Wednesday, September 9, 2015

news bits early Sept2015

Current news this early September seems split between the massive refugee crisis in Europe and, in the US, with whatever Donald Trump is saying. Yesterday was also International Literacy Day. So, here are some other things.

Editors from The Nation say the US' wars in the Mid-East is the prime source of this refugee crisis.

Of course the wars are not over. After months of bombing Yemen, Saudi Arabia admits the UN to deliver aid there. 4 min audio

The White House Press Corp made a little video combatting the negative opinions of former Vice-President Dick Cheny regarding the current negotiated deal with Iran limiting the production of nuclear materials. They called it 'Wrong then, Wrong Now'. 2:30 minute video

A report compiled by a former Clinton-era economist shows that over the last 30-40 years, real wages and savings declined most considerably under President George W Bush, last decade. Article by Phillip Inman for the guardian.

In Baltimore, MD, a settlement for $6.4 million was accepted by the family for the wrongful death of Freddie Gray.

In competition for the US Open Tennis Championship, Serena and Venus Williams squared off.

Long-time Pew Research pollster and broadcaster Andrew Kohut dies at 73.

Archaeologists find yaupon holly, a cacao-based cousin to yerba mate in pottery remnants in the American southwest. This plant which was indigenous to the American southeast can thus be recognized as a caffeinated drink used ritually and traded over longer distances than was previously thought, 1000 years ago.

The 400th anniversary of the publication of the second part of Cervantes' Don Quixote gets celebrated. 8 min audio

Pope Francis, in an interesting commentary, gets noticed for encyclical on climate change and tieing this notion to liberation theology. That these ideas relate, are in fact, strongly related, that it comes from a 'South American pope', and that many liberals around the world would rather not see the associations reveal much about today's biases. This links the encyclical in English.

Among the photos sent back from the Pluto flyby last month includes this one of some gleaming material on dwarf-planet Ceres.
Today also marked the death of James IV King of Scotland in 1513, on Flodden Field. He was the last monarch of the entire UK who was killed in battle,
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