Article in NPR focuses on Trump’s use of lies, history, persecution by the press, fascism. Quote: “” “The use of lies takes place in a larger effort to turn the public against alternate sources of authority,” she said. Those sources might include independent courts, legislative bodies and law enforcement agencies. Or — it may be
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Elon Musk says population collapse is a bigger threat than climate change. Is he right? This is a very good article on a number of different aspects of population change. It gives a lot of good statistics. Also makes aware that that the population isn’t as all important as the resource utilization. The Western world,
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This is just the early beginning of improvements in air quality and improved health. We just need to hurry up the changeover about a dozen times faster. Researchers Link Electric Cars With Better Air Quality & Improved Health
Quote “”This could be linked to natural weather patterns, but he says what’s not explainable is that the warm layer has been getting “considerably warmer” since the 1960s. Could the fact that humans have added the heat equivalent to 25 billion atomic bombs like the one dropped on Hiroshima in the past 50 years have
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This article cites, as an example, Judge Kacsmaryk and mifepristone to end pregnancy. Quote: “”This letter is a part of Democrats’ ongoing efforts to pursue multi-faceted judicial reform that predates the recent scandals and misconduct at the U.S. Supreme Court, which has the public doubting the impartiality of courts.”” Senate Democrats Send Letter to Federal
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The number of restrictive voting laws and Federal lawsuits challenging them has grown to a precipitous number. These Red state legislatures and governors are attempting to trample all over voters’ rights. It’s obvious that the intents of these laws are *not* to “reduce voter fraud” but to make it more difficult for voters, especially minorities,
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In 1966 I completed basic training and went to Ft. Monmouth, NJ for 10 months of Radar repair training. The last half of the course we got to work on the actual Radars in *that* barn-like building in the photo. I was on the graveyard shift. There were birds flying around up in the rafters
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According to the fueleconomy.gov website, gasoline vehicles round trip efficiency is only 12 to 30%. https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml
150 times more mining needed for ICE road vehicles than EVs. The amount of mineral resources needed for ICE (gasoline) powered road vehicles was 150 times greater in 2019 than what electric vehicles and battery energy storage will need… in 2040. – 2 billion tons: mining quantities needed for oil for road transport in 2019;
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