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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Albert Collins

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features Texas blues guitarist Albert Collins. Enjoy!

^{Stevie Ray Vaughan & Albert Collins - Frosty}

"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed."

-- Albert Einstein

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News and Opinion

Tariffs & the US Constitution

President Donald Trump recently imposed a national sales tax on nearly all goods emanating from outside the United States to be paid by the ultimate consumer. [On Wednesday, Trump temporarily lowered tariffs on most countries, but not China.] ...

In 1977, Congress enacted the International Economic Emergency Powers Act. This law permitted the president to impose tariffs on goods emanating from outside the U.S. in the case of an economic emergency. The statute defined an emergency as a sudden and unexpected event that adversely affects U.S. national security or economic prosperity.

Cognizant of the “emergency” trigger for the exercise of this unique power, the Trump administration initially offered that the introduction of fentanyl into the U.S. by foreign persons was the emergency. When advisers related to the president that the tariffs he contemplated would affect dozens of foreign countries producing hundreds of goods and services as to which there is no connection to fentanyl, the administration claimed the U.S. imbalance of trade as the emergency trigger.

The imbalance of trade means that persons and businesses in the U.S. spend more money on the goods and services that they buy from foreign sellers than they receive from sales of goods and services to foreign buyers. The executive order signed last week by Trump reflects that the U.S. has experienced this trade imbalance since 1934! Thus, by definition, it is not a sudden or unexpected event, and thus, it is not an emergency as defined in the statute.

No emergency means there is no lawful basis for Trump’s imposition of the tariffs.

There is also no constitutional basis for the statute. The Constitution reposes the power to tax exclusively into the hands of Congress. The Framers were so determined to keep that power there that they even required in the Constitution that all taxes emanate in the House of Representatives. Since this Trump sales tax emanated in the White House, it violates the Constitution.

Can Congress give the power to tax to the president? In a word: NO.

Max Blumenthal: How FAR Can Israel Go?

Palestinian Armed Struggle & the Law

On Feb. 22, 2024, China’s ambassador to The Hague, Zhang Jun, uttered the unexpected. His testimony, like that of a number of others, was meant to help the International Court of Justice (ICJ) formulate a critical and long-overdue legal opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Zhang articulated the Chinese position, which, unlike the American envoy’s testimony, was entirely aligned with international and humanitarian laws.

But he delved into a tabooed subject — one that even Palestine’s closest allies in the Middle East and Global South dared not touch: the right to use armed struggle. “Palestinian people’s use of force to resist foreign oppression and complete the establishment of an independent state is an inalienable right,” the Chinese ambassador said, insisting that

“the struggle waged by peoples for their liberation, right to self-determination, including armed struggle against colonialism, occupation, aggression, domination against foreign forces should not be considered terror acts.”

Expectedly, Zhang’s comments didn’t reverberate much. Neither governments nor intellectuals, including many on the left, used his remarks as an opportunity to explore the matter further. It’s far more convenient to assign Palestinians the role of the victim or the villain. A resisting Palestinian — one with agency and control over his own fate — is always a dangerous territory. Zhang’s remarks, however, were situated entirely within international law. ...

Israel, the U.S. and their allies in Western governments and media labored greatly to mischaracterize the events that led to the war, resorting to utter lies about mass rape, decapitation of babies and senseless slaughter of innocent participants in a music festival. By creating this misleading narrative, Israel succeeded in shifting the conversation away from the events that led to Oct. 7 and placed Palestinians on the defensive, as they stood accused of carrying out unspeakable horrors against innocent civilians.

“One of the tactics used by the West and Israel has been to almost succeed in de-contextualizing October 7 so that it appears to have come out of the blue,” according to Professor Richard Falk, a leading scholar in international law and former U.N. special rapporteur for Palestine. “The U.N. secretary-general was even defamed as an anti-Semite for merely pointing out the most obvious fact — that there had been a long history of abuse of the Palestinian people leading up to it,” he added, referring to Antonio Guterres’ simply stating that Oct. 7 “did not happen in a vacuum”.

The history of Palestinian resistance is not a history of armed resistance, per se. The latter is a mere manifestation of a long history of popular resistance that reaches all aspects of societal expression, ranging from culture, spirituality, civil disobedience, general strikes, mass protests, hunger strikes and more. However, if Palestinians succeed in placing their armed resistance —as long as it complies with the laws of war — within a legal framework, then attempts at delegitimizing the Palestinian struggle, or large sections of Palestinian society, will be challenged and ultimately defeated.

Israeli network censors report exposing Oct 7 ‘hero’ as hoaxer

Under public pressure, an Israeli network censored a report which would have exposed a key face of Israel’s October 7 PR campaign as a fabulist. Rami Davidian claimed to have rescued over 750 young Israelis and witnessed hideous scenes of rape by Hamas. His bogus testimonies were cited by the UN and filmmaker Sheryl Sandberg.

Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 has announced that it will no longer air an investigation into the fabrications of Rami Davidian, a settler who was lionized as a hero after claiming to have rescued over 750 Israelis at the Nova music festival on October 7, following a major public pressure campaign. “We are aware of the public’s feelings and the consequences of broadcasting the episode and prefer not to broadcast it at this time,” Channel 13 wrote in an April 4 statement. A promotional video published by Channel 13 reporter Raviv Drucker on X the day before attracted hundreds of crude and expletive-filled comments from fanatical Israeli settlers, with the most-liked reply referring to Drucker as a “piece of shit” and accusing him of seeking to push Davidian to commit suicide.

One of the most explosive fabrications featured prominently in Sheryl’s Sandberg’s propaganda film, “Screams Before Silence,” which shows Davidian seemingly on the verge of tears in a field in southern Israel as he declares: “these trees… I saw girls tied up to every tree here with their hands behind them.” ...

Davidian’s fabrications were immediately embraced by legacy media outlets, with The New York Times’ Bret Stephens declaring in a glowing review of Sandberg’s propaganda film that “the refusal by so many people to acknowledge what happened, often accompanied by sneering derision, makes it necessary” to print his claims. The day before, an op-ed in the Washington Post cited Davidian’s false testimony to insist that compared to the “the terrible damage inflicted on the civilian population in Gaza,” the “violence described in Sandberg’s documentary… occupies a different plane of calculated cruelty — indeed, of evil.” ...

Due to Channel 13’s last-minute move to axe their own report, the full extent of the lies told by Davidian may never be known. According to Drucker, that decision was made by the Israeli broadcaster’s CEO, Emiliano Kalamzuk, who hadn’t even seen the report when he decided to pull the plug. ... Now that Channel 13’s report has been buried, the exact nature and quantity of Davidian’s fabrications remain unclear. What is clear, however, is that his colorful stories are having their intended effect. While happily participating in Israel’s public relations push to manufacture consent for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, the “heroic farmer” urged one Israeli podcast: “Wipe out Gaza, there’s nothing good about them.”

US-Iran deal within reach, but war still looms

Houthi Official Says Yemen Will Cease Attacks on US Ships if US Stops Bombing

A senior member of Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, has told Drop Site News that Yemeni forces would stop attacks on US warships in the region if President Trump halted his bombing campaign on Yemen.

“We do not consider ourselves at war with the American people,” said Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansar Allah’s political bureau. “If the US stops targeting Yemen, we will cease our military operations against it.”

Both President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have said the US would stop bombing Yemen if the Houthis stopped attacking US ships. However, the Houthis were not attacking US vessels when the US restarted its airstrikes in Yemen on March 15.

President Trump launched the bombing campaign in response to the Houthis’ announcing they would reimpose a blockade on Israeli shipping due to Israel imposing a total blockade on Gaza in violation of the ceasefire deal. The Houthis had ceased attacks when the truce deal was implemented on January 19.

White House may seek legally binding control over Columbia through consent decree

The Trump administration is considering placing Columbia University under a consent decree, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, a dramatic escalation in the federal government’s crackdown on the Ivy League institution.

The university has already accepted a series of changes demanded by the administration as a precondition for restoring $400m in federal grants and contracts the government suspended last month over allegations that the school failed to protect students from antisemitism on campus.

A consent decree – a binding agreement approved by a federal judge – would be an extraordinary move by the Trump administration, which has threatened government funding as a way to force colleges and universities to comply with Donald Trump’s political objectives on a range of issues from campus protests to transgender women in sports and diversity and inclusion initiatives.

As a party to the consent decree, Columbia would have to agree to enter it – and the Journal report states that it is unclear whether such a plan has been discussed by the university board.

According to the Journal, the proposal comes from the administration’s antisemitism taskforce, composed in part of justice department lawyers, who have reportedly expressed skepticism that Columbia was acting in “good faith”. If Columbia resists, the justice department would need to present its case for the agreement in court, a process that could drag on for years with the university risking its federal funding in the interim.

Michigan Lawyer Detained at Detroit Airport, Phone Seized; He Represents Pro-Palestine Protester

Mahmoud Khalil can be expelled for his beliefs alone, US government argues

Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, citing the Trump administration’s authority to expel noncitizens whose presence in the country damages US foreign policy interests.

The two-page memo, which was obtained by the Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent US resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and the war in Gaza.

Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs.

He said that while Khalil’s activities were “otherwise lawful”, letting him remain in the country would undermine “US policy to combat antisemitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States”.

“Condoning antisemitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy objective,” Rubio wrote in the undated memo. The submission was filed on Wednesday after Judge Jamee Comans ordered the government to produce its evidence against Khalil ahead of a hearing on Friday on whether it can continue detaining him during immigration proceedings.

Attorneys for Khalil said the memo proved the Trump administration was “targeting Mahmoud’s free speech rights about Palestine”.

COL. Lawrence Wilkerson : Will Trump Deport Americans?

US stocks fall again as ex-Fed chair decries ‘self-inflicted wound’ of Trump’s tariffs

US stocks fell again on Thursday after a historic rally following Donald Trump’s shock retreat on Wednesday on the hefty tariffs he had just imposed on dozens of countries. The falls came as the president blamed “transition problems” for the market reaction and the sell-off deepened after a White House clarification noted that total tariffs on China had been raised by 145% since Trump took office.

Speaking at the White House, Trump said: “We think we’re in very good shape. We think we’re doing very well. Again there will be a transition cost, transition problems, but in the end it’s going to be a beautiful thing.”

On CNN, former US treasury secretary Janet Yellen called Trump’s economic policies the “worst self-inflicted wound” an administration had ever imposed on a “well-functioning economy”. The sell-off comes as Democrats continue to react with anger over the sudden retreat that rattled markets, while Republicans praised Trump’s “art of the deal” in action, referencing Trump’s 1987 book.

By the end of Thursday, the Dow was down 2.5% after soaring on Wednesday afternoon. The Nasdaq Composite was down more than 4%, after posting its biggest gain in more than two decades on Wednesday, and the S&P 500 down 3.4%. The market seems to be in a state of fatigue after a rollercoaster week. Stocks were even unresponsive to news on Thursday morning that the European Union announced it will suspend 25% retaliatory tariffs against US imports and new data showed inflation in the US cooled to 2.4% in March – both would typically be cause for optimism on Wall Street.

Richard Wolff on Trump’s Tariffs: “It’s a Crock!”

Trump’s about-face on tariffs reveals chaos at the core of his presidency

Donald Trump’s climbdown on Wednesday from the most draconian aspects of his tariff regime has uncovered a damning picture of chaos at the heart of his presidency without necessarily alleviating their most painful effects. The president’s landmark “liberation day” unveiling of tariffs in the White House Rose Garden on 2 April was supposed to be symbolic gateway to his promised “golden age of American greatness”; instead, it triggered a cascade of global market crashes that prompted warnings of a recession, or even a 1930s-style depression, while Trump brushed it all off as temporary “disruption”.

Time alone will tell how much damage has been inflicted on the credibility of Trump’s economic policy and indeed his entire administration by the ditching of nearly 80 years of US economic and free trading architecture, only to be followed by a sharp, if partial, U-turn. The president’s sudden and unheralded retreat from a signature policy that he has advocated for more than four decades has placated Wall Street and international bond markets, which rallied at the news of his 90-day pause on tariffs that rose to above 50% on the goods from some countries deemed to have been “ripping off” the US in their trade practices.

But left untouched was a 10% across-the-board duty levied on all foreign imports – not to mention a further tariff hike on all goods from China – meaning that higher consumer prices are on the way for Americans, no matter how relieved the masters of the universe on Wall Street and other international trading centers are feeling. ...

Trump’s closest aides and acolytes tried to present his political backflip as a sign of strategic genius that had always been part of a brilliant plan. “This was his strategy all along. President Trump created maximum negotiating leverage for himself,” said Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, who had been locked in urgent discussions with the president onboard Air Force One on Sunday about the effect of last week’s “liberation day” tariffs, according to the New York Times. ...

Yet the depiction of a carefully plotted strategy going perfectly to plan was undermined by Trump himself, who gave a strikingly blunt explanation for his volte-face. “Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line,” he said. “They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.” It seemed a graphic portrayal of a loss of nerve – all the more so given that Trump had told Republicans that “I know what the hell I’m doing” and urged his followers to ignore the plunging markets and “BE COOL” on a post on his Truth Social network just hours earlier. “Everything is going to work out well,” he insisted.

That remains to be seen.

Larry C. Johnson: China Hits Back. Iran Defies. Russia Rethinks. U.S. in the Crosshairs!

Argentina General Strike Demands End to Milei's 'Chainsaw' Austerity Policies

Increasingly fed up with economic policies under which poverty and inflation have soared while vital social services, wages, and the peso have taken huge hits, disaffected Argentinians took to the streets of cities across the South American nation Wednesday for the third general strike of right-wing President Javier Milei's tumultuous 16-month presidency.

Led by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT)—an umbrella group of Argentinian unions—the "paro general," or general stoppage, drew workers, the unemployed, pensioners, educators, students, and others affected by Milei's severe austerity measures and his administration's plans for more deep cuts. Demonstrations continued throughout Thursday.

"In the face of intolerable social inequality and a government that ignores calls for better wages and a dignified standard of living for all, the workers are going on strike," CGT explained ahead of the action.

VIDEO: Thousands of Argentines turn out for an anti-austerity protest, setting the scene for a 24-hour general strike as President Javier Milei awaits news on a fresh IMF loan. pic.twitter.com/lVRRhSxbZw

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 10, 2025

Airlines canceled hundreds of flights as air traffic controllers and other airport workers joined the strike; many schools, banks, and other offices shut down; and ports, some public transport, and other services ground to a halt.

"The only thing the administration has brought is a wave of layoffs across state agencies, higher poverty rates, and international debts, which are the biggest scam in Argentina's history," the Association of Airline Pilots (APA) said.

Rodolfo Aguiar, secretary general of the Association of State Workers (ATE), said Wednesday that "after this strike, they have to turn off the chainsaw; there's no room for more cuts," a reference to both Milei's ubiquitous campaign prop and his gutting of public programs upon which millions of Argentinians rely.

"Right now, the crisis Argentina is facing is worsening," Aguiar added, warning about government talks with the International Monetary Fund. "The rise in the dollar will quickly translate into food prices, and the new deal with the IMF is nothing more than more debt and more austerity measures." ...

Milei and his supporters have portrayed the general strike as a treasonous assault on the fragile Argentinian economy and those taking part in the day of action as lazy and jobless.
When Clarín, the country's largest newspaper, cited a study by the Argentine University of Enterprise claiming that the general strike would cost the national economy around $185 million per day, University of Buenos Aires professor Sergio Wischñevsky retorted: "Very revealing. It means that's the magnitude of the wealth workers produce every day. It's the best argument to stop ignoring workers."

As he has done with past protests against his rule, Milei has also framed the general strike as "an attack against the republic" and repeated his threat that police would "crack down" on demonstrators.

US egg prices break record high for third consecutive month even as inflation drops

The price of eggs continues to soar for American consumers, rising by almost 6% in March even as overall inflation fell slightly. Breaking a record high for the third consecutive month, the average cost of a dozen large eggs hit $6.23 in March – more than double the price just 12 months earlier, according to new figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday. This surpassed the previous record highs of $5.90 a dozen in February, and $4.95 in January.

The latest figures come just days after the country’s largest egg producer reported record sales and profits amid growing scrutiny over alleged price gouging. Cal-Maine, which produces 20% of the eggs eaten in the US, made $1bn in windfall income in the first three quarters of the financial year – the profits extracted after accounting for production, processing and transport costs.

Cal-Maine’s profits more than tripled compared with the same quarter last year – and are nearly eight times as high as at the start of the bird flu outbreak in February 2022, according to financial results published on Tuesday.

In March, the Guardian reported on how major egg corporations like Cal-Maine may be using avian flu as a ruse to hike up prices. Days later, the Trump administration opened an anti-trust investigation into price-fixing by the nation’s largest egg corporations.

House GOP Approves Economic Attack on Poor to Fund 'Big Payout' for Billionaires

In a party-line vote, House Republicans on Thursday approved a budget blueprint that sets the stage for the GOP to pass another round of tax cuts for the rich, paid for in part by slashing Medicaid, federal nutrition assistance, and other critical programs.

The final vote was 216 to 214, with two Republicans—Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana—and every Democrat opposing the measure, which now must be converted into legislation.

The budget reconciliation process that Republicans are using for their sweeping bill means it can pass with a simple majority in both chambers of Congress.

"Republicans are ramming through a budget that includes $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid and at least $230 billion in cuts to food assistance to pay for tax breaks for billionaires," Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said in a statement Thursday. "These are the largest Medicaid and food assistance cuts in American history."

“Make no mistake: Republicans want to give away trillions of dollars to the richest people in our country like Elon Musk, and they want to pay for it by taking food away from hungry children and letting people die from a lack of healthcare coverage," Tlaib continued. "We must raise our voices and defeat this dangerous Republican budget."

Passage of the blueprint came hours after Republican congressional leaders and President Donald Trump managed to win the support of GOP holdouts concerned that the forthcoming legislative package won't reduce spending enough to offset the massive cost of fresh tax cuts, which would largely benefit the rich.

Supreme court orders US to help return man wrongly deported to El Salvador

The US supreme court upheld on Thursday a judge’s order requiring Donald Trump’s administration to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.

US district judge Paula Xinis last week issued an order that the administration “facilitate and effectuate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, in response to a lawsuit filed by the man and his family challenging the legality of his deportation.

The supreme court, in an unsigned decision, said that the judge’s order “properly requires the government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador”.

However, the court said that the additional requirement to “effectuate” his return was unclear and may exceed the judge’s authority. The justices directed Xinis to clarify the directive “with due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs”.

The administration, meanwhile, “should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps,” the court directed.

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US House passes bill requiring people to prove citizenship in order to vote

The US House approved a bill on Thursday that would require people to prove they are citizens when they register to vote, which opponents claim could disenfranchise millions of Americans.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the Save Act, which was approved on a 220-208 vote, is aimed at eliminating rare instances of noncitizens voting in US elections based on the false belief that large numbers of noncitizens are voting.

The bill, sponsored by the Texas Republican Chip Roy, calls for people who register to vote or update their registration to show documentary proof of citizenship, which could be a passport or birth certificate. While the bill says Real IDs, which have enhanced security standards, could be used if they indicate whether the applicant is a US citizen, these IDs ordinarily do not include that information, and lawful residents who are not citizens and ineligible to vote can still get Real IDs.

The Save Act comes after the US president signed an executive order on 25 March calling for a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to be added to federal voter registration forms in what his office called “the farthest-reaching executive action taken”.

An earlier version of the bill passed the House last year, but it did not get anywhere in the Senate. It is unclear whether it would face a similar fate in the Senate this time.

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Noaa fires hundreds of climate workers after court clears way for dismissals

Letters went out to hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) on Thursday, informing them their jobs had been terminated – again. The probationary employees, many who performed important roles at the US’s pre-eminent climate research agency, have spent weeks in limbo after being dismissed in late February, only to be rehired and put on administrative leave in mid-March following a federal court order. ...

The fired Noaa employees were among the roughly 16,000 people terminated across the federal workforce in a sweeping move by the Trump administration that targeted workers in “probationary” status. Some were categorized that way because they were new in their careers, but others had recently received promotions or been added full-time to agencies after years of contract or temporary work. ...

This week’s news caps a rollercoaster period for Noaa employees. On Tuesday, the US supreme court struck down the March court decision that said fired probationary workers must be rehired, ruling that the nonprofit groups who sued on behalf of the workers did not have legal standing. ...

These firings are already hampering the agency’s ability to provide essential climate and weather intelligence. Noaa is also bracing for more cuts as leaders make moves to comply with Trump’s “reduction in force”, an order that could cull 1,029 more positions. ... While the losses are expected to have a profound impact on the American public, it will be felt globally, too. Scientists and forecasters around the world depend on Noaa satellites, studies, and intelligence, including data-sharing that tracks severe weather across Europe, coordination for disaster response in the Caribbean, and monitoring deforestation and the effects of the climate crisis in the Amazon rainforest. ...

Among 800 positions cut were workers who track El Niño-La Niña weather patterns around the world, people who model severe storm risks, and scientists contributing to global understanding of what could happen as the world warms.

Just 9.5% of plastic made in 2022 used recycled material

Less than 10% of the plastic produced around the world is made from recycled material, according to the first detailed global analysis of its life cycle. The research reveals that most plastic is made from fossil fuels, predominantly coal and oil, despite rhetoric by producers, supermarkets and drinks companies about plastic being recycled.

The research analysed the 400m tonnes of plastic produced in 2022 in order to support attempts to reduce pollution and promote sustainable plastic management. Plastic production has risen markedly since the 2m tonnes manufactured in 1950, and is projected to reach 800m tonnes a year by 2050. “As a result plastic pollution is a pressing and growing global issue, posing major challenges for the environment, economy, and public health,” the authors said.

Quanyin Tan and colleagues analysed key trends in the global plastic supply chain. Of the 400m tonnes of plastic produced over the course of 2022, just under 38m tonnes (9.5%) was produced from recycled plastic, 98% of the remaining 362m tonnes was produced from fossil fuels, predominantly coal and oil.

The research, published in Communications Earth & Environment, shows a significant increase in the amount of plastic being disposed of by incineration rather than recycling, with just 27.9% of plastic waste disposed of in 2022 actually being recycled.

Trump administration cuts $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding

Almost $4m in federal funding has been stripped from an Ivy League university’s prestigious climate research department because the Trump administration has determined it exposed students and other young people to “climate anxiety”.

The government research grants to Princeton University have been cut off because the White House considers its work on topics including sea level rise, coastal flooding and global warming to be promoting “exaggerated and implausible climate threats”, according to the New York Times.

Among the faculty of Princeton’s Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System, a partner of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), is noted meteorologist Syukuro Manabe, a 2021 Nobel prize in physics winner for his work on global climate change simulations.

The US commerce department pulled the funding on Tuesday, stating without evidence that the university’s collaboration with Noaa “promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as ‘climate anxiety,’ which has increased significantly among America’s youth”.

Programs to lose federal dollars include an educational initiative on climate change aimed at students in kindergarten through high school, and two separate five-year studies. One study was looking into understanding how Earth’s water availability would fluctuate as a result of global warming; the other was designed to predict how changes in rainfall patterns and sea-level rise could affect coastal flooding.

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome

America Is Trying To Form An Anti-China Trade Bloc

Trump's Market Whiplash Continues

Will Trump’s tariff chaos be China’s gain in global trade wars?

Fear spreads as Trump targets lawyers and non-profits in ‘authoritarian’ takedown

‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future

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A Little Night Music

Albert Collins - My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone

Albert Collins - Backstroke

Albert Collins - Cold Cold Feeling

Albert Collins - The Moon is Full

Albert Collins - Lights Are On Nobody Home

Albert Collins - Put The Shoe On The Other Foot

Albert Collins - Mr. Collins, Mr. Collins

Albert Collins Live At Montreux 1979

Albert Collins & The Icebreakers - Live At Rockpalast 1980

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