There’s an age-old fable entitled “The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs.” The story goes that a farmer had a goose that laid a golden egg each day, making the farmer very wealthy. However, the farmer’s greed for more golden eggs led him to kill the Goose, hoping to capture all the golden eggs inside. Sadly, he discovered that only organs were inside. Now, the farmer’s source of wealth was gone.
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MAGA Republicans, MAGA Democrats, and Musketeers are all super joyous these days. They now control the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and federal courts in the United States.
This week, in the waning days of his administration, President Biden announced he would use his authority under Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently withdraw 625 million acres from leasing for oil and gas drilling and exploration off our nation’s coasts. The protected waters include the entire eastern Atlantic coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coast of California, Oregon, and Washington, and portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska.
The conflict of interest for Kushner now that his father-in-law is about to return to the White House is obvious. Kushner continues to advise Trump, maintains relations with Middle East dictators and with the Netanyahu administration in Israel, and is regularly on the phone with people in and out of government who want advice on Middle East policy. By law, Kushner should be a registered foreign agent of Saudi Arabia, but don’t count on his doing anything of the sort.
Is Putin conducting genocidal acts on Ukrainians? Looks like Israel is, ironically, attempting some sort of genocide against Gazans, with Hamas trying their version of a genocidal attack against Israel on 7 October 2023. How about China’s aggression against the Uyghurs or Myanmar’s against Rohingyas?
The words are those of Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, quoted in a recent UN report about Israel’s ongoing devastation of Palestinian hospitals and its virtually total destruction of the occupied territory’s healthcare system, including the arrest – the abduction – of hundreds of doctors and other medical professionals, who often wind up being tortured and sometimes murdered.
Our political mourning period cannot last forever. John 10 also says the sheep will recognize the political shepherds, the media shepherds, the educational shepherds, the workplace shepherds, and all other true leaders and protectors of all the sheep in the flock, including the Black sheep.
“Threats by Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s pick for FBI director, to use the power of the bureau to scrutinizenews outlets critical of the incoming administration are sending a chill through the media.”– The Hill, December 11, 2024
“A loyal, unqualified nominee lacking integrity and morality is no friend to Democracy, the rule of law, or the US Constitution!” John Johnson II..…
Increasingly, the source of that pollution is the growing number of liquefied methane gas (commonly referred to as LNG) facilities in the region. Freeport LNG, in Oldham’s town, is the third largest LNG export terminal by capacity in the country. The largest is Sabine Pass LNG, just a few hours along the coast from Freeport. That facility sits just over the Louisiana border from Port Arthur, TX – which is also home to Port Arthur LNG, currently under construction.