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<a href="http://rceezwhatzmore.blogspot.com/">whats more</a> art & studies blogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger679125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-68481723639867043102023-07-17T10:52:00.001-07:002023-07-17T10:52:09.951-07:00We need IMMEDIATE action to stop extinction crisis, David Attenborough<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/dbCR0KSU52g" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(15, 15, 15); display: -webkit-box; font-family: "YouTube Sans", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="color: #eeeeee;">We need IMMEDIATE action to stop extinction crisis, David Attenborough - BBC</span></yt-formatted-string></h1></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-71113649956133130062023-03-13T17:52:00.004-07:002023-03-13T17:52:55.329-07:00Biden approves the massive Willow project – Don't Give Up!<p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> <strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">This morning, President Biden formally approved the Willow Master Development Project, a massive oil drilling development across federal land in Alaska’s western Arctic.</strong></span></p><div class="bodyContent" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Despite his promises to stop drilling on federal lands, and against the actions of millions who urged his administration to stop Willow, President Biden decided to approve the massive oil project. The project would<strong> lock-in pollution equivalent to the emissions of 76 coal-fired power plants over the next 30 years.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;">The world cannot afford to develop any new fossil fuel reserves to have a chance of keeping global temperatures below the 1.5°C threshold outlined in the Paris Agreement. The Biden administration must prioritize a just transition to renewable energy, stop new fossil fuel projects, and phase-out existing fossil fuel infrastructure. </span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><strong>Developing new fossil fuel projects is incompatible with a livable climate and puts communities' health and safety at risk.</strong> The Willow project will disproportionately harm the Alaska Native Village of Nuiqsut, which is already burdened by existing fossil fuel infrastructure and the impacts of climate change.</span></p><p><strong><span style="color: #eeeeee;">We'll keep you updated about what's next in the fight against Willow. In the meantime, here are links to a few of the responses from us and our partners that you can read and amplify:</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;">1. <a href="https://act.priceofoil.org/go/31758?t=1&akid=45102%2E541495%2EGQgkYU">This statement from the Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic (SILA)</a>on how the approval of the Willow project abandons our climate promises.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://act.priceofoil.org/go/31758?t=2&akid=45102%2E541495%2EGQgkYU"><strong><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.climatetruth.org/images/willow_sila.png" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 15px; border-bottom-right-radius: 15px; border-top-left-radius: 15px; border-top-right-radius: 15px; border: 3px solid black; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; width: 425px;" /></span></strong></a></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;">2. <a href="https://act.priceofoil.org/go/31761?t=3&akid=45102%2E541495%2EGQgkYU">This TikTok from Elise Joshi of Gen Z for Climate Change</a> calling on people to flood President Biden's social media with outrage over the decision.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://act.priceofoil.org/go/31761?t=4&akid=45102%2E541495%2EGQgkYU"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.climatetruth.org/images/joshi_willow_tiktok.png" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 15px; border-bottom-right-radius: 15px; border-top-left-radius: 15px; border-top-right-radius: 15px; border: 3px solid black; max-width: 100%; width: 425px;" /></span></a></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;">3. <a href="https://act.priceofoil.org/go/31759?t=5&akid=45102%2E541495%2EGQgkYU">This reaction from the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition</a> to the approval of the Willow project and abandonment of Biden’s climate promises.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://act.priceofoil.org/go/31759?t=6&akid=45102%2E541495%2EGQgkYU"><strong><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.climatetruth.org/images/willow_pvff.png" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 15px; border-bottom-right-radius: 15px; border-top-left-radius: 15px; border-top-right-radius: 15px; border: 3px solid black; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; width: 425px;" /></span></strong></a></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;">4. <a href="https://act.priceofoil.org/go/31760?t=7&akid=45102%2E541495%2EGQgkYU">This Twitter thread</a> from us at Oil Change International echoing frontline calls condemning Biden’s approval of the Willow project.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://act.priceofoil.org/go/31760?t=8&akid=45102%2E541495%2EGQgkYU"><strong><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.climatetruth.org/images/willow_oci_thread.png" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 15px; border-bottom-right-radius: 15px; border-top-left-radius: 15px; border-top-right-radius: 15px; border: 3px solid black; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; width: 425px;" /></span></strong></a></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Thanks,</span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Allie Rosenbluth<br />U.S. Program Co-Manager<br />Oil Change International</span></p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><img alt="" src="https://act.priceofoil.org/o.gif?akid=45102.541495.GQgkYU" /></span></div><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px -20px -30px; padding: 5px 20px; text-align: center;"><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><strong>Oil Change International</strong> campaigns to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming barriers to that transition.</span></p><p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><strong>Want to support our work further? <a href="http://priceofoil.org/donate/?t=9&akid=45102%2E541495%2EGQgkYU">Click here to donate.</a></strong><br /><em>We are a 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are fully tax deductible.</em></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-65691597179669060942022-11-10T17:19:00.005-08:002022-11-10T17:21:24.891-08:00Montana’s wolf policies are finally, and rightly, getting taken to court<div><div class="lee-article-text first-p" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo16ft__JbkYyd6miuF2Po1TdjW58Ire9UVrg8TM7m2WmYNduC6ZghxSIwwvJpdQesfam-MW38LhrOLyHZMd1wBp8iXwW-YGlW3gawN0wkYxgNuoRSOhBqd4f4KPyNkPcZWJMF8YCZyBk6x6827aLuHBBqNsZsWPpaVPx0yhD66XBeFe1CmPYQDj_VKw/s620/wolf%20article%20image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="620" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo16ft__JbkYyd6miuF2Po1TdjW58Ire9UVrg8TM7m2WmYNduC6ZghxSIwwvJpdQesfam-MW38LhrOLyHZMd1wBp8iXwW-YGlW3gawN0wkYxgNuoRSOhBqd4f4KPyNkPcZWJMF8YCZyBk6x6827aLuHBBqNsZsWPpaVPx0yhD66XBeFe1CmPYQDj_VKw/s320/wolf%20article%20image.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The general rifle hunting season opened recently across Montana. Thousands of hunters began pursuing elk and deer with the intention of putting meat in their freezer, hunting with a reverence for the wildlife they are pursuing. But there is another hunt going on, void of respect and with no purpose but to kill. So we sued.</span></p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">WildEarth Guardians and Project Coyote sued the State of Montana, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (MFWP), and the Fish and Wildlife Commission because the state’s extreme anti-wolf hunting and trapping policies violate the law, the state constitution, and the public trust.</span></p></div><div class="tncms-region hidden-print" id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px;"><div class="tncms-block" id="tncms-block-2100495" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We sued because the laws and regulations currently governing wolf management are clearly not based on science and thus do not provide an adequate foundation for conserving this iconic Montana species.</span></p></div><div class="hidden-print" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px;"><div class="lee-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We sued because the state’s wolf ‘management’ is based on a 20-year-old, legally invalid wolf management plan. The science of wolf conservation has developed significantly since 2002, yet, for the second year in a row, the state will allow nearly half of the wolf population to be killed while its management plan is 20 years behind. Wolf managers in Montana illegally relied on the outdated plan to set the current quota and hunting regulations…</span></p></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>more:</div><a href="https://mtstandard.com/opinion/columnists/lizzy-pennock-and-michelle-lute-montana-s-wolf-policies-are-finally-and-rightly-getting-taken/article_9d54bb65-4337-529f-91c9-794819a57c71.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=9c4998d0-0f9d-4f22-b936-e032bd271752"><span style="color: red;">Montana’s wolf policies are finally, and rightly, getting taken to court</span></a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-9750968526587674642022-08-15T20:54:00.000-07:002022-08-15T20:54:16.028-07:00NIRS Statement in Response to the Inflation Reduction Act: Climate Compromises and Sacrifices Are Not Justifiable <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Friday, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) passed the House and is headed to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law. This bill could have been our best – and maybe our only – chance to make real progress on fighting climate change and creating a just environmental and economic future. It should've been a major success for climate policy. </span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 21px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><strong>It is a deep disappointment that the IRA is not truly a climate bill and is certain to harm the very communities that most need action on climate.</strong> With the IRA, our elected leaders have chosen to side with dirty energy industries, their financiers and investors, corporate media, and political opportunists to prop up the dirty energy status quo with hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies, financing, and devil’s bargains. </span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 21px; white-space: pre-wrap;">NIRS joins the many frontline and BIPOC-led organizations that have pointed out they cannot support the bill. </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 21px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">The compromise between climate action and climate destruction in the IRA is not one we can accept. NIRS urges Congress and the White House to go back and develop a policy that truly addresses climate change and environmental injustice –<strong> including restoration and repair of the harms caused by fossil fuels and nuclear energy. </strong></span></span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 21px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">We refuse to accept that frontline communities must be sacrificed yet again for nuclear, fossil, and other dirty energy interests. We stand in solidarity with the frontline communities and we will not stop fighting for a just, equitable, and sustainable future. </span></span></strong></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><div><h1 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 37.79999923706055px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a config="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" href="https://www.nirs.org/nirs-statement-in-response-to-the-inflation-reduction-act-climate-compromises-and-sacrifices-are-not-justifiable/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=51c27593-c728-4ad3-84b2-a3405a68e78d" lid="59926e8e-344b-4755-8222-0e709e236812" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" track="true"><strong><span style="color: red;">Read our full statement on the IRA here.</span></strong></a></h1></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-15023323504717372252022-08-10T19:20:00.003-07:002022-08-10T19:21:10.185-07:00ACT NOW: Tell the House to Oppose the Nuclear Bailout and Save the Climate!<a href="https://nirs.salsalabs.org/iraactionalerthouse/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2zoOnZ_jC74zI4cEg2-5gkFwvrZrPNY8jU1ZWRM1JE_s7EzFx4euFO0JM" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">ACT NOW: Tell the House to Oppose the Nuclear Bailout and Save the Climate!</span></b></a><div><br /></div><div><div>BIG NEWS: West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin reached a deal with Congressional Democrats on a sweeping climate and energy package that supposedly would address the climate crisis, now called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). The Senate passed the bill on Sunday, August 7, and the House of Representatives plans to vote on it this Friday, August 12. </div><div><br /></div><div>This bill could have been our best – and maybe our only – chance to make real progress on fighting climate change and creating the just environmental and economic future the Biden administration promised voters. It should've been a major success for climate policy, thanks to tireless activists who worked to hold Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer accountable to get Sen. Manchin to the table on climate.</div><div><br /></div><div>But, among the desperately needed good progressive measures in the IRA are bad policies and hundreds of billions of dollars in poison pills – handouts to fossil fuels, false climate solutions, and Big Nuclear. These provisions would profit dirty and polluting energy industries that are causing climate and ecological crises at the expense of taxpayers, environmental justice, and TRUE investment in the 100% renewable, just, and sustainable energy future we deserve. </div><div><br /></div><div>Frankly, the harm they would cause can’t be justified, and may actually block renewable energy and other real climate solutions in the bill.</div><div><br /></div><div>Of the $369 billion dollars, up to $72 billion is slated for subsidies to aging nuclear reactors — a wasteful expenditure that will not create a single new job, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by any amount, nor make any progress towards climate action. The measure is nothing more than a corrupt bailout scam by the nuclear industry and their cronies in Congress. There is also: </div><div><br /></div><div> $250 billion in taxpayer-guaranteed loans to prop up old nuclear and fossil fuel power plants </div><div><br /></div><div> $40 billion in taxpayer loans that could go to building new reactors and fossil fuel power plants</div><div><br /></div><div> $700 million to promote domestic uranium mining and enrichment</div><div><br /></div><div>We cannot settle for the inadequate, unjust, and wasteful policies in the Inflation Reduction Act. We cannot settle for a bill that backs false climate solutions and sacrifices frontline communities. We MUST demand better from Congress: a strong national policy for climate, the economy, and for environmental justice. The time to act is now. Demand that Congress and the Biden administration eliminate the massive subsidies to nuclear power and other dirty energy. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://nirs.salsalabs.org/iraactionalerthouse/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Speak up today! Tell Your Representatives: Don’t Waste our Climate Future on False Solutions</span></a></b></div></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-75273330805661683512022-07-01T12:12:00.003-07:002022-07-01T12:13:01.973-07:00Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists<div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">More than 150 conservation, environmental, and social justice organizations have accused The Nature Conservancy of "promoting false climate solutions."</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://grist.org/energy/logging-biomass-nature-conservancy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-82276440544434370562022-04-11T10:59:00.003-07:002022-04-11T11:05:09.866-07:00Best Practices to Confront Pandemics at the Source<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The international community must agree to end deforestation, close live-wildlife markets, and embrace a treaty to prevent future outbreaks.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://therevelator.org/best-practices-confront-pandemics/" target="_blank">Best Practices to Confront Pandemics at the Source</a><div><br /></div><div>see also: <a href="https://therevelator.org/coronaviruses-human-meat-market/" target="_blank">Coronaviruses and the Human Meat Market</a></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-30368728442726598582022-03-09T12:32:00.005-08:002022-03-09T12:33:50.221-08:00Over 300 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia - But Some Remain | Yale School of ManagementMarch 9, 2022
Since Putin's devastating invasion of Ukraine began, over 320 companies have announced their withdrawal from Russia in protest.
Nevertheless, some western companies have continued to operate in Russia undeterred; we identify several dozen companies with particularly significant exposure to Russian markets. In the days since we initially published our list, many of the "remain" companies have responded to public backlash and decided to withdraw, and we are continuously revising our list to reflect these decisions as they are made. The full, current list of companies that have curtailed operations in Russia as well as those that remain, as of March 9, can be seen below.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-300-companies-have-withdrawn-russia-some-remain" target="_blank">Over 300 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia - But Some Remain | Yale School of Management</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-56561598381340417872022-03-05T16:58:00.007-08:002022-03-05T16:58:45.982-08:00On Covid-2019's U.S. Two-Year Anniversary, It's Time for Real Pandemic Prevention<div>Welcome to the era of pandemics. Scientists have been warning us for years that new pathogens passed from wild animals will emerge more frequently, kill more people, and wreak more havoc on our interconnected economies.</div><div><br /></div><div>As the human population continues to grow and we destroy more of the natural world and interact with more wildlife, we put ourselves at greater risk of diseases emerging that can infect people.</div><div><br /></div><div>"The next pandemic will come within a decade," a G20 panel concluded recently. When you look at the past 25 to 30 years, that shouldn't be a surprise. Over the past couple of decades, we've witnessed the emergence of novel diseases like HIV, Ebola, SARs, avian and swine flu, and now Covid-19. On average a new infectious disease emerges every eight months…</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/on-covids-u-s-two-year-anniversary-it-s-time-for-real-pandemic-prevention-5b3f9945967e" target="_blank">https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/on-covids-u-s-two-year-anniversary-it-s-time-for-real-pandemic-prevention-5b3f9945967e</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-16214582720746621332022-02-02T21:18:00.005-08:002022-02-02T21:28:35.693-08:00Sometimes a wild god comes to the table.<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUEcYm2ZGLI4_XSwbrxx5up742K4a757R6R09XuS35kEJE27lgg1y4iBs5X0SAc5LJEvNP9ojDSx9H2tVW6rtfNv5Yo1UpM5R1d8maTsD1wo9CQyRy1gF05hgeIlOKH4Ms5lbPFU-SsgLdRTTuSPwEZ6d9FGA2Cx02ivYOh6FvOqIAJNXRPfthU3-07w=s400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 15px;">by Tom Hirons</span></div></span></span><p></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes a wild god comes to the table</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He is awkward and does not know the ways</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His voice makes vinegar from wine.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When the wild god arrives at the door,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You will probably fear him.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He reminds you of something dark</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That you might have dreamt,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or the secret you do not wish to be shared.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He will not ring the doorbell;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Instead he scrapes with his fingers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Leaving blood on the paintwork,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Though primroses grow</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In circles round his feet.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You do not want to let him in.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You are very busy.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It is late, or early, and besides…</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You cannot look at him straight</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Because he makes you want to cry.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The dog barks.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The wild god smiles,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Holds out his hand.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The dog licks his wounds</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And leads him inside.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The wild god stands in your kitchen.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ivy is taking over your sideboard;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mistletoe has moved into the lampshades</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And wrens have begun to sing</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An old song in the mouth of your kettle.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">‘I haven’t much,’ you say</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And give him the worst of your food.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He sits at the table, bleeding.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He coughs up foxes.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There are otters in his eyes.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When your wife calls down,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You close the door and</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tell her it’s fine.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You will not let her see</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The strange guest at your table.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The wild god asks for whiskey</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And you pour a glass for him,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then a glass for yourself.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Three snakes are beginning to nest</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In your voicebox. You cough.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, limitless space.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, eternal mystery.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, endless cycles of death and birth.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, miracle of life.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, the wondrous dance of it all.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You cough again,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Expectorate the snakes and</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Water down the whiskey,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Wondering how you got so old</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And where your passion went.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The wild god reaches into a bag</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Made of moles and nightingale-skin.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He pulls out a two-reeded pipe,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Raises an eyebrow</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And all the birds begin to sing.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The fox leaps into your eyes.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Otters rush from the darkness.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The snakes pour through your body.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Your dog howls and upstairs</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Your wife both exults and weeps at once.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The wild god dances with your dog.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You dance with the sparrows.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A white stag pulls up a stool</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And bellows hymns to enchantments.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A pelican leaps from chair to chair.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the distance, warriors pour from their tombs.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ancient gold grows like grass in the fields.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone dreams the words to long-forgotten songs.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The hills echo and the grey stones ring</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With laughter and madness and pain.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the middle of the dance,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The house takes off from the ground.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Clouds climb through the windows;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lightning pounds its fists on the table.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The moon leans in through the window.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The wild god points to your side.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You are bleeding heavily.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You have been bleeding for a long time,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Possibly since you were born.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There is a bear in the wound.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">‘Why did you leave me to die?’</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Asks the wild god and you say:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">‘I was busy surviving.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The shops were all closed;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I didn’t know how. I’m sorry.’</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Listen to them:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The fox in your neck and</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The snakes in your arms and</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The wren and the sparrow and the deer…</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The great un-nameable beasts</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In your liver and your kidneys and your heart…</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There is a symphony of howling.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A cacophony of dissent.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The wild god nods his head and</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You wake on the floor holding a knife,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A bottle and a handful of black fur.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Your dog is asleep on the table.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Your wife is stirring, far above.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Your cheeks are wet with tears;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Your mouth aches from laughter or shouting.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A black bear is sitting by the fire.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes a wild god comes to the table.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He is awkward and does not know the ways</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His voice makes vinegar from wine</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And brings the dead to life. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">–– Tom Hirons at Coyopa - Tom's book, Sometimes a Wild God, which contains this and many other FINE examples of his wordsmithing is available via this link ---> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.hedgespoken.org%2Fproducts%2Fsometimes-a-wild-god%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR17VCrYP8aNKfjoGxxf24ydYvox62bMc-DBYb76GAySmgUUNGZtP0V6euA&h=AT06WWosK0VU21gHAemIuNgQJu9lZKj5Rat6yZUBZNsamvdw1IDSjnSHfirE5MRZi4SfQ5OaRaPGsdv6u0abARGRbf-KS-iu3rlrd2rYcGAaBOW7AT-vDKFXnFSHB672UYm4Jto&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3p7VjlVUNCe0O1qQLOOelbmRxzor9hrDrYWww2doesnjKOq9iTs2W5nxMm7iGHqFltoGm1Obr98JR0lwOw3TxjYPf7y2Pb1KRXqbopzn-Keo90f5NkFZKvwpI8_isX56LHOc2pBMAYERoSbpwsETJYZjE" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">http://shop.hedgespoken.org/products/sometimes-a-wild-god</a></span> Please support artists & their work!</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">–– ––ART: Illustration by Janne Pitkanen & concept & photography by Harri Halme. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">From the album cover The Spirit of Ukko by Finnish metal band Kiuas.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">–– Title track – <span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Spirit of Ukko." </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lyrics –– </span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Greetings, we are here tonight</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>To bring the flames of Ukko to your hearts</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>On this black night the stars are aligned</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>These ancient fireworks play their parts</i></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Born from the dark to light a flame</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>What once had died shall rise again</i></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Winds sweep the snow, resurrecting songs of darkness</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Born from the cold to light a flame within our hearts</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Winds sweep the snow, resurrecting songs of darkness</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Born from the cold, now it's celebration time...</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>... The spirit of Ukko will burn with us tonight!</i></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); color: #e4e6eb; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Let's bring back the good old times</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When the true gods used to reign the northern skies</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For centuries they've been away</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>But the memory and spirit still remains</i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Videos –</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="color: #e4e6eb; font-family: inherit;">Studio: <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FFowajLNzreE%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0dcSx0HYxTwWddjTsyIroJf05zkEkCt9tjjSeG-a98huUAKW4Rvd-WuWg&h=AT0yCy0k6I6WRVne0_bFCXFuGo5PdF0bxRwrJ7NgaaHldgpLKTw8u7OqKG5g9k2xblC0OZDrxwrDIyb4MOB32BzG7IJ-7uBTCklLZGIa_aajtMcourxYF4jAhM-MUbETfZ7s3A8&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3p7VjlVUNCe0O1qQLOOelbmRxzor9hrDrYWww2doesnjKOq9iTs2W5nxMm7iGHqFltoGm1Obr98JR0lwOw3TxjYPf7y2Pb1KRXqbopzn-Keo90f5NkFZKvwpI8_isX56LHOc2pBMAYERoSbpwsETJYZjE" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/FowajLNzreE</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #e4e6eb; font-family: inherit;">Live: <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FM9X1SUmyHyg%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0y3-tVFw8pXEo0pf_2yfNCZu_0aLx5XpOPncYEk7KRJgfnSnwXSxGuRgE&h=AT0BHOCEdHb5pZZnCa4Bk1CdFStRnknDtYj_f_7U1xY1rjqyaLDksz8ryufrA12cu5b0V_qoxQPG-57eVHsip2IJlaKgcNSjgLtW2W8XHk0vJtx9sF4SNLDmkwajR75egIlDc3g&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3p7VjlVUNCe0O1qQLOOelbmRxzor9hrDrYWww2doesnjKOq9iTs2W5nxMm7iGHqFltoGm1Obr98JR0lwOw3TxjYPf7y2Pb1KRXqbopzn-Keo90f5NkFZKvwpI8_isX56LHOc2pBMAYERoSbpwsETJYZjE" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/M9X1SUmyHyg</a></span></div><span style="color: #e4e6eb;">
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<p style="margin: 1em 0px;">Wishing you all a happy and healthy holiday season!</p>- Santa, Mrs. Claus, and Slushie the Bear<div><br /></div><div>P.S. Thanks to all of your help last year, we won our campaign to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve! This is just the beginning of great things for The Santa Squad and our campaign to #SaveSantasHome and all our homes too!</div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-14104859228422423862021-01-16T19:52:00.002-08:002021-01-16T19:52:29.371-08:00Your Week in Review | Common Dreams Jan. 16, 2021<p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P16M4HJI-T8/YAOzmCfdQEI/AAAAAAAAQ3M/309UVkZ2jhgoAmo4DpOsbW_1l-tGzPLHwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="82" data-original-width="324" height="81" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P16M4HJI-T8/YAOzmCfdQEI/AAAAAAAAQ3M/309UVkZ2jhgoAmo4DpOsbW_1l-tGzPLHwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;"><td bgcolor="transparent" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;" valign="top" width="600"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; height: 100%px; margin: 0px auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;"><td class="mcol1" style="border-collapse: separate; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; height: 71px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 15px 0px 10px; width: 600px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;"><td class="ao_FreeTextBlock" id="B1506632392405" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 17pt; line-height: 28.333332061767578px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Your Week in Review</span></span></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;"><td bgcolor="transparent" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;" valign="top" width="600"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; height: 100%px; margin: 0px auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;"><td class="mcol1" style="border-collapse: separate; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; height: 2190px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 5px; width: 590px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto;"><td class="ao_RSSBlock" id="B1506697372811" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><a name="B1506697372811" style="font-size: 12pt;"></a></span><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct2_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct2_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">'His Conduct Was Seditious': House Democrats From Texas Demand Ted Cruz Be Expelled From Senate</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct3_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct3_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stands in the House Chamber during a reconvening of a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Members of Congress returned to the House Chamber after being evacuated when protesters stormed the Capitol and disrupted a joint session to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2021-01-16_at_12.01.29_pm.jpg?itok=IBun13vZ" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jon Queally, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"In his effort to appease Donald Trump and his supporters, Senator Cruz encouraged these terrorists to wage armed insurrection against America." </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct4_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct4_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">No, Open Sedition Is Not a First Amendment Right</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct5_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct5_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="The mob can hide behind the First Amendment and use the foil of BLM marches all it wants. It’s piling chicanery on top of lies. (Photo: Flickr/CC)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/flag_11.jpg?itok=oWSk1BQd" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Pierre Tristam</strong></i> <br />The right to protest is not in dispute. If that's all the mob had done, its rights would certainly be defensible and protected. </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct6_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct6_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">As Democrats Confirm They Did Not Host Pre-Insurrection Capitol Tours, Which GOP Members Can Say the Same?</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct7_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct7_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="Carrying plastic restraints, a member of the pro-Trump insurrectionist mob is seen inside the Senate Chamber on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/untitled.jpg?itok=lt2fnhoY" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jon Queally, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"I can say with 100% confidence I didn't give any Capitol tours to anyone last week," said Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on Friday. "Any Republicans out there who want to join us in answering this question?" </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct8_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct8_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Will Trump's Grand Finale Be Conviction by the US Senate?</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct9_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct9_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="President Donald Trump delivering the speech that spurred a mob to overrun the U.S. Capitol at a rally on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_29_0.jpg?itok=nebVkmv7" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Ralph Nader</strong></i> <br />Congressional Republicans have aided and abetted, for four years, Trump's assertion that "With Article II, I can do whatever I want as president." Dangerous Donald did just that. </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct10_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct10_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">'Talk About a Super Spreader': Analysis Finds Online Election Misinformation Fell by 73% After Trump Barred</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct11_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct11_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt=""The findings, from Jan. 9 through Friday," reports the Washington Post, "highlight how falsehoods flow across social media sites—reinforcing and amplifying each other—and offer an early indication of how concerted actions against misinformation can make a difference." (Image: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/twitter_trump_1.jpg?itok=MafAY0bT" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jon Queally, staff writer</strong></i> <br />After Trump's lies disappeared from Twitter and Facebook, the dissemination of falsehoods and the conversations based on them fell dramatically. </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct12_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct12_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Sotomayor Says 13 People Executed During Trump Killing Spree 'Deserved More From This Court'</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct13_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct13_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="Police officers gather to remove activists during an anti-death penalty protest in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/death_penalty_bernie_sanders_0.jpg?itok=uRdljU22" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jon Queally, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"This is not justice," said the liberal Justice after the state murder of Dustin John Higgs as she excoriated the court's conservative majority for essentially rubber-stamping the administration's rushed death penalties. </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct14_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct14_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">After Biden Unveils Covid-19 Relief Plan, Tlaib Doubles Down on Demand for $2,000 Monthly Payments</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct15_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct15_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) looked on before then-Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris spoke at IBEW Local Union 58 on October 25, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Nic Antaya/Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12292802211.jpg?itok=3K_hNrYM" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jessica Corbett, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"Stop compromising the working class, and our most vulnerable neighbors," said the Michigan congresswoman. </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct16_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct16_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">'Damning' New IG Report, Says ACLU, Shows Just How Far Trump Team 'Was Willing to Go to Destroy' Immigrant Families</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct17_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct17_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="A Honduran child taken from his father after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border together in June 2018. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-980530210_3.jpg?itok=Wi-3Isj6" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Brett Wilkins, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"Just when you think the Trump administration can't sink any lower, it does." </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct18_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct18_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">'Famine Not Seen in 40 Years': UN Warns Pompeo Decision in Yemen Could Lead to Hundreds of Thousands—If Not Millions—Dead</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct19_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct19_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="A malnourished child receives medical treatment at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen on December 13, 2020. (Photo: Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua via Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/yemen_famine.jpg?itok=R7-LWF0E" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Kenny Stancil, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"It literally is going to be a death sentence," said the World Food Programme chief about the U.S. Secretary of State's decision to label the Houthis a terrorist organization. </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct20_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct20_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">With Dire Assessment, Scientists Warn Humanity in Denial of Looming 'Collapse of Civilization as We Know It'</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 15px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0df7-2101/Bct/q-003b/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct21_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3Al2P9QaMQt" id="ct21_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><img alt="A firefighter surveys the Bond Fire—started by a structure fire that extended into nearby vegetation—on December 3, 2020 in Silverado, California. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12299259601.jpg?itok=C5PHV1t8" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jessica Corbett, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"We aim to provide leaders with a realistic 'cold shower' of the state of the planet that is essential for planning to avoid a ghastly future."</span></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-78398626613907676292021-01-16T19:52:00.001-08:002021-01-16T19:52:07.461-08:00In Pictures: Pro-Trump Mob Storms US Capitol Building | Common Dreams News<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/06/pictures-pro-trump-mob-storms-us-capitol-building">In Pictures: Pro-Trump Mob Storms US Capitol Building | Common Dreams News</a>: "They're in the chamber. One is up on the dais yelling 'Trump won that election!' This is insane."
<div><br /></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Photojournalists and social media users witnessing the events inside the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday shared shocking pictures and video footage of the mob of fascist pro-Trump supporters who stormed the legislative offices shortly after an inflammatory speech delivered by President Donald Trump at a rally focused claiming that the results of the 2020 election—in which he was soundly defeated—are fraudulent…</span></p><div align="center" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-41160900151750938632021-01-16T19:47:00.005-08:002021-01-16T19:57:24.301-08:00News & Views | 1/16/21 | Common Dreams<p><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"> </span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct3_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct3_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="'Arrest the President': Accountability Demanded After Fascist Mob Incited by Trump Storms Capitol"><img alt="Protesters gather inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C." height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_mob.jpg?itok=3lt2bzsT" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jake Johnson, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"He shouldn't just be impeached or removed from office. He should be in jail." </span></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="font-size: 12pt;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12pt;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-size: 12pt; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt;"><td bgcolor="transparent" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt;" valign="top" width="600"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; height: 100%px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt;"><td class="mcol1" style="border-collapse: separate; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; height: 17px; padding: 10px 0px; width: 600px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-size: 12pt; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt;"><td class="ao_SpacerBlock" id="B1507136337949" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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color: black; font-size: 12pt; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr style="font-size: 12pt;"><td class="ao_RSSBlock" id="B1507041296265" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><a name="B1507041296265" style="font-size: 12pt;"></a></span><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct4_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct4_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">'Really Terrifying Stuff': US Senate in Lockdown After Pro-Trump Supporters Storm US Capitol</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct5_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct5_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="'Really Terrifying Stuff': US Senate in Lockdown After Pro-Trump Supporters Storm US Capitol"><img alt="" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_supporters_storm_capitol.png?itok=fPpVKLqJ" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Andrea Germanos, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"I've been reporting from the capitol for 11 years, nearly every working day. Never seen it like this." </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct6_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct6_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">In Pictures: Pro-Trump Mob Storms US Capitol Building</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct7_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct7_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="In Pictures: Pro-Trump Mob Storms US Capitol Building"><img alt="U.S. Capitol police officers point their guns at a door that was vandalized in the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/capitol_hill_chaos_1.jpg?itok=2OydaAEM" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Common Dreams staff</strong></i> <br />"They're in the chamber. One is up on the dais yelling 'Trump won that election!' This is insane." </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct8_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct8_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Before Chaos Hit, GOP Lawmakers Denounced for 'Desperate Attempt at a Coup' by Denying Election Results</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct9_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct9_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Before Chaos Hit, GOP Lawmakers Denounced for 'Desperate Attempt at a Coup' by Denying Election Results"><img alt="House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence prepare to preside over Congress' certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021. (Photo: Erin Schaff/Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/cong.jpg?itok=QgtqS7N_" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Brett Wilkins, staff writer</strong></i> <br />A desperate attempt at a coup is about to begin -- But let’s be clear: the results of the 2020 election will not be overturned. </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct10_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct10_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">"Let's Go Back Eight Weeks": Off-the-Rails, Lie-Spewing Trump Pleads for Election Do-Over at DC Rally</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct11_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct11_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title=""Let's Go Back Eight Weeks": Off-the-Rails, Lie-Spewing Trump Pleads for Election Do-Over at DC Rally"><img alt="" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_28.jpg?itok=clQ7Pcuq" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jake Johnson, staff writer</strong></i> <br />The lame-duck president's unhinged speech came as members of Congress met to officially certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory. </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct12_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct12_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">'Kill the Filibuster': Senate Democrats Urged to Act Quickly to End Era of GOP Obstruction</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct13_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct13_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="'Kill the Filibuster': Senate Democrats Urged to Act Quickly to End Era of GOP Obstruction"><img alt="Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) walks to the Senate chambers December 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C." height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/senate_0.jpg?itok=a6kgLdOH" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jake Johnson, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"Mitch McConnell absolutely should not have a veto." </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct14_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct14_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">'Barbaric': Nebraska Governor Puts Undocumented Meatpackers at Back of Vaccine Line</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct15_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct15_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="'Barbaric': Nebraska Governor Puts Undocumented Meatpackers at Back of Vaccine Line"><img alt="The "exclusion of undocumented workers in Nebraska from receiving vaccines is hypocritical, racist, cruel, and only helps spread Covid-19," said Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas). (Photo: Natalie Behring/AFP via Getty Images)" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/meatpacking.jpg?itok=RbOiGZSb" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Kenny Stancil, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"Everyone deserves to be vaccinated, especially the workers who feed us—and essential workers have earned a fast-track to citizenship." </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct16_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct16_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Progressive Push for $2,000 Checks in Georgia Shows Bold, Universal Policies Winning Strategy for Democrats</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct17_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct17_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Progressive Push for $2,000 Checks in Georgia Shows Bold, Universal Policies Winning Strategy for Democrats"><img alt="" height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1229963947_2_0.jpg?itok=vWek6hKA" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Julia Conley, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"In almost every respect, the campaigns that Warnock and Ossoff ran were closer to what progressives counseled than what moderates have counseled." </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct18_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct18_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">'Era of Small Ideas Is Over': With Democrats Poised to Seize Senate, Progressives Say Party Has Mandate to Go Big</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct19_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct19_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="'Era of Small Ideas Is Over': With Democrats Poised to Seize Senate, Progressives Say Party Has Mandate to Go Big"><img alt="People listen to Georgia Democratic candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speak at his Labor Canvass Launch at IBEW Local 613 on January 5, 2021 in Marietta, Georgia." height="220" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/georgia_3.jpg?itok=uwryJ00d" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 220px; outline: none;" width="420" /></a></span></div><div class="inline inline-text" style="display: inline; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><i><strong>by Jake Johnson, staff writer</strong></i> <br />"Recurring survival checks, union jobs that pay a living wage, guaranteed healthcare, racial justice, voting rights, immigration reform, climate action, reproductive justice, education, and much more. It can't wait!" </span></div></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p><center><hr width="75%" /></center><p style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; padding-top: 10px;"><b><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct20_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct20_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">After Court OKs Trump Arctic Refuge Auction, Biden Urged to Immediately Ban Drilling on Public Lands</span></a></b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><div class="clearfix" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="inline inline-image inline-image-align-left" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><br /><a href="https://info.commondreams.org/acton/ct/33231/s-0dda-2101/Bct/q-0039/l-sf-contact-0019:ed9b/ct21_0/1/l?sid=TV2%3AipReiiisQ" id="ct21_0" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="After Court OKs Trump Arctic Refuge Auction, Biden Urged to Immediately Ban Drilling on Public Lands"><img alt="<p>Caribou graze on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. 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Dear MoveOn member,</div>
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<strong>The U.S. Postal Service could be dead in three months unless Congress provides emergency funding to shore up this crucial public service.<sup>1</sup></strong></div>
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But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and the Republicans are refusing to include the Postal Service in any coronavirus relief legislation, because privatizing mail delivery has been a long-term goal of the conservative movement, and they see this crisis as their opportunity to kill off the Postal Service once and for all.<sup>2</sup></div>
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump hates the Postal Service for his own sociopathic reason: The Postal Service delivers packages for Amazon, whose founder, Jeff Bezos, also owns <em>The Washington Post</em>, a newspaper that hasn't been afraid to publish hard-hitting journalism on the Trump administration.<sup>3</sup> <strong>So, in the middle of a global pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Trump is threatening to bankrupt a critically important public service to exact revenge for his petty grievances.<sup>4</sup></strong></div>
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Democrats are pushing hard to get emergency funding for the Postal Service included in the next coronavirus relief bill, and MoveOn is launching a digital ad campaign to demand that Trump and the Republicans stop blocking Postal Service relief funding. To make sure they can't ignore us, we will run targeted ads in rural districts that would be hit hardest by the Postal Service shutdown—communities that Trump must win big to have any chance of re-election.</div>
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<strong>On average, MoveOn's monthly donors chip in about $10 a month. Can you chip in $10 a month to help launch and sustain a digital ad campaign calling on Congress to include desperately needed aid to the United States Postal Service in the next stimulus package and to continue to fight to save the Post Office all the way until Election Day?</strong></div>
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<a href="https://act.moveon.org/donate/save-the-postal-service?suggested_ask=10&donation_type=recurring&utm_medium=email&source=email_reg&amounts=10-15-35-50-other&t=1&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp"><strong>Yes, I'll chip in monthly.</strong></a></div>
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<strong><a href="https://act.moveon.org/donate/save-the-postal-service?response=no&utm_medium=email&source=email_reg&t=2&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp">No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.</a></strong></div>
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The death of the Postal Service would be a crushing blow to Americans desperately trying to get by while sheltering in place.</div>
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Rural communities might never bounce back without the guarantee of reliable, standard-rate mail service. Small businesses in rural communities that rely on mail-order customers would go bankrupt. And people who live in these communities would be unable to get the essential deliveries—including medicine—they count on the Postal Service to deliver.<sup>5</sup></div>
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The death of the Postal Service would also eliminate any kind of vote-by-mail program, disenfranchising millions of voters in November. And postal workers—39% of whom are people of color—would be left jobless.<sup>6</sup></div>
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Most Americans don't know it, but the Postal Service doesn't receive a single taxpayer dollar.<sup>7</sup> It is entirely funded by revenue from the sales of stamps and postage. But just like so many other businesses, the Postal Service has seen its revenue collapse during this pandemic. As a result, the entire operation could go bust by September, according to the postmaster general and the postal workers union.</div>
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It's especially tragic considering that postal workers, like doctors, nurses, and other essential workers, are getting sick and dying while working on the front lines of this pandemic to keep the rest of us afloat.<sup>8</sup></div>
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<strong>Just imagine what life would be like right now if the mail stopped coming or if the only way to send or receive mail was to pay FedEx rates. It would be devastating. </strong>But Trump can't get over the fact that <em>The Washington Post</em> doesn't give him nonstop positive coverage. And privatization of mail delivery would be a massive boon to his corporate donors—at the expense of everyday, working-people Americans.</div>
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The next coronavirus relief bill could get passed as early as next week, and funding for the Postal Service must be included in it. <strong>If MoveOn can raise $150,000 by Monday, we will be able to launch a digital ad campaign calling out Trump and McConnell for blocking this desperately needed funding.</strong></div>
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<strong>Can you chip in $</strong><strong>10 a month to help launch and sustain a digital ad campaign, and keep it running for as long as it takes to stop Donald Trump from shutting down the United States Postal Service? </strong><strong>(The average gift from a MoveOn monthly donor is about $10 a month, but whatever you can afford will go a long way.)</strong></div>
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<a href="https://act.moveon.org/donate/save-the-postal-service?suggested_ask=10&donation_type=recurring&utm_medium=email&source=email_reg&amounts=10-15-35-50-other&t=3&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp"><strong>Yes, I'll chip in monthly to help save the U.S. Postal Service.</strong></a></div>
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<strong><a href="https://act.moveon.org/donate/save-the-postal-service?response=no&utm_medium=email&source=email_reg&t=4&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp">No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.</a></strong></div>
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Thanks for all you do.</div>
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–Kelly, Seth, Jenn, Lisa, and the rest of the team</div>
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Sources:</div>
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1. "The Head of the Postal Workers Union Says the Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months," <em>In These Times,</em> April 16, 2020<br />
<a href="https://act.moveon.org/go/119675?t=5&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp">https://act.moveon.org/go/119675?t=6&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp</a></div>
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2. "White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus," <em>The Washington Post</em>, April 11, 2020<br />
<a href="https://act.moveon.org/go/119602?t=7&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp">https://act.moveon.org/go/119602?t=8&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp</a></div>
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3. "Trump's Vendetta Against Jeff Bezos Could Destroy the Postal Service," <em>Vanity Fair</em>, April 13, 2020<br />
<a href="https://act.moveon.org/go/119676?t=9&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp">https://act.moveon.org/go/119676?t=10&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp</a></div>
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4. "Coronavirus job losses could total 47 million, unemployment rate may hit 32 percent, Fed estimates," NBC News, March 30, 2020<br />
<a href="https://act.moveon.org/go/119371?t=11&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp">https://act.moveon.org/go/119371?t=12&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp</a></div>
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5. "If the US Postal Service fails, rural America will suffer the most," Vox, April 16, 2020<br />
<a href="https://act.moveon.org/go/119677?t=13&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp">https://act.moveon.org/go/119677?t=14&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp</a></div>
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6. "Workforce Diversity and Inclusiveness," U.S. Postal Service, accessed April 18, 2020<br />
<a href="https://act.moveon.org/go/119623?t=15&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp">https://act.moveon.org/go/119623?t=16&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp</a></div>
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7. "The U.S. Postal Service is Owned by the People—Let's Keep it That Way," AFL-CIO, April 23, 2019<br />
<a href="https://act.moveon.org/go/119678?t=17&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp">https://act.moveon.org/go/119678?t=18&akid=262134%2E33957374%2EClncmp</a></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">8. "The U.S. Postal Service Needs Help Now: 'The Situation Is Absolutely Dire,'" </span><em style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;">New York</em><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">, April 17, 2020</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://fair.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6457f9552de19bc603e65b9c&id=9ed052172f&e=a1f4fe8664" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">While Whining About Declining Civility in Politics, Right-Wing Pundits Have Given the Real Culprits a Free Pass</a></span></span></li>
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<strong><em>4 Gorillas to Save the Earth:<br /><br /> Election Protection, No Nukes,<br />Military Money for Solartopia,<br />Kill King CONG</em></strong></div>
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The Greta/AOC generation is marching for our place on this planet. </div>
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We can all turn off lights, get off plastic, go vegan, ride bikes, sail the Atlantic, demand eco-straws, solarize our homes. </div>
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But four gorillas block our way to survival. They demand a next step of mass action far beyond anything we can do as individuals:</div>
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<li><strong></strong><strong>ELECTION PROTECTION</strong>: Big corporations have stolen our democracy When Jeb Bush ripped Florida 2000 for brother W, the corporate Democrats did nothing but rant at Ralph Nader. But Jeb was ALWAYS going to get George exactly the votes as he needed. Trumputin did it in 2016. In 2020, stripped voter rolls and flipped vote counts could again steal the Electoral College. Our Mother Earth DEMANDS universal hand-counted paper ballots, easy and open registration, fair access to the polls and much more. This year Al Gore should shift his climate organizing to election protection—-and do it with Ralph. </li>
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2) <strong>NO NUKES</strong>: Reactors are killing us all. They (430 worldwide, 96 in the US) spew heat, radiation, and carbon. Chernobyl killed more than a million people and cost more than a trillion dollars. Fukushima is poisoning the Pacific. More will explode. Radwaste is out of control. Fantasy designs (thorium, fusion, etc) are absurd. All existing reactors can be replaced with cheaper, cleaner, safer, more reliable and more job-producing solar, wind, batteries, and LED/efficiency. DO IT NOW!!…before the next one blows!</div>
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3) <strong> MILITARY MADNESS</strong>: America’s imperial military (Earth’s worst polluter) wastes trillions. We need our soldiers <em>here</em> installing wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, efficiency/LED lighting, planting trees and hemp. The trillions wasted on worthless weapons (<em>war is a racket!)</em> must instead ride us to Solartopia. </div>
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4) <strong>KILL KING CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas)</strong>: WE need to own & run the fossil-nuke corporations. <strong><em>The “free market” is a myth</em></strong>. A handful of billionaires sucks up our cash. Why do we bail them while they kill us and our planet?</div>
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Corporations are not human. They care about nothing except money. We need to control, own and reshape these industrial death machines. </div>
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We need to tax heat, carbon, and radiation. Plant a trillion trees and an ocean of hemp. Fund Solartopia with the military budget. Own/control these “too-big-to-fail/kill-us-all ” corporations. </div>
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<span style="color: white;">Harvey Wasserman’s </span><em style="color: white;">People’s Spiral of US History: From Deganawidah to Solartopia</em><span style="color: white;"> will soon appear at </span><a href="http://www.solartopia.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">www.solartopia.org</span></a><span style="color: white;">. His </span><em style="color: white;">Green Power & Wellness Show</em><span style="color: white;"> is podcast at prn.FM; </span><em style="color: white;">California Solartopia</em><span style="color: white;"> airs at 90.7FM-KPFK/Pacifica, Los Angeles. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-31257788474124890262019-02-20T17:34:00.001-08:002019-03-13T12:31:57.443-07:00on sabbatical… now retiring!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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hi all. i have ended up taking an unplanned sabbatical. sorry for not getting back on any comments, etc.<br />
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now it is looking like i will retire from the publishing scene. more on that later ;)<br />
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this blog will remain online basically as an inactive archive, while i may still make an occasional post.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-73443603387493316572018-12-24T22:43:00.002-08:002018-12-24T22:43:23.943-08:00Unprecedented New Map Unveils Illegal Mining Destroying Amazon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The survey, released Monday by the Amazon Socio-Environmental Geo-Referenced Information Project (RAISG), identifies at least 2,312 sites and 245 areas of prospecting or extraction of minerals such as gold, diamonds and coltan in six Amazonian countries—Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It also identified 30 rivers affected by mining and related activities.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-36919112743806143422018-12-18T15:23:00.004-08:002018-12-18T15:23:28.946-08:00The Coming of Hyperwar: "Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"><i><b>Artificial intelligence and the future of war</b></i></span><br />
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…With artificial intelligence, or AI, soon to play an ever-increasing role in military affairs, as in virtually everything else in our lives, the role of humans, even in nuclear decision-making, is likely to be progressively diminished. In fact, in some future AI-saturated world, it could disappear entirely, leaving machines to determine humanity’s fate…<br />
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<a href="https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">www.stopkillerrobots.org</span></b></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/stopkillerrobots/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Campaign to Stop Killer Robots - Facebook</span></a></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Katowice, Poland, 14 December 2018:</b> As the UN climate talks go into their final hours in Katowice, progress on the ‘Paris Rulebook’ and other key decisions, like acknowledging the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5 degrees report, has been terrifyingly slow. Negotiations are not on track to pass the tests of science or justice, with obstruction from key fossil fuel-pushing governments.</span></strong><br />
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Sara Shaw, Climate Justice and Energy International Program Coordinator for Friends of the Earth International said:<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"><i><b>‘We always knew this was going to be a tough conference, taking place deep in the heartlands of the Polish coal industry, with companies like Shell, Exxon and BP inside the negotiations promoting the myth that we can stop climate change without dismantling the fossil fuel industry. But it is still devastating to see countries like the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait destroy our chances of a safe and liveable planet by blocking progress at every juncture. It has been known for over 50 years that greenhouse gases cause climate change. Yet here we stand on the brink of catastrophe because corporate interests and fossil fuel money have infiltrated the climate talks to perpetuate the dirty energy system regardless of the cost for people and planet. The fact that Shell boasted this week of how it helped to write the Paris Agreement is only more evidence of this reality.’</b></i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-62292286973447217602018-12-13T15:18:00.001-08:002018-12-13T15:20:57.947-08:00You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change | Democracy Now!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"><i><b>Fifteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. plenary last night in Katowice, Poland, condemning global inaction in the face of catastrophic climate change.</b></i></span><br />
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"…Until you start focusing on what needs to be done, rather than what is politically possible, there is no hope. We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. We need to keep the fossil fuels in the ground, and we need to focus on equity. And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself…"<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-70203672564281847142018-12-12T17:20:00.002-08:002018-12-12T17:38:30.469-08:00Why Green New Deal Advocates Must Address Militarism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"><i>Where is the call for the New Peace Deal that would free up hundreds of billions from the overblown military budget to invest in green infrastructure?</i></span></b><br />
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In the spirit of a new year and a new Congress, 2019 may well be our best and last opportunity to steer our ship of state away from the twin planetary perils of environmental chaos and militarism, charting a course towards an earth-affirming 21st century. <br />
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The environmental crisis was laid bare by the sobering December report of the UN Climate panel: If the world fails to mobilize within the next 12 years on the level of a moon shot, and gear up to change our energy usage from toxic fossil, nuclear and industrial biomass fuels to the already known solutions for employing solar, wind, hydro, geothermal energy and efficiency, we will destroy all life on earth as we know it. The existential question is whether our elected officials, with the reins of power, are going to sit by helplessly as our planet experiences more devastating fires, floods, droughts, and rising seas or will they seize this moment and take monumental action as we did when the United States abolished slavery, gave women the vote, ended the great depression, and eliminated legal segregation.<br />
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Some members of Congress are already showing their historic mettle by supporting a Green New Deal. This would not only start to reverse the damage we have inflicted on our collective home, but it would create hundreds of thousands of good jobs that cannot be shipped overseas to low wage countries…<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Global investors managing $32tn issued a stark warning to governments at the UN climate summit on Monday, demanding urgent cuts in carbon emissions and the phasing out of all coal burning. Without these, the world faces a financial crash several times worse than the 2008 crisis, they said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">The investors include some of the world’s biggest pension funds, insurers and asset managers and marks the largest such intervention to date. They say fossil fuel subsidies must end and substantial taxes on carbon be introduced.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Ministers arrive at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, on Monday for its crucial second week, when the negotiations on turning the vision of the Paris agreement into reality reach a critical point, with finance for fighting global warming a key area of dispute.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;">“The long-term nature of the challenge has, in our view, met a zombie-like response by many,” said Chris Newton, of IFM Investors which manages $80bn and is one of the 415 groups that has signed the </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://theinvestoragenda.org/areas-of-impact/policy-advocacy" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;" target="_blank">Global Investor Statement</a><span style="font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;">. “This is a recipe for disaster as the impacts of climate change can be sudden, severe and catastrophic…”</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146794593001433860.post-84571718426407174122018-12-10T16:42:00.005-08:002018-12-24T22:44:28.301-08:00#COP24 :: Largest ever group of global investors call for more action to meet Paris targets <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">The 414 global investors - which represent US$31 trillion of assets-under-management - say they are deeply concerned about the “ambition gap” that exists between governments’ commitments and what is needed to limit the global temperature increase to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">They have signed a “Global Investor Statement” to be handed to world leaders this week at the <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://cop24.gov.pl/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.15s ease-out;" target="_blank">COP24</a> - the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Poland…</span></div>
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