“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character.
This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.”
Sarah Kendzior
Wise words from author and journalist Sarah Kendzior
Ms Kendzior is co-host of "Gaslit Nation," a weekly podcast and author of the best-selling essay collection "The View From Flyover Country"
Bert Wolfe writes:
The financial media and the powers-that-be behind the financial media all want the workers, especially young workers early in their working career, to think that it is necessarily the individual worker’s fault if they fall into financial distress, and that just practicing “good money management skills” alone will prevent that from happening.
However, this line of financial propaganda conveniently ignores the fact that good paying, full time, career track jobs are becoming increasingly rare; that except for adjustments for inflation, salaries and wages have been stagnant since 1973 — 48 years is a LONG time to go without a REAL increase in pay, that salaries and wages for the bottom 50 percent of the work force are, according to economist Thomas Piketty and associates, “collapsing,” and that 27 year olds are quite likely to be earning less than $15,000 a year.
The financial powers-that-be want the average working people of America to be consumed with guilt that they are stuck in low end, part time jobs going nowhere, are in debt up to their eyeballs, have no savings to speak of, and have absolutely nothing saved for retirement when, in fact, since the early 1970s, the employment world has been consistently stacked against the average working people prospering and getting ahead.
Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
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A type of abortion sourced from the industries of the Rich:
“A new study reports that indoor air pollution, mostly from cooking stoves, was responsible for about 6 million premature births and almost 3 million underweight babies in 2019.”
“Pollution linked to 6 million premature births each year”
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“Netflix To Launch WikiLeaks Smear Job Three Days Before Assange Court Date”
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“Taxing new plastic is the cheapest way to address its environmental impact”
Sandy Sunday
“There are many similarities between carbon emissions and plastic pollution. First, they both (mostly) originate from fossil fuels. (But plastics don't produce a lot of carbon emissions because we don't usually burn them.)
Second, only 20 companies generate over 30% of carbon pollution ... and the same number (even some of the same companies) generate 50% of plastic pollution.
Then there's the fact that while carbon emissions and plastic pollution affect us all, their costs don't account for their environmental impacts. Those who profit from making and selling it are not those who are most affected by it.
And finally, some of those companies have a long history of advertising campaigns to blame the individual consumer rather than change their ways (see link below).
So - why not apply the same policy approach to both?”
Katharine Hayhoe
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Another feedback loop directly linked to the Mass Extinction:
“Model suggests fish fecal carbon sequestering in the ocean has declined by half over the past century”
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Xavier Rosseel :
“While most plants are animal-pollinated, most plants also have a bit of auto-fertility. This means they can make at least some seeds without pollinators, for example by self-fertilisation. However, until this study, the question, “How important are pollinators for wild plants?” did not have a clear answer at the global level.
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The findings show that, without pollinators, a third of flowering plant species would produce no seeds and half would suffer an 80% or more reduction in fertility. Therefore, even though auto-fertility is common, it by no means fully compensates for reductions in pollination service in most plant species.”
“First global estimate of importance of pollinators for seed production in plants
About 175 000 plant species -- half of all flowering plants -- mostly or completely rely on animal pollinators to make seeds and so to reproduce”
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“David Amess, Conservative Lawmaker in UK, Is Fatally Stabbed”
“Longtime U.K. Lawmaker Stabbed to Death in Attack Labeled Terrorism
David Amess, a Conservative member of Parliament, was holding a meeting in his constituency at the time. He is the second politician killed in an attack in just over five years.”
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“Gates-Funded GMO Mosquitoes Released in United States for First Time”
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“Plug-in cars are the future. The grid isn’t ready.”
Val Eisman:
'By 2030, according to one study, the nation will need to invest as much as $125 billion in the grid to allow it to handle electric vehicles. The current infrastructure bill before Congress puts about $5 billion toward transmission line construction and upgrades."
"Seventy-four times last year, the wind across Upstate New York dropped so low that for stretches of eight hours or more barely any electricity was produced. Nearly half the year, the main transmission line feeding the metropolitan area was at full capacity, so that no more power could be fed into it. Congestion struck other, smaller lines, too, and when that happened some of the wind turbine blades upstate fell still.
And in New York City this summer, the utility Con Edison appealed to customers to cut back on their electricity usage during the strain of five separate heat waves, while Tropical Storms Elsa, Henri and Ida cut power to thousands.
Converting the nation’s fleet of automobiles and trucks to electric power is a critical piece of the battle against climate change. The Biden administration wants to see them account for half of all sales by 2030, and New York state has enacted a ban on the sale of internal combustion cars and trucks starting in 2035.
But making America’s cars go electric is no longer primarily a story about building the cars. Against this ambitious backdrop, America’s electric grid will be sorely challenged by the need to deliver clean power to those cars. Today, though, it barely functions in times of ordinary stress, and fails altogether too often for comfort, as widespread blackouts in California, Texas, Louisiana and elsewhere have shown.
“We got to talk about the grid,” said Gil Quiniones, head of a state agency called the New York Power Authority. “Otherwise we’ll be caught flat-footed.”
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Democrat’s “Build Back Better plan” is more a “Build Back Better scam”:
“88% of Americans support federal funding for lowering prescription drug prices
84% support federal funding for Medicare coverage for dental/eye/hearing
73% support federal funding for paid family/medical leave
67% support federal funding for universal pre-K
Why don't our Congresscritters vote like this? Let's contact ours and find out if they are. If they aren't, let's ask why. (Call: (202) 224-3121)”
“What's in Democrats' Build Back Better plan? A lot of Americans don't know - CBS News poll”
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Meat is a scam:
“High Meat Prices Are Helping Fuel Inflation, And A Few Big Companies Are Being Blamed”
“Meatpacking is becoming a more concentrated industry. Just four companies process more than 80 percent of America’s beef. Even as prices moved down in the early 2010s and up again in the early 2020s, the Big Four packers have been able first to increase, then to maintain, their level of profitability. In less concentrated food industries, notably eggs, prices did not rise nearly as much in 2020–21 as did prices of meat, and especially beef.
Without denying the supply-and-demand explanation altogether, the Biden administration wants to act to multiply competition in the meatpacking industry. It proposes committing $500 million in loan guarantees and direct subsidies to support smaller players against the Big Four. It hopes that more competition will raise the prices that packers pay to ranchers and cut the prices consumers pay at the store.”
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Outlaw AIPAC:
“Someone needs to explain to me why we give Israel $3 billion a year for “infrastructure” – when the Navajo Nation’s water supply remains undrinkable?”
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