Time to trot out tired but true fact that Jill Stein’s votes in WI, MI, & PA exceeded margin between Trump & Clinton and Nader votes undercut Gore in FL & sent Bush to WH
Yes, they might not have voted for Clinton or Gore but why risk it all again?
Start local, build up.
Andrew Wortman
@AmoneyResists
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Jun 12
The party that’s spent the last 5 years investigating Hunter Biden and the last 15 years investigating Hillary Clinton wants you to know how unfair, extreme, immoral, and tyrannical it is to investigate your political opponents.
Fiona Harvey Environment editor
Tue 21 Mar 2023 15.10 EDT
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the “synthesis report” of its sixth assessment report (AR6) on Monday [Mar. 20, 2023]. Eight years in preparation, this mammoth report encompasses the entire range of human knowledge of the climate system, compiled by hundreds of scientists from thousands of academic papers, and published in four parts, in August 2021, February and April 2022, and March 2023.
The report drew together the most important findings – but also highlighted some key measures that governments and countries must take immediately if we are to avoid climate catastrophe:
Reduce methane
Stop deforestation
Restore other degraded land, and stop it being turned to agriculture
Change agriculture, and change the way we eat
Solar and wind power
Energy efficiency
Stop burning coalPut climate at the heart of all decision-making
https://www.rawstory.com/new-gop-bills-would-hand-richest-1-over-28-billion-in-tax-cuts-next-year/
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
June 12, 2023, 1:01 PM ET
Tax cut legislation that House Republicans are set to consider this week after pushing the global economy to the brink of disaster would deliver more than $28 billion to the richest 1% of Americans next year—and just $1.4 billion to the poorest fifth of the country.
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That's according to a new analysis of the legislation by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), which estimated Sunday that the poorest fifth of Americans would receive an average tax break of just $40 next year under the three new Republican bills, one of which is titled the Tax Cuts for Working Families Act.
By contrast, ITEP showed, people in the top 1% of the income distribution would see an average tax cut of $16,550 under the legislation.
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Paraquat is not in Roundup, whose active ingredient is glyphosate, which has been linked to cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Paraqua is sold under the brand name Gramoxone
by Carey Gillam
Fri 2 Jun 2023 07.00 EDT
The global chemical giant Syngenta has sought to secretly influence scientific research regarding links between its top-selling weedkiller and Parkinson’s, internal corporate documents show.
While numerous independent researchers have determined that the weedkiller, paraquat, can cause neurological changes that are hallmarks of Parkinson’s, Syngenta has always maintained that the evidence linking paraquat to Parkinson’s disease is “fragmentary” and “inconclusive”.
But the scientific record they point to as proof of paraquat’s safety is the same one that Syngenta officials, scientists and lawyers in the US and the UK have worked over decades to create and at times, covertly manipulate, according to the trove of internal Syngenta files reviewed by the Guardian and the New Lede.
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Syngenta’s decision to involve lawyers in the editing of its scientific reports and other communications in ways that downplayed concerning findings potentially related to public health is unacceptable, said Wendy Wagner, a law professor at the University of Texas who has served on several National Academies of Science committees. “Clearly the lawyers are involved in order to limit liability,” she said.
“It happens regularly in cases where a corporation’s internal research puts it at a high risk of expensive lawsuits. Regrettably, this kind of effective legal ghostwriting of scientific reports happens far too often in the chemical industry. Scientifically it doesn’t seem acceptable,” Wagner said.
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See the table in the following link:
By Conor Shaw
March 1, 2022
Donald Trump has been credibly accused of committing at least 48 criminal offenses while he was serving as President of the United States or campaigning for that office. Those offenses are listed in the table below, which includes possible offenses that were investigated by the Department of Justice while President Trump was in office as well as possible offenses that have not been the subject of any confirmed reported investigation. While he was in office, President Trump was protected by the DOJ’s policy of not indicting a sitting president, but that policy of course does not apply to a former president. The table does not include potential crimes being investigated by authorities in New York relating to the Trump Organization.
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Deterrence is one of the core objectives of criminal law. Federal criminal law is designed to punish individuals for criminal offenses to discourage these individuals and others like them from engaging in the same conduct in the future. If President Trump avoids criminal prosecution for these potential offenses because prosecutors are unwilling to pursue meritorious and legally justified cases against him, the message to him and future presidents will be clear: you can commit crimes with impunity.
The rule of law is not self-enforcing. The individuals who serve in the Department of Justice and in prosecutors’ offices across the country are charged with upholding it. They must do so here if the facts, law, and principles of prosecution support doing so.
Robert Reich
@RBReich
June 13, 2023
Average tax cuts under the House GOP's new tax bill:
Top 1%: $16,550
Bottom 20%: $40
It's clear where their priorities lie.
Walter Olson
@walterolson
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June 13, 2023
Trump didn't get charged with illegal possession over the 197 docs he gave back to the archives when asked. That matches up with how Biden, Pence, etc. were treated. Give back voluntarily = no rap.
Trump is facing charges because he chose to lie to the feds and hide documents.
https://www.dw.com/en/bangladesh-endures-longest-heat-wave-in-decades/video-65872473
Beenish Javed
06/09/2023
In Bangladesh, the longest heat wave in half a century has forced the closure of schools, increased demands on the nation's power supply and affected livelihoods. Power outages are compounding the already difficult situation.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9761043/dry-spring-southern-albertan-farmers-zero-production/
By Carolyn Kury de Castillo Global News
Posted June 11, 2023 6:10 pm
Updated June 11, 2023 8:37 pm
Crops in southern Alberta that should be green are turning brown. With little to no measurable precipitation since mid-April in areas south of Calgary, some farmers are already predicting crop losses.
According to the June 6 Agricultural Moisture Situation update a warm, dry fall and spring has failed to recharge soil moisture leaving many areas facing once in 50-year lows for this time of year.
“They are dying essentially. It’s something that we’ve never experienced before. We’ve had dry conditions later in the season but to have it at the end of May, beginning of June like this is unprecedented,” said Stephen Vandervalk, a fourth generation farmer in southern Alberta and the vice president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association.
“We are out a third of our crop as of today, for sure, and every single day it’s just nose diving. Every day now we are probably losing 5 per cent of our yields, so if we don’t get rain for another week, then half a crop, maybe, is in the cards,” Vandervalk said.
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As I understand from this article, an indictment is voted on by a grand jury. After that, the defendant comes before a judge to be informed of the charges and state how they plead: guilty, not guilty, and no contest. A plea of no contest is not an admission of guilt, but rather an acceptance of a conviction sentence. Only if the defendant pleads not guilty will the trial continue.
https://herlawyer.com/arraignment-vs-indictment/
By Her Lawyer on June 27th, 2022
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An arraignment can be viewed as a pre-trial. Some states will require an arraignment for misdemeanor cases as well as felony cases, while other states only require an arraignment for felony cases. During an arraignment, the judge will be present and the charges will be read to the defendant. The defendant will also be read their rights.
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An indictment informs the defendant of the formal charge(s) against them. The indictment is usually delivered to the defendant after a grand jury deliberates. Unlike an arraignment, an indictment is charged only for a serious crime.
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June 7, 2023
Democrats have won the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections.
But Republican presidents have appointed 6 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices.
https://www.fatherly.com/parenting/study-spanking-physical-abuse/amp
by Patrick A. Coleman
Updated: March 1, 2023
Originally Published: June 25, 2021
More data has emerged suggesting spanking is both ineffective and harmful to kids. A study published in the Journal of Pediatrics has revealed that kids who are spanked have behavioral issues similar to children who have been neglected and abused. And the researchers are making a call for change.
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Ma and her team set out to understand the effects of spanking as compared to adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs. As defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ACEs are forms of child maltreatment that include physical abuse, neglect, and exposure to family violence, substance abuse, and mental health issues. ACEs are tracked by the CDC as a measure of community health because they increase the likelihood a child will engage in violence or drug abuse, or suffer mental health issues themselves.
To tease out the effect of ACEs compared to spanking, researchers compared longitudinal data from more than 2,000 families collected in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. They then compared the reported problem behaviors of children whose parents reported ACEs and those who reported only spanking their child.
“Even after we controlled for what’s happening in terms of ACES, spanking was a predictor of kids’ aggressive behavior,” Ma says.
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Currently, the majority of state laws draw a line between spanking and physical abuse at the point a blow leaves a mark on a child’s body. If physical discipline does not leave welts, bruises, or contusions, then it is not considered abuse. But although a child’s body can reveal acts of violence, it’s harder to see the very real and serious effects on a child’s mind. New research shows, for example, that corporal punishment such as spanking may actually affect brain activity and development in kids in a way that makes them hypersensitive to making errors themselves and less responsive to positive events and rewards.
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From a global perspective, the United States is lagging behind much of the world in our attitudes toward spanking. In fact, 19 American states still allow corporal punishment like paddling in schools. Meanwhile, the United Nations considers spanking a form of childhood violence, and of the 37 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), of which the U.S is one, 24 (including Germany, Israel, and Japan) have banned spanking in all settings.
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Luckily, parental sentiments about spanking seem to be changing. A 2020 study by the University of Minnesota found that Gen Xers and Millennials, the current generation of parents with young children, are less inclined to hit. That study reported that of parents with 2- to 4-year-old children in 2017, only 35% said they spank their child. That’s a nearly 30% decrease from 1993 when 60% of parents the same age said they spanked.
But any kid being hit is too many. And spanking will likely linger in the United States until the legal definition of abuse is changed.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/world/arctic-sea-ice-free-climate-change/
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Published 11:00 AM EDT, Tue June 6, 2023
The Arctic could be free of sea ice roughly a decade earlier than projected, scientists warn – another clear sign the climate crisis is happening faster than expected as the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution.
A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications found Arctic sea ice could disappear completely during the month of September as early as the 2030s. Even if the world makes significant cuts to planet-heating pollution today, the Arctic could still see summers free of sea ice by the 2050s, scientists reported.
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Why the fossil fuel companies are inundating social media with posts and comments that either deny climate disruption is happening or say it's too late to do anything about it. They want to cement people's opinion against the truth.
Kevin Holland
@TheSolarShed
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May 20
at 2pm today, 87% of the UK's energy supplying the grid was Low Carbon. 63% of total was from renewables.
We've all but killed coal. We're smashing Oil in the face and putting gas on notice as we create a #SolarNation
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/17/global-heating-climate-crisis-record-temperatures-wmo-research
Fiona Harvey Environment editor
Wed 17 May 2023 06.00 EDT
The world is almost certain to experience new record temperatures in the next five years, and temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C [2.7F] above pre-industrial levels, scientists have warned.
The breaching of the crucial 1.5C threshold, which scientists have warned could have dire consequences, should be only temporary, according to research from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
However, it would represent a marked acceleration of human impacts on the global climate system, and send the world into “uncharted territory”, the UN agency warned.
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Prof Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the WMO, said: “This report does not mean that we will permanently exceed the 1.5C specified in the Paris agreement, which refers to long-term warming over many years. However, WMO is sounding the alarm that we will breach the 1.5C level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency.”
Global average surface temperatures have never before breached the 1.5C threshold. The highest average in previous years was 1.28C [2.30F] above pre-industrial levels.
The report, published on Wednesday, found there was a 66% likelihood of exceeding the 1.5C threshold in at least one year between 2023 and 2027.
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As La Niña ends and a new El Niño develops, there is a 98% likelihood that at least one of the next five years will be the hottest on record, the scientists found.
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The Arctic is heating much faster than the rest of the world, and this appears to be having an impact on global weather systems, including the jet stream, which has disrupted weather across the northern hemisphere in recent years.
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https://plantbasednews.org/culture/law-and-politics/brazil-bans-live-cattle-exports/
By Polly Foreman
17th May 2023
Brazil has banned live cattle exports from its ports, in a move that animal rights campaigners have described as “historic.”
The South American country brought in the new law last month. Speaking about the ruling, federal judge Djalma Gomes said: “Animals are not things. They are sentient living beings, that is, individuals who feel hunger, thirst, pain, cold, anguish, fear.”
The new law is a result of a 2017 lawsuit from the National Forum for the Protection and Defense of Animals, a Brazilian NGO. Heralding the “historic” move, the group praised its recognition of “the suffering caused to animals … in an activity similar to human trafficking at the time of slavery.”
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Exporting live animals from country to country is a hugely controversial practice. Each year, millions of animals endure journeys of hundreds – and sometimes thousands – of miles. They typically travel by truck, train, plane, or ship.
Such journeys inevitably come with huge welfare costs for animals, who suffer from dehydration, stress, hunger, and overcrowding. Many will die before they reach their destination. Cattle aren’t the only animals to fall victim – horses, pigs, goats, and sheep are also regularly exported.
As well as the suffering endured on regular crossings, some animals have also perished in accidents at sea during transport. In 2019, a ship named the Queen Hind carrying 14,000 sheep from Romania to Saudi Arabia capsized. Almost every single animal drowned .
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Brazil is just the latest in a long line of countries to have made moves away from live exports in recent years. In April 2023, New Zealand’s (Aotearoa’s) ban on the practice was enacted. The country, which previously exported live animals for breeding, not slaughter, made the decision two years after 41 crew members and 6,000 cattle died after a ship sank during a storm.
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There are also increasing calls across Europe to ban live exports. Luxemburg last year cracked down on the industry, and Germany recently announced that it would stop exporting to countries outside of the EU. Romania – a top sheep exporter – has reportedly been considering a ban since the sinking of the Queen Hind.
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Warmer air can hold more moisture. As a result, we are having an increased number and intensity of extreme precipitation events such as this.
https://www.thelocal.it/20230517/critical-situation-eight-dead-after-flooding-in-northern-italy
AFP - news@thelocal.it • 17 May, 2023 Updated Wed 17 May 2023 14:34 CEST
Eight people died and thousands were evacuated after heavy rains caused devastation across Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region, while this weekend's Imola Grand Prix was cancelled, officials said on Wednesday.
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Emilia Romagna, one of Italy's richest regions, had already been hit by heavy rain just a fortnight ago, causing severe floods that left two dead.
This time, around 50 centimetres (20 inches) of rain fell within 36 hours in Forli, Cesena and Ravenna - around half the normal annual rainfall, a situation "with few precedents", Italy's Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said.
"It is still a very critical situation," he told reporters, adding that while the rain was still falling, it was expected to lighten during the day.
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Rescue workers had worked through the night to save children, the elderly and the disabled from the rising waters.
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"We have to get used to it for the future, because unfortunately in recent years it often happens that these extreme rainfalls arrive," Air Force meteorologist Paolo Capizzi told AFP.
He said it could not directly be blamed on global warming but the "ever-increasing frequency of these phenomenon can obviously be the consequence of ongoing climate change".
