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Friday, September 2, 2022
Mississippi Crisis Highlights Climate Threat to Drinking Water Nationwide - The New York Times
Mississippi Crisis Highlights Climate Threat to Drinking Water Nationwide - The New York Times: Aging infrastructure and underinvestment have left many cities’ water systems in tatters. Now flooding and other climate shocks are pushing them to failure.
Chengdu locks down 21.2 million people as Chinese cities battle Covid-19
Chengdu locks down 21.2 million people as Chinese cities battle Covid-19: Chengdu locks down 21.2 million people as Chinese cities battle Covid-19
Anthony Fauci Should Have Resigned a Long Time Ago
Anthony Fauci Should Have Resigned a Long Time Ago: Today’s polarized politics demand we treat Anthony Fauci like a hero or a villain. But he was something far more banal: a committed public servant who made serious errors of judgment, denting the country’s trust in public health in the process.
The U.S. Power Grid Can’t Support Its Climate Pledges | naked capitalism
The U.S. Power Grid Can’t Support Its Climate Pledges | naked capitalism: Will a smart grid alleviate US power woes?
China Just Gave a Foretaste of One of the Biggest Dangers of Biometric Surveillance Systems | naked capitalism
China Just Gave a Foretaste of One of the Biggest Dangers of Biometric Surveillance Systems | naked capitalism: Like just about anything on the Internet, biometric surveillance systems are eminently hackable as well as prone to human error
IAEA 'to maintain presence at Zaporizhzhia' : Regulation & Safety - World Nuclear News
IAEA 'to maintain presence at Zaporizhzhia' : Regulation & Safety - World Nuclear News: International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says its experts are "here to stay and will maintain a continued presence" at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Nuclear Power’s Rebound Causes Rift Among Environmentalists - WSJ
Nuclear Power’s Rebound Causes Rift Among Environmentalists - WSJ: A new generation of activists and some governments are reconsidering nuclear power as a solution to energy shortages and climate change, while other environmental groups remain staunchly opposed to the technology.
California's last nuke plant to seek US OK for extended run | AP News
California's last nuke plant to seek US OK for extended run | AP News: LOS ANGELES (AP) — The utility that oversees California's last operating nuclear power plant said Thursday it was taking steps to seek federal approval for an extended lifespan, just hours after the Legislature opened a pathway to keep it running through 2030.
In Big Win For Nuclear, California Legislators Vote To Save Diablo Canyon
In Big Win For Nuclear, California Legislators Vote To Save Diablo Canyon: Today's passage of the bill to save Diablo Canyon is a huge, and much-needed, win for consumers, nuclear advocates, and the climate. It’s also a long-overdue rebuke to the anti-nuclear groups who had pushed for the premature shuttering of the plant.
Nuclear Power Could Cut Global Emissions By Half | OilPrice.com
Nuclear Power Could Cut Global Emissions By Half | OilPrice.com: Nuclear power has received a lot of pushback in recent years, but the clean energy source could cut the world’s carbon emissions by half
Guiding Finance: China's Strategy for Funding Advanced Manufacturing - American Affairs Journal
Guiding Finance: China's Strategy for Funding Advanced Manufacturing - American Affairs Journal: Guiding Finance: China’s Strategy for Funding Advanced Manufacturing
End D.C. - The American Mind
End D.C. - The American Mind: Dissolving the capital could reduce the corruption that is now implicitly associated with any mention of “Washington.”
Can the American Mall Survive? | The New Republic
Can the American Mall Survive? | The New Republic: On loving and loathing some of America’s most common public spaces
A storm is coming: It might sweep Trump and the GOP into history's dustbin | Salon.com
A storm is coming: It might sweep Trump and the GOP into history's dustbin | Salon.com: If Democrats can win after all, Trump is toast and the current GOP is finished. But what comes after that?
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Tulsi Gabbard: Washington Elite Pose "Greatest Threat" To Democracy | ZeroHedge
Tulsi Gabbard: Washington Elite Pose "Greatest Threat" To Democracy | ZeroHedge: ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Hedging with Humility: Reassessing China’s Power Projection Capabilities Against Taiwan - War on the Rocks
Hedging with Humility: Reassessing China’s Power Projection Capabilities Against Taiwan - War on the Rocks: “Andrew Higgins is the man who won the war for us. If Higgins had not designed and built those we never could have landed over an open beach. The whole
Transformation Of The American Electric Grid: The Unmet Agenda | Hoover Institution Transformation Of The American Electric Grid: The Unmet Agenda
Transformation Of The American Electric Grid: The Unmet Agenda | Hoover Institution Transformation Of The American Electric Grid: The Unmet Agenda: The US electric power system is on the cusp of massive transformation. But critical policy challenges are not on track for effective solutions. This Shultz Energy and Climate Task Force essay addresses three elements of that unmet agenda: 1) planning for reliability and resilience as grids begin to operate in novel ways; 2) building transmission lines in places of greatest value; and 3) reforming public and private incentives for innovation.
Peer Reviewed: Vaccine trial data shows a negative benefit to harm ratio
Peer Reviewed: Vaccine trial data shows a negative benefit to harm ratio: Put simply, both the Moderna and the Pfizer vaccine trial data appeared to have a negative benefit/harm ratio. I suspected that such a finding wouldn’t find its way into a peer-reviewed journal, but as of yesterday, that’s exactly what happened. Below is one of the key findings
Lawmakers OK plan to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open - Los Angeles Times
Lawmakers OK plan to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open - Los Angeles Times: Gov. Gavin Newsom convinced California lawmakers to extend Diablo Canyon nuclear plant operations and lend PG&E $1.4 billion to keep it open.
Escalating Blowback from Russian Sanctions - A Son of the New American Revolution
Escalating Blowback from Russian Sanctions - A Son of the New American Revolution: Just like Wile E Coyote, the United States and Europe are discovering that their incredibly “clever” plan to punish Russia with draconian economic sanctions is backfiring. And it is backfiring...
What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It's losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise
What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It's losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise: A field glaciologist explains the changes scientists are now seeing.
Opinion | Why Many Americans Turned on Anthony Fauci - The New York Times
Opinion | Why Many Americans Turned on Anthony Fauci - The New York Times: A science worth following must lead.
Identifying Discrimination - by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Identifying Discrimination - by Robert W Malone MD, MS: Identifying Discrimination
UC Berkeley is targeting religious and conservative students over vaccine compliance
The Party’s Over | Fintan O’Toole | The New York Review of Books
The Party’s Over | Fintan O’Toole | The New York Review of Books: In 1991 Margaret Thatcher accepted an invitation to speak in the city that had just ceased to be Leningrad and was now St. Petersburg again. As a
The Disastrous High-Tech War on a Pathogen ⋆ Brownstone Institute
The Disastrous High-Tech War on a Pathogen ⋆ Brownstone Institute: The Disastrous High-Tech War on a Pathogen
Pandemic disruptions led to big math, reading declines on national test - Chalkbeat: Essential education reporting across America
Pandemic disruptions led to big math, reading declines on national test - Chalkbeat: Essential education reporting across America: Nine-year-olds across the country saw historic drops in math and reading scores on a key national test.
Taiwan and China’s Path to inevitable War? - SettimanaNews
Taiwan and China’s Path to inevitable War? - SettimanaNews: The Taiwan issue is extraordinarily complex and sensitive for China (PRC), as it goes to the very root of the country’s extremely fragile modern identity.
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