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Save your public lands...We'll gut ours

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  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

Free Market Capitalists Suckle Gov't Interest Rate Teat

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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:

Which Fake Climate News To Believe?

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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...