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« Reply #600 on: February 06, 2020, 06:11:04 am »

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Rigged: The Acquittal of Donald J. Trump

theintercept.com - Wait! Before you go on about your day, ask yourself: How likely is it that the story you just read would have been produced by a different news outlet if The Intercept hadn’t done it? Consider what t…

GOP senators reject punishing Romney for impeachment vote

thehill.com - Republican senators quickly shot down talk of punishing Sen. Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneySusan Collins challenger: 'I would vote to remove' Trump GOP senators label Trump's behavior 'shamefu…

The State of the Union Was an Elaborate Troll

theatlantic.com - At another point, Trump looked up at the gallery and directed his wife, Melania, to bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom on the conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who announced on Monday that…

TV Ratings: State of the Union Falls 21 Percent vs. 2019

hollywoodreporter.com - The State of the Union address drew a considerably smaller audience than it did a year ago. President Trump's address and the Democratic response averaged 33.67 million viewers from 9 to 10:30 p.m. E…

SOTU: Democratic "Resistance" Give Trump's Venezuela Aggression a Standing Ovation

mintpressnews.com - Donald Trump was in defiant mood at last night’s State of the Union Address in Washington, D.C., confident that he will be acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial today. While there is a great amou…

Gates Foundation announces $100 million for coronavirus response

news.yahoo.com - Washington (AFP) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged Wednesday to commit up to $100 million for the global response to the novel coronavirus epidemic that has claimed nearly 500 lives. The …

The Money Behind Trump’s Money

nytimes.com - Merrill Lynch learned this lesson the hard way when it helped Trump sell $675 million of bonds to pay for work on his Taj Mahal casino on the Atlantic City boardwalk in 1988. The gaudy casino — the w…

How Corporate Media Make Pete Look Like He’s Winning

fair.org - If you turn to the New York Times for an update on the excruciatingly and inexplicably slow counting of the votes from the Iowa caucuses, you find what looks like a bar chart showing that South Bend …

Of Two Minds - When China's Supply Chains Break, so Will the Delusion the U.S. Economy Is Invulnerable

oftwominds.com - Was it ever plausible that China's economy could grind to a halt and there wouldn't be any consequences for the U.S. economy? No. Many commentators talk about supply chains in China, but how many hav…

Denver Police Cash In on Houseless Encampment Clean-Ups

unicornriot.ninja - Denver, CO – For nearly eight years Denver police officers, public works employees, park rangers, and occasionally inmates have been carrying out and enforcing the Unauthorized Camping Ordinance (cam…

Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-From-Home Experiment

bloomberg.com - Thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, working from home is no longer a privilege, it’s a necessity. While factories, shops, hotels and restaurants are warning about plunging foot traffic that is transf…

Fear of coronavirus fuels racist sentiment targeting Asians

latimes.com - As she walks through campus and sits in class, Rosen Huynh tries extra hard to suppress her coughs. Fear of the coronavirus, which was first detected in December in China, has spread around the world…

Tom Cotton says coronavirus may have originated in Wuhan 'super laboratory'

washingtonexaminer.com - Sen. Tom Cotton refused to accept claims China made about the origin of the deadly coronavirus, which killed 38 people in China yesterday. "[China] also claimed for almost two months, until earlier t…

Trump's ‘Deal of the Century': Old Israeli Demands in a New Package

mintpressnews.com - After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed ‘Deal of the Century’, in a press conference in Washington on January 28. Sta…

‘These Are New Tactics Being Employed to Silence Journalism’

fair.org - Janine Jackson interviewed Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Rainey Reitman about the persecution of Glenn Greenwald for the January 31, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcri…

The War on the War on Cancer

theintercept.com - When Angela Ramirez was 38, she felt a slight pain in her chest. At first she thought she had pulled a muscle, but when it didn’t go away, Ramirez went to her doctor, who diagnosed her with stage 2 b…

One chart shows how the Wuhan coronavirus compares to other major outbreaks and pandemics in the last 50 years

businessinsider.com - Since December 31, the Wuhan coronavirus has killed at least 259 people and infected more than 11,000 across 24 countries, including the US. The outbreak isn't currently considered a pandemic, despit…

Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdown

vice.com - A government research report produced by Finland warns that the increasingly unsustainable economics of the oil industry could derail the global financial system within the next few years. The new re…

Arctic sinkholes open in a flash after permafrost melt

livescience.com - Arctic permafrost can thaw so quickly that it triggers landslides, drowns forests and opens gaping sinkholes. This rapid melt, described in a new study, can dramatically reshape the Arctic landscape …

Migrants, Imagery, Shock Value, Overpopulation, Religious Strangleholds – Are We Numb Yet?

queenbeeedit.com - We are getting entirely too accustomed to the imagery in the news of the misery that migrants endure. For most of us, it’s not up close and personal, but that shouldn’t impede our ability to react an…

Rapid Permafrost Collapse Is Underway, Disintegrating Landscapes And Our Predictions

sciencealert.com - Permafrost in Canada, Alaska and Siberia is abruptly crumbling in ways that could release large stores of greenhouse gases more quickly than anticipated, researchers have warned. Scientists have long…

Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview

fastcompany.com - Something is rotten in the state of American political life. The U.S. (among other nations) is increasingly characterized by highly polarized, informationally insulated ideological communities occupy…

Planetary Security: the security implications of climate change

nato.int - An expert explains the urgent need both for effective climate change action and for steps to be taken to prepare for life in a drastically different world, where global warming and related environmen…

Hazard reduction burning had little to no effect in slowing extreme bushfires

theguardian.com - Hazard reduction burning had little to no effect in slowing the most severe fires that devastated more than 5m hectares across New South Wales this summer, an analysis has found. Forest scientists fr…

India's Second Coronavirus Case In Kerala, Patient In Isolation At Hospital

ndtv.com - Kerala reported first case of coronavirus on Thursday. (File) India's third case of coronavirus has been reported in Kerala after the southern state reported country's first two cases of the infectio…

Opinion | They Acquitted Trump. Make Them Pay!

nytimes.com - Democrats and everyone else who believes in virtue must focus like a laser on those races, even if they do not live in those states. They must promote those senators’ opponents on social media. They …

Noam Chomsky: 'The Neoliberal Order Is Visibly Collapsing'

href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomsky-the-neoliberal-order-is-visibly-collapsing/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">truthdig.com - Since early Tuesday morning, when it became clear that the Iowa Democratic Party would not immediately release its 2020 caucus results, a range of conspiracy theories have bloomed on social media abo…

Opinion | Will acquittal kill the impeachment clause? The voters get the final say.

washingtonpost.com - President Trump at the White House on Friday, Jan. 31. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Harry Litman close Harry Litman Contributing columnist focused on legal issues Bio BioFollow Follow Cont…

Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums

bbc.com - Finland's new government has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave, in a push to get fathers to spend more time with their children. Paid allowance will increase to a combined 1…

What's the best water filter for removing toxic PFAS?

treehugger.com - Many in-home drinking water filters may not remove the most concerning contaminants. In antiquity, “crazy as a painter” was a phrase borne from the demented behavior of lead-poisoned painters. Before…


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