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The world’s rivers are drying up from extreme weather. See how 6 look from space

By Natalie Croker, Renée Rigdon, Judson Jones, Carlotta Dotto and Angela Dewan, CNN Published 3:30 AM EDT, Sat August 20, 2022 CNN —  To be stuck “up a river without a paddle” is an expression for a sticky situation you just can’t get out of. But if that river happens to be in the northern hemisphere this summer, it’s likely the paddle […]

Drought disrupts cargo traffic on Germany’s Rhine River | DW News

131,409 views Aug 13, 2022 A summer of record-breaking heat is drying up rivers across Europe as around half of the continent faces an unprecedented drought. In the UK, the driest July in over 80 years has largely evaporated the source of the River Thames. Italy’s longest waterway, the River Po, has sunk to record […]

China Drought Causes Yangtze to Dry Up, Sparking Shortage of Hydropower

By Helen Davidson Global Research, August 25, 2022 The Guardian 22 August 2022 A record-breaking drought has caused some rivers in China – including parts of the Yangtze – to dry up, affecting hydropower, halting shipping, and forcing major companies to suspend operations. A nationwide drought alert was issued on Friday as a long-running and severe heatwave in China’s heavily populated […]

Belarus delivers on nuke promise to Putin – Lukashenko

RT Belarus has finished preparing some of its military aircraft for the possible deployment of Russian nuclear weapons, President Alexander Lukashenko revealed on Friday. “You remember [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and I said we will modify Belarusian Su jets so that they could carry nuclear weapons. Did you think we were blabbing? It’s all done!” he […]

Most Noteworthy Comment of the Day

Taken from comment section of  piece in Moon of Alabama here: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/ukraine-wrong-assumptions-wrong-conclusions-and-a-lot-of-dead-soldiers.html#more Awesome article, one of the best recently. Thanks. More on the start of the war being hidden: “US intel had claimed to have intercepted Russian plans for the invasion back in October 2021. The Washington Post and German newspaper BILD reported back on […]

Desperate Alex Jones Pleads for Forgiveness From Trump After Backing DeSantis

by Justin Baragona Mon, August 22, 2022 at 1:44 PM Well, that didn’t take long. Three days after declaring he found someone “way better than” former President Donald Trump, far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones issued a pleading “emergency message” to beg the ex-president to forgive him for endorsing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Despite being a loud “Stop the […]

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