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24 November 19
Paul Krugman | Trump and His Corrupt Old Party
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Formally, the House of Representatives is holding an inquiry into the question of whether Donald J. Trump should be impeached. In reality, we've known the answer to that question for a long time."
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Formally, the House of Representatives is holding an inquiry into the question of whether Donald J. Trump should be impeached. In reality, we've known the answer to that question for a long time."
EXCERPT:
The big question is whether America as we know it can long endure when one of its two major parties has effectively rejected the principles on which our nation was built.
White House Counsel Don McGahn listens to Judge Brett Kavanaugh as he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 27, 2018. (photo: Win McNamee/Reuters)
Legal Experts Say Monday's Court Ruling on White House Counsel Could Encourage Witnesses to Talk
Jan Wolfe, Reuters
Wolfe writes: "A court ruling expected on Monday could give cover to former national security advisor John Bolton and other administration officials to cooperate in the impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump, legal experts said."
Jan Wolfe, Reuters
Wolfe writes: "A court ruling expected on Monday could give cover to former national security advisor John Bolton and other administration officials to cooperate in the impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump, legal experts said."
EXCERPT:
Others, including McGahn, Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, have so far refused to testify.
Bolton and one of his former aides, Charles Kupperman, did not show up for closed-door depositions earlier this month. But Bolton has hinted that he has a story to tell to investigators.
Earlier this month, Bolton’s lawyer said in a letter to the House’s counsel that his client was “personally involved” in events and meetings under investigation, and knew about “many relevant meetings and conversations” that lawmakers may not be aware of.
Bolton has joined a lawsuit filed by Kupperman seeking a court ruling on whether he must comply with a congressional subpoena.
Rudy Giuliani attends an Official Visit with a State Dinner honoring Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in Washington, D.C. on September 20, 2019. (photo: Alastair Pike/Getty Images)
Giuliani Repeats He Has "Insurance" if Trump Throws Him "Under the Bus" or He "Disappears"
Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "Rudy Giuliani seems to have a penchant for talking about insurance while dismissing the possibility that President Donald Trump would ever turn on him."
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Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "Rudy Giuliani seems to have a penchant for talking about insurance while dismissing the possibility that President Donald Trump would ever turn on him."
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Pope Francis delivers his speech at the Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019, in Nagasaki, Japan. (photo: Eugene Hoshiko/AP)
In Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Pope Francis Calls for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
Akiko Kashiwagi and Chico Harlan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "During visits to the two Japanese cities razed by atomic bomb blasts during World War II, Pope Francis on Sunday called for a 'world without nuclear weapons' and said it was 'immoral' to use such weapons for war or deterrence."
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Akiko Kashiwagi and Chico Harlan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "During visits to the two Japanese cities razed by atomic bomb blasts during World War II, Pope Francis on Sunday called for a 'world without nuclear weapons' and said it was 'immoral' to use such weapons for war or deterrence."
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Colin Kaepernick during his workout session last week. (photo: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters)
Colin Kaepernick Has Had No Offers From NFL Teams Since Workout, Say Reports
Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Colin Kaepernick's NFL exile looks set to continue for the foreseeable future with reports emerging that none of the league's 32 teams have reached out to him following his public workout earlier this month."
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Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Colin Kaepernick's NFL exile looks set to continue for the foreseeable future with reports emerging that none of the league's 32 teams have reached out to him following his public workout earlier this month."
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Iraqi protesters demonstrate against the government in Baghdad. (photo: Reuters)
Iraqi Security Forces Kill 9 People During Sunday Protest
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Security forces opened fire on protesters in Baghdad and several cities in southern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens of others, police and medical sources said, the latest violence in weeks of unrest."
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Security forces opened fire on protesters in Baghdad and several cities in southern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens of others, police and medical sources said, the latest violence in weeks of unrest."
EXCERPT:
Anti-government protests erupted in early October and have swollen into the largest demonstrations since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. A Reuters tally of the dead as given by security and medical sources shows at least 339 people have been killed.
Iraq’s state news agency quoted the health minister on Sunday as saying 111 people had been killed, including protesters and members from security forces, without breaking down the tally or elaborating over what period. It was the first official figure issued by a government official since October 25.
A government report last month had said there were 157 deaths during the first week of October. Protests paused after then and resumed on October 25.
Protesters are demanding the overthrow of a political class seen as corrupt and serving foreign powers while many Iraqis languish in poverty without jobs, healthcare or education.
In Nassiriya, security forces used live ammunition and tear gas canisters to disperse protesters who had gathered overnight on three bridges.
Police and health officials said three people were killed, and hospital sources said another person died later from bullets wounds to his head.
More than 50 others were wounded, mainly by live bullets and tear gas canisters, in clashes in the city, they added.
Three people were killed and around 90 wounded near the Gulf port of Umm Qasr near Basra when security forces used live fire to disperse protesters, police and medical sources said.
A back fire set by fire fighters burns a hillside behind Pacific Gas and Electric power lines during firefighting operations to battle the Kincade Fire in Healdsburg, California on October 26, 2019. (photo: Philip Pacheko/AFP/Getty Images)
PG&E Failed California. Here's How the State Could Turn Things Around.
Nathanael Johnson, Grist
Johnson writes: "For the last 150 years, Pacific Gas & Electric has been playing political hardball to maintain its monopoly over California's electricity."
Nathanael Johnson, Grist
Johnson writes: "For the last 150 years, Pacific Gas & Electric has been playing political hardball to maintain its monopoly over California's electricity."
EXCERPT:
This continued all the way up to the present. In 2008, PG&E defeated a push by locals for San Francisco to study whether public power would work. During that campaign, the utility had an ally in Mayor Gavin Newsom — now California’s governor — who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations over the years from PG&E. Last year, PG&E spent more money lobbying in California than any other organization — business, union, nonprofit, you name it. For most of PG&E’s history, it was hard to imagine that California would ever consider breaking up with its largest power provider.
A series of catastrophes changed that. In 1997, a jury court ruled that the utility was responsible for burning down part of the Northern California town of Rough and Ready three years before. Prosecutors presented evidence that the company had diverted millions from tree pruning, which might have prevented the fire, into profits every year. Last year, a PG&E power line ignited the Camp Fire, which killed 85 people, making it the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history.
“PG&E has been implicated in close to 100 deaths,” said Mindy Spatt, communications director for the nonprofit The Utility Reform Network. “They have been found criminally negligent again and again.”
In January, PG&E filed for bankruptcy after it became clear the company couldn’t afford to pay the billions it would likely owe to the victims of wildfires. And it’s recently drawn widespread ire for shutting off power to more than 2 million Californians. Several times this fall, residents of dozens of cities had to switch on flashlights and generators when PG&E cut the electricity to prevent fires. Food spoiled in fridges, and tempers flared. Though that might have avoided some blazes, PG&E told regulators that one of its transmission towers had broken near the ignition point of the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, which forced nearly 200,000 people out of their homes last month.
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