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What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Trump leads Hillary in a poll? Take a deep breath and don’t freak out, by Ian Reifowitz
- Let’s hold the media accountable for Trump, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Ironic reconstruction of the N-word for President Obama is not just for the fainting couch, by Frank Vyan Walton
- Here is the truth: I fear Donald Trump, by Egberto Willies
- The people with the least amount of power are the people most likely to use it, by David Akadjian
- Mothers fight for justice—worldwide, by Denise Oliver Velez
- The delusional thinking of the Republican Party: Annotating Ted Cruz’s surrender speech, by Chauncey DeVega
- Where does Trump stand on science, by DarkSyde
- Peggy Orenstein’s ‘Girls and Sex,’ by Susan Grigsby
• Friday is the third day of a two-week series of actions worldwide to #breakfree from fossil fuel.
• Here are some photos and video of the damage caused by the wildfire in Ft. McMurray, Alberta: Officials report that 1,600 homes and other buildings have been destroyed in the city of 88,000. Some people say entire neighborhoods have been wiped out. Photos show buildings standing intact surrounded by totally burned-out areas.
The helicopters - almost 150 of them, we are told - look puny in the face of such a dramatic display of nature's power, but occasionally they do seem to be making progress in slowing the fire's march across the plains.
Ultimately though, says Bill Stewart, co-director of the University of California's Center for Fire Research and Outreach, only nature can stop it entirely.
"You could add five times the number of firefighters," he said, "but you can't get all the embers. There's no way to put out every ember flying over firefighters' heads."
• Screw Joe Paterno:
A judge said that insurers in litigation with Penn State claim a boy told football coach Joe Paterno in 1976 that he had been molested by Jerry Sandusky, Pennlive.com reported Thursday.
The order by Philadelphia Judge Gary Glazer also cited reports by unnamed assistant coaches they witnessed inappropriate contact between Sandusky and children, Pennlive.com said.
• Number of people renouncing citizenship soars: One poll says one in four Americans would consider leaving the country if Trump is elected. Others say they’ll leave if Clinton is elected. Most of them in both cases will not leave, of course. But a record number of people are giving up their U.S. citizenship. The tally of published expatriates for the first three months of 2016 was 1,158. In all of 2015, there were around 4,300 published expatriations. Americans renouncing their citizen have risen 560% from the Bush administration high. There are officially now 18 times as many renouncers as in 2008. But, of course, the actual numbers are no doubt higher than the official ones. because some people just leave without renouncing or announcing. If you’re thinking of departing and letting authorities know about it, you should be aware that the government requires you to pay $2,350 to hand in your passport. That has generated about $12.6 million in revenue since the fall of 2014, when the government raised the fee to renounce citizenship by 422 percent. Some renouncers write here why they gave up their citizenship.
• Yale’s Skull and Bones society may become a teensy bit less secret: Archivists at the Bush library plan to release around 1,000 pages of letters, memos, a draft speech and other materials relating to Skull and Bones in July unless George W. Bush or President Obama block the disclosure. According to Politico, the records were sought in a Freedom of Information Act request by Robert Gaylon Ross Sr., who has written several books that allege conspiracies in the United States and elsewhere. One of his works, Who’s Who of the Elite, purports to name members of groups that show up in various conspiracy theories, including the Bilderbergs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and Skull and Bones.
• Navajo coal critics, clean energy advocates join to sue feds over Four Corners project:
Navajo, regional and national conservation groups filed suit April 20 in federal District Court here against the U.S. government’s 25-year extension of coal operations at Four Corners Power Plant and Navajo Mine, which solely supplies the plant.
The lawsuit comes as the world’s largest mining company, Peabody Energy Corp., joins Arch, Alpha, Patriot and other U.S. coal companies in bankruptcy.
“Our Navajo Nation president recently declared, ‘We can’t depend on our coal, oil and gas revenues anymore,’” said Carol Davis of Diné CARE (Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment). “The rapid decline of global coal economics necessitates a hard look at solution-oriented growth for the Navajo Nation and Navajo communities, with reparations for over 50 years of undervalued resource flow off our lands.”
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Taco-pocalypse! Gop-ers begin getting in line or running for cover. Strategery: what to do about Wall St. $ left on the table. Von Clownstick vs. Ryan. Intel briefings: what’s in them, who gets them & why? Clownstick drops self-funding charade & hires a hedge-funder.
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