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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology

The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in North Dakota and Texas show how there are several interlocking problems addressing the climate crisis that must be included in future environmental policy. More specifically...

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February 28, 2021

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Trumpian dissonance in Ohio speech: the phantom 2018 middle-class tax cut has returned

Trump went to Ohio today to draw attention away from what will continue to be news as his crimes catch up to him. Remember that what Trump really wants among many other things is to kill off Social Security, so aside from actually killing off the elderly with incompetent health...

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September 22, 2020

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AP poll: Biden leads by 12% but 21% are undecided (of which 32% are “independents”)

50 days and Biden still leads nationally but there are fewer undecideds than 2016 in the details when you get to registered and likely voters, even if they have been declining since July. Like most polling, the devil’s in the details. x NEW via @AP: Biden is beating Trump nationally...

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September 15, 2020

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AT LAST: Chuck Todd slams Trump Enabling Senator “What part of this response is a positive?”

Chuck Todd gets a good one in every so often. He challenged Indiana Senator Mike Braun after he gave an insane rosy scenario. Chuck Todd asks the correct loaded question x x YouTube Video Watch the full episode here. One gets tired of Donald Trump’s enablers and sycophants appearing on cable...

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September 10, 2020

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Trump is only 62% fascist or 29 Benitos short of a dictatorship

WaPo published an update to the estimation of whether Trump was more than a rhetorical trope as a fascist, or more of an actual, historical fascist. 29 more “Benitos” to go, Trump has yet to win reelection by rigged balloting and only has a fraction of the population incarcerated. Ripping children...

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August 22, 2020

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Trump and his accordion hands get interviewed by Jonathan Swan

One of the better Trump interviews, ever. This time with Jonathan Swan. Especially if you watch the entirety, you can fear for the future of the Republic. Excerpts have been made available but the whole interview shows how unhinged Trump actually might be. Then again, Trump still thinks the 1918 flu epidemic...

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August 4, 2020

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US COVID death toll hits 150,000 as Trump declares “…exciting progress” (in killing people?)

Laurie Garrett and John Moore discuss herd immunity which is the default position of leaders like Trump who don’t care how many people die. Trump continues to make excuses and even regress to debunked remedies. He will sacrifice a quarter-million people to achieve re-election, making the actual death toll attributable...

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July 29, 2020

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Eight World Leaders Take a Swipe at Trump [Update: Putin Out to Steal Vaccine Research]

Not in so many words, but eight world leaders wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post calling for any Covid-19 vaccine to be available worldwide: The international community must guarantee equal global access to a covid-19 vaccine [W]e must urgently ensure that vaccines will be distributed according to a set...

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July 15, 2020

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: government deficit is a myth in the eyes of Modern Monetary Theory

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can (but not will) save the US economy. What with the White House Council of Economic Advisors now reduced to one economist, it’s worth noting that one of their econometric models (Hassett) influenced the prediction that COVID-19 infections in the US would go to zero by...

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June 28, 2020

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bungholed or bungled, everything Trump touches, perishes

Trump’s button got pushed by Biden: x If John Bolton's accounts are true, itÃ¢Â€Â™s not only morally repugnant, itÃ¢Â€Â™s a violation of Donald TrumpÃ¢Â€Â™s sacred duty to the American people to protect AmericaÃ¢Â€Â™s interests and defend our values.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 17, 2020 x Joe Biden was a TOTAL...

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June 18, 2020

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How Is Sweden's COVID-19 Plan Working Out? Seniors Die And The Economy Still Tanks.

Where to start with when it comes to the results of Sweden’s COVID-19 response? Sweden decided to tell their seniors to stay at home, and they essentially left most of their economy open. The idea was that the younger Swedes would achieve herd immunity and protect the more vunerable seniors...

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May 19, 2020

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Trump's revanchism… revenge served luke-warm because narcissists need someone's space back

Trump’s revanchism now manifests itself in the second attempt by Trump to recycle old grievances, mainly from ”Obamagate” first proposed in 2017. Because Trump’s history has always been all about trying to seize land for his domain or at least dominionists, he’s incapable of understanding historical consequences. For Trump, he has yet...

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May 15, 2020

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Trump administration nabs counter-Russia cash to help build southern border wall

Having spectacularly failed to deliver on every POTUS’ tacit promise that he wouldn’t try to kill us all, Donald Trump is desperately trying to keep one of his oldest and stupidest promises: He WILL build a pointless, expensive, easily traversed wall on our southern border, and our military will pay...

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April 29, 2020

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aside from Trump's constant “1917” gaffes, the 1918 pandemic still has lessons

Trump still refers to the 1918 pandemic as happening in 1917 because he saw the recent war movie, which was not about the flu. Remember how he got the US to build a southern border fence by using “wall” as a mnemonic device for “immigrants”. Trump’s grandfather died in the...

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April 26, 2020

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LIVE BLOG: COVID Taskforce Presser – Trump defunds WHO because he needs a scapegoat

LIVE BLOG below (presser likely will start 30-45 minutes late*) 5:00* 6:15 PM EDT Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing at The White House (in the Rose Garden) What fresh psychodrama is this? Will anyone ask Trump why his propaganda video clip from yesterday omitted February from the...

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April 14, 2020

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Trump will not 'tear up the Treaty of Versailles' but there could be crimes against humanity

The last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg trials said Trump's family separation policy is a 'crime against humanity'. Then there’s this COVID pandemic, made worse by the Trump administration’s delay, denial, and dysfunction. • US arcing up into the tens of thousands of confirmed cases per day; still no nationwide lockdown and Americans continue to travel •...

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April 5, 2020

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your money or your self-fulfilling prophecy: Alabama has a death panel plan

There remains an absence of a US national policy as the COVID-19 death rates mirror Spain and Italy. and the rate of infection is as fast in Louisiana as New York. x Alabama's 'Last Resort' plan: “…any of a wide range of underlying health conditions Ã¢Â€Â“ such as metastasized cancer,...

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March 25, 2020

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Trump low-balled the COVID-19 pandemic because he needs chaos to win the election & make $

Dithering is not a deregulatory policy. Nor is thinking that 1-2 million deaths are acceptable to get re-elected. Yet Trump does seem to subscribe to a risk model that rewards his benefactors and supporters over anyone else. Trump has been now proven daily to peddle unsubstantiated hope in dark times. Trump is draconian in a...

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March 21, 2020

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Italian COVID-19 death toll passes China's

The death toll in Italy from the coronavirus has overtaken China's in a stark illustration of how the outbreak has pivoted toward Europe and the United States. “Italy has world's second oldest population, 87% of those killed by COVID-19 are over 70”. Italy’s population is 4% of China’s. There will be waves in this pandemic,...

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March 19, 2020

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late-responder Trump won't even catch that election Hail Mary javelin if COVID-19 lasts 18 months

The only re-election path Trump may have is to invoke yet again some image as a “war-time president” even if the enemy is his incompetence. In the post-impeachment period, this is another desperate act for re-election. He’s always been a war-time POTUS* even as he was impeached. For example, on Jun 4,...

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March 18, 2020

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For those who argued we can't afford a true safety-net now screaming shut it down

The screams and demands to shut everything down to stop CVID-19 can have a bitter echo to the young. Right now data suggests those under 50 and especially those under 30 are at little risk beyond a moderate case of the flu. The risk falls disproportionately on those 65 or...

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March 15, 2020

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'Unprecedented Threat' from climate change enhanced locust swarms plague, East Africa.

The life cycle of the desert locust consists of three stages, the egg, the nymph known as a hopper, and the winged adult. Copulation takes place when a mature male hops onto the back of a mature female and grips her body with his legs. Sperm is transferred from the tip of his abdomen to the tip of hers, where it is stored. The process takes several hours and one insemination is sufficient for a number of batches of eggs.[8]

If you're asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you're really asking when's it going to happen to “me,” because it's already happened to many other people. Eric Roston Swarms of Desert Locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) have haunted parts of Russia, Spain, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and, SW...

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February 17, 2020

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'Unprecedented Threat' from climate change enhanced locust swarms plague East Africa.

If you’re asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you’re really asking when’s it going to happen to “me,” because it’s already happened to many other people. Eric Roston Swarms of Desert Locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) have haunted parts of Russia, Spain, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and, SW...

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February 16, 2020

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Jane's Drug Boats, because radar and market demand

Drug dealers do the kind of architecting that Ivanka Trump is so fond of quoting. The same style of drug smuggling boat appears in more than one ocean. Forbes magazine wonders why. This operational question is much like the rules governing US sales of Javelin missiles specify that they can only...

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November 28, 2019

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Vatican May Allow Married Priests

[This is NOT a Trump or impeachment diary. Everyone needs a break!] From today’s Washington Post: Roman Catholic bishops propose opening priesthood to married deacons in the Amazon region Roman Catholic bishops from across the Amazon recommended Saturday to allow married deacons to become priests — a proposal intended to...

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October 26, 2019

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Does the mysterious whistleblower complaint have to do with Trump's attempt to stop Joe Biden?

Until all the facts are revealed (assuming they ever are; Trump’s consigliere, Bill Barr, is on this), we’re left with mere speculation about the whistleblower complaint involving Donald Trump and a foreign leader. Here’s one plausible scenario, from Susan Simpson, a Washington attorney and blogger. I have no idea if...

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September 19, 2019

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Peat, the world's largest terrestrial carbon store, ignites into 'unprecedented' Arctic firestorms.

Throughout the High Arctic of Canada, Alaska, and Siberia unprecedented wildfires are raging. Thanks to stunning satellite images from NASA and the EU of the burning Arctic, this crisis has made international headlines. MSNBC discussed these fires yesterday and today I saw CNN, give this nightmare the coverage that it deserves...

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July 27, 2019

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The Arctic will not survive Russia's wave of industrialization; nuclear submarine in flames.

This is not the diary I wanted to write. Though it includes snippets of the research I wanted to share, it is not what I had been working on for the past few days, obviously. I am rushing this diary through as I had most of the research already and...

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July 2, 2019

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Economists in Support of a Medicare for All Health Care System

Progressive Democrats of America An Open Letter to the Congress and People of the United States As economists, we understand that a single-payer “Medicare for All” health insurance system for the U.S. can finance good-quality care for all U.S. residents as a basic right while still significantly reducing overall health...

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May 21, 2019

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Republican voted against anti-hate bill because it didn't condemn discrimination against whites

I’m a white guy. Have been all my life. Grew up in Wisconsin. I can honestly say that, other than a single incident in Spain when I overheard a Spanish guy say “Gringo” in my general direction (and with mild contempt), I’ve never felt unfairly singled out for being white. Then again, Spanish...

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March 12, 2019

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PHOTOS: Amazing Fake Trump Emergency Protests

277 events. 48 states. At least 50,000 attendees. That’s what power looks like. Donald Trump may control the White House for the moment, but we are not giving up on what this country can be. And on Presidents Day, tens of thousands of MoveOn members and allies hit the streets to build a vision...

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February 19, 2019

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'We're getting our asses kicked': Republicans panic over big Dem fundraising advantage

I will vote, I will vote straight D, and I will tell everyone I meet to do likewise between now and November 6. Nothing will stop me. The only decision I have left is whether to imagine punching Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, or Brett “Rapey” Kavanaugh in their smug faces every...

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October 17, 2018

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Yes, Francisco Franco Is Still Dead and Spain is Moving His Body Away from The Heroes.

Francisco Franco, the self styled “El Caudillo” and dictator of Spain, who allied himself with Hitler and Mussolini to crush the democratic Republic of Spain prior to WWII, died in 1975 and was laid to rest in del Valle de los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen) north of Madrid, a monument to the...

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August 25, 2018

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Catalonia/Spain: On track for the crisis to escalate by Monday

The situation in Spain isn’t exactly getting better. And now it looks like the first real deadlines may have been set in the escalation of the Catalan push for independence. Previously in this series: Part I — Part II When last we left this story, Catalonia had voted for independence by a...

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October 5, 2017

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The Kurdistan situation, part I: History

While I’ve spent the last couple days writing about events in Spain, it’s important to remember the other major separatist/independence news story: Kurdistan. So, while Catalonia engages in am organized “work stoppage” (to avoid restrictions on official “general strikes”), let’s take a look at Kurdistan. As before, let’s start off...

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October 3, 2017

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Spain: One Day Later (with a FAQ + Update)

Obviously, our collective attention has been focused on tragic events that are, for Americans, much closer to home. But the situation in Spain continues to bear watching. And it isn’t over yet. Sunday, Catalonia held a vote to determine whether or not the region should break way from Spain and...

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October 2, 2017

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I Vote. Therefore I Must Be Beaten, Tear-Gassed and Shot At. Spanish Edition.

If nothing else, Spain now has a publicity nightmare on its hands. But its violent attempts to suppress an vote — illegal as they claim or not — seem like they can only serve to make the resolve of Catalans (Catalonians?) for independence all that much firmer. If the majority of Catalans were...

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October 1, 2017

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Spain draws closer to the edge

Things are… not going well in Spain right now. How to breed an infertile, mentally disabled king, who soils himself regularly, and sparks a regional war with his death. First, a little history. Some three hundred years ago, what is now that little pointy bit that constitutes the northeast corner of...

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September 29, 2017

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The Myth of Islamophobia

There is a rather disconcerting idea touted by so-called progressives on the order of: Islamophobia is on the rise in the West: most particularly in Europe and the United Sates. The idea itself presupposes that there is such a phenomenon as Islamophobia and that it is some nefarious and specious...

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