From Jenna Orkin

China's new 'super camera' can instantly pinpoint specific targets among tens of thousands of people

TRUMP'S 'CIVIL WAR' QUOTE TWEET IS ACTUALLY GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT, SAYS HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR

MI6 fears Russia can link Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein abuse

‘When you are in, you can’t get out.’ Women describe how Jeffrey Epstein controlled them

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Top 10 Solutions to Climate Crisis - FB

How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost - BBC

Saudi's crown prince warned oil prices could go 'unimaginably high' unless 'firm action' is taken on Iran

The scandals that could force Boris Johnson to resign as prime minister

'Retail Apocalypse' Continues: Forever 21 Files For Bankruptcy, 30,000 Jobs At Risk

Saudis Open The Ultra-Conservative Kingdom To Tourists For First Time 

From Jenna Orkin

Facial recognition technology tested at airport in Las Vegas

Whistleblower Reportedly Agrees To Testify Before House Intelligence Committee

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire

Iran’s President Asserts “Wherever America Has Gone, Terrorism Has Expanded”

Could dimming the sun save the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of dust into the stratosphere to stop global warming... but critics fear it could trigger calamity

‘The Simpsons’ predicted Greta Thunberg’s climate change speech in 2007

Mont Blanc: Glacier in danger of collapse, experts warn

How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth — in pictures

Boris Johnson could soon become the first sitting prime minister in history to lose his seat

A 20-year-old student journalist broke the news of a key State Department resignation amid the Trump-Ukraine firestorm

The Impossible burger has 1 major flaw to overcome: It's nearly triple the price of normal ground beef

Bootleg Weed Vapes Found To Contain Cyanide

Stunning Clip Shows Billions In Gold, Cash Hidden In Chinese City Mayor's Secret Basement

From Jenna Orkin

Labour votes to abolish private schools at party conference

Julian Assange: Private security firm 'spied on WikiLeaks founder in Ecuadorian embassy for CIA'

Senate Advances Confirmation of Ex-Monsanto Executive to Lead Wildlife Agency

'Clear the Kikes From Ukraine!' Who Will Confront Kiev's Spiraling anti-Semitism Problem?

When Hindu Nationalism and White Nationalism Meet

Scientists booted from EPA panel form their own group

September Container Shipping Rates Collapse 43% Forcing Carriers To Slash Capacity

A top State Department official at the center of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint resigned

Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here

The White House reportedly tried to conceal transcripts of Trump's calls with other world leaders, including Russia's Putin and Saudi Arabia's Mohammad bin Salman

Austria is about to re-empower a far-right party the US intelligence community doesn’t trust. It's a sign that European ultra-nationalist movements are made of teflon.

Rupert Murdoch's daughter-in-law bucks the family's conservative reputation, pledging millions to fight climate change

Physicists Are Creating Lasers Powerful Enough To Rip Holes In The Fabric Of Reality

From Jenna Orkin

1. Read the full declassified whistleblower complaint
2. The whistle-blower, a C.I.A. officer detailed to the White House at one point, first expressed his concerns anonymously to the agency’s top lawyer.

3. First gas station in America to ditch oil for 100% electric vehicle charging opens in Maryland

   Walrus Sinks Russian Navy Boat In The Arctic To Defend Her 

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Neil Patel and Shark Tank's Robert Herjavec Go 10 Miles Off-Coast to Film a Controversial Video...

Google and NASA campuses sit on a hazardous waste site with contaminated soil. It's part of a toxic legacy across Silicon Valley.

Around 300 former national security officials and ex-White House staff sign open letter accusing Trump of 'unconscionable abuse of power' over Ukraine call

Trump officials were reportedly so alarmed by his Ukraine call that the transcript had to be printed out and passed around by hand

China-Linked Hackers Target Tibetan Activists' Smartphones By Spoofing Amnesty International Officials

"Make India Great Again:" Lockheed Martin Offshores F-16 Production From US To India

From Jenna Orkin

Revealed: how the FBI targeted environmental activists in domestic terror investigations

The Fed will be growing its balance sheet again, but don’t call it ‘QE4’

Netanyahu has been chosen to form Israel's new government, but time is running out for the long-standing leader who is facing a possible criminal indictment

Danske Bank Executive At Center Of Massive Money-Laundering Scandal Found Dead

30 Republican Senators might vote to impeach Trump if the ballot were secret, GOP source says

Goldman Sachs released a 34-page analysis of the effects of climate change. And the results are terrifying.

China Launches New Attack Ship With Capabilities Of Invading Taiwan

One Of The Biggest ECB Hawks Unexpectedly Resigns In Opposition To Draghi's Massive Easing

Three Suicides On USS George H.W. Bush In One Week Sparks Crisis 

Wisconsin couple describe the chilling moment that a hacker cranked up their heat and started talking to them through a Google Nest camera in their kitchen

Who bought the movie rights?

From Jenna Orkin

Re Iran:  Joint statement by the heads of state and government of France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Scientists prepare to drill for million-year-old ice in Antarctica

MTA for decades pumped asbestos-filled air into giant Brooklyn bus depot where more than 1,000 people work

Alaska’s Sea Ice Completely Melted for First Time in Recorded History

EXCLUSIVE: Why Google’s “quantum supremacy” means the end of encryption security for cryptocurrency, military, finance and personal communications

Here are the nearly 200 congressional Democrats and other lawmakers who want to begin an impeachment inquiry against Trump

Trump aides were so afraid he'd pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden that they tried to derail his call with the Ukrainian president

600,000 travelers were stranded abroad when Thomas Cook filed for bankruptcy. Bulgarian hotels on the Black Sea, facing losses totaling tens of millions of dollars, worry they could be next.

Wealth tax explainer: Why Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and billionaires like George Soros alike are calling for a specialized tax on the ultra-wealthy

The 'sonic fingerprint' of Greta Thunberg's voice amplifies her message — here's the science of how

Tesla Involved In Deadly Las Vegas Collision Continued Driving And Hit Four Nearby Pedestrians

US Military Helicopter Accidentally Drops Shipping Container On Factory In South Korea

From Jenna Orkin

Meet the Lawyers Beating Back Trump’s Reckless Environmental Policies — and Winning

Climate Crusaders Aren’t Buying Natural Gas Propaganda

Eating meat could be banned like smoking, says top barrister, as he calls for new crime of 'ecocide'

Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind

The Chernobyl Disaster Led to Strangely Unique Wildlife and Human Mutations

It’s true: millions in dark money has been spent to tilt courts right

Paris to Open World's Largest Rooftop Farm Next Year

Indonesia haze causes sky to turn blood red

70% Of Wisonsin's Highest-Earning Public Employees Work For The State University System

Here are the 139 congressional Democrats and other lawmakers who want to begin an impeachment inquiry against Trump

Netanyahu forges slightly ahead amid tense negotiations on who should be Israel's next leader

From Jenna Orkin

Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’

It was interesting to see that Smil got smuggled into that Netflix documentary on Bill Gates, who reads virtually everything Smil produces.  Not a word about growth in the doc but still, maybe a few people will become motivated to investigate.  Not enough to make a difference, of course, or else the reference would have wound up on the cutting room floor.

Deconstructing the Greta Thunberg Phenomenon

Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides

Ambassadors’ conference – Speech by M. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic

Three Mile Island’s last day as a working reactor will be Friday

Oil Set To Spike After Report Saudi Repairs At Abqaiq May Take "Up To Eight Months"

Hong Kong Protesters Ratchet Up Violence; Mall Captured, Subway Stations Attacked

Roughly 600,000 travelers are stranded around the world after British travel provider Thomas Cook declares bankruptcy

130 banks worth $47 trillion adopt new UN-backed climate policies to shift their loan books away from fossil fuels

Netanyahu's grip on power slips after Arab parties endorse his rival for Israeli prime minister

'Köpskam', a new Swedish 'shame of buying' trend, could spread to threaten the world's fashion market

Nike unveiled a big new sustainability initiative as millions around the world prepared to strike for action on climate change

130 Americans die each day from opioid overdoses. Experts are asking why a lifesaving treatment isn't widely available without a prescription.

What HBO's 'Chernobyl' gets right (and wrong) about the world's worst nuclear power plant accident

HOW THE CIA WATCHED OVER THE DESTRUCTION OF GARY WEBB

From Jenna Orkin

New surveillance tech means you'll never be anonymous again

Plan to kill off mosquitoes backfires, spawning mutant hybrid insects

Ortis case linked to Vancouver firm that supplied secure cellphones to international criminals

The sinking class: the New Yorkers left to fight the climate crisis alone

“There were doctors and psychiatrists and gynecologist visits. There were dentists who whitened our teeth. There was a doctor who gave me Xanax. What doctor in their right mind, who is supposed to protect their patients, gives girls and young women Xanax?’’ Giuffre said.

Ransome said at one point when she was on the verge of a breakdown Epstein sent her to a psychiatrist to whom she confided about the abuse. He did nothing except put her on lithium."

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1. US CAUSED $4.5 BILLION IN LOSSES TO CUBA OVER THE LAST YEAR

2. HOW THE CIA WATCHED OVER THE DESTRUCTION OF GARY WEBB

3. Elizabeth Warren has taken the lead and surpassed Joe Biden in a new Iowa poll
4. FASTEST GROWING SUGAR BABY SCHOOLS OF 2019

5. 12 Tons Of Cocaine Worth $575 Million Seized In Malaysia's Largest Drug Bust

6. The Fermi Paradox asks why we haven't found any evidence of aliens. Here are 13 potential answers to that question.

From Jenna Orkin

Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns

France to give millions of residents iodine pills while EDF spots problems in six nuclear reactors

AUSTRALIA IS RUNNING OUT OF DRINKING WATER

SCIENTISTS TESTED CHILDREN AND 97 PERCENT CONTAINED TOXIC PLASTIC BYPRODUCTS

Houthis Vow To Halt Attacks On Saudi Soil As Iran Warns Can Respond From "Sea To Ocean"

"Suspiciously Well Placed": First Images Of Crippling Damage To Giant Khurais Oil Field Revealed

MIT Media Lab, already under scrutiny for Epstein connections, dumped chemicals in excess of legal limit

"Wastewater that the lab was dumping into an underground well had over 20 times the legal limit of nitrogen."

The Scottish people are on the brink of backing independence from the UK

Another 'Total Massacre' Ignored By Mainstream: US Drone Strike Kills 30 Farmers In Afghanistan

Facebook Walks Into Legal Trap After Claiming To Be 'Publisher' In Laura Loomer Lawsuit

Three Spy Planes Could Soon Be Flying Over Baltimore To Counter Murder Crisis

Patriotism Erupts Across China As Consumers Ditch Apple For Huawei

From Jenna Orkin

U.S. to deploy military forces to Saudi Arabia, UAE after drone attacks on oil sites

REPORT: MONSANTO PAID GOOGLE TO BURY UNFAVORABLE NEWS

Trump Wants a Torture Proponent to Lead U.S. Human Rights Policy. The Senate Should Say No

But there would be no contradiction in confirming him; he's simply in favor of alternative human rights, ie those of the torturers.

No future, no children: Teens refusing to have kids until there's action on climate change

We'll use contraception - so there!

EDITORIAL: Trial of 3 former TEPCO execs showed utility's denial of risks

Schiff: The Next Crash Will Bring Down The Fiat Money System

Pelosi Unloads On Nadler; Tells Him To Drop 'Moby Dick'-Like Impeachment Obsession

Employee dies at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters in apparent suicide

De Blasio Drops Out Of 2020 Presidential Race

Deutsche Bank scoured 5 million pages of news and found that positive climate-change coverage helped stocks beat the market. Here's how that could shape the future.

America is swept up in tiny-house fever — here's how much it'll actually cost to build one of your own

A mysterious Trump promise in a high-stakes call, that prompted an electrifying whistleblower complaint, appears to involve Ukraine

Chris Cuomo and Rudy Giuliani had a 28-minute shouting match over the whistleblower complaint, and Giuliani acknowledged telling Ukraine to investigate Biden