Jon,It finally happened.After lying constantly on Twitter for years, Donald Trump finally crossed the company's line -- it just flagged 2 of his tweets for misinformation about voting, and another for glorifying violence!Now Trump's having a tantrum and threatening to shut Twitter down.Twitter doesn't always get it right, but it shouldn't come under attack for flagging content that could mess with elections or cause serious harm to people. So
By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams May. 28, 2020 10:09AM EST"Most of this fossil fuel finance flowed to wealthier countries," the report says, noting that China (pictured), Canada, Japan, and Korea provided the most public finance for dirty energy projects from 2016 to 2018. Kevin Frayer/Stringer/Getty ImagesEven after the world's largest economies adopted the landmark Paris agreement to tackle the climate crisis in late 2015,
A Tyson Foods pork plant in Storm Lake, Iowa announced it would close Thursday after more than 20 percent of its workforce tested positive for the new coronavirus.The closure comes about a month after President Donald Trump issued an executive order for meat processing plants to stay open despite virus outbreaks at several slaughterhouses. Those outbreaks led to the closure of around 20 plants in April, Reuters
Photo by Melanie PiazzaAt WildCare right now we have 26 orphaned baby American Crows in care. When they're young, these curious, quizzical, uncoordinated babies have light blue eyes and bright pink mouths, and they really are some of our most charming patients.To get them ready for their future lives as wild crows, one of the most important jobs we have at WildCare is to teach these babies the skills they'll need to survive in the wild.The first
By Kendra Pierre-Louis, May 27, 2020, This year, I came up with the idea to analyze the frequency of climate change references in American popular music. Culture can be a bellwether, both signaling where we are heading and, occasionally, helping to steer society’s course. And while, anecdotally, it seemed that climate change has been appearing more frequently in music, I wanted to put numbers to it.I looked at lyrics from a set of
US Media Failed to Factcheck Sweden's Herd Immunity HoaxNEIL DEMAUSE CNN (5/21/20) quoted Sweden's chief epidemiologist as saying a 7.3% infection rate in Stockholm was a "little lower" than expected, "but not remarkably lower, maybe one or a couple of percent." Thirteen paragraphs later, it noted that he claimed in April (BBC, 4/26/20) that Stockholm's infection rate was "somewhere between 15 and 20% of the population." Last week,
https://www.inbar.int/bru-magazine/ The International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation, INBAR (www.inbar.int), an intergovernmental organisation, is proud to announce the launch of Bamboo and Rattan Update: a magazine dedicated to sharing the latest high-quality news and activities from the bamboo and rattan sector. As two of the world’s most valuable non-timber forest products, bamboo (the fast-growing grass plant) and rattan
