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https://robertscribbler.com/2017/12/05/ ... s-to-flee/


Scribbling for environmental, social and economic justice
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."

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... nvironment

Venue of last resort: the climate lawsuits threatening the future of big oil



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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.





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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







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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




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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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https://theintercept.com/2019/08/30/nyp ... probation/

In Secretive Court Hearing, NYPD Cops Who Raped Brooklyn Teen in Custody Get No Jail Time



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White Indianapolis Cop Punches Black Teen in the Face


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Charge dropped against tow truck driver arrested while repossessing cop’s car
Updated Aug 30, 1:48 PM; Posted Aug 30, 7:00 AM

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In 1990s, Philly’s now-interim top cop wore T-shirt: ‘L.A.P.D. We Treat You
Like a Rodney King




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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


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Police chief wanted to sleep with my wife and daughter in exchange for a promotion, cop claims
Today 9:26 AM



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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




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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’


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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

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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



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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




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Climate Change and Other Frights: 13 Environmental Books to Scare You Into Action
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“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
Read time: 7 mins
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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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Trump’s Washington hotel has fallen behind competitors, with rooms running nearly half empty, marketing materials show



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White House and Pentagon prepare for Trump to issue pardons in war-crimes cases, officials say





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The first artificial material that follows sunlight may upgrade solar panels
Dubbed SunBOTs, the devices can capture much more solar energy than stationary devices



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Influence of early-life nutritional stress on songbird memory formation.



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Failure found to be an "essential prerequisite" for success
Scientists use big data to understand what separates winners from losers.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019 | LANA COHEN
WHY THE HUMAN MIND CAN’T DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE




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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

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Corrections officers who gave Nazi salute punished, 3 fired and 34 suspended




By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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DEC 06, 2019 | 10:31 PM



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Save the Earth, because there’s no escape, Nobel winner says at climate conference

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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






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Top cop told her deputy to act like a ‘white supremacist cop.’ It was caught on tape
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Ex-cop accused of robbing hotel guests while in uniform appears in court
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John F. Kennedy assassination bullets preserved as detailed 3D models
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Outrage After Cops Use Bystanders As “Human Shields” In Florida UPS Truck Shootout
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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
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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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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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The ducks united by a Blue Hill man’s singles ad have hit it off



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Act Out
Hunters Cliff Trail leads to stunning ocean views and a cobblestone beach on MDIc





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Is DHS the ‘Worst Place to Work’? Employees Think So
December 19, 2019 Kylie Bielby






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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




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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
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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





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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



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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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Judge drops rape charge against former Fairmount Heights cop accused of raping woman

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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




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Will SF’s new DA criminally charge a newly sworn rookie cop who fatally shot an unarmed man?

Evan Sernoffsky Jan. 6, 2020 Updated



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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: 
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Mayflower 400 events could help recover lost Native American treasure






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Top 10 people-powered moments of 2019



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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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NEWS FEATURE
DEER ISLE
Originally published in Island Ad-Vantages, January 2, 2020 
DISHS artwork raises global warming awareness



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The Nature of Phenology: Owls courting






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LIFE LESSONS
Time in prison led Lawyer Noemi Fernandez to Buffalo and legal career


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Schumer demands Trump declassify justification for Iran assassination

By DAVE GOLDINER

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 06, 2020 | 9:57 AM





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Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work



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Jewish students at South Africa school 'take a knee' in support of Palestinians
Two grade nine pupils disciplined for protest
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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'
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A British citizen emits more CO2 in two weeks than some people in Africa do in a year, research shows
CEO of Oxfam GB calls ‘global inequality’ in carbon emissions ‘staggering’
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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.
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Narcotics Agent Held in Boston On Drug Charges




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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.

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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.”
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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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https://www.nj.com/news/2020/01/investi ... rules.html



Investigating your police department? Here’s what N.J. cops must tell you under new rules.
Updated Jan 18, 12:21 PM;Posted Jan 18, 8:13 AM





https://www.madcowprod.com/2020/01/19/b ... uttigiegs/


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







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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.





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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 <cure@curenational.org>
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 <charlie@curenational.org>


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 <claudia@celldoor.com> 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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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.



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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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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.

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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 (chercurt@aol.com) 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 (craigmckee911@gmail.com), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks (hendricks_ann@yahoo.com).‬
‪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 (chercurt@aol.com) 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 (craigmckee911@gmail.com), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks (hendricks_ann@yahoo.com).‬



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

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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

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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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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




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* CRIME
COP FIRED OVER MONEY LAUNDERING, DRUG INVESTIGATIONS
By Janene Pieters on Wednesday, 22 July 2020 - 15:20





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Recklessly Driving Brooklyn Cop Has Gotten 12 More Speeding Tickets Since Last Year
* By Gersh Kuntzman
* Jul 20, 2020



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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




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State comptroller says he can't help fired Buffalo cop get pension
* Deidre Williams Jul 21, 2020 Updated 18 hrs ago 2





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Is the Gulf Stream Collapsing?
By Just have a think




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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



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‘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


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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




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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



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Bangor considers banning no-knock warrants, but it might not be able to



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The Other Side Effects of Covid



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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


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Smoke break! Two uniformed NYPD officers are spotted smoking a hookah through the window of their squad car



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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
oregen@journalinquirer.com 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




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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




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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


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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


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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



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Historian Seeks Sealed Grand Jury Transcripts In Notorious Lynching of Two Black Couples by White Mob

October 7, 2020





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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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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


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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


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Belfast gardeners join forces to plant a million daffodils in the city



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What will Acting Mayor Kim Janey do about Boston police?
By Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated May 2, 2021, 5:48 p.m.



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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


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Watch: South Carolina cop harasses a man for being "suspicious" (as in Black)
CARLA SINCLAIR 3:12 PM FRI APR 30, 2021


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Graduate Workers at NYU Are on Strike for Living Wages and Cop-Free Campuses



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Pentagon Cop Who Killed 2 Men Is Indicted for Homeless Woman Incident

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'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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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


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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

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Siberia hit 118 Fahrenheit today at the North Pole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqD2hTfxcE



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msfreeh wrote: June 29th, 2021, 3:20 pm Siberia hit 118 Fahrenheit today at the North Pole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqD2hTfxcE



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Well, that's interesting.

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https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... -dire.html

Tuesday, August 3, 2021
The Delta Helter Skelter. When Dire Delta is the excuse for new lockdowns and vaccine mandates, but the truth keeps dribbling out. Today more news from Israel

'Helter-skelter' means 'in chaotic and disorderly haste'.
It seems a good descriptor of how public health mouthpieces are dealing with the facts oozing out of the public health muck regarding the Delta variant. Considering their strategy has been to use Delta to impose ever more harsh and unjustifiable Great Reset measures.  Not to mention vaccine mandates.  But now things look a lot worse than they did in that CDC slide deck.  Check out these official graphs from Israel:  not only are cases rising equally in the vaccinated as the unvaccinated, but the vaccinated are not being spared severe illness, as claimed by our plucky CDC director.
If nearly all the elderly and high risk Israelis have been vaccinated, then there would be some benefit of vaccination in warding off severe illness... but still, 2/3 of those with severe illness have been doubly vaccinated.
How can you spin this into a justification for vaccine mandates?  You can't. And unless the authorities can prove there is n


http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full

The amount of Greenland ice that melted on July 27 could cover Florida in 2 inches of water
CNN.com, July 30, 2021


http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserv ... ethod=Full

America's changing climate: hotter Western days, wetter Eastern nights
Summer swelter trend: West gets hotter days, East hot nights
The Associated Press, July 5, 2021



https://theintercept.com/2021/08/03/bip ... ssil-fuel/

BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL INCLUDES $25 BILLION IN POTENTIAL NEW SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUELS
Instead of reducing the role of fossil fuels in the economy, critics say, the bill subsidizes industry “greenwashing.”
Alleen Brown
August 3 2021, 7:00 a.m.



https://www.rt.com/usa/531032-ron-johns ... itol-riot/

Republican senator claims FBI knew more about Capitol riot than they admitted, as 2 more police officers die by suicide
3 Aug, 2021 16:40

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/f ... 21-101.pdf


FBI used photos of women staffers in sex trafficking investigations, inspector general finds

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 453912001/

IG Report: FBI Used Provocative Photos of Female Staffers to Lure Predators in Undercover Stings


https://www.ticklethewire.com/2021/08/0 ... erto-rico/

Joseph Gonzalez Named Special Agent in Charge of FBI’s San Juan Field Office in Puerto Rico



https://bangordailynews.com/2021/08/02/ ... @#$-coast/

Documents show no coverup in 1963 submarine sinking off Mass. coast


https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... ostpopular

Barack Obama is reportedly planning a blowout 60th birthday party on Martha’s Vineyard this weekend

https://www.pressherald.com/2021/08/03/ ... e-neglect/

Maine should ensure accountability for animal abuse, neglect
A lifetime ownership ban imposed after the seizure of 20 horses and other animals in Springvale is not enough of a deterrent.



https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... eview.html

Tuesday, August 3, 2021
A common cold literature review mentions the RSV vaccine trial, Vit C, Echinacea and zinc

From a 2004 review of the common cold.  This paper says 10-15% of colds are due to coronaviruses.  Some suggest a higher percentage.  It can be useful to read literature that is untainted by current political considerations.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7125703/
The development of an RSV vaccine has been hampered by the experience with formalin-inactivated whole RSV vaccine in the 1960s, as it caused 80% of RSV vaccinees to become hospitalised compared with 5% of controls, as well as two fatalities [80]. Current major research has focused on a prophylaxis using a humanised mouse monoclonal antibody, Palizivumab, which has been shown to reduce the rate of RSV-associated hospitalisation in premature infants [81]. However, its use on a wider population will require further research.
There is currently no licensed Parainfluenza vaccine to date. The


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

NYPD sergeant to pay $10G from own pocket to help NYC settle sexual harassment case
By THOMAS TRACY and GRAHAM RAYMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 03, 2021 AT 5:38 PM

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

No foul play suspected in death of Boston woman hiking in Phoenix with cop she just met, say police
By KATE FELDMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 03, 2021 AT 8:50 AM


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

Five Miami Beach police officers charged with excessive force for attack on handcuffed suspect
By KATE FELDMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 03, 2021 AT 3:55 PM


https://theintercept.com/2021/08/02/mur ... new-trial/

UPDATE: THE CASE FOR A NEW TRIAL
A long-awaited hearing reveals bombshell evidence buried in the files of Devonia Inman’s former attorney.
Murderville, GA
August 2 2021, 6:00 a.m.


https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ia-farmers

Regulators impose unprecedented water restrictions on California farms
The emergency order will bar thousands of Californians — primarily farmers — from using stream and river water.
Related
Column One: In drought-plagued northern Mexico, cows are starving to death

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https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids ... itmer.html

Grand Rapids
Defense for alleged leader says FBI informants pushed plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer



https://www.marquette.edu/library/archi ... cl-sc.phpg

Marquette.edu // Raynor Memorial Libraries // Archives // Manuscripts // ccl // 
THE CONFERENCE FOR CATHOLIC LESBIANS, 1980-2019 – ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY/SCOPE AND CONTENT

https://nihilobstat.info/wp-content/upl ... e-Are3.pdf

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WHO WE ARE: Finding Our Place as Catholic Lesbians
Karen A. Dohertyb


https://www.marquette.edu/library/archi ... ies7-3.php

Marquette.edu // Raynor Memorial Libraries // Archives // Manuscripts // ccl // 
CONFERENCE FOR CATHOLIC LESBIANS – VIDEO RECORDINGS, 1987-2012, UNDATED



http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 33&t=42030

Outstanding new find from a twitter contact who is so reliable I should start sending them money: a PDF narrative (backup link) from Karen A. Doherty of the Conference for Catholic Lesbians. This also went up on her blog Nihil Obsat, and they're available as separate posts there. I'm going back through it now to parse it more finely, but it's largely a synthesis of her personal experiences in NYC and the sources here, mixed with some meticulous sleuthing of her own.

1 - Meeting Ed Murphy
2 - "Villainous Skull" Murphy
3 - The Chickens and The Bulls
4 - Secret Lives: J Edgar Hoover & Roy Cohn
5 - Stonewall Shakedowns
6 - The Stonewall Raid
7 - The Improbable Activist
8 - Double-Edged Legacy

Ed Murphy is not a relation, but he’s an interesting story in my life. Ed was an integral figure in the “Chickens and the Bulls” homosexual blackmail scandal in the mid-1960s. He was probably involved in a series of blackmail schemes run by the Mob out of the Stonewall Inn in New York as well. He stole, and threatened and blackmailed most of his life. He got away with it, and wound up a gay liberation hero. Ed is mostly forgotten now, but I will never forget him. I still can’t decide if he was a bad man who did some good things; or a good man who did some very bad things. I sensed goodness in him, and he was good to me; but the other part of him, which I can’t forget or reconcile, is the terror and misery he caused hundreds of gay men and their families.



http://cavdef.org/w/index.php?title=Cat ... _sex_rings

Category:Human trafficking and sex rings




https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021 ... p-for-that

Stopping Violence Over Prison Phone Time? There’s an App for That.
While Corey Devon Arthur was quarantining, people in the unit got tablets equipped with telephone apps. “If we all had the option to use a phone app, the value of violence would plunge,” he writes.
By COREY DEVON ARTHURb

A modest proposal to ease prison violence. There aren’t enough telephones in prisons, and there are too many people vying to use them at any given time. The fights that erupt over these bottlenecks threaten the safety of both the incarcerated and the prison staff. Corey Devon Arthur, incarcerated at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in New York, has a solution to the eternal problem: Give prisoners their own computer tablets with phone access. Bad idea, prison officials told him earlier this year. Phone tablets would require Internet capability throughout penitentiaries, and that would cost more money than they are willing to spend. Here is the latest in our “Life Inside” series. THE MARSHALL PROJEC



Tell Facebook to take down AIPAC’s racist, hateful ads against women of color in Congress. Stand with Omar, AOC, Tlaib, and Bush!

The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is at it again, inciting Islamophobia and endangering the lives of women of color in Congress. 
The pro-Israel lobby group has taken out a series of paid ads on Facebook accusing lawmakers Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, and Rashida Tlaib of lying about Israel by using the words “apartheid,” “act of terrorism” and “ethnic cleansing.” The ad attacking Ilhan Omar baselessly links her, a Muslim-American, to terrorism. It’s textbook Islamophobia! 



https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021 ... g-pandemic

‘They Should Have Been Watching’: Suicides Rise in Texas Prisons During Pandemicn


https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021 ... ions-later

“SHOOTING FIRST AND ASKING QUESTIONS LATER”
In rural communities, fatal police shootings have occurred at high rates, without the attention (and protests) that urban shootings have drawn.



https://bangordailynews.com/2021/08/13/ ... haul-deal/

Prospects ever fainter for bipartisan policing overhaul deal




https://bangordailynews.com/2021/08/12/ ... st-decade/

Maine still the whitest state, but every county got more diverse over the last decade


https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/08/13/ ... ack-mayor/

Boston is losing its Black population, new census data show, even as it could elect its first Black mayor
By Sahar Fatima Globe Staff,Updated August 13, 2021


https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... r-forecast

Summer of fire: blazes burn across Mediterranean with more extreme weather forecast
… Italy registered a temperature of 48.8C (119.8F) in Sicily on Wednesday – beating the previous high registered in Greece in 1977 in what is believed to be a new European record



https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/20 ... vises.html

Admitting mistakes, overcoming defensive nature a must for Kalamazoo police, report advises
The police paid too much attention to a pastor, and not enough on an organization with a violent history, states the report from independent


https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/f ... s-spinoff/

FBI: International: Who’s who in the new CBS spinoff?
Thu Aug 12, 2021 at 5:14pm ET


https://www.sdstate.edu/sdsu-archives-a ... cil-papers

Matt Cecil was a media historian and Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication. This collection is composed of Cecil's research of the relationships of journalists and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI from 1928 to 1972.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/hoovers-f ... n=15000914

Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate : The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image
by Matthew Cecil



https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 3.28604.5b

Disinformation: The Use of False Information


https://www.codastory.com/disinformatio ... tion-hire/

‘Influence for hire’ networks are manipulating online discussions throughout the Asia Pacific region



https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-face ... popular4-1

18 Face Masks We Actually Like to Wear



https://www.rt.com/op-ed/531935-john-pi ... nge-court/

John Pilger: A day in the death of British justice




https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... scientists

July was world’s hottest month ever recorded, US scientists confirm
Global land and ocean surface temperature last month was 0.9C hotter than 20th-century average, beating July 2016 record



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... er-seattle

Temperatures soar as Washington and Oregon endure another major heatwave
Temperatures expected to hit triple digits in Portland and Seattle as Pacific north-west bakes in second heatwave of summer



https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighb ... 386035.php


Cop gets 10 years in child porn case in Montgomery County
A former longtime Houston-area police officer is headed to prison after being convicted of sending child pornography to an ...



https://news.yahoo.com/why-former-cop-l ... 43337.html

Why this former cop left the force: 'Policing is not about helping'


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ex ... NewsSearch

Cop with nearly $5K monthly pension charged with stealing time in new role


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fl ... NewsSearch

Florida school cop fired two years after video showed him slamming teen to floor


https://www.ibtimes.com/former-arizona- ... ra-3273153


Arizona Cop Drags Pet Dog Behind Truck, Incident Caught On Camera
A former officer with the Mesa Police Department




https://reason.com/2021/08/12/federal-c ... i-mohamud/

A Federal Cop Devised a Bogus Sex Trafficking Ring and Jailed This Teen for 2 Years. The Cop Can't Be Sued.
The most powerful officers are held to the lowest standard of accountability.
BILLY BINION | 8.12.2021 5:05 PM



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/gr ... NewsSearch

Grand jury indicts Clifton NJ cop on sexual assault of a child charges


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ex ... NewsSearch

Portsmouth cop accused of raping teen pleads guilty to lesser charges



https://www.kxly.com/former-spokane-cop ... e-charges/

Spokane cop pleads not guilty to new rape charges


http://courtneybrown.com/publications/P ... Music.html

POLITICS IN MUSIC: Political Transformation From Beethoven to Hip-Hop

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FqXTCvDLeo

Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta Thunberg)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ack-people

No, Black jurors aren’t ‘biased’ when it comes to shootings of Black people
Sonali Chakravarti
When Black jurors are eliminated from the jury pool, justice suffers


https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-email-syst ... es-1648966

FBI Email System Reportedly Hacked to Send Fake DHS Cyberattack Messages
BY DARRAGH ROCHE ON 11/13/21 AT 5:27 AM EST


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

NYPD cop and wife arrested for roughing each other up during fight over housecleaning
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 15, 2021 AT 8:20 AM


https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/ ... t-veritas/


FBI and the New York Times Collude against Project Veritas
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
You don’t need to love Project Veritas to be offended by the blatant government leaking of confidential information and the Times’ hypocritical coverage.

https://wtop.com/dc/2021/11/fbi-launche ... ime-spike/

FBI launches new campaign amid hate crime spike
John Domen | jdomen@wtop.com
November 13, 2021, 6:18 AM



https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justi ... n-problem/

* CRIME AND JUSTICE
MAY 14, 2009
The FBI’s Racial Discrimination Problem…


https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/12/us/b ... sment.html

https://www.nytimes.com › 1990/08/12 › black-fbi-agent-...
https://www.nytimes.com › 1990/08/12 › black-fbi-agent-...

Aug 12, 1990 — Rochon said the bureau agreed to settle the case because it feared a trial

Black F.B.I. Agent Looks Back on Years of Harassment



https://thehill.com/policy/national-sec ... 000-people

Hackers access FBI email system, spam 100,000 accounts
BY LEXI LONAS - 11/13/21 05:50 PM EST


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... ccabe.html

Kash Patel: In Durham Investigation, All Roads Lead To FBI's Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date November 14, 2021


https://www.the-sun.com/news/4064759/in ... ien-craft/

MEN IN BLACK Inside FBI’s UFO files packed hundreds of sightings including 27,000mph craft, planes ‘disintegrated’, & ‘alien bodies’

* Patrick Knox
* 11:46 ET, Nov 14 2021



https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/acl ... as-founder

ACLU COMMENT ON FBI RAID OF PROJECT VERITAS FOUNDER
NOVEMBER 14, 2021



https://hayspost.com/posts/1b5e1437-b66 ... 85f36f7d13

FBI has investigated KCK police for decades, but prosecution of bad cops is rare
Posted Nov 14, 2021 12:00 PM


https://www.startribune.com/paramedic-s ... 600116800/


Paramedic's tip led to Minneapolis cop's conviction
Drugs taken in unlawful searches. 
By Randy Furst Star Tribune NOVEMBER 14, 2021 — 8:19PM



https://www.reviewonline.com/news/local ... upervisor/

EL cop seeks protection order against former supervisor

https://www.police1.com/police-administ ... tePzjXr1h/

Agency report critical of slain Chicago cop sparks outrage
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability had recommended Officer Ella French be suspended for 3 days in a report completed before she was killed
Nov 12, 2021


https://seacoastcurrent.com/portsmouth- ... ault-case/


Seacoast Current
Portsmouth, NH Cop Charged in Domestic Assault Case
.Portsmouth, NH Cop Charged in Domestic Assault Case. Dan Alexander Published: November 14, 2021.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeKABSyMlTU

Autumn in Small Town America


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/11/15/ ... oam40zk0w/

The Maine Army National Guard has a sexual misconduct problem


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/11/15/ ... oam40zk0w/


A new Bangor effort is trying to get defendants out of jail and in mental health treatment
by Judy Harrison



https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/ ... d-his-home

Prominent nonprofits rally around James O'Keefe after FBI raided his home

by ANN DAILEY MORENO | The National DeskMonday, November 15th


https://www.rcfp.org/bryan-carmody-fbi-foia-ruling/

Judge: FBI failed to follow news media guidelines during Bryan Carmody raid


https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opin ... 625700002/

Police in Pennsylvania should provide FBI with use-of-force data
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial Board (TNS)



https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... or-leaders

After Steele source indictment, will Durham charge FBI agents?
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |  | November 15, 2021 04:06 PM



https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/inv ... 396601001/

Whistleblower featured in USA TODAY 'Behind the Blue Wall' series ousted from police union
Daphne Duret


https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/ ... 9dea2.html

Excessive force trial to start Tuesday pits police protester Jessica Lopez against city cop


https://www.newsweek.com/cop-reveals-qu ... me-1649231

Cop Reveals He's Quitting On Police Radio Because He's Tired Of Overtime
BY KHALEDA RAHMAN ON 11/15/21 AT 9:58 AM EST

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... fires-rain

Record rainfall prompts evacuations along the Pacific north-west
Communities in western Canada and Washington state forced to flee homes after record downpour leads to severe floods

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