Trump erases offshore drilling rules enacted after BP oil spill – POLITICO
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Salon.com: Failed Venezuela coup was fake news
Either CNN’s U.S.-based editors were lied to by their reporters in Caracas, or they were well aware that their story of the takeover of a military airfield, along with reports of thousands of protesters on the scene in support of Guaidó, was a hoax. It’s not hard to imagine the latter being the truth, because CNN earlier was caught fraudulently reporting that Venezuelan troops had set aid trucks stopped at the Colombian border afire, when in fact the fires had been started by anti-Maduro protesters.
…Guaidó was not even a candidate in the May 2018 (not January 2019) presidential elections; Maduro won that race with 68 percent of the vote.
…Casey, in his article, writes that “by the end of the day,” it was clear that Guaidó had failed to precipitate a successful coup, but he doesn’t say what had been clear much earlier that day: that the airport had never been captured at all, and that Guaidó had not spoken from a liberated airfield, but from a bridge outside the airfield.
Failed Venezuela coup was fake news — designed to fool people in two nations | Salon.com
uhhhhh…
Researchers develop plastic that they are calling the ‘Holy Grail’ of recycling
Researchers develop plastic that they are calling the ‘Holy Grail’ of recycling | TheHill
…which admittedly would be amazing.
…If there was market for it.
…And if close to 100% of plastic used was recycled.
But here on planet reality? Meh
Jury returns $2 billion verdict against Monsanto for couple with cancer
He said the jury was shown a “mountain of evidence showing Monsanto’s manipulation of science, the media and regulatory agencies to forward their own agenda.”
Wisner said Monday that this evidence included emails and text messages between Monsanto and EPA officials.
Jury returns $2 billion verdict against Monsanto for couple with cancer – CNN
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Federal judge hands abortion rights advocates a big win in Kentucky
U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley ruled on May 10 that a 2018 law passed in Kentucky banning an abortion procedure called dilation and evacuation (D&E) is unconstitutional, in a victory for the ACLU which sued on behalf of the state’s only remaining abortion clinic. McKinley wrote in his decision that the law posed a “substantial obstacle” to abortion access, in violation of the 14th Amendment and of U.S. law.
Federal judge hands abortion rights advocates a big win in Kentucky – ThinkProgress
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Americans Who Were Detained After Speaking Spanish In Montana Sue U.S. Border Agency
Hernandez said hello to O’Neal in the checkout line — and that he replied by saying she had a strong accent.
He then asked the pair where they had been born — leading Suda to ask, “Are you serious?”
“Dead serious,” O’Neal responded, according to the suit.
Suda told the agent she had been born in El Paso, Texas; Hernandez said she was born in El Centro, Calif. But that didn’t satisfy O’Neal, who “demanded that the two provide him with identification and refused to let them pay for their groceries” until they complied, the suit states.
…When one of the women asked whether they were being detained “because of our profiles,” O’Neal replied, “No, it has nothing to do with that. It’s the fact that it has to do with you guys speaking Spanish in the store, in a state where it’s predominantly English-speaking, OK?”
,,,”So it is illegal to speak Spanish in Montana?” Suda asked O’Neal.
“Well, ma’am it’s not illegal, it’s just very unheard of up here,” the agent said.
…”The United States has no official language,” the suit states. The lawsuit asks a federal district court to order the CBP not to stop or detain anyone “on the basis of race, accent and/or speaking Spanish,” unless those characteristics are tied to a specific and reliable suspect description. They also want the court to declare that someone’s race or language isn’t enough on its own to create suspicion to justify a seizure or detention.
Americans Who Were Detained After Speaking Spanish In Montana Sue U.S. Border Agency : NPR
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US Border Patrol Is the Most Brutal Militia of All
US Border Patrol Is the Most Brutal Militia of All
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Trump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your ‘Out of Wedlock’ Kids Aren’t Citizens
…A government policy that effectively de-recognizes her parents’ marriage, granting her no automatic rights to American birthright citizenship despite the fact that both her fathers are U.S. citizens.
…That “assumption of parentage,” as the State Department calls it, now seems to LGBT parents to be reserved solely for heterosexual married couples.
…“The U.S. Department of State interprets the INA to mean that a child born abroad must be biologically related to a U.S. citizen parent,” the State Department’s website says. “Even if local law recognizes a surrogacy agreement and finds that U.S. parents are the legal parents of a child conceived and born abroad… if the child does not have a biological connection to a U.S. citizen parent, the child will not be a U.S. citizen at birth.”
The Kivitis are each biologically related to their children. Under the policy, however, children born via gestational surrogacy and other forms of assisted reproductive technology (ART) are considered to be born “out of wedlock,” in the State Department’s words—even if their parents, like Roee and Adiel, are legally married.
…Children born out of wedlock face higher legal and logistical hurdles to obtaining birthright citizenship: In addition to submission of DNA tests proving genetic links to U.S. citizen parents, their parents must be able to testify that they can support their children financially, and must prove that they have been present in the United States for at least five years prior to the child’s birth.
Trump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your ‘Out of Wedlock’ Kids Aren’t Citizens
WTF????!
Un-American.
Amazon Tribe Wins Lawsuit Against Big Oil, Saving Millions Of Acres Of Rainforest
After a long legal battle with a number of organizations, the Waorani people successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil drilling by huge oil corporations. The auctioning off of Waorani lands to the oil companies was suspended indefinitely by a three-judge panel of the Pastaza Provincial Court. The panel simply trashed the consultation process the Ecuadorian government had undertaken with the tribe in 2012, which rendered the attempt at land purchase null and void.
This win for the indigenous tribe has now set an invaluable legal precedent for other indigenous nations across the Ecuadorian Amazon. After accepting a Waorani bid for court protection to stop an oil bidding process, the court also halted the potential auctioning off of 16 oil blocks that cover over 7 million acres of indigenous territory.
Amazon Tribe Wins Lawsuit Against Big Oil, Saving Millions Of Acres Of Rainforest | Disclose.tv
nice
Georgia lawmaker proposed ‘testicular bill of rights’ in response to restrictive abortion legislation
“Require men to obtain permission from their sex partner before they are able to obtain a prescription for Viagra or any erectile dysfunction medication.”
“Ban vasectomy procedures in Georgia, both in part or whole,” reads the second bullet point, another one stating: “Make it an ‘aggravated assault’ crime for men to have sex without a condom.”
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