The Texas Tribune

The gap between Texas’ Hispanic and white populations continued to narrow last year when the state gained almost nine Hispanic residents for every additional white resident.

With Hispanics expected to become the largest population group in Texas as soon as 2022, new population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau showed the Hispanic population climbed to nearly 11.4 million — an annual gain of 214,736 through July 2018 and an increase of 1.9 million since 2010.  Continue reading “Texas gained almost nine Hispanic residents for every additional white resident last year”

Daily Mail

A £100 million superyacht seized from a disgraced party-loving financier is set to become this summer’s ultimate Med party venue as it has been put up for rent.

The 300-ft vessel boasts rooms for 22 guests including a master suite and three VIP state rooms, a spa, a beauty salon, a cinema, a gym, a deck-pool, an outdoor bar, its own helipad and is serviced by a 29-strong crew.  Continue reading “£100 million superyacht seized from shamed financier dubbed the ‘Asian Great Gatsby’ is YOURS to rent (as long as you’ve got a cool £1m-a-week!)”

Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith

The system is broken, and the managerial elite will keep it broken because it serves their interests to keep it broken.

America’s managerial elite came to do good and stayed to do well–at the expense of everyone beneath them. Now that they’ve entrenched themselves at the top of the status quo, there’s no way to dislodge them, even as their failure to address what’s broken, much less actually fix what’s broken, insures systemic breakdown. Continue reading “America’s Managerial Elite Has Failed, But We Can’t Get Rid of Them”

Phys.org

Thousands of European activists plan to blockade a large German lignite mine this week, the latest protest of a growing “climate civil disobedience” movement.

While  have held “Fridays for Future” rallies for months, protesters of the “Extinction Rebellion” group launched in Britain have risked arrest with more confrontational protests.  Continue reading “Europe’s growing ‘climate civil disobedience’ movement”

Daily Mail

Google on Tuesday pledged to commit more than $1 billion to help address the severe housing crisis it has been blamed for for years.

CEO Sundar Pichai announced the initiative, saying the internet colossus wants to be ‘a good neighbor’ in the area bursting with technology companies.  Continue reading “Google vows to spend $1BILLION to fight Bay Area housing crisis by building at least 15,000 homes”

Sputnik

According to Argentine newspaper Clarín, the power cut occurred shortly after 07:00 (12:00 GMT), causing massive power outages in Argentina and Uruguay and some regions of Paraguay, Chile, and Brazil. The blackout has abruptly interrupted the railway and the subway services, also creating numerous problems on roads due to a traffic lights shutdown.

“A massive failure in the electrical interconnection system left all of Argentina and Uruguay without power”, electricity supplier company Edesur said in a tweet, commenting on the problem.  Continue reading “Massive Power Failure Leaves 50 Mln People in Latin America Without Electricity”

BBC News – by Zaria Gorvett

It all started with a goat. The unfortunate animal was born in the Netherlands in the spring of 1939 – and his prospects did not look good. On the left side of his body, a bare patch of fur marked the spot where his front leg should have been. On the right, his front leg was so deformed, it was more of a stump with a hoof. Walking on all fours was going to be, let’s say, problematic.  Continue reading “How modern life is transforming the human skeleton”