From Jenna Orkin

US attack on Chinese islands will be met with fierce counterattack: Global Times editorial

The Oceans Appear to Be Stabilizing. Here's Why it's Very Bad News | Opinion

Illegal money flows from Africa near $90 billion, U.N. study says

'I'm extremely controversial': the psychologist rethinking human emotion

Year Zero

On America's birthday, celebrating the corporate-sponsored revolution

Matt TaibbiJapan’s advances in overcoming neurodegenerative diseases

A potentially overlooked factor in Sweden's coronavirus strategy: more than half of households consist of just 1 person

Scientists detected a set of salty lakes on Mars, hidden below the glaciers of its south pole

VIDEO: Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale tackled by police

Amazon is letting customers pay for groceries by scanning their palm at its Go convenience stores

Privacy darling DuckDuckGo complained Android's choice screen in Europe is 'rigged' after Google picked a bunch of alternative search engines

Oxford is asking students specializing in China to submit papers anonymously so they don't fall foul of Hong Kong's draconian national security law

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Barrett pick draws attention to small religious group

Ballot harvesting is not illegal in Minnesota, however. A district court in the state denied a Republican motion to stay a temporary injunction against a law that made it illegal for anyone to help more than three people vote.

Project Veritas has a history of dubious claims and doctored videos. 

Wall Street is set to start trading in a new commodity: Water

Gallup - Bias in Others' News a Greater Concern Than Bias in Own News

Ex-Deutsche Bank Gold Traders Found Guilty in Spoofing Trial

Turkey's Erdogan calls on Armenians to stand against leadership amid clashes with Azerbaijan

Turkish Lira Crashes To Record Low, Hammered By Armenian-Azeri War

Brain-eating amoeba kills a 6-year-old boy in Texas, prompting officials to test the water supply to 8 cities

The new 10 p.m. curfew on UK pubs, bars, and restaurants will 'devastate' the industry, owners say. 'It's hard to understand how this is the solution to fighting the disease.'

Trump spent more than $70,000 to style his hair when he was on 'The Apprentice' and wrote it off as a business expense: NYT

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LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP’S CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE

‘Nuclear power is now the most expensive form of generation, except for gas peaking plants’

How Children Fend Off Corona Virus

Washington finally admits it has been interfering in Hong Kong

The Supply Chain Is Broken and Food Shortages Are HERE

Troops Could Get Night Vision Via Nanoparticles Injected Into Eye

A new Indigenous House in Toronto shows an architecture that goes deep

Students Are Rebelling Against Eye-Tracking Exam Surveillance Tools

Trump is using the coronavirus as an excuse to go full kleptocrat, and the GOP is going right along with him

Here's how the ultrawealthy got even richer during the pandemic while millions of Americans faced job loss, hunger, and homelessness

The healthcare system has long ignored women's health and failed female patients. Female-backed health startups can change things.

From Jenna Orkin

Why Britain is more geographically unequal than any other rich country

How Netflix Works - Diego Bunuel

Texas city declares disaster after brain-eating amoeba found in tap water

1. He fought wildfires while imprisoned. California reported him to Ice for deportation

2. Pennsylvania debuts new rule that rejects 'naked' ballots
3. New York's transit system is in a financial crisis — but saving it is vital to the US economy, experts say

An airport in Finland is using dogs to detect the coronavirus, and researchers say they are 'close to 100%' accuracy

The US military is quietly killing terrorist leaders in Syria with its secret missile packed with swords

I had to teach my NYU psych class to 360 students from a cell phone while trapped in an elevator with my kids. It went surprisingly well.

Bernie Sanders says there are a 'number of plans' to force Trump from office if he refuses to peacefully transfer power

From Jenna Orkin

...JPM made roughly a half-billion dollars just servicing the accounts for con artist Bernie Madoff. As far back as 2006, JP Morgan Chase knew enough to pull its own money out of investments in hedge funds tied to Madoff, but never told customers, and continued to manage his accounts for years...Jamie Dimon’s bank also continued to do business in huge sums for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort even after Manafort stepped down in scandal, and even after the bank flagged Manafort’s accounts... Of course, in banking, size matters. “Maybe the bank looks at a wire transfer and says, ‘This smells.’ Do that in a $12,000 transaction, and they’ll kick you out of the bank,” says Pelletier. “Do it at $12 million, and they’ll let it go.”..A typical settlement involved a fine that sounded large but was really equal to months or weeks of profit, with penalties in some cases also being deductible, so that taxpayers could share in the joys of paying a bank’s debt to society...Hudson, for instance, notes that announcements of many of the biggest money laundering settlements involving the firms in the FinCen files were accompanied by jumps in the company’s share prices. HSBC’s shares rose in London and Hong Kong after the 2012 settlement, and even BNP’s criminal plea deal prompted a 3.6% jump in share price. Markets see the settlements as seals of approval going forward, and “send the signal that the regulators are looking to do a deal,” Hudson says.

Two injured in Paris knife attack near Charlie Hebdo's former office

CDC says nearly 50 percent of coronavirus patients did not report their close contacts

Third Arab nation to reach peace agreement with Israel in next 2 days: US envoy

Mass Elephant Deaths in Botswana Caused By Bacterium in Water Hole

Satish Kumar: the link between soil, soul and society

Zoomschool

Europe's second wave is here: France and the UK recorded their highest daily COVID-19 cases ever, and the EU warned that some countries have worse outbreaks than in March

UK supermarkets Tesco and Morrisons are rationing toilet paper and hand sanitizer as fears of panic buying return. One worker said their store was 'worse than a bad Christmas.'

Olive Garden's Times Square restaurant is burning through $300,000 every week, as New York City restaurants await the return of indoor dining

Exiled Saudi Arabian dissidents have launched a political party they hope will dethrone MBS and open the door to democracy

An antitrust case against Google's search engine could be coming soon. Here's how it could turn out, and why an $8 billion-a-year deal with Apple could be on the line.

Fox wins McDougal case, argues no one takes Tucker Carlson seriously

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Lockdown From Above - UK

COVID-19 mutation may be evolving to bypass mask-wearing, hand-washing

North Korea Kills South Korean Official Found in Its Waters

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘is preparing to kill himself in prison’ after hearing voices in his head saying ‘we’re coming to get you’, psychiatrist tells extradition hearing

The Worst Forest Fires You’re Hearing Nothing About 

Once again, the Brazilian Amazon is in flames

San Francisco Residents On Edge Over Rising Number Of Home Burglaries - 42%

Official: Pentagon has started 'prudent planning' for full Afghanistan withdrawal by May

'Close to 100% accuracy': Helsinki airport uses sniffer dogs to detect Covid

UPenn releases surprising report on 9/11 rescue dogs and their causes of death

“Dogs have a really good filtering system,” says Otto. “Their lungs are different—they don’t get asthma, for example.”

'It's like being in a sci-fi nightmare film': Whole Foods employees say Amazon workers are crowding stores, ignoring virus protocols, and hounding them for help as online orders surge

Why insulin is so expensive

3 ways the COVID-19 pandemic will change education and high-stakes standardized testing

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Senate Report on Hunter Biden

Judge rules Snowden to give up millions from book, speeches

GOP will ask Supreme Court to limit mail voting in Pennsylvania in first post-RBG test

"Buildings use more than half of the world’s electricity, mostly for temperature maintenance and ventilation, with air cooling accounting for nearly 20 per cent."

Major fentanyl bust | 'Three out of every four people in Delaware could have been killed'

9,000 NYC workers to be furloughed: Mayor de Blasio

Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life

Flimsy PPE, missing soap, non-compliant students: Teachers say some classrooms aren't safe for in-person learning

4 charged after Black man's body found burning in Iowa ditch

Jeff Bezos is about to open a tuition-free preschool called the Bezos Academy where 'the child will be the customer'

I'm a college senior returning to campus. While my school's pandemic plan is strong, it fails to answer the most critical question I have about the year.

Colleges are exploring reopening in the midst of the pandemic, but students aren't being told exactly what it would take for them to be sent home.

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World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam

Shell to cut up to 40% from oil and gas production to prepare for energy transition

Justice Department Labels NYC An ‘Anarchist Jurisdiction’; New York Politicians React Angrily

Breitenbush Hot Springs loses half its buildings to wildfires, hopes to reopen in 2021

The age of extinction 

 

David Attenborough

Don't look away now: are viewers finally ready for the truth about nature?

Turkey probes death of American journalist Andre Vltchek

Brazil's Pantanal wetlands on fire - in pictures

Park Service Finalizes Disastrous Point Reyes Plan to Kill Native Wildlife, Prioritize Commercial Livestock Grazing

WATCH: Victorian Police Tell Heavily Pregnant Woman She’s Not Allowed to Rest During Her 1-Hour of Exercise

Oregon woman evacuates 85 goats in Subaru and trailers in fire evacuation

Boris Johnson tells people to work from home as the UK becomes gripped by a second coronavirus wave

US Suffers Most New COVID-19 Cases In 5 Weeks As Doctors Warn Of "Apocalyptic" Fall: Live Updates

LAPD officers reportedly used facial recognition 30,000 times in the past decade, contradicting the department's previous denials

Experts think TikTok's tie-up with Oracle and Walmart gives it a route into film, TV, books, and merch

A Kennedy who worked on Jared Kushner's COVID-19 task force said he was asked to distort a coronavirus prediction to make the outbreak seem less bad

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Patients Who Refuse to Wear a Mask: Responses That Won't Get You Sued

How a Pandemic is Destroying the West, by Michael Hudson

Advances In ICU Care Are Saving More Patients Who Have COVID-19

6 Men in Oregon Charged for Allegedly Starting Fires During Wildfire Season on Purpose

Let Us Gaze At This Massive Rat Cluster And Draw Sweeping Conclusions About The Current State Of NYC

Syracuse doctor, 28, dies after COVID-19 battle, family says

Madrid rolls out new COVID-19 lockdown measures amid infections surge

Stocks plunge on COVID-19 lockdown fears, political tensions Coronavirus Updates: CDC Abruptly Removes Warning About Aerosol Transmission

The most important things in the leaked FinCEN files, which exposed $2 trillion in suspicions transactions and are roiling the world of finance - 

Banks such as JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank facilitated the movement of criminal money even after getting caught, the agency reported.

1. The typical full-time salary in America would be $102,000 if wages had kept up with growth — but the economy has failed 90% of workers

2. The wealthiest 1% has taken $50 trillion from working Americans and redistributed it, a new study finds

3. Leaked files contain more evidence of Kremlin links to one of the biggest donors to Boris Johnson's Conservative party

   The husband of a major donor to Boris Johnson's Conservatives has allegedly been secretly funded by a Russian oligarch with links to Vladimir Putin.

4. While TikTok is getting the most attention, Trump's ban will eviscerate WeChat, which serves as a lifeline to China for the app's millions of US users

   Walmart said it will eliminate its carbon footprint by 2040 — but not for its supply chain, which makes up the bulk of its emissions

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Police warn of apps that they say solicit child pornography

Hate Inc - Taibbi

Ricin Is Said to Have Been Sent to White House

Demographics of Congress

Carbon Monoxide Levels 10 Times Higher Because of California Fires

FinCEN Files: All you need to know about the documents leak

Volunteers quit COVID-19 vaccine trial in Spain amid serious side effects reported in U.K. study

Canceling Beethoven is the latest woke madness for the classical-music world

France Suffers Another Daily COVID-19 Record As New York Reports Most Cases Since Early June: Live Updates

ICE doctor performing hysterectomies is not board certified

Susan Collins says the president elected on November 3 should be the one to pick the next Supreme Court justice

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You heard it here first: Joe Biden will call in “sick” to the presidential candidates’ debate on Tuesday, September 29, and within days the Democratic Party will be obliged to replace him. Enough said for now. Wait for it…. - James Howard Kunstler

‘Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice’

A DARPA-Funded Implantable Biochip to Detect COVID-19 Could Hit Markets by 2021

Democrats' last hope to stop Trump from replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg rests with a handful of Republican senators

Even more evidence shows the coronavirus spreads easily on long plane flights

Saudi Arabia allowed sexually explicit Netflix shows like 'Sex Education' in exchange for removing one satire episode that criticized the kingdom, CEO Reed Hastings said

In January 2019 Netflix pulled an episode of "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj" from Saudi Arabia after what the company called a "valid legal request."

Amal Clooney Quits Role As UK 'Envoy' Over BoJo's "Lamentable" Brexit Bill

Mass suspension of German police officers who shared pictures of Hitler and doctored images of refugees in gas chambers

This $199 acrylic helmet with HEPA filters powered by fans designed to wear instead of a mask is being compared to sci-fi movies

The world's first reality show in space plans to send one winner on a 10-day trip to the space station, filming the whole time