‘The lifespan of NASA’s Cassini is coming to an end, but in one of its final acts the space probe has captured images of an incredible vortex that experts believe has been raging on Saturn for centuries.’
https://www.rt.com/viral/394848-cassini-saturn-hexagon-storm/
‘Rome’s traditional water fountains will be shut off for the first time in more than 140 years as a punishing heat wave continues to affect much of Italy.’
https://www.rt.com/viral/394840-rome-fountain-drought-heatwave/
‘Police expect an outbreak of violence as dozens of rallies, including one named “Welcome to Hell,” have been announced in Hamburg ahead of the G20 summit there. Left-wing radicals are vowing to “protest in all kinds of ways.”
“We are a country where people have a right to demonstrate,” said the German government spokesman, Steffen Seibert. “Every citizen has a right to protest. And that counts for the G20 too,” he added
https://www.rt.com/news/394880-hamburg-prepare-g20-protests/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/07/02/g20-summit-activists-plan-welcome-trump-putin-germany
‘The US Department of Energy says there is a high risk that a tunnel filled with radioactive waste might collapse at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the state of Washington. This after another tunnel partially caved in at the same facility last month.’ The facility was built in the 1950s and for decades produced plutonium for the US nuclear weapons arsenal. In 1988, production stopped and the site became a burying ground for radioactive waste.’
https://www.rt.com/usa/394861-hanford-another-tunnel-danger/
‘Moscow Region has been hit by a powerful storm that brought heavy torrential rains and hail. The capital has not seen such a storm in almost 100 years, according to meteorologists.’
‘Russian President Vladimir Putin is a phenomenon who can bring peace to many across the globe, football legend Diego Maradona told journalists in Moscow, adding that he views US leader Donald Trump as a cartoon character, who can’t be treated seriously. The legendary Argentinean said he didn’t see US President Donald Trump among the elite, saying, “For me, he’s more of a comic.”
https://www.rt.com/sport/394876-putin-trump-maradona-moscow/
‘The basics of Republican health legislation, which haven’t changed much in different iterations of Trumpcare, are easy to describe: Take health insurance away from tens of millions, make it much worse and far more expensive for millions more, and use the money thus saved to cut taxes on the wealthy.’
‘Watch our conversation with best-selling author and Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein about her book, “No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need.”
Part 1:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/13/no_is_not_enough_best_selling
Part 2:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/30/naomi_klein_the_worst_is_yet
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/naomi_klein_how_to_resist_trumps_shock_doctrine_20170613
Colbert: ‘The President is truly uniting the world! In a way that he probably didn’t intend to.’
by Robert Parry
‘The New York Times has finally admitted that one of the favorite Russia-gate canards – that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies concurred on the assessment of Russian hacking of Democratic emails – is false.’
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_new_york_times_retracts_a_russiagate_canard_20170629
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/23/new-cracks-in-russia-gate-assessment/
“We deem it absolutely unacceptable when a bill demands that Europeans give up on Russian gas so that they could sell American instead, at a much higher price,” Gabriel said in Krasnodar, Russia, as cited by Handelsblatt daily.’
https://www.rt.com/news/394783-germany-russia-sanctions-nordstream
