When Republicans tell you they are for small government what they mean is they are for little or no regulation of corporations, and very low tax rates for the rich and the corporations they control, and who control them. Republicans are actually advocates of the biggest of big governments. They want the government to control women, and they want the state to decide what your children can be taught. They want the White race to be always in control of the culture. Voters in the states listed in this article are about to find out what it means for your children to be indoctrinated not educated. It will affect them for the rest of their lives, and it will affect the schools and colleges in those red states as applications drop off, just as OB/GYNs are leaving the state, and the already poor healthcare for women in Red states degrades even further. Weapons manufacturers will move into Red states, as leading edge high tech corporations, if they are present, leave, as will anyone in the LGBTQ community. Over the next five years Red states are going to become increasingly inferior places to live compared to Blue states.
A Republican governor in the South is peeling back diversity programs in public schools and limiting how gender and race can be discussed in classrooms — and he’s not from Florida.
While Florida governor Ron DeSantis made headlines on Monday for signing a law that bars colleges from using state or federal funding on most diversity, equity and inclusion programs, conservatives are pursuing similar tactics in other GOP-led states.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in Texas are shepherding legislation through Austin requiring public universities to shutter their DEI offices and ban diversity training and hiring statements but, unlike Florida, avoids interfering with course instruction. In Tennessee and North Dakota, Republican-controlled legislatures have passed new restrictions on DEI training or are pressing to pass them before their legislative sessions end.
After signing a suite of curriculum rules last year, Florida has the most sweeping set of restrictions on classroom discussions about race and gender in the nation. But the work in the Sunshine State has inspired dozens of copycats this year among conservatives who say diversity programs are working to “indoctrinate” young people and being used as a “club to silence” critics.
Here is some much anticipated and deeply welcomed good news. There is hope.
Solar power installation Credit: Getty
This year, the world is predicted to pass a critical turning point in renewable energy.
Greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector, the largest source of the world’s emissions, are expected to fall for the first time, according to London-based think tank Ember. That’s despite the fact that the world’s demand for electricity is still growing. Emissions are set to fall because expansion in renewable energies such as solar and wind is outstripping that growth in demand.
It’s a crucial moment in the effort to tackle climate change, and the report, written by Małgorzata Wiatros-Motyka, senior electricity analyst at Ember, and colleagues, argues that we are fast approaching a positive “tipping point” in the effort to curb climate change.
“This marks the point where power sector emissions stop rising,” Wiatros-Motyka and her colleagues write. “Clean power can actually go to replacing fossil fuels, instead of just meeting rising demand.”
Just how important are positive tipping points in efforts to tackle climate change? And are we really about to pass an important one in 2023?
If you live in the United States you live in the country that is the leading death merchant and supporter of autocracies. How can that possibly be, you may ask? The answer is what Dwight Eisenhower warned us about. This story is about corruption and the control of government policy through corruption by the military industrial corporations. This is not about helping Ukraine, this is about deals made with Saudi Arabia.
Since President Joe Biden came into office in 2021, he has described a “battle between democracies and autocracies” in which the U.S. and other democracies strive to create a peaceful world. The reality, however, is that the Biden administration has helped increase the military power of a large number of authoritarian countries. According to an Intercept review of recently released government data, the U.S. sold weapons to at least 57 percent of the world’s autocratic countries in 2022.
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been the world’s biggest weapons dealer, accounting for about 40 percent of all arms exports in a given year. In general, these exports are funded through grants or sales. There are two pathways for the latter category: foreign military sales and direct commercial sales.
The U.S. government acts as an intermediary for FMS acquisitions: It buys the materiel from a company first and then delivers the goods to the foreign recipient. DCS acquisitions are more straightforward: They’re the result of an agreement between a U.S. company and a foreign government. Both categories of […]
This is American society as it suffers from obsessive gun psychosis. Is this the kind of society you want to live in? What are you prepared to do to change this?
Taxi driver Kofi Addo murdered by three teenagers with a gun Credit: ABC7 / NY / YouTube
Three teenagers have been charged in the killing and robbing of a taxi driver on Thursday night, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald said.
The three males, a 14 and 13-year-old from Somerset and a 13-year-old from New Brunswick, were arrested on Friday after an investigation identified them as the suspects, officials said.
Police responded to a 911 call reporting a shooting near Rose Street and Sydney Place in Franklin Township at 9:56 p.m., authorities said. Officers located the taxi, which had crashed into a vehicle parked in the driveway of a residence, prosecutors said.
The driver, Kofi Addo, 57, of North Brunswick, was located in the vehicle with a gunshot wound, officials said. He was later pronounced dead at an area trauma center after life-saving attempts on the scene were unsuccessful, authorities said.
Investigators said Addo was picking up a fare near Rose Street when he was approached by the three young teens. One of […]
A 12 year old with an assault rifle, what could possibly go wrong? Murder, of course, and that is just what happened. We are getting to a point where any place you thought must surely be safe, may not be.
A memorial grows (background) for Matthew Davis (foreground) after police say he was gunned down by a 12-year-old customer on Saturday, May 13, 2023.Credit: Channel 5 NBC (Texas)
A 12-year-old and a 20-year-old are both facing a murder charge after a restaurant employee was gunned down during an altercation with a customer Saturday night in Keene.
Flowers and a cross now stand outside the Sonic Drive-In on Old Betsy Road in Keene. It’s a growing memorial to Matthew Davis, a 32-year-old employee and father who was shot and killed while on the job Saturday night.
According to a statement from Keene Police, the shooting happened at about 9:40 p.m. Angel Gomez, 20, went to the Sonic with several passengers and was acting “disorderly” in the parking lot when Davis confronted him for urinating in the parking lot, Keene Police Chief James Kidd said.
The confrontation turned physical and a 12-year-old who was in Gomez’s car pulled out an assault rifle and fired six rounds at Davis, Kidd said.
