"Under
Trump, Federal Agencies Halt Reviews of Toxic Pesticides That
Endanger Wildlife," by Suzie Neilson, Reveal, July 18,
2018 (republished
at Truthout)
Maybe there is not much hope of changing anyone's mind about anything.
But if you think it might be worthwhile, if you think one or another of
them might not be too stuck in identity politics, you
might try talking about facts with the idea of getting a
Trumpster to change and start pulling the levers for Democratic
party candidates.
As usual, this
article is mainly just for your information, to bring you a
bit closer to reality if you like.
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent 7/19/2018 (major) current global warming details and new studies in many parts of the world
"Global
Temperature Projections Could Double as the World Burns," by
Dahr Jamail, Truthout, July 16, 2018.
I heard Thom Hartmann interview journalist Dahr Jamail (Wikipedia link) on July 18, 2018. As a journalist on climate change now, he has accumulated much knowledge. The above article has some fascinating links along with the details in the article.
love to you and your family,
Larry
I heard Thom Hartmann interview journalist Dahr Jamail (Wikipedia link) on July 18, 2018. As a journalist on climate change now, he has accumulated much knowledge. The above article has some fascinating links along with the details in the article.
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent 7/17/2018 Heat makes you dumb, in four charts
"Heat makes you dumb, in four charts," by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, July 17, 2018
You more or less knew that, right? :-7 But the geography of the heat differences in different parts of the United States is interesting. It seems similar to a study I saw and believe I sent you several years ago.
love to you and your family,
Larry
You more or less knew that, right? :-7 But the geography of the heat differences in different parts of the United States is interesting. It seems similar to a study I saw and believe I sent you several years ago.
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent 7/17/2018 (Trump committed treason) July 16, 2018 from NextDraft: The Depths of Helsinki
July
16, 2018 from NextDraft: The Depths of Helsinki (Trump
committed treason)
A number of worthy opinions.
love to you and your family,
Larry
A number of worthy opinions.
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent 7/17/2018 (major) Bradley Foundation Funds Web of Climate Change Deniers
"Bradley
Foundation Funds Web of Climate Change Deniers," by David
Armiak, Truthout, July 13, 2018
Not mentioned in this article is the fact that people are still working on alternative energy sources. But what is fairly clear is that the Kochs are still winning at destroying us.
So why should you want to know this. I don't know. It might do you and your family some good. Perhaps if you have time you will decide to become an environmental activist. The NRDC is still there and working hard.
Here are many past messages and links on climate change/planetary heating.
Related, with links: sent 6/12/2018 "EPA Staff Says Trump Administration Changing Agency Mission to Protect Industry"
love to you and your family,
Larry
Not mentioned in this article is the fact that people are still working on alternative energy sources. But what is fairly clear is that the Kochs are still winning at destroying us.
So why should you want to know this. I don't know. It might do you and your family some good. Perhaps if you have time you will decide to become an environmental activist. The NRDC is still there and working hard.
Here are many past messages and links on climate change/planetary heating.
Related, with links: sent 6/12/2018 "EPA Staff Says Trump Administration Changing Agency Mission to Protect Industry"
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent 7/9/2018 (2min video) We're not officially at war with anyone, but we're waging war in nearly 40% of the countries on Earth. That's insane. ++
1. "We're
not officially at war with anyone, but we're waging war in nearly
40% of the countries on Earth. That's insane." by Anissa
Naouai, July 4, 2018. (2min video)
She says the U.S. drops a bomb every 12 minutes, and they can't build replacement bombs fast enough.
This is U.S. imperialism/hegemony.
And this is just about the one thing that Republicans and Democrats agree upon as a good thing.
2. "Nation Horrified To Learn Child-Killing Death Merchants Have Racist Employee," by Caitlin Johnstone, Medium, July 4, 2018 (tip: It's about Northrop Grumman and its products, not so much about immigration.)
3. This is a relevant comment by Michael Feely on Quora*:
I remember Dave Van Ronk very well, along with a number of other folk singers of the early 1960s. I had no idea that he was an FBI target. I do remember having heard speculation, at least, that the FBI had a file on me because of my activities with the Draft Counseling Center of Greater Buffalo just a few years later. For two (2) years I was doing my duty to my country that way at very low pay instead of helping to damage my country by being part of the Vietnam War. See sent 4/23/15 good personal stories Re: Melanie - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) - YouTube. Having the draft and the resistance to it helped with keeping the extreme wealthy somewhat under control. Happily for them they found a way around needing a draft.
* One or the other of those two Quora links in the third section might call upon you to log in. I do not know.
love to you and your family,
Larry
She says the U.S. drops a bomb every 12 minutes, and they can't build replacement bombs fast enough.
This is U.S. imperialism/hegemony.
And this is just about the one thing that Republicans and Democrats agree upon as a good thing.
2. "Nation Horrified To Learn Child-Killing Death Merchants Have Racist Employee," by Caitlin Johnstone, Medium, July 4, 2018 (tip: It's about Northrop Grumman and its products, not so much about immigration.)
3. This is a relevant comment by Michael Feely on Quora*:
My observation is that while right wingers advocate violence to “protect us from threats” and left wingers advocate violence to “depose dictators who are terrible for human rights” the practical overlap is that both wings advocate violence for commercial reasons. Besides keeping the military-industrial complex fed, the history of American militarism is a history of opening markets - the Banana Wars and Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan and constant Cold War meddling in South America and overthrowing Mossadegh - all served to either add previously closed nations to the world trade system, or to keep nations from defecting from one trade bloc to another.Bonus: "Newly Unearthed FBI File Exposes Targeting of Folk Singer Dave Van Ronk," by Aaron J. Leonard, Truthout, July 8, 2018.
So is there a way to advocate for trade without advocating for killing people who don’t want to trade with us? Or for being willing to trade with people who we find awful because killing unpleasant regimes with kindness is better than killing them with bombs? And how do we deal with the kind of backlash that engagement provokes, which is going to come in the form of terrorism of various stripes?
I remember Dave Van Ronk very well, along with a number of other folk singers of the early 1960s. I had no idea that he was an FBI target. I do remember having heard speculation, at least, that the FBI had a file on me because of my activities with the Draft Counseling Center of Greater Buffalo just a few years later. For two (2) years I was doing my duty to my country that way at very low pay instead of helping to damage my country by being part of the Vietnam War. See sent 4/23/15 good personal stories Re: Melanie - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) - YouTube. Having the draft and the resistance to it helped with keeping the extreme wealthy somewhat under control. Happily for them they found a way around needing a draft.
* One or the other of those two Quora links in the third section might call upon you to log in. I do not know.
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent 7/8/2018 ‘We sleep afraid, wake afraid’ / In the West Bank village facing destruction
"Inside
the fearful Bedouin village that could decide fate of Palestinian
state," by Oliver Holmes in Khan al-Ahmar, The
Guardian, July 7, 2018
I hate to keep harping on this one topic out of all the other things there are going on in our lives. But this really is one of the worst things that Trump and other U.S. officials are doing, taking sides in the middle east. I know, I know, some of the Zionists are among the relative few in the U.S. with big money for bribes.
Related messages on Zionists and U.S. foreign policy (link)
love to you and your family,
Larry
I hate to keep harping on this one topic out of all the other things there are going on in our lives. But this really is one of the worst things that Trump and other U.S. officials are doing, taking sides in the middle east. I know, I know, some of the Zionists are among the relative few in the U.S. with big money for bribes.
Related messages on Zionists and U.S. foreign policy (link)
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent July 3, 2018 "The Lack of Civility in US Politics Comes From the Top, Donald Trump"
"The
Lack of Civility in US Politics Comes From the Top, Donald Trump,"
by Mark Karlin, Editor of Buzzflash at Truthout,
July 3, 2018
This is inspired by Trump's recent complaints about his critics being uncivil to him. When I was growing up we believed that Presidents were supposed to set an example for the rest of us in their personal lives. My mother is rolling over and over and over in her grave, surely.
love to you and your family,
Larry
This is inspired by Trump's recent complaints about his critics being uncivil to him. When I was growing up we believed that Presidents were supposed to set an example for the rest of us in their personal lives. My mother is rolling over and over and over in her grave, surely.
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent July 3, 2018 Federal Judge Orders Administration To End Arbitrary Detention Of Asylum-Seekers
"Federal
Judge Orders Administration To End Arbitrary Detention Of
Asylum-Seekers," Richard Gonzales, NPR Radio, July 2,
2018
This has nothing to do with Trump's disobedience to the law in turning asylum seekers away at the border without listening to them. That is wrong also. This has to do with his putting in jail for years people who have been granted asylum by an Immigration Court while the government appeals the granting of asylum.
"We" should make up our minds about helping people who are being killed in other countries, or not. We have laws. Trump is violating our laws left and right. He has no right to do that, whatever promises he may have made that he would violate our laws. He was elected President, not Dictator. And by the way, for what it's worth, the United States has had much to do with generating the horrible mess in Haiti over the years.
love to you and your family,
Larry
This has nothing to do with Trump's disobedience to the law in turning asylum seekers away at the border without listening to them. That is wrong also. This has to do with his putting in jail for years people who have been granted asylum by an Immigration Court while the government appeals the granting of asylum.
"We" should make up our minds about helping people who are being killed in other countries, or not. We have laws. Trump is violating our laws left and right. He has no right to do that, whatever promises he may have made that he would violate our laws. He was elected President, not Dictator. And by the way, for what it's worth, the United States has had much to do with generating the horrible mess in Haiti over the years.
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent 7/3/2018 "New Authoritarian [Michigan] GOP Removed 'Democracy' from Textbooks As Too 'Partisan'"
"New
Authoritarian [Michigan] GOP Removed 'Democracy' from Textbooks As
Too 'Partisan,'" by Daily Kos
It sure is sad that the Michigan schools must start lying about American history now, in a different way than before. America has been an oligarchy/plutocracy for awhile now, but I certainly remember learning that America was a democracy when I was growing up. I even seem to recall something about equal rights and equal opportunity.
I find it interesting that the Michigan GOP finds this change so important. I can only guess that they are trying to get some of the better and more honest teachers to quit.
love to you and your family,
Larry
It sure is sad that the Michigan schools must start lying about American history now, in a different way than before. America has been an oligarchy/plutocracy for awhile now, but I certainly remember learning that America was a democracy when I was growing up. I even seem to recall something about equal rights and equal opportunity.
I find it interesting that the Michigan GOP finds this change so important. I can only guess that they are trying to get some of the better and more honest teachers to quit.
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent 6/12/2018 "EPA Staff Says Trump Administration Changing Agency Mission to Protect Industry"
"EPA
Staff Says Trump Administration Changing Agency Mission to Protect
Industry," by Christopher Sellers, Lindsey Dillon, Phil Brown,
The Conversation, Truthout, June 10, 2018
Less enforcement against polluters. Serving industry, mainly. Pruitt meets only with industry representatives, never with concerned citizens. Sharp staffing cuts coming. Fear among employees. Many other specifics. Please take a look.
Related:
sent 6/5/2018 "Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America"
sent 4/26/2018 (PLEASE TAKE THIS VIRAL) What can we do to help save clean air, water, and soil from Charles Koch, Donald Trump, and Scott Pruitt?; (GREAT YouTube video, 10 min) Re: National Geographic: "A Running List of How Trump Is Changing the Environment"; the Koch Brothers again
from 12/17/2017--Bill Moyers: Scott Pruitt Will Make America Great Again — For Polluters
sent 1/18/17 to help you to decide what you are going to do now: good people, much news: Ira Chernus; Jim Hightower; Jeremy Scahill; Frances Scott Piven; and more
love to you and your family,
Larry
Less enforcement against polluters. Serving industry, mainly. Pruitt meets only with industry representatives, never with concerned citizens. Sharp staffing cuts coming. Fear among employees. Many other specifics. Please take a look.
Related:
sent 6/5/2018 "Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America"
sent 4/26/2018 (PLEASE TAKE THIS VIRAL) What can we do to help save clean air, water, and soil from Charles Koch, Donald Trump, and Scott Pruitt?; (GREAT YouTube video, 10 min) Re: National Geographic: "A Running List of How Trump Is Changing the Environment"; the Koch Brothers again
from 12/17/2017--Bill Moyers: Scott Pruitt Will Make America Great Again — For Polluters
sent 1/18/17 to help you to decide what you are going to do now: good people, much news: Ira Chernus; Jim Hightower; Jeremy Scahill; Frances Scott Piven; and more
love to you and your family,
Larry
sent 6/11/2018 Why “America First” Means “Europe United”--by a former prime minister of Belgium
"Why
'America First' Means 'Europe United,'" byGuy Verhofstadt, Project
Syndicate, June 8, 2018. Guy Verhofstadt is a former prime
minister of Belgium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Verhofstadt
"'US Officially in Trade War With Canada' as Trump Doubles Down on Reckless Tariffs," by Jake Johnson, staff writer, Common Dreams, June 9, 2018, republished at Truthout.
Trade is complicated and there are good deals and bad deals. But the president starting a trade war is stupid and hurts Americans.
"A photo from the G7 perfectly captured Trump vs. the rest of the world"
Taken June 9, 2018.
love to you and your family,
Larry
"'US Officially in Trade War With Canada' as Trump Doubles Down on Reckless Tariffs," by Jake Johnson, staff writer, Common Dreams, June 9, 2018, republished at Truthout.
Trade is complicated and there are good deals and bad deals. But the president starting a trade war is stupid and hurts Americans.
"A photo from the G7 perfectly captured Trump vs. the rest of the world"
Taken June 9, 2018.
Given Guy Verhofstadt's statements in the lead
article, that the EU is pulling itself together including bringing
Britain back into the fold despite Brexit, it would appear that Trump's
plan to divide the EU and get it to collapse might not be working.
Reference "Trump
Is Choosing Eastern Europe," by Thomas Wright, The
Atlantic, June 6, 2018, which I sent you four days ago.
love to you and your family,
Larry
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