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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: June 19, 2019, 11:13 am
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[center][b]Canada Declares Climate Emergency, [color=maroon]Then
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Yep. Orwell lives. You just cannot make this stuff up. No matter
how ridiculous, no matter how breathakingly disingenuous,
duplicitous and in-our-faces mendacious and mockingly insulting,
the 🐉🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn will
always choose to do it rather than admit that they are the cause
of Catastrophic Climate Change.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: June 19, 2019, 12:28 pm
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[center]Here’s A Guy Who Keeps Popping Up In The Russia Probes -
Attorney William Burck Is the Real-Life Zelig of Trump’s Shady
Kremlin Dealings
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Though Attorney William Burck may certainly be knowledgeable of
Trump's money laundering and real estate criminal fun and games
with the Russian oligarchs, there is someone far more
knowledgeable of, AND also an accessory to, Trump's greatest
crime against, not just the USA, but all of humanity.
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😈 Carter Page is the guy that brokered the deal between
🦖 Putin and Trump & Hydrocarbon Hellspawn pals in the
U.S. to buy a large portion of a Russian Oil Corporation
planning to get at the CH4 and oil "bonanza" under the polar ice
cap (once it melts, of course, - so, Trump subsequently has done
all he can to help THAT along).
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[move]Scheming to profit from the melting of the polar ice cap
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That's why the [img
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to "dumb nothing burger" status (SEE: Orwell).
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: July 2, 2019, 12:33 pm
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[center]Do Tesla [TSLA] 🦕Analysts Consistently
Manipulate TSLA Downward?[/center]
July 2nd, 2019 by Zachary Shahan
There’s an interesting thing that happens every quarter. Once
solid estimates for Tesla’s quarterly production and delivery
numbers are in, short sellers and critics jump to the next
quarter and typically claim that delivery will fall off
tremendously because pent-up consumer demand has been exhausted
and sustainable new demand is going to be much more limited.
This is actually not a new phenomenon. It was going on back when
the Model S was the only Tesla on the market, and also back when
the Model S and Model X were the only Tesla vehicles for sale.
It’s now the case for the Model 3, with such critics (some of
them the same ones from the early Model S days) continually
arguing that the Model 3’s sales are going to be very, very bad
next quarter … until they end up being good and those critics
have to shift and jump to the following quarter.
But that’s just part 1 of this story, which I’d say has 3 parts.
Analysts who subscribe to this simple, renewable methodology
(some of whom have been doing so for years) will of course
forecast big drops in the Tesla [TSLA] stock price while running
this narrative. (Full disclosure: I’m long TSLA.) They will
highlight lack of demand in the coming quarter, or “weakening
demand,” until they are proven wrong. A little while after they
are proven wrong, they skip that quarter’s old and incorrect
narrative and tell the same story about following quarters.
However, this seems to be an important part of the story that
gets less attention: instead of adjusting their 6-month forecast
for the price of a TSLA share (which would be logical if demand
ended up being much higher than you previously thought), many of
these analysts just shift the goal posts forward in time. In
other words, they simply assume their “doom & gloom” story about
Tesla demand was not wrong, just slightly premature. (The point
when it gets hard to believe this is their honest, genuine
forecast is when they’ve been running on this cycle for several
quarters or years.)
The third part of this game is the part that I find particularly
irritating. Despite all the talk of lack of demand, or dwindling
demand, analysts end up having sales forecasts at the end of the
quarter that defy those previous arguments. For months, the talk
of the town regarding Tesla was that demand was dropping. Now,
Q2 delivery numbers are expected to be around Tesla’s all-time
high (Q4 2018), ~90,000. If all the people saying Tesla demand
had dropped off had stuck with that argument, their estimates
should have settled around 70,000 or so for Q2! Instead, the
Factset average is approximately 91,000. Have they also
significantly increased their price targets for TSLA over that
time? Haha — stupid question. 😀
There’s an important point why that last part matters so much.
Market reactions to a stock often depend on how much the final
results different from “market expectations.” If the market said
this week it expects ~70,000 deliveries in Q2 and Tesla reports
~90,000 deliveries, the stock price would spike. Instead,
they’re saying that they expect far more deliveries than they
expected 1–6 months ago, but they’ve slowly shifted to this view
and not many have adjusted their stock price forecast
accordingly. If they weren’t allowed to change their analyses
from 6 months ago, or 3 months ago, they should be expecting far
fewer deliveries than we’ll surely see recorded. Nonetheless,
the Tesla stock price is lower than it was 6 months ago! My
guess is that it will drop again after Q2 delivery figures come
out because those figures probably won’t beat expectations,
expectations that were previously absurdly low but are now
conveniently high. Does that make sense?
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A Tesla Motors Club forum member, Madodel, had a good summary of
the past few years of “insight” from many Tesla analysts: “Well
they said 3+ years ago that Tesla couldn’t build the Model X.
Then they said that Tesla couldn’t sell the Model X. Yet TSLA
continued to produce and sell the unbuildable/unsellable. Now if
Tesla misses the self imposed goal by one car then all the
‘superior’ stock analysts will declare doom for Tesla.
Bankwuptsy imminent and TSLA SP down to $0. I wish someone sold
bets on all of them rotting in hell. I think that is a safe
bet.” Excellent summary. The only thing is that it misses some
of these people also saying Tesla couldn’t build or sell the
Model S and then saying it couldn’t build or sell the Model 3.
I wrote this piece up before seeing the video below, but I just
watched it and it is, logically, on the same topic. Since the
video also highlights an article of mine, I’m obligated to share
it. 😉 One extra note Ale makes in the video that I think
is important is that despite consistently negative and
pessimistic CNBC reporting about Tesla demand and sales (based
on “Wall Street expectations”), Tesla had year-over-year
delivery growth of 85% in Q2 2018, 219% in Q3 2018, 203% in Q4
2018, 110% in Q1 2019, and according to the Wall Street
estimates they reference would have 131% year-over-year growth
in Q2 2019. Just referencing 2019, “not such a good first half
for Tesla” was the CNBC host’s key takeaway. Seriously.
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There’s more “good” stuff in there (like CNBC seemingly
inflating Wall Street’s Tesla delivery forecast quite
significantly). I recommend watching it.
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Agelbert COMMENT: Do Tesla [TSLA] 🦕Analysts Consistently
Manipulate TSLA Downward?
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: July 7, 2019, 1:51 pm
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: July 8, 2019, 5:59 pm
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: July 9, 2019, 12:32 pm
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[center]Fact check [img
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As to the CNN article on Sanders, I firmly believe, unlike CNN,
that Sanders is 100% accurate in everything he says about what
the overwhemling majority of the public supports and what the
public is against. The "for the moment we ain't gonna talk about
dis or dat" (because, of course, they need to undermine the
credibility of Sanders first so they don't have to bother with
an argument they cannot argue with) bit right at the start is
evidence of 😈 clever sophistry.
The establishment needs to do a certain amount of (SEE: Noam
Chomsky) manufacturing of consent. In the Sanders case, the
trick is to [img
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/>manufacture some DISSENT.
You begin by running a bunch of "public opinion" stat numbers by
the masses to establish some credibility. Then you play all
sorts of word games with those numbers to make Sanders look like
and opportunistic liar.
But that is certainly not the most important part of the
demonization strategy that all these ethically challenged
propagandists want to carry out successfully. In the background
is the uncomfortable fact that the public overwhelmingly
supports Sanders' position on sine qua non action required to
mitigate Catastrophic Climate Change. That is far more important
to the public than adequate, and affordable, health care, though
both are extremely important to the public.
The [img
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/>trick is to get enough people convinced that Sanders is full o
f
baloney WITHOUT actually saying ANYTHING about his position on
Climate Change MITIGATION. That way, the water carrying BASTARDS
for the M.I.C., the Fascist Bankers and Big Oil can kick that
can down the road another decade or so.
I do NOT think that will work. They will fail in their heinous
efforts to demonize Sanders.
Because of that failure to manufacture consent (and dissent),
the elections must then be rigged for the fascists to win.
The media will claim "the people have spoken", which is total
BULLSHIT, and the Pentagon Internet Troll Farms using our tax
dollars to bullshit us 24/7 will cheer all this "democracy".
Yeah, there is a big ethics free lobby out their buying
politicians to defend the corporate health insurance crooks and
liars, but those corporate greedballs are beginners compared
with the oligarchs FULLY engaged in a criminal conspiracy to
double down on biosphere trashing profit over people and planet.
They will use their 😈 pals (i.e. Pelosi, Biden et al)
within the Democratic Party to do everything they can to
underhandedly ruin Sanders' excellent reputation for reality
based positions and solutions. I pray that they do not succeed.
SNIPPET from July 5, 2019 Counterpunch article by JONATHAN COOK:
[quote]It takes a determined refusal to join the dots not to see
a clear pattern here.
Brand was right that the system is rigged, that our political
and media elites are captured, and that the power structure of
our societies will defend itself by all means possible, “fair or
foul”. Corbyn is far from alone in this treatment. The system is
similarly rigged to stop a democratic socialist like Bernie
Sanders – though not a rich businessman like Donald Trump –
winning the nomination for the US presidential race. It is also
rigged to silence real journalists like Julian Assange who are
trying to overturn the access journalism prized by the corporate
media – with its reliance on official sources and insiders for
stories – to divulge the secrets of the national security states
we live in.
There is a conspiracy at work here, though it is not of the kind
lampooned by critics: a small cabal of the rich secretly pullng
the strings of our societies. The conspiracy operates at an
institutional level, one that has evolved over time to create
structures and refine and entrench values that keep power and
wealth in the hands of the few. In that sense we are all part of
the conspiracy. It is a conspiracy that embraces us every time
we unquestioningly accept the “consensual” narratives laid out
for us by our education systems, politicians and media. Our
minds have been occupied with myths, fears and narratives that
turned us into the turkeys that keep voting for Christmas.
That system is not impregnable, however. The consensus so
carefully constructed over many decades is rapidly breaking down
as the power structure that underpins it is forced to grapple
with real-world problems it is entirely unsuited to resolve,
such as the gradual collapse of western economies premised on
infinite growth and a climate that is fighting back against our
insatiable appetite for the planet’s resources.
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he
system operated without challenge or meaningful dissent. A
deeply ideological system destroying the planet was treated as
if it was natural, immutable, the summit of human progress, the
end of history. Those times are over. Accidents like Corbyn will
happen more frequently, as will extreme climate events and
economic crises. The power structures in place to prevent such
accidents will by necessity grow more ham-fisted, more
belligerent, less concealed to get their way. And we might
finally understand that a system designed to pacify us while a
few grow rich at the expense of our children’s future and our
own does not have to continue. That we can raise our voices and
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TPTB have a plan (see below). People like Sanders and AOC are
obstacles to that plan.
COUNTERPUNCH
JULY 5, 2019
by RICHARD MOSER
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: July 9, 2019, 2:19 pm
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President Trump on Monday delivered a lie-filled speech touting
his administration's environmental record, claiming to be a
protector of public lands while flanked by the former oil and
coal lobbyists he has appointed as head of Interior and the EPA,
respectively. As the New York Times reports, the idea for the
speech was conceived inside Trump's 2020 campaign office, who
see the president's environmental record as an obstacle for
winning over moderate women and millennial voters. Trump heavily
criticized the Green New Deal while not mentioning climate
change once during the speech. Most of the president's claims on
the achievements of his administration on clean air, water,
oceans and emissions reductions were either exaggerations,
outright lies, or attributable to the previous administration,
multiple outlets report. "This speech is a true ‘1984’ moment,"
David Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law
and Regulation at the University of California, San Diego, told
the Times.
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The Washington, DC metro area was inundated with rain Monday as
flash floods stranded commuters in their cars and Metro
stations, forced Amtrak to suspend service, and flooded parts
the White House basement. Dramatic videos on social media show
cars driving through flooded streets as the DC and Arlington
police and fire departments made more than 65 water rescues
collectively. More than 3 inches of rain fell at Reagan National
Airport in one hour--nearly the equivalent of one average
months' worth of rainfall for the area--making Monday
Washington's seventh-wettest July day on record since 1871.
Warmer air caused by climate change can hold more moisture,
creating conditions more favorable for heavy precipitation.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: July 10, 2019, 5:21 pm
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JULY 5, 2019
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by RICHARD MOSER FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
“Capitalism, militarism and imperialism are disastrously
intertwined with the fossil fuel economy….A globalized economy
predicated on growth at any social or environmental costs,
carbon dependent international trade, the limitless extraction
of natural resources, and a view of citizens as nothing more
than consumers cannot be the basis…for tackling climate
change….Little wonder then that the elites have nothing to offer
beyond continued militarisation and trust in techno-fixes.”
— Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes [1]
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them taking aggressive action on climate change. Their chief
concern: maintaining power, control and profits at all costs.
The plan is well underway and it sure ain’t the Green New Deal.
Just imagine a more extreme version of the world that already
exists: where healthcare is rationed; where wealth inequality
strangles democracy; where austerity is a weapon of class
warfare; where millions die prematurely from toxins in air and
water; where war and incarceration is the solution of choice;
where people are rounded up in concentration camps; where
corporations rule unchallenged; where extreme weather wrecks
havoc in an expanding circle of misery. The only new thing about
their solution is the stench of fascism that grows ever stronger
and more odious.
The Bosses Want More of the Same
When Trump and the Republicans deny climate change, when Pelosi,
Pallone, Perez, Biden and Obama join with Trump in sabotaging
the Green New Deal or dismissing climate action as too
expensive, too dreamy, not practical or too pure — they are all
bold-faced liars and frauds.
The Republicans know full well that their partners in crime —
oil companies, bankers and the military brass have known about
climate change for decades. And, the corporate Democrats know
that these same powerful players they too represent already have
a risky plan to deal with climate change. From their shared
perspective, even the Democrat’s Green New Deal, despite its
weaknesses, must be marginalized since it competes with the
establishment’s plans for our future.
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To maintain power they need to limit our thinking. The two most
important narratives imposed on us are climate change as a
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it, or adapt to it, instead of opposing it.
Once framed in this way the very institutions responsible for
climate change can benefit from disaster while hiding their
responsibility for creating the crisis. But the
military-corporate management of the crisis will undoubtedly
follow the same principles that created the crisis: the costs of
pollution, adaptation, endless growth and war won’t appear in
the corporate ledger. [b]Military budgets will only grow larger.
The costs will be “externalized” and paid by the suffering of
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The 63 million Americans currently exposed to unsafe drinking
water and the 200,000 (according to an MIT study) in the US that
currently die prematurely from air pollution are just a down
payment. And the US is the wealthiest country in world history.
The global figure for air pollution related deaths is 5.5
million annually. The 20 million or so deaths from war since
WWII are a gross outstanding debt. How is that for adaptation
and management? How will our rulers plan to maintain control as
the crisis deepens?
Plans? What Plans?
Unsurprisingly, the military plans to maintain its ambition for
🦍“full spectrum 👹 dominance.” A 2014 report
from the Department of Defense quotes former Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel who — having previously been on the Board of
Directors of Chevron and Deutsche Bank — knows how to unite big
oil, big banks and big guns.
“Our coastal installations are vulnerable to rising sea levels
and increased flooding, while droughts, wildfires and more
extreme temperatures could threaten many of our training
activities….A baseline survey to assess the vulnerability of the
military’s more than 7,000 bases, installations and other
facilities is nearly complete, Hagel said. “In places like the
Hampton Roads region in Virginia, which houses the largest
concentration of U.S military sites in the world, we see
recurrent flooding today, and we are beginning work to address a
projected sea-level rise of 1.5 feet over the next 20 to 50
years…”
They want us to forget that it has now been proven beyond doubt
that the military is the world’s largest consumer of fossil
fuels and largest polluter. War will continue, climate crisis be
damned. Elizabeth Warren’s 2019 policy statement and the
bipartisan letter sent to Trump by over 100 congress members
urging Trump to make climate change a national security issue is
more proof that war trumps climate. In truth, the military is
caught in a crisis of its own making. As Desiree Hellegers puts
it: “The US Military Poses a Significant Threat to the US
Military.”[2]
While the pro-war media makes much of the military’s attempts to
use alternative energy, the Pentagon failed to reach its puny
2014 goal of 5% renewable.
Similarly, Obama’s 2009 stimulus package cancelled out the
effects of small green spending with an “all of the above”
approach, including money for “clean coal,” record oil
production and increased energy use. This pattern of
“greenwashing” — minor green efforts masking major investments
in fossil fuels is identical to the corporate approach.
The oil companies and big banks that make crazy money from
fossil fuels also hide the truth by posing the problem as a
question of proper management. Sharon Kelly reports the banker’s
view of a new “business opportunity”:
“Scientific research finds that an increasing concentration of
greenhouse gases…is warming the planet, posing significant risks
to prosperity and growth of the global economy,” JPMorgan Chase
Bank, Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo, Citibank, Goldman
Sachs, and Morgan Stanley wrote in a 2015 statement. “As major
financial institutions…we have the business opportunity to build
a more sustainable, low-carbon economy and the ability to help
manage and mitigate these climate-related risks.”
So how is it that the bankrollers of climate chaos, investing
$1.9 trillion in fossil fuels just since the Paris Accords, also
claim to “manage and mitigate these climate-related risks?”
According to the bankers, the problem with climate change is
that it’s “posing significant risks to the prosperity and growth
of the global economy.” What they will not say is that the
global economy — which demands enormous fossil fuel production
and consumption — is posing significant risks to the climate.
The global shipping and aviation on which peak profit-making
depends is, like the military, exempt from the Paris Accords.
The bankers, generals, and politicians are protecting the
sources of their power.
From the Gold Standard to the Oil Standard
What the bankers will not say is that billions of the dollars
they trade in are “petrodollars” — as explained in this
informative documentary video. A 40-year back-room deal with
the Saudis secretly recycled oil money back to the US. This deal
essentially shifted the US dollar from the “gold standard” to
the “oil standard.” According to Bloomberg:
The basic framework was strikingly simple. The U.S. would buy
oil from Saudi Arabia and provide the kingdom military aid and
equipment. In return, the Saudis would plow billions of their
petrodollar revenue back into Treasuries and finance America’s
spending.
Buying oil in dollars is a form of imperial tribute other
countries pay to the US — which is why the US insists all oil
trading be in US currency. Iraq and Lybia once traded oil in
other currencies. Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia and China still
do. See?
Since oil props up the US Dollar, bankers have a direct interest
in wars that prop up the fossil-fuel regime. It is highly
unlikely that the US Dollar, the Military-Industrial-Complex or
the global corporate economy can live without its addiction to
oil — whatever green capitalists imagine in their wildest
dreams. Some contradictions simply cannot be overcome.
Representative Democracy is Dying. Long live Direct Democracy!
It’s “power to the people” or nothing. There is no middle
ground. But we will be swamped along with the middle ground if
we do not have real leverage and real power. The military, the
oil companies and the big banks have plans and power both. The
Green Party’s Real Green New Deal is a solid plan, as are the
guiding principles offered by DSA Ecosocialists, or Tulsi
Gabbard’s OFF Act.
But, the straightest line to the power we need is not just good
policy, more manifestos, analytical precision or electoral
politics (although those things might be helpful) — it’s the
sloppy, contradictory, demanding work of organizing and direct
democracy. The many efforts to protect water and confront
infrastructure projects are leading the way. The Red Nation is
a new voice telling classic political truths. Listen carefully.
The “Red Deal” platform states:
This…will encompass the entirety of Indigenous America, which
includes our non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live
here….We cannot expect politicians to do what only mass
movements can do…..A mass mobilization, one like we’ve never
seen before in history, is required to save this planet.
Indigenous movements have always been at the forefront of
environmental justice struggles…The Red Deal is not a “deal” or
“bargain” with the elite and powerful. It’s a deal with the
humble people of the earth; a pact that we shall strive for
peace and justice and that movements for justice must come from
below and to the left.
“We cannot expect politicians to do what only mass movements can
do…from below and to the left.” Truth. But how?
Whether you are base-building with workers or tenants,
movement-building with the peace and environmental movements or
running electoral campaigns, the under-appreciated work of
talking with, and listening to, everyday people is the fast
track to fundamental change. Talking with everyday people is a
revolutionary act. Acting with others is better yet.
A massive Harvard study tells us what we already suspect: we
have the most dysfunctional, least democratic electoral system
of any so-called “western democracy.” The collapse of real
representation is a leading cause of crisis. To think that such
a broken system can repair itself and then take on massive
problems of its own making without an equally massive and
equally disruptive popular movement is more than just wishful
thinking — it is a profound disregard for history. Show me some
evidence. How was the original New Deal created? The failure to
allow moderate and popular reforms like universal health care
does not bode well for government’s ability to act on climate
and war — issues that strike right at the heart of the existing
social order.
We have good blueprints. It’s vitally important to put
demilitarization at the center of our efforts not just because
the US empire is the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels or
because the same military is the enforcer of the global fossil
fuel regime but because understanding the connections between
war and climate changes clears the way for fusion and synergy
between the environmental and peace movements and movements for
economic justice.
But the real question — the unanswered question — is HOW? How do
we move on the climate crisis? Can we build it from the bottom
up? It sure isn’t coming from the top down. Can the Green New
Deal become a revolutionary reform? Ask people what they think
about the Green New Deal. Where it leads is up to us.
Notes.
1/ The best single source is a very well researched collection
of essays The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and
Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World
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/>by Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes. Find the quote on p 234.
2/ You can see much more of this misdirection by looking at this
document: “Military and National Security Leaders Urge Robust
New Course on Climate Change.”
HTML https://climateandsecurity.org/2016/09/14/three-bipartisan-groups-of-military-and-national-security-leaders-urge-robust-new-course-on-climate-change/<br
/>Or see Elizabeth Warren’s new plan for a green ;) military
HTML https://jacobinmag.com/2019/05/defense-budget-climate-change-warren-bill.
Richard Moser writes at befreedom.co where this article first
appeared.
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Agelbert Comment: The M.I.C. 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon
Hellspawn think they can handle Catastrophic Climate Change.
They are abysmally wrong. God is NOT mocked; whatsover you sow,
THAT you shall reap.
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👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy
Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting
CRIME,[COLOR=BROWN] but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and
conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID
[/color] DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them
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[center]EPA Protects Polluters, Not People[/center]
The Trump administration is preparing to roll out a proposal
that would remove communities' ability to officially contest
decisions regarding how much pollution can be released by local
power plants and factories, the New York Times reports.
A draft plan, which sources tell the Times could be made public
next week, would eliminate individual and community ability to
appeal power plant permits to the EPA's Environmental Appeals
Board, while preserving the right of plant owners to appeal to
the board to increase pollution limits. "This is outrageous,"
Harvard environmental law professor Richard Lazarus told the
Times. "Individuals in communities will lose a way to seek
relief from pollution that has historically been very effective.
But industry will still be able to seek relief to pollute more."
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No. 89, July 18, 2019
Hello Revelator readers,
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responsible for their greenhouse gas emissions. That's why a new
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