Young Climate Activists Storm Capitol Hill Demanding A Green New Deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULMpL4m5ms

EXPOSED: Wall St Brainwashes Freshman Congresspeople Into Corporatism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi6PJKg8itY

What ‘hacked’ DNC emails exposed was truly outrageous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnDqQKb0WS4

France's Macron Makes Concessions while 'Yellow Vest' Protests Continue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVOFMKQSI4M

Message from Justice Democrats

https://www.justicedemocrats.com/home/

Over the last few months, Justice Democrats and progressives in Congress have done something incredible -- we have seized the attention of the Democratic Party, and brought a Green New Deal to the forefront of our national discourse.

It hasn’t been easy. Every corner of the establishment has cried out that the Green New Deal is “a nice organizing tactic,” but claims that we need to revert back to “what’s possible.” In their view, our ambition is merely fantasy. But that’s only because they don’t remember what we’ve been capable of before.

In 1940, we stood on the precipice of catastrophe -- staring into the darkness presented by the rise of fascism. FDR saw what needed to be done, and called for the creation of an arsenal of democracy: 185,000 planes, 120,000 tanks, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns, 18 million tons of merchant shipping.

Hitler thought it was just American propaganda. CEOs, generals, business leaders, you name it -- everyone believed it wasn’t possible for a nation that had produced fewer than 3,000 planes just one year earlier to achieve global superpower status.

They were all wrong. Through the power of our collective will, we blew past FDR’s ‘unrealistic goals,’ and confronted the darkness of fascism together. We came together as a nation, and we achieved the impossible because that is what our reality demanded.

Today, we confront another form of darkness: the climate catastrophe that we have just 12 years to save ourselves from. And the free market is not coming to save us -- it wasn’t in 1940, and it is not in 2018.

Together, we must fight climate change with bold, unprecedented action without delay. But we need your help to do it

White House Ficus To Leave For Virginia Arboretum After Declining Trump’s Offer To Be Chief Of Staff

https://politics.theonion.com/white-house-ficus-to-leave-for-virginia-arboretum-after-1830989844




















WASHINGTON—As the Trump administration scrambles to find a replacement for outgoing advisor John Kelly, officials announced Monday that a high-level White House ficus would leave for the State Arboretum of Virginia after declining the president’s offer to be chief of staff. “The ficus has been honored to serve President Trump and the American people these last several months and plans to continue advancing the MAGA cause as a member of the private sector,” read a statement drafted by an aide for the ficus, noting that the potted shrub was one of the longest-tenured and most-trusted members of the Trump administration, spending countless hours working alongside the president from a sunny spot inside the Oval Office. “Rumors that the ficus was forced out following a heated argument with Jared Kushner are simply untrue. The ficus will spend the next few weeks helping with the transition of its replacement, a large fern, before departing to work in the tropical plant section of the arboretum.” At press time, the White House was reportedly thrown into chaos after the large fern confirmed it would not accept the new job.

Electric Blanket Use and Breast Cancer in the Nurses' Health Study

Francine Laden; Lucas M. Neas; Paige E. Tolbert; Michelle D. Holmes; Susan E. Hankinson; Donna Spiegelman; Frank E. Speizer; David J. Hunter

American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 152, Issue 1, 1 July 2000, Pages 41–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/152.1.41

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/152/1/41/139166

Abstract

Electric and magnetic fields (EMFs) have been hypothesized to increase the risk of breast cancer, and electric blankets represent an important source of exposure to EMFs. The authors examined the relation between electric blanket use and invasive breast cancer in the Nurses' Health Study. On the biennial questionnaire in 1992, 87,497 women provided information on this exposure during three consecutive time periods. In a prospective analysis with 301,775 person-years of follow-up through 1996 (954 cases), the relative risk for any electric blanket use was not elevated (relative risk (RR) = 1.08, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.95, 1.24) after controlling for breast cancer risk factors. There was a weak association between breast cancer and electric blanket use at least 16 years before diagnosis and long-term use in age-adjusted analyses but not in multivariate models. In a retrospective analysis of 1,318,683 person-years of follow-up (2,426 cases), the multivariate relative risk associated with use before disease follow-up began was null (RR = 1.05, 95% CI: 0.95, 1.16). Similar results were obtained in analyses stratified by menopause and restricted to estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers. While 95% confidence intervals for these estimates did not exclude small risks, overall, results did not support an association between breast cancer risk and exposure to EMFs from electric blankets.

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