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Extinction Politics
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Over 100 world leaders of 85 percent of the earth’s forests, pledge to halt deforestation by end of the decade but is it soon enough?
POTUS isin Scotland for the COP26 climate summit Monday to convince world leaders that America is taking action on global warming.
Virginia Isn’t For Haters
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#Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin reportedly suffered a massive political GOP meltdown and Trump isn’t coming to the campaign.
GOP COPOUT
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The ancient proverb “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” was popularized in the 17th century as a pictorial Shinto maxim, carved in the famous Tōshō-gū Shinto shrine in Nikkō, Japan.
Three Wise Monkeys illustrated the idea of protecting oneself self from unsavory or challenging behavior, thought, or language.
Kissing Up To Billionaires
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Top Democrats who signaled a deal on POTUS Joe Biden's big domestic bill point out that momentum fizzled and tempers flared as a paid family leave proposal fell out of favor and so did the billionaires' tax appeared scrapped, mostly to satisfy The Demolition Duo, US Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Krysten Sinema of Arizona.
Journalism Under Attack
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Freedom of the press through various media, especially published materials is a global right that should be exercised freely.
The American news media referred to as The press in the first amendment was designed to serve the governed, not the governors.The freedom of the press is critical to a democracy in which the government is accountable to the people. A free news media functions as a watchdog that can investigate and report on government and civic wrongdoing.
Deaths Piling Up
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Republican governors #RonDeSantis in Florida and #Gregg Abbott of Texas deserve responsibility for thousands of preventable deaths.
Gregory Wayne Abbott is an American politician, attorney, and former jurist serving since 2015 as the 48th governor of Texas. A member of the Republican Party, he served as Attorney General of Texas from 2002 to 2015 and as a member of the Texas Supreme Court from 1996 to 2001
Democrats Doom Democracy
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Two Senate Democrats whose support is needed to pass POTUS legislative agenda are looking more each day as USA sell-outs.
Pursuing bipartisanship in Congress is admirable but knowing it’s headed for a dangerous dead-end is destruction for American Democracy.
Perhaps it is now time for President Biden to stop trying to be Mr. Rogers and turn into Mr. Robinson. Democratic leaders should make Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and every other senator vote on the real Build Back Better bill.
FARMERS TO FAMILIES
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A N I N V E S T I G A T I O N I N T O T H E T R U M P A D M I N I S T R A T I O N ’ S F O O D B O X P R O G R A M.
RIP: Colin Powell
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Tributes are being paid to former US secretary of state Colin Powell, who died at age 84 following complications from COVID-19.