Amazon sees alarming rise in deforestation. Brazil's state space agency reports a 100% increase in the destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest in November, compared to last year. President Bolsonaro denies his environmental policies are to blame.
https://www.dw.com/en/amazon-sees-alarming-rise-in-deforestation/a-51668498
China Hawk Randy Schriver quit Pentagon role. He was one of the first senior U.S. officials to publicly criticize China for its mass internment of ethnic Uighurs and describe the internment facilities as “concentration camps.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/12/pentagon-asia-policy-expert-resigns-randy-schriver-defense-department-china-trump/
The Xinjiang regional government in China’s far west is deleting data, destroying documents, tightening controls on information and has held high-level meetings in response to leaks of classified papers on its mass detention camps for Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities
https://apnews.com/c1d08873154907be8a3dd93562d6785c
FAR TOO LITTLE FAR TOO FUCKING LATE: Sudan’s former President Omar al-Bashir was sentenced to 2 years in detention by a court in Khartoum after being convicted of money laundering and corruption. (Extraordinary — in part bc it took so long and also bc of the atrocities committed on his watch) | The 75-year-old Mr. Bashir has been in custody since April, after Sudan’s military generals ousted him following months of nationwide protests against his three-decade rule. He will serve the sentence in a state-run facility in the capital Khartoum, officials said Saturday. | The monthslong trial is Sudan’s first attempt to call its deposed regime to account for excesses through 30 years of rule, in which Mr. Bashir routinely jailed opponents and oversaw a bloody repression of non-Arab tribes in the south and west of the nation, killing tens of thousands of people.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sudans-former-president-omar-al-bashir-sentenced-for-corruption-11576330090
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sudan-leader-arrested-as-north-africa-rocked-by-political-upheaval-11554985262
Wisconsin judge orders 234,000 voter registrations tossed because they did not respond to mailer within 30 days
https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-wisconsin-voter-registration-20191214-dohm6efv2jamnjgaz6kinngyyq-story.html
After Bernie Sanders came to terms with the political reality, he supports Pete's plan: "A strong, Medicare-type, premium-based public option is an effective way to keep private insurance companies honest by providing them with real competition."
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/sanders-op-ed-a-strong-public-option-will-keep-insurance-companies-honest
China’s Hard-Liners Win a Round in Trump’s Trade Deal | A year and a half into the trade war, China seems to have a winning strategy: Stay tough and let the Trump administration negotiate with itself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/business/china-trade-hardliners.html
Support For Trump's Impeachment Surges Among Vulnerable Democrats Ahead Of House Floor Vote
https://www.newsweek.com/support-trumps-impeachment-surges-among-vulnerable-democrats-ahead-house-floor-vote-1477232
Judge stymies Trump's border wall by invoking GOP law targeting Obama | Trump's border wall is facing a surprising new legal hurdle down in Texas: an obscure legislative provision crafted by House Republicans in 2014 when the GOP was targeting then-President Barack Obama's budget powers. The amendment, carried forward into current law, has resurfaced with a vengeance in El Paso, Texas. U.S District Court Judge David Briones has been quoting back its words in a series of rulings against Trump's decision to take $3.6 billion from military construction projects to expedite his wall. As first adopted, the Republican language specifically prohibited Obama from taking any step to "eliminate or reduce funding for any program, project, or activity as proposed in the President's budget request" until it's cleared with Congress. The triggering event was a relatively narrow dispute in 2013 over funding for space exploration. But when they were enacted in Jan. 2014, the restrictions applied government-wide. And a year later, under full Republican control, Congress added the word "increase" alongside "eliminate or reduce" funding. What goes around, in other words, comes around. | But what's most remarkable is how much the legislative phrasing — aimed squarely at Obama — applies directly to the current fight involving Trump. First, it was Trump's own budgets that asked Congress to fund many of the same military construction projects, for which appropriations were reduced or eliminated by his spending transfers. Second, Trump took the money unilaterally in order to increase funding for his wall to a level above what he had first requested in his budget. Briones' rulings have focused more on the second factor: Trump moving money to fund an above-budget increase for the wall. But the legislative history behind the amendment is a reminder that its intent was to also block a president from asking for money for one account, such as military construction, and then reducing the sum to serve his purposes elsewhere.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/14/judge-trump-border-wall-obama-084540
US Forest Service allows mining company to write its own environmental analysis
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/474552-us-forest-service-allows-mining-company-to-write-its-own
A new U.N. report argues many of the street protests popping up around the globe are driven by a growing sense that societies are rigged to favor the powerful — and trap the masses in low-wage, dead-end lives.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/12/09/786315267/theres-a-new-kind-of-inequality-and-it-s-not-about-income
A runner seen slapping and grabbing the backside of a female reporter during a race in Georgia last weekend was arrested Friday on a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1205841752843866113
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/runner-accused-groping-reporter-during-live-tv-broadcast-charged-sexual-n1102146?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
At least 23 soldiers were killed while they were sleeping on Saturday in an insider attack in eastern Afghanistan | A Taliban infiltrator opened fire on soldiers as they were sleeping in a military base in Ghazni Province, officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/world/asia/afghanistan-soldiers-taliban.html
Trumpsters are talking victory laps because China has agreed to import more agricultural products. China is in throes of a swine flu that has cut pork production by 50%, of course they're going to import more agricultural products.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1205847776988413952
That pic of the $120,000+ banana?The woman in it has leukemia and she had suspended her treatment because she maxed out her insurance and owes the hospital $200k.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/us/art-basel-banana-cancer-florida.html
Greta Thunberg is the antidote to Donald Trump
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-pure-spirit-of-greta-thunberg-is-the-perfect-antidote-to-donald-trump
The number keeps increasing: Former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin under fire for issuing 660 pardons
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/former-kentucky-governor-matt-bevin-under-fire-for-issuing-660-pardons/
Donald Trump Jr.: Two watchdog groups ask feds to investigate his hunting trip to Mongolia
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20191213/donald-trump-jr-two-watchdog-groups-ask-feds-to-investigate-his-hunting-trip-to-mongolia
White House Sharply Restricts Number of Officials on Trump’s Calls With Foreign Leaders
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/white-house-restricts-officials-trump-calls-foreign-leaders.html
Bernie Optics: We should replace a congresswoman who resigned after revenge porn of her was leaked with a guy who got kicked out of an organization he helped create because they thought he was too misogynistic (among other things, racist, antisemitic, anti-lgbtq, republican, etc)
Astros witnesses admit sign stealing to MLB, but deny special camera
https://www.sny.tv/yankees/news/sources-astros-witnesses-admit-sign-stealing-to-mlb-but-deny-special-camera/312216020
ISIS stoned teacher to death for ‘refusing to teach jihad’ to young children in Syria
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1215963/isis-news-syria-teacher-stoned-to-death-koran-education-terror
Blackwater founder Erik Prince secretly met Venezuela vice-president - Prince plotted using mercenary army to overthrow Maduro
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/13/venezuela-blackwater-founder-erik-prince-delcy-rodriguez
Judge Orders State Department To Provide Withheld Ukraine Documents
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-state-department-ukraine-records_n_5df46840e4b047e8889d7890
Europe threatens U.S. with carbon tariffs to combat climate change
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/13/europe-carbon-tariff-climate-change-084892
The same crowd that still condemns Clinton for being a Goldwater Girl in high school and Buttigieg for taking a job at a consulting firm fresh out of college ...thinks it's A-OK that in his 30s Cenk decided he was going to rise to fame as toxic right-wing Anti-PC "shock-jock."
https://twitter.com/yesthatbrad/status/1205617674337882112?s=21
Fish are exploited on a scale that far exceeds any other animal. It is estimated that between 51 and 167 billion farmed fishes were slaughtered for food globally in 2017, and that between 0.79 and 2.3 trillion fish were caught from the wild each year for 2007-2016
https://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/the-filthy-business-of-fish-farming/
At least the tiny hands are appropriate. And to add, I actually kind of like this image. It really seems appropriate to depict Trump as a teenage school girl, given his regular demeanour. I don’t mean to insult teenage girls here so let me qualify that by saying Trump is like those whiny bratty ones (like those ones in Mean Girls). He can’t even hold a candle to the one who actually is on the cover this year....: Trump Campaign Bizarrely Edits His Head Onto Greta Thunberg's Body on Her Time Cover — "How truly childlike & embarrassing to this country," one Twitter user responded
https://people.com/politics/trump-campaign-photoshops-his-head-greta-thunberg-time-cover/
Superintendents of @WestPoint_USMA and @navalacademy, Are you going to discipline the cadets & midshipmen who flashed white power signs at the Army Navy game? Note: video shows they timed their racist hand signals to make sure they’d appear on the Jumbotron. Expulsion?
https://twitter.com/DavidCayJ/status/1206005769075929088
Army-Navy game: White Power hand symbol used during pregame broadcast
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2019/12/14/army-navy-students-make-white-power-sign-on-espn-broadcast/2651114001/
Almost half of the Republicans in the House when Trump became president in 2017 are either going or already gone
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/politics/gop-house-retirements-2020-trump/index.html
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