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NOW PLAYING == Talk World Radio with David Swanson: Mouin Rabbani on What's Happening Now in #Palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tzZOW7yM_4

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LAPD Officer David A. Swanson https://copblaster.com/blast/52703/lapd-officer-david-a-swanson?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #LAPD #PoliceOfficer #LawEnforcement #DavidSwanson #Justice

Jack White // #JackWhite //

Bless Yourself
[album No Name, 2024]

//via // #ThirdManRecords //

#buzzingroom #music #bandcamp #JackWhite #NoName #BlessYourself #DavidSwanson #PatrickKeeler #JWIII

link bandcamp: https://officialjackwhite.bandcamp.com/track/bless-yourself

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Explains the Feeling of Capturing 40 Years of Iconic Images https://petapixel.com/2025/08/07/pulitzer-prize-winning-photographer-explains-the-feeling-of-capturing-40-years-of-iconic-images/ #photojournalist #davidswanson #documentary #Interviews #Spotlight #interview #conflict #podcast #News

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Describes the Chaos on the Streets of Los Angeles https://petapixel.com/2025/06/10/pulitzer-prize-winning-photographer-describes-the-chaos-on-the-streets-of-los-angeles/ #photojournalism #photojournalist #Miscellaneous #davidswanson #california #losangeles #interview #protests #la

> #RahmEmanuel corporatized the Democratic Party, and helped destroy welfare, create NAFTA, pass the 1994 #CrimeBill, and restrict immigration (bragging about deportation records). He got rich on #WallStreet through the revolving door to public disservice. There’s not a war or a war-prone candidate he hasn’t supported. He’s blocked advocates for serious healthcare reform, calling them “f-ing r-worded.” He’s closed schools and cut services in Chicago...
https://davidswanson.org/for-okinawa-rahm-would-be-a-knee-on-the-neck/
#DavidSwanson

>...Some successes will require ongoing innovation. But if there is endless debate in the United States about online rights and privacy and security and free speech, and we’ve been reduced to xenophobic censorship and billionaire gatekeepers, while there’s a giant glowing solution to many of the basic dilemmas sitting on public display in Estonia, why not at least look at it? https://progressivehub.net/another-world-is-already-here/
#DavidSwanson #OnlineRights #OnlinePrivacy #Estonia #EstoniaSecurity ?

May all your error variances be small ones.
-- David Swanson (G Theory Talk)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidSwanson #Error #Measurement

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Get Close, But Have an Escape Plan: What It’s Like Photographing Wildfires https://petapixel.com/2024/09/23/get-close-but-have-an-escape-plan-what-its-like-photographing-wildfires/ #pulitzerprize #davidswanson #photographer #Spotlight #spotlight #Features #wildfire #fire

Caspar David Friedrich 2023

Der Fotograf (David Swanson) hat es getroffen, ich denke so könnte heute ein Bild von ihm aussehen.

#DavidSwanson
https://www.photoswanson.com/portfolio/G0000WKRzKpGNYqk

https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2023-12/kipppunkte-welt-acht-bericht-erdsysteme-klimawandel

.> Even arch anti-communists like Nixon and Reagan made bold gambits to reduce tensions, fearful of global annihilation. We face a similar dynamic today, facing collective catastrophe if we do not change course.

.> Here is the insane dynamic that must be changed. In recent years, both the US and China have greatly increased their #MilitaryBudgets.

.> But organizing most of our national effort around a zero-sum global confrontation with China is unlikely to change Chinese behavior and will alienate allies and partners....

.> Most importantly, it could doom our planet by making climate cooperation impossible between the world’s two largest greenhouse emitters. We need to move in a bold new direction. Recent history provides some instructive examples.

.> ... here’s a “radical” idea. Instead of spending enormous amounts of money planning for a war against each other, the US and China should come to an agreement to mutually cut their military budgets and use the savings to move aggressively to improve energy efficiency, move toward sustainable energy and end our reliance on fossil fuels. They should also provide increased support for developing countries who are suffering from the climate crisis through no fault of their own....

.> In the United States, the Inflation Reduction Act included an unprecedented $300bn in investments in clean energy and energy efficiency, which could help increase US solar energy by 500% and more than double wind energy by 2035, reducing carbon emissions by roughly 40%.

.> Other countries have also made major investments. China spent $546bn on clean energy last year and continues to manufacture and deploy more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined....

.> ... we are still falling well short of the kinds of investments needed to deal with this crisis. We are still not moving fast enough to save our planet. The latest report from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that without more urgent action, the world will pass the key 1.5C (2.7F) threshold by the early 2030s, risking a far deadlier future for our children and future generations. The science is clear: if the US, China, and the rest of the planet do not act with greater urgency to dramatically cut carbon emissions, our planet will face enormous and irreversible damage.

.> Now is the time for a radical rethinking of geopolitics to reflect the reality that international cooperation is not only in the best interests of all countries, but is absolutely necessary for the survival of the planet.

> 44% of the world’s oceans are experiencing a marine heatwave.

> since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the US has put more carbon into the atmosphere, by far, than any other country. While the new technologies sustained by fossil fuels improved our standard of living, we laid the groundwork for the climate calamity the planet is now experiencing.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/21/us-bernie-sanders-china-climate-change-cooperation
#BernieSanders #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #China #TheUSA #NewColdWar #ComingWarOnChina
/HT #DavidSwanson

> Here’s a proposal that could end starvation around the globe. Never again need a human being lack the food to live. Never again need a single child or adult suffer the horrors of starvation. Hunger as a danger to anyone can be made a thing of the past. All that is required, apart from basic skills in distributing resources, is 3 percent of the military budget of #TheUnitedStates, or 1.5 percent of all the #MilitaryBudgets in the world.
https://worldbeyondwar.org/3percent
#DavidSwanson #WorldBeyondWar

.> The “good wars” — the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Second World War — they were all perfectly avoidable tragedies. The bad wars — The Mexican War, the Spanish War, World War I, the Korean War, Vietnam and twice into Iraq — these were utter frauds, killing for profit and territory....

.> Remember the Maine was the lie that launched the Spanish-American War. The Korean War (1950-53) was built on the lie that Russia and North Korea had attacked Seoul. The Vietnam War (1965-74) was built on a lie about an American boat being attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. The first Gulf War was created when the US lured Saddam Hussein into Kuwait (2003-21?? ) with Machiavellian diplomatic deceptions. The second Gulf War was built on the lie that Iraq had secret facilities building “weapons of mass destruction”.

> #ClimateCatastrophe and #NuclearWar are two existential threats that could end human civilization as we know it. Both of these threats have been exacerbated by the ongoing war in Ukraine, but nuclear war could happen at any moment, whether on purpose or by accident. And global carbon emissions continue to rise despite all the many efforts to reduce them... How do we convince the general public to take these threats more seriously? ...
https://actionnetwork.org/events/warheads-to-windmills-webinar
#DavidSwanson #WorldBeyondWar

@bsmall2@misskey.cloud
> And you, my brother, of another flag
Join with us without borders or delay
Do not go gentle to a deadly scene

#DavidSwanson got me to a #ThomasHardy poem:

> "I shot him dead because —
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although

> "He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like — just as I —
Was out of work — had sold his traps —
No other reason why.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44329/the-man-he-killed

> We're sisters and brothers
> United and strong
> We're here to talk about copaganda
> We don't like what's going on
>
> It's time for some justice
> It's time for the truth
> We've realized there's
> Only one thing we can do
>
> You got to say we, we, we,
> We're gonna Stop Cop City

#DavidSwanson with a #Poem on #CopCity
https://twitter.censors.us/davidcnswanson/status/1626669843553345539#m

Two Million Dollars to shoot down a balloon? But I guess it was good TV? (Davis Swanson's Twitter Thread through a random nitter site)
https://nitter.sethforprivacy.com/stephensemler/status/1626666499174719490#m
#DavidSwanson #BallloonWars #BalloonsAndMissiles #MassHysteria