Notices by Keith D Johnson (keithdjohnson@sfba.social), page 2

Image from #Veterans for Peace.
#war #weapons #money #corruption #politics #press #USPol

A friend commented, "These things are not mutually exclusive."😉

From FB.

"The devastation to WNC is unfathomable. Officials calling it biblical, a 2nd Katrina in the mountains.
The reported death toll is 10 [it's over 200 now]. I will tell you from working rescues yesterday, our morgues are full & we are stacking bodies in warehouses. I watched multiple people drown as we attempted to rescue them.
Yesterday we were cutting bodies out of trees.
Portions of the interstate are gone. Feds are bringing in Chinooks with supplies & a train of semis from SC.
We have no water for our entire region. Our reservoir was compromised. Main water line to AVL broke. No known ETA when water will be restored. AVL grocery stores / Walmart etc. all looted.
Our home is good. But the gravel road to it is gone. No idea when we will be able to get out.
They let me leave to evacuate them. I was able to drive within a mile of the house. I had to hike in. We grabbed camping backpacks & loaded them with food, batteries, & flashlights. We had to bushwhack out to get them to safety."

The early stage of the "Purge" has begun.
"Three investigators for the #HeritageFoundation https://www.propublica.org/article/have-government-employees-mentioned-climate-change-voting-or-gender-identity-the-heritage-foundation-wants-to-know? have deluged federal agencies with thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests over the past year, requesting a wide range of information on government employees, including communications that could be seen as a political liability by conservatives. Among the documents they’ve sought are lists of agency personnel and messages sent by individual government workers that mention, among other things, “climate equity,” “voting” or “SOGIE,” an acronym for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

The Heritage team filed these requests even as the think tank’s #Project2025 was promoting a controversial plan to remove job protections for tens of thousands of career civil servants so they could be identified & fired if Donald #Trump wins the presidential #election." #press #USPol

"Were it happening just in one place, a compassionate world could figure out how to offer effective relief. But it’s happening in so many places. The same day that Helene slammed into the Gulf, Hurricane John crashed into the Mexican state of Guerrero, dropping nearly 40 inches of rain & causing devastating floods in many places including Acapulco, which is still a shambles from Hurricane Otis last year. In Nepal at least 148 people are dead & many still missing in the Kathmandu Valley. Just this month we’ve seen massive flooding in Turkey, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Marseilles, Milan, India, Wales, Guatemala, Morocco, Algeria, Vietnam, Croatia, Nigeria, Thailand, Greece, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, with the Danube hitting new heights across Central Europe. It is hard to open social media without seeing cellphone videos from the cars-washing-down-steep-streets genre; everywhere the flows are muddy-brown, & swirling with power." https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/water?triedRedirect=true

JFC!
"The Intellectualist said in response that "Trump appears to endorse ‘The Purge’ as policy."

Decision Desk HQ contributor Nick Field chimed in, "Trump literally calling for The Purge."

Political reporter Paul Blest asked, "Did Trump watch the Purge or just independently come up with the same idea?"

Conspiracy theory journalist and expert Mike Rothschild wrote, "The Purge. He's endorsing The Purge."

Reporter Molly Jong-Fast simply replied, "Omg."

University of Texas law professor Lee Kovarsky said, "People confuse telling hard truths with just being a total f------ idiot."

Politico reporter Adam Wren said, "This is roughly the plot of the movie The Purge."

Former presidential speechwriter Dan Cluchey said in response, "No big deal, just one of the two candidates for President calling for a 'really violent day' of nationwide police brutality. Don't bother covering this as a major story, anyone."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-proposes-the-purge-policy/?

"John Oliver dismantles JD Vance for promoting, and even creating, the Springfield, Ohio pet-eating hysteria when he and the Trump campaign knew it was a lie the whole time.
And to literally add insult to injury, Vance also spread rumors that Haitians were spreading communicable diseases such as TB and HIV."
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/09/john-oliver-slams-jd-vance-creating-cat

They infected healthy young people with #covid on purpose. 18 out of 34 had cognitive damage a year later. None realized it.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00421-8/fulltext

The artist of this #cartoon, Paul Noth said:

"J.D. #Vance is being very clear that when they say “mass deportation” they mean ethnic cleansing, including 14 million documented people who are here legally."

Elizabeth Warren is, rightfully, ticked off.

"1/ Suppose someone pointed out that you’d been looking at the climate through glasses with only one lens? Lifting them off your nose, they then provide you a new pair of glasses with two lenses. Suddenly, parts of the climate you couldn’t see before appear. In addition to the atmosphere, you now see the landscapes around you & the soil beneath your feet, not as helpless victims, but as active drivers of this thing we call climate. Not only that, but you see that at one point, not too long ago, science looked at the climate in just such a manner. It was only later, in the 1980’s, that the single lens glass was put before our eyes & declared the official scientific view.
“Land-use perturbations (mining, industrial expansion, deforestation, paving) accumulated over historical time & greatly accelerated in the last 30 years” had rendered the land incapable of supporting the region’s climate. The storms were vanishing because the land was vanishing."
#permaculture #climatechange https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-07-17/millan-millan-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-mediterranean-storms/

The Guardian does a MUCH better job of fact checking Trump's lies. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/10/harris-trump-debate-fact-check-updates

Bill McKibben wrote: "Here is the biggest thing happening on our planet as we head into the autumn of 2024: the Earth is continuing to heat dramatically. Scientists have said that there’s a better than 90% chance that this year will top 2023 as the warmest ever recorded. And paleoclimatologists were pretty sure last year was the hottest in the last 125,000 years. The result is an almost-cliched run of disasters. It is starting to make life on this planet very difficult, & in some places impossible. And it’s on target to get far, far worse."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/sep/06/presidential-election-climate-crisis-project-2025-trump?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#science #journalism #humor #sports

Wow. Some people go to Washington to WORK and cut through the #GQP / #GOP / #MAGA bullshit. Ayanna Pressley, for example.🔥 💚
"Sep 8, 2024
"Rep. Ayanna Pressley unleashes her fury on #MAGA extremists & many others in epic fashion. Pressley wrecks anti-choice Republicans over their efforts to ban abortion pills nationwide, allow sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, attempt to dismantle DEI programs and so much more." #video #USPol
https://youtu.be/u5wwgxG77Ow

Folks in the US SW should look into this (I hope someone puts it into a form we could see on YouTube): "Bill Zeedyk & riparian restoration fans in or near Santa Fe, NM! Coming up next week will be a special treat.
A FIVE-PART UNIQUELY NEW MEXICAN DOCUMENTARY EXPERIENCE FEATURING Q&A with BILL ZEEDYK and FILMMAKERS. Our ED Sarah Wentzel-Fisher will be joining the Q&A on Sept 11 at the Santa Fe Violet Crown.
Part biography, part how-to, #NewMexico's own “Water Wizard” Bill Zeedyk (& his proteges & allies) illustrate a proven toolbox of simple low-tech, low-cost methods to restore degraded lands. They work with Nature, rather than against her, to gird against the extremes of drought & flood while fostering #climate resiliency.
Each episode screens once for five consecutive Wednesdays, starting September 11."
#permaculture #drylands #restoration
https://santafe.violetcrown.com/movie/VC001963

#Humor #meme #USPol #satire

#permaculture #PINA #community #cooperation #TransitionTowns

On the UK riots, Joan Westenberg suggests: "Think about it this way: if someone broke into your house & started smashing your belongings, you wouldn't describe them as an "interior design critic." You'd call them what they are: a criminal. So why the fuck are we bending over backwards to find polite terms for people who are, quite literally, advocating for the destruction of entire communities?
When we use euphemisms like "protestor" to describe rioting, rabid, dogshit neo-Nazis, we're not just being inaccurate – we're actively contributing to the normalization of their ideology.
This tendency to soften our language when it comes to extremist ideologies isn't evenly applied. We don't hesitate to use harsh, condemnatory language when talking about other forms of violent extremism. We don't call ISIS members "religious freedom activists" or refer to cartel enforcers as "pharmaceutical distribution protestors." So why the kid gloves when it comes to neo-Nazis?"
https://joanwestenberg.com/nazis-arent-protestors-theyre-wankers

Odd, isn't it?