Category: Climate
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
GOLDMAN: Trump is Bad News for the World Economy “President-elect Donald Trump ran on a platform of “America-first” economic policy, and according to the economics team at Goldman Sachs, that’s just what he is going to deliver — to the detriment of the global economy.” #Trump#World#GoldmanSachs#GlobalEconomy A Racist White House Doesn’t Surprise Black People “Non-whites…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Van Jones
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week, we highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to political activist, social commenter, Washington insider, social entrepreneur,…
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A Veteran Finds Solace in the Outdoors
What Veterans Day Means to Me Every year on November 11th, the United States celebrates a day that honors men and women who are currently or used to wear the uniform of the United States Armed Forces. We as a country, despite our differences in religion, race, sexuality, creed, or political leanings, should do our…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Here’s What You Should Know About The Dakota Pipeline Protest “Protesters from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe have been joined by supporters from other tribes and many non-Native American allies, both at the protest camp in North Dakota and in solidarity demonstrations throughout the world. Actor Mark Ruffalo and civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Arrests as North Dakota cops remove pipeline protesters from private land Although the Federal Aviation Administration has restricted flights over the Cannon Ball area until November 5, there is a police helicopter above the faceoff, journalist Antonia Juhasz tweeted. More than 260 protesters have been arrested in the weeks leading up to Thursday’s operation, AP…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind The rural folk with the Trump signs in their yards say their way of life is dying, and you smirk and say what they really mean is that blacks and gays are finally getting equal rights and they hate it. But I’m telling you, they…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump’s Alpha Male Fantasy “One of the reasons why Trump leads in the polls among men is that there is still an admiration for alpha males in this culture. As I’ve written before, it is this patriarchal notion of dominance that undergirds not only sexism, but racism and most of the other “isms” that continue to…
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American Idiocracy
Dumb it Down? The infamous and incredible comedian George Carlin once said: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” He was talking about his fellow American citizens. T.V. host, comedian, and lizard man, Bill Maher often comments on the average American’s level of intelligence or…
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It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Climate Crisis
It’s Getting Hot in Here In June 2016, I witnessed firsthand the fury of Mother Nature. I was in West Virginia on a backpacking trip at Monongahela National Park. The second morning of the trip, a couple of park rangers told our group that we should head for higher ground because the river might crest…
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Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn
The Ignition In 2008, the housing market crashed and brought about the Great Recession. This happened just as I graduated from Northern Illinois University. I had done all the right things and was prepared to head out into the so-called ‘Adult World.’ But then the bottom fell out as the housing market crashed. That same year, the GOP…
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