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Avoidable economic crisis

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

Allowing oil demand to continue to grow could create the need for a sudden change later, which could cause an avoidable economic crisis. This will look small compared with the climate crisis itself, but suppose it is as bad as the recession of 2009. Crises give plutocrats the opportunity to take wealth away from every else. They did that after 2009.

Perhaps they are planning to cause this mini-crisis in order to profit from it.

Oligarch buys way into 2020 race

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

*An oligarch [Bloomberg] has bought his way into the 2020 race. Why is no one talking about this?*

Ecological ricochet from global heating

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

How an ecological ricochet from global heating caused whales to get tangled up in crab lines.

Russia's political system

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

A book explains how Russia's political system functions: illustrating how it forces people into compromises that corrupt them and uphold the corrupt system that corrupts others in turn.

This resembles some aspects of the US social and political system, but they are not as pervasive or complete as in Russia.

Please don't buy books, or anything, from Amazon and please reject unjust e-books.

Republicans' contempt for the truth

jeudi 6 février 2020 à 01:00

*By denying witnesses, Republicans made clear even a smoking gun would not be enough.* That was blatant contempt for the truth, the constitution, and their country.