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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[kiidcarter8]

https://euaidexplorer.ec.europa.eu/content/overview_en

[josh]

HOLY FUCK!

This blithering idiot put this pile of bullshit on White House letterhead!

GOP is bitching about Carter Page? Really?

Infuckingcredible!

It was quite something to read, for sure.

[REDSTATEWARD]

We have just been through the best decade in the history of the world.

From the United Nations Development Report:

The gap in basic living standards is narrowing, with an unprecedented number of people in the world escaping poverty, hunger and disease.

The World Bank reports;
the world-wide rate of extreme poverty fell more than half, from 18.2% to 8.6%, between 2008 and 2018.
The World Data Lab calculated that for the first time:
More than half the world’s population can be considered “middle class.
Health progress has been remarkable. People have better access to water, sanitation, health care and vaccines than ever. The incidence of malaria in Africa declined almost 60% from 2007 to 2017, and antiretroviral therapy reduced HIV/AIDS deaths more than half.

Global life expectancy increased by more than three years in the past 10 years, mostly thanks to prevention of childhood deaths. According to the U.N., the global mortality rate for children under 5 declined from 5.6% in 2008 to 3.9% in 2018.

According to the online publication
Our World In Data
At a certain point developed countries start polluting less. Death rates from air pollution declined by almost a fifth world-wide and a quarter in China between 2007 and 2017.

Quoting Andrew McCabe in More From Less:

Rich countries use less aluminum, nickel, copper, steel, stone, cement, sand, wood, paper, fertilizer, water, crop acreage and fossil fuel every year. Consumption of 66 out of 72 resources tracked by the U.S. Geological Survey is now declining.


Global warming? 
A challenge.
But according to the International Database of Disasters
wealthy societies are well-positioned to develop clean technologies and to deal with the problems of a changing climate. Annual deaths from climate-related disasters declined by one-third between 2000-09 and 2010-15, to 0.35 per 100,000 people—a 95% reduction since the 1960s. That’s not because of fewer disasters, but better capabilities to deal with them.

Interesting that the report
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Concludes
Mankind creates faster than they can squander, and repairs more than they can destroy.

[Yankguy1]

REDSTATEPOLLYANNA

[facilitatorn]

Look at it as a values statement you can hold Red too as he upchucks garbage to defend republican policies that look to reverse as much of this progress as the party funders can profit from.

DT, the overstuffed worm and fake president is going to have a full bore republican campaign of total destruction and character assassination bearing down on him throughout the rest of his term, independent of impeachment and whatever the eventual Democratic Candidate decides to do. The fake president should have at least tried to honor his oath.

[josh]

Global warming? 
A challenge.
But according to the International Database of Disasters
wealthy societies are well-positioned to develop clean technologies and to deal with the problems of a changing climate. Annual deaths from climate-related disasters declined by one-third between 2000-09 and 2010-15, to 0.35 per 100,000 people—a 95% reduction since the 1960s. That’s not because of fewer disasters, but better capabilities to deal with them.

Interesting that the report
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Concludes
Mankind creates faster than they can squander, and repairs more than they can destroy.

The last of this is our sole hope, Ward, but it is a really stupid thing to bet on as the stakes rise.

The first is very much the point of one of the things we keep telling you and you keep ignoring:

The poorest are the ones who will suffer the most the soonest from the climate crisis. Even if "deal with the problems of a changing climate," poor countries are ill-equipped and, within the wealthy countries, poor people are ill-equipped to deal with those problems.

The suffering will be worse than anything we have in recorded history.

But you don't seem to care or to think we should act sooner rather than wait for something to save us technologically,. but not save them.

[bambu.]

Meanwhile, the lovely Miranda writes;

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/miranda-devine-hating-trump-is-a-certified-psychological-condition/news-story/50b4963d3dbfdb8caac812aa3bd40845

Miranda Devine: Hating Trump is a certified psychological condition

Three years on from the US election, sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome are still seeking therapy — and driving the Democrats to self-harm, writes Miranda Devine.

For a country that survived slavery, a civil war, the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War, and emerged stronger through adversity, America seems to be losing its mind over Trump Derangement Syndrome.

That’s the view from the New York Times, anyway, which is reporting on therapists who are overwhelmed with treating Trump-haters.
It’s “a chronic feeling that’s bordering on despair”, New York psychologist Karen Starr tells the newspaper.

“What’s going on in the government is so extreme that people who have no history of overwhelming psychological trauma still feel crazed by [Trump],” said another therapist.
It is a “psychic tax on the population” akin to “watching someone you love die of a wasting disease”, said another.

Also known as “democracy grief”, TDS is “a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason,” according to the Urban Dictionary.

#####

Well there you go.
TDS.

[josh]

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-got-hands-u-tomahawk-220000784.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

So much winning.

Such a well planned and executed withdrawal from Syria.

So what if Russia got its hands on our tomahawk missle and plans to counter it, right? They're our boss friend, now, aren't they?!

[josh]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/miranda-devine-hating-trump-is-a-certified-psychological-condition/news-story/50b4963d3dbfdb8caac812aa3bd40845

Miranda Devine: Hating Trump is a certified psychological condition

Ah, they're letting people with a BS in math and an MA in journalism "certify" psychological conditions in Australia, now?

That explains so much.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Global warming? 
A challenge.
But according to the International Database of Disasters
wealthy societies are well-positioned to develop clean technologies and to deal with the problems of a changing climate. Annual deaths from climate-related disasters declined by one-third between 2000-09 and 2010-15, to 0.35 per 100,000 people—a 95% reduction since the 1960s. That’s not because of fewer disasters, but better capabilities to deal with them.

Interesting that the report
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Concludes
Mankind creates faster than they can squander, and repairs more than they can destroy.

The last of this is our sole hope, Ward, but it is a really stupid thing to bet on as the stakes rise.

The first is very much the point of one of the things we keep telling you and you keep ignoring:

  Quite the opposite. But believe what you want.
The whole point of the reports is that the world is defeating poverty giving the poorer countries a better chance to prosper.

[josh]

Global warming? 
A challenge.
But according to the International Database of Disasters
wealthy societies are well-positioned to develop clean technologies and to deal with the problems of a changing climate. Annual deaths from climate-related disasters declined by one-third between 2000-09 and 2010-15, to 0.35 per 100,000 people—a 95% reduction since the 1960s. That’s not because of fewer disasters, but better capabilities to deal with them.

Interesting that the report
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Concludes
Mankind creates faster than they can squander, and repairs more than they can destroy.

The last of this is our sole hope, Ward, but it is a really stupid thing to bet on as the stakes rise.

The first is very much the point of one of the things we keep telling you and you keep ignoring:

  Quite the opposite. But believe what you want.
The whole point of the reports is that the world is defeating poverty giving the poorer countries a better chance to prosper.

And my point is that it is not happening fast enough to counter the rise of the oceans under the current level of international effort.

"A better chance" won't do the job under the current circumstances.

I'm a big fan of tech, Ward. I know some of the ideas we have to alleviate the warming. But I also know that we've underestimated the acceleration of some of the big factors - Greenland chief among them. While 2013-2017 were a good chunk below the peak years, 2011-2012, in particular, they were still many times worse in ice loss than the 1990s and 2000s. 2018 was roughly the same as the worst year. The increase in the 2010s was consistent with the models, through 2017, in total. If the new level becomes the norm or worse, then the models are broken and not in a direction that is good for folks along the coasts.



I get that you read that and are not worried, Ward.

I think your understanding of science sucks.

[josh]

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/australia-slips-backwards-in-global-gender-gap-rank-again/?fbclid=IwAR03X3mwVP8vHeiskEiHsfHYlTJRi3zHx8I9z2fSysJtBWktatVl4tmOJbQ

[bambu.]

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/australia-slips-backwards-in-global-gender-gap-rank-again/?fbclid=IwAR03X3mwVP8vHeiskEiHsfHYlTJRi3zHx8I9z2fSysJtBWktatVl4tmOJbQ

Like I've said here before..."see who wins the [downunder] gender war".

https://ipa.org.au/ipa-today/shut-up-you-white-males

Shut Up, You White Males

Earlier this week news broke of a controversial workshop entitled “How privilege manifests in tutorials” run at the University of Melbourne by the Student Union’s Environment ­Collective. Those running the workshop argued that “white males” and students that look like “Liberal [Conservative] voters”, should be discouraged from speaking to provide more space for women and non-binary people to contribute during tutorials.

What is worse is this is not the only example, we saw similar inaction from the University of Sydney when the union debating club released a system of quotas that actively discriminated against white male students.

Demanding that people “that look like liberal voters” must remain silent reveals the true intent of those running this workshop and pushing this agenda.

Apart from being incredibly sexist and racist to white male students, it is hard to see how this identity politics is at all empowering to young women. This policy is incredibly patronising and insulting to women. This workshop, whilst in a rush to paint all white men and conservatives as the enemy, also implied that women attending higher education are so fragile, such sweet delicate flowers, that a male simply sharing their ideas in a tutorial would scare them into silence. This is not empowerment; it is condescending puritanical nonsense that belongs back in the 19th century.

[bodiddley]

Vulnerable Democrats fall in line behind Trump impeachment

[kiidcarter8]

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-got-hands-u-tomahawk-220000784.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

So much winning.

Such a well planned and executed withdrawal from Syria.

So what if Russia got its hands on our tomahawk missle and plans to counter it, right? They're our boss friend, now, aren't they?!

Friends close.  Enemies closer.