Inappropriate Diversions From State TV

  Under Brazil’s Far Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall - NY Times It's just awful what's happening to the pristine Amazon rain forest but....   President Trump opens 2 million acres inside national monuments to mining - WestWise We probably should keep our house in order before eco-shaming others

Those self-regulating, laissez-faire  banks and gov't owning megacorps whine for cheap  money Stocks Jump as Fed’s Powell Suggests Rates Could Come Down - NY Times Stock rise at open Wednesday after Fed's Powell signals likely interest rate cut in testimony to Congress - MarketWatch Stocks rallied and bond yields fell, as markets braced for a rate cut at the Fed’s July meeting. - CNN  Well, what do you and I get? Even lower returns on all forms of savings, BUT, disproportionately less interest rate reductions in comparison to what the Big Boys receive. However, as patriotic Americans we must:

So, take your pick climate-deniers and climate-alarmists: Reasoned scientific consensus or good old-fashioned corporate common sense Climate change alarmists deny science in misrepresenting June's heatwave - Fox News Lucky for us that staunch conservatives know: But, look out those lying, colluding, money-grabbing climate change scientists are still at it: Heat Wave Nudged the Planet to Its Hottest June, European Forecasters Say -  NY Times Here's an example Deniers were stymied in their efforts to prove climate change collusion: GOP senators wanted to stop climate change training for weathercasters. It backfired - phys.org The National Science Foundation's inspector general has rejected the claim by the four Republicans—Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and James M. Inhofe and James Lankford, both of Oklahoma that the Climate Central program "is not science—it is propagandizing." when every year is up among the ten hottest ever seen...

Plus Duterte, Erdogan, Kim Jung Un, Maduro, Al Assad, Nkurunziza, Déby, Kagame, Mbasogo. Why do we need them? Why do we tolerate them? How can we rid ourselves of them? OK, smartass so what might your "appropriate leader" for instance espouse? Try this: An expanded national service plan to unify country - Reuters But, we can start trying something by ourselves...

Light trucks are killing car sales - Autoweek Car sales projected to hit 60 year low in U.S. while light trucks flourish Americans bought over 17 million vehicles for the fourth year in a row in 2018, and 68 percent of them were trucks and SUVs, continuing a years-long trend away from cars that’s been driven by increasing choice and low gas prices - FoxNews The average cost of a 2019 Ford pickup was $46,591. And, of course you have to raise them, chip them to spew smoke, put on defensive bumper equipment and get wickedly expensive 30" wheels and tires. To commute to work all alone getting like 17 MPG at best, but feeling an intense and All-American pride. And, you're not just driving it...You're wearing it and it feels so damn good! And why is that?

Tobacco's 'Special Friend': What Internal Documents Say About Mitch McConnell - NPR An NPR review of McConnell's relationship with the tobacco industry over the decades has found that McConnell repeatedly cast doubt on the health consequences of smoking, repeated industry talking points word-for-word, attacked federal regulators at the industry's request and opposed bipartisan tobacco regulations going back decades. The industry, in turn, has provided McConnell with millions of dollars in speaking fees, personal gifts, campaign contributions and charitable donations to the McConnell Center, which is home to his personal and professional archives. McConnell says he would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in 2020 - The Economist WHEN ANTONIN SCALIA died suddenly in 2016, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, wasted no time staking out the Republican position on the conservative jurist’s successor. Hours after news broke of Mr Scalia’s demise, Mr McConnel...

Look, we just can't have them. Those smoky prescribed burns destroy the tourism traffic and real estate development our community depends on...And we need federal assistance to recover from our recent uninsured wildfire damages. Looks like we have a real wildfire preoblem 1 Billion Acres At Risk For Catastrophic Wildfires, U.S. Forest Service Warns However, we're not doing what we need to do to prevent them Prescribed burning to combat wildfires has not increased in the U.S. West - Phys.org But we have all the evidence that such burns are effective and necessary... Thinning forests, prescribed fire before drought reduced tree loss - phys.org Anyways, that's not all we've done to ensure that the West of our dreams is now 'fully-developed'