Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Imagine a bunch of people who are kidnapped and tortured by being put in a hot room, and their tormentors keep turning up the thermostat. So the prisoners stage a revolt and grab control of the thermostat. But they turn it up on themselves, making the room even hotter, and […]
Trump joins a long Line of Thuggish Racketeers who took a Defiant Mug Shot that did them no Good, including Al Capone
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The tactic of staring sternly into the camera in defiance when having a mug shot taken after being charged and arrested as a criminal is hardly new with Donald John Trump, who surrendered to authorities in Fulton County, Georgia, Thursday. Article continues after bonus IC video The Young Turks: “Donald […]
As America faces Greatest Threat in Climate Crisis, Yellow-Bellied Republican Candidates Cower in Denial
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Neil Vigdor at the NYT focuses on the short moment in the Republican Debate last night when reality intervened in the proceedings and even the Fox News moderators, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, asked about the issue of the climate crisis. They wanted a show of hands by the candidates […]
Climate Change is now throwing at us Every Weapon in its Arsenal, from Heat Domes to Massive Wildfires, to Mega-Hurricanes
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the most part, the earth is heating up just in the way that climate change models from a decade ago had predicted if we went on spewing 35 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere every year. And we have. The frightening thing is that unfolding climate events […]
In 2023, 86% of New Power Capacity in US will come from Renewables, with a Majority of it Solar
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Department of Energy has announced that that in 2023, 82% of new additions to electricity generation capacity in the United States will come from wind, solar and battery, and 86% in total will come from non-fossil fuel sources. Of fossil fuels, only fossil gas will provide new capacity, but […]
Israelis Rally against Gov’t for 33rd Week, denouncing Branding Palestinian with Star of David and sending Women to back of Bus
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the 33rd week in a row, thousands of demonstrators came out Saturday night in Israel to protest the attempt of the extremist Netanyahu government to neuter the Supreme Court. According to Bar Peleg and Adi Hashmonai at Haaretz, the demonstrators are also driven by other issues. Some worry about […]
On Anniversary of Republican Party’s overthrow of the Iranian Gov’t; Let’s remember that on Jan. 6 it used the Same Techniques against our elected President
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the indictments by grand juries at the federal and state level show, there is good reason to believe that on January 6, 2021, Donald John Trump attempted to make a coup and remain in power despite losing the election to Joe Biden. August 19 is the anniversary of the […]
In another Blow to European White Nationalism, Ancient Iceman Ötzi was a Brown-Skinned Anatolian
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 5,000 years ago, a Tyrolean farmer was walking along minding his own business when an enemy put an arrow into his back, so that he fell into a glacier. He stayed there until 1991, when global heating revealed his frozen mummy to some hikers. What could be more echt […]
Rogues’ Gallery: Trump’s Trials on Sedition and Racketeering Parallel those of Brazil’s Bolsonaro and Pakistan’s Musharraf
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald John Trump’s indictment in federal court for sedition and in state court for racketeering are both legal means of sanctioning him for trying illegally to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Although he is the first president to be criminally charged for such a crime (or at all), […]
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