Ryan Knight:
“It’s absurd how Democrats always act powerless. The control the House, Senate & White House.
They could pass a living wage, codify Roe & make healthcare a human right.
But instead they just keep making excuses & finding scapegoats so they can govern for the corporate donors.
2020 9/27 _F2A1016aaa1of2A
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The companies are planet killers
““Four companies now control more than half of the market in chicken processing (Tyson, JBS, Perdue, and Sanderson), close to 70 percent in pork (Smithfield, JBS, Tyson, and Hormel), and nearly three quarters in beef (JBS, Tyson, Cargill, and National Beef), according to one recent analysis.
Now, real change could be in the works.”
“Just a Few Companies Control the Meat Industry. Can a New Approach to Monopolies Level the Playing Field?”
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The wouldn’t know Jesus from Satan, if Satan himself bit them in the ass
“In total control of the state, Republicans have a free hand that they’ve used to enforce extremism.”
“The Texas Taliban Wing of the Republican Party”
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Romeu Peitinho:
“Instructive to say the least.
"Washington was thrilled with Ghani’s reign in Afghanistan, because it had finally found a new way to implement Augusto Pinochet’s economic program, but without the PR cost of torturing and massacring droves of dissenters in stadiums. Of course, it was the foreign military occupation that replaced Pinochet’s death squads, concentration camps, and helicopter assassinations. But the distance between Ghani and his neocolonial protectors helped NATO market Afghanistan as a new model for capitalist democracy, one that could be exported to other parts of the Global South.
As South Asia’s version of the Chicago Boys, the US-educated Ghani believed deeply in the power of the free market. To advance his vision, he founded a Washington, DC-based think tank, the “Institute for State Effectiveness,” whose slogan was “Citizen-Centered Approaches to State and Market,” and which was expressly dedicated to proselytizing the wonders of capitalism.
Ghani clearly spelled out his dogmatic neoliberal worldview in an award-winning book rather comically titled “Fixing Failed States.” (The 265-page tome uses the word “market” a staggering 219 times.) It would be impossible to overstate the irony, then, of the state he personally presided over immediately failing mere days after a US military withdrawal.
The instantaneous and disastrous disintegration of the US puppet regime in Kabul sent Western governments and mainstream reporters into a frenzy. As they frantically looked for people to blame, Ghani stood out as a convenient scapegoat.
What went unsaid was that these same NATO member states and media outlets had for two decades lavished praise on Ghani, depicting him as a noble technocrat who was bravely fighting corruption. They had long been the Afghan president’s eager patrons, but threw him under the bus when he outlived his usefulness, finally acknowledging that Ghani was the treacherous crook he had always been.
The case is instructive, for Ashraf Ghani is a textbook example of the neoliberal elites whom the US empire hand picks, cultivates, and installs in power to serve its interests."”
“How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country”
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“Cleaner Air Could Be Better for Your Brain
Emerging research links improved air quality to reduced dementia risks”
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U.S. Department of “Neoliberal-Stooge-cultivating-Kickbacks-of-Govt-Money-to-the-Party” Transportation:
“Dutch trains run entirely on wind energy. One windmill running for an hour can power a train for 120 miles, and around 5,500 trips are facilitated every day. The system allows around 600,000 passengers to commute daily without any emissions.”
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“A new Polar Vortex is emerging over the North Pole, powering up for #Winter 2021/2022. It will combine its strength with a negative wind anomaly high above the Equator (QBO) and the La Nina, making an energetic mix of weather dynamics.”
“Stratospheric Polar Vortex returns for Winter 2021/2022, together with a strong easterly wind anomaly high above the Equator, impacting the Winter season”
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“Julian Assange speaking in 2011: “The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war”
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“Siberian wildfires double greenhouse gas emission record: This is how they look from space.”
“Wildfires in Siberia have emitted more carbon dioxide in two and half months than the world's sixth most polluting country emits in a year.”
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Cindy Charters:
“I don’t’ know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive – nor will we deserve to.”
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“Summer 2021 edges out 'Dust Bowl' summer as hottest ever for contiguous US”
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And all the while wealth concentrates as the rich get richer and richer:
“don’t worry there won’t be another lockdown we’ll just normalize dying from covid like we’ve normalized dying from poverty, gun violence, police shootings, lack of housing, suicide, opioids, lack of access to medical care, etc. etc.”
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“The wisdom and warnings from Arundhati Roy in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. "It will be a pity if, instead of using this as an opportunity to try to understand why September 11 happened," the novelist wrote on Sept. 29, 2001, "Americans use it as an opportunity to usurp the whole world's sorrow to mourn and avenge only their own."”
“From Our Post-9/11 Archives: "The Algebra of Infinite Justice"”
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