“The Great Game of Smashing Countries”
“Oh, wait. There WERE women's rights in Afghanistan, and the Carter administration began the U.S. push that eliminated them. “In 1978, a liberation movement led by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the dictatorship of Mohammad Dawd, the cousin of King Zahir Shar. It was an immensely popular revolution that took the British and Americans by surprise….The new government introduced free medical care. A mass literacy campaign was launched. For women, the gains had no precedent; by the late 1980s, half the university students were women, and women made up 40 per cent of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70 per cent of its teachers and 30 per cent of its civil servants. …
“On 3 July 1979, unknown to the American people and Congress, [President] Carter authorised a $500 million “covert action” programme to overthrow Afghanistan’s first secular, progressive government. This was code-named by the CIA Operation Cyclone….
“For the United States, the problem with the PDPA government was that it was supported by the Soviet Union. Yet it was never the “puppet” derided in the West, neither was the coup against the monarchy “Soviet-backed”, as the American and British press claimed at the time. President Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, later wrote in his memoirs: “We had no evidence of any Soviet complicity in the coup.” …
“Recruited from all over the Muslim world, America’s secret army was trained in camps in Pakistan run by Pakistani intelligence, the CIA and Britain’s MI6. Others were recruited at an Islamic College in Brooklyn, New York – within sight of the doomed Twin Towers. One of the recruits was a Saudi engineer called Osama bin Laden. The aim was to spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia and destabilise and eventually destroy the Soviet Union.””
Eastern Comma (Polygonia comma)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2019 6/29 _F2A8995aaa
“LIE: If we cancel student debt, everyone will become lazy and entitled.
TRUTH: If we cancel student debt, we will unleash an economic boom unlike any since post World War II.”
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Pesticides = Washington failing the People:
“Elusive Pacific Northwest Bumblebee Listed as Endangered”
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“German Company Makes Concrete to Charge Electric Vehicles From Roads With 95% Efficiency and Low Cost
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“Meet the Former US Generals Making Bank Off Afghan War Bloodshed”
“Many military generals who directed the Afghan War over the last two decades have taken up lucrative jobs as members of the boards of directors of major military contractors that take in billions of dollars in contracts from the Pentagon every year.”
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“Wildfires Near Russia’s Nuclear Research Center Spark State of Emergency”
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“NEW STUDY ON MOUNTAIN LIONS PROMPTS CALL FOR REEVALUATION OF WILD HORSE MANAGEMENT POLICIES”
"'We challenge the Biden Administration to live up to its promise of science-based governance by using this latest scientific information to re-evaluate federal wild horse roundup and predator elimination policies, both of which are driven by the livestock industry at the expense of wildlife, wild horses, and American taxpayers,' (Meredith) Hou added"
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Burning coal may be profitable again:
“The plan to turn coal country into a rare earth powerhouse”
“With plans for a Made-in-America renewable energy transformation, the Biden administration has been ramping up efforts to extract rare earth minerals from coal waste.”
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“The Surprising Benefits of Rewilding Your Garden”
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Xavier Rosseel
“Streetlights may make moth caterpillars plump up faster, but that’s not necessarily a good thing.
Globally, insect populations are in a long decline. The size of those losses can vary immensely by region, with some European monitoring stations finding 70 percent drops and other regions seeing small increases. But because insects are cornerstones of most ecosystems, their loss threatens to destabilize everything from bird populations to crop pollination.
New research published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances finds that British roadside habitats under LED streetlights contain radically fewer moth caterpillars, and those that remain show signs of stress.
“We found that many of these white LEDs are more harmful at a local level for insect populations,” says Douglas Boyes, a PhD student in ecology affiliated with the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the paper’s lead author. “That probably hints that the classic mechanism that people think about—the insect flying up to the light—is maybe not the main mechanism causing these striking population declines.”
“Streetlights are making caterpillars grow up faster—and that’s a bad thing
Light pollution has some unusual effects.”
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AMAZON IS BEING ANNIHILATED AND AMERICAN BUSINESS ARE PROFITING:
“Our Brazil Legal Advisor Ana Alfinito joined Luiz Eloy Terena of the Association of Brazil's Indigenous Peoples (APIB) to put down in words exactly why the ruling on the Marco Temporal by Brazil's Supreme Court concerns the whole world:
"As the Indigenous movement demonstrated in a recent communication to the International Criminal Court, the removal of Indigenous groups from their land means the eradication of their forms of living and organizing the world and their lives. Those who govern Brazil today envision a country without Indigenous lands, and consequently without Indigenous peoples. The struggle of the Indigenous movement for their lands is against genocide and for the survival of life on our planet."”
“The battle for indigenous peoples’ land in Brazil is also a fight for the planet’s survival
Indigenous land plays a crucial role in the battle against deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change,”
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John Berbatis: “The heat will provide the energy for damaging winds.”
“A Warming event is now starting in the Stratosphere above the South Pole, with temperatures over 30 degrees above normal, marking the end of South Winter”
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“Empty Shelves, Severe Shortages And Widespread Crop Failures Are Ahead In The Fall Of 2021”
“The Economic Collapse
Are You Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse And The Next Great Depression?”
Kevin Hester:
"Extreme heat is baking most of the U.S. North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska"
"As a result, many crops planted this spring are wilting. Some 63% of the U.S. spring wheat crop is in poor or very poor condition, versus 6% at this time last year, according to Agriculture Department data."
Our owners are talking about carbon reductions in 2030 and 2050 and the beginning of the end of industrial agriculture is under way now.
So much for a 2C rise being safe.
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“Glacier melt is causing Earth’s crust to warp slightly, say scientists
As ice sheets and glaciers melt across the globe, the Earth’s crust is liberated from the overlying weight and lifts up, say scientists”
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“The US Endgame in Afghanistan Was Mineral Extraction, Not Democracy”
"The U.S. was not in Afghanistan to establish democracy and respect for the rule of law and human rights. It was there to weed out the terrorists it had created decades earlier to fight the Soviet Union; the U.S. wanted to clear the field in order to secure one trillion dollars of mineral concessions for iron, copper, gold and lithium for which China and India had obtained the rights for during the U.S. occupation. In short, a decade ago, Afghanistan invited foreign investment and public bids from China, India and other countries, purposely excluding U.S. companies."
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“America's only 'Bee Dog' helping save alpine bumblebees in Colorado”
“Bee researcher Jacqueline Staab says her dog, Darwin, is America's only conservation detection dog specifically trained to sniff out bumblebee nests.”
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“The war in Afghanistan was nasty and brutish, marked by the same imperial arrogance that doomed U.S. involvement in Vietnam, writes James Risen.”
“A WAR’S EPITAPH
For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan”
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“America’s Merchants of Death: Then and Now”
“The total compensation for the CEOs at three of the top Department of Defense contractors active in Afghanistan over the 2016-2020 years — Fluor, Raytheon, and Boeing — amounted to $236 million.”
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“The American lawn is one of the greatest mass brainwashings of all time. How we all voluntarily sighed up to spend untold hours growing and cutting a nonnative monoculture of green which we lace with poisons to kill plans and insects never ceases to amaze.” Bill Heavy
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The Afghanistan Papers: Read the confidential documents that reveal a secret history of the war in Afghanistan”
“The Post has obtained notes, transcripts and audio recordings from more than 400 government interviews and compiled them into a comprehensive database.”
Read them here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/documents-database/
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“The worse the withdrawal the better it boded for Raytheon, who through Lloyd Austin secretary of defense, who controls the Pentagon. So is the withdrawal a unplanned fiasco? Oh yes, most certainly. It was intended to be a fiasco
Exclusive: U.S. officials systematically misled the public about the war in Afghanistan, according to internal documents obtained by The Post.
These are The Afghanistan Papers: A secret history of the war.”
“Confidential documents reveal U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan””
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“Healthcare in Japan
1 100% of Japanese have health insurance
2 Costs are half of what we spend in the U.S.
3 Japanese can choose their own doctors and see them twice as often as Americans
4 Japanese have the world’s biggest life expectancy, and the second lowest infant mortality
5 95% of Japanese healthcare is not-for-profit
6 The government sets all fees for medical services and drugs
We could Japan, if Congress stopped taking bribes from the healthcare industry and started doing their job.”
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The $80 billion plus of military equipment left in Afghanistan could have gone to Medicaid for All, Student Loan forgiveness, combating climate change & wild fires, public schools, etc, etc, ad nausea!!!
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