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April 4, 2021

Teacher And Students Are Back and Badass As Ever

David Jamison. MR. Jamison to his community.

April 4, 2021

"Seapspiracy" -- the Netflix documentary.



We've had it all wrong about climate change. It is man made, but not in the energy/carbon consumption methods we thought. Not by fossil fuel, which is some small part.

The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina, is essential reading about capitalism's oceanic depravities, but the documentary is important for our leaders to see. If international leaders have depended on microbiology and scientists to help us through this pandemic, they'd better see how this pandemic arises from destroying life in the oceans.

There are times when we must decide, and it's now. Or we will not just ruin some imagined oceanic food supply. What we've done to oceanic life has affected land life, food supplies across continents, and if we keep ignoring killing oceanic life, we will kill ourselves off, too.

Before it's too late, nations must stop fishing industries and fish farming. To heal the dying oceans means to leave them the fuck alone.

Earth's oceans are not just one of biggest climate change drivers on the planet. It is THE biggest climate change driver on the planet.

This film explains why we are ruining the biggest carbon sink on the planet through internationally governmentally subsidized fishing industries that, by killing off oceanic life, kill the oceans' carbon sink mechanisms that will kill us off no matter if we ended all fossil industries tomorrow.





And from the New York Times (click on the link titles for more videos; some browsers will support a few, though maybe not all).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/24/world/the-outlaw-ocean.html
April 3, 2021

At The Border

From The Talk of the Town in The New Yorker, April 5 2021

There are currently some eighteen thousand unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. custody, including more than five thousand who remain in holding cells, as the government scrambles to find space to house them. Republicans who were silent when Trump was separating migrant children from their parents and eviscerating the asylum system are now denouncing “Biden’s border crisis.” The messaging appears to be effective; it’s causing all sorts of confusion.

Biden is turning away forty per cent of asylum-seeking families and virtually all single adults arriving at the border, under a controversial Trump policy known as Title 42, which he has left in place. Even so, everyone from TV news anchors to the President of Mexico is blaming Biden for encouraging more migrants to travel north, because he vowed to stop Trump’s heedless cruelty. Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, tweeted that Biden has “emphasized the humane treatment of immigrants, regardless of their legal status.” He meant it as a criticism...

...in another sense, the situation is worse than much of the public understands, because the issues involved are genuinely complex and nearly impossible to settle as long as policymakers in Washington continue to regard decency as a sign of political weakness rather than of moral strength.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/biden-and-the-blame-game-at-the-border

I love this magazine because it always understands the complexities of treating suffering humans with dignity.


April 2, 2021

Lt. Gen. Russel Honor Report Recommendations for Improving Capitol Security

Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré has finally been completed. The 13-page report covers security failures at the Capitol and presents recommendations for security changes.

Honore and his team present some of the following recommendations:

• Bring in mobile fencing at the Capitol to replace the current rings of security fencing

• Establish better decision-making processes to avoid delays in a crisis

• Create mounted police units at the Capitol

• Approve the Capitol Police chief's request for security assistance from the National Guard

• Create a quick-response force to respond to emergencies

• Hire hundreds more Capitol Police officers to fill personnel shortfalls

Lawmakers are receiving bipartisan briefings Monday on the review.
Republicans have expressed resistance to implementing some of the permanent security changes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/08/capitol-riot-report-read-gen-honores-full-security-recommendations/4628531001/

What has been done? Not enough, apparently. Thanks, trumpcult.
April 2, 2021

Rachel On 4/1, Manafort Day, When We Celebrate Surviving A Thoroughly Criminal Administration;

Red State Popularity For Biden's Infrastructure Plan and How He'll Pay for It With New Corporate Taxes; How McConnell Has Freed Democrats From Bothering To Negotiate With Them








April 1, 2021

Joe's 71 Days Stats

...will be the same as his four years stats.

April 1, 2021

Rachel Maddow Lays Out Pres. Biden's Infrastructure Plan, Listens to AOC's Case For Building Bigger

The contrast between the tawdry shabbiness of post-pendejo45's politics, and President Biden's vision for investment for the people, is like night and day.

Interview with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez begins at 22:00


April 1, 2021

Climate Deniers of the 117th

We've known for years that Big Fossil knew of climate change back in 1981 -- but has funded climate deniers for at least 32 of the 40 years that it knew -- 25 years before An Inconvenient Truth opened the public awareness of climate change.

This is yesterday's report from the Center for American Progress (CAP).

CAP sources the dark money figures from the Center for Responsive Politics' site, opensecrets.org, put together in 2015 -- a year before pendejo45's Congress confirmed Exxon's CEO, Rex Tillerson, as US Secretary of State.

Though the numbers are probably much higher now, the report is credibly useful to give us a low ball idea of just how much dark money
-- advertises to the public,
-- shapes corporate decisions,
-- lobbies members of Congress, and otherwise
-- funds the infrastructure that makes climate denial politically feasible and even profitable.


139 out of 535 US members of the 117th Congress are climate deniers collecting $61,478,689 in dirty money.

... which comes out to an average of $442,293 per elected official of Congress that denies climate change.

This figure includes all contributions above the Federal Election Commission’s mandated reporting threshold of $200 from management, employees, and political action committees in the fossil fuel industries.

Not included in this data are the many other avenues available to fossil fuel interests to influence campaigns and elected officials....with major oil companies like Valero, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips contributing more than $1 million each to the conservative Senate Leadership Fund.

Furthermore, dangerous denial within Congress is not limited to climate change alone. By this analysis, 82 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and six U.S. senators are both climate deniers and members of the “sedition caucus”—those who denied the certified results of the 2020 general election and therefore supported President Trump’s violent attempt to overturn these democratic results.***

There is also significant overlap between elected officials who deny climate science and elected officials who deny the reality of the pandemic that has sickened millions and claimed the lives of more than half a million Americans in the past year. In fact, as this analysis was being written, one congressman-elect and another congressman who had both cast doubt on the science around climate change died from COVID-19.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2021/03/30/497685/climate-deniers-117th-congress/?fbclid=IwAR0IapvGtIH8nrEWSzlNqC56_Vi7rOLwor7ZHJB3hFvGVTeA3WybgDhdHy8

Biden knows all about this. He knows the climate war is on. It's not too extreme to say that we can bet that he knows he faces Big Fossil henchmen, as the entrenched fifth column insurgents of the corporate capture of American government.
Dark money against climate change is the dark reason why 2022 must be as important as 2020.

The Exxon Valdez

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