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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From this article in the New York Times:

Newly disclosed messages and testimony from some of the biggest stars and most senior executives at Fox News revealed that they privately expressed disbelief about President Donald J. Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, even though the network continued to promote many of those lies on the air.

The hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, as well as others at the company, repeatedly insulted and mocked Trump advisers, including Sidney Powell and Rudolph W. Giuliani, in text messages with each other in the weeks after the election, according to a legal filing on Thursday by Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion is suing Fox for defamation in a case that poses considerable financial and reputational risk for the country’s most-watched cable news network.

Financial risk? Yes.  We’re talking about billions of dollars in compensatory damages, not to mention possible punitive damages on top of that.

But reputational risk?  That’s harder to imagine.  The only people who really matter to Fox are idiots who still believe the election was stolen, and they’re simply going to going to conclude that the lawsuit was a sham, that the judge is corrupt, and that the radical left has prevailed over their leader, the most honest and most effective president in American history.

Maybe time for a new insurrection.  Who knows?  We’re capable of anything.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Roughly:

Mommy, why are there so many sad and empty people?

Because we live in a world full of lies, egos, and pleasures, in which money has the most value, and people deceive themselves, and all that, my daughter, poisons our own spirits.

I would only add that we’re living in a time when, financially, the winners have won and the losers have lost.  40 years ago, the United States lowered its top personal income tax bracket from 90% to 28%.  That was followed by the U.S. Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” which gave corporations the power to spend as much as they wish to influence our elections.

As a result, the wealthiest people now have complete control over our lawmaking processes, and 60% of Americans don’t have an extra $500 to deal with an unforeseen expense.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

So many things make no sense in today’s world.

Teachers are so badly underpaid that there being forced to leave the profession.

Almost half of American voters believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, despite the findings of more than 60 courts around the country.

We are in the process of baking our planet, yet we’re doing essentially nothing to turn this around.

The meme here depicts just one more piece of nonsense.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s a meme that made me smile.

Like all humor, it’s rooted in truth.  Depending on how sensitive you are to the needs of other human beings, the ultra-right-wing political climate in Florida might make life very difficult for you.

The situation is similar here in this rural part of Central California, in that there are plenty of rednecks.  Is that a burden?  Nothing terrible.  As someone told me the other day, I’m fine as long as they’re not holding rallies.   

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Through court records, we now know that the Fox News executive team and on-camera personnel knew that Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election were “complete bullshit.”

Think for a moment how vile these people are (if you weren’t aware of it already).  They knowingly misled tens of millions of gullible but otherwise guiltless people into believing that the entirety of America’s democratic processes is corrupt. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

As time passes, and unregulated capitalism tightens its grasp on our civilization, certain organizations that formerly served and protected us have become nothing more that mechanisms for highly profitable industries to make even more money– at the expense of the people they formerly defended.

As suggested here, the NRA is one such example.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

Here’s a short video describing how wind farms are built.

Its producer says that renewable energy is required because “we’re running out of fossil fuels.”  Completely wrong.  There is so much coal in Wyoming, for instance, that hikers have to be careful not to trip over it.

As most people know, the issue is that the release of CO2, methane, and an array of toxic chemicals, is ruining our atmosphere and our oceans.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

When we think of slavery in our modern world, many of us, understanding as we do that the institution is illegal in every sovereign country on Earth, assume that it no longer exists.  Sadly, that’s not true; it’s estimated that are somewhere between 40 and 50 million people, spread around the globe, who are held against their will and forced to work.

I’m on the board of directors of a group called Slave Free Today, whose purpose is to eliminate slavery and forced labor from our home planet.  The group plays a key role in collecting and providing information to governments and the many NGOs that are involved in bringing this change about.

It’s possible that 2GreenEnergy readers may be in a position to help, via connecting me to folks who may be writing papers on relevant subjects.  Here’s a “call for submissions.“

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If you’re wondering how it’s possible for the Republicans who are trying to dismantle Social Security and Medicare to remain viable candidates for re-election, it’s explained in the meme here.  They are simply lying to mainstream audiences.

Politicians have been lying since the dawn of time, but today’s GOP has taken this tradition to an entirely new level.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Ha!

In truth, however, she’s not going to buy just any s***.

It needs to be something that could be believed to protect her against the socialist nation that the radical left is working so hard to fashion our country into.

This can include guns, survival equipment (especially portable generators), or bibles.

More likely, these fellas are asking for campaign contributions to elect congresspeople who will Make America Great Again, by banning abortion, removing LGBTQ rights, destroying public education, building a wall on the southern border, and ensuring that fossil fuels are used in perpetuity.

Of course, the single most obvious topic here is Trump 2024, and that means preventing the commies from prosecuting Trump for fraud, tax evasion, extortion, seditious conspiracy, stealing classified documents, and treason.

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