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Re: Doomstead Diner Daily
« Reply #450 on: November 18, 2019, 08:05:49 am »
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You know, the way things are going, you may have to change the name of the Doomstead Diner Daily to the Dystopia Daily Dirge.

No sense in replicating the NYT or WaPo, or putting a happy face on onrushing climate catastrophe. Or singing a happy corpmedia tune.


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Well put.
« Reply #451 on: November 18, 2019, 01:43:32 pm »
Surly,
You know, the way things are going, you may have to change the name of the Doomstead Diner Daily to the Dystopia Daily Dirge.

No sense in replicating the NYT or WaPo, or putting a happy face on onrushing climate catastrophe. Or singing a happy corpmedia tune.



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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance

November 17, 2019 | , NEWSLETTER


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Hirsch’s family came to Palestine 150 years ago from Russia. His people came to better worship God, not to take land from Palestinians. Hirsch told us about Jacob Israël de Haan, a Dutch-Jew who worked to prevent the 1917 Balfour Declaration and almost succeeded. The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government, announced support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. De Haan was assassinated in Jerusalem by the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah for his anti-Zionist political activities. His murder led to the Neturei Karta movement, which resists Zionism to this day.

Hirsch views Zionism as contradictory to the Jewish religion. His community believes the Torah does not allow Jewish sovereignty of any kind over the Holy Land and those who want to live there must have the approval of the native Palestinian people. Hirsch says that ultra-Orthodox Jews “want to see the end of the Zionist tragedy and the restoration of peace to the Middle East.” His views counter those who claim criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic as, he says, “Judaism and Zionism are as foreign to each other as day and night, good and evil.”

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Yep.
« Reply #454 on: November 18, 2019, 03:05:59 pm »
In re Trump, anything that emerges from his oral sphincter should be adjudged a lie simply based on past performance.

Speculation in this more truthful than anything that comes out of the White House.


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Cornered 🐀 POTUS Modus Operandi
« Reply #455 on: November 18, 2019, 03:36:57 pm »



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An appearance on Wednesday from Gordon Sondland, the US envoy to the European Union, could prove to be the most pivotal moment so far of the inquiry into whether Trump abused his power.


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The Trump Cornered Rodent is a sight to behold  ;D. Trump has said his basic driving force is revenge. 🦀 Trump hasn't learned it yet, but he will soon learn that those who live by revenge eventuallly experience a MEGADOSE of it. When it comes to revenge, what goes around REALLY COMES AROUND. Trump's bunker mentallity will accelerate his downfall.

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Doomstead Diner Daily 11/19
« Reply #456 on: November 19, 2019, 05:41:17 am »

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... a frozen lake of fraud."
« Reply #457 on: November 19, 2019, 12:56:45 pm »



Chief Justice Gives Trump Temporary Reprieve in Financial Records Case

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In new pro-Israel shift, US no longer calls settlements illegal

news.yahoo.com - Washington (AFP) - The United States no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday, in the latest pro-Israel …

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So, Chief 🐍 Fascist Justice Roberts ("No Republican judges here" ) came through for tax-dodging crook Trump, as predicted by anyone with a lick of sense. 

I read this quote today. It referred to the stock market. I agree, but I think it also applies to all other actions by Trump and his wrecking crew, including Pompeo's bullshit about the West Bank Israeli "settlements" being "legal".

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"Like walking a skittish full grown bull elephant across a frozen lake of fraud." -- nsurf9

Fascists just do not know when to back off from their tyranny overreach modus operandi...

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Doomstead Diner Daily 11/20
« Reply #458 on: November 20, 2019, 06:45:20 am »

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« Reply #459 on: November 20, 2019, 06:47:33 am »

I read this quote today. It referred to the stock market. I agree, but I think it also applies to all other actions by Trump and his wrecking crew, including Pompeo's bullshit about the West Bank Israeli "settlements" being "legal".

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"Like walking a skittish full grown bull elephant across a frozen lake of fraud." -- nsurf9


I'm sure you've already seen where Bill Palmer has Pompeo ""resigning."

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I read this quote today. It referred to the stock market. I agree, but I think it also applies to all other actions by Trump and his wrecking crew, including Pompeo's bullshit about the West Bank Israeli "settlements" being "legal".

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"Like walking a skittish full grown bull elephant across a frozen lake of fraud." -- nsurf9


I'm sure you've already seen where Bill Palmer has Pompeo ""resigning."


Yes, I read that bit of wishful thinking by Palmer. Pompeo is a Kochroach, something that is like the roof for Palmer (over his head). Consequently, Palmer's grasp of the consequences of Trump this or that do not take that greater (i.e. US Government by Hydrocarbon Hellspawn) reality into account.

Trump is a symptom of the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn ROT destroying the U.S. government and dooming the biosphere as a Capitalists 'R' US bonus.

However, that does not mean the U.S. Economy won't be eaten alive by the Chinese economy prior to the full brunt of the Sixth Mass Extinction from the unabated (Capitalism caused) degradation of the biosphere. Palmer would vigorously disagree with me, since he thinks everything is gonna be just peachy if Trump and Pence go away and the Democrats take the White House. That is wishful thinking.

About 500 U.S. oligarchs calling virtually ALL the shots evidences that US foreign and domestic policy really IS GOVERNED BY CAPITALIST WISHFUL THINKING that is taking us, eventually, to Catastrophic Climate Chaos doom, but much sooner, to economic and political destruction.

The interconnectedness of all the life forms in our biosphere is something the Capitalists 'R' US studiously ignore (to our peril). Any part of the web of life that is damaged degrades all the other parts. This is Ecology 101.

Of course the 🐉 chemical, 🐍 mining and 🦕🦖 hydrocarbon hellspawn corporations have never been able to wrap their greedy, profit over people and planet heads around that basic, irrefutable reality.

I remember an old saying from the early days of environmental activism in the USA: "We all live downstream." We sure do. 😱

In regard to any and all industrial civilization activiies that allow pollution 😈 "externalities" for short term profit, we need to change NIMBY (not in my back yard) to NOPE, not on planet earth.

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All that said, as pathetic a wish as it is, I hold out hope for our country through a Sanders Presidency, provided both houses of Congress vote to support his policies. Again, I do not expect Palmer, a champion of all things Pelosi, to agree with me on that. However, Palmer is quite right about how dangerous Trump is for the USA. I applaud all his efforts to expose Trump's chicanery. That is why I post much of his impeachment commentary in this forum (Any port in the storm, and all that).

I yield the floor to Paul Street:

NOV 20, 2019 OPINION|TD ORIGINALS

SNIPPET:

We need Trump and Pence out now, not some time next year. The way to make that happen is with a mass movement that will not only sweep him from power but challenge the richly bipartisan racist, sexist, imperial and eco-cidal class rule system that hatched the Trump regime in the first place.

Full article:

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Indoor grown Veggies 🎋🎍 are on a roll
« Reply #462 on: November 21, 2019, 12:40:03 pm »
Agelbert NOTE: This article is from 2017, but it shows that the great progress happening around the world in growing crops sustainably is not "hopium".

What’s happening around the world?

The US is a relatively small producer of greenhouse vegetables. In fact, the US represents only about 0.2% of the global greenhouse vegetable market, with the rest of the world producing over $300B of vegetables in greenhouses year-round.


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Massachusetts Sues Exxon Mobil for Deceptive Climate Messaging

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Exclusive: Bolsonaro is turning back the clock on Brazil, says Lula da Silva

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Re: Indoor grown Veggies 🎋🎍 are on a roll
« Reply #464 on: November 22, 2019, 06:08:01 am »
Agelbert NOTE: This article is from 2017, but it shows that the great progress happening around the world in growing crops sustainably is not "hopium".

What’s happening around the world?

The US is a relatively small producer of greenhouse vegetables. In fact, the US represents only about 0.2% of the global greenhouse vegetable market, with the rest of the world producing over $300B of vegetables in greenhouses year-round.


I share your belief that vertical farming is going to be a huge part of how we move forward together. Should we live through these dark days.

 

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