Saturday, November 05, 2022

5 November - Blogs I'm Following - 2 of 4

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PrairiePundit7 hours ago
The Bee does Biden ad
This is Biden in his own words. read more
The Last Refuge7 hours ago
Gubernatorial Candidate Doug Mastriano Speech During Pennsylvania MAGA Rally, Latrobe, PA (Video)
Candidate for Pennsylvania Governor Doug Mastriano, together with his wife Rebecca, deliver remarks at the MAGA campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH: . Posted in Donald Trump, Election 2022, Legislation, Live Streaming, media bias, President Trump, RSBN, Uncategorized The post Gubernatorial Candidate Doug Mastriano Speech During Pennsylvania MAGA Rally, Latrobe, PA (Video) appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more
3 Best CBD products for Athletes
There is research that suggests that CBD can deliver therapeutic benefits, and other studies have evidence that CBD may be effective in promoting the healing of skeletal injuries. This may prove especially interesting to athletes who are interested in CBD products. What to Look For As athletes, there are a few things to keep in mind when you are purchasing and using CBD products. Drug Testing If you are an athlete, one of the things that you have to undergo is drug testing. Because of this, you’ll need to purchase CBD products that have no THC, as even small amounts can fail a drug ... read more
Turcopolier8 hours ago
Cygnus CRS-2 NG-18 (S.S. Sally Ride)
This is the 18th flight of the Orbital ATK’s uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 17th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-18 (S.S. Sally Ride) (spacelaunchnow.me) read more
Fist snowfall on the local mountains
I rode out to Cypress mountain today and tried out my snowshoes. I was watching the web cam. Wednesday night they had about 6 inches of snow and by Thursday morning they had a foot. Friday was mixed snow and rain but it's a nice early start to the season. They're still working on Sky Chair. This was the view from their web cam Thursday morning. read more
balance106 hours ago
love of money
a=1, b=2, c=3, j=1, etc.; so then: accord26; diabolic, purity37. …………………… multiplying with 1.618: 57 x phi ratio=92.2; 57/1.618=35.2286; (continuing to divide by 1.618:) 21.7714; 13.457; 8.314; 5.143; adding via numerology-value some words to this phi (or golden) ratio series above we get: Ma5, aum8, way(s)13.5, stealth [or] damage21.8, clearance35.2, Duffy clique57.00 [or] hypocrisy57 [or] false feelings57 [or] love of money57, spiritual directors92.2 …………………… 0) falsity29 1) false step31, 2) false16 stance17=33, 3) false paths35, 4) false angle37, 5) false habits39, 6) false views... read more
Michael West6 hours ago
Twitter launches monthly subscription fee
Twitter has announced a subscription service for $7.99 ($A12) a month that includes a blue check now given only to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk works to overhaul the platform’s verification system. In an update to Apple iOS devices available in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Twitter said users […] read more
War News Updates7 hours ago
Is Now The Time For President Biden To Threaten "Big Oil"
*Bloomberg:* *Biden Feud With Big Oil Ratchets Up Just as World Needs More US Oil* As October drew to a close, the White House saw another potential energy flash point on the horizon. Diesel and heating oil inventories in the US Northeast were getting worryingly low. Officials swung into action, organizing a series of calls between Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and several of the country’s biggest oil refiners to discuss strategies to boost stockpiles. The tone was cordial, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But the very next working day, the oil ind... read more
"Warning! Diesel Running Out Before Thanksgiving?"
*Full screen recommended.* City Prepping, 11/5/22: *"Warning! Diesel Running Out Before Thanksgiving?"* "Diesel shortages are coming! We're hearing this a lot lately, but is it true? In this video, we'll do a deep dive to get to the truth." *Comments here:* - https://www.youtube.com/ read more
War News Updates8 hours ago
France Electrical Power Outlook Worsens Ahead Of Winter
Steam rises from cooling towers of the Electricite de France (EDF) nuclear power plant in Belleville-sur-Loire, France October 12, 2021. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier *Zero Hedge:* *French Nuclear Reactor Power Outlook Worsens Ahead Of Winter, Electricity Prices Erupt* France's nuclear troubles are mounting due primarily to routine maintenance of the country's 56 aging reactors. A new update from French electric utility company Electricite de France SA, commonly known as EDF, said an outlook for nuclear power generation was slashed ahead of winter, causing chaos in energy markets. ... read more
Medical Kidnap8 hours ago
Western Journalist Publishes Rare View Inside a China COVID-19 Quarantine Camp
British journalist Thomas Hale is the Shanghai correspondent for Financial Times, and he recently published a rare account of what life is like inside one of China's COVID-19 quarantine camps, where he was restricted for 10 days, not because he tested positive for COVID, but because he was tracked through his cell phone as being close to someone else who tested positive for COVID. The title of the article is "I spent 10 days in a secret Chinese Covid detention centre." What follows is a detailed account of his experience, which is apparently quite rare for a foreigner, and perhap... read more
"People Are Racing to Get Cash Out of the Bank"
*Full screen recommended.* Dan, iAllegedly 11/5/22: *"People Are Racing to Get Cash Out of the Bank"* "Bank of America has issued a warning that people are racing to get cash out of the bank. This is a sign of the Times. Wells Fargo is losing everything with their mortgage business." *Comments here:* - https://www.youtube.com/ read more
"The Cruelest Joke Of All..."
“The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… or end it. One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss belo... read more
The Daily "Near You?"
Commerce City, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by! read more
Western Journalist Publishes Rare View Inside a China COVID-19 Quarantine Camp
British journalist Thomas Hale is the Shanghai correspondent for Financial Times, and he recently published a rare account of what life is like inside one of China's COVID-19 quarantine camps, where he was restricted for 10 days, not because he tested positive for COVID, but because he was tracked through his cell phone as being close to someone else who tested positive for COVID. The title of the article is "I spent 10 days in a secret Chinese Covid detention centre." What follows is a detailed account of his experience, which is apparently quite rare for a foreigner, and perhap... read more
"The Object Of Life..."
"We work in the dark. We do what we can to battle the evil that would otherwise destroy us. But if a man's character is his fate, it's not a choice but a calling. Sometimes the weight of this burden causes us to falter from the fragile fortress of our mind, allowing the monster without to turn within. We are left alone staring into the abyss, into the laughing face of madness." - Fox Mulder, "X-Files" read more
Ukrainian First Lady Ordered The Grayzone’s Web Summit Cancellation
The Grayzone was disinvited from Web Summit, a tech industry mega-event in Lisbon, Portugal this November, following a personal lobbying campaign spearheaded by Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska. Zelenska was the surprise keynote speaker at Web Summit, addressing conference attendees on November 1. This outlet learned of Zelenska’s role in our cancellation from several sources close to Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave. Their accounts were confirmed in a November 3 report by the Irish Examiner, which noted that The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate “had been cancelled from th... read more
The Duran9 hours ago
Who are the most bloodthirsty U.S. Senators? (They all are.)
Eric Zuesse There is now emerging among congressional Republicans (at last) a recognition that (though they have until recently been every bit as neocon and pro-military-industrial-complex as their Democratic Party colleagues have been and are), the best path forward for the Republican Party to again come to hold the reins of power in the U.S. […] read more
Michael West9 hours ago
Twitter launches monthly subscription
Twitter has launched a subscription service for $US8 ($A12) a month that includes a blue tick now given to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the platform’s verification system just ahead of US midterm elections. In an update to Apple iOS devices, Twitter said users who “sign up now” can receive the blue […] read more
Chicago Teachers: Notes From A Fighting Union
When I stepped down as Chicago Teachers Union president earlier this year (the union has a dynamic new officer team led by Stacy Davis Gates), I did it partly because I was ready for a change, partly to make room at the top, and partly because I think we need a reckoning about the direction of the labor movement. Stepping down gives me a chance to write and speak out without the constant and overwhelming work of running a 26,000-person local. This article is the first in what I hope will be a series in which I share some of the insights CTU learned through our struggles. The Chic... read more
War News Updates10 hours ago
Russia Continues To Attack Ukraine's Civilian Infrastructure
*CNN:* *Zelensky accuses Moscow of energy ‘terrorism’ as Russian strikes knock out power for millions * Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of “energy terrorism” after Moscow’s repeated attacks on key infrastructure knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people. About 450,000 households across Kyiv were without electricity on Friday as power outages across the country continue, according to the city’s mayor Vitalii Klitschko. “It is one and a half times more than the recent days,” Klitschko said on Telegram. Across the country, about 4.5 mill... read more
Kroger-Albertsons Merger Means Layoffs, Higher Food Prices
A proposed deal between two of the biggest grocery chains in the U.S. — Kroger and Albertsons — has many thousands of workers worried about losing their jobs. It also raises the possibility of more food deserts and worsening food prices. Grocery prices have already risen by nearly 12% in the latest capitalist inflation crisis. If the deal goes through, the new corporation will control 20% of the U.S. grocery market with 5,000 stores in the 48 contiguous states. Corporate mergers are always followed by a period of consolidation of assets. That means closures of some stores and lay... read more
Activists Continue To Organize To Stop Atlanta Public Safety Training Center
Atlanta, Georgia - “Stop Cop City!” shouted Kamau Franklin, standing in front of dozens of people who recently packed into the Little Five Points Community Center. “Stop Cop City!” the crowd chanted back. The roughly 50 people who packed into the community center on Oct. 25 want to stop construction of Atlanta’s controversial plan to build a $90 million public safety training center for its police and fire departments. They are part of a larger, diverse coalition that include environmentalists, activists against police brutality, residents living near the planned training center ... read more
Scientists discovered a river longer than Thames beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Antarctica’s George VI Ice Shelf [image credit: CIRES Colorado Univ.] Interesting, but too many uncertainties at this time to reach any firm conclusions. The river system is ‘beneath kilometers of thick ice’. – – – Scientists at Imperial College London, the University of Waterloo, Canada, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, and… read more
The Poet: May Sarton, “Now I Become Myself”
*“Now I Become Myself”* “Now I become myself. It’s taken Time, many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people’s faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, “Hurry, you will be dead before —” (What? Before you reach the morning? or the end of the poem, is clear? Or love safe in the walled city?) Now to stand still, to be here, Feel my own weight and density! Now there is time and Time is young. O, in this single hour I live All of myself and do not move, I, the pursued, who madly ran, Stand still, stand still, and stop the Sun!” ~ M... read more
"Now..."
“You think you will never forget any of this, you will remember it always just the way it was. But you can’t remember it the way it was. To know it, you have to be living in the presence of it right as it is happening. It can return only by surprise. Speaking of these things tells you that there are no words for them that are equal to them or that can restore them to your mind. And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment, in this presence. But you have a li... read more
MUSINGS ON IRAQ8 hours ago
This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 5 UK and France declared war on Ottomans WWI Would lead to creation of Iraq
(Britannica) 1914 England and France declared war on Ottoman Empire Would lead Mesopotamia into WWI (Musings On Iraq review *The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies*) 1914 British Gen Delamain head of Indian Expeditionary Force told to protect oil infrastructure and only take Basra if Ottomans joined WWI (Musings On Iraq review *Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921*) (Musings On Iraq review *Iraq In World War I, From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest*) (Musings On Iraq review *When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and... read more
"Delusions of Grandeur… Or Cloak of Modesty?"
*"Delusions of Grandeur… Or Cloak of Modesty?"* By Bill Bonner "A dear reader objects to our use of the “royal we”: “Hello Bill, for the most part, I enjoy reading your Diary. However, I do find your use of the ‘royal we’ in all your writings very off-putting. Even though I’m Canadian, I despise the monarchy, and I’m sure that many in your great republic to the south share my feelings on this. Am I missing something? Has it already been explained, perhaps? If not, what is the rationale for this?” The Queen uses the “royal we” to signify that she is not speaking for herself, but fo... read more
"Maybe..."
“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes to simply be a human. Maybe, we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe, we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.” - “Grey’s Anatomy” read more
"The Brutal Truth About Violence When The SHTF"
*"The Brutal Truth About Violence When The SHTF"* Selco interviewed by Daisy Luther "Are you prepared for the extreme violence that is likely to come your way if the SHTF? No matter what your plan is, it’s entirely probable that at some point, you’ll be the victim of violence or have to perpetrate violence to survive. As always, Selco is our go-to guy on SHTF reality checks and this thought-provoking interview will shake you to your core. If you don’t know Selco, he’s from Bosnia and he lived through a year in a city that was blockaded with no utilities, no deliveries of supplies, a... read more
The Last Refuge9 hours ago
Senator Joe Manchin Pretends to be Surprised That Joe Biden is Banning Coal Powered Energy
Yesterday, Joe Biden declared that all coal-fired electricity plants in the U.S would be shut down, saying, “we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.” Today, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, the senator who gave Joe Biden the vote he needed for the ‘inflation reduction act’ also […] The post Senator Joe Manchin Pretends to be Surprised That Joe Biden is Banning Coal Powered Energy appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more
White suburban women move to the right 27 percentage points
So white liberal suburban women are turning away from the Democrats. Good for them. It would seem that these women can be mama bears after all. Perhaps pushing boys onto girls' athletic teams and into their locker rooms is not such a great draw when momma had hopes her little girl could get a college athletic scholarship or place in the Olympics. Women who were always pro-choice perhaps figured out there was something different than expelling a 6 week old fetus with 2 pills than chopping up a 9 month unborn baby ready to take her place in life. Or maybe she knows some kids dead from... read more
Vox - All9 hours ago
An atmosphere of violence: stochastic terror in American politics
[image: FBI Warns of Broad Threat to New Jersey Synagogues, Urges Caution] Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Q&A with Kurt Braddock about how rhetorical strategies can lead to violence. The political environment less than a week before the midterm elections has a broad swathe of the American public on edge, particularly after high-profile incidents of political violence — both foiled and perpetrated. According to a new poll by the Washington Post and ABC News, about 88 percent of US adults from across the political spectrum are concerned about political violence ... read more
Vox - All9 hours ago
3 Senate races that could still surprise us
[image: Former President Trump Holds Rally With Iowa Candidates In Sioux City] Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) speaks during a campaign event at Sioux Gateway Airport on November 3, 2022 in Sioux City, Iowa. | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images The unexpectedly close contests in in Iowa, Utah and Washington, briefly explained. Every cycle, there are the obvious Senate races that could decide the majority. Georgia, Pennsylvania and Nevada, for example, are the closely-watched contests that fall into this category in this year’s midterms. Beyond these, however, there are a couple of states ... read more
The Last Refuge10 hours ago
Hitch Yer’ Wagon – The Club Branding of Ron DeSantis Continues, and The Transparency is a Little Funny
Tomorrow, Sunday November 6th, President Trump will be holding a rally in Miami-Dade, Florida, for the slate of republican candidates. All of the main republican candidates, including both Florida senators, who rely on the diverse America-First MAGA movement for election victories will be there…. Except Ron DeSantis. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will not be at […] The post Hitch Yer’ Wagon – The Club Branding of Ron DeSantis Continues, and The Transparency is a Little Funny appeared first on The Last Refuge. read more
The New Dark Age10 hours ago
IMF’s pinkwashing has multifold effects on women’s health
ActionAid and Public Services International recently published a new report – The Care Contradiction – looking into how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs are impacting women workers. The report shows that although the IMF has recently come up with a Gender Mainstreaming Strategy, its actions in the field of building gender justice essentially add up to throwing sand in the observers’ eyes. read more
MSNBC – We Don’t Feel Safe
MSNBC host tells the New York governor she doesn’t feel safe and is afraid New York will become as bad as the Democrat run disaster of San Francisco. read more
Journalist Tayler Hansen Choked Out and Body-Slammed at Beto O’Rourke Event after Screaming Out Question on Transitioning Children
Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft Investigative journalist Tayler Hansen attended the Beto O’Rourke rally Thursday night in Dallas, Texas. During the rally Tayler screamed... The post Journalist Tayler Hansen Choked Out and Body-Slammed at Beto O’Rourke Event after Screaming Out Question on Transitioning Children appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
The Duran11 hours ago
Ukraine Facing Defeat; US Sends ‘Military Inspectors’ to Ukraine
Ukraine Facing Defeat; US Sends ‘Military Inspectors’ to Ukraine News Topic 663 read more
The Duran11 hours ago
Xi Jinping schools Scholz during quick trip to China
Xi Jinping schools Scholz during quick trip to China The Duran: Episode 1428 read more
The Rio Times12 hours ago
Twitter and Instagram accounts of Brazil’s most elected federal deputy suspended by court order (Update 1)
Popular Bolsonarist federal parliamentarian Nikolas Ferreira (PL, right) from Minas Gerais state was suspended from his Twitter account by court order on Friday (Nov. 4). The message "account maintained" appears on Ferreira's Twitter site. On Instagram, he shared on the same day a text about the suspension due to a court order related to an […] read more
Turcopolier13 hours ago
The Meat Grinder – TTG
Russian forces prematurely impaled an insufficient concentration of mobilized personnel on offensive pushes near Bakhmut and Vuhledar, Donetsk Oblast, wasting the fresh supply of mobilized personnel on marginal gains towards operationally insignificant settlements. Ukrainian General Staff Deputy Chief Oleksiy Hromov stated … Continue reading → read more
The Crime Panic That Helped Elect Eric Adams Is Now Turning Against Him
New York City, New York - New York City’s cop-mayor is now trying to fight against the media-contrived crime panic that helped him become mayor. Former NYPD cop Eric Adams surfed into the New York City Mayor’s office on a wave of sensationalist crime coverage by mainstream media. Adams was happy to use the non-stop, hyperbolic coverage of crime, as well as the fear engendered in the public by that coverage, in order to justify doubling down on NYC’s racist police state. However, now that he’s been mayor for almost a year and will have to accept credit or blame for what’s happeni... read more
The Left Should Resist The Propaganda War Against Beijing
Rising prices, falling living standards, a government in turmoil although united around its anti-union, anti-democratic and anti-environment agenda — but at least we don’t live in China. That’s been the message of an amplifying propaganda discourse against Beijing in the run-up to its 20th Communist Party congress, which opened today. Read Martin Wolf or Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times, and China’s economic policies are disastrous, even if they have delivered (as Rachman notes) “thousands of miles of new motorways and high-speed rail over the past 20 years” and made “Wester... read more
Bolivian President Issues Warning About Destabilization Attempts
Since October 20, the conservative opposition sectors in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department have been organizing different protest actions against progressive President Luis Arce and the government of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. Their primary demand is that the Population and Housing Census be carried out in the first semester of 2023 and not in 2024. Since their protests began, the national government has been repeatedly calling on them to engage in dialogue. Nevertheless, the sectors have been rejecting all attempts of negotiation and insisting that the natio... read more
A Economist That Future Economists — And Societies — Will Dare Not Ignore
Great thinkers, down through the ages, have regularly had to watch the movers and shakers of their epochs shrug off their core insights. One of our contemporary great thinkers who suffered that fate — the 84-year-old economist Herman Daly — died just last week. Daly did not, to be sure, go totally unrecognized during his lifetime. In 1996, he won the “alternate Nobel Prize,” Sweden’s annual Right Livelihood Award. “Herman Daly redefined economics, forging a way forward that does not include the destruction of our environment for economic gain,” Ole von Uexkull, Right Livelihood’s... read more
There's some good news in endurance and recovery!
There's a guy in our church I've known slightly over the years--a fantastic musician and a gourmet chef. What a combination. So we "friended" on Facebook, but a year ago his name was on the church list for prayer. I learned he had a brain tumor--so over the past year I've sent five cards since he didn't seem to be getting better. But today on Facebook he posted this, and I was so happy to see it. "Well, friends and family, I’m still here! One year ago today, I was admitted to Riverside Methodist Hospital for a “routine” craniotomy in order to remove a tennis ball-sized brain tumor (... read more
War News Updates11 hours ago
On Ukraine's Frontlines (Photo-Gallery)
A serviceman rests in a dugout at his position on a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine November 3, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer *WNU Editor:* The above picture came from this photo-gallery ....* On Ukraine's frontlines as Russia presses attack* (Reuters). I am surprised that Reuters got these pictures. These soldiers look exhausted. And the Zaporizhzhia front is one the quieter parts of the war. In the past few weeks there has been a large number of social media postings from Ukrainian soldiers who have come from the front-lines. It has been... read more
War News Updates12 hours ago
Iran Acknowledges Sending Drones To Russia Before The Ukraine War
Silhouette of an Iranian military unmanned aerial vehicle at sunset. TASS *CNN: **Iran acknowledges providing drones to Russia before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine * The Iranian government acknowledged for the first time Saturday that it had sent a limited number of drones to Russia in the months before the start of its invasion of Ukraine. The statement by Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian comes after previous denials by Tehran that it had supplied Russia with weapons for use in Ukraine, saying it “has not and will not” do so. Amirabdollahian did not say if the... read more
New US military aid for Ukraine revealed
RT The Pentagon on Friday announced a new tranche of military aid to Ukraine. The $400 million weapons package includes Soviet-era tanks, outdated anti-air missiles,... The post New US military aid for Ukraine revealed appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
U.S. Covid Response Taken Over By National Security Council in March 2020 to Impose Pre-Prepared Lockdown Plan, Evidence Shows
The Daily Sceptic – by Debbie Lerman In previous articles I discussed the probability that Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator, was not... The post U.S. Covid Response Taken Over By National Security Council in March 2020 to Impose Pre-Prepared Lockdown Plan, Evidence Shows appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
The Aviationist12 hours ago
‘Because I Was Inverted!’ We Talked With The B-1B Test Pilot Who Flew The Awesome Roll at Edwards AFB
[image: B-1B roll] It Was a Moment We’ll Talk About for Years, And We Met the Pilot Who Flew It. Aviation fans around the world were thrilled two weeks ago when video from a flight demonstration – that [...] The post ‘Because I Was Inverted!’ We Talked With The B-1B Test Pilot Who Flew The Awesome Roll at Edwards AFB appeared first on The Aviationist. read more
Wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as foreign-owned farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas
CNN La Paz County, ArizonaCNN — Workers with the water district in Wenden, Arizona, saw something remarkable last year as they slowly lowered a camera into... The post Wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as foreign-owned farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas appeared first on From the Trenches World Report. read more
The Cost of Not Going Co-op
At most landlord-owned mobile home parks, residents live in a property owner’s fiefdom, with no control over how their community is managed. While residents usually own their homes, they must pay rent on the land that the home is on, and face annual unfettered rent increases with not a semblance of tenant protection. Despite their name, many mobile homes are often immobile after sitting in place for a few years; any attempt to move them could potentially lead to major or even complete structural damage. Cooperative ownership offers a way for residents to not only have a say in the... read more
All-Electric Community Powered By Solar And Battery Microgrid Launches
Menifee, California - About one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from fossil fuel residential energy use, like natural gas, oil and coal, which contributes to more frequent and severe weather events. According to the most recent U.S. Energy Information Administration data, from 2013 to 2020, the duration of blackouts caused by extreme weather and other events related to the climate crisis has tripled, reported PR Newswire. This makes the transition to renewable energy all the more important. In a collaboration between the University of California, Irvine, SunPowe... read more
Our Power delivers signatures to trigger 2023 referendum on consumer-owned utility
A group seeking to place an initiative on the November 2023 ballot to replace Maine’s unpopular investor-owned utilities, Central Maine Power and Versant, with a nonprofit power company submitted over 80,000 signatures Monday, far exceeding the total needed to trigger a referendum. Our Power, the group spearheading the campaign, announced its haul at a press conference at the State House before handing its petitions into the Secretary of State’s Office. That office now has a month to verify the signatures, but with a wide margin over the slightly more than 63,000 signatures needed... read more

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