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2024 REPUBLICAN
2nd GOP PRIMARY DEBATE
SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

9:00 PM: Fox Business host Stuart Varney welcomes the audience. “I’m Stuart Varney, my British accent makes tonight’s disgust toward working people and minorities sound intelligent. I’m thrilled to be here with my co-moderators, Dana Perino, who is contractually obligated to be blonde and present, and… this other woman… she’s—it’s ‘Uni’? ‘Uni Vision’? Is that something? She speaks Spanish. This does not seem legal. Do we have any immigration officers here? Can we telephone INS?” Univision’s Ilia Calderón responds, “Thank you, Stuart.”

Trump is wounded but not done There is some good news out there: Democrats keep winning post-Dobbs elections. A recent poll from Univision shows Latinos trust Democrats more than Republicans to lower their cost of living (their No. 1 concern). As you saw yesterday, better polls than the Washington Post’s admitted outlier show Joe Biden better positioned for 2024 than the soon-to-be bankrupt Donald Trump. The GOP is determined to shut down the government, doing no one any favors. The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson summed up the GOP debate Wednesday night by posting, “I’ve attended probably 30 primary debates and watched most of them over the last 30 years. This is the most shambolic trainwreck I’ve ever seen.” Nevertheless, the threat of violence persists from the fringe right when democracy does not hand them the power they demand. Eric Levitz writes: Last Friday, the Republican Party’s presidential front-runner suggested that America’s top general deserves to die.

by Daniel Wortel-London

New York City was busier than usual last week.

The occasion was Climate Week, a host of events devoted to charting and increasing environmental progress. Hundreds of sold-out summits, covering everything from biodiversity to energy, could be found across the metropolis. And within those halls, would-be thought leaders discussed the challenges of sustainability with both earnestness and self-congratulation.

There was a tension,

The post Three Telling Takeaways from Climate Week in New York City appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.

The last scene from the semi-lost Doctor Who story "The Celestial Toymaker" might explain why The Toymaker returns for the 60th Anniversary.

New research published this week by the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) shows workplace absences are at a ten-year high, with stress a leading cause of long-term sickness. Its analysis of data from over 900 companies employing 6.5 million staff found 76 percent of respondents had been off work due to stress over […]

The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it — John Kiriakou.

The post I Was the Only US Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program — Because I Opposed It appeared first on MintPress News.

This is the last time you'll ever know about ex-MPs who lobby for nuclear, gambling and energy industries visiting Parliament - because Jacob Rees Mogg had all the data destroyed

For Israel, recognition by UNESCO of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine complicates its mission of erasing Palestine, physically and figuratively, from existence.

The post Ghosts of the Past: For Israel, War on UNESCO is an Existential Battle appeared first on MintPress News.

David speaks with the hosts of Blowback about the history of foreign intervention in Afghanistan.

From Valhalla to mind uploads, why does the notion that death is not the end of consciousness refuse to kick the bucket?

- by Aeon Video

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A North Carolina facility’s record of violations undercuts the dream of plastics recycling.

The post They Promised “Advanced Recycling” for Plastics and Delivered Toxic Waste appeared first on The Intercept.

Understanding why negative views persist in the face of contradictory evidence could help inform depression treatment

- by Tobias Kube

Read at Psyche

Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing

- by Noreen Masud

Read at Aeon

Federal banking regulators have issued updated guidance on funding and liquidity risk management to include the importance of contingency funding plans.

The economist and author’s latest book considers how 21st-century capitalism resembles feudalism, and offers an alternative Yanis Varoufakis – former Greek minister of finance, economics lecturer and prolific writer of books – has often admitted that the left is good at critiquing capitalism but not so good at suggesting alternatives. “When Margaret Thatcher coined ‘Tina’ […]

The post The MONTHLY reviews my TECHNOFEUDALISM appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

Tom Mutch meets those left rebuilding their lives following Russian attacks in Kharkiv Oblast

Poor conditions and a lack of resources won't stop the Government blaming staff, writes one former prison officer

Efter att ha misslyckats med att få in Sverige i euron på demokratisk väg försöker nu marknadsliberaler andra metoder. ”Jag ser inget behov av en ny folkomröstning om euron” säger Liberalernas ordförande Johan Pehrson.  I en debatt i TV4 Nyhetsmorgon (14/9) tog även Timbros nya chef PM Nilsson av sig masken. Han hade pratat med […]

As Canada’s top officials express embarrassment for honoring a WWII Nazi collaborator in parliament, the leader of the country’s military, Gen. Wayne Eyre, refuses to apologize for his standing ovation. The Canadian military has trained Ukraine’s notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion for years. Canadian politicians have been in frantic damage control mode since feting a former member of the Waffen-SS during a parliamentary reception for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 22. The Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, Anthony Rota, […]

The post Nazigate: Canada’s top general won’t apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Nazigate: Canada’s top general won’t apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet appeared first on The Grayzone.

I read an interesting report this morning, which resonated with some other work I had been looking into earlier in the week. The Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) released a report yesterday (September 27, 2023) – Inequality in Australia 2023: Overview – which shows that “The gap between those with the most and those…

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