Julian Casablancas Interviews Noam Chomsky on Latest ‘S.O.S. — Earth Is a Mess’”
Eastern Tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus), female
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2021 8/4 _F2A6823aaa
“NORTH POLE SEA ICE COVER BREAKING RECORD EARLY
The entire main icepack on the Atlantic side shows heavy fracturing to within 300km of the North Pole, extraordinary at this early point in the melting season. The degree of mobility of sea ice is also very high. April 26 was a particularly clear day over the Atlantic side of the icepack. It looks like the fracturing of Arctic Ocean ice cover is developing rapidly, although there is often cloud obscuring the images. Checking back through the last 20 years in NASA Worldview, no year in the past 10 years for this date of 2021 has such a heavily fractured icepack on the Atlantic side. 2014 comes a rather distant second, 2016 a more distant third.”
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“This is Pennsylvania State Senator Republican Scott Wagner. He just said that Earth is warming because:
“The earth moves closer to the sun every year.
You know, the rotation of the earth.
Also, we have more people and humans have warm bodies, so heat is coming off them.”
America, this is why we need science education.”
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Rewritten US Constitution to reflect & secure Govt’s sole role of transferring tax revenue to Rich while giving the Rich exclusive representation despite their paying no tax, in the name of God:
“A Radical Right-Wing Dream To Rewrite The Constitution Is Close To Coming True
It could lead to a dramatic overhaul of the nation’s foundational text ... or an all-out constitutional crisis.”
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The “rubber” that is the fear generated by lack of gun control America, “hits the road” in police shootings. Cops and potential perps are both justifiably scared. Get your shit together Washington
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Primarily because Monsanto owns the upper echelons of America's federal government. Just ask Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas:
“Monsanto has been removed and banned by: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Madeira, New Zealand, Peru, South Australia, Russia, France & Switzerland! WHY NOT HERE?”
Hicks comment: “The empire owns the U.S. government. All decisions are made with regard to the health of corporations rather than the health of the people.”
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America’s Judiciary is an abject joke:
ALL TRUMPS JUDGES NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM THE BENCH NOW, ANY POLITICIANS WHO STAND IN THE WAY MUST BE REMOVED
“Leonard Leo’s network is trying to reshape the world into the Kingdom of God.”
“For Christ’s Sake”
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Biden’s first 100 days:
Kids still in cages (“overflow centers”)
Push for war with Iran continued
Afghanistan occupation extended [and being privatized under the guise of bringing our troops home]
US troops still in Syria
US troops still in Iraq
US still bombing Somalia
Julian Assange still being pursued
Widespread NSA surveillance
Trivial pandemic assistance
“Space Force” being kept
Trump-era policy of not reporting drone strike victims
Coup efforts continued in Venezuela [to concentrate wealth with resource theft]
Torture apologist in cabinet
Weapon manufacturer in cabinet
Warmonger and neocons in cabinet
Continued provocations against Russia & China
Racist war on drugs continued
Billioni-dollar “defense” budget
Offshore drilling
Fracking
And,
Only even attempted to nullify 6 of Trump’s many highly socially damaging regulations issued in the last 60 days of his presidency:
“The deadline for introducing such “resolutions of disapproval,” as they are called, was this past Sunday, April 4. A coalition of advocacy groups identified 28 different notable regulations that would be eligible and desirable for repeal, affecting a host of areas like immigration, the environment, LGBTQ and racial discrimination, critical habitats for wildlife, financial regulation, and long-haul trucking.
In the end, only six resolutions were offered. These resolutions have until May 21 to advance to the president’s desk in order to be eligible for nullification.”
And Neonics still killing off pollinators by droves
We can not afford one more term held by a Republican or Democrat and expect to survive all their social murder.
“Democrats Could Undo Trump Policies Faster, But They’re Not. Why”
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“Joe Biden has officially been in office for 100 days. Here’s how is compares to other presidents at this time period. His approval rating shows some troubling trends for the country and more importantly, it shows the rich have won”
“Joe Biden’s Approval Rating After 100 Days Compared to Other Presidents”
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Right now in my town in Wisconsin, it’s a sunny 80 degrees, not a cloud in the sky,…and the winds are so strong that they just toppled an adult tree in the backyard:
“Antarctic Ice Sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says”
“Rapid postglacial rebound amplifies global sea level rise following West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse” - by Linda Pan et al.
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Sound familiar? Money gives private parties all of the power of government but without the liability:
“Astounding: David Koch's 1980 VP Run: Kill Medicare, Social Security, Minimum Wage, Public Schools”
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“When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.” Jomo Kenyatta
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"Through decades of research, and now lived experience, it has become clear that the impacts of climate change will have drastic and far-reaching consequences on our planet. And while some of those consequences are predictable — like more extreme weather, sea-level rise and loss of biodiversity — the pace at which these unfold and their eventual severity hinge on what happens with key linchpins in the climate system, called tipping points.
A tipping point is a threshold or point of no return in the climate system that once passed can no longer be reversed. Passing a tipping point does not necessarily mean immediate, drastic consequences, but it does mean those consequences become unavoidable, and over time the impacts may be dramatic.
In a 2019 paper, Professor Timothy Lenton, a global leader on the subject, identified nine climate tipping points, from melting permafrost in the Arctic to the loss of tropical coral reefs. Here we will focus on what he deems the three most critical tipping points: the Amazon rainforest, the West Antarctic ice sheet and the Gulf Stream system."
“Climate tipping points may have been reached already, experts say”
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“From dust bowl to California drought: a climate scientist on the lessons we still haven’t learned “
“Peter Gleick argues there’s an urgent need to reshape our relationship to water: ‘There is enormous untapped potential for conservation’”
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