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News "Time to Cut Dirty Energy's Lifeline": Report Details How Fossil Fuel Industry Feasted on Covid-19 Relief Programs "By artificially delaying the industry's inevitable decline at taxpayers' expense, the government has made it that much harder to make the necessary transition to clean energy sources." Read more |
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News 'No Time to Lose for Climate Action': Atmospheric CO2 Continued to Rise in 2020 Despite Covid-19 Lockdowns The World Meteorological Organization called for "more sustained and ambitious climate action to reduce emissions to net zero through a compete transformation of our industrial, energy, and transport systems." Read more |
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Further Sharing the Landscape: Gator and Gunner Come To An Agreement, More or Less Screengrab The macro view of things remains dark - plague raging, planet burning, evil clowns blustering - so we're gonna start the week with a serendipitous alligator wrasslin' match where all parties involved swam, scampered and staggered away. Wildlife surveillance cameras in Estero, Florida... Read more |
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Views How Norway Built an Economy That Puts People First The national ethos of economic equity was decades in the making. Read more |
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News Guatemalan President Reviewing Budget, Which Slashed Healthcare Spending, After Outraged Protesters Set Fire to Legislative Building "We are outraged by poverty, injustice, the way they have stolen the public's money," a psychology professor who attended the protests told the press. Read more |
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News Trump Administration Accused of Trying to Bully Banks Into Financing Arctic Fossil Fuel Extraction "Contrary to the claims of oil-backed politicians, banks don't want to finance more drilling in the Arctic not because of some vast liberal conspiracy, but because it's bad business," said a Sierra Club leader. Read more |
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News Hailed as 'Heroes' During Pandemic, Retail Workers Stripped of Hazard Pay While Companies Rake in Massive Profits "While business booms and the pandemic rages, the rich are getting richer—and workers are getting sicker." Read more |
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Views Democrats Must Commit Themselves to the Needs of Non-College Educated Workers Now is the time to show the working class that a Democratic agenda can deliver real change. Read more |
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News 'Monstrous Behavior': Mnuchin Slammed for Biden 'Snub' That Could Sabotage US Economic Recovery On his way out the door, said one Nobel-winning economist, "Mnuchin is effectively trying to create a financial crisis.' Read more |
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Views Tax Losses Are Lives Lost There is more than enough money available. But it has been redirected away from our public services and into the offshore bank accounts of multinationals and the mega-rich. Read more |