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Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one.
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Bernie Sanders Attracts 10,000 in South Carolina Campaign Swing
Sen. Bernie Sanders brought his progressive populism to deeply Republican South Carolina and found enthusiastic crowds totaling 10,000 during a two-day campaign swing as he made a pitch to connect with the black voters that provide most of the Democratic support in the early primary state.
It was the Vermont senator's first visit to the state since announcing his candidacy in late April, in a challenge to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Sanders had canceled a planned appearance in Charleston in June in the wake of the massacre at the city's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine dead.
In each of his South Carolina stops, Sanders linked his progressive agenda to issues and challenges important to the black community. He called for restoring sections of the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court overturned and pledged to fight 'institutional racism,' with a particular focus on the criminal justice system.
Bernie Sanders versus Obama & the Clintons: The Big Difference
I state here why I have come to support Bernie Sanders for President: Whereas Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — the modern Democratic Establishment — have been so conservative they might as well have called themselves “conservative” (and they didn’t say it because they needed to be able to win Democratic Party primaries), Sanders’s record shows that he isn’t like that at all; he’s an authentic democrat, and always has been, even when he didn’t call himself one (but only a “Progressive,” and a “socialist — like in Scandinavia”). I don’t care what a politician calls himself or herself, only what the person actually is, as the person has proven to be by the actual record as a public official.
The entire careers of Bernie Sanders, versus Barack Obama and both Bill and Hillary Clinton, display a stark difference. Whereas Obama and the Clintons were trying to win the votes of Democrats while secretly supporting Republican policies to redistribute even more wealth upward from the public to the aristocracy (and they did so) (and how!), Sanders has consistently been trying — and helping — to do the exact opposite: to redistribute wealth downward, from the aristocracy to the public. Taxes, and all of government policies, are inevitably wealth-distributional (who pays how much, and who gets how much of the benefits; and what benefits pay needs, versus what benefits pay mere wants). Any politician who says that government isn’t largely about the distribution of wealth, knows that what he is saying is false — he or she is lying about government. (Only their suckers can believe it.) The question isn’t whether government should redistribute wealth; it’s how. That’s reality, and every public official knows it.
THE VIEW HELD BY OBAMA & THE CLINTONS:
Lawrence Summers was the leading economist for both of the Clintons, and also for Obama; and one of the reasons they chose him was that he agreed with them that the richer a person is, the better the given person tends to be. Summers shared their money-elitist values. (They secretly despise the poor.)
Tear gas, water cannon, ‘gunfire heard’ in Lebanese capital Beirut on day 2 of clashes
The army has reportedly been deployed in Beirut to help police quell unrest after at least 30 people were injured in clashes on Sunday. The protests in the Lebanese capital initially called for the improvement of waste collection but evolved into calls for a regime change.
Lebanese army units arrived in central Beirut on Sunday night, following a day of clashes during which police deployed tear gas, water cannon and fired into the air, as protesters threw stones and bottles at police.
Several armored personnel carriers and military Humvees were seen at Riad al-Solh Square near the government’s Grand Serail palace, the hotspot of Sunday’s clashes.
The clashes between police and protesters continued in Beirut on Sunday evening as 10,000 people gathered on Beirut's Riad al-Solh Square near the government’s Grand Serail palace.
Russia, China kick off active phase of Sea of Japan naval drills
Twenty-two vessels, 20 aircraft, 40 armored vehicles and 500 marines from Russia and China have begun the active phase of the 'Joint Sea 2015 II' drills in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.
“During the active phase of the maritime maneuvers to last till August 27, the sailors work out the issues of join anti-sabotage, anti-submarine, anti-vessel and anti-aircraft defense. Besides that there’ll be gunnery drills with different types of surface, underwater and aerial targets,” Roman Martov, Russia’s Eastern Military District spokesman, said as cited by TASS.
The drills will be held in Peter the Great Bay, with vessels performing their tasks in Russian territorial waters and in neutral waters off the Sea of Japan.
Afghan War’s new direction after Omar
Link Submitted by: enhydra lutris
While he may actually have died two years ago, Mullah Omar did not actually ‘die’ until the news of his death was leaked to the world media. That the news was deliberately leaked to the media is quite evident from the fact that his death was initially kept secret for more than two full years.
Obviously, it was kept hidden only to be leaked at some ‘proper time.’ For more than two years, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was the de facto head of the Afghan Taliban. Therefore, his appointment, within just 24 hours of the announcement of Omar’s death, did not come as a surprise.
Some important questions that must certainly be asked here are: how could Pakistan be not aware of Mullah Omar’s death? Why was his death announced at this particular juncture? What did Pakistan and Afghanistan want to achieve out of his death? Which direction Afghan war is now heading to?
Iran reopens embassy in London as Britain does the same in Tehran
Reaffirmation of the importance of dialogue and expressions of florid goodwill are accompanied by Qur’anic verses and soft drinks at ambassador’s residence
Iranians celebrated the long-awaited reopening of their London embassy on Sunday with Qur’anic verses, soft drinks, expressions of florid goodwill and relentless hopes for a better future for the often stormy relationship between the Islamic Republic and the UK.
Taking its cue from the parallel ceremony in Tehran, the event at the Iranian ambassador’s residence in Kensington was long on formal expressions of mutual respect and short on matters of substance or contention.
Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, one of Iran’s deputy foreign ministers, set the tone with a call for relations based on mutual respect and good faith. He also called for a new era of cooperation following last month’s landmark nuclear deal and the steadily improving atmosphere between the two governments since a 2011 attack on the British embassy.
Don’t ask for whom the bell tolls in Kazakh steppes
Link Submitted by: enhydra lutris
The announcement on Friday of a billion-dollar loan to Kazakhstan by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) draws attention to the deepening economic crisis in the Central Asian region as well as the economic abyss into which the oil economies in the Greater Middle East in general could be staring.
Kazakhstan was touted until recently as the economic powerhouse of Central Asia. It was a keen promoter of the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union (EEU) and the ‘multi-vector’ foreign policy of Kazakhstan, which is sandwiched between Russia and China, drew admiration in the West as deft and sophisticated.
Therefore, the Central Asian steppes shook when on Thursday, against the backdrop of a bleak price outlook for oil, Kazakhstan announced a new monetary policy, abandoning its currency-band exchange system and opting for a free-floating exchange rate – and, within hours, the tenge had lost a quarter of its value against the US dollar.
Pentagon confirms explosion at Sagami US military depot in Japan
- No injuries reported at Sagami depot, 25 miles southwest of Tokyo
- Cause unknown but army spokesman says no hazardous materials involved
- The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday that an explosion had occurred at a US military base in Japan. No injuries were reported.
Video posted to YouTube appeared to show the explosion. A Department of Defense spokesman later said the blast happened just after midnight local time “at a building on a US army post, the Sagami Depot in the city of Sagamihara … about 25 miles southwest of Tokyo”.
In the statement emailed to the Guardian, navy commander Bill Urban added: “There are no reports of injury, and base firefighters and first responders are currently fighting the resulting fire to prevent its spread to nearby buildings.”
Bangkok bombing — beyond the usual suspects
Link Submitted by: enhydra lutris
By Pepe Escobar
BANGKOK – So the Bangkok Bomber, a.k.a. The Guy in the Yellow T-shirt, according to the Thai police electronic sketch, is a hybrid. He may be a Westerner. He may be a Middle Easterner. But he may not be a Thai. He’s got to be a “foreigner.” A cross-pollinated Eurasian, maybe?
Now Thai investigators seem to have established the yellow T-shirted uber-target was part of a network of at least 10 members. Some of them … Thai. The Guy in the Yellow T-shirt did speak in English to the motorbike taxi driver who transported him from nearby the Erawan shrine – the site of the bombing – to his next destination in a soi (side-street) off business thoroughfare Silom road, a short ride of no more than 5 minutes.
The “network” being investigated may be international, then. But according to Winthai Suvari, spokesman for the – quaintly Orwellian – National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the official denomination of the military junta ruling Thailand since May 2014, it is “unlikely” to be linked to global terror/jihad.
Palmyra's Baalshamin temple 'blown up by IS'
Islamic State militants have destroyed Palmyra's ancient temple of Baalshamin, Syrian officials and activists say.
Syria's head of antiquities was quoted as saying the temple was blown up on Sunday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that it happened one month ago.
IS took control of Palmyra in May, sparking fears the group might demolish the Unesco World Heritage site.
The group has destroyed several ancient sites in Iraq.
Federal judge orders Obama administration to release detained mothers and children
WASHINGTON
A federal judge ruled late Friday night that the Obama administration has just over two months to begin releasing hundreds of migrant mothers and children who have been locked up in government family detention centers as they await their asylum hearings.
In a 15-page ruling that quoted Mahatma Gandhi, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Central California delivered a scolding rebuke of the government's expanded use of family detention centers. But she also granted the government one of its key requests for additional time – as much as 20 days - to continue to hold mothers and children under certain circumstances like last year's surge of nearly 70,000 Central American families into the United States.
“This is a historic decision,” said Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr, who teaches immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School. “If it stands, it will force major changes to the government’s family detention program.”
Clinton Campaign: If She Had Classified Emails On Unsecured Server, So Does GOP's Benghazi Committee
Hillary Clinton's campaign is finally playing hardball, accusing the House Benghazi Committee of handling and storing classified emails on an unprotected server – the same accusation they are making against her – if they insist on claiming she did. Here's why.
Link Submitted by: NCTim
The man in the photo above is U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the GOP's Benghazi committee. His number one task, assigned by Speaker John Boehner, is to investigate Hillary Clinton – a blatant attempt to derail her presidential campaign, considering numerous House and Senate committees have never found Clinton did anything wrong during the Benghazi attacks.
Gowdy, meanwhile, for months has been attacking Clinton, demanding she turn over her private email server, and demanding the State Department send him all of Clinton's emails.
Clinton denies sending any emails from her private account that were marked classified at the time they were sent.
Now, in response to increased attacks and claims from the GOP that Hillary Clinton sent classified emails from her personal email account, Clinton's campaign is hitting back.
Rand Paul Just Literally Bought An Election
Rand Paul will pay $250,000 for voters to hold a presidential caucus instead of a presidential primary, so he can make an end-run around a long-standing Kentucky election law.
Link Submitted by: NCTim
The rule of law.
One claim Republican voters make consistently (albeit erroneously) is they are the party of law and order. They claim to want the laws – especially the Constitution – enforced as written, with zero interpretation, zero wavering.
Kentucky has a long-standing law prohibiting candidates from appearing on a ballot more than once. So, for example, a sitting U.S. Senator up for re-election could not also appear on the ballot if he were to, say, run for president.
Unless that sitting U.S. Senator is Rand Paul, and he can convince the Republican Party of Kentucky to literally change the primary election to a caucus, and change the date to March.
Which is exactly what happened Saturday afternoon.
Jeremy Corbyn wins economists’ backing for anti-austerity policies
Former adviser to Bank of England among signatories to letter dismissing criticism of economic plans, saying they are ‘not extreme’
Link Submitted by: enhydra lutris
More than 40 leading economists, including a former adviser to the Bank of England, have made public their support for Jeremy Corbyn’s policies, dismissing claims that they are extreme, in a major boost to the leftwinger’s campaign to be leader.
The intervention comes as the Corbyn campaign reveals that a Labour government led by the MP for Islington North would reserve the right to renationalise Royal Bank of Scotland and other public assets, “with either no compensation or with any undervaluation deducted from any compensation for renationalisation” if they are sold at a knockdown price over the next five years.
The leftwinger’s economic policies – dubbed Corbynomics – have come under sustained attack in recent days, including by members of his own party, with Andy Burnham warning his party in an interview with this paper not to forget the lessons of the general election about the importance of economic credibility.
China share slide: Pension fund to invest in stock market
China plans to let its main state pension fund invest in the stock market for the first time, the country's official news agency, Xinhua, has reported.
Under the new rules, the fund will be allowed to invest up to 30% of its net assets in domestically-listed shares.
China's main pension fund holds 3.5tn yuan ($548bn; £349bn), Xinhua said.
The move is the latest attempt by the Chinese government to arrest the slide in the country's stock market.
US Water Systems May Be Used for a WMD Attack
The National BioWatch Stakeholders’ Conference will be taking place this Fall and you can bet your booties that the four day symposium will be an exercise in studied futility.
It is not that the focus of the conference is irrelevant. Hardly that. In fact, the issue of protecting the public from an act of bioterrorism could not be more critical. And it is not that the US government is bumbling around in the dark where private enterprise could step in more efficiently. Even given the recent failure of the Generation 3 BioWatch technology to gain Congressional and DHS approval, the technology at hand for detecting an airborne release is still state of the art.
BioWatch was launched in 2003, prompted by the anthrax laced letters which were put into the mail shortly after September 11, 2001. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic US Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others.
Corporate welfare in California hurting economy and homeowners
Corporate welfare is often approved under the guise of being good for the consumer. Some laws, like California's Proposition 13, give large breaks to Big Business at the expense of revenue for schools and roads.
Link Submitted by: enhydra lutris
Corporate welfare is often camouflaged in taxes that seem neutral on their face but give windfalls to big entrenched corporations at the expense of average people and small businesses.
Take a look at commercial property taxes in California, for example.
In 1978 California voters passed Proposition 13 – which began to assess property for tax purposes at its price when it was bought, rather than its current market price.
This has protected homeowners and renters. But it’s also given a quiet windfall to entrenched corporate owners of commercial property.
Is It Time to Get into Crash Positions?
With stock markets diving around the globe, a pressing question arises: is it time to get into Crash Positions?
In case you forgot how to get into Crash Positions, here’s a reminder:
After a dizzying 500+ point drop in the Dow on Friday, should we brace for impact? There are plenty of fundamental and technical reasons to view the swoon this week as the initial downturn that presages a crash landing.
But if we look at the last equivalent spike down in October 2014, we’re not so sure. Both spikes (October 2014 and August 2015) smashed through the lower Bollinger band, but the volume in last week’s plummet was nothing special compared to the 2014 swoon.
Big moves have a bit more credence if they’re accompanied by massive volume.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal, which will feature Joe Hill's letter to the people of Utah: "I have lived like an artist and I shall die like an artist."
Tune in at 2pm!
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Robots are coming for your job: We must fix income inequality, volatile job markets now — or face sustained turmoil
New technologies could launch a new era of affluence -- or destroy jobs. We plan now, or risk a brutal transition
Global warming in and of itself isn’t a problem. After all, life on earth has survived numerous cycles of cooling and heating. The real problem with global warming is how quickly it happens. If there isn’t enough time for living things (including us) to adapt, rapid changes in climate, not to mention more volatile weather patterns, can sow havoc. The consequences of catastrophic climate change can reverberate for centuries as species suffer horrific losses of their habitat, leading to mass extinctions.
The impact of technological change on our labor markets works the same way. As long as change is gradual, the markets can respond. Too fast, and it’s chaos. And as with my particular environmental preferences, it creates winners and losers.
The likely accelerating effect of recent advances in artificial intelligence on technological change is going to roil our labor markets in two fundamental ways. The first is the simple truth that most automation replaces workers, so it eliminates jobs. That means fewer places for people to work. This threat is easy to see and measure— employers roll in a robot and walk a worker to the door. But sometimes change is less visible. Each new workstation may eliminate the need for one-fifth of a salesperson, or free Skype calls may allow you to work more productively at home one day a week, deferring the need for that new hire until next quarter.
Forget fracking. We need clean energy now
New EPA rule on methane takes step in right direction, but we must expedite the transition to renewable energy
Link Submitted by: NCTim
One year ago, Earthworks, the environmental advocacy organization I work for, launched the Citizens Empowerment Project to document the effects of fracking on air quality in across the country. With the help of a special thermal camera that detects and visualizes the presence of harmful gases, people near fracking sites across the country can now confirm what they have known for years to be true: Oil and gas development is polluting their air.
This pollution includes Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, a known carcinogen. These pollutants contribute to smog, which can trigger a variety of health problems such as asthma. Air pollution is a problem at almost every point along the development chain, from the well pad to the pipeline and beyond. But until now, state rules to protect families living near such sites have been spotty and largely unenforced. And there are few national protections that safeguard our air from fracking and related development.
Earlier this week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally took a big step to curb this pollution across the United States. It announced commonsense requirements that would control the health-harming air emissions from oil and gas development. The Methane Pollution Standard sets the first national limits on methane emissions from new and modified facilities including well pads, compressor stations and storage facilities. The rule would require industry to use cost-effective technologies to capture leaks, flares and other releases. Because toxic pollution hitchhikes along with oil and gas methane pollution, the rule addresses two problems at once.
US sees big surge in close calls with drones
Link Submitted by: enhydra lutris
It was a fine summer day over the airport at Charlotte, North Carolina and a CRJ200 commuter jet was preparing to land when its pilots spotted something odd outside their cockpit window -- a drone.
The unmanned craft flew about five to 10 feet (1.5-3 meters) above the plane, the captain wrote afterward to NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System.
He said the event lasted just one to two seconds, and the silver or blue drone appeared to be of the hobby or home-built type.
"We notified ATC (air traffic control) and they did a good job of making callouts to other traffic in the area," the captain wrote.
"See and avoid. Don't hit them. Don't allow them in busy... airspace."
Deep beneath Antarctica's ice, signs of bizarre particles from space
An observatory on the southern continent has detected high-energy neutrinos, some of which come from beyond our galaxy.
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Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way.
Finding these cosmic neutrinos not only confirms their existence but also sheds light on the origins of cosmic rays, the researchers said.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is made up of 86 shafts dug 8,000 feet into the ice near the South Pole. The shafts are equipped with detectors that look for the telltale light from high-energy particles plowing through the surrounding ice. [See Photos of the IceCube Observatory Buried in Ice]
Birth of giant panda twins has National Zoo officials 'ecstatic'
Panda keepers turn to Chinese technique of swapping cubs out of mother Mei Xiang’s care to ensure she looks after both: ‘She just kept fumbling with them’
In more than three decades of trying to breed pandas at the National Zoo in Washington, there has been plenty of heartbreak. More cubs have died than survived, and news of a birth has often been greeted warily.
But on Sunday, zoo officials were nearly giddy. They did not just have an apparently healthy pair of twins, born on Saturday night to Mei Xiang. They had a template to follow that gives cubs a strong chance of survival.
Pandas will not usually nurse twins if left to their own devices, instead caring for one and allowing the other to die. But in the past decade, Chinese breeders have come up with a system: every several hours they swap out the cubs, giving each one the time it needs to nurse and bond with its mother. The other is kept in an incubator.
The Evening Greens
The Evening Greens Weekend Editor: enhydra lutris
Breastfeeding may expose infants to toxic chemicals
A widely used class of industrial chemicals linked with cancer and interference with immune function--perfluorinated alkylate substances, or PFASs--appears to build up in infants by 20%-30% for each month they're breastfed, according to a new study co-authored by experts from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It is the first study to show the extent to which PFASs are transferred to babies through breast milk, and to quantify their levels over time.
"We knew that small amounts of PFAS can occur in breast milk, but our serial blood analyses now show a buildup in the infants, the longer they are breastfed," said Philippe Grandjean, adjunct professor of environmental health at Harvard Chan School.
The study appeared online August 20, 2015 in Environmental Science & Technology. Other study authors were from Danish universities and the Faroese Hospital System.
Greenhouse gases caused glacial retreat during last Ice Age
A recalculation of the dates at which boulders were uncovered by melting glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age has conclusively shown that the glacial retreat was due to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as opposed to other types of forces.
Carbon dioxide levels are now significantly higher than they were at that time, as a result of the Industrial Revolution and other human activities since then. Because of that, the study confirms predictions of future glacial retreat, and that most of the world's glaciers may disappear in the next few centuries.
The findings were published today in Nature Communications by researchers from Oregon State University, Boston College and other institutions. They erase some of the uncertainties about glacial melting that had been due to a misinterpretation of data from some of these boulders, which were exposed to the atmosphere more than 11,500 years ago.
Work on barren soil may bear fruit
Australian and Chinese scientists have made significant progress in determining what causes soil acidification – a discovery that could assist in turning back the clock on degraded croplands.
James Cook University’s Associate Professor Paul Nelson said the Chinese Academy of Sciences sought out the Australian researchers because of work they had done in Australia and Papua New Guinea on the relationship between soil pH levels and the management practices that cause acidification.
Building on the JCU work, scientists examined a massive 3600 km transect of land in China, stretching from the country’s sub-arctic north to its central deserts. The work yielded a new advance that describes the mechanisms involved in soils becoming acidified.
Mercury and Selenium are Accumulating in the Colorado River Food Web
Although the Grand Canyon segment of the Colorado River features one of the most remote ecosystems in the United States, it is not immune to exposure from toxic chemicals such as mercury according to newly published research in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
The study, led by the U.S. Geological Survey, found that concentrations of mercury and selenium in Colorado River food webs of the Grand Canyon National Park, regularly exceeded risk thresholds for fish and wildlife. These risk thresholds indicate the concentrations of toxins in food that could be harmful if eaten by fish, wildlife and humans. These findings add to a growing body of research demonstrating that remote ecosystems are vulnerable to long-range transport and bioaccumulation of contaminants.
“Managing exposure risks in the Grand Canyon will be a challenge, because sources and transport mechanisms of mercury and selenium extend far beyond Grand Canyon boundaries,” said Dr. David Walters, USGS research ecologist and lead author of the study.
China's carbon emissions may be lower than estimated
New estimates show that for more than a decade China's greenhouse gas emissions have been overestimated by international agencies, while the country's energy consumption has been underestimated.
The research, published today in Nature, shows that from 2000 to 2013 China produced 2.9 gigatonnes less carbon than previous estimates of its culmulative emissions, meaning that its true emissions may have been around 14% lower than calculated.
Meanwhile, with a population of almost 1.4 billion, China's energy consumption grew 10% faster during 2000-12 than reported by its national statistics.
MIT analysis improves estimates of global mercury pollution
Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; even after it settles onto land and sinks into oceans, mercury can be re-emitted back into the atmosphere repeatedly. This so-called “grasshopper effect” keeps the highly toxic substance circulating as “legacy emissions” that, combined with new smokestack emissions, can extend the environmental effects of mercury for decades.
Now an international team led by MIT researchers has conducted a new analysis that provides more accurate estimates of sources of mercury emissions around the world. The analysis pairs measured air concentrations of mercury with a global simulation to calculate the fraction of mercury that is either re-emitted or that originates from power plants and other anthropogenic activities. The result of this work, researchers say, could improve estimates of mercury pollution, and help refine pollution-control strategies around the world.
The new analysis shows that Asia now releases a surprisingly large amount of anthropogenic mercury. While its increased burning of coal was known to exacerbate mercury emissions and air pollution, the MIT team estimates that Asia produces more than double the mercury emissions previously estimated.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
Lehman Brothers Gave Jeb Bush $1.3 Million After He Gave It Control of Florida Pensions
Robert Reich: Corporate Welfare is Ravaging American Taxpayers
Pesticides in Paradise: Hawaii's Spike in Birth Defects Puts Focus on GM Crops
Clinton Emails: Is This Watergate? Or Just Another Whitewater?
A small remembrance on the 60th anniversary of the death of Simmalikee, my puse (grandmother)
Saving capitalism and maybe the environment too: how will you do it?
Hellraisers Journal: Get together & you will beat the Herzogs & help every toiler of the sweatshops.
Children are Dying in Yemen, Right Now
Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Strategy
One Million Moms bullies 14-year-old trans girl
A Little Night Music
Blinddog Smokin' - Bayou Lady
Blinddog Smokin' - Bobby Rush's Bus
Blinddog Smokin' - Ain't From Mississippi
Blinddog Smokin' - Lace & Leather
Blinddog Smokin' - Pimp Shoes
Blinddog Smokin' - Miss Peggy's
Bobby Rush & Blinddog Smokin' - Too Much Weekend
Blinddog Smokin' - I Caught Her Lyin'
Blinddog Smokin' - Cognac And Chocolate
Bobby Rush & Blinddog Smokin' - Funky Old Man
Blinddog Smokin' - If I Died Today
Blinddog Smokin' - Who Shot John?
Blinddog Smokin' - Money
Blinddog Smokin' - Church Of Fools
Blinddog Smokin' - Don't Put No Money On Me
Bobby Rush & Blinddog Smokin' - Skinny Little Women
Dr. John and Bobby Rush with Blinddog Smokin' - Another Murder in New Orleans
Blinddog Smokin' - Big Behind
Bobby Rush & Blinddog Smokin' - Too Much Weekend
Blinddog Smokin' - Angels At The Crossroads
Blinddog Smokin' - Lady's Playin'
Bobby Rush & Blinddog Smokin' - Sittin' Here Waitin'
Bobby Rush & Blinddog Smokin' - Stand Back