A new Gallup poll has found support for a major third political party steadily rising as more people than ever refer to themselves as Independents while Republicans and Democrats are dropping in approval.
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Along with many representatives of Big Tech, President Biden's transition staffers include two people from Rebellion Defense, a shadowy defense startup.Rebellion Defense launched in the summer of 2019 to craft artificial-intelligence (AI) software for the defense industry. It quickly raised $63 million, with the conspicuous backing of its board member Eric Schmidt.
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As President Joe Biden moved to kill a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office Wednesday, Indigenous Water Protectors in Minnesota want to see Biden’s campaign promise extended to another notorious tar sands pipeline project: Enbridge’s Line 3 expansion.
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A few months ago, a company called Capella Space launched a satellite capable of taking clear radar images of anywhere in the world, with incredible resolution. It can even see inside some buildings, including spotting airplanes inside hangars — though only in the case of lightweight structures.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes the Democratic Party needs new leadership, telling The Intercept in an interview that it’s time for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to go. But the left, she said, currently has no plan on how to fill the subsequent leadership vacuum.
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Biden’s transition team is packed with tech industry insiders. All those campaign donations from tech companies may turn out to have been a shrewd investment. The odds of a Biden administration taking on the power of the tech giants is only slightly better than those of a snowball staying cool in hell.
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Peter Daszak is the longtime president of EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit whose claimed focus is pandemic prevention. But the EcoHealth Alliance, it turns out, is at the very centre of the COVID-19 pandemic in many ways. It works closely with the military but attempts to conceal these connections.
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The notion of a conflict between science and spirituality runs deep in Western thought. Perhaps the deeper reality is that science – or more accurately the system of values and assumptions associated with corporate-funded applied science and technology – is in fact attacking spirituality, holistic health, environmental awareness, and any other regimes of thought that might purport to challenge its claim on ultimate authority.
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#StrikeWithUs has a plan to solve the climate crisis and it includes regenerative agriculture!
If you agree with the demands below, join the climate strike on September 20. You can find an action near you at StrikeWithUs.org.
If you’re in New York City, scroll down to find out more about the Climate Week event we’re hosting at the NY Botanical Gardens with Regeneration International on September 24.
On September 20, three days before the United Nations’ Climate Summit in New York City, young people and adults will strike to demand transformative action to address the climate crisis.
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"If there is something we are not lacking in this world, it's money. Of course, many people do lack money, but governments and these people in power, they do not lack money."
During an event in New York City Monday night with author and environmentalist Naomi Klein, 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg had a simple message for those who claim it is "too expensive" to boldly confront the climate crisis with sweeping policies like a Green New Deal.
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