Fires. Floods. Pandemic. War. And now an energy crisis. These are wearing times for households and businesses – but there is a solution
Electricity poses a particular problem because businesses and households do not know what they are going to be charged until after they have used it.
So, what can we do?
Source: Zoe Daniel: How to fix the energy crisis the Coalition’s gave us
January 6 and its aftermath clearly could have been far more bloody if the Capitol police and then the Secret Service had not done such a good job of protecting elected officials from these heavily armed and militarily trained wack jobs. It should be remembered how the odious Trump cultivated these right-wing militias, and told a similar group to “stand back and stand by” during his debate with Joe Biden. They stood by all right.
Source: Why the Oath Keepers looks an Awful lot like al-Qaeda and Trump is its Usama Bin Laden
Reasons not to be American Australia.
We can’t pretend we don’t know what’s happening and where it will lead if it’s not stopped—the question is what we will do about it.
Source: Opinion | When the US Is Truly Run by These Fascists It Will Be Too Late | Thom Hartmann
Capitalism creates social disorder and relies on police and prisons to manage it. Until liberals recognize this link between criminal justice and the economy, their reform programs will be ineffectual — and racist policing and mass incarceration will persist.
Source: Capitalism Creates Chaos. The Carceral System Is a Bad Attempt to Contain It.
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