#tomengelhardt — Public Fediverse posts
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> Boeing.. building military aircraft... aerial refueling tanker, meant to replace the Air Force’s aging fleet.. It.. doesn’t work. At.. a genuine fortune, it’s years behind schedule, plagued by major deficiencies, way over cost, and still not.. ready for use.
https://tomdispatch.com/war-is-bad-for-you-and-the-economy/
#Boeing #BoeingAircraft #BoeingMilitaryAircraft #AerialRefuelingTanker #TomDispatch #TomEngelhardt -
> it’s not just #PhoenixArizona, with those 31 straight days of 110 degrees Fahrenheit..., or even #Chile, which recently passed 100 degrees Fahrenheit in what’s still known as… “winter” there. #Temperatures.. breaking records in an extreme fashion across the planet... should be, daunting, and yet, according to the latest polls, barely half of Americans (... 23% of #Republicans) consider the climate emergency a major threat
https://tomdispatch.com/collapse-2-0/
#TomDispatch #TomEngelhardt
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.> The #MediterraneanSea is experiencing its hottest temperatures on record, more than 9F hotter than average in some places. Off the coast of #Newfoundland, waters are as much as 18F above normal. South of #Miami, waters reached 101F (38.3C). You’re supposed to find temperatures like that in a hot tub, not the ocean.
.> It’s winter right now in #SouthAmerica, but that hasn’t stopped temperatures from exceeding 100F (37.7C) in some places, a heating event a climate historian labeled “one of the extreme events the world has ever seen”.
.> In #Maui, #Hawaii, rapidly moving fires destroyed 2,700 structures in historic #Lahaina and took more than 100 lives, making it the deadliest wildfire in the US in more than a century.
#BernieSanders in #TheGuardian with this earh-spanning list of disasters makes me think of #TomDispatch articles of the last decade or two... You had to go to the site of a #NewJunkie and professional publisher to get a sensible run-down of our predicament like this... #TomEngelhardt
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> ... neither nuking the planet, nor overheating it beyond compare gets anything like the attention it deserves.
> Ending the world as we’ve known it, whether in a matter of weeks or in slow motion over countless decades should, it seems to me, evoke the screaming headlines of our times.
https://tomdispatch.com/old-news-in-a-new-year/
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I'm looking around #TomDispatch for #TomEngelhardt's on #Rumsfeld's admission that reality wasn't an issue in the #IraqInvasion. Maybe it was #Petraeus that was confident they could create the desired #FactsOnTheGround . Either #HannahArendt or #SimoneWeil writes of the totalitarian's constant stream of facts and how contradictions don't matter just keep giving followers something to get excited about.
https://tomdispatch.com/whose-future-is-this-anyway/
#FictionBasedReality
#BetweenPastAndFuture #Arendt