Wednesday, November 30, 2022
AC/DC - Baby, Please Don't Go LIVE 1975 FULL HD
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Onetime Trump Appointee Helps Spark Sweeping ESG Backlash - Bloomberg
Onetime Trump Appointee Helps Spark Sweeping ESG Backlash - Bloomberg
"American Legislative Exchange Council, a group that produces model laws for conservative states, is using Puzder’s anti-ESG draft bill as a template. ALEC had fought socially responsible investing and anti-apartheid divestment efforts back in the 1980s."
Meet the oldest pot plant in the world | Kew
Meet the oldest pot plant in the world | Kew: Our Eastern Cape giant cycad (Encephalartos altensteinii) arrived at Kew in 1775. Here's its unique story.
Monday, November 28, 2022
Covid-19 origins: New studies agree that animals sold at Wuhan market are most likely what started pandemic | CNN
Covid-19 origins: New studies agree that animals sold at Wuhan market are most likely what started pandemic | CNN: In June, the World Health Organization recommended that scientists continue to research all possible origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, including a lab leak. Two newly published studies take totally different approaches but arrive at the same conclusion: The Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, was most likely the epicenter for the coronavirus.
Sunday, November 27, 2022
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022
White Nationalist Book Publishers in Pennsylvania Revealed | Southern Poverty Law Center
White Nationalist Book Publishers in Pennsylvania Revealed | Southern Poverty Law Center: Hatewatch has identified three previously anonymous principals in the publishing company Antelope Hill Publishing, which specializes in translating historical works by Nazis, fascists and ultranationalists, and original works by contemporary white nationalists, neo-fascists and others on the far right. Hatewatch identified these individuals using a combination of public
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Climate Change, Deforestation Drive Bat Virus Spillover Into Humans | The Scientist Magazine®
Climate Change, Deforestation Drive Bat Virus Spillover Into Humans | The Scientist Magazine®: Bats that experience food shortages due to climate change and habitat loss end up roosting in urban settings, where they shed more of the deadly Hendra virus.
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Jordan Is Running Out of Water, a Grim Glimpse of the Future - The New York Times
Jordan Is Running Out of Water, a Grim Glimpse of the Future - The New York Times: Choosing crops wisely and managing water are crucial for Jordanian agriculture as climate change accelerates. The sector once used about 70 percent of the country’s water supply, though it contributes relatively little to the gross domestic product.
Use has decreased to around 50 percent, which Mr. Salameh, the government spokesman, cited as a promising indicator. But many farmers still focus on water-intensive crops that are becoming more difficult to grow.
Khaireddin Shukri, 68, is a retired farm owner and a consultant who has long pushed for crops that require less water and bring in more money. He said the water issue revolves around planning and pointed to inefficient practices and waste.
“It’s a country with huge potential but lack of management,” he said of Jordan.
On a visit to a date farm that Mr. Shukri helps oversee, he showed off the crop that he has championed for years: Medjool dates, which can tolerate salty, lower-quality water, and garner high prices.
Yields at farms in the area were small this summer because the fields received less water and what did come was saltier than usual. At one farm, they grew only half of the more water-intensive crops like eggplant
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Trump's Takeover (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Monday, November 14, 2022
The Monarchy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Sunday, November 13, 2022
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Friday, November 11, 2022
Revealed: Four Supreme Court justices attended right-wing gala — further imperiling SCOTUS credibility - Alternet.org
Revealed: Four Supreme Court justices attended right-wing gala — further imperiling SCOTUS credibility - Alternet.org: Four U.S. Supreme Court justices attended the black-tie dinner gala at the first Federalist Society convention since the court overturned Roe vs. Wade in its controversial Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health decision.Associated Press correspondent Mark Sherman reported Justices Samuel Alito, Amy Coney ...
Peter Thiel: The Billionaire Buying The End of Democracy | The Class Roo...
Thursday, November 10, 2022
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Military Bases Are Disproportionately Poisoning Communities of Color
Military Bases Are Disproportionately Poisoning Communities of Color: North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune exemplifies the concerning extent to which toxic contamination has gone unaddressed.
Monday, November 7, 2022
The 2022 Midterms Are a Referendum on the Future of Democracy in the US
The 2022 Midterms Are a Referendum on the Future of Democracy in the US: The coming election will show whether the mass of voters in the U.S. support democracy or fascism.
Ahead of Midterms, Americans Say Crime is Up. Is It? | The Marshall Project
Ahead of Midterms, Americans Say Crime is Up. Is It? | The Marshall Project: More people than ever believe crime is up in their area, polls show. But public perception doesn’t always match reality.
Friday, November 4, 2022
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Make America Great, At Last | Democracy Now!
Make America Great, At Last | Democracy Now!: By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Political violence must be condemned, and countered with massive voter turnout.
Defying Pentagon Secrecy, Reporting Exposes Retired US Generals on Saudi Payroll
Defying Pentagon Secrecy, Reporting Exposes Retired US Generals on Saudi Payroll: "The government fought us for two years to keep these records a secret," said one Washington Post journalist. "We sued, and won."
Wow. "The government fought us for two years to keep these records a secret."
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Sunak - speculator, corporate raider, bailout beneficiary, um... and "racist imperialist" too
Rishi Sunak’s rise khanucked smug assumptions about ‘ra...: In ‘racist’, ‘imperialist’ Britain, a prime minister drawn from a minority community is quite real. In progressive South Africa it is impossible to even imagine this eventuality.
"Screenplay" The Marlowe Inquest (TV Episode 1986) - IMDb
"Screenplay" The Marlowe Inquest (TV Episode 1986) - IMDb: The Marlowe Inquest: Directed by Anthony Garner. With Michael Pennington, Geoffrey Beevers, Nicholas Gecks, Nicholas Le Prevost. In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what really happened to the playwright and poet, Christopher Marlowe.
CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021 | Economic Policy Institute
CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021 | Economic Policy Institute: What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2021, we project that a CEO at one of the top 350 firms in the U.S. was paid $27.8 million on average (using a “realized” measure of CEO pay that counts stock awards when vested and stock options when cashed in). This 11.1% increase from 2020 occurred because of rapid growth in vested stock awards. Using a different “granted” measure of CEO pay (which counts the value of stock awards and options when granted rather than realized), average top CEO compensation was $15.6 million in 2021, up 9.4% since 2020. In 2021, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 399-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 366-to-1 in 2020 and a big increase from 20-to-1 in 1965 and 59-to-1 in 1989. CEOs are even making a lot more than other very high earners (wage earners in the top 0.1%)—almost seven times as much. From 1978 to 2021, CEO pay based on realized compensation grew by 1,460%, far outstripping S&P stoc
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Home - Spotlight on the Border
Home - Spotlight on the Border: Spotlight on the Borderlands: Mapping Human Rights The Spotlight initiative aims to create tools and resources to deepen the understanding of the border and animate social change. Through digital mapping, storytelling, and participatory popular education methodologies, we aim to highlight the complex topographies and cartographies of human rights at the border. The human rights map […]
When Your Neighbor Turns You In | WIRED
When Your Neighbor Turns You In | WIRED: Authoritarian societies depend on people ratting each other out for activities that were recently legal—and it's already happening in the US.
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