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Why does the climate crisis appear hopeless? A critique of Nathaniel Rich's NYT piece

Climate change appears to be a hopeless spiral into ever-hotter temperatures, with eventual outcomes being crop failure, release of methane clathrates from permafrost and from ocean floors and the transformation of Earth into a planet of Venus-lite, dead to the universe.

Assange well supported by Virginia State Senator Black

State Senator Richard Black has written an excellent piece in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks this week at Consortium news:

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/31/virginia-state-senator-in-rare-sup...

Virginia State Senator in Rare Support by Politician for Assange
July 31, 2018

US money to support Afghan irrigation ‘helped’ poppy cultivation – watchdog

The treasure we’ve lost, both in lives and money, is obscene. The corruption and graft this has stolen our children’s and our grandchildren’s futures.

US money to support Afghan irrigation ‘helped’ poppy cultivation – watchdog
Published time: 3 Aug, 2018 12:17

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The Logos of Terpsichore

As the world shakes and rumbles beneath the feet,
the spinning top retains its balance,
The external motion having no purchase upon
its dance, energy imparted that will be completed

and so I act the toy.
Let the cruel marvel at my motions and beat,
let my hands weave patterns they interpret
as the flap of a wing, or the flow of water.

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