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Watching from New Zealand! Strength to your rockers. Then getting started Down Under....

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Remember TaffyAbel.com

The first Native American in the Winter Olympics (1924)

The first Native American in the NHL (1926)

Commisioner Gary Bettman at the NHL will not honor him.

I will donate to Third Act $10/person if you bring your rocking chair to block the NHL HQ door in NYC.

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Don't be surprised if the protests are miscaracturized as support for Trump and a protest of his ( hopeful) indictment, the first of MANY, God willing...

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I have an account with Bank of America, and a Visa card through that. I need a place for my social security to land (I keep my balance below $200), and I use the card as a cash substitute -- I've never paid a penny of interest on any credit card in my life. Still, it's the principle of the thing, isn't it? We close our accounts and cut up our credit cards to demonstrate our rejection of the banks' financing of the climate disaster. But I can't do it right now, not when I'm planning to move across the country and need an interstate bank. I will do it before the end of the year, I promise. And I'll write a letter to the bank when I do, so they understand why I've left them.

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Believing that humans have an impact on the temperature of the planet is equivalent to believing you can measurably speed up the boiling of a pot of water on the stove by standing next to it. We are insignificant. The sun is the burner, and is wildly variable. All climate change is due to the sun, and only the sun.

Now if you want to get serious and focus on reality; Humans are polluting the environment. Focus on pollution, something WE do control, and something that WE can fix. Something WE did fix in the 60's and 70's, but guess what it costs more, so we offshored the pollution to China. Lets pay for a clean environment, and tariff China for the implied costs of what it would cost to make something here in the USA.

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Watching in Oz. Grateful for Third ACT’s true US Leadership. (BTW back in 2020, when the streets were almost ceded to the soulless corporate billboards, that’s when DOTS first got *on* the streets.) Love and Solidarity. ✊🏽#DemocracyOnTheStreets #ClimateChalking Join the #dots. 🐛🦋

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I can’t make tomorrow’s rally but will cut up my credit card. Please recommend a green bank to use instead.

Marnie Sinclair

marticamv@aol.com

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Mar 19, 2023·edited Mar 19, 2023

If you ask yourself why common sense actions that desperately need to be done (that we-the-people have been clamoring must be done, for several DECADES NOW), are NOT done, or even discussed, by Congress, please remember that 9% of the people in each of the two mainstream political (i.e. STATUS QUO 🦖🐍 DEFENDING) parties 😈 DECIDE WHO "wins" the primaries for either party. Are you doing the math? That is right. When a tiny group of elite 🎩 gatekeeper poobahs 🦍 control who can be our "choices" in elections, that is call an 🦀 OLIGARCHY, NOT a 🗽"democracy".

The "choice" has been made for us by the Oligarchs. They have chosen Catastrophic climate Change through continued Profit Over People and Planet. Do NOT expect them to change their insanely socially destructive ways. WHY? Because they are Social Darwinists.

Darwin's "Theory" of Evolution birthed the Social Darwinist Ideology that has, to the detriment of human society for nearly 150 years now, worked against ethics in human actions.

WHY?

Because Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are 'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are 'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our species.

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