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New climate tipping point
Scientists have predicted a tipping point that will dry up the
South
American monsoon
and eliminate most of the Amazon rain forest. It could decrease the rainfall by 30%.
Several measurements show signs of approaching the tipping point.
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Congressional character: Republican vs Democrat
Rep. McCarthy
was desperate to be Speaker of the House, so in January
he accepted conditions that put him at the mercy of the lunatic
Republican fringe. Now they have forced him out of the position.
The lunatics forced a vote, in which they and the Democrats declined
to vote for McCarthy. That denied him the majority he needed to
remain speaker.
Most Republicans voted for a deal
with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown. But the lunatics won't
support any Republican as speaker who would agree to such compromises.
It seems to me that the Republicans who are willing to compromise
should compromise with the Democrats and elect a speaker who will
support such compromises. However, I expect that even the
most right-wing of so-called
"centrist"
Democrats won't be acceptable to them.
A few Republicans broke with the bulk of them and advocated a
compromise to allow the government to continue operating. I wonder if
it would be possible to make a deal in which one of them and one of
the Democrats alternate speakership, perhaps week by week.
One lunatic plans to nominate the corrupter for
Speaker of the House.
I fear he may win, if enough Republicans don't dare refuse to vote
for him. He won't be willing to do the actual work involved, so
his occupation of that office could paralyze the House entirely.
That may be exactly what he wants.
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| 3:34a |
Urgent: Protect Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per to oppose all
bills that would weaken or break up the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau (CFPB).
The Capitol Switchboard number is
+1-202-224-3121.
If you phone, please spread the word!
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| 3:34a |
Urgent: Fix the corporate-profits, 15%-minimum tax-loopholes
US citizens:
Tell the Biden Administration to stand firm
against corporation lobbyists, and tax billion dollar corporations.
The White House comments lines are
+1-202-456-1111
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.
If you phone, please spread the word!
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| 3:34a |
Urgent: Stop Walmart selling neonicotinoid pesticides
US citizens:
call on Walmart
to take bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides off its shelves.
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| 10:34a |
Climate emergency, economic justice
*UN report urges
global end to fossil fuel exploration by 2030.*
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| 10:34a |
Indigenous restitution, BRA
*Brazil expels
illegal settlers
from indigenous lands in Amazon.*
In many cases, illegal settlers drove indigenous people off their lands
by force, and not very long ago. Restitution is simply and clearly appropriate.
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| 10:34a |
Kaiser Permanente on strike
Workers at Kaiser Permanente are on strike,
demanding wage increases
and the hiring of more staff so that the current workers won't be overloaded.
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| 10:34a |
Amazon deforestation for Cargill, and ADM
Two giant agricultural trading companies, Cargill and ADM,
successfully campaigned
to prevent a treaty
that would stop sales of
soy beans grown on deforested land.
That enabled deforestation to continue at high speed. This deforestation
has brought the Amazon rainforest close to a tipping point which could
destroy that forest and this destroy civilization.
This was when Bolsonaro was president of Brazil. I would guess that he
also worked to prevent that agreement. Lula has decreased deforestation,
but an international agreement would decrease it a lot more.
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| 10:34a |
Govt. surveillance for violent suppression, SSD
*South Sudan ‘attacking’ journalists and activists who
criticize the state.*
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| 10:34a |
Thugs' traffic stop, FL man
Several Florida thugs beat up
Le'Keian Woods
and maimed him, then placed criminal charges on him. Video suggests
the thugs are the ones who should be in jail.
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| 10:34a |
Tit-for-tat speaker of the House
The hatefulness and dishonest of lunatic Republicans is illustrated by
the interim speaker's demand that Rep. Pelosi vacate a secondary
office
immediately if not sooner, while she is away
at Senator
Feinstein's funeral.
The conveniently located extra office, traditionally a perk for former
speakers, is not terribly important and neither is its withdrawal. A
person who was not foaming at the mouth with hate might have given
Pelosi a few extra days to move. Someone who was not hateful might
not have brought it up at all.
I wonder how the interim speaker was appointed. I suppose it was not
officially a hate contest, but unofficially it might have been.
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| 10:34a |
Oil industry infiltrates higher education
* At least 20 members [of various governing boards] at California
public universities
have direct ties to the fossil fuel industry.*
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Ortega suppressing indigenous politics
In Nicaragua, the Sandinista party has banned the opposition party
from entering the coming
local elections. So it will run unopposed.
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| 10:34a |
Hobnobbing ministers: Conservative business day, UK
*Gambling and crypto lobbyists [and TikTok]
pay £3k to sit alongside
Tory ministers.*
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| 10:34a |
Urgent: Urge Costco against Citibank for its credit card
Everyone:
call on Costco
to stop using Citibank for its credit card.
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| 10:34a |
Urgent: Raise the Wage Act
US citizens:
call on Congress
to pass the Raise the Wage Act, to raise the US minimum wage.
The Capitol Switchboard number is
+1-202-224-3121.
If you phone, please spread the word!
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| 10:34a |
Urgent: End Solitary Confinement Act
US citizens:
call on Congress
to pass the End Solitary Confinement Act.
The Capitol Switchboard number is
+1-202-224-3121.
If you phone, please spread the word!
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| 10:34a |
Urgent: Stop Amazon exploiting its monopolies
US citizens:
call on all US states
to join the FTC's enforcement case
against Amazon for its abuse of near-monopoly.
Amazon
is guilty of many other injustices, and together they convince me
to boycott the company totally. I ask people, when buying anything for me,
not to get it from Amazon.
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| 10:34a |
Leaked US military secrets
The former saboteur-in-chief has been accused of giving US military
secrets to an Australian billionaire
after leaving office.
I expect that this was a crime, and he ought to be prosecuted for it.
You will know that there are situations in which I think it is
legitimate, even morally imperative, for whistleblowers to inform the
public about certain kinds of government secrets, sometimes military
secrets. Namely, those that involve grave wrongdoing (sometimes even
war crimes) that the public needs to know about — for instance,
crimes that Wikileaks revealed.
What the corrupter did here was unlike that on every dimension, He
told one person privately, not the public. The secrets he told were
of military importance but did not concert crimes that the public has
a duty to be concerned with.
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