Daily News O8/31

Daily News O8/31

Video: Chris Hedges: The Iran War Is the Biggest Strategic Blunder in US History

Video: Why America Is Deliberately Killing Its Richest River: The Colorado RiverA river that carved the Grand Canyon no longer reaches the ocean. This is the story of the Colorado River crisis: a hundred-year-old water compact that divided the river using flow numbers from the wettest years in five centuries, the construction of Hoover Dam and the rise of Lake Mead, and the slow unraveling of a system now straining to supply water and power to forty million people across the American Southwest. From John Wesley Powell’s 1869 journey through the Grand Canyon to the collapse of interstate negotiations in 2026, it follows the dams, the droughts, and the water rights disputes behind today’s falling reservoirs — and the one week a dead river delta came back to life.

Video: A Strong El Niño Just Rewrote The 2026–2027 Winter ForecastThe Pacific Ocean is running so warm, so early, that the winter 2026–2027 forecast just changed in a big way — and this is the earliest very strong El Niño on record. In this breakdown I walk through exactly what the latest verified data shows and what it likely means for snow, storms, and the season ahead across the West, the ski country, and the Northeast. Plus my best-guess, region-by-region snowfall outlook — Tahoe and the Sierra, southern Colorado, New Mexico, the Wasatch, Jackson Hole, the Northeast, and more — clearly flagged as an educated projection, not a guarantee. This is shaping up to be a winter for the ages, and I’ll be tracking every twist all season long. Subscribe to F for Forecast for clear, honest weather breakdowns you can actually use.

Originalism ‘is a legal theory stating that the U.S. Constitution must be interpreted (By the Founding Fathers) according to the public meaning its words had when they were adopted.’

When the Consitution was Adopted, it was ever their Intent forWomen or Black People to vote. It was the Intent of the Founding Fathers to Not Include the Bill of Rights. Instead of codifying the constitution to guarantee our “certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, they refused to include the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights and even the 1689 English Bill of Rights in the original draft of the constitution! Due to the revolutionary consciousness at that time, it became very clear that the States would not ratify the constitution, these ‘forefathers’ had to declared that the first act of congress would be the enactment of the Bill of Rights, in order to get the states to approved the constitution. (Rhode Island held out, until the actual deed was done.) The Intent of the Founding Fathers that the primary function of the US government is to protect the minority of the 1% wealthy from the poorer 99%!

By mid-June, it was clear that the convention was drafting a new plan of government around these issues—a constitution. Madison’s nationalist position shifted the debate increasingly away from a position of pure state sovereignty, and toward the compromise.^[8] In a debate on June 26, he said that government ought to “protect the minority of the opulentagainst the majority” and that unchecked, democratic communities were subject to “the turbulency and weakness of unruly passions”. — Federalist No. 10

At their convermation hearings. Many members of the present Supreme Court Stated they interperted the Constitution based on the intent of the Constitution’s founding fathers. It eas never their intent to include the Bill of Rights, Freedom of Slaves, Their right ot vote and a womens’ right to vote!: The ‘forefathers’ I look to are those who organized the first and second American Revolution — Their ‘Founding Fathers’ and Mine (This Essay was written while Obama Was President, it still rings true today.)

Capitalism Doesn’t Invest in Land Reoratiion — It’s Not Profifitable: Land degradation is costing far more than restoring: UN deputy chiefCountries are spending too little to restore degraded land even as the economic cost of doing nothing climbs towards $1 trillion a year, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed warned at a major UN land conference in Mongolia. Countries are spending too little to restore degraded land even as the economic cost of doing nothing climbs towards $1 trillion a year, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed warned at a major UN land conference in Mongolia. Speaking at the high-level opening of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) meeting in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Ms. Mohammed called on governments to move beyond individual restoration projects and put national plans into action, backed by predictable financing and greater decision-making power for the people who depend on the land.

Climate Change Raises Risk of Disasters Like Nepal FloodsGlaciers and permafrost in the Himalayas are melting faster as temperatures rise, though scientists are still studying the exact causes of this week’s landslide. Climate change is heating up the Himalayas and supercharging the risk of disasters like the deadly flash flooding in Nepal and Tibet, though scientists are still determining the exact cause of this week’s catastrophe. A group of glaciologists and geologists said on Thursday that the flooding was probably unleashed after an enormous chunk of bedrock collapsed underneath a glacier, triggering a landslide high in the mountains. At the same time, a chunk of ice snapped off the glacier itself and cascaded thousands of feet to the valley below, the scientists said.As humans warm the planet by burning fossil fuels, the Himalayas are losing their permafrost, a mixture of soil, rocks and organic matter that has remained frozen for thousands of years. The thawing permafrost is destabilizing the foundation underneath glaciers, raising the risks of precisely these kinds of landslides and glacial collapses.

Lake Mead Water Level Today: 1,038.94 ft, 26% Full

El Niño impacts Greater Horn of Africa The Greater Horn of Africa is expected to be warmer and wetter than usual in the last quarter of 2026 as El Niño strengthens.

US War on Iran: What Accountability for War Crimes?

The Need for Government-Funded Job Creation Right Now Although there are signs that the labor market is weakening, we continue to be in a period of low unemployment. While the national unemployment rate is a very useful macroeconomic indicator, it can hide a significant amount of joblessness. For example, in July 2026, the national unemployment rate was 4.1 percent, and there were 6.9 million people officially counted as unemployed. But there were another 5.9 million who did not have a job and wanted to work but did not meet the technical requirements to be counted as unemployed. Additionally, there were 4.8 million people who wanted to work full-time but who could only find part-time work. Totaling these three groups, in July there were 17.6 million people who wanted a job or more work hours. This number is two and a half times the official unemployment count.

You Could Be Next: Trump’s Gestapo Tactics Are Getting WorseImagine living in a country that can arrest and imprison you whenever it wants, without any judge or jury deciding you did anything wrong. It can call you a “domestic terrorist” and put you in prison for life. It can even execute you on the basis of nothing more than its own decision that you’re dangerous.Well, I have bad news for you. You’re living in that country right now.

Racist Robert’s Originalist Supreme Court: The Long Con of John Roberts As a young attorney in the Reagan administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the chief justice has finished the job. here is no bigger con man in the United States than Chief Justice John Roberts. Not even President Donald J. Trump. The con began in September 2005, during Roberts’ confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Articulate, handsome and energetic at 50 years old, Roberts seemed to have been culled “straight from central casting,” as Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama actually remarked on the first day of the hearings. Roberts was also convincing — he famously promised that if confirmed, he would serve in the fashion of a baseball umpire, calling only “balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.” Seventy-eight senators, including 22 Democrats, fell(?) for the ploy and voted to give him the lifetime assignment (There is always enough Democrates to confirm all the Supreme Court Justices.)

The Mossad Suffers a Crushing Defeat Entirely of Its Own Making High-profile firings show that none of the Israeli spy agency’s promises about the war with Iran have come to pass.