U.N. Report on Climate Change Carries Life-or-Death Warning
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-08
Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge. | The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its gloomy report at a meeting in Incheon, South Korea. | In the 728-page document, the U.N. organization detailed how Earth's weather, health and ecosystems would be in better shape if the world's leaders could somehow limit future human-caused warmi…
truthdig.com/articles/un-report-on-climate-change-carries-life-or-death-warning/

Grizzly Victory: Trophy Hunt Stopped, But Bear Deaths Skyrocket
Louisa Willcox | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-08
Late afternoon of September 24, Federal Judge Dana Christensen restored endangered species protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears, putting to rest for now the threat of a grizzly bear trophy hunt. With a sigh of relief, I noticed the pungent smell of cottonwoods by the creek where we live and watched a few gold leaves flutter to…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/08/grizzly-victory-trophy-hunt-stopped-but-bear-deaths-skyrocket/

Iran May Lose 70% Of Cultivated Land If It Fails To Take Urgent Action: Official
Tasnim News | iranian.com | 2018-10-08
Iran faces losing 70 percent of its farmlands if urgent action is not taken to overcome a litany of climate woes, Isa Kalantari, the country's environment chief, said. "We currently use about 100 percent of our renewable water … according to global standards this figure should not be higher than 40 percent," said Kalantari, vice […] | The post Iran May Lose 70% Of Cultivated Land If It Fails To Take Urgent Action: Official appeared first on The Iranian.
iranian.com/2018/10/07/iran-may-lose-70-of-cultivated-land/

Connection to Mother Earth Compels Indigenous Women to Protect It
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-10-08
I'm a Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara woman who grew up in a small rural community in North Dakota on what is known today as the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. My Hidatsa name is Eagle Woman; my English name is Kandi (Mossett) White. | As a child, I was blessed with the freedom that comes with growing up in a rural community. I played outside all the time. During summers at my grandparents' house, I would swim in Lake Sakakawea from sunup to sundown, climb hills, and explore the Badlands. We would go chokecherry-picking with my grandma, and help her make the most delicious chokecherry jams and syrups I've ever had. M…
truthout.org/articles/connection-to-mother-earth-compels-indigenous-women-to-protect-it/

Sharp rise in child protection interventions in Australia
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-08
The statistics point to a deepening social crisis, particularly in working class and rural areas, with the worst impact on indigenous families.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/08/chil-o08.html

Beyond Columbus Day: Changing the Name Is Just the First Step
Shared by Anton Woronczuk | truthout.org | 2018-10-08
On Wednesday, October 3, the Cincinnati city council joined a growing trend when it voted to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day. It is now one of more than 70 cities across the country to do so. The first was Berkeley, California, which adopted Indigenous Peoples' Day in 1992, in recognition of the 500–year anniversary of the European arrival in the Western Hemisphere and the ensuing devastation to Indigenous nations already here in what became known as…
truthout.org/articles/beyond-columbus-day-changing-the-name-is-just-the-first-step/

Taught to Rule: Scholar of Privilege Explains Why Elite Men like Brett Kavanaugh Lie And Cheat Without Consequences
Chauncey DeVega, Salon | alternet.org | 2018-10-08
Social capital and class prejudice are central to the sense of entitlement and protection from consequences that men like Trump and Kavanaugh project and enjoy. | Rich text editor, edit-body-und-0-value, press ALT 0 for help. | Brett Kavanaugh is now a Supreme Court justice. The FBI's limited investigation of the sexual assault accusations against him was clearly inadequate. Numerous leads. . .
alternet.org/taught-rule-scholar-privilege-explains-why-elite-men-brett-kavanaugh-lie-and-cheat-without

Humboldt Martens Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection
CFBD | indybay.org | 2018-10-08
Despite 93 Percent Decline in California, Oregon, Loophole Allows Industrial Logging in Habitat…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/06/18818066.php

Something's broken inside Earth? Scientists explore why millennia-old process has stalled
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-07
Scientists have diagnosed the Earth as having a bizarre geological condition known as 'stagnant slabs', meaning tectonic rocks subducted into the fiery hot mantle mysteriously become wedged hundreds of miles below the surface.
rt.com/usa/440606-stagnant-slabs-earth-mantle/

Indonesia's earthquake catastrophe
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-06
The disaster has been made immeasurably worse by poverty, social inequality and the refusal of the Indonesian and international ruling elites to ensure the protection of the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/06/indo-o06.html

Mexican Farmers Accuse Volkswagen "Hail Cannons" of Causing Drought as Climate Catastrophes and Weather Engineering Proliferate
Elliott Gabriel | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-05
In this MPN exclusive, we spoke to Zapatista Indigenous Autonomous Movement organizer Alfredo Lozano Ortega and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster about the corporate abuse of weather modifying technology and the ecological damage it produces. | The post Mexican Farmers Accuse Volkswagen "Hail Cannons" of Causing Drought as Climate Catastrophes and Weather Engineering Proliferate appeared first on
mintpressnews.com/mexican-farmers-accuse-volkswagen-hail-cannons-of-causing-drought-as-climate-catastrophes-and-weather-engineering-proliferate/250389/

Planet Earth Is Doomed. How Do I Go On?
Liza Featherstone | thenation.com | 2018-10-05
Planet Earth Is Doomed. How Do I Go On?
thenation.com/article/planet-earth-is-doomed-how-do-i-go-on/

Drought-Laden Rainforests
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-05
The world's rainforests are under attack at a rate of 2.5 acres per second. Global warming and clear-cutting for growing palm oil and raising cattle are some of the biggest annihilators. The repercussions are devastating. For example, one of the consequences is harmful alteration of hydrological cycles for major grain-growing regions of the planet. But,…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/05/drought-laden-rainforests/

#BoycottGosling: Flat Earthers & patriots incensed at 'removal' of US flag from moon landing film
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-05
US patriots and Flat Earthers alike took to Twitter to vent their outrage following the premiere of the new Neil Armstrong biopic First Man, which does not feature the iconic planting of the American flag on the lunar surface.
rt.com/usa/440399-first-man-flag-moon/

Hatewatch Headlines 10/5/2018
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2018-10-04
ADF claims White House debriefed it on Kavanaugh; Gab faces payments cutoff; Judge blocks ending protections for immigrants; and…
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/05/hatewatch-headlines-1052018

San Francisco Is a Hotbed of Illegal Race-Based Policing
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-04
Law enforcement in San Francisco have subverted the Constitution and broken the law by basing arrests on race. | Our Constitution promises all people, regardless of race, equal protection under the law. Yet the San Francisco Police Department has consistently singled out Black people for enforcement of criminal laws. | In 2013 and 2014, the SFPD collaborated with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California on a drug enforcement operation. Despite the fact that the SFPD knew that in the Tenderloin district — where they chose to the…
aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/san-francisco-hotbed-illegal-race-based-policing

Venezuela to Donate US$10m to Indonesia Earthquake Victims
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-10-04
President Maduro confirms they will use funds from the "solidarity fund" to aid victims of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the island of Celebes in late September.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14083

A history: Asylum in the United States
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-10-02
Modern international refugee protection efforts grew from the ashes of Europe in World War II, bringing together nation-states through the United Nations to offer asylum to refugees uprooted from the war.
splcenter.org/20181002/history-asylum-united-states

Losing Legal Protections, Immigrants Facing Deportation Share Their Stories
James Goodman | progressive.org | 2018-10-02
Many migrants with Temporary Protected Status have called the U.S. home for over a decade. Some have joined a twelve-week, cross-country "Journey for Justice" tour to let people know why they want to stay.
progressive.org/dispatches/losing-legal-protections-immigrants-facing-deportation-share-181002/

Earth's Greatest Threats Lie With Humans
Frida Berrigan | thenation.com | 2018-10-02
Earth's Greatest Threats Lie With Humans…
thenation.com/article/earths-greatest-threats-lie-with-humans/

A Judge Just Reminded CBP That the Border Isn't a Rights-Free Zone
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-01
A federal court ruled in favor of an American family suing over their abusive detention at the U.S.-Canada border. | An American family that underwent a harrowing detention at the hands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection can now seek some measure of justice. That's the result of a recent ruling by the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit we filed on behalf of…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-profiling/judge-just-reminded-cbp-border-isnt-rights-free-zone

Headlines for September 28, 2018
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-28
Christine Blasey Ford Tells Senators Brett Kavanaugh Sexually Assaulted Her, GOP Senators Abandon Sex Crimes Prosecutor They Hired Amid Kavanaugh Questions, Kavanaugh Angrily Denies Sex Crimes Charges, Alleging Left-Wing Conspiracy, Senate Judiciary Committee to Vote on Kavanaugh Nomination Today, American Bar Association Calls for FBI Investigation into Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh Accuser Julie Swetnick: "I Don't Think He Belongs" on SCOTUS, Kavanaugh Accusers Demand FBI Investigation, Senate Hearings, 59 Arrested in Protest of Kavanaugh Near Supreme Court, Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Strikes Near Indonesia, Trump Threate…
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/28/headlines