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Greengordon

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We need to move fast on climate and we’re still going in the wrong direction. We cannot get there without social justice and equality - all eco and justice groups need to pin forces.
I blog occasionally about how narcissists and other sociopaths have most of the power and are literally driving us of the climate cliff: www.briangordon.ca.

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Greengordon, to DuckDuckGo
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Not a good sign:

"We're currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search. Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row.
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Greengordon, to Israel
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Israel is a terrorist state, latest example:

"‘At that point the army gathered us and ordered us to raise our hands on the walls,” he said. “The settlers were free to terrorise us. I have never been attacked so brutally before."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/palestinian-lorry-drivers-israeli-settlers-attack-gaza-aid-convoy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to climate
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Wow, I can't imagine another group of professionals that has "almost a quarter" of its membership protesting. That should be a clue how serious climate change is.

"Almost a quarter of the scientists said they had participated in climate protests, as citizens who are deeply worried about global heating. This included scientists from every continent, including those from the US, Argentina, Germany, Bangladesh, Kenya and Australia."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/what-are-the-most-powerful-climate-actions-you-can-take?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to climate
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Gentleman appears to be blaming covid lockdowns for mental health issues among young people, which in turn is causing high absenteeism. It couldn't be that the pandemic is not over, nooo.

"the number of people out of the labour force because of ill health is up by a third on pre-pandemic levels."

Also no mention of the when wondering why despair is doubling.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/12/pandemic-impact-wellbeing-mental-health-young-and-economy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to climate
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The world that capitalism and conservatives have created/destroyed:

"almost a fifth of the female climate experts who responded have chosen to have no children, or fewer children, due to the environmental crises afflicting the world."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/10/climate-scientists-starting-families-children?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to random
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This is what happens when you run anything, including universities, as for-profit businesses rather than what they are and should be.

"It's a cash cow," said Richard Kurland, an immigration lawyer and policy analyst in Vancouver. "Each student likely generates at least $20,000 for an educational institution, and we're talking about thousands and thousands of students."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/international-student-study-permits-data-1.7125827

Greengordon, to climate
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To those who complain the Palestine protests are ‘too much,’ wait until you see the climate ‘protests’ (possibly riots) that are coming soon.

"Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.

“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,”

Greengordon, to climate
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It’s like Biden and Democrats are trying to lose, trying to stir up more angry and disillusioned people to protest.

“The Biden administration was wrong to use an emergency measure to stop youth plaintiffs from having their day in court,” she said in a statement. “The real emergency is the climate emergency.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/youth-climate-lawsuit-juliana-appeals-court

Greengordon, to Israel
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Do Biden and the Dwmocrats want to lose? Are they that beholden to Zionist lobbyists? (Yes, they are.)

"Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/not-like-other-passovers-hundreds-of-jewish-demonstrators-arrested-after-new-york-protest-seder?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to random
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Elon Musk's Starlink pollution is an unprofitable dead end.

"trying to provide the entire globe with internet via satellites — instead of expanding coverage with cell towers where needed — could prove difficult, with speeds already beginning to decrease in 2022.

"In other words, SpaceX will have to pump out untold numbers of satellites to keep up with quickly growing bandwidth demands."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/huge-problem-spacex-starlink-profit

Greengordon, to Canada
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This is a horrific story but a pretty good indicator of the state of Canada’s once-vaunted healthcare system.

This quadriplegic gentlemen goes to the hospital after his third respiratory infection in three months. ( )

They put him on a stretcher for four days! He develops a large bedsore that will take months to heal, if it ever does - muscle and bone were exposed.

He elects for Medical Assistance in Dying.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/assisted-death-quadriplegic-quebec-man-er-bed-sore-1.7171209

Greengordon, to climate
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This, this is pure bullshit:

"“The world can’t afford this transition without carbon credits..."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/11/climate-target-organisation-faces-staff-revolt-over-carbon-offsetting-plan-sbti?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to Israel
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On Netanyahu:

“He’s going to end up being one of the most successful politicians and most destructive public servants to be on the world stage in the last quarter century, because he’s successful if you measure it by maintaining his own position but...he...has made Israel less safe and less secure, there’s a real lesson there. You can be successful as a candidate and as a politician but end up being unsuccessful or even destructive as a public servant.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/11/tim-kaine-interview-biden-israel-netanyahu?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to random
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@sleepfreeparent @onepict @cstross @alex

British meritocracy in action:

"0.3% of the British population owns 66% of the country, and these 160,000 families who own two-thirds of Great Britain largely descend from the army of William the Conqueror — the first Norman King of England who first conquered the country in 1066."

Greengordon, to Israel
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Netanyahu is almost certainly a sociopath, as are Trump and Putin. Everything they touch, dies. Netanyahu may destroy as well as Gaza if he and his fellow extremists are not stopped.

"Israel’s actions in Gaza could even lead the EU to debate “whether we continue with this strategic relation or not”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/spain-ireland-eu-critics-israel-warfare-gaza?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to random
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Laying the foundation to privatize Canadian health care:

"medical students are not applying to family medicine," Barber said. "It's because during medical school the students work with family doctors and train under family doctors. They see how stressful it is, how underfunded it is and how unhappy that the family doctors are."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-family-doctor-residents-shortage-1.7151071

Greengordon, to random
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We have investigated ourselves and concluded we did nothing wrong, as usual:

"All criminal charges have been dropped against three Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers who were accused in a deadly police shooting that killed a father and toddler in Kawartha Lakes, Ont."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/kawartha-lakes-shooting-opp-officers-1.7154323

Greengordon, to Canada
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This article largely blames social media for this:

“For the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, happiness has decreased in all age groups, but especially for the young, so much so that the young are now, in 2021-23, the least happy age group,”

Sure, it’s not the climate crisis, our leaders pandering to the rich, crackdowns on protests, rising autocracy by old white men, skyrocketing housing prices…nah, it’s social media.

Greengordon, to random
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Polly is a pathological liar and Conservatives are fools - and not nice ones. Every single election, almost every media outlet in Canada endorses the Conservatives. Yet, we get this nonsense:

"We need your support to broadcast [Conservative leader] Pierre's common sense message over and around the Liberal-funded biased media,”

Greengordon, to climate
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“The playbook is this: sell consumers a product that you know is dangerous, while publicly denying or downplaying those dangers. Then, when the dangers are no longer deniable, deny responsibility and blame the consumer,”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/04/exxon-chief-public-climate-failures

Greengordon, to Israel
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This whole article indirectly makes a clear case for Israel being a terrorist state.

"a video sent by the surgeon to our chat of an operating room nurse who was shot in the chest while working in the surgical wing of the hospital."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/we-started-a-group-chat-to-help-fellow-doctors-in-gaza-then-it-went-quiet?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to Israel
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"On 12 August, in what would later be dubbed “Black Thursday”, Israeli jets bombed Beirut for 11 consecutive hours, killing more than 100 people. That same day, a horrified Ronald Reagan placed a phone call to Menachem Begin, then Israeli prime minister, to “express his outrage” and condemn the “needless destruction and bloodshed”.

“Menachem, this is a holocaust,” Reagan told Begin.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/21/biden-stop-gaza-bombing-genocide-israel?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to climate
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What a coincidence, exactly the same problem in Canada. Capitalism and capitalists gotta go or they'll take us all down.

"The area devastated by fire in Chile this week has huge, densely populated forests made up of non-native trees grown for the timber trade. This allowed the fire to spread quickly"

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/13/megafires-wildfires-chile-argentina-south-america?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to random
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100%. They have no clue what a narcissistic psychopath is like. I hear some in Germany thought they'd 'handle' Hitler, too.

"People close to the prime minister and within the Labour leader’s circle claim they would find a way to “handle” Trump and “make it work”. That is stupendously naive and conceited."

#narcissist #uspol #ukpol

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/28/the-threatened-return-of-donald-trump-endangers-the-uk-most-vital-interests?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Greengordon, to Israel
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"this is not the first time Israel has been accused of genocide.... In 1982, the UN general assembly found Israel responsible for an act of genocide against the Palestinian people living in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. The vote was 123 to 0. The US abstained. The three days of killings, of mostly women and children, were overseen by Ariel Sharon, a man who would later become Israel’s prime minister. ...no one was ever held to account."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/28/icj-ruling-gaza-wake-up-call-for-washington?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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