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December 2021
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates December 14, 2021
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/updates-14-dec-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and…
Methane, a clear and present danger
The rich oil and gas industry is willing to damage the Earth and put natural life at risk, if its activity puts money in corporate accounts. Captured governments cooperate with…
They’re Organized. They’re Smart. The Proud Boys Storm Back.
The Proud Boys, America’s would-be Brown Shirts, are taking a page out of resistance movements’ play book. Today the D.C. Attorney-General filed a civil lawsuit against the Proud Boys and…
Factory Workers in Mayfield Forced to Stay at Their Jobs
They heard the tornado sirens. They wanted to leave. They were told they would be fired if they didn’t stay put. Several lost their lives. As a catastrophic tornado approached…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – John Paul Tasker reports on Dr. Theresa Tam’s warning that cases of the Omicron COVID variant are set to escalate rapidly. Blake…
Climate Change Has Destabilized Both Poles (and everything in between them).
It was the year when a small Siberian town far within the Arctic Circle registered 100 F. Change is coming fast to both Arctic and Antarctic, change that already alters…
My latest: my winners in 2021
Ah, 2021. Like its immediate predecessor, the unlamented 2020, this year has been a real bastard. Just when you think some degree of normalcy may return — just when you…
How Climate Change Can Go For the Dirt
Two studies out of Australia explore the link between climate change and carbon levels in soil. As a rule, the darker the soil, the more carbon it contains, the more…
Oh, Crap – the Security Council Isn’t Up to Climate Change
Climate change is apparently much too touchy a subject for it to be considered by the United Nations Security Council. Putting that on the shoulders of the very people who…
Plague Update: The Omicron Wave – No Lessons Learned
Remember in the late 1980s when more of the world learned that carbon pollution was causing Global Warming and we had short decades left to make a difference that would…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 14, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Unusual Request: Allow Anonymous Defense Witnesses #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Seth Klein fixed a Fortis letter
Fifteen months ago, writer, researcher and climate activist Seth Klein asked Fortis to stop asking people to undo their good work…
Why poorer nations aren’t falling for green-washed imperialism
Streets in the district of Satkhira, in southern Bangladesh, are flooded after months of heavy rain. Photo by Rafiqur Rahman Raqu/Department for International Development/Flickr. Fighting global warming is not just…
The 0.01% vs. the rest of us
Protestors in the Occupy movement in Manchester, United Kingdom, 2011. Photo by Plashing Vole/Flickr. While the one percent are obviously much richer than the average person, the disparity is even…
The Clear Coup
Today the House of Representatives will vote to hold former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress. Jennifer Rubin writes: Multiple pieces of evidence have emerged…
Pierre Poilievre’s Priorities.
The waspish MP from Carleton, in his best attack dog style, went after liberal finance minister Chrystia Freeland the other day. The deputy prime minister is scheduled to deliver a…
The rise and rise of petrofascism
Saskatchewan is more than a Petrostate, it’s governed by Petrofascists. Surviving C21 By Julian Cribb* A new world superpower is arising. One that is unelected, borderless, controls most governments and,…
Kenney Government backs off plan to immediately implement widely condemned K-6 curriculum draft
Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange yesterday executed a reluctant partial climbdown from Alberta’s controversial draft kindergarten-to-Grade-6 curriculum, announcing the Kenney Government will delay implementation of changes to how four subjects…
Bill 81: The ‘what the hell was that’ Bill
“Bill 81 has always been about strengthening the democratic process in our province.” – Kaycee Madu, Justice Minister. “ one of the most overt antidemocratic moves we’ve seen from the…