This 13 February 2020 video says about itself:
Great white sharks are making a great big comeback in Mexico
Sharks play a key role in keeping oceans healthy, but their numbers plunged by over 70% in some places around the world. The great white is still considered vulnerable, but is making a comeback thanks to stronger environmental protections. Jonathan Vigliotti gets up close and personal with them in one protected area where their population is booming for our series Eye on Earth.
This 15 February 2020 video from the USA says about itself:
Joe Manchin Says He’s Open To Endorsing Trump
Joe Manchin is a fake democrat and it’s time to get him out of office! Jayar Jackson, Cenk Uygur, and Kara Eastman, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
“Joe Manchin thinks President Donald Trump abused his power and voted to remove him from office.
In the Democratic party impeachment attempt, which was about Trump supposedly not being anti-Russia enough; not about Trump’s wars, his over a trillion dollars military budget, his drone assassinations, his anti-immigrant policies, his anti-environmentalism, his misogyny, his homophobia, his tax breaks for billionaires while attacking sick people, etc.
But he also thinks Trump can still be a “tremendous president” and is eager to reconcile.
The West Virginia Democratic senator surprised his Republican colleagues by denying Trump a bipartisan acquittal last week. But he can’t quit Trump entirely — and is even open to supporting Trump’s re-election campaign.”
This 14 February 2020 video says about itself:
‘Red Sixty Seven’ seeks to raise awareness of declining birds and secure additional funds for BTO and RSPB scientists to carry out important research, work that should help to address the causes of decline. The project takes its name from the UK Red List of Birds of Conservation Concern, which currently contains 67 species.
An artwork has been produced for each species, together with a written piece by some of the UK’s leading writers. The artworks are being sold to raise funds, through 67 ‘tickets’ sold in January and guaranteeing the purchaser an artwork, determined by the drawing of lots. Find out more here.
This 14 February 2020 British TV video says about itself:
Storm Dennis: ‘Danger to life’ declared as UK braces for 70mph winds | ITV News
The Met Office has issued a “danger to life” weather warning as the UK braces itself for Storm Dennis – a second weekend of gusty weather.
Storm Dennis is forecast to batter large swathes of the country with 70mph winds and up to 140mm (5.5in) of rain in some areas.
Experts have also warned a “perfect storm” of heavy rain, strong winds and melting snow could leave hundreds of homes across the UK flooded this weekend.
The Environment Agency (EA) said the flood impact from the weather system is likely to be worse than last weekend’s Storm Ciara due to rain falling on already saturated ground.
From the BBC today:
Flooding hits as Storm Dennis continues to lash UK
Flooding has hit parts of the UK as heavy rain and strong winds caused by Storm Dennis continue to lash the UK.
Firefighters rescued people in south Wales, where the Met Office issued its first red rain warning – meaning there was a likely risk to life – since 2015.
Homes have also been flooded in Herefordshire, where one resident said the storm had hit “like a tornado“.
More than 300 flood warnings have been issued across the UK, as rivers continue to rise.
There are currently four severe flood warnings in England and two in Wales, which also mean there is a danger to life.
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Sarah Bridge, 55, compared Storm Dennis to a tornado and said water had flooded her home in Pontrilas in Herefordshire despite specialist flood doors, reaching her knees.
“It’s heartbreaking,” she said. “The kitchen is completely flooded, I can hear things floating about downstairs.”
The red rain warning in south Wales, which lasted until 11:00 GMT, advised residents to “take action” to keep safe from dangerous weather and avoid travel.
Amy Price, 20, said her family were trapped in the upstairs of their home in Llanover, Monmouthshire, because water on the ground floor had reached as high as the light switches.
“The river started rising about 1am and at 3am it started coming into the house,” she said.
“We started sweeping the water away and then at 6am the river started coming over the bank.”
Wind gusts reached 91mph on Saturday, according to the Met Office, while 142mm of rainfall was recorded at the Cray Reservoir in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales.
Jessica Falk Perlman, who is on holiday with her family in Crickhowell, Powys, to celebrate her mother’s 60th birthday, told BBC Radio 5 Live that firefighters woke them at 04:00 GMT to tell them they were being evacuated because the River Usk had burst its banks.
But water quickly came flooding into their holiday home, forcing them upstairs and stalling their evacuation.
“The door of our house burst open and water came flooding in right up to the top of the stairs which was quite nerve-wracking at the time,” she said.
She added: “It’s well over the front door of the house, it’s flooded all the way up to the ceiling.”
In Pontypridd, bar worker Jack Jones said he had to leave work on Saturday evening as water from the River Taff entered the bar.
“It came from nowhere,” he said. “To come down this morning and see it like this is quite shocking.”
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Of the flood warnings, more than 200 apply in England,more than 70 in Wales, and more than 40 in Scotland – where two people had to be rescued after their car was swept off the road near Newcastleton.
In York, the Environment Agency has predicted the River Ouse could come close to record levels seen in 2000.
Properties were flooded in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, on Sunday morning – and residents were urged to take “extreme care” by the area’s Environment Agency manager.
Across the UK road, rail and air travellers also face disruption.
About 170 flights were cancelled as of Sunday morning, affecting at least 25,000 passengers.
The storm has caused disruption at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Southend, Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick airports over the weekend.
Rail services have been suspended across south Wales, and in parts of England and Scotland, according to National Rail.
Highways England said strong winds had closed part of the M48 Severn Bridge eastbound and the QEII bridge at the Dartford Crossing, while flooding closed A-roads in South Yorkshire, Herefordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Gloucestershire.
Amber warnings for rain and yellow warnings for wind are in place for most of the country into Sunday evening.
This means flooding could cause a danger to life, power cuts are expected and there is a good chance transport links will be impacted.
On Saturday, the body of a man was pulled from the sea off the Kent coast.
The man was declared dead at the scene in Herne Bay after emergency services were called at 12:15 GMT. …
A second body was found by the RNLI at about 13:00 GMT on Saturday after a seven-hour search in “rough seas” for a man who fell from a fuel tanker off the coast of Margate.
In other developments on Saturday:
- The Army helped residents shore up flood defences in Ilkley and Calder in West Yorkshire
- EasyJet cancelled about 350 flights over the weekend – almost 100 of these are to and from London’s Gatwick Airport
- About 60 flights were grounded at London’s Heathrow Airport. Most of them are British Airways
- Rail passengers across the country were urged to check before travelling, with delays and cancellations expected on certain routes
- For more information, check the BBC Weather website and your BBC Local Radio station for regular updates
Last weekend Ciara brought as much as 184mm of rain and gusts reaching 97mph. It also caused hundreds of homes to be flooded and left more than 500,000 people without power.
But experts have warned Storm Dennis could cause more flooding damage, as already saturated ground is met with a “perfect storm” of heavy rain, strong winds and melting snow.
Government must not ‘shrug their shoulders’ at flood defences, Labour warns: here.
Downing Street defends Johnson’s failure to visit flooded areas as more weather warnings issued: here.
This video is about common rosefinches singing in Belarus.
It shows adult males and females and a young male.
This 15 February 2020 video from the USA about New York City billionaire Democratic party presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg says about itself:
Mike Bloomberg just rejoined several elitist all-white clubs. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
Michael Bloomberg Quietly Rejoined Clubs That Largely Exclude Women, Minorities. When no one was watching, the presidential candidate re-upped his membership at two of these clubs after resigning from them in 2001: here.
Talking about New York City, about another presidential candidate …
By Julia Manchester in the USA, 02/14/2020 06:09 PM EST:
De Blasio endorses Sanders for president
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio officially threw his support behind Sen. Bernie Sanders‘s (Independent-Vermont) presidential campaign on Friday, arguing that Sanders is the candidate to take down President Trump in November.
“I am standing with Bernie because he stands with working families, and always has,” de Blasio, a former 2020 presidential contender, said in a statement released by Sanders‘s campaign.
“New Yorkers know all too well the damage caused by Donald Trump’s xenophobia, bigotry and recklessness, and Bernie is the candidate to take him on and take him down,” he continued. …
De Blasio endorsed Hillary Clinton over Sanders in 2016,
De Blasio managed Ms Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2000.
despite sharing a number of Sanders’s progressive stances.
The mayor dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary in September, saying he would continue to focus on the needs of the working class.
So, the mayor of New York City differs from the main corporate medium in his city, the New York Times.
This 9 February 2020 video from Canada says about itself:
Just out of the nest, this Common Loon chick learns how to catch a ride on its parent’s back.
Video by Justin Hoffman, Ontario
Today, Dutch NOS radio reports that the United Nations says that the royal air force of Saudi Arabia has once again killed at least thirty civilians in Yemen; including women and children. At least 12 people were injured.
The NOS report says (translated):
Aid organization Save the Children condemns the air raids and calls for an independent investigation. The organization blames Western countries that sell weapons to the Saudi coalition for contributing to the bloodshed in Yemen.
Since the start of the war in Yemen in 2015, an estimated 100,000 people have died in the country. The years of fighting have also caused one of the greatest humanitarian crises in modern history. Millions of people are starving and in recent years have been affected by outbreaks of diseases such as cholera.
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