Very Light News Dump

We are the United States and Oceans of America. Clean water and healthy beaches are vital to our communities. But plastic, offshore oil drilling, pollution and sea level rise are threatening this precious resource. You can help -> https://www.surfrider.org/usoa  #USOA @Surfrider
https://twitter.com/ERICBALFOUR/status/1067067412174921729

Since December, 6 CHILDREN have died. Half of them died, in part, from the flu. The FLU! We vaccinate people all over the world across hundreds of borders! This is just disgusting and inhumane treatment on behalf of the Trump administration.
https://twitter.com/ERICBALFOUR/status/1165106249521717250

⁣Please support the organizations that are on the ground working to protect the #AmazonRainforest ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣@amazonwatch @amazonfrontlines @guajajarasonia @coiabamazonia @greenpeacebrasil #prayforamazonia #todospelaamazonia ⁣⁣
https://twitter.com/ERICBALFOUR/status/1164728883519741952

Canada's old growth rain forests are being clear cut faster than the Amazon, and they won't grow back
https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-forgotten-rainforest/

Trump fan convicted in California of voter fraud, identity theft
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Reported-Trump-fan-convicted-in-California-of-14374737.php

Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner investor
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor

Two of the Russian specialists killed by the explosion at a White Sea missile testing range died not of traumatic injuries from the blast itself but of radiation sickness before they could be taken to Moscow for treatment, the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported Wednesday. The paper cited an unnamed medical worker who was involved in their care. “Two of the patients did not make it to the airport and died,” the person said. “The radiation dose was very high, and symptoms of radiation sickness grew every hour.” Their bodies were taken to the Burnazyan Federal Medical and Biophysical Center in Moscow, a leading institution in the fields of radioactive and nuclear medicine. The explosion occurred Aug. 8 on a sea-based platform off the village of Nyonoksa, in Russia’s far north. The Russian atomic agency Rosatom said a device employing “isotopic sources of fuel on a liquid propulsion unit” was destroyed. Few additional details were provided. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that a “nuclear-propelled missile” was being tested, giving credence to the suggestion that it involved a prototype of a weapon designated as Skyfall by NATO and called Burevestnik by Russia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/two-victims-of-mysterious-russian-missile-blast-died-of-radiation-sickness-report-says/2019/08/21/333ade04-c41e-11e9-8bf7-cde2d9e09055_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-hold-funerals-for-five-nuclear-workers-who-died-in-missile-explosion/2019/08/12/23e23cb8-bd1b-11e9-a8b0-7ed8a0d5dc5d_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/putin-claims-russia-has-nuclear-arsenal-capable-of-avoiding-missile-defenses/2018/03/01/d2dcf522-1d3b-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html

Giraffes have been given protection against trade in their body parts for the first time as the countries that make up the regulator added them to an endangered animals list. Delegates from countries around the world are currently attending the  Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) convention in Geneva, where they are voting on international wildlife trade law.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/22/giraffes-protected-slaughtered-body-parts-first-time/

Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas, has been in the midst of a bitter separation and parenting dispute for much of the past year. So she was surprised when she noticed that her estranged spouse still seemed to know things about her spending. Had she bought a car? How could she afford that? Ms. Worden put her intelligence background to work, asking her bank about the locations of computers that had recently accessed her bank account using her login credentials. The bank got back to her with an answer: One was a computer network registered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ms. Worden’s spouse, Anne McClain, was a decorated NASA astronaut on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. She was about to be part of NASA’s first all-female spacewalk. But the couple’s domestic troubles on Earth, it seemed, had extended into outer space. Ms. McClain acknowledged that she had accessed the bank account from space, insisting through a lawyer that she was merely shepherding the couple’s still-intertwined finances. Ms. Worden felt differently. She filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and her family lodged one with NASA’s Office of Inspector General, accusing Ms. McClain of identity theft and improper access to Ms. Worden’s private financial records. Investigators from the inspector general’s office have since contacted Ms. Worden and Ms. McClain, trying to get to the bottom of what may be the first allegation of criminal wrongdoing in space.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html

This is Warrick Dunn. His mom,a New Orleans police officer, was shot & killed while he was in high school.He raised his siblings while in college,graduated & went to the NFL. He built &paid for over 145 houses for single mothers, sacrificing millions of dollars! #BlackExcellence
https://twitter.com/IamTyraJackson/status/1164547911490969606