It is all in what one values. If a society values life over power and money, then Earth is on the agenda.

October 15, 2021
By Alex Kleiderman

The Queen (click here) has appeared to suggest she is irritated by people who "talk" but "don't do", ahead of next month's climate change summit.

Her reported remarks were overheard during the opening of the Welsh parliament on Thursday.

The monarch, who is due to attend the UN's COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, said she did not know who was coming to the event.

Prince Charles and Prince William have also spoken of their climate concerns.

Global leaders are meeting in Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November to negotiate a new deal to stall rising global temperatures....

People like US Senator Joe Machin ARE THE PROBLEM. There should be international sanctions against them, including obstruction of trips abroad and the rest. There is no need for Machin to be this difficult. He is power hungry and has no intentions of the USA limiting the use of coal. It is an international problem that needs internatinoal attention. There are limits on what the USA can do with these people.

October 14, 2021

By Alex J. Rouhandeh

Cecil Roberts, (click here) president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), told Newsweek on Wednesday that he could not support President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation plan with its current goal of achieving 80 percent carbon-free electricity by 2030 and 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035.

Part of the plan, the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), consists of a $150 billion program designed to increase the amount of clean energy distributed to consumers by 4 percent each year. Companies that complete this objective would receive financial incentives and those that fail would face financial penalties.

Under this plan, Roberts said, coal-fired power plants could face a succession of closures, as they would likely fail to meet these deadlines. While coal plants could theoretically meet requirements through the process of storing emissions using carbon capture and sequestration, current technology. Roberts said, makes it unfeasible and that he does not expect it to catch up by the time of Biden's proposed deadlines....

It isn't as thoiugh Manchin is carrying out the business of the people of West Virginia either.

October 14, 2021
By Barnini Chakraborty

Jacob Hannah was born in Kelly Knob, West Virginia. (click here) He is the conservation coordinator for Coalfield Development and believes West Virginia needs to diversify in order to survive.

He was born and raised near the Billion Dollar Coalfield in the southern part of the state. His father worked in the mines, just like his father had before him.

As a child, Hannah saw the economic prosperity that the industry brought to his town. But he was also there for the bad times, when jobs dried up and people were forced out of their homes, away from their families, and the only employment they had known. He watched in horror as vibrant towns turned into hollowed-out shells.

"Everything was built to serve this one industry," he told the Washington Examin.er. "When the jobs went, everything else collapsed."...

President Biden needs to address the needs of the people of West Virginia. He can look into their future and find opportunity for them. Evidently, Machin is not capable.

This edition of "PBS News Hour" is chocked full of Democratic issues, including the very ineffective fuel availablity and cost and the energy crisis. Let's face it who wants energy from petroleum anymore? It is hideous to try and live a Middle Class life when the costs of fueling up an internal combustion engine changes from day to day. That won't hapen with electric vehicles. Energy costs to consumers will stabilize and be very reliable. Electric Vehicles transportation costs won't destroy vacations either.

There are two judges that need to be impeached. Kaplan in one and the other is Preska.

In July 2018, (click here) Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin filed a lawsuit in state court against 21 fossil fuel companies, including Chevron Corporation, Exxon Mobil, BP and other major oil producers. The suit advances eight claims against the fossil fuel companies for producing, promoting and marketing of fossil fuel products, while concealing the known hazards of their products. Attorney General Kilmartin alleged that the 21 companies were directly responsible for the release of hundreds of gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions between 1965 and 2015 that have caused harm that Rhode Island has experienced and will continue to experience in the future. The severe harms include substantial sea level rise, more frequent and severe flooding, extreme precipitation events and drought.

That same month, the defendant oil companies filed a notice of removal action to federal court. Attorney General Kilmartin filed a motion to remand the litigation back to Rhode Island state court as federal jurisdiction is not appropriate for Rhode Island’s purely state law-based claims. In June 2019, new Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Nerohna notified the Rhode Island federal district court of a well-reasoned decision in federal district court in Maryland that held that the City of Baltimore’s similar lawsuit against oil companies for climate change impacts belonged in state court.

In July 2019, the federal district court in Rhode Island sided with the Rhode Island attorney general in remanding the litigation back to state court as the attorney general had requested. The court found, citing in part the decision in the City of Baltimore litigation, that there is no federal jurisdiction under the various statutes and doctrines as asserted by the defendant oil companies. The defendant oil companies have appealed the district court’s July 2019 decision to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, while Rhode Island’s lawsuit continues in state court. The defendant oil companies have appealed the district court’s July 2019 decision to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, while Rhode Island’s lawsuit continues in state court. ...

There are currently valid lawsuits occurring in the United States that will ultimately prove the petroleum industry knew about the damages of their products to an entire planet endangering the human beings that live here. 

These judges are attempting to turn climate advocacy into a crime by their power leverage over Attorney Steven Donziger. This persecution of a very qualified of environmental and human rights attorney is the basis of their hostile priorities for ANY climate lawsuits.

They need to be impeached for their abuses of power as soon as possible.

The picture above is the damage caused by Cheron. That damage doesn't happen by itself. Chevron is trying to rid itself of the liability that is rightfully theirs. Enough of this. The company has found allies in two judges that are leveraging power to silence others that seek the truth and end the petroleum industry assault against human beings and their only "Common Home."

The abuses of these judges are monsterous and they really do deserve to be impeached. It isn't the judicial system that is the problem, it is the corruption leveraged by abusivce judges.

September 1, 2020

Dozens of legal organizations around the world (click here) representing more than 500,000 lawyers along with over 200 individual lawyers today submitted a judicial complaint documenting a series of shocking violations of the judicial code of conduct by United States Judge Lewis A. Kaplan targeting human rights lawyer Steven Donziger after he helped Indigenous peoples win a historic judgment against Chevron in Ecuador to clean up the pollution caused by decades of oil drilling with no environmental controls.

The complaint was formally filed by the National Lawyers Guild in conjunction with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL). IADL was founded in Paris in 1946 to fight to uphold the rule of law around the world and has consultative status with UN agencies.

Five pages in length with a 40-page appendix with 15 exhibits, the complaint is to be turned over to the chief judge in the federal appellate court in New York that oversees the trial court where Kaplan sits. The complaint is signed by an unprecedented number of legal organizations from approximately 80 countries collectively representing 500,000 lawyers.

The Chief Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Robert Katzmann, has a duty to read the complaint and determine whether he will appoint a committee to investigate and issue findings....

December 31, 2020

In a decision described as Kafkaesque (click here) by human rights advocates, a U.S. judge who leads a pro-corporate judicial organization funded by Chevron has refused yet again to release celebrated environmental attorney Steven Donziger from home detention after he helped his Indigenous clients win a historic $9.5 billion pollution judgement against the oil giant.

Judge Loretta Preska today issued a New Year’s Eve order continuing Donziger’s indefinite house arrest in Manhattan for a 17th month even though the longest sentence ever imposed for his misdemeanor contempt charge – which his lawyers consider unsupported by evidence – is three months of home confinement if convicted. Partly because the COVID pandemic has closed the New York courthouse, Donziger has yet to be granted a trial.

In the meantime, Preska has denied Donziger’s release four times even though not a single person in the U.S. charged with a federal misdemeanor has been held for even one day, much less well over a year, according to Donziger’s lawyer Ron Kuby (see here).

“This case is an absolute miscarriage of justice and is Kafkaesque in the extreme,” said Rex Weyler, the co-founder of Greenpeace who has accused Chevron of committing “ecocide” in Ecuador after courts found the company deliberately dumped billions of gallons of oil waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands in the Amazon.

Preska has attracted wide criticism for refusing to recuse herself from the case despite being a leader of the Federalist Society, a pro-corporate society of lawyers and judges to which Chevron is a major donor. She also has denied Mr. Donziger a jury of his peers and allowed a private Chevron law firm -- Seward & Kissel -- to prosecute the lawyer in the name of the U.S. government after the U.S. Attorney’s office refused the case....

17 September 2020

At a time when so many (click here) black Americans, Indigenous peoples, people of colour and white allies are protesting at systemic racism, we’d like to highlight a different story of marginalised people speaking truth to power on behalf of their most basic human rights. It’s the story of how “big oil” is now using Harvey Weinstein-like destroy-the-accuser tactics to try to crush environmental defenders. It is also the story of how we can all help those defenders peacefully fight back.

In 2001, Chevron acquired Texaco, including all of its assets and civil liabilities. One of those liabilities was the “Amazon Chernobyl”, a 1,700-square-mile environmental disaster in Ecuador that Texaco created through a disregard – and an attitude that local Indigenous groups have called racism – for the health of the region’s peoples. Texaco, the sole operator of the fields from 1964 to 1992, eventually admitted that it deliberately discharged 72bn litres of toxic water into the environment, which ended up in the water supply, and gouged 1,000 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor. According to several Indigenous witnesses, including Humberto Piaguaje, a leader of the Ecuadorean Secoya people, the company actually claimed that the oil wastes were medicinal and “full of vitamins”....

This video is by "Carbon Brief."

What reason does the rest of the world have to end the climate crisis? Other countries look at their greenhouse gas history and current contributions in comparison to the USA and wonder what is their outcome if the USA does not do it's part?

What is your country's greenhouse gas history? (click here)

The United States of America MUST lead in alternative energies (not carbon based so called green energy such as natural gas) and the car industry MUST go electric, without exception!

The ONLY role for coal anywhere in the world is in making diamonds. Coal under pressure that produces diamonds are natural diamonds. Close the lousy mines in South Africa that go down miles in the planet. Build diamond plants there instead. Import coal from every country that has it and make diamonds. Honestly.

Do you know what really is astounding to me? The mechanism to pull CO2 out of the air, is made in Iceland. Excuse me? There is no excuse anymore.

I have to figure out how to put a video on YouTube. Is shows miles and miles and miles of the greenhouse effect. It is definitely here. I took that video a month or so ago. What I observed today has me extremely worried. I watched sections clouds evaporate right before my eyes. Water vapor leaving stratus clouds to higher elevations. After the clouds evaporate, the water vapor heads to the stratosphere. I already discussed what happens when the stratosphere and the troposphere have no reason to be two different atmospheres. They homogenize and there is no more Earth that is inhabitable. 

WE GET THIS DONE or WE WILL BE DONE FOR.

 

This is the violence in the USA today. Every survivor of shootings in the USA receives the support of those that care.

The deaths are always felt in this country, but, good is that? We lose people everyday that should still be here. And elected legislators find ways to justify their glance in the opposite direction. When will this stop? Never? And why? Because of profits.

October 13, 2021
By Paige Fry, Tatyana Turner, Tracy Swartz and Stephanie Casanova

She’s a fan of TikTok. (click here) She loves to dance. She is shy and petite and her 15th birthday is coming up next week, according to relatives.

“She” is the 14-year-old girl who was shot outside Phillips Academy High School on Tuesday. The girl’s grandmother, Johneece Cobb, said the family is not comfortable releasing the teen’s name because she is a juvenile."

Wednesday morning as the high school freshman was in an intensive care unit, recovering from two gunshot wounds, her family and about 25 others gathered in front of St. Sabina Church on the South Side to hear an update on the teen’s recovery.

“She made it through surgery last night,” Cobb said. “She’s stabilized, she’s going to make a full recovery and there was no severe damage to her organs.”...

This happens in that region of the world once in a while.

My sincerest sympathies to the Norwegian people. I know the country must be in shock. The number of people killed in violence happens everyday in the USA and by gun usually.

October 12, 2021
By Henrik Pryser Libell

Kongsberg is a beautiful town. They don't deserve this trauma.

Oslo - A man armed with a bow and arrow (click here) went on a rampage in a Norwegian town outside Oslo on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding two others, the authorities said.

The attack took place in Kongsberg, a town of 26,000 people about 50 miles southwest of Oslo. A suspect was reported to be in custody.

“The information we now have, this person carried out these actions alone,” the police chief, Oyvind Aas, told reporters.

The attack began shortly after 6 p.m., when the assailant began making his way through the center of the town. Residents were urged to seek shelter inside. A half-hour later, a suspect was in custody, the police said....

The one trillion climate bill must be passed. That is not an option. The USA has among the greatest HISTORY of greenhouse gases in the troposphere and it has NO POLICY that matters to end the pollution.

There is no choice in this. 

None.

We MUST do this now after decades of neglect. The emergency is dire and real. President Biden has the right idea to bring wind power online offshore ASAP. It has to be done.

Scotland is 100 percent wind power and the country loves it. Scotland has been 100 percent wind for quite some time now.

The Democrats don't package it right.

The Democrats have never learned "the trick" to win over more supporters, not Republicans.

Obama had the right idea when he was packaging money to spend. He would invite the banks in for a conference and then write the Democratic Congress and ask for a "Infrastructure Bank." I know Goldman signed on for it. In other words PRIVATIZE the desired amounts of money needed to bring improvements to the Middle Class and lots of people will come rushing to the Dems side and the Republicans will lose support for their opposition.

There are more and more private social agencies that oversee spending and oversee Foster Care. The Child Tax Credit is a direct threat to the Foster Care agencies because impoverishment is a big issue for taking children away from their parents. Substance abuse is as well, but, Foster Care somewhat thrives on taking the children from the poor and placing them with Upper Middle Class and Middle Class parentless children, perferably Chrisitans.

So, rather than doing a $3.5 trillion soical and environment package, look to see what can be privatized and assign enough of the monies to draw those folks away from the Republicans and into the Democratic camp.

BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME.

So, raising children out of poverty is a good thing, but, what is going to happen to the privatized Foster Care agencies? There has to be either a role for them that is different and perhaps limiting and/or they have to be assigned unemployment EXCEPT to create a different need for their services other than riping kids out of the arms of their parents.

There is a Yin and Yang to everything. The Dems have to find a way to strike a balance with their traditional priorities.\

Repubicans like Public-Private cooporations. They thrive on it. They like throwing money at private concerns. I think that can always have oversight as another public agency to be sure the monies are being used as they were designed. That was Obama's goal with the infrastructure bank. The public monies for infrastructure would be met equally with private funds to be paid with GUARANTEED payment. Right? The government fills in for lending that goes sour. But, when dealing with cities and states, there isn't really that much risk.

October 12, 2021

Washington - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (click here) could have been speaking for the majority of Democrats in Washington when she said on Tuesday that she was “very disappointed” that President Biden’s domestic agenda will have to be pared down because of opposition from Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

“If there are fewer dollars to spend, there are choices to be made,” Pelosi said during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol. She promised that the final package would be “transformative” all the same, whatever that package ultimately looks like. The two Senate centrists have said that the president’s proposal to spend $3.5 trillion over 10 years on expanding childcare, health coverage and environmental protections is much too expensive to win their necessary support....

"Morning Papers"

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

Thank you, President Biden, for allowing the work of the January 6th committee to go forward. It is important for the Congress to have all the facts before them to legislate and be sure the democracy is safe. It is very important work to secure the US Constitution. There is no doubt the information of the activities of the former President on that date is important. There were activiites that prohibited the response of the DC National Guard. All that has to be part of the Congressional record to move forward to secure the country from a diabolic plan to destroy this democracy. There is an enormous difference between a country seeking change and a cabal that wants the reins of power.

"Good night, Moon."

The waxing crescent

5.2 day old moon

27.9 percent lit

October 7, 2021
By Joe Rao

Between Saturday and Thursday (click here) evenings (Oct. 9 to Oct. 14), the moon will visit not one but three bright planets: Venus, Saturn and Jupiter.

Venus will pair off with a slender crescent moon, while Saturn and Jupiter will join with a waxing gibbous moon the following Thursday. Here are the specifics of each gathering....

The USA should be ashamed of it's history on climate.

Politics in the USA has become a matter of popularity and not about the well being of a democracy and the issues of the people. Washington, DC is not Hollywood. There are real life consequences to the decisions made in the country's capitol. There are very important people under that Capitol Dome and we have an aged president that is more than equipped to bring the people their justice, social and otherwise. We need to let it happen and happen now. The country needs the change that President Biden and the Democrats hold dear. We can't fail. Earth is a planet and not an idea. Earth has physics, not scripts.

Lawmakers at all levels of government need to find God and now! Eight years is a very, very short time line and Americans are dying of the climate crisis. Pass the bills before the Congress now!

If not now, then when?

Anything else will be too late. 

Generations need this.

I dearly hoped lawmakers would make the country a priority rather than a political opportunity. Things MUST change in the Republican Party. 

MUST!

To have species there has to be land and not just any land, habitat. Contractors will buy officials to defeat it.

September 29, 2021
By Dino Grandon

Each mated pair requires that space for their mating, feeding and family growth. Birds want to raise fledlings and not just lay eggs. It is built into their DNA. The forces of nature demand reproduction.

The mated pair (click here) probably requires extensive stands of mature, lowland hardwood forest without disturbance from forestry practices. An area of 6.5 to 8 km2 has been estimated to be the minimum size for a home range for these birds. Ivory-billed woodpecker pairs travel together, following each other through the forest.

The “Lord God Bird” is dead. (click here)

The ivory-billed woodpecker, a ghostly bird whose long-rumored survival in the bottomland swamps of the South has haunted seekers for generations, will be officially declared extinct by U.S. officials after years of futile efforts to save it. It earned its nickname because it was so big and so beautiful that those blessed to spot it blurted out the Lord’s name.

Even the scientist who wrote the obit cried.

“This is not an easy thing,” said Amy Trahan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who reviewed the evidence and wrote the report concluding that the ivory bill “no longer exists.”

The Fish and Wildlife Service proposal Wednesday to take 23 animals and plants off the endangered species list — because none can be found in the wild — exposes what scientists say is an accelerating rate of extinction worldwide. A million plants and animals are in danger of disappearing, many within decades. The newly extinct species are the casualties of climate change and habitat destruction, dying out sooner than any new protections can save them....

These birds have territorial needs. They require large numbers of acres to breed and survive. That doesn't exist anymore and neither does the bird.

EDITORIAL: Lost and not found (click here)

A species of any kind, if the numbers are few, will not survive without specific intervention that protects them and their habitat. Those wetlands in Arkansas may have protected a few birds, but, their longevity and the lack of profound habitat ended hope. It isn't as though Fish and Wildlife didn't want to protect the birds, it was that they knew no matter how much was tried, it wouldn't succeed because of such little habitat to support a viable population.

 

Pollinators are in trouble. Their habitat has to be protected, including the very cautious use of pesticides.

September 29, 2021
By Graeme Massie

On the left is: Rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), (an endangered species native to North America.

The American bumblebee (click here) population has plummeted by almost 90 per cent and is edging its way towards Endangered Species Act protection, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

The agency says that adding the insect to the ESA “may be warranted” and will now carry out a one year review.

In the past two decades bumblebee numbers have dropped 89 per cent in the US and they have completely disappeared from eight states....

This is a direct result of failed government recognition of the problem and huge voids in policy.

September 28, 2021
By Jeffery Ball

Six years ago, (click here) Liz Babb and her husband, Angelo Aloisio, retired financial services executives and new empty nesters, sold their place in San Francisco and moved to the woods. They bought a 1970s house on a steep slope in Portola Valley, an enclave of forested canyons minutes from Silicon Valley’s center that boasts a bohemian history, a reputation for moneyed discretion, and jaw-dropping views. It was an iconic—if, by local standards, modest—northern California dream home: wood construction, picture windows, multiple decks, and, everywhere, trees.

Lush vegetation blanketed the property: oaks, redwoods, and all manner of shrubs and bushes. They enveloped the house, but not only that. Soaring through the center of the structure—rising from the dirt, through the first-level floor, up three stories, and out the roof—stood a massive oak, its trunk encased by interior glass and its branches and leaves canopied over the house. “We were ready for our rural adventure,” said Babb, an avid hiker. When she first saw the shelter-magazine-worthy aerie, she recalled, “I fell in love with it.”...

This level of deceit and manipulation will probably be common within the climate crisis because government policy is grossly absent in all aspects of American life.

October 5, 2021

A federal jury (click here) in Los Angeles awarded $6.3 million to actor Shannen Doherty on Monday in a lawsuit alleging that State Farm failed to pay sufficiently for damage to her house in a 2018 California wildfire.

The jury found that the insurance giant’s failure to pay policy benefits for Doherty’s Malibu home were “unreasonable and without proper cause.”

The verdict covers damages to Doherty’s house and property, emotional distress and attorney’s fees....

The Paradise fire is an insurance companies nightmare. It is densely laced with increased premiums across all sorts of risk, not just high risk. No one would have classified Paradise as a high risk insurance issue. It is time such devastation be defined by the climate crisis. The climate crisis can no longer be ignored and must be part of government priorities.

Homes (click here) leveled by the Camp fire at the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park retirement community in Paradise, Calif., in 2018.

Paradise is an absolute failure of federal policies to embrace the climate crisis and rise to the occassion of protecting American lives, property and the American Dream.

This IS another method of solving the climate issue. Making everything work with new moleculels that can do the job.

This capacity is a game changer.

...Many research areas and industries (click here) are dependent on chemists’ ability to construct molecules that can form elastic and durable materials, store energy in batteries or inhibit the progression of diseases. This work requires catalysts, which are substances that control and accelerate chemical reactions, without becoming part of the final product. For example, catalysts in cars transform toxic substances in exhaust fumes to harmless molecules. Our bodies also contain thousands of catalysts in the form of enzymes, which chisel out the molecules necessary for life.

Catalysts are thus fundamental tools for chemists, but researchers long believed that there were, in principle, just two types of catalysts available: metals and enzymes. Benjamin List and David MacMillan are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 because in 2000 they, independent of each other, developed a third type of catalysis. It is called asymmetric organocatalysis and builds upon small organic molecules.

“This concept for catalysis is as simple as it is ingenious, and the fact is that many people have wondered why we didn’t think of it earlier,” says Johan Åqvist, who is chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

Organic catalysts have a stable framework of carbon atoms, to which more active chemical groups can attach. These often contain common elements such as oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur or phosphorus. This means that these catalysts are both environmentally friendly and cheap to produce....

California has been involved with THE MOVEMENT toward net zero greenhouse gas emissions for years.

Zero Net Energy buildings and Districts (click here) provide innovative, feasible, and cost-effective approaches to reducing California's greenhouse gas footprint and achieving the State's aggressive climate goals. The new Commercial and District Zero Net Energy Plan along with a new Decision-Making Tool provides a refined focus on  ZNE that incorporates energy storage, controls, and local renewables.

None of these concepts are new. They are tried and true, but, the media doesn't carry the good news about climate. They rather talk about a loser of a former president because it gets them ratings. Google appears to have banded Trump from You Tube, by the way.

If Trump is banded online why isn't he banded everywhere?

Hawaii has always been a Democratic stronghold. They are moving into the future with EASE.

October 7, 2021
By Scott Kim

While marking Energy Efficiency Day on Wednesday, (click here) Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi said promoting greater energy efficiency is key to helping residents and businesses save money, preserve the environment, and create jobs.

Blangiardi lauded the city’s partnerships with organizations such as Hawaii Energy, which gives rebates to residents and businesses to lower energy consumption through measures such as switching to LED lighting.

Blangiardi said the city is working to reduce energy use by upgrading city buildings and facilities. He said it's a pocketbook issue that affects all residents.

"So anything that we can do to add to the efficiency and put money in people's pockets is something that we're really interested in doing — not the least of which is I think on a going-forward basis is going to be a great source of really exciting jobs for our younger people coming forward, and careers to be had," he said....

President Biden needs to continue to push the Congress to pass these bills.

Big Oil and Coal want to defeat these bills and force Congress to end the 51 vote requirement for reconciliation. This is all big money pushing the end to the climate agenda that is more important than clashes with China in the high seas. It would be interesting to have the US Navy actually admit there are issues at sea with climate.

But, these bills should not fail. They need to be passed becuase President Biden needs this to bring home the message the USA is ON BOARD with climate mitigation. This is the last time Big Oil and Coal can bring about an agenda of sustained petroleum use on a broad scale such as the USA economy. The coal and oil industries cannot win this fight. The US Congress must pass these bills for the absolute best interest of the USA and it's people. This is not a matter of politics, it is life and death for many. The USA has lost lives to the climate crisis. We cannot let those lives go unnoticed and we must act to end this ravage of this planet.

The car companies are already on board with new EVs and I am completely proud of them. They cannot fail. We must also address mass transit and secure a place in movement for all Americans. This is not a "Wish List." These bills are long overdue. LONG OVERDUE. They cost more today because they have been delayed by a corrupt affiliation between Congress and the money oil and coal wave in their faces for big money elections. All that corruption must end.

2030 is not far away. In more than two months 2022 will be here. It only seems like yesterday we were saying we have 11 years to "get this right." Now, we are down to eight AND MUST MOVE FORWARD. 

October 10, 2021
By Brad Plumer and Winston Choi-Schagrin

President Biden (click here) has framed this moment as the country’s best chance to save the planet.

“The nation and the world are in peril,” he said weeks ago in Queens, where 11 people drowned in their basement apartments after floodwaters from Hurricane Ida devastated communities from Louisiana to New York. “And that’s not hyperbole. That is a fact. They’ve been warning us the extreme weather would get more extreme over the decade, and we’re living in it real time now.”

Mr. Biden’s plan to try to fortify the United States against extreme weather — and cut the carbon dioxide emissions that are heating the Earth and fueling disasters — is embedded in two pieces of legislation pending on Capitol Hill. The future of both bills remains in question, with tension between moderate and progressive Democrats over the size and scope of many details....

Do NOT let this go by because it is Facebook.

This is about the USA's sovereign right to protect young minds and their self-esteem. This is not a bullying issue, this is an emersion issue when it comes to the damage being conducted KNOWINGLY by Facebook.

This is a First Amendment issue that requires legislation to end the assault by computerized companies working to maintain high levels of profit. CHILDREN and our democracy is not a bargaining chip, it is a SOVERIEGN right to protect adverse elements within the borders of the country. There is a limit and allowing Russia free reign of American minds is not part of the First Amendment.

'SNL' (click here) sketch on Facebook whistleblower hearing pokes fun at US Senators' disconnect with social media.

If a US Senator "doesn't get it" they should not be making decisions about social media which pummeled the USA electorate with Russian propaganda. This is serious. This is about our democracy and our children. Get real.

It may be that President Biden will need to address the country to make it known as to what the problems are and how they will be resolved. The American people want this type of problem to end and not continue. I think that is the place of the President to talk to the people and offer solutions to legislation to pass through Congress. 

 

Taiwan is not shrinking from a conflict. China needs to regroup and realize it doesn't exist in that region alone.

I realize The West has a One China policy. China is under estimating the power of their states wtih democracies. The die was cast a long time ago. China has control of Western style states in their commerce and they make China wealthier. Why is China putting that in jeopardy when the world appreciates the economic relationships with Chinese Democratic States like Taiwan. It is foolishness for China to chase ideologies that make it weaker than stronger.