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24 June 20
RSN: Jeffrey Sterling | Whistleblowing, the Pandemic and a 'Law and Order' System of Injustice
Jeffrey Sterling, Reader Supported News
Sterling writes: "It is hard to find many positives as the death toll from the novel coronavirus continues to climb, but as we have seen before with situations of crisis, truth does find a way to make itself known."
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Jeffrey Sterling, Reader Supported News
Sterling writes: "It is hard to find many positives as the death toll from the novel coronavirus continues to climb, but as we have seen before with situations of crisis, truth does find a way to make itself known."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (photo: Amr Alfiky/NPR)
Ocasio-Cortez Breezes to Reelection as Progressives, Including Jamaal Bowman, Dominate NY Congressional Primaries
Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News
Sommerfeldt writes: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading the way. The left-leaning congresswoman breezed to victory in her first primary as an incumbent on Tuesday, setting the tone for an election night dominated by progressive momentum and centrist setbacks."
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Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News
Sommerfeldt writes: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading the way. The left-leaning congresswoman breezed to victory in her first primary as an incumbent on Tuesday, setting the tone for an election night dominated by progressive momentum and centrist setbacks."
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Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. (photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
Steven Mnuchin: 'We Never Agreed to Full Transparency.'
Alana Abramson and Haley Sweetland Edwards, TIME
Excerpt: "Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended his department's decision to only release a partial list of the Paycheck Protection Program's loan recipients, but said Congress could obtain additional information as part of its oversight probes."
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Alana Abramson and Haley Sweetland Edwards, TIME
Excerpt: "Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended his department's decision to only release a partial list of the Paycheck Protection Program's loan recipients, but said Congress could obtain additional information as part of its oversight probes."
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Soldiers train at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., in October 2017. (photo: John Bazemore/AP)
US Soldier Plotted With Neo-Nazis to Stage 'Murderous Ambush' on His Unit, Feds Say
Allyson Chiu, The Washington Post
Chiu writes: "Ethan Melzer, a 22-year-old from Louisville, is accused of leaking sensitive information about his unit to a satanic neo-Nazi cult as part of a plot to launch a 'mass casualty' attack intended to cause 'the deaths of as many of his fellow service members as possible,' according to an indictment unsealed Monday."
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Allyson Chiu, The Washington Post
Chiu writes: "Ethan Melzer, a 22-year-old from Louisville, is accused of leaking sensitive information about his unit to a satanic neo-Nazi cult as part of a plot to launch a 'mass casualty' attack intended to cause 'the deaths of as many of his fellow service members as possible,' according to an indictment unsealed Monday."
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Traders, some in medical masks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
We're Dying From Coronavirus. Corporations Are Getting Rich Off It.
Nicole Aschoff, Jacobin
Excerpt: "The 2008 bailout was a giant giveaway to corporate America. 2020 is more of the same."
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Nicole Aschoff, Jacobin
Excerpt: "The 2008 bailout was a giant giveaway to corporate America. 2020 is more of the same."
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A soldier of the Honduran presidential guard disinfects shopping carts outside a supermarket during a break of the curfew imposed by the government against the spread of the new coronavirus, in Tegucigalpa, on March 19, 2020. (photo: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images)
It's Not Just Covid That Has Hondurans Starving. It's Also US Policy.
Meghan Krausch, In These Times
Krausch writes: "From early 20th century military intervention on behalf of banana companies to recent support for a right-wing coup, the U.S. neocolonial relationship with Honduras has a direct hand in driving hunger and poverty."
Meghan Krausch, In These Times
Krausch writes: "From early 20th century military intervention on behalf of banana companies to recent support for a right-wing coup, the U.S. neocolonial relationship with Honduras has a direct hand in driving hunger and poverty."
An armored sea robin seen during the NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas, Leg 1. (photo: NOAA Photo Library)
Mercury Pollution Found in Deepest Part of Ocean
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Rosane writes: "Plastic isn't the only human pollutant infiltrating the deepest corners of the ocean."
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Rosane writes: "Plastic isn't the only human pollutant infiltrating the deepest corners of the ocean."
Two separate studies presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference this week found mercury in fish and crustaceans living 11,000 meters (approximately 36,000 feet) under the sea in the Mariana Trench.
"This is a surprise," Dr. Ruoyu Sun, a scientist from Tianjin University in China who led one of the research teams, said in a Goldschmidt Conference press release published by Phys.org.
Scientists have long known that mercury, which is poisonous to both humans and animals, enters the ocean and the animals within it, concentrating in higher amounts as it works its way up the food web through a process called bioaccumulation. Swordfish, for example, contain 40 times the amount of mercury that salmon do. This means that humans who eat lots of fish are at risk from mercury poisoning, Newsweek pointed out. This can cause neurological and heart damage, and is especially dangerous for developing fetuses.
However, scientists previously thought that this process was mostly taking place in the upper ocean. Then Sun's team found methylmercury, a toxic form of the metal that easily accumulates in animals, in the ocean's deepest trench.
"Previous research had concluded that methlymercury was mostly produced in the top few hundred metres of the ocean. This would have limited mercury bioaccumulation by ensuring that fish which forage deeper than this would have had limited opportunity to ingest the methylmercury. With this work, we now believe that isn't true," Sun said in the press release.
Sun's team uncovered their results by sending deep-sea lander vehicles in 2016 and 2017 to the Mariana and Yap trenches — "amongst the most remote and inaccessible locations on Earth," Sun said in the press release."
They collected deep-sea animals like amphiopods and snailfish at 7,000 to 11,000 meters (approximately 23,000 to 36,000 feet) and sediments at 5,500 to 9,200 meters (approximately 18,000 to 30,000 feet), according to an abstract. They found mercury in all the animals and could tell it came from the upper ocean because of its "isotopic fingerprint," or chemical signature. The results showed human mercury emissions are "much more pervasive across deep oceans than was previously thought," the abstract concluded.
A separate study led by Dr. Joel Blum of the University of Michigan found similar results in the Mariana Trench and in the Kermadec trench near New Zealand.
"The key finding is that mercury released by humans and deposited from the atmosphere to the surface of the oceans is being transported to the most remote and deepest environments in the ocean," Blum told Newsweek.
While some mercury could have come from natural sources like volcanic eruptions, humans emit almost three times more mercury than nature does through processes like burning fossil fuels or mining metals.
"We know that mercury is introduced into the environment from a variety of natural sources such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires. However, human activities, such as coal and petroleum burning, mining, and manufacturing, are mainly responsible for mercury deposition to marine environments," University of Hawaii professor Ken Rubin, who was not involved in the research, said in the press release. "We are now learning from these two studies that the effects of this deposition have spread throughout the ocean into the deep sea and the animals that live there, which is yet another indicator of the profound impact of modern human activities on the planet."
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