We’re fast approaching the global climate strike. While events around the world are going to run for an entire week, beginning on September 20, and running though the 27th, it looks as though most of the local activity, here in Southeast Michigan, will be on the first day of the campaign, which is this Friday. […]
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Stand up to the Republican suicide cult, join the Climate Strike
Posted in Corporate Crime, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, Act On Climate, anti-science, antitrust, automotive emissions, automotive industry, California, Climate Change, climate crisis, Climate Strike, Corey Lewandowski, cults, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, emissions, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fuel economy, gas prices, greenhouse gas, House Judiciary Committee, Iran, Jamal Khashoggi, Jared Kushner, Marcy Wheeler, MBS, Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia, states rights, suicide cult, Tom Carper, war 10 Comments
Oily, environmentally toxic pyramid of greed being erected in Detroit by the Koch brothers
For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of traveling along the Detroit River lately, there’s apparently a new landmark on the Motor City waterfront – a three-story tall pile of petroleum coke, which covers an entire city block. According to a report in today’s New York Times, we have libertarian industrialists Charles and […]
Posted in Detroit, Environment, Uncategorized Also tagged Alberta, Ambassador Bridge, Andy Hartz, Canada, Charles Koch, China, CO2, Coke, corporatocracy, David Koch, Detroit River, Gary Peters, global climate change, Global Warming, John Conyers, Ken Boyd, Kerry Satterthwaite, Keystone XL pipeline, Koch brothers, Koch Industries, lame duck, Libertarianism, Lorne Stockman, Marathon Petroleum, Matty Moroun, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, oil, Oil Change International, oil sands, petcoke, petroleum coke, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, tar sands 35 Comments
Tea Party derails green projects, calling them U.N. plots, and exposes NYT journalism failings in the process
Remember how, a few weeks ago, the Public Editor of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, wrote a column inexplicably asking if it should be the job of journalists to be “truth vigilantes,” as though there were other legitimate options to be weighed in this highly-politicized, post-reality world in which we find ourselves today? Well, […]
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged activism, Agenda 21, American Planning Association, American Policy Center, benito.strauss, bike lanes, conspiracy theories, fair and balanced, gompa, green jobs, journalism, Maine, manipulation of the stupid, Newt Gingrich, public transportation, stupid Americans, Sustainability, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, Tom DeWeese, truth vigilantes, United Nations, urban planning, world order 13 Comments