Animal Agriculture Is The Leading Cause Of Global Warming Ocean Dead Zones + Pollution, Rainforest Destruction, Speciec Extinction, Habitat Loss, ALMOST ALL HUMAN AILMENTS-MEDICAL PROBLEMS-HEALTH CARE ISSUES. If you're not vegan, you're part of the problem.
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Can we please drop this nonsense about Trump asking Ukraine to "investigate" Biden? As Anders Aslund, a real expert, notes: there is no honest accusation against Biden. What Trump wanted was a fabrication, not an investigation
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1175393078309527553
Congress did not vote aid to Ukraine as an act of charity. Congress believed it was voting to defend US national interests. Trump willingly sacrificed US national defense to extort a campaign contribution from a foreign country.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1175390797774106624
Let's also keep in mind, Trump did not relent on Ukraine aid voluntarily. Congress about to force him to disgorge the money. If up to Trump, he wd have continued blackmailing Ukraine until they fabricated the anti-Biden story he demanded
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1175390096662642689
Republican members of Congress seem very quiet this weekend
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1175387716088934407
For the record: VP Joe Biden did a stellar work on Ukraine. He had the support of the whole Ukraine community, pressing President Poroshenko to do more for the rule of law & he achieved substantial results. Biden deserves only praise for his work in Ukraine!
https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1175010593461460992
U.S. Embassy officials in Kiev repeatedly expressed concerns about the contacts between Giuliani and Ukrainian officials. They have not been privy to most of the discussions, and at times, have only learned later from the Ukrainians, who said they were unsure if Giuliani was officially speaking for the U.S. government, according to two officials with knowledge of the matter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-trump-and-giuliani-pressured-ukraine-to-investigate-the-presidents-rivals/2019/09/20/0955801c-dbb6-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html
Betsy DeVos' DOE threatens to cut Duke, UNC funding for positive portrayal of Islam - Middle East studies program run by prestigious N.C. schools under threat over focus on "positive aspects of Islam"
https://www.salon.com/2019/09/20/betsy-devos-doe-threatens-to-cut-duke-unc-funding-for-positive-portrayal-of-islam/
Isra Hirsi Is 16, Unbothered, and Saving the Planet — As the co-founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike and the daughter of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Isra Hirsi is grappling with harassment, safety threats, tokenization, and privilege on a national scale years before she's even allowed to vote.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a357wp/isra-hirsi-ilhan-omar-daughter-climate-strike-profile
Pete Alonso hits home run number 50
https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/dce7543d-7d1e-40ff-8d59-ba059e17ba80.mp4
If This Isn’t Impeachable, Nothing Is
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/trumps-ukraine-call-clear-impeachable-offense/598570/
The Trump administration announced an accord Friday that will allow the United States to divert asylum seekers from the U.S. border to El Salvador, pushing migrants into one of the most dangerous countries in the world. The deal between the two governments is the latest measure aimed at creating new layers of deterrents to the influx of migrants applying for protection on U.S. soil.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-administration-reaches-deal-to-send-asylum-seekers-to-el-salvador-in-an-effort-to-deter-migrants-from-entering-the-united-states/2019/09/20/17350a16-dbbd-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html
As a political reporter for most of the last 30 years I have also endured many long and rambling political press conferences with Australian prime ministers and world leaders. But watching a full presidential Trump press conference while visiting the US this week I realised how much the reporting of Trump necessarily edits and parses his words, to force it into sequential paragraphs or impose meaning where it is difficult to detect.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/20/as-a-foreign-reporter-visiting-the-us-i-was-stunned-by-trumps-press-conference
The Solomon Islands form diplomatic relations with China after breaking ties with Taiwan, giving Beijing a new victory in its campaign to isolate the self-ruled island it claims as part of its territory.
https://apnews.com/da8ee49f4d0f4aec8d7e90c9eb94c8be
Sen. Cory Booker must raise nearly $2 million in the next 10 days or the presidential candidate has no "legitimate long-term path forward," according to a memo to staff from the campaign manager obtained by NBC News. | Me: Unspoken in the memo is the fact that all four are white, while several candidates of color have struggled to break into the top-tier.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/cory-booker-memo-may-not-be-race-much-longer-if-n1057196
America’s Great Climate Exodus Is Starting in the Florida Keys. Mass migration begins as coastal homes are bulldozed in the state facing the biggest threat from climate-driven inundation. | The Great Climate Retreat is beginning with tiny steps, like taxpayer buyouts for homeowners in flood-prone areas from Staten Island, New York, to Houston and New Orleans — and now Rittel’s Marathon Key. Florida, the state with the most people and real estate at risk, is just starting to buy homes, wrecked or not, and bulldoze them to clear a path for swelling seas before whole neighborhoods get wiped off the map. By the end of the century, 13 million Americans will need to move just because of rising sea levels, at a cost of $1 million each, according to Florida State University demographer Mathew Haeur, who studies climate migration. Even in a “managed retreat,” coordinated and funded at the federal level, the economic disruption could resemble the housing crash of 2008. | The U.S. government’s philosophy has been that local officials are in the best position to decide what needs to be done. Consequently, the effort has so far been ad hoc, with local and state governments using federal grants from the last disaster to pay for buyouts designed to reduce the damage from the next one. “The scale of this is almost unfathomable,” said Billy Fleming, a landscape architecture professor at the University of Pennsylvania. “If we take any of the climate science seriously, we’re down to the last 10 to 12 years to mobilize the full force of the government and move on managed retreat. If we don’t, it won’t matter, because much of America will be underwater or on fire.” | Florida accounts for 40% of the riskiest coastal land in the U.S., according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, but it’s done little so far to pull people back from the coasts and lags behind states such as New Jersey, North Carolina and Texas. Across the country, the effort is still more theory than practice, even as a consensus among planners grows that “managed retreat” may be the best of bad options. | This year, HUD made available $16 billion for climate resilience, its first dedicated fund to fortify for future storms. Nine states, plus Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, will decide how to use it, whether to build sea walls, put houses on stilts or move people out of the way. The money is a fraction of what’s needed, and the process is moving at the speed of government. A study by the Natural Resources Defense Council this month found that buyouts by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which responds to disasters, take five years on average to be completed. By that time, many homeowners have rebuilt or moved. Similar data isn’t available on the grants from HUD, which also provides money to demolish homes. | A FEMA spokesman said the agency supports the voluntary acquisition of flood-prone structures and provides the grant funding, but the prioritization of projects happens at the local level first and then by the state acting as the recipient. The agency believes each county floodplain manager and local official knows the needs of their communities best and are responsible for land usage and permitting. About 6 million Floridians will need to move inland by century’s end to avoid inundation, according to Hauer, the demographer, in a 2016 paper. By then, about 80% of the nearby Keys, the archipelago that includes the tourist mecca of Key West, will be underwater. About 3.5 million people would be flooded in South Florida’s Miami-Dade and Broward, the two counties with America’s biggest exposed populations. | Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana is trying to relocate the Native American settlement of about 100 people on the Isle de Jean Charles, a narrow island that lost 98% of its land over the past six decades to climate change. It’s working with a $48 million grant from HUD for buyouts and to help them start anew on a 500-acre sugar cane field 40 miles north that the government will populate with homes and businesses. Importantly, it will be 9 feet above sea level. All but three of about 40 households have signed on. | New Jersey has a $300 million fund for buyouts and has purchased hundreds of houses since Superstorm Sandy in 2012, though like Florida, even more homes have been built on the coast in the meantime. Harris County, Texas — which includes Houston, ravaged by a series of storms including 2017’s Harvey — has done more than 3,000 FEMA buyouts, more than any other county in the U.S., according to NRDC.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-20/america-s-great-climate-exodus-is-starting-in-the-florida-keys
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/anna-weber/going-under-post-flood-buyouts-take-years-complete
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-07-03/louisiana-town-convulsed-by-relocation-as-climate-policy-shifts
This isn't extinction, it's extermination: the people killing nature know what they're doing
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2019/sep/20/this-isnt-extinction-its-extermination-the-people-killing-nature-know-what-theyre-doing
Americans have a right to know if the GOP actually thinks Trump’s conduct is acceptable
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/20/reacting-allegations-egregious-high-crimes-misdemeanors/
Sanders Unveils Plan to Cancel $81 Billion in U.S. Medical Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-21/sanders-unveils-plan-to-cancel-81-billion-in-u-s-medical-debt
School cancels football game after braindead trash cheerleaders' Trump MAGA banner
https://abc11.com/high-school-cancels-football-game-after-cheerleaders-display-trump-2020-banner/5557577/
Climate strikes: hoax photo accusing Australian protesters of leaving rubbish behind goes viral - The image was not taken after a climate strike and was not even taken in Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/21/climate-strikes-hoax-photo-accusing-australian-protesters-of-leaving-rubbish-behind-goes-viral
Vegan Buddha Bowl | Quinoq, Sweet Potato Cubes, Chickpeas, Ribbons Of Carrots, Cubed Cucumbers, Edamame, Turmeric, Coriander Seeds
https://www.dellishrecipes.com/2019/09/21/bowl-of-buddha/
China develops handheld 'crowd control' sonic gun which causes eyes and internal organs to painfully vibrate, causing dizziness and vomiting
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7486279/China-develops-handheld-crowd-control-sonic-gun-causes-eyes-painfully-vibrate.html
Bernie Sanders wants to put credit reporting companies like Equifax out of business | Sanders’s campaign is calling for a public credit registry, where you can get your credit score for free.
https://www.vox.com/2019/9/21/20877050/bernie-sanders-credit-score-equifax-transunion-experian
Financial Worries Keep Most Americans Up at Night - One nation, haunted by financial insomnia.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/financial-worries-keep-most-americans-up-at-night
Former FEC commissioner: Yang’s Possibly Illegal Giveaway Shows Why We Need a Working FEC
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/21/andrew-yang-giveaway-campaign-finance-fec-228150
"The real tragedy of the frenzy over O’Rourke’s remarks is that the national conversation they sparked seems more intent on saving guns than on saving human beings."
https://baptistnews.com/article/beto-orourkes-debate-invective-and-the-new-back-to-school-video-are-the-jeremiads-of-our-time/
Beto O’Rourke met with group of predominantly Black marijuana business leaders in Oakland - theGrio
https://thegrio.com/2019/09/20/beto-orourke-meets-with-group-of-predominantly-black-marijuana-business-leaders-in-oakland/
Thousands of volunteers wielding nets and bin bags scoured coasts, parks and riverbanks across the globe Saturday, in a litter-picking drive highlighting the vast quantity of trash dumped worldwide, a day after mass international climate protests
https://www.france24.com/en/20190921-environmental-activists-get-down-and-dirty-on-mass-cleanup-day
A 100% vegan clothing and accessory shop opened near Troy, NY
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Beto O'Rourke: Since saying "hell yes," I keep being asked if I'm afraid. I'd be afraid if I were a teacher protecting students from AR-15; if I were a trans woman of color; if I had to drive 300 miles for an abortion. But for those living in fear in America, our leaders must be fearless.
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1175491330040053760
Inside the Trump Administration’s Chaotic Dismantling of the Federal Land Agency
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-trump-administrations-chaotic-dismantling-of-the-federal-land-agency
Papa Ganache in Matawan, NJ. Everything in the store is completely vegan and gluten-free
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Ukrainian Official: Trump Looking for Dirt ‘To Discredit Biden’. Ukrainian officials see no indication Biden or his son broke their laws. If Trump wants them investigated in Kyiv, his government will need to say why and what for.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-is-ready-to-investigate-bidens-sonbut-only-if-theres-an-official-us-request
Video showing hundreds of shackled, blindfolded prisoners in China is 'genuine'
https://news.sky.com/story/chinas-detention-of-uighurs-video-of-blindfolded-and-shackled-prisoners-authentic-11815401
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