The new 99 percent. Money can't buy a normal planet.

NO, THIS IS NOT OKAY.

It is the alternative energies that are protecting the lives of Texans. Since the devastating 241 deaths of the winter storm of 2021, the growth of solar and wind in Texas has outpaced that of California.

...But during this historic heat wave, (click here) it’s been all these new, low-cost wind, solar and batteries that have kept the grid afloat and Texans cool – in many cases saving lives. Solar and wind provided 35% of statewide power last Tuesday and generated a record 31,500 MW Wednesday, which more than covered the 9,600 MW of electricity lost when extreme heat knocked several natural gas and coal plants offline. And just as solar power started falling in the evening, batteries kicked in immediately to get Texas through the most difficult part of the day when the sun was setting but the ACs were still cranking....

June 26, 2023
By Eric Ryan

Brace yourselves (click here) for a heatwave that will leave you reaching for the nearest ice cream cone and searching for shade like never before. In fact, some parts of Texas are set to be hotter than 99 percent of the entire planet this week. Can you handle the heat? Let's dive into this sizzling situation....

It was all told for decades, but, propaganda by the petroleum industry brought about disaster. There are a lot of reasons to police misinformation, this is the most important.

Highlights from Assessing the U.S. Climate Climate in July 2022 (click here) 

Independence doesn't exist for many of our youngest Americans.

July 3, 2023

By Silas Morgan

Growing up, Joaquin “Guac” Oliver (click here) was “always worried about community issues,” recalled his mother, Patricia Oliver.

“[He worried] about his friends, about immigration, about social issues,” she said. “… When Joaquin was 12 years old, he was able to write a project about [firearm purchase] background checks, when he just was 12 years old. He was posting on Twitter, he was tweeting about all that happened in Sandy Hook.”

In February 2018, Joaquin was one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland. His parents, Patricia and her husband Manuel Oliver, have spent the years since the shooting raising awareness for gun violence prevention in honor of their son, following in his footsteps as an activist.

On Monday, they joined the families of other mass shooting victims and mass shooting survivors for a gun violence prevention rally at the Pulse Memorial....

Is it legal to scream "FIRE!" in a theater yet?

That is what this comes down to.

Dallas, Texas has a population of 1,304,379 citizens as of the 2020 Census. The number of deaths from COVID-19 as of today is 1,133,620. That virus wiped away lives in the USA without mercy and no one could stop the misinformation. The online misinformation was incredible with a President asking his advisor in public if injecting bleach was a method of ending the virus. What Doughty did in this case was to allow firestorms of information to cloud the judgement of Americans and because of it dying is okay.'

The "Misinformation Age" is alive and well in the USA and judges like Doughty simply don't care if we live or we die when the government knows how to save our lives and our democracy.

I hope there are independent organizations that are objective, love the law and the people of this country and are logging decisions by judges that amount to the classification of "dangerous."

There needs to be a clear understanding that "online" language/speech is definitely not the same as "offline" language/speech. There is no way conversation or "real" speech between people causes the level of concern on a societal basis. Online speech is completely different from offline speech. Online speech is more powerful and magnifies the intent of the words a million times than the same exact words between individuals. Online speech affects the thoughts of complete strangers around the world. It has to be treated differently.

Misinformation has to be policed.

July 4, 2023
By Steven Lee Myers and David McCabe

A federal court in Louisiana (click here) on Tuesday barred parts of the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms about broad swaths of content online, a ruling that could curtail efforts to combat false and misleading narratives about the coronavirus pandemic and other issues.

In the ruling, Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana said that parts of the government, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, could not talk to social media companies for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.”

Judge Doughty said in granting a preliminary injunction that the agencies could not flag specific posts to the social media platforms or requests reports about their efforts to take down content. The ruling said that the government could still notify the platforms about posts detailing crimes, national security threats or foreign attempts to influence elections....

China. China cannot exist in the form it is now without USA innovation and information.

The spy balloon that was shot down was American technology in order to spy on us. 5G should have been reserved for military purposes only. 

July 4, 2023

By Julia Shappero

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham (click here) said Saturday that she saw former President Trump show classified documents to people at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

“I watched him show documents to people at Mar-a-Lago on the dining room patio,” Grisham, who served as Trump’s chief spokesperson from July 2019 to April 2020, said in an interview on MSNBC. “So, he has no respect for classified information, never did.”...