My friend Kami Rita Sherpa summitted Mt Everest for a record 29th time a couple days ago. Read about our first conversation here where he talks about what he does for a living and why. When he returns I will speak with him again about this latest accomplishment. https://robertvanwey.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-kami-rita-sherpa
For everyone salivating over what looks like a high chance of conviction of Trump. I worked *many Falsifying Business Record cases in the NY crim justice system, many of them felonies. None of them went to jail. Not. One. You think this judge will put the 10+ time gag-order violator in jail? He hasn't yet, despite MANY people going in for that. Prison sentence on FBR charges? Not a chance.
"Long before the day of the election, Trump supporters seemed keenly aware of his tenuous chances of victory in the upcoming election...At 2:21 am on November 4, Fox News correctly called Arizona for former VP Joe Biden. This was the proverbial nail in the Trump campaign’s coffin...With the loss now essentially final, Trump associates kicked their seditious conspiracy into motion...Here is the story of the attempted soft coup to overthrow the United States of America." https://medium.com/@evidencefiles/just-say-we-won-193d373eec6b
Why is anyone shocked at the state of politics in the USA where:
-uni-lingual people think multi-lingual people who speak Eng w/an accent are dumber than they are
-there are people who believe the Earth is flat
-less than a quarter can name even half the SCOTUS judges
-less than half know how a bill becomes a law
-people believe more guns will solve gun crimes
-people who complain about crime support a candidate facing 88 criminal charges
-people think weather and climate are the same thing
Since I returned to the US and have been watching YouTube from an American IP address, I am somehow still astonished at what an ad-ridden trash heap it has become.
Imagine the irony that humans built civilization on about a dozen millenia of stable climate, and they will destroy it in a few centuries of their own destabilization of that same climate... because of the way they built civilization.
@Wen I very much appreciate that, and I am always happy to hear proper critiques. Although, now you have me paying extra attention to my words as tomorrow I am giving a Ted talk and don't want to leave a stinking bomb in the room like that!
It is after midnight here and I'm stuck awake despite having a day-long session tomorrow on early warnings for natural disasters. I'm distressed by how challenging it is to continue the fight to fund projects to assist people facing extraordinary climate change issues. What galls me most is that we could fund them all with the money Jeff Bezos makes in a single hour. You can see our activities at https://www.ealsglobal.org/ and https://volunteercorpsnepal.org/
More than 60 corporations paid zero federal taxes the year after Trump's 2017 tax cuts, despite making billions and profiteering off of inflated prices. https://itep.org/notadime/
Was talking to a 30-some year old European guy who cannot wrap his head around how media and commentators talk about Trump's polling or the 'matchup' with Biden. He was shocked that Trump is viewed as a candidate at all. He didn't say it, but it screamed from his expression, "WTF is wrong with you people?" He did say, "how is talking about it that way a thing?"