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L’Art du Greenwashing par les marchands de luxe et de la mort de la nature et des peuples indigènes … dans leurs propres mots … – Le peuple de la Marchandise d’Or et de Diamant – actualisé  – The Art of Greenwashing by Luxury Merchants and Nature’s Death and Indigenous Peoples… in their own words… – The People of the Gold and Diamond Commodity – updated| Barbara Crane Navarro

Source: L’Art du Greenwashing par les marchands de luxe et de la mort de la nature et des peuples indigènes … dans leurs propres mots … – Le peuple de la Marchandise d’Or et de Diamant – actualisé | Barbara Crane Navarro

Why Republicans won’t agree to Biden’s big plans and why he should ignore them | Robert Reich

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The new president can achieve huge and vital reform and relief without the party of Trump – and they know it

If there were ever a time for bold government, it is now. Covid, joblessness, poverty, raging inequality and our last chance to preserve the planet are together creating an existential inflection point.

Related: Trump may be out of office, but Republicans are still angry and ready to do his bidding

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South Indian Spicy Potatoes Recipe

Inhale Peace; Exhale Love. Joy will Follow! - RUELHA

This is one of the first few things I learned to cook. It’s been a dozen years now and I make this so often because it’s so easy and simple and delicious at the same time. It’s an amateur level dish and just about anyone who can handle a knife and heat safely can make this.

Ingredients:

  • 3 tbsp+ cooking oil
  • 1 tsp Mustard seeds
  • A spring, Curry leaves
  • 4 medium Potatoes, fine cubes
  • Salt to taste
  • 1/2tsp Turmeric powder
  • 1/2 tsp-1.25 tsp Red chilli powder (adjust as per heat tolerance)

Method

  • Keep all your ingredients ready beforehand. So wash, peel and chop the potatoes and clean the curry leaves. Now you can proceed with the recipe which just flows.
  • Heat a nonstick pan/kadhai. Add oil.
  • Once the oil is hot, add the mustard seeds and let them splutter. Add the curry leaves thereafter. Remember, this happens just too quickly…

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Facebook letting fake news spreaders profit, investigators claim

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Social network allowing dangerous Covid theories to be shared, says Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Facebook is allowing users to profit from the spread of potentially dangerous false theories and misinformation about the pandemic and vaccines, including deploying money-raising tools on pages with content flagged up by the social media giant’s own factcheckers.

An investigation has found 430 pages – followed by 45 million people – using Facebook’s tools, including virtual “shops” and fan subscriptions, while spreading false information about Covid-19 or vaccinations.

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Anti-vaccination protest leads to brief close of vax site entrance at Dodger Stadium

Everyone in line eventually got vaccinated, Ortiz said.

No arrests were made, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Rosario Cervantes. The LAPD later tweeted out that it was not their department that shut the gates.

“Preliminary reports are that protestors remained peaceful,” LAPD said in the tweet.

We are aware of social media posts referring to protestors showing up at the Dodger Stadium COVID-19 vaccination site. Preliminary reports are that protestors remained peaceful. The LAPD did NOT close the gates, and per LA City Fire, all scheduled vaccines will be delivered. https://t.co/l5zEW3UAOt

— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) January 31, 2021

About 50 anti-vaccine protesters milling about the entrance to the Dodger Stadium coronavirus vaccination site on Saturday, Jan. 30 prompted officials to close the gate for almost an hour before the protesters dispersed.

Traffic into the stadium was halted from 1:50 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., when people carrying signs and chanting slogans marched to the gates, which officials closed to prevent demonstrators from entering the site, said David Ortiz, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Fire Department.

Images on social media showed people with signs reading “Covid = scam,” “99.96 survival rate,” and “Tell Bill Gates to Vaccinate Himself,” a reference to a baseless conspiracy theory that microchips would be implanted in vaccines that could be used to control the population by a New World Order.

Others chanted “This is not a vaccine,” “Sheep led to their slaughter” and “This is a treatment. You are submitting to be a lab rat in real time.”

Everyone in line eventually got vaccinated, Ortiz said.

No arrests were made, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Rosario Cervantes. The LAPD later tweeted out that it was not their department that shut the gates.

“Preliminary reports are that protestors remained peaceful,” LAPD said in the tweet.

We are aware of social media posts referring to protestors showing up at the Dodger Stadium COVID-19 vaccination site. Preliminary reports are that protestors remained peaceful. The LAPD did NOT close the gates, and per LA City Fire, all scheduled vaccines will be delivered. https://t.co/l5zEW3UAOt

— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) January 31, 2021

LAPD officers were aware and prepared for the scheduled demonstration prior to protesters arriving, Cervantes said. She said she did not know how officers learned of the event and declined to discuss tactics about how officers prepared for the demonstration.

Health officials expect to vaccinate 12,000 people a day at the stadium, thought to be the largest vaccination site in the nation.

They went to Dodger Stadium https://t.co/e5uXZ5QUGd

— tony pierce (@busblog) January 30, 2021

We’re at the mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium to get my mom the vaccine. The anti–vax protestors have approached the entrance to the site. The LAPD have now closed the gate. We have been sitting here for about half an hour. Nobody is moving. pic.twitter.com/GrJPA5wrqx

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) January 30, 2021

Neither Orange County nor City of Riverside law enforcement officials were adjusting security measures in response to Saturday’s protest at Dodger Stadium.

In Orange County, an incident management team consisting of county personnel, law enforcement and firefighters had security measures in place should such a disruption take place, Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Carrie Braun said.

Disneyland in Anaheim and Soka University in Aliso Viejo are the two largest vaccination sites in the county.

At the Riverside Convention Center, the Police Department’s civilian personnel and medical workers administering the shots would alert police in the event of a protest, spokesman Ryan Railsback said.

“We’re just a quick phone call away,” he said.

Jodi Miller of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department also said deputies would respond to calls for service as needed. The county is about to open two large sites, at the Auto Club Speedway on Tuesday, Feb. 2 and the Ontario Convention Center starting Thursday, Feb. 4.

Staff writers Nathaniel Percy and Jonah Valdez contributed to this report.

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The US Government’s Entire 645,000-Vehicle Fleet Will Go All-Electric

With 640,000 nonelectric vehicles, the federal fleet represents the annual output of about three or four automotive plants, Dziczek said. That’s not exactly the million jobs Biden promised in his announcement Monday. But it might be sufficient to convince car manufacturers to change their supply chains or shift their production to U.S. facilities.

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Jalopnik reports:
The United States government operates a fleet of about 645,000 vehicles, from mail delivery trucks to military vehicles and passenger cars. On Monday, President Joe Biden announced that his administration intends to replace them all with American-made, electric alternatives…

In 2015, the government operated 357,610 gasoline vehicles and 3,896 electric ones; in 2019, those numbers grew to 368,807 and 4,475, respectively. That’s excluding the tens of thousands of E-85 [“flex fuel”] and diesel-based vehicles on the road, which, together, comprise nearly a third of the 645,047 total. So, yeah, there’s certainly a lot of work to do…

The Washington Post reports:
The declaration is a boon to the fledgling electric vehicle industry, which has grown exponentially in the past decade but still represents less than 2 percent of automobiles sold in the United States… “It’s important as a symbolic thing,” said Timothy Lipman, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley. “But I think it also will have a way of helping to jolt the industry forward at a time when it kind of needed that….”

One of the biggest issues: Just three automakers currently manufacture electric vehicles in the United States, and none of those cars meet Biden’s criteria of being produced by union workers from at least 50 percent American-made materials. The closest is the Chevrolet Bolt, assembled at a General Motors plant in Lake Orion, Michigan. But most of that car’s parts — including the battery, motor and drive unit — are produced overseas. But that could easily change, said Kristin Dziczek, vice president of industry, labor and economics at the nonprofit Center for Automotive Research.

If Biden succeeds in making every car in the federal fleet electric, he would increase the total number of electric vehicles in the United States by more than 50 percent. “One of the big questions for companies is, ‘Is the consumer there?’ Well, [the government] is a big consumer,” Dziczek said. “Now they know there’s some solid demand from the government to support their early launches of new vehicles….” With 640,000 nonelectric vehicles, the federal fleet represents the annual output of about three or four automotive plants, Dziczek said. That’s not exactly the million jobs Biden promised in his announcement Monday. But it might be sufficient to convince car manufacturers to change their supply chains or shift their production to U.S. facilities.

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30th Day of January – Fatcowco – 1980 – The Rubik’s Cube is patented and makes its international debut

1980 – The Rubik’s Cube is patented and makes its international debut

The Rubik’s Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik.

Rubik applied for a patent in Hungary for his “Magic Cube” on 30 January 1975, and was granted later that year.

1980 – The Rubik's Cube is patented and makes its international debut

Rubik’s Cube won the 1980 German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle.

Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp in 1980 via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer.

Source: 30th Day of January – Fatcowco

Kevin McCarthy is a Traitor

No one made Kevin McCarthy choose this path. And no one forced him to betray his country. The insurrection he helped to incite failed. It’s past time to be polite. It’s time for accountability.

No one made Kevin McCarthy choose this path. And no one forced him to betray his country. The insurrection he helped to incite failed. It’s past time to be polite. It’s time for accountability.