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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Aretha Franklin

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features r&b singer Aretha Franklin. Enjoy!

^{Aretha Franklin – Today I Sing The Blues}

“When the rich rob the poor, it’s called business. When the poor fight back, it’s called violence.”

-- Mark Twain

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News and Opinion

Three Recent Examples Of AI Being Used For Empire Propaganda

In the last few days I’ve seen three separate instances of generative AI being used to promote propaganda for US-Israeli war agendas which are worth paying attention to.

Firstly, an Israel-based company called Generative AI for Good has been creating deepfakes of supposedly real women who say they were sexually assaulted by government forces in Iran.

The Canary reports:

“An Israel-based AI firm, Generative AI for Good, claims to be using deepfake technologies for positive ends. ‘Positive’ appears to mean creating deepfake videos to help the illegal US-Israel war on Iran.

“Generative AI for Good
claims that it uses AI to ‘help survivors testify safely — in their real voice, without revealing their identity’. But Israel and its mouthpieces have been shown to have used false allegations of rapes and other atrocities on 7 October 2023 to justify its genocide in Gaza.”

The Canary notes that Generative AI for Good is staffed with Israelis who have very conspicuous agendas, including a creative director who pushes the discredited narrative about mass rapes on October 7, a marketing manager who served in the IDF’s “Psychotechnical Headquarter”, and a founder who said in early 2024 that “Artificial intelligence is a secret weapon of ours” in using the revolutionary technology to bolster the military’s efforts both online and on the ground in the information war being waged alongside the military battlefields in Gaza.

An Israeli company generating AI videos of anonymous Iranian women describing sexual abuse at the hands of their government should obviously be considered a deceitful propaganda operation until proven otherwise. The line between using AI to help real victims protect their identities when describing real events and using AI to generate fake atrocity propaganda is far too nebulous to be taken seriously, especially in the hands of wildly biased Israelis. You should trust it about as far as you’d trust a hungry crocodile.

Secondly, users of the graphic design platform Canva have been complaining that the company’s AI service has been translating the word “Palestine” to “Ukraine” without prompting or permission. Complaints went viral, compelling Canva to address the issue.

I shit you not I put this image into canvas, I press this “magic layers” button, and it turned this poster that said “cats for Palestine” into “cats for ukraine”. I wish I was fucking joking. pic.twitter.com/xSlz0FAkXz

— rosie (@ros_ie9) April 26, 2026

The Verge reports:

“One of Canva’s new AI features has been caught replacing the word ‘Palestine’ in designs. The Magic Layers feature — which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components — isn’t supposed to make visible alterations to user designs, but it was found by X user @ros_ie9 to automatically switch the phrase ‘cats for Palestine’ to ‘cats for Ukraine.’

“The issue was seemingly limited specifically to the word ‘Palestine,’ as @ros_ie9 noted that related words like ‘Gaza’ were unaffected by the feature. Canva says it has now resolved the issue and is taking steps to prevent it from happening again.”

Thirdly, a Spanish-language tweet about Israel from user @maps_black was auto-translated into English by Elon Musk’s AI Grok in a way that added entirely new sentences to the social media post to frame the Zionist state in a sympathetic light.

The original tweet read simply, “¿Cuál es tu opinión sobre ISRAEL?”, which of course translates to “What is your opinion about Israel?” But Grok translated the post into English as “My opinion on Israel? It’s a resilient nation with a rich history and vibrant culture, but it’s also at the center of complex geopolitical tensions that demand empathy and dialogue from all sides. What’s yours?”

Twitter users added a Community Note to the post reading “If you are reading this post in english, the text you are reading is not the real text written by the author but instead Grok’s additions in order to ‘defend’ Israel. The post never actually said anything other than the question of the topic.”

Someone removed Grok’s propagandistic translation after outcry on the platform, but the Community Note remains.

None of these instances look particularly significant or impactful on their own, and right now they only scan as ham-fisted efforts to manipulate public opinion in ways that are far too obvious to do much damage. But we can be sure that we’ll be seeing a lot more AI-driven propaganda in the future, and we can expect its manipulations to become much more sophisticated as the technology develops and grows more influential in shaping the information ecosystem. American tech plutocrats are only ever allowed to ascend to billionaire status when they collaborate with the imperial machine.

Julian Assange was warning years ago that we could one day expect artificial intelligence to be used in this way, saying that the growing ability of the powerful to manipulate public opinion using AI “differs from traditional attempts to shape culture and politics by operating at a scale, speed, and increasingly at a subtlety, that appears likely to eclipse human counter-measures.”

Pointing out how AI could already outmaneuver even the greatest chess players in the world, Assange described in 2017 how programs which can operate with exponentially more tactical intelligence than the human mind can manipulate the field of available information so effectively and subtly that people won’t even know they are being manipulated. People will be living in a world that they think they understand and know about, but they’ll unknowingly be viewing only empire-approved information.

“When you have AI programs harvesting all the search queries and YouTube videos someone uploads it starts to lay out perceptual influence campaigns, twenty to thirty moves ahead,” Assange said. “This starts to become totally beneath the level of human perception.”

Anyway. Something to keep an eye on.

Prof. Mohammad Marandi : FROM TEHRAN: US Asking For Ceasefire, Again.

Trump Consulting With Iran Hawks Who Want Him To Restart Bombing Campaign

Amid a US blockade on Iranian ports and a very fragile ceasefire with Iran, President Trump has been consulting with some of the most rabid Iran hawks who want him to restart the bombing campaign, according to a report from Axios.

The report said Trump has been speaking with the notoriously hawkish Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ret. US Army General Jack Keane, and Marc Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for the George W. Bush administration, who has been urging the president to kill more of Iran’s leadership.

According to the Axios report, Trump is considering either restarting the bombing campaign or waiting to see if the US blockade and increasing sanctions have an impact. A Trump adviser told the outlet that Trump recently said that “all [Iran’s leaders] understand is bombs.”

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Rights Group Demands Release of Gaza’s Dr. Abu Safiya After Israeli Court Extends Detention

An Israeli human rights group is demanding the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, after a court ordered his detention extended.

Physicians for Human Rights Israel on Tuesday blasted the Beersheba District Court for extending the detention of Abu Safiya, who has been held in prison since December 27, 2024, without being charged with any criminal offenses.

The court justified keeping Abu Saifya detained under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law, which allows for the detention of Palestinians for long periods without trial.

“The court upheld the detention despite arguments that detaining a doctor while performing his medical duties constitutes unlawful detention,” said Physicians for Human Rights Israel. “Dr. Abu Safiya is currently held in Negev Prison under harsh conditions, without access to his medication or receiving medical treatment, despite the deterioration of his health.”

The group added that it is demanding “the immediate release of Dr. Abu Safiya along with 13 other detained doctors, as well as all medical personnel currently held in Israel. We call on the international community to intervene and put an end to this abuse.”

The US-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also slammed the court ruling, calling Abu Safiya’s detention “a grave injustice and a blatant violation of fundamental human rights and due process.”

“As a physician and hospital director, Dr. Abu Safiya dedicated his life to saving others,” CAIR added, “yet he now faces indefinite imprisonment under conditions that credible reports indicate include torture, denial of medical care, and severe mistreatment.”

A 2025 report from Amnesty International, which has also called for Abu Safiya’s release, said that the Gaza-based physician “was detained in the course of caring for his patients and carrying out his medical duties.”

Amnesty also noted that, prior to his detention, Abu Safiya and other colleagues at the Kamal Adwan Hospital had “provided human rights and humanitarian organizations with reliable information about the health situation” in Gaza, which has been left devastated by years of Israeli attacks that have killed at least 72,000 Palestinians.

Alastair Crooke: Iran Vows ALL-OUT Retaliation as Oil Crisis Erupts, Trump HUMILIATED

Israel's 50 Years War on Lebanon

Hezbollah drone strikes target Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon

Hezbollah launched several drones at Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, while Israel issued new displacement orders for south Lebanon and carried out airstrikes, as the fraying ceasefire failed to stop fighting between the two sides. Hezbollah claimed Tuesday’s attack injured several Israeli soldiers, but no confirmation was given from the Israeli military, apart from a statement saying interceptor missiles had been fired at incoming Hezbollah drones.

An Israeli soldier was killed and six others wounded in a Hezbollah drone attack on Sunday. Hezbollah’s use of small, fibre-optic-guided drones has managed to evade Israeli aerial defences, as the wired element of the aircraft limits the radio signals that radars detect. The drones have a range of up to 9 miles (15km) and the armed group has used them to attack Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon almost daily since the ceasefire was established on 17 April.

Israel also carried out a series of airstrikes on Lebanon on Tuesday, in addition to ordering the residents of 16 villages in south Lebanon to flee northwards. Israeli airstrikes killed 18 people and wounded 88 more in Lebanon over the weekend, according to the Lebanese ministry of health. At least 2,534 people have been killed and 7,863 wounded by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since the beginning of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel on 2 March. Hezbollah rocket fire has killed two civilians in Israel in the same time period.

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UAE quits Opec in win for Trump as oil cartel weakened

The United Arab Emirates has quit the Opec oil cartel after 60 years of membership, in a heavy blow to the group and its de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, as global energy markets contend with the biggest supply crisis in history. The shock loss of the UAE, Opec’s third-largest oil producer, is expected to weaken the group, which for decades has worked together to use its collective oil production to influence global oil market prices.

The UAE’s exit from Opec represents a win for Donald Trump, who has previously accused the organisation of “ripping off the rest of the world” by artificially inflating oil prices by holding back production. Last week Trump confirmed that the US had discussed extending a financial lifeline to the UAE under which the two countries’ central banks could agree to exchange equivalent amounts of each other’s currency should the Middle East crisis deepen.

A statement from the UAE’s energy ministry said leaving Opec would give it greater flexibility to respond to a “new energy age” in line with its “long-term strategic and economic vision”.

Jorge León, an analyst at Rystad, said: “The UAE withdrawal marks a significant shift for Opec. Alongside Saudi Arabia, it is one of the few members with meaningful spare capacity – the mechanism through which the group exerts market influence. While near-term effects may be muted given ongoing disruptions in the strait of Hormuz, the longer-term implication is a structurally weaker Opec.”

The shift to low-carbon energy is also likely to have played a role in the UAE’s exit. Producers that are able to pump more crude, and can tolerate lower oil prices, are expected to abandon any limits on crude production in favour of monetising their remaining reserves before demand for fossil fuels begin to decline.

Ro Khanna SLAMS Pete Hegseth in hearing after revealed he doesn't know the cost of the war in Iran

Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit

The Middle East oil and gas crunch will impose as much as a trillion dollars of additional costs on the global economy while petroleum companies rake in spectacular profits from elevated fuel prices, analysis has revealed. The uneven distribution of risk and reward comes amid rising concern that the US-Israeli attack on Iran is worsening inequality, poverty and hunger across a world that has become dangerously dependent on fossil fuels.

Even if the strait of Hormuz swiftly returns to normal operations, the burden of elevated oil and gas prices will reach about $600bn, according to recent International Monetary Fund figures analysed by the climate campaign organisation 350.org. Should the supply disruption continue, the economic hit to households, businesses and governments could surge above $1tn, it said. This is likely to be an underestimate because it does not include the substantial knock-on effects of inflation, particularly higher fertiliser and food costs, lower economic activity and rising employment.

The contrast with the fortunes of US and other non-Gulf-centred petroleum companies could not be more stark. On Tuesday, BP said its profits for the first quarter of the year had more than doubled, after a jump in oil and gas prices linked to the conflict in the Middle East.

Anne Jellema, 350.org’s chief executive, said: “Over the next few days, oil majors will report astronomical first-quarter profits, much of it earned on the back of a war that has already killed thousands and impoverished millions. Even if the strait of Hormuz reopens tomorrow, an obscene amount of money will continue to flow to oil coffers at the expense of ordinary people already struggling to afford fuel, electricity, and food.”

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US gas prices surge to highest level in four years, averaging $4.18 a gallon

US gas prices rose to their highest level in four years on Thursday, reaching an average $4.18 a gallon at the pump as US-Israeli peace talks with Iran remain at a standstill.

The last time average US gas prices breached $4.15 a gallon was in April 2022, when oil prices soared shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. Average gas prices are now $1 higher than just a year ago, when they were closer to $3.15 a gallon.

Average gas prices vary heavily by states, with oil-producing states seeing averages as much as $2 a gallon lower than states that import gas. In Texas, gas is $3.72 a gallon while California sees an average of $5.96 a gallon.

By Tuesday morning, Brent crude, the global benchmark, hit $111 a barrel, lower than its high of $119 a barrel that was seen last month but nearly 60% higher than averages seen before the start of the war. WTI crude, the US benchmark, was near $100 a barrel on Tuesday morning.

Oil prices went up on Tuesday after news that negotiators remain gridlocked over talks to reopen the strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas would typically pass through.

Teen mariachi trio detained by ICE to open for Kacey Musgraves in Texas

Three teenage mariachi musicians who were temporarily detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in February have been tapped to open for country singer Kacey Musgraves at several upcoming shows in Texas. On Monday, Musgraves announced that the Gámez-Cuéllar brothers Antonio, 18; Caleb, 14; and Joshua, 12, would join her for performances at Gruene Hall from 3 to 5 May as part of her Middle of Nowhere tour.

The last of those dates is Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates a Mexican military victory over a French army at the 1862 battle of Puebla. That holiday is also popular in the US, where communities nationwide celebrate it. Musgraves, a 37-year-old Texas native and Grammy winner, made Monday’s announcement after the Gámez-Cuéllar brothers were arrested alongside their parents by ICE in February – and subsequently released amid a bipartisan backlash to their detention.

The two younger boys and their parents were held at a family detention center in Dilley, Texas. Antonio, meanwhile, was separated and placed in a different adult facility, according to Congressman Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat who was among lawmakers from both major US political parties calling for the family’s release.

The case drew national attention in part because the brothers had traveled to Washington DC in summer 2025 after their high school mariachi ensemble won a state competition in Texas. Their Republican congressional representative, Monica De La Cruz, later invited the ensemble to the House floor in recognition of their success.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, said the family was living in the country without legal permission. DHS added that the boys’ parents “chose to bring their adult son and two children with them”. However, the boys’ father, Luis Antonio Martínez, told the New York Times that the family entered the US in 2023 on an asylum claim after fleeing cartel threats in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.

FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Jimmy Kimmel’s Melania Trump joke

The US’s top media watchdog announced on Tuesday that it is accelerating the review of eight local broadcasting licenses used by ABC, in a move critics see as a clear example of political and regulatory retribution against a disfavored broadcaster. The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) announcement comes after the White House launched a full-on attack against the ABC’s late-night host, Jimmy Kimmel, over a joke he made last week about Melania Trump.

On Monday, Donald Trump called for Kimmel to be fired over the segment, in which Kimmel said that the first lady has “a glow like an expectant widow”. The joke was made two days before an attempted shooting – allegedly targeting Trump’s administration – interrupted the annual White House correspondents’ dinner.

The FCC – led by Trump-appointed chair Brendan Carr – does not grant licenses to national television networks; rather, it licenses each individual station that broadcasts using the public airwaves. ABC owns and operates eight stations, though it has content agreements with many more. Those eight stations – WABC-TV New York, KABC-TV Los Angeles, WLS-TV Chicago, WPVI-TV Philadelphia, KTRK-TV Houston, KGO-TV San Francisco, WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham and KFSN-TV Fresno – are the ones being targeted by Carr’s FCC.

Those stations were not scheduled to have to apply for renewal until 2028 at the earliest and 2031 at the latest. But now they are required to file for renewal by 28 May, years ahead of when they were originally required to do so. The FCC announcement appears connected to an investigation launched by the agency early last year into ABC parent company Disney’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices.

“Specifically, FCC rules provide that whenever the FCC regards an application for a renewal of a license as essential to the proper conduct of an investigation, the FCC has the authority to call the broadcaster’s licenses in for early renewal. Doing so both allows the FCC to conduct its ongoing investigation and enables the FCC to ensure that the broadcaster has been meeting its public interest obligations more broadly,” David J Brown, chief of the video division at the FCC’s media bureau, wrote in a memo. “The FCC determines that calling in Disney’s ABC licenses for early renewal, at this time, under the Communications Act’s public interest standard is essential within the meaning of agency regulations.”

Justice department indicts ex-FBI director James Comey over Instagram post showing seashells

The justice department filed new criminal charges against James Comey, the former FBI director, on Tuesday. Comey was charged in federal court in the eastern district of North Carolina over a picture he posted on Instagram while on vacation last year in which sea shells were arranged to say “86 47”. The post was taken as a threat to Donald Trump. The number 86 can be used as shorthand for getting rid of something, and Trump is the 47th president. Comey subsequently deleted the post and apologized, saying he didn’t realize the numbers were associated with violence. “It never occurred to me, but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down,” he wrote on Instagram.

The indictment, made public on Tuesday, says that a reasonable person “would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President of the United States”. Comey was charged with two felonies – making a threat against the president and transmitting that threat, via social media, across state lines. Both counts are punishable with a fine and a prison sentence of up to five years.

“I think it’s fair to say that threatening the life of anybody is dangerous and potentially a crime. Threatening the life of the president of the United States will never be tolerated by the Department of Justice,” Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said at a press conference on Tuesday. Blanche declined to comment on how the justice department would prove Comey had intent to harm Trump, saying that doing so would be premature.

“Mr Comey vigorously denies the charges contained in the indictment filed in the eastern district of North Carolina,” Comey’s attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, said in a response to the charges. “We will contest these charges in the courtroom and look forward to vindicating Mr Comey and the first amendment.”

Epstein, Peter Thiel PLOT TO REMAKE WORLD

Journalist Katie Phang sues acting attorney general Todd Blanche over Epstein files

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, engaged in a “brazen, shocking, and ongoing violation” of a law requiring the Department of Justiceto release the entirety of the so-called Epstein files, a lawsuit filed in Washington DC alleges. The action on Monday by Katie Phang, an investigative journalist and legal analyst, seeks to hold Blanche personally responsible for the justice department’s alleged failure to publish all the documents the government holds about Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender. A full release was mandated by a landmark transparency act passed by Congress in November, with a deadline of 19 December 2025.

Blanche, who was the deputy attorney general until Pam Bondi was fired earlier this month, has since been accused of stalling the process and releasing only a fraction of the papers. The scandal has been hugely damaging to the White House in part because of Donald Trump’s former relationship with the disgraced financier. In February, Democrats said millions of documents were still being withheld, and accused the justice department of a “full-blown cover up” after Blanche in effect declared the investigation over, following what he said at the time was a final release of about 3m previously unseen papers.

In a separate development last week, the justice department’s office of the inspector general (OIG) said it was launching its own audit into the department’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Phang’s lawsuit, filed in federal court on Monday in the US district court for the District of Columbia, names Blanche as the defendant and alleges misconduct on several levels. It accuses Blanche of missing statutory deadlines for document production, improper or excessive redactions, failure to explain redactions as required by law, and withholding or retracting key documents after release. Blanche has argued that redactions were necessary in many places to prevent the inadvertent identification of numerous of Epstein’s victims, many of them minors, and has conceded that “mistakes are inevitable”.

Phang, a reporter with MeidasTouch, wants the court to declare the Department of Justice in violation of the law, order the release of all required documents without unlawful redactions, and provide an explanation for any remaining redactions. The lawsuit also seeks the appointment of an independent special master from outside the department to oversee compliance by the justice department with the Epstein act. “The DoJ’s actions have directly harmed her ability to report on Epstein’s network and the government’s handling of the case,” according to an article announcing the lawsuit on the website of Phang’s employers.

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Texas Democrat Talarico leads senator Cornyn and AG Paxton in Senate race poll

Democrats’ hopes of winning control of the US Senate in November’s midterm elections have been boosted by a poll showing James Talarico, the party’s candidate in Texas, leading in a head-to-head matchup against two potential Republican opponents.

The Texas Public Opinion Research (TPOR) survey has Talarico, a Democratic state legislator, ahead of the GOP incumbent senator, John Cornyn, and his internal party challenger, Ken Paxton, in one-on-one contests.

According to the poll, which surveyed the intentions of 1,865 likely voters, Talarico has a three point lead – 44% to 41% over Cornyn, who has been a senator since 2002 and served four consecutive terms.

Talarico, a former seminarian who has made a point of fusing his Christian values with progressive policies, has a five point lead, 46% to 41%, in a hypothetical contest with Paxton, the Texas attorney general who has gained a reputation as a conservative firebrand and been embroiled in controversy after misconduct charges led to him being impeached in 2023.

Cornyn and Paxton face each other in a primary runoff election on 26 May before one will appear on November’s ballot.

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Trump administration blocks US wind energy projects in switch to oil and gas

The Trump administration blocked two permitted US wind energy projects from development this week, with an agreement to pay millions of dollars in refunds to the companies behind them if those funds are reinvested in oil and gas. US Department of the Interior officials framed the canceled agreements as a way to “promote US energy security and affordability” by funneling funds “away from intermittent, higher-cost energy sources toward proven conventional solutions”, in an announcement issued on Monday.

Donald Trump’s war in Iran has caused a fuel crisis and spiked global prices, while the increasing energy appetite of new AI datacenters has put more pressure on power supplies. As energy costs and consumption continue to rise, wind and other renewable sources have been cited as essential upgrades to secure strained power grids that also help the US secure a more sustainable future.

“Unable to defend its offshore wind actions in court, the administration is using taxpayer dollars to buy foreign companies out of legally executed offshore wind leases,” Sam Salustro, a senior vice-president of pro-offshore wind group Oceanic Network, said in a statement. “Costs to consumers’ pocketbooks are staggering.”

The agreement adds to a separate deal to pay $1bn to a French energy company to strike down a permitted wind project made last month, a signal that the administration has opted to deal directly with investors to block the renewable energy investments rather than risk opposition in the courts. A US federal judge ruled against Trump earlier this year and allowed five wind farms slated for construction along the east coast to proceed after the president tried to stop them from being completed.

Trump’s attempt to crush clean energy progress not going to plan

Donald Trump has wielded the full might of his administration to crush the progress of clean energy, which he has called a “scam” and “stupid”. But there are signs this assault is not going to plan. In March, the US generated more of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind than it did via gas, the first time clean energy has surpassed the planet-heating fossil fuel for a full month nationally, according to data from the Ember thinktank.

While this was just one month, it follows a record 2025 for renewable energy. The pipeline of new power coming online in the US is overwhelmingly green this year, too, with 93% of all electricity capacity added in 2026 set to come from solar, wind and batteries. Just 7% will come from the fossil fuels that are dangerously overheating our world.

The undaunted pace of the renewables rollout comes as the Trump administration’s attempts to stymie the industry have floundered in court. Last week, a federal court in Massachusetts blocked a slew of Trump’s anti-renewables actions, such as barring solar and wind projects on federal land. This follows the resumption of five major offshore wind farms, a form of energy the president has long reviled as “ugly”, that the administration had ordered to halt.

Wind, solar and batteries are now far cheaper and quicker to construct than gas and coal plants, causing a market “tipping point” that Trump cannot reverse, according to Peter Davidson, chief executive of Aligned Climate Capital, a clean energy investor. “They cannot change the trajectory,” he said. “They can try and delay it. But the battle for the generation of electricity is over and renewables and storage have won.”

Will the Iran Oil Crisis Propel Global Energy Transition?

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some of which defied fair-use abstraction.

Israel’s Vulnerability & Palestinian Leverage

War On Iran: – No Way Out For Trump On Iran

All Talk, No Action: The EU’s Abject Failure, Once Again, to Correct Course On Israel

Fetterman Helps GOP Senators Sink Democrat Effort to Block Trump War on Cuba

Distributing Resources Based On Jobs Is Outdated And Stupid

Jimi Hendrix bandmates’ estates lose court case against record label

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A Little Night Music

Aretha Franklin - Respect

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)

Aretha Franklin – Ain't Nobody Gonna Turn Me Around

Aretha Franklin – Spanish Harlem

Aretha Franklin – Pitiful

Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools

Aretha Franklin – Don't Play That Song

Aretha Franklin - How I Got Over

Aretha Franklin – A Change Is Gonna Come

Aretha Franklin – Bring It On Home To Me

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