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"But what about China?" has been a throwaway comment made many times to justify inaction on climate change or criticise decarbonisation policies.
Well China is now by far the world's largest manufacturer, installer, and user of clean energy technologies.
China is dominating renewable energy production while the EU fumbles around with carbon credit scams and the US is actively fighting its own climate scientists. It’s not hard to see who is actually planning for the future, and who is going to get left behind.
It's time for a National Divorce. Why do we torture ourselves? The Civil War never ended. Blue States should join with Canada and form a new alliance. Does it sound implausible? Consider the alternative. Being murdered in the street. The MAGAt cancer has consumed our lives for years. ENOUGH.
A joke for the history buffs.
What’s happening in the United States has been happening since the “end” of slavery when they introduced, the Vagrancy Act of 1866. They then introduced Sharecropping, followed by the 13th Amendment, this continues today. What we are witnessing isn’t anything new, stop referring to the Gestapo.
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
Venezuela opposition reports the so called "capture" of Maduro was a negotiated deal between Maduro and US for an agreed exit strategy. We reported in November that this would be the case. The US bombed Venezuelan service members as part of a death theatre.
#VenezuelaInvasionTwo common fascism adjacent arguments: 1) Our democracy is flawed, imperfect, so our government and its laws are illegitimate, and we should all become lawless gangsters, anarchists. 2) Democracy is meaningless because voters are stupid / ignorant / easily duped, and many people choose to not vote.
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
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From the
@wsj.com chief foreign correspondent
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only move...
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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