Monday, August 21, 2023

Reading archive 2023-08-21

‘I am evil,’ wrote British nurse found guilty of murdering seven babies in her care

This french-fry boomtown is a climate change winner. But for how long?: Climate change has helped a small town become the world capital of french-fry production. But a dwindling water supply could reverse its progress entirely.

How Ukraine is exploiting Biden’s cluster bomb gamble

A tiny Hawaiian bird was nearing extinction. Then the Maui fires came.: With only five left in the wild, a Hawaiian bird called the 'akikiki is the country’s most endangered bird, with the Maui fires posing a new and unexpected threat - "When people — first Polynesians, then Europeans — arrived, they didn’t come alone. A cavalcade of cattle, pigs and goats trampled and devoured native vegetation. Feral cats, rats and mongooses, meanwhile, ate unsuspecting ground-nesting birds."

Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’: The former president is proposing deploying the military domestically, purging the federal workforce and building futuristic cities from scratch - "Trump’s emerging platform marks a sharp departure from traditional conservative orthodoxy emphasizing small government, which was famously summed up in Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address: 'Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.' Trump, by contrast, is proposing to apply government power, centralized under his authority, toward a vast range of issues that have long remained outside the scope of federal control."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/22/belarus-us-citizens-leave-embassy/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/china-fiji-police-mou-pacific-islands

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/22/wuhan-doctors-pandemic-china-coverup

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/22/foxconn-wisconsin-trump/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/22/trump-trade-tariffs/


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