Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Steve Bannon’s soul:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Trump’s right-wing political correctness makes us less safe, by Ian Reifowitz
- Law and disorder at the CBP, by Susan Grigsby
- NO to everything Trump and YES to Starbucks for doing the right thing, by Egberto Willies
- We’ll consider Gorsuch after you consider Merrick Garland, by David Akadjian
- Is Steve Bannon Donald Trump’s Rasputin? Da, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Judge not, lest ye be judged, by Jon Perr
- Killing the EPA, by Mark E Andersen
- How black women helped shape history and today’s Democratic Party, by Denise Oliver Velez
• Renewables dominated new electrical generation installations in 2016: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's monthly Energy Infrastructure Update reports that renewable electrical generation installations switched on in 2016 dominated other energy sources for the year. Biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind sources totaled 16,124-megawatts or 61.5 percent of total installations, ahead of the combined total of natural gas (8,689-MW), nuclear (1,270-MW), oil (58-MW) and coal (45-MW). That made 2016 the second consecutive year in which most new generating capacity came from renewable energy sources. In 2015, renewables added 12,400-MW of new capacity or 64.8 percent of the total. In 2014, 49.6 percent of new capacity came from renewables.
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- Fukushima radiation spikes higher than anytime since 2011 triple meltdown: Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) reports that atmospheric readings have shot as high as 530 sieverts an hour inside the containment vessel of reactor No 2. That is one of three reactors that melted down after a tsunami inundated the north-east coast of Japan in March 2011. The previous high reading was 73 sieverts an hour. One sievert is enough to give a person acute radiation sickness. A single exposure of five sieverts will kill half the exposed people within a month. Exposure to 10 sieverts will kill all the people exposed within two to three weeks. The average America receives a dose per year of 6.2 milli-sieverts (mSv). A chest X-ray delivers 0.1 mSv, a mammogram, 0.3 mSv. Worldwide, the average dosage limit for nuclear workers is 20 mSv a year. The Fukushima reading shows just how hard it’s going to be to clean up the three reactors, a process already estimated to last 40 years. A remote-controlled robot Tepco plans to send into the reactor is built to sustain exposure to 1,000 sieverts before ceasing to operate. With radiation at its current level, the robot would survive for less than two hours.
• Woman appointed as CIA deputy director oversaw torture of dozens of terror suspects, near death of one.
• Republicans run the long con on public lands:
The Local Enforcement for Local Lands Act (H.R. 622), introduced by Utah's Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz, would fire every law enforcement officer for the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service. In their stead, local police units, such as sheriff's departments, would manage millions of acres of land they were never trained to protect. Not only are human lives potentially at risk, but the wild places that generate billion of dollars in annual revenue are as well.
Compared to other proposed legislation, H.R. 622 is subtler in its attempts to destabilize public land ownership. [...]
[It] is a long-con, and dovetails with this administration's hostility toward federal oversight. According to conservationists who oppose it, the bill could embolden acts of extremism from anti-government and anti-public lands militias. The skirmishes we saw at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, or Nevada's Gold Butte, for example, are just a taste of what may lie ahead.
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• House passes bill to restore gun rights to some mentally impaired people.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Where we you when it didn’t happen? #NeverRemember. #BowlingGreen. Muslim ban fallout: the OLC memo, former Norwegian PM detained. Commander Cuckoobananas skips the situation room. Trump threatens to yank the Johnson… amendment.
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