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Here we are again, approaching a presidential election, predicting again that loss of this election would bring certain disaster. Colossal disaster, loss of life in such numbers that the event qualifies as a sirens-and-flashing-red-lights emergency. To...
by Morgan in Austin
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 12:11 PM PDT
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The catastrophic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge has dominated headlines for a week. Many prominent voices among the nation’s leadership have voiced their support for Maryland in the ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 12:45 PM PDT
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 10:38 AM PDT
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With (no) apologies to Condoleeza Rice, who, while reluctantly testifying before the 9/11 Commission, infamously said that no one could have envisioned terrorists hijacking airliners and flying them into skyscrapers, despite a Tom Clancy thriller...
by Rashaverak
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 11:28 AM PDT
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Emergency electricity is technologically, economically, and practically trivial. You don't need to know how to build lightbulbs, batteris, PV cells... from scratch. They are all readily available for affordable prices as mass commodity products. If you...
by gmoke
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 09:08 PM PDT
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Were you in Alaska on this day in 1964? If you were, you could be forgiven for being unsteady on your feet. The biggest earthquake in U.S. history interrupted everybody’s dinner.
by jck
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 05:30 PM PDT
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It’s a new record — and not a good one: A relatively warm October and expanding drought conditions across the Lower Mississippi Valley helped drop water levels to historic lows along parts of the Mississippi River last month. The U.S. also confirmed...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 07:09 AM PST
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �You can push ...
by birches
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Once you know: growing our capacity to face darkening climate predictions 2023 Charles D Keeling Memorial Lecture, Scripps Institution of Oceanography May 8, 2023 Susan Moser, Affiliate Faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst; Research Faculty...
by gmoke
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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In the 20 years I’ve been at Daily Kos, I’ve supported or initiated countless fund-raisers, mostly on Indigenous matters, like propane for the freezing residents of the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota and get out the Native vote efforts in Montana,...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 08:21 AM PDT
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From Scientific American E&E News : This Hurricane Season May See a Key FEMA Disaster Fund Run Out of Money A key FEMA disaster fund and state insurance programs could run out of money to finance ...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 01:38 PM PDT
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Hurriquake '23, it was almost wild! Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons, even lousy ones!
by laloalcaraz
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on Mon Aug 21, 2023 at 04:10 PM PDT
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In January, the World Meteorological Organization reported that the last eight years were confirmed to be the eight warmest on record. Considering ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri May 19, 2023 at 12:37 PM PDT
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We must continue having Christian principles guiding the medical experts setting our laws to further conservative views that this country is a Christian based one. In that regard, the state of Texas is rightly ignoring stated positions by the American...
by iarnstein
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on Sat May 13, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
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There are between 500,000 — 600,000 homeless people in this country. As the climate change brings unexpected and more fierce weather, this number is likely to grow. The Hidden Plague The hard shivering started To warm once again The layers of clothes...
by Paul Frea
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on Fri Mar 10, 2023 at 10:45 AM PST
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So, we’re actually trapped on The Mountain in Crestline, California. Never had THAT on my Bingo card. Right now, I can hear helicopters flying overhead—delivering supplies, I imagine, since actually getting into town by normal means is somewhat...
by TheProgressiveAlien
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 05:49 PM PST
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Geotherapy not geoengineering, please http://solarray.blogspot.com/2021/04/geotherapy-not-geoengineering-please.html Full details on each event and many more at Energy (and Other) Events (http://hubevents.blogspot.com): Design Activism: Border...
by gmoke
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on Wed Mar 01, 2023 at 06:50 PM PST
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This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. One of the most frustrating things about being...
by jeremybloom
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on Wed Feb 15, 2023 at 09:16 PM PST
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The death toll from a series of massive earthquakes that rolled through southeast Turkey on Feb. 6 now stands at 36,000. At least 4,000 more are dead across the border in Syria. Expectations are that these numbers will continue to climb, and may still...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Feb 14, 2023 at 10:37 AM PST
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A horrific disaster took place in East Palestine, Ohio, and it is being largely ignored by the media, and surprisingly, DailyKos. Safety regulations were ignored and a train carrying deadly chemicals derailed. There are reports it’s already killing...
by Sharkmeister
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on Sun Feb 12, 2023 at 12:49 PM PST
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