Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Paul Butterfield's Better Days
4 minutes of video: metaphor of human metamorphosis: becoming something unimaginably beautiful
This article comes from the most polluted city in the world where small children have already damaged lungs. Most of the pollution comes from fossii fuelled transportation and open burning. The recognition of the dangers of pollution has come too late for them. Why do we wait until we reach this level before the realization sets in that we cannot continue our way of life.
A new day I never seen before nor will I ever again. Be glad in it.
Good morning, earthlings. I send greetings.
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Today In History
Hello, I am off to one of my favorite places and will not be around to make smart ass comments. My Sweetie and I spent our first forty odd years around Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a wonderful mid-western city that far exceeds it's reputation. It was at the core of industrialization, then shed it's smoke stacks and revitalized as a university, medical and engineering center. Wish you were here.
Puerto Rico has been mired in an eight-year long recession and a brutal drought that makes California's drought look mild.
On July1st, things could get a whole lot worse.
Update: I wrote this yesterday morning and just wanted to let you know, that by today, I am gone. I feel better now, knowing I will leave reading about "politics and news" behind me for a while. Just need it. Thanks.
Good Morning.
Do you know how many countries we are bombing? Go ahead. Try to guess how many.
You probably can't, and that is an incredibly awful thing about our country.
We've bombed brown-skinned people in seven different countries in the past few months and most Americans couldn't care less.
I have been a vagabond for the last two weeks, some of which were spent on a wonderful vacation up in the land of our own dk, Michigan. To get there from North Carolina, we drove to Florida and then I went to my mother's in the central part of the state. We flew out of Tampa, which still has to be one of the most customer friendly airports in the US.
The bicycle is a grand old piece of technology and is reputedly an extremely efficient method of transportation. It can provide pleasure or be used in a purely utilitarian fashion. As a one time bike commuter I can attest to the fact that utilitarian usage can at times also be pleasurable.
An increase in bicycle usage as a substitute for automobile and possibly even bus transport will bring many benefits. We can start with reduced greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum dependency. There is the reduced health care costs generated by the increase in the health of the portion of the population riding. There will be a reduction in contaminated runoff from roads. Road maintenance costs should decrease. Electric bikes, bicycles with am electrical assist can reduce travel times and increase range, make difficult rides easier and facilitate cycling by the less fit among us.
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