@curlydave

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curlydaveDec 29, 2022
Show threadBrent ToderianDec 14, 2022

When it comes to urban transportation & the #ClimateCrisis, here’s the order world leaders and the media SHOULD be focusing on:

1. Walking/mobility aids
2. Biking/E-Biking
3. Public transit
4. Electric cars

Here’s the order they ARE focussing on:

1. Electric cars
2. Electric cars
3. Electric cars

#transportation #urbanism #cities #cars #city #ElectricVehicles #PublicTransit #bikes #PublicTransport

curlydaveAug 8, 2022
Jayati GhoshAug 8, 2022
RT @TaxTheTopIndia
Study shows pro-poor development leaves far less carbon footprint than policies aimed at making the rich richer. So, to address climate crisis, we need to address inequality. A just tax system with wealth and carbon tax can help. #TaxTheRich
curlydaveAug 8, 2022
Jayati GhoshAug 3, 2022

RT @JonSward
Another food security update from @WorldBank that fails to mention that speculation in food futures was key in driving price increases (see: https://twitter.com/IPESfood/status/1553682252957196289?s=20&t=ezu9mdiEJTXPhdvTGlyQbw)

Do WBG staff really accept such 'market forces' as 'natural'?

@AnnPettifor @Jayati1609 @IsabelOrtizUN @JennClapp https://twitter.com/WBG_Climate/status/1554263275721957378

IPES-Food on Twitter

“As #climate change-related droughts and other weather disasters threaten wheat harvests in some countries, #foodsecurity advocates say it’s time to move to a system that’s less vulnerable to external shocks. https://t.co/hzolMWVWQZ”

Twitter
curlydaveAug 8, 2022
Jayati GhoshAug 3, 2022
RT @DevEconNetwork
Prof Jayati Ghosh @Jayati1609: “Don’t blame the pandemic, the Ukraine war, or trade patterns for the current crisis in LMICs: the real culprit is a failed NEOLIBERAL and NEOCOLONIAL economic model, which is still being promoted at global levels”
curlydaveJun 16, 2022
MOVED TO @[email protected]Jun 14, 2022
curlydaveJun 14, 2022
bs2Jun 12, 2022
> FAIR examined front pages of the New York Times between April 1 and April 30, 2022, and compared them to those from May 1 to May 31, 2003. The dates represent the second full calendar months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the US invasion of Iraq, respectively—major armed conflicts involving major world powers illegally invading smaller countries.
https://fair.org/home/invasion-news-fits-on-front-page-more-when-an-enemy-does-the-invading/?
#MediaStudies #FAIRdotOrg #NYT #Iraq #Ukraine #WarCoverage #MediaBias
Invasion News Fits on Front Page More When an Enemy Does the Invading - FAIR

A comparison of New York Times coverage of Ukraine and Iraq shows that the same kinds of news don't always fit on the front page.

FAIR
curlydaveJun 14, 2022
Show threadbs2Jun 12, 2022
> .. stories about #Iraqi noncombatants being killed in the war sometimes made the paper (e.g, 5/11/03), but not on the front page. The Times has a history of downplaying civilian casualties at the hands of the #USMilitary (FAIR.org, 9/18/15). The contrast between intense interest in civilians killed by #Russia and minimal attention to civilians killed by the #UnitedStates matches a previous #FAIR study (3/18/22). #USA
curlydaveJun 14, 2022
bs2Jun 13, 2022
> .. authorities[1] appear to have learned.. lessons from 2015, when a bird flu outbreak resulted in what the US agriculture department calls “the largest poultry health disaster in US history”, with the slaughter of about 50 million chickens and turkeys.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa
#AnimalFactory #chickens #RembrandtEnterprises #GlenTaylor #Timberwolves #AvianFlu
[1] Still not learning to reform centralized large-scale organization for decentralized small-scale activity with resilience.
US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker

Laborers worked for a month disposing of birds killed in a gruesomely inhumane manner. Then they found they too were disposable

The Guardian
curlydaveJun 14, 2022

This is an interesting position of Ronald J. Siders in 'Rich Christians in an age of hunger' citing biblical arguments against concentration of power and for decentralised private ownership. This seems to be well summed up in the economic theory of #distributism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism?wprov=sfla1

Distributism - Wikipedia

curlydaveJun 14, 2022
In opposition to the older Babylonian creation story, the biblical creation story was written to tell the story of a God who creates without violence everything that is good. This challenges the #mythofredemptiveviolence from #WalterWink. Jesus opposed that people need to pay to be forgiven, disturbed the temple sacrifice trade, and became the 'lamb who was slain' to keep the other lambs in line.
Show me a 'follower of Jesus' who really does hear his words and put them in practice.