Month: August 2020
Bearing Witness to the Pandemic August 2020
Week of August 2 – 8, 2020 Nearly every industrial country that was stricken hard early on has now managed to contain the coronavirus pandemic, except for the United States. At the beginning of the month as the US case count approaches 5 million… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to the Pandemic August 2020”
Bearing Witness to Climate Change Aug 2020
Government scientists with the National Weather Service are predicting that this year’s hurricane season will be one of the most active on record. The NOAA forecasts between 19-25 named storms with 7-11 hurricanes in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Even before the season began on… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Climate Change Aug 2020”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 43 Aug 16-22
A Senate Intelligence Committee panel concluded in a nearly 1,000 page report that members of the Trump 2016 campaign team spoke often with Russian agents, whom they shared campaign data with, and because of that posed a “grave counter-intelligence threat” to the United States.… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 43 Aug 16-22”
Observatory: Coronavirus Pandemic Causes and Lessons
When public policy experts, historians and future generations look back on what happened during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic and Global Recession, how will they judge why it happened across our planet to a species like our own? And especially why it was so devastating… Continue Reading “Observatory: Coronavirus Pandemic Causes and Lessons”
Bearing Witness to the Pandemic Causes and Lessons
When public policy experts, historians and future generations look back on what happened during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic and Global Recession, how will they judge why it happened across our planet to a species like our own? And especially why it was so devastating… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to the Pandemic Causes and Lessons”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 43 Aug 9-15
Despite all the illness, death, misery, unemployment, civic unrest, rising poverty, food lines, non-functioning government, racial injustice, evictions, business closures, ballooning national debt, international trade crises, corporate bankruptcies, increasing homelessness, shrinking GDP, election anxiety, mental health crisis, and economic carnage….the stock market nears its… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 43 Aug 9-15”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 43 Aug 2-8
Hold the presses – or social media feeds. The President shows a rare bit of introspection this week while complaining about Dr. Fauci when he says: “It’s sort of if curious. A man works for us and yet they’re highly thought of and nobody… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 43 Aug 2-8”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 42 July 26-31
With 150,000 deaths from Covid-19 and the economy in shambles, the President makes another attack on our democracy by suggesting that the Nov. 3 presidential election be delayed. He posted it shortly after the Commerce Dept. reported a near 10% drop in the nation’s… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 42 July 26-31”
Bearing Witness to Trump Month 42 July 19-25
While a thousand Americans die each day from Covid-19, Trump continues to make war this week on protesters in Portland using what the Oregon governor said were secret police-style tactics intentionally adding fuel to a fire. Paramilitary-like camouflaged-clad federal agents used tear gas on… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Trump Month 42 July 19-25”
Bearing Witness to Climate Change July 2020
A Washington Post article on the future of the planet undergoing climate change reminded me of United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres quote from last year: “I will not be a silent witness to the crime of dooming our present and destroying their right… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Climate Change July 2020”
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