“I’m the first president in this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world,” Biden bragged.
Biden’s statement was startling, and not just because it is transparently false. The US is actively engaged in global warfare, including in Yemen, which has been bombed multiple times under Biden’s watch – including the same night that he spoke from the Oval Office. The US maintains an illegal and unwelcome military occupation of Syria with the stated goal, as both Donald Trump and a senior Biden official have admitted, of stealing Syria’s resources to prevent the country’s recovery from the decade-long dirty war launched by Biden’s former boss, Barack Obama.

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl

https://open.substack.com/pub/mate/p/us-not-at-war-biden-boasts-while?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

The notion that alleviating traffic congestion can reduce carbon emissions by keeping gas-powered cars from idling in traffic-clogged highways has a certain intuitive appeal. But experts point to decades of evidence showing that adding lanes is no fix for congestion, thanks to the well-documented principle of #induceddemand: As roadway capacity expands, more people are encouraged to drive, and new lanes swiftly end up just as clogged, if not more so.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-07/can-adding-highway-lanes-bring-transportation-emissions-down

If you find it horrifying and evil that I am using Trump’s ear owwie to talk about exponentially more atrocious acts of violence, I can only say: get a fucking grip. Pull yourself together. Your country is backing a literal genocide right this very moment. Stop getting swept up in the media-driven emotional frenzy of the moment, get ahold of yourself, stop thinking uncritically, and start acting like an adult.

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/theres-an-important-lesson-in-all?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

The idea of driving everywhere to avoid the cold is a uniquely American phenomenon. There are numerous sub-Arctic and Arctic cities where residents do not rely on their cars, even at minus 40 degrees. Reykjavik in Iceland and Tromsø in Norway, both at a similar latitude as Fairbanks, boast a higher level of walkability and a public transit system that is not just widely used but also well-maintained. Despite cold winters, these cities also offer the option of renting bikes and electric scooters.

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2024/07/10/opinion-walkable-communities-could-help-alaska-tackle-its-health-problems/

#SiblingBeings in trouble surviving us: fish are threatened by diversions of water that reduce river flows, harmful algae blooms that can trigger fish kills, and overfishing by recreational anglers. They say the fish are particularly vulnerable because they spawn infrequently — only in wet years that bring high river flows.

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl

#CattleWreckedLandscapeByBibleBeefAndBulletsCauseAfluenza

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-06-25/california-may-declare-white-sturgeon-a-threatened-species

The scaffold for a large military draft infrastructure is being constructed to prepare to sacrifice young Americans to global war.

The first step is automatic registration for Selective Service, at a time when military recruitment is lagging, badly. According to USA Facts, “There were 1.3 million active duty military in 2023, 41% fewer than in 1987 - - the recent peak.” Forever wars have outstripped recruiting. The voracious war machine needs to be fed new blood.

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl

https://open.substack.com/pub/denniskucinich/p/draft-notice-from-the-shop-of-horrors?r=39z3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

30 year old “cautionary warning: State officials who have promised to halt the expansion of traffic-inducing #freeways that contribute to #climatechange are the same ones overseeing them…thoroughly vetted
Analysis by #Caltrans found the I-80 project would cut greenhouse gas emissions by reducing congestion.
But researchers say decades of academic work show it will do the opposite in the long run.

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl
https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=905e585a-da21-4f22-ba60-74d9b6f362d1

#EMicroMobilityReducesEmissionsFastFairFrugalForEssentialWorkers: #congestionpricing accommodates cars and sprawl as a way of life and divests from the city. #15MinuteNeighborhoods linked by bikes with #ParisAlignedBuildingsInsteadOfSprawl are #UnGlamorousSolutions that don't accomodate #ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl all of which the democratic governor, who sent #CopCity to #Columbia, doesn't control.

#KeepItInTheGround

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/06/06/congestion-pricing-new-york-city-traffic-gridlock/

Post-World War II, policies to promote homeownership encouraged sprawl, entrenched racism led people to flee cities as African Americans moved north in the Great Migration, and the Interstate highway system became the country’s largest infrastructure project.

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/28/all-the-ways-cars-harm-the-world/

#BullshitJobs lead to #BullshitConflicts

#SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs
#15MinuteNeighborhoodsShouldNeverBeBombed
#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/business/us-tariffs-ev-europe-china-trade/index.html

Utilities, who see fossil fuels expansion as the solution to transmission congestion, instead of efficiency and demand response which need guaranteed rate of return, virtual power plants and reconducting, ran up transmission fires instead: The fire’s size—1 million acres—was unprecedented in Texas. It was eight times bigger than California’s 2018 Camp Fire, the most destructive in that state’s history.

The Camp Fire was caused by faulty transmission lines owned by Pacific Gas & Electric. (The utility filed for bankruptcy protection the following year.) Already, Xcel Energy, a Minneapolis-based electric utility and natural gas delivery company, has told state fire investigators that its equipment apparently started the Smokehouse Creek blaze.

#RoadToSprawlIsPavedWithDeterioratedCarbonSinks #ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl #StopIntrusionIntoTheWUIAndRematriateLandBack #ParisAlignedDensityInsteadOfSprawl

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-panhandle-fire-climate-environment/

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl:
The resolution agreement fell short of community demands to reduce the numbers of those displaced, though it requires TxDOT to provide relocation services for affected businesses and residents to ensure they are “not cut out from the community” and to publicly post information to facilitate relocation.

#RoadToSprawlIsPavedWithDeterioratedCarbonSinks

https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-highway-expansion-discrimination/

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl: Avina’s Nueces Green Ammonia plant plans to separate the hydrogen from water, convert it to ammonia and export it as a high-tech fuel alternative to oil and gas. It’s one of several such projects currently proposed in Texas, driven by federal subsidies.

#MalAdaptation #OrganizedHumansAreADesertificationSpecies

https://www.texasobserver.org/water-energy-environment-corpus/

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl: California lags behind other states in replacing aging and failing power lines, according to a 2022 audit report to the California Legislature. 
And because the state is so spread out geographically, it costs more to build and connect its infrastructure for energy generation, maintenance, distribution and wildfire mitigation. Those costs don’t vary by how much electricity customers use, but they are driven up by climate change as California becomes hotter and drier.
https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/electricity-bills/

As home insurers flee California, the state’s last-resort insurance plan is warning that it’s being pushed toward insolvency, forced to cover a rapidly growing number of properties that have lost traditional coverage and unable to collect enough in premiums to cover potential losses.
The number of homes and commercial properties in high-risk wildfire areas covered by the California FAIR Plan has more than doubled, from 154,000 in 2019 to 375,000, and liability exposure has ballooned from $50 billion in 2018 to $336 billion in February, its president told lawmakers at an insurance committee hearing last week.
#StopIntrusionIntoTheWUIAndRematriateLandBack
#TurningABillionDollarProblemIntoATrillionDollarProblem

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/23/california-home-insurance-exodus-pushes-states-last-resort-backup-plan-toward-insolvency/

Biden can’t finish what he started: Yet no amount of US money can account for the West’s failure to keep up with Russia’s production of artillery and other weaponry. And even if that gap is eventually overcome, as some Western pundits insist, that still would not solve the problem that Ukraine is running out of people to sacrifice.

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl
#GenocideTaxForeverWarDivestsFromYouthHousingFoodCleanAirAndWaterMedicareForAll #USSecurityCouncilVetosInstitutionalizeLawlessness

https://open.substack.com/pub/mate/p/two-years-in-ukraine-proxy-war-runs?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

With at least 13,000 dead as of December 2024, the war is also one of the deadliest in the world today, on par with the Myanmar conflict and only far-surpassed in 2023 by the wars in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine. Many thousands of civilians are among the dead, with the United Nations documenting indiscriminate SAF airstrikes in major cities, while also describing an apparent campaign of genocide by the RSF and allies against non-Arab citizens of West Darfur state.

 #KeepEyesOnSudan 
#DisplacedAndStarvingPeopleAroundTheRedSeaProtectCarbonBombShippingLanes 
#RefugeesAreCreatedByForeverWarsEthnicCleansingAndClimateChange #ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl #StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation 

https://www.polgeonow.com/2024/02/sudan-civil-war-map-2023-10-timeline.html

the war in Sudan concerns the entire Horn of Africa region, which bears its consequences, with the concrete risk of plunging into a long humanitarian crisis with serious geopolitical repercussions. Before the conflict, Sudan hosted over 1.1 million foreign refugees, including 800,000 South Sudanese and many Eritreans and Ethiopians. Sudan was therefore one of the main refugee-hosting countries in Africa.
Today, the dynamics are reversed, and there is therefore a risk that the Sudanese war could inflame neighbouring countries, particularly fragile South Sudan, but also Chad and others.

#KeepEyesOnSudan
#DisplacedAndStarvingPeopleAroundTheRedSeaProtectCarbonBombShippingLanes
#RefugeesAreCreatedByForeverWarsEthnicCleansingAndClimateChange #ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl #StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2024-02/war-in-sudan-risks-inflaming-other-fragile-african-countries.html

https://act.citizen.org/page/63324/petition/1?locale=en-US

Fossil fuel behemoth BP made $13.8 billion in profits last year.

To put that number in context:
• Suppose you make the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. (Yes, the federal minimum wage is still stuck where it was 15 years ago.)
• You work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. (No vacation for you!)
• It would take 915,119 years to earn $13.8 billion. (And that could hardly be considered profits. You would have been scraping by. For almost a million years. Which is about three times longer than human beings have actually existed.)

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl
#USSettlerColonialGenrontocracyFundsGenocide
#KeepItInTheGround
#FossilFuelsViolateHumanRights
#PetroOligarchsAreRICO
#NationalizeFossilFuels
#IfNotNowThenAtWhatTemperature #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobsEvenBullshitJobs

The Nazis in 1942 systematically starved the 500,000 men, women and children in the Warsaw Ghetto. This is a number Israel intends to exceed.

Israel, and its chief patron the United States, by attempting to shut down the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which provides food and aid to Gaza, is not only committing a war crime, but is in flagrant defiance of the International Criminal Court (ICJ).

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-dirt

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl
#ICJOrderedAnEndToAllActsOfGenocide #WesternWorldComplicitInAttrocitiesAgainstHumanity #UNRWAFeedsRefugeesFromIsraeliGenocide
#CollapseOfTheRuleOfLawLeadsToRepressionAndGenocide
#USSecurityCouncilVetosInstitutionalizeLawlessness #Gaza #GenocideJoeKnows