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25 December 17 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News YES WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPECT "SOME" DONATIONS - It's "Reader Supported News." Everyone who comes here knows that. We are a community based organization. We don't take corporate cash. We speak truth to power as our community expects. Yes we should have an expectation of "reasonable" support. Yes it's getting serious. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Tom Engelhardt | Who Cares? Not Them, Not It, Not Him, Not (Evidently) Us    Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch   Engelhardt writes: "I'm sure it won't be news to you that, when it comes to him - and I mean, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who reputedly has a void where the normal quotient of human empathy might be - don't give it a second's thought. Beyond himself, his businesses, and possibly (just possibly) his family, he clearly couldn...

19 December 17 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News BROTHER (OR SISTER) CAN YOU SPARE A DONATION? One thing you can say for the wing-nuts, they do support their causes. We are going to try to build a funding model that puts us in a competitive position with the so-called conservative oracles. Get behind us with a donation, you'll be impressed by what we do with it. Thanks for the opportunity, Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Rebecca Gordon | The President Plays With Matches, and the Whole World Burns    Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch   Gordon writes: "'I've just heard that my family home near Carpenteria is literally in flames at this moment,' a friend told me recently. She was particularly worried, she said, because 'my mom has MS. She and my dad got the call to evacuate after midnight last night. They were able to grab a few photos, my sister's childhood teddy bear, and the ...

  News Updates from CLG 12 December 2017 http://www.legitgov.org/ All links are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news   Previous edition:  Deep State's Google to appoint staff of 10,000 to weed out 'extremist' content on YouTube   Breaking :   Alabama Senate election: Doug Jones defeats Roy Moore, Fox News projects  | 12 Dec 2017 | Democrat Doug Jones has pulled off a major upset in Alabama by defeating Republican Roy Moore in Tuesday's special election, Fox News has projected, becoming the first Democrat to win election to the Senate from the deeply conservative state in 25 years. The dramatic Democratic upset in deep red Alabama cuts the GOP’s Senate majority from 52 to 51, further dimming Republican hopes of enacting major legislation backed by President Trump. With 91 percent of precincts reporting, Jones was ahead of Moore 49.6 to 48.8 percent.   Pakistani Air Force ordered to shoot down US drones  ...

  News Updates from CLG 08 December 2017 http://www.legitgov.org/ All links are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news Previous edition: Japan poised to flood Pacific with one million tons of radioactive water from Fukushima  [ which Google relegated to the sp*m bin. ] For those who missed this story:  Japan is poised to flood the Pacific Ocean with one million tons of radioactive water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear power plant  -- The amount of radioactive water at Fukushima is still growing, by 150 tons a day . | 26 Nov 2017 | The Japanese government is being urged by experts to gradually release radioactive water in to the Pacific Ocean more than six years after a tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The water is stored on site in around 900 large and densely packed tanks and could spill should another major disaster strike. The government has been urged to release the water into the ocean as all...