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Edward Snowden: 'I Was Very Much a Person the Most Powerful Government in the World Wanted to Go Away'
 Ewen MacAskill, Guardian UK MacAskill writes: "The world's most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, says he has detected a softening in public hostility towards him in the US over his disclosure of top-secret documents that revealed the extent of the global surveillance programs run by American and British spy agencies." READ MORE  Brett M. Kavanaugh. (photo: REX/Shutterstock)
Brett Kavanaugh Fit in With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.
Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, The New York Times Excerpt: "Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasn't prepared for what she'd find there."
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Mr. Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings were wrenching, as he strained to defend his character after Dr. Ford’s searing testimony. Thousands of miles away, Ms. Ramirez, who was never asked to testify, also found the hearings distressing. Her efforts to backstop her recollections with friends would later be cited as evidence that her memory was unreliable or that she was trying to construct a story rather than confirm one. Ms. Ramirez’s legal team gave the F.B.I. a list of at least 25 individuals who may have had corroborating evidence. But the bureau — in its supplemental background investigation — interviewed none of them, though we learned many of these potential witnesses tried in vain to reach the F.B.I. on their own. Two F.B.I. agents interviewed Ms. Ramirez, telling her that they found her “credible.” But the Republican-controlled Senate had imposed strict limits on the investigation. “‘We have to wait to get authorization to do anything else,’” Bill Pittard, one of Ms. Ramirez’s lawyers, recalled the agents saying. “It was almost a little apologetic.” READ MORE |
By Any Means Necessary: Virginians far and wide stand and protect the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. This a Sept 2017 image on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. (photo: Steve Helber/AP)
To Hell With Y'all: Charlottesville Judge Rules Confederate Statues Will Stay
Karu F. Daniels, The Root
Daniels writes: "Well, it was a good idea while it lasted. I'm referring to the removal of public monuments of known racists."
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Karu F. Daniels, The Root
Daniels writes: "Well, it was a good idea while it lasted. I'm referring to the removal of public monuments of known racists."
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Danielle Rizzo poses for a portrait with her boys, 6 and 7 years old, outside of their group therapy appointment. (photo: Taylor Glascock/WP)
The Autistic Children of Donor H898
Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post
Cha writes: "Three years ago, while researching treatment options for her sons, Rizzo says she made an extraordinary discovery: The boys are part of an autism cluster involving at least a dozen children scattered across the United States, Canada and Europe, all conceived with sperm from the same donor."
Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post
Cha writes: "Three years ago, while researching treatment options for her sons, Rizzo says she made an extraordinary discovery: The boys are part of an autism cluster involving at least a dozen children scattered across the United States, Canada and Europe, all conceived with sperm from the same donor."
EXCERPT:
Rizzo’s children, ages 7 and 6, were at the center of one of the most ethically complex legal cases in the modern-day fertility industry. Three years ago, while researching treatment options for her sons, Rizzo says she made an extraordinary discovery: The boys are part of an autism cluster involving at least a dozen children scattered across the United States, Canada and Europe, all conceived with sperm from the same donor. Many of the children have secondary diagnoses of ADHD, dyslexia, mood disorders, epilepsy and other developmental and learning disabilities.
The phenomenon is believed to be unprecedented and has attracted the attention of some of the world’s foremost experts in the genetics of autism, who have been gathering blood and spit samples from the families.
Bolivian soldiers trying to address the fires in the region of San José de Chiquitos (Bolivia) on August 29, 2019. (photo: EFE)
Bolivian Indigenous People Join Efforts to Recover From Fires
teleSUR
Excerpt: "In Bolivia's Chiquitania region, where Indigenous communities and Campesinos make their living from the region's tourism have paid a heavy price from the Amazon's fires, yet they are not resigning themselves to the loss of their livelihoods."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "In Bolivia's Chiquitania region, where Indigenous communities and Campesinos make their living from the region's tourism have paid a heavy price from the Amazon's fires, yet they are not resigning themselves to the loss of their livelihoods."
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Boris Johnson. (photo: Phil Noble/Reuters)
Boris Johnson Is Getting Mercilessly Owned Everywhere He Goes
Paul Blest, Splinter
Blest writes: "British prime minister Boris Johnson is not a very popular man in many parts of his home country (or with several people in his own family), which makes sense considering he's actively attempting to drive said country off of a cliff."
Paul Blest, Splinter
Blest writes: "British prime minister Boris Johnson is not a very popular man in many parts of his home country (or with several people in his own family), which makes sense considering he's actively attempting to drive said country off of a cliff."
In the northern town of Doncaster, Johnson was taken to task by a woman who slammed him not just over Brexit, but the Tories’ longstanding affinity for austerity as well.
“People have died because of austerity, and you’ve got the cheek to come here and tell us austerity’s over and it’s all good now,” the woman told Johnson. “It’s just a fairy tale.” Yikes.
Later, during a speech in the nearby town of Rotherham where he pledged to give local governments money to run their own railways—Johnson caught a bunch of heckling from the crowd.
"Maybe get back to Parliament" - Boris Johnson heckled during speech in Rotherham
The PM was asked why he wasn't recalling MPs and "sorting out the mess you created?"bbc.in/2m9EvS1
After a bit of unintelligible yelling, Johnson responded: “Yes, I’m all in favor of our MPs.”
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Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea. (photo: Reuters)
Houthi Drones Hit Two Aramco Plants, Sources Say Oil Supplies Disrupted
Stephen Kalin, Rania El Gamal and Dmitry Zhdannikov, Reuters
Excerpt: "Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry on Saturday, knocking out more than half the Kingdom's output, in a move expected to send oil prices soaring and increase tensions in the Middle East."
Stephen Kalin, Rania El Gamal and Dmitry Zhdannikov, Reuters
Excerpt: "Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry on Saturday, knocking out more than half the Kingdom's output, in a move expected to send oil prices soaring and increase tensions in the Middle East."
EXCERPT:
The attacks will cut the kingdom’s output by 5.7 million barrels per day (bpd), according to a statement from state-run oil company Saudi Aramco, or more than 5% of global oil supply.
The pre-dawn strikes follow earlier cross-border attacks on Saudi oil installations and on oil tankers in Gulf waters, but these were the most brazen yet, temporarily crippling much of the nation’s production capacity. Saudi Arabia is the world’s biggest exporter, shipping more than 7 million barrels of oil to global destinations every day, and for years has served as the supplier of last resort to markets.
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