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MOUNT DESERT ROCK, Me. — From the top of the six-story lighthouse, water stretches beyond the horizon in every direction. A foghorn bleats twice at 22-second intervals, interrupting the endless chatter of herring gulls.
At least twice a day, beginning shortly after dawn, researchers climb steps and ladders and crawl through a modest glass doorway to scan the surrounding sea, looking for the distinctive spout of a whale.
This chunk of rock, about 25 nautical miles from Bar Harbor, is part of a global effort to track and learn more about one of the sea’s most majestic and endangered creatures. So far this year, the small number of sightings here have underscored the growing perils along the East Coast to both humpback whales and North Atlantic right whales.
This past summer, the numbers of humpback whales identified from the rock were abysmal — the team saw only eight instead of the usual dozens. Fifty-three humpbacks have died in the last 19 months, many after colliding with boats or fishing gear.
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Tesla’s Electric Sales Explode Despite Slow Model 3 Production Ramp
Around the world, electric vehicle makers are starting to make serious inroads into the global auto market. And aspirational industry leader Tesla continues to break new ground and open new markets despite an increasing array of challenges.
Record Tesla Sales
During the third quarter of 2017, Tesla sold 26,150 all-electric vehicles. A new quarterly sales record for the company which included 14,065 super-fast luxury Model S sedans, 11,865 of the also super-fast and highly luxurious Model X SUV, and 220 of the mid-class luxury-sport Model 3. In total, during 2017, Tesla has sold more than 73,000 vehicles. Placing the all-electric vehicle and renewable energy systems manufacturer in a position to challenge the 100,000 cars sold mark by end of December.
(Tesla production and sales by Quarter shows that Q3 2017 beat Tesla’s previous record by more than 1,300 vehicles. Tesla appears on track to hit near 100,000 vehicle sales in 2017. Note that Model X production took 6 Quarters, or approximately 18 months to fully ramp to present sales rates above 10,000 per Quarter. Telsa ultimately expects to produce more than 60,000 Model 3s per Quarter by 2018. Investment analysts are more conservative — with Morgan Stanley targeting 30,000 Model 3s per Quarter. Image source: Commons.)
Surprises in Tesla’s Q3 report include greater than expected overall Model S and X sales. Pessimistic speculation about Tesla struggling to sell its higher-quality line as customers await the anticipated but less expensive and tweaked-out (but still bad-@#$) Model 3 abounded throughout August and September. Those contributing to this brouhaha, however, did not appear to anticipate the excitement generated by Tesla’s Model 3 launch which appears to have spilled over to the more expensive line-up even as Tesla both offered incentives on some of its showroom vehicles and cut shorter range, lower cost versions of its Model S line-up.
Tesla Model 3 Production Ramp — A Miss, But Still in the Window
Tesla did, however, fail to meet Model 3 production ramp goals of 1,500 by the end of September. And this was one point where the Tesla pessimists ended up proving at least partly right. Citing production bottlenecks, the luxury EV manufacturer noted that it had produced only 260 Model 3s by end month — a 1,240 vehicle short-fall for the Quarter.
Overall vehicle production had still grown from July through September — hitting 30 in July, about 80 in August, and about 150 in September. This is still an exponential rate of expansion. But the more rapid anticipated ramp was not achieved. Tesla noted that most of their fast production chain was functioning as planned. But that a few bits of the complex and highly automated Model 3 manufacturing subsystems were taking “longer than expected to activate.”
(Tesla’s ground-breaking Model 3 missed company production targets by a fairly wide margin this month — triggering a big controversy among investors. Long term prospects for the Model 3 remain strong as Tesla works through what is, effectively, an employee beta testing period. Image source: Tesla.)
At first blush, this appears to be a fairly wide miss in Tesla’s planned production ramp. But if rapid production scaling is still achieved this fall, it will look like nothing more than a bit of a bump in the road. After the Q3 report, Elon Musk noted:
“I would simply urge people to not get too caught up in what exactly falls within the exact calendar boundaries of a quarter, one quarter or the next, because when you have an exponentially growing production ramp, slight changes of a few weeks here or there can appear to have dramatic changes.”
In other words, we are still in the window for rapid production scaling, even if the earlier, more rapid, ramp was missed by a few weeks.
The company previously struggled with its very complex production of the ultimately popular Model X. To address production challenges, Tesla aimed to simplify production for the Model 3. But integration of new automated equipment into large manufacturing chains as the vehicle is built and product-tested by employee-customers is proving to again pose a few challenges. Challenges that, at this time, do not appear to be anywhere near as serious as those encountered during the Model X production ramp, but are still enough to produce delays.
Tesla Model 3 Production Still About to Explode as EV Maker Enjoys Serious Structural Advantages
Keeping these facts in mind, we can take some of the overly negative reports following Tesla’s failure to hit early Model 3 production targets with a lump of salt. The company still produces amazing cars, is still going to flood the world with high-quality and much more affordable all-electric Model 3s. The company owns a massive manufacturing apparatus in the form if its Freemont plant and Nevada Gigafactory. An apparatus that is rapidly growing. Outside this expanding manufacturing chain, the company is the only major automaker to seriously invest in and rapidly expand crucial EV charging infrastructure. All of these are systemic underlying strengths that the electric automaker will continue to leverage and expand on.
(Tesla battery sales help to reduce EV battery pack costs by producing economies of scale in production. The reverse is also true. With demand for Tesla’s powerwall and powerpacks on the rise, the company possesses a number of systemic advantages that most automobile manufacturers lack. Image source: Tesla.)
Tesla is in the process of transitioning from an automaker that produces a moderate number of vehicles each year to a major automaker that produces more than half a million vehicles each year. And it’s bound to encounter a bump or two in the road from time-to-time. Ultimately, the Model 3 production ramp will hit its stride as Tesla works out the kinks. Around 500,000 reservation-holders will still get their cars.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley recently:
warned investors against “micro-analyzing the monthly ramp of the Model 3.” Most vehicle launches have hiccups, and quality and attractiveness count for far more importance than quantity “at least for now,” they said in a note.
Tesla was quick to stress that it foresaw no serious issues with the Model 3 production. That the company understood what needed to be fixed in the manufacturing chain and was working to address those issues. If this is the case, we should see Model 3 production start to ramp more swiftly over the coming weeks. But even without rapidly ramping Model 3 production — which is on the way sooner or later — Tesla is still smashing previously held all-electric sales records.
And for those of us concerned about climate change, that’s good news.
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Allan Barr / October 3, 2017
We are in the early stages of a massive transformation into renewables and battery storage. A paradigm shift equal to the transformation from Horse and Buggy into ICE. That Change took a couple of decades. For those who care about the biosphere and can afford to invest in companies like Tesla its going to be good for their soul and pocketbook. Thanks for throwing out some positive news every now and then Robert, am personally struggling to remain optimistic when the deluge of ongoing catastrophic climate events appears overwhelming.
robertscribbler / October 3, 2017
It’s important not to get too focused on the dark side of what’s happening. We should remain alert to real and viable threats. But we should also remain open to the options that are now becoming available to us. In other words — there is both light and darkness here.
Worth noting that Rick Perry is now pushing to subsidize the ailing nuclear and coal industries. Small surprise, that. The largest threats to renewables remain on the policy level. We should do all we can to support renewables by voting for politicians (democrats primarily) that support alternative options and voting out those (republicans primarily) who oppose them.
Allan Barr / October 4, 2017
10 new members in just the past month. I believe this group may be the single most important development in the political arena. https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climat ... ns-caucus/
robertscribbler / October 3, 2017
Test version of Tesla’s all-electric semi also found recently:
Greg / October 3, 2017
Nicely timed. I found this 30 minute summary of Jack Richard’s analysis well worth listening to (originally 2 hours or so). He’s not a traditional analyst, but has done his homework including actual taking apart of the cars, and doesn’t come off polished but he nails Tesla spot on and covers why it can dominate the future as a company and why we will all benefit.
Abel Adamski / October 4, 2017
Excellent Video, share it around
Jim / October 4, 2017
+1 Allan, you are spot on when saying we’re in the midst of a massive energy transformation.
With the Tesla Model 3, Chevy Bolt, and Nissan Leaf among others, the tipping point of EVs having a lower lifetime operating cost compared to ICE has already been soundly crossed, and the tipping point to build, and purchase, an EV is probably only 2 – 3 years away.
Plus this doesn’t consider the regulatory activities that are now happening globally. The combination of PV solar panels and EV’s and soon, storage batteries, can dramatically influence the demand for oil and coal. Equally as important, people need to know it’s also economical.
Do your own calculation using the NREL PV Watts website for you specific street address to calculate PV generation, and calculate your cost to drive with electric vs gasoline. Most folks are being ripped off to the tune of thousands of dollars each and every year. There is no such thing as “Clean, Affordable Coal”. It’s expensive. And gasoline even at $2.50/gallon is still about 4 times the cost of driving on electricity.
wili / October 4, 2017
Ford’s announcement today:
Ford CEO outlines plan to aggressively cut costs, funneling savings to electric, self-driving cars
The Blue Oval is getting a makeover.
Ford CEO Jim Hackett and his leadership team are steering the automaker to drive greater profits on its most valuable products, trucks and SUVs, while turning away from less valuable areas like cars. At the same time, Ford plans to aggressively cut costs while investing more resources on electric and autonomous-drive vehicles.
“When you’re a long-lived company that has had success over multiple decades, the decision to change is not easy — culturally or operationally,” Hackett said. “Ultimately, though, we must accept the virtues that brought us success over the past century are really no guarantee of future success.”
Hackett devised his plan for transforming Ford after using most of his first 100 days at the helm to evaluate what works and what doesn’t. The result is a substantial push to shift gears at a company that has a history of being slow to change.
More trucks and SUVs, fewer Cars
Ford plans to reallocate about $7 billion to increased development and production of trucks and SUVs, while demphasizing less profitable cars and sedans.
Ford is not getting out of the car business all-together, but it will no longer be an automaker that pushes cars as heavily as it has in the past.
Instead, Ford will emphasize trucks and SUVs, an area of strength and big profits, especially when compared its competitors. This year, 76 percent of Ford’s sales in the U.S. are trucks and SUVs.
Charging up EVs
Like other automakers, Ford is going electric.
Over the next five years, it will redeploy money into its program for developing and building electric vehicles while cutting capital expenditures for internal combustion engines by one third.
Ford sees the writing on the wall, especially in many foreign markets where governments are de-emphasizing or moving to ban gasoline-powered vehicles. This move is critical since Ford has lagged competitors when it comes to developing EVs. …
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/03/ford-to ... -cars.html
Generally, we need to move mostly away from car culture as rapidly as we can. But while cars still rule, it is important to have alternatives it ICE, imho.
wili / October 4, 2017
Other developments:
“I’ve gotten messages from the governor asking, ‘Why haven’t we done something already?’” Nichols said, referring to China’s planned phase-out of fossil-fuel vehicle sales. “The governor has certainly indicated an interest in why China can do this and not California.”
California is now also considering a ban on gas and diesel-powered cars
https://electrek.co/2017/09/26/californ ... ered-cars/
wili / October 4, 2017
And:
Twenty new electric vehicles are on the way, GM says
There will be a mix of long-range battery EVs and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
DETROIT—General Motors is the latest car company to unveil plans for an emissions-free future. On Monday morning, the US’ largest automaker announced that the next 18 months will see two new electric vehicles join the Bolt EV in showrooms, and 18 more are due by 2023. “GM believes in an all-electric future and a world free of automotive emissions,” said Mark Reuss, GM’s executive VP for product development, purchasing, and supply chain. “When the Bolt EV was announced at CES it was described as a platform, and this is the next step.” …
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/ge ... g-by-2023/
wili / October 4, 2017
Sorry for the back-to-back, but I’ve been following these developments over at the cars thread at ASIF. Thanks to Sig there for these links and text. One more note, then I’m off to bed:
Most of the fastest selling used cars in the US are now electric
https://qz.com/1090343/most-of-the-fast ... re-now-ev/
6 of the 10 fastest-selling used cars in the US are electric plug-ins
https://electrek.co/2017/09/28/6-of-the ... -plug-ins/
Tipping points, of a happier sort than we usually use that term around here, seem to be coming on all sorts of fronts wrt EVs!
Abel Adamski / October 5, 2017
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/04/por ... d-testing/
Porsche Mission E caught testing against Teslas
It looks as though Porsche is pretty far in development.
Porsche has previously said that the Mission E would reach production by 2020, and according to our friends at Engadget, it should go on sale in 2019. Based on how complete the cars in these photos appear to be, we think the company has a good chance of hitting that target. When the concept was shown, Porsche promised 590 horsepower and, on the European test cycle, a range of over 310 miles. Also interesting was the concept’s claimed 800-volt electrical system that could be charged to 80 percent capacity in 15 minutes. Time will tell whether that system comes to fruition, but Porsche has at least tested some portion of the system on its Le Mans-winning 919 Hybrid race cars. Porsche also expects to sell the car for $80,000 to $90,000. All these features taken together would definitely make for a compelling Tesla alternative.
California and charging stations
Abel Adamski / October 4, 2017
The issue for the big auto makers is simply charging stations as Jack Richards points out in the video Greg posted above, as Jack points out to much of the buying public, can they drive to California in it ( even if they never will ) , Tesla has built 380 or so supercharger stations in the US, so for Tesla cars it is a yes, for the other manufacturers, unless their vehicles can plug into a Tesla Supercharger, the answer is no, so off the list of prospective veh purchases.
As he also points out Tesla offered a share in that network to the Car Manufacturers on a share all costs basis, they knocked it back, as such dependant on private operators and those stations if they are working are of highly variable standard.
Another interesting point I picked up that is behind the panic of the worlds ICE veh manufacturers is that US car makers sell 60% of their new cars in China, China going EV as well as many other countries, destroys their business model if they don’t have suitable products regardless of what happens in the US
Vic / October 4, 2017
I personally find it pretty bizarre that I’m actually looking forward to the unveiling of a new semi truck, but these are pretty strange times so I guess that explains my enthusiasm.
I feel a certain measure of trepidation however about Elon’s plans for his massive new rocket ship the BFR, which could allow us not only to become a multi-planet species but also to travel anywhere on Earth in under an hour for around the same cost as traditional air travel. Sounds great, except that it would likely increase the popularity of long distance travel and considering the rocket’s CO2 emissions high into our atmosphere this is somewhat concerning.
But there might just be a silver lining. In order for Elon to achieve his Martian goals he’ll need to be able to produce methane and oxygen on Mars in order for the rockets and people to get back to Earth. For this he proposes using electrolysis to extract O2 and H2 from water sources on Mars and combining the H2 using the Sabatier process with CO2 extracted from Mars’ atmosphere to produce the methane. All solar powered of course.
He mentions it briefly around the 33:50 mark in the video below, and goes on to mention that the same process could be employed on Earth, but is also careful to describe that possibility as “in the long term”. It’s hard to know what someone like Elon Musk thinks of as long term. He plans to begin sending his rockets to Mars by 2022. Let’s hope he has a fleet of Earth bound climate-friendly methane factories putting the frackers out of business by then. A price on carbon would certainly help.
Vic / October 4, 2017
Vic / October 4, 2017
German startup Lilium Aviation have secured $90 million in funding to help bring their new electric VTOL aircraft to market. The funding was led by Tencent – adding to their now many electric vehicle-related investments, including a 5% stake in Tesla.
https://electrek.co/2017/10/02/electric ... ilium-jet/
Mblanc / October 4, 2017
Ten years ago we could see the future was looking pretty dark, and we had relatively little positive evidence that the massive energy transition we need was truly imminent.
Now we know that transition will happen, as all the key tech is now very affordable, so it’s now a question of how fast .That is a huge positive thing.
I appreciate RS letting us know about some of the genuinely good news stories, because it is hard to handle the knowledge of all the bad stuff unwinding in front of our eyes, and what the future will bring.
We might be up the creek, but at least we starting to paddle.
Mblanc / October 4, 2017
… at least we are starting to paddle.
Suzanne / October 4, 2017
At NYTimes this morning..”In a warming world, keeping the planes running”
Climate change is making airport planners think again.
Low-lying airports may become increasingly vulnerable to storm surges. Hotter temperatures may cause tarmac to melt, restrict takeoff weights or require heavier aircraft to take off later in the day.
Now governments, companies and experts around the world are grappling with what could be a very expensive problem. Keeping the industry aloft requires colossal investment — $1.1 trillion in airport infrastructure projects are planned or underway, the CAPA Center for Aviation, a consulting firm based in Australia, said in July.
“Airports understand well that climate change could have some far-reaching effects and that they are not immune to them,” said Angela Gittens, the director general at Airports Council International’s headquarters in Montreal.
Suzanne / October 4, 2017
Correction…This was first published on September 30th…I just saw it this morning.
wili / October 5, 2017
Most of the ‘industry’ should just be shut down. Relatively few flights are absolutely necessary. What’s left of the carbon budget and the airlines budget should be saved for those, rather than the enormous numbers of frivolous flights now being taken.
I just celebrated my 13 year of not flying, by the way. Never regretted it for a day (especially as I hear the increasingly horrific stories of what airlines put you through and how passengers are sometimes molested and dragged of the plane by force…)
bostonblorp / October 4, 2017
“Solar Grew Faster Than All Other Forms of Power for the First Time”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... s-of-power
Jean Mcmahon / October 4, 2017
Moroccan city introduces Chinese electrical buses
The Moroccan city of Marrakech launched on Thursday electrical busses from China in a bid to improve transportation service and reduce pollution…http://www.china.org.cn/business/2017-0 ... FU.twitter
Apneaman / October 5, 2017
Dave McGinnis / October 5, 2017
Industry got us into this mess, only they can get us out of it. This is one way they’re doing it — satisfying consumer demand for green transportation. And look at solar sales.
P.S. Mr Scribbler, I really appreciated your OPAL story.
Andy_in_SD / October 5, 2017
As permafrost melts, cliff faces fall. In this instance in Greenland a Tsunami was the result.
A Landslide Was the Culprit Behind a Massive Tsunami in Greenland
This could be just the beginning.
Western Greenland doesn’t experience all that much seismic activity, so scientists were surprised when a 4.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the Karrat Fjord area on June 17, followed by one of the largest tsunamis in recorded history, which swept away 11 houses in the small village of Nuugaatsiaq. A closer examination of seismic data and the mountains surrounding the fjord reveals that it wasn’t an earthquake that caused the tsunami after all. Instead, it was a massive landslide that tripped seismic sensors and generated the unprecedented wave.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gr ... rrat-fjord
Exposing the Big Game / October 5, 2017
Reblogged this on The Extinction Chronicles.
wili / October 5, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... rgy-agency
“Renewables accounted for two-thirds of new power added to world’s grids last year, says International Energy Agency (IEA)”
“The authority, which is funded by 28 member governments, admitted it had previously underestimated the speed at which green energy was growing.”
Allan Barr / October 5, 2017
The IEA is notorious for being wrong, they use straight line thinking appear to be unaware of the exponential function.
Abel Adamski / October 5, 2017
Slightly OT, but the gems you pick up along the way in the droppings
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/0 ... ger-243449
Marc Short, Trump’s director of legislative affairs who previously served as an operative for the Koch financial network,
Vic / October 5, 2017
A nice project going ahead in Norway – the world’s first battery powered container ship. Due to launch in 2018.
Vic / October 5, 2017
In other news from Norway, parts of the country’s south have witnessed their highest ever rainfall totals and flood levels in records dating back to 1890.
https://watchers.news/2017/10/04/norway-flood/
Abel Adamski / October 5, 2017
https://www.voanews.com/a/arabian-sea-i ... 57392.html
In news about Asia and the Indian Sub Continent
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Tesla’s Electric Sales Explode Despite Slow Model 3 Production Ramp
Around the world, electric vehicle makers are starting to make serious inroads into the global auto market. And aspirational industry leader Tesla continues to break new ground and open new markets despite an increasing array of challenges.
Record Tesla Sales
During the third quarter of 2017, Tesla sold 26,150 all-electric vehicles. A new quarterly sales record for the company which included 14,065 super-fast luxury Model S sedans, 11,865 of the also super-fast and highly luxurious Model X SUV, and 220 of the mid-class luxury-sport Model 3. In total, during 2017, Tesla has sold more than 73,000 vehicles. Placing the all-electric vehicle and renewable energy systems manufacturer in a position to challenge the 100,000 cars sold mark by end of December.
(Tesla production and sales by Quarter shows that Q3 2017 beat Tesla’s previous record by more than 1,300 vehicles. Tesla appears on track to hit near 100,000 vehicle sales in 2017. Note that Model X production took 6 Quarters, or approximately 18 months to fully ramp to present sales rates above 10,000 per Quarter. Telsa ultimately expects to produce more than 60,000 Model 3s per Quarter by 2018. Investment analysts are more conservative — with Morgan Stanley targeting 30,000 Model 3s per Quarter. Image source: Commons.)
Surprises in Tesla’s Q3 report include greater than expected overall Model S and X sales. Pessimistic speculation about Tesla struggling to sell its higher-quality line as customers await the anticipated but less expensive and tweaked-out (but still bad-@#$) Model 3 abounded throughout August and September. Those contributing to this brouhaha, however, did not appear to anticipate the excitement generated by Tesla’s Model 3 launch which appears to have spilled over to the more expensive line-up even as Tesla both offered incentives on some of its showroom vehicles and cut shorter range, lower cost versions of its Model S line-up.
Tesla Model 3 Production Ramp — A Miss, But Still in the Window
Tesla did, however, fail to meet Model 3 production ramp goals of 1,500 by the end of September. And this was one point where the Tesla pessimists ended up proving at least partly right. Citing production bottlenecks, the luxury EV manufacturer noted that it had produced only 260 Model 3s by end month — a 1,240 vehicle short-fall for the Quarter.
Overall vehicle production had still grown from July through September — hitting 30 in July, about 80 in August, and about 150 in September. This is still an exponential rate of expansion. But the more rapid anticipated ramp was not achieved. Tesla noted that most of their fast production chain was functioning as planned. But that a few bits of the complex and highly automated Model 3 manufacturing subsystems were taking “longer than expected to activate.”
(Tesla’s ground-breaking Model 3 missed company production targets by a fairly wide margin this month — triggering a big controversy among investors. Long term prospects for the Model 3 remain strong as Tesla works through what is, effectively, an employee beta testing period. Image source: Tesla.)
At first blush, this appears to be a fairly wide miss in Tesla’s planned production ramp. But if rapid production scaling is still achieved this fall, it will look like nothing more than a bit of a bump in the road. After the Q3 report, Elon Musk noted:
“I would simply urge people to not get too caught up in what exactly falls within the exact calendar boundaries of a quarter, one quarter or the next, because when you have an exponentially growing production ramp, slight changes of a few weeks here or there can appear to have dramatic changes.”
In other words, we are still in the window for rapid production scaling, even if the earlier, more rapid, ramp was missed by a few weeks.
The company previously struggled with its very complex production of the ultimately popular Model X. To address production challenges, Tesla aimed to simplify production for the Model 3. But integration of new automated equipment into large manufacturing chains as the vehicle is built and product-tested by employee-customers is proving to again pose a few challenges. Challenges that, at this time, do not appear to be anywhere near as serious as those encountered during the Model X production ramp, but are still enough to produce delays.
Tesla Model 3 Production Still About to Explode as EV Maker Enjoys Serious Structural Advantages
Keeping these facts in mind, we can take some of the overly negative reports following Tesla’s failure to hit early Model 3 production targets with a lump of salt. The company still produces amazing cars, is still going to flood the world with high-quality and much more affordable all-electric Model 3s. The company owns a massive manufacturing apparatus in the form if its Freemont plant and Nevada Gigafactory. An apparatus that is rapidly growing. Outside this expanding manufacturing chain, the company is the only major automaker to seriously invest in and rapidly expand crucial EV charging infrastructure. All of these are systemic underlying strengths that the electric automaker will continue to leverage and expand on.
(Tesla battery sales help to reduce EV battery pack costs by producing economies of scale in production. The reverse is also true. With demand for Tesla’s powerwall and powerpacks on the rise, the company possesses a number of systemic advantages that most automobile manufacturers lack. Image source: Tesla.)
Tesla is in the process of transitioning from an automaker that produces a moderate number of vehicles each year to a major automaker that produces more than half a million vehicles each year. And it’s bound to encounter a bump or two in the road from time-to-time. Ultimately, the Model 3 production ramp will hit its stride as Tesla works out the kinks. Around 500,000 reservation-holders will still get their cars.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley recently:
warned investors against “micro-analyzing the monthly ramp of the Model 3.” Most vehicle launches have hiccups, and quality and attractiveness count for far more importance than quantity “at least for now,” they said in a note.
Tesla was quick to stress that it foresaw no serious issues with the Model 3 production. That the company understood what needed to be fixed in the manufacturing chain and was working to address those issues. If this is the case, we should see Model 3 production start to ramp more swiftly over the coming weeks. But even without rapidly ramping Model 3 production — which is on the way sooner or later — Tesla is still smashing previously held all-electric sales records.
And for those of us concerned about climate change, that’s good news.
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Allan Barr / October 3, 2017
We are in the early stages of a massive transformation into renewables and battery storage. A paradigm shift equal to the transformation from Horse and Buggy into ICE. That Change took a couple of decades. For those who care about the biosphere and can afford to invest in companies like Tesla its going to be good for their soul and pocketbook. Thanks for throwing out some positive news every now and then Robert, am personally struggling to remain optimistic when the deluge of ongoing catastrophic climate events appears overwhelming.
robertscribbler / October 3, 2017
It’s important not to get too focused on the dark side of what’s happening. We should remain alert to real and viable threats. But we should also remain open to the options that are now becoming available to us. In other words — there is both light and darkness here.
Worth noting that Rick Perry is now pushing to subsidize the ailing nuclear and coal industries. Small surprise, that. The largest threats to renewables remain on the policy level. We should do all we can to support renewables by voting for politicians (democrats primarily) that support alternative options and voting out those (republicans primarily) who oppose them.
Allan Barr / October 4, 2017
10 new members in just the past month. I believe this group may be the single most important development in the political arena. https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climat ... ns-caucus/
robertscribbler / October 3, 2017
Test version of Tesla’s all-electric semi also found recently:
Greg / October 3, 2017
Nicely timed. I found this 30 minute summary of Jack Richard’s analysis well worth listening to (originally 2 hours or so). He’s not a traditional analyst, but has done his homework including actual taking apart of the cars, and doesn’t come off polished but he nails Tesla spot on and covers why it can dominate the future as a company and why we will all benefit.
Abel Adamski / October 4, 2017
Excellent Video, share it around
Jim / October 4, 2017
+1 Allan, you are spot on when saying we’re in the midst of a massive energy transformation.
With the Tesla Model 3, Chevy Bolt, and Nissan Leaf among others, the tipping point of EVs having a lower lifetime operating cost compared to ICE has already been soundly crossed, and the tipping point to build, and purchase, an EV is probably only 2 – 3 years away.
Plus this doesn’t consider the regulatory activities that are now happening globally. The combination of PV solar panels and EV’s and soon, storage batteries, can dramatically influence the demand for oil and coal. Equally as important, people need to know it’s also economical.
Do your own calculation using the NREL PV Watts website for you specific street address to calculate PV generation, and calculate your cost to drive with electric vs gasoline. Most folks are being ripped off to the tune of thousands of dollars each and every year. There is no such thing as “Clean, Affordable Coal”. It’s expensive. And gasoline even at $2.50/gallon is still about 4 times the cost of driving on electricity.
wili / October 4, 2017
Ford’s announcement today:
Ford CEO outlines plan to aggressively cut costs, funneling savings to electric, self-driving cars
The Blue Oval is getting a makeover.
Ford CEO Jim Hackett and his leadership team are steering the automaker to drive greater profits on its most valuable products, trucks and SUVs, while turning away from less valuable areas like cars. At the same time, Ford plans to aggressively cut costs while investing more resources on electric and autonomous-drive vehicles.
“When you’re a long-lived company that has had success over multiple decades, the decision to change is not easy — culturally or operationally,” Hackett said. “Ultimately, though, we must accept the virtues that brought us success over the past century are really no guarantee of future success.”
Hackett devised his plan for transforming Ford after using most of his first 100 days at the helm to evaluate what works and what doesn’t. The result is a substantial push to shift gears at a company that has a history of being slow to change.
More trucks and SUVs, fewer Cars
Ford plans to reallocate about $7 billion to increased development and production of trucks and SUVs, while demphasizing less profitable cars and sedans.
Ford is not getting out of the car business all-together, but it will no longer be an automaker that pushes cars as heavily as it has in the past.
Instead, Ford will emphasize trucks and SUVs, an area of strength and big profits, especially when compared its competitors. This year, 76 percent of Ford’s sales in the U.S. are trucks and SUVs.
Charging up EVs
Like other automakers, Ford is going electric.
Over the next five years, it will redeploy money into its program for developing and building electric vehicles while cutting capital expenditures for internal combustion engines by one third.
Ford sees the writing on the wall, especially in many foreign markets where governments are de-emphasizing or moving to ban gasoline-powered vehicles. This move is critical since Ford has lagged competitors when it comes to developing EVs. …
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/03/ford-to ... -cars.html
Generally, we need to move mostly away from car culture as rapidly as we can. But while cars still rule, it is important to have alternatives it ICE, imho.
wili / October 4, 2017
Other developments:
“I’ve gotten messages from the governor asking, ‘Why haven’t we done something already?’” Nichols said, referring to China’s planned phase-out of fossil-fuel vehicle sales. “The governor has certainly indicated an interest in why China can do this and not California.”
California is now also considering a ban on gas and diesel-powered cars
https://electrek.co/2017/09/26/californ ... ered-cars/
wili / October 4, 2017
And:
Twenty new electric vehicles are on the way, GM says
There will be a mix of long-range battery EVs and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
DETROIT—General Motors is the latest car company to unveil plans for an emissions-free future. On Monday morning, the US’ largest automaker announced that the next 18 months will see two new electric vehicles join the Bolt EV in showrooms, and 18 more are due by 2023. “GM believes in an all-electric future and a world free of automotive emissions,” said Mark Reuss, GM’s executive VP for product development, purchasing, and supply chain. “When the Bolt EV was announced at CES it was described as a platform, and this is the next step.” …
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/ge ... g-by-2023/
wili / October 4, 2017
Sorry for the back-to-back, but I’ve been following these developments over at the cars thread at ASIF. Thanks to Sig there for these links and text. One more note, then I’m off to bed:
Most of the fastest selling used cars in the US are now electric
https://qz.com/1090343/most-of-the-fast ... re-now-ev/
6 of the 10 fastest-selling used cars in the US are electric plug-ins
https://electrek.co/2017/09/28/6-of-the ... -plug-ins/
Tipping points, of a happier sort than we usually use that term around here, seem to be coming on all sorts of fronts wrt EVs!
Abel Adamski / October 5, 2017
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/04/por ... d-testing/
Porsche Mission E caught testing against Teslas
It looks as though Porsche is pretty far in development.
Porsche has previously said that the Mission E would reach production by 2020, and according to our friends at Engadget, it should go on sale in 2019. Based on how complete the cars in these photos appear to be, we think the company has a good chance of hitting that target. When the concept was shown, Porsche promised 590 horsepower and, on the European test cycle, a range of over 310 miles. Also interesting was the concept’s claimed 800-volt electrical system that could be charged to 80 percent capacity in 15 minutes. Time will tell whether that system comes to fruition, but Porsche has at least tested some portion of the system on its Le Mans-winning 919 Hybrid race cars. Porsche also expects to sell the car for $80,000 to $90,000. All these features taken together would definitely make for a compelling Tesla alternative.
California and charging stations
Abel Adamski / October 4, 2017
The issue for the big auto makers is simply charging stations as Jack Richards points out in the video Greg posted above, as Jack points out to much of the buying public, can they drive to California in it ( even if they never will ) , Tesla has built 380 or so supercharger stations in the US, so for Tesla cars it is a yes, for the other manufacturers, unless their vehicles can plug into a Tesla Supercharger, the answer is no, so off the list of prospective veh purchases.
As he also points out Tesla offered a share in that network to the Car Manufacturers on a share all costs basis, they knocked it back, as such dependant on private operators and those stations if they are working are of highly variable standard.
Another interesting point I picked up that is behind the panic of the worlds ICE veh manufacturers is that US car makers sell 60% of their new cars in China, China going EV as well as many other countries, destroys their business model if they don’t have suitable products regardless of what happens in the US
Vic / October 4, 2017
I personally find it pretty bizarre that I’m actually looking forward to the unveiling of a new semi truck, but these are pretty strange times so I guess that explains my enthusiasm.
I feel a certain measure of trepidation however about Elon’s plans for his massive new rocket ship the BFR, which could allow us not only to become a multi-planet species but also to travel anywhere on Earth in under an hour for around the same cost as traditional air travel. Sounds great, except that it would likely increase the popularity of long distance travel and considering the rocket’s CO2 emissions high into our atmosphere this is somewhat concerning.
But there might just be a silver lining. In order for Elon to achieve his Martian goals he’ll need to be able to produce methane and oxygen on Mars in order for the rockets and people to get back to Earth. For this he proposes using electrolysis to extract O2 and H2 from water sources on Mars and combining the H2 using the Sabatier process with CO2 extracted from Mars’ atmosphere to produce the methane. All solar powered of course.
He mentions it briefly around the 33:50 mark in the video below, and goes on to mention that the same process could be employed on Earth, but is also careful to describe that possibility as “in the long term”. It’s hard to know what someone like Elon Musk thinks of as long term. He plans to begin sending his rockets to Mars by 2022. Let’s hope he has a fleet of Earth bound climate-friendly methane factories putting the frackers out of business by then. A price on carbon would certainly help.
Vic / October 4, 2017
Vic / October 4, 2017
German startup Lilium Aviation have secured $90 million in funding to help bring their new electric VTOL aircraft to market. The funding was led by Tencent – adding to their now many electric vehicle-related investments, including a 5% stake in Tesla.
https://electrek.co/2017/10/02/electric ... ilium-jet/
Mblanc / October 4, 2017
Ten years ago we could see the future was looking pretty dark, and we had relatively little positive evidence that the massive energy transition we need was truly imminent.
Now we know that transition will happen, as all the key tech is now very affordable, so it’s now a question of how fast .That is a huge positive thing.
I appreciate RS letting us know about some of the genuinely good news stories, because it is hard to handle the knowledge of all the bad stuff unwinding in front of our eyes, and what the future will bring.
We might be up the creek, but at least we starting to paddle.
Mblanc / October 4, 2017
… at least we are starting to paddle.
Suzanne / October 4, 2017
At NYTimes this morning..”In a warming world, keeping the planes running”
Climate change is making airport planners think again.
Low-lying airports may become increasingly vulnerable to storm surges. Hotter temperatures may cause tarmac to melt, restrict takeoff weights or require heavier aircraft to take off later in the day.
Now governments, companies and experts around the world are grappling with what could be a very expensive problem. Keeping the industry aloft requires colossal investment — $1.1 trillion in airport infrastructure projects are planned or underway, the CAPA Center for Aviation, a consulting firm based in Australia, said in July.
“Airports understand well that climate change could have some far-reaching effects and that they are not immune to them,” said Angela Gittens, the director general at Airports Council International’s headquarters in Montreal.
Suzanne / October 4, 2017
Correction…This was first published on September 30th…I just saw it this morning.
wili / October 5, 2017
Most of the ‘industry’ should just be shut down. Relatively few flights are absolutely necessary. What’s left of the carbon budget and the airlines budget should be saved for those, rather than the enormous numbers of frivolous flights now being taken.
I just celebrated my 13 year of not flying, by the way. Never regretted it for a day (especially as I hear the increasingly horrific stories of what airlines put you through and how passengers are sometimes molested and dragged of the plane by force…)
bostonblorp / October 4, 2017
“Solar Grew Faster Than All Other Forms of Power for the First Time”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... s-of-power
Jean Mcmahon / October 4, 2017
Moroccan city introduces Chinese electrical buses
The Moroccan city of Marrakech launched on Thursday electrical busses from China in a bid to improve transportation service and reduce pollution…http://www.china.org.cn/business/2017-0 ... FU.twitter
Apneaman / October 5, 2017
Dave McGinnis / October 5, 2017
Industry got us into this mess, only they can get us out of it. This is one way they’re doing it — satisfying consumer demand for green transportation. And look at solar sales.
P.S. Mr Scribbler, I really appreciated your OPAL story.
Andy_in_SD / October 5, 2017
As permafrost melts, cliff faces fall. In this instance in Greenland a Tsunami was the result.
A Landslide Was the Culprit Behind a Massive Tsunami in Greenland
This could be just the beginning.
Western Greenland doesn’t experience all that much seismic activity, so scientists were surprised when a 4.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the Karrat Fjord area on June 17, followed by one of the largest tsunamis in recorded history, which swept away 11 houses in the small village of Nuugaatsiaq. A closer examination of seismic data and the mountains surrounding the fjord reveals that it wasn’t an earthquake that caused the tsunami after all. Instead, it was a massive landslide that tripped seismic sensors and generated the unprecedented wave.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gr ... rrat-fjord
Exposing the Big Game / October 5, 2017
Reblogged this on The Extinction Chronicles.
wili / October 5, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... rgy-agency
“Renewables accounted for two-thirds of new power added to world’s grids last year, says International Energy Agency (IEA)”
“The authority, which is funded by 28 member governments, admitted it had previously underestimated the speed at which green energy was growing.”
Allan Barr / October 5, 2017
The IEA is notorious for being wrong, they use straight line thinking appear to be unaware of the exponential function.
Abel Adamski / October 5, 2017
Slightly OT, but the gems you pick up along the way in the droppings
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/0 ... ger-243449
Marc Short, Trump’s director of legislative affairs who previously served as an operative for the Koch financial network,
Vic / October 5, 2017
A nice project going ahead in Norway – the world’s first battery powered container ship. Due to launch in 2018.
Vic / October 5, 2017
In other news from Norway, parts of the country’s south have witnessed their highest ever rainfall totals and flood levels in records dating back to 1890.
https://watchers.news/2017/10/04/norway-flood/
Abel Adamski / October 5, 2017
https://www.voanews.com/a/arabian-sea-i ... 57392.html
In news about Asia and the Indian Sub Continent
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Narragansett Bay is Being Impacted by Climate Change; Scott Pruitt’s EPA Says Scientists Can’t Talk About it
Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier who was tapped to head the EPA by a similarly myopic Trump Administration now appears to be wielding the powers of that government agency to suppress the voices of climate scientists.
A report out of the New York Times yesterday found that three scientists scheduled to discuss the impacts of human-caused climate change on the sensitive environment of Narragansett Bay were barred from speaking in a panel discussion today. The scientists are employees of the EPA and contributors to a 400 page report on the health of Narragansett Bay. The study found numerous climate change related impacts to the Bay region — which is a vital economic resource and home to more than 2 million people.
The study found that:
“Climate change is affecting air and water temperatures, precipitation, sea level, and fish in the Narragansett Bay region.”
The EPA, presently headed by Scott Pruitt, gave no reason why the scientists were barred from sharing their climate change related findings at the panel. An agency charged with protecting the clean air and water of the United States, the EPA has likely never housed an administrator so at odds with its institutional mission. Pruitt has opposed numerous agency actions and has worked throughout his career to undermine both the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. Laws that aim to protect American citizens and wildlife from the harmful health impacts of polluted water and damaging particulates in the air.
Pruitt has also received criticism recently for spending $25,000 for a sound proof booth to mask his communications with who knows who, using considerable government funds to pay for round-the-clock personal security, and individually spending more than $58,000 for private charter jet flights.
(Scott Pruitt’s numerous ties to climate change denial and fossil fuel industries. Image source: Desmogblog.)
Pruitt was also one of a number of lawyers who directly challenged the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gasses in an effort to protect the U.S. from the harmful impacts of climate change during the Obama Administration. Pruitt has received significant campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry and is the direct beneficiary of strong political support from climate change denial promoting agencies like the Heartland Institute.
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D) stated his opposition to this week’s nonsensical censoring of EPA funded scientists stating:
“Narragansett Bay is one of Rhode Island’s most important economic assets and the EPA won’t let its scientists talk with local leaders to plan for its future. Whatever you think about climate change, this kind of collaboration should be a no-brainer. Muzzling our leading scientists benefits no one.”
Links:
EPA Cancels Talk on Climate Change by Agency Scientists
Furor Erupts over EPA Decision to Pull Scientists From Panel Discussion
Desmogblog
Narragansett Bay is Being Impacted by Climate Change; Scott Pruitt’s EPA Says Scientists Can’t Talk About it
Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier who was tapped to head the EPA by a similarly myopic Trump Administration now appears to be wielding the powers of that government agency to suppress the voices of climate scientists.
A report out of the New York Times yesterday found that three scientists scheduled to discuss the impacts of human-caused climate change on the sensitive environment of Narragansett Bay were barred from speaking in a panel discussion today. The scientists are employees of the EPA and contributors to a 400 page report on the health of Narragansett Bay. The study found numerous climate change related impacts to the Bay region — which is a vital economic resource and home to more than 2 million people.
The study found that:
“Climate change is affecting air and water temperatures, precipitation, sea level, and fish in the Narragansett Bay region.”
The EPA, presently headed by Scott Pruitt, gave no reason why the scientists were barred from sharing their climate change related findings at the panel. An agency charged with protecting the clean air and water of the United States, the EPA has likely never housed an administrator so at odds with its institutional mission. Pruitt has opposed numerous agency actions and has worked throughout his career to undermine both the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. Laws that aim to protect American citizens and wildlife from the harmful health impacts of polluted water and damaging particulates in the air.
Pruitt has also received criticism recently for spending $25,000 for a sound proof booth to mask his communications with who knows who, using considerable government funds to pay for round-the-clock personal security, and individually spending more than $58,000 for private charter jet flights.
(Scott Pruitt’s numerous ties to climate change denial and fossil fuel industries. Image source: Desmogblog.)
Pruitt was also one of a number of lawyers who directly challenged the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gasses in an effort to protect the U.S. from the harmful impacts of climate change during the Obama Administration. Pruitt has received significant campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry and is the direct beneficiary of strong political support from climate change denial promoting agencies like the Heartland Institute.
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D) stated his opposition to this week’s nonsensical censoring of EPA funded scientists stating:
“Narragansett Bay is one of Rhode Island’s most important economic assets and the EPA won’t let its scientists talk with local leaders to plan for its future. Whatever you think about climate change, this kind of collaboration should be a no-brainer. Muzzling our leading scientists benefits no one.”
Links:
EPA Cancels Talk on Climate Change by Agency Scientists
Furor Erupts over EPA Decision to Pull Scientists From Panel Discussion
Desmogblog
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Sudden Severe Flood Leaves 14 Dead in Athens, Forecasts Show Up to 15+ Additional Inches on the Way for Greece
Extreme drought. Extreme floods.
Unfortunately, with human-caused climate change, these kinds of devastating events have become far more frequent. With the Earth warming by around 1.1 to 1.2 C above pre-industrial averages, there are now four times as many instances of extreme weather than there were as recently as the 1970s.
What this means is that anywhere around the world now, the hammer of severe weather and related damages is four times more likely to fall than in the past. That the tempo of such events is now greatly increased. All thanks to continued fossil fuel burning, atmospheric CO2 levels that will average around 407 ppm over the coming months, the heat that these greenhouse gasses are continuing to add to the Earth’s climate system, and a failure to transition swiftly enough to more sustainable practices and zero carbon energy sources to prevent ramping damages.
Major Rain Event Strikes Athens — With More Severe Weather in the Forecast
Today, the major blow appears to have fallen on Greece. To the west of this country, over the Mediterranean, a cut off low is creating instability throughout the region. An intense, thick, moist warm air flow is moving in from the south. This warm and very water dense air is then colliding with a colder air mass to the north. Upper level instability is feeding powerful convection erupting in the atmosphere above Greece. And this convection is producing some mountainous thunderheads.
Sudden Severe Flood Leaves 14 Dead in Athens, Forecasts Show Up to 15+ Additional Inches on the Way for Greece
Extreme drought. Extreme floods.
Unfortunately, with human-caused climate change, these kinds of devastating events have become far more frequent. With the Earth warming by around 1.1 to 1.2 C above pre-industrial averages, there are now four times as many instances of extreme weather than there were as recently as the 1970s.
What this means is that anywhere around the world now, the hammer of severe weather and related damages is four times more likely to fall than in the past. That the tempo of such events is now greatly increased. All thanks to continued fossil fuel burning, atmospheric CO2 levels that will average around 407 ppm over the coming months, the heat that these greenhouse gasses are continuing to add to the Earth’s climate system, and a failure to transition swiftly enough to more sustainable practices and zero carbon energy sources to prevent ramping damages.
Major Rain Event Strikes Athens — With More Severe Weather in the Forecast
Today, the major blow appears to have fallen on Greece. To the west of this country, over the Mediterranean, a cut off low is creating instability throughout the region. An intense, thick, moist warm air flow is moving in from the south. This warm and very water dense air is then colliding with a colder air mass to the north. Upper level instability is feeding powerful convection erupting in the atmosphere above Greece. And this convection is producing some mountainous thunderheads.
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Deadly California Wildfire Erupts in December, Forcing Thousands to Flee
Last night a 500 acre fire exploded to massive size — raging over the hills of Ventura County in Los Angeles. Fanned by strong Santa Anna winds, the fire ballooned to over 45,000 acres by Tuesday morning forcing the evacuation of several thousand homes.
Already there are reports of homes and structures destroyed as the fire rages in or near a number of populated areas. Late last night, power was cut off to upwards of 200,000 people as the fire crossed utility lines. And as of early this morning, the fire was reportedly advancing toward Ventura with 500 firefighters on the scene trying to beat the blaze back. Thankfully, as of yet, there are no reports of injury or loss of life.
Climate conditions on the ground have been very conducive to out-of-season wildfires. During the past month, temperatures across the region have trended between 2 and 4 degrees Celsius above average. Southern California is settling into drought. And over the past day, a strong high pressure system gathering to the north helped to send 40-60 mph Santa Ana winds rocketing over the hills and valleys around Los Angeles.
(Powerful high pressure ridge north of California sent strong Santa Ana winds over a region of California experiencing a warmer than normal fall and falling into drought. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)
Due to human-forced climate change and a related warming of the U.S. Southwest, the fire season for California now never really ends. Global temperatures have increased by 1.1 to 1.2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, and climate zones are moving north. Both warmer temperatures and more extreme ranges of precipitation due to climate change aid wildfires in the west — first by allowing for rapid growth of vegetation during more intense wet periods and second by drying out these growths more swiftly as the climate regime switches to dry.
Since the 1980s, the number of large wildfires out west has quadrupled. But if fossil fuel burning continues, warming will also continue and the already difficult conditions we see will further worsen.
We are entering a time when a region of the west from California all the way north to Alaska and Alberta are starting to see wildfires capable of threatening cities with increasing frequency. If we are to dampen this trend, we need a change to less harmful energy sources and fast.
Genomik / December 5, 2017
I found this on Google on YouTube, it seems like a guy reading tweets but thats good news. Its better than watching CNN which shows another catastrophe 24/7 named tRump.
I can’t believe how fast these fire bombs happen in California. I just travelled with some people from down there, I hope they are ok. Its scary!
https://news.google.com/news/video/ugSV ... =en&ned=us
Christina MacPherson / December 5, 2017
Reblogged this on nuclear-news.
mlp in nc / December 5, 2017
Future arctic sea ice loss could dry out California. Dec 5, 2017. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 092142.htm
The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice cover observed over the satellite era is expected to continue throughout the 21st century. Over the next few decades, the Arctic Ocean is projected to become ice-free during the summer. A new study by Ivana Cvijanovic and colleagues from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley shows that substantial loss of Arctic sea ice could have significant far-field effects, and is likely to impact the amount of precipitation California receives. The research appears in the Dec. 5 edition of Nature Communications.
The study identifies a new link between Arctic sea ice loss and the development of an atmospheric ridging system in the North Pacific. This atmospheric feature also played a central role in the 2012-2016 California drought and is known for steering precipitation-rich storms northward, into Alaska and Canada, and away from California. The team found that sea ice changes can lead to convection changes over the tropical Pacific. These convection changes can in turn drive the formation of an atmospheric ridge in the North Pacific, resulting in significant drying over California.
robertscribbler / December 5, 2017
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Deadly California Wildfire Erupts in December, Forcing Thousands to Flee
Last night a 500 acre fire exploded to massive size — raging over the hills of Ventura County in Los Angeles. Fanned by strong Santa Anna winds, the fire ballooned to over 45,000 acres by Tuesday morning forcing the evacuation of several thousand homes.
Already there are reports of homes and structures destroyed as the fire rages in or near a number of populated areas. Late last night, power was cut off to upwards of 200,000 people as the fire crossed utility lines. And as of early this morning, the fire was reportedly advancing toward Ventura with 500 firefighters on the scene trying to beat the blaze back. Thankfully, as of yet, there are no reports of injury or loss of life.
Climate conditions on the ground have been very conducive to out-of-season wildfires. During the past month, temperatures across the region have trended between 2 and 4 degrees Celsius above average. Southern California is settling into drought. And over the past day, a strong high pressure system gathering to the north helped to send 40-60 mph Santa Ana winds rocketing over the hills and valleys around Los Angeles.
(Powerful high pressure ridge north of California sent strong Santa Ana winds over a region of California experiencing a warmer than normal fall and falling into drought. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)
Due to human-forced climate change and a related warming of the U.S. Southwest, the fire season for California now never really ends. Global temperatures have increased by 1.1 to 1.2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, and climate zones are moving north. Both warmer temperatures and more extreme ranges of precipitation due to climate change aid wildfires in the west — first by allowing for rapid growth of vegetation during more intense wet periods and second by drying out these growths more swiftly as the climate regime switches to dry.
Since the 1980s, the number of large wildfires out west has quadrupled. But if fossil fuel burning continues, warming will also continue and the already difficult conditions we see will further worsen.
We are entering a time when a region of the west from California all the way north to Alaska and Alberta are starting to see wildfires capable of threatening cities with increasing frequency. If we are to dampen this trend, we need a change to less harmful energy sources and fast.
Genomik / December 5, 2017
I found this on Google on YouTube, it seems like a guy reading tweets but thats good news. Its better than watching CNN which shows another catastrophe 24/7 named tRump.
I can’t believe how fast these fire bombs happen in California. I just travelled with some people from down there, I hope they are ok. Its scary!
https://news.google.com/news/video/ugSV ... =en&ned=us
Christina MacPherson / December 5, 2017
Reblogged this on nuclear-news.
mlp in nc / December 5, 2017
Future arctic sea ice loss could dry out California. Dec 5, 2017. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 092142.htm
The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice cover observed over the satellite era is expected to continue throughout the 21st century. Over the next few decades, the Arctic Ocean is projected to become ice-free during the summer. A new study by Ivana Cvijanovic and colleagues from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley shows that substantial loss of Arctic sea ice could have significant far-field effects, and is likely to impact the amount of precipitation California receives. The research appears in the Dec. 5 edition of Nature Communications.
The study identifies a new link between Arctic sea ice loss and the development of an atmospheric ridging system in the North Pacific. This atmospheric feature also played a central role in the 2012-2016 California drought and is known for steering precipitation-rich storms northward, into Alaska and Canada, and away from California. The team found that sea ice changes can lead to convection changes over the tropical Pacific. These convection changes can in turn drive the formation of an atmospheric ridge in the North Pacific, resulting in significant drying over California.
robertscribbler / December 5, 2017
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Gusty Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions continued to stoke major wildfires in Southern California on Thursday as Ventura County fire officials said the battle there could last well over a week.
By Thursday evening, the Thomas fire had consumed 115,000 acres, destroyed 427 structures in Ventura and damaged at least 85 more, authorities said. An additional 12 structures were destroyed in unincorporated areas of Ventura County.
"Until the wind stops blowing, there's really not a lot we can do as far as controlling the perimeter," Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said as crews battled flames for the third day. "This is a fight we're going to be fighting probably for a couple of weeks."
Gusty Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions continued to stoke major wildfires in Southern California on Thursday as Ventura County fire officials said the battle there could last well over a week.
By Thursday evening, the Thomas fire had consumed 115,000 acres, destroyed 427 structures in Ventura and damaged at least 85 more, authorities said. An additional 12 structures were destroyed in unincorporated areas of Ventura County.
"Until the wind stops blowing, there's really not a lot we can do as far as controlling the perimeter," Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said as crews battled flames for the third day. "This is a fight we're going to be fighting probably for a couple of weeks."
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Thomas Fire Likely to Become Largest in California History
Fanned by Santa Ana winds gusting up to 65 mph, the Thomas Fire swiftly expanded toward the Santa Barbara community of Monticeto on Saturday. The blaze rapidly grew by 8,500 acres forcing numerous evacuations and road closures, including the emptying of a zoo.
Tonight, winds are still fanning burning embers and lighting spot fires in the Monticeto area. This video shows a palm tree burning as sparks fly down a local street.
Montecito is one of Santa Barbara’s more affluent communities. But as of this report, all homes have so far been kept safe due to valiant firefighting efforts by the more than 8,000 personnel battling what has aptly been called a monster blaze. That said, night-time flare ups and spot fires continue to make this defensive effort extraordinarily difficult.
Totaling 267,500 acres by late Saturday, the fire was at the time the third largest in California history. That’s just 12,500 acres smaller than the Cedar Fire which burned through the San Diego area in 2003. Winds presently fanning the fire near Santa Barbara are expected to die down tonight through Sunday. However, Santa Ana gusts of up to 55 mph are expected to return to the Ventura side of the fire on Sunday — risking rapid expansion there.
The blaze is still just 40 percent contained. Its sprawling extent and predicted continued dry and windy weather conditions make it likely that the fire will ultimately exceed the size of the Cedar Fire over the coming days. Firefighters had hoped to get the fire under control by January 1, 2018. But conditions, which include the longest running red-flag warning on record, have made the fire very unruly and difficult to manage despite the amazing efforts of the largest fire fighting force ever assembled by California.
Conditions associated with human-forced climate change are clearly a compounding issue. Various climate studies indicated that persistent ridging, above average temperatures, rising drought prevalence in winter, and unusually strong Santa Ana winds would increase fire danger for California as the Earth warmed. And this is the general state of affairs we now witness.
It’s a trend we see now. Large fires have become more prevalent in California. Fire officials now note that the fire season has grown in lock-step with warming to become a year-round affair. And thirteen of the twenty largest fires on record for California have occurred since the year 2000
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 140801.htm
Detecting cancer much earlier with use of tiny optical tweezers
Date:
December 14, 2017
Source:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Summary:
Researchers show how optical tweezers, which use beams of light to grip and manipulate tiny objects, including cells, can be miniaturized, opening the door to creating devices small enough to be inserted into the bloodstream to trap individual cancer cells and diagnose cancer in its earliest stages. The researchers replaced bulky lenses with optical fibers to make the device smaller and more portable.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 143613.htm
Lyme bacteria survive 28-day course of antibiotics months after infection
Living B. burgdorferi spirochetes were found in ticks that fed upon primates and in multiple organs after treatment with 28 days of doxycycline.
Date:
December 13, 2017
Source:
Tulane University
Summary:
Lyme bacteria can survive a 28-day course of antibiotic treatment four months following infection by tick bite, according to a new study using a primate model for the disease. Despite testing negative for Lyme disease, some subjects were infected with Lyme bacteria in heart, brain and other organs.
Link du jour
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baske ... -1.3706101
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... tion-rules
https://www.sciencedaily.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... m-activism
http://aapt.scitation.org/journal/ajp
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3705997
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... juana-expo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... helmed-too
https://www.theguardian.com/world/galle ... of-the-day
http://projectcensored.org/category/the ... 2016-2017/
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2016-2017
The presentation of the Top 25 stories of 2016-2017 extends the tradition originated by Professor Carl Jensen and his Sonoma State University students in 1976, while reflecting how the expansion of the Project to include affiliate faculty and students from campuses across North America has made the Project even more diverse and robust. During this year’s cycle, Project Censored reviewed over 300 Validated Independent News stories (VINs) representing the collective efforts of 310 college students and 27 professors from 12 college and university campuses that participate in our affiliate program.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ate-change
The year is 2037. This is what happens when the hurricane hits Miami
The climate is warming and the water is rising. In his new book, Jeff Goodellargues that sea-level rise will reshape our world in ways we can only begin to imagine
After the hurricane hit Miami in 2037, a foot of sand covered the famous bow-tie floor in the lobby of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. A dead manatee floated in the pool where Elvis had once swum. Most of the damage came not from the hurricane’s 175-mile-an-hour winds, but from the twenty-foot storm surge that overwhelmed the low-lying city.
In South Beach, historic Art Deco buildings were swept off their foundations. Mansions on Star Island were flooded up to their cut-glass doorknobs. A seventeen-mile stretch of Highway A1A that ran along the famous beaches up to Fort Lauderdale disappeared into the Atlantic. The storm knocked out the wastewater-treatment plant on Virginia Key, forcing the city to dump hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into Biscayne Bay.
Tampons and condoms littered the beaches, and the stench of human excrement stoked fears of cholera. More than three hundred people died, many of them swept away by the surging waters that submerged much of Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale; thirteen people were killed in traffic accidents as they scrambled to escape the city after the news spread—falsely, it turned out—that one of the nuclear reactors at Turkey Point, an aging power plant twenty-four miles south of Miami, had been destroyed by the surge and had sent a radioactive cloud floating over the city.
The president, of course, said that Miami would be back, that Americans did not give up, that the city would be rebuilt better and stronger than it had been before. But it was clear to those not fooling themselves that this storm was the beginning of the end of Miami as a booming twenty-first-century
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... -france-us
How new moms are supported – or not – in France v the US: a feminist cartoon
France offers full coverage for prenatal and postnatal care, but young mothers get little help afterwards. In the US, things can be even worse
The Mother Load: America is failing mothers. Help us change that
http://projectcensored.org/24-eight-use ... gs-police/
Eight Use of Force Policies to Prevent Killings by Police
Killings by police are not inevitable or difficult to prevent, according to a September 2016 study by Campaign Zero, a police-reform group formed in the aftermath of the Ferguson protests. The study, “Police Use of Force Policy Analysis,” examined police departments in ninety-one of the nation’s largest cities and found that departments with stricter use […]
Venue of last resort: the climate lawsuits threatening the future of big oil
https://robertscribbler.com/2017/12/17/ ... a-history/
Scribbling for environmental, social and economic justice
Thomas Fire Likely to Become Largest in California History
Fanned by Santa Ana winds gusting up to 65 mph, the Thomas Fire swiftly expanded toward the Santa Barbara community of Monticeto on Saturday. The blaze rapidly grew by 8,500 acres forcing numerous evacuations and road closures, including the emptying of a zoo.
Tonight, winds are still fanning burning embers and lighting spot fires in the Monticeto area. This video shows a palm tree burning as sparks fly down a local street.
Montecito is one of Santa Barbara’s more affluent communities. But as of this report, all homes have so far been kept safe due to valiant firefighting efforts by the more than 8,000 personnel battling what has aptly been called a monster blaze. That said, night-time flare ups and spot fires continue to make this defensive effort extraordinarily difficult.
Totaling 267,500 acres by late Saturday, the fire was at the time the third largest in California history. That’s just 12,500 acres smaller than the Cedar Fire which burned through the San Diego area in 2003. Winds presently fanning the fire near Santa Barbara are expected to die down tonight through Sunday. However, Santa Ana gusts of up to 55 mph are expected to return to the Ventura side of the fire on Sunday — risking rapid expansion there.
The blaze is still just 40 percent contained. Its sprawling extent and predicted continued dry and windy weather conditions make it likely that the fire will ultimately exceed the size of the Cedar Fire over the coming days. Firefighters had hoped to get the fire under control by January 1, 2018. But conditions, which include the longest running red-flag warning on record, have made the fire very unruly and difficult to manage despite the amazing efforts of the largest fire fighting force ever assembled by California.
Conditions associated with human-forced climate change are clearly a compounding issue. Various climate studies indicated that persistent ridging, above average temperatures, rising drought prevalence in winter, and unusually strong Santa Ana winds would increase fire danger for California as the Earth warmed. And this is the general state of affairs we now witness.
It’s a trend we see now. Large fires have become more prevalent in California. Fire officials now note that the fire season has grown in lock-step with warming to become a year-round affair. And thirteen of the twenty largest fires on record for California have occurred since the year 2000
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 140801.htm
Detecting cancer much earlier with use of tiny optical tweezers
Date:
December 14, 2017
Source:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Summary:
Researchers show how optical tweezers, which use beams of light to grip and manipulate tiny objects, including cells, can be miniaturized, opening the door to creating devices small enough to be inserted into the bloodstream to trap individual cancer cells and diagnose cancer in its earliest stages. The researchers replaced bulky lenses with optical fibers to make the device smaller and more portable.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 143613.htm
Lyme bacteria survive 28-day course of antibiotics months after infection
Living B. burgdorferi spirochetes were found in ticks that fed upon primates and in multiple organs after treatment with 28 days of doxycycline.
Date:
December 13, 2017
Source:
Tulane University
Summary:
Lyme bacteria can survive a 28-day course of antibiotic treatment four months following infection by tick bite, according to a new study using a primate model for the disease. Despite testing negative for Lyme disease, some subjects were infected with Lyme bacteria in heart, brain and other organs.
Link du jour
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baske ... -1.3706101
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... tion-rules
https://www.sciencedaily.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... m-activism
http://aapt.scitation.org/journal/ajp
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3705997
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... juana-expo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... helmed-too
https://www.theguardian.com/world/galle ... of-the-day
http://projectcensored.org/category/the ... 2016-2017/
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2016-2017
The presentation of the Top 25 stories of 2016-2017 extends the tradition originated by Professor Carl Jensen and his Sonoma State University students in 1976, while reflecting how the expansion of the Project to include affiliate faculty and students from campuses across North America has made the Project even more diverse and robust. During this year’s cycle, Project Censored reviewed over 300 Validated Independent News stories (VINs) representing the collective efforts of 310 college students and 27 professors from 12 college and university campuses that participate in our affiliate program.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ate-change
The year is 2037. This is what happens when the hurricane hits Miami
The climate is warming and the water is rising. In his new book, Jeff Goodellargues that sea-level rise will reshape our world in ways we can only begin to imagine
After the hurricane hit Miami in 2037, a foot of sand covered the famous bow-tie floor in the lobby of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. A dead manatee floated in the pool where Elvis had once swum. Most of the damage came not from the hurricane’s 175-mile-an-hour winds, but from the twenty-foot storm surge that overwhelmed the low-lying city.
In South Beach, historic Art Deco buildings were swept off their foundations. Mansions on Star Island were flooded up to their cut-glass doorknobs. A seventeen-mile stretch of Highway A1A that ran along the famous beaches up to Fort Lauderdale disappeared into the Atlantic. The storm knocked out the wastewater-treatment plant on Virginia Key, forcing the city to dump hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into Biscayne Bay.
Tampons and condoms littered the beaches, and the stench of human excrement stoked fears of cholera. More than three hundred people died, many of them swept away by the surging waters that submerged much of Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale; thirteen people were killed in traffic accidents as they scrambled to escape the city after the news spread—falsely, it turned out—that one of the nuclear reactors at Turkey Point, an aging power plant twenty-four miles south of Miami, had been destroyed by the surge and had sent a radioactive cloud floating over the city.
The president, of course, said that Miami would be back, that Americans did not give up, that the city would be rebuilt better and stronger than it had been before. But it was clear to those not fooling themselves that this storm was the beginning of the end of Miami as a booming twenty-first-century
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... -france-us
How new moms are supported – or not – in France v the US: a feminist cartoon
France offers full coverage for prenatal and postnatal care, but young mothers get little help afterwards. In the US, things can be even worse
The Mother Load: America is failing mothers. Help us change that
http://projectcensored.org/24-eight-use ... gs-police/
Eight Use of Force Policies to Prevent Killings by Police
Killings by police are not inevitable or difficult to prevent, according to a September 2016 study by Campaign Zero, a police-reform group formed in the aftermath of the Ferguson protests. The study, “Police Use of Force Policy Analysis,” examined police departments in ninety-one of the nation’s largest cities and found that departments with stricter use […]
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Re: Heat is Online
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/30/nyp ... probation/
In Secretive Court Hearing, NYPD Cops Who Raped Brooklyn Teen in Custody Get No Jail Time
https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/indianap ... lack-teen/
White Indianapolis Cop Punches Black Teen in the Face
https://www.silive.com/news/2019/08/cha ... s-car.html
Charge dropped against tow truck driver arrested while repossessing cop’s car
Updated Aug 30, 1:48 PM; Posted Aug 30, 7:00 AM
https://www.inquirer.com/news/christine ... 90830.html
In 1990s, Philly’s now-interim top cop wore T-shirt: ‘L.A.P.D. We Treat You
Like a Rodney King
https://www.nj.com/news/2019/08/off-dut ... s-say.html
Off-duty cop punches woman in face and his gun goes off during Jersey Shore fight, prosecutors say
Updated 12:28 AM; Posted Aug 30, 5:19 PM
https://www.nj.com/cumberland/2019/08/p ... laims.html
Police chief wanted to sleep with my wife and daughter in exchange for a promotion, cop claims
Today 9:26 AM
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/f190829.pdf
http://ticklethewire.com/2019/08/30/int ... computers/
Internal Watchdog Discovers DOJ Official Viewed Porn on Government Computers
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... oth-enamel
Scientists discover way to ‘grow’ tooth enamel
Experts produce clusters of enamel-like calcium phosphate to crack age-old problem
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/8/eaaw9569
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... premacists
White supremacists 'swatted' my home to silence me. I will not be silent
Ijeoma Oluo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... sed-prison
Black Alabama man who served 36 years of life sentence for $50 robbery to be freed
Alvin Kennard imprisoned without parole for first-degree robbery under ‘three strikes law’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... oogle-says
Google says government hackers have put ‘monitoring implants’ in iPhones for years
Visiting hacked sites was enough for server to gather users’ images and contacts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ro ... spartandhp
Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan stabbed in prison
Dennis Romero
The man convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy was injured Friday in a stabbing in a California prison
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Political sign on display outside Alabama church sparks controversy — ‘A black vote for Trump is mental illness’
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 31, 2019 | 11:29 AM
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/30/ ... e-trooper/
State trooper charged with being impaired while accompanying driver with permit
Daniel Murray, a Maine State Trooper from Mount Vernon, was summoned Tuesday after being stopped by Waterville police while accompanying a 15-year-old permit driver while intoxicated.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ity-summer
Boiling point: in Tucson, not everyone is equal in the face of heat
In Secretive Court Hearing, NYPD Cops Who Raped Brooklyn Teen in Custody Get No Jail Time
https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/indianap ... lack-teen/
White Indianapolis Cop Punches Black Teen in the Face
https://www.silive.com/news/2019/08/cha ... s-car.html
Charge dropped against tow truck driver arrested while repossessing cop’s car
Updated Aug 30, 1:48 PM; Posted Aug 30, 7:00 AM
https://www.inquirer.com/news/christine ... 90830.html
In 1990s, Philly’s now-interim top cop wore T-shirt: ‘L.A.P.D. We Treat You
Like a Rodney King
https://www.nj.com/news/2019/08/off-dut ... s-say.html
Off-duty cop punches woman in face and his gun goes off during Jersey Shore fight, prosecutors say
Updated 12:28 AM; Posted Aug 30, 5:19 PM
https://www.nj.com/cumberland/2019/08/p ... laims.html
Police chief wanted to sleep with my wife and daughter in exchange for a promotion, cop claims
Today 9:26 AM
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/f190829.pdf
http://ticklethewire.com/2019/08/30/int ... computers/
Internal Watchdog Discovers DOJ Official Viewed Porn on Government Computers
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... oth-enamel
Scientists discover way to ‘grow’ tooth enamel
Experts produce clusters of enamel-like calcium phosphate to crack age-old problem
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/8/eaaw9569
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... premacists
White supremacists 'swatted' my home to silence me. I will not be silent
Ijeoma Oluo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... sed-prison
Black Alabama man who served 36 years of life sentence for $50 robbery to be freed
Alvin Kennard imprisoned without parole for first-degree robbery under ‘three strikes law’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... oogle-says
Google says government hackers have put ‘monitoring implants’ in iPhones for years
Visiting hacked sites was enough for server to gather users’ images and contacts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ro ... spartandhp
Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan stabbed in prison
Dennis Romero
The man convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy was injured Friday in a stabbing in a California prison
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Political sign on display outside Alabama church sparks controversy — ‘A black vote for Trump is mental illness’
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 31, 2019 | 11:29 AM
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/30/ ... e-trooper/
State trooper charged with being impaired while accompanying driver with permit
Daniel Murray, a Maine State Trooper from Mount Vernon, was summoned Tuesday after being stopped by Waterville police while accompanying a 15-year-old permit driver while intoxicated.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ity-summer
Boiling point: in Tucson, not everyone is equal in the face of heat
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https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/08/07/d ... ent-energy
Documents Shine New Light on Koch Brothers’ Early Efforts to Abolish the Department of Energy
https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/10/15/c ... are-action
Climate Change and Other Frights: 13 Environmental Books to Scare You Into Action
Read time: 5 mins
By Guest • Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 17:56
https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/04/26/t ... late-1970s
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
Read time: 7 mins
By Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 09:19
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/10/19/ ... awareness/
Artist uses ‘historic’ markers to raise climate awareness in New Hampshire, Massachusetts
These signs detail events like rising sea levels and an explosion of ticks that have yet to happen.
Documents Shine New Light on Koch Brothers’ Early Efforts to Abolish the Department of Energy
https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/10/15/c ... are-action
Climate Change and Other Frights: 13 Environmental Books to Scare You Into Action
Read time: 5 mins
By Guest • Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 17:56
https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/04/26/t ... late-1970s
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
Read time: 7 mins
By Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 09:19
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/10/19/ ... awareness/
Artist uses ‘historic’ markers to raise climate awareness in New Hampshire, Massachusetts
These signs detail events like rising sea levels and an explosion of ticks that have yet to happen.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... story.html
Trump’s Washington hotel has fallen behind competitors, with rooms running nearly half empty, marketing materials show
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... cials-say/
White House and Pentagon prepare for Trump to issue pardons in war-crimes cases, officials say
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fir ... el-upgrade
The first artificial material that follows sunlight may upgrade solar panels
Dubbed SunBOTs, the devices can capture much more solar energy than stationary devices
https://www.natureindex.com/article/10. ... #highlight
Influence of early-life nutritional stress on songbird memory formation.
https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/f ... or-success
Failure found to be an "essential prerequisite" for success
Scientists use big data to understand what separates winners from losers.
13 November 2019
https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/14/why-t ... te-change/
NOVEMBER 14, 2019 | LANA COHEN
WHY THE HUMAN MIND CAN’T DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full
Twenty firms generated one-third of all emissions
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
The Guardian (U.K.), Oct. 9, 2019
The Guardian today revealed the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.
New data from world-renowned researchers reveals how this cohort of state-owned and multinational firms are driving the climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity, and details how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet.
The analysis, by Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute in the US, the world’s leading authority on big oil’s role in the escalating climate emergency, evaluates what the global corporations have extracted from the ground, and the subsequent emissions these fossil fuels are responsible for since 1965 – the point at which experts say the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by both industry leaders and politicians.
The top 20 companies on the list have contributed to 35% of all energy-related carbon dioxide and methane worldwide, totalling 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) since 1965.
Those identified range from investor-owned firms – household names such as Chevron, Exxon, BP and Shell – to state-owned companies including Saudi Aramco and Gazprom.
Chevron topped the list of the eight investor-owned corporations, followed closely by Exxon, BP and Shell. Together these four global businesses are behind more than 10% of the world’s carbon emissions since 1965.
Twelve of the top 20 companies are state-owned and together their extractions are responsible for 20% of total emissions in the same period. The leading state-owned polluter is Saudi Aramco, which has produced 4.38% of the global total on its own.
Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, said the findings shone a light on the role of fossil fuel companies and called on politicians at the forthcoming climate talks in Chile in December to take urgent measures to rein in their activities.
“The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that seven and a half billion people must pay the price – in the form of a degraded planet – so that a couple of dozen polluting interests can continue to make record profits. It is a great moral failing of our political system that we have allowed this to happen.”
The global polluters list uses company-reported annual production of oil, natural gas, and coal and then calculates how much of the carbon and methane in the produced fuels is emitted to the atmosphere throughout the supply chain, from extraction to end use.
It found that 90% of the emissions attributed to the top 20 climate culprits was from use of their products, such as petrol, jet fuel, natural gas, and thermal coal. One-tenth came from extracting, refining, and delivering the finished fuels.
The Guardian approached the 20 companies named in the polluters list. Seven of them replied. Some argued that they were not directly responsible for how the oil, gas or coal they extracted were used by consumers. Several disputed claims that the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known as far back as the late 1950s or that the industry collectively had worked to delay action.
Most explicitly said they accepted the climate science and some claimed to support the targets set out in the Paris agreement to reduce emissions and keep global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
All pointed out efforts they were making to invest in renewable or low carbon energy sources and said fossil fuel companies had an important role to play in addressing the climate crisis. PetroChina said it was a separate company from its predecessor, China National Petroleum, so had no influence over, or responsibility for, its historical emissions.
The latest study builds on previous work by Heede and his team that has looked at the historical role of fossil fuel companies in the escalating climate crisis.
The impact of emissions from coal, oil and gas produced by fossil fuel companies has been huge. According to research published in 2017 by Peter Frumhoff at the Union of Concerned Scientists in the US and colleagues, CO2 and methane emissions from the 90 biggest industrial carbon producers were responsible for almost half the rise in global temperature and close to a third of the sea level rise between 1880 and 2010. The scientists said such work furthered the “consideration of [companies’] historical responsibilities for climate change”.
Heede said: “These companies and their products are substantially responsible for the climate emergency, have collectively delayed national and global action for decades, and can no longer hide behind the smokescreen that consumers are the responsible parties.
“Oil, gas, and coal executives derail progress and offer platitudes when their vast capital, technical expertise, and moral obligation should enable rather than thwart the shift to a low-carbon future.”
Heede said 1965 was chosen as the start point for this new data because recent research had revealed that by that stage the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by industry leaders and politicians, particularly in the US.
In November 1965, the president, Lyndon Johnson, released a report authored by the Environmental Pollution Panel of the President’s Science Advisory Committee, which set out the likely impact of continued fossil fuel production on global heating.
In the same year, the president of the American Petroleum Institute told its annual gathering: “One of the most important predictions of the [president’s report] is that carbon dioxide is being added to the Earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas at such a rate by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts.”
Heede added: “Leading companies and industry associations were aware of, or wilfully ignored, the threat of climate change from continued use of their products since the late 1950s.”
The research aims to hold to account those companies most responsible for carbon emissions, and shift public and political debate away from a focus just on individual responsibility. It follows a warning from the UN in 2018 that the world has just 12 years to avoid the worst consequences of runaway global heating and restrict temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The study shows that many of the worst offenders are investor-owned companies that are household names around the world and spend billions of pounds on lobbying governments and portraying themselves as environmentally responsible.
A study earlier this year found that the largest five stock-market-listed oil and gas companies spend nearly $200m each year lobbying to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change.
Heede said the companies had a “significant moral, financial, and legal responsibility for the climate crisis, and a commensurate burden to help address the problem”.
He added: “Even though global consumers from individuals to corporations are the ultimate emitters of carbon dioxide, the Climate Accountability Institute focuses its work on the fossil fuel companies that, in our view, have their collective hand on the throttle and the tiller determining the rate of carbon emissions and the shift to non-carbon fuels.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -emissions
Trump’s Washington hotel has fallen behind competitors, with rooms running nearly half empty, marketing materials show
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... cials-say/
White House and Pentagon prepare for Trump to issue pardons in war-crimes cases, officials say
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fir ... el-upgrade
The first artificial material that follows sunlight may upgrade solar panels
Dubbed SunBOTs, the devices can capture much more solar energy than stationary devices
https://www.natureindex.com/article/10. ... #highlight
Influence of early-life nutritional stress on songbird memory formation.
https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/f ... or-success
Failure found to be an "essential prerequisite" for success
Scientists use big data to understand what separates winners from losers.
13 November 2019
https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/14/why-t ... te-change/
NOVEMBER 14, 2019 | LANA COHEN
WHY THE HUMAN MIND CAN’T DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full
Twenty firms generated one-third of all emissions
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
The Guardian (U.K.), Oct. 9, 2019
The Guardian today revealed the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.
New data from world-renowned researchers reveals how this cohort of state-owned and multinational firms are driving the climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity, and details how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet.
The analysis, by Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute in the US, the world’s leading authority on big oil’s role in the escalating climate emergency, evaluates what the global corporations have extracted from the ground, and the subsequent emissions these fossil fuels are responsible for since 1965 – the point at which experts say the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by both industry leaders and politicians.
The top 20 companies on the list have contributed to 35% of all energy-related carbon dioxide and methane worldwide, totalling 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) since 1965.
Those identified range from investor-owned firms – household names such as Chevron, Exxon, BP and Shell – to state-owned companies including Saudi Aramco and Gazprom.
Chevron topped the list of the eight investor-owned corporations, followed closely by Exxon, BP and Shell. Together these four global businesses are behind more than 10% of the world’s carbon emissions since 1965.
Twelve of the top 20 companies are state-owned and together their extractions are responsible for 20% of total emissions in the same period. The leading state-owned polluter is Saudi Aramco, which has produced 4.38% of the global total on its own.
Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, said the findings shone a light on the role of fossil fuel companies and called on politicians at the forthcoming climate talks in Chile in December to take urgent measures to rein in their activities.
“The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that seven and a half billion people must pay the price – in the form of a degraded planet – so that a couple of dozen polluting interests can continue to make record profits. It is a great moral failing of our political system that we have allowed this to happen.”
The global polluters list uses company-reported annual production of oil, natural gas, and coal and then calculates how much of the carbon and methane in the produced fuels is emitted to the atmosphere throughout the supply chain, from extraction to end use.
It found that 90% of the emissions attributed to the top 20 climate culprits was from use of their products, such as petrol, jet fuel, natural gas, and thermal coal. One-tenth came from extracting, refining, and delivering the finished fuels.
The Guardian approached the 20 companies named in the polluters list. Seven of them replied. Some argued that they were not directly responsible for how the oil, gas or coal they extracted were used by consumers. Several disputed claims that the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known as far back as the late 1950s or that the industry collectively had worked to delay action.
Most explicitly said they accepted the climate science and some claimed to support the targets set out in the Paris agreement to reduce emissions and keep global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
All pointed out efforts they were making to invest in renewable or low carbon energy sources and said fossil fuel companies had an important role to play in addressing the climate crisis. PetroChina said it was a separate company from its predecessor, China National Petroleum, so had no influence over, or responsibility for, its historical emissions.
The latest study builds on previous work by Heede and his team that has looked at the historical role of fossil fuel companies in the escalating climate crisis.
The impact of emissions from coal, oil and gas produced by fossil fuel companies has been huge. According to research published in 2017 by Peter Frumhoff at the Union of Concerned Scientists in the US and colleagues, CO2 and methane emissions from the 90 biggest industrial carbon producers were responsible for almost half the rise in global temperature and close to a third of the sea level rise between 1880 and 2010. The scientists said such work furthered the “consideration of [companies’] historical responsibilities for climate change”.
Heede said: “These companies and their products are substantially responsible for the climate emergency, have collectively delayed national and global action for decades, and can no longer hide behind the smokescreen that consumers are the responsible parties.
“Oil, gas, and coal executives derail progress and offer platitudes when their vast capital, technical expertise, and moral obligation should enable rather than thwart the shift to a low-carbon future.”
Heede said 1965 was chosen as the start point for this new data because recent research had revealed that by that stage the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by industry leaders and politicians, particularly in the US.
In November 1965, the president, Lyndon Johnson, released a report authored by the Environmental Pollution Panel of the President’s Science Advisory Committee, which set out the likely impact of continued fossil fuel production on global heating.
In the same year, the president of the American Petroleum Institute told its annual gathering: “One of the most important predictions of the [president’s report] is that carbon dioxide is being added to the Earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas at such a rate by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts.”
Heede added: “Leading companies and industry associations were aware of, or wilfully ignored, the threat of climate change from continued use of their products since the late 1950s.”
The research aims to hold to account those companies most responsible for carbon emissions, and shift public and political debate away from a focus just on individual responsibility. It follows a warning from the UN in 2018 that the world has just 12 years to avoid the worst consequences of runaway global heating and restrict temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The study shows that many of the worst offenders are investor-owned companies that are household names around the world and spend billions of pounds on lobbying governments and portraying themselves as environmentally responsible.
A study earlier this year found that the largest five stock-market-listed oil and gas companies spend nearly $200m each year lobbying to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change.
Heede said the companies had a “significant moral, financial, and legal responsibility for the climate crisis, and a commensurate burden to help address the problem”.
He added: “Even though global consumers from individuals to corporations are the ultimate emitters of carbon dioxide, the Climate Accountability Institute focuses its work on the fossil fuel companies that, in our view, have their collective hand on the throttle and the tiller determining the rate of carbon emissions and the shift to non-carbon fuels.”
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Former Cumberland County corrections officer sentenced on drug charges
Davis Glazener will serve 10 1/2 months in prison, and his conviction has prompted the sheriff's department to change its hiring policy as it pertains to a candidate's former drug use.
https://www.propublica.org/article/why- ... ading-tool
Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?
The creator of Scientific Content Analysis, or SCAN, says the tool can identify deception. Law enforcement has used his method for decades, even though there’s no reliable science behind it. Even the CIA and FBI have bought in.
by Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune Dec. 7, 6 a.m. EST
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KEYS
Top cop told her deputy to act like a ‘white supremacist cop.’ It was caught on tape
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Video: Army vet accuses Norwalk cops of excessive force during arrest
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John F. Kennedy assassination bullets preserved as detailed 3D models
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December 7, 2019
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Humans Are Being Exposed to 44 Times More Infertility-Causing and Cancer-Linked ‘Gender Bending’ Chemicals Than Thought
Daily Mail
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
My testimony on legislation to remove vaccine exemptions in Massachusetts, Dec. 3, 2019
My name is Dr. Meryl Nass.
* I am an internal medicine physician in Ellsworth, Maine.
* I graduated from MIT and the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.
* I have testified to 6 Congressional committees, primarily on anthrax vaccine and Gulf War Syndrome, and the permanent injuries suffered by service-members who received military vaccines of poor quality.
* I have also spoken on the issue of vaccine exemptions to legislative committees in Maine, Vermont and New Brunswick. I saw firsthand how pharmaceutical industry lobbyists patrolled legislative halls, provided talking points, schooled public servants, and helped constrain the terms of this debate.
1. The elephant in the auditorium today is Pharma profits. Dare I say out loud that our children's arms and bodies are the delivery system for transferring money from the citizens of the Commonwealth to the pharmaceutical industry?
The pharmaceutical industry has undertaken a very ambitious campaign to legislate away vaccine exemptions in the United States and Canada. France, Italy and Germany have rescinded vaccine exemptions too, suggesting the campaign is worldwide.
The pharmaceutical industry exerts enormous influence on government regulators,[1] their advisors,[2] [3] professional medical organizations,[4] key opinion leaders[5] and medical journals[6] as well as the mass media and lawmakers.[7] This is not debatable[8]--there are dozens of studies proving it. Merck has a list on its website of over 1,000 candidates for state and federal offices to whom they gave money in 2018[9]. Merck also lists payments to hundreds of professional medical organizations, patient organizations, Pharma lobbying groups, and scores of Republican and Democratic PACs and committees.[10] Julie Gerberding, the former CDC Director, became president of Merck Vaccines as soon as she was allowed.[11] The last FDA Commissioner just left for Pfizer.[12] The revolving door is slamming Americans.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers spent $6.4 billion on direct-to-consumer advertising in the US in 2016, and $29.9 billion total on medical marketing.[13] Pharma money purchases the allegiance of our major media corporations, in addition to buying advertising. And it's tax deductible.
The pharmaceutical industry does not play by the rules you and I must follow. Instead, the industry makes it a rule to break the law, regularly paying civil and criminal penalties in the billions of dollars. Big Pharma CEOs have not been sent to jail in decades, and paying settlements for their illegal behaviors has become simply the cost of doing business.
This is an industry that has thrived by taking big risks--even when manufacturers knew in advance that their products killed. Merck paid out $4.85 billion to settle 27,000 Vioxx injury claims, after it was estimated the drug caused 38,000 deaths from heart attacks.[14] But annual sales had topped $2.5 billion/year, likely leading them to at least break even.
According to Public Citizen:
"From 1991 through 2015, a total of 373 settlements were reached between the federal and state governments and pharmaceutical manufacturers, for a total of $35.7 billion."
Pharma's latest risky strategy is trying to rid the world of vaccine exemptions, to prevent vaccine opt-outs--before a new crop of vaccines, with inadequate safety and efficacy testing,[15] and for which they will have no liability once placed on the childhood schedule, are approved.
I doubt this is what you have been told. But the industry moves deliberately, one step at a time. First it got the 21st Century Cures Act passed, in December 2016. This Act:
* directed the FDA to more readily license vaccines, using "real world evidence" in place of controlled clinical trials.
* directed CDC to immediately place each newly licensed vaccine before its advisory committee, to be considered for inclusion in the childhood vaccine schedule. Inclusion in the schedule is the criterion needed to get a vaccine its waiver of manufacturer liability.
* directed that all vaccines recommended for use in pregnant women (currently influenza and Tdap, but many more are in the pipeline) were granted liability waivers.
Getting a vaccine approved for use during pregnancy is the newest Pharma gold rush. This despite evidence[16] [17] (which CDC disputes) that flu vaccine is associated with a doubling of miscarriage rates, and evidence that anthrax vaccine increases the miscarriage rate.[18] Neither flu nor Tdap vaccines were tested and approved by FDA for use in pregnancy. According to the WHO[19]:
"...pre-licensing clinical trials of vaccines do not usually include pregnant and lactating women. Reports available also provide limited post-licensing data, as once again, pregnant women are usually not included in clinical trials. This in turn has limited the ability to make evidence-based decisions and provide optimal guidance on the use of vaccines in this population."
Despite this, pregnant women are being told to receive both flu and Tdap vaccines during every pregnancy. Don't you see something sick in this?
The year-long media blitz over measles didn't only usher in bills to remove vaccine exemptions. It was also a bonanza for sales. Merck, which makes the only measles vaccines in the US, saw sales of its MMRV vaccine increase 58% in 2019.[20]
It has been claimed that vaccines are, by nature, extremely safe. Yet vaccines are usually injected, bypassing all the body's natural barriers. Even minute contamination or inadequate microbial inactivation can maim or kill. Contaminated batches of vaccine do occur.[21] Usually contaminated lots are discarded, but in the case of anthrax, polio and other vaccines, millions of doses were used.[22] [23]
Vaccines have caused many autoimmune disorders, from Guillain-Barre syndrome to narcolepsy. (Both were side effects of swine flu vaccines used in the 2009 pandemic.)
Vaccines appear safe because the immediate side effects are usually mild and temporary. Serious vaccine side effects often take weeks or months to surface, and by then it is difficult to know what caused them. Only when vaccinated individuals have rates of illness 10 times higher than the unvaccinated, is the side effect likely to be linked to the vaccine.
A 2009 European swine flu vaccine (GSK's Pandemrix) caused over 1300 cases of narcolepsy, mostly in adolescents.[24] This vaccine was linked to narcolepsy only because approximately 15 times the usual number of narcolepsy cases suddenly appeared. Countries that bought the swine flu vaccines, through WHO, were required to waive manufacturer liability as a condition of purchase. Litigation by those injured continues to be active in the UK, where both the manufacturer and the UK government deny any responsibility for injuries.
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DPA SB 1421 Police Misconduct Records - Immediate Disclosure Request and 67.21(c) request
Paul Henderson and DPA,
** Note that all of your responses (including disclosed records) may be automatically and instantly available to the public on the MuckRock.com FOIA web service used to issue this request (though I am not a MuckRock representative). Redact your responses correctly - once you send them to us there is no going back. Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be public records.**
This is a new Immediate Disclosure Request under the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance and the CPRA, made on November 27, 2019, to Paul Henderson as an individual custodian of public records and to the Department of Police Accountability as a public agency.
This is also an SFAC 67.21(c) request for statements of quantity, nature, existence, and form (even if content is exempt) of records responsive to each of 1 and 2 -- you must provide these statements within 7 days without any form extension.
All records must be provided in a rolling fashion (SFAC 67.25). If you use a web portal, you must publish all records openly without login or terms and conditions; or you may provide records as attachments to emails. You may not impose any conditions on me beyond than those of the CPRA (including any conditions that I must use a private entity's website which imposes terms and conditions).
A warning: every record you release to this publicly viewable email mailbox may become automatically visible to the public via the Muckrock.com FOIA service, and via other journalistic services that publish FOIA and public records documents for searching and indexing online. Please be absolutely certain you have correctly redacted all records prior to transmitting them to us, because there is no going back.
Please read carefully the exact wording of my request. Please follow the Sunshine Ordinance and CPRA precisely as I am auditing your agency's public records regimen. As the City is aware, every violation of the Sunshine Ordinance or CPRA will be appealed immediately, including:
- any untimely or incomplete response, failure to provide records in a rolling fashion as soon as they are available, or failing to indicate whether you have responsive records or not for each request and whether you withheld any records for each request (SFAC 67.21, 67.25, Gov Code 6253(c)),
- withholding more than the minimum exempt portion of any record (SFAC 67.26),
- failure to justify with "clear reference" to an exemption statute or case law for each and every redaction or withholding, including any so-called 'metadata' (SFAC 67.26, 67.27),
- failure to provide "exact copies" of records (Gov Code 6253(b)),
- failure to provide the "electronic format in which [you] hold[] the information" (Gov Code 6253.9),
- failure to provide any "easily generated" format that we requested (SFAC 67.21(l)),
- refusing to provide the quantity of exempt records (SFAC 67.21(c)),
- unlawful use of the exemptions prohibited by SFAC 67.24, including but not limited to GC 6255, any public interest balancing test,
- redacting or withholding information whose exemption you have already waived by producing it to the public before (Gov Code 6254.5).
Please provide:
1) IMMEDIATE DISCLOSURE: all responsive records DPA has already provided under SB 1421 to any other requestor. Since you should not redact more information for me than you have provided any other member of the public (Gov Code 6254.5), you should be able to immediately provide these.
2) REGULAR DISCLOSURE: every record retained, owned, prepared, or used by DPA of: all records of officer's discharge of a firearm at a person, all records of an officer's use of force that results in death or great bodily injury, sustained findings of officer's sexual assault of a member of the public, sustained findings of officer's dishonesty that are disclosable under DB 1421. This is of course a very large request, and you may provide rolling responses. You stated in a letter (https://sfgov.org/sunshine/sites/defaul ... item12.pdf, page 12) that others have made similar expansive requests and I expect you to treat me with no less priority than anyone else. Please note, I expect you to redact these records in accordance with the Sunshine Ordinance - and you must justify each and every redaction or withholding with a clear reference, such as a footnote (SFAC 67.26), to a statute or case law (SFAC 67.27). If you provide only a general list of justifications, I will appeal, and you will eventually have to do all of the redaction work again as other City agencies have had to do. (For example, consider the functionality of Adobe Acrobat that allows you to put a redaction code in every redaction.) Please do not destroy any records during the pendency of my request or appeals. All records must be provided in their original electronic record, or .EML/.MSG formats, and with all metadata and headers. Please perform record production correctly the first time, as appeals and Orders from Court, SOTF, or Sup. of Records, will be quite time-consuming to have to re do.
For the sake of building a good record for any appeals I would ask that you issue formal letters detailing your expected timelines and a notice if you would like to negotiate any part of this request, if you need to.
Please provide only those copies of records available without any fees. If you determine certain records would require fees, please instead provide the required notice of which of those records are available and non-exempt for inspection in-person if we so choose.
I look forward to your immediate disclosure.
Sincerely,
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Nancy Pelosi is bungling the impeachment inquiry into Trump
Moira Donegan
By rushing the impeachment process – and keeping the focus narrow – Pelosi may be making a grave political miscalculation
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Austria struggles with marauding Krampus demons gone rogue
Police record rising violence and drunkenness in relation to traditional folkloric festivities
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Kochland review: how the Kochs bought America – and trashed it
Christopher Leonard has produced a relentless accounting of the brothers grim which somehow concludes with sympathy
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DECEMBER 6, 2019
Permafrost Hits a Grim Threshold
by ROBERT HUNZIKER
Corrections officers who gave Nazi salute punished, 3 fired and 34 suspended
By JOSEPH WILKINSON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 06, 2019 | 10:31 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-cli ... story.html
Save the Earth, because there’s no escape, Nobel winner says at climate conference
By JIM HEINTZ AND DAVID KEYTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS |
DEC 07, 2019 | 3:15 PM
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/12/06/ ... -sentence/
Posted Yesterday at 12:51 PM Updated December 6 2019
Former Cumberland County corrections officer sentenced on drug charges
Davis Glazener will serve 10 1/2 months in prison, and his conviction has prompted the sheriff's department to change its hiring policy as it pertains to a candidate's former drug use.
https://www.propublica.org/article/why- ... ading-tool
Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?
The creator of Scientific Content Analysis, or SCAN, says the tool can identify deception. Law enforcement has used his method for decades, even though there’s no reliable science behind it. Even the CIA and FBI have bought in.
by Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune Dec. 7, 6 a.m. EST
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... 45954.html
KEYS
Top cop told her deputy to act like a ‘white supremacist cop.’ It was caught on tape
BY DAVID GOODHUE AND GWEN FILOSA
DECEMBER 07, 2019 04:12 PM
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* Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... rylink=cpy
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/12/h ... mayor.html
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Harrisburg cop suspended with pay during investigation of harassment claim: mayor
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-c ... 1016166551
Ex-cop accused of robbing hotel guests while in uniform appears in court By: Chris Jose Updated: Dec 6, 2019 - 6:12 P
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 5bcae.html
Former officer involved in undercover cop's beating has sentencing delayed
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Philly DA Asks Judge To Retroactively Change Law To Help Convict Cop Of Murder
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Video: Army vet accuses Norwalk cops of excessive force during arrest
Pat Tomlinson Dec. 7, 2019 Updated: Dec. 7, 2019 2:32 p.m.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/cri ... 1.39293013
NewsdayCops: High school guard sexually assaulted teenA former Sewanhaka High School security guard has been charged with
sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, Nassau County police said.20 hours ago
https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/12/06 ... rotesters/
Cops boot media from State House before handcuffing climate protesters
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John F. Kennedy assassination bullets preserved as detailed 3D models
Digital versions of the bullets fired from Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle will be available for the public to inspect online.
Amanda Kooser
December 6, 2019 1:29 PM
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-t ... -shootout/.
Outrage After Cops Use Bystanders As “Human Shields” In Florida UPS Truck Shootout
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
December 7, 2019
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Humans Are Being Exposed to 44 Times More Infertility-Causing and Cancer-Linked ‘Gender Bending’ Chemicals Than Thought
Daily Mail
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The Road to Ground Zero, Part Five: A Trail of Missed Opportunities
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
My testimony on legislation to remove vaccine exemptions in Massachusetts, Dec. 3, 2019
My name is Dr. Meryl Nass.
* I am an internal medicine physician in Ellsworth, Maine.
* I graduated from MIT and the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.
* I have testified to 6 Congressional committees, primarily on anthrax vaccine and Gulf War Syndrome, and the permanent injuries suffered by service-members who received military vaccines of poor quality.
* I have also spoken on the issue of vaccine exemptions to legislative committees in Maine, Vermont and New Brunswick. I saw firsthand how pharmaceutical industry lobbyists patrolled legislative halls, provided talking points, schooled public servants, and helped constrain the terms of this debate.
1. The elephant in the auditorium today is Pharma profits. Dare I say out loud that our children's arms and bodies are the delivery system for transferring money from the citizens of the Commonwealth to the pharmaceutical industry?
The pharmaceutical industry has undertaken a very ambitious campaign to legislate away vaccine exemptions in the United States and Canada. France, Italy and Germany have rescinded vaccine exemptions too, suggesting the campaign is worldwide.
The pharmaceutical industry exerts enormous influence on government regulators,[1] their advisors,[2] [3] professional medical organizations,[4] key opinion leaders[5] and medical journals[6] as well as the mass media and lawmakers.[7] This is not debatable[8]--there are dozens of studies proving it. Merck has a list on its website of over 1,000 candidates for state and federal offices to whom they gave money in 2018[9]. Merck also lists payments to hundreds of professional medical organizations, patient organizations, Pharma lobbying groups, and scores of Republican and Democratic PACs and committees.[10] Julie Gerberding, the former CDC Director, became president of Merck Vaccines as soon as she was allowed.[11] The last FDA Commissioner just left for Pfizer.[12] The revolving door is slamming Americans.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers spent $6.4 billion on direct-to-consumer advertising in the US in 2016, and $29.9 billion total on medical marketing.[13] Pharma money purchases the allegiance of our major media corporations, in addition to buying advertising. And it's tax deductible.
The pharmaceutical industry does not play by the rules you and I must follow. Instead, the industry makes it a rule to break the law, regularly paying civil and criminal penalties in the billions of dollars. Big Pharma CEOs have not been sent to jail in decades, and paying settlements for their illegal behaviors has become simply the cost of doing business.
This is an industry that has thrived by taking big risks--even when manufacturers knew in advance that their products killed. Merck paid out $4.85 billion to settle 27,000 Vioxx injury claims, after it was estimated the drug caused 38,000 deaths from heart attacks.[14] But annual sales had topped $2.5 billion/year, likely leading them to at least break even.
According to Public Citizen:
"From 1991 through 2015, a total of 373 settlements were reached between the federal and state governments and pharmaceutical manufacturers, for a total of $35.7 billion."
Pharma's latest risky strategy is trying to rid the world of vaccine exemptions, to prevent vaccine opt-outs--before a new crop of vaccines, with inadequate safety and efficacy testing,[15] and for which they will have no liability once placed on the childhood schedule, are approved.
I doubt this is what you have been told. But the industry moves deliberately, one step at a time. First it got the 21st Century Cures Act passed, in December 2016. This Act:
* directed the FDA to more readily license vaccines, using "real world evidence" in place of controlled clinical trials.
* directed CDC to immediately place each newly licensed vaccine before its advisory committee, to be considered for inclusion in the childhood vaccine schedule. Inclusion in the schedule is the criterion needed to get a vaccine its waiver of manufacturer liability.
* directed that all vaccines recommended for use in pregnant women (currently influenza and Tdap, but many more are in the pipeline) were granted liability waivers.
Getting a vaccine approved for use during pregnancy is the newest Pharma gold rush. This despite evidence[16] [17] (which CDC disputes) that flu vaccine is associated with a doubling of miscarriage rates, and evidence that anthrax vaccine increases the miscarriage rate.[18] Neither flu nor Tdap vaccines were tested and approved by FDA for use in pregnancy. According to the WHO[19]:
"...pre-licensing clinical trials of vaccines do not usually include pregnant and lactating women. Reports available also provide limited post-licensing data, as once again, pregnant women are usually not included in clinical trials. This in turn has limited the ability to make evidence-based decisions and provide optimal guidance on the use of vaccines in this population."
Despite this, pregnant women are being told to receive both flu and Tdap vaccines during every pregnancy. Don't you see something sick in this?
The year-long media blitz over measles didn't only usher in bills to remove vaccine exemptions. It was also a bonanza for sales. Merck, which makes the only measles vaccines in the US, saw sales of its MMRV vaccine increase 58% in 2019.[20]
It has been claimed that vaccines are, by nature, extremely safe. Yet vaccines are usually injected, bypassing all the body's natural barriers. Even minute contamination or inadequate microbial inactivation can maim or kill. Contaminated batches of vaccine do occur.[21] Usually contaminated lots are discarded, but in the case of anthrax, polio and other vaccines, millions of doses were used.[22] [23]
Vaccines have caused many autoimmune disorders, from Guillain-Barre syndrome to narcolepsy. (Both were side effects of swine flu vaccines used in the 2009 pandemic.)
Vaccines appear safe because the immediate side effects are usually mild and temporary. Serious vaccine side effects often take weeks or months to surface, and by then it is difficult to know what caused them. Only when vaccinated individuals have rates of illness 10 times higher than the unvaccinated, is the side effect likely to be linked to the vaccine.
A 2009 European swine flu vaccine (GSK's Pandemrix) caused over 1300 cases of narcolepsy, mostly in adolescents.[24] This vaccine was linked to narcolepsy only because approximately 15 times the usual number of narcolepsy cases suddenly appeared. Countries that bought the swine flu vaccines, through WHO, were required to waive manufacturer liability as a condition of purchase. Litigation by those injured continues to be active in the UK, where both the manufacturer and the UK government deny any responsibility for injuries.
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DPA SB 1421 Police Misconduct Records - Immediate Disclosure Request and 67.21(c) request
Paul Henderson and DPA,
** Note that all of your responses (including disclosed records) may be automatically and instantly available to the public on the MuckRock.com FOIA web service used to issue this request (though I am not a MuckRock representative). Redact your responses correctly - once you send them to us there is no going back. Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be public records.**
This is a new Immediate Disclosure Request under the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance and the CPRA, made on November 27, 2019, to Paul Henderson as an individual custodian of public records and to the Department of Police Accountability as a public agency.
This is also an SFAC 67.21(c) request for statements of quantity, nature, existence, and form (even if content is exempt) of records responsive to each of 1 and 2 -- you must provide these statements within 7 days without any form extension.
All records must be provided in a rolling fashion (SFAC 67.25). If you use a web portal, you must publish all records openly without login or terms and conditions; or you may provide records as attachments to emails. You may not impose any conditions on me beyond than those of the CPRA (including any conditions that I must use a private entity's website which imposes terms and conditions).
A warning: every record you release to this publicly viewable email mailbox may become automatically visible to the public via the Muckrock.com FOIA service, and via other journalistic services that publish FOIA and public records documents for searching and indexing online. Please be absolutely certain you have correctly redacted all records prior to transmitting them to us, because there is no going back.
Please read carefully the exact wording of my request. Please follow the Sunshine Ordinance and CPRA precisely as I am auditing your agency's public records regimen. As the City is aware, every violation of the Sunshine Ordinance or CPRA will be appealed immediately, including:
- any untimely or incomplete response, failure to provide records in a rolling fashion as soon as they are available, or failing to indicate whether you have responsive records or not for each request and whether you withheld any records for each request (SFAC 67.21, 67.25, Gov Code 6253(c)),
- withholding more than the minimum exempt portion of any record (SFAC 67.26),
- failure to justify with "clear reference" to an exemption statute or case law for each and every redaction or withholding, including any so-called 'metadata' (SFAC 67.26, 67.27),
- failure to provide "exact copies" of records (Gov Code 6253(b)),
- failure to provide the "electronic format in which [you] hold[] the information" (Gov Code 6253.9),
- failure to provide any "easily generated" format that we requested (SFAC 67.21(l)),
- refusing to provide the quantity of exempt records (SFAC 67.21(c)),
- unlawful use of the exemptions prohibited by SFAC 67.24, including but not limited to GC 6255, any public interest balancing test,
- redacting or withholding information whose exemption you have already waived by producing it to the public before (Gov Code 6254.5).
Please provide:
1) IMMEDIATE DISCLOSURE: all responsive records DPA has already provided under SB 1421 to any other requestor. Since you should not redact more information for me than you have provided any other member of the public (Gov Code 6254.5), you should be able to immediately provide these.
2) REGULAR DISCLOSURE: every record retained, owned, prepared, or used by DPA of: all records of officer's discharge of a firearm at a person, all records of an officer's use of force that results in death or great bodily injury, sustained findings of officer's sexual assault of a member of the public, sustained findings of officer's dishonesty that are disclosable under DB 1421. This is of course a very large request, and you may provide rolling responses. You stated in a letter (https://sfgov.org/sunshine/sites/defaul ... item12.pdf, page 12) that others have made similar expansive requests and I expect you to treat me with no less priority than anyone else. Please note, I expect you to redact these records in accordance with the Sunshine Ordinance - and you must justify each and every redaction or withholding with a clear reference, such as a footnote (SFAC 67.26), to a statute or case law (SFAC 67.27). If you provide only a general list of justifications, I will appeal, and you will eventually have to do all of the redaction work again as other City agencies have had to do. (For example, consider the functionality of Adobe Acrobat that allows you to put a redaction code in every redaction.) Please do not destroy any records during the pendency of my request or appeals. All records must be provided in their original electronic record, or .EML/.MSG formats, and with all metadata and headers. Please perform record production correctly the first time, as appeals and Orders from Court, SOTF, or Sup. of Records, will be quite time-consuming to have to re do.
For the sake of building a good record for any appeals I would ask that you issue formal letters detailing your expected timelines and a notice if you would like to negotiate any part of this request, if you need to.
Please provide only those copies of records available without any fees. If you determine certain records would require fees, please instead provide the required notice of which of those records are available and non-exempt for inspection in-person if we so choose.
I look forward to your immediate disclosure.
Sincerely,
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Nancy Pelosi is bungling the impeachment inquiry into Trump
Moira Donegan
By rushing the impeachment process – and keeping the focus narrow – Pelosi may be making a grave political miscalculation
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Austria struggles with marauding Krampus demons gone rogue
Police record rising violence and drunkenness in relation to traditional folkloric festivities
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Kochland review: how the Kochs bought America – and trashed it
Christopher Leonard has produced a relentless accounting of the brothers grim which somehow concludes with sympathy
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Permafrost Hits a Grim Threshold
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Evangelical magazine Christianity Today says it’s time to dump Trump
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
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State Police barracks commander indicted in fraud scheme
By Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff,Updated December 19, 2019, 3:41 p.m.
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World's oldest known fossil forest found in New York quarry
Trees would have been home to primitive insects about 150m years before dinosaurs evolved
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To make a deaf child feel welcome, this neighborhood learned sign language
An outpouring of support in the suburbs can serve as an inspiration for all of us.
By Thomas Farragher Globe Columnist,Updated December 11, 2019, 8
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Jared Golden on splitting his impeachment vote: ‘I voted my heart’
Maine's 2nd District congressman had explained his reasons before Wednesday's vote
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Lewiston artist wins $25,000 fellowship
Reggie Burrows Hodges is named the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation resident.
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Is DHS the ‘Worst Place to Work’? Employees Think So
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Target shooting enthusiast, loner, ex-security guard: What media has dug up about FSB HQ shooter so far
A man was killed after opening fire at the FSB headquarters in Moscow. Some Russian media identified the perpetrator, who turned out to be a firearms enthusiast without any obvious signs of radicalism.
The gun attack on Thursday evening left one FSB officer dead, while five people were injured, one of them a civilian. The shooter was killed in an intense firefight, which came as a shock for people in Moscow’s center. The authorities would not immediately identify the perpetrator, saying only that the incident is being investigated as attempted murder of law enforcement officers.
However, some Russian media say the gunman was Evgeny Manyurov, a 39-year-old man from Podolsk, a small satellite city located about 16km
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/19/d ... llegiance/
The Denver PostDenver school board member says he’ll sit during Pledge of Allegiance to
protest shootings of black peopleNew Denver Public Schools board member Tay Anderson released a statement
Thursday saying he will stay seated during the Pledge of ...17 hours ago
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Vigil honors 275 homeless and poor people who died in SF this year
Kevin Fagan Dec. 19, 2019 Updated: Dec. 19, 2019 9:36 p.m.
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Running free
For inmates, the San Quentin Marathon offers 26.2 miles of life beyond bars
By By Rachel Levin | Dec. 20, 2019 | San Francisco Chronicle
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WATCH: Cops Arrest Man for Recording from own Driveway, asking for Badge Numbers
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/ ... enous-land
Published on
Friday, December 20, 2019
byCommon Dreams
'Monstrous': Docs Show Canadian Mounties Wanted Snipers Ready to Shoot Indigenous Land Defenders Blockading Pipeline
In response to the exclusive Guardian report, critics called the actions of Canadian authorities "abhorrent and unconscionable."
byJessica Corbett, staff writer
https://www.commondreams.org/further/20 ... s-unchosen
Thursday, December 19, 2019
A Leader of Grossly Immoral Character: The Chosen One Gets Unchosen
byAbby Zimet, Further columnist
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Remember how everyone said President* Impeachment would never lose the support of see-no-evil evangelicals? Praise God, he just did. After hearings that "illuminated (his) moral deficiencies for all to see," a scathing editorial in the Billy-Graham-founded Christianity Today has called for Trump's removal due to his "blackened moral record." To those who still support the unholy one, it warns, "Remember who you are and whom you serve."
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Trump's Christmas Gift to Big Oil: Killing Hopes of Electric Car Tax Credit Extension
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Evangelical magazine Christianity Today says it’s time to dump Trump
By TIM BALK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
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State Police barracks commander indicted in fraud scheme
By Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff,Updated December 19, 2019, 3:41 p.m.
Email to a Friend
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ork-quarry
World's oldest known fossil forest found in New York quarry
Trees would have been home to primitive insects about 150m years before dinosaurs evolved
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To make a deaf child feel welcome, this neighborhood learned sign language
An outpouring of support in the suburbs can serve as an inspiration for all of us.
By Thomas Farragher Globe Columnist,Updated December 11, 2019, 8
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/12/19/ ... -by-heart/
Jared Golden on splitting his impeachment vote: ‘I voted my heart’
Maine's 2nd District congressman had explained his reasons before Wednesday's vote
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/12/19/ ... ellowship/
Lewiston artist wins $25,000 fellowship
Reggie Burrows Hodges is named the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation resident.
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/12/20/ ... it-it-off/
The ducks united by a Blue Hill man’s singles ad have hit it off
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/12/19/ ... ch-on-mdi/
Act Out
Hunters Cliff Trail leads to stunning ocean views and a cobblestone beach on MDIc
https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-a ... -think-so/
Is DHS the ‘Worst Place to Work’? Employees Think So
December 19, 2019 Kylie Bielby
https://www.rt.com/russia/476466-fsb-sh ... ied-media/
Target shooting enthusiast, loner, ex-security guard: What media has dug up about FSB HQ shooter so far
A man was killed after opening fire at the FSB headquarters in Moscow. Some Russian media identified the perpetrator, who turned out to be a firearms enthusiast without any obvious signs of radicalism.
The gun attack on Thursday evening left one FSB officer dead, while five people were injured, one of them a civilian. The shooter was killed in an intense firefight, which came as a shock for people in Moscow’s center. The authorities would not immediately identify the perpetrator, saying only that the incident is being investigated as attempted murder of law enforcement officers.
However, some Russian media say the gunman was Evgeny Manyurov, a 39-year-old man from Podolsk, a small satellite city located about 16km
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/19/d ... llegiance/
The Denver PostDenver school board member says he’ll sit during Pledge of Allegiance to
protest shootings of black peopleNew Denver Public Schools board member Tay Anderson released a statement
Thursday saying he will stay seated during the Pledge of ...17 hours ago
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/art ... o-18783597
Vigil honors 275 homeless and poor people who died in SF this year
Kevin Fagan Dec. 19, 2019 Updated: Dec. 19, 2019 9:36 p.m.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/culture/art ... 913748.php
Running free
For inmates, the San Quentin Marathon offers 26.2 miles of life beyond bars
By By Rachel Levin | Dec. 20, 2019 | San Francisco Chronicle
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-gon ... 9ue-mOuenQ
WATCH: Cops Arrest Man for Recording from own Driveway, asking for Badge Numbers
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/ ... enous-land
Published on
Friday, December 20, 2019
byCommon Dreams
'Monstrous': Docs Show Canadian Mounties Wanted Snipers Ready to Shoot Indigenous Land Defenders Blockading Pipeline
In response to the exclusive Guardian report, critics called the actions of Canadian authorities "abhorrent and unconscionable."
byJessica Corbett, staff writer
https://www.commondreams.org/further/20 ... s-unchosen
Thursday, December 19, 2019
A Leader of Grossly Immoral Character: The Chosen One Gets Unchosen
byAbby Zimet, Further columnist
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Remember how everyone said President* Impeachment would never lose the support of see-no-evil evangelicals? Praise God, he just did. After hearings that "illuminated (his) moral deficiencies for all to see," a scathing editorial in the Billy-Graham-founded Christianity Today has called for Trump's removal due to his "blackened moral record." To those who still support the unholy one, it warns, "Remember who you are and whom you serve."
Read More...
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Trump's Christmas Gift to Big Oil: Killing Hopes of Electric Car Tax Credit Extension
Read time: 3 mins
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Judge drops rape charge against former Fairmount Heights cop accused of raping woman
by WJLA Monday, January 6th 2020
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Schaston Hodge, black man killed by white Texas troopers, was shot 16 times
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Extremist cops: how US law enforcement is failing to police itself
Hank Willis Thomas’ Raise Up statue at the National Memorial For Peace And Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. Photograph: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images
For decades, anti-government and white supremacist groups have been attempting to recruit police officers – and the authorities themselves aren’t even certain about the scale of the problem
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... o-15224610
Will SF’s new DA criminally charge a newly sworn rookie cop who fatally shot an unarmed man?
Evan Sernoffsky Jan. 6, 2020 Updated
https://concordlibrary.org/special-coll ... story/Bell
Concord Prison Outreach Program
Jean Bell 1657 Monument Street Year of birth - 1927
Diana Clymer 235 Main Street Year of birth - 1943
Interviewed January 27, 1999
Concord Oral History Program Renee Garrelick, Interviewer.
Click here for audio in .mp3 format.
When the Commonwealth decided to close Charlestown prison because of its poor condition, the Massachusetts legislature in 1873 voted one million dollars for a new prison. 1873 was a difficult economic time and Concord land was less expensive than that of Boston. The Cooke farm was acquired and 300 men hired to construct the new prison. Charlestown wanted their prison back because of the employment and in 1884 all but 100 of the 650 inmates were returned. Concord became the men's reformatory and a showcase for visitors. By the turn of the 20th century, more than 100 inmates were confined there, with the focus on learning a trade to reenter society from many vocational offerings and industries operated within the prison. The Waring Hat factory in West Concord employed women to decorate hats made at the prison. The reformatory provided local employment and contributed to the growth of the town.
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Dr. Leary's Concord Prison Experiment: A 34 Year Follow-Up Study
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Mayflower 400 events could help recover lost Native American treasure
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How a mid-20th-century hunting guide may fill the gaps on climate change in Maine
A University of Maine researcher is using the historical observations to study seasonal changes, and making some observations about the impact of a warming New England.
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Originally published in Island Ad-Vantages, January 2, 2020 DISHS artwork raises global warming awareness
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Time in prison led Lawyer Noemi Fernandez to Buffalo and legal career
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Schumer demands Trump declassify justification for Iran assassination
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Jewish students at South Africa school 'take a knee' in support of Palestinians
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CEO of Oxfam GB calls ‘global inequality’ in carbon emissions ‘staggering’
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Judge drops rape charge against former Fairmount Heights cop accused of raping woman
by WJLA Monday, January 6th 2020
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Schaston Hodge, black man killed by white Texas troopers, was shot 16 times
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ice-itself
Extremist cops: how US law enforcement is failing to police itself
Hank Willis Thomas’ Raise Up statue at the National Memorial For Peace And Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. Photograph: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images
For decades, anti-government and white supremacist groups have been attempting to recruit police officers – and the authorities themselves aren’t even certain about the scale of the problem
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... o-15224610
Will SF’s new DA criminally charge a newly sworn rookie cop who fatally shot an unarmed man?
Evan Sernoffsky Jan. 6, 2020 Updated
https://concordlibrary.org/special-coll ... story/Bell
Concord Prison Outreach Program
Jean Bell 1657 Monument Street Year of birth - 1927
Diana Clymer 235 Main Street Year of birth - 1943
Interviewed January 27, 1999
Concord Oral History Program Renee Garrelick, Interviewer.
Click here for audio in .mp3 format.
When the Commonwealth decided to close Charlestown prison because of its poor condition, the Massachusetts legislature in 1873 voted one million dollars for a new prison. 1873 was a difficult economic time and Concord land was less expensive than that of Boston. The Cooke farm was acquired and 300 men hired to construct the new prison. Charlestown wanted their prison back because of the employment and in 1884 all but 100 of the 650 inmates were returned. Concord became the men's reformatory and a showcase for visitors. By the turn of the 20th century, more than 100 inmates were confined there, with the focus on learning a trade to reenter society from many vocational offerings and industries operated within the prison. The Waring Hat factory in West Concord employed women to decorate hats made at the prison. The reformatory provided local employment and contributed to the growth of the town.
https://maps.org/news-letters/v09n4/094 ... tml#DOBLIN
Dr. Leary's Concord Prison Experiment: A 34 Year Follow-Up Study
pp. 10-1
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... oag-wampum
Mayflower 400 events could help recover lost Native American treasure
https://350.org/top-10-people-powered-moments-of-2019/
Top 10 people-powered moments of 2019
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/01/05/ ... -in-maine/
How a mid-20th-century hunting guide may fill the gaps on climate change in Maine
A University of Maine researcher is using the historical observations to study seasonal changes, and making some observations about the impact of a warming New England.
https://penobscotbaypress.com/news/2020 ... hM2CS9Om-o
NEWS FEATURE
DEER ISLE
Originally published in Island Ad-Vantages, January 2, 2020 DISHS artwork raises global warming awareness
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/01/06/ ... -shoulder/
https://machiasnews.com/nature-phenology-owls-courting
The Nature of Phenology: Owls courting
https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/new ... rison.html
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... story.html
Schumer demands Trump declassify justification for Iran assassination
By DAVE GOLDINER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 06, 2020 | 9:57 AM
https://climate.law.columbia.edu
Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 34731.html
Jewish students at South Africa school 'take a knee' in support of Palestinians
Two grade nine pupils disciplined for protest
* Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93
* Thursday 15 November 2018 13:06
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Cape Town could become first major city in world to run out of water after 90-day warning
South African city's mayor warns supply will run dry in April on 'day zero'
*
https://www.independent.co.uk/environme ... 71861.html
A British citizen emits more CO2 in two weeks than some people in Africa do in a year, research shows
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Show us the stop-and-frisk data
Mayor Walsh and the Boston Police Department should release street-encounter data.
By The Editorial Board,Updated January 18, 2020, 4:00 a.m.
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Activists Find Evidence of Formosa Plant in Texas Still Releasing Plastic Pollution Despite $50 Million Settlement
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2010-2019 Hottest Decade Ever
Hottest decade ever recorded ‘driven by man-made climate change’
Nasa and UK Met Office unequivocally blame human influence on warming planet
Financial Times, Jan. 16, 2020
Man-made climate change was the main contributor to what has been the warmest decade, the UK weather service said in a study backed up by Nasa data showing the five years to 2019 were the hottest since records began. With deadly bushfires raging across large parts of Australia, the UK’s Met Office said that the ten years to 2019 were the warmest since it first began taking measurements in 1850.
“The main contributor to warming over the last 170 years is human influence on climate from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” the Met Office said on Wednesday. Global temperatures in 2019 were on average 1.05C above pre-industrial levels and this year could be hotter, the British weather service said.
What’s happening is persistent and not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon. The long-term trends are being driven by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere Gavin Schmidt, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Colin Morice from the Met Office Hadley Centre said: “Each decade from the 1980s has been successively warmer than all the decades that came before. 2019 concludes the warmest...decade in records that stretch back to the mid-19th century.”
Nasa’s data were in line with the Met’s findings. By the space agency’s calculations, 2019 was the second warmest year on record, behind only 2016. Alaska had its hottest ever year.
“We crossed over into more than 2F warming territory in 2015 and we are unlikely to go back,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “What’s happening is persistent [and] not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon. The long-term trends are being driven by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” he added.
Nasa also noted that the amount of heat absorbed by the world’s oceans hit a new high in 2019, which contributed to rising sea levels and melting ice sheets. Mr Morice said that, while global temperatures would continue to rise, this would not necessarily mean year-on-year increases because of natural variability in the climate system.
Last year marked another year of extreme weather events, from heatwaves across Europe to floods in South America and cyclones in Asia. Australian bushfires that began in September have wreaked devastation across much of the country, killing at least 27 people and devastating the natural habitat. Climate scientists have warned that these disasters will become more frequent and intense if the world’s climate continues to warm, and that changes will become irreversible past a certain point. Australia’s meteorology bureau said this month that 2019 had been the hottest and driest year on record, which had helped to drive the bushfires.
Commenting on the US and UK findings, Renee Salas, professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, said hotter weather had severe implications for human health. “Heat is an insidious universal harm that no one is safe from,” she said. “Heatwaves kill more people than any other extreme weather event.” Despite a series of pledges from businesses and world leaders to tackle climate change, global carbon emissions looked on track to rise in 2019, although at a slower rate than in 2018.
The Paris climate agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2C, but the latest data demonstrate the difficulty of meeting this goal and the lax progress that has so far been made. The earth has already warmed about 1C since pre-industrial times. The Arctic region has warmed slightly more than three times faster than the rest of the world since 1970, Nasa said.
https://www.ft.com/content/5f4b30ee-36e ... 26f8c3cba4
Ocean temperatures highest of any decade on record
Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates
The Guardian, Jan. 13, 2020
The heat in the world’s oceans reached a new record level in 2019, showing “irrefutable and accelerating” heating of the planet.
The world’s oceans are the clearest measure of the climate emergency because they absorb more than 90% of the heat trapped by the greenhouse gases emitted by fossil fuel burning, forest destruction and other human activities.
The new analysis shows the past five years are the top five warmest years recorded in the ocean and the past 10 years are also the top 10 years on record. The amount of heat being added to the oceans is equivalent to every person on the planet running 100 microwave ovens all day and all night.
Hotter oceans lead to more severe storms and disrupt the water cycle, meaning more floods, droughts and wildfires, as well as an inexorable rise in sea level. Higher temperatures are also harming life in the seas, with the number of marine heatwaves increasing sharply.
The most common measure of global heating is the average surface air temperature, as this is where people live. But natural climate phenomena such as El Niño events mean this can be quite variable from year to year.
“The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming,” said Prof John Abraham at the University of St Thomas, in Minnesota, US, and one of the team behind the new analysis. “Using the oceans, we see a continued, uninterrupted and accelerating warming rate of planet Earth. This is dire news.”
“We found that 2019 was not only the warmest year on record, it displayed the largest single-year increase of the entire decade, a sobering reminder that human-caused heating of our planet continues unabated,” said Prof Michael Mann, at Penn State University, US, and another team member.
The analysis, published in the journal Advances In Atmospheric Sciences, uses ocean data from every available source. Most data is from the 3,800 free-drifting Argo floats dispersed across the oceans, but also from torpedo-like bathythermographs dropped from ships in the past.
The results show heat increasing at an accelerating rate as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere. The rate from 1987 to 2019 is four and a half times faster than that from 1955 to 1986. The vast majority of oceans regions are showing an increase in thermal energy.
This energy drives bigger storms and more extreme weather, said Abraham: “When the world and the oceans heat up, it changes the way rain falls and evaporates. There’s a general rule of thumb that drier areas are going to become drier and wetter areas are going to become wetter, and rainfall will happen in bigger downbursts.”
Hotter oceans also expand and melt ice, causing sea levels to rise. The past 10 years also show the highest sea level measured in records dating back to 1900. Scientists expect about one metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, enough to displace 150 million people worldwide.
Dan Smale, at the Marine Biological Association in the UK, and not part of the analysis team, said the methods used are state of the art and the data is the best available. “For me, the take-home message is that the heat content of the upper layers of the global ocean, particularly to 300 metre depth, is rapidly increasing, and will continue to increase as the oceans suck up more heat from the atmosphere,” he said.
The analysis method was developed by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and uses statistical methods to interpolate heat levels in the few places where there was no data, such as under the Arctic ice cap. An independent analysis of the same data by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration shows that same increasing heat trend.
Reliable ocean heat measurements stretch back to the middle of the 20th century. But Abraham said: “Even before that, we know the oceans were not hotter.”
“The data we have is irrefutable, but we still have hope because humans can still take action,” he said. “We just haven’t taken meaningful action yet.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ccelerates
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -emissions
Twenty firms generated one-third of all emissions
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
The Guardian (U.K.), Oct. 9, 2019
The Guardian today revealed the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.
New data from world-renowned researchers reveals how this cohort of state-owned and multinational firms are driving the climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity, and details how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet.
The analysis, by Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute in the US, the world’s leading authority on big oil’s role in the escalating climate emergency, evaluates what the global corporations have extracted from the ground, and the subsequent emissions these fossil fuels are responsible for since 1965 – the point at which experts say the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by both industry leaders and politicians.
The top 20 companies on the list have contributed to 35% of all energy-related carbon dioxide and methane worldwide, totalling 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) since 1965.
Those identified range from investor-owned firms – household names such as Chevron, Exxon, BP and Shell – to state-owned companies including Saudi Aramco and Gazprom.
Chevron topped the list of the eight investor-owned corporations, followed closely by Exxon, BP and Shell. Together these four global businesses are behind more than 10% of the world’s carbon emissions since 1965.
Twelve of the top 20 companies are state-owned and together their extractions are responsible for 20% of total emissions in the same period. The leading state-owned polluter is Saudi Aramco, which has produced 4.38% of the global total on its own.
Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, said the findings shone a light on the role of fossil fuel companies and called on politicians at the forthcoming climate talks in Chile in December to take urgent measures to rein in their activities.
“The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that seven and a half billion people must pay the price – in the form of a degraded planet – so that a couple of dozen polluting interests can continue to make record profits. It is a great moral failing of our political system that we have allowed this to happen.”
The global polluters list uses company-reported annual production of oil, natural gas, and coal and then calculates how much of the carbon and methane in the produced fuels is emitted to the atmosphere throughout the supply chain, from extraction to end use.
It found that 90% of the emissions attributed to the top 20 climate culprits was from use of their products, such as petrol, jet fuel, natural gas, and thermal coal. One-tenth came from extracting, refining, and delivering the finished fuels.
The Guardian approached the 20 companies named in the polluters list. Seven of them replied. Some argued that they were not directly responsible for how the oil, gas or coal they extracted were used by consumers. Several disputed claims that the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known as far back as the late 1950s or that the industry collectively had worked to delay action.
Most explicitly said they accepted the climate science and some claimed to support the targets set out in the Paris agreement to reduce emissions and keep global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
All pointed out efforts they were making to invest in renewable or low carbon energy sources and said fossil fuel companies had an important role to play in addressing the climate crisis. PetroChina said it was a separate company from its predecessor, China National Petroleum, so had no influence over, or responsibility for, its historical emissions.
The latest study builds on previous work by Heede and his team that has looked at the historical role of fossil fuel companies in the escalating climate crisis.
The impact of emissions from coal, oil and gas produced by fossil fuel companies has been huge. According to research published in 2017 by Peter Frumhoff at the Union of Concerned Scientists in the US and colleagues, CO2 and methane emissions from the 90 biggest industrial carbon producers were responsible for almost half the rise in global temperature and close to a third of the sea level rise between 1880 and 2010. The scientists said such work furthered the “consideration of [companies’] historical responsibilities for climate change”.
Heede said: “These companies and their products are substantially responsible for the climate emergency, have collectively delayed national and global action for decades, and can no longer hide behind the smokescreen that consumers are the responsible parties.
“Oil, gas, and coal executives derail progress and offer platitudes when their vast capital, technical expertise, and moral obligation should enable rather than thwart the shift to a low-carbon future.”
Heede said 1965 was chosen as the start point for this new data because recent research had revealed that by that stage the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by industry leaders and politicians, particularly in the US.
In November 1965, the president, Lyndon Johnson, released a report authored by the Environmental Pollution Panel of the President’s Science Advisory Committee, which set out the likely impact of continued fossil fuel production on global heating.
In the same year, the president of the American Petroleum Institute told its annual gathering: “One of the most important predictions of the [president’s report] is that carbon dioxide is being added to the Earth’s
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Off-duty cop assaults his wife in their Brooklyn home: authorities
By WES PARNELL
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 19, 2020
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Dentist who rode hoverboard while removing tooth found guilty of ‘unlawful dental acts’
By DAVID MATTHEWS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 19, 2020 | 3:52 PM
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Richmond Gun Rally: Is A Virginia Cop Giving 4Chan’s /pol Board Inside Info?
January 19, 2020
By Robert Evans
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Officer sexually assaults woman he met on domestic violence call, Colorado cops say
BY DON SWEENEY
JANUARY 19, 2020 09:42 AM
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BUT ME NO BUTTIGIEG’S
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January 19, 2020
It didn’t take a weatherman to know which way the wind was blowing in 2016. Americans wanted change. BIG change.
The Democratic party offered them Hillary Clinton: Mayor Richard J. Daley in a dress.
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WHY AMERICA’S ‘FAUX LEFT’ CALLS RUSSIAGATE A ‘HOAX’
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January 16, 2020
https://www.sparrowmedia.net/tag/ryan-shapiro/
Documents Show FBI Targeting Pro-Choice Movement as Violent Terrorist Threat
Sparrow in news
Washington, DC — In an especially egregious case of “bothsidesism,”
https://www.rcfp.org/fbi-antiwar-privacy-act/
In March 2004, the FBI informed all field offices that an unclassified post-9/11 suspect list had been posted on the internet. “An FBI agent subsequently discovered a twenty-two-page untitled Excel spreadsheet, dated 10/03/2001” — likely an FBI watchlist — published on Antiwar.com. The Newark, New Jersey, office of the FBI prepared a 10-page “threat assessment” on Antiwar. The memo described the site’s mission and included a description of six articles found through a Lexis Nexis search for Garris and Antiwar.com. Further, the memo noted that “persons of interest” to the FBI had accessed or discussed the website.
The memo ultimately indicated that the Newark office recommended that the FBI’s field office in San Francisco monitor Garris and Antiwar’s postings. Yet the San Francisco office declined to do so, explaining that the website was “not a clear threat to National Security.” It categorized the site as a source of public information and said Garris “[was] exercising [his] constitutional right to free speech.”
Garris learned of the 2004 memo after it was released as part of an unrelated FOIA request. Garris then filed his own FOIA request, and the subsequent response was not as heavily redacted as the version that was posted online. The document stated that Garris had threatened to “disrupt FBI operations by hacking the FBI website.” As German points out, however, this was clearly a mistake. The analyst who received the email from Garris believed the message was a threat against the FBI, and did not realize that Garris was actually forwarding the email that contained the threat against Antiwar’s own website. Still, according to the memo, the FBI continued to monitor Garris and Antiwar.
Garris filed FOIA and Privacy Act requests seeking all FBI records about him, and when he exhausted the administrative remedies, he filed a lawsuit. He also separately filed requests seeking expungement of all records maintained by the FBI that described his exercise of First Amendment rights.
During the litigation, Garris also learned of the existence of another memo, called the “Halliburton Memo.” In 2006, the FBI’s Oklahoma City field office created the memo, which detailed plans by groups to protest Halliburton, the oil field services company once run by former Vice President Dick Cheney. Antiwar.com had posted information about a Halliburton shareholders’ meeting, and so the website was listed in the memo as one of the sources of publicly shared information about the meeting.
Garris sought expungement of these records, arguing that the law enforcement activity exception did not apply to them because the investigations in both memos had ended and the records were not pertinent to an ongoing authorized law enforcement activity. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ultimately granted summary judgment to the FBI. The parties settled the remaining disclosure issues, but Garris appealed the Privacy Act claims.
Though there were many issues for the court to consider, the most pertinent for press freedom purposes was whether maintaining the 2004 memo and the Halliburton memo violated the Pr
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Reporters Committee and 57 news organizations urge Senate to reconsider impeachment trial press restrictions
FBI Dead Files
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Inside the FBI’s secret relationship with the military’s special operations
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Show us the stop-and-frisk data
Mayor Walsh and the Boston Police Department should release street-encounter data.
By The Editorial Board,Updated January 18, 2020, 4:00 a.m.
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Narcotics Agent Held in Boston On Drug Charges
https://oig.justice.gov/special/s0605/final.pdf
U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
A Review of the FBI's Handling and Oversight of FBI Asset Katrina Leung. (U)
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Trump: ‘I Should Never Have Done That F-cking Vaping Thing’
During an Oval Office call on speakerphone, the president expressed regret for getting involved
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Activists Find Evidence of Formosa Plant in Texas Still Releasing Plastic Pollution Despite $50 Million Settlement
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2010-2019 Hottest Decade Ever
Hottest decade ever recorded ‘driven by man-made climate change’
Nasa and UK Met Office unequivocally blame human influence on warming planet
Financial Times, Jan. 16, 2020
Man-made climate change was the main contributor to what has been the warmest decade, the UK weather service said in a study backed up by Nasa data showing the five years to 2019 were the hottest since records began. With deadly bushfires raging across large parts of Australia, the UK’s Met Office said that the ten years to 2019 were the warmest since it first began taking measurements in 1850.
“The main contributor to warming over the last 170 years is human influence on climate from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” the Met Office said on Wednesday. Global temperatures in 2019 were on average 1.05C above pre-industrial levels and this year could be hotter, the British weather service said.
What’s happening is persistent and not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon. The long-term trends are being driven by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere Gavin Schmidt, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Colin Morice from the Met Office Hadley Centre said: “Each decade from the 1980s has been successively warmer than all the decades that came before. 2019 concludes the warmest...decade in records that stretch back to the mid-19th century.”
Nasa’s data were in line with the Met’s findings. By the space agency’s calculations, 2019 was the second warmest year on record, behind only 2016. Alaska had its hottest ever year.
“We crossed over into more than 2F warming territory in 2015 and we are unlikely to go back,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “What’s happening is persistent [and] not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon. The long-term trends are being driven by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” he added.
Nasa also noted that the amount of heat absorbed by the world’s oceans hit a new high in 2019, which contributed to rising sea levels and melting ice sheets. Mr Morice said that, while global temperatures would continue to rise, this would not necessarily mean year-on-year increases because of natural variability in the climate system.
Last year marked another year of extreme weather events, from heatwaves across Europe to floods in South America and cyclones in Asia. Australian bushfires that began in September have wreaked devastation across much of the country, killing at least 27 people and devastating the natural habitat. Climate scientists have warned that these disasters will become more frequent and intense if the world’s climate continues to warm, and that changes will become irreversible past a certain point. Australia’s meteorology bureau said this month that 2019 had been the hottest and driest year on record, which had helped to drive the bushfires.
Commenting on the US and UK findings, Renee Salas, professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, said hotter weather had severe implications for human health. “Heat is an insidious universal harm that no one is safe from,” she said. “Heatwaves kill more people than any other extreme weather event.” Despite a series of pledges from businesses and world leaders to tackle climate change, global carbon emissions looked on track to rise in 2019, although at a slower rate than in 2018.
The Paris climate agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2C, but the latest data demonstrate the difficulty of meeting this goal and the lax progress that has so far been made. The earth has already warmed about 1C since pre-industrial times. The Arctic region has warmed slightly more than three times faster than the rest of the world since 1970, Nasa said.
https://www.ft.com/content/5f4b30ee-36e ... 26f8c3cba4
Ocean temperatures highest of any decade on record
Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates
The Guardian, Jan. 13, 2020
The heat in the world’s oceans reached a new record level in 2019, showing “irrefutable and accelerating” heating of the planet.
The world’s oceans are the clearest measure of the climate emergency because they absorb more than 90% of the heat trapped by the greenhouse gases emitted by fossil fuel burning, forest destruction and other human activities.
The new analysis shows the past five years are the top five warmest years recorded in the ocean and the past 10 years are also the top 10 years on record. The amount of heat being added to the oceans is equivalent to every person on the planet running 100 microwave ovens all day and all night.
Hotter oceans lead to more severe storms and disrupt the water cycle, meaning more floods, droughts and wildfires, as well as an inexorable rise in sea level. Higher temperatures are also harming life in the seas, with the number of marine heatwaves increasing sharply.
The most common measure of global heating is the average surface air temperature, as this is where people live. But natural climate phenomena such as El Niño events mean this can be quite variable from year to year.
“The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming,” said Prof John Abraham at the University of St Thomas, in Minnesota, US, and one of the team behind the new analysis. “Using the oceans, we see a continued, uninterrupted and accelerating warming rate of planet Earth. This is dire news.”
“We found that 2019 was not only the warmest year on record, it displayed the largest single-year increase of the entire decade, a sobering reminder that human-caused heating of our planet continues unabated,” said Prof Michael Mann, at Penn State University, US, and another team member.
The analysis, published in the journal Advances In Atmospheric Sciences, uses ocean data from every available source. Most data is from the 3,800 free-drifting Argo floats dispersed across the oceans, but also from torpedo-like bathythermographs dropped from ships in the past.
The results show heat increasing at an accelerating rate as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere. The rate from 1987 to 2019 is four and a half times faster than that from 1955 to 1986. The vast majority of oceans regions are showing an increase in thermal energy.
This energy drives bigger storms and more extreme weather, said Abraham: “When the world and the oceans heat up, it changes the way rain falls and evaporates. There’s a general rule of thumb that drier areas are going to become drier and wetter areas are going to become wetter, and rainfall will happen in bigger downbursts.”
Hotter oceans also expand and melt ice, causing sea levels to rise. The past 10 years also show the highest sea level measured in records dating back to 1900. Scientists expect about one metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, enough to displace 150 million people worldwide.
Dan Smale, at the Marine Biological Association in the UK, and not part of the analysis team, said the methods used are state of the art and the data is the best available. “For me, the take-home message is that the heat content of the upper layers of the global ocean, particularly to 300 metre depth, is rapidly increasing, and will continue to increase as the oceans suck up more heat from the atmosphere,” he said.
The analysis method was developed by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and uses statistical methods to interpolate heat levels in the few places where there was no data, such as under the Arctic ice cap. An independent analysis of the same data by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration shows that same increasing heat trend.
Reliable ocean heat measurements stretch back to the middle of the 20th century. But Abraham said: “Even before that, we know the oceans were not hotter.”
“The data we have is irrefutable, but we still have hope because humans can still take action,” he said. “We just haven’t taken meaningful action yet.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ccelerates
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -emissions
Twenty firms generated one-third of all emissions
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
The Guardian (U.K.), Oct. 9, 2019
The Guardian today revealed the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.
New data from world-renowned researchers reveals how this cohort of state-owned and multinational firms are driving the climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity, and details how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet.
The analysis, by Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute in the US, the world’s leading authority on big oil’s role in the escalating climate emergency, evaluates what the global corporations have extracted from the ground, and the subsequent emissions these fossil fuels are responsible for since 1965 – the point at which experts say the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by both industry leaders and politicians.
The top 20 companies on the list have contributed to 35% of all energy-related carbon dioxide and methane worldwide, totalling 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) since 1965.
Those identified range from investor-owned firms – household names such as Chevron, Exxon, BP and Shell – to state-owned companies including Saudi Aramco and Gazprom.
Chevron topped the list of the eight investor-owned corporations, followed closely by Exxon, BP and Shell. Together these four global businesses are behind more than 10% of the world’s carbon emissions since 1965.
Twelve of the top 20 companies are state-owned and together their extractions are responsible for 20% of total emissions in the same period. The leading state-owned polluter is Saudi Aramco, which has produced 4.38% of the global total on its own.
Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, said the findings shone a light on the role of fossil fuel companies and called on politicians at the forthcoming climate talks in Chile in December to take urgent measures to rein in their activities.
“The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that seven and a half billion people must pay the price – in the form of a degraded planet – so that a couple of dozen polluting interests can continue to make record profits. It is a great moral failing of our political system that we have allowed this to happen.”
The global polluters list uses company-reported annual production of oil, natural gas, and coal and then calculates how much of the carbon and methane in the produced fuels is emitted to the atmosphere throughout the supply chain, from extraction to end use.
It found that 90% of the emissions attributed to the top 20 climate culprits was from use of their products, such as petrol, jet fuel, natural gas, and thermal coal. One-tenth came from extracting, refining, and delivering the finished fuels.
The Guardian approached the 20 companies named in the polluters list. Seven of them replied. Some argued that they were not directly responsible for how the oil, gas or coal they extracted were used by consumers. Several disputed claims that the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known as far back as the late 1950s or that the industry collectively had worked to delay action.
Most explicitly said they accepted the climate science and some claimed to support the targets set out in the Paris agreement to reduce emissions and keep global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
All pointed out efforts they were making to invest in renewable or low carbon energy sources and said fossil fuel companies had an important role to play in addressing the climate crisis. PetroChina said it was a separate company from its predecessor, China National Petroleum, so had no influence over, or responsibility for, its historical emissions.
The latest study builds on previous work by Heede and his team that has looked at the historical role of fossil fuel companies in the escalating climate crisis.
The impact of emissions from coal, oil and gas produced by fossil fuel companies has been huge. According to research published in 2017 by Peter Frumhoff at the Union of Concerned Scientists in the US and colleagues, CO2 and methane emissions from the 90 biggest industrial carbon producers were responsible for almost half the rise in global temperature and close to a third of the sea level rise between 1880 and 2010. The scientists said such work furthered the “consideration of [companies’] historical responsibilities for climate change”.
Heede said: “These companies and their products are substantially responsible for the climate emergency, have collectively delayed national and global action for decades, and can no longer hide behind the smokescreen that consumers are the responsible parties.
“Oil, gas, and coal executives derail progress and offer platitudes when their vast capital, technical expertise, and moral obligation should enable rather than thwart the shift to a low-carbon future.”
Heede said 1965 was chosen as the start point for this new data because recent research had revealed that by that stage the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by industry leaders and politicians, particularly in the US.
In November 1965, the president, Lyndon Johnson, released a report authored by the Environmental Pollution Panel of the President’s Science Advisory Committee, which set out the likely impact of continued fossil fuel production on global heating.
In the same year, the president of the American Petroleum Institute told its annual gathering: “One of the most important predictions of the [president’s report] is that carbon dioxide is being added to the Earth’s
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Off-duty cop assaults his wife in their Brooklyn home: authorities
By WES PARNELL
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 19, 2020
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Dentist who rode hoverboard while removing tooth found guilty of ‘unlawful dental acts’
By DAVID MATTHEWS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 19, 2020 | 3:52 PM
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/01 ... side-info/
Richmond Gun Rally: Is A Virginia Cop Giving 4Chan’s /pol Board Inside Info?
January 19, 2020
By Robert Evans
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-worl ... 41598.html
Officer sexually assaults woman he met on domestic violence call, Colorado cops say
BY DON SWEENEY
JANUARY 19, 2020 09:42 AM
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Updated Jan 18, 12:21 PM;Posted Jan 18, 8:13 AM
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BUT ME NO BUTTIGIEG’S
By Daniel Hopsicker -
January 19, 2020
It didn’t take a weatherman to know which way the wind was blowing in 2016. Americans wanted change. BIG change.
The Democratic party offered them Hillary Clinton: Mayor Richard J. Daley in a dress.
https://www.madcowprod.com/2020/01/16/a ... gate-hoax/
WHY AMERICA’S ‘FAUX LEFT’ CALLS RUSSIAGATE A ‘HOAX’
By Daniel Hopsicker -
January 16, 2020
https://www.sparrowmedia.net/tag/ryan-shapiro/
Documents Show FBI Targeting Pro-Choice Movement as Violent Terrorist Threat
Sparrow in news
Washington, DC — In an especially egregious case of “bothsidesism,”
https://www.rcfp.org/fbi-antiwar-privacy-act/
In March 2004, the FBI informed all field offices that an unclassified post-9/11 suspect list had been posted on the internet. “An FBI agent subsequently discovered a twenty-two-page untitled Excel spreadsheet, dated 10/03/2001” — likely an FBI watchlist — published on Antiwar.com. The Newark, New Jersey, office of the FBI prepared a 10-page “threat assessment” on Antiwar. The memo described the site’s mission and included a description of six articles found through a Lexis Nexis search for Garris and Antiwar.com. Further, the memo noted that “persons of interest” to the FBI had accessed or discussed the website.
The memo ultimately indicated that the Newark office recommended that the FBI’s field office in San Francisco monitor Garris and Antiwar’s postings. Yet the San Francisco office declined to do so, explaining that the website was “not a clear threat to National Security.” It categorized the site as a source of public information and said Garris “[was] exercising [his] constitutional right to free speech.”
Garris learned of the 2004 memo after it was released as part of an unrelated FOIA request. Garris then filed his own FOIA request, and the subsequent response was not as heavily redacted as the version that was posted online. The document stated that Garris had threatened to “disrupt FBI operations by hacking the FBI website.” As German points out, however, this was clearly a mistake. The analyst who received the email from Garris believed the message was a threat against the FBI, and did not realize that Garris was actually forwarding the email that contained the threat against Antiwar’s own website. Still, according to the memo, the FBI continued to monitor Garris and Antiwar.
Garris filed FOIA and Privacy Act requests seeking all FBI records about him, and when he exhausted the administrative remedies, he filed a lawsuit. He also separately filed requests seeking expungement of all records maintained by the FBI that described his exercise of First Amendment rights.
During the litigation, Garris also learned of the existence of another memo, called the “Halliburton Memo.” In 2006, the FBI’s Oklahoma City field office created the memo, which detailed plans by groups to protest Halliburton, the oil field services company once run by former Vice President Dick Cheney. Antiwar.com had posted information about a Halliburton shareholders’ meeting, and so the website was listed in the memo as one of the sources of publicly shared information about the meeting.
Garris sought expungement of these records, arguing that the law enforcement activity exception did not apply to them because the investigations in both memos had ended and the records were not pertinent to an ongoing authorized law enforcement activity. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ultimately granted summary judgment to the FBI. The parties settled the remaining disclosure issues, but Garris appealed the Privacy Act claims.
Though there were many issues for the court to consider, the most pertinent for press freedom purposes was whether maintaining the 2004 memo and the Halliburton memo violated the Pr
https://www.rcfp.org/impeachment-trial-press-access/
Reporters Committee and 57 news organizations urge Senate to reconsider impeachment trial press restrictions
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Maine State Police may be spying on you
Privacy advocates worry that law enforcement monitors innocent residents, and is one of only two states that won't reveal whether it's using this advanced technology.
An investigation by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram has found:
• Maine is one of two states to have a specific law, which was inspired by Cold War-era secrets kept from the Soviets, that officials say allows the state to neither confirm nor deny the use of digital technologies that might help solve crimes, but that also raises fears of abuse, privacy violations and the surveillance of citizens.
• Despite evidence that the Maine State Police has worked for years with federal agencies to develop its use of digital surveillance technology, the agency now uses that law to refuse to answer any questions about such efforts, or even acknowledge that they exist.
• The secrecy about investigative or surveillance technology extends to the Maine Information and Analysis Center – a so-called fusion center that brings the state police together with other federal and state agencies to foster information sharing and does not reveal its activities.
• The state police, and its partners in the fusion center, may soon have access to Mainers’ Real ID photos, which are especially suited for face-scanning technology. State law currently prohibits use of license photos for facial recognition searches, but a bill now moving through the Legislature would allow state officials to conduct such searches and provide information to outside law enforcement agencies.
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/08/susan ... the-world/
FEBRUARY 8, 2020 | TED RALL
SUSAN COLLINS HAS ALL THE FAITH IN THE WORLD
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbremer.htm
▼ Primary Sources ▼
Arthur Bremer
Mark Felt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation immediately took charge of the case. According to the historian Dan T. Carter (The Politics of Rage), Felt had a trusted contact in the White House: Charles Colson. Felt gave Colson the news. Within 90 minutes of the shooting Richard Nixon and Colson are recorded discussing the case. Nixon told Colson that he was concerned that Bremer “might have ties to the Republican Party or, even worse, the President’s re-election committee”. Nixon also asked Colson to find a way of blaming George McGovern for the shooting.
Over the next few hours, Colson and Felt talk six times on the telephone. Felt gave Colson the address of Bremer's home. Colson now phoned E. Howard Hunt and asked him to break-in to Bremer's apartment to discover if he had any documents that linked him to Nixon or George McGovern. According to Hunt's autobiography, Undercover, he disliked this idea but made preparations for the trip. He claimed that later that night Colson calls off the operation.
At 5:00 p.m. Thomas Farrow, head of the Baltimore FBI, passed details of Bremer’s address to the FBI office in Milwaukee. Soon afterwards two FBI agents arrived at Bremer’s apartment block and begin interviewing neighbours. However, they do not have a search warrant and do not go into Bremer’s apartment.
At around the same time, James Rowley, head of the Secret Service, ordered one of his Milwaukee agents to break into Bremer’s apartment. It has never been revealed why Rowley took this action. It is while this agent is searching the apartment that the FBI discover what is happening. According to John Ehrlichman, the FBI was so angry when they discovered the Secret Service in the apartment that they nearly opened fire on them.
The Secret Service took away documents from Bremer’s apartment. It is not known if they planted anything before they left. Anyway, the FBI discovered material published by the Black Panther Party and the American Civil Liberties Union in the apartment. Both sets of agents now left Bremer’s apartment unsealed. Over the next 80 minutes several reporters enter the apartment and take away documents.
Charles Colson also phoned journalists at the Washington Post and Detroit News with the news that evidence had been found that Bremer is a left-winger and was connected to the campaign of George McGovern. The reporters were also told that Bremer is a “dues-paying member of the Young Democrats of Milwaukee”. The next day Bob Woodward (Washington Post) and Gerald terHost (Detroit News) publish this story.
Also see
https://www.winterwatch.net/
William Joseph Bryan: Sirhan’s Handler and Set-Up Miastro Extraordinaire
September 16, 2019 Russ Winter
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-br ... story.html
Brad Pitt attacks impeachment hearings during Oscars acceptance speech
By KATE FELDMAN and NANCY DILLON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 09, 2020 | 8:27 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD stop-and-frisk numbers jumped by 22% in 2019 from prior year: report
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 10, 2020 | 7:30 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ ... story.html
Another Storm of the Century
Hurricane force winds from superstorm Ciara wreak havoc throughout northern Europe
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 09, 2020 | 7:52 PM
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/09/ ... gropelter/
Loggers believed these three monsters lurked deep in the Maine woods
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/09/ ... oy-scouts/
14 boys earn their Eagle Scout awards as their church pulls out of Boy Scouts
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/09/ ... -in-maine/
Old Town High School students help scientists research climate change in Maine
https://nypost.com/2020/02/09/nypd-serg ... shootings/
NYPD sergeants’ union ‘declares war’ on de Blasio after cop shootings
By Tamar Lapin
February 9, 2020 |
https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-to ... ses-fraud/
Former top cop slapped with 10-month sentence for sex offenses, fraud
Ex-Jerusalem police chief Nissan Shaham also to pay fines for coercing multiple women under his command to have sex with him
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local ... 23a22.html
Sexual Harassment findings put UI cop's job in jeopardy
* Mary Schenk Feb 9, 2020
https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/media/au ... -the-force
Philadelphia's new top cop is first African-American woman to lead the force
https://www.westword.com/news/susan-hol ... t-11633356
Susan Holmes Rips Cops for "Torture" After Red Flag Law Perjury Bust
MICHAEL ROBERTS | FEBRUARY 10, 2020 | 7:00AM
https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured/t ... tent-cops/
Florida Man Drives Van Into GOP Voter Registration Tent: Cops
posted by Ken Webster jr - Feb 10, 2020
https://thecrimereport.org/2020/02/10/s ... inst-cops/
South Florida Juries Reject ‘Rough Arrest’ Charges Against Cops
https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/pke3 ... app-groups
Indian Cops Have Been Asked to Spy on Students’ WhatsApp Groups
At a conference in December 2019 addressed by PM Modi, cops were also asked to monitor tweets and speeches.
By Pallavi Pundir
10 February 2020, 4:21a
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/10/a-wil ... gnet-sets/
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 | CELIA WEXLER
A ‘WILD WEST’ FOR DANGEROUS MAGNET SETS
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/10/lou ... -standing/
HOW THE SUPREME COURT COULD GUT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS WITHOUT RULING ON A SINGLE ABORTION RESTRICTION
Jordan Smith
February 10 2020, 6:00 a.m.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkek ... -as-heroin
A Vending Machine in Canada Is Dispensing a Drug Twice as Strong as Heroin
Hydromorphone, aka "Dilly," is now available to people who aren't ready or able to quit opioids.
By Maia Szalavitz
Feb 10 2020, 10:03a
-------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Charlie Sullivan <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: This article really makes the point against the Death Penalty with a huge human interest side
To: Charlie Sullivan <[email protected]>
Claudia, Alan has bought a few DVDs to mail into lifers groups that they can show your Detroit talk at the meetings of lifers. For example, Mary Pat has requested a DVD from Alan and will show it to women lifers that she works with in Maryland.
Also, I sent the link to your talk to the defense attorneys' national organization. It is
https://vimeo.com/389153699/e1a0ed05a5
In my opinion, they ought to interview you. You are showing that non-lawyers like you should be used to "plow the ground" for tough cases like lifers. This would be such a help for over burdened defense attorneys.
Finally, excellent article below. Charlie
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 3:45 PM Claudia Whitman <[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge ... c31bb.html
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/5091837 ... -communism
Six retired, high -level FBI Agents, Hail New Book About Democrats Push to Communism
The underlayment of today's Democrat Party
Co-Author, Former FBI Asst. Dep. Director
Co-Author
Six retired, high -level FBI Agents, hail new book about the Democratic Party's incremental move to bring a communist government to America
https://www.motherjones.com/environment ... incinnati/
The Biggest Municipal Solar Farm in the US Is Coming to…Cincinnati?
“This really is a big deal.”
So how did Cincinnati make that happen?
In 2018, the city was awarded a $2.5 million Bloomberg Philanthropies grant that was aimed to provide technical assistance to cities eager to address climate change. Cincinnati had considered introducing solar panels to its energy portfolio for years but lacked the resources city managers needed in order to determine how to reach that goal. The flat, rural expanses of land around the city turned out to be perfect for installing a vast solar farm the size of 750 football fields. Cranley realized that with this level of investment in solar energy, “an enormous amount of carbon reduction…can occur.” And, though environmental sustainability was a priority, Cranley notes that the solar is also “cost neutral,” which made the project especially appealing.
The plan was to have solar deliver 100 Megawatts of energy, which would offset approximately one quarter of the municipality’s total utility usage. In January, the project entered what’s known as an “in
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/10 ... r-machine/
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Climate Manipulation and Murdoch’s PR Machine
by THOMAS KLIKAUER
Western democracies and their respected societies appear to be incapable or unwilling of solving global warming. At least partly, this might be because voters in most countries have been lied to by the corporate media for decades on end. Much of this is due to one very rich and very old man – Rupert Murdoch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/10 ... bloomberg/
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Three Old White Guys: Bernie, Biden and Bloomberg
Pete Buttigieg’s declaration of victory in Iowa reminded us that neither sex, sexual orientation or skin color is in any way intrinsic to a person’s judgement – the first gay or the first African-American or the first woman to do this or that may still be mired in the mediocrity of their convictions. Distinctions of identity may remain re
Maine State Police may be spying on you
Privacy advocates worry that law enforcement monitors innocent residents, and is one of only two states that won't reveal whether it's using this advanced technology.
An investigation by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram has found:
• Maine is one of two states to have a specific law, which was inspired by Cold War-era secrets kept from the Soviets, that officials say allows the state to neither confirm nor deny the use of digital technologies that might help solve crimes, but that also raises fears of abuse, privacy violations and the surveillance of citizens.
• Despite evidence that the Maine State Police has worked for years with federal agencies to develop its use of digital surveillance technology, the agency now uses that law to refuse to answer any questions about such efforts, or even acknowledge that they exist.
• The secrecy about investigative or surveillance technology extends to the Maine Information and Analysis Center – a so-called fusion center that brings the state police together with other federal and state agencies to foster information sharing and does not reveal its activities.
• The state police, and its partners in the fusion center, may soon have access to Mainers’ Real ID photos, which are especially suited for face-scanning technology. State law currently prohibits use of license photos for facial recognition searches, but a bill now moving through the Legislature would allow state officials to conduct such searches and provide information to outside law enforcement agencies.
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/08/susan ... the-world/
FEBRUARY 8, 2020 | TED RALL
SUSAN COLLINS HAS ALL THE FAITH IN THE WORLD
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbremer.htm
▼ Primary Sources ▼
Arthur Bremer
Mark Felt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation immediately took charge of the case. According to the historian Dan T. Carter (The Politics of Rage), Felt had a trusted contact in the White House: Charles Colson. Felt gave Colson the news. Within 90 minutes of the shooting Richard Nixon and Colson are recorded discussing the case. Nixon told Colson that he was concerned that Bremer “might have ties to the Republican Party or, even worse, the President’s re-election committee”. Nixon also asked Colson to find a way of blaming George McGovern for the shooting.
Over the next few hours, Colson and Felt talk six times on the telephone. Felt gave Colson the address of Bremer's home. Colson now phoned E. Howard Hunt and asked him to break-in to Bremer's apartment to discover if he had any documents that linked him to Nixon or George McGovern. According to Hunt's autobiography, Undercover, he disliked this idea but made preparations for the trip. He claimed that later that night Colson calls off the operation.
At 5:00 p.m. Thomas Farrow, head of the Baltimore FBI, passed details of Bremer’s address to the FBI office in Milwaukee. Soon afterwards two FBI agents arrived at Bremer’s apartment block and begin interviewing neighbours. However, they do not have a search warrant and do not go into Bremer’s apartment.
At around the same time, James Rowley, head of the Secret Service, ordered one of his Milwaukee agents to break into Bremer’s apartment. It has never been revealed why Rowley took this action. It is while this agent is searching the apartment that the FBI discover what is happening. According to John Ehrlichman, the FBI was so angry when they discovered the Secret Service in the apartment that they nearly opened fire on them.
The Secret Service took away documents from Bremer’s apartment. It is not known if they planted anything before they left. Anyway, the FBI discovered material published by the Black Panther Party and the American Civil Liberties Union in the apartment. Both sets of agents now left Bremer’s apartment unsealed. Over the next 80 minutes several reporters enter the apartment and take away documents.
Charles Colson also phoned journalists at the Washington Post and Detroit News with the news that evidence had been found that Bremer is a left-winger and was connected to the campaign of George McGovern. The reporters were also told that Bremer is a “dues-paying member of the Young Democrats of Milwaukee”. The next day Bob Woodward (Washington Post) and Gerald terHost (Detroit News) publish this story.
Also see
https://www.winterwatch.net/
William Joseph Bryan: Sirhan’s Handler and Set-Up Miastro Extraordinaire
September 16, 2019 Russ Winter
https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-br ... story.html
Brad Pitt attacks impeachment hearings during Oscars acceptance speech
By KATE FELDMAN and NANCY DILLON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 09, 2020 | 8:27 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD stop-and-frisk numbers jumped by 22% in 2019 from prior year: report
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 10, 2020 | 7:30 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ ... story.html
Another Storm of the Century
Hurricane force winds from superstorm Ciara wreak havoc throughout northern Europe
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 09, 2020 | 7:52 PM
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/09/ ... gropelter/
Loggers believed these three monsters lurked deep in the Maine woods
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/09/ ... oy-scouts/
14 boys earn their Eagle Scout awards as their church pulls out of Boy Scouts
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/09/ ... -in-maine/
Old Town High School students help scientists research climate change in Maine
https://nypost.com/2020/02/09/nypd-serg ... shootings/
NYPD sergeants’ union ‘declares war’ on de Blasio after cop shootings
By Tamar Lapin
February 9, 2020 |
https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-to ... ses-fraud/
Former top cop slapped with 10-month sentence for sex offenses, fraud
Ex-Jerusalem police chief Nissan Shaham also to pay fines for coercing multiple women under his command to have sex with him
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local ... 23a22.html
Sexual Harassment findings put UI cop's job in jeopardy
* Mary Schenk Feb 9, 2020
https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/media/au ... -the-force
Philadelphia's new top cop is first African-American woman to lead the force
https://www.westword.com/news/susan-hol ... t-11633356
Susan Holmes Rips Cops for "Torture" After Red Flag Law Perjury Bust
MICHAEL ROBERTS | FEBRUARY 10, 2020 | 7:00AM
https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured/t ... tent-cops/
Florida Man Drives Van Into GOP Voter Registration Tent: Cops
posted by Ken Webster jr - Feb 10, 2020
https://thecrimereport.org/2020/02/10/s ... inst-cops/
South Florida Juries Reject ‘Rough Arrest’ Charges Against Cops
https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/pke3 ... app-groups
Indian Cops Have Been Asked to Spy on Students’ WhatsApp Groups
At a conference in December 2019 addressed by PM Modi, cops were also asked to monitor tweets and speeches.
By Pallavi Pundir
10 February 2020, 4:21a
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/10/a-wil ... gnet-sets/
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 | CELIA WEXLER
A ‘WILD WEST’ FOR DANGEROUS MAGNET SETS
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/10/lou ... -standing/
HOW THE SUPREME COURT COULD GUT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS WITHOUT RULING ON A SINGLE ABORTION RESTRICTION
Jordan Smith
February 10 2020, 6:00 a.m.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkek ... -as-heroin
A Vending Machine in Canada Is Dispensing a Drug Twice as Strong as Heroin
Hydromorphone, aka "Dilly," is now available to people who aren't ready or able to quit opioids.
By Maia Szalavitz
Feb 10 2020, 10:03a
-------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Charlie Sullivan <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: This article really makes the point against the Death Penalty with a huge human interest side
To: Charlie Sullivan <[email protected]>
Claudia, Alan has bought a few DVDs to mail into lifers groups that they can show your Detroit talk at the meetings of lifers. For example, Mary Pat has requested a DVD from Alan and will show it to women lifers that she works with in Maryland.
Also, I sent the link to your talk to the defense attorneys' national organization. It is
https://vimeo.com/389153699/e1a0ed05a5
In my opinion, they ought to interview you. You are showing that non-lawyers like you should be used to "plow the ground" for tough cases like lifers. This would be such a help for over burdened defense attorneys.
Finally, excellent article below. Charlie
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 3:45 PM Claudia Whitman <[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge ... c31bb.html
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/5091837 ... -communism
Six retired, high -level FBI Agents, Hail New Book About Democrats Push to Communism
The underlayment of today's Democrat Party
Co-Author, Former FBI Asst. Dep. Director
Co-Author
Six retired, high -level FBI Agents, hail new book about the Democratic Party's incremental move to bring a communist government to America
https://www.motherjones.com/environment ... incinnati/
The Biggest Municipal Solar Farm in the US Is Coming to…Cincinnati?
“This really is a big deal.”
So how did Cincinnati make that happen?
In 2018, the city was awarded a $2.5 million Bloomberg Philanthropies grant that was aimed to provide technical assistance to cities eager to address climate change. Cincinnati had considered introducing solar panels to its energy portfolio for years but lacked the resources city managers needed in order to determine how to reach that goal. The flat, rural expanses of land around the city turned out to be perfect for installing a vast solar farm the size of 750 football fields. Cranley realized that with this level of investment in solar energy, “an enormous amount of carbon reduction…can occur.” And, though environmental sustainability was a priority, Cranley notes that the solar is also “cost neutral,” which made the project especially appealing.
The plan was to have solar deliver 100 Megawatts of energy, which would offset approximately one quarter of the municipality’s total utility usage. In January, the project entered what’s known as an “in
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/10 ... r-machine/
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Climate Manipulation and Murdoch’s PR Machine
by THOMAS KLIKAUER
Western democracies and their respected societies appear to be incapable or unwilling of solving global warming. At least partly, this might be because voters in most countries have been lied to by the corporate media for decades on end. Much of this is due to one very rich and very old man – Rupert Murdoch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/10 ... bloomberg/
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Three Old White Guys: Bernie, Biden and Bloomberg
Pete Buttigieg’s declaration of victory in Iowa reminded us that neither sex, sexual orientation or skin color is in any way intrinsic to a person’s judgement – the first gay or the first African-American or the first woman to do this or that may still be mired in the mediocrity of their convictions. Distinctions of identity may remain re
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/20 ... on-condor/
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The CIA’s Role in Operation Condor
by JACOB HORNBERGER
The Washington Post reported that top secret documents confirm the role that the CIA played in Operation Condor, the international state-sponsored assassination, kidnapping, torture, and murder ring run by U.S.-supported military dictatorships in South America in the late 1970s. The documents confirm that the CIA’s role in the operation was to provide communications equipment to the ring, which enabled them to coordinate cross-border efforts to kidnap, torture, and kill suspected communists, which, of course, were nothing more than people who believed in
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/20 ... ern-front/
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
How the Military is Raiding Public Lands and Civilian Spaces Across the Western Front
by KATIE FITE
Upper West Little Owyhee Wild and Scenic River, Oregon.
Military public land grabs and intrusions into civilian spaces are raging in the West. Wild landscapes are targeted for huge seizures of public land, increases in hideously loud war plane overflight impacts, or development of facilities like threat emitters. The military already has seized vast areas of the American West for use as ground and air ranges. The Nellis Range in Nevada spans 2.9 million acres, but the Air Force now wants to seize 300,000 more acres of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The Navy finalized a giga
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/police- ... a479829222
Police officer detained after shooting girlfriend
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... risis-plan
Red-state Utah embraces plan to tackle climate crisis in surprising shift
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/01/02/c ... g-twenties
California Lagged in Capping Century-old Oil Wells Leaking Under Homes of LA Residents Plagued by Illness and Odors
Read time: 15 mins
By Marissa Pianko • Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 17:12
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/02/12/e ... ng-imports
EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas
Read time: 5 mins
By Justin Mikulka • Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 12:13
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/two-f ... tish-isles
Two-Fisted Storm System Pummels Iceland, British Isles
Bob Henson · February 17, 2020, 4:11 PM EST
https://skepticalscience.com/How-denier ... s-gap.html
How deniers maintain the consensus gap
Posted on 18 February 2020 by John Cook
An excerpt from the book Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change, released Feb 25. First posted here.
A number of studies have quantified the level of scientific agreement on climate change. In 2009, a survey by Peter Doran found that 97.4% of publishing climate scientists agreed that humans were changing global temperature. In 2010, Bill Anderegg analyzed public statements about climate change. He found 97–98% agreement among the most actively publishing climate scientists that humans are causing global warming.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 124358.htm
Science News
from research organizations
Warming, acidic oceans may nearly eliminate coral reef habitats by 2100
Date:
February 18, 2020
Source:
American Geophysical Union
Summary:
Rising sea surface temperatures and acidic waters could eliminate nearly all existing coral reef habitats by 2100, suggesting restoration projects in these areas will likely meet serious challenges, according to new research.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/20 ... ng-for-it/
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Freedom for $5.30…and This Time Mexico Really is Paying for It
by THOMAS KNAPP
Photograph Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Public Domain
Back in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his proposed border wall. Turns out Mexico wasn’t interested, so Trump eventually resorted to declaring fake emergencies and illegally misappropriating money
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 132615.htm
Artificial intelligence finds disease-related genes
Date:
February 13, 2020
Source:
Linköping University
Summary:
An artificial neural network can reveal patterns in huge amounts of gene expression data, and discover groups of disease-related genes. Scientists hope that the new method can eventually be applied within precision medicine and individualized treatment.
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/19/appea ... -poll-tax/
FEBRUARY 19, 2020 | GABRIELLA NOVELLO
APPEALS COURT BLOCKS FLORIDA’S ‘MODERN-DAY POLL TAX’
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 134707.htm
Science News
from research organizations
ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse
Date:
February 14, 2020
Source:
ESO
Summary:
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning new images of the star's surface show not only the fading red supergiant but also how its apparent shape is changing.
https://www.archaeology.org/slideshow/8 ... -slideshow
Artworks of the Dark Zone
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Since the 1980s, archaeologist Jan Simek and his colleagues have surveyed prehistoric artwork decorating the deepest reaches of caves, including the so-called “Unnamed Caves,” of Tennessee and Alabama. (To read in-depth about this work go to, "Artists of the Dark Zone.") Many of the artworks were incised on the mud walls of these caves. In recent years, Simek and Beau Carroll, lead archaeologist of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Historic Preservation Office, have also studied inscriptions Cherokee left behind in the caves using their own writing system. Below are images of some of these artworks and an insc
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14723-0#Sec7
The first Australian plant foods at Madjedbebe, 65,000–53,000 years ago
* S. Anna Florin, Andrew S. Fairbairn, May Nango, Djaykuk Djandjomerr, Ben Marwick, Richard Fullagar, Mike Smith, Lynley A. Wallis & Chris Clarkson
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volume
Abstract
There is little evidence for the role of plant foods in the dispersal of early modern humans into new habitats globally. Researchers have hypothesised that early movements of human populations through Island Southeast Asia and into Sahul were driven by the lure of high-calorie, low-handling-cost foods, and that the use of plant foods requiring processing was not common in Sahul until the Holocene. Here we present the analysis of charred plant food remains from Madjedbebe rockshelter in northern Australia, dated to between 65 kya and 53 kya. We demonstrate that Australia’s earliest known human population exploited a range of plant foods, including those requiring processing. Our finds predate existing evidence for such subsistence practices in Sahul by at least 23ky. Thes
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... -the-line/
Maine regulators say Firm did ‘independent study’ of electric line while working for energy giant that could make billions from it
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/19/tech- ... or-either/
ELECTION INTEGRITY
FEBRUARY 19, 2020 | GABRIELLA NOVELLO
TECH FAILS AND INTERNET TROLLS: ARE STATES PREPARED FOR EITHER?
With the failures of the Iowa caucus, the movement for mobile voting hit yet another setback. Now, election security advocates are raising concerns about the ability of right-wing internet trolls and hackers to exploit voting machine issues — and whether states are capable of recovering when something goes wrong.
In Iowa, Democrats blamed a “human coding error” when a mobile a
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... he-county/
Proposed Waldoboro solar farm could become largest in the county
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... don-power/
Julian Assange and Roger Stone Are Perfect Examples of How Trump Uses His Pardon Power
Remember: Roger Stone worked to secure a pardon for Assange.
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... ice-force/
New England
Chief strips to his underwear and walks into storm after NH town eliminates police force
https://www.rt.com/usa/481241-steven-sp ... reer-porn/
HomeUSA News
Spielberg’s daughter chooses career in PORN & says her director dad approves
19 Feb, 2020 21:22 / Updated 7 hours ago
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... u-can-see/
Act Out
Mount Desert Island is great for winter birding. Here’s what you can see.
https://www.rt.com/news/481261-brazil-p ... bulldozer/
Brazilian senator SHOT after driving BULLDOZER into military police protest (VIDEOS)
20 Feb, 2020 07:23 / Updated 8 hours ago
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... -in-maine/
You can grow eco-friendly sponges in your own garden
https://www.rt.com/news/481292-hidden-c ... discovery/
Newly discovered SECRET CHAMBER beside King Tut’s tomb may be burial site of Egypt’s long-lost Queen Nefertiti
20 Feb, 2020 14:08
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/19/ ... kes-shore/
Monster brook trout are spawning along Moosehead Lake’s shore
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/02/20/tru ... ent-cases/
Trump Defies AG Barr, Continues Tweeting about Justice Department
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The CIA’s Role in Operation Condor
by JACOB HORNBERGER
The Washington Post reported that top secret documents confirm the role that the CIA played in Operation Condor, the international state-sponsored assassination, kidnapping, torture, and murder ring run by U.S.-supported military dictatorships in South America in the late 1970s. The documents confirm that the CIA’s role in the operation was to provide communications equipment to the ring, which enabled them to coordinate cross-border efforts to kidnap, torture, and kill suspected communists, which, of course, were nothing more than people who believed in
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/20 ... ern-front/
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
How the Military is Raiding Public Lands and Civilian Spaces Across the Western Front
by KATIE FITE
Upper West Little Owyhee Wild and Scenic River, Oregon.
Military public land grabs and intrusions into civilian spaces are raging in the West. Wild landscapes are targeted for huge seizures of public land, increases in hideously loud war plane overflight impacts, or development of facilities like threat emitters. The military already has seized vast areas of the American West for use as ground and air ranges. The Nellis Range in Nevada spans 2.9 million acres, but the Air Force now wants to seize 300,000 more acres of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The Navy finalized a giga
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/police- ... a479829222
Police officer detained after shooting girlfriend
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... risis-plan
Red-state Utah embraces plan to tackle climate crisis in surprising shift
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/01/02/c ... g-twenties
California Lagged in Capping Century-old Oil Wells Leaking Under Homes of LA Residents Plagued by Illness and Odors
Read time: 15 mins
By Marissa Pianko • Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 17:12
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/02/12/e ... ng-imports
EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas
Read time: 5 mins
By Justin Mikulka • Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 12:13
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/two-f ... tish-isles
Two-Fisted Storm System Pummels Iceland, British Isles
Bob Henson · February 17, 2020, 4:11 PM EST
https://skepticalscience.com/How-denier ... s-gap.html
How deniers maintain the consensus gap
Posted on 18 February 2020 by John Cook
An excerpt from the book Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change, released Feb 25. First posted here.
A number of studies have quantified the level of scientific agreement on climate change. In 2009, a survey by Peter Doran found that 97.4% of publishing climate scientists agreed that humans were changing global temperature. In 2010, Bill Anderegg analyzed public statements about climate change. He found 97–98% agreement among the most actively publishing climate scientists that humans are causing global warming.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 124358.htm
Science News
from research organizations
Warming, acidic oceans may nearly eliminate coral reef habitats by 2100
Date:
February 18, 2020
Source:
American Geophysical Union
Summary:
Rising sea surface temperatures and acidic waters could eliminate nearly all existing coral reef habitats by 2100, suggesting restoration projects in these areas will likely meet serious challenges, according to new research.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/20 ... ng-for-it/
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Freedom for $5.30…and This Time Mexico Really is Paying for It
by THOMAS KNAPP
Photograph Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Public Domain
Back in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his proposed border wall. Turns out Mexico wasn’t interested, so Trump eventually resorted to declaring fake emergencies and illegally misappropriating money
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 132615.htm
Artificial intelligence finds disease-related genes
Date:
February 13, 2020
Source:
Linköping University
Summary:
An artificial neural network can reveal patterns in huge amounts of gene expression data, and discover groups of disease-related genes. Scientists hope that the new method can eventually be applied within precision medicine and individualized treatment.
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/19/appea ... -poll-tax/
FEBRUARY 19, 2020 | GABRIELLA NOVELLO
APPEALS COURT BLOCKS FLORIDA’S ‘MODERN-DAY POLL TAX’
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 134707.htm
Science News
from research organizations
ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse
Date:
February 14, 2020
Source:
ESO
Summary:
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning new images of the star's surface show not only the fading red supergiant but also how its apparent shape is changing.
https://www.archaeology.org/slideshow/8 ... -slideshow
Artworks of the Dark Zone
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Since the 1980s, archaeologist Jan Simek and his colleagues have surveyed prehistoric artwork decorating the deepest reaches of caves, including the so-called “Unnamed Caves,” of Tennessee and Alabama. (To read in-depth about this work go to, "Artists of the Dark Zone.") Many of the artworks were incised on the mud walls of these caves. In recent years, Simek and Beau Carroll, lead archaeologist of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Historic Preservation Office, have also studied inscriptions Cherokee left behind in the caves using their own writing system. Below are images of some of these artworks and an insc
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14723-0#Sec7
The first Australian plant foods at Madjedbebe, 65,000–53,000 years ago
* S. Anna Florin, Andrew S. Fairbairn, May Nango, Djaykuk Djandjomerr, Ben Marwick, Richard Fullagar, Mike Smith, Lynley A. Wallis & Chris Clarkson
Nature Communications
volume
Abstract
There is little evidence for the role of plant foods in the dispersal of early modern humans into new habitats globally. Researchers have hypothesised that early movements of human populations through Island Southeast Asia and into Sahul were driven by the lure of high-calorie, low-handling-cost foods, and that the use of plant foods requiring processing was not common in Sahul until the Holocene. Here we present the analysis of charred plant food remains from Madjedbebe rockshelter in northern Australia, dated to between 65 kya and 53 kya. We demonstrate that Australia’s earliest known human population exploited a range of plant foods, including those requiring processing. Our finds predate existing evidence for such subsistence practices in Sahul by at least 23ky. Thes
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... -the-line/
Maine regulators say Firm did ‘independent study’ of electric line while working for energy giant that could make billions from it
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/19/tech- ... or-either/
ELECTION INTEGRITY
FEBRUARY 19, 2020 | GABRIELLA NOVELLO
TECH FAILS AND INTERNET TROLLS: ARE STATES PREPARED FOR EITHER?
With the failures of the Iowa caucus, the movement for mobile voting hit yet another setback. Now, election security advocates are raising concerns about the ability of right-wing internet trolls and hackers to exploit voting machine issues — and whether states are capable of recovering when something goes wrong.
In Iowa, Democrats blamed a “human coding error” when a mobile a
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... he-county/
Proposed Waldoboro solar farm could become largest in the county
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... don-power/
Julian Assange and Roger Stone Are Perfect Examples of How Trump Uses His Pardon Power
Remember: Roger Stone worked to secure a pardon for Assange.
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... ice-force/
New England
Chief strips to his underwear and walks into storm after NH town eliminates police force
https://www.rt.com/usa/481241-steven-sp ... reer-porn/
HomeUSA News
Spielberg’s daughter chooses career in PORN & says her director dad approves
19 Feb, 2020 21:22 / Updated 7 hours ago
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... u-can-see/
Act Out
Mount Desert Island is great for winter birding. Here’s what you can see.
https://www.rt.com/news/481261-brazil-p ... bulldozer/
Brazilian senator SHOT after driving BULLDOZER into military police protest (VIDEOS)
20 Feb, 2020 07:23 / Updated 8 hours ago
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/20/ ... -in-maine/
You can grow eco-friendly sponges in your own garden
https://www.rt.com/news/481292-hidden-c ... discovery/
Newly discovered SECRET CHAMBER beside King Tut’s tomb may be burial site of Egypt’s long-lost Queen Nefertiti
20 Feb, 2020 14:08
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/02/19/ ... kes-shore/
Monster brook trout are spawning along Moosehead Lake’s shore
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/02/20/tru ... ent-cases/
Trump Defies AG Barr, Continues Tweeting about Justice Department
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Re: Heat is Online
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justi ... -of-force/
LA’s First Black District Attorney Is Battling for Reelection. Black Activists Want Her Out.
To top things off, incumbant Jackie Lacey’s biggest opponent is George Gascón—a former cop.
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... ld-be.html
Monday, March 2, 2020
What a public health agency should be doing now wrt COVID-19
1. Diagnostic information. Describe the specific features of the disease in the US (symptoms and signs) so doctors will be able to clinically distinguish most COVID-19 cases from other respiratory infections like colds, influenza, pneumonias, allowing them to isolate, quarantine, treat respiratory infections more sensibly. CDC and NIH say they will publish articles on this soon. Excuse me, but CDC and NIH leaders are not academics, they are public servants with websites devoted to dealing with COVID. As soon as they find information useful to professionals or the public, it should be posted on their websites. And state health departments say the necessary information was made available to CDC.
2. Decontamination. Tell us how to clean different surfaces and how to eliminate virus on fomites. With other coronaviruses, virus was viable after a week on some surfaces. NYC says they will give schools a "deep cleaning." What method will they use and who said it was effective?
CDC has P4/BSL4 labs where environmental studies can be safely conducted to answer this question. The answer is crucial. Yet the CDC website, even as of today, March 2, includes no information in its COVID infection control section (or anywhere else I could find) on environmental decontamination. I was also unable to find this info, specific to COVID, on the WHO website.
3. Testing. Why did CDC restrict testing to under 1000 people total in the US through the end of last week? It seems they did not trust their test, and restricted testing to people who had an extremely high risk of having the virus. Which would presumably give fewer incorrect results.
Yet WHO had another test it shared with countries; China had tests; commercial and state labs wanted to develop tests. Until the evening of 2/28/20, only CDC's test could be used in the US, and only if the patient met very restrictive clinical criteria and had a strong China connection.
Being unable to test kept the US numbers down, for a time. But it allowed cases to go undiagnosed and to spread within the community. This no doubt has caused a much larger problem--undiagnosed cases--so we do not know where in the US there are current "hot spots" and Americans have been slower to respond vigorously.
We need real time rtPCR tests, antibody tests to determine prior infection, information on viral cultures and animal models to speed research.
4. Treatment. CDC and the rest of the federal establishment know that remdesivir may work, chloroquine phosphate may work (both used in China) and other drugs may be able to be repurposed for COVID.
We have been told 1 US person received remdesivir and others are being offered it in the US.
Why isn't the US conducting joint clinical trials with other nations (those who have tested and diagnosed many more cases) to explore the many possible drug options? Where are these drugs made? What efforts are made to get them into rapid production, especially remdesivir? Where do the raw materials come from, and can they be produced in the US?
5. Overwhelming of the medical system. If cases rise at the rates they have going, we will exceed the available hospital beds, ventilators, doctors, nurses, masks, gowns, etc.
Coming up with a plan for how to respond THEN is what we need from public health agencies and government. Right now, we have enough of everything. Is the US trying to rapidly manufacture masks, gloves, other PPE, ventilators, ECMO devices, train staff, and otherwise prepare for a medical armageddon?
If so, what is happening behind closed doors? What are they planning in terms of rationing healthcare?
6. Clinical pearls. This poster, used by health systems throughout the US, is exactly what practitioners need -- with an extra column for COVID-19, so we can quickly differentiate likely and unlikely cases.
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 11:53 AM 0 comments
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/03/02/aut ... -camarena/
Authorities Investigating Bombshell Allegations that U.S. Officials Were Involved in Murder of DEA Agent Camarena
DEA Agent Enrique Camarena
By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Federal authorities are investigating new bombshell allegations that a CIA operative and DEA official conspired with a drug kingpin to torture and murder DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985.
Multiple witnesses who have been re-interviewed in the case told USA Today that Camarena may have been betrayed by his own country.
Whether American operatives were involved remains unknown, but the allegations are too explosive to ignore, officials said.
“You can’t just put it in a drawer and forget about it,” one official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
Camarena’s widow, Mika, said authorities have told her they are investigating the allegations.
“I want the truth to be out,” told the publication. “At this point, nothing would surprise me.”
Witnesses who were re-interviewed shared startling allegations that U.S. officials had been secretly helping drug cartels. Those witnesses, former Mexican police officers Ramon Lira, Rene Lopez and George Godoy, who had worked as security
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/ ... 566023001/
Killed by a cartel. Betrayed by his own? US reexamines murder of federal agent featured in ‘Narcos’
Federal authorities assess new witness claims that a DEA official and CIA operative were tied to DEA agent Enrique Camarena's 1985 murder in Mexico.
Brad Heath, USA TODAY
Updated 3:27 p.m. EST Feb. 28, 2020
Show caption
An undated file photo of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, the DEA agent murdered in Mexico in 1985.
LOS ANGELES – The gunmen were waiting for Enrique Camarena. They positioned thems
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... oronavirus
Dramatic fall in China pollution levels ‘partly related’ to coronavirus
Nasa satellite images show decline as industrial activity slows in effort to limit coronavirus
Sun 1 Mar 2020 07.19 EST
9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
Draft minutes for February 26, 2020
March 2, 2020
Ann Hendricks, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
**********************
Draft minutes for the February 26, 2020 regular conference call.
Present were:
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Fern Tishman
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Nita Renfrew, New York 911Truth
Zander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Steve Stodola, Boston 9/11Truth
Peter Michael Ketchum, formerly of NIST
Jonathan Mark, FlybyNews
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11Truth
Gerald Pechunuk, Larouche Pac
Dan Hennen, 9/11TAP
Karl Golovin, anidealiveson.net
Barbara Honegger, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
David Meiswinkle, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11Truth
Lawrence Fine, 9/11 Synthesis
The minutes of the January 29, 2020 conference call and the draft agenda were APPROVED.
September 11, 2021 anniversary
Jonathan Mark opened the discussion about 9/11 20th anniversary event planning. He is seeking to bring together peace activists and 9/11 truth researchers and all who want “a democracy that protects the Constitution, rather than disables it.” He asked for a contact with the 9/11 Consensus Panel that would provide their points of agreement to the public. Additionally, he seeks names of various 9/11 organizations to invite to, or to co-host, events. Jonathan suggested an event might show Massimo Mazzucco’s summary version of his September 11: The New Pearl Harbor movie. Cheryl Curtiss suggested uniting the anti-war folks, the Muslim community, civil liberty groups, and alternative media journalists. To contribute suggestions, go to this community forum page: https://www.facebook.com/events/987760258228011/. And the anniversary is addressed on Jonathan’s website: https://flybynews.wordpress.com/2019/12 ... CNgCV-KXo
Lawyers’ Committee legal efforts progress
Immediate suggestions for additional persons to join the New York mandamus lawsuit are appreciated by the Lawyers’ Committee. David Meiswinkle told of the defendants’ motion to dismiss this lawsuit especially due to alleged “lack of standing.” The Courts give higher value for standing to plaintiffs who have lost a family member or those who were injured by explosions or during the cleanup efforts. The deadline for the Lawyers’ Committee response is Tuesday, March 3rd. Please contact an LC board member if you know of someone who meets these criteria and who is willing to join the lawsuit. David also spoke about bringing in a professional investigator and of setting up research committees for several areas including the WTC, the Pentagon, Shanksville, anthrax, government misconduct, etc., to collect evidence for potential grand juries. Barbara Honegger emphasized that the Lawyers’ Committee appreciates participatory help and underscored the need for more plaintiffs to join the lawsuit quickly.
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Frank Tolopko has studied the life and death of Malcolm X and reported on the release of a six-part docuseries on Netflix following the research of Abdur-Rahman Muhammad. Frank also pointed out several parallels of the assassination case to aspects of 9/11. Based on the new evidence uncovered, the Manhattan District Attorney has decided to reopen the murder investigation. Cheryl Curtiss will be interviewing Mr. Mohammad in the near future.
Bill Binney event
Gerald Pechenuk spoke about a discussion with Bill Binney livestreamed from New York City on Saturday, February 29th. This YouTube video is called “Rescuing the Republic from the Surveillance State – A Conversation with Bill Binney.” https://youtu.be/rgi2MozX9fc
Announcements
On Friday, March 6, David Meiswinkle, Barbara Honegger, and Christopher Gioia (via live link), will be speaking at an event in San Diego, which is hosted by San Diego 9/11 Truth. This event will be livestreamed on the Lawyers’ Committee YouTube channel, at 5-8 p.m. EST / 2-5 p.m. PST. Their presentation will be at the Mission Valley Library, 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego. The Library offers free parking, and the event is free. For any questions, contact Cheri Aspen at (858) 568-1257.The link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQbEe ... 4pEFmQUJw
http://action.ae911truth.org/o/50694/t/ ... Y=1405703
Cheryl Curtiss said the next teleconference will be March 25, 2020.
Cheryl also highly recommended the book, Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold written by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave.
The call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 9:58 p.m., PST/5 p.m. to 6:58 p.m. Audio of the February call can be heard here:
http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 22620.mp3
The next monthly teleconference will take place on March 25, 2020 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss ([email protected]) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee ([email protected]), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks ([email protected]).
Ann Hendricks, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
**********************
Draft minutes for the February 26, 2020 regular conference call.
Present were:
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Fern Tishman
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Nita Renfrew, New York 911Truth
Zander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Steve Stodola, Boston 9/11Truth
Peter Michael Ketchum, formerly of NIST
Jonathan Mark, FlybyNews
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11Truth
Gerald Pechunuk, Larouche Pac
Dan Hennen, 9/11TAP
Karl Golovin, anidealiveson.net
Barbara Honegger, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
David Meiswinkle, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11Truth
Lawrence Fine, 9/11 Synthesis
The minutes of the January 29, 2020 conference call and the draft agenda were APPROVED.
September 11, 2021 anniversary
Jonathan Mark opened the discussion about 9/11 20th anniversary event planning. He is seeking to bring together peace activists and 9/11 truth researchers and all who want “a democracy that protects the Constitution, rather than disables it.” He asked for a contact with the 9/11 Consensus Panel that would provide their points of agreement to the public. Additionally, he seeks names of various 9/11 organizations to invite to, or to co-host, events. Jonathan suggested an event might show Massimo Mazzucco’s summary version of his September 11: The New Pearl Harbor movie. Cheryl Curtiss suggested uniting the anti-war folks, the Muslim community, civil liberty groups, and alternative media journalists. To contribute suggestions, go to this community forum page: https://www.facebook.com/events/987760258228011/. And the anniversary is addressed on Jonathan’s website: https://flybynews.wordpress.com/2019/12 ... CNgCV-KXo
Lawyers’ Committee legal efforts progress
Immediate suggestions for additional persons to join the New York mandamus lawsuit are appreciated by the Lawyers’ Committee. David Meiswinkle told of the defendants’ motion to dismiss this lawsuit especially due to alleged “lack of standing.” The Courts give higher value for standing to plaintiffs who have lost a family member or those who were injured by explosions or during the cleanup efforts. The deadline for the Lawyers’ Committee response is Tuesday, March 3rd. Please contact an LC board member if you know of someone who meets these criteria and who is willing to join the lawsuit. David also spoke about bringing in a professional investigator and of setting up research committees for several areas including the WTC, the Pentagon, Shanksville, anthrax, government misconduct, etc., to collect evidence for potential grand juries. Barbara Honegger emphasized that the Lawyers’ Committee appreciates participatory help and underscored the need for more plaintiffs to join the lawsuit quickly.
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Frank Tolopko has studied the life and death of Malcolm X and reported on the release of a six-part docuseries on Netflix following the research of Abdur-Rahman Muhammad. Frank also pointed out several parallels of the assassination case to aspects of 9/11. Based on the new evidence uncovered, the Manhattan District Attorney has decided to reopen the murder investigation. Cheryl Curtiss will be interviewing Mr. Mohammad in the near future.
Bill Binney event
Gerald Pechenuk spoke about a discussion with Bill Binney livestreamed from New York City on Saturday, February 29th. This YouTube video is called “Rescuing the Republic from the Surveillance State – A Conversation with Bill Binney.” https://youtu.be/rgi2MozX9fc
Announcements
On Friday, March 6, David Meiswinkle, Barbara Honegger, and Christopher Gioia (via live link), will be speaking at an event in San Diego, which is hosted by San Diego 9/11 Truth. This event will be livestreamed on the Lawyers’ Committee YouTube channel, at 5-8 p.m. EST / 2-5 p.m. PST. Their presentation will be at the Mission Valley Library, 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego. The Library offers free parking, and the event is free. For any questions, contact Cheri Aspen at (858) 568-1257.The link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQbEe ... 4pEFmQUJw
http://action.ae911truth.org/o/50694/t/ ... Y=1405703
Cheryl Curtiss said the next teleconference will be March 25, 2020.
Cheryl also highly recommended the book, Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold written by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave.
The call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 9:58 p.m., PST/5 p.m. to 6:58 p.m. Audio of the February call can be heard here:
http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 22620.mp3
The next monthly teleconference will take place on March 25, 2020 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss ([email protected]) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee ([email protected]), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks ([email protected]).
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
SEE IT: Disturbing video shows district attorney’s husband pointing gun at Black Lives Matter activists outside his home
By NELSON OLIVEIRA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 02, 2020 | 11:46 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ ... story.html
Australian summer twice as long as winter due to climate change: report
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 02, 2020 | 2:24 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Republicans side with DA Vance over Trump financial record showdown
By MICHAEL GARTLAND
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 02, 2020 | 4:55 PM
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/03/02/bloom ... tereotype/
MARCH 2, 2020 | PETER B. COLLINS
BLOOMBERG DEMONIZATION OF ‘ABANDONED’ YOUTH FEEDS UGLY STEREOTYPE
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/29/more- ... ranchised/
ELECTION INTEGRITY
FEBRUARY 29, 2020 | GABRIELLA NOVELLO
MORE THAN 500,000 GEORGIA VOTERS AT RISK OF BEING ‘POTENTIALLY DISENFRANCHISED’
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939z ... s-in-china
Report: Your Gadgets Are Made by Re-Education Camp Prisoners in China
A new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute alleges that Beijing is using Uyghur prison labor in factories producing goods for Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and others.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe4 ... f-the-race
Bernie Has a Plan to Knock Elizabeth Warren Out of the Race
Warren faces the real risk of losing Massachusetts to Sanders.
https://www.rt.com/russia/482106-moscow ... er-record/
Moscow's winter WARMEST in 140 years of records: Normally FRIGID Russian capital's temperature averages ABOVE zero
2 Mar, 2020 11:49 / Updated 14 hours ago
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/02 ... der-trump/
MARCH 2, 2020
Noah, New and Improved: the Endangered Species Act Under Trump
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/02 ... ack-death/
MARCH 2, 2020
Iran’s Coronavirus Outbreak Bizarrely Resembles the Black Death
by ROBERT FISK
LA’s First Black District Attorney Is Battling for Reelection. Black Activists Want Her Out.
To top things off, incumbant Jackie Lacey’s biggest opponent is George Gascón—a former cop.
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... ld-be.html
Monday, March 2, 2020
What a public health agency should be doing now wrt COVID-19
1. Diagnostic information. Describe the specific features of the disease in the US (symptoms and signs) so doctors will be able to clinically distinguish most COVID-19 cases from other respiratory infections like colds, influenza, pneumonias, allowing them to isolate, quarantine, treat respiratory infections more sensibly. CDC and NIH say they will publish articles on this soon. Excuse me, but CDC and NIH leaders are not academics, they are public servants with websites devoted to dealing with COVID. As soon as they find information useful to professionals or the public, it should be posted on their websites. And state health departments say the necessary information was made available to CDC.
2. Decontamination. Tell us how to clean different surfaces and how to eliminate virus on fomites. With other coronaviruses, virus was viable after a week on some surfaces. NYC says they will give schools a "deep cleaning." What method will they use and who said it was effective?
CDC has P4/BSL4 labs where environmental studies can be safely conducted to answer this question. The answer is crucial. Yet the CDC website, even as of today, March 2, includes no information in its COVID infection control section (or anywhere else I could find) on environmental decontamination. I was also unable to find this info, specific to COVID, on the WHO website.
3. Testing. Why did CDC restrict testing to under 1000 people total in the US through the end of last week? It seems they did not trust their test, and restricted testing to people who had an extremely high risk of having the virus. Which would presumably give fewer incorrect results.
Yet WHO had another test it shared with countries; China had tests; commercial and state labs wanted to develop tests. Until the evening of 2/28/20, only CDC's test could be used in the US, and only if the patient met very restrictive clinical criteria and had a strong China connection.
Being unable to test kept the US numbers down, for a time. But it allowed cases to go undiagnosed and to spread within the community. This no doubt has caused a much larger problem--undiagnosed cases--so we do not know where in the US there are current "hot spots" and Americans have been slower to respond vigorously.
We need real time rtPCR tests, antibody tests to determine prior infection, information on viral cultures and animal models to speed research.
4. Treatment. CDC and the rest of the federal establishment know that remdesivir may work, chloroquine phosphate may work (both used in China) and other drugs may be able to be repurposed for COVID.
We have been told 1 US person received remdesivir and others are being offered it in the US.
Why isn't the US conducting joint clinical trials with other nations (those who have tested and diagnosed many more cases) to explore the many possible drug options? Where are these drugs made? What efforts are made to get them into rapid production, especially remdesivir? Where do the raw materials come from, and can they be produced in the US?
5. Overwhelming of the medical system. If cases rise at the rates they have going, we will exceed the available hospital beds, ventilators, doctors, nurses, masks, gowns, etc.
Coming up with a plan for how to respond THEN is what we need from public health agencies and government. Right now, we have enough of everything. Is the US trying to rapidly manufacture masks, gloves, other PPE, ventilators, ECMO devices, train staff, and otherwise prepare for a medical armageddon?
If so, what is happening behind closed doors? What are they planning in terms of rationing healthcare?
6. Clinical pearls. This poster, used by health systems throughout the US, is exactly what practitioners need -- with an extra column for COVID-19, so we can quickly differentiate likely and unlikely cases.
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 11:53 AM 0 comments
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/03/02/aut ... -camarena/
Authorities Investigating Bombshell Allegations that U.S. Officials Were Involved in Murder of DEA Agent Camarena
DEA Agent Enrique Camarena
By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Federal authorities are investigating new bombshell allegations that a CIA operative and DEA official conspired with a drug kingpin to torture and murder DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985.
Multiple witnesses who have been re-interviewed in the case told USA Today that Camarena may have been betrayed by his own country.
Whether American operatives were involved remains unknown, but the allegations are too explosive to ignore, officials said.
“You can’t just put it in a drawer and forget about it,” one official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
Camarena’s widow, Mika, said authorities have told her they are investigating the allegations.
“I want the truth to be out,” told the publication. “At this point, nothing would surprise me.”
Witnesses who were re-interviewed shared startling allegations that U.S. officials had been secretly helping drug cartels. Those witnesses, former Mexican police officers Ramon Lira, Rene Lopez and George Godoy, who had worked as security
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/ ... 566023001/
Killed by a cartel. Betrayed by his own? US reexamines murder of federal agent featured in ‘Narcos’
Federal authorities assess new witness claims that a DEA official and CIA operative were tied to DEA agent Enrique Camarena's 1985 murder in Mexico.
Brad Heath, USA TODAY
Updated 3:27 p.m. EST Feb. 28, 2020
Show caption
An undated file photo of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, the DEA agent murdered in Mexico in 1985.
LOS ANGELES – The gunmen were waiting for Enrique Camarena. They positioned thems
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... oronavirus
Dramatic fall in China pollution levels ‘partly related’ to coronavirus
Nasa satellite images show decline as industrial activity slows in effort to limit coronavirus
Sun 1 Mar 2020 07.19 EST
9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
Draft minutes for February 26, 2020
March 2, 2020
Ann Hendricks, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
**********************
Draft minutes for the February 26, 2020 regular conference call.
Present were:
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Fern Tishman
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Nita Renfrew, New York 911Truth
Zander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Steve Stodola, Boston 9/11Truth
Peter Michael Ketchum, formerly of NIST
Jonathan Mark, FlybyNews
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11Truth
Gerald Pechunuk, Larouche Pac
Dan Hennen, 9/11TAP
Karl Golovin, anidealiveson.net
Barbara Honegger, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
David Meiswinkle, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11Truth
Lawrence Fine, 9/11 Synthesis
The minutes of the January 29, 2020 conference call and the draft agenda were APPROVED.
September 11, 2021 anniversary
Jonathan Mark opened the discussion about 9/11 20th anniversary event planning. He is seeking to bring together peace activists and 9/11 truth researchers and all who want “a democracy that protects the Constitution, rather than disables it.” He asked for a contact with the 9/11 Consensus Panel that would provide their points of agreement to the public. Additionally, he seeks names of various 9/11 organizations to invite to, or to co-host, events. Jonathan suggested an event might show Massimo Mazzucco’s summary version of his September 11: The New Pearl Harbor movie. Cheryl Curtiss suggested uniting the anti-war folks, the Muslim community, civil liberty groups, and alternative media journalists. To contribute suggestions, go to this community forum page: https://www.facebook.com/events/987760258228011/. And the anniversary is addressed on Jonathan’s website: https://flybynews.wordpress.com/2019/12 ... CNgCV-KXo
Lawyers’ Committee legal efforts progress
Immediate suggestions for additional persons to join the New York mandamus lawsuit are appreciated by the Lawyers’ Committee. David Meiswinkle told of the defendants’ motion to dismiss this lawsuit especially due to alleged “lack of standing.” The Courts give higher value for standing to plaintiffs who have lost a family member or those who were injured by explosions or during the cleanup efforts. The deadline for the Lawyers’ Committee response is Tuesday, March 3rd. Please contact an LC board member if you know of someone who meets these criteria and who is willing to join the lawsuit. David also spoke about bringing in a professional investigator and of setting up research committees for several areas including the WTC, the Pentagon, Shanksville, anthrax, government misconduct, etc., to collect evidence for potential grand juries. Barbara Honegger emphasized that the Lawyers’ Committee appreciates participatory help and underscored the need for more plaintiffs to join the lawsuit quickly.
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Frank Tolopko has studied the life and death of Malcolm X and reported on the release of a six-part docuseries on Netflix following the research of Abdur-Rahman Muhammad. Frank also pointed out several parallels of the assassination case to aspects of 9/11. Based on the new evidence uncovered, the Manhattan District Attorney has decided to reopen the murder investigation. Cheryl Curtiss will be interviewing Mr. Mohammad in the near future.
Bill Binney event
Gerald Pechenuk spoke about a discussion with Bill Binney livestreamed from New York City on Saturday, February 29th. This YouTube video is called “Rescuing the Republic from the Surveillance State – A Conversation with Bill Binney.” https://youtu.be/rgi2MozX9fc
Announcements
On Friday, March 6, David Meiswinkle, Barbara Honegger, and Christopher Gioia (via live link), will be speaking at an event in San Diego, which is hosted by San Diego 9/11 Truth. This event will be livestreamed on the Lawyers’ Committee YouTube channel, at 5-8 p.m. EST / 2-5 p.m. PST. Their presentation will be at the Mission Valley Library, 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego. The Library offers free parking, and the event is free. For any questions, contact Cheri Aspen at (858) 568-1257.The link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQbEe ... 4pEFmQUJw
http://action.ae911truth.org/o/50694/t/ ... Y=1405703
Cheryl Curtiss said the next teleconference will be March 25, 2020.
Cheryl also highly recommended the book, Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold written by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave.
The call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 9:58 p.m., PST/5 p.m. to 6:58 p.m. Audio of the February call can be heard here:
http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 22620.mp3
The next monthly teleconference will take place on March 25, 2020 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss ([email protected]) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee ([email protected]), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks ([email protected]).
Ann Hendricks, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
**********************
Draft minutes for the February 26, 2020 regular conference call.
Present were:
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Fern Tishman
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Nita Renfrew, New York 911Truth
Zander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Steve Stodola, Boston 9/11Truth
Peter Michael Ketchum, formerly of NIST
Jonathan Mark, FlybyNews
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11Truth
Gerald Pechunuk, Larouche Pac
Dan Hennen, 9/11TAP
Karl Golovin, anidealiveson.net
Barbara Honegger, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
David Meiswinkle, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11Truth
Lawrence Fine, 9/11 Synthesis
The minutes of the January 29, 2020 conference call and the draft agenda were APPROVED.
September 11, 2021 anniversary
Jonathan Mark opened the discussion about 9/11 20th anniversary event planning. He is seeking to bring together peace activists and 9/11 truth researchers and all who want “a democracy that protects the Constitution, rather than disables it.” He asked for a contact with the 9/11 Consensus Panel that would provide their points of agreement to the public. Additionally, he seeks names of various 9/11 organizations to invite to, or to co-host, events. Jonathan suggested an event might show Massimo Mazzucco’s summary version of his September 11: The New Pearl Harbor movie. Cheryl Curtiss suggested uniting the anti-war folks, the Muslim community, civil liberty groups, and alternative media journalists. To contribute suggestions, go to this community forum page: https://www.facebook.com/events/987760258228011/. And the anniversary is addressed on Jonathan’s website: https://flybynews.wordpress.com/2019/12 ... CNgCV-KXo
Lawyers’ Committee legal efforts progress
Immediate suggestions for additional persons to join the New York mandamus lawsuit are appreciated by the Lawyers’ Committee. David Meiswinkle told of the defendants’ motion to dismiss this lawsuit especially due to alleged “lack of standing.” The Courts give higher value for standing to plaintiffs who have lost a family member or those who were injured by explosions or during the cleanup efforts. The deadline for the Lawyers’ Committee response is Tuesday, March 3rd. Please contact an LC board member if you know of someone who meets these criteria and who is willing to join the lawsuit. David also spoke about bringing in a professional investigator and of setting up research committees for several areas including the WTC, the Pentagon, Shanksville, anthrax, government misconduct, etc., to collect evidence for potential grand juries. Barbara Honegger emphasized that the Lawyers’ Committee appreciates participatory help and underscored the need for more plaintiffs to join the lawsuit quickly.
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Frank Tolopko has studied the life and death of Malcolm X and reported on the release of a six-part docuseries on Netflix following the research of Abdur-Rahman Muhammad. Frank also pointed out several parallels of the assassination case to aspects of 9/11. Based on the new evidence uncovered, the Manhattan District Attorney has decided to reopen the murder investigation. Cheryl Curtiss will be interviewing Mr. Mohammad in the near future.
Bill Binney event
Gerald Pechenuk spoke about a discussion with Bill Binney livestreamed from New York City on Saturday, February 29th. This YouTube video is called “Rescuing the Republic from the Surveillance State – A Conversation with Bill Binney.” https://youtu.be/rgi2MozX9fc
Announcements
On Friday, March 6, David Meiswinkle, Barbara Honegger, and Christopher Gioia (via live link), will be speaking at an event in San Diego, which is hosted by San Diego 9/11 Truth. This event will be livestreamed on the Lawyers’ Committee YouTube channel, at 5-8 p.m. EST / 2-5 p.m. PST. Their presentation will be at the Mission Valley Library, 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego. The Library offers free parking, and the event is free. For any questions, contact Cheri Aspen at (858) 568-1257.The link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQbEe ... 4pEFmQUJw
http://action.ae911truth.org/o/50694/t/ ... Y=1405703
Cheryl Curtiss said the next teleconference will be March 25, 2020.
Cheryl also highly recommended the book, Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold written by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave.
The call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 9:58 p.m., PST/5 p.m. to 6:58 p.m. Audio of the February call can be heard here:
http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 22620.mp3
The next monthly teleconference will take place on March 25, 2020 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss ([email protected]) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee ([email protected]), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks ([email protected]).
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
SEE IT: Disturbing video shows district attorney’s husband pointing gun at Black Lives Matter activists outside his home
By NELSON OLIVEIRA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 02, 2020 | 11:46 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ ... story.html
Australian summer twice as long as winter due to climate change: report
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 02, 2020 | 2:24 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Republicans side with DA Vance over Trump financial record showdown
By MICHAEL GARTLAND
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 02, 2020 | 4:55 PM
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/03/02/bloom ... tereotype/
MARCH 2, 2020 | PETER B. COLLINS
BLOOMBERG DEMONIZATION OF ‘ABANDONED’ YOUTH FEEDS UGLY STEREOTYPE
https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/02/29/more- ... ranchised/
ELECTION INTEGRITY
FEBRUARY 29, 2020 | GABRIELLA NOVELLO
MORE THAN 500,000 GEORGIA VOTERS AT RISK OF BEING ‘POTENTIALLY DISENFRANCHISED’
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939z ... s-in-china
Report: Your Gadgets Are Made by Re-Education Camp Prisoners in China
A new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute alleges that Beijing is using Uyghur prison labor in factories producing goods for Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and others.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe4 ... f-the-race
Bernie Has a Plan to Knock Elizabeth Warren Out of the Race
Warren faces the real risk of losing Massachusetts to Sanders.
https://www.rt.com/russia/482106-moscow ... er-record/
Moscow's winter WARMEST in 140 years of records: Normally FRIGID Russian capital's temperature averages ABOVE zero
2 Mar, 2020 11:49 / Updated 14 hours ago
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/02 ... der-trump/
MARCH 2, 2020
Noah, New and Improved: the Endangered Species Act Under Trump
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/02 ... ack-death/
MARCH 2, 2020
Iran’s Coronavirus Outbreak Bizarrely Resembles the Black Death
by ROBERT FISK
-
msfreeh
- Level 34 Illuminated
- Posts: 7718
Re: Heat is Online
FBI agents create plausible deniability when COVID 19 perps eventually leads back to FBI
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/04/17/fbi ... titutions/
FBI Warns that Foreign Hackers Are Targeting COVID-19 Research Institutions
A top FBI official said Thursday that foreign state-sponsored hackers have broken into COVID-19 research institutions.
FBI Deputy Assistant Director Tonya Ugoretz revealed the news during an online panel discussion hosted
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/16/the ... -it-again/
THE MEDIA HELPED ELECT TRUMP IN 2016. ARE THEY DOING IT AGAIN?
Deconstructed
April 16 2020, 6:15 a.m.
https://freepressonline.com/Content/Def ... /990/68575
Camden Conference: The Media Revolution
Deep State: ‘It Will Get Crazier
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/04/15/ ... t-invited/#
Posted April 15 Updated April 16
Corrections chief briefs lawmakers about pandemic response, but public is shut out
The governor's office would not respond to questions Wednesday evening.
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/16/ ... to-effort/
Politics
Ranked-choice voting backers file suit seeking to block Maine GOP people’s veto effort
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/16/ ... tudy-says/
State
Rural counties with many seasonal homes see more coronavirus, study says
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/16/ ... -printers/
Aroostook
Madawaska volunteers make mask holders and face shields using 3D printers
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
March was Earth’s 2nd-hottest in history, agency
says
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ught-study
Among the ‘climate monsters’ that afflict California, Megadrought is the most reliable
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full
The Global Thaw is Releasing Ancient Viruses and Bacteria
There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up
Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth's climate warms
BBC.com, May 4, 2017
Throughout history, humans have existed side-by-side with bacteria and viruses. From the bubonic plague to smallpox, we have evolved to resist them, and in response they have developed new ways of infecting us.
We have had antibiotics for almost a century, ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. In response, bacteria have responded by evolving antibiotic resistance. The
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/17/ ... residency/
This Mainer is recreating iconic images in her own ‘locked-down’ artist residency
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in-cuffs/
COPS IN CUFFS
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in- ... h2DdZ3a9Eg
Former Ohio D.A.R.E. Officer Arrested on Federal Child Pornography Charges
https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/nypd-cops ... -on-video/
NYPD cops probed for curse-laden megaphone rant caught on video
https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Re ... 205699.php
Retired cop sues state officials to get his gun permit back
By Daniel Tepfer Published 2:54 pm EDT, Thursday, April 16, 2020
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2020/04 ... h-gun.html
Cleveland cop accused of chasing, threatening man with gun
Updated Apr 16, 2020; Posted Apr 16, 2020
https://globegazette.com/community/fire ... e37c0.html
Fired cop threatens to sue Buffalo Center for wrongful termination, seeks $90,000
Read more: https://nj2as.org/new-jerseys-top-cop-s ... z6JsoFMFw4
New Jersey’s Top Cop: Second Amendment Not Essential ~ VIDEO
Ammoland Inc. Posted on April 16, 2020 by Ammoland
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/harya ... wife-72079
Cop arrested for killing wife
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... o-rob-bank
Cop busted for 'plot to rob bank
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/ex- ... 5e816.html
Ex-cop still facing 15 years in prison
* Nick Delgado | The Guam Daily Post
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/17/cor ... formation/
FEMA’S CORONAVIRUS RUMOR CONTROL WEBPAGE SIDESTEPS TRUMP’S LIES
Nick Turse
April 17 2020, 11:00 a.m.
Friday, April 17
Court Is Closed Due to Coronavirus. But You Still Owe Those Fines and Fees.
Eli Hager, The Marshall Project
Videos Filmed by Spanish Firm in Ecuadorian Embassy Reveal Extent of Surveillance of Assange
Tim Corso, Sputnik News
2 Wuhan whistleblowers missing months after helping expose coronavirus outbreak, activists say
Frank Miles, Fox News
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen being released from prison amid coronavirus
Associated Press, POLITCO
Trump’s Obsession With Reopening The Economy Ignores Public Health Experts
Nick Turse, The Intercep
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/ear ... treatment/
Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment
By ADAM FEUERSTEIN @adamfeuerstein and MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper APRIL 16, 2020
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/04/17/fbi ... titutions/
FBI Warns that Foreign Hackers Are Targeting COVID-19 Research Institutions
A top FBI official said Thursday that foreign state-sponsored hackers have broken into COVID-19 research institutions.
FBI Deputy Assistant Director Tonya Ugoretz revealed the news during an online panel discussion hosted
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/16/the ... -it-again/
THE MEDIA HELPED ELECT TRUMP IN 2016. ARE THEY DOING IT AGAIN?
Deconstructed
April 16 2020, 6:15 a.m.
https://freepressonline.com/Content/Def ... /990/68575
Camden Conference: The Media Revolution
Deep State: ‘It Will Get Crazier
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/04/15/ ... t-invited/#
Posted April 15 Updated April 16
Corrections chief briefs lawmakers about pandemic response, but public is shut out
The governor's office would not respond to questions Wednesday evening.
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/16/ ... to-effort/
Politics
Ranked-choice voting backers file suit seeking to block Maine GOP people’s veto effort
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/16/ ... tudy-says/
State
Rural counties with many seasonal homes see more coronavirus, study says
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/16/ ... -printers/
Aroostook
Madawaska volunteers make mask holders and face shields using 3D printers
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
March was Earth’s 2nd-hottest in history, agency
says
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ught-study
Among the ‘climate monsters’ that afflict California, Megadrought is the most reliable
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full
The Global Thaw is Releasing Ancient Viruses and Bacteria
There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up
Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth's climate warms
BBC.com, May 4, 2017
Throughout history, humans have existed side-by-side with bacteria and viruses. From the bubonic plague to smallpox, we have evolved to resist them, and in response they have developed new ways of infecting us.
We have had antibiotics for almost a century, ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. In response, bacteria have responded by evolving antibiotic resistance. The
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/17/ ... residency/
This Mainer is recreating iconic images in her own ‘locked-down’ artist residency
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in-cuffs/
COPS IN CUFFS
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in- ... h2DdZ3a9Eg
Former Ohio D.A.R.E. Officer Arrested on Federal Child Pornography Charges
https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/nypd-cops ... -on-video/
NYPD cops probed for curse-laden megaphone rant caught on video
https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Re ... 205699.php
Retired cop sues state officials to get his gun permit back
By Daniel Tepfer Published 2:54 pm EDT, Thursday, April 16, 2020
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2020/04 ... h-gun.html
Cleveland cop accused of chasing, threatening man with gun
Updated Apr 16, 2020; Posted Apr 16, 2020
https://globegazette.com/community/fire ... e37c0.html
Fired cop threatens to sue Buffalo Center for wrongful termination, seeks $90,000
Read more: https://nj2as.org/new-jerseys-top-cop-s ... z6JsoFMFw4
New Jersey’s Top Cop: Second Amendment Not Essential ~ VIDEO
Ammoland Inc. Posted on April 16, 2020 by Ammoland
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/harya ... wife-72079
Cop arrested for killing wife
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... o-rob-bank
Cop busted for 'plot to rob bank
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/ex- ... 5e816.html
Ex-cop still facing 15 years in prison
* Nick Delgado | The Guam Daily Post
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/17/cor ... formation/
FEMA’S CORONAVIRUS RUMOR CONTROL WEBPAGE SIDESTEPS TRUMP’S LIES
Nick Turse
April 17 2020, 11:00 a.m.
Friday, April 17
Court Is Closed Due to Coronavirus. But You Still Owe Those Fines and Fees.
Eli Hager, The Marshall Project
Videos Filmed by Spanish Firm in Ecuadorian Embassy Reveal Extent of Surveillance of Assange
Tim Corso, Sputnik News
2 Wuhan whistleblowers missing months after helping expose coronavirus outbreak, activists say
Frank Miles, Fox News
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen being released from prison amid coronavirus
Associated Press, POLITCO
Trump’s Obsession With Reopening The Economy Ignores Public Health Experts
Nick Turse, The Intercep
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/ear ... treatment/
Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment
By ADAM FEUERSTEIN @adamfeuerstein and MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper APRIL 16, 2020
-
msfreeh
- Level 34 Illuminated
- Posts: 7718
Re: Heat is Online
https://www.rt.com/russia/492463-siberi ... re-record/
100 degrees Fahrenheit! Eastern Siberian town shatters record for hottest-ever temperature inside Arctic Circle
20 Jun, 2020 16:30
How Starbucks, Target, Google and Microsoft quietly fund police through private donations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -microsoft
https://antiracist.org
Fighting fascism, colonialism, and white supremacy
Anti-Racist Action-L.A./People Against Racist Terror
http://www.nyopengov.org/resources.asp
New York Coalition for Open Government
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Ex-San Antonio cop who gave ‘feces sandwich’ to a homeless man won’t get his job back
By JAMI GANZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 20, 2020 | 2:11 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html
Coronavirus outbreak at San Quentin prison hits almost 200 inmates
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 21, 2020 | 1:57 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Minnesota corrections officers allege only white guards are allowed contact with Derek Chauvin
718a63db-30a8-4230-8627-422a75b67098.png.jpg
By LAUREN THEISEN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 21, 2020 | 9:20 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
SEE IT: NYPD cops use apparent banned chokehold making arrest on Queens boardwalk (WARNING: graphic language)
By THOMAS TRACY, RYAN SCHWACH, DAVE GOLDINER and JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 21, 2020 | 4:17 PM
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/06/21/ ... 601d8a8c39
Maine has nation’s worst COVID-19 racial disparity
No other state has such a wide gap – more than 25 percentage points – between the size of the Black population and that community's share of infections.
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/06/22/sta ... ld-office/
Stacey Moy Named FBI Special Agent in Charge of Counterintelligence Division of the Washington Field Office
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/06/22/jam ... ng-stinks/
FBI Director James Comey on Firing of U.S. Attorney Berman: ‘Something Stinks
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Repeal of shield law reveals sordid past of cop whose chokehold led to Eric Garner’s death
eb87d08b-0de0-4d7b-bf6d-56261c25fb0e.jpg
By LEONARD GREENE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 22, 2020 AT 5:09 PM
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... 11837.html
Off-duty officer in Trump hat threatens man in St. Joe, put on leave from police duty
BY KATIE MOORE
JUNE 22, 2020 12:54 PM
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelp ... 00622.html
The despair of being a Black cop in Philly: ‘I’ve never been more ready to walk away’
by Samantha Melamed and Dylan Purcell, Posted: June 22, 2020- 5:00 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/opin ... eform.html
Policing Is Doing What It Was Meant to Do. That’s the Problem.
Blaming racist violence on “bad apples” misses the point.
By Todd May and George Yancy
Mr. May and Mr. Yancy are philosophers.
June 21, 2020
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/06/ ... p-culture/
Yes, Defund the Police, But Here Are More Ways to Abolish Cop Culture
Incremental changes have begun to tear at the very fabric of policing in America. Yet there are many ways we continue to glorify this troubled institution.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/nicole-hensley/
On-duty Houston cop charged with driving patrol car while drunk
Nicole Hensley June 22, 2020 Updated: June 22, 2020 3:28 p.m.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicagos-t ... f428e7ea7b
After 110 Shot In Chicago, The Top Cop Blames Gangs, Guns, Drugs And ‘Not Enough Time Spent In Jail’
By Chip Mitchell, Patrick Smith
Monday, June 22, 4:25 PM EDT Updated 5:14 PM EDT
https://wgxa.tv/news/state-news/ex-cop- ... r-shooting
Ex-cop charged in Rayshard Brooks case involved in earlier shooting
June 22nd 2020
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/ar ... estigation
Detroit cop suspended after firing rubber bullets at journalists; others under investigation
Posted By Steve Neavling on Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:02 am
https://whdh.com/news/da-investigating- ... -his-back/
JUNE 22, 2020
DA investigating MBTA cop who allegedly dragged black man off bus, knelt on his ba
https://sentinelcolorado.com/0trending/ ... eens-hand/
No charges for Aurora cop who shot cell phone out of teen’s hand
By QUINCY SNOWDON, Staff Writer -
June 22, 2020
498
100 degrees Fahrenheit! Eastern Siberian town shatters record for hottest-ever temperature inside Arctic Circle
20 Jun, 2020 16:30
How Starbucks, Target, Google and Microsoft quietly fund police through private donations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -microsoft
https://antiracist.org
Fighting fascism, colonialism, and white supremacy
Anti-Racist Action-L.A./People Against Racist Terror
http://www.nyopengov.org/resources.asp
New York Coalition for Open Government
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Ex-San Antonio cop who gave ‘feces sandwich’ to a homeless man won’t get his job back
By JAMI GANZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 20, 2020 | 2:11 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html
Coronavirus outbreak at San Quentin prison hits almost 200 inmates
By KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 21, 2020 | 1:57 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Minnesota corrections officers allege only white guards are allowed contact with Derek Chauvin
718a63db-30a8-4230-8627-422a75b67098.png.jpg
By LAUREN THEISEN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 21, 2020 | 9:20 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
SEE IT: NYPD cops use apparent banned chokehold making arrest on Queens boardwalk (WARNING: graphic language)
By THOMAS TRACY, RYAN SCHWACH, DAVE GOLDINER and JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 21, 2020 | 4:17 PM
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/06/21/ ... 601d8a8c39
Maine has nation’s worst COVID-19 racial disparity
No other state has such a wide gap – more than 25 percentage points – between the size of the Black population and that community's share of infections.
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/06/22/sta ... ld-office/
Stacey Moy Named FBI Special Agent in Charge of Counterintelligence Division of the Washington Field Office
http://ticklethewire.com/2020/06/22/jam ... ng-stinks/
FBI Director James Comey on Firing of U.S. Attorney Berman: ‘Something Stinks
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Repeal of shield law reveals sordid past of cop whose chokehold led to Eric Garner’s death
eb87d08b-0de0-4d7b-bf6d-56261c25fb0e.jpg
By LEONARD GREENE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUN 22, 2020 AT 5:09 PM
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... 11837.html
Off-duty officer in Trump hat threatens man in St. Joe, put on leave from police duty
BY KATIE MOORE
JUNE 22, 2020 12:54 PM
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelp ... 00622.html
The despair of being a Black cop in Philly: ‘I’ve never been more ready to walk away’
by Samantha Melamed and Dylan Purcell, Posted: June 22, 2020- 5:00 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/opin ... eform.html
Policing Is Doing What It Was Meant to Do. That’s the Problem.
Blaming racist violence on “bad apples” misses the point.
By Todd May and George Yancy
Mr. May and Mr. Yancy are philosophers.
June 21, 2020
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/06/ ... p-culture/
Yes, Defund the Police, But Here Are More Ways to Abolish Cop Culture
Incremental changes have begun to tear at the very fabric of policing in America. Yet there are many ways we continue to glorify this troubled institution.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/nicole-hensley/
On-duty Houston cop charged with driving patrol car while drunk
Nicole Hensley June 22, 2020 Updated: June 22, 2020 3:28 p.m.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicagos-t ... f428e7ea7b
After 110 Shot In Chicago, The Top Cop Blames Gangs, Guns, Drugs And ‘Not Enough Time Spent In Jail’
By Chip Mitchell, Patrick Smith
Monday, June 22, 4:25 PM EDT Updated 5:14 PM EDT
https://wgxa.tv/news/state-news/ex-cop- ... r-shooting
Ex-cop charged in Rayshard Brooks case involved in earlier shooting
June 22nd 2020
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/ar ... estigation
Detroit cop suspended after firing rubber bullets at journalists; others under investigation
Posted By Steve Neavling on Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:02 am
https://whdh.com/news/da-investigating- ... -his-back/
JUNE 22, 2020
DA investigating MBTA cop who allegedly dragged black man off bus, knelt on his ba
https://sentinelcolorado.com/0trending/ ... eens-hand/
No charges for Aurora cop who shot cell phone out of teen’s hand
By QUINCY SNOWDON, Staff Writer -
June 22, 2020
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Re: Heat is Online
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/ ... te-clanchy
Four-year-old lands book deal for his 'astonishing' poetry
Nadim Shamma-Sourgen’s words, evoking a ‘whole world full of hugs’, were spotted by the writer Kate Clanchy and will be published next summer
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
13 nuns at the same Michigan convent dead from COVID-19
By STORM GIFFORD
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 21, 2020 AT 10:40 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Portland mayor tear gassed during protests by federal agents
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 23, 2020 AT 7:24 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD officer busted in Long Island drug ring takedown
By GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 22, 2020 AT 9:49 AM
https://www.ticklethewire.com/2020/07/2 ... -portland/
CBP Sent 3 Paramilitary-Style Units to Crackdown on Protests in Portland
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/07/cop-cha ... count.html
Cop charged with stealing cash from police union bank account
Updated Jul 21, 2020; Posted Jul 21, 2020
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/ind ... nitystate/
“Qualified Immunity” Anchors Cop Debate
http://www.the-college-reporter.com/202 ... onalities/
POSTED ON JULY 21, 2020 BY TCR
Op-Ed: Why Your Friendly Cop is still Dangerous: Police Brutality is not just about Aggressive Personalities
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punja ... nda-116458
PUNJAB
STF nabs cop, wife and son with heroin in Bathinda
Accused used to bring contraband from Delhi to sell it in Bathinda
https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles ... be-charged
Cop who pepper sprayed Black Lives Matter protesters charged with assault
MIKE DOUGHERTY
https://nltimes.nl/2020/07/22/cop-fired ... stigations
* CRIME
COP FIRED OVER MONEY LAUNDERING, DRUG INVESTIGATIONS
By Janene Pieters on Wednesday, 22 July 2020 - 15:20
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/07/20/ ... last-year/
Recklessly Driving Brooklyn Cop Has Gotten 12 More Speeding Tickets Since Last Year
* By Gersh Kuntzman
* Jul 20, 2020
https://voiceofoc.org/2020/07/report-pr ... -promises/
Report Prompts Questions on Why DA Spitzer Kept Snitch Scandal Prosecutors Despite Accountability Promises
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... cutors-say
Los Angeles TimesEx-O.C. cop charged with holding gun to colleague's headA former Laguna Beach police officer has been charged with assault ...
continued drinking, according to the Orange County district attorney's ...20 hours ago
https://www.newser.com/story/293896/cop ... arged.html
3 Journalists Hit With Rubber Bullets, and Cop Is Charged
Detroit Cpl. Daniel Debono faces felony assault charges in May 31 incident
https://buffalonews.com/news/state-comp ... 17350.html
State comptroller says he can't help fired Buffalo cop get pension
* Deidre Williams Jul 21, 2020 Updated 18 hrs ago 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yz8nZbZPE8
Is the Gulf Stream Collapsing?
By Just have a think
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Ousted Cardinal McCarrick ran sex ring at N.J. beach house: suit
By STEPHEN REX BROWN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 22, 2020 AT 1:10 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ils-deaths
Covid-19 erupted in Detroit jails. It killed two doctors caring for inmates
At least 208 workers and 83 inmates in the Wayne county sheriff’s office jail system have been infected
Four-year-old lands book deal for his 'astonishing' poetry
Nadim Shamma-Sourgen’s words, evoking a ‘whole world full of hugs’, were spotted by the writer Kate Clanchy and will be published next summer
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
13 nuns at the same Michigan convent dead from COVID-19
By STORM GIFFORD
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 21, 2020 AT 10:40 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Portland mayor tear gassed during protests by federal agents
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 23, 2020 AT 7:24 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD officer busted in Long Island drug ring takedown
By GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 22, 2020 AT 9:49 AM
https://www.ticklethewire.com/2020/07/2 ... -portland/
CBP Sent 3 Paramilitary-Style Units to Crackdown on Protests in Portland
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/07/cop-cha ... count.html
Cop charged with stealing cash from police union bank account
Updated Jul 21, 2020; Posted Jul 21, 2020
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/ind ... nitystate/
“Qualified Immunity” Anchors Cop Debate
http://www.the-college-reporter.com/202 ... onalities/
POSTED ON JULY 21, 2020 BY TCR
Op-Ed: Why Your Friendly Cop is still Dangerous: Police Brutality is not just about Aggressive Personalities
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punja ... nda-116458
PUNJAB
STF nabs cop, wife and son with heroin in Bathinda
Accused used to bring contraband from Delhi to sell it in Bathinda
https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles ... be-charged
Cop who pepper sprayed Black Lives Matter protesters charged with assault
MIKE DOUGHERTY
https://nltimes.nl/2020/07/22/cop-fired ... stigations
* CRIME
COP FIRED OVER MONEY LAUNDERING, DRUG INVESTIGATIONS
By Janene Pieters on Wednesday, 22 July 2020 - 15:20
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/07/20/ ... last-year/
Recklessly Driving Brooklyn Cop Has Gotten 12 More Speeding Tickets Since Last Year
* By Gersh Kuntzman
* Jul 20, 2020
https://voiceofoc.org/2020/07/report-pr ... -promises/
Report Prompts Questions on Why DA Spitzer Kept Snitch Scandal Prosecutors Despite Accountability Promises
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... cutors-say
Los Angeles TimesEx-O.C. cop charged with holding gun to colleague's headA former Laguna Beach police officer has been charged with assault ...
continued drinking, according to the Orange County district attorney's ...20 hours ago
https://www.newser.com/story/293896/cop ... arged.html
3 Journalists Hit With Rubber Bullets, and Cop Is Charged
Detroit Cpl. Daniel Debono faces felony assault charges in May 31 incident
https://buffalonews.com/news/state-comp ... 17350.html
State comptroller says he can't help fired Buffalo cop get pension
* Deidre Williams Jul 21, 2020 Updated 18 hrs ago 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yz8nZbZPE8
Is the Gulf Stream Collapsing?
By Just have a think
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Ousted Cardinal McCarrick ran sex ring at N.J. beach house: suit
By STEPHEN REX BROWN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 22, 2020 AT 1:10 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ils-deaths
Covid-19 erupted in Detroit jails. It killed two doctors caring for inmates
At least 208 workers and 83 inmates in the Wayne county sheriff’s office jail system have been infected
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Alabama correctional officers accused of beating inmate curled up in fetal position, trying to cover it up
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 29, 2020 AT 10:33 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... story.html
‘Wrong time and wrong place’: NYC Mayor de Blasio finds the controversial arrest of protester ‘troubling'
By THOMAS TRACY and SHANT SHAHRIGIAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 29, 2020 AT 11:38 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... tage-study
Loss of bees causes shortage of key food crops, study finds
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny- ... story.html
The Yankees have lost me: Their support for Black Lives Matter is too much
By KIERAN LALOR
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 29, 2020 AT 5:00 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html
Viral sensation Dr. Stella Immanuel says Jesus will destroy Facebook if her COVID video doesn’t go back up
By KARU F. DANIELS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 28, 2020 AT 7:31 PM
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/07/28/ ... e-able-to/
Bangor considers banning no-knock warrants, but it might not be able to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3_QBDO8MC8
The Other Side Effects of Covid
https://www.ktvu.com/news/vallejo-top-c ... llegations
Vallejo top cop launches probe over "badge-bending" allegations
By Henry Lee
VALLEJO, Calif. - Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams said Wednesady that he has ordered a review into reports that some officers "bent badges" to mark each time they shot and killed someone while on duty.
"Celebrating the killing of a human being is never acceptable, and I'm deeply disturbed by these allegations," Willliams said. "With this new information available to me, I'm doing an official inquiry into the department and the allegations.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updat ... o-unmarked
New York Police Draw Anger After Plainclothes Officers Throw Woman Into
Unmarked van
July 29, 20204:30 PM ET
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... d-car.html
Smoke break! Two uniformed NYPD officers are spotted smoking a hookah through the window of their squad car
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 443056.php
Churchill: In Cohoes, handling of cop's case shows old rules still apply
Off-duty officer who allegedly lied about bizarre Adirondacks incident faces no discipline
Chris Churchill
July 29, 2020
Updated: July 29, 2020 8:48 p.m.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250221803
I GOT A MONSTER
The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg
St. Martin's Press
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... l-the-time
Think federal cops in Portland are scary? Cops use 'jump-out boys' all the time
Brandon Soderberg and Baynard Woods
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/f ... rrest.html
Fired Lycoming County cop says he was suspended just before making drug case arrest
Updated 9:38 PM; Today 9:38 PM
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/29/ ... le-league/
Cop embezzles $100,000 from Little League
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 443496.php
Transparency official: 'Unfounded' cop complaints can be withheld
Repeal of 50-a must bow to "privacy" concerns, opinion states
https://www.journalinquirer.com/towns/c ... d97a3.html
Cop contacted underage girls
By Olivia Regen
[email protected] Jul 29, 2020 Updated 7 hrs ago
https://mustreadalaska.com/author/wingruening/
JULY 29, 2020
Cops who are kicked to the curb won’t vote for Biden
https://www.trentonian.com/trenton-poli ... 97303.html
Trenton police director evades questions about cop under IA probe for hiding flask
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKCN24U2KC
Trump defends use of COVID-19 bill to fund new FBI office near his hotel
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/faciliti ... th-robots/
FBI’s newest piece of real estate is run with robots
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
SEE IT: Protesters pay early-a.m. visit to NYPD commissioner’s building
By JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 29, 2020 AT 7:55 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ser ... -countdown
97 Days to save the Earth
How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is re-elected
Alabama correctional officers accused of beating inmate curled up in fetal position, trying to cover it up
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 29, 2020 AT 10:33 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... story.html
‘Wrong time and wrong place’: NYC Mayor de Blasio finds the controversial arrest of protester ‘troubling'
By THOMAS TRACY and SHANT SHAHRIGIAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 29, 2020 AT 11:38 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... tage-study
Loss of bees causes shortage of key food crops, study finds
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny- ... story.html
The Yankees have lost me: Their support for Black Lives Matter is too much
By KIERAN LALOR
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 29, 2020 AT 5:00 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html
Viral sensation Dr. Stella Immanuel says Jesus will destroy Facebook if her COVID video doesn’t go back up
By KARU F. DANIELS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 28, 2020 AT 7:31 PM
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/07/28/ ... e-able-to/
Bangor considers banning no-knock warrants, but it might not be able to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3_QBDO8MC8
The Other Side Effects of Covid
https://www.ktvu.com/news/vallejo-top-c ... llegations
Vallejo top cop launches probe over "badge-bending" allegations
By Henry Lee
VALLEJO, Calif. - Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams said Wednesady that he has ordered a review into reports that some officers "bent badges" to mark each time they shot and killed someone while on duty.
"Celebrating the killing of a human being is never acceptable, and I'm deeply disturbed by these allegations," Willliams said. "With this new information available to me, I'm doing an official inquiry into the department and the allegations.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updat ... o-unmarked
New York Police Draw Anger After Plainclothes Officers Throw Woman Into
Unmarked van
July 29, 20204:30 PM ET
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... d-car.html
Smoke break! Two uniformed NYPD officers are spotted smoking a hookah through the window of their squad car
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 443056.php
Churchill: In Cohoes, handling of cop's case shows old rules still apply
Off-duty officer who allegedly lied about bizarre Adirondacks incident faces no discipline
Chris Churchill
July 29, 2020
Updated: July 29, 2020 8:48 p.m.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250221803
I GOT A MONSTER
The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg
St. Martin's Press
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... l-the-time
Think federal cops in Portland are scary? Cops use 'jump-out boys' all the time
Brandon Soderberg and Baynard Woods
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/f ... rrest.html
Fired Lycoming County cop says he was suspended just before making drug case arrest
Updated 9:38 PM; Today 9:38 PM
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/29/ ... le-league/
Cop embezzles $100,000 from Little League
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 443496.php
Transparency official: 'Unfounded' cop complaints can be withheld
Repeal of 50-a must bow to "privacy" concerns, opinion states
https://www.journalinquirer.com/towns/c ... d97a3.html
Cop contacted underage girls
By Olivia Regen
[email protected] Jul 29, 2020 Updated 7 hrs ago
https://mustreadalaska.com/author/wingruening/
JULY 29, 2020
Cops who are kicked to the curb won’t vote for Biden
https://www.trentonian.com/trenton-poli ... 97303.html
Trenton police director evades questions about cop under IA probe for hiding flask
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKCN24U2KC
Trump defends use of COVID-19 bill to fund new FBI office near his hotel
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/faciliti ... th-robots/
FBI’s newest piece of real estate is run with robots
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
SEE IT: Protesters pay early-a.m. visit to NYPD commissioner’s building
By JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 29, 2020 AT 7:55 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ser ... -countdown
97 Days to save the Earth
How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is re-elected
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Right-Wing Trolls Made an Indian Brand Withdraw its Ad on Interfaith Couple
Critics of the ad accused it of promoting “love jihad”, an Islamophobic conspiracy theory. The company called the outrage saddening.
By Pallavi Pundir
DELHI, IN
https://libertarianinstitute.org/everyt ... adue-case/
From OKC to Abu Ghraib: The Kenneth Trentadue Case
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/13/sel ... very-week/
Selling stock like clockwork, Moderna’s top doctor gets $1 million richer every week
By DAMIAN GARDE @damiangarde and ADAM FEUERSTEIN @adamfeuerstein OCTOBER 13, 2020
Re
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/13/ ... nate-race/
Race matters more, not less, in Maine Senate race
Maine’s communities of color are ready for leaders who will chart a new path forward.
By Ben ChinUpdated October 13, 2020, 3:00 a.m.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tein-court
Ghislaine Maxwell lawyers attempt to keep deposition details secret
Lawyers say unsealing details related to Maxwell’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein will undermine her right to a fair trial
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng- ... al-warming
The Arctic is in a death spiral. How much longer will it exist?
The region is unravelling faster than anyone could once have predicted. But there may still be time to act
* The great thaw: global heating upends life on Arctic permafrost – photo essay
Tue 13 Oct 2020 05.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... tying-knot
Golden week': wedding season boom in China with 600,000 couples tying knot
Months of delayed nuptials have been crowded together
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/o ... 9-response
'They refused to act': inside a chilling documentary on Trump's bungled Covid-19 response
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/o ... -interview
I was hit and knocked to the ground': the true story of The Trial of the Chicago 7
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD commissioner defends widely varied policing of protests in NYC
By THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 13, 2020 AT 10:33 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny- ... story.html
Let’s all be honest about hydroxychloroquine: Evidence is more positive than many in the medical community admit
By DR. JOSEPH A. LADAPO and DR. HARVEY A. RISCH
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 13, 2020 AT 5:00 AM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-judge- ... ideo-shows
‘Intoxicated’ N.Y. Judge Shoves Cop—and Avoids Arrest After Touting Political Ties: Video
OFF THE HOOK
Tori B. Powell
Cheat Sheet, Breaking News Intern
Updated Oct. 13, 2020 2:12PM ET /
Published Oct. 13, 2020 2:13PM ET
The BBC Is a CIA Asset
August 1, 2020
The BBC Is a CIA Asset
Nothing else can be said for what was once a media organization.
https://www.rt.com/uk/434862-assange-john-sweeney-bbc/
http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_i ... 565a6ccdb2
David Griffin’s new book on 9/11 can be ordered from publisher
September 26, 2020
David Ray Griffin & Elizabeth Woodworth’s new book about 9/11, 9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation can be purchased direct from the publisher: http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_i ... 565a6ccdb2
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/0 ... -tsarnaev/
FBI Evidence Proves Innocence of Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Paul Craig Roberts
· I have been contacted by attorney John Remington Graham, a member in good standing of the bar of the ... As readers know, I have been suspicious of the Boston Marathon Bombing from the beginning.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... update-ii/
Law enforcement agencies in California will soon be legally obliged to post their guidelines online
by Jessie Gomez
October 05, 2020
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a handful of bills this week including new legislation that increases transparency within local jurisdictions in California. In addition to the two new laws we wrote about earlier this week SB-978 was signed, which requires law enforcement agencies to publish their “training, policies, practices, and operating procedures.”
Read More
https://atlantablackstar.com/2018/10/07 ... white-mob/
Historian Seeks Sealed Grand Jury Transcripts In Notorious Lynching of Two Black Couples by White Mob
October 7, 2020
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... ns-google/
Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate, Inc. loses the Pentagon but gains Silicon Valley
https://fox8.com/2018/10/07/i-team-195- ... nion-says/
I-TEAM: 165 inmates sleeping on county jail floor, union says
POSTED 5:55 PM, OCTOBER 7, 2018, BY ED GALLEK, UPDATED AT 06:26PM, OCTOBER 7, 2018
https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/n ... 525503002/
FBI agent from Piscataway pleads guilty to photographing woman in Edison dressing room
Suzanne Russell, Bridgewater Courier NewsPublished 5:06 p.m. ET Oct. 4, 2018
https://www.trentonian.com/news/local/f ... a93c4.html
Cops described former Bordentown police chief Nucera as 'closet racist' who 'held all the cards'
https://r00tz.org
A place where kids learn white-hat hacking to better the world
Through Hands-On Workshops And Games, Kids Learn Reverse Engineering, Soldering, Cryptography And How To Responsibly Disclose Security Bugs
https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/03/02 ... -security/
Our View: 2016 hacking showed holes in Maine election security
The same people who attacked the system two years ago will try again in a few months, and we have to be ready.
Chris Hedges on Death of Journalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIYFR6nJiHQ
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ ... story.html
Bird sets record for longest nonstop flight, 7,500 miles from Alaska to New Zealand
By JOSEPH WILKINSON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 13, 2020 AT 5:40 PM
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full
Climate disasters doubled in the last decade
Climate change spurs doubling of disasters since 2000: UN
Report by UN body says 6,681 climate-linked events recorded since the turn of the century, up from 3,656 during the previous 20 years.
Al Jazeera, Oct. 12, 2020
https://shepherdgazette.com/local-weath ... ess-horse/
LOCAL WEATHER LITIGATORS ARE USING A USELESS HORSE
By Sammy Edwards / September 27, 2020
Reposted from The Gelbspan Files
City of Charleston v Brabham Oil Company, et al.
Posted on September 25, 2020
In just the span of barely the first three weeks of September, four lawsuits suing energy companies for the costs of man-caused global warming were filed, City of Hoboken v. ExxonMobil, et al. (9/2/20), City of Charleston v Brabham Oil Company, et al. (9/9/20), Delaware v. BP America Inc, et al. (9/10/20), and Connecticut v. ExxonMobil Corp. (9/14/20). These allege the companies knew their products caused harm from global warming while orchestrating disinformation campaigns with ‘shill’ experts to deceive the public about the harm. Politico summarized these in a September 16 podcast report as part of a “new wave of climate change lawsuits” against fossil fuel companies “racking up nationwide.” While no comparison was offered in that report to the way the tobacco industry began to crumble under the weight of lawsuits against it in the 1990s, a same-day report from
Right-Wing Trolls Made an Indian Brand Withdraw its Ad on Interfaith Couple
Critics of the ad accused it of promoting “love jihad”, an Islamophobic conspiracy theory. The company called the outrage saddening.
By Pallavi Pundir
DELHI, IN
https://libertarianinstitute.org/everyt ... adue-case/
From OKC to Abu Ghraib: The Kenneth Trentadue Case
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/13/sel ... very-week/
Selling stock like clockwork, Moderna’s top doctor gets $1 million richer every week
By DAMIAN GARDE @damiangarde and ADAM FEUERSTEIN @adamfeuerstein OCTOBER 13, 2020
Re
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/13/ ... nate-race/
Race matters more, not less, in Maine Senate race
Maine’s communities of color are ready for leaders who will chart a new path forward.
By Ben ChinUpdated October 13, 2020, 3:00 a.m.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tein-court
Ghislaine Maxwell lawyers attempt to keep deposition details secret
Lawyers say unsealing details related to Maxwell’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein will undermine her right to a fair trial
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng- ... al-warming
The Arctic is in a death spiral. How much longer will it exist?
The region is unravelling faster than anyone could once have predicted. But there may still be time to act
* The great thaw: global heating upends life on Arctic permafrost – photo essay
Tue 13 Oct 2020 05.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... tying-knot
Golden week': wedding season boom in China with 600,000 couples tying knot
Months of delayed nuptials have been crowded together
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/o ... 9-response
'They refused to act': inside a chilling documentary on Trump's bungled Covid-19 response
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/o ... -interview
I was hit and knocked to the ground': the true story of The Trial of the Chicago 7
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
NYPD commissioner defends widely varied policing of protests in NYC
By THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 13, 2020 AT 10:33 AM
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny- ... story.html
Let’s all be honest about hydroxychloroquine: Evidence is more positive than many in the medical community admit
By DR. JOSEPH A. LADAPO and DR. HARVEY A. RISCH
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 13, 2020 AT 5:00 AM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-judge- ... ideo-shows
‘Intoxicated’ N.Y. Judge Shoves Cop—and Avoids Arrest After Touting Political Ties: Video
OFF THE HOOK
Tori B. Powell
Cheat Sheet, Breaking News Intern
Updated Oct. 13, 2020 2:12PM ET /
Published Oct. 13, 2020 2:13PM ET
The BBC Is a CIA Asset
August 1, 2020
The BBC Is a CIA Asset
Nothing else can be said for what was once a media organization.
https://www.rt.com/uk/434862-assange-john-sweeney-bbc/
http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_i ... 565a6ccdb2
David Griffin’s new book on 9/11 can be ordered from publisher
September 26, 2020
David Ray Griffin & Elizabeth Woodworth’s new book about 9/11, 9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation can be purchased direct from the publisher: http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_i ... 565a6ccdb2
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/0 ... -tsarnaev/
FBI Evidence Proves Innocence of Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Paul Craig Roberts
· I have been contacted by attorney John Remington Graham, a member in good standing of the bar of the ... As readers know, I have been suspicious of the Boston Marathon Bombing from the beginning.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... update-ii/
Law enforcement agencies in California will soon be legally obliged to post their guidelines online
by Jessie Gomez
October 05, 2020
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a handful of bills this week including new legislation that increases transparency within local jurisdictions in California. In addition to the two new laws we wrote about earlier this week SB-978 was signed, which requires law enforcement agencies to publish their “training, policies, practices, and operating procedures.”
Read More
https://atlantablackstar.com/2018/10/07 ... white-mob/
Historian Seeks Sealed Grand Jury Transcripts In Notorious Lynching of Two Black Couples by White Mob
October 7, 2020
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... ns-google/
Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate, Inc. loses the Pentagon but gains Silicon Valley
https://fox8.com/2018/10/07/i-team-195- ... nion-says/
I-TEAM: 165 inmates sleeping on county jail floor, union says
POSTED 5:55 PM, OCTOBER 7, 2018, BY ED GALLEK, UPDATED AT 06:26PM, OCTOBER 7, 2018
https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/n ... 525503002/
FBI agent from Piscataway pleads guilty to photographing woman in Edison dressing room
Suzanne Russell, Bridgewater Courier NewsPublished 5:06 p.m. ET Oct. 4, 2018
https://www.trentonian.com/news/local/f ... a93c4.html
Cops described former Bordentown police chief Nucera as 'closet racist' who 'held all the cards'
https://r00tz.org
A place where kids learn white-hat hacking to better the world
Through Hands-On Workshops And Games, Kids Learn Reverse Engineering, Soldering, Cryptography And How To Responsibly Disclose Security Bugs
https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/03/02 ... -security/
Our View: 2016 hacking showed holes in Maine election security
The same people who attacked the system two years ago will try again in a few months, and we have to be ready.
Chris Hedges on Death of Journalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIYFR6nJiHQ
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ ... story.html
Bird sets record for longest nonstop flight, 7,500 miles from Alaska to New Zealand
By JOSEPH WILKINSON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 13, 2020 AT 5:40 PM
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full
Climate disasters doubled in the last decade
Climate change spurs doubling of disasters since 2000: UN
Report by UN body says 6,681 climate-linked events recorded since the turn of the century, up from 3,656 during the previous 20 years.
Al Jazeera, Oct. 12, 2020
https://shepherdgazette.com/local-weath ... ess-horse/
LOCAL WEATHER LITIGATORS ARE USING A USELESS HORSE
By Sammy Edwards / September 27, 2020
Reposted from The Gelbspan Files
City of Charleston v Brabham Oil Company, et al.
Posted on September 25, 2020
In just the span of barely the first three weeks of September, four lawsuits suing energy companies for the costs of man-caused global warming were filed, City of Hoboken v. ExxonMobil, et al. (9/2/20), City of Charleston v Brabham Oil Company, et al. (9/9/20), Delaware v. BP America Inc, et al. (9/10/20), and Connecticut v. ExxonMobil Corp. (9/14/20). These allege the companies knew their products caused harm from global warming while orchestrating disinformation campaigns with ‘shill’ experts to deceive the public about the harm. Politico summarized these in a September 16 podcast report as part of a “new wave of climate change lawsuits” against fossil fuel companies “racking up nationwide.” While no comparison was offered in that report to the way the tobacco industry began to crumble under the weight of lawsuits against it in the 1990s, a same-day report from
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https://nypost.com/2021/04/30/demotion- ... -wife-kid/
NJ police chief who offered promotion in exchange for sex with cop’s wife, kid faces demotion
By Jesse O’Neill
April 30, 2021 |
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... -americans
Editorial: Clamp down on FBI’s backdoor surveillance of Americans
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/30/ ... l-justice/
Suffolk County may lose one of its most prominent leaders on criminal justice
District Attorney Rachael Rollins may become the next US attorney.
By Marcela García Globe Columnist,Updated April 30, 2021, 3:07 p.m.
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/04/30/ ... tion-bill/
Mills administration officials oppose bill to decriminalize drug possession
But people in recovery, medical providers, faith groups, legislators and advocates overwhelmingly support the proposal to make drug possession only a civil violation.
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/30/ita ... smuggling/
FRIENDS OF THE TRAFFICKERS
Italy’s Anti-Mafia Directorate and the “Dirty Campaign” to Criminalize Migration
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/01/ice ... uz-zavala/
MARKED MAN
An ICE Informant, MS-13, and the Long Campaign to Deport Walter Cruz-Zavala
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/29/new ... s-disease/
NEW JERSEY LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE OUTBREAK KEPT QUIET IN STATE PRISONS
After one person died and another spent a month in a coma, state officials found Legionella bacteria in the water at two New Jersey prisons.
Akela Lacy
April 29 2021, 3:57 p.m.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gba9/ ... t-fbi-says
Deputy Called Beating a Black Man ‘Sweet Stress Relief’ in Extremist Group Chat, FBI Says
http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/PPR82/PPR82dex.HTML
People's Police Report #82 - January 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I8W42Cbj4
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/04/29/a-mas ... h-the-sea/
APRIL 29, 2021 | FANNI DANIELLA SZAKAL
A MASSIVE METHANE RESERVOIR IS LURKING BENEATH THE SEA
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Black NYC Starbucks barista sues over arrest after filming cops while white bystanders were just asked to leave
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Police accountability must include reform-minded prosecutors: experts
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/05/02/ ... -backlash/
Maine may restrict police use of no-knock warrants amid national backlash
Legislators on Monday will wade through three competing bills that would curtail or eliminate the use of no-knock search warrants in the state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I8W42Cbj4
https://bangordailynews.com/2021/05/02/ ... -the-city/
Belfast gardeners join forces to plant a million daffodils in the city
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/02/ ... on-police/
What will Acting Mayor Kim Janey do about Boston police?
By Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated May 2, 2021, 5:48 p.m.
https://www.newsweek.com/missouri-polic ... ty-1588094
Missouri Police Officer Dies Days After Being Charged for Punching Female Cop on Duty
BY CHRISTINA ZHAO ON 5/1/21 AT 5:57 PM EDT
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crim ... bc35c.html
Buffalo resident talks of 'nasty' treatment years ago from cop who wants to be sheriff
* Matthew Spina May 2, 2021 Update
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Florida cop charged with attempted Walmart shopping fraud, gets fired
By JOSEPH WILKINSON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 30, 2021 AT
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-co ... pon-stolen
Wisconsin cop who shot Jacob Blake had service weapon stolen
Weapon still missing after seven-month investigation
https://www.lawofficer.com/dead-wrong-u ... prejudice/
Dead Wrong: USA Today cartoon illustrates racial prejudice—and insults every cop in America
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates ... isconduct/
Niles cop blows whistle on department misconduct
https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/5071 ... osession=1
DUII charging decision 'next week' for Portland cop
Zane Sparling
April 30 2021
https://www.kq2.com/content/news/Detail ... 46122.html
DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT ST. JOSEPH COP CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/n ... department
Wandering cops move from department to department
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND
PUBLISHED 1:00 PM ET MAY. 02, 2021
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/c ... 19901.html
Tarn Taran woman cop whose mother was held with heroin dismissed
Police on Sunday dismissed the constable daughter of the former member of Shiromani Akali Dal’s Tarn Taran women wing Jaswinder Kaur, who was arrested by the anti-drug special task force (SFT) with 1
https://www.koin.com/local/washington-c ... encounter/
Forest Grove cop used Taser during fatal encounter
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Steven Teets also charged with harassment of Latino family
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/2 ... ing-485002
FBI defends 'suicide by cop' designation for 2017 baseball field shooting
The FBI insisted that their "suicide by cop" designation was right, while saying it'd likely be investigated as domestic terrorism if it occurred today
https://www.wane.com/news/crime/plea-de ... l-student/
Plea deal reached in case of Fort Wayne cop accused of relationship with Wayne High School student
https://boingboing.net/2021/04/30/watch ... black.html
Watch: South Carolina cop harasses a man for being "suspicious" (as in Black)
CARLA SINCLAIR 3:12 PM FRI APR 30, 2021
https://truthout.org/articles/graduate- ... -campuses/
Graduate Workers at NYU Are on Strike for Living Wages and Cop-Free Campuses
https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-hal ... -of-murder
Pentagon Cop Who Killed 2 Men Is Indicted for Homeless Woman Incident
https://wjla.com/news/local/administrat ... in-florida
'Administrative errors' led to cop under investigation in Fairfax getting a job in Florida
https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/04/30 ... t-attacks/
FBI won’t release documents linking Saudis to Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
The 10000 families suing to finally uncover Saudi ties to the 9/11 terrorist attacks were "basically told to go to hell," a loved one said, by the FBI ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/us/p ... demic.html
National Security Surveillance Plummeted Amid Pandemic and Russia Inquiry Fallout
But the F.B.I. is still using residual authority to obtain business records under a partly expired Patriot Act provision, a new report showed.
http://www.sandmountainreporter.com/fre ... 5647e.html
Byron York: An outrage from the FBI
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/ne ... st-georgia
A San Diego man’s phone leads to extremist group and Georgia sheriff’s deputy
NJ police chief who offered promotion in exchange for sex with cop’s wife, kid faces demotion
By Jesse O’Neill
April 30, 2021 |
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... -americans
Editorial: Clamp down on FBI’s backdoor surveillance of Americans
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/30/ ... l-justice/
Suffolk County may lose one of its most prominent leaders on criminal justice
District Attorney Rachael Rollins may become the next US attorney.
By Marcela García Globe Columnist,Updated April 30, 2021, 3:07 p.m.
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/04/30/ ... tion-bill/
Mills administration officials oppose bill to decriminalize drug possession
But people in recovery, medical providers, faith groups, legislators and advocates overwhelmingly support the proposal to make drug possession only a civil violation.
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/30/ita ... smuggling/
FRIENDS OF THE TRAFFICKERS
Italy’s Anti-Mafia Directorate and the “Dirty Campaign” to Criminalize Migration
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/01/ice ... uz-zavala/
MARKED MAN
An ICE Informant, MS-13, and the Long Campaign to Deport Walter Cruz-Zavala
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/29/new ... s-disease/
NEW JERSEY LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE OUTBREAK KEPT QUIET IN STATE PRISONS
After one person died and another spent a month in a coma, state officials found Legionella bacteria in the water at two New Jersey prisons.
Akela Lacy
April 29 2021, 3:57 p.m.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gba9/ ... t-fbi-says
Deputy Called Beating a Black Man ‘Sweet Stress Relief’ in Extremist Group Chat, FBI Says
http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/PPR82/PPR82dex.HTML
People's Police Report #82 - January 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I8W42Cbj4
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
https://whowhatwhy.org/2021/04/29/a-mas ... h-the-sea/
APRIL 29, 2021 | FANNI DANIELLA SZAKAL
A MASSIVE METHANE RESERVOIR IS LURKING BENEATH THE SEA
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Black NYC Starbucks barista sues over arrest after filming cops while white bystanders were just asked to leave
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html
Police accountability must include reform-minded prosecutors: experts
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/05/02/ ... -backlash/
Maine may restrict police use of no-knock warrants amid national backlash
Legislators on Monday will wade through three competing bills that would curtail or eliminate the use of no-knock search warrants in the state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6I8W42Cbj4
https://bangordailynews.com/2021/05/02/ ... -the-city/
Belfast gardeners join forces to plant a million daffodils in the city
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/02/ ... on-police/
What will Acting Mayor Kim Janey do about Boston police?
By Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated May 2, 2021, 5:48 p.m.
https://www.newsweek.com/missouri-polic ... ty-1588094
Missouri Police Officer Dies Days After Being Charged for Punching Female Cop on Duty
BY CHRISTINA ZHAO ON 5/1/21 AT 5:57 PM EDT
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crim ... bc35c.html
Buffalo resident talks of 'nasty' treatment years ago from cop who wants to be sheriff
* Matthew Spina May 2, 2021 Update
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html
Florida cop charged with attempted Walmart shopping fraud, gets fired
By JOSEPH WILKINSON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 30, 2021 AT
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-co ... pon-stolen
Wisconsin cop who shot Jacob Blake had service weapon stolen
Weapon still missing after seven-month investigation
https://www.lawofficer.com/dead-wrong-u ... prejudice/
Dead Wrong: USA Today cartoon illustrates racial prejudice—and insults every cop in America
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates ... isconduct/
Niles cop blows whistle on department misconduct
https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/5071 ... osession=1
DUII charging decision 'next week' for Portland cop
Zane Sparling
April 30 2021
https://www.kq2.com/content/news/Detail ... 46122.html
DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT ST. JOSEPH COP CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/n ... department
Wandering cops move from department to department
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND
PUBLISHED 1:00 PM ET MAY. 02, 2021
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/c ... 19901.html
Tarn Taran woman cop whose mother was held with heroin dismissed
Police on Sunday dismissed the constable daughter of the former member of Shiromani Akali Dal’s Tarn Taran women wing Jaswinder Kaur, who was arrested by the anti-drug special task force (SFT) with 1
https://www.koin.com/local/washington-c ... encounter/
Forest Grove cop used Taser during fatal encounter
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Steven Teets also charged with harassment of Latino family
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/2 ... ing-485002
FBI defends 'suicide by cop' designation for 2017 baseball field shooting
The FBI insisted that their "suicide by cop" designation was right, while saying it'd likely be investigated as domestic terrorism if it occurred today
https://www.wane.com/news/crime/plea-de ... l-student/
Plea deal reached in case of Fort Wayne cop accused of relationship with Wayne High School student
https://boingboing.net/2021/04/30/watch ... black.html
Watch: South Carolina cop harasses a man for being "suspicious" (as in Black)
CARLA SINCLAIR 3:12 PM FRI APR 30, 2021
https://truthout.org/articles/graduate- ... -campuses/
Graduate Workers at NYU Are on Strike for Living Wages and Cop-Free Campuses
https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-hal ... -of-murder
Pentagon Cop Who Killed 2 Men Is Indicted for Homeless Woman Incident
https://wjla.com/news/local/administrat ... in-florida
'Administrative errors' led to cop under investigation in Fairfax getting a job in Florida
https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/04/30 ... t-attacks/
FBI won’t release documents linking Saudis to Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
The 10000 families suing to finally uncover Saudi ties to the 9/11 terrorist attacks were "basically told to go to hell," a loved one said, by the FBI ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/us/p ... demic.html
National Security Surveillance Plummeted Amid Pandemic and Russia Inquiry Fallout
But the F.B.I. is still using residual authority to obtain business records under a partly expired Patriot Act provision, a new report showed.
http://www.sandmountainreporter.com/fre ... 5647e.html
Byron York: An outrage from the FBI
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/ne ... st-georgia
A San Diego man’s phone leads to extremist group and Georgia sheriff’s deputy
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https://theintercept.com/2021/06/02/ket ... te-police/
AMBUSHED BY THE COPS: WHEN POLICE DELIBERATELY TRAP PEACEFUL PROTESTERS
An Intercept and SITU reconstruction of an incident in North Carolina last June shows police intentionally trapped and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful protesters.
Alice Speri
June 2 2021, 11:22 a.m
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/05/ ... unfolding/
Another Boston police scandal is quietly unfolding
It may surpass the high-profile State Police overtime fraud debacle
By Dugan Arnett and Maggie Mulvihill Globe Staff and Globe correspondent,Updated June 5, 2021,
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/525564-killer- ... an-target/
Rise of the killer robot: An autonomous drone hunted down a human target in Libya last year & no one is talking about it
Darius Shahtahmasebi
is a New Zealand-based legal and political analyst who focuses on US foreign policy in the Middle East, Asia and Pacific region. He is fully qualified as a lawyer in two international jurisdictions.
3 Jun, 2021 13:01
https://www.rt.com/usa/525566-nypd-surv ... ty-report/
NYPD operates over 15,000 facial recognition cameras as part of ‘Orwellian’ surveillance network – report
3 Jun, 2021 14:20
https://www.rt.com/usa/525521-mueller-probe-law-course/
FBI Director Mueller
Russiagate RETURNS... to law school: Robert Mueller to teach special course about his probe at prestigious university
3 Jun, 2021 00:43 /
https://www.rt.com/news/525474-australi ... eg-photos/
‘Hundreds’ of photos show Australian troops chugging beer from dead Afghan’s prosthetic leg, court is told
2 Jun, 2021 15:15
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... scientists
Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientists
Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -emergency
The media is still mostly failing to convey the urgency of the climate crisis
Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... rds-broken
Searing heat wave sets records in California’s inland areas, even as coasts stay cool
https://bangordailynews.com/2021/06/05/ ... nge-peril/
Maine’s blueberry crop faces climate change peril
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/05/ ... heat-wave/
Janey declares heat emergency as Mass. faces potential four-day heat wave
By Sofia Saric Globe Correspondent,Updated June 5, 2021, 2 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuQg-epnCuI
Colonel David Morehouse
https://www.rt.com/news/525739-chinese- ... -tracking/
Chinese military has its own UFO task force… and it’s been ‘overwhelmed’ by surge in sighting reports – media
5 Jun, 2021 07:25
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/06/04/ ... s-forward/
June 4 2021
Bill to eliminate cash bail in Maine for minor crimes advances
On a 10-2 vote, the Legislature's Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill that would prohibit jailing suspects who can't pay bail on most misdemeanor charges.
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/06/05/ ... s-records/
Justice Department will no longer seize reporters’ records
Journalists at three news organizations had been alerted that their phone records had been obtained in the final year of the Trump administration.
https://www.rt.com/usa/525735-lab-leak- ... acktracks/
Scientist who helped lead charge in quashing Covid-19 lab-leak theory BACKTRACKS, points to 'disturbing information' – media
5 Jun, 2021 02:03 / Updated 17 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax0n_b4MRZ8
Flight 11
https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Christian Drosten: coconspirator with Fauci/Collins/Farrar; he's Germany's Dr. Fauci,; he's a Lancet letter signer; and he created the world's first big PCR test for Covid
Christian Drosten, a German virologist and wunderkind, signed the (lab origin coverup) Lancet letter, and designed the PCR test for Covid that has been touted by the WHO and used around the world. His PCR test has been challenged by European scientists and physicians. His PhD is said by some to have been faked.
How, then, did he become a full professor at the University of Bonn and, at 35, head of the Institute of Virology at Charite Hospital?
Drosten, from Germany, was pulled in on the coverup. Was this because his PCR test was already part of an unsavory conspiracy? He was trusted, and he had a role. We don't know what it is, yet.
My guess is that during the weekend of February 1, the Lancet correspondence, the Nature Medicine correspondence and the National Academy of Sciences letter were planned together as the solution to the coverup by this small cabal, who had probably already proved themselves to the big guys. Perhaps they had a disreputable history together, in which the code of Omerta already functioned.
In 2020, Drosten became the face of Covid in Germany in the same way Fauci became the face of the pandemic in the US. According to an April 2020 puff piece in Science magazine,
Drosten’s podcast has given him real influence, says Marcel Fratzscher, head of DIW Berlin, an economic research institute. “At this point, if Drosten says it is too early [to open up], that carries as much weight as Merkel saying it.”
The Science article also said,
"But Drosten wants his research to save lives. Large cardboard boxes in his office hold supplies of two medicines waiting to be tried in the clinic. One is camostat mesylate, a pancreatitis drug approved in Japan that Drosten and others found can prevent both SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells. The other drug is niclosamide, used to treat tapeworms and other parasites. In a paper posted on the preprint server bioRxiv this month, Drosten’s colleague Marcel Müller showed that SARS-CoV-2 interferes with the cellular recycling process called autophagy. It’s unclear how exactly that benefits the virus, but niclosamide counters the interference. Treatment with the compound reduced SARS-CoV-2’s growth in cell culture by 70%, the authors write. Drosten hopes to start to enroll patients soon in a trial to test a combination of the two drugs."
This paragraph enables me to transition to a very important point that I have not seen anyone else write about. I am talking about the tremendous benefit conveyed by the pandemic to the drug research enterprise. Normally it costs many millions of dollars to test one drug--perhaps over a billion if it is a new chemical entity.
But, as long as you can pretend that there are no effective drugs to treat Covid, you can keep testing drugs on human beings. That is why the Recovery and Solidarity trials continue to enroll hapless subjects, instead of treating them with drugs that actually cure the disease.
Here is Drosten, with cartons of two old drugs he wants to test in humans, one of which was only 70% effective at killing virus in the lab. Why not use a drug like ivermectin that is practically 100% effective at killing virus? It would be both unethical and very expensive to test drugs outside the pandemic if it were admitted that a Covid treatment already existed.
But if you pretend there are no effective treatments, the treatment trials for Covid turn into charity affairs. Very little data are collected, so the investigators cannot be shown to have harmed the patients. But sufficient data are collected for a future regulatory review.
I wrote about this with respect to the Solidarity trial in my long article on the hydroxychloroquine false narrative. Countries donate tax dollars, and charitable institutions donate, and a variety of drugs can be tested. It doesn't seem to matter that almost all fail to cure the patient. The failures keep the pandemic fear going. Testing is likely being done to gather human data for possible future uses of these drugs, perhaps for a completely different purpose. Drug companies own most of the patents.
On the other hand, there also may be a role for these trials as a delaying action... slow-rolling a response until vaccines or whatever are available.
So how do these drug trials help the pandemic purveyors?
* They keep the public terrified over the lack of a cure
* They delay the end of the pandemic
* They test drugs for the pharmaceutical industry and its minions at taxpayer expense
* The trials are conducted more rapidly than normal, because a large number of centers enroll patients, who agree to be experimental subjects because they think they are generating knowledge for the good of humanity
* Probably there are enormous kickbacks involved
The wunderkind Drosten appears to be in the thick of the coverup. Had a Covid cure been acknowledged, he would have lost the opportunity to do the drug trials on sick human guinea pigs.
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.
My 4 recent interviews: the Fauci emails with Bobby Kennedy, and the Children's Health Defense FDA petition to stop Covid vaccine approval and revoke authorization
June 3: Bobby Kennedy interviewed me on the Fauci email revelations and their stunning implications
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/rf ... wcHQI43x-/
May 28: Kristina Borjesson interviewed me regarding the criminal behaviors of federal agencies laid out in the FDA petition. Please do read and comment here if you agree!
https://thewhistleblowernewsroom.podbea ... om-052821/
May 27: Kevin Barrett interviewed me about the petition
https://kevinbarrett.heresycentral.is/2 ... on-to-fda/
May 25: Steve Bhaerman interviewed me about the petition
https://www.owltail.com/people/WXPha-me ... ppearances
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.
Chris Martenson has more emails that help fill in details of the Fauci/Farrar/Collins coverup of lab origin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxoVFZ ... Prosperity
I will fill in more details on his video later. He makes clear, with a series of emails, that the three primary conspirators pulled in the scientists to create the fake science on which the natural origin claim was based. Martenson also expands the cast of characters.
Why was Farrar so involved in this cleanup? Had he too funded the GOF research? Why was Patrick Vallance pulled in, representing the UK government and probably GSK? Why was Ron Fourchier involved, the Dutch scientist who had passaged bird flu to make it transmissible by air? Marion Koopmans, who recently got a generous grant, was a member of the WHO team that "investigated" the origin of the outbreak in Wuhan. Here is evidence of Koopmans changing her story. She and Fourchier are both at Erasmus. Why were these two Dutch scientists brought into the coverup?
I'm still investigating. Send me what you find, for attribution or not. Thanks!
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.
https://theintercept.com/2021/06/07/nuc ... emic-ican/
NOT EVEN COVID-19 COULD SLOW DOWN NUCLEAR SPENDING
A new report finds that nine countries collectively spent $72 billion in 2020 on nukes.
Jon Schwarz
June 7 2021, 12:00 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2021/06/03/ida ... -giddings/
IDAHO STATE LEGISLATOR DOXXED A SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVOR, DRAWING ETHICS COMPLAINTS
Rep. Priscilla Giddings, a candidate for Idaho lieutenant governor, circulated articles exposing the identity of a woman alleging assault by another lawmaker.
Sara Sirota
June 3 2021, 11:06 a.m.h
AMBUSHED BY THE COPS: WHEN POLICE DELIBERATELY TRAP PEACEFUL PROTESTERS
An Intercept and SITU reconstruction of an incident in North Carolina last June shows police intentionally trapped and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful protesters.
Alice Speri
June 2 2021, 11:22 a.m
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/05/ ... unfolding/
Another Boston police scandal is quietly unfolding
It may surpass the high-profile State Police overtime fraud debacle
By Dugan Arnett and Maggie Mulvihill Globe Staff and Globe correspondent,Updated June 5, 2021,
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/525564-killer- ... an-target/
Rise of the killer robot: An autonomous drone hunted down a human target in Libya last year & no one is talking about it
Darius Shahtahmasebi
is a New Zealand-based legal and political analyst who focuses on US foreign policy in the Middle East, Asia and Pacific region. He is fully qualified as a lawyer in two international jurisdictions.
3 Jun, 2021 13:01
https://www.rt.com/usa/525566-nypd-surv ... ty-report/
NYPD operates over 15,000 facial recognition cameras as part of ‘Orwellian’ surveillance network – report
3 Jun, 2021 14:20
https://www.rt.com/usa/525521-mueller-probe-law-course/
FBI Director Mueller
Russiagate RETURNS... to law school: Robert Mueller to teach special course about his probe at prestigious university
3 Jun, 2021 00:43 /
https://www.rt.com/news/525474-australi ... eg-photos/
‘Hundreds’ of photos show Australian troops chugging beer from dead Afghan’s prosthetic leg, court is told
2 Jun, 2021 15:15
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... scientists
Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientists
Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -emergency
The media is still mostly failing to convey the urgency of the climate crisis
Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... rds-broken
Searing heat wave sets records in California’s inland areas, even as coasts stay cool
https://bangordailynews.com/2021/06/05/ ... nge-peril/
Maine’s blueberry crop faces climate change peril
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/05/ ... heat-wave/
Janey declares heat emergency as Mass. faces potential four-day heat wave
By Sofia Saric Globe Correspondent,Updated June 5, 2021, 2 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuQg-epnCuI
Colonel David Morehouse
https://www.rt.com/news/525739-chinese- ... -tracking/
Chinese military has its own UFO task force… and it’s been ‘overwhelmed’ by surge in sighting reports – media
5 Jun, 2021 07:25
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/06/04/ ... s-forward/
June 4 2021
Bill to eliminate cash bail in Maine for minor crimes advances
On a 10-2 vote, the Legislature's Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill that would prohibit jailing suspects who can't pay bail on most misdemeanor charges.
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/06/05/ ... s-records/
Justice Department will no longer seize reporters’ records
Journalists at three news organizations had been alerted that their phone records had been obtained in the final year of the Trump administration.
https://www.rt.com/usa/525735-lab-leak- ... acktracks/
Scientist who helped lead charge in quashing Covid-19 lab-leak theory BACKTRACKS, points to 'disturbing information' – media
5 Jun, 2021 02:03 / Updated 17 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax0n_b4MRZ8
Flight 11
https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Christian Drosten: coconspirator with Fauci/Collins/Farrar; he's Germany's Dr. Fauci,; he's a Lancet letter signer; and he created the world's first big PCR test for Covid
Christian Drosten, a German virologist and wunderkind, signed the (lab origin coverup) Lancet letter, and designed the PCR test for Covid that has been touted by the WHO and used around the world. His PCR test has been challenged by European scientists and physicians. His PhD is said by some to have been faked.
How, then, did he become a full professor at the University of Bonn and, at 35, head of the Institute of Virology at Charite Hospital?
Drosten, from Germany, was pulled in on the coverup. Was this because his PCR test was already part of an unsavory conspiracy? He was trusted, and he had a role. We don't know what it is, yet.
My guess is that during the weekend of February 1, the Lancet correspondence, the Nature Medicine correspondence and the National Academy of Sciences letter were planned together as the solution to the coverup by this small cabal, who had probably already proved themselves to the big guys. Perhaps they had a disreputable history together, in which the code of Omerta already functioned.
In 2020, Drosten became the face of Covid in Germany in the same way Fauci became the face of the pandemic in the US. According to an April 2020 puff piece in Science magazine,
Drosten’s podcast has given him real influence, says Marcel Fratzscher, head of DIW Berlin, an economic research institute. “At this point, if Drosten says it is too early [to open up], that carries as much weight as Merkel saying it.”
The Science article also said,
"But Drosten wants his research to save lives. Large cardboard boxes in his office hold supplies of two medicines waiting to be tried in the clinic. One is camostat mesylate, a pancreatitis drug approved in Japan that Drosten and others found can prevent both SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells. The other drug is niclosamide, used to treat tapeworms and other parasites. In a paper posted on the preprint server bioRxiv this month, Drosten’s colleague Marcel Müller showed that SARS-CoV-2 interferes with the cellular recycling process called autophagy. It’s unclear how exactly that benefits the virus, but niclosamide counters the interference. Treatment with the compound reduced SARS-CoV-2’s growth in cell culture by 70%, the authors write. Drosten hopes to start to enroll patients soon in a trial to test a combination of the two drugs."
This paragraph enables me to transition to a very important point that I have not seen anyone else write about. I am talking about the tremendous benefit conveyed by the pandemic to the drug research enterprise. Normally it costs many millions of dollars to test one drug--perhaps over a billion if it is a new chemical entity.
But, as long as you can pretend that there are no effective drugs to treat Covid, you can keep testing drugs on human beings. That is why the Recovery and Solidarity trials continue to enroll hapless subjects, instead of treating them with drugs that actually cure the disease.
Here is Drosten, with cartons of two old drugs he wants to test in humans, one of which was only 70% effective at killing virus in the lab. Why not use a drug like ivermectin that is practically 100% effective at killing virus? It would be both unethical and very expensive to test drugs outside the pandemic if it were admitted that a Covid treatment already existed.
But if you pretend there are no effective treatments, the treatment trials for Covid turn into charity affairs. Very little data are collected, so the investigators cannot be shown to have harmed the patients. But sufficient data are collected for a future regulatory review.
I wrote about this with respect to the Solidarity trial in my long article on the hydroxychloroquine false narrative. Countries donate tax dollars, and charitable institutions donate, and a variety of drugs can be tested. It doesn't seem to matter that almost all fail to cure the patient. The failures keep the pandemic fear going. Testing is likely being done to gather human data for possible future uses of these drugs, perhaps for a completely different purpose. Drug companies own most of the patents.
On the other hand, there also may be a role for these trials as a delaying action... slow-rolling a response until vaccines or whatever are available.
So how do these drug trials help the pandemic purveyors?
* They keep the public terrified over the lack of a cure
* They delay the end of the pandemic
* They test drugs for the pharmaceutical industry and its minions at taxpayer expense
* The trials are conducted more rapidly than normal, because a large number of centers enroll patients, who agree to be experimental subjects because they think they are generating knowledge for the good of humanity
* Probably there are enormous kickbacks involved
The wunderkind Drosten appears to be in the thick of the coverup. Had a Covid cure been acknowledged, he would have lost the opportunity to do the drug trials on sick human guinea pigs.
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.
My 4 recent interviews: the Fauci emails with Bobby Kennedy, and the Children's Health Defense FDA petition to stop Covid vaccine approval and revoke authorization
June 3: Bobby Kennedy interviewed me on the Fauci email revelations and their stunning implications
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/rf ... wcHQI43x-/
May 28: Kristina Borjesson interviewed me regarding the criminal behaviors of federal agencies laid out in the FDA petition. Please do read and comment here if you agree!
https://thewhistleblowernewsroom.podbea ... om-052821/
May 27: Kevin Barrett interviewed me about the petition
https://kevinbarrett.heresycentral.is/2 ... on-to-fda/
May 25: Steve Bhaerman interviewed me about the petition
https://www.owltail.com/people/WXPha-me ... ppearances
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.
Chris Martenson has more emails that help fill in details of the Fauci/Farrar/Collins coverup of lab origin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxoVFZ ... Prosperity
I will fill in more details on his video later. He makes clear, with a series of emails, that the three primary conspirators pulled in the scientists to create the fake science on which the natural origin claim was based. Martenson also expands the cast of characters.
Why was Farrar so involved in this cleanup? Had he too funded the GOF research? Why was Patrick Vallance pulled in, representing the UK government and probably GSK? Why was Ron Fourchier involved, the Dutch scientist who had passaged bird flu to make it transmissible by air? Marion Koopmans, who recently got a generous grant, was a member of the WHO team that "investigated" the origin of the outbreak in Wuhan. Here is evidence of Koopmans changing her story. She and Fourchier are both at Erasmus. Why were these two Dutch scientists brought into the coverup?
I'm still investigating. Send me what you find, for attribution or not. Thanks!
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.
https://theintercept.com/2021/06/07/nuc ... emic-ican/
NOT EVEN COVID-19 COULD SLOW DOWN NUCLEAR SPENDING
A new report finds that nine countries collectively spent $72 billion in 2020 on nukes.
Jon Schwarz
June 7 2021, 12:00 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2021/06/03/ida ... -giddings/
IDAHO STATE LEGISLATOR DOXXED A SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVOR, DRAWING ETHICS COMPLAINTS
Rep. Priscilla Giddings, a candidate for Idaho lieutenant governor, circulated articles exposing the identity of a woman alleging assault by another lawmaker.
Sara Sirota
June 3 2021, 11:06 a.m.h
