The orange regime does not believe in climate change. They want to drill baby drill and are planning to do so in Alaska. Magat republicans are the dumbest people on the planet. The orange regime will not be satisfied until America is destroyed from top to bottom. Remove them from office.
Orangeturd and it's regime tske great pleasure in seeing destruction and in inflicting pain and suffering...how many Venezuelan fishing vessels have they shot out of the water now!..FISHERMEN!!!
For them it's like shooting rows of plastic ducks at the county fair...
While 'drill baby drill' is a clever catch phrase, when spoken in the next breath stating.." The price of gasoline will definitely come down". These two mutterings work at cross purposes, in the real world. As the demand for crude/refined products reduces, the price paid the producer also drops...below the margin needed to continue to be feasible to continue to continue "drilling". Neither basic economics will attract investors to a low cost price at the pump. The resultant 'bust' will put drillers out of business and cause investors to lose their capital investments. The temporary drop in price might increase other business interests, but only for limited period of time.
The price of gasoline? Who uses gasoline? My son hasn't paid for gasoline since 2015, when he bought an EV. We put solar on our roof and he fueled the car off the roof. Last year we got an EV too and haven't paid for gas since.
Plenty buy gasoline. Those of us for whom solar isn't an alternative due to orientation of a home, age of home where the roof structure can't support the added weight, those who live in apartments, or in older homes where wiring and actual electrical service to their home is limited. There are many who would prefer the environmental benefits of solar panels but are either unaffordable or not feasible.
Instead we could be advocating for hybrid vehicles with a minimum gas mileage standard. We drive a Hyundai Elantra Blue which averages high 50 mpg or greater depending on weather conditions and the type of roads and speeds driven. Even at interstate speeds we get close to 60 mpg. It is a proven environmental fact that engines that turn off at lights, stop signs, during coasting and when in traffic jams reduce pollution significantly. Are these vehicles ideal? No, but they are an improvement over gas engines without battery assist. But most, including young adults, aren't driving these vehicles either. They prefer the mammoth SUVs and gas guzzling extended cab 4 wheel drive trucks. These young adult children, for the most part, don't care anymore than their parents at the irreversible devastation they are causing.
I find your condescending, dismissive attitude both offensive and alienating and it will fail to convince.
There are numerous solutions that others have found that they share.
It's unfortunate that you chose to be offended.
Years ago, before PHOTOVOLTAICS, a solar engineer told us that before we consider SOLAR, we should reduce our comsumption.
We focused on reducing ALL of our consumption, that also includes TRASH & WATER CONSUMPTION.
ALL of our peripherals, including tv, are on energy strips - when they're OFF, they're OFF!
As appliances DIED, they were replaced with the MOST ENERGY EFFICIENT!
That includes that monstrous energy guzzling side-by-side refrig.
We also have an INDOOR CLOTHESLINE - elastic lasts longer when not exposed to heat & lots of things can't be put in the dryer.
US PER CAPITA consumption exceeds CHINA.
CHINA is promoting CHEAP CLEAN SOLAR & sells SOLAR PANELS with BATTERY BACKUP that allows poor communities to have dependable power.
Recently, we began replacing CFLs with LEDs, reducing electric usage to 9 KwH per day - we have more to accomplish.
When we received the bill, I called our municipal Gas & Electric & it was explained that the meter reports daily usage directly.
(I caution everyone to avoid buying LEDs from AMAZON or WALMART where they're overpriced. We found 1000BULBS in CALIFORNIA that charges ~ $1 per bulb. We went around, counted lights & ordered full cartons. We have not yet tackled fluorescent fixtures. LEDs are now building code in Massachusetts, among other requirements.)
Do you have insulated window coverrings?
Experts tell you that household lighting consumes 15% of your electric bill, but that ignores other appliances - like the always on television.
Rather than being offended or pointing out the excesses of others, consider it a challenge to accept personal responsibility & figure out what YOU can do in order to reduce YOUR consumption & save money. It goes beyond buying an efficient vehicle.
You're perfectly okay with hybrids, but if you are unfortunate enough to have grandchildren, they're doomed. My son has been driving his Bolt for 10 years and my husband just got his Equinox last year. He was tired of paying 4.99 a gallon for gas. Good luck on surviving the climate crisis.
EVERYONE OVER 45 HAVE NO EXCUSE. Rump has been a slimy conman since the late 1970s, as he was ALWAYS SO PROUD OF HIS MISDEEDS, his cheating and runnin around, IT WAS ALL ON TV & in newspapers, even in Canada! The PLETHORA of photos onboard his jet with crowds of blonde pre-teens were legendary, should’ve been arrested by a cop NOT ON THE TAKE over 50 YEARS AGO!
Has NOT CHANGED ONE BIT.
If you own a smartphone & STILL voted for the TWICE IMPEACHED, BANKRUPTCY R*PIST & FACIST WEASLE-KING?
Beautifully written. Unfortunately, science and common sense have been outlawed, and conspiracy theories, utter nonsense, and brain farts now govern us. Stupid won!
Thank you so much for this painful and necessary reminder. In my keeping up with this chaotic experience on our democracy here, in America, so many many painful attacks on this country, even though we hear on NPR when he signs executive orders to do stupid things that I read articles from some of my favorite feeds on the environmental issues, it seems to get passed over. But it's always on my mind. And it really is something we need to address. Get us back in the Paris Accord. Fund science and research, again, and deeply. They will save us
Ditto. I have a constant and similar concern. It’s always on my mind.
You might appreciate this - which was my initial response to this post:
SO heartbreaking. Opening the Arctic to drilling would be incomprehensible, devastating.
Ludovico Einaudi is one of my favorite pianists. Several years ago, he collaborated with Greenpeace to raise awareness about the dangerous impact of climate change on the arctic.
“Elegy for the Arctic” by Ludovico Einaudi
“Ludovico Einaudi is an Italian pianist and composer known for his reflective classical pieces. His albums Una Mattina and Divenire have received popular and critical acclaim. Much of Einaudi’s work has been inspired by his time in the natural world, giving his music a very grounded feel.
“Elegy for the Arctic” is a haunting composition, filled with descending scales. Listeners have described the piece to sound like falling, echoing the descent of melting ice. Einaudi ends the piece with empty and contemplative silence.”
You can also listen to and view the making of the video and a performance of this piece through the link above. Watch these videos. The are haunting, soul-crushing yet extremely powerful, magnificent, mesmerizing, and oddly tranquil…
and this week with the massive flooding/hurricane winds in indigenous villages with houses floating away....no FEMA in sight, but the Alaska National Guard doing what National Guard is supposed to do, rescuing people and flying them to safety.
Terrible. Dump’s EPA rescinded Kipnuk’s $20 million flood protection grant last May (approved by Biden, of course). Evil fcker Lee Zeldin called it a “wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grant.” Grrr 😡
Well expressed, Governor Inslee, gunalcheesh. I first entered Alaska, by road, on June 30, 1958, the day that the US Senate voted on Alaska Statehood, thus assuring that Alaska would become our 49th state. I returned to Alaska in 1968, after graduating college. I would spend my next 11 years, working, primarily with Native Alaskans, to assure that this fragile treasure would be preserved. Little was understood in those years about the impending crisis of climate change, over which Alaskans alone would be unable to prevail. May we all, as global citizens, work together for a better world future.
Never allow anyone to tell you that one citizen's efforts don't matter -- imagine 350 million citizens NOT needing what the corporations are selling. Good for you! Keep finding little ways you can make good change. Our family makes a sort of game of it, then shares the fun!
It's too late for footprints..much more drastic measures needed to be taken...and nobody cares enough pat meeeetinnngggssss..and talk...
Earth is warning us and we humans gather to talk....Alaska is the ultimate warning, the canary in the coal mine...and the disaster barely got a mention on any media site...
What I saw in my career as a journalist is that my house was falling apart around me. I didn’t do the upkeep I should have while I was writing.
One day I noticed water dripping onto my desk from the ceiling in the billiard room - which I used as my study.
The roof leaked. I kept telling myself I'd fix it someday - but that day never seemed to come.
I don’t know why I chose the billiard room. The house had 24 others. It was a Gothic Victorian Western Homestead with cathedral ceilings. It was my idea, or at least I had asked for them. They seemed to be a good thing at the time.
In retrospect, that was a lot of slate sitting over my head. It must have also been raining in some of the other rooms. But, I never had the time to revisit them and check.
They were mostly for guests, servants, and other things like kitchens and bathrooms. I figured their occupants would take care of it, and tell me if something was going wrong.
All the fireplaces also kept catching fire. Not just the hearth - the whole damn thing, chimney and all. I suppose I should’ve had the sweeps clean out the suet now and then.
I was always fascinated by new fangled gizmos. We’d hauled in all the modern conveniences of the time. We had the first flush toilets, hot water radiators, and even gas lighting fixtures in every room, with a lot of buried pipes in the walls.
The place was built like a fortress, with wood siding on the outside to give it some western hospitality and make it look like a ranch. I know, I know - with cathedral ceilings. What was I thinking?
The pipes were embedded between two layers of pressure bricks, covered by slats and plaster. When we had plumbing problems, we couldn’t get at anything to fix it. So, we left it alone.
I’m surprised the whole house didn’t blow up while we were still living in it.
That’s erosion for you - it creeps up when you least expect it. I didn’t have the money to maintain the place, even if I’d tried. The mortgage had already reached the moon. So, we had to sell it - and move out.
Empires have a way of quietly collapsing in the same steps.
It starts with picking on those who no one will defend. The homeless, the destitute, the disabled, and the aged - all who are estranged or abandoned. It happens to all of us as we get older. We get locked inside what's left of our minds.
Nobody cares if we cease to exist. We become a problem to others, and the easiest targets for a regime, because there's no resistance when it comes to our welfare.
Then the regime moves on to those who are different and unwanted. The gays, the know-it-alls, the people of color, and other minorities.
It’s not done because of anything about them. These groups can offer some opposition, especially with outside support. It’s done to acclimate the rest of us - to make it seem normal for the government to do this, and teach us not to get involved.
Finally, the regime goes after all of us. It’s the women, the dissenters, the contrarians, the reporters, the teachers, and the truthers.
Then come the doers. The librarians, the inventors, the technicians, the explorers, the builders, the healers, and the people who ask questions.
They don’t stop there. They come for the children, the progressives, the rebellious, the experts - and anyone else who might one day get in the way.
It’s anyone who doesn’t offer VALUE to the few still clinging to power. And those who remain, party like it’s the roaring twenties - while everything else is falling apart around them.
By then, it’s too late. There’s nobody left to be ruled. A once-great nation is gone. Trust me, you don’t get it back. I wish I’d taken better care of my own house when I had it.
Tomorrow is No Kings Day. Let the crowns fail, and not the country fall.
I've experienced the glaciers retreat near Juneau and Anchorage. The closest observation in Juneau has now retreated thousands of yards to be barely visible from the visitor center. Same as in the place 30 minutes south of Anchorage.
All of the important things to be concerned about, have fallen to the wayside in dealing with the wannabe dictator and his Regime. If we didn't have a two party corporate duopoly system of government here in the US, we by now would be in nothing but renewable energy for the last 25 years. Grasp hold of that one. Another issue that our waters would have had the opportunity to cleanse themselves by now. We are a stupid species, doomed to our own demise.
Good article and very important message. However, the accompanying photo doesn’t go with it; there are no penguins in the arctic. Next time show walruses; these wonderful creatures are terribly endangered by the loss of ice to rest on.
The orange regime does not believe in climate change. They want to drill baby drill and are planning to do so in Alaska. Magat republicans are the dumbest people on the planet. The orange regime will not be satisfied until America is destroyed from top to bottom. Remove them from office.
Orangeturd and it's regime tske great pleasure in seeing destruction and in inflicting pain and suffering...how many Venezuelan fishing vessels have they shot out of the water now!..FISHERMEN!!!
For them it's like shooting rows of plastic ducks at the county fair...
🥺😱😭😭😭😭😭
And the maggots believe everything they say!
While 'drill baby drill' is a clever catch phrase, when spoken in the next breath stating.." The price of gasoline will definitely come down". These two mutterings work at cross purposes, in the real world. As the demand for crude/refined products reduces, the price paid the producer also drops...below the margin needed to continue to be feasible to continue to continue "drilling". Neither basic economics will attract investors to a low cost price at the pump. The resultant 'bust' will put drillers out of business and cause investors to lose their capital investments. The temporary drop in price might increase other business interests, but only for limited period of time.
The price of gasoline? Who uses gasoline? My son hasn't paid for gasoline since 2015, when he bought an EV. We put solar on our roof and he fueled the car off the roof. Last year we got an EV too and haven't paid for gas since.
Plenty buy gasoline. Those of us for whom solar isn't an alternative due to orientation of a home, age of home where the roof structure can't support the added weight, those who live in apartments, or in older homes where wiring and actual electrical service to their home is limited. There are many who would prefer the environmental benefits of solar panels but are either unaffordable or not feasible.
Instead we could be advocating for hybrid vehicles with a minimum gas mileage standard. We drive a Hyundai Elantra Blue which averages high 50 mpg or greater depending on weather conditions and the type of roads and speeds driven. Even at interstate speeds we get close to 60 mpg. It is a proven environmental fact that engines that turn off at lights, stop signs, during coasting and when in traffic jams reduce pollution significantly. Are these vehicles ideal? No, but they are an improvement over gas engines without battery assist. But most, including young adults, aren't driving these vehicles either. They prefer the mammoth SUVs and gas guzzling extended cab 4 wheel drive trucks. These young adult children, for the most part, don't care anymore than their parents at the irreversible devastation they are causing.
I find your condescending, dismissive attitude both offensive and alienating and it will fail to convince.
Thanks, Sharon. We (retired seniors) still buy gasoline for our older vehicles. Cannot afford to buy an EV, nor install solar panels.
There are numerous solutions that others have found that they share.
It's unfortunate that you chose to be offended.
Years ago, before PHOTOVOLTAICS, a solar engineer told us that before we consider SOLAR, we should reduce our comsumption.
We focused on reducing ALL of our consumption, that also includes TRASH & WATER CONSUMPTION.
ALL of our peripherals, including tv, are on energy strips - when they're OFF, they're OFF!
As appliances DIED, they were replaced with the MOST ENERGY EFFICIENT!
That includes that monstrous energy guzzling side-by-side refrig.
We also have an INDOOR CLOTHESLINE - elastic lasts longer when not exposed to heat & lots of things can't be put in the dryer.
US PER CAPITA consumption exceeds CHINA.
CHINA is promoting CHEAP CLEAN SOLAR & sells SOLAR PANELS with BATTERY BACKUP that allows poor communities to have dependable power.
Recently, we began replacing CFLs with LEDs, reducing electric usage to 9 KwH per day - we have more to accomplish.
When we received the bill, I called our municipal Gas & Electric & it was explained that the meter reports daily usage directly.
(I caution everyone to avoid buying LEDs from AMAZON or WALMART where they're overpriced. We found 1000BULBS in CALIFORNIA that charges ~ $1 per bulb. We went around, counted lights & ordered full cartons. We have not yet tackled fluorescent fixtures. LEDs are now building code in Massachusetts, among other requirements.)
Do you have insulated window coverrings?
Experts tell you that household lighting consumes 15% of your electric bill, but that ignores other appliances - like the always on television.
Rather than being offended or pointing out the excesses of others, consider it a challenge to accept personal responsibility & figure out what YOU can do in order to reduce YOUR consumption & save money. It goes beyond buying an efficient vehicle.
You're perfectly okay with hybrids, but if you are unfortunate enough to have grandchildren, they're doomed. My son has been driving his Bolt for 10 years and my husband just got his Equinox last year. He was tired of paying 4.99 a gallon for gas. Good luck on surviving the climate crisis.
But the billionaires are happy....
Pretty soon even their $$ won't matter!
EVERYONE OVER 45 HAVE NO EXCUSE. Rump has been a slimy conman since the late 1970s, as he was ALWAYS SO PROUD OF HIS MISDEEDS, his cheating and runnin around, IT WAS ALL ON TV & in newspapers, even in Canada! The PLETHORA of photos onboard his jet with crowds of blonde pre-teens were legendary, should’ve been arrested by a cop NOT ON THE TAKE over 50 YEARS AGO!
Has NOT CHANGED ONE BIT.
If you own a smartphone & STILL voted for the TWICE IMPEACHED, BANKRUPTCY R*PIST & FACIST WEASLE-KING?
You should be PROPERLY ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!
I have never liked the arrogant asshole.
Well, if you had lived in Berkeley in the Sixties and Seventies, when J. Edgar Hoover was alive, you wouldn't own a cell phone. I never have.
disqualify the disabled Disqualified, 14th amendment section 3 disqualification clause! impeach the lawbreakers and remove.
This breaks my heart.
Beautifully written. Unfortunately, science and common sense have been outlawed, and conspiracy theories, utter nonsense, and brain farts now govern us. Stupid won!
Thank you so much for this painful and necessary reminder. In my keeping up with this chaotic experience on our democracy here, in America, so many many painful attacks on this country, even though we hear on NPR when he signs executive orders to do stupid things that I read articles from some of my favorite feeds on the environmental issues, it seems to get passed over. But it's always on my mind. And it really is something we need to address. Get us back in the Paris Accord. Fund science and research, again, and deeply. They will save us
Ditto. I have a constant and similar concern. It’s always on my mind.
You might appreciate this - which was my initial response to this post:
SO heartbreaking. Opening the Arctic to drilling would be incomprehensible, devastating.
Ludovico Einaudi is one of my favorite pianists. Several years ago, he collaborated with Greenpeace to raise awareness about the dangerous impact of climate change on the arctic.
“Elegy for the Arctic” by Ludovico Einaudi
“Ludovico Einaudi is an Italian pianist and composer known for his reflective classical pieces. His albums Una Mattina and Divenire have received popular and critical acclaim. Much of Einaudi’s work has been inspired by his time in the natural world, giving his music a very grounded feel.
“Elegy for the Arctic” is a haunting composition, filled with descending scales. Listeners have described the piece to sound like falling, echoing the descent of melting ice. Einaudi ends the piece with empty and contemplative silence.”
Article - https://www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/elegy-for-the-arctic-by-ludovico-einaudi/
You can also listen to and view the making of the video and a performance of this piece through the link above. Watch these videos. The are haunting, soul-crushing yet extremely powerful, magnificent, mesmerizing, and oddly tranquil…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aomLIZsYuOM
Another piece here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DLnhdnSUV
Suggest you see climatehealers.org ASAP.
and this week with the massive flooding/hurricane winds in indigenous villages with houses floating away....no FEMA in sight, but the Alaska National Guard doing what National Guard is supposed to do, rescuing people and flying them to safety.
Terrible. Dump’s EPA rescinded Kipnuk’s $20 million flood protection grant last May (approved by Biden, of course). Evil fcker Lee Zeldin called it a “wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grant.” Grrr 😡
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/epa-pulled-flood-grant-months-before-storm-hit-alaska/ar-AA1OxAXn
Lee Zeldin would have a different point of view if it affected HIS home.
That’s for sure! Ugh 😩
Well expressed, Governor Inslee, gunalcheesh. I first entered Alaska, by road, on June 30, 1958, the day that the US Senate voted on Alaska Statehood, thus assuring that Alaska would become our 49th state. I returned to Alaska in 1968, after graduating college. I would spend my next 11 years, working, primarily with Native Alaskans, to assure that this fragile treasure would be preserved. Little was understood in those years about the impending crisis of climate change, over which Alaskans alone would be unable to prevail. May we all, as global citizens, work together for a better world future.
Al GORE KNEW…. & ALERTED… US GOVERNMENT IGNORED… as did AMERICANS… & THEN .. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
My heart breaks. As I stand in my yard each day, I look at the trees and apologize. Our footprint is small and we do what we can but it is not enough.
Never allow anyone to tell you that one citizen's efforts don't matter -- imagine 350 million citizens NOT needing what the corporations are selling. Good for you! Keep finding little ways you can make good change. Our family makes a sort of game of it, then shares the fun!
It's too late for footprints..much more drastic measures needed to be taken...and nobody cares enough pat meeeetinnngggssss..and talk...
Earth is warning us and we humans gather to talk....Alaska is the ultimate warning, the canary in the coal mine...and the disaster barely got a mention on any media site...
It's now 30 seconds to midnight.....
It’s not too late for footprints. We each must do all we can!
Oh I know sister.
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https://www.nokings.org/
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What I saw in my career as a journalist is that my house was falling apart around me. I didn’t do the upkeep I should have while I was writing.
One day I noticed water dripping onto my desk from the ceiling in the billiard room - which I used as my study.
The roof leaked. I kept telling myself I'd fix it someday - but that day never seemed to come.
I don’t know why I chose the billiard room. The house had 24 others. It was a Gothic Victorian Western Homestead with cathedral ceilings. It was my idea, or at least I had asked for them. They seemed to be a good thing at the time.
In retrospect, that was a lot of slate sitting over my head. It must have also been raining in some of the other rooms. But, I never had the time to revisit them and check.
They were mostly for guests, servants, and other things like kitchens and bathrooms. I figured their occupants would take care of it, and tell me if something was going wrong.
All the fireplaces also kept catching fire. Not just the hearth - the whole damn thing, chimney and all. I suppose I should’ve had the sweeps clean out the suet now and then.
I was always fascinated by new fangled gizmos. We’d hauled in all the modern conveniences of the time. We had the first flush toilets, hot water radiators, and even gas lighting fixtures in every room, with a lot of buried pipes in the walls.
The place was built like a fortress, with wood siding on the outside to give it some western hospitality and make it look like a ranch. I know, I know - with cathedral ceilings. What was I thinking?
The pipes were embedded between two layers of pressure bricks, covered by slats and plaster. When we had plumbing problems, we couldn’t get at anything to fix it. So, we left it alone.
I’m surprised the whole house didn’t blow up while we were still living in it.
That’s erosion for you - it creeps up when you least expect it. I didn’t have the money to maintain the place, even if I’d tried. The mortgage had already reached the moon. So, we had to sell it - and move out.
Empires have a way of quietly collapsing in the same steps.
It starts with picking on those who no one will defend. The homeless, the destitute, the disabled, and the aged - all who are estranged or abandoned. It happens to all of us as we get older. We get locked inside what's left of our minds.
Nobody cares if we cease to exist. We become a problem to others, and the easiest targets for a regime, because there's no resistance when it comes to our welfare.
Then the regime moves on to those who are different and unwanted. The gays, the know-it-alls, the people of color, and other minorities.
It’s not done because of anything about them. These groups can offer some opposition, especially with outside support. It’s done to acclimate the rest of us - to make it seem normal for the government to do this, and teach us not to get involved.
Finally, the regime goes after all of us. It’s the women, the dissenters, the contrarians, the reporters, the teachers, and the truthers.
Then come the doers. The librarians, the inventors, the technicians, the explorers, the builders, the healers, and the people who ask questions.
They don’t stop there. They come for the children, the progressives, the rebellious, the experts - and anyone else who might one day get in the way.
It’s anyone who doesn’t offer VALUE to the few still clinging to power. And those who remain, party like it’s the roaring twenties - while everything else is falling apart around them.
By then, it’s too late. There’s nobody left to be ruled. A once-great nation is gone. Trust me, you don’t get it back. I wish I’d taken better care of my own house when I had it.
Tomorrow is No Kings Day. Let the crowns fail, and not the country fall.
Yours truly,
Mark Twain
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Keep protests peaceful.
Don't kill anyone.
They DO make a difference.
Here are some resistance related guides from around the world:
🇺🇸 Fundamentals of physical surveillance: a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel
https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofph0000silj
The RCMP has its own publications including:
🇨🇦 GCPSG-022 (2025) - Threat and Risk Assessment Guide
GCPSG-010 (2022) - Operational Physical Security Guide
🇨🇦 GCPSG-019 (2023) - Protection, Detection, Response, and Recovery Guide
https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/physec-secmat/pubs/index-eng.htm
The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation also has excellent guides on:
🇺🇸 Street Level Surveillance
https://sls.eff.org
🇺🇸 Surveillance Self-Defense
https://ssd.eff.org/
🇪🇺 🇸🇪⚠️ Resistance Operating Concept
https://jsou.edu/Press/PublicationDashboard/25
🇺🇦 🇺🇲 Radio Free Ukraine Resistance Manual
https://radiofreeukraine.com/3d-flip-book/resistance-manual/
⚠️ Assessing Revolutionary And Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Studies (now at archive.org)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250310000340/https://www.soc.mil/ARIS/books/arisbooks.html
⚠️ Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civilian-based-defense-a-post-military-weapons-system/
🏁 Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co
⚠️ Library of Congress
Revelations from the Russian archives: documents in English translation
https://www.loc.gov/item/96024752
🏁 Robert Reich/Resistance School
Communicating Across Difference
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaT8gjnOmQl3dguy0_E0vVCL5ZYEyCTzu
🏁 Bernie Sanders:
https://m.youtube.com/@BernieSanders
🏁 CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists:
Safety Kit
https://cpj.org/safety-kit/
🏁 Activist Handbook:
https://activisthandbook.org/introduction
(⚠️ These are USA sponsored websites. Some publications may have been removed by the Trump regime)
Awareness, awareness, awareness! Thank you. We all need to step up.
I've experienced the glaciers retreat near Juneau and Anchorage. The closest observation in Juneau has now retreated thousands of yards to be barely visible from the visitor center. Same as in the place 30 minutes south of Anchorage.
All of the important things to be concerned about, have fallen to the wayside in dealing with the wannabe dictator and his Regime. If we didn't have a two party corporate duopoly system of government here in the US, we by now would be in nothing but renewable energy for the last 25 years. Grasp hold of that one. Another issue that our waters would have had the opportunity to cleanse themselves by now. We are a stupid species, doomed to our own demise.
Thank you! If only more people listened to you years ago. We have to bring back all the environmental laws that Trump has abandoned in both terms
Thank you for this. We have got to do better for our planet. All of us.
We need to protect the Salmon and the rivers that they need to spawn in.
Good article and very important message. However, the accompanying photo doesn’t go with it; there are no penguins in the arctic. Next time show walruses; these wonderful creatures are terribly endangered by the loss of ice to rest on.
or polar bears. Very much endangered and starving. You are correct. there are not penguins in the arctic