Roaming Charges: The Sky is Frying

Mount Hood by way of smoke. Picture: Jeffrey St. Clair.

As I sat down to jot down this on Thursday afternoon, greater than 100 million People had been sweltering underneath excessive warmth warnings and that didn’t embrace the Pacific Northwest, the place the vents of the blast furnace are slated to open on Monday sparking temperatures within the 100s for many of subsequent week. (It’s a modest 87 in the intervening time right here in Oregon Metropolis.)

In the meantime, this week the tarmac on the runways at London’s Heathrow Airport melted, after the temperature soared to 104F. (It had by no means been 100F there earlier than at any time.) Fires burned throughout England, France, Portugal and Spain. The floor soil temperature in Spain spiked to 138F. Individuals died on the streets, of their automobiles, on their bikes, in prisons and nursing properties. Europe’s response to this disaster is to restart shuttered coal crops.

It’s raining the place’s it’s by no means rained earlier than. Ice frozen 10,000 years in the past is melting into milky streams. Rivers which have run for 1,500 years at the moment are seasonal creeks. 1,000-year floods are taking place each 30 years. Forests are burning past their capability to regenerate, whereas deserts are increasing in all instructions. Alpine glaciers within the Alps and the Karakoram are collapsing. The price of all is that this monumental, a whole bunch of billions a 12 months within the US alone. However one neighborhood’s disaster is one other’s monetary alternative. Lots of the identical companies driving the local weather disaster and are making out on the opposite finish “restoring” the injury–usually underwritten by authorities subsidies on each ends.

Right here there are new fires, large imply ones, in Texas, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and California. Yosemite is burning. Fires are closing in a single the Mariposa grove of Large Sequoias and throughout the Owens Valley to the east within the Inyo Vary a few of the world’s oldest timber, 4500-year-old Bristlecone Pines, are threatened by the mega-drought, bark-beetles and displacement by the limber pine.

The Nice Salt Lake will quickly be an excellent salt flat, an unlimited basin of poisonous salt that might be lifted by western winds and blown into Provo and Logan and Salt Lake Metropolis. Farther south, Lake Powell is now Glen Canyon once more, it’s impounded waters decrease than at any time because the floodgates of that monstrous dam closed in 1963. I want my outdated buddies Dave Brower, Ed Abbey and Katie Lee had lived to see at the present time. They wouldn’t be shocked that humanity was accountable, by way of ignorance, complacency and greed. Hell, principally the identical human traits that flooded the canyon within the first place having been warned that this could be the inevitable outcome.

The Colorado River is all used up and there received’t be extra the place that got here from. The western states need water; West Virginia needs coal. It’s not a good battle. West Virginia will win each time.  Even the powerbrokers of the West perceive this dynamic. Fossil gas comes first. So the irrigators and the actual property tycoons and the ranchers and town managers and the on line casino operators and the golf course resort house owners at the moment are considering the right way to divert water from the Mississippi to the desert Southwest. It’ll must occur quickly. Time is operating quick.

So a sure desperation is setting in, even among the many people who find themselves profiting off of our perpetual state of disaster. However it hasn’t sharpened our politics and it received’t. This was the week Joe Manchin carried out a late-term abortion on the fetal stays of Biden’s already grossly insufficient local weather plan. The identical week that Biden jetted off to Riyadh to fist bump the Saudi dictator and frantically begged him to jack up manufacturing of Saudi crude oil. However the Crown Prince stiffed the American president in public, a choice which can have been the one favor the Saudis have ever performed for the atmosphere.

Biden, the humiliated weakling, returned the states, vowing shrilly to declare a “local weather emergency.” That is extra mystification from the machine and solely probably the most credulous amongst us might take it as something greater than a grain of poisonous salt. In his first 12 months in workplace, Biden had already accredited extra new oil drilling permits than Trump and that was earlier than he provoked, armed and financed one other oil battle in Ukraine. None of that is shocking. It’s who Biden is. It’s who each American president has been or possible might be.

As soon as our nation ran on slave labor. However because the finish of the Civil Battle, the nation has run on fossil fuels. Each establishment of the federal government has been constructed to use and safeguard that energy supply. It’s not merely that the federal government received’t confront the local weather disaster, however that it’s incapable of confronting the local weather disaster. To confront it will require the federal government to go to battle in opposition to itself. For all sensible functions, the federal government of the US is the fossil gas trade.

The sky is frying and, because the wind shifts, little bits of it start falling down as ash right here within the foothills of the Cascades, a whole bunch of miles away from the fires within the Salmon River nation and the Bitterroot Vary. We’ve entered the Inferno with no sure-footed Virgil round to information our manner again  out.

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+ There are some putting similarities between our disaster and the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381. The revolt got here after a pandemic (Black Dying), throughout a time of inflation, which the English elites tried to repress by placing limits on wages after which imposing a regressive ballot tax, the place peasants and aristocrats had been taxed the identical quantity: 2 pence. Tax collectors had been so aggressive they continuously carried out virginity checks on ladies to see in the event that they had been sufficiently old to be taxed. (Coming quickly to Ohio for all ladies 9 and up.) When Wat Tyler, having torched John of Gaunt’s Savoy Palace (the place Chaucer scribbled as Gaunt’s clerk) and seen the Archbishop of Canterbury dismembered with 8 sword blows, led his peasant military into London, to fulfill Richard II and his entourage, he requested for a drink of water, swilled it in his mouth and spat it out on the toes of the boy King. Whereupon he was run by way of by the Lord Mayor of London and his head placed on a pike, as a warning to different revolutionaries. To drive dwelling his level, the feeble Richard despatched his troops into Essex, the place, with a ruthlessness attribute of the Plantagenet clan, they butchered insurgent leaders from Colchester to South Minister, hanging their our bodies from oak timber to be picked aside by crows and ravens.

+ At about 8 PM final Saturday evening, two police in an unmarked automotive drove slowly by Robert Adams, who was standing in a parking zone in San Bernardino, California, 60 miles east of Los Angeles. The automotive abruptly stops. The cops spring out, weapons drawn. 5 seconds later Adams is down on the bottom, bleeding out after being shot within the again a number of instances, “execution-style”, in accordance with Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for Adams’ household. He was 23-years outdated and had not needed for any crime.

The rationale of the police for the taking pictures–to the extent they felt obliged to current any in any respect–is by now acquainted to anybody who follows these sorts of shootings. Adams “match the outline” of an individual they had been on the lookout for. (He was a younger black man.) He was in a “excessive crime” space. (He was standing in a parking zone.) He had a gun and pointed it at police. (No proof he pointed his gun on the cops.) He made threatening actions. (He ran away.) The cops feared for his or her lives. (They shot him within the again.)

+ 1054 people have been killed by police within the US within the final 12 months. I ponder what number of of these had been shot within the again?

+ There have been 376 regulation enforcement officers on the scene at Uvalde, who mulled round for greater than an hour as a lone gunman with an AR-15 slaughtered academics and college students. Most of them had been federal and state cops: 149 had been Border Patrol, 91 had been state police, who underneath Texas regulation are charged with responding to “mass assaults in public locations.” Solely 25 had been from Uvalde, and one other 19 from the native sheriff’s division. The rest had been deputies from neighboring counties, US Marshalls and DEA brokers. In all there have been 116 extra regulation enforcement officers on the scene that day than there have been members of the Texian militia contained in the Alamo when it was routed by Santa Ana’s Mexican military. Too dangerous there wasn’t one thing for them to do…

+ Crime Invoice Joe strikes once more. He’s push a $37 billion “crime prevention” bundle, the centerpiece of which is an allocation of $13 billion to place 100,000 new cops on the road (identical to in 1994). And like Clinton earlier than him, they’ll nonetheless assault him for being “mushy on crime.” Which he’s. Police and company crime, that’s.

+ The wealthy white tech crowd that runs San Francisco bought progressive DA Chesa Boudin evicted from workplace. He’s been exchange by interim DA, Brooke Jenkins, who simply disbanded the Innocence Commission and promoted the identical prosecutor who “withheld evidence in a homicide trial” to handle her murder crew.

+ Max Boot throws his former Publish colleague Jamal Khashoggi underneath the bus…”MBS is a extra ambivalent determine than the cartoon villain that he’s so usually made out to be in media protection. It’s true that he’s merciless and repressive. However, whereas intolerant politically, he’s liberalizing Saudi society. His reforms are revolutionary.” Chop, chop…

+ A lot of the headlines had been concerning the 18 Republicans who voted in opposition to a Home Decision supporting the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO. However absolutely the actual story right here is that not one Democrat within the Home (together with members of The Squad) voted in opposition to NATO enlargement.

+ Aviv Kochavi, chief of the Israeli Protection Forces, stated Monday that an IDF strike on Iran was changing into extra possible as talks on its nuclear program stall in Jeddah. I’m for whole nuclear disarmament, however this type of fixed menace of assault from a nation that has an unlawful arsenal of greater than 400 nuclear weapons is an effective argument for Iran creating one as quick as potential.

+ It’s the Libya lesson. When Qaddafi gave up his nuclear program, NATO whacked him. So long as there are nuclear weapons, each nation ought to have one and just one.

+ On the anniversary of the Trinity Atomic blast, let’s recall the recommendation of Reagan’s Deputy Underneath Secretary of Protection for Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces T.Ok. Jones on to the right way to survive a nuclear battle: “Dig a gap, cowl it with a few doorways after which throw three toes of filth on high. It’s the filth that does it. If there are sufficient shovels to go round, all people’s going to make it.”

+ When Biden the Meek introduced up the butchering of Jamal Khashoggi with MBS, Crown Prince Bonesaws snapped: “What did the US do concerning the [Israeli] killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.” Checkmate.

+ Within the fast aftermath of the 1988 downing of an Iranian Air Flight 655 by the US Navy warship Vincennes, killing 290 folks, the federal government of Margaret Thatcher leapt to the protection of the Reagan regime. In response to newly declassified documents, Thatcher helped cowl up the atrocity, backing the spurious US state of affairs that the airliner had ventured “exterior the prescribed business air route” and began to “descend” kamikaze-like at a “excessive fee of velocity” towards the USS Vincennes. The UK was one of many few nations to defend this bloodbath which killed 66 kids as act of “self-defense” in response to “an Iranian assault.”  Thatcher proclaimed: “You can’t put navies into the gulf to defend transport from [Iranian] assault with out giving them the best to defend themselves.” In 1996, the US authorities paid the Iranian authorities $131.8 in compensation for the assault. Iran nonetheless has not obtained an apology.

+ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin has joined the China-bashing claque, saying this week that the “US and its allies can’t enable China to dominate uncooked supplies and applied sciences.” That is just about the justification Kissinger and Nixon used to plot the overthrow of Allende…

+ Missouri’s near-total abortion ban has made it basically impossible for miscarriage sufferers to acquire mifepristone, which frequently utilized in remedy abortion, but additionally essential to deal with many miscarriages. Girls are struggling intense ache as a result of they can’t entry the drug.

+ In response to Laura Bassett, writing in Jezebel: “Pregnant ladies in Missouri are barred from getting a divorce, as state regulation doesn’t acknowledge the fetus as an individual—which means a mom has to attend till the newborn is born to cope with custody rights. You learn that proper: Republicans, who’re making an attempt to argue that fetuses are folks, don’t acknowledge fetuses as folks when that implies that it will unintentionally give a lady freedom to depart her husband. Heads I win, tails you lose…”

+ Indiana’s belligerent AG Todd Rokita loudly claimed he couldn’t acquire any information proving that Dr. Caitlin Bernard fulfilled her authorized reporting duties within the case of the 10-year-old rape sufferer from Ohio. However the native Fox affiliate bought them by way of a simple public records request.

+ I assume there’s one other J6 listening to, however none of them have grabbed my consideration. All of them seem to be reruns of mediocre 90s cop & lawyer exhibits to me. My political training got here from secretly watching the Watergate hearings within the Indianapolis suburbs, deep Nixon nation. My dad was a lawyer for the state GOP & had been a part of the welcoming social gathering when Nixon toured town in 1968. In a home of Republicans, watching the hearings had the illicit thrill of a teen (which I used to be) watching porn. Final evening we watched Solely Murders within the Constructing the Hulu true crime podcast spoof with Steve Martin and Martin Brief. It’s hit and miss present, however the newest episode breaks out right into a weird and humorous dialogue on the Iran/Contra hearings ending with a Fawn Corridor joke, which should be utterly mystifying to anybody underneath 40. What the wealthy forged of characters in Trump’s orbit (Jersey Shore meets Veep), these hearings haven’t any proper to be so boring. Cassidy Hutchinson isn’t any Fawn Corridor and Liz Cheney’s no Sam Ervin. (In fact, even Sam Ervin was actually “Sam Ervin.”)

+ Trump’s going to run as a result of he thinks being president is the one approach to preserve himself and his progeny out of jail. However Biden’s not going to prosecute Trump as a result of at this level he thinks Trump is the one candidate he might probably beat in 2024. In fact, HRC thought the same.

+ That is foolish. Manchin is the very mannequin of the “new Democrat” as designed by the ideological cloning crew on the DLC again within the late 80s: a southerner, pro-business, powerful on “crime,” squishy on cultural points, prolific fundraiser, hawkish on overseas coverage, Keynesian solely in navy funding with austerity for the poor. (Manchin did direct $15 million in federal cash to a wetland protect close to his property.)

+ Biden the deal-maker did little to courtroom Manchin’s vote. Biden might have supplied to maneuver the CIA HQ to Berkeley Springs, which is what the West Virginia senators have all the time needed and Rockefeller and Byrd nearly bought. Simply put the Company in some coal reclamation web site and so they can commerce “Havana Syndrome” for Black Lung.

+ Out of 433 lively shooter assaults solely 12 ended with the shooter being shot by a “Good Samaritan” with a gun…

+ Homeless folks in north LA have been subjected violent police crackdowns, evicting them from tenting websites and forcing them to dwell within the Mojave Desert, miles from operating water, in excessive warmth, the place people are now dying…

+ Heather Ann Thompson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning guide on the Attica Jail takeover (Blood within the Water) has been banned in New York prisons as a result of official incite “acts of disobedience.” But, as CJ Ciaramella factors out in an article for Cause, “One of many key calls for at Attica was an finish to censorship’… Inmates’ books, newspapers & letters from family members had been usually tossed within the trash, esp. in the event that they had been in Spanish.”

+ In 2008, earlier than the Residents United ruling (one other Alito opinion), billionaires contributed $31 million to federal political campaigns. In 2020, billionaires contributed $1.2 billion.

+ Within the aftermath of the Dobbs rule, pharmacy chain CVS has a developed a brand new coverage for controlling prescriptions to “ladies of kid bearing potential”, the place an “alert will show at Information Entry Verification informing them to validate that the indication of prognosis is documented on the prescription and that it isn’t to terminate a being pregnant.”

+ Walgreens is transferring in an analogous path, even permitting their pharmacists to refuse to fill contraception prescriptions.

+ Does Walgreen’s enable their clerks to “step away” from clients shopping for chips, sodas, cigarettes, chocolate Roundup or any of the opposite poisonous crap they promote that’s prone to cut back their life expectancy?

+ In response to the criminologist Nell Darby, from the seventeenth Century by way of the mid-Nineteenth Century, ladies (particularly working-class ladies) in Nice Britain might be jailed (in some instances executed) for giving start to illegitimate kids, concealing the start of a kid and infanticide (abortion). However the males who fathered the youngsters, and conspired to maintain their existence secret (actually because they had been males of social standing & married), weren’t topic to any of those felony sanctions. Form of like Ohio, Louisiana and Texas right now.

+ Alisabeth Janai Lancaster, a former a retired Federal Reserve regulation enforcement officer, who’s now operating for varsity board in Santa Rosa County, Florida, is looking for medical doctors who deal with trans youngsters to be lynched. Throughout a candidates’ discussion board this week, Lancaster stated: “These medical doctors which might be going together with mutilating these kids and prescribing hormone blockers to those youngsters, for my part, they need to be hanging from the closest tree.” Her blood-thirsty rant was greeted with cheers from the viewers. The occasion was held within the St. Sylvester Catholic Church.

There’s a lot to dissect on this video from Pensacola, Florida the place faculty board candidate, Alisabeth Janai Lancaster, stated medical doctors who deal with trans youngsters ought to be “hanging from the closest tree.” The group applauded her. pic.twitter.com/SjfubPl48W

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) July 20, 2022

+ $15,000: what Financial institution of America CEO Brian Moynihan makes per hour. (Supply: Ralph Nader)

+ Nicholas Ferroni: “In case you are okay with having Muslim, Jewish and Hindu college students sit by way of a Christian prayer in public faculty and never okay with having Christian college students sit by way of a Muslim, Jewish or Hindu prayer, then it’s NOT spiritual freedom–it’s spiritual oppression.”

+ The entire Republicans within the Home voted against a Democratic invoice calling for the Pentagon to research neo-Nazis within the navy. Isn’t the navy the most secure place for neo-Nazis? It’s the place Ukraine, Russia, the UK, France and Australia stash theirs…

+ The place’s the politician who talks like this embittered police detective in Raymond Chandler’s The Lengthy Goodbye, who’s sick of getting his investigations into the nefarious schemes of LA elites shut down?

“There ain’t no clear approach to make hundred million bucks. Possibly the pinnacle man thinks his fingers are clear however someplace alongside the road guys bought pushed to the wall, good little companies bought the bottom minimize from underneath them and needed to promote out for nickels, first rate folks misplaced their jobs, shares bought rigged available on the market, proxies bought bough up like a pennyweight of gold, and the 5 percenters and the large regulation companies bought paid hundred-grand charges for beating some regulation the folks needed however the wealthy guys didn’t, on account of it minimize into their earnings. Massive cash is large energy and massive energy will get used to unsuitable. It’s the system. Possibly it’s finest we are able to get, however it nonetheless ain’t any Ivory Cleaning soap deal.”

“You sound like a purple,” I stated, simply to needle him.

“I wouldn’t know,” he stated contemptuously. “I ain’t been investigated but.”

+ Once I hear concerning the “Clinton Murders”. I don’t consider Vince Foster, however of Rickey Ray Rector, a brain-damaged black man Clinton rushed to jab with a deadly injection throughout the 92 marketing campaign, and Iraqi artist Layla al-Attar, killed in one in all Clinton’s missile strikes in Iraq. We used one in all al-Attar’s work as the quilt of Kathy Kelly’s guide, Different Lands Have Goals.

+ Talking of Bubba, few folks keep in mind that he launched his marketing campaign at Stone Mountain, Georgia’s model of Mt Rushmore, that includes a monumental carving of Accomplice Generals on horseback. As dangerous as Reagan launching his fall marketing campaign in opposition to Carter by giving a State’s Rights speech on the Neshoba County fairgrounds in Mississippi, just some miles from the place three civil rights employees had been murdered by the Klan in 1964…

+ Ronald Reagan didn’t a lot ignore AIDS as actively encourage and facilitate its unfold. Reagan’s Surgeon Common, C. Everett Coop, stated that the view within the Reagan White Home as that ‘they (homosexuals) are solely getting what they justly deserve.” Biden appears to be taking the identical tact for monkeypox, which is being written off as a gay illness unfold by promiscuous homosexual intercourse. (It’s not.)

+ The US spends simply 0.2 percent of its GDP on baby care. The typical of EU nation’s 0.7 p.c.

+ In the meantime, the United States has the highest rate of kids dwelling in single-parent households, practically twice the speed of Germany and triple that of Japan.

+ Within the subsequent few months, the global population will surpass 8 billion people and India will vault forward of China because the world’s most populous nation. Between them, China and India might be dwelling to extra folks than had been alive on your complete planet on the finish of WW II.

+ “Unfraid?” I’ll guess he’s completely petrified of salad bars, CRT and the trans girl within the native pickle ball league….

+ The Democrats within the Home pushed by way of a invoice known as considerably cheesily the Respect for Marriage Act, which codifies protections for homosexual and interracial marriage. (Respecting marriage? I’d’ve thought the radically progressive perspective can be in opposition to the establishment of marriage altogether…) Nonetheless the invoice attracted 47 the votes of Republicans, considerably greater than in 2004 when homosexual marriage was such a scorching political challenge. John Kerry thought homosexual marriage misplaced him Ohio and the election, the Democrats blamed the loss on Diebold voting machines (the Dominion of their day) and the remainder of us knew he misplaced due to his noxious “Reporting for Obligation” conference, the place he vowed to be a extra competent model of Bush…

+ I’d like to notice for the document that one of many first English novels was a couple of transvestite, Henry Fielding’s The Feminine Husband, printed in 1746.

+ Isaac Chotiner’s interview with Alan Dershowitz is the funniest factor I’ve learn all week. Dershowitz can’t even recall the identify of his personal guide. Or whether or not he brokered Center East Peace for Trump with the Emir of Qatar or “No, of Kuwait. No, was it Qatar?”

+ Judith Miller was a mannequin of reportorial scrupulousness in comparison with a few of the folks the NYT has assigned to the Israel beat, together with Isabel Kershner, whose son served within the IDF & whose husband works for the INSS, which mission is to spit-polish the picture of Israel after each atrocity.

+ Kerhsner is terrible, however maybe not as noxious as CNN’s  White Home correspondent Kaitlan Collins, the Alabama alum, who, whereas working for Tucker Carlson’s Every day Caller, seeded her tales with sick jokes about torture, writing “ the Guantanamo Bay detainees had been definitely the firs to do the ice bucket problem, and it’s excessive time they bought their due.” So happy was this sadist at her execrable quip that she repeated it, writing that the without end prisoner Abu Zubaydah “is one other prisoner who [Gen. Michael] Hayden confirmed had been waterboarded throughout his keep at a Cuban camp. Zubaydah took the ‘Ice Bucket Problem’ a formidable 83 instances.”

+ Boris Johnson’s exit speech briefly: “I need to use previous few seconds to present some phrases of recommendation to my successor. Quantity One: Keep near the People. Stick up for the Ukrainians. Stick up for freedom and democracy…Mission largely  achieved…Keep in mind above all: It’s not Twitter that counts… Hasta la vista, child!”

+ “Alex, I believe that is the start of a beautiful friendship.”

+ Right here’s Glenn defending Matt Gaetz’s vote in opposition to codifying the Obergefell ruling legalizing homosexual marriage…

+ Gaetz additionally voted in opposition to defending the best to entry to contraception for related “causes.”

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+ UN supremo Antonio Guterres advised ministers from 40 nations this week that human society is approaching a “collective suicide“: ‘Half of humanity is within the hazard zone, from floods, droughts, excessive storms and wildfires. No nation is immune. But we proceed to feed our fossil gas habit.’”

+ Local weather change is predicted to trigger about 250,000 additional deaths per 12 months between 2030 and 2050, in accordance with the World Well being Group.

+ Over the past 50 years, the oil and gasoline trade has amassed $52 trillion in earnings, banking $2.8 billion daily since 1970.

+ Joe Manchin is bragging this week that he saved “US taxpayers” $300 billion from sabotaging the local weather change bundle. However the price of local weather inaction to the US treasury is predicted to be $2 TRILLION per 12 months.

+ Memo to Joe Manchin: Between July 15 and 17 alone, the quantity of ice melting in Greenland produced 6 billion tons of water per day–sufficient to flood your complete state of West Virginia underneath a foot of water.

+ In response to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the quantity of electrical energy consumed by air conditioners will triple by 2050, requiring new power sources equal to the mixed present electrical energy capability of the USA, European Union, and Japan.

+ A examine within the American Journal of Public Health paperwork that when the temperature in Boston hits 90F, emergency medical service dispatches improve by 2 p.c, police division dispatches improve by 9 p.c and hearth division dispatches elevated by 10 p.c.

+ 6.7%: the quantity of forest acreage misplaced to catastrophic wildfires in California since 1985.

+ One among Europe’s main buying and selling routes, the Rhine River, could quickly grow to be to0 shallow for ship site visitors.

+ The relative carbon emissions to yield for 50 grams of protein (really helpful every day quantity)

beef:      25 kg
cheese:    4 kg
hen:   2 kg
peas:         0.2 kg

+ In 2019, no less than 2,800 people died from air air pollution, 95% of which derives from the burning of fossil fuels. On high of that, there have been 15,000 associated instances of pediatric bronchial asthma within the state.

+ Edward Snowden: “At a sure level, our corrupt and moribund political tradition has no hope of fixing humanity’s issues. You both guess on science and expertise, otherwise you guess on extinction.”

+ The rise within the warmest summer time days at London’s Heathrow is progressing at greater than twice the speed of the typical summer time day.

+ 300 metric tons: amounted of carbon emitted by the John “Only corporations can solve the climate crisis” Kerry family private jet since Biden took workplace.

+ 1 billion tons: quantity of manure generated every year by animals in manufacturing facility farms within the US. Almost thrice as a lot waste as generated by the human inhabitants of the US.

+ Land Life, a company carbon offset firm that claimed it will use the blockchain to assist reforest  the planet, has unintentionally set off a 35,000 acre wildfire in Spain, the second wild hearth they’ve brought on in a month.

+ Tariq Fancy, the previous Chief Data Officer at Blackrock, asserts that “sustainable investing” is usually a scam: “Sustainable investing boils all the way down to little greater than advertising and marketing hype, PR spin & disingenuous guarantees from funding neighborhood”

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+ PG Wodehouse: “If there’s one factor I dislike, it’s the man who tries to air his grievances once I want to air mine.”

B-52 Stratofortress flyover for House Run Derby at Dodger Stadium. Fairly cool. pic.twitter.com/FETbBaUQKg

— Jory Rand (@ABC7Jory) July 19, 2022

+ This “vegan” “pal of animals” (and information anchor for an ABC affiliate in LA) thinks a flyover by a aircraft constructed to carpet bomb civilians (and animals, I would be aware) is “fairly cool”…. Let’s recall precisely what we’re speaking about right here. 387,072: civilians have been killed as a direct results of US navy actions within the post-911 wars, a part of a protracted historical past of “strategic bombing” of civilians in Vietnam (2 million), Korea (2.5 million), Japan (1.1 million) & Germany (500,000).

+ In 1965, the music committee of the Pulitzer Prize group chosen Duke Ellington for its annual award for achievement in music composition. The Pulitzer governing council rejected the choice and no prize was given. Two of the music committee members resigned in protest. Ellington is the best American composer and one of many biggest composers interval of the 20 C. The choice to disclaim him the award was primarily based on ignorance and racism. It’s previous time to rectify a grievous historic unsuitable. Music historian Ted Gioia has put collectively a petition encouraging the Pulitzers to lastly give Ellington the award he was denied. I encourage you all to sign it…

+ “I need to be a pressure for actual good. In different phrases. I do know that there are dangerous forces, forces that carry struggling to others and distress to the world, however I need to be the alternative pressure. I need to be the pressure which is really for good.” – John Coltrane, who died at 40, 55 years this week.

I’ve bought an actual dangerous feeling

Booked Up
What I’m studying this week…

The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World
Benjamin Bratton
(Verso)

Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest
Britt E. Halvorson and Joshua O. Reno
(College of California)

Burning the Books: a History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Richard Ovendon
(Harvard College)

Sound Grammar
What I’m listening to this week…

Reboot
Ronnie Foster
(Blue Notice)

Something More Than Love
Lera Lynn
(Ruby Vary Information)

Mesmerism
Tyshawn Sorey
(Yeros7)

Issues Can’t Go On Properly

“My good mates, issues can not go on effectively in England, nor ever will till every part shall be in widespread, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord, and all distinctions levelled; when the lords shall be no extra masters than ourselves. How in poor health they’ve used us!… They’ve wines, spices and high quality bread, when we’ve got solely rye and the refuse of high quality straw; and if we drink, it should be water. They’ve good-looking seats and manors, once we should courageous the wind and rain in our labours within the discipline; however it’s from our labour they’ve the wherewith to help their pomp.… Allow us to go to the king, who’s younger, and remonstrate with him on our servitude, telling him we will need to have it in any other case, or that we will discover a treatment for it ourselves.” (– John Ball, a pacesetter of the Peasant’s Revolt)