Friday, October 30, 2020
RSN: A Short History of the Lesser Evil
RSN: A Short History of the Lesser Evil: Bronner writes: Trump: first against Hillary Clinton in 2016, and now against Joseph Biden - another bitter pill for the left to swallow. There are enough who throw up their hands in frustration.
500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention | The Marshall Project
500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention | The Marshall Project: New data shows huge numbers of children detained at the border, peaking in 2019.
#CloseTheConcentrationCamps #VoteAntiFascist #MakeAmericaNotAnAutocracyAgain
(411) Jordan Klepper Hits One Last Trump Rally Before the Election | The Daily Social Distancing Show - YouTube
(411) Jordan Klepper Hits One Last Trump Rally Before the Election | The Daily Social Distancing Show - YouTube: Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING! #MakeAmericaThinkAgain #MakeAmericaNotAnAutocracyAgain
Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America | PBS
Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America | PBS: Discover how the advent of the car brought African Americans new freedom but also dangers.
Trump has rolled back 125 climate and environmental policies. It would take Biden years to restore them. - Washington Post
Trump has rolled back 125 climate and environmental policies. It would take Biden years to restore them. - Washington Post: President Trump has weakened or wiped out more than 125 rules and policies aimed at protecting the nation’s air, water and land since taking office, with nearly 40 more rollbacks underway, according to a Washington Post analysis.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
MY PLEA
Newsrooms: Prepare For The Election To Go Off The Rails | by Jennifer Brandel | We Are Hearken | Oct, 2020 | Medium
Newsrooms: Prepare For The Election To Go Off The Rails | by Jennifer Brandel | We Are Hearken | Oct, 2020 | Medium: If you’re covering the US elections and you haven’t prepared for it to go utterly off the rails, then you’re not ready. Are we being alarmist? Why listen to me or Hearken on this? Because we’ve been…
The Black Hole of Depressions: Doing Nothing About Climate Emergency Could Cost More Than All the Wealth in the World | Common Dreams Views
The Black Hole of Depressions: Doing Nothing About Climate Emergency Could Cost More Than All the Wealth in the World | Common Dreams Views: A study in Nature Communications has found that if you add in variability to calculations of the impact of climate change, the upper range of the damage it could do to property is $563 trillion.* That is in the worst case scenario where the world does virtually nothing to stop carbon dioxide and methane emissions over the coming decades. | By Juan Cole
Paul Gilroy: ‘Whiteness Just Ain’t Worth What it Used to Be’ | The Nation
Paul Gilroy: ‘Whiteness Just Ain’t Worth What it Used to Be’ | The Nation: A conversation about racial tensions on both sides of the Atlantic, nationalism, and why inequality might be the key to understanding our current crisis.
Trump, Inc.: Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
Trump, Inc.: Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts: Who's profiting from this administration and at what cost?
Trumpcast on Apple Podcasts
Trumpcast on Apple Podcasts: A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in t…
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Race for a COVID Vaccine Puts Sharks — and Ocean Ecosystems — in Peril • Children's Health Defense
Race for a COVID Vaccine Puts Sharks — and Ocean Ecosystems — in Peril • Children's Health Defense: At least five drugmakers are using squalene, a compound extracted from sharks, in clinical and pre-clinical evaluations for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Malaria parasites hide out in humans when it's not mosquito season
Malaria parasites hide out in humans when it's not mosquito season: Malaria parasites survive the mosquito-free dry season by waiting silently in humans for the return of the rainy season that brings back with it mosquitoes. New research, by an international team including Penn State scientists, helps explain how the Plasmodium falciparum parasite survives the disruption to its lifecycle, which requires development within the mosquito host for transmission between people. A paper describing the research appears Oct. 26 in the journal Nature Medicine.
Monday, October 26, 2020
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - A Greg Palast film
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - A Greg Palast film: Who is stealing 2016 election? Greg Palast investigates the billionaires and ballot bandits who are trying to steal your vote. Learn more and take action!
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Ruby Sales on African-American youth
And what that meant was that generations of young African-American children were pushed to achieve this mission [of integration]. And we sent them into places that were unsafe, where they were humiliated, and their egos were decimated in structures—as Toni Morrison said, “Out there, they don’t love our children.” And these generations of African-American children have felt abandoned, and there’s a chasm that has grown up between younger and older African Americans, based on this sense of younger people, of having felt that they were abandoned. And they don’t understand, why did we send them, young children, into places like that without any protection? – Ruby Sales
"White Privilege: A History of the Concept" by Jacob Bennett
"White Privilege: A History of the Concept" by Jacob Bennett: This thesis’ goal is to examine the way the term and concept of white privilege has been created in contemporary American society. The argument of the thesis will be that before and directly after discrimination was made illegal in the United States by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, scholars and activists implemented the term white privilege to describe structural and governmentally perpetuated privilege in the United States that had been consciously given to whites. This privilege allowed whites to obtain legal advantages over minorities across the nation. Years after the legislation was passed, however, discrimination was still an issue in the country. White privilege’s definition shifted in order to explain the reason for that reality; White privilege was not perpetuated by conscious and explicit efforts, but by white citizen’s subconscious. This thesis will show how that shift occurred, using scholarly and non-academic writer’s usage of the term white privilege.
Ronald Reagan called African UN delegates 'monkeys', recordings reveal | US news | The Guardian
Ronald Reagan called African UN delegates 'monkeys', recordings reveal | US news | The Guardian: In newly released audio, then California governor can be heard making racist remarks on phone call with Richard Nixon
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Oh, this? Well..
.... this is a terrifying chart. It shows that the Arctic is refreezing far more slowly than ever before this winter. It should motivate you to act (beginning, not ending, with voting).
Friday, October 23, 2020
'Act of radical defiance': Groups unite to again post millions of dollars in bond to free immigrants
'Act of radical defiance': Groups unite to again post millions of dollars in bond to free immigrants: For the second year in a row, organizations are uniting to free hundreds of people from dangerous and inhumane immigration detention conditions. Immigrant rights groups, in coordination with the National Bail Fund Network and Detention Watch...
Contact Hamilton County Voters with SURJ and Operation Change Cincy - Action Network
Contact Hamilton County Voters with SURJ and Operation Change Cincy - Action Network: Action Network
Please help us finally be rid of one of Ohio's racist sheriffs. Contact Hamilton County Voters with SURJ and Operation Change Cincy - Action Network https://actionnetwork.org/forms/contact-hamilton-county-voters-with-surj-and-operation-change-cincy #ohio #Cincinnati #alwaysantifascist
Please help us finally be rid of one of Ohio's racist sheriffs. Contact Hamilton County Voters with SURJ and Operation Change Cincy - Action Network https://actionnetwork.org/forms/contact-hamilton-county-voters-with-surj-and-operation-change-cincy #ohio #Cincinnati #alwaysantifascist
Dark Ironies: The Financial Times and Cambridge Analytica – Byline Times
Dark Ironies: The Financial Times and Cambridge Analytica – Byline Times: Dr Emma Briant reports on the contract between the famous media company and the now-defunct data operation set up by Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Toshinori Kondo “Blow The Earth” In Naraha, Fukushima, Japan.近藤等則 ”地球を吹くin Naraha” on Vimeo
Toshinori Kondo “Blow The Earth” In Naraha, Fukushima, Japan.近藤等則 ”地球を吹くin Naraha” on Vimeo: TOSHINORI KONDO "Blow The Earth" in Naraha-Town ,Fukushima,Japan. 11.Mar.2017. "Blow the Earth in Naraha-cho" by Toshinori Kondo was held…
Repression of Black Social Movements | Mobilizing Ideas
Repression of Black Social Movements | Mobilizing Ideas: By Crystal Nicole Eddins Even during times of ‘normalcy’, or non-protest cycles, African descendants’ structural realities are constrained and shaped by oppressive targeting due to pervasive, insti…
Family separation under the Trump administration – a timeline | Southern Poverty Law Center
Family separation under the Trump administration – a timeline | Southern Poverty Law Center: Long before the Trump administration implemented its “zero tolerance” immigration enforcement policy in 2018, it was already separating children from their parents as part of a “pilot program” conducted in the El Paso, Texas, area and along other parts of the border.
Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across globe | Environment | The Guardian
Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across globe | Environment | The Guardian: State of Global Air report says indoor air quality causing two-thirds of the deaths and affecting health in the womb
The World Health Organization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Without real science, it seems our official policy is now “herd immunity”? Without a vaccine, this means an official policy of “mass murder.”
Monday, October 19, 2020
Inside the Trump Administration’s Decision to Leave the World Health Organization — ProPublica
Inside the Trump Administration’s Decision to Leave the World Health Organization — ProPublica: Despite Trump’s declared exit from the WHO, officials continued working toward reforms and to prevent withdrawal. This week, they were told they must justify any cooperation with the WHO on the grounds of national security and public health safety.
Monday, October 12, 2020
Ecosystems at risk of collapse in one in five countries, report says
Ecosystems at risk of collapse in one in five countries, report says: wiss Re has issued a stark warning that ecosystems in a fifth of countries are at risk of collapse, according to a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Index launched by the insurer.
The report underlines the risk to economies, claiming that 55 per cent of global GDP is dependent on “high-functioning biodiversity and ecosystem services”. It goes on to say both richer and poorer economies are being affected. While countries such as South Africa and Australia are vulnerable in part due to their water scarcity issues, the relative size of the agricultural sectors in Kenya and Nigeria is also of concern.
Even in countries with a more intact ecosystem there are risks. Brazil, for example, currently has a high percentage of these “intact ecosystems” but is also experiencing a significant rise in deforestation under its current president, Jair Bolsonaro. From 2019 to 2020, the rate of deforestation has increased by more than 10 per cent, according to the country’s space research agency.
Swiss Re’s analysis found that countries with large agricultural sectors and dependence on natural resources were most at risk. It recommends that countries facing ecosystem collapse look at diversifying
The report underlines the risk to economies, claiming that 55 per cent of global GDP is dependent on “high-functioning biodiversity and ecosystem services”. It goes on to say both richer and poorer economies are being affected. While countries such as South Africa and Australia are vulnerable in part due to their water scarcity issues, the relative size of the agricultural sectors in Kenya and Nigeria is also of concern.
Even in countries with a more intact ecosystem there are risks. Brazil, for example, currently has a high percentage of these “intact ecosystems” but is also experiencing a significant rise in deforestation under its current president, Jair Bolsonaro. From 2019 to 2020, the rate of deforestation has increased by more than 10 per cent, according to the country’s space research agency.
Swiss Re’s analysis found that countries with large agricultural sectors and dependence on natural resources were most at risk. It recommends that countries facing ecosystem collapse look at diversifying
Friday, October 9, 2020
Louisiana priest arrested for alleged threesome on church altar: report | Fox News
Louisiana priest arrested for alleged threesome on church altar: report | Fox News: A Louisiana priest who was arrested for obscenity last week was allegedly having sex with two dominatrices on the altar of his church, court documents revealed, according to reports.
Trumping Democracy 2017 Documentary About Donald Trump - video dailymotion
Trumping Democracy 2017 Documentary About Donald Trump - video dailymotion: Trumping Democracy 2017 Documentary About Donald Trump Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States by winning three key states, a victory engineered by an ultra-conservative faction that quietly mapped its way to power using fake news, lies and psychometrics. This explosive documentary follows the money to the reclusive multi-billionaire Robert Mercer who bought Breitbart News and funded the effort, while inserting Steve Bannon into the presidential campaign as its manager. Using data of millions of Americans acquired from Facebook, Google, banks, credit companies, social security and more, another Mercer company, Cambridge Analytica, used tactics honed during the UK's Brexit campaign to identify voters deemed "most neurotic or worried," whom they believed could swing for Trump. In the days before the election, using a little-known Facebook feature, "dark posts", they deployed highly manipulative and personalized messages, that could be seen only by the user before disappearing. In the darkness of the web, democracy was trumped by data. This explosive documentary follows the money to the elusive multi-billionaire Robert Mercer who bought Breitbart News and funded t
What happened when another White Suprematist President Got the Flu in a Pandemic During the World War
Woodrow Wilson Got the Flu in a Pandemic During the World War I Peace Talks - HISTORY: Lingering effects of the 'Spanish flu' may have hindered Wilson's ability to effectively advocate for his '14 Points' at the Paris Peace Conference.
THE WHO - "A quick one while he's away" - 1969 - Live at the London Coli...
"I wish I was sitting back there surrounded by various (alcoholic) brews. He has a little (beer) tap on the side of each drum"
Thursday, October 8, 2020
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Friday, October 2, 2020
Outbreak movie - USA Pandemic - Coronavirus in America - Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland - video dailymotion
Outbreak movie - USA Pandemic - Coronavirus in America - Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland - video dailymotion: Check out the official trailer of Outbreak to get a better idea of how the current pandemic will affect the USA. Coronavirus in America - USA Pandemic - Outbreak movie trailer (1995) - Plot synopsis: Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on Richard Preston's nonfiction book The Hot Zone. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus, Motaba, in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. It is primarily set in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.The film, released on March 10, 1995, was a box-office success and Spacey won two awards for his performance. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released.Director: Wolfgang PetersenWriters: Laurence Dworet, Robert Ro
Fake news hoax exposed: NY Times podcast star lied about joining ISIS | The Grayzone
Fake news hoax exposed: NY Times podcast star lied about joining ISIS | The Grayzone: The main source for New York Times podcast Caliphate, Abu Huzayfah, lied about joining ISIS. The newspaper has a long history of fake news
Border Patrol Snipers Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force at George Floyd’s Burial
Border Patrol Snipers Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force at George Floyd’s Burial: Records obtained by VICE News show police in Pearland, Texas, invited federal agents to surveil Floyd's burial and authorized them to open fire in the event of unrest.
The Church Must Be Antifascist | The Bias Magazine
The Church Must Be Antifascist | The Bias Magazine: Trump is not Hitler and America is not a fascist theocracy. But America has long nurtured its own fascistic ideas and movements and Trump is ripening conditions for its growth. The Christian Church now has a choice to make: be antifascist or acquiesce to fascism.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
"The Department of Homeland Security is now a white nationalist propaganda clearinghouse.”
Trump's Homeland Security: 'Sympathetic' Talking Points On Kyle Rittenhouse | Crooks and Liars: NBC News has obtained evidence that DHS is releasing, on purpose, talking points "sympathetic" to White nationalist vigilante (alleged!) Kyle Rittenhouse.
New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction | Common Dreams News
New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction | Common Dreams News: "At a time of rapid biodiversity loss, we are failing to access the treasure chest of incredible diversity on offer and missing a huge opportunity for our generation."
Yeesh, this should put things - all things - into perspective. :-(
Yeesh, this should put things - all things - into perspective. :-(
It’s been 12 years since debate moderators last asked a question about climate change | Salon.com
It’s been 12 years since debate moderators last asked a question about climate change | Salon.com: Donald Trump was forced to talk about climate at the first presidential debate
New Report: President Trump has 3,400 conflicts of interest - CREW
New Report: President Trump has 3,400 conflicts of interest - CREW: Averaging more than two conflicts of interest per day, President Trump continues to be the most corrupt president in history
Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Says Putin Is Behind His Poisoning - The New York Times
Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Says Putin Is Behind His Poisoning - The New York Times: In an interview with Der Spiegel, Aleksei Navalny said the use of a military-grade nerve agent was proof that Russia’s president was involved.
Donald Trump Personally to Blame for 37 Percent of the World’s COVID-19 Misinformation, Study Finds
Donald Trump Personally to Blame for 37 Percent of the World’s COVID-19 Misinformation, Study Finds: Researchers at Cornell analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic before coming to their shocking conclusion.
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