Eastern Tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus), female, dark color form
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With Ukraine and Peru paying handsome dividends$ Democrats turn to their next grift $55 bn in Africa
Washington’s Bullshit Meter has redlined with their latest grift victimizing African citizens:
Biden resisted COP27 ”Loss and Damage” fund but just announced Washington is going to spending $55 billion on a subset of the same countries who incurred damage that are in Africa. What’s the difference?!
How about a slew of stipulations requiring that the money the US gives them that is not part of the UN’s ‘loss and damage’ fund will be spent concentrating wealth with Western oligarchs as well as giving kickbacks to politicians in the form of ‘campaign donations’.
In other words, like Ukraine it’s just another money laundering scheme that turns working American taxpayer resources into campaign donations (and invariably gives a cut to assorted bad actors along the way). And who and how many people are going to play the role of Zelensky against their country?
Give the $55 billion to the ‘loss and damage’ fund to give to Africa and let the African countries receiving it decide how to spend it.
“Biden Wraps Up U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit with $55 Billion Pledge”
“COP27 Reaches Breakthrough Agreement on New “Loss and Damage” Fund for Vulnerable Countries”
Let me add, that I hope people realize that if we don’t fix our Govt’s deadly, greenhouse gas, imperialistic, war making, and generally international sleazy ways there very likely will come a time soon that America, say, needs food or antibiotics and the international community is going to flip us off. Then it will be scores of working Americans who will end up paying the price for today’s craven mostly-geriatric leadership castes’ international asshole ways
One more time:
America has either pissed- off, ripped-off, or stuck with the bill & body count nearly all other countries in its decades long grift for prosperity and wealth concentration.
If working Americans think that at some point in the future we can count on another country coming to our aid as the planet continues to die they are WRONG.
As always the American 99% will end up paying for acts of the moneyed elite and their 2 party and 3 branches.
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“Spruce trees are popping up in the Arctic. They haven’t been there for 20,000 years:”
“Spruce Trees Are Invading the Arctic. Here’s What That Means for Our Planet.
Perplexed by shadowy images on a satellite photo, a climate scientist packed up and set out for the Alaskan Arctic. What he found should alarm all of us.”
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You can supercharge all the fleets you want to but if you don’t address feedback – that now accounts for 85% of new GHG emissions – you may as well as just lie down and die now.
Environmental defense fund? I don’t think so. I do not trust an environmental group that, like the NRDC, has offices in major financial districts around the country and have no qualms aligning itself with a fascist American regime.
“What you need to know about the unstoppable rise of electric truck fleets”
[ sorry, can’t get the link, I’ve been block by the Environmental Defense Fund ]
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“The Dead Sea is dying. These beautiful, ominous photos show the impact”
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“Rather than call it socialism, let’s just call it what it is…valuing human life over corporate profits.”
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Working American: “I need help please…food, housing, student debit relief, protection from inflation…please”
Bide: “…sorry jack gotta help the nazis in Ukraine…”
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“Shelling hits the center of Donetsk killing a member of the Russian government and the Kremlin says they're "done" negotiating with Ukraine. Get ready for a massive escalation of this war when instead we should be moving for peace. NATO forces continue to direct himars and drone attacks inside of Russian territory.”
“Attack in Russia: Get ready, this is the last straw for Putin”
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Exporting American Poison:
“German extremists are modeling their American counterparts”
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“‘Ordinary Germans are paying’: anti-war protests stretch across central Europe
Demonstrations bring together unlikely hardline bedfellows from left and right over impact of Ukraine conflict”
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Ban all Palm oil everywhere and every kind of good coming from the destroyed Amazon:
“BlackRock’s Big Palm Oil Problem”
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Profits before Christ in fascist America, interesting:
‘Heartless’ mass layoffs hit US workers ahead of holidays
Job cuts have risen this year, even as the US economy shows no signs of a downturn for now”
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