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“$2B saved since Ukraine war

Wind and solar power plants generated 46.3 terawatt-hours of electricity between May 1, 2021 and April 30, 2022, the data [in Turkey] showed.

“Without these power plants, underutilized gas-fired plants or coal power plants relying on imports would have had to run in order to compensate for them,” the report added.

“Assuming that all 46.3 TWh power was generated by gas-fired plants, this would mean wind and solar power replaced $7 billion extra gas imports during that 12-month period.””

#Turkey saves $7 billion in 12 months by replacing fossil fuel (natural gas and coal) imports with #WindWaterSolar

-lowering electricity bills at a time when gas prices skyrocketed globally, a report said Tuesday.https://t.co/XAbC79zaXG #WWS #NoMiraclesNeeded

— Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson) May 24, 2022

W Gaffes Again

The Republican Party didn’t become disgusting when Trump came to power, it’s been terrible for over 20 years. How can you tell? W Bush just confessed to knowing the Iraq War was wrong, during one of his infamous public speaking gaffes. Obama’s Democrats letting him skate away from responsibility for the deaths of over a million people has inspired Biden’s Democrats to do the same for Trump who has also caused the deaths of over a million Americans by mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic so badly. And the GOP is supported by Fox News which is using the xenophobic expression “illegal babies”.

Nuclear War Not Humanity’s Only Option

Aside from the insane invasion of democratic Ukraine by the Russians, there’s another pending catastrophe in store for humanity anywhere between this afternoon and the next 5000 years. Destruction from space rocks slamming into our atmosphere is a near certainty in our solar system, but we have technology that can sometimes detect them in advance, and other technology being tested this year that can divert collisions.

Here’s a really interesting theory about a now well studied destruction of an ancient city that made it into Biblical stories.

This year though, we’ve come closer to nuclear war than any other time I can recall. Take time time to enjoy the 1964 cold war comedy: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”.

We shouldn’t stop worrying, or love the bomb, but it’s hard to know how much worry, anger, and hope to throw into one’s daily life right now.

Cut What?

Bernie Sanders has spent the past several MONTHS asking publicly (and privately?) what other Senators want to cut

Neither the media nor the Senators themselves have an answer, but the press continues to ask BERNIE when he will be doing the cutting!! WHAT!https://t.co/dRzQRDAoYD pic.twitter.com/FurJRZk3SU

— Brett "Unions 2021" Banditelli (@banditelli) September 23, 2021

Why does Bernie need to compromise, and not the warmongers who blew billions on a failed war in Afghanistan?

Here's 8 minutes of @CBSMornings hosts trying and failing to get @BernieSanders to change his message pic.twitter.com/vJ8l3dKvRZ

— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) September 23, 2021

Speaking of Afghanistan though, why did America fail? It was never intended to win.

Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/Hg3qVzABBg

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 18, 2021

Friendly Fire

Or war crime?

Our report from last night on the awful ISIS attack outside Kabul airport as families still search Kabul's morgues for their loved ones..

Many we spoke to, including eyewitnesses, said significant numbers of those killed were shot dead by US forces in the panic after the blast pic.twitter.com/ac5nUVeJ4x

— Secunder Kermani (@SecKermani) August 28, 2021

Breaking News: President Biden said another Kabul attack was “highly likely” in the next 36 hours, and that the U.S. retaliation for the bombing wouldn't be the last.

Follow for updates. https://t.co/KlIg5I8jdV

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 28, 2021

The Biggest Political News of the Day

We are having a baby!!!! @gurkirankaur_ and I are so excited for this new adventure!🤰🏽🥰 pic.twitter.com/ULyw8EfQnO

— Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) August 12, 2021

Congrats to Jagmeet Singh and his wife.

Oh, and there’s an expected election call for Sept. 20th.

Twitter Top Trends, (not edited):
"Is it safe? What's the ballot question this campaign? John Ibbitson explains

Seeker ·
Yesterday
Insects may be the food of the future"

— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) August 12, 2021

And on the other side of the planet in Afghanistan, echoing the end of the Vietnam War:

Last week I was reading about the end of the Vietnam war since I never learned about it in school.https://t.co/nILqnyTaho https://t.co/ME0uh0Kk4h

— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) August 13, 2021

American Riots Continue

I KNEW there was something wrong there. I just didn't think it was the *Hitler* pic that had been photoshopped XD https://t.co/lp22xJVfO6

— GRRRR, Rant-o-matic Shark (@grrrr_shark) June 3, 2020

The United States has been led by a war criminal, and by a now open fascist since I’ve been 20.

Took only ~15 years for Liberals to forget the only sensible political commentary I've ever heard Kanye express:
W Bush doesn't care about black people. pic.twitter.com/WWQzaYZxiL

— Saskboy from #SocialDistancing (@saskboy) June 3, 2020

Dr. Cornell West is right, America is a failed social experiment.

Wikileaks: Assange Arrested in London

Assange has been a political prisoner for most of a decade and he still is one today, not a criminal hacker.

Note that Ecuador revoked asylum, nationality 24h after we exposed illegal spying on Assange, his lawyers and doctors, and just days before the UN Rapporteurs on Torture and Privacy were set to meet Assange to investigate rights violations in the embassy. https://t.co/vvbZBOgCwL

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 11, 2019

Like death, injustice comes even though we don't want it to. And the arrest of Assange for committing journalism, is an injustice like death. https://t.co/DJJ43fF70P

— Saskboy (@saskboy) April 11, 2019

"Julian Assange's Seven Strange Years in Self-Imposed Isolation"https://t.co/xc8GFlm40Y
That headline is maddening. As if it was "Self-Imposed". Hogwash! The @UN confirmed he was illegally detained.

— Saskboy (@saskboy) April 12, 2019

I think there's more to the story than this. How bad a government do you have to be to storm an embassy and haul out a journalist to what could become his death, less than a year after #Khashoggi?

— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) April 12, 2019

Turd Blossom Stinks Up Canada

Preston Manning is a joke.
Karl Rove is a war criminal.

Imagine living in a world based on the ethical standard of Rove. Could be that we are there now. A world where war criminals like Bush and Blair are heroes.

— ed wood (@edwood3) March 22, 2019

Worst President Possible

Who puts children in cages?
Not men assured living wages.
A #FightforFifteen?
A quaint little dream,
While American Dreams shrink in stages.#WhereAreTheChildren?#ChildrenConcentrationCamps.
This started when?
President Orange Gramps.*

*Obama and Bush share some blame.

— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) June 18, 2018