*Transport Unions Say Rahm Emanuel Leading DOT Would Be a "Betrayal".*

Bogus Johnson plans to take another step in the long slow process of transferring all political power in the UK to the hands of the prime minister.

The article gives the details of this step, but the overall process is more important than the details of one step or another.

The Arecibo radio telescope collapsed completely.

China built a 500-meter fixed dish radio telescope in the past decade. Meanwhile, the US can't keep one operating. It makes a sad contrast. The causes are not practical. Rather, in the US all the money goes to the plutocrats and the military.

And it's not just radio telescopes that the US lacks the money to do. There are other things, even more important, which the US fails to do — for instance, giving poor people a decent life.

Well, at least the US has saved some of the cost of demolition :-{.

An Australian senate committee is trying to investigate government cheating, but can't get answers from the officials involved.

Climate mayhem will bring flooding. Affordable housing in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and California will be especially vulnerable to flooding.