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Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2022-07-27 _F2A5559aaa
“This year, the average American paid $1,087 in taxes just for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.”
“Ordinary Americans Are Being Forced to Subsidize the Military-Industrial Complex”
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Climate Change Kills:
“Risks of high humidity in India now at 95F
"Extreme heat can be deceptively dangerous, even in places accustomed to extreme heat. India learned that lesson in a deadly episode over the weekend.
On Sunday afternoon, at a government event on the outskirts of Mumbai, hundreds of thousands of people sat on a bare field, under a scorching mid-April sun, listening to a parade of politicians who appeared on a stage shaded by a roof, according to video from local television news.
The maximum temperature recorded at the nearest weather station was just above 35 degrees Celsius, or 95 Fahrenheit.
By the end of the day, at least 11 people had died of heat stroke. Some 50 were hospitalized. (Death toll estimates varied, with some news outlets reporting up to 13 deaths.)
Rarely in recent years have so many people died of heat at a single event. In general, heat related deaths are notoriously hard to quantify.
It was a grave warning to a nation exceedingly vulnerable to the hazards of global warming. A long and punishing heat wave walloped India last year, and, this year, the hot season began abnormally early. India recorded its hottest February in history.
How did this happen?
There was no heat warning for the area before the event, because there wasn’t, strictly speaking, a heat wave. That designation is triggered by the Indian Meteorological Department when temperatures are more than 4.5 degrees Celsius above normal.
But it was hot enough to be debilitating when sitting under the sun for hours. High levels of humidity, ranging from 60 to 70 percent at midday, according to local weather reports, added to the risk.
That’s one of the challenges. In some coastal areas, humidity figures into heat alerts. But it’s not uniformly worked into heat alerts for all areas.
By midafternoon, the Meteorological Department had issued a news release warning of a rise in maximum temperatures, but it focused on the 5 days ahead, over the entire state of Maharashtra."”
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“Eric Kestner, April 17 at 5:29 PM
2. Taxes offset #Government spending.
3. It's a matter of #logic: #dollars must be spent into existence (by the Gov) first, in order for us to use some of those $ to pay taxes
4. #Taxing for #revenue is for local states/municipalities, not the #sovereign issuer of the #currency.
5. Taxing excessive wealth protects #democracy from #Oligarchy and protects us from abusive market power
6. Taxing #pollution & #speculation to reduce such activities, not to "fund" #healthcare and #education.
7. Federal spending is not revenue constrained, it's #inflation constrained.
8. Inflation is determined by the level of productive capacity and by the power of business to administer prices
9. Take a moment to #LearnMMT and to challenge your elected officials to do the right thing to fight #ClimateChange #Hunger #Homelessness #Poverty #Inequality #Unemployment #Exclusion & #Injustice.
10. Fight for #GreenNewDeal #JobGuarantee #M4A #C4A #Reparations & #Justice for all. It's cheaper, healthier, and better than the current system. The #StatusQuo is unaffordable..
- Fadhel Kaboub”
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Now we are all in Julian Assange’s shoes:
“Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For “Weaponzed” Free Speech” by Caitlin Johnstone
Quote:
“The Biden administration's Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says "weaponized" the First Amendment rights of Americans.”
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“Oklahoma sheriff, 2 staffers recorded discussing lynching Black people are suspended from sheriffs' association
The Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association unanimously voted to suspend McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, investigator Alicia Manning and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix.”
“They’re big defense, they were recorded illegally !!! this is disgusting despicable behavior from any human being but coming from law-enforcement. I cannot believe they want them to resign that would allow them to move on to a different area and perpetuate murderous hatred Ways
 I certainly hope they’re all incarcerated and charged with these crimes so that they can never be in a position to inflict their idea of justice, on decent human beings”
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"Scale of glacier loss in Himalayas previously hidden, say scientists studying accelerated melting
DESPITE USING SATELLITE DATA, STUDIES OF LAKE-TERMINATING GLACIERS IN THE ‘THIRD POLE’ OVERLOOKED 2.7 GIGATONNE LOSS, SAYS PAPER
FINDINGS IMPORTANT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF WATER RESOURCES AND FLOODING IN THE REGION, SAYS CHINESE RESEARCHER”
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Are you sure it’s a question of too much taxation and not a question of what got underfunded?
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“It’s broken isn’t it?
We’ve broken what we do with food.
Pears grow in the U.K. They could grow in our gardens. We could walk out and pick the, wipe them and eat them. No chemicals, no processing, no plastic, no planes, no sell by dates. Just fresh fruit.
God help us”
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“The Airman Who gave Gamers a Real Taste of War”
“A group liked online war games. But then Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old National Guard airman, began showing members classified documents, they say.”
“The deeper message the New York Times is sending us is that we should be appalled that anyone might be anti-war, especially anyone associated with make-believe war games. Our culture is dominated by movies and videos and games of violence to end all conflict - is that enough to condition these young men?”
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“Our survival depends on raising the scale of civil disobedience until we build the greatest mass movement in history.
Mobilising the 25% who can flip the system. We do not consent to the Destruction of live on Earth.
George Monbiot
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Facebook censorship front message:
“This content isn't available right now
When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.”
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“George Santos; Clare Thomas; ex kkk members in Tennessee govt; privatizing medicare\caid
As pressure grows on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign over his decades-long relationship with a billionaire benefactor, we speak with legal journalist Adam Cohen, who says there is a precedent that should guide lawmakers in how to address the growing scandal.”
“In 1969 Abe Fortas Became the First Justice Forced to Resign. Should Clarence Thomas Be Next?”
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Val Eisman \ Climate Alert, April 19 at 1:44 AM
“China is getting ready to build the biggest wind turbine on the planet that is 70 STORIES HIGH in the ocean! I hope it does not fall over!”
“China is building the world’s biggest wind turbine in the middle of the ocean — and it’s nearly 70 stories tall”
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“Why mortality for young Americans is increasing at an alarming rate”
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Bill Edley:
“Honestly, I think our political and corporate elites are FULLY aware of their benefits from using Race to offset Class self-interests. In other words, there is nothing "unwitting" about Identity Politics. However, the closing is mostly on target:
Closing Passage:
Malik joins here with a small but growing number of leftwing thinkers, including Nancy Fraser and Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr., who view leftwing identitarianism as having been in an unholy, but perhaps unwitting, alliance with neoliberal capitalism over the past decades. As Malik puts it, by “delinking race and class and obscuring the social and political roots of both working-class inequalities and racial injustices,” left identitarianism has made it harder to deal with both. “Just as in the nineteenth century racial identity was used to break-up class alliances, and to persuade white workers that their interests lay in their whiteness, not in their class location, so today the language of identity leads to the same place, though without necessarily the conscious intention of doing so”
Ultimately, the only way forward for the left is to return to the universalism it had historically championed. “Radical universalists from Toussaint Louverture to CLR James...recognized,” Malik stresses, “the importance of Enlightenment ideals in challenging racism and colonialism” and understood “that racial barbarism sprung from the denial of such ideals to all of humanity.” As many in the West question whether our increasingly unequal, divided and diverse democracies can survive, more people on the left should take pleas like Malik’s seriously.“
“How Identity Politics Aids the Right and Divides the Left
A review of "Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics" by Kenan Malik”
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