The Senate proceedings of the impeachment of Trump are ongoing this week. PBS Newshour put a survey on YouTube asking if Trump should be convicted. Over 80 thousand votes and more that two convict votes for every no conviction. An interesting comment: << John Weber What I have learned from this past Presidency: 1. It’s
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A quote from https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/ << EIA forecasts that planned additions to U.S. wind and solar generating capacity in 2021 and 2022 will contribute to increasing electricity generation from those sources. EIA estimates that the U.S. electric power sector added 17.5 gigawatts (GW) of new wind capacity in 2020. EIA expects 15.3 GW of wind capacity
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The Colorado River Basin has been in a drought for two decades and water rights are being eyed by investors as an investment. This, to me, is profiteering and rent seeking. There should be laws against private abuse of public resources. The law should require that owners of private land that has rights to water
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Finally someone is doing something about the false claims of election fraud. This ‘Pillow Guy’ Mike Lindell’s ranting had to be cut off by News Max. There is one point these false claims ignore: The ballots were recounted manually and the results of both manual and machines agreed. How can the Trumpsters claim that the
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From Sci Warning FB group Bertrand Esarte-sarries Your praise for the meat industry means *nothing* if the Earth can’t feed the people. It’s not about health, it’s about enough food to feed everyone. I suppose you will praise the meat industry when they have to start slaughtering and selling human meat! Otherwise there will be
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The proposal is secret, but Indonesia is demanding development of more than just a nickel mine. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/indonesia-receives-investment-proposal-tesla-035233556.html
This is important. A quote: << Fixing the global food system would also tackle the climate crisis, the report said. The food system causes about 30% of all greenhouse gas emissions, with more than half coming from animals. Changes to food production could also tackle the ill health suffered by 3 billion people, who either
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Yes, that’s being brought up in the media. My opinion is that those congressmen who vote to not convict Trump after the trial should have to answer for their malfeasance. I’ve been finding out more about what media believes Trump will do. They figure that if a Republican congressman does not stay loyal to Trump,
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It’s a sad fact that what he says is true: the US is a dollarocracy, not democracy. https://youtu.be/MPcm93-tA-Y
The Republicans want to restrict the rights of voters to make it more difficult for people of color to vote. More attempts to skew elections in their favor. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/28/republicans-considering-100-bills-restrict-voting-rights
