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The Guardian: Study: global banks ‘failing miserably’ on climate crisis by funneling trillions into fossil fuels

March 18, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Analysis of 35 leading investment banks shows financing of more than $2.66tn for fossil fuel industries since the Paris agreement Kirsch said: “This makes it crystal clear that banks are failing miserably when it comes to responding to the urgency of the climate crisis. As the toll of death and destruction from unprecedented floods, droughts, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Arctic oil, Bank of America, capital, carbon emissions, Citi, climate crisis, coal, fossil fuels, gas, investment banks, JP Morgan Chase, oil, Paris agreement, the US banks Wells Fargo

Preserving a ‘national memory’ of an outbreak

March 4, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Columbia Journalism Review, Preserving a ‘national memory’ of an outbreak by Betsy Joles, 03/03/2020. “We actually have really good journalism in China,” Shen says. “It’s just those who are working very hard to get the stories out, they’re usually not recognized.”

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Censorship, China, Chinese journalists, COVID-19, Internet Archive, Li Wenliang, New York Times, Tencent, Wuhan

Fake News Is Free

March 1, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

As my students often remind me, news tends to be behind paywalls, while fake news is free. Global health expert Jonathan D Quick, of Duke University in North Carolina

Posted in: Ethical and green living, IT Failures, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Fake News, news, paywall

Parts of Hanford nuclear waste site have not been inspected in 50 years

February 22, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Yet again, Parts of Hanford nuclear waste site have not been inspected in 50 years The former defense site in Washington state has a troubled past. The latest lapse involves the Energy Department’s failure to analyze the cause of a tunnel collapse. washingtonpost.com Aaron Gregg

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, IT Failures, Nuclear Industry, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Dan Brouillette, Energy Department, environmental, Hanford nuclear waste site, Jacobs Engineering, nuclear warheads, plutonium, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Washington State

GAS BAG DUET

February 5, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The gas bag pictured below announced he has advanced lung cancer – then the other bloated gas bag gives him a medal – what a travesty! I hope he enjoys his chemotherapy.

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh

Madame Speaker, WE LOVE YOU!

February 5, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment
Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: 2020 State of the Union, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Madame Speaker, Nancy Pelosi

Kasparov and Gessen – Experiences in Autocracy

February 4, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From November 16, 2016, Masha Gessen writes in NYRDaily: Autocracy, Rules for Survival: Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. Rule #2: Do not be taken in by small signs of normality. Rule #3: Institutions will not save you. “The national press is likely to be among the first institutional victims of Trumpism. There is no law … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Politics, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: autocrat, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Corbyn, Dissenters, Donald Trump, Fascism, Franco, Garry Kasparov, Green New Deals, Hitler, Khodorkovsky, Masha Gessen, Medicare for All, Mussolini, Nazis, politician, Putin, Russia, Soviet Union, Trump, Trumpism

Time Spans

January 17, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Think of the times; mountains and water; trees and landscape; clouds, snow and rain; day and night; humans.

Posted in: Climate Change, Content, Faits Divers, Flying, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Alps, Earth Time, Eiger, Human Time, Jungfrau, Lake, LauterAarHorn, Mountains Time, Munch, Neuchatel, Snow Time, Tree Time, Water Time

WANTED: FOR MURDER

January 17, 2020 by sergneri 4 Comments

CNDC – Sacramento Daily Union January 26, 1861

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: MURDER, PROCLAMATION OF REWARD, REWARD

PILES! PILES!!

January 16, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I love it – go get them at the lumber mill! Sacramento Daily Union, 26 January 1861 PILES! PILES ! CHAS. WOOD’S SUB-POSITORY; is the only infallible cure for the Piles ever yet discovered: whether they be BLEEDING PILES, EXTERNAL PILES, or DEEP SEATED INTERNAL PILES, the cure is equally certain. They are especially recommended … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: BLEEDING, Boston Drug Store, complaints, DONALDSON'S Drug Store, Folsom, medical, medical aid, Miners, PILES, poor diet, Sacramento, San Francisco, storekeepers
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