I find it perplexing that a company in a market essentially with itself, can both 'lose' money, STILL lose money, and get billions in handouts from the government.

That is the company known as Boeing. Amazing, I don't see Trump or Harris on these picket lines with these protesting employees.

If the Teamsters don't want to endorse you for US President - that can't be good.

And yet, here we are -> 

https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/19/teamsters-decline-to-endorse-in-2024-us-presidential-race/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/teamsters-endorsement

If you need a reminder that the middle management of the US crapitalist ruling class are indeed morons ...

Look no further than the clips here.

What's sad is, not only does it appears like she's on something (or had too much), not only does it appear like she's reading off of notes (which suggest that the questions were known in advance), but it even seems like the interviewers themselves are practically GIVING her the answers in their own questions!

And still she can't deliver.

I don't have Trump Derangement Syndrome because I honestly don't know which one would actually be worse for the American people - Trump or Harris.

The average American is the most heavily propgandized person in the world - and it's by-design.

Keep them ignorant and fearful of every other culture and country out there.

Keep them blind to their own endless consumption of the planet's dwindling resources.

Keep them scared of anything that in fact gives them more choice and decision-making power over the things in life we all need to survive - like food, clothing, shelter, health, education, etc.

And most of all ... keep them deluded into thinking there are only two 'choices' in any election, thus reinforcing the US crapitalist system's role as the illusion of democracy.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/17/a-bull-market/

Arctic Sea Ice minimum 2024. Three degrees Celsius warming now baked in!

From the video description -

Arctic Sea ice reaches it's minimum extent each year around the middle of September. This year is one of the lowest in recorded history. Ocean temperatures have been so 'off the charts' in 2023 and 2024 that scientists fear those waters have reached their capacity to mop up after us humans and are now starting to release that energy. On our current trajectory, by 2100, our planet will reach a temperature not seen for 3 MILLION years!. So...what's the plan???

Oh look - ANOTHER CIA failure!

Amazing how skilled an intelligent the CIA is NOT.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/14/venezuela-announces-dismantling-of-cia-backed-coup-plot-arrest-of-active-duty-navy-seal/

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced that authorities had dismantled an operation reportedly backed by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States and the National Intelligence Center of Spain, which sought to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Cabello, and other government officials. The minister announced that Venezuelan authorities had seized 400 weapons from the US and arrested 14 mercenaries who were involved in the plot. Among the arrested is Wilber Joseph Castañeda, an active US military officer and Navy Seal. Two Spanish citizens were reportedly also arrested, José María Basua and Andrés Badasbe.

Making the connection between militarism and climate chnage.

Marjorie Cohn certainly does.

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/13/us-militarism-a-lead-driver-of-climate-catastrophe/

Oh this is interesting -

On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 men committed suicide and took roughly 3,000 people with them by flying two airliners into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one into a field in Pennsylvania.

None of the hijackers hailed from Afghanistan or Iraq; 15 came from Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, the Bush administration illegally invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and overthrew their governments, then killed, injured and tortured nearly three-quarters of a million of their people.

Beyond the terrible death tolls in both countries, a lesser known consequence of the “war on terror” was the exacerbation of the climate catastrophe, both in the countries targeted by the war and globally.

Since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol excluded military emissions from the counting of national emissions figures, U.S. military emissions are significantly undercounted. Although militaries are a significant source of carbon emissions, little is understood about their carbon footprint.

One of the first studies to expose direct and indirect military emissions as a result of combat was conducted by Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, Kirsti Ashworth and Reuben Larbi.

They examined the use of concrete “blast walls” by U.S. forces in Baghdad, Iraq, from 2003-2008, the first five years of Bush’s “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” to measure the carbon footprint of the war. Concrete walls and barriers were also used in U.S. counterinsurgency operations in Kandahar and Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2008-2012 during “Operation Enduring Freedom.” (Although these two wars did not bring freedom, their effects on the climate crisis are enduring.)

While occupying Baghdad, the U.S. military erected hundreds of miles of blast walls in order to control the urban population pursuant to its counterinsurgency strategy. “Effective weaponisation of concrete has an extraordinary carbon footprint,” Neimark, Belcher, Ashworth and Larbi wrote.

“The large carbon footprint comes mainly from the amount of heat and energy in cement production, the main ingredient in concrete.”