(Isn't this one of the reasons we killed Hussein?): China Readies Yuan-Priced Crude Oil Benchmark Backed By Gold
Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 11:09pmChina Readies Yuan-Priced Crude Oil Benchmark Backed By Gold
The world’s top oil importer, China, is preparing to launch a crude oil futures contract denominated in Chinese yuan and convertible into gold, potentially creating the most important Asian oil benchmark and allowing oil exporters to bypass U.S.-dollar denominated benchmarks by trading in yuan, Nikkei Asian Review reports.
Begging for War
Submitted by Big Al on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 10:17pm
Trapped. That's how I feel now when I read what's happening in the foreign policy/geopolitical world. Trapped. I feel like screaming out to anyone, "hey, can't you see!!"
But there's no one who will listen except the die hard anti-imperialists who truly understand what has happened and what is happening. They're all trapped also.
Wildfires Burning Over One Million Acres in US Right Now
Submitted by Steven D on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 6:33pm
View from Lookout Mountain, CO. Not clouds. Not Smog. Smoke from wildfires 800 miles away.
The Evening Blues - 9-4-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 3:00pm
Dell EMC settles in transgender discrimination complaint
Submitted by Robyn on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 2:06pmDell EMC2 has agreed to pay $60,000 to a transgender former intern in order to settle claims that she faced sex and gender identity-based discrimination while working at the company.
The GOS now functions like Breitbart for Corporate Dems
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 09/04/2017 - 1:10pmJump ahead to 5:45 to get to the relevant part, although the whole segment is good.
Indiana Court of Appeals eases process
Submitted by Robyn on Sun, 09/03/2017 - 1:58pmA judge in Tippecanoe County, Indiana had decided that a person seeking a name or gender change had to publish the change in a newspaper in their home county at least three times.
On Thursday the Indiana Court of Appeals overruled that decision.
White Supremacy And Inequality
Submitted by Meteor Man on Sun, 09/03/2017 - 9:01amHat tip to BuzzFeed for three very good articles. From The Intercept, a statue of the first KKK Wizard:
Forrest The Butcher
As President Donald Trump gave his tacit support to white supremacists on TV, Memphians returned to a place they had been protesting for years: the large bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 09/03/2017 - 7:30am
Workers of the World Unite!
It's Labor Day weekend. It marks the end of the summer season for many, however we still have a few more weeks till the equinox and true Autumn. This summer was the 50th anniversary of the “Summer of Love”...a time when hopes and dreams of a better world filled many minds of my generation. At that time I thought our idealism would change the world. Sadly capitalism was a more powerful force than our aspirations. How far away we have drifted from that dream of a better world. Today's image of America in my mind includes it's militarized police, disregard for people in favor of corporate profit, massive incarceration of the poor people of color to benefit privatized prisons and probation services, large scale aggression across the world, destruction of the planet and climate for the benefit of the few, and top it off with a heapin' helpin' of our arrogance that we are exceptional (yes exceptionally evil).
