Crypto is so "safe:"
Hackers and scammers are constantly stealing it.
If it's on an old laptop and you lose it, tough luck.
Politicians are gaming the system, pumping/dumping, and scamming, making the "value" fluctuate wildly.
It has zero intrinsic value.
And now, self-serving and self-interested politicians want the US public to use our money to buy crypto so private investors can profit.

NYTimes: "The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit lost $1.5 billion to North Korean hackers last month"

To curb climate change and environmental damage, one vital step is getting rid of factory farms and greatly reducing meat consumption.

You would think an organization like the World Wildlife Fund would support that cause.

But you would be wrong. 😡
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From 2010 to 2022, US meat production increased by over 13 percent while the industry successfully staved off calls for regulation at home and on the international stage.

None of this is terribly surprising — it’s largely the same denial and deflection playbook run by Big Oil to avoid responsibility for climate change, with the usual suspects helping: industry-aligned academics, front groups, loyal politicians, and social media influencers.

But among those allies are also some of the world’s largest environmental organizations.

Take the World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, a green giant with over $600 million in assets. WWF and McDonald’s are both founding members of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, a network of beef processors, fast food chains, and other industry stakeholders.

For its collaboration, McDonald’s makes sure WWF is well compensated. The company has donated millions of dollars to WWF-US.

From 2017 to 2022, WWF-US brought in up to $28 million from various meat, dairy, seafood, fast food, restaurant, and grocery companies, including Tyson Foods, Cargill, Burger King, Costco, Walmart, Red Lobster, Chobani, and Dairy Management Inc., a dairy trade group.

WWF is hardly alone. Two of the other largest US environmental organizations — the Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) — also closely collaborate with large meat and dairy companies, ranchers, and trade groups on a range of initiatives.

But outside observers, along with some former and current employees at EDF and WWF, argue that those initiatives often do more to improve the companies’ images than the environment.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/362224/environment-groups-meat-industry-lies-global-warming-climate-change-wwf

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

The Israeli military has bombarded nearly every inch of Gaza with US-made bombs. Israeli forces have dropped over 70,000 bombs on Gaza in the past ten months — making it the deadliest bombing campaign in the 21st century.

— Jewish Voice for Peace (@jvplive) August 13, 2024

@palestine
#Gaza
#Israel
#US

Omer Bartov in today’s Guardian

> The sentiment that now prevails in Israel similarly threatens to make war into its own end. In this view, politics is an obstacle to achieving goals rather than a means to limit destruction. This is a view that can only ultimately lead to self-annihilation. The second reigning sentiment – or rather lack of sentiment – is the flipside of the first. It is the utter inability of Israeli society today to feel any empathy for the population of Gaza.

> Of course, the Israeli public long ago became inured to the brutal occupation that has characterised the country for 57 out of the 76 years of its existence. But the scale of what is being perpetrated in Gaza right now by the IDF is as unprecedented as the complete indifference of most Israelis to what is being done in their name.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

#History #occupation #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Israel #Gaza #Palestine