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Source Article from Hits: 49 Can The World Unite For The Climate Crisis March 25th 2019 Jesus Christ exposed the Jews Can The World Unite For The Climate Crisis Above: Extinction Rebellion organized Rebellion Day on Saturday November 17 2018 By Kevin J Frost – ShutterStock A team of researchers at Tufts University recently analyzed over five million scenarios predicting the future of the climate to answer the question of whether or not we can stay within the 2° C increase in temperature that is considered to be tolerable The answer is uncertain as most of the scenarios were pessimistic They report: “The massive analysis shows that meeting that target is exceptionally difficult in all but the most optimistic climate scenarios” They conclude that what is certain is the only hope for a livable future is to take swift action now to achieve “carbon-neutral energy production by 2030” Tim Radford of Climate News Network writes “Unless the world collectively and in concert takes drastic steps to slow or halt global warming generations to come face an intolerable prospect” Can the world unite to address the climate crisis While millions of people are taking action toward that end the US government Wall Street and fossil fuel profiteers continue to put profit before the good of people and the planet Local climate activists participated in the global launch of the Fossil Fuel Finance On the eve of the report release Chase Bank branches were illuminated by light projections related to the report finds Photo by Erik McGregor Progress on Reducing Carbon Emissions A new report published by Rainforest Action Network this week the Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card finds that 33 banks have invested 19 trillion in fossil fuel companies since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed at the end of 2015 The four top investors are US banks: JP Morgan Chase Wells Fargo CitiBank and Bank of America accounting for 57844 billion Activists in New York City raised awareness of the report using light projections and holding an action at a Chase Bank branch on Wall Street All of this investment is leading to increasing greenhouse gas emissions After flattening out a bit from 2014 to 2016 CO2 emissions are on the rise again and are expected to increase more this year The rise is primarily due to energy use The United States is currently the largest crude oil producer in the world This week Mike Pompeo met with oil and gas industry executives in Houston to remind them of their vital role in fueling the wars to control the world’s oil Bill Van Auken reports “Pompeo’s speech provided a blunt description of US predatory aims across the planet that involve the interests of the American-based energy conglomerates” He was open about US imperialist aims regarding oil in Iran and Venezuela According to the University of Michigan in 2018 80 of the energy used in the US came from oil gas and coal Only 11 came from “renewable sources” and over 40 of that was biomass which includes burning wood products or trash ethanol and biodiesel Biofuelwatch opposes biomass because of the large amount of land required for it the large amount of energy used to produce it and the carbon emissions Burning waste also poisons the air We have a long way to go in the United States to achieve 100 clean renewable sources of energy The largest source of new energy in the US last year was gas In 2018 there was a slight reduction in the installation of solar energy with 106 GW of new capacity New wind energy increased by 8 with the addition of almost eight megawatts a megawatt is one-thousandth of a gigawatt Wave and tidal energy production are just emerging in the US So far new renewable sources of energy are not displacing the use of fossil fuels they are simply adding to the energy we already use In addition to reducing carbon emissions carbon sequestration is also necessary to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere which is now well past the goal of 350 parts per million New farming techniques called regenerative agriculture and restoration of wetlands can store large amounts of carbon These are receiving more attention in the US SAEED KHAN / AFP / Getty Images Growing Climate Justice Movement As we have reported there are efforts across the US to stop new fossil fuel infrastructure They are definitely slowing projects down and are succeeding in some places Resistance comes in the form of pressure on agencies and lawmakers to stop permits from being given physical blockades and lawsuits This week a federal judge ruled in a case brought by a coalition of environmental groups to stop drilling for oil and gas on public lands The ruling means public land in Wyoming can’t be sold for fracking and that drilling has to stop on more than 300000 acres Another court decision this week by the United States Court of Appeals prevents TransCanada from starting construction on the Keystone XL pipeline The case is ongoing but this means construction will not be done this year Some of the most amazing climate justice activity is originating outside the US Last August then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg of Sweden started a “school strike for climate” outside the parliament building The strike became a weekly action that has now inspired students across the globe On Friday March 15 14 million youth protested in a climate strike in 2000 cities around the world in 120 countries In Milan Italy the largest gathering there was an estimated 100000 people in the streets Here are photos of those marches In the US YES Magazine reports half of the student leaders behind the climate strike are black and brown They use horizontal organizing with an intersectional lens They also use social media to communicate with each other Another global effort the Extinction Rebellion arose in the United Kingdom last fall The Extinction Rebellion is a nonviolent movement targeting governments for their failure to act on climate Participants hold creative actions like this one in Scotland where they used blue paint to create footprints that symbolize the need to take action in the streets Extinction Rebellion organizers in the US have issued a call to action for protests during the week leading up to Earth Day April 15 to 22 Both of these growing efforts require self-initiative Anyone can join them by organizing activities in their community So the good news is there is a growing climate justice movement in the US and around the world The critical questions are whether it will have enough of an impact and in time to potentially make a difference That is up to us We can no longer sit this one out If you need some inspiration listen to the words of Greta Thunberg about our dire situation: “We do need hope Of course we do But the one thing we need more than hope is action Once we start to act hope is everywhere So instead of looking for hope look for action Then and only then hope will come” And listen to our interviews with Marijn Van de Geer New Movement Arises to Force Action on Climate Change and with Dahr Jamail Finding Hope in the Midst of Climate Destruction on Clearing the FOG Upcoming events: March 28 – National Webinar on NATO and regime change in Venezuela March 30 to April 4 – Week of Actions Against NATO March against NATO and US intervention in Venezuela on Saturday March 30 Buses are being organized Visit No2NATO2019org for information about buses There will be conferences on Sunday and Tuesday a peace festival on Wednesday another march on Thursday the day NATO ministers meet in Washington DC and an event by Black Alliance for Peace that night Source Article from Hits: 37 WaPo’s ‘Hard-Line’ Stance Against Medicare For All March 25th 2019 Jesus Christ exposed the Jews WaPo’s ‘Hard-Line’ Stance Against Medicare For All Above photo: National Nurses United supporting Medicare for All A Washington Post news piece 3/11/19 claims Rep Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare for All bill “reflects the influence of hard-line liberal groups and unions” as well as “advocates on the far left” who would “upend health coverage for tens of millions of Americans” The phrase “hard-line” as commonly used in the Washington Post is almost always a pejorative Often it references official enemy states like Iran 5/4/18 5/9/18 or North Korea 1/18/19 In a recent Post 3/11/19 article however reporter Paige W Cunningham used the term to refer to a different kind of enemy: proponents of Medicare for All Among the “hard-line liberal groups and unions” the article refers to in its headline and lead is the Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities a coalition of approximately 100 national disability organizations The “hard-line” groups include much of the grassroots movements for healthcare justice in the country: National Nurses United Social Security Works and the Center for Popular Democracy These orgs—described elsewhere in the piece as “advocates on the far left”—are devoted to such “hard-line” positions as universal healthcare protecting senior citizens and empowering voters and activists The Post is concerned that these groups provided input to Rep Pramila Jayapal as she wrote the Medicare for All legislation HR 1384 she introduced in February In fact what the Post describes as “hard-line” and “far left” is actually a very popular position Medicare for All has long polled well among the public at large especially Democratic voters A Reuters poll from 2018 The Hill 8/23/18 showed 70 percent of the public 85 percent of Democrats and 52 percent of Republicans support Medicare for All That poll is the high water mark but the policy polls well in most other polls as well Politico/Harvard 1/7/19 This popular support was not mentioned by the Post In fact the article asserted that the “bill would overhaul the US healthcare system so dramatically that summoning broad public support for it seems like a tall order” Yet Medicare for All already has broad public support despite its reputation on K Street and Capitol Hill—and evidently in the Washington Post’s newsroom Acceptably mainstream groups Neera Tanden an opponent of Medicare for All that the Washington Post thinks should have been consulted on a Medicare for All bill Washington Post photo by Larry French/Getty Images The Post article tried to marginalize Medicare for All advocates by contrasting them with more establishment think tanks who helped design Obamacare: Instead of consulting with influential organizations such as the Center for American Progress or Families USA—two groups deeply involved in the crafting of the 2010 Affordable Care Act—staff for the Washington Democrat invited feedback over the past few months from a slew of groups further to the left Both these groups would be odd choices to get input from on a Medicare for All bill given that neither organization advocates for the policy Families USA is an especially aggressive advocate for preserving the Affordable Care Act Families USA founder Ron Pollack was quoted by Third Way 5/4/18—a corporate-funded group devoted to pushing Democrats to the right—in an essay about why Democrats should avoid the single-payer issue Cunningham failed to observe that the Center for American Progress has received donations from the likes of Blue Cross Blue Shield CVS Caremark and Americans Health Insurance Plans AHIP the largest insurance lobby in the country Politico 12/13/13 The implication from Cunningham—who has been critiqued for parroting right-wing talking points by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters 2/15/18—is that there are acceptably mainstream policies like the ACA backed by acceptably mainstream groups like CAP Jayapal and others on the other hand are going “a step or steps too far” with Medicare for All “as it would upend health coverage for tens of millions of Americans”—according “to some progressives” Assuredly “some progressives” disagree with the Medicare for All policy It is also true that “some conservatives” agree with the policy In fact you can put the word “some” before virtually any demographic group and be correct Given the volume of information about this issue available it is hard to believe the Post could not be bothered to put these vague terms in context Who are these progressives Voters or politicians Do they get money from the industry There was no information about any of that Blatant Falsehoods A since-deleted tweet from Washington Post reporter Paige Cunningham 2/14/18 said it was “super weird” that people felt the Trump administration affected their “quality of life” The Post article has several factual inaccuracies including the kicker to the “some progressives” passage which claimed Medicare for All “could cost many times more than the ACA” Almost anything could happen theoretically but this is a misleading statement at best If by “cost” Cunningham means only government expenditures then it’s almost tautological since the point of single-payer is to shift healthcare funding from private to public insurance If she’s using “cost” in a more meaningful sense—as in how much do we as a society spend on healthcare—there is really no evidence to support the idea that single-payer would cost more than the ACA The ACA had very little cost containment at all The US currently spends 18 percent of GDP and rising—the most in the world by far—on healthcare Under the most optimistic CBO projections 3/20/10 for Obamacare at its best it would leave 22 million uncovered and costs would continue to rise if at a lower rate A more recent analysis from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 2/15/17 “projects the health share of GDP to rise from 178 percent in 2015 to 199 percent by 2025” Contrarily single-payer systems—as seen around the world—are far less expensive due to savings on administrative waste and better bargaining power for drug prices In fact these savings are what make universal comprehensive care possible The cost effectiveness of Medicare for All is its main attraction Even the the Mercatus study with its ties to the Koch brothers said Medicare for All would cost 2 trillion less over 10 years than what we are projected to pay now The Nation 7/31/18 The Post mentions the new bill would use “global budgets” and claims this would “open…the door for hospitals in different parts of the country to receive different payments for the same service” The problem as the national advocacy group Healthcare-Now! explains in a tweet is that the global budgets by design don’t use a pay-for-service model with hospitals “The whole point of moving to global budgets is that you’re no longer paying hospitals per service which she herself notes earlier in the paragraph” Ben Day the executive director of HealthCare Now! explained to FAIR Critics of single-payer often claim the polls are misleading because “voters don’t understand how such a system would work” Forbes 3/19/18 Their understanding of the issue is not likely to improve after reading the Post’s coverage Messages can be sent to the Washington Post at letterswashpostcom or via Twitter washingtonpost Please remember that respectful communication is the most effective Source Article from Hits: 42 South Dakota Rushes To Outlaw Protests Against Oil Pipeline March 25th 2019 Jesus Christ exposed the Jews South Dakota Rushes To Outlaw Protests Against Oil Pipeline Above: As protests against oil pipelines persist so does the crackdown on First Amendment rights often in the guise of protecting infrastructure or public safety By Rpbyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images South Dakota Gov Kristi Noem R plans to thwart demonstrations reminiscent of the Standing Rock protests in her home state by criminalizing protesters of the multibillion-dollar TransCanada’s XL Keystone oil pipeline The Republican-dominated South Dakota legislature rushed through two bills that would chill protest and protect the pipeline business amid intense opposition Native activists and legal experts say the legislation violates the First Amendment and would not hold up in court SB 189 aims to formalize merging the identity of the state and corporations by creating a fund “to offset costs incurred by riot boosting” and SB 190 would create a fund to pay the costs incurred by the state or local governments responding to protests “They will certainly be challenged” said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund a legal nonprofit in Washington DC who called the two GOP-backed bills “dangerous” “What the state is doing is creating broad discretion to suppress demonstrations They are creating penalties that will threaten to bankrupt demonstrators through this riot-booting law What we are really seeing is the public officials codifying the use of public police as private security for corporate interests” she said That happened during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests where 761 people were arrested in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017 and the state spent 38 million policing the protests Most of the cases were dropped but some protesters have served jail time As protests against oil pipelines persist so does the crackdown on First Amendment rights often in the guise of protecting infrastructure or public safety Introduced by Noem on March 4 both bills passed the house and state senate on March 7 and include emergency provisions to allow them to take effect immediately and prevent a public vote Before jamming the anti-protest bills through toward the end of the legislative session Noem reportedly consulted TransCanada in February but not any of the seven tribal nations in South Dakota The bills are now heading to her desk to be signed Harold Frazier chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes said in a statement that he was disappointed with the governor for “shoving these pipelines down our throats This legislation only shows they are more concerned with saving money while suppressing South Dakotans’ rights of assembly and intimidating anyone who is considering options to stand up for what they believe is right” This is not the first time Republican legislators have tried to curb free speech with anti-protest measures In 2017 South Dakota limited the number of protesters in established “public safety zones” on highways with violators to face jail time Oregon tried to expel public college students convicted of rioting and legislators in Oklahoma specified penalties of up to 100000 in fines and ten years in prison for people harming “critical infrastructure” “These two bills seem really out of touch” said Frank James staff director of Dakota Rural Action who took issue with a “bad process” that rushed the bills through at the end of the 40-day session limiting opportunities for opponents to organize against them “Usually the governor will introduce bills by the deadline to introduce bills which is in January They hadn’t come in the last full week of the session when they had to suspend the rules to introduce the bills and had them pushed through the committee and floor votes in 72 hours” Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Rodney M Bordeaux said in a statement that Noem the recipient of significant campaign contributions from the oil and energy industries did not notify Native groups of these bills “The timing is dubious and seems to be an underhanded tactic this late in the session” he said “The bill creates a new theory of civil recovery and invents a new term: ‘riot boosting’ The bills purport to allow the recovery of triple damages against anyone who participates directly or indirectly in a protest where violence or the threat of violence allegedly occurs whether or not that person engaged in the violent activity and even if that person is not physically present when the alleged violence occurs” Tribal and environmental groups have protested the 1184-mile oil pipeline—located mostly in the United States—that would carry more than 800000 barrels of crude oil from Canada to Nebraska since it was proposed over a decade ago to carry oil to Gulf Coast refineries TransCanada markets the project as “the safest pipeline ever built” It has already faced regulatory and corrosion issues and leaked several times most recently in Missouri and in November in South Dakota A Reuters report in November found it has leaked nearly 243000 gallons of crude oil since it started operating in 2010 The 38 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline also labeled safe by Energy Transfer Partners was pushed through despite inspiring the largest Native American resistance worldwide and despite lawsuits citing Native environmental and treaty rights The pipeline—moving North Dakota oil to Illinois—opened in June 2017 and has leaked at least five times in the first six months of its operation the Intercept reported The biggest was a 168-gallon leak near the endpoint in Illinois in April 2017 Environmental groups like Greenpeace the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council that oppose these oil pipeline projects have long been concerned about the pipeline’s potential to increase carbon emissions spill dirty oil affect climate change and the country’s clean energy future President Trump in 2017 approved the federal permit for the oil pipeline that President Obama had rejected over concerns of greenhouse gas emissions In February a federal judge in Montana kept in place an injunction that blocks TransCanada from conducting preliminary work Construction on the oil pipeline remains blocked after a federal appeals court last week upheld that decision the Associated Press reported Meanwhile the existing Keystone pipeline has leaked “substantially more oil and more often in the United States” than ever indicated to regulators by TransCanada Reuters reported Evidence-based journalism is the foundation of democracy RewireNews is devoted to evidence-based reporting on reproductive and sexual health rights and justice and the intersections of race environmental immigration and economic justice As a non-profit that doesn’t accept advertising or corporate support we rely on our readers for funding Please support our fact-based journalism today Support RewireNews Source Article from Hits: 38 Funding The Green New Deal Without Raising Taxes And Creating Massive Debt March 25th 2019 Jesus Christ exposed the Jews Funding The Green New Deal Without Raising Taxes And Creating Massive Debt As alarm bells sound over the advancing destruction of the environment a variety of Green New Deal proposals have appeared in the US and Europe along with some interesting academic debates about how to fund them Monetary policy normally relegated to obscure academic tomes and bureaucratic meetings behind closed doors has suddenly taken center stage The 14 page proposal for a Green New Deal submitted to the US House of Representatives by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez does not actually mention Modern Monetary Theory but that is th it’s e approach currently capturing the attention of the media – and taking most of the heat The concept is good: abundance can be ours without worrying about taxes or debt at least until we hit full productive capacity But the devil is in the details… MMT advocates say the government does not need to collect taxes before it spends It actually creates new money in the process of spending it and there is plenty of room in the economy for public spending before demand outstrips supply driving up prices Critics however say this is not true The government is not allowed to spend before it has the money in its account and the money must come from tax revenues or bond sales In a 2013 treatise called “Modern Monetary Theory 101: A Reply to Critics” MMT academics actually concede this point But they write that “these constraints do not change the end result” and here the argument gets a bit technical Their reasoning is that “The Fed is the monopoly supplier of CB currency central bank reserves Treasury spends by using CB currency and since the Treasury obtained CB currency by taxing and issuing treasuries CB currency must be injected before taxes and bond offerings can occur” The counterargument made by American Monetary Institute researchers among others is that the central bank is not the monopoly supplier of dollars The vast majority of the dollars circulating in the United States are created not by the government but by private banks when they make loans The Fed accommodates this process by supplying central bank currency bank reserves as needed and this bank-created money can be taxed or borrowed by the Treasury before a single dollar is spent by Congress The AMI researchers contend “All bank reserves are originally created by the Fed for banks Government expenditure merely transfers previous bank reserves back to banks” As the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis puts it “federal deficits do not require that the Federal Reserve purchase more government securities therefore federal deficits per se need not lead to increases in bank reserves or the money supply” What federal deficits do increase is the federal debt and while the debt itself can be rolled over from year to year as it virtually always is the exponentially growing interest tab is one of those mandatory budget items that taxpayers must pay Predictions are that in the next decade interest alone could add 1 trillion to the annual bill an unsustainable tax burden To fund a project as massive as the Green New Deal we need a mechanism that involves neither raising taxes nor adding to the federal debt and such a mechanism is actually proposed in the US Green New Deal – a network of public banks While little discussed in the US media that alternative is being debated in Europe where Green New Deal proposals have been on the table since 2008 European economists have had more time to think these initiatives through and they are less hampered by labels like “socialist” and “capitalist” which have long been integrated into their multiparty systems A Decade of Gestation in Europe The first Green New Deal proposal was published in 2008 by the New Economics Foundation on behalf of the Green New Deal Group in the UK The latest debate is between proponents of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 DiEM25 led by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and French economist Thomas Piketty author of the best-selling Capital in the 21st Century Piketty recommends funding a European Green New Deal by raising taxes while Varoufakis favors a system of public green banks Varoufakis explains that Europe needs a new source of investment money that does not involve higher taxes or government deficits DiEM25 proposes for this purpose “an investment-led recovery or New Deal program … to be financed via public bonds issued by Europe’s public investment banks eg the new investment vehicle foreshadowed in countries like Britain the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund in the European Union etc” To ensure that these bonds do not lose their value the central banks would stand ready to buy them above a certain yield “In summary DiEM25 is proposing a re-calibrated real-green investment version of Quantitative Easing that utilizes the central bank Public development banks already have a successful track record in Europe and their debts are not considered debts of the government They are financed not through taxes but by the borrowers when they repay the loans Like other banks development banks are moneymaking institutions that not only don’t cost the government money but actually generate a profit for it DiEM25 collaborator Stuart Holland observes: While Piketty is concerned to highlight differences between his proposals and those for a Green New Deal the real difference between them is that his—however well-intentioned—are a wish list for a new treaty a new institution and taxation of wealth and income A Green New Deal needs neither treaty revisions nor new institutions and would generate both income and direct and indirect taxation from a recovery of employment It is grounded in the precedent of the success of the bond-funded Roosevelt New Deal which from 1933 to 1941 reduced unemployment from over a fifth to less than a tenth with an average annual fiscal deficit of only 3 per cent Roosevelt’s New Deal was largely funded through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation RFC a public financial institution set up earlier by President Hoover Its funding source was the sale of bonds but proceeds from the loans repaid the bonds leaving the RFC with a net profit The RFC financed roads bridges dams post offices universities electrical power mortgages farms and much more and it funded all this while generating income for the government A System of Public Banks and “Green QE” The US Green New Deal envisions funding with “a combination of the Federal Reserve and a new public bank or system of regional and specialized public banks” which could include banks owned locally by cities and states As Sylvia Chi chair of the legislative committee of the California Public Banking Alliance explains on Mediumcom: The Green New Deal relies on a network of public banks — like a decentralized version of the RFC — as part of the plan to help finance the contemplated public investments This approach has worked in Germany where public banks have been integral in financing renewable energy installations and energy efficiency retrofits Local or regional public banks says Chi could help pay for the Green New Deal by making “low-interest loans for building and upgrading infrastructure deploying clean energy resources transforming our food and transportation systems to be more sustainable and accessible and other projects The federal government can help by for example capitalizing public banks setting environmental or social responsibility standards for loan programs or tying tax incentives to participating in public bank loans” UK professor Richard Murphy adds another role for the central bank – as the issuer of new money in the form of “Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing” Murphy who was a member of the original 2008 UK Green New Deal Group explains: All QE works by the central bank buying debt issued by the government or other bodies using money that it quite literally creates out of thin air … This money creation process is … what happens every time a bank makes a loan All that is unusual is that we are suggesting that the funds created by the central bank using this process be used to buy back debt that is due by the government in one of its many forms meaning that it is effectively canceled The invariable objection to that solution is that it would act as an inflationary force driving up prices but as argued in my earlier article here this need not be the case There is a chronic gap between debt and the money available to repay it that actually needs to be filled with new money every year to avoid a “balance sheet recession” As UK Prof Mary Mellor formulates the problem in Debt or Democracy 2016 page 42: A major contradiction of tying money supply to debt is that the creators of the money always want more money back than they have issued Debt-based money must be continually repaid with interest As money is continually being repaid new debt must be being generated if the money supply is to be maintained… This builds a growth dynamic into the money supply that would frustrate the aims of those who seek to achieve a more socially and ecologically sustainable economy In addition to interest says Mellor there is the problem that bankers and other rich people generally do not return their profits to local economies Unlike public banks which must use their profits for local needs the wealthy hoard their money invest it in the speculative markets hide it in offshore tax havens or send it abroad To avoid the cyclical booms and busts that have routinely devastated the US economy this missing money needs to be replaced and if the new money is used to pay down debt it will be extinguished along with the debt leaving the overall money supply and the inflation rate unchanged If too much money is added to the economy it can always be taxed back but as MMTers note we are a long way from the full productive capacity that would “overheat” the economy today Murphy writes of his Green QE proposal: The QE program that was put in place between 2009 and 2012 had just one central purpose which was to refinance the City of London and its banks… What we are suggesting is a smaller programme … to kickstart the UK economy by investing in all those things that we would wish our children to inherit whilst creating the opportunities for everyone in every city town village and hamlet in the UK to undertake meaningful and appropriately paid work A network of public banks including a central bank operated as a public utility could similarly fund a US Green New Deal – without raising taxes driving up the federal debt or inflating prices This article was first published under a different title on Truthdigcom Ellen Brown is an attorney founder of the Public Banking Institute and author of twelve books including Web of Debt and The Public Bank Solution A 13th book titled Banking on the People: Democratizing Finance in the Digital Age is due out soon She also co-hosts a radio program on PRNFM called “It’s Our Money” Her 300 blog articles are posted at EllenBrowncom Source Article from Hits: 33 Join WordPresscom for an International Women’s Day Livestream Panel March 24th 2019 Jesus Christ exposed the Jews On International Women’s Day this Friday WordPresscom parent company Automattic is hosting four outstanding women tech leaders for a livestreamed conversation about professional advancement technology and mutual support as we strive for equity in the workplace It’s happening Friday March 8 at 6 pm UTC / 1 pm ET / 10 am PT Signups are limited to 500 people so RSVP now to reserve a spot You can also follow the conversation on Twitter at the hashtags a8cIWD2019 and IWD2019 We’re proud to welcome panelists with a diverse range of expertise Eli Budelli is WordPresscom’s lead of mobile development Yelp software engineer Tanvi Patel is part of the review platform’s core web team and an outspoken advocate for equality in tech and health Crystle Johnson senior manager of diversity and inclusion at Pandora is an expert in embedding inclusion in hiring and talent retention she is also the founder of the Red Lip Collective which empowers young women of color through mentorship and professional development And Diana Chiu senior manager of business development at DuckDuckGo brings deep knowledge of partnerships and MampA cultivated over a decade working across tech aviation and biotech The event will be moderated by Maria Scarpello customer success advocate for Automattic Share tweet The hour-long discussion will cover how to develop women leaders create support systems for sustainable careers and harness the power of self-awareness and self-validation As a distributed company with more than 800 employees in over 60 countries Automattic sees inclusion and diversity as a constantly evolving idea We know that diverse teams make better products and we also know that there is always more work to do We hope that attendees of this panel across career stages gender and location will leave with at least one new strategy for using their voice at work and uplifting the voices of others Email Newsletter Source Article from Hits: 122 Cyclone Idai death toll reaches 732 hundreds still missing PHOTOS VIDEO March 24th 2019 Jesus Christ exposed the Jews Survivors are struggling to deal with the aftermath of the huge disaster with an estimated 1 million people affected in Mozambique alone Tens of thousands have sought refuge in emergency shelters after hurricane-force winds of up to 200kph and heavy flooding forced them from their homes The UN has repeated calls for emergency support to help aid agencies cope with the immediate impact of the disaster while the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warned that cases of cholera have been reported in Beira Mozambique READ MORE: Number of people killed in Mozambique cyclone flooding could rise to 1000 – president The storm brought intense rainfall and heavy flooding which submerged whole villages and washed away huge swathes of agricultural land Think your friends would be interested Share this story! Source Article from Hits: 65 Ford facing legal claims over Explorer SUV ‘carbon monoxide poisoning’ March 24th 2019 Jesus Christ exposed the Jews According to a Bloomberg report 3000 Ford Explorer users have reported they suspect exhaust gases have leaked into their vehicle and that they’ve experienced some of the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning which include headache dizziness nausea and loss of consciousness In one instance Ford Explorer owner Bert Henriksen was told by his doctor that his carbon monoxide exposure was consistent with someone who had been in a house fire Also on rtcom Electric cars will kill oil demand within decade Bank of America predicts When Ford investigated some of the claims it found the Explorer exhaust system wasn’t welded properly and gaps were left through which the exhaust gases could escape It instructed dealerships to repair the systems and Ford told CBS a repair fix that was made available in 2017 “effectively resolves that matter” however a number of owners say the fix offered wasn’t good enough The first complaints about exhaust smells were made soon after the fifth-generation Explorer started production in 2011 A Ford employee was the first to note the issue but Ford found that the circumstances in which the issue occurred took place outside “typical customer use” Ford spokesman Mike Levine told Bloomberg that the company’s testing showed the SUVs were safe saying: “Ford’s investigation has not found carbon monoxide levels that exceed what people are exposed to every day” Also on rtcom WATCH: Insane NASCAR crash triggers carnage at Daytona 500 At least 50 customers have taken legal action against the company over the exhaust leaks Ford has also bought back many of the vehicles from unhappy customers as “goodwill gestures” with federal records showing it had bought around 100 by 2016 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA has actually been investigating the Explorer problems since 2016 Its website has numerous complaints about it Should it decide to enforce a recall Ford would stand to lose millions as the fifth generation Explorer has been on the market for eight years However proving carbon monoxide exposure is difficult as doctors don’t regularly check patients for it and the US doesn’t have a regulatory standard for how exposure is a health risk If you like this story share it with a friend! Source Article from Hits: 45 ‘Total elimination’ of ISIS in Syria US-backed forces confirm Damascus calls it a bluff March 24th 2019 Jesus Christ exposed the Jews Islamic State IS formerly ISIS suffered “total elimination” and “a 100 percent territorial defeat” SDF spokesperson Mustafa Bali announced on Saturday The news came after Kurdish forces reported heavy fighting near Baghouz in northeastern Deir ez-Zor Province along the Iraqi border Baghouz was regarded as the last remaining pocket of Islamic State resistance in Syria The SDF assisted by US airstrikes spent the past few months closing in on the militants as its troops were clearing IS holdouts along the Euphrates Valley As reports of Baghouz being on the verge of complete liberation were coming in US President Donald Trump rushed to boast of the US-led Coalition’s victories Earlier this week he showed reporters a map showcasing how IS-controlled territory has dramatically shrunk over the years and said that the militants “are losers and barely breathing” …There is nothing to admire about them they will always try to show a glimmer of vicious hope but they are losers and barely breathing Think about that before you destroy your lives and the lives of your family! — Donald J Trump realDonaldTrump March 22 2019 On Wednesday Trump even promised that IS will be “gone by tonight” despite the SDF still reporting that it was waging battles that day Syria’s envoy to the UN Bashar Jaafari dismissed Trump’s jubilant language as a “bluff” and “untrustworthy” “ISIS is not over yet in Syria” he said adding that militants are still hiding in the Rukban refugee camp located within the US-controlled area Also on rtcom Time to celebrate Trump say ISIS fully destroyed in Syria US-backed militants disagree Russia and Syria have tried to get the camp closed down and have the refuges evacuated Attempts to do so were prevented by the US military Moscow said The UN meanwhile has sounded the alarm on the horrible “stone age” conditions that refugees face in Rukban Source Article from Hits: 50 « Older Entries |
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