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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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#us politics #2022 #twitter #tweet #peter kalmus #climate crisis #climate emergency #climate reform #global warming #science #trust the science #heat wave #natural disasters #draughts

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ograndecondor · 11 months

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#baroque #aesthetics #ps1 #global warming #ps1 aesthetic #have a nice life #first reformed #global warming anxiety

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empirearchives · 28 days

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Letter from Napoleon to his brother, Jérôme. A really interesting letter as I think it clearly displays his unique idealism:

My concern is for the well-being of your people [Westphalians], not only as it affects your standing and my own, but also because of the impact it has on the whole condition of Europe. Do not listen to anyone who says that your subjects, being so long accustomed to servitude, will fail to feel gratitude for the freedoms you bring to them. The common people of Westphalia are more enlightened than such individuals would have you believe, and your rule will never have a secure basis without the people’s complete trust and affection. What the people of Germany impatiently desire is that men without nobility but of genuine ability will have an equal claim upon your favor and advancement, and that every trace of serfdom and feudal privilege... be completely done away with. Let the blessings of the Code Napoleon, open procedures and use of juries be the centerpiece of your administration... I want all your peoples to enjoy liberty, equality, and prosperity alike and to such a degree as no German people has yet known.... Everywhere in Europe—in Germany, France, Italy, Spain—people are longing for equality and liberal government... So govern according to your new constitution. Even if reason and the enlightened ideas of our age did not suffice to justify this call, it still would be a smart policy for anyone in your position—for you will find that the genuine support of the people is a source of strength to you that none of the absolutist monarchs neighboring you will ever have.

Source: Napoleon to Jérôme, November 15, 1807, in Napoleon, Correspondance générale, ed. Thierry Lentz (Paris: Fayard, 2004), VII: 1321.

English translation: Alexander Mikaberidze, The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History

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workersolidarity · 29 days

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AL-SHIFA MEDICAL COMPLEX BEFORE AND AFTER ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES DESTROYED THE HOSPITAL

📹 Footage published detailing the reception for the opening of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, back-to-back with footage from after the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation army on Monday.

Al-Shifa Medical Complex was once the largest and most well equipped hospital in the entire Gaza Strip, with advanced surgical capabilities and rehabilitation centers.

Today, the entire structure of the main building barely stands, while satellite buildings are completely destroyed, after the withdrawal of the Zionist army, leaving the hospital grounds littered with the rotting corpses of dozens, if not hundreds, of Palestinian civilians killed during the occupation's siege, bombardment and ground operations targeting Al-Shifa Hospital and its grounds.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

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thepeopleinpower · 14 days

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Capitalism and colonialism took community away from us and I want it back. I’ve heard about it from my grandparents and in books and articles online. All throughout history and still today in some parts of the world. People looking out for each other. Regularly. Relentlessly. Neighbors watching each others children, having enough food to share and actually sharing it, being invested in each others lives because everyone has different strengths.

Today community has been strategically painted as a weakness and something to be skeptical of because it is a threat to the very foundations of capitalism. And that’s a real fucking shame because in reality, growing up with community and still having that through adulthood would probably make most people generally happier and less perpetually tired and stressed. It is renewable resilient versatile adaptable self-sustaining and kind of the Ultimate Resource.

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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Ocean heat content, global sea levels and greenhouse gas concentrations all reached record highs in 2021, according to the State of the Climate report published Wednesday.

The Big Picture: The annual report showcases compelling scientific evidence that climate change has global impacts and shows no sign of slowing, said Rick Spinrad of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which led the study.

Our Thought Bubble: The ocean heat content findings are a sign of a planet that is absorbing far more heat than it is releasing back into space.

• The oceans are absorbing the vast majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases, which were also at the highest level on record last year.

Why It Matters: Ocean warming is increasingly tied to extreme weather and climate events.

Worth Noting: The global average sea level rose to a record-high for the 10th consecutive year.

• The global average sea level was about 3.8 inches higher in 2021 than the 1993 average, when the satellite measurement record began.

1 Big Thing: Earth's warming trend is continuing, with 2021 among the six warmest years since records began in the mid-to-late 1800s, the report found.

• The past seven years (2015–2021) were the seven warmest years on record.

The Bottom Line: "With many communities hit with 1,000-year floods, exceptional drought and historic heat this year, it shows that the climate crisis is not a future threat but something we must address today as we work to build a Climate-Ready Nation — and world — that is resilient to climate-driven extremes," Spinrad said in a statement.

#us politics #news #axios #2022 #global warming #climate emergency #climate reform #climate change #climate crisis #ocean temperature #State of the Climate #National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration #NOAA #Rick Spinrad #2021

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time4hemp · 3 months

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I've started a NEW CANNABIS HEMP BLOG and will post to it each M-F. I only have 10 post on it right now. There is a FREE MARIJUANA MUSIC MP3 DOWNLOAD at the bottom of every post. Please share this.

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rotzaprachim · 1 year

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reading retrospective 2023: extremely thick and unexpectedly gripping general histories

#as a disclaimer for nonfiction books of like 450+ pages- no i havent' read every word no i haven't verified everything the author says etc #etc #but the gold war: a global history one i just dug up. i read most of it in high school when i had an IB depth study of the cold war #it's a really interesting repositioning of the cold war by looking especially at africa latin america and asian nations and the smaller #and domestic aspects of it. obvs can't say i agree with/can verify westad on everything #but a super important repositioning incredibly critical of both us and soviet imperialism and the results #the reformation is also interesting in terms of i will admit to not really reading the actual martin luther parts #but macculloch goes into detail for hundreds of pages about the reformation as social revolution and that is FASCINATING holy moly #the stuff with gender. with family structure and homosexuality and whichcraft and sex and death and how this affected social patterns and #ordinary people #ditto last call. haven't finished this but a nuanced history of nuanced issues and the feminist and progressive concerns at play also #fascinating #anyway. just like not what i expected from the cover unexpectly gripping #reading retropsective

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anotherpapercut · 5 months

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something I will never ever forget as long as I live is seeing a post in 2020 that was like "I don't care how you feel about Biden, you HAVE to vote for him NO MATTER WHAT because Republicans don't care what their candidate does. they'll vote for a rapist just because it says Republican after his name!!" like within weeks of credible assault allegations against Biden surfacing lol. like can you guys at least TRY to pretend you're not advocating for the exact same thing you claim Republicans are doing

#yeah republicans will vote for a rapist but liberals cant even entertain the idea of MAYBE refusing to back a genocidal administration #for long enough to even come close to making any change #its extremely clear what you guys mean when you say yeah biden has his hands in multiple global genocides #and has done nothing but worsen the situation at the border by trying to make asylum seekers jump through even more hoops #but like hes not actively killing AMERICAN CITIZENS soooo #just say hes not killing white americans if thats what you mean lol. have things gotten better under this administration?#in any regard? at all? what have they done to protection abortion rights? lgbt rights? they wont even DISCUSS court reform #i seriously hope both of them die. in one large fiery crash. and neil gorsuch is also there

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cruelsister-moved2 · 1 year

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its just weird bc with energy usage or whatever, we recognise that telling someone to turn the lights off and not overfill the kettle is a distraction from the unfettered consumption of big industry etc, but when it comes to food suddenly you people are like no no it’s the consumption of tofu that is the real issue here!! I’m so sick and tired of this debate because whether or not you eat meat, as leftists and as people with any care for the environment, we should be united in recognising the harms of industrial animal agriculture. and at a certain point the choices of foods to get mad at in particular start to just come off like an appropriate outlet for your discomfort over someone else eating differently to you. why is it always soy and quinoa and never corn and wheat?? at a certain point you have to acknowledge that all of us consume plant products, and vegans/vegetarians are a very small proportion of that. plant agriculture is perhaps as ethically and environmentally fraught as animal agriculture, but that means we should desire to improve both, rather than NEITHER

#and alllll of it just feels like a cope to get out of recognising that all of our diets have an impact on the world n people around us #no matter how much we dont like it and how much we try #and the solution is largely a reform to our farming practices; our relationship with the land; and our relationship with food #[guy who constantly buys out of season fruit flown from halfway across the world]: omggg soy milk is destroying the planet #i just find it funny as hell when ppl get mad at the current hated plant based product as a gotcha for people who dont eat meat #like girl............are you jordan peterson? you only eat red meat?#not to be this person but that is literally just a textbook tu quoque fallacy lol #vegetarians r like we should improve the global food supply chain somewhat #and u guys r like UMMM but you consume food?#this is what no ethical consumption under capitalism actually means #although the girlies seem to think it exists to defend ur shein purchases and mass produced anime figures #agiudfhgiapghaidufghdfg

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bluepecanpie · 10 months

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as a retrospective, occupy wall street was the endpoint of the kind of ‘horizontalist’ politics that was popularized with the anti-globalization movement. the involvement of adbusters in establishing the initial ows is more than enough to show us how direct this influence is. underpinning the anti-globalization movement in the global north was a reliance on the framework consecrated by liberalism, and idealist notions that democracy had been distorted from its optimal function by the presence of trans-national corporations bypassing the power of the state. the idea that in the first instance, the state is an instrument of class power - specifically the power of the bourgeoisie, in the capitalist epoch.

occupy’s failure, is the shared failure of that anti-globalization movement, and in between - that of the arab spring, which had seemingly exhausted imagination for another kind of social modality other than one informed by neoliberalism - islamist or not. even the anti-globalization movement came to fore as a sort of post-cold war rebuke of state socialism and the vanguardist politics used to set it up, only to fumble once confronted with the hard power of the state and especially great power conflicts - in a way that ‘actual existing socialist’ states could not do. the occupy movement also forgoed the kind of deep organising that could actually build class consciousness and galvanise the working class into making demands.

i’m not saying that the occupy movement was bad, or counterproductive: it politicized a generation of people, and broke out of this anhedonic, apathetic morose typical of atomised subjects under neoliberalism. I’m just saying that it was no threat to the ruling class, to any corporations, to anyone wearing the robes of institutional power. pro-ows assessment would rather we think how well ows spread and that was the real victory, like there wasn’t a demand for the neoliberal epoch - whether it was explicity stated or otherwise.

#occupy wall street #ows #occupy movement #anti-globalization movement #adbusters #horizontalism #socialism #anarchism #reformism #arab spring #neoliberalism #class struggle #state socialism #working class #organising #marxism #direct action

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 1 year

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#us politics #2023 #twitter #tweet #the serfs #prager u #dennis prager #exxon mobil corp #climate change #climate emergency #climate reform #global warming #capitalism #end stage capitalism #conservatives be like

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theexodvs · 2 years

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“Without the government handling foreign aid, how are we supposed to help people in other countries?”

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#International Mission Board #Mission to the World #URCNA Missions #United Reformed Church in North America #Anglican Global Mission Partners #foreign missions #international missions #missions #evangelism #foreign aid #Look it ain't my fault the churches you agree with politically are non-missional #Plenty of other mission boards exist #Find a Biblically grounded church and ask if they have a mission board

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defensenow · 13 days

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nnr-javed · 1 month

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#Predatory Capitalism #Systemic Change #Economic Systems #Capitalism Critique #Resistance #Reform #Global Warming #2008 Financial Crash #Middle East Conflicts

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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Greenhouse gas emissions should be subject to legal controls in the US and phased out under the Toxic Substances Control Act, according to a group of scientists and former public officials, in a novel approach to the climate crisis.

“Using the TSCA would be one small step for [the Us President] Joe Biden, but potentially a giant leap for humankind – as a first step towards making the polluters pay,” said James Hansen, a former NASA scientist, who is a member of the group alongside Donn Viviani, a retired 35-year veteran of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Their legal submission, filed to the EPA on Thursday, states that greenhouse gas emissions present a danger to the climate and should be regulated as such under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a law passed in 1976 as part of a suite of environmental regulations in the US.

The TSCA, which was amended in 2016, allows the EPA to place monitoring requirements on companies and enforce strict controls on certain substances. It has been used to restrict chemicals including asbestos, lead in paint, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

The law covers substances that pose “an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment”. The petitioners believe it can be interpreted to allow for a phase-out of greenhouse gas emissions.

Viviani said: “TSCA is like the ruby slippers [in The Wizard of Oz] – it can do just about anything. It can allow you to put a levy on carbon, and can deal with the legacy of carbon emissions. It has nearly international reach, as the US is the biggest market in the world and could apply these measures to imports too.”

He and the other petitioners have filed “a mountain’s worth” of scientific studies showing the impact of greenhouse gases on weather, which results in wildfires, heatwaves, severe drought, rising sea levels and increasingly acidified oceans.

The US has a recent history of attempts to regulate carbon dioxide under existing environmental legislation, as Congress has often proved reluctant to consider passing laws to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The former president, Barack Obama, who was unable to get his climate legislation through the Republican-dominated Congress, tried to use the Clean Air Act – another of the environmental achievements of the 1970s – to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power stations, but under Donald Trump the attempt was reversed.

The US Supreme Court, which has a strong Republican bias, is re-examining whether the EPA should have such carbon-regulating powers.

Viviani has also tried a similar tack before, submitting a legal petition in 2015 for carbon dioxide to be controlled under the TSCA to tackle ocean acidification. That failed, but he believes that the amendment to the legislation in 2016 offers a fresh basis on which to present the argument again.

Hansen said the new attempt was more likely to succeed, adding: “The TSCA is different. It’s better than the Clean Air Act (CAA). The CAA was a possible vehicle for a rising carbon fee, because the supreme court in Massachusetts vs EPA ruled that CO2 was a pollutant. However, there is a very strong suspicion that if the CAA is used that way, the present conservative supreme court will reverse that ruling. They can’t do that easily with the TSCA, which was passed by Congress and reaffirmed [in 2016] with bipartisan support.”

Alongside Viviani and Hansen, the other petitioners include: Lise Van Susteren, a professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at George Washington University; John Birks, an emeritus professor in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder; Richard Heede, of the Climate Accountability Institute; and the Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative.

Some climate campaigners have criticised Biden for a perceived lack of action on the climate crisis, despite the fact that he made it a priority in the early days of his presidency. The war in Ukraine and rising energy prices have prompted the White House to emphasise new gas extraction as an alternative to Russian supplies.

Viviani said: “President Biden is an empathic man; we hope he is also a brave man. We hope he will use both his empathy and bravery to pick up this tool he has in the TSCA, and use it to give hope that a solution will be found to the many millions of young people, and in fact all of us.”

Under the TSCA, the EPA has 90 days to consider and act upon the legal petition. The Guardian contacted the EPA for comment.

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