Previous years’ conferences on climate change have been toothless agreement that has resulted in the lip-service Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement (2016). This year’s conference, known as COP26, is scheduled to take place on November 1-12 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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“WHO WOULD JESUS RAPE?”
Crisis in Sudan is a lesson for the U.S.
Ex-President Trump is pitching his new social media network as an upstart rival to the Big Tech companies, and he will not have to use his own money. Digital World Acquisition Corp is partnering with other investors, and placing a value of Trump’s new media company between 2 and 3 billion dollars. The date of the launch will be in the first quarter of 2022.
She-Said: Don, I’m not a racist “MAGA” Hat-Wearing bigot! I do agree with the voices that are against teaching “The Critical Race Theory”. It has no place in sculpting young minds! The U.S.A. is the greatest, most powerful country in the world. We arguably have the most successful democratic society in mankind’s history.
The January violent event that saw Capitol Police being bludgeoned with American flag poles was, in my opinion, an aspect of a highly orchestrated “Klan Plan” to insure that a white supremacist would forever occupy The White House.
Powell, who was the first Black secretary of state, the first Black and youngest chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black national security adviser, who died last week due to blood cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
Right-wing media outlets and social media spread false information and conspiracy theories. Conservative activists and politicians opposed public health measures as a form of “tyranny.” Angry people have harassed and threatened public health officials, and politicians have passed more than 100 laws restricting their authority to take action to protect the public.
When Richard Nixon died, those of us on the antiwar side of the barricades during his misbegotten presidency were driven to new lows of cynical despair by the image-washing, sometimes from mainstream media, but most often from other politicians who seemed to want to set an extremely low bar for presidential legacies.