Month: October 2020

Minnesotans Meuleners and Kettler will wrestle in a special heavyweight match Northern State senior heavyweight Matt Meuleners has been invited to participate in the 47th Annual NWCA All-Star Classic next month. The prestigious invitation caps a big off-season of competition for Meuleners, a 3-time All-American and 2-time defending national champion. He also finished sixth at the University Freestyle…

Responding to the “disgraceful” voter turnout for last week’s midterm election—just 36.6 percent—Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) argued on Monday that the way to “fix” American democracy is for Election Day to be established as a national holiday. “Can we be satisfied with a ‘democracy’ when more than 60% of people don’t vote and some 80%…

For anyone who recently attended the Fourth International Conference on Degrowth in Leipzig, Germany, listening in on conference talk, surrounded by the ecologically savvy, one quickly noticed that no one was singing the praises of sustainable development. Nonetheless, development per se and all that this entails did take center stage, as a crowd of three…

As progress at the UN climate summit in Lima, Peru has been reported as “slow” by many observers so far, green campaigners on Friday called on world governments participating in the talks to end their continued dependence on outdated fossil fuel- and nuclear-powered energy systems and urged investment and policies geared toward building clean, sustainable,…

German researchers have discovered a new flaw in the global network known as Signalling System 7 (SS7), which could allow hackers and spies to intercept communications on a massive scale, the Washington Post reports. Due to be presented at a hacker conference in Hamburg this month, the research finds that certain functions built into SS7…

Like lions targeting lone zebras in the Serengeti grasslands, industry-backed climate change deniers prefer to target individual scientists rather than take on an entire scientific field at once, climatologist Michael Mann writes in a paper published this month in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In “The Serengeti Strategy: How Special Interests Try to Intimidate…

Unrest continues in Yemen on Friday as Shiite Houthi rebels announced a “constitutional declaration” and that they were assuming control of the country. The group issued the statement in a televised address from the Sunni majority country’s capital of Sana’a. A 551-member Transitional National Council would be formed to replace the parliament, and that body…

A former spokesman for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE’s presidential campaign is arguing that Virginia will be “the first major electoral…

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Declaring solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, protesters shut down a major Boston interstate Thursday during the morning commute by locking themselves to barrels filled with cement in the direct path of traffic. The demonstrators, who described themselves in a press statement as an ad-hoc and diverse “non-Black group of Pan-Asians, Latinos, and white…