“Why Arctic fires are releasing more carbon than ever”
Waved Sphinx (Ceratomia undulosa)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
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“What My Family and I Saw When We Were Trapped in China’s Heat Wave”
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“Emerging Markets Burn Through Currency Reserves as Crisis Risks Grow
Biggest drawdown since 2008 leaves little buffer against the rising dollar, surging borrowing costs and high food and energy prices”
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“‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan”
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“As wildfires grow, millions of homes are being built in harm’s way”
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My god, my god, is Buttigieg a loser:
“Massive rail strike next week could deal another blow to America's economy”
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“American farmers are killing their own crops and selling cows because of extreme drought”
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Life Expectancy in the U.S. Dropped for the Second Year in a Row in 2021
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Fascism has no use for the aged:
“‘Terrifying’: Three-quarters of COVID deaths in aged care have occurred in 2022”
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A mouthful and a half:
“The day is coming soon where good men are going to have to do bad things to very bad people…”
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“Alan Sugar criticised for calling social media user ‘jealous scum’ after comment about yacht
‘Is this a parody account?? Surely no public figure is actually this rude,’ one person wrote”
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Irrigate our wild places to slow the Mass Extinction and benefit by having less viruses:’
“When do we start closing down the golf courses to save water? It takes 185,000 cubic meters of water per year to irrigate the average course. That’s a lot of water so the 1% can puck a little ball about.”
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“Best of Native American Store”
“Native Tribes of North America Mapped
The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in North America about 15 thousand years ago. As a result, a wide diversity of communities, societies, and cultures finally developed on the continent over the millennia.
The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus was 70 million or more.
About 562 tribes inhabited the contiguous U.S. territory. Ten largest North American Indian tribes: Arikara, Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Comanche, Choctaw, Cree, Ojibwa, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Navajo, Seminole, Hope, Shoshone, Mohican, Shawnee, Mi’kmaq, Paiute, Wampanoag, Ho-Chunk, Chumash, Haida.
Below is the tribal map of Pre-European North America.
The old map below gives a Native American perspective by placing the tribes in full flower ~ the “Glory Days.” It is pre-contact from across the eastern sea or, at least, before that contact seriously affected change. Stretching over 400 years, the time of contact was quite different from tribe to tribe. For instance, the “Glory Days” of the Maya and Aztec came to an end very long before the interior tribes of other areas, with some still resisting almost until the 20th Century.
At one time, numbering in the millions, the native peoples spoke close to 4,000 languages.
The Americas’ European conquest, which began in 1492, ended in a sharp drop in the Native American population through epidemics, hostilities, ethnic cleansing, and slavery.
When the United States was founded, established NativeAmerican tribes were viewed as semi-independent nations, as they commonly lived in communities separate from white immigrants.
Poster Native Tribes of North American central America and the Caribbean Vertical Poster”
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“Capitalism is disorder, it is hatred, it is greed without restraint, it is the onslaught of a herd which gorges itself on profit and tramples on all living things to get it.” Jean Jaures
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Queen Elizabeth carted around by slaves on her throne:
“No wonder are 2 party 3 branch abomination wants us to idolize the royal family!
A picture, a thousand words.
$500 million in personal assets from her 70 years on the throne, which Prince Charles will inherit when he is crowned king. This doesn’t include possession such as the biggest cut Diamond in the world, mined in and stolen from South Africa, worth at last $400,000,000.
“the Queen’s fortune—and what happens to it now—is complex; much of what is seen to be owned by her actually belongs to the so-called Royal Firm, the $28 billion empire that members of the British royal family like King George VI and Prince Philip once referred to as “the family business.”
Here is a breakdown of what will happen with the Queen’s fortune now that she has died.
How does the Queen get paid?
The Queen received income through a taxpayer fund known as the Sovereign Grant, which is paid annually to the British royal family. It originates from an agreement made by King George III to surrender his income from Parliament in order to receive a fixed annual payment for himself and future generations of the royal family. Originally known as the Civil List, it was replaced by the Sovereign Grant in 2012.
This grant amount was set to just over 86 million pounds in 2021 and 2022. These funds are allocated toward official travel, property maintenance, and operating or maintenance costs of the Queen’s household—Buckingham Palace.
But the Queen doesn’t just receive an annual salary.
The Royal Firm: a $28 billion empire
The Firm, also known as the Monarchy PLC, is a group of senior members and public faces of the House of Windsor, the reigning royal family that the Queen was the head of. Together, they operate what can be considered a global business empire that pumps hundreds of millions of pounds into the United Kingdom’s economy every year through televised events and tourism.
Her Majesty and seven other royals are members of the Firm: Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall; Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge; Princess Anne, the Queen’s daughter; and Prince Edward, the Queen’s youngest son, and his wife Sophie, the Countess of Wessex.
The monarchy holds nearly $28 billion in real estate assets as of 2021, which cannot be sold, according to Forbes. That includes:
The Crown Estate: $19.5 billion
Buckingham Palace: $4.9 billion
The Duchy of Cornwall: $1.3 billion
The Duchy of Lancaster: $748 million
Kensington Palace: $630 million
The Crown Estate of Scotland: $592 million”
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“Reducing food waste eases the burden on production. Every pound of wasted food is a waste of energy and water.
If we're able to lower the food waste ratio from 33% of all food produced to 10% we can cut more than a gigaton of emissions.”
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