Here's what is coming up on Sunday Kos...
- Busting the seven great myths of poverty, by Mark E Andersen
- Obama is 100% right to throw red meat of lawsuit and impeachment talk right back at Republicans, by Ian Reifowitz
- The law President Obama did not faithfully execute, by Jon Perr
- Race, gender and comic book films, by Mark Sumner
- A Netroots Nation 2014 gem that was missed by many, by Egberto Willies
- Furor and fuss about Black Jesus, by Denise Oliver Velez
- A Walmart in North Dakota: Or AEI thinks you're dumber than a bag of hammers, by Dante Atkins
- What Washington's top-two primary will tell us about the Democratic chances to flip the state Senate, by Jeff Singer
IMF study says countries should raise fossil fuel prices:
Countries all over the world, including the United States, should be collecting much higher pollution taxes on fossil fuels—stiff enough to reflect the long-term cost of global warming's damage, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday in an important new study. [...]
"Many energy prices in many countries are wrong," said the report, entitled Getting Energy Prices Right. "They are set at levels that do not reflect environmental damage, notably global warming."
- Ancient buried ship found in 2010 at Manhattan's "ground zero" has now been analyzed. The cargo ship was probably built at a rural shipyard in Pennsylvania in the mid- to late-1700s. It was sunk at the site where the twin towers of the World Trade Center would later be built. Sinking was by accident or on purpose less than 30 years after the ship was built. Researchers identified its origin by the fact the keel contained hickory, which limited the possibilities.
- These Daily Kos community posts were the most shared on Facebook July 31:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls for end to corporate tax inversions, by WonkyNewsNerd
3rd Crater Found In Siberia. Earth's "Dragon Breath" Is Coming To Life., by pollwatcher
Stupid sh!t Louie Gohmert says: Hide yo wife, hide yo kids, they be raping everybody edition, by MinistryofTruth
Technology has the potential to break the current, broken apparel manufacturing model: overproduction, outsourced cheap labor, waste and pollution. One idea is to make clothing on demand, from designs customized by consumers online. Over at Cal Poly Pomona university, they're building automated micro-factories that can spin out a virtual order in just 30 minutes, and are small enough to fit in the back of a retail store.
"A single automated and integrated mini-factory contains order processing, design, pattern and marker generation, dual-sided dyeing, printing, labeling in a single pass, optical cutting, robotic handling, sewing, finishing, and shipping," explains the website of Virtual Inventory Manufacturing Alliance, which is working with the university to “transform manufacturing into the internet age.”
In a sign that the U.S. Pentagon is preparing further military backing of the government of Nouri al-Maliki, the State Department on Monday granted its approval of the largest shipment to date of Hellfire missiles to Iraq.
The possible Foreign Military Sale includes 5,000 AGM-114K/N/R Hellfire missiles in addition to the "associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $700 million," according to a press announcement by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, a division of the Department of Defense. The principal contractor of the sale will be Lockheed Martin Corporation.
- Tim Torkildson, a social media specialist for Utah ESL school Nomen Global Language Center, was fired because he put up a blog post about homophones. Owner Clarke Woodger complained "now our school is going to be associated with homosexuality. I had to look up the word." That's right. Torkildson was fired for writing about homophones, which is the definition of words that sound like other words, like "right" and "write." Homophones are obviously totally gay.
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- On today's Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin's Tea Party word clouds: hours of fun! "Moving Left." Political "manliness." Google barge mystery solved. Afghanistan cost more than the Marshall Plan. Labor organizing as civil right. FreedomWorks reserves sauna in hell.