Spain will close most of the coal fired power plants within a year. Plans to stop fossil fuel subsidies and ban new extraction. https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/11/climate-heroes-the-countries-pioneering-a-green-future This is what all countries including the US should be doing.
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2020-11-11 Redox Flow W/O Vanadium; Chinese Anti-Capitalism Economics
Researchers have come up with a redox flow battery that uses organic chemicals in place of toxic and expensive vanadium. They cost less than half as much, too. https://youtu.be/YyzQsVzKylE We need to have millions of these made and deployed over the whole world to solve the intermittent renewables problem. Chinese Anti-capitalist economics The capitalist way
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2020-11-09 “If Republicans don’t … Will Never Be Another Republican Pres. Elected”
Sen. Lindsey Graham said, “If Republicans don’t challenge and change the US election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again. President Trump should not concede.” This directly relates to the saying: “Voting is as easy as driving. If you want to go forward, choose D. If you want to go backwards, choose
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2020-11-07 Republicans Angry – Trump Admin Fires 3 Officials
It’s not just the Democrats who are disappointed and angry with the Trump administration’s firing of 3 government officials. The Republicans are angry, too. There is no reason why these career officials should be fired or demoted. Trump has nominated lobbyists, industry insiders and campaign contributors to jobs in the government and they and Trump
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2020-11-06 Trump’s Attacks Undermine US Democratic Image
How should Trump be described when it comes to diplomacy? He treats other countries with complete disregard as to their importance in keeping the world free. The importance of this cannot be overstressed because the whole world must cooperate in addressing the most important problem today: climate change. https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-baseless-election-attacks-undermining-us-image-abroad-145355947.html
2020-11-05 Seattle Small Donors Against Big Money
In 2015 Seattle adopted an innovative small donor system for funding its local campaigns. Seattle gave four $25.00 democracy vouchers for every registered voter that could be donated to candidates who pledged to accept only cash donations under $250.00, among other stipulations. The program faced its first major test in 2019, when Amazon poured $1.5
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2020-10-25 Facebook Allows Breitbart; Wikipedia Bans; Death Threats From Trump Supporters
From Media Bias/Fact Check https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/breitbart/ Quote >> In October 2018, Breitbart was banned as a reliable source in Wikipedia. Further, they were added as a reliable news source to Facebookâs new news initiative. This decision was met by harsh criticism by several media outlets, including Media Bias Fact Check. << *************************** The nasty side of
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2020-10-21 AP: Most Protesters Are Not Leftist Radicals
AP finds that most arrested in protests are not leftist radicals. https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity-suburbs-health-racial-injustice-7edf9027af1878283f3818d96c54f748
2020-10-19 Trump Accused Of Sex With 13 y/o: Court Records
This article shows the names of 18 women he has ‘been with’. The links to the court records accusing him of sex with a 13 year old are in the story. A quote from the story: >> It stopped being a political choice a while ago. This is now a moral choice. It has to
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2020-10-19 What’s Causing Climate Change In 10 Charts
Quote from end of Vox article >> In the end, the conversation about responsibility leads where all climate conversations lead: The only hope of avoiding catastrophic damage is most every country decarbonizing as rapidly as they are capable, regardless of their histories and rivalries. Electricity must be rapidly decarbonized to get rid of coal; heating
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