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Thursday, October 31, 2019
Grab Your Apocalypse Bag — It’s Fire Season in California | naked capitalism
Grab Your Apocalypse Bag — It’s Fire Season in California | naked capitalism: Increased fire risk is creating new behaviors in California. May be coming to your area soon....
‘Is This About the Oil Industry?’ House Oversight Hearing Explores Big Oil’s Role in Weakening Clean Car Standards | naked capitalism
‘Is This About the Oil Industry?’ House Oversight Hearing Explores Big Oil’s Role in Weakening Clean Car Standards | naked capitalism: Oil industry lobbies to weaken emissions standards, deploying "public interest groups" that are mere mouthpieces for fossil fuel companies.
Death of Daesh Leader: An Important Milestone but Not the End of Daesh | Asharq AL-awsat
Death of Daesh Leader: An Important Milestone but Not the End of Daesh | Asharq AL-awsat: Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities
False Security Donald Trump and the Ten Commandments (Plus One) of the National Security State
False Security
Donald Trump and the Ten Commandments (Plus One) of the National Security State
By Andrew Bacevich
Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. Yet history is nothing if not a tale overflowing with irony. Despite his massive shortcomings, President Trump appears intent on recalibrating America’s role in the world. Initiating a long-overdue process of aligning U.S. policy with actually existing global conditions just may prove to be his providentially anointed function. Go figure.
The Valhalla of the Indispensable Nation is a capacious place, even if it celebrates mostly white and mostly male diversity. Recall that in the eighteenth century, it was a slaveholding planter from Virginia who secured American independence. In the nineteenth, an ambitious homespun lawyer from Illinois destroyed slavery, thereby clearing the way for his country to become a capitalist behemoth. In the middle third of the twentieth century, a crippled Hudson River grandee delivered the United States to the summit of global power. In that century’s difficult later decades, a washed-up movie actor declared that it was “morning in America” and so, however briefly, it seemed to be. Now, in the twenty-first century, to inaugurate the next phase of the American story, history has seemingly designated as its agent a New York real estate developer, casino bankruptee, and reality TV star.
In all likelihood, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan would balk at having Donald Trump classified as their peer. Yet, however preposterously, in our present moment of considerable crisis, he has succeeded them as the nation’s Great Helmsman, albeit one with few ideas about what course to set. Yet somehow Trump has concluded that our existing course has the United States headed toward the rocks. He just might be right.
Click here to read more of this dispatch. https://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176623/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich%2C_why_those_%22endless_wars%22_must_never_end/#more
Trade wars with foreign nations hurt California’s economy | The Sacramento Bee
Trade wars with foreign nations hurt California’s economy | The Sacramento Bee: California’s economy depends on international trade and foreign investments from countries like China. Donald Trump’s trade war will only hurt consumers and businesses. Now is the time to make a deal.
PG&E might have caused Cypress fire in Contra Costa, CA | The Sacramento Bee
PG&E might have caused Cypress fire in Contra Costa, CA | The Sacramento Bee: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. told the Public Utilities Commission that its equipment might have lit the Cypress Fire in Oakley. PG&E already is under investigation for the Kincade Fire and two Lafayette fires.
PG&E: 75% of customers to get power restored Wednesday | The Sacramento Bee
PG&E: 75% of customers to get power restored Wednesday | The Sacramento Bee: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said better wind conditions prevented more shutoff as the utility begins inspecting lines as part of the latest round of blackouts. 75% of customers should have power back Wednesday.
Southern California Edison says it is likely responsible for starting one of the most destructive fires in California history - CNN
Southern California Edison says it is likely responsible for starting one of the most destructive fires in California history - CNN: Southern California Edison has acknowledged that it may be responsible for starting last year's Woolsey Fire following an investigation by a fire department, the company said in a statement.
Biden communion denial over abortion was required by diocesan policy
Biden communion denial over abortion was required by diocesan policy: A policy in the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina requires priests to withhold the Eucharist from politicians and political candidates who support legal protection for abortion.
How Does the Human Soul Survive Atrocity? - The New York Times
How Does the Human Soul Survive Atrocity? - The New York Times: After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis — many of them children — are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world.
Record Low Temps Up To 50 Degrees Below Normal Threaten To Absolutely Wreck The Rest Of The Harvest Season – End Of The American Dream
Record Low Temps Up To 50 Degrees Below Normal Threaten To Absolutely Wreck The Rest Of The Harvest Season – End Of The American Dream: It isn't supposed to be this cold in October. The official start of winter is still almost two months away, and yet the weather in much of the western half of
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Baghdadi Operation Named After Christian Woman Who Refused to Give Up Faith Before ISIS Killed Her | CBN News
Baghdadi Operation Named After Christian Woman Who Refused to Give Up Faith Before ISIS Killed Her | CBN News: The US military operation that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dedicated to Kayla Mueller, a young Christian woman who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the Islamic State.
Testimony: Nunes acolyte misrepresented himself to Trump as Ukraine expert
Testimony: Nunes acolyte misrepresented himself to Trump as Ukraine expert
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman also
testified on Tuesday that the National Security Council staffer, Kash
Patel, fed the president disinformation about Ukraine.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/nunes-acolyte-misrepresented-himself-to-trump-as-ukraine-expert-061763
This Wildfire Metric Threatens to Upend PG&E’s Restructuring Plan
This Wildfire Metric Threatens to Upend PG&E’s Restructuring Plan: PG&E Corp. investors looking to learn their fate may not get the answer from the bankrupt power company. Instead, the key data point could pop up
Yes, PG&E Sucks—But Can You Sue Them? | Law.com
Yes, PG&E Sucks—But Can You Sue Them? | Law.com: While I admit no electricity is preferable to catastrophic wildfires that kill dozens of people and destroy billions of dollars in property surely the choice shouldn’t be eitheror.
Editorial: Why California can’t cut the cord with PG&E - SFChronicle.com
Editorial: Why California can’t cut the cord with PG&E - SFChronicle.com: The past three years have made the case that California needs alternatives to PG&E. Finding them is a much more complicated matter.
California fire threatens PG&E's plan to raise $14 billion - Reuters
California fire threatens PG&E's plan to raise $14 billion - Reuters: A wildfire raging in California threatens to destroy more than homes and businesses - it could also undermine bankrupt PG&E Corp's plan to raise $14 billion to finance the crisis-stricken utility's turnaround plan.
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