If there was any lingering uncertainty that the Koch brothers are the primary sponsors of climate-change doubt in the USA, it ought to be put to rest by Christopher Leonard’s “Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America,” newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
2/. The Koch “Secret Sauce” apart from its 80% control over their business empire is its long term planning, patience, flexibility not to mention a relentless pursuit of profit.
Stockholders can’t interfere much with that level of ownership & control.
3/. It was known they were involved in the climate change denial “industry” back in 2010.
But there is evidence it went back as far as 1991.
Imagine.
Imagine if we had all taken adequate steps THEN where we would be NOW
4/ They piled money and influence on congress to prevent carbon taxes back in 2010.
They amplified their messages through what Koch insiders called their “Echo Chamber”: donors, shell groups, “think” tanks, academic centres and non profit groups
You see how “the élites” (hollow laughter) “invented global warming “hoax”
Philip ellender, Koch’s top lobbyist actually claimed in 2014 that the world had got COOLER in the previous 18 years when NASA said that 18 of the 19 hottest years had occurred in the previous 2 decades
And Charles Koch has said to allied political donors in 2018 that in his book Trump has delivered more “progress” in the last 5 years than they had done in the previous 50 years.
Not for us.
Not for the Earth.
Not for the current young generation.
Or the next.
Just for 💰 💰
7/. Previous two were 5/ & 6/
Two additional tweets to give you something to think about.
8/. And this. The Koch brothers might be serious about lining their pockets but they are not serious participants in the human race and we have to think hard about how we cut off their destructive power.
How outrageous. She admits that FFP3 works .., factory testing, but asserts HCW should not be given them because - apparently- they cannot be trusted to wear them properly.
I would point straight to the leadership & IPC training if that’s the case. A massive comms fail as here
I can quite see that if you supply utterly careless leadership and comms like that, that staff would NOT do well. Zero sense of responsibility. Zero sense of remorse. And nosocomial transmission was MUCH higher in some trusts than others. For a reason
Two hospitals. Two different approaches to masks. Two different outcomes for the medical personnel putting themselves at risk for us.. & the high protection staff also protect us.
Which is why, SHE wore FFP3 masks dealing with infectious diseases.
It is the argument that simply “governing well using all levers available”, as Stoller put it in the first half of Biden’s presidency, does not necessarily translate into popular gratitude or political success.”
“They cite the Inflation Reduction Act, the president’s $500 billion green energy strategy, the American Rescue Plan Act, which helped to lift 2mill children out of poverty, & the US’s generally dynamic economy as achievements to which the public responded with a collective shrug
Politico described Stoller’s diagnosis as “good policies no one understands”. Obamacare had similar results.”
There has to be a continual storytelling which connects to people’s day to day realities.
Their ability to do the weekly shop without grinding anxiety.
Potholes!
I’ve been thinking about the broad but shallow majority Labour has and what it means
1/. It is the result not just of a profound disgust at Tory political behaviour even from their own traditional voters but also of a highly intelligent and organised electoral strategy.
2/. It is pretty obvious that Lab and Lib Dem struck some sort of non aggression pact in a large number of seats to their mutual benefit. It took a lot of the poison out of tactical voting that we saw in 2017 and in 2019 in particular. So did the change in leadership.
As @Samfr pointed out : the seats where there was no such non-aggression pact and the opposition was split, this resulted in saving MPs such as Braverman & Mel Stride
In just 42 seats in England and Wales was the Tory vote bigger than the combined Lab/Lib one.
They don’t tax your state pension. But your state pension is added to any other income you have and that IS taxed…(basically treating your state pension as part of your normal personal allowance (PA). Not enough to meet the PA limit.
7 out of 8 pensioners do not GET the full new state pension. Most are on the old state pension (or less) of c £8,800 pa.
So that arrives untaxed.
However that does accrue so that if you have any additional income once it reaches the £12,570 threshold (inc your state pension) THOSE income sources as taxed as normal…as they should be
Even on the NEW full state pension you are way off the PA still.
We’re just pausing over tea to discuss the location of the DC solar panel isolation switches as the loft is not a good location for me up a wobbly loft ladder and very awkward loft hatch
They are going in the spare bedroom cupboard so easy for me to get to
The team is absolutely lovely.
Tomorrow the roofing panel team will arrive: James and Rhys who have both been doing this for 4 years.
James is ex military
Rob and Andy (electricians and survey team)
Geoff (sales consultant) has been in solar for years.