Happy Thanksgiving

A world without greenhouse gas emissions is more than possible.

November 22, 2022
By Alexa Heah

The Pillswood Project, (click here) Europe’s biggest battery energy storage system, has been finally been fired up near Hull in Yorkshire.

Developed by Harmony Energy Limited and running on a Tesla two-hour Megapack system, the facility is said to be able to store up to 196 MWh of electricity in a single cycle—or enough energy to power 300,000 UK homes for two hours.

According to the firm, the power system will bring “critical balancing services” to the country’s electricity grid network, while allowing for fossil fuels to be replaced with eco-friendly, renewable sources of energy....

This is not happening in Russia, it is happening in Europe.

...Next year, the adjacent Dogger Bank, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, will go online, sharing the same connection point with Pillswood Project to maximize the efficiency of the wind farms, such as limiting the amount of time it will need to be switched off....

This is called peace, prosperity, self-reliance and a world to inherit for all generations to come. This is moral!

There is no reason why the USA is not engaging this technology throughout the entire country.

November 22, 2022
By Sharon Udasin

The Biden administration (click here) announced on Tuesday that it will be allocating $550 million to support the deployment of community-based clean energy initiatives.

Through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block (EECBG) Program, the funds will help state, local and tribal governments implement plans aimed at reducing fossil fuel emissions and overall energy use, according to a notice of intent first shared with The Hill....

THIS IS CALLED MORAL!

States and Tribes don't have to go it alone. The DOE is a partner.

....DOE (click here) looks forward to being a partner for states, communities, and industry as we move the U.S. economy towards a clean energy, lower carbon emissions future by strengthening the nation’s out dated energy infrastructure....

The Republicans have a real problem with Trump's announcements.

He brings back into focus all the adverse baggage that adheres to him. Trump and his minions are about money, never about governance. So, when they act as consultants they are making money and the governance that results is ungovernable as demonstrated in the USA with out of control everything. They deregulate and stand back to let chaos prevail.

November 23, 2022

...Others want a global fight over free speech....

While tens of thousands of supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro (click here) camp outside military facilities across Brazil to protest his election loss, members of Bolsonaro’s inner circle are meeting with advisers to former president Donald Trump to discuss next steps.

Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, the president’s son, has visited Florida since the Oct. 30 vote, meeting Trump at Mar-a-Lago and strategizing with other political allies by phone. He spoke with former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who was in Arizona assisting the campaign of GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, about the power of the pro-Bolsonaro protests and potential challenges to the Brazilian election results, Bannon said. He lunched in South Florida with former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller, now CEO of the social media company Gettr, and discussed online censorship and free speech, Miller said....

Bannon is only one of the bad actors that seek power over governance. The list is long and I am confident they want back in power like Michael Flynn.

...Viktor Orbán (click here) wins elections and claims a democratic mandate, but his legislative maneuvers and rewrites to the constitution have rendered political opposition increasingly powerless. Marantz finds the admiration for him from many on the American right unsettling. “I couldn’t really imagine a Putin-style takeover” of power in America, Marantz says, but “this kind of technical, legalistic Orbán model” seems all too plausible.

These bad actors are really impressed by Viktor Orban and want to emulate his success, if you can call it that. Basically, Viktor Orban is a surprise success that occurred after the fact. His election was not on the idea that democracy is weak and needs to be replaced by an autocratic leader that limits freedom and turns loose the beasts of regulation.

November 16, 2022

BUDAPEST,- Hungary will ratify Sweden's and Finland's accession to NATO (click here) before Turkey, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff told a briefing on Wednesday.

Hungary and Turkey are the only members of the alliance who have not yet cleared the accession. The Hungarian government has submitted the relevant legislation to parliament but it has not yet been tabled for debate and vote.

Of course Orban will seek approval of Findland and Sweden because Turkey is the last hold out. Why would Orban withhold ratification to NATO as it makes him look bad.

The article below is on the website of the country of Hungary, but, it comes out of the right wing Washington Times in the USA. The entire article is about genocide as if language is the only aspect of an ethnicity that needs to be preserved by autocrats while removing freedom. It is fascinating to watch these bozos turn morality on it's head. 

As inconvenient as this may seem, the attacks such as this upon Ukraine has to be answered. Ukraine needs it's own State Department (it does not have to be housed in Kyiv) to intercept such tactics. It is important to let them know this garbage exists and won't be tolerated. There needs to be methods for the diaspora to vote on issues concerning Ukraine. The people want to return, should have the right of return and the Ukraine Constitution is vital to that purpose. Allowing these chronic problems of dialogue to exist with sovereignties such as Hungary muddies up the waters. Russia and it's minions have to understand the people of Ukraine are displaced because of their ideologies.

The Balsonaro PLOT against democracy also has to be answered by the government of Brazil. These trouble makers cannot be ignored and allowed to continue to blackmail legitimate government with lies and attempts at treason. The people need to know the truth and its brevity in their lives.

These are sovereign governments with enormous capacity in the world. Their people must be defended with strong language to ensure peace and democracy. The trouble makers cannot pretend to be winners when in fact they are not.

It is unsafe for democracy to leave things as they are without confrontation. Old arguments that were settled in the past election must not be rekindled. Not recognizing the continued danger is to allow it to fester. Disagreements from the past must be put to rest and on a regular basis to reassure the people their freedom is preserved and safe. These people are not about governance, they are about wealth and sequestering it where they can control it.

...First, “ethnic minorities” (click here) in the United States and Central and Eastern Europe are not comparable. To stick with the Hungarian example, there are approximately 2 million ethnic Hungarians who live in Hungary’s neighbor countries whose mother tongue is Hungarian. They became citizens of these states as a result of the border changes after the two world wars, including some 150,000 ethnic Hungarians in Subcarpathia. The borders moved, not the people. My great-grandfather, for instance, was born in 1919, and was the citizen of five different states without leaving his village in today’s South Slovakia where his ancestors lived for centuries.

In contrast, American minorities, with the exception of African Americans, the Native American population and Hispanics living in the Southern states, became minorities as a result of their own decision by immigrating to the U.S. Therefore, it is a legitimate expectation that they adjust to the norms of their chosen homeland and use the English language in public relations, and even then, non-English languages are often accommodated. But forbidding people to use their mother tongue in their own homeland, just because it came under the authority of a different state due to geopolitical events, is a whole different ballgame.

Second, one of the hardest lessons learned from the 20th century is that the stability of multiethnic Eastern Europe is contingent upon the protection of the rights of national minorities. The most fundamental of such rights, having long-standing traditions in Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, is the opportunity to be educated in the mother tongue.

This, of course, does not mean that national minorities in Ukraine, for example, are refusing to learn or speak the official state language. There is a mutual understanding that every citizen, regardless of their mother tongue, must properly speak Ukrainian. However, the new Ukrainian legislation, instead of improving the quality of teaching Ukrainian for ethnic minorities, poses a serious threat to the very existence of national minorities in Ukraine.

Third, Hungary has a special bond to ethnic Hungarians living beyond its borders — just like other countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The well-being of these communities, including ethnic Hungarians in Subcarpathia, has always been important for Hungary. This is, in fact, not only the priority of the current government but also an obligation under its Fundamental Law dating back to the country’s independence.

Since taking away the most fundamental language rights of the community is a clear violation of this principle, Hungary’s reaction was quite foreseeable. All actors in the region were aware of this sensitivity, Ukraine knew that its move would strike a nerve in Budapest.

Here we come back to Russia, which is a key player of the dispute....

Any movement even distantly affiliated with Russia must be identified and denounced. Venezuela is a prime example of the dangers of silence in identifying the dangers.

The entire language focus in this Washington Times article is exactly from the Russian playbook.

According to Vladimir Putin, Russia is the only aggrieved country in the world and this dialogue is supposed to be proof of the leadership that really cares about the people and their country when in fact Putin seeks control over land and people for his own purposes. Freedom and healthy economics is the last on the list of these leaders. The current wars Putin is engaging in with his economic alliance is proof there is no free choice or peace on his agenda. Putin wants to build strength by conquering people and pressing them to obey with nationalism as his banner and language as his tool.

Ukraine’s energy crisis

For those remaining in Ukraine there is a personal level of energy generation. Solar panels and batteries. The personal and portable solar panels can recharge batteries that can be used when night falls. 

Rooftop panels can be installed for larger batteries. The rooftop panels might open the building up to drones and bombs, but, smaller, portable varieties can go undetected allowing greater safety.

That and subzero sleeping bags will work for the Ukrainians that refuse to surrender to these horrific and genocidal attacks by Russia. 

Russia and its few allies are engaged in a multi-front war. Until Russian leadership changes and decides their tyranny is a human rights issue there is little hope for significant reprieve. 

Starve the beast that is Russia and bring about an end is the only real hope for the world. It is a horrible country and cannot be allowed to continue it’s march to greater human suffering.