It is what it is and “it” is too obvious to ignore any longer.
Fred Koch, the father of Charles Koch - their unelected President - was a Nazi instrumental to Hitler realizing his holocaust.
Be it the Environment, Healthcare, Safety Net, Pandemic, or any other form of social murder, etc: Democrats & Republicans & Rich are operating in accordance with eugenics. In polite circles it’s referred to as “fascism.” In reality, it means the poor die to improve the reproductive prospects for a new future age of mankind born in their image.
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“Joe Biden Has No Business Lecturing the Rest of the World on “Democracy””
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“They're Killing Him: Assange's Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw”
Eastern Tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus), female, dark color form
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
7/29/2011 IMG_7664aaap.jpg Digital Camera Photos\2011 Good AAAA
“The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world
An important climatic indicator has been misreported by a factor of two”
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IMPEACH THE RACIST PIG!
President Joe Biden, age 79, caught in act of systemic violence against Americans of Asian Ancestry:
“Biden administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to reject Harvard affirmative action case”
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Democrats are NOT going to keep Trump from being re-elected by smearing him with a Jan 6 investigation. Especially if the option is Harris\Buttigieg. Besides, Trump is too much the friend of the rich for Democrats to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law such that he would be unable to return to the White house
“Dear Good People of America, Whatever you wish more good people in Germany would have done in 1931, do it now.” – Rev. John Pavlovitz
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“General Mills just paid a $300 million dividend to investors, bought back $150 million in stock to enrich execs and investors and pays its CEO $16 million. It makes $2.1 billion a year in profit.
It is raising prices on cereals 20% and blaming “inflation””
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“Early Warning signs of FASCISM”
Powerful and continuing nationalism
Disdain for human rights
Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
Supremacy of the military
Rampant sexism
Controlled mass media
Obsession with national security
Religion and government intertwined
Corporate power is protected
Labor power is suppressed
Disdains for intellectuals & the arts
Obsession with crime & punish,net
Rampant cronyism & corruption
Fraudulent elections”
~Laurence W. Britt
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“Rare storms hit Egypt, closing schools and roads nationwide
Thunderstorms, lightning and heavy rainfall flood streets in more than 10 Egyptian provinces”
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“A blizzard warning is in effect for Hawaii as the lower 48 contends with a snow drought
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“Volcanic Eruption In Philippines Causes Thousands To Flee”
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The UN jails people for "inciting unrest" as a Human Rights Violation
Uhm, don’t the rich and their politicians do this as a matter of doing business. What do you call the 100 plus thousand protesters in Wisconsin opposing the takeover by Charles Koch?!
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Money passed between Politicians doesn’t have to be reported. So when Schumer\Pelosi accept Healthcare industry lobbyists’ money they can give it to Pocan\Baldwin and WI voters won’t know they sold them out
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“How Bad Was The Great Oxidation Event?”
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“How The Earth Got Its Magnetic Field (And Why It Might Not Protect Us Much Longer)”
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“Baldwin-Buckley race debate still resonates 55 years on”
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Ryan Knight:
“We know they are not a revolutionary party, but they are not even reformers. The Democrats are not even fighting for strong social reforms like Medicare for All, reparations, a living wage, and monthly UBI despite the massive levels of injustice and inequality in our nation.”
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Things Democrats and Republicans have in common:
“Total support for Israel
Do Wall Street’s bidding
Unlimited Military Spending
Hostility to Russia, Iran & China
Full-spectrum Dominance
Let Money Rule Politics
Neoliberalism Rocks
Spy on everyone
Screw the poor and old
Oligarchy, not Democracy
Vive US Imperialism!!
Outlaw 3rd Parties
Crush the left
Regime change is cool
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Val Eisman:
“The Office of President Biden answered my letter and the last paragraph said he would subsidize fossil fuel producers in the transition to renewables!
Not only that, ussia ranks #2 in supplying oil to the US!”
“Russia Captures No. 2 Rank Among Foreign Oil Suppliers to U.S.”
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Biden, as well as both parties are fascist white supremacists.
“Black Americans have been pointing to the 1994 Crime Bill as an example of systemic racism for decades, so the Democrats nominated the guy who wrote it and sponsored the Bill” [Biden]
Supremacists has this to say….
“Lee Coddens commented:
The 1994 Crime Bill had widespread support in the Black Community and in Congress, especially as it was seen as a part of the War on Drugs, which was devastating that same Black Community.
In fact, if a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus - including Caucus leader Kweisi Mfume - had not voted for the Bill, it would not have become law.
(If you're considering responding by suggesting that I'm apologizing or providing cover for Biden, the Liberal Democrats and/or Systemic Racism: don't bother. You have neither the intellectual ability nor the rhetorical chops to debate the issue on those terms. Anyone else? I'd be happy to discuss!!)”
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“We live in a country where the free market has more protection & Freedom than the people”
“Human Rights Day, 10 December”
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“Freedom Gas” really?!
“Cold War politics good for American Natural Gas producers”
“The US is the top Natural Gas producer in the world beating Russia. They want to pressure Germany to shut down Nordstream pipeline in order to promote US natural gas which the Republicans call "FREEDOM GAS" and to help American producers of natural gas. American was the top exporter of natural gas in 2020. Read below.
"U.S. producers in 2020 saw the highest natural gas exports on record.
“Freedom gas,” as former Energy Secretary Rick Perry dubbed the fuel, has been explicitly pitched to European producers in recent years as an alternative to Russian energy. Perry, who is also the former governor of Texas, told reporters in 2019 that after freeing Europe from the Nazis, “the United States is again delivering a form of freedom to the European continent.” This time, he said, “rather than in the form of young American soldiers, it’s in the form of liquefied natural gas.””
“Nord Stream Pipeline Snarled in the U.S.-Russia ‘Fossil Energy War’
Discarded sanctions over Nord Stream were attempted protectionism for U.S. gas producers.”
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“Your debt is someone else’s asset”
“Student loans, medical bills, credit cards — Americans are drowning in a record-breaking $15 trillion in debt.”
Covering thousands of years in just under seven minutes, “Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset” ends with a rousing vision of the future: a world after a jubilee, an ancient term for the abolition of debts and rebalancing of power between the rich and the poor.
Read more about this video: https://interc.pt/3lQSV5x
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“Climate Threats Are Multiplying in the Horn of Africa
In a long overdue step, the U.N. Security Council may finally address climate security.”
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“Global Warming by Country & Region 1850-2020”
“This visualization, in the style of a switchboard, depicts global warming by country and region from 1850 to 2020. The blue circles show varying degrees of cooling anomalies of up to -3.0 C while the warm-colored circles show the warming spikes of up to +3.0 C.”
Visit Berkeley Earth for more information: http://berkeleyearth.org/
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TERM LIMITS:
“America Is Having a Moral Convulsion”
“Levels of trust in this country—in our institutions, in our politics, and in one another—are in precipitous decline. And when social trust collapses, nations fail. Can we get it back before it’s too late?”
“Social trust is a measure of the moral quality of a society—of whether the people and institutions in it are trustworthy, whether they keep their promises and work for the common good. When people in a society lose faith or trust in their institutions and in each other, the nation collapses.
According to the General Social Survey and the American National Election Survey, in the early 1970s half of Americans said that most people can be trusted; today that figure is less than one-third.
Thor ChristianHempelHuman Reform Politics”
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Sam Carana:
“Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey - by Caroline Hickman et al.”
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“bneGREEN: Russia's $6.5 trillion decarbonising plan will launch next year”
“"“The cheapest ways to achieve these targets include tackling waste disposal, reducing emissions, decarbonising the power sector and undertaking forestry projects. These account for 59% of total emissions in Russia and can be decarbonised for RUB102.7 trillion ($1.4 trillion), we estimate. That broadly matches MinEconomy’s RUB88.8 trillion 60% CO2 reduction programme. Transport remains the most expensive sector to decarbonise, followed by cement and iron ore & steel,” the analysts said."
"A market for carbon has emerged in Europe and it currently values the cost of carbon at $50 per tonne, but governments are still setting prices arbitrarily, with the Scandinavians putting the cost at over €100 per tonne but poor countries like Ukraine estimating the figure at under $1.
At the start of the year Russia launched an experiment on the island of Sakhalin where it introduced market mechanisms for costing carbon that put the price at around $25 per tonne. Putin said in a speech this week that the Kremlin was ready to expand the experiment to other regions in Russia. But Russia has yet to launch the all important carbon trading system, where the price of carbon is the keystone."
"“The cheapest decarbonisation options in Russia are still cutting methane emissions (in both oil & gas and coal mining), reducing the power sector’s footprint (through a greater share of renewables) and forestry projects. These three areas account for 59% of gross national emissions, on our estimates, with the full decarbonisation of these industries costing RUB102.7 trillion in capex,” VTBC said.
The oil, gas and power companies will bear the brunt of the costs in the first stage, but reducing their methane leakage will be negligible for the hydrocarbon producers.
The greatest effect on consumers from these investments is going to be the upward pressure on electricity prices. VTBC estimate that end-user electricity prices would need to rise 28% to accommodate sufficient decarbonisation funding for the sector (in a 100% scenario).
Later on, the mining and transport sectors are going to be the expensive ones. VTBC estimated that transport alone will consume a third of the entire RUB480 trillion that is going to be invested, or about RUB145 trillion, as the railways will have to replace its entire ICE fleet with electric vehicles.
However, costs will go up everywhere. With a focus on avoiding the capex-heavy solutions, the answer will be to improve energy efficiency and savings everywhere. That means things like new regulations for washing machines to force them to switch to more efficient motors, better waste management, retooling factories everywhere and investment into construction efficiency. And decarbonising households is one of the most expensive options for the economy and unlikely to start at the beginning, as those costs will fall on the public. “We do not anticipate any rapid decarbonisation of the average Russian household until 2060,” says the VTBC analysts.
A large share of these costs can be pushed on to the companies and VTBC estimates they will add some RUB7.4 trillion ($54bn) in annual additional payments for the goods and services. All this together will probably send prices up by about 12%.
“Our study shows that full decarbonisation would require a significant step-up in investment across the sectors (except for oil & gas). For some sectors, such as power, transport and chemicals, this step-up might translate into a two-three-fold increase in investments. However, we note that the existing CO2 reduction targets are milder and can generally be dealt with as part of Russian corporates’ announced investment programmes (except for the power sector),” says VTBC.
All this spending will also be a heavy burden on Russia’s investment case, as it will eat into free cash flows that are currently being paid out to dividends to shareholders; Russia currently has the highest dividend payout yields in the world – about twice those of the MSCI EM benchmark average.
As much of the capital expenditure will actually borne by companies and not the government, the amount of money they will have invest will also eat into their profits. VTBC estimates that in most sectors the current capex spending in most companies’ business plans is insufficient to cover the necessary investments to reduce emissions by the required amount. The extremes are in oil & gas, where the companies have plenty of money and the investments are relatively cheap, and the power sector, where the investments are huge and could wipe out the sector’s entire profits.
Government’s targets
The government, of course, will also play an important role and has targeted boosting Russia’s renewable energy capacity and expanding its already extensive nuclear power production. Despite the legacy of Chernobyl, Russia’s nuclear technology is now considered to be world class and Russian nuclear exports are booming as a result.
The government also plans to significantly step up forestry projects and launch wide-scale carbon capturing, predominantly by oil & gas companies. Further down the line more of Russia’s hydrocarbon reserves will be re-tasked from a fuel for export to become the feedstock for a hydrogen production business. Although decarbonisation measures are planned in other sectors as well, the lion’s share of the activities will be concentrated on measures to keep Russia’s CO2 abatement curve relatively low.
“MinEconomy’s intensive decarbonisation strategy scenario envisages using the best and most efficient technologies, with measures to introduce, replicate and expand low and carbon-free technologies, encourage the use of secondary energy resources, change the tax, customs and budgetary policies, and develop green finance,” the VTBC analysts said.
“There are also measures to preserve and increase the absorptive capacity of forests and other ecosystems, and support technologies for capturing and utilising greenhouse gases [GHGs]. The strategy requires GHG emissions to be reported, rather than the requirement of the potential carbon pricing and trading quotas (the preliminary version envisaged it coming into operation after 2030, at RUB500-700/tCO2e),” VTBC concluded.
MinEconomy estimates that by 2050, this would make it possible to cut emissions 60% from the 2019 level and 80% from the 1990 level. The total investment for decarbonisation is estimated at 1% of GDP in 2022-30 and 1.5-2.0% in 2031-50. The additional growth in GDP due to this investment is expected to exceed the spent funds by 25%.”
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“Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says”
Xavier Rosseel:
“Strictly protecting 30% of Earth’s land and sea by 2030 would result in food production shortfalls, and would render a fifth of mammals and a third of birds at high risk of extinction, according to a new study.
Instead, researchers propose an integrated land-use planning strategy where conservation and food production goals are considered in tandem, including through mixed approaches like agroforestry.
Such a model would not only generate less food production shortfalls, but also leave just 2.7% of mammal and 1.2% of bird species at risk of extinction.
Strictly protecting 30% of Earth’s land and sea by 2030 would contribute to food shortages and insecurity, while neglecting conservation in other areas of the planet, according to new research that warns against setting hard targets in isolation, and instead proposes a land-use planning strategy where conservation and food production goals are integrated.
Known as “30 by 30,” the target in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework draft released by the United Nations in July calls for policymakers to conserve 30% of Earth by 2030 through “area-based conservation measures” like protected national parks.
While the idea has found support from NGOs and governments, stringent enforcement could be “terrible for people and for nature,” researchers behind the study, published November in One Earth, told Mongabay.
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“The algorithm identifies land-use decisions to take in order to achieve two targets: to have enough natural habitats for each species for them to be at the lowest extinction risk, and have enough livestock and crop production areas to achieve each region’s specific food production targets,” Visconti said.
Because human civilization cannot be rebuilt from scratch and large swaths of agricultural land already exist, the researchers placed limits on the model so it would not allow for new farmland more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) away from existing areas.
That would also lessen the socioeconomic cost of shifting agricultural areas, said first author Constance Fastré, a conservation biologist.
The idea, she added, is that some existing farmland could be “restored to a natural state” and new agricultural land developed in adjacent areas. “In Bolivia, for example, you have fields very close to a forest. It would just be better if these fields would be moved further away, because there’s great potential for restoring the forest near the forest. But there is no potential for restoring it further away.
“Shifting things might also be more beneficial because the land further away is more productive,” Fastré said. “But it’s a balance because it impacts people as well. Shifting agricultural land, even if it’s no further than 100 kilometers, is challenging both in a logistical and human way.” An added worry is that such relocation of crop and pastureland might disproportionately affect rural communities in developing countries.
But following a strict 30 by 30 plan offers no good solutions either. Across the world, Indigenous advocates have warned that, implemented poorly, 30 by 30 could result in millions of people being evicted from their ancestral territories, replicating colonial legacies of Indigenous possession.
Part of the problem is the idea that conservation means a hard separation between humans and nature, even if Indigenous people have lived on their lands for thousands of years without damaging the environment.
Based on the researchers’ integrated planning approach, some 60% of Earth would need to be managed for conservation, including restoring 8% to 11% of natural habitats. While it is a significant amount, it doesn’t translate to cutting off communities from their land, the researchers said.”
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“You are not a failure in life if you work for starvation wages with no benefits. You’re a failure in life if you’re a business owner who depends on the exploitation of a poverty-wage workforce, no matter how many yachts or mansions you own. It’s time to redefine success in America.”
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“The problem with America’s semi-rich
America’s upper-middle class works more, optimizes their kids, and is miserable.”
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The guiding ideology is essentially that of a meritocracy. The driving idea is that people get where they are in society through a combination of talent and work and study.
While this 9.9 percent drives inequality — they want to lock in their positions for themselves and their families — they’re also driven by inequality. They recognize that American society is increasingly one of have-nots, and they’re determined not to be one of them. People intuit that in this meritocratic game, the odds are getting increasingly long of succeeding. It takes for granted that the hierarchy itself is justified and is economically productive, and it’s just a matter of making sure that everyone has a fair shot of getting in. But when the ideology starts to spread it neutralizes the opposition in a way, and that’s a problem. It means that the system just continues further down the road toward greater instability...the issue is basically a class that has allowed itself to delude itself about the sources of its own privilege,.. the richer people get, the less they believe in publicly supported child care...it’s that they’ve internalized this idea that everyone can do this, “Let them hire a nanny” is the new “let them eat cake.” It just shows how this incredibly virtuous, super-well-educated class becomes oblivious to the basis of its own existence. Most of the root source of inequality is structural, and I think much of it goes to an economy that’s no longer as competitive, where you have oligopolies rising without significant challenge.”
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“Arctic Report Card 2021”
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“A CLIMATE OF BETRAYAL
“5.9 $trillion spent by governments on fossil fuel subsidies in 2020”
- by Andrew Glikson
As indicated by the International Monetary fund, greenhouse gas emissions are funded world-wide by government subsidies totaling $5.9 trillion in 2020, about 6.8% global GDP, expected to rise to 7.4% of GDP in 2025, or $11million a minute.
According to Climate 202, the Biden administration has approved more oil and gas drilling permits on public lands per month than the Trump administration did during the first three years of the Trump presidency.
In Europe, the year 2020 was supposed to be when the European Union would launch its ambitious plan to tackle the climate crisis, so why does Europe sabotage its own climate goals by subsidizing the fossil sector by more than €137 billion per year? (from: Investigate Europe).
As the UK prepares to host the G7 summit, new analysis reveals that the countries attending committed $189bn to support oil, coal and gas between January 2020 and March 2021. By comparison, the same countries, the UK, US, Canada, Italy, France, Germany and Japan, spent $147bn on clean energy.
In Australia, business as usual continued, where fossil fuel subsidies reached $10.3 billion in 2020-21. Fossil fuel subsidies cost Australians a staggering $10.3 billion in 2020-21. Plans are made for a huge Beetaloo gas field in the Northern Territory. The Galilee coal project is proceeding and the Adani coal project gets ready to ship coal. Coal and gas works, if approved, would result in a nearly 30% increase in emissions within Australia.
Who or what would save nature and humanity from the accelerating destruction of the livable Earth atmosphere and oceans?
From the post 'A Climate of Betrayal', at:”
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Prof. Peter Wadhams:
“Can we remove billions of tonnes of CO2? And methane? The latest interview (podcast and video on YT) by Nick Breeze is out now.
@peterwadhams
To watch the full video:”
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“Capitalism only “works” because it rests upon fundamental threats of violence, homelessness, and starvation. Without this coercive foundation, masses of people would refuse to work for measly wages and live in filth just so a handful of people can become massively wealthy.”
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“How to Make a Native Woodland Garden
It's a rich and complex ecosystem that can help natural biodiversity to return.”
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“An Hour Long Synopsis on Abrupt Climate System Mayhem and My Views on COP26”
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"A terrifying, historic supercell. It's not surprising, but all of the radar-based tornado intensity indicators, including a TDS up to 37,000 feet(!!!) and an accompanying debris plume suggest that a violent (EF4+) tornado impacted Mayfield, Kentucky this evening."
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“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
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For emphasis, the cost to the American economy of not having universal, govt-administered healthcare for all is STAGGERING
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“Thwaites: Antarctic glacier heading for dramatic change”
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Lauren Tenney:
“Restarting Student Loans is a mistake. We bail out Big Business all the time. Bail out the people or Dems will lose in ‘22”
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“How Monarchs Migrate Without a Map
Latest research study, published last month:
“A clock in the antennae and a "sun compass" in the brain help guide these butterflies on their 2,000-mile trek to Mexico.”
“It also showed that monarchs raised in captivity are able to survive being released into the wild. Previous research warned that captive-reared monarchs have lower migratory success than their wild counterparts — but Wilcox disagrees. Although being held in captivity may temporarily disorient the butterflies, she says, they likely reestablish their navigation systems after being exposed to environmental clues like natural sunlight.””
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