressional testimony…

Trump accuses Democrats of avoiding Senate trial to protect Bidens

washingtonpost.com - President Trump answers questions from reporters after making a video call to troops stationed worldwide from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) By John Wagner…

The Gilets Jaunes Have Changed How France Thinks About Strikes

jacobinmag.com - It’s now over a year since the gilets jaunes movement rocked France, as yellow-vested protesters occupied roundabouts and blocked roads in response to a planned fuel tax hike. Embracing a wider array…

The Existential Crisis Plaguing Online Extremism Researchers

wired.com - A couple of hours after the Christchurch massacre, I was on the phone with Whitney Phillips, a Syracuse professor whose research focuses on online extremists and media manipulators. Toward the end of…

How Plastic Pollution Is Making Central America Uninhabitable

theintercept.com - The fishermen stand thigh-deep in the muddy water as our boat pulls up to the shore, grass shushing against the hull. It is a still, cool morning and mist wicks off the river as the sun begins to ris…

Australia scrambles to reach thousands stranded by bushfires

news.yahoo.com - Fire-ravaged Australia has launched a major operation to reach thousands of people stranded in seaside towns after deadly bushfires ripped through popular tourist areas on New Year's Eve. Navy ships

In 2020, Skip Your Resolutions—Embrace a Vice

slate.com - Why a Dad Dancing to Frozen With His Son Is Still a Big Deal The Key to Never Forgetting Your Shopping List Again Plantation Weddings Are Finally Canceled. Plantation Christmases Should Be Next. How …

American Collapse

strategic-culture.org - In order to understand the great impeachment charade, it’s important to keep three facts about the strange bird known as the United States uppermost in mind. The first is that the US is the ultimate …

A Monumentally Destructive US Decade — Symptomatic Of Imperial Decline

popularresistance.org - Above Photo: Image of Earth taken from Apollo 17. A monumentally destructive U.S. decade — symptomatic of imperial decline — exposed a shamefully pliant press. But we have at least one reason to resi…

How to Get Prepped This Year Without Getting Overwhelmed

theorganicprepper.com - Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to make 2020 the year that you get better prepared? If it is, we’ve got you covered. You can easily and inexpensively get prepped by doing just five tasks per mo…

Welcome to the 2020’s, the Final Decade of the Failed Human Experiment

kevinhester.live - The late great Albert Bartlett in his seminal presentation titled ; The Exponential Function said “One of the greatest shortcomings of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential fu…

How to Survive a Failed Society

eand.co - When I look at our societies, there seems to be a kind of anguish rippling through them. Broken dreams, shattered expectations, lost possibilities. Is a happy life — much less a fulfilled one — even …

Why Boiling Methane in Arctic Seas Should Scare the Crap out of us: New Data Shows the Numbers Are…

medium.com - Recently scientists in the Arctic sea measured high methane in the air along with prolific underwater methane bubbles rising from the mud under the water. Methane, the greenhouse gas that is produced…

North Atlantic Current may cease temporarily in the next century

eurekalert.org - IMAGE: This image shows the Atlantic Ocean Circulation, which transports relatively warm water from the Gulf of Mexico to north-western Europe. view more Credit: Sven Baars, University of Groningen T…


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