The argument for not telling other people how fucked up the climate crisis is and how few characteristics a habitable planet will have in 50 years is that it will scare them to the point of complacency, which is, of course, the prevailing attitude right now. So what is losing by being brutally honest?
The Washington Post analyzed another 1500 scenarios for the future climate of the planet. The effects were not encouraging: “When we look at those scenarios where the final temperature is below 1. 5°C, there’s a big problem. With its drastic drops in greenhouse fuel emission degrees until 2025, in just 3 years, some of the scenarios, which have been finalized until 2021 at the latest, are at odds with reality. After all, the world has just noticed an increase in emissions in 2022. . . »
According to the most recent data from NOAA, the global heat content of the oceans has reached a new record. . .
A Carbon Tracker report titled Paris Maligned shows that the world’s largest oil manufacturers are investing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects that will only be needed if the world fails to meet key climate goals. In 2021 and 2022, fossil fuel corporations spent $58 billion expanding new oil and fuel infrastructure and are willing to shell out another $23 billion next year for projects that would ensure the planet warms at least 2. 5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Just one year after committing at COP26 to “making coal history,” the UK government approved a new coal mine that will be 1150 feet deep.
In 2021, India recorded 36 “heatwave days. ” Last July, the country already had 203 in 2022.
The northernmost city in the U. S. , Alaska’s Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow), hit 40 degrees on Monday, breaking an all-time record for December. The previous record was 34 degrees.
This week’s “heat wave” in the Arctic is a unique event every 300 years.
According to a new UN report, carbon dioxide emissions from buildings and structures have reached record levels, making it highly unlikely that the sector will decarbonise until 2050.
+ Researched the rise and fall of lakes in the Great Basin as a result of converted weather conditions. In the 1980s, as the Great Salt Lake rose inexorably, swallowing farms, highways, railroads, landfills, I-80, and swathes of a USAF firing range, a University of Utah geologist devised an undeniable solution. : detonate a nuclear bomb. bomb. in the middle of the lake, fracturing the bedrock, draining 30% of its volume into underground chambers. The lake is adjacent to 3 major cities: Logan, Ogden, and Salt Lake City. All downwind. Edward Teller and his brigade of Atoms for Peace evangelists made similarly far-fetched proposals, which sought to use nuclear weapons to dig a harbor on the North Slope of Alaska, dig a new Panama Canal, and frack fuel oil in Canada and on the plateau. from Colorado. . After the United States laid waste to two cities, the designers and peddlers of these tools of mass death have become desperate to save their own reputations by fostering the fantasy that their evil creation can be tamed and used for humanitarian purposes. This impulse is not dead. We are told that the nuclear demon can power rockets to Mars, blow up planet-threatening asteroids, deter genocidal wars, or upgrade fossil fuels as the number one power source for a warming planet.
Say this about the Democrats, they are no longer the party of chaos. There is an order in their madness. They march at the pace of neoliberalism, from sensible maximums to butts with very few defections, especially when it comes to crushing the aspirations of staff and the poor. And they send their top “liberal” personalities to deliver the fatal blows. This week, it’s Sherrod Brown, the Ohio workers’ champion, who stepped forward to protect the railroad treachery, saying “a strike would have devastated the American economy. “
By rationalizing its members’ votes to impose an anti-strike contract on railroad workers, the DSA has once again demonstrated that it is neither “democratic” nor “socialist” “American. “
Raphael Warnock’s victory over Herschel Walker means that Joe Manchin’s strength (and ego) has diminished. But some Democratic senators seem wary of the burden of having a transparent majority to do anything.
“Too aggressive?” It’s almost as likely as DiFi to remember what an ongoing solution is. . . .
With Warnock’s victory, the percentage of the population of the 50 states represented by Senate Democrats will increase from 56. 5% after 2020 to 58. 5%, the second-highest overall since 1992. For more than 20 years in a row, Democrats have represented more people. that the Republican Party, however, for part of that time, the Republican Party has controlled the Senate (and that’s ignoring the stranglehold of obstructionism). So when Trump says he needs to finish the constitution, he’s probably right.
After Warnock’s win, Newt Gingrich whispered to Newsmax, “I’m leaving Georgia because it’s a Democratic state now. “Promises, promises. Of course, the last time Newt spent a lot of time in Georgia to pester his wife with cancer into agreeing to a divorce settlement so he could marry Marianne, who released Newt from debt and then, after having MS, divorced to marry one. Of its Congreso. Calista. De members, I doubt we miss this Southern model of virtue.
“Skipping the Walkout” is the scab scab slang for Crossing the Picketline. Among the New York Times’ top strikebreakers: Peter Baker and Michael Schear.
South Korea’s neoliberal president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has tried to break a strike among Seoul truckers, comparing the strikers to “North Korea’s nuclear threats. “If his tenure collapses, he may only compete for PeteBot’s position in Biden’s Department of Transportation.
– Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) December 4, 2022
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Financial Times reports that national railway bosses “had planned to offer a 10% wage for two years to the RMT [National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers] union, but were blocked through the government. “
But Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, now to Blair’s right, refuses to devote itself to repealing the anti-strike rules set by the conservative anti-worker regime in Sunak.
Sam the Leaker Alito turns Supreme Court hearings into a kind of troubadour display. All that’s missing is the black face. During arguments in Creative LLL v. Elenis (a case in which a Christian graphic designer can be required to create a wedding for a same-sex couple, even if the artist who filed the complaint was never asked to do so), Alito made a hypothetical inquiry about a black Santa Claus at the mall who doesn’t need to be photographed with a child dressed in a KKK suit. With a smile, Alito uttered his punchline: “You see a lot of black kids in Ku Klux Klan Costumes, don’t you?All the time. “
This week, the Court also heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper, the independent legislature theory case. justification for refusing returns to their own states and appointing a new list of electors to the Electoral College. In theory, an unenforceable federal law (28 U. S. C. SEC. 455) would save Thomas from the pleadings of the case because he has a clash of interests. Best wishes.
Jane Mayer: “Lawmakers just added a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act that protects Supreme Court spouses from the legal responsibility to disclose any outside employer, for the sake of safety. If this passes, Ginni Thomas’ professional entanglements would really be state secrets.
If Bolton enters the race, I would possibly be forced to vote for Trump. . .
Sen. Randy Smith (R-Tucker) has stated that he is drafting a sterilization (i. e. , eugenics) bill for the upcoming West Virginia legislature consultation to prevent other people who use drugs from having children.
It’s been a great week for the eugenics movement. Reuters reported that the Nigerian military has performed more than 10,000 “secret abortions” between women and men in a bid to curb the spread of the Boko Haram movement.
According to a new study from the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, more than a quarter of the 94 federal district courts nationwide give each and every user arrested the right to suggest at their initial appearance. In those courts, federal judges locked other people up without lawyers one hundred percent of the time; 92% of them were other people of color.
Last December, a Pennsylvania inmate named Jamal Crummel was hospitalized for hypothermia due to frostbite at the Dauphin County Jail. After recovering in January, Crummel was sent back to the same mobile block where he suffered hypothermia a week later and died.
The Texas criminal court closed the door to more than 450 immigrants involved in the state’s “arrest and jail” crackdown on border security, who have tried to get Austin judges to downplay their border intrusion fees.
So, this year, another 14 people incarcerated through the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office have died in the county jail. Another four people died in November alone, the deadliest month to date, more than the total number of deaths for last year’s total.
You have the “right” to carry a gun anywhere in Texas, but it provides the justification for shooting yourself as soon as you are seen. . .
In 2007, the FBI, then under the leadership of liberal icon Robert Mueller, began defining (and then prosecuting) “extremism” in America. He proposed 3 varieties: right-wing extremists, special interest extremists (environmentalists) and left-wing extremists. extremists (those who “adopt a form of communism or socialism”).
A universal pilot program of fundamental source of income in the Chelsea community in Boston gave citizens $400 with no strings attached to how to spend them: Data suggests that helping others with direct injections of money can have benefits, from helping them eat more to making them feel more hooked. to the community.
In the third quarter of 2022, there were more than 450,000 borrowers with their mortgages. Nearly 60% of those submerged borrowers had mortgages born in the first nine months of 2022.
Oh, being rich and living paycheck to paycheck: “I make $350,000 a year, but I have $88,000 in student loans, $170,000 in auto loans, and a loan where I pay $4,500 a month. “$170,000 in auto loans?Why?A Tesla S and a Mack truck?
Profits in the container shipping industry have skyrocketed during the pandemic, peaking at $64 billion in the current quarter of this year. One industry veteran described the benefits as “mind-boggling” and “disturbing. “
55% of Russians need the war in Ukraine to end (mainly because they don’t need to die fighting it). . . 57% of Americans need it to continue (mainly because they don’t care who dies), which is one explanation for why it will. (The big explanation for why Raytheon and Lockheed pose as bandits. )
If they can negotiate the release of Brittney Griner, they can negotiate an end to the war.
But if the industry were a global arms dealer, couldn’t they have given the Russians real “merchants of death” like Hillary Clinton or Victoria Nuland instead of a comparable spide manufacturer like Victor Bout?
As we celebrate Brittney Griner’s release from a Russian prison, let’s remember that every day in the United States, more than 40,000 people are incarcerated for marijuana. Of the 8. 2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88 percent were for undeniable possession. , an incredibly disproportionate number of them, like Griner herself, who is black. End the war on drugs: here, there, in each and every place.
Admittedly, Putin looks pretty smart after falling down the stairs and getting his pants dirty. . .
— ₦₳Vsteva ?? ᴢ (@Navsteva) December 8, 2022
According to his research on U. S. military spending, he has been involved in the U. S. military. In the 2012-21 fiscal year, Stephen Semler estimates that Biden’s Pentagon budget for fiscal year 2023 will move about $452 billion to personal businesses.
Following the Biden administration’s lead, a federal judgment dismissed a case opposed to Mohammad Bin Salman, ruling that “despite the Court’s discomfort” MBS is a head of state and immune from prosecution. The concept of sovereign immunity derives from the law of kings (the king can do no harm) in non-unusual English law. One would have the idea that he had finished with the Revolution.
This week, Al Jazeera presented its case for the murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The company’s lawyer, Rodney Dixon, said: “This is not an incident between singles, it is a homicide that is part of a larger plot for the prosecution to investigate to identify those guilty of the homicide and bring charges against them. “
In response, Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s designated minister of national security, demanded Al Jazeera’s expulsion from Israel and said the network propagated “anti-Semitism. “It comes a week after Ben Gvir praised an IDF soldier after shooting a Palestinian civilian at point-blank range.
70 percent of the land on which the U. S. plans to build its new embassy in Jerusalem is owned by Palestinian refugees, adding up to about 90 American heirs.
I would like to see Bari Weiss’s files leaked about Matt Thimbi’s new partner’s relentless crusade to get Joseph Massad fired from Columbia University.
According to Business Insider, Musk provided enthusiastic anti-Palestinian Bari Weiss with access to Twitter employees’ systems, added to his Slack, and gave a corporate computer an access point to Twitter’s systems reserved only for staff.
CounterPunch n not only the “forbidden shadow” on Twitter, we enter a general eclipse. For more than a year, our fans remained static or diminished. We may not even attract bots, Russian or pornographic. Your publisher’s Twitter account (mine) permanently blocked. But there has never been a solitary investigation into this or any other Twitter account deleted by the left, animal rights, radical environmentalists, Occupy Wall Street or pro-Palestinian. For what? Because it has no compatibility with the narrative that Musk, Taibbi and Weiss need to project. This is not a loose speech: how can this be the case when a member of the apex blacklist is tasked with finding out what is and what is not a blacklist?
Bari may not know much, but he knows about blacklists. . .
Looking ahead to more than two years of congressional hearings on Hunter Biden’s penis options, with expert observation from men’s shower monitor Jim Jordan and Lauren Boebert (wife of a convicted exhibitionist). Get ready, CSPAN!
MAGA accusing Sebastian Gorka of being part of a Deep State cover-up is what came out of Laptopgate. Well done, Matt Taibbi!
Taibbi, who once blamed his heroin use for the excesses of his own satirical writings in The eXile, rummaging through an addict’s stolen files and not an easy primary exposure, shows a lot of solidarity among addicts. . .
The eXile, one of the most productive magazines that emerged in the 90s. The challenge is not the satirical works, worthy of Paul Krassner, but Taibbi’s cowardly renunciation of them, and blaming her husband Mark Ames, all to curry favor with others she once despised. and ridiculed righteously.
Instead of Hunter Thompson, Taibbi in David Horowitz. . .
Taibbi likes to think of himself as a “critic,” but I can’t think of a single “critic” who accepts the secret situations set up by the world’s richest tech mogul to publish a story based only on documents handed to him by the same tech lord. to run on the same website as the tech lord. It’s not the way IF Stone did it.
To you, Dr. Jung. . .
When the main condition of the situations that bind you is that you don’t call the situations, you have a problem. You don’t know what the full story is if you only print out what your obviously biased source gave you. That’s precisely what Judith Miller did with Curveball. Except it’s worse because in this case your source owns the publishing medium and demands that it be published there.
Mark Ames: “All the Musk fans on this depressing site need nothing more than to cancel the accounts of their shitlib enemies, you see them denounce and label their hero, just like the libs did with them. There is no precept here, just a bunch of snitches riding the oligarchy’s dopamine roller coaster. . . »
A new batch of documents appearing on how the Bush administration tried to cover up the early warnings it won before the September 11 attacks confirms my long-held view that Bush’s re-election has a more damning rate of corruption than the election of Trump. It made possible, if not inevitable: “In the spring and summer of 2001, Tenet warned Bush no less than 40 times that a primary al-Qaeda attack was on the horizon. Analysts called the avalanche of warnings a “threat spike” and a “summer of threat. “
Lockheed introduces a new military laser weapon. One of the company’s executives, Robert Afzal, joked, “With lasers, if you can see it, you can kill it. “
The Air Force held a night of revelation this week for its new “stealth” bomber, the B-21, which it says can fly aboard unmanned and launch nuclear weapons remotely. A Tesla?
Daniel Ellsberg says he won the leaked US diplomatic cables “as a backup” through WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: “Let me tell you a secret. . . I own all the facts about Chelsea Manning before they were published in the press. “
Daniel Ellsberg says he won leaked US diplomatic cables “as a backup” through WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pic. twitter. com/qQbjtzwkgK
– BBC HARDtalk (@BBCHARDtalk) 5 December 2022
In a television interview this week, the secretary-general of Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy admitted that there were “between 400 and 500” migrant staff deaths in the run-up to the World Cup.
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s lame duck, worked an average of 1. 5 hours a day 23 days this November. Still too much for the protection and intellectual aptitude of Brazilians. . .
Biden’s State Department is seeking to convince some of Cuba’s most sensible players to participate in the World Baseball Classic. What are the Democrats afraid of now that they have lost Florida, that they will be thrown off the diamond?Mexicans, Dominicans, Venezuelans, Koreans, Taiwanese and Japanese will too. Are they going to ban them all too?
German Prince Heinrich XIII Reuss of Greiz arrested Wednesday morning along with at least 24 others suspected of plotting a coup in Germany.
The action continues and 3,000 police arrested other people in Germany linked to a far-right organization pic. twitter. com/TCOFNZv7uk
– Oskar Aanmoen ?? (@OAanmoen) December 7, 2022
This week, Ron DeSantis’ lawyers were forced in court to outline the forbidden term “awake. “The governor’s leader suggests he described it as “the confidence that there are systemic injustices in American society and the desire to address them. “It’s hard to believe anyone who doesn’t do this is allowed to teach in public schools.
Meanwhile, Rep. Joe Harding, the Republican sponsor of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, has been charged with federal wire fraud and laundering fees for allegedly begging for COVID relief loans.
If morality police can get on their knees in Iran, why in Florida, Oklahoma and Texas?
Maybe Iran will send drones to Russia and its moral police who will soon be unemployed. . .
– Mediazona (@mediazona_fr) December 5, 2022
Shit Country Update: “In 2020, the U. S. maternal mortality rate will be a major contributor. 24 deaths in the U. S. are consistent with 100,000 live births, more than 3 times the peak rate of other high-income countries. In the Netherlands, at most no women have died from maternal complications.
Santa Clara County wastewater knowledge that the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in Palo Alto exceeds last year’s increase in omicrons.
When Trump had the colonoscopy, he extracted Mike Pence. . .
Shannon Epstein, Chris Christie’s niece, disembarked from a plane in New Orleans after accusing a circle of relatives believed to be Latino of smuggling cocaine. When the MPs tried to stop her, she spat on them, kicked and bit them, injuring six.
Half of this century’s global economic expansion comes from 1% of its land mass.
A new study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production shows that electric SUVs can “boost” CO2 emissions by consuming scarce battery materials that can otherwise help electrify small cars and electric bikes. Of course, this news will probably spark the He-Man demographic to start buying them. . .
They arrived here first in Cochabamba, then in London: more than 70% of the UK’s water sources are now under foreign control. Is it any wonder price lists are rising, pipes bursting and British beaches clogged with sewage?
More than 70% of Florida’s coral reefs (coral reefs in the continental United States) are eroding, resulting in a net loss of reef habitat.
An outbreak of a debilitating disease affecting the sunflower sea star, which began in 2013, has now wiped out around 95% of the population from the Aleutian Islands to the Baja California peninsula.
Alfalfa crops consume 68% of the water diverted to Utah, but generate 0. 2% of gross domestic product.
Along the agricultural belt of the Midwest, soil erodes 10 to 1,000 times more than it forms.
Despite Biden’s recent promise of mature and old trees, the Forest Service continues to advance dozens of logging projects in U. S. federal forests. More than 300,000 acres at risk.
There is no more striking example of this betrayal than the ruthless will of the Biden Forest Service to put the Northern Landscape Project in Southern Oregon into effect, which for ten years designated up to 9,000 acres of forest for logging in the number one of the northern spotted owl. habitat. A species that depends on primary forests and is in danger of extinction. North Landscape’s timber sales will greenlight logging on more than 14 square miles of spotted owl habitat, even though the owl population continues to decline by 5%. consistent with the year of your rank.
Over the past two weeks, there has been much anticipation, fueled by the administration, that Biden is about to separate a wide swath of land surrounding Spirit Mountain in southern Nevada as a national monument. The landscape, known as Avi Kia Ame, is ecologically meaningful and sacred to the tribal peoples of the Great Basin. But yielding to the demands of the great sun and lithium mining industries, Biden’s exaggeration turned out to be the sacred lands policy of his vaporous marijuana pardons.
Last week, the Panther 435 struck and killed a car in Hillsborough County, Florida. The two-year-old male, the 26th panther to die in Florida this year. collisions with vehicles.
Snakebites kill about 100,000 people a year, fewer than cholera, but nearly twice as many others die of hookworm or rabies. However, much of it is a socio-economic problem, not a snake. Consider the fact that in Australia, which is home to the largest number of venomous snakes, only 2 other people die a year from snakebites.
Neuralink Corp. de Elon Musk is now under federal investigation after reports that the company killed about 1500 animals, adding more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys, as a result of experiments since 2018. Will he hand this guy over to Koba and Caesar?
As you may have seen, CounterPunch has just published our new book, An Orgy of Thieves, which traces the rise of neoliberalism in American politics and its fatal social, economic, environmental, and martial consequences. Here’s what historian Peter Linebaugh has to say about it: “A project, which can’t come too soon, with its acidic prose cutting through the depraved fabrications of the machine, and preparing us with a hoe and shovel for the seed time of the future. Good verbal exchange and masses of laughter as we pulverize their castles and redoubts to their last sordid worm. Does it sound like your kind of fun? Try.
Farha is a simple, almost sensitive film with a very focused point of view on a 14-year-old girl, eager to free herself from the limitations of her life in a Palestinian village in 1948. The speed of the film moves cautiously, but intentionally toward the inevitable invasion, the moment when life patterns are turned upside down. The horrors of the Nakba are glimpsed through bursts of light, heard in tears and drowned tears. The film shows little, but suggests everything. It is understandable that Israelis fear this. I inspire you to watch it before you inevitably remove it from Netflix.
There’s a funny component to “Mr” (Robert Downey Jr. ‘s easy-to-watch documentary about his father) where Robert Downey Sr. talks about going to see The Harder They Come in a small, almost empty movie theater in SOHO and walking away wondering if he had seen a masterpiece of underground cinema or was just high. Both are possibly true, Robert. . .
Iggy Pop on the music industry: “When I started, I didn’t know what Array was publishing. I didn’t perceive that you were being paid on the basis of intellectual property. No one told me and I didn’t ask anything. When I made the first Stooges album, I got the idea to write the credits about glory. Now those guys have lawyers, genuine real estate agents, investment advisors, etc.
What black players of the English team like to play against Senegal, a country from which the British Empire built its wealth through the sale of human beings. Hell, even the “Three Lions” on English jerseys were stolen in Africa. . .
The “Education for All” captain’s armbands worn by Pepe and Xhaka in Qatar will turn heads when the United States hosts the World Cup.
I love Fred McGriff. Il has been a wonderful player for years. But he’s not in the same stratum as Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens. McGriff entering a Hall of Fame that doesn’t come with Bonds or Clemens diminishes honor. But until players speak at their induction ceremonies, that’s unlikely to change.
QEPD John Prados of the National Security Archives, whose books and articles, many of which were extracted from secret Pentagon and CIA files, have been valuable resources for my own writing. board games and that Roberto Bolaño is a great fan who wove one of Prados’ games into a novel.
Our friend Dean Wareham (Luna and Galaxy 500) wrote and directed a song for Noah Baumbach’s film of Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, now in theaters and heading to Netflix in late December. Dean describes “The Cloud is Coming” as “a paranoid song about the bloated poisonous cloud, the fall of KAL 007 and experiments with chimpanzees”. You can pay attention to it here.
John Cale: “Leonard Cohen and I chased the same woman in London for a while. I called her one morning and she answered, and that. It didn’t matter that Cindy, my wife.
Your purchase indifference and indiscretion in the streets
Order in a Plutocratic Society
“Don’t be fooled by the outward appearance of order in our plutocratic society. He gets away with it as he does with the old rules of war, that there is an open-air look at a very glorious order on this subject; How transparent and comforting the normal march of the regiment, how calm and respectable the eyes of the sergeants, how clean the burnished cannon is. . . The looks of the adjutant and the sergeant, impeccable would possibly be, no, the same orders of destruction and plunder are given with a calm precision that is the very sign of a clear conscience; It is the mask that stands in front of the ruined milpa and the burning hut, and the mutilated bodies, the premature death of worthy men, the desolate house. ( William Morris)