The Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Why did it occur and Who is Responsible?

1). “The Baltimore bridge collapse and its potential consequences, explained: From search efforts to how a ship can knock down a bridge, here’s what you need to know”, Updated Mar 27, 2024, Li Zhou, Ellen Ioanes, & Izzie Ramirez, Vox, at < https://www.vox.com/2024/3/26/24112776/baltimore-bridge-collapse-francis-scott-key-maryland-cargo-ship-explainer-analysis >.

2). “Baltimore Bridge Collapse Analysis: 100% AVOIDABLE”, Mar 27, 2024, Jeff Ostroff, jeffostroff, duration of video 19:56, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPoM_9IWLLU >.

3). “Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Analysis of MV Dali's Collision Course”, Mar 27, 2024, Mike Brady, Oceanliner Designs, duration of video 20:11, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4AuGZIhJ_c >.

4). “Baltimore: What Ship’s data tells us about the accident”, Mar 27, 2024, eSysman, SuperYacht News, duration of video 14:28, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyt4vS2F_SU >.

5). “Maritime Expert Analyzes the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse”, Mar 27, 2024, Ward Carroll interviews Sal Mercogliano, host of the What's Going on With Shipping YouTube channel, Ward Carroll, duration of video 31:08, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grjK6sqQyDA >.

6). “How Container Ship’s Loss of Power Affected Ability to Control”, Mar 27, 2024, eSysman, SuperYacht News, duration of video 10:25, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRGmgR8IYrE >.

7). “How Do Ships Stop?”, Feb 28, 2024, Mike Brady, Oceanliner Designs, duration of video 12:32, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHMDc0QobC0 >

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The Far-Right Discredited Partisan-Hack U.S. Supreme Court Conducts its Hearings on the Mifepristone Case

1). “Abortion, Every Day (3.25.24): Everything you need to know about mifepristone & SCOTUS”, Mar 25, 2024, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-every-day-32524 >.

2). “The Group Behind Dobbs Does Not Want to Talk About What Comes Next: We sat down with Kristen Waggoner to talk about the anti-abortion legal group’s next targets”, Mar 25, 2024, Ian Ward, Politico, at < https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/25/head-of-alliance-defending-freedom-kristen-waggoner-speaks-on-mifepristone-00148565 >.

3). “The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Biggest Fear”, Mar 25, 2024, Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, at < https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/abortion-pill-supreme-court-preview-mifepristone-history.html >.

4). “How the abortion pill case at the supreme court could undo the FDA: The medical industry watches with trepidation as mifepristone case could have huge consequences for drug regulation”, Mar 25, 2024, Jessica Glenza, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/25/abortion-pill-case-fda >.

5). “Despite six-week abortion ban in SC, local nonprofits work to help patients anyway”, March 25, 2024, Simone Garber, Medill News Service, The State, at < https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article286825135.html >.

6). “Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to get rid of law that protects abortion clinics”, Mar 20, 2024, Walter Einekel, Daily Kos, at < https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/20/2230536/-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-vows-to-get-rid-of-law-that-protects-abortion-clinics >.

7). “Unnecessary surgeries instead of abortion: 'It’s real life. It's no longer science fiction' ”, n.d., Ali Velshi, MSNBC, duration of video 12:57, at < https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/unnecessary-surgeries-instead-of-abortion-it-s-real-life-it-s-no-longer-science-fiction/vi-BB1kpyc9?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=ENTPSP&cvid=153b84c8c4d84a0f8c7ae80cbdb38efc&ei=90# >

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World Happiness

 1). “America’s happiness score drops amid a youth ‘midlife crisis’ ”, Mar 20, 2024, Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, at < https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/03/20/us-world-happiness-report-youth/ >.

2). World Happiness Report 2024, March 20, 2024, Helliwell, J. F., Layard, R., Sachs, J. D., De Neve, J.-E., Aknin, L. B., & Wang, S. (Eds.), University of Oxford: Wellbeing Research Centre, at < https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2024/WHR+24.pdf >

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Boeing WhistleBlower Found Dead in his Truck, He was Pretty Clearly Murdered by Killers Hired by Boeing

1). “The suspicious 'suicide' of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett”, Mar 18, 2024, Bryan Dyne, World Socialist Web Site (WSWS), at < https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/18/pqwz-m18.html >.

2). “Boeing Whistleblower Predicts His Own Death: 'If Anything Happens to Me, It's Not Suicide': Barnett was found dead in his truck with a 'self-inflicted' gunshot wound”, Mar 15, 2024, Mark Elibert, Complex, at < https://www.complex.com/life/a/markelibert/boeing-whistleblower-predicts-his-own-death >.

3). “What the Boeing whistleblower’s death reveals about exposing corporate wrongdoing in North America”, Mar 17, 2024, Thomas Stuart & Douglas A. Stuart, The Conversation, at < https://theconversation.com/what-the-boeing-whistleblowers-death-reveals-about-exposing-corporate-wrongdoing-in-north-america-225652 >.

4). “Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead in the US | Vantage with Palki Sharma”, Mar 13, 2024, Palki Sharma, FirstPost, duration of video 6:45, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKHpdMLpp_A >.

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On Point's Clean Energy Mining Series

 The first four of these five ¾ of an hour-long episodes look at the mining of different minerals needed for “Green Energy” and “Green” electronic devices and discuss the consequences of Capitalist extraction operations. The final episode looks the overall situation for U.S. attempts to try to meet Climate Change goals. Each episode includes this laudatory descriptor of the show “About: On Point is WBUR's award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.”

These 5 episodes, in chronological order newest on top, are available at the podcast archive: On Point: From WBUR, at < https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point >

1). March 11, 2024

The lithium boom: What's holding back a lithium rush in the U.S.?

The U.S. sits on some of the largest lithium reserves in the world. It's a key element for clean energy. The start of On Point's weeklong exploration "Elements of energy" takes us inside America's push for a lithium boom. Duration of podcast 50:04

2). March 12, 2024

The copper tradeoff: Protecting today's lands versus preserving tomorrow's climate

Copper is key to our green energy future, but copper extraction is deeply harmful to the environment now. Episode two of On Point's special series "Elements of energy" explores how to resolve that contradiction. Duration of podcast 47:29

3). March 13, 2024

The human cost of cobalt: Modern slavery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Most of the world's cobalt is extracted in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But to get it, hundreds of thousands of Congolese people labor with no other means to survive. On episode three of On Point's special series — cobalt and the human cost of mining. Duration of podcast 46:33

4). March 14, 2024

The promise of nickel: Power and prosperity in Indonesia

To electrify our economy, the world needs more nickel. And Indonesia has it. Can nickel pave the road to prosperity? In part four of "Elements of energy," hear how the rush for metals is shaking up global geopolitics. Duration of podcast 47:30

5). March 15, 2024

The goal: Can the U.S. actually meet its ambitious climate targets?

Given the environmental, political, and human costs of accelerating mineral mining, can the United States reach its clean energy goals? It's the final episode of our special series "Elements of energy." Duration of podcast 47:22

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China, the Dynamic Core of Global Capital, for Good and/or Ill

1). “US can't compete with China's technology, so it wages economic war”, Mar 5, 2024, Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report, duration of video 44:22 at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ngd__0ok0 >.

2). “Richard Wolff on the decline of the US empire and the rise of China and BRICS”, Dec 20, 2023, Richard Wolff speaks, The Community Church of Boston, duration of video 56:22, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6dpw5Kw5XI >

3). “Inside the World's Biggest Container Ship Ever Built”, Feb 20, 2024, Anon, Beyond Facts, duration of video 10:13, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imTMqGXvMFs >

4). “Yangshan: How China Built A Mega-Port 30km Out At Sea | Megastructures”, Feb 21, 2024, Anon, Sparkduration of video 50:42, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36vfeu9_r1Y >.

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More on the Endless Struggle for Reproductive Health Care Rights

1). “Abortion, Every Day (3.4.24): More anti-abortion studies under fire”, Mar 4, 2024, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-every-day-3424 >.

2). “Study cited by Texas judge in abortion pill case retracted”, Feb 05, 2024, Sofia Resnick, States Newsroom, at < https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/study-cited-texas-judge-abortion-pill-case-retracted >.

3). “Researchers call for more abortion studies to be retracted”, Feb 27, 2024, Sofia Resnick, States Newsroom, at < https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/researchers-call-more-abortion-studies-be-retracted >.

4). “Inside Missouri Republicans’ effort to curb direct democracy to stop vote on abortion”, Updated March 03, 2024, Kacen Bayless, The Kansas City Star, at < https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article285955626.html >.

5). “How Louisiana Has Become a Microcosm of the Abortion Access Fight”, Mar 1, 2024, Cecile Richards, 
Time, at < https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6836493/scotus-abortion-pill-louisiana-cecile-richards/ >.

6). “The vasectomy boom: After Dobbs, younger men are stepping up: Planned Parenthood clinics in some states are providing vasectomies — and plenty of younger men want them”, Mar 3, 2024, Nicole Karlis, Salon, at < https://www.salon.com/2024/03/03/the-vasectomy-boom-after-dobbs-younger-men-are-stepping-up/ >.

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Gabriel Rockhill Examines the Ramifications of the Emergence of a Multipolar World.

Gabriel Rockhill - How The Left Should Analyze the Rise of a Multipolar World, China, Russia & BRICS”, Oct 7, 2023, Gabriel Rockhill discusses these issues with the show's host, Activist News Network, duration of video 53:47, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMx3ovNmqmw >

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Monopolies - JP Morgan ~~ Heather Cox Richardson

 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

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Sunday, March 3, 2024

The Supreme Court's Huge Favor to Trump and actions of his other Allies on the Far-right.

1A). “It's All Over Now, Biden Blue: We Need an Actual Revolution”, March 2, 2024, Paul Street, The Paul Street Report, at < https://paulstreet.substack.com/p/its-all-over-now-biden-blue >.

1B). “High Fash Court Grants the Orange Hitler Fan Big Win: Like I've Been Saying ...”, Feb 29, 2024, Paul Street, The Paul Street Report, at < https://paulstreet.substack.com/p/high-fash-court-grants-the-orange >.

2). “The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump Exactly What He Wanted: In a stunning move, the justices all but guaranteed that the former president will evade trial before November”, Feb 28, 2024, Mark Joseph Stern, Slate, at < https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/supreme-court-donald-trump-trial-january-6.html >.

3). “Revealed: ‘extremist’ Trump economist plots rightwing overhaul of US treasury: Stephen Moore, who withdrew from Fed consideration after sexist remarks were uncovered, co-author of radical Project 2025 effort ”, Mar 1, 2024, Martin Pengelly, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/29/trump-economist-stephen-moore-us-treasury-project-2025 >.

4). “A far-right US youth group is ramping up its movement to back election deniers: Turning Point USA and co-founder Charlie Kirk are raising $108m to mobilize Trump voters and ‘clean house’ of election officials”, Mar 2, 2024, Peter Stone, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/02/far-right-youth-group-turning-point-charlie-kirk >.

5). “Project 2025”, “About Monitoring Influence”, n.d., anon., Accountable.US, at < https://www.monitoringinfluence.org/project-2025/ >. This page of the website provides links to 15 far-right organizations that are working assiduously to impose a fascist dictatorship / authoritarian regime on the U.S. populace. Here below is an image of what these links look like, they are not live here.

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Friday, March 1, 2024

Supreme Court takes up Trump Immunity Claim: The Fix is in.

1). “Supreme Court hands Trump a huge win before it even hears his case”, Feb 29, 2024, Sam Baker, Axios, at < https://www.axios.com/2024/02/29/trump-wins-delay-immunity-case-supreme-court >.

2). “Supreme Court to hear Trump's absolute immunity claim in Jan. 6 case”, updated Feb 28, 2024, Sam Baker, Axios, at < https://www.axios.com/2024/02/28/supreme-court-trump-immunity-jan-6 >

3). “Why Did the Supreme Court Wait So Long to Decide to Set the Trump Criminal Immunity Case for Full Hearing and Argument? It Likely Means No Trial for Trump on Election Subversion Before the Election”, Feb 28, 2024, Rick Hassen, Election Law Blog, at < https://electionlawblog.org/?p=141686 >

4). “U.S. v. Trump Will Be the Most Important Case in Our Nation’s History”, Aug 01, 2023, Richard L. Hasen, Slate, at < https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/trump-trial-2024-historic-jack-smith-indictment.html >.

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