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NAFTA Talks Should Continue Until a Good Deal Is Achieved 12 days ago
Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, released the following statement...
New Data Show Trump’s First Quarter 2018 China and Mexico Trade Deficits Largest on Record as All Eyes Focus on This Week’s Trade Discussions in China, Looming NAFTA Deadline 20 days ago
U.S. Trade Deficit With World Largest Since 2008 Financial Crisis, Contrary to Trump’s Campaign Pledge to Quickly Reduce Deficit to Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs WASHINGTON...
New Trump Administration Trade Report Sticks to the Status Quo a month ago
The Trump administration’s recently released 2018 National Trade Estimate Report could become classic reading for political science students studying the “deep state”...
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Three recent studies challenge Indian government claim of increasing forest cover – “There is significant reduction in green cover in many natural forest and habitat types of India” 12 hours ago
By T. V. Padma23 May 2018(Mongabay) – Natural forests across India are slowly disappearing, a set of new studies shows, contradicting recent government claims about increasing...
Study finds link between increase in local temperature and bacterial resistance to antibiotics – “There will be a drastic and deadly rise in antibiotic resistance in coming years” 13 hours ago
By Kat J. McAlpine21 May 2018(Vector) – Over-prescribing has long been thought to increase antibiotic resistance in bacteria. But could much bigger environmental pressures...
- ( LOL There will be a drastic rise in antibiotic resistance....it is increasing in the wild at a great rate. Tying it to global warming ? Specious rhetoric of the day. Now, if people wanted to stop smearing themselves with known toxins as a health promoting measure.....and I could be referring to either sunscreen or hand washing formulas containing germicides . And of course, the temptation to prescribe antibiotics as a reflex to look as if one is doing something positive is in a dead heat with animal feed supplement use to spur weight gain. )
Amazon deforestation in Brazil increased by 249 percent in March 2018, compared with March 2017 13 hours ago
By Antônio Fonseca, Marcelo Justino, Dalton Cardoso, Júlia Gabriela Ribeiro, Rodney Solomão, Carlos Souza Jr., and Adalberto Veríssimo20 April 2018(Imazon) – In March...
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New Utah State University Study helps cities budget for Water Main Breaks 20 days ago
New data from Utah State University Buried Structures Laboratory quantifies water main breaks by pipe material type, helping towns and cities across Canada and the U.S. predict...
Trump to send $15 billion in spending rescissions later today 15 days ago
You can argue it would have been better not to sign the Omnibus in the first place, but this will be a very positive end result if he can get it through Congress...
Former Dem Sen. Robert Torricelli: Dems don't deserve to govern, because their message isn't good enough 15 days ago
There are a lot of reasons Democrats don’t deserve to govern. Their ideas are horrible, they trend toward the destruction of the constitution at every opportunity, your rights...
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The Last Nail In The Kinder Morgan Coffin 5 days ago
There are many reasons why the Trans Mountain Kinder Morgan pipeline project should be nixed. The proposed use of Canadian taxpayer dollars to indemnify Kinder Morgan over the pipeline...
Sorry Mr Trudeau, Kinder Morgan Is Just An Economic Pipe Dream 18 days ago
While Trudeau and the Liberal government offer up slogans to justify why the Kinder Morgan pipeline “must be built”, a chorus of thoughtful commentators have recently provided...
From Trudeau to Crudeau – How It Happened a month ago
It started so well. In December of 2015, newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada emerged from the Paris Agreement talks as a rising climate star and a beacon of hope for...
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Happy birthday, Richard 2 days ago
It’s the birthday of German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883), and if you’ve never had the experience of watching or listening to his magnum opus, Der Ring des Nibelungen, which...
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Will sacred Mt. Taylor be mined for uranium? 15 hours ago
It would be tempting to say that the current battle over resumption of uranium mining at the sacred Mount Taylor, which sits atop one of the richest known uranium ore reserves in the...
Supreme Court will hear Virginia uranium mining case 15 hours ago
Virginia Uranium, the Canadian company that wants to extract uranium from a deposit in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, has tried for years to argue its case on merit. And failed. That’s...
Berkeley, CA becomes second US city compliant with UN Ban Treaty 15 hours ago
Berkeley has become the second city in the US to proclaim itself ‘in compliance’ with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, following Takoma Park, Maryland, who made...
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Commandaria 6 hours ago
Commandaria is a sweet dessert wine made in Cyprus from the white Xynisteri and the red Mavro, which are grown on the southern slopes of the island's Troodos Mountains. Commandaria...
Found: A Rare Tiny Deer in Vietnam 7 hours ago
In 1994, scientists researching in Vietnam first documented the elusive large-antlered muntjac in the semi-evergreen Vu Quang Nature Reserve, in the province of Ha Tinh. The creature’s...
Tree Grate Museum in Seattle, Washington 8 hours ago
When the Seattle Transit Tunnel was developed in the late 1980s, the Metropolitan Transit Authority partnered with an artist to help bring the infrastructure project to life...
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Wednesday Morning Links 14 hours ago
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Matt Taylor discusses how the U.S.' Supreme Court has stacked the deck against workers by allowing employers to evade all types...
Tuesday Morning Links 2 days ago
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tom Parkin discusses the distinction between giveaways to the rich which are perpetually seen as carrying no price, and the expansion of the...
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