The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Project 2025 Continues the Historic Racist, Fascist Project

It has also been conveniently forgotten how often democrats have assisted in bringing right wing policies to fruition. It was Bill Clinton whose Crime Bill, assisted by then Senator Joe Biden, sent thousands of Black people to jail. It was Clinton whose Telecommunications Act ended Federal Communications Commissions regulations and resulted in media consolidation so complete that only six corporations control most of what we watch and hear.

#Project2025 #Trump #Democrats #Politics

Kenya police fire tear gas as protesters call for Ruto to quit

Protesters try to advance towards the police during a demonstration in Nairobi, on June 25, 2024. Kenyan police fired tear gas at crowds of young protesters in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, as demonstrators rallied across the country against the government’s proposed tax increases. The demonstrations, led mainly by Generation Z, which began last week, took President William Ruto’s government by surprise, and he said over the weekend that he was ready to talk to the protesters, according to AFP reporters. (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP) (Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)

Reporting from Nairobi, Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb, said police fired tear gas “all day long” and used water cannon to disperse crowds. “The streets are littered with the empty canisters that have been exploding here for hours,” he said.

#kenyaprotests #UPrising #Africa #ACAB

Flooding in Brazil Has Displaced More Than 600,000 People From Their Homes as States Slash Prevention Funding

“Southern Brazil is facing its worst climate tragedy ever. Unprecedented floods have impacted 1.4 million people and forced more than 160,000 people from their homes. As of May 7, at least 95 people have been killed and 130 people remain missing. The images are shocking. Downtown Porto Alegre, the capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, is underwater.

#Flooding #Brazil #ClimateChange #SouthAmerica

All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It’s So Much Older Than We Thought.

“It’s clear that LUCA was exploiting and changing its environment, but it is unlikely to have lived alone,” University of Exeter’s Tim Lenton, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “Its waste would have been food for other microbes, like methanogens, that would have helped to create a recycling ecosystem.”

#Earth #Science #Nature #Evolution


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