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Is the US Senate Too Stupid and Corrupt to Represent the American People?

The existence of human-caused climate change could not muster 60 votes amongst the idiot rich in the Millionaires Club. The resolution went down to defeat 50-49.

US Senate refuses to accept humanity's role in global climate change, again

It is nearly 27 years now since a Nasa scientist testified before the US Senate that the agency was 99% certain that rising global temperatures were caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

And the Senate still has not got it – based on the results of three symbolic climate change votes on Wednesday night.

The Senate voted virtually unanimously that climate change is occurring and not, as some Republicans have said, a hoax – but it defeated two measures attributing its causes to human activity.

Only one Senator, Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, voted against a resolution declaring climate change was real and not – as his fellow Republican, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma once famous declared – a hoax. That measure passed 98 to one.

But the Senate voted down two measures that attributed climate change to human activity.

Here's Thursday's OT Beatnik style

Thursday is named after Thor. He is thunder. Which somehow when I googled it came out Jupiter.The Romans were masters at sucking up the world as they saw it and spewing it out as Roman. I'm referencing this to Hecate's explanation of what Tuesday was about. Thor was the sky god of thunder and all that jazz.. I guess he was a friend or cohort of Mars. A Norse or Germanic concoction that according to Wiki leads back or forward to Jupiter.

Hellraisers Journal: The Scene of Ex-Governor Steunenberg's Murder, Cold-Blooded Assassination

There are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones

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Saturday January 27, 1906
Caldwell, Idaho - The Scene of the Cold-Blooded Assassination of Steunenberg

From Indiana's Fort Wayne Daily News of January 26th, comes a vivid description of the horrific murder of Ex-Governor Steunenberg:


Scene of Steunenberg Murder; Victim
and Suspected Assassin
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Harry Orchard, Ex-Gov Steunenberg, Assassination, Fort Wayne (IN) Daily News, Jan 26, 1906.png

Recipes, Food Prep Tips, & Spices as Medicines

veggies mexico

There’s arguably a ‘next’ crash coming to us before too long, and partially because of that, I thought I might be able to a short series on how we might prepare for it as per the advice of a number of activists and writers.  Making food count is first, even though not all of my choices are the wisest, for instance: I sincerely can’t like WW pasta. brrrr.

Open Thread - Wed. Jan. 27 -Effects of Militarization on Police Culture

In the previous essay in this series, we discussed how the police have become increasingly militarized, aided and abetted by US government policies that promote the hiring of veterans as cops, under the Vets to Cops program, and the outfitting of local police departments with surpl

Public art to be created as tribute to transgender victims of violence

Los Angeles-based sculptor Heath Satow has been commissioned by the Transgender Community Coalition to create a tribute to transgender victims of violence to be displayed as public art somewhere in Palm Springs.

 photo clinton_zpsezlhbyzq.jpgThe original rendering of the statue was created by coalition director Thomi Clinton and R. J. Taylor.

The original iteration of the transgender sculpture illustrates a life-size figure, made of steel butterflies, lying on its side. Where exactly the statue will find a permanent home in Palm Springs is still to be determined.

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