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2:00PM Water Cooler Special: Reader Report from the Field on Biden in New

Alert reader Petal attended a Biden rally and took careful notes from the second row.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/26/2019

Today's Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Trump, Walsh, Warren, DNC hits up the expats, durable goods
Waste Watch: Big Fashion Embraces Sustainability? Ha!

Thirty-two fashion companies present the Fashion Pact to G7; the feeble pledges raise the question: why

Answer Sheet: Six Ways Trump’s New ‘Public Benefits’ Immigration Policies

Answer Sheet: Six Ways Trump’s New ‘Public Benefits’ Immigration Policies Could Hurt Children and Schools
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Targeting Teachers

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Targeting Teachers In this piece, I explore
Jersey Jazzman: The Merit Pay Fairy Dies in Newark

Jersey Jazzman: The Merit Pay Fairy Dies in Newark One of the long-running characters on this

Oil weakens as uncertainty over U.S.-China trade talks hit

Crude dropped amid conflicting signals about the prospect for a thaw in U.S.-China trade relations.
Equinor site remains shut in following drilling rig fire in Karnes County

A well belonging to the Norwegian oil giant Equinor remains shut in following a weekend fire at one of its
TechnipFMC to split into two publicly traded companies

Houston and Paris-based oilfield service company TechnipFMC will be splitting into two publicly traded

‘Sorry, it’s the way I negotiate’: Trump confounds the world at wild G-7

The president managed a G-7 summit his way — unwilling to commit to clear stances and declining to be boxed
Relief and trepidation as Trump looks to rebrand the G7

A 2020 summit in Miami means the G7 will have survived Trump’s first term, which some leaders hope will be
'Each country can have their own villa': Trump promotes his Doral

A Body Language Expert Breaks Down *That* Photo of Melania Trump and Justin Trudeau

Patti Wood explains why the internet can't get enough of the photo of the first lady and the Canadian prime minister at the G7 summit.

InStyle
Susan Collins 'Sad' That Support For Brett Kavanaugh Has Cost Her Votes

The Maine senator's path to reelection may not be smooth sailing after she helped to secure the controversial Supreme Court justice's confirmation.

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Elizabeth Warren slams Koch Brothers after Bernie Sanders tells off supporters for cheering billionaire’s death

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have spent recent months battling each other for the Democratic presidential nomination, appealing to the party's liberal factions by touting their progressive track records and unleashing bold policy agendas.While their campaigns support a list of similar goals — Medicare-for-All, robust climate action, student loan debt relief and comprehensive immigration reform, to name a few — the two politicians occasionally employ vastly different styles to get their messaging across.

The Independent

Police seek public’s help in hunt for rape suspect

The Gallup Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a Fort Worth, Texas man
Tsoodził fire not ‘out of control’

Called the “Triple Nickel Fire,” the lightning-caused blaze is being managed and officials are letting it
Wells Fargo, Nation settle lawsuit for $6.5 million

The Navajo Nation and the giant bank settled a lawsuit brought by the Nation, which claimed Wells Fargo’s “

Chinese company wants to clone your pet – And give it the original’s

Huang Yu loved his cat very much. And when the cat died, Huang heard that there was a company that would
International scientists meet to discuss Element 115, claimed as key to

Moscovium, the heavy and radioactive Element 115, used to be referred to as Ununpentium years ago until
The Vikings saved Ireland from a steep 10th century population decline

An archaeological team from Queen’s University Belfast has discovered that the Vikings saved Ireland

Eindhoven in grip of its third heat wave this year, heather fields in full

Eindhoven is in the grip of its third official heatwave this year, with the temperature topping 30 Celsius
Doctor in euthanasia case guilty of murder, public prosecutor says

A doctor who performed euthanasia on a patient with severe dementia should be found guilty of murder but
‘Tenderly produced’ chocolate: misleading product competition opens

Animal rights lobby group Wakker Dier has nominated five candidates for this year’s most misleading product

Microsoft's Your Phone Is Down, Users Getting Connection Errors

Microsoft's Your Phone service has been down throughout the day according to the Microsoft 365 Service
Apple Releases iOS 12.4.1 to Patch Security Flaw Behind Jailbreak

Apple released iOS 12.4.1 today to fix a security flaw reintroduced with the release of iOS 12.4, and used
Phishing Campaign Delivers Quasar RAT Payloads via Fake Resumes

A new phishing campaign uses fake resume attachments designed to deliver Quasar Remote Administration Tool

1 dead 3 injured as meteorite hits southern India (27 flags)

And it has created a record. First recorded human fatality due to a meteorite. Can someone bring up the
Donald Trump: Id bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding (25

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/06/donald-trump-waterboarding-republican-debate-torture
Iowans claim instances when Sanders was shorted delegates (20 flags)

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/02/06/iowans-claim-instances

University of Michigan Didn’t Fold in the Face of Protests about

The University of Michigan rebuffed protests from some alumni to halt donations received from billionaire
Johns Hopkins Fired Researcher for Using Bolt Cutters to Check on Computer

Johns Hopkins fired a researcher for checking on his computer servers in a building that was occupied by
Poll: Many Young People Are Ignorant About Socialism And Free Markets

A survey by Young America’s Foundation and Echelon Insights asked American teenagers and young adults

Yang Hengjun arrested in China for 'espionage': Australia

Foreign Minister Marise Payne says Yang Hengjun, who was detained since January, is held under 'harsh
Iraqi bloc calls for US troops withdrawal after Israeli air raids

Parliament bloc representing Iran-backed paramilitary militias say Israeli aggression 'declaration of
UN urges better protection of reporters, as Mexico murders climb

New UN reports finds Mexico programme to protect journalists, activists is underfunded and can't

Top Products in Two Decades of Tech Reviews

Walt Mossberg on the dozen personal-technology products that were the most influential over two decades of
Diabetes Data Beamed to Your Phone

New meters from iHealth and LifeScan are small steps toward better diabetes care.
Two Houses, One Cable TV Bill

Walt answers questions from readers about streaming TV from one house to another and the search for

Israel intensifies attacks on Palestinian activities, institutions in East

A man carries a Palestinian flag as a reaction to demolition of some of Palestinian houses by Israel in Sur
Israeli authorities advance planned settler expansion in heart of Hebron

Israeli settlers walk towards the tomb of Atnaeil Ben Kinaz, a Jewish religious site in the divided West
Israeli jets hit Hamas-held area in Gaza

Israeli military fighter jets Israeli jets late Sunday bombed an area in the northern part of Gaza

Johnson & Johnson fined in landmark opioid ruling

The US pharmaceutical giant must pay $572m for its part in fuelling Oklahoma's painkiller addiction
Yang Hengjun: Australian writer faces spying charges in China

Australia says it has serious concerns for Yang Hengjun who has been detained in Beijing since January.
G7 summit: Trump 'would meet Iran's Rouhani if circumstances right&

The US president says he has "good feelings" that a new nuclear deal with Iran could work.

Private Eye Looks at Clinical Psychologist Involved with Two “VIP Sex Abuse

The latest issue of Private Eye magazine (1503) has a useful overview of clinical psychologist Dr Elly
Carl Beech: Former Exaro Journalist Sets Out “Miscarriage of Justice

From the website of Mark Watts: But the public should be on the alert when the media works in near
New Lord Mountbatten Biography Fuels “VIP Abuse” Claims

Sunday Times puff-piece ignores “Kincora” allegations in book; preview copy was provided to

Trauma, detox (physical and mental) and other odds and ends

Trauma is not an aberration. It is normal. This needs to be appreciated. The human being uses trauma to
My body is my meditation practice

There is a freedom, vast and beautiful, when one comes to know how insignificant ones importance in the
Heavy metals

Heavy metals are just one really heinous environmental toxin that gets into the nervous system and

Meet the Next Generation of Koch: 'Libertarian' Social Justice

With the passing of libertarian icon and capitalist titan David Koch this past week from prostate cancer
Israel ramps up region-wide aggression, to spin as targeting Iran

The weekend marked a precipitous escalation in Netanyahu’s promise to attack all perceived “enemies.” From
Johnson & Johnson is responsible for fueling Oklahoma’s opioid crisis,

A judge Monday found Johnson & Johnson responsible for fueling Oklahoma’s opioid crisis, ordering the

Slav Mom Cooking

This is NOT medical advice. Please consult your doctor before you eat food. Low fat, high carb, high sugar
Advice For Women Who Want Kids

This series contains candid advice for young women who know they want a family.
Hovercraft Parenting: Damaging a Generation

We have reached a time in history where helicopter parenting is no longer an adequate description for an

We Need to Talk about Sandy Hook

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Mowing the Lawn in Gaza

By Volaar “When thy intelligence shall cross beyond the whirl of delusion, then shalt thou become

Strengthening Housing Vouchers Should Be Priority in 2020 Funding Bills

The number of households using housing vouchers has declined over the past two years due
In Case You Missed It...

This week at CBPP, we focused on family income support, state budgets and taxes, health
As School Year Begins, Time for States to Invest in Schools

As children across the country begin a new school year, their schools’ facilities and

Amazon Fires, Summer of the Shark, and the Unintended Consequences of

I know I have told the story of the "Summer of the Shark" before, but I need to repeat it again
The Knives May Finally Be Coming Out for Elon Musk: Vanity Fair Discovers

Back in June, 2016 Tesla (a car maker) made an offer to buy SolarCity (an installer of rooftop solar). One
Why I (Mostly) Don't Blog About Climate Anymore

Recently the journal Nature published a "study" arguing that climate contrarians got too much

The U.S. Is Trying To Turn Hong Kong Into A Corporatized State by Rainer

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Greg Palast: Corporate Interests Use Voter Purges To Disenfranchise

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Chris Hedges and Miko Peled: Injustice–The Persecution of American Muslims

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How journalists helped wreck the climate debate

Dr. Roy Spencer looks at the role of journalists in deadlocking the climate policy debate.
To win we must first understand why we lose. Start here.

Anatomy of Failure is a powerful book about the most important and ignored aspect of US foreign policy.
A modest solution to the pay gap between men and women

Here is a simple and fast way to close the pay gap, the biggest barrier to gender equality in America.

What Would It Really Take to Plant a Trillion Trees?

Tim Christophersen is Head of the Freshwater, Land and Climate Branch at UNEP and Chair of the Global
Malaysia Vastly Undercounting Poverty

Philip Alston , the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty & Human Rights, presented his report
After Two Years of Horrors in Burma, the U.S. Is Still Doing Too Little

Nadine Maenza is vice chair at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and

The G-7 Exploits Fires to Attempt Internationalization of the Amazon

Aram Aharonian The ferocious fires that have devastated almost half a million hectares of the Amazon
When the Amazon is Burning, Return to Fidel

Elson Concepción Pérez Twenty-seven years have passed since Fidel’s warning at the Environment Summit
Nicaragua: The Deep Neocolonial Lie

Stephen Sefton On Nicaragua, Western corporate and alternative media have outdone themselves failing to

Crop Breeding for High Production, Water Use Efficiency & Albedo

It's a good way to confront mankind's growing need for food and the water needed to produce it
Biospheric Productivity (Global: The Recent Past) -- Summary

Since 1980 the Earth has weathered three of the warmest decades in the instrumental temperature record, a
Catastrophic Floods of Dartmoor, South West England

Are they few and far-between? ... or are they growing ever more frequent ... and ferocious?

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Wind turbine project draws protests in the Dordogne #FRA

More than 450 people in the Dordogne (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) have protested against a wind turbine project in
Monroe County slows wind farm plan along Mississippi River #IL

VALMEYER – Monroe County officials have repealed an ordinance that would enable the construction of
Green energy: why wind power will never be the answer #SCT

Wind farms only work with permanent public subsidy. Subsidy comes in various guises. The most obvious is

Austria, Portugal, Poland, Romania: A preview of upcoming elections in

While new faces are entering European institutions, several national elections also await Europe in the
This Week in Europe: Euro inflation low, Europe reacts to Amazon fires and

Members of the TNF team recount big events from Europe from the past week, and point attention to news that
“European Universities” can be Europe's next success story – if they

At the 2017 Gothenburg Summit, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus program (now

Prostitute Arrested in Connection with Death of New York City Restaurant Head Chef

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Green Drink Turning Seniors Into "Young Bucks"

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Photo of 8-year-old helping overwhelmed classmate with autism on first day of school goes viral: 'He was kind to me'

Yahoo Lifestyle
Patriots clarify Bill Belichick's seemingly ruthless Andrew Luck comment

NBC Sports Boston
Wait, Did Miley Cyrus Just Subtly Shade Liam Hemsworth With Her Vmas Performance?

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Video Shows Former NBA Player Acquitted Of Rape Pulling Half-Naked Accuser Back To Motel

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Aaliyah's family asks for 'respect' after fan is caught adding lipstick to new wax figure

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These 'Fixer Upper' Homes Are Having Trouble Finding Buyers Almost a Year Later

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Construction Fails That Will Make You Laugh

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Cardi B Steps Out in Curve-Hugging Dress to Accept 'Best Hip Hop' at 2019 MTV VMAs

Entertainment Tonight

Real Leadership vs Climate Grandstanding

If the crisis is real, why don't prominent individuals act like it?
Surprise! Vegetarian Says Plants Good, Meat Bad

Readers aren't told that expert is an activist.
War Against Meat: the Continuum

Meatless Mondays are the thin edge of the salami.

The Survival Rate of Each Lung Cancer Stage

We all know that there are many stages of lung cancer and you might be wondering how each stage is like and
Chocolates Help Fight Cancer- Myth or Truth?

How amazing (and difficult) is it to love something that is also supposed to do you a world of good
Top 6 Symptoms That Indicate Breast Cancer

Cancer is one of the fastest growing cause of deaths in the world. The most common type of cancer include &

Worth reading: Segregation, sexual harassment, and silencing scientists

Worth reading: Segregation, sexual harassment, and silencing scientists A few of the recent
It's October. What's Congress doing about healthcare?

It's October. What's Congress doing about healthcare? We made it to October without
More reasons to oppose the latest awful iteration of GOPcare

More reasons to oppose the latest awful iteration of GOPcare Many of us were cheered by

Exit From The Matrix: unlimited power of imagination

by Jon Rappoport May 11, 2019 One way or another, 99.99999999% of the world’s “spiritual systems” get
The lure of a stimulus-response world

Shrinking-freedom is a Spiritual covert op by Jon Rappoport May 10, 2019 (To join our email list, click
The stone cold conservative socialist

by Jon Rappoport May 9, 2019 (To join our email list, click here.) “Is he a meth goony bird? He seems to be

SOTT FOCUS: Now They're Coming After What We Eat

At Harvard, there was once a University. Now that once noble campus has become a luxury asylum for the
Dr. Napier fingers fragmented comet in Younger Dryas and Bronze Age impacts

Folks, I am sorry to have been so scarce in recent months. Among other excuses for the inexcusable, the
G7 visit by Iran's Zarif was no surprise, but 'it was too soon'

Meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister at G7 was premature for the US delegation, Donald Trump has said amid

Iwi out of Shelly Bay after final block of land sold to Wellington

The sale would allow for the development of 89 houses available to members at "below market rates"
Armed gang member whose drug-induced paranoia led to 12-hour stand-off

Mongrel Mob man at the centre of an armed siege had to be pulled from court to the cells.
Mark Lundy's final appeal under way in Supreme Court; lawyer seeks

Mark Lundy's lawyer indicates the twice-accused double murderer wants to face trial again.

Jack’s Walk

Our weather has turned cooler over the past few days and the change has been enough to make me take stock
Pete Buttigieg gets a negative endorsement

One of the marvels of the Donald Trump era is to see some of those who cheered on the Bush-Cheney
Grumpy takes on atheist sayings

Inspired by a comment I made in my last article, I’m making a listicle of common atheist sayings