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Deal on USPS

lundi 1 mars 2021 à 01:00

Biden and some Democrats in Congress think they can get a "bipartisan" deal to change some laws for the USPS by leaving Saboteur DeJoy in office as its head.

It is not entirely lunacy to try to make a deal with Republicans, but you must check your pockets frequently during the meeting, a well as after. The leader of their cult made a practice of not paying his debts and not keeping his deals, so you must not give them anything on credit. Allowing a known saboteur to remain in place would be asking for trouble, even as part of a deal. To give him more opportunities for sabotage indefinitely in hope there might be a deal is idiotic.

If there is a good deal to be had, the Democrats can get it without DeJoy. But they can't possibly get a good deal by acting desperate for one.

Critical supply chains

lundi 1 mars 2021 à 01:00

Biden has ordered prioritizing protecting critical supply chains from risk of interruption due to dependence on foreign suppliers.

The US should have started this in the 1990s if not before. Indeed, I wonder if the US used to pay attention to this, and whether it ceased as part of Republican deregulation. Can anyone find out and tell me?

Solar power satellite

lundi 1 mars 2021 à 01:00

NASA is testing the main component for a future large solar power satellite.

In the 1980s I helped the L5 Society campaign for this.

Derailing climate targets

lundi 1 mars 2021 à 01:00

*UK's gas power plans risk derailing climate targets.*

If civilization survives, new fossil fuel power plants will not remain in use long enough to recoup their investment costs. And likewise if civilization collapses. So there has to be some dirty reason for proposing to build them.

Fracking banned

lundi 1 mars 2021 à 01:00

Fracking has been banned in the Delaware river basin.

That still leaves large parts of the US where we need to ban fracking. Of course, no new fossil fuel development of any kind should be allowed. But fracking is particularly bad, since it tends to leak methane and can pollute local water supplies.

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