"[...]
So, you wanna be a cop?
So, you wanna be on the top
Harassin' and shootin' all the kids on the block
Incarcerate the youth of the next generation
And you'll get the high-fives at the police station
[...]"
🎶 So You Wanna Be A Cop? - Crack Rock Steady 7 (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8lm25ZiSes
#CrackRockSteadySeven #LeftoverCrack #fMinus #MorningGlory #Cs137LyricsPicks
Running into the a-team add earlier on, I was reminded of the intro to the F-Minus/The Crack Rock Steady Seven split cd, what a nice audio collage:
"In 1972, a crack commando unit
A crack commando unit
A crack, crack, crack
Crack commando unit
Was sent to prison by a military court
For a crime they didn't commit
These men promptly escaped
From a maximum-security stockade
[...]"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HwKqyalj0g&t=312s
#CrackRockSteadySeven #LeftoverCrack #fMinus #aTeam #MrT #Cs137LyricsPicks
Pittsburgh in ‘extreme embrace’ with fossil fuel lobbyists, research finds
Dozens of governmental, educational, cultural and environmental organizations across the city of Pittsburgh have hired lobbying firms who work with planet-heating fossil fuel companies, new research shows.
The Pennsylvania city has almost entirely divested its pension funds from fossil fuels and plans to dramatically cut its planet-heating pollution. -- Yet in 2023, it employed lobbyists who also worked for ExxonMobil and seven other fossil fuel companies.
‘Double agents’: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis
Both the school district of Pittsburgh and the Port of Pittsburgh Commission this year hired a lobbying firm which also works for 16 fossil fuel firms, including one tied to the Koch brothers.
And Pittsburgh cultural institutions such as the research-focused Carnegie Institute, the Frick Art and Historical Center, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Symphony have also employed fossil fuel lobbyists, as have the conservation group Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and the Pittsburgh Foundation, which funds climate advocacy.
All told, Pittsburgh has engaged in a more “extreme embrace” of fossil fuel lobbyists than any other large US city, according to the new research from "F Minus", a database of state-level lobbying disclosures released this year, and "LittleSis", a research database project created by the non-profit corporate and government accountability watchdog Public Accountability Initiative.
“For these lobbying firms, representing prestigious clients in the arts, education and philanthropy does wonders for their image,” said James Browning, executive director of F Minus.
“Instead of being the villains on climate, suddenly they’re heroes for children, for local conservation efforts, and for all kinds of good causes even though they’re also working for fossil fuel companies.”
Earlier this year F Minus published a database that showed that 1,500 lobbyists across the US work on behalf of fossil fuel companies while also representing hundreds of cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups.
#pittsburgh #fminus #littlesis #climategreenwashing #fossilfuel #FossilLobby #lobby
Note to flat Earthers, antivaxxers, etc.:
This is how you look to people who aren't part of your conspiracy theory culture. That isn't mockery, believe it or not, it's an attempt to show you the perspective of someone standing over here [points to the ground under my feet], not where you are sitting.
I see this couple is familiar with the freshness of Tim Hortons' doughnuts:
@Adventurer56 - Don’t Major in Minor Things!
Pepijn Vemer
Leo
Schreini
The Graffiti Express
Chuck Darwin
Jimmy 
Carl (He/Him)
Tom Sheppard