January 9, 2021

The Startup List

Not a lawyer, not sure who makes the charges, but I assume AG Merrick Garland and the Dept of Justice.

Doing nothing about them seems unjust and wrong.
We're not the longest standing Democracy in the world for nothing.

The world can stop judging the U.S. for our visible weakness and start respecting us for our invisible strength that has held in spite of tyranny and terrorism.

We are not a fake democracy. We are not weak.

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383

The list "incites," "assists," "gives aid or comfort thereto."











Six senators who sustained the AZ objection:

Sen. Ted Cruz
Sen. Josh Hawley
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith
Sen. Roger Marshall
Sen. John Kennedy
Sen. Tommy Tuberville

January 8, 2021

Conor Lamb Kicks Seditionist Butt

Note what Pelosi says and how Swalwell jumps on the interrupter.
We've got badasses in the 117th Congress.

January 8, 2021

Rachel Maddow: The Panorama of Violence, Rats Jumping Ship, & The Law Enforcement Problem Jan 7

The difference between Capitol Police's treatment of Sen. Warnock and the seditionist mob at 36:16.

January 8, 2021

Rachel & Timothy Snyder On Tyranny Past & Present, & If We Don't Stop The Big Lie, the Future Jan 7

January 8, 2021

Rachel Maddow: Experts Warn Democracies Facing Autocracy: Protect Your Institutions

January 8, 2021

"The Storm" is post-Q. Pizzagate was pre-Q.

Background on Pizzagate starts with Edgar Welch. But that stupid was then. Gone. Over with.

But not so fast.

Back in August, while we were suffering and dying (still are), Angela Stanton-King—the Republican candidate vying for John Lewis’ old seat in Georgia, who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy multiple times—tweeted in all caps: “THE STORM IS HERE,” a popular QAnon rallying cry, appearing to indicate she felt the president retweeting her was a sign that QAnon’s right-wing conspiracy theory had been validated.
The “storm” that Stanton-King referred to in her tweet refers to the moment “Q” followers believe the deep state will be arrested by Trump.


https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/qanon-4chan-the-storm-conspiracy-explained.html

There are intellectualists, theorists who examine these ongoings as some "natural" weirdness written into the DNA of America. American conflicts as "cycles." Like the founder of Stratfor.

Q seems to circle the drain of Americans' need for knowledge superior to those who rule them. Politicians like Hawley, Brooks, Trump and sons, and Giuliani are right there to keep them circling into a mental whirlpool that wants to sweep the rest of us away.



https://theconversation.com/qanon-and-the-storm-of-the-u-s-capitol-the-offline-effect-of-online-conspiracy-theories-152815

Feeling the wildness of uncertainty? Feeling as if things are out of control?
Good. Then you are closer to understanding and feeling the mentality of the movement turned seditious mob of January 6.
Feeling as if a political brand might even become a corporate monopoly that outlasts human lives? Good. Then you might also see how branding corporatists can profit from a demolished democracy.

January 7, 2021

Speakers Pelosi and Schumer should bar these persons from standing committees.

Party conferences convene before the start of each new Congress to elect leaders and determine committee assignments.
Each party conference appoints a "committee on committees" to prepare a roster of members it wishes named to the party's specifically allotted committee seats.
Let their so-called colleagues do double duty to fill committee assignments, imo.

Most standing committees are selected by the respective party steering committees and ratified by the party conferences.
The Ethics, House Administration, Rules and all select committees are chosen by the party leaders (Speaker in the majority and Minority Leader).

Most committees are additionally subdivided into subcommittees, each with its own leadership selected according to the full committee's rules.

These congress persons chose to slow, block and overturn the Constitution's process for confirming the Electoral College vote, and so they should be slowed, blocked and overturned in influence and decision making, because

-- They all believe their party platform is a person -- Trump.
-- They have aided an abetted his agenda by their four years of silent support for him.
-- They have lost all policy arguments in governance in their approach to bipartisan work.

Please, Speakers Pelosi and Schumer, assign these people to anywhere but standing committees. It's time to clean up on governance, Madam Speaker, and get our power rolling.

Senate

Tommy Tuberville, Ala.
Roger Marshall, Kan.
John Kennedy, La.
Cindy Hyde-Smith, Miss.
Josh Hawley, Mo.
Ted Cruz, Texas

House


Robert B. Aderholt, Ala.
Mo Brooks, Ala.
Jerry Carl, Ala.

Barry Moore, Ala.
Gary Palmer, Ala.
Mike Rogers, Ala.

Andy Biggs, Ariz.
Paul Gosar, Ariz.
Debbie Lesko, Ariz.

Rick Crawford, Ark.
Ken Calvert, Calif.
Mike Garcia, Calif.

Darrell Issa, Calif.
Doug LaMalfa, Calif.
Kevin McCarthy, Calif.

Devin Nunes, Calif.
Jay Obernolte, Calif.
Lauren Boebert, Colo.

Doug Lamborn, Colo.
Kat Cammack, Fla.
Mario Diaz-Balart, Fla.

Byron Donalds, Fla.
Neal Dunn, Fla.
Scott Franklin, Fla.

Matt Gaetz, Fla.
Carlos Gimenez, Fla.
Brian Mast, Fla.

Bill Posey, Fla.
John Rutherford, Fla.
Greg Steube, Fla.

Daniel Webster, Fla.
Rick Allen, Ga.
Earl L. "Buddy" Carter, Ga.

Andrew Clyde, Ga.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ga.
Jody Hice, Ga.

Barry Loudermilk, Ga.
Russ Fulcher, Idaho
Mike Bost, Ill.

Mary Miller, Ill.
Jim Baird, Ind.
Jim Banks, Ind.

Jackie Walorski, Ind.
Ron Estes, Kan.
Jacob LaTurner, Kan.

Tracey Mann, Kan.
Harold Rogers, Ky.
Clay Higgins, La.

Mike Johnson, La.
Steve Scalise, La.
Andy Harris, Md.

Jack Bergman, Mich.
Lisa McClain, Mich.
Tim Walberg, Mich.

Michelle Fischbach, Minn.
Jim Hagedorn, Minn.
Michael Guest, Miss.

Trent Kelly, Miss.
Steven Palazzo, Miss.
Sam Graves, Mo.

Vicky Hartzler, Mo.
Billy Long, Mo.
Blaine Luetkemeyer, Mo.

Jason Smith, Mo.
Matt Rosendale, Mont.
Dan Bishop, N.C.

Ted Budd, N.C.
Madison Cawthorn, N.C.
Richard Hudson, N.C.

David Rouzer, N.C.
Jeff Van Drew, N.J.
Yvette Herrell, N.M.

Chris Jacobs, N.Y.
Nicole Malliotakis, N.Y.
Lee Zeldin, N.Y.

Adrian Smith, Neb.
Warren Davidson, Ohio
Bob Gibbs, Ohio

Bill Johnson, Ohio
Jim Jordan, Ohio
Stephanie Bice, Okla.

Tom Cole, Okla.
Kevin Hern, Okla.
Frank Lucas, Okla.

Markwayne Mullin, Okla.
John Joyce, Pa.
Mike Kelly, Pa.

Scott Perry, Pa.
Guy Reschenthaler, Pa.
Jeff Duncan, S.C.

Ralph Norman, S.C.
Tom Rice, S.C.
William Timmons, S.C.

Joe Wilson, S.C.
Tim Burchett, Tenn.
Scott DesJarlais, Tenn.

Chuck Fleischmann, Tenn.
Mark E. Green, Tenn.
Diana Harshbarger, Tenn.

John Rose, Tenn.
Jodey Arrington, Texas
Brian Babin, Texas

Michael C. Burgess, Texas
John R. Carter, Texas
Michael Cloud, Texas

Pat Fallon, Texas
Louie Gohmert, Texas
Lance Gooden, Texas

Ronny Jackson, Texas
Troy Nehls, Texas
August Pfluger, Texas

Pete Sessions, Texas
Randy Weber, Texas
Roger Williams, Texas

Ron Wright, Texas
Ben Cline, Va.
Bob Good, Va.

Morgan Griffith, Va.
Carol Miller, W.Va.
Scott Fitzgerald, Wis.

Tom Tiffany, Wis.
Cliff Benz, Or.

EDIT: Okay. If not directly, then by any ways and means, indirectly.

January 7, 2021

CLIMATE CRISIS DISCUSSIONS -- THE WORK

previous posts
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017628074
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214775507
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214783130
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214808596


Startup source on The Work
Fiction
Kim Stanley Robinson. The Ministry For the Future (2020)

"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein

My SIL at Morgan Stanley was right: People don’t want the truth. They want a story.
Yes, this fiction is about climate scenarios, facts, personal, political, financial ethics, and geoengineering solutions.
I find myself thrilled that someone has or even can use in story form, climate politics, climate science, and climate geoengineering knowledge to envision what can work; and that once on that path, conscious humans would do anything to not let others derail “climate on our minds,” or get in each other’s way to save the biosphere for our descendants.
I can’t not give his book any but my highest recommendation

For me this is the hardest part of this series, so all sources and input are greatly appreciated.


THE WORK

1. What’s not working so far?



The Paris Climate Accord was signed in 2016 by 196 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The Climate Accords are now binding.
By 2020, 197 remain party to it. Of the eight countries not party to the law, the significant emitters are Iran, Turkey, and the United States, who formally left Nov 4 2020.

Now that we know we have caused climate change and entered the Anthropocene Period, at least three of us sit unwilling to move globally to help each other mitigate it.

Date of the next UNFCCC (UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26)
meeting is 1-12 November 2021. The main aim of the Paris Agreement (parent treaty to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol) is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius.

Why most of what we're trying is not working, imo, is because of the work's outcomes to-date.

In traditional physics terms, outcome = work.
No outcome = no work.

In our politics, public awareness, and action, there is
— not enough action,
— not fast enough action,
— planning, not doing,
— pledging, not doing
— roadmapping, not doing

Climate, like covid, doesn't care about our work or outcomes.
If the current work helps Biosphere growth, Biosphere won't tell us if/when it is enough.
But 'not enough,' when increasingly tried by all agent networks and governments, could be enough. We’re still not sure. Why?

Because average global temperature is still rising. THAT is the measure of our failure.

--Timeline for The Work — the “what” and the “how”— should be 12 years, not twenty, because
Earth’s dynamics are too great to predictably follow the existing change agents’ longer timelines, imo.



2. What claims to be working so far

-- Corporate efforts to save Earth and themselves

-- Some "go-to" think tanks.

-- CO2 capture & sequester technologies

0:00-0:43 -Intro
0:43-2:39 -Forests
2:40-3:42 -Farms
3:42-5:01 -BEECS
5:01-5:47 -Direct Air Capture
5:48-7:03 -Seawater Capture
7:04-7:38 -Enhanced Weathering
7:39-8:05 -Outro

-- some climate progress monitors


-- wildlife conservation corridors —

-- Solar and wind tech — The University of Southampton published in the Nature journal Scientific Data, shows where solar and wind farms are based around the world—demonstrating both their infrastructure density in different regions and approximate power output. It is the first ever global, open-access dataset of wind and solar power generating sites.


https://www.smart-energy.com/renewable-energy/solar-and-wind-are-the-cheapest-new-sources-of-energy-says-bnef/

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/01/21/wind-and-solar-still-fast-growing-electricity-sources-in-contracting-markets-of-2019-2020/



-- nature and wilderness preserves

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/10/renewable-power-represents-almost-90-of-total-global-power-capacity-added-in-2020/

-- Costa Rica, which constitutionally abolished its military force, used the military budget for public education and health, protection," signed the UN treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,
bans hunting, has released all zoo captives, has laws that allow anyone to live/squat anywhere within 100 meters of the coastline, where no one can own real estate;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica

--Permaculture

Imagineering, then doing it.

When it comes to saving Earth and human death, these efforts are not about failures of character or politics. They must measurably work. How progress is measured is one part the next part of The Work.


3. What could work in America

-- During the 2019 primary campaign Gov Jay Inslee presented himself as the candidate who'd done the most in his state leadership role to commit his state’s course in dealing with climate change. I believed that because of his successful state projects, his nationwide and international clean green plans, climate science team and attention to numbers, that he offered scalable models for staffing, structuring the nation’s top climate change funding, policy and long term functionality beyond presidents’ terms of office. Here’s Gov Inslee’s latest plan to enfold climate jobs into his state’s economy.
But what of the other governors and other states?

While trying to sort out the problem and the timeline of foundational work ahead, we also trust that President Joe Biden's superior leadership decision making is already creating and overseeing a governance and funding frame.

Starting now, our permanent future economic, social, national and climate futures can and must build on the scaffold of what President Biden and Democrats Build Back Better. Starting now.



-- President Biden’s Climate Team


Deb Haalan, Secretary of the Interior
Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy
Michael S. Regan, Administrator of the EPA

Gina McCarthy, WH Climate Coordinator
Ali Zaidi, WH Climate Deputy Coordinator (former Energy Dept, Domestic Policy Council, senior climate staff under Gov Cuomo)
Brenda Mallory, Head of the Council on Environmental Quality

Biden’s Climate Network

David Kieve, chief outreach to green groups, environmental justice leader
Cristobal Alex, campaign outreach to immigration and climate activists

Cecilia Martinez, Executive Director of the Center for Earth, Energy, and Democracy

Harold Mitchell, Climate Engagement Advisory Council (former House D, South Carolina)

Lonnie Stepenson, IBEW, (once opposed the Green New Deal)
Jamal Raad, Director, Evergreen Action

Stef Feldman, policy director
Conor Lamb, Environmental Task Force

-- Mr. Biden pledged to achieve

— net zero emissions by 2050

-- eliminate fossil fuel emissions from the power sector by 2035.

is likely to require

-- a doubling, annually, in the pace of new wind and solar power;

-- a huge increase in the number of new battery-powered cars sold every year, from 2 percent now to 50 percent of new sales by 2030, with charging stations;

-- a big jump in the number of homes heated by electric heat pumps instead of oil and gas;

-- vast increase in the capacity of the electric grid to handle all this clean power.



To be continued Tuesday …

January 7, 2021

Joy Reid: 'If This Was A BLM Protest, 'There Would Already Be People Shackled, Arrested Or Dead'

For those who need to access YouTube. Thanks to uponit7771 for the original MSNBC post.

More Joy: 'This Is A Riot At Minimum, It's Insurrection'

January 7, 2021

Before Inauguration Day, ALL Capitol and Metro Police must take a lie detector test.

The one question that will qualify them to keep their jobs:

Do you believe Joe Biden is the legally elected President-Elect of the United States?

One more for good measure:

Do you feel that Black Lives Matter protestors' rights are equal to those of the crowds at the Capitol on January 6?

Those who fail the lie detector test may not only NOT work on the Inauguration Day swearing in ceremony, they must be fired for dereliction of duty in allowing a seditious mob to assault the Congress to prevent the confirmation of the Electoral College votes from the sovereign states of America.

Enforcement. Enforce the law on enforcers.

They Failed the law and order mission they were hired for.

They allowed a seditious mob to return to their home communities as sedition saints.

From Steven Schmidt: