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Date: October 30, 2020 at 10:02:48
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: tidbits |
URL: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/30/roaming-charges-high-anxiety/ |
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+ Hurricane Zeta made landfall with maximum winds of 110 mph, making it the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the continental US this late in the calendar year since the Halloween Hurricane of 1899 hit South Carolina, also packing 110 mph winds.
+ Zeta is the 11th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season to date. Only two other Atlantic hurricane seasons on record (since 1851) have had more than 11 Atlantic hurricanes by October 26: 1950 and 2005.
+ With scant national press coverage focused on it, 80% of New Orleans remains without power and many structures won’t have lines repaired for at least 3-5 days. Zeta was the strongest hurricane in recorded history to have its eye directly pass over New Orleans.
+ In the last two years, Trump’s Department of Energy has blocked the release of more than 40 reports on renewable energy: “They just go into a black hole.”
+ The coal industry is in free fall and never coming back. The natural gas industry doesn’t provide jobs. That leaves West Virginia, which has bet its economy on both, in the shitter.
+ The Arctic’s giant methane deposits are beginning to leak their climate-wrecking fumes. Adjust your doomsday clock accordingly.
+ In Colorado, more acres have burned this year alone than in any other five-year period on record, combined.
+ A worst-case climate scenario could produce almost $500 trillion in damages—about twice all the wealth in the world today. A best case still inflicts about $30 trillion in damage, a new study in Nature estimates, with intermediate scenarios between $69 trillion and $131 trillion.
+ According to a post-debate Morning Consult poll, only 28% voters oppose transitioning away from the oil industry. 52% of independents support transitioning away, and even 41% of Republicans.
+ Trump’s war on wolves just went nuclear…
+ The decision to remove the protections for gray wolves across all 48 states is going to have lethal consequences in Wisconsin, where the state’s “wolf hunt” will be immediately reopened.
+ Trump is exempting Alaska’s entire Tongass National Forest from the Clinton-era rule protecting roadless forests, opening more than 9.3 million acres of the nation’s largest rainforest to logging and road construction. It is one of the biggest public lands rollbacks of his presidency.
+ Ned Norris Jr., Chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, on the border wall’s desecration of Indigenous sacred sites: “As Americans, we all should be horrified that the Federal Government has so little respect for our religious and cultural values.”
+ A posse of federal scientists and land managers with US Fish and Wildlife Service have called the Border Wall the “current greatest threat to endangered species in the southwest region.”
+ “It’s a felony to destroy saguaro cactus in Arizona, and yet we’re seeing the government come in and slaughter hundreds of them with total impunity,” says Laiken Jordahl, a borderlands campaigner with the Center for Biological Diversity. “There’s a destruction of the natural history that’s occurring here on a massive scale.”
+ Vicki Gaubeca, director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition: “It’s been both Democrats and Republicans that have been responsible for the tragedy caused at our borders by the border wall.”
+ According to an analysis by the Washington Post, Trump has substantially weakened or eliminated more than 125 rules, regulations and policies aimed at protecting the nation’s air, water and land since taking office. Another 40 rollbacks are in the works.
+ If things keep going they way they have been, soon the Great Barrier Reef won’t be great, won’t be a barrier and won’t even be a reef…
+ Mike Freeman: “It’s official. The Moon has more clean water than Flint.”
+ Archaeology magazine published a study arguing that the Clovis Culture lasted just 300 years. “Just?” That may be longer than our rapidly crumbling Republic lasts…
+ I’m still reeling from the death this week of my pal Jack Tuholske at the tender age of 66. Jack, friend of mountains, rivers, wolves and grizzlies, was one of the fiercest spirits I’ve ever encountered and one of the best and most unrelenting environmental litigators. Fuck cancer.
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Date: October 30, 2020 at 15:45:12
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: tidbits |
URL: Tropical Storm Eta could debut next week, the first appearance ever for the Greek alphabet’s 7th letter |
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And another one looks to be forming if so it will be named ETA (see link below my name for info if
interested)! This reminds me of the 2004-2005 season...2004 was the year I saw the UFO during a lunar
eclipse...I know that's an aside but I am reminded of it because it's the time of year, the cross-quarter
season when it happened (Oct. 28, 2004)....At that time in during the eclipse my eye kept being drawn to
the Pleiades which is a marker for this time of year for the Pleiades culminates at midnight.
Thing is the hurricane season in 2004 went on past December, one month past hurricane seasons official end
which manifested in Hurricane Zeta in 2005....I am thinking about so many storms being birthed in a shorter
amount of time as compared to the 2004-2005 season.
excerpt from wikipedia link:
-->Tropical Storm Zeta was a very late-developing tropical storm that formed in the central Atlantic Ocean
during the record breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, one month after the season's official end.
Becoming a tropical depression on December 30, and intensifying the following day into the season's 28th
storm (including one unnamed subtropical storm), Zeta continued into January 2006.[1] It was one of only
two Atlantic tropical cyclones to span two calendar years (the other being Hurricane Alice in 1954–55).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Zeta_(2005)
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Date: October 30, 2020 at 12:02:33
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: tidbits |
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thanks ryan.....oye. I am so ready for the 5th dimension to happen!...as are so many others, and praying it will happen!
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