From Jenna Orkin

The Victims of Agent Orange the U.S. Has Never Acknowledged

U.S. Government Turns Somalia Into Failed State to Steal Its Oil for Shell and Exxon-Mobil

Flower Art

U.S. pandemic relief program mistakenly paid $692 million in duplicate loans: watchdog

Former top State Dept investigator says COVID-19 outbreak may have resulted from bioweapons research accident

French call to replace English with Latin as Europe's official language

Uber will pay its 70,000 UK-based drivers minimum wage and benefits following a major Supreme Court defeat

Biden believes Putin is a 'killer' and says he'll 'pay a price' for attacking dissidents and trying to meddle in the 2020 race

Bitcoin uses more energy than American Airlines and each $1 billion in inflows is equal to owning 1.2 million cars, Bank of America says

The FDA urged people to avoid Real Water-branded alkaline water after 5 Nevada children who drank it were hospitalized with liver failure

 

From Jenna Orkin

Feds Arrest Two Men For Assaulting Capitol Hill Police Officer Who Died

France finds new COVID-19 variant that escapes detection in PCR tests

Up in arms: Western military exports surge as Chinese and Russian sales subside

The biggest customers include Gulf states and Asian nations such as India and Pakistan

Myanmar Regime Seizes Bank Accounts of Soros' Open Society Foundation

Ecocide Equivalent to Genocide?

"It's perhaps fitting that the CO2 in our air is eventually being returned underground to the oil fields from whence it came, although maybe ironic that the only way to finance this is in the pursuit of yet more oil."

Undocumented Workers At Tate's Bake Shop Say They're Being Threatened Ahead Of Union Vote

The New Gatekeepers: How proprietary algorithms increasingly determine the news we see

The Worst Dust Storm in a Decade Shrouds Beijing and Northern China

• China-US relations: why expectations are low for next week’s Alaska summit
  

  Video. L'Italia e mezza Europa sospendono AstraZeneca Italy and Half of Europe Suspends AstraZeneca

 

From Jenna Orkin

How the U.S. Could Sleepwalk into a War with China

Metropolitan Police let hundreds of officers accused of sex attacks escape sanction, figures reveal

Feds expect to charge at least 100 more over Capitol riot, pursuing broad conspiracy

Black Doctor Fired From Med School After Discussing Racism

Germany elections: Merkel's party suffers setback in regional polls

Congressional Testimony: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists

‘Russia and China threaten defense’ [to Norway]

Scientists have invented a tool to spot deepfakes by looking at the reflections in a person's eyes, and they claim it's 94% effective

Facebook killed a tool to fight anti-vaxx information because it disproportionately affected conservatives, report says

Fauci backed a study that found 3-foot social distancing in schools was as good as the recommended 6 feet at stopping the spread of COVID-19

 

From Jenna Orkin

Schools without walls: Lessons in outdoor education

Older, Heavier People May Be 'Superspreaders' of COVID-19

Ireland suspends AstraZeneca vaccine amid blood clot reports

Brazil wonders about missing vaccine mascot as rumors, conspiracy theories swirl

Songbirds are dying in California, and bird feeders are partially to blame, wildlife officials say

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's cipher has been solved by amateur codebreakers

Strong mag. 5.4 earthquake - 6.5 Km NNE of Goðabunga, Iceland, on Sunday, 14 Mar 2021 2:15 pm (GMT +0) - 45 minutes ago

France conducts first military exercises in space

1. Dow hits new record as Americans receive stimulus checks
2. Here's how much protection you get from one dose of vaccine

The White House is set to launch a $1.5 billion ad campaign to win over vaccine skeptics, report says

 

From Jenna Orkin

Terrifying Study Finds Melting Permafrost Could Unleash Way More Carbon Than We Thought

A Bird-Feed Seller Beat a Chess Master Online. Then It Got Ugly

Decentralized Microgridding Can Provide 90% of a Neighborhood's Energy Needs, Study Finds

Cobalt batteries… clean energy from a dirty trade using child slave labour

Minneapolis approves "historic" $27 million settlement with George Floyd's family

How Does Artificial Intelligence Learn?

Scientists Find a Natural Protein That Stops Allergies And Autoimmune Conditions

Scientists want to send 335 million seed, sperm and egg samples to the moon to create a lunar Noah's Ark

Deutsche Bank CEO, Investment Bankers See Bonuses Rise Nearly 50% After Banner Year

1. The US should stop contact tracing COVID-19. Invest in genetic sequencing instead.

   Good news: Novovax's vaccine highly effective in trials

 

From Jenna Orkin

Drone Footage - impressive

Amazon Won’t Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses

Can Cyrus Vance, Jr., Nail Trump?Is this the end of forests as we've known them?

For Democracy to Stay, the Filibuster Must GoDon’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole

Two-Thirds of Italians Set For Lockdown as Pandemic Worsens

1. Officials in Argentina raided labs producing toxic bleach as a COVID-19 treatment after a misinformation campaign fueled its popularity

   Novavax surges 20% as its COVID-19 vaccine is found to be 96% effective in preventing the original virus strain

   This may explain why most COVID long-haulers are women

The Uninhabitable Earth - archive

 

From Jenna Orkin

In Hunt for Covid-19 Origin, Patient Zero Points to Second Wuhan Market

Fossil Fuels Are Wildly More Expensive Than Previously Thought, Study Says

Yellen backs new allocation of IMF’s currency to aid in recovery

The use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic parts in nuclear weapons systems may reduce the reliability of the US nuclear arsenal over time as the electronics age in ways that are hard to predict, according to a newly disclosed report from the JASON science advisory panel.

Record Drought Strains the Southwest

Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century Hardcover – March 9, 2021

Brazil plunges into crisis as a second wave and deadly new variant overwhelm hospitals

Business is booming for the $24 billion plasma industry — but it may be putting vulnerable donors at risk

Americans supply two-thirds of the world's plasma, supporting an industry that relies on vulnerable donors in need of cash.

1. Russia tried to slow down Twitter and accidentally broke the internet in the country. Here's what happened.

   The US is averaging fewer than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases per day for the first time since October, down from a peak of 250,000

   New Pfizer vaccine plant has history of mold issues, recalls

 

From Jenna Orkin

LIRR Will Reverse Service Cuts Causing Packed, Standing Room-Only Trains

However, the service restoration will only arrive on March 29th.

The Georgia House passed a bill that “makes it a misdemeanor to give food or water to voters waiting in line.”

The Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO: Activists Mark 50th Anniversary of Daring FBI Break-in

Scientists Discover Chunk of Protoplanet Older Than Earth In Sahara Desert

The book-club business is booming online, led by actresses and, increasingly, fashion models.

New outbreak of COVID-19 in B.C. care home where residents and staff were already vaccinated

Jonah Peretti Lays Off 47 HuffPost Staffers In Latest “Bloodbath”

Record Drought Strains the Southwest

Librarians are debating how to handle the Dr. Seuss controversy — but the books will stay on shelves for now

Denmark has suspended AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine over concerns about blood clots

 

From Jenna Orkin

Biden and Europe allies worry Israel is preparing a substantial attack on Iran

Meteor explodes over Vermont with the force of 440 pounds of TNT

Provincial Italian hospital overrun by COVID-19 variant

ENTIRE STAFF OF NEVADA DEMOCRATIC PARTY QUITS AFTER DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST SLATE WON EVERY SEAT

Covid Waste Recycled Into Roads

Brazil: Lula has convictions quashed, leaving him free to challenge Bolsonaro

Scales of Responsibility - The Dark Side of Italo Calvino

Spring Warmth Will Top Records in Plains, Midwest, Then Will Spread to the East

Shipyard workers preparing new Royal Caribbean ship Odyssey of the Seas test positive for COVID-19

KPIX 5 Reporter Robbed At Gunpoint While Covering Car Break-Ins At San Francisco’s Twin Peaks

 

From Jenna Orkin

1. BP  to Tell 25k Office Staff To Stay Home Two Days a Week in Permanent Shift to Remote Work

2. Disney climbs to record highs as parks plan to reopen

Sea Slug Head Grows New Body

NYC Plans To Reopen Public High Schools On March 22nd

CDC announces guidelines for fully vaccinated people Remembering Allan McDonald: He Refused To Approve Challenger Launch, Exposed Cover-Up China’s 7,500-Mile Undersea Cable to Europe Fuels Internet Feud

3 top health experts say the US is on the brink of another COVID-19 surge thanks to the variant first found in the UK, just as states relax restrictions

3 women leading the zero-waste movement reveal how they're managing to change the world while making a profit

Goldman Sachs is telling interns they may be coming into the office this summer as rival banks remain more cautious