1/. One of the givens about climate change is climate migration, where people leave their homes which have become uninhabitable
and try to migrate to somewhere better....examples are Bangladesh,[flooding] and indeed Arizona [heat and drought] in just a few years.
But where are these climate refugees going to go? Who will take them in?
David Wallace-Wells with a very good article....
The aftermath of wildfires that burned more than 1m hectares of forests in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk territory in 2019. Photograph: Donat Sorokin/Tass
A great upheaval is coming. Climate-driven movement of people is adding to a massive migration already under way to the world’s cities.
The number of migrants has doubled globally over the past decade, and the issue of what to do about rapidly increasing populations of displaced
people will only become greater and more urgent. To survive climate breakdown will require a planned and deliberate migration of a
kind humanity has never before undertaken.
2/. Boy is this one true - Bill Maher on online shopping and how bad it is for our quality of life.....falls into
the category of comedic reporting....very good...
3/. Challenging article from the Times, which says even if Trump is convicted of something
there is no happy ending for anyone....
Debate about the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence has settled into well-worn grooves. Mr. Trump and many Republicans have denounced the act as illegitimate. Attorney General Merrick Garland is staying mostly mum. And Democrats are struggling to contain their enthusiasm.
Liberal excitement is understandable. Mr. Trump faces potential legal jeopardy from the Jan. 6 investigation in Congress and the Mar-a-Lago search. They anticipate fulfilling a dream going back to the earliest days of the Trump administration: to see him frog-marched to jail before the country and the world.
But this is a fantasy. There is no scenario following from the present that culminates in a
happy ending for anyone, even for Democrats.
4/. The Lincoln Project is putting out ads specifically to drive Trump crazy.....here's their new one.....
5/. Matt Taibbi with the news of the week.....
Editor’s note: the audio recap of “America This Week” with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn is up. Click here to listen:
Welcome back to America This Week, wrapping up a week in news from the country that brought you cheeseburgers, rock n’ roll, “forever chemicals,” Annie, the Balingiga massacre, most of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, gun-toting robot dogs, electric light, three-named assassins and Internet porn. This week in our illustrious history:
6/. Tom Tomorrow quotes the usual suspects....
7/. If you're interested in what happened to Crypto and why it all crashed, this is a fascinating article about two of the "geniuses" behind the crypto frenzy....
The boat was a beauty of a thing: some 500 tons across 171 feet of glass and steel as white as Santorini. All rounded edges, the five decks — one with a glass-bottom pool — were made for July on the Mediterranean, sunset dinners among the islands near Sicily, cocktails in the turquoise shallows off the coast of Ibiza. Her would-be captains showed off pictures of the $50 million vessel at parties, bragging that it would be “bigger than all of the richest billionaires’ yachts in Singapore” and describing plans to adorn the staterooms with projector screens, creating a waterborne gallery for their growing collection of digital art in the form of NFTs.
8/. This toon makes as much sense as anything on right wing media.....
9/. Good story from the Guardian on why the UK economy is collapsing......
Whatever conclusions follow, the basic observation is much the same: what with skyrocketing bills, crisis-plagued railways, a drought
worsened by our decaying water infrastructure and an NHS once again on the brink of collapse, the United Kingdom is being confronted
with huge problems it can no longer wish away.
10/. Hmmmm....this toon might be true....soon....
11/. Another crypto story, this one about a theft of billions in Bitcoin.....a quite
fascinating look into the weirdness of techno life.....
It was around 3 a.m. the first time they arrived. An unmarked, nondescript government-issued vehicle pulled up to the towering brown brick and blue glass building in downtown Manhattan known simply by its address: 75 Wall Street. The city that never sleeps was in that rare moment when the ostinato of car horns and rattling subway cars had been replaced by a deep, albeit brief, slumber. The agents stepped out of their vehicle and walked through the revolving doors of the 42-story building, crossing the shiny white oak floors of the lobby to reach the doorman on duty that night. It was 2021, in the midst of the second wave of the COVID pandemic, and the bottom 18 floors of “75,” which had originally opened as the Andaz Hotel, had shuttered because of the virus. Seeing anyone at this hour was rare for the doorman, but seeing a group of federal agents was an utter anomaly.
12/. And Umair's thoughts on how chaotic and dysfunctional Britain is the model of what
will happen if Trump gets back in power.....
Right about now, you might be nervously wondering: what happens if Trump gets re-elected? After all, there’s still very
much a sophisticated plan to kill democracy with 50 January 6ths, thwart the vote, and strangle the peaceful transfer of
power — and the GOP’s only growing more extreme and violent by the day, now openly, brutally rejecting the idea of even pretending to want a democracy.
There’s a country in the world which teaches us America’s future if the GOP comes to power again, and that country, sadly, stupidly, is…Britain.
13/ Travel tips to make your trips easier.....
Anyone who has gone on a trip in the last year probably has a horror story. Canceled flights have abounded. Customer service wait times with airlines can be hours long. In some places, the costs of rental cars and plane tickets have become astronomical.
Many of the economic problems birthed by the coronavirus pandemic — including high gas prices
and burnout-induced resignations — have hit the travel industry especially hard, just as people have
resumed taking trips and leaving home for vacations.
14/. This is a frightening article - where extreme heat will hit the United States with an interactive map
where you can see how your county will fare.....
One of the worst places for heat ....South Florida.
And by the way - their date of 2053 is BS - it'll be MUCH faster than that....
A new study reveals the emergence of an "extreme heat belt" from Texas to Illinois, where the heat index could reach 125°F at least one day a year by 2053.
The big picture: In just 30 years, climate change will cause the Lower 48 states to be a far hotter and more precarious place to be during the summer.
- The findings come from a hyperlocal analysis of current and future extreme heat events published Monday by the nonprofit First Street Foundation.
- The new report is unique for examining current and future heat risks down to the property level across the country, and joins similar risk analyses First Street has completed for flooding and wildfires.
15/. I don't remember the plot or anything about this movie, "Star Trek The Motion Picture", but I'm sure I saw it and will be on the lookout for this remastering ....
Star Trek: The Motion Picture … l to r, Stephen Collins, Persis Khambatta, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig. Photograph: Entertainment Pictures/Alamy
16/. "House Of The Dragon" has started......our new GOT.....
Welcome back to the little dragon show.
First, a warning. Game of Thrones is famously unfinished: Theories and speculation flourished across ye internet throughout the show’s run because beyond seasons four and five, its future was (is) as murky as the swamps of the Neck. Just last week George R.R. Martin told the New York Times that his ending for books six and seven — The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, respectively — will substantially differ from Dave Benioff and D.B. Weiss’s tragic(ally bad) finale. House of the Dragon has no such protections in place. This is Westerosi history, as told in the last third of Martin’s Fire & Blood, one of those tales of knights and maidens fair that Shireen Baratheon huddled over in her sad little princess cell, an entirely finished story. Google searches on characters or plot points will return spoilers. Research at your own risk.
Today's video - a compilation of the two amazing "Born To Create Drama" 30 second clips [first], then
a collection of International commercials, all amusing but a couple of which are really funny.....
Today's British joke
"Ya know" said the Scotsman, "I still prefer the pubs back home. In St Andrews there's a wonderful little bar called McTavish's. The landlord there goes out of his way for the locals, so much that when you buy 4 drinks he'll buy the 5th drink for you."
"Well", said the Englishman, "At my local, the Red Lion, the barman there will buy you your 3rd drink after you buy the first 2."
"Ahhhhh, that's nothing laddies", said the Irishman. "Back home in me own Killarney, there's Ryan's Bar. Now, the moment you set foot in the place they'll buy you a drink, then another, all the drinks you like. Then, when you've had enough drinks they'll take you upstairs and see that you get laid. All on the house!"
The Englishman & Scotsman immediately scorn the Irishman's claims. But he swears every word is true.
"Well," said the Englishman, "did this actually happen to you?"
"Not to me meself, personally, no," said the Irishman. "but it did happen to me sister."
